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CORRECTION: Facebook Mogul Sean Parker Insists His Costume Wedding Will Be Steampunk, Not Medieval
Earlier today, some media outlets published a wackadoo rumor that Facebook co-founder and real life Justin Timberlake Sean Parker was planning to marry his fiancée in a medieval, Game of Thrones-themed, costume-mandatory ceremony this summer.
But don't you boners know it's April Fool's Day? What kind of nerd would throw himself a medieval wedding? As Sean Parker angrily explained on his Facebook and Twitter pages, the REAL theme is "Victorian flair and whimsy." So: steampunk.
Sorry to disappoint those of you who were looking forward to dressing up in medieval garb, but the wardrobe designs we've made for our guests are essentially modern. This is NOT a theme wedding and there will be nothing "medieval" about it. Academy award winning costume designer Ngila Dickson created a series of outfits for everyone that are based on modern suits and dresses with some elements of victorian flair and whimsy; however they are not at all "medieval."
"Just because we don't trust our guests to dress themselves properly," Parker added on Twitter, doesn't mean we want them to look like [Game of Thrones] characters."
And really. Why would Sean Parker style his wedding after a vaguely historical time period that never existed, when he could style it after what would appear to be a slightly later, vaguely historical time period that also never existed?
In its initial story, the New York Post reported that Parker's save-the-date cards featured a "medieval scroll design," which may have tricked them into thinking the whole wedding would have a medieval theme. However, if My Super Sweet 16 taught us anything, it's that medieval scroll style invitations can be used for any social gathering, regardless of theme.
"I hope you can come to my Moulin Rouge-themed birthday party. Here's a medieval scroll style invitation."
"I hope you can come to my Beach Bonanza-themed birthday party. Here's a medieval scroll style invitation."
"Jessica, you are acting like a bitch and you are not invited to my Viva Las Vegas-themed birthday party. You will not be receiving a medieval scroll style invitation."
A medieval scroll style invitation is just party planner shorthand for "real class event going down; very high-brow and elegant/fancy."
To those who would argue that any wedding that features mandatory whimsical costumes is inherently nerdy no matter what the official "theme" is (in the event no alternate theme is declared, the default theme becomes "mandatory whimsical costume-themed"), we say: you have obviously never experienced the powerful, almost sexual, high that comes with forcing a group of adults you respect to dress up in ridiculous outfits of your choosing.
Of course, if everyone's mocking comments about his dumb steampunk wedding worries Sean Parker's heart, America has now given him the perfect "out"; he can always claim that the whole thing was just an April Fool's joke that got Too Big.
But it would mean canceling that order for several tons of whimsical watch cog confetti.


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Wool can be a disease risk, being more conducive to lice and fly strike.
Annual shearing costs time and money.
Producing wool uses more of a sheep's resources, which are removed from your pasture when the wool is taken away.
Hair and shedding sheep breeds taste as good if not better than wool sheep.
That is why there is currently fast growth in the hair and shedder breeds.
In Australia, hobby farm and small holding paddocks are filled with wiltipolls, dorpers and wiltshire horns.
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Call this campus tale "Hermanas Gone Wild."
Without the flashing.
From its conception, Cal State San Marcos has been practiced in the art of discerning prejudice.
In the 1980s, when it appeared that the new San Marcos campus would be a satellite of San Diego State, CSU Chancellor W. Ann Reynolds insisted on an independent university with the goal of creating leadership opportunities for women and minorities.
North County became home to a progressive campus with a heightened social conscience. The college's devotion to multicultural correctness is a big strand of its DNA.
In the early '90s, for example, the late state Sen. Bill Craven said that undocumented workers are on "the lower scale of humanity."
Craven's off-the-cuff remark, misconstrued as racist rather than descriptive of self-evident socio-economic status, so enraged the Academic Senate that it beseeched the CSU chancellor to strip the name of the university's legislative father from campus landmarks.
Over the years, a few racially freighted incidents received intense media attention, in part because the young campus felt the alleged offenses so keenly.
Fair enough, so long as correctness doesn't turn into puritanical intolerance for the colorful piñatas of life.
Along with academic freedom, isn't there freedom to have harmless fun, free from joyless scolds?
Five years ago, the university's famously upbeat president, Karen Haynes, was photographed in stereotypical Mexican garb — sombrero, poncho — at a fiesta-themed party.
When the image went public, Haynes couldn't laugh off negative reactions. She apologized for "racial appropriation." To show her sensitivity, she forbade future parties with ethnic or cultural themes.
Memo: Cancel the luau!
This week, the Alpha Chi Omega sorority was shamed into apologizing for a few sisters who, during spring break, dressed up as cholas, Latinas with a tough attitude.
The presence of actual Latinas in the San Marcos sorority did nothing to take the curse off the campy romp.
At a meeting this week, the tearful sorority president said, "It was a mistake and lack of education on our part."
Good PR move, I suspect, but imagine the uproar if she had said something defiant like: "This bit of girlie foolishness posted on the Internet is worth your outrage? Really?"
Instead, pretty heads hung in shame and a campus "bias incident network" will be installed next fall.
"Girls just want to have fun," Cyndi Lauper famously sang.
But for goodness' sake, good girls must never wear flannel shirts or bandannas, even for fun.


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Survey shows rise in demand response, advanced metering use
The use of demand response and advanced metering programs has risen significantly since 2008 to cover more consumers around the country, says a new staff report issued today by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
FERC's 2010 Demand Response and Advanced Metering Survey, which covers calendar year 2009, shows that more than 500 entities reported offering demand response programs in the United States, with the potential demand response contribution from those programs estimated at more than 58,000 megawatts (MW), or 7.6 percent of U.S. peak demand. This is an increase of about 17,000 MW from the 2008 FERC survey. The regions with the largest estimated demand response resources are the Midwest-to-Mid-Atlantic region, and also the Upper Midwest and the Southeast.
The survey also indicates that advanced metering use has reached 8.7 percent of the U.S. market, up from 4.7 percent levels outlined in the 2008 report. Advanced meters reach more than 13 percent of the market in the upper Midwest, West and Texas. As in previous surveys, electric cooperatives have the largest penetration of advanced metering use, nearly 25 percent, among categories of organizations.
Today's staff report, like the 2008 and 2006 staff reports, is based on a survey sent to more than 3,400 companies in the U.S., including investor-owned and municipal utilities, rural electric cooperatives, power marketers and others. More than 1,750 companies that serve 78 percent of retail customers responded to the 2010 survey.
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baby naps and toddler trouble- wdyd?
I have a 28 mo old and a 4 mo old. at 1st the baby slept through every thing, but now, as he is getting older, he deserves a few minutes of peace and quiet to fall asleep! He generally has 3-4 naps, 1 of which the toddler naps too. We co-sleep and he is amping up his naughty behavior lately. Just an example. If I am trying to get the baby to sleep and no one else is home, I will take them both upstairs (he won't stay, say, in front of the TV if I am not on the same floor with him) and he used to look at books quietly. Now, he will pinch me while I am nursing the baby (this is even when I am singing to him- the toddler- or offering to read books, etc), kiss the baby over and over (and getting more aggressive each time), sing really loud, kick the wall, shout, hit me, etc. Sometimes i stop nursing or rocking to deal with him, but then the baby starts screaming and I get so frustrated, like I feel like the baby doesn't ever get a minutes peace. I don't expect the toddler (or anyone in the house) to stay quiet the whole naptime or anything like that. Just for the few moments it takes to get him to sleep. He is used to sleeping through noise, but he is interested in stuff now, so the initial getting him to sleep needs to be relatively quiet. I mean we can read, or sing or watch TV, but getting kissed, kicked, pinched, etc....he can't sleep through that. Yesterday, I had it with the toddler and put him in the hall for like 3 minutes. It was for me to not scream something unkind and to cool off and let him know I mean business. Well, DH acted like I was the worst mom in the world bc " he could have been so upset and trying to break down the door, he could have then fallen down the stairs and broken his leg or something" (thanks for your support, a-hole). ANYWAY. Since we co-sleep, his room and the baby's room is one in the same. And if he had a room, would it be cruel to put him in it alone for a few minutes (I am obviously not a CIO person)? I mean, I could put him in the hall, or put him in one of his brothers' rooms....I feel that no matter what I try, until he can learn to not act out at those times, someone is gonna end up sobbing- most likely me- but I feel like the baby gets the short end of the stick every day with this nonsense.
My last resort idea (I just thought of it while typing, lol) is our library has these things called playviews and it's just like watching a movie on a phone (I don't have internet on my phone). They have a bunch of learning ones- sesame street, between the lions, etc and he has seen one. Maybe I can have some of those and he can watch them laying next to me while i take the few minutes to put the baby down? It could work for times I nurse him to sleep but other times, the baby falls asleep on me, I just need 2 minutes to run upstairs to lay him down. But then the toddler follows and wakes him up.
What do you do? Last time I had a 2 yr old and baby, I also had a 3 and 4 yr old so they just played together. Also, the baby ended up giving up naps early . Oh and even when someone is home, a lot of times, he still follows me and the people at home are useless :/
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I'm dealing with something similar...I have a 3-year-old and a 7-week-old and trying to pay attention to one at a time inevitably ticks off the other one.
Telling your toddler, "If you can't be gentle (quiet/respectful/whatever) with the baby, I will have to separate you" is absolutely reasonable and your husband's opinion is only relevant if he is present to distract the toddler for you. So no, I don't think putting your toddler in another room for five minutes is harmful.
I know my older daughter gets more obnoxious and aggressive with the baby when she's tired herself and/or desperate for my attention. Good or bad, it's still attention, right? So I scold her, and she throws things or herself, or runs off and sulks, or shrieks at me. It's an unfortunate cycle and sometimes separating the kids (or letting the older one run off and sulk--she usually goes in her room to read) is best for all involved. Then once baby is calm or asleep I can do something one on one with Rowan--bath, books, whatever.
Amelia, married to Bear since 12/31/04; our daughter Rowan was born 8/6/09; our daughter Sapphira was born 8/17/12; due with DD3 6/17/15 (but after one two weeks late and one three weeks early, I'm not expecting a due-date baby!)
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I am expecting #2 and have been thinking about what to do with my DD who is almost 3 during nursing. I have hear that a special toy box just for nursing is a good suggestion. Your toddler could have his own special box that you guys decorate together with books, games, toys, snacks etc. to only be used when you are nursing the baby. Call it the "Big Brother Box" or something like that. Make it all about him.
I'm going to try something like that and see how it goes
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NIA, one of the 27 Institutes and Centers of NIH, leads a broad scientific effort to understand the nature of aging and to extend the healthy, active years of life. In 1974, Congress granted authority to form NIA to provide leadership in aging research, training, health information dissemination, and other programs relevant to aging and older people. Subsequent amendments to this legislation designated the NIA as the primary Federal agency on Alzheimer's disease research.
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- We have decided that we would like xcomufo's Minecraft server to be as close to survival as possible. This means that spawning of free items will be severely curtailed. We will no longer provide you with supplies for building your great project or city. It will be your responsibility to harvest, mine, trade for, or buy the materials you want to make what you want.
- In order to clean the server of all the freely spawned items and money, we have created a new map for 1.2.5. The old map is still online but only accessible by staff members.
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Community celebrates Relay for Life
Warm hearts made up for the chilly evening temperature as hundreds of volunteers, team members (from up to 48 teams) and spectators converged on the Blackfoot High School football field Friday evening for the all night Relay For Life - American Cancer Society fundraiser.
The annual event brings the community together - not only to raise money to fight the disease - but to celebrate, honor and remember those who have been affected by cancer.
This year, organizers have set a goal to raise $150,000. Over $60,000 has already been raised by teams doing individual fundraising events the past few months.
Vendors were on hand selling food and goods, while many items were auctioned off throughout the evening.
Publicity director Mikki Turman said two of the most poignant traditions of the evening are the luminaria ceremony to honor those who lost their lives to cancer and the "survivors' walk" - where each cancer survivor present is called by name, walking through an arch made up of symbolic purple and white balloons, amidst tears and cheers, to walk a lap around the track.
"I think the highlight of the evening is the survivors' walk. I really look forward to it ever year," Turman said.
Darlene Grimm of Blackfoot was one of over 100 cancer survivors whose name was called out to walk. Grimm, a 10-year breast cancer survivor, said she looks forward to Relay For Life every year.
"It's one of the most wonderful events ever. I come for the fun and the moral support. I never want to miss it," she said.
Caroline Hansen of Shelley brought her young daughters Kaitlyn (10) and Jerika (4) to the event saying, "We're here to honor everyone who has battled cancer, but I also want my daughters to learn the importance of community involvement."
This is the eighth year that Blackfoot has held a Relay For Life event. The exact amount raised from the efforts will not be known until later in the summer as donations will still be gathered through August.


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There's a reason more than 2 million people have chosen Just Energy's electric and natural gas supply supply rates. The next time you compare energy providers, take a close look at what Just Energy has to offer. From secured supply rates to green energy options, Just Energy has distinguished itself among energy providers in North America. Enter your ZIP code now to get residential energy prices from Just Energy!
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Sir Harrison Birtwistle - biography
The decade from 1973 to 1984 was dominated by his monumental lyric tragedy The Mask of Orpheus, staged by English National Opera in 1986, and by the series of remarkable ensemble scores now performed by the world's leading new music groups: Secret Theatre, Silbury Air and Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum. Large-scale works in the following decade included the operas Gawain and The Second Mrs Kong, the concertos Endless Parade for trumpet and Antiphonies for piano, and the orchestral score Earth Dances.
Birtwistle's works of recent decades include Exody, premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Barenboim, Panic which received a high profile premiere at the Last Night of the 1995 BBC Proms with an estimated worldwide audience of 100 million, and The Shadow of Night commissioned by the Cleveland Orchestra and Christoph von Dohnányi. The Last Supper received its first performances at the Deutsche Staatsoper in Berlin and at Glyndebourne in 2000. Pulse Shadows, a meditation for soprano, string quartet and chamber ensemble on poetry by Paul Celan, was released on disc by Teldec and won the 2002 Gramophone Award for best contemporary recording. Theseus Game, co-commissioned by RUHRtriennale, Ensemble Modern and the London Sinfonietta, was premiered in 2003. The following year brought first performances of The Io Passion for Aldeburgh Almeida Opera and Night's Black Bird commissioned by Roche for the Lucerne Festival. His opera The Minotaur received its premiere at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in 2008 and has been released on DVD by Opus Arte. His music theatre work The Corridor opened the Aldeburgh Festival and toured to the Southbank Centre and the Bregenz Festival, with further performances in New York and Amsterdam. Birtwistle's violin concerto for Christian Tetzlaff was premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2011, followed by performances at the BBC Proms, Tokyo Composium and Salzburg Festival.
The music of Birtwistle has attracted international conductors including Pierre Boulez, Daniel Barenboim, Elgar Howarth, Christoph von Dohnányi, Oliver Knussen, Sir Simon Rattle, Peter Eötvös and Franz Welser-Möst. He has received commissions from leading performing organisations and his music has been featured in major festivals and concert series including the BBC Proms, Salzburg Festival, Glyndebourne, Holland Festival, Lucerne Festival, Stockholm New Music, Wien Modern, Wittener Tage, the South Bank Centre in London, the Konzerthaus in Vienna and Settembre Musica in Turin and Milan.
Birtwistle has received many honours, including the Grawemeyer Award in 1968 and the Siemens Prize in 1995; he was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1986, awarded a British knighthood in 1988 and made a Companion of Honour in 2001. He was Henry Purcell Professor of Music at King's College, University of London (1995-2001) and is currently Director of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Recordings of Birtwistle's music are available on the Decca, Philips, Deutsche Grammophon, Teldec, Black Box, NMC, CPO and Soundcircus labels.
2014 is Birtwistle's 80th birthday year, including a concert series at the Barbican in London, a new piano concerto to tour internationally, and a selection of new recordings.
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San Diego ranked first among potential city relocation choices, in a recent national poll commissioned by the American Planning Association.
The Washington, D.C.-based not-for-profit organization does advocacy and education related to urban planning and community development. The group released the Harris Poll findings at its recent national convention in Atlanta.
Officials said 44 percent of more than 1,000 people surveyed online by Harris said they were somewhat or extremely likely to move within the next five years. Of those, San Diego placed first overall as the likely relocation city.
By age group, San Diego placed first among active baby boomers (age 50-65), and third among Millennials (age 21-34). Placing after San Diego in the overall poll were New York City, Boston, Denver and San Francisco.
The association also polled respondents on issues including transportation options, recruiting companies to communities, and access to high-speed internet. Officials said the poll was commissioned to analyze community preferences related to key demographic groups, for economic development purposes.
The Business Journal is the premier business publication in San Diego. Every day online and each Monday in print, the Business Journal reports on how local business operate and why businesses leaders make the decisions they do. Every story is a dose of insight into how to run a better, more efficient, more profitable business.


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I need help with my pizza recipe.
I am trying for a thin, crisp crust with lots of holes. I know that the higher the moisture content and oven heat you have (along with a pizza stone), the more open the crumb will be. I live in an apartment with an electric oven (no self cleaning setting, unfortunately), so the best I can do heat wise is about 600°F.
Right now, my recipe is as follows:
KA bread flour 350 grams
water 245 grams (70% hydration)
salt 14 grams (4%)
yeast 9 grams (a tad over 2.5%)
I mix the water, salt, yeast and half the flour, cover and refrigerate overnight and then scrape the batter into my mixer and mix the remaining flour with the dough hook and knead for about 8 minutes. It is then shaped and allowed to rise at room temp for an hour. The flavor is amazing, but the crumb is very bread like. I use this recipe to make one 16" pizza. Even with stretching the dough paper thin (it passes the window pane test quite well), the center rise is about 1/4". On top of that, the crust is tough and chewy, on the order of beef jerky.
I'm guessing that I should increase the hydration, but at what point does the dough become unworkable? As it is, this dough is very soft and slack.
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Week 1 Preview: Cowboys at Buccaneers
The time has come my fellow football fanatics! Football season is officially here and the Cowboys first game of the year begins in less than an hour.
The anticipation has built up to the max and all we can do now is watch and cheer! I've been watching ESPN this morning, NFL Countdown. Don't worry they still hate us. Funny how some things never change.
As for our team, everyone looks ready to go. Sam Hurd and Miles Austin are both ready to play and needed on special teams especially. That means that rookie Kevin Ogletree has been declared inactive for today's game, after an amazing preseason I find that very odd.
The inactive list is as follows:
WR Kevin Ogletree
S Mike Hamlin
LB Jason Williams
G Montrae Holland
C Duke Preston
T Pat McQuistan
3rd QB Stephen McGee
OLB Curtis Johnson
There is a chance for rain today in Tampa Bay but the temperature will remain in the mid-80s. Unless thunderstorms strike heavy it should be decent weather.
We will be hosting a Live Game Chat starting at kickoff throughout the entire game. We invite you to join fellow Cowboys fanatics, LSS Staff and friends to discuss the game, cheer the Boys, and anything else that comes up over the course of 4 quarters.


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Comparing Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) and Liver Biopsy to Evaluate the Liver in Patients With HIV and Hepatitis C Virus
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The purpose of this study is to find if the Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) scan is as effective as a liver biopsy (using a special needle to remove tissue from the liver) in examining liver damage in patients with HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV).
A standard way to examine the liver for disease has been to perform a liver biopsy. The SPECT scan, which takes a picture of the liver, has been found to be effective in determining liver damage but studies need to be done in patients with hepatitis. This study will compare the effectiveness of the liver biopsy and SPECT scan in determining liver disease in patients with HIV and HCV. The SPECT scan might be a good replacement for the liver biopsy if it is found to be as good as or better than liver biopsies.
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|HIV Infections Hepatitis C
Assessment with a liver biopsy is currently the standard of practice to determine the status of liver involvement in patients with HCV. A direct comparison between SPECT results and liver pathology has been examined in patients with liver disease other than infectious hepatitis. SPECT has been found to be more accurate than standard liver-spleen scans in assessing liver pathology. While current data suggest that liver pathology may correlate with SPECT, which specific SPECT parameters are predictive of certain hepatic pathology is unknown. The pilot study will compare SPECT parameters with the results of liver biopsies to determine the limitations of SPECT.
All screened patients are registered into Step 1, in which they receive a radioactive tracer injection and SPECT scan. Specific SPECT parameters will be measured to determine a grading scale corresponding to that used in liver biopsy results. Some patients undergoing a second liver biopsy in A5071 are enrolled into Step 2, with permission from protocol co-chairs, in which a pregnancy test and second SPECT scan are performed. Patients are reimbursed for completing each SPECT scan. SPECT scans or copies are reviewed to establish which parameters correspond to category E of the Knodell stage based on severity of fibrosis.
|Study Type :
|Enrollment :
|44 participants
|Official Title:
|Use of Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) as a Noninvasive Alternative to Liver Biopsies in Assessing Liver Involvement in Subjects Coinfected With HIV and Hepatitis C Virus (HCV)
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|Child, Adult, Older Adult
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria
Patients may be eligible for this study if they:
- Are enrolled in, or will soon enroll in, A5071. Patients may be eligible for the study if they are screening for A5071 and have a liver biopsy and SPECT scan but do not enter A5071. Patients who have stopped taking A5071 study drugs may also be eligible.
- Have had a liver biopsy, or will soon have a liver biopsy.
- Have a SPECT scan either before the liver biopsy or 2 weeks to 8 weeks after a liver biopsy.
- Intend to have the SPECT scan within 7 days of study entry.
Exclusion Criteria
Patients will not be eligible for this study if they:
- Are allergic to chemicals in the radioactive tracer used for the SPECT scan.
- Are pregnant or breast-feeding.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00006643
|United States, California
|Stanford Univ Med Ctr
|Stanford, California, United States, 943055107
|United States, Florida
|Univ of Miami School of Medicine
|Miami, Florida, United States, 331361013
|United States, Hawaii
|Univ of Hawaii
|Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 96816
|United States, New York
|Bellevue Hosp / New York Univ Med Ctr
|New York, New York, United States, 10016
|Community Health Network Inc
|Rochester, New York, United States, 14642
|Univ of Rochester Medical Center
|Rochester, New York, United States, 14642
|United States, North Carolina
|Univ of North Carolina
|Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, 275997215
|United States, Ohio
|Univ of Cincinnati
|Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 452670405
|United States, Pennsylvania
|Univ of Pennsylvania
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
|United States, Texas
|Univ of Texas, Southwestern Med Ctr of Dallas
|Dallas, Texas, United States, 75390
|United States, Washington
|Univ of Washington
|Seattle, Washington, United States, 98104
|Study Chair:
|Bruce Shiramizu
|Study Chair:
|Dickens Theodore
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00006643 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|August 31, 2001 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|July 30, 2008
|Last Verified:
|June 2003
Keywords provided by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID):
Hepatitis C
Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis C
HIV Infections
Liver Diseases
Digestive System Diseases
Hepatitis, Viral, Human
Virus Diseases
Enterovirus Infections
Picornaviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Flaviviridae Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases


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A Very Ecumenical Christmas
Why conservatives despise the phrase happy holidays.
Once again, it's time to indulge in the perennial yuletide joys: harried trips to mobbed shopping malls, wasteful spending on pointless presents, spikes in depressive and suicidal feelings. And to these merriments we can now add what is fast becoming another cherished annual rite: defending the tolerant, pluralistic, ecumenical society that most of us have known and loved for decades against the Christian zealots, conservative bullies, and opportunistic pundits who insist that liberals, Jews, Muslims, and other un-American types are waging a "War Against Christmas."
The Christmas Warriors would have you believe that in the age of George "Jesus Changed My Life" Bush, secularism is newly on the march. Godless liberals, they suggest, have introduced the exotic phrase happy holidays into the lexicon and, in their spare time, have crassly commercialized the sacred observance of Christ's birth. Actually, it's these extremists who have grown newly assertive. They object to widespread holiday practices that have been deeply embedded in American life for decades.
Consider, for example, the latest brouhaha: the Seattle-Tacoma airport's decision to take down Christmas trees rather than put up a menorah as well. After a Lubavitcher rabbi pointed out that the public display of Christian symbols violated the First Amendment, the right-wing Christmas Warriors flooded him with "hundreds of hate mail messages" that were part of "a surge of anti-Semitism," according to the Anti-Defamation League. Pressured, the rabbi relented and the trees were put back, foregoing any parallel acknowledgment of Hanukkah.
The Christmas extremists can claim a yarmulke for their wall. But let the record show that they, not the rabbi, were seeking to overturn the status quo. For more than 17 years, the law of the land—i.e., the Constitution as interpreted by the Supreme Court—has held that public holiday displays must be fundamentally secular. To erect nativity scenes in public places, the high court held in County of Allegheny v. American Civil Liberties Union, Greater Pittsburgh Chapter (1989), is to impermissibly endorse Christianity. Yet the Court also held that governments may "celebrate the season" through joint displays of Christmas trees and menorahs, since doing so acknowledges, as Justice Harry Blackmun wrote, that "Christmas and Chanukah are part of the same winter holiday season, which has attained a secular status in our society." Far from a victory for hard-line secularism, the 1989 ruling struck a moderate compromise between the ACLU's desire that no religious displays be permitted and the Christianists' belief that a city government can proclaim glory to the Christ child.
While the case for equal time for menorahs dates to the 1970s and 1980s, the secular and commercial character of Christmas was solidly established much earlier—certainly by the 1920s. As the historian William Leach has noted in Land of Desire, "the cult of Santa Claus had reached almost absurd proportions everywhere" in that decade, with parades, marketing stunts, and department-store extravaganzas that featured not Jesus but Santa enthroned on an igloo or descending from a zeppelin. Confronted with traditionalists' fears that the Santa Claus obsession—and holiday shopping in general—were violating the Christmas spirit, department-store mogul John Wanamaker * maintained that "Young people very early grow to understand that it is a mere pleasantry and tradition. I do not believe that it detracts from the story of the coming of Christ." Most Americans had made peace with Christmas' new commercial spirit.
The gripes against inclusive seasonal displays and yuletide capitalism found new expression in the sudden outrage over the president's generic holiday cards. Last year, many conservatives were furious that George W. Bush omitted the word Christmas from his wintertime mailings. The Washington Post quoted William Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, saying: "This clearly demonstrates that the Bush administration has suffered a loss of will and that they have capitulated to the worst elements in our culture." Added another conservative religious leader, "I threw out my White House card as soon as I got it."
But here, too, it's the foes of the ecumenical greeting who want to destroy a long-standing modus vivendi. Mary Evans Seeley's book Season's Greetings from the White House: The Collection of Presidential Christmas Cards, Messages, and Gifts shows that "Season's Greetings" was used on White House holiday correspondence by no less than Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1950s. Likewise, Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Reagan, and Clinton all took care, as well, not to alienate non-Christian recipients of holiday mail. Few people expressed a problem with this long-standing practice until now.
It's fitting that Eisenhower should have pioneered the tradition of all-purpose holiday messages. They typified his belief that, as he once put it, "Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply felt religious faith—and I don't care what it is. With us, of course, it is the Judeo-Christian concept, but it must be a religion that all men are created equal." His statement expressed the paradox of America's emerging religious disposition in the 1950s. In many ways, religion was resurgent in public life, with prayer breakfasts, "In God We Trust" added to paper currency, and the words "under God" inserted in the Pledge of Allegiance. Simultaneously, however, the Holocaust had made the merits (indeed the necessity) of religious toleration all the more compelling. Most Protestants, moreover, had come to realize that immigration had permanently transformed the American populace and that for comity to prevail in daily life, diverse creeds would have to coexist. Hence, this was also the golden age of the "interfaith" movement and the spread of that insipid public-relations neologism Judeo-Christian (a phrase that crystallizes the conflation of Christmas and Hanukkah).
Will Herberg's classic Protestant-Catholic-Jew (1955) captured the detente achieved among America's three leading religions. The book examined the Eisenhower Era condition of "pervasive secularism amid mounting religiosity." Herberg concluded that Americans (not unlike Ike) placed a high value not so much on God as on religion itself. "One's particular religion is, of course, to be cherished and loyally adhered to," he wrote, "but it is not felt to be something that one 'flaunts' in the face of people of other faiths." Most Americans in the 1950s believed in God, yet insisted that their beliefs didn't impinge much on their politics or business affairs. And, as Herberg noted, "what is secularism but the practice of the absence of God in affairs of life?" The same mix of private faith and public accommodation—precisely what irritates today's Christianists—prevails today.
The interfaith, tolerant spirit, ascendant in the 1920s, had by the '50s become synonymous with what Herberg called "the American Way of Life." In the decades since, we have expanded the Protestant-Catholic-Jew troika to include Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and others (although not without some ugly resistance). And, certain terms of the compact have been renegotiated, as when the Supreme Court concluded that prayer doesn't belong in public schools—though, in keeping with Herberg's analysis, a moment of silence has remained constitutionally kosher. Overall, the understandings reached by the 1950s have remained an American consensus. Indeed, far from a war on Christmas, this consensus should be seen as a socially useful, ideologically justifiable, and highly agreeable truce.
Correction, Dec. 19: The name of department-store mogul John Wanamaker was originally misspelled in the article. (Return to the corrected sentence.)


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Apparently I'm the last to hear about any cyberspace phenomena. A little research suggests I'm the 27-million-and-ninth person to see The Dove Beauty Sketches. If you, too, are a member of Not Cyberhip of America, you can watch the video right on YouTube.
A series of women are invited to sit and describe their faces to a sketch artist, who sits behind a curtain and draws the faces they describe. The women are paired up and spend some time talking and getting to know one another. Then, the sketch artist draws another composite, this time based on the description of the partner.
The results are startling. The two pictures were quite different.
Other people tend to see us more generously than we see ourselves. They are more willing to admire and revel in us than we are to admire and revel in ourselves.
No surprise. In our culture, the great commandments are Thou Shalt Not Revel in Thyself, It's Important Not To Notice If You're Beautiful and We'll Call You Humble If You Constantly Criticize Your Looks.
Because, of course, there could be no more terrible outcome than to know you're beautiful and to have fun being beautiful.
Then women in the video behold the two sketches. Now they look humble. Not the pretense of humility this culture teaches and lauds, but authentic humility.
One woman stands, stunned, before the two pictures, "That's very different. Very strange." She sighs deeply and thoughtfully. "(The woman I described) looks closed off … fatter … kinda shut down. Sadder, too." Now her eyes twinkle. She looks shy. Self-conscious. Joyful. Her eyes fill with tears. "The second one is more beautiful. She looks more open and friendly and … happy."
There are some surprising attributes of beauty. Openness and friendliness and happiness are beautiful. Who knew?
I interpret the tears two ways, double-duty tears. Sad to have to recognize just how unfriendly we are to ourselves. Often just plain mean. But also weeping for the joy and the hope that maybe, just maybe, it might be OK to notice "the light" in ourselves that others see so much more often and easily. To have fun being beautiful.
The sketch artist asks another woman standing astonished before the two finished pictures: "Do you think you're more beautiful than you say?"
"Yeah," she says.
Her face looks sober, almost grim, like someone finally conceding there is no other course of action but to shoulder a terrible burden.
"Yeah," she repeats and nods, as if to say, "I suppose I'll just have to learn to live with being beautiful."
I know this ad campaign was supposed to be specifically about women and the burden placed on them by a shallow society about what beauty is and who is allowed to have it. But, why should women have all the fun? I think it's a good idea for all of us to notice our chronically crippled capacity to see what is beautiful about us and in us. One antidote is to notice how love beholds us.
So often I see a tired empty eloquence
I see a clever crippled confidence
Yeah, I see the vacuum of my common sense
I like what you see better
I like what you see better
Too often I see a heart of simple selfishness
I see a vision bathed in bitterness
Yeah, I see another day of wasted breath
I like what you see better
I like what you see better
Everyone inside my head has spoken
They're all in agreement here
They tell me I should see myself as broken
To be embarrassed by the man in the mirror
But in your eyes another path has opened
A choice between the voices loud and cruel
To see the man you see is what I'm hoping
Self-hatred is against the rules
I see a man who's quite ridiculous
You see the man who brings you happiness
Please hear the echo of my thankfulness
I like what you see better
I like what you see better
Now I can see me better
— "You See Better" by Steven Kalas and Paul Taylor
Steven Kalas is a behavioral health consultant and counselor at Las Vegas Psychiatry and the author of "Human Matters: Wise and Witty Counsel on Relationships, Parenting, Grief and Doing the Right Thing" (Stephens Press). His columns appear on Sundays. Contact him at 227-4165 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Number: 110-1
Date: March 26, 2007
House Passes H.R. 1309,
the Freedom of Information Act Amendments of 2007
On March 14, 2007 the House passed H.R. 1309, the Freedom of Information Act Amendments of 2007, by a vote of 308 to 117. The legislation would impact public disclosure of government information pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Any member of the public may use FOIA to request access to government information, including information from SSA.
Among other things, the House-passed bill would:
• Require Federal agencies, including SSA, to consider additional factors when determining whether a FOIA requestor is a member of the news media, and therefore eligible for a waiver of fees for document search and review. Agencies would be required to consider prior publication history of the requester, including books, articles, newsletters, television and radio broadcasts, and Internet publications. If the requester has no prior publication history or current affiliation, the agency would be required to consider the requester's stated intent to distribute information to a reasonably broad audience and to grant a fee waiver in those circumstances.
• Expand the definition of "substantially prevail", for the purpose of the recovery of attorney fees and other litigation costs from Federal agencies (including SSA) against which a claim or judgment has been rendered. "Substantially prevail" would include, in addition to situations in which the claimant has obtained relief from the agency through voluntary or enforceable decisions or orders, those situations in which the claimant has obtained relief from the agency through voluntary or unilateral changes in position by the agency.
• Strengthen provisions in current law that authorize disciplinary action against government officials who deny records to FOIA requesters, by directing the Attorney General to:
• Notify the Special Counsel of civil actions taken for certain rejections of requests for agency records;
• Annually submit reports to Congress on the number of these actions taken; and
• Require the Special Counsel to submit annual reports to Congress on the actions taken by the Special Counsel regarding these civil actions.
• Require that the 20-day statutory time limit for responding to requestors with regard to a determination of whether the agency will comply with such request to begin immediately upon agency receipt of the FOIA request. Agencies would be prohibited from charging requester fees for document search, duplication, or review if the agency fails to comply with the 20-day deadline for responding to that request with a determination of action. This provision would apply only to FOIA requests filed on or after the effective date of this amendment.
• Require each Federal agency (including SSA) to assign a tracking number and to notify the requester of such tracking number for each FOIA request within 10 days after receiving such request.
• Require Federal agencies (including SSA) to establish a telephone line or Internet service that provides information about the status of requests, including the date on which the agency received the request and an estimated date on which the agency will complete action on the request. This provision would take effect one year after the date of enactment and would apply only to FOIA requests filed on or after that effective date.
• Prohibit Congress from creating new statutory exemptions under FOIA unless it does so explicitly by requiring new statutory exemptions to specifically cite section 552(b) of the FOIA.
• For purposes of the annual FOIA compliance reports, require Federal agencies (including SSA) to provide additional information about timeframes for responding to requests with a determination, including:
• The number of requests that the agency has responded to within the required 20 days;
• Information about the timeframes for providing granted information to requesters;
• Data regarding agency responsiveness to administrative appeals;
• Data on the 10 active requests with the earliest filing dates pending at the agency;
• Data on the 10 active administrative appeals with the earliest filing dates pending at the agency;
• Data regarding agency responsiveness to expedited review requests; and
• Data regarding agency grants of fee waivers.
• Codify the Federal government's policy to release information to the public in response to a FOIA request if:
• Such release is required by law; or
• Such release is allowed by law and the agency concerned does not reasonably foresee that disclosure would be harmful to an interest protected by an applicable exemption.
In situations where FOIA requested material is exempt from disclosure, in addition to identifying where such material has been deleted from the response to the request, require Federal agencies to cite the statutory authority used to delete such material.


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The project wants to provide a portable TCP/IP and UDP socket interface for as many Common Lisp implementations as possible, while keeping the abstraction and portability layer as thin as possible.
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The project wants to provide a portable TCP/IP (and later on maybe UDP) socket interface for as many Common Lisp implementations as possible, while keeping the abstraction and portability layer as thin as possible.
Current functionality includes client side streams and server side stream listening sockets. It doesn't have all the features trivial-sockets supports, but does support all of its features on all supported platforms (which trivial-sockets doesn't); see the feature comparison
Release 0.5.0 adds support for udp sockets, fixes lots of bugs since the 0.4.1 release. Additionally, it adds support for Macintosh Common Lisp (versions 5.0 and up).
Due to the fact that the library is based on the sockets interface provided by the implementation, the library is just as portable accross OSes as the supported lisp implementations. (Meaning at least Windows, MacOS X and Linux.)
There's also a trivial-sockets compatibility library trivial-usocket.
Note that the dependency on SPLIT-SEQUENCE as mentioned below is outdated.
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With the shift in weather patterns two years ago, southern growers have received more than enough rain in some cases, while farmers in the Plains states have been hit by the worst droughts since the Dust Bowl.
As economic conditions worsened, southern congressmen spearheaded legislation that authorized supplemental Agricultural Marketing and Transition Act (AMTA) payments in 1998-2000. The supplemental payments went to all AMTA recipients, including Midwest farmers, although they harvested good crops in those years.
Now, some Midwest farmers, who didn't say much when the supplemental payments were being issued in the late 1990s, say disaster assistance for 2001 and 2002 should be "targeted" to producers who suffered losses in those years.
Those arguments forced Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran to modify his disaster assistance plan to limit a new supplemental payment to farmers in declared disaster counties or who lost at least 35 percent of their production in 2001/2002.
House Agriculture Committee leaders are now repeating some of the same arguments as a House-Senate conference committee prepares to take up the omnibus appropriations bill that includes Cochran's amendment.
Although Sen. Cochran made concessions that will probably delay delivery of disaster aid into the summer, House Ag Committee members say they want to put in more restrictions.
"We would like to see it targeted a bit better," said Nebraska Rep. Tom Osborne. The former University of Nebraska football coach's comments were almost an echo of those by Sens. Charles Grassley of Iowa and Ben Nelson of Nebraska two weeks earlier.
While he made similar comments himself, Rep. Bob Goodlatte of Virginia, House Ag Committee chairman, tried to strike a middle ground between Midwest and Southern sentiments. "It's our responsibility as a committee to find the best way to make it work as fairly as possible and as expeditiously as possible," he said.
Another congressman, Rep. Jerry Moran of Kansas, seemed to be happy that House committee members, who have yet to consider disaster legislation, finally seemed to recognize the legislation is needed.
Comments like Osborne's added an element of uncertainty to what had seemed like a done deal after the Senate vote on the Cochran amendment.
In a press conference on Jan. 31, Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman seemed to back away from the administration's endorsement of the Cochran disaster amendment when asked about a Washington Post editorial that called the legislation a disaster.
She noted that the Senate disaster assistance proposal had gone through "a lot of iterations and a lot of negotiating," and would now have to go to a House-Senate conference committee. "So it's difficult at this point to make a judgment as to where that will come out.
"I know there are a lot of differing conversations about what people believe ought to be done with the bill, but certainly we have put forward our principles for the fact that such assistance needs to be offset, and we will continue to work closely with the Congress as they conference."


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CLEMSON, S.C. (May 4, 2012) – Two weeks after taking home its third men's title at the Atlantic Sun Outdoor Championships, the ETSU track and field program will head to Clemson's Rock Norman Track and Field Complex on Saturday for the Bob Pollock Invitational.
The one-day meet beings at 10 a.m. with the javelin throw and shot put. The track events begin at 1:45 p.m. with the women's 4x100m relay. Other men's and women's events throughout the day include the 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m, 3000m steeplechase, high jump, long jump, triple jump, pole vault, discus throw, hammer throw and 400m hurdles and 4x400m relays.
This will be ETSU's first meet since April 21, when the men's team earned its third A-Sun Outdoor Track and Field title at North Florida's Hodges Stadium in Jacksonville, Fla. The Bucs scored 223 points through the two-day championship, defeating Kennesaw State by 2.5 points to secure the smallest margin of victory in the 17-year history of the event.
The women's side finished fourth in the championships, but walked away having scored 109 points – its highest since joining the conference in 2005-06. Freshman Katerina Vodova (Humpolec, Czech Republic) broke the A-Sun Championship record in the heptathlon, scoring 5,152 points to defeat KSU's Christine Leverette by 197 points.
Live results throughout the Bob Pollock Invitational will be provided courtesy of TimingInc.com.
For more information on ETSU track and field, please visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the track and field links.


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SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — European, Latin American and Caribbean leaders gathering for this weekend's economic summit will likely see only one side of Chile — the polished, upscale country where tourists and investors stay in five-star hotels in a sparklingly clean financial district nicknamed "Sanhattan," well away from Santiago's slums.
Hundreds of security agents will ensure that presidents and prime ministers won't be exposed to activists demanding a wider distribution of Chile's copper wealth and decent educations for all. They also won't hear Mapuche Indians denouncing the dictatorship-era anti-terror laws used against Chile's largest indigenous group.
This 16.5 million-person Andean country has won worldwide acclaim for its modernizing economy and institutions, rarities in a region still struggling to leave behind centuries of economic dysfunction. Yet there's another side to the Chilean miracle, one that will sit just blocks from the conference halls and hotels where leaders will meet this week.
Chile, in fact, has the worst inequality rate among the 34 countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, which includes other emerging economies such as Mexico and Turkey, according to the World Bank. Its rate of inequality is also worse than several Latin American countries with lower average incomes, including Peru, the Dominican Republic and Ecuador.
"Chile is a country of contrasts. We have two countries, and the people who come to the summit will only see one of them - 'Sanhattan' and the macroeconomic data," said pollster Marta Lagos.
"It might be good for the government that the people in the summits don't realize this, but it's bad for Chile."
Promoting sustainable development by fighting poverty, reducing income inequality and protecting natural resources are actually primary goals of the summit, which brings together more than 60 nations from the European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the world's leading non-governmental organizations.
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Spanish President Mariano Rajoy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are among those joining a business conference Friday where 300 executives are formally seeking joint ventures with the same goals.
International Monetary Fund Director Christine Lagarde framed their challenges starkly at last week's Davos Conference, saying the world's top executives agree that "severe income disparity" poses the greatest risk to the global economy in the decade ahead. "Excessive inequality is corrosive to growth; it is corrosive to society," she warned.
Other countries, however, can take many positive lessons from Chile.
The world's top copper producer is seen as probably the best managed economy in Latin America because of its strong growth, prudent fiscal and macroeconomic policies and strong institutions that make it an investor's paradise.
But critics say policies launched under former dictator Augusto Pinochet that privatized much of the country are still blocking urgent social reform and fostering social exclusion and inequality.
Pinera's government has been hit by wide protests demanding improvements in education, housing and health care and the protection of the environment from business interests. So while the country is expanding quickly, Chileans are asking for reforms to a system that they say still fails many.
Some of Chile's contradictions are in plain sight. Slum dwellers living in wooden shacks with zinc roofs at Campamento Juan Pablo II have a perfect view of elegant mansions, soaring skyscrapers and luxury car dealerships, just across a wide avenue in Las Condes, one of Santiago's wealthiest neighborhoods.
"The social gap is huge. The millionaires are right there next to us and we're stuck here living in this shantytown. The rich continue to get richer while the poor get poorer," said Raul Sanchez, 51, who earns poverty-level wages watching over cars at nearby parking lots.
No one can deny that President Sebastian Pinera has tried to fight poverty by encouraging job creation and giving cash handouts to the poorest of the poor.
But he has fallen far short of his campaign promise to eradicate poverty by the end of his term in 2014, and Chileans perceive the wealth gap as wider than ever, Lagos said.
Displaying economic success is particularly important to Chile, which is eager to be seen as a developed nation. Chile's business elites take particular pride in the country's membership in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
The country's economy is expected to grow around 4.8 percent in 2013, outpacing every other country in the region but Peru, according to the United Nations.
Chile's strong standing has helped it weather the world economic crisis and withstand the contagion in the Euro zone, where the economy contracted by 0.5 percent last year. Along with mining, Chile enjoys strong consumer demand and profits from exports of salmon, forestry, wine and fruit. During a recent visit to Santiago, International Monetary Fund Director Christine Lagarde praised Chile for being one of the fastest growing economies in South America and keeping unemployment at historically low levels while controlling inflation below a target 3 percent.
"Chile has been a successful country and there are many reasons why Chileans should be proud, but the country remains largely unequal despite progress," said Patricio Navia, a Chilean political scientist who teaches at New York University.
"Precisely because it has grown so much, one wonders why the government hasn't been able to do more to fight inequality."
Far from the summit's headquarters in a heavily guarded conference center in the Andean foothills, protesters were preparing to take the streets for a "people's summit" on Friday.
Students are demanding an end to the decentralization of education in Chile, which has created a system of failing public schools, expensive private universities, unprepared teachers and pricey student loans.
Mapuche Indians are demanding autonomy and a return of their ancestral territory in Chile's Patagonia region, where timber companies, foreign corporations and wealthy individuals control most of the land. Environmentalists are demanding an end to the privatization of Chile's water, another legacy of the Pinochet era.
The most common complaint of the protesters is that wealth and power has been concentrated in very few hands.
"The biggest problem in Chile is that the differences between the haves and the have-nots are very dramatic," Navia said. "So you are not likely to see poverty as you see in other countries, but you will see that wealth and income in Chile are very unequally distributed."
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Kane area children will be dressed in various costumes Monday as they go door-to-door during Halloween "Trick or Treat" hours.According to borough and school officials, a Halloween parade will not be held in Kane for the first time in many years.Halloween "Trick or Treat" hours in Kane, Wetmore Township, Hamlin Township and Highland Township are from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday. Residents are asked to turn on their porch lights.The Halloween parade in Mt. Jewett begins at 5 p.m. Monday. Costumed children will march from the Hamlin Bank office on East Main Street (Route 6) to the Mt. Jewett Fire Hall.A costume contest will be held at the fire hall. The Mt. Jewett Rotary Club will award prizes."Trick or Treat" hours in Mt. Jewett are from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Monday.In Hamilton Township (Ludlow), costumed children will be going door-to-door during "Trick or Treat" time from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Monday.A costume contest is slated for 7 p.m. Monday at the Ludlow Volunteer Fire Department.Parents are reminded to inspect candy and other items given out to their children on Halloween "Trick or Treat" times.The Diagnostic Imaging Department at Kane Community Hospital will X-ray Halloween candy from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the hospital. Enter through the Emergency Room entrance, which faces Route 6.


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Richard Thomas to Answer Theater Questions• April 11, 2013 Share:
A critically acclaimed film, television and stage actor will chat with Wabash theater students and the community Friday afternoon. But Richard Thomas is best known by many as "John Boy Walton" from the popular 1970s CBS television show.
Thomas will meet with theater students 1:30-2:30 Friday in Ball Theater to answer questions about his career. The public is invited with a public reception to follow.
Thomas came to fame via the 1970s television series The Waltons (1971-1977). But he first performed on television at eight years old in Ibsen's A Doll's House along with Christopher Plummer, Julie Harris, and Hume Cronin. He took several soap opera roles and appeared in Paul Newman's 1969 auto racing film Winning.
The 61-year-old actor has appeared in numerous Broadway productions, film, and television. He has won an Emmy and two Golden Glove Awards in his career.
Thomas currently has a role in the FX Network program The Americans. He plays an FBI counterintelligence operative.


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Dowling College Shootout
Long Island National Golf Club - Par - 71 - Riverhead, N.Y.
Friday, September 20th & Saturday, September 21st
Riverhead, N.Y. - In steady 30 mph winds at Long Island National Golf Club, Farmingdale State posted a final round 326 and finished in third place with a two-day total of 638. In a field consisting of 12 Division II teams, Adelphi (614) won the team championship finishing four strokes ahead of Le Moyne College.
Senior Adam Larkin (Bellmore, N.Y.) finished tied for fifth individually after a final round 80 and two-day toal of 155. Sophomore Scott Sessions (Pleasantville, N.Y.) shot a second round 83 after opening with a 76 for a total of 159. Senior Rich Kelly (Oceanside, N.Y.) recorded a team-leading 79 in Saturday's final round.
John Clare (144) of Le Moyne defeated Adelphi's Dylan Daxon on the first playoff hole to claim the individual title.
The Rams next will host the Farmingdale State Skyline Invitational on Friday, September 27th at the Bethpage State Park - Red Course. The first tee time on Friday is 11:00 a.m.
For complete results of the Dowling College Shootout, click HERE.


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Topic: Ultimate Battle
This is an RPG where there is a massive battle going on between good and evil on a remote planet. You can enter the fray as a single character, or as a team of characters you control. You will name your team, and you can join existing teams with consent of the team leader. When you make a team, state the members, their descriptions and powers, and your affiliation. There are two affiliations, Vanguards of Justice (a newly created detachment of the Alliance of Free Worlds, good), and The New Princes of Destruction (evil). You can also be neutral, help either side, or be mercenaries. The setting is in the far future, an evil Interstellar empire has conquered much of the galaxy, and the Alliance of Free Worlds has been reduced to a few worlds in remote systems, and their capital world, Earth. Earth had been turned into a nuclear wasteland over 1000 years ago, forcing the expansion of humankind to other worlds. Our world was forgotten. But, when the forces of evil began to gain power, Earth was rediscovered by the Alliance of Free Worlds. Advanced technology de-radiated Earth, and kept it hidden. But, the war has come to one final battle. Both sides have put all their forces onto this planet, and the Vanguards of Justice are the Alliance's last hope; if they are wiped out, nothing will stop the New Princes of Destruction from discovering Earth, and wiping out free man. Choose your side wisely.
Here is the twist: the combatants are pulled from alternate universes or realities by a mysterious portal placed on this world. It has unknown properties, but also means that your team and characters can be anyone. ANYone. For example, people from the Marvel universe, Star Wars, Warhammer 40k, Star Trek, DC, even Lord of The Rings if you like. Or, I encourage the creation of original characters, these factions do have armies as well. There are also wild creatures that stalk some regions of the planet. You do not have to be on the battle field at all times, although that is where most of the action is going to be. The planet is similar to Mars, and the main battlefield (Dagorlad) is mainly flat, dusty terrain with a few clusters and spires of rock. There are canyons elsewhere on the planet. The max team size is 7, but teams can work together obviously. No more than 2 characters from one universe e.g. you could not have Vader, Luke, and Han Solo, only 2 SW guys. The beings from other realities are called outsiders by the troops. You can be commander of a standard military unit, or foot soldier, pilot, etc. if you wish. The military of both sides are very technologically advanced, think mechs and spaceships and lasers, although some conventional firearms are occasionally used and accepted.
RULES: No "god" characters. If you choose someone with "god-like" powers, give them a small weakness, and use one character. Example of such characters: Galactus, Thor, etc.
Merciless Mandalore's team sheet:
Affiliation: Vanguards of Justice
Team Name: Tactical Elimination Squadron 189; nicknamed "Bad Company"
Members: Boba Fett, Master Chief, Iron Man, Ragnar Blackmane, Solid Snake, and Deadpool.
Boba Fett:
Occupation:Mandalorian Bounty Hunter
Height: 6'
Appearance: Green Mandalorian battle armor, gray undersuit.
Weapons: EE-3 blaster rifle, many secondary.
Master Chief:
Occupation:Spartan UNSC soldier, defender of Earth.
Height: 7'1
Appearance: Green Mk VI Mjolnir power armor.
Weapons: Br-55 battle rifle, Spartan Laser.
Iron Man:
Occupation:Weapons contractor, Avenger, superhero
Height: 6'1
Appearance: Red and gold Iron Man suit, full body flying armor
Weapons: Hand repulsors, unibeam, missiles, and more.
Ragnar Blackmane:
Occupaton: Space Wolf
Height: (honestly, not sure) 7' (guess)
Appearance: Heavy space wolf armor, with Fenrisian Wolf Pelt
Weapons/Powers: Heavy pistol, Chain sword/ Superhuman strength and durability
Solid Snake:
Occupation: Foxhound elite soldier
Height: 6' (not sure)
Appearance: well built, grey suit, headband, brown hair.
Weapons/Powers: Many conventional weapons, powerful in hand- to hand combat. Skilled in all weapons and martial arts.
Occupation: Mercenary; "Cleanser of the gene pool"
Height: 6' (not sure)
Appearance: full body skin tight red and black suit. Many ammo pouches, weapons, grenades, etc.
Weapons/Powers: Two katanas, pistols, machine guns, grenades./ Teleport ability, incredible healing factor. Skilled in all weapons and martial arts.


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I have been talking with one of my new colleagues at Huntington about the nature and tasks of "Practical Theology" and its relationship with other theological subdisciplines (systematic, biblical, historical, etc.). She teaches in the department of Ministry and Missions and wonders if the theological work she does there is best characterized as "practical theology". In some sense it boils down to how you define practical theology, and that in turn has implications for how you understand the roles of other modes of theological reasoning.
For sake of clarifying the issue, consider the following definitions and weigh in: Which do you find more satisfactory? And, does either map the relationship between practical and "systematic" theology in a compelling way?
As a theological discipline [Practical Theology's] primary purpose is to ensure that the church's public proclamations and praxis in the world faithfully reflect the nature and purpose of God's continuing mission to the world and in so doing authentically address the contemporary context into which the church seeks to minister … [Practice theology] extends systematic theology into the life and praxis of the the Christian community (Ray Anderson, The Shape of Practical Theology, pp. 22-3).
[Practical theology] begins and ends with inquiries focused on practices. The ground for this focus is an understanding of faith as a lived entity. Our task is to think through faith and "belief" in terms of their embodiment in life. Thus the primary reference of our theologizing is the lived life in all its contemporary forms. This contrasts with biblical studies' focus on texts, systematics focus on doctrines, church history's focus on the history of the community of faith, but relies on these forms of inquiry in understanding what it means for faith to be lived (Brock and Swinton, The Aberdeen School of Practical Theology).
Another part of my interest in defining practical theology is my concern that systematic theology not be understood as a practice sequestered from the lived existence of the church – from "practical" matters. I have an increasingly difficult time understanding the craft of Christian systematic theology in isolation from biblical studies, apologetics and, in this case, from the practices of the church (these divisions being a decidedly "modern" characteristic of theology when compared to its pre-Enlightenment forebears). Consider Ellen Charry who, in the preface of By The Renewing of Your Minds (1997), reports that as she worked through a variety of classic (pre-Enlightenment) texts
the divisions of the modern theological curriculum began making less and less sense to me. I could not longer distinguish apologetics from catechesis, or spirituality from ethics or pastoral theology. And I no longer understood systematic or dogmatic theology apart from all of these. In the older texts, evangelism, catechesis, moral exhortation, dogmatic exegesis, pastoral care, and apologetics were all happening at the same time because the authors were speaking to the whole person. Our neat divisions simply didn't work (viii).
My thoughts are still forming on this, but I am leaning more steadily in this direction all the time.


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Sue & Graeme's Eclectic Victorian Townhouse
Name: Sue Huey & Graeme Fraser
Location: Brighton, East Sussex, UK
Years lived in: 4 years; Owned
Located in the very heart of central Brighton, Sue and Graeme's Victorian townhouse is a refuge of tranquility, just yards from the city's main shopping street. Sue, a trend forecaster and mother to Iris and Harper, has amassed a varied collection of antiques and curios, which are grouped decoratively throughout the house.
The children share a bedroom at the front of the house which is playfully decorated with personalized bunting, crocheted blankets and retro kids' furniture, while downstairs a mix of vintage and industrial inspired pieces come together to create a stylish family home.
Apartment Therapy Survey:
Our Style: Homely and eclectic.
Inspiration: Nothing too precious. The only rule is that it has to be comfortable and make us feel relaxed.
Favorite Element: The size and layout of the kitchen/dining room. It's big enough to entertain a large group of friends and is the main place people gather.
Biggest Challenge: Furnishing long, narrow rooms where after 200 years there appear to be very few right angles.
What Friends Say: Everyone is really surprised by how big it is once you step through the front door. It was originally a cottage for the workers at a brewery that used to be opposite the house. Since then it has been extensively converted.
Biggest Embarrassment: The bathroom. It needs some serious love and attention.
Proudest DIY: It sounds very tame, but drilling holes through tiles for shelving. We've been very lucky in that we have had to do very little in terms of serious DIY.
Biggest Indulgence: Bespoke wooden shutters. These were made by a Brighton-based carpenter.
Best Advice: Buy things that makes you feel happy and comfortable.
Dream Sources: Fine Little Day, anything from Scandinavian Retreat's little cabin, a Design*Sponge sneak peak, or The Selby.
Resources of Note:
- • French Gold mirror-Swag antiques, Brighton
• Floor Lights and Ceiling pendant lights-Ikea
• Leather armchair- Spitalfields market, London
•Clock- Family heirloom
• Rocking chair-House clearance shop
• Mirror above fire place- Flea market
• Wise old owl print www.substudio.com
• Egg cup Collection-Etsy and Ebay
• Quilt- Martlets Charity Shop
• Shell ship in bell jar -Shell shop in Archachon-Bordeaux France
• Grey 3 seater Sofa www.sofa.com
• Antlers- Ebay and Antwerp antique shop
• Perforated metal table- Flea market.
• Metal owl- Normandy Brocante
- • Globe Wernicke stacking book case-Flea market
• Vintage Engineer tool box- Ebay
• Green Metal desk draws- Ebay
• Desk-bespoke
• Vegas light-Las Vegas souvenir shop
• Barclays bank Letter S- Camden market
• Rock of ages embroidery-vintage shop
- • Kitchen cupboards- bespoke
• Cooker- Smeg
• Metal shelves - Ikea
• Pendant lights - Ikea
• Grey metal fold up chairs - Habitat
• Sliding glass door cabinet - Ebay
• Haberdashery shop cabinet - Flea market
• Selection of embroideries - Ebay
• Printing press prints - A Two Pipe Problem
• Prints and paintings - Antique shops/charity shops
• Taxidermy Bird Box - Antique shop in Aldeborough, Suffolk
- • Cot beds - Mama's and Papa's
• Tall chest of drawers - Swag Antiques, Brighton
• Small chest - flea market
• Duvet covers - Ikea
• Crochet blanket - Handmade
• Name Bunting - Handmade
• Retro kitchen - Kidkraft
• Wooden storage boxes -
• Wooden chair - House clearance shop
• Cupboards - Bespoke
- • Mirror - Flea Market
Thanks, Sue & Graeme!
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"Google is making another attempt to fix the Android update problem at the Google I/O conference. The plan is to give smartphone, tablet and chip manufacturers earlier opportunities to adapt their current and new hardware to forthcoming Android versions. Google said that it hopes that this will allow users to receive their updates faster. To achieve this, Android executive Hugo Barra announced a 'Platform Development Kit'." I have my doubts.
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Of course that would never work though, since then last year's product would more openly compete with this years product, since the hardware doesn't improve as quickly as the software does.
Picture this:
Truly open software and hardware on platforms that are flexible with VM technology. Game over.


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To summarise the argument: before the iPhone, Android looked like a BlackBerry clone, and after the iPhone, it looked like an iOS clone. The proof that Android used to look like a BlackBerry clone is a photo of a prototype Android device, sent to Gizmodo by an anonymous source. Gizmodo published this photo December 17, 2007.
This photo is invoked very often in online discussions about iOs vs. Android, a discussion we see popping up more and more due to the various legal battles between Apple, Microsoft, and Oracle and one side, and Google and the various Android device makers on the other. However, I always recalled seeing a video where alongside the BlackBerry-esque prototype, Google also showed off a device with a full touch screen.
As it turns out, my memory isn't playing tricks on me. We're talking November 12 2007, and Google released the fist SDK for Android. Other than the keyboard-driven BlackBerry-esque style, the SDK also supported touch screens just fine. And, just as I remembered, Google showed off a reference design with a full touch screen (and, by the looks of it, it's capacitive) - looking suspiciously similar to the HTC Dream, the first Android device - including gestures and flicks.
Both devices were clearly far from ready; both UIs are very sparse and limited, and seem to lack many of the things we take for granted today. For instance, the browser on the touch screen device doesn't have pinch-to-zoom, which, reportedly, wasn't enabled in Android because Apple asked Google not to.
The original video in which the touch screen reference design was showed off:
And here are a few screengrabs (taken by Engadget) from the video:
The interesting thing here is that the release of the SDK with support for touch and large screens, as well as the release of this video and hardware reference design took place one month before the infamous photograph of the BlackBerry-esque device. This means that Google wasn't working with just one prototype, but several, which really shouldn't be a surprise at all, if you think about what Google wanted Android to be.
Android was never intended to run on just one form factor. Android runs on everything from candybar touch screen phones to qwerty-phones, and everything in between. Heck, there was a race to get Android running on laptops, and even before Android was well and ready for it, it was dumped on tablets.
In other words, unlike iOS, Android was built to be flexible, and run on many sorts of devices, with different screen sizes and form factors. Hence, it is only natural that during its development, Google used various different form factors to test Android on - the first SDK release, as well as the first promotional videos which coincided with said SDK release demonstrate Android was being prepped to run on several form factors.
Now, does this mean that the iPhone had zero influence on Android's early development? Of course not. Like the iPhone itself was standing on the shoulders of giants (iPhone to PalmOS: hi daddy!), Android stood on the shoulders of giants as well. However, unlike what has already become an accepted truth for some, the infamous photograph of a prototype Android device was not the prototype Android device. In fact, Google was working on touch screen devices alongside that infamous BlackBerry-like device, and the evidence for that is out there, for everyone to see.
Development on Android started in 2003, while development on the iPhone started in 2005. Since both were developed in roughly the same time frame, it's not entirely coincidental that there's resemblance between the two platforms. This actually happens all the time in the technology world, as explained by John Carmack.
"Patents are usually discussed in the context of someone "stealing" an idea from the long suffering lone inventor that devoted his life to creating this one brilliant idea, blah blah blah. But in the majority of cases in software, patents effect independent invention," Carmack wrote on Slashdot, "Get a dozen sharp programmers together, give them all a hard problem to work on, and a bunch of them will come up with solutions that would probably be patentable, and be similar enough that the first programmer to file the patent could sue the others for patent infringement."
To answer the question posed in the headline: yes, a prototype Android device looked like a BlackBerry phone. However, at least one other prototype Android device from the same time frame did not (and it wouldn't surprise me if Google was testing Android on several more prototypes with different form factors). On top of that, the SDK from that exact same time frame also included support for large touch screens. In other words, the argument is invalid.


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Title text: There used to be these ads, see...
Apple Jacks is a breakfast cereal produced by Kellogg's. As the image text begins to explain, there was an ad campaign for the cereal in the 1990s which focused on someone (usually someone in authority like a parent) pointing out that Apple Jacks don't taste like apples, and one or more kids pointing out that it doesn't matter and that "we eat what we like". According to Wikipedia, Apple Jacks are intended to be apple and cinnamon flavoured. It is therefore unclear why anyone thought a good ad campaign would be to suggest that they don't taste like apples. However, instead of the campaign's response with the son laughing off his dad's comment and correcting him, this son responds in perhaps a more realistic way by simply saying "fuck off, dad".
This could be a commentary on today's youth being far less respectful, as the son is playing video games, and seems annoyed at being interrupted. Also, it could be not the first time the father has used the line.
The transcript on the xkcd site, identifies the bowl as containing Scrapple Jacks (from 27: Meat Cereals), not Apple Jacks. Of course they wouldn't taste like apples.
The same ad campaign was referenced previously in 27: Meat Cereals on a parody cereal box.
- This is the thirty-ninth comic originally posted to livejournal. The previous was 42: Geico. The next was 43: Red Spiders 2
- [Father is standing holding a bowl of Apple Jacks in his hand. Son is sitting on the floor playing video games.]
- Father: Hey, these don't taste like apples!
- Son: Fuck off, dad.
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Plymouth man sentenced in federal drug case
SOUTH BEND — A second Plymouth resident was sentenced in a federal drug case.
Andy Mitchell, 32, Plymouth was sentenced by Judge Jon E. DeGuilio to 77 months in prison and four years of supervised release after pleading guilty to manufacturing controlled substances including a mixture or substance that contained methamphetamine over 50 grams, a schedule II controlled substance.
The case, U.S. v. Lamarco Beard, is the result of an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Last month, Shayla Montague, 20, of Plymouth was sentenced to 30 months in prison.
In all, six defendants were named in the federal case.
The more than seven-month investigation involved the DEA, Indiana State Police and Plymouth Police Department.
Federal agents raided a home in South Bend July 25, 2011.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Frank E. Schaffer.


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Whaddaya Know: Obama Administration Seeks Delay In Handing Over Telco Immunity Lobbying Info
from the like-you-didn't-see-that-coming dept
Honestly, I'm beginning to wonder what's going on here. As I said when the initial court order came out, I don't know what could possibly be surprising in the documents. It seems quite likely that the telcos lobbied hard for immunity. That would not be a surprise or particularly revealing. So who is the government trying to cover up for here?