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Juan Cole has this sober and appreciative observation about Pope Francis's trip to Brazil. Unsmitten by papalotry, Cole captures the merits of the trip, perhaps from the perspective of Francis himself.
"There is a lot to like about Pope Francis. He wants to see the church serve the poor instead of primarily the elite (though again, he is no liberation theologian and isn't interested in practical steps that would change class relationships– he is just interested in doing charity)."
Cole also skewers the U.S. media's take on the visit: "American culture displaces its severe class struggle away from economic issues onto identity politics. We avoid talking about how the working and middle classes are being screwed over by an increasingly wealthy and aristocratic 1% or about how the business classes are destroying the environment of the planet, by obsessing about race and gender instead. So Pope Francis's tame remarks about silent, inoffensive, celibate gays being all right in the priesthood will generate a lot of comment. His more challenging remarks, his focus on the needs of the poor and on preserving the environment– the messages well-off Americans need to hear– will be largely ignored in the corporate US media."
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Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, a former editor of Commonweal, writes frequently in these pages and blogs at dotCommonweal.
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I doubt that many Americans agree with Cole's inflammatory take on reality: that there is a "severe class struggle" going on in the US, or that the working and middle classes are being "screwed over" by the so-called 1%. (cf the fizzle-out of "Occupy Wall Street"). My guess is that Francis' more honeyed words will catch more flies.
Many Americans DO agree with Cole's inflammatory take on reality.
Note how many times Commonweal has cited him in support of their theories:
Class struggle might be heating up just a little. The workers at the McDonald's, Wendy's and KFC around NYC are on strike right now. "Hold the burgers, hold the fries, make our wages super-sized", They're striking to double their wage to $15 an hour and to unionize.
I think this could go somewhere.
The TV/radio/press coverage I saw gave much more attention to baby-kissing, large crowds and, lately, gays than to the Latin/Vatican criticism of unbridled capitalist lust. Of course, with both poilitical parties averting their eyes, there are no hot media political personalities to serve as a focus to the coverage of (sorry, Jim) the screwing over of the working and middle classes (not to mention poor, whom even the American left leaves out.)
Really Jim Pauwels? You make not like "severe," or "screwed over," but would you agree that the rich are getting fabulously richer, the poor are getting much poorer, and the middle class are drifting downward? I agree with Cole that the media, in general, is keen to write about identity politics to the detriment of class politics. Even Paul Krugman who regularly goes after the economics behind austerity rarely alludes to any class issues.
Irene Baldwin: Don't eat McDonald's, but I like the slogan.
Class stuggle might go somewhere when the $7.25 an hour busboys in the resturants that serve the elite their $100 dinners, join the strikers at McDonalds. FOX news is covering the raising of the minimum wage as the beginning of an economic war. .I say bring it on.. Even the fast food association claims that wages and benefits account for just 30% of the cost of fast food. .Some economic studies show a dollar more in wages will account for a .10 cent increase in a burger. .studies show that costs are being reduced by bringing in more efficient equipment to reduce labor costs even more.About 4 million workers are working fast food shops now. Arise!!! the only thing you have to lose is the grease.
Gerelyn: a step above the St. Louis Post Dispatch! and not infrequently the New York Times.
Not sure what you mean, Margaret. I read the whole thing and the comments below. Nice that Juan responds without surliness. O'Leary posted a comment there.
Here's a link to a site you might like:
(The little Books of Common Prayer are nice, imho. So is the tiny poodle.)
Whether one thinks there is a class war going on might depend on where one sits. If I were an adult trying to support myself by working at McDonald's in New York at $7.50 an hour, I'd probably not be as convinced as you. It's pretty simple math--if you work a 40 hour week, you're going to earn about $15,000 per year. How do you live in New York on that kind of money; how could you afford to commute to NYC from elsewhere? I suspect it's the same in most urban areas, and perhaps elsewhere. I know some fast food workers are youths working their way through school--but some are self-supporting or trying to support a family.. Data on the minimu wage indicate it has less buying power than it did decades ago. If you don't like the metaphor of war, how about economic disaster? It's got to seem that way to many folks, especially with strong indications that US economic and social mobility is no longer as robust. Certainly some people will pull themselves up by sheer effort and perseverance--but what about the ones just a little bit less gifted?
"would you agree that the rich are getting fabulously richer, the poor are getting much poorer, and the middle class are drifting downward?"
I agree that the rich are getting richer, the middle class has slid downward a bit. Not sure about the poor getting much poorer; they were already at the bottom, and before the onset of the recession at least, the long-term trend in the US was that the poor were getting less poor.
But none of that amounts to a "severe class struggle." If anything, the bonds of solidarity and collective action among the poor, the working class and the middle class strikes me as being a good deal weaker than it was when I was growing up in the '60s, when mediating institutions like labor unions and the Catholic Church were a good deal more influential than they are now.
But primarily, I don't see that the rich are getting richer by exploiting the poor. To the extent that it is happening via the financial sector, I just think that the rich are getting richer by living on a different planet than everyone else. The poor are extraneous to the whole thing. If the wage for McDonald's workers were doubled, those poor that work there would be a little better off for a while, the rich would still continue to make money as if nothing had changed, and the middle class would grumble because a #2 with large fries costs a good deal more than it did before. The welfare of the poor is pretty much disconnected to anything the rich do, and vice-versa.
Kevin - yes, I agree with your math, and in fact have presented it myself in comments on this site in the past. If you're arguing that social inequality creates a risk of a perception (whether or not it is based on facts) that the poor are poor because the rich are giving them the shaft, I agree with that, too. (This was pretty much the basis of President Obama's 2012 presidential campaign, which by the way succeeded.)
I just don't think there is much evidence that everyone is getting the shaft from the rich. It's probably more likely that the poor are lined up against everyone else. The middle class and the working classes depend on the poor's cheap labor as much as, or more than, the rich. And politically, if the choice is between slashing Pentagon spending, slashing social-insurance programs, or slashing aid to the poor, it's pretty much a truism that the poor lose every time. But as I said in the previous comment, I don't think this amounts to a "severe class struggle". It is an opportunity, though, for us to transform hearts.
A good read for posters here is "Twilight of the Elites" by MSNBC's Chris Hayes.
He shines a lot of cold, clear light on many of the US fantasies that we think are actually truth, not the least of which is the whole Horatio Alger idea of meritocracy.
There is a middle way between Jim Pauwels and Gerelyn (if you will bear with me taking them as end-points in this discussion). There are real class issues in the US, including but not limited to economics, but very few Americans are comfortable today talking about class distinctions. And so there are divergences that are meaningful - per Gerelyn - but limited public outrage that uses the rhetoric of class struggle - per Jim Pauwels.
On increasing social inequality in the US. Sometimes the best strategy is to amass evidence that contradicts the shibboleths - like the US as the land of opportunity: http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/. See also the ny times write up on the study.
Producing the evidence isn't always enough - but it is a start and better than sloganeering. And I am with those who see a trend, and a need to keep working on creating one.
Jim Pauwels, if the welfare of the poor is pretty much disconnected from the rich sucking up all the wealth created by the productivity of the working class, as you suggested at 6:02, then why bother to try to transform hearts, as you suggest we can do at 6:14? Everyone is beautiful in his or her own way.
I'll make you this deal: If Barack Obama, who felt he had to present us with such unObamanian characters as Tom Gates and Tim Geithner in his first term (wonder where that feeling came from), can restrain himself from putting Larry Summers in charge of the Fed, I will concede that the playing field is not as tilted as I think it is.
I would like to see Jim P's take on Mary's words: "The poor will be filled with great things and the rich will go away empty." Or is that the poison of the Magnificat?
Bill - I take those words to mean just what they say. But God fulfilling his promise, and more than fulfilling what we can imagine, doesn't equate to a "severe class struggle". That's the language of Marxism.
If there are inequalities and injustices, as there are, we should work to avert class struggle. We should try to bring about justice AND sow peace.
if the welfare of the poor is pretty much disconnected from the rich sucking up all the wealth created by the productivity of the working class, as you suggested at 6:02
I didn't suggest that. I said that the rich - those that pursue wealth via the financial sector, anyway - build wealth in ways that has pretty much nothing whatever to do with the working class. Their services aren't needed anymore. Labor-free wealth creation solves a lot of problems, from a certain point of view.
FWIW, I don't know which situation is worse: that the rich get rich by exploiting the working classes; or that the rich get rich with a notebook computer and an Internet connection, and the working classes are not a stakeholder in the process.
In a sense, I think Cole agrees with me on this point regarding the irrelevance of the working classes, inasmuch as he decries the 'robotization' of the economy. Robots also can consign the working classes to irrelevance, although I think the danger is overstated. Far worse for the American worker is that workers in the developing world are so much cheaper, and the mobility of capital and the means of production, and advances in logistics, have surmounted the limitations that formerly required goods to be manufactured relatively close to their destination markets.
If you've followed my comments on this topic over the years, you also know that I agree that there is still a lot of labor exploitation taking place, some of which has put capitalists in the 1% club (cf the Waltons). Where this happens, Catholic social teaching provides us with some correctives to our perspective, some remedies and a call to action.
I don't know to what extent Catholic social teaching has really dealt with the problem of the irrelevance of the working classes. If the rich don't depend on the poor, if the bond of mutual dependence has been severed - that seems a relatively new situation in the history of humankind.
Well, Jim, what you said was, "The welfare of the poor is pretty much discoonected to anything the rich do and vice versa." If in your latest response you mean that bits and bytes and robots, by themselves and without human intervention, have made the 1 percent so rich that the 1 percent of the Gilded Age look like poor orphans in comparison, you are getting a bit ahead of the story. That may be where we are going. It is not where we were in 1980 when America decisively turned its back on socialist collectivist etc. etc. solidarity and decided we can spend our own money better than the government and it's every man and woman for itself. That's how we got to where we are.
The productivity gains that positively astounded (he said) Alan Greenspan were produced by fewer workers using neat-o electronics the capitalists bought. The fewer workers were not cut in on the new profits. And, of course, those who were laid off to reach the employer's goal of fewer workers got nothing from productivity gains. They were told to suck it up and stop "taking" from the rest of us. The decisions on sharing (or not sharing) the new profits of productivity were made by a small group of people who now are in a position to decide everything else about the economy the rest of us suffer from. How to cut the pie does indeed affect the poor and the working and middle classes. The cutting knife has not been wielded democratically for going-on 40 years.
All one has to do is look at http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0774473.html to see how minimum wage rates, adjusted to 1996 USD values, have fluctuated over the years. Between 1980 and 1989 there was an almost 30% drop in the value (consistent with the years of the Reagan administration), a slight bump up during the Bush/Dem congress years and the Clinton/Repub years that only halfway recovered the drop, then a steep dropoff during the Bush/Repub years that dips back up to 1983 levels in Obama's first year before dropping off again.
Interesting article on the front page of the NYT business section today: "Inequality in America, the Data Is Sobering":
If you click on the little Multimedia box at the left, you'll see where we stand compared to other countries.
Jim P. --
You seem to think that owenership of stocks has nothing to do with the income of the working poor, But owners are responsible for the acts of corporations' boards, and the boards establish the pay of the workers. While many industrial corporations have sent their works overseas, most haven't. As for the finantial markets where humongous profits are made, if you include Wall Stree, then buys and sells corporations (that's what it's for). Further, you and I and anyone else whose retirement fund invests our money are responsible for the wages of the workers whose corporations we own.
Here are some of the latest figures and charts showing the utterlly ridiculous income disparity in the U. S. From the Columbia Journalism Review.
I think Cole makes some good points; the right people aren't listening to Francis' messages, such as they are, and the mainstream news media is largely off trying to find some big doctrinal shift (there isn't one) in Francis's comment that he does not judge gay people. And even though he's said we need better theology about women, the door to the priesthood is still shut.
However, granting Cole most of his points, I expect that if Jesus Christ came back right today, he would act an awful lot like Francis--blessing people, joking with them, giving them the thumbs up, not being afraid in a traffic jam, cradling the infirm, embracing addicts, and basically telling them that God loves them and wants to be their friend forever.
Maybe Francis is only "doing charity," but in going where the poor people are and putting the camera on them, he's urging the rest of us to do more than charity.
All this ought to be any pope's m.o., but it's so darn rare that it seems almost like a miracle when it does occur.
You cannot run for cover because there are "advocates" for the poor who prefer violence in pursuing equality. If we preach Christ Crucified, then we die for the downtrodden rather than kill for them. The problem is that the majority of the Christian world is permeated by the obsession with money. The conversation is always about money, titles and possessions. The clergy cater to the rich as do most Christians. Several years ago making the rounds was a picture of a young man sitting on his Roll Royce with the caption: "Poverty Sucks." The Magnificat is far from the hearts of most Christians.
Gerelyn - the author of that NY Times piece seems to long for a little more class warfare, and is puzzled that it isn't happening. He seems to agree with me that "severe class struggle" is not much of a reality.
Hi, Ann, In my view, the situation regarding the rich and the poor is such that it it resists the sort of generalizations that are necessary to support a simplistic class-conflict narrative. Thus, some rich certainly do exploit poor workers (e.g. the owners of Wal-Mart, Nike), but others don't seem to (e.g. the owners of Microsoft, Google). (FWIW, I am plucking these examples from Forbes' list of the wealthiest billionaires - people who certainly are in the 1%.)
At the same time, numerous instances of worker exploitation take place in small businesses (the sector that creates 2/3 of all new jobs in the US), most of which aren't owned by billionaires, many of which aren't owned by millionaires. The poor get the shaft from all classes and all sides.
When worker exploitation occurs, we should stand in solidarity with those who are exploited, and we should work to improve their conditions (peaceably, to the extent that is possible). When exploitation is not occurring, we should take care not to tar the good actors with the same brush used on the bad actors. On the contrary, we should praise and encourage owners who have created sustainable business models that pay large numbers of workers a living wage.
I don't find class-warfare rhetoric very helpful in this regard.
Jim, if Cardinal Bernardin held the door for you, the least I could do is curtsy for you. Do you think you could find a modicum of time with your musician responsibilities to read about the severe class struggle in the U.S. and the working and middle classes being 'screwed over' by the so-called 1%? Francis', Bishop of Rome honeyed words and show time gestures have to be backed up with appropriate intellectual work to authentically prepare for rigorous people and planet work to really impress his billion or so parishioners and convince them to join him or rather that he join them in our momentous twenty-first century task to restore the planet and help the inhabitants of our earth to survive. Thank you in advance, Jim. Marie.
Hi, Marie, your comment seems to require some sort of reply on my part, but I confess I'm not entirely sure what to say, except that various items I must have mentioned in my commenting here over the years seems to have stuck with you. Fwiw, I actually spend very little time these days in liturgical-music pursuits, a function mostly of the liturgical music leadership in our parish these days, which is in the breathtakingly-exceptional category. Also fwiw, I have read a fair amount on the class divisions in the US, as well as church social teaching on this topic. Different people of good will can each look at the same problem and arrive at different diognoses of the problem and recommend different regimens of treatment.


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Persistant Cough, Mild Wheezing. - 05-16-2009, 08:09 PM
I know I should go to the doctor instead of asking for help, but I have gone to the doctor a record four times in the past six months and I am at my wit's end.
Since last September, I've had coughing, excessive sneezing, wheezing, the works of a bad chest cold. Then I ended up out of school for weeks because of allergy-like symptoms and nearly threw up several times because of how hard I was coughing; gut wrenchers are really rare and they started to make my stomach and chest hurt.
In October and again in Decemberish, my doctor put me on Z-pac, which is a pretty strong antibiotic but it comes with a nasty side effect - digestive tract problems. It worked fine while I was using it, but within a week of finishing the medicine I was back to my old routine of gut wrenching, hacking coughs, sneezing, and wheezing, though the second time it wasn't as bad.
In late January and most of February, I noticed I was beginning to have a lot of unnecessary trouble with my breathing and going up staircases at school. Even with my cold, I never had trouble with them; sure, had the typical mild out of breath feeling that comes with the multiple staircases at my school (we're on a hill. Blah.), but halfway up my second staircase my legs would feel like lead and I'd wheeze my way across the cafeteria afterward, upon which I'd have another cough fit. I'd leave school whenever I couldn't breathe, which was frequent.
In late March, my doctor put me on the purple powder inhaler, Advair. This did wonders for me; my coughing ceased, my breathing became better, I could finally walk up stairs again and even my old slight out of breath problem went away. (Funny fact: We forgot to leave the lever pushed back the first couple times. XD) I finished it, and for about two weeks I was still feeling great.
Problem? Now, I've got wheezing, a mild but persistant dry cough, and my chest and neck feel itchy. I am probably going to try OTC meds before I go onto seeing my doctor, but I really don't want to have to go through asthma tests; he said that if the inhaler didn't fix my problem, he'd have me tested for it. Thing is, I didn't think I'd have to go back because I felt fine, but then this mess started and I think I'm sick again. Because I don't want the school to panic on me, I want to get this over and done with before I become severely sick and make people think I've got the stupid swine flu. -_-;
Does anybody have any idea what I could do to make it stop doing this to me before I have to take more medically-inclined steps? I've tried coffee, garlic pizza sauce, tea, but nothing seems to work. DX
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Make it feel the way it's supposed to be!
What it could be is a really bad allergy. My younger brother uses advair for his allergies, which have asthma-like symptoms. It works great for him and he is around what causes it all of the time--animal fur and dandur, particularly cats and dogs.
I'd try to figure out what is a constant factor around these times(and what might've changed) to see if it is an allergy. You can develop allergies later in life; I didn't start have trouble with pine trees and their like until about 4-5 years ago and my egg allergy has only gotten worse with age. You might've just developed one.
If that doesn't make sense, your reactions sound like your mind is playing tricks with you. The fact that you got better with using it right means it was having a placebo effect, which could mean this is all mental. Could it be stress? I know I develop a terribly itchy, bright red rash on my chest in stressful social situations, you might have a constant one(at home or school) which is causing it. It may sound surprising, but people sometimes make themselves feel better by just thinking a medicine is doing something, which could mean their symptoms are self-caused.
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The allergy one does make sense. Especially since I'm finally allergic to cats, but that's never made me wheeze like I've been doing, just causing itchy eyes. At first I didn't think the Advair would work; I was having trouble using it and I nearly gave up at first because I didn't feel better, but after a week it started working. The only thing that stops me thinking it's all allergies is that I took Zyrtec for a month and it only helped a little as regards the sneezing.
I've recently become stressed enough to cause me to feel tight chested, that's true, but this has been going on longer than a couple of weeks and the stress isn't constant; the source is this week's standardized testing (which for some stupid reason is 4 days long this time) and once it's over, I never have to take it again. The only other source of stress I can think of is arguing with my brother about his bad videogame habits (screaming and yelling at people incessantly), but I can usually calm myself down with a book in my room so I don't know if that could be it.
My doctor thinks I may have asthma because both sides of my family had it; my uncle on my dad's side had it through his childhood and teen years, but grew out of it, and my mom's brother still has asthma to this day. I don't go back to my doctor officially until mid June, but Mom says that if I keep coughing like this I'm going back. I really don't want to, but she's getting tired of it too.
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Well, Mom took me to the doctor's today and he's put me back on Advair, as well as putting me on Singulair; I'm to go back on June 19 to see if it's really working. I had a coughing fit last night, and my mom described it as a barking cough; he wanted to know if there was any wheezing involved, and I told him yes, I started wheezing whenever I was trying to sleep. He's pretty sure it's asthma now. :\ I give up.
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WHEELING - U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin is among a group of senators pushing to expand background check requirements for all gun purchases, including firearms sold at gun shows.
Manchin, D-W.Va., also believes the only gun-related bills with a chance of passing Congress are those meant to keep guns out of the hands of convicted criminals and people found by a court to have mental issues.
"Let me just say this - nobody is going to take anybody's guns away. ... The only thing that I'm working on ... is should a person buying a gun have a criminal and mental background check to make sure they are capable of having a gun? That's it ... ," he said. "This paranoia, these scare tactics and those rumors - outright lies - to get people excited are wrong.
"No one is going to take your guns. No one is going to repeal the 2nd Amendment - only you can do that," he continued. "The only thing we're talking about is having a background check to see if you're criminal or if you are mentally insane so you shouldn't be able to have a gun."
Manchin and Sens. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.; Mark Kirk, R-Ill; and Tom Coburn, R-Okla., have been working together on legislation to strengthen the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, but Coburn has yet to agree on a key provision that would require private sellers to retain records of their gun sales. Without Coburn's support, it is believed the bill would not be accepted by Senate Republicans.
"We would not be increasing (mandates for background checks), but enforcing the ones we have out there," he said. "There should be no loopholes. If you buy a gun at a gun show, there should be a background check - period - to see if you're a criminal or to see if you're mentally unstable or insane."
Manchin said he is aware of only one other bill in the Senate pertaining to gun ownership, and the measure addresses the issue of gun trafficking. He said some people go to other states specifically to buy guns and take them back to areas with laws banning or limiting gun ownership. Such traffickers often sell drugs to obtain the money to buy the guns, Manchin said.
This week, a bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation to increase federal penalties for those found guilty of gun trafficking.
Meanwhile, Manchin doesn't believe any legislation limiting the size of gun magazines - or any other bills infringing upon the rights of those legally permitted to own a gun - will pass Congress. And he said decreasing gun violence might best be accomplished through education.
"We should have a commission on mass violence," he said. "We need to find out why our culture continues to get more violent, and why we accept the violence. We've got to change that. The young people are getting totally desensitized."


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I want to mount a folder to sync with my Ubuntu One account. The only restriction is that I don't want to use the client provided. I use Arch Linux if it counts. And if you can provide a general solution for all WebDAV(??) resources it would be useful and good reference.
To mount a WebDAV resource as a drive in linux, you can use davfs2. In Debian-based distributions, this can be downloaded as the
I wrote a blog entry about mounting a specific WebDAV resource using davfs2 a while ago. I will outline the relevant details here.
Once you have davfs2 installed on your system, you should be able to use the
Depending on how your davfs2 install is configured, you may be able to mount as a normal user, or you may need to be root (or have superuser privileges). On my Ubuntu system, I added my username to the davfs2 group (
If you are going to be repeatedly mounting a particular WebDAV source, you can simplify the mounting process by adding an entry to
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Just following up here for others that might be interested in this - see Ubuntu's wiki page regarding the architecture. It is not possible to access Ubuntu One via WebDAV.


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FORT WORTH (October 8, 2012)—A jury late Monday morning in Fort Worth found Steven Lawayne Nelson guilty of capital murder in the March 2011 slaying of the Rev. Clint Dobson, 28, a 2008 graduate of Baylor's Truett Theological Seminary.
Jurors deliberated for more than an hour Monday before returning the verdict against Nelson, who faces a possible death sentence for the murder.
Prosecutors say he killed Dobson and beat the secretary at Arlington's NorthPointe Baptist Church before stealing her car.
During closing arguments Monday morning, prosecutors said Nelson wanted to steal a car that day and called him a predator, but defense attorneys said the church secretary told a doctor that two men assaulted her.
Nelson testified last week, and denied killing the minister.
He said two friends went inside and committed the crime while he waited outside.
But prosecutors say Nelson wouldn't have been the only one with the victims' credit cards unless he acted alone.
Nelson did admit that he entered the church and stepped around the bodies of the victims, who were still breathing, to steal a laptop computer.
Dobson, a Houston native, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Baylor University in 2004 and graduated from Baylor's Truett Theological seminary four years later.
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In addition to the vehicle safety checkpoint, BSO deputies will be offering Club steering wheel locking devices to motorists who own cars listed on the top 5 most stolen list (Toyota Camry, Honda Civic and Accord, Oldsmobile Cutlass, and Jeep Cherokee).
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2013 Annual S.A.F.E.R. SANE Training
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- Confirmation letters will be sent prior to the course dates.
- Sessions run daily from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm with some evening offerings, breaks will be provided.
- Registration and pre-test begin promptly at 7:00 am on Monday April 15, 2013.
- Lunch will be on your own, refreshments will be provided for afternoon breaks.
- When making travel arrangements, please be aware that classes will adjourn no earlier than 4:00 pm on Friday April 19, 2013 due to scheduled testing.
Registration and FeesOnline registration begins January 3, 2013
- For registration forms please go to www.jchh.com, Jasper County Hospital web site. Under Community tab scroll down and click on S.A.F.E.R. You will be directed to pages with information, printable registration form, and fax number/address for it to be sent to.
- Registration deadline March 15, 2013.
- Full payment must be sent at the time of registration unless prior arrangements are made with conference coordinator (Cheryl Querry RN, SANE-A, 219-866-2024).
- Make checks payable to S.A.F.E.R.
- Tuition for medical personnel is $550.00 for a 5-day course. Attendance at all training days and completion of the clinical component is mandatory for successful completion of course and certification.
- Tuition for non-medical participants (advocates, prosecutors, law enforcement, etc) is $250.00 for the 5-day course or any days attended.
- Tuition for SANE's who are coming for the two day refresher course is $250.00. Please attach a copy of your original course certificate with the registration.
- Registration must be filled out completely; incomplete registrations will not be accepted.
- Class size is limited so please register early. Class may fill prior to registration deadline. Registrations will be processed on a first come, first served basis.
- Training registrations may be transferred to another person without penalty for this training; however it cannot be transferred to another date. Registration coordinator must be notified.
- Please make your own lodging arrangements. The telephone number for the hotel with special pricing of $75/day is listed above; you will need to use that number. Please mention that you will be attending the S.A.F.E.R. training to get the reduced rate.
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I'm a big fan of of the D&D 3.5 Spell Stone Shape. Is there any 4e equivalent of it?
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There is not. However, it'd probably be a ritual of around 6th level. Mordenkainen's Joining (which merges two objects) is level 6; similarly, Excavation (which removes stone and earth in a tunnel) is also level 6. Stone Shape is a low to mid level spell; pegging it as a level 6 to 8 ritual allows ritual casters to learn it around the same time 3.5 casters could learn it. Adjust to suit your tastes, of course.
To fit with other level 6 rituals, the cost to learn it should be 300-350 gold pieces, and it should cost perhaps 50 gold or so to cast. If you like cheaper or free rituals it wouldn't be unbalancing to reduce the cost as much as you like.
I'd actually make stone shape an skill challenge for nature, arcana, and dungeoneering. Complexity of the thing being created informs number of successes and difficulty.


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I'm working on a little piece of rich client software that I'd like to distribute for free. That is, I'd still like to make money on it, but I'd like the revenue to come from advertising.
Do you know of an advertising platform that works well for client apps? I'd like the ads to be completely unobtrusive (like Google AdSense is for websites). I'd hate to have any kind of popups or other horrible UX. I just want a tiny little ad in the corner of my addin.
It would be great if ads could be contextual (i.e. if the platform had an API to tell it what the user is looking at the current moment - give some keywords - to show the most relevant ads).
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WHEELING - As a No. 6 seed, Brooke made an impressive run to the OVAC Cup Tournament final and a date with defending West Virginia Class AAA and OVAC champion Morgantown.
Unfortunately for the Bruins, the Mohigans were just too much.
Morgantown will bring the OVAC Cup back on the bus with it after a 3-0 victory Monday at Wheeling Island Stadium.
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TOUGH DEFENSE — Brooke's Lauren Altobell cuts off a Morgantown attacker while teammate Michaela Hinerman backs her up Monday during the Bruins 3-0 loss to the Mohigans in the finals of the OVAC Cup girls soccer tournament at Wheeling Island Stadium.
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''The coaching staff and myself are really proud of the way the girls played,'' Brooke coach Lee Weppler said. ''In the first half, they showed a lot of poise but we just put any passes together and Morgantown had us on our heels backing up. A good team like Morgantown, you can't be constantly backing up and giving them space to play.
''The first half, the chips fell where they may. We lost a couple marks on some set pieces and they made us pay for it.''
Brooke had just one shot on a goal off a direct kick from Cheyenne Hudson late in the second half. The Bruins spent most of the match chasing a Morgantown team that often looked like it was just playing keepaway.
Morgantown went on top in the 20th minute when defender Kelsie Hibbs headed Payton Southall's corner kick past Brooke netminder Marena Cline.
Natasha Trott made it 2-0 five minutes later with a shot that Cline got a piece of but was unable from keeping the ball across the goal line.
''You can't get behind a team like that because you have to press up and that leaves holes in other parts of the field where they can take advantage of,'' Weppler said.
That score held up until the 77th minute when the Mohigans, who return 10 starters from last season's team, completed the scoring as Sydney Lavengood found the back of the net for a 3-0 advantage.
''It's a great way to lead us into the state tournament,'' Morgantown coach Ashley Neal said. ''There are a lot of good teams and any given night, it's who wants it more. We really came out to play. We were pretty focused. It's win or go home and you have to have that mentality. You have to bring it and they brought it.
''Even when I played in high school, Brooke was tough. They always had skill players and I knew they had two girls up top that could make some plays, midfielders that could win the ball and a good goalkeeper. I knew we had to just play our game and we'd do well.
''There is a lot of pressure on us. It was nervewracking for me until 10 minutes left in the game and I think they felt it, too. But we played with a sense of urgency and that's what you need to do because you can't sit back on your heels at states.''


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Mitoxantrone, Etoposide, and Cytarabine (MEC) Following Epigenetic Priming with Decitabine in Adults with Relapsed/Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) or High-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS): A Phase I/II Study
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This phase I/II trial studies the side effects and best dose of decitabine followed by mitoxantrone hydrochloride, etoposide, and cytarabine and to see how well it works in treating patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia or high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as mitoxantrone hydrochloride, etoposide, cytarabine, and decitabine, work in different ways to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving more than one drug (combination chemotherapy) may kill more cancer cells.
Eligibility Criteria (must meet the following to participate in this study)
- Prior diagnosis of "high-risk" myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) (≥ 10% blasts) or AML other than acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) with t(15;17) (q22;q12) or variants according to the 2008 World Health Organization (WHO) classification; patients with biphenotypic AML are eligible
- Relapsed/persistent disease according to standard criteria requiring salvage therapy; outside diagnostic material is acceptable as long as peripheral blood and/or bone marrow slides are reviewed at the study institution; flow cytometric analysis of peripheral blood and/or bone marrow should be performed according to institutional practice guidelines
- Patients with prior autologous or allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) are eligible if relapse occurs > 180 days post-transplant provided symptoms of graft-versus host disease are well controlled with stable use of immunosuppressive agents
- Treatment-related mortality (TRM) score ≤ 9.2 as calculated with simplified model
- Should be off any active therapy for AML with the exception of hydroxyurea for at least 14 days prior to study registration unless patient has rapidly progressive disease, and all grade 2-4 non-hematologic toxicities should have resolved
- May have previously received monotherapy with demethylating agents for MDS or AML
- May have previously received chemotherapy with MEC for MDS or AML
- Patients with symptoms/signs of hyperleukocytosis or white blood cells (WBC) > 100,000/μL can be treated with leukapheresis or may receive up to 2 doses of cytarabine (up to 500 mg/m^2/dose) prior to enrollment
- Bilirubin ≤ 2 x institutional upper limit of normal (IULN) unless elevation is thought to be due to hepatic infiltration by AML, Gilbert's syndrome, or hemolysis (assessed within 7 days prior to registration)
- Serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT) (aspartate aminotransferase [AST]) and serum pyruvate glutamate transaminase (SPGT) (alanine aminotransferase [ALT]) ≤ 2 x IULN unless elevation is thought to be due to hepatic infiltration by AML (assessed within 7 days prior to registration)
- Serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 x IULN (assessed within 7 days prior to registration)
- Left ventricular ejection fraction ≥ 40%, assessed within 28 days prior to registration, e.g. by multigated acquisition (MUGA) scan or echocardiography, or other appropriate diagnostic modality and no clinical evidence of congestive heart failure; if the patient had anthracycline-based therapy since the most recent cardiac assessment, cardiac evaluation should be repeated if there is clinical or radiographical suspicion of cardiac dysfunction, or if the previous cardiac assessment was abnormal
- Women of childbearing potential and men must agree to use adequate contraception
- Provide written informed consent
Exclusions (conditions that would prevent participation in this study)
- Refractory/relapsing myeloid blast crisis of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), unless patient is not considered candidate for tyrosine kinase inhibitor treatment
- Concomitant illness associated with a likely survival of < 1 year
- Active systemic fungal, bacterial, viral, or other infection, unless under treatment with anti-microbials and controlled/stable, as defined as being afebrile and hemodynamically stable for 24-48 hours
- Known hypersensitivity to any study drug
- Pregnancy or lactation
- Patients may not be receiving any other investigational agents
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How do I check to see if the color contrast between my page background and text is readable by most students?
Here is a good website that will identify which WCAG standards are met or have failed.
The highest contrast is between black (#000000) and white (#ffffff) which is a contrast ratio of 21:1.
If you don't know the hexidecimal code for the color, click on the color entry field and a window will appear where you can select your color.
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I'm trying to figure out what to do for a small business that has been plagued by ridiculous hardware problems. Right now, this business runs on five or six desktop machines; no server infrastructure is in place. On top of that, and I'm not embellishing this, they have seen four hardware failures this year to date, and it's got them bordering on madness.
I've already discussed with them the notion of putting a Small Business Server in place (they're a microsoft shop), and they're receptive to the idea. I also plan on getting my feet wet with System Center Essentials to keep on eye on things. The focus then becomes ensuring that this server remains available.
Also, I've just read through this other high availability thread. Much like the guy in that thread, I'm very new to IT, coming from a programming background instead.
Some ideas come to mind:
- Simple raid-5 with hot-swap edit: and hot-spare
- Get two cheaper server machines, configure to run one virtualized server with hot-migration (I've done some reading but sadly I can't tell if SBS Standard and SCE will support this)
- Failover clustering? I got this term from the other thread but haven't been exposed to it in the past.
Is there a best practice when it comes to this? The business owner is willing to dig into his pockets a little for this because he's becoming terrified of downtime, but I've got no experience with these to lead me in one direction over the other.
I'd appreciate your wisdom!
edit: To provide some addtional detail on the problems they've experienced, it's been a weird mix of inexplicable failures.
- switch on chassis fails to power on the system: motherboard had onboard switch, which provided a stop-gap solution, however switching out the case didn't fix the problem. Later, switching out the motherboard didn't fix the problem either.
- Two identical machines have both suffered drive failures in their raid-1 arrays, and both machines were assembled no more than 5 months ago.
- Boot failure issues: one system in raid-1 fails to boot at all. Unfortunately I didn't write down the original error message, but in my notes I have that "Failed to save startup options" in Windows Repair & Recovery led me to this thread which supported my suspicions that it was a hardware-related issue.
edit: Also, the machines are running in a collection of home offices, so residential-grade electrical is at play. I guess this may be more of a contributing factor than I'd given it credit for. However, the machines are all run on desks (literally desktops!) and not on the floor; I don't believe dustiness is involved.


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It is often the case that the best player on the field is the biggest, the fastest or the strongest. Our player of the week, Cisco Lobo RB Mason Reed is certainly all those things. But what the people of Cisco and even die-hard Lobo fans might not know is that even as a junior, he's up there with the team's hardest workers and most passionate leaders. In fact, Reed is one of the few players in the Big Country who could snag the award literally every week.
Reed's abilities were on display this weekend in the house of district rival Coleman, when down at halftime, Reed led the Loboes to victory rushing for 196 yards, 3 scores and forcing a second half shutout with 14 tackles.
"When we went into the locker room at half we were shocked," team mate Spencer Gassett told KTXS on Tuesday, "Mason stepped up and led us in that second half."
He certainly did, despite an electric home crowd at Hufford Field, Reed was able to be effective on both sides of the ball, leading the Loboes as a scoring threat and on defense.
"He has matured so much, he has become a leader. He led the team in this win." Coach Brent West told us of his dominant running back.
Reed is the center-piece of a team who are the champions-elect in district 4-2A DII, defending 2A runner-ups and are ranked number 6 in the state. The weight of such expectations were put on his shoulders just a year on from senior running back Hayden Lewis' departure. It is a weight that he has carried well.
"This year is a lot better because I'm getting a lot more playing time," Reed explained, "I know that if we don't keep pushing we're going to slip down. But I
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It is clear Reed believes in himself and has the belief of his team mates and coaching staff. The expectation of a State Championship is palpable in the stands at Cisco games and on the field. With a running back/linebacker like Mason Reed running the show, the Loboes have a pretty good shot.


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For St. Paddy's Day, we all become a little Irish and might go to a pub for beer and a beef pie. This one allows you to prepare the stew ahead of time and refrigerate for up to three days. The refrigerated biscuits cut into shamrocks create a celebration fit for a leprechaun, and his friends!!
Pub Pot Pie
Serving Size : 4
1 1/2 pounds round steak -- 1/2-inch cubes
1 Tablespoon oil
1 cup onion -- diced
3/4 cup carrot -- diced
1/2 cup celery -- diced
1/4 cup masa harina
1/2 cup beef broth
1/4 cup chili sauce
1 cup beef broth
1/2 cup corn -- frozen
1 can refrigerated biscuits
1. Place diced meat on a large platter and pat dry with paper towels. Using non-stick spray, prepare a large dutch oven and heat over a medium flame. Sear the meat on all sides and remove to a bowl with its juice.
2. Heat oil in the dutch oven. Sauté onions until golden. Add carrots and celery and sauté together for about 5 minutes.
3. Sprinkle the masa harina over the vegetables and stir well to coat. Add a half cup of the broth to the pan and stir the vegetables to make a very thick broth. Stir the chili sauce into the mixture until well blended.
4. Stir in the remaining beef broth and reserved meat with collected juices. Cover and allow to simmer for 20 minutes or until the meat is tender.
5. Prepare the refrigerated biscuit dough into shapes. Place in the oven to bake the specified time on the package until golden brown.
6. When biscuits have about two minutes left, add the corn to the stew mixture, and turn off the heat.
7. Place one large round prepared biscuit in the bottom of the pot pie bowl. Ladle stew over, and add biscuit shapes to the top. Enjoy!
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Per Serving : 461 Calories; 25g Fat (46.8% calories from fat); 39g Protein; 19g Carbohydrate; 3g Dietary Fiber; 101mg Cholesterol; 637mg Sodium.
NOTES : To easily make this dish for 6 persons, add one 15 ounce can of red kidney beans at the same time the beef is returned to the pot.