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Imagination Island is the Boston area's premier indoor playground. With 5,500 square feet of island-themed play space, children ages 1-8 (and adults) will be entertained for hours! Explore our multi-level, soft-contained playscape....complete with mazes, tunnels and slides! Jump on our palm tree bounce houses and play with the Legos, trains, riding cars and more fun at every turn! The kids will love Tuki's tropical village filled with hours of imaginative play, including Tuki's Boutique for dress-up fun, Pirate's Cove, the Coconut Cafe and the Kiwi Market ...and so much more! Imagination Island is widely known as the CLEAN, SAFE and FUN play center so pop in anytime for a great experience! We offer a nice selection of snacks and meals at very reasonable prices too. Children can play all day for one low admission fee and children under the age of 1 and adults are always FREE!
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Need to Know MARIA HINOJOSA ANCHORS. This week, Need to Know's Rick Carr reports on controversial changes to election rules in the battleground state of Florida- will they root out voter fraud or keep legitimate voters from the polls? Also, a conversation with James Carter, the man behind the infamous '47'%' video, who, like other amateur opposition researchers, is harnessing the power of the internet to upend campaigns. And from our "American Voices" series, comedian Dean Obeidallah on one group of voters that no one seems to be courting. D
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Join MetroFuture Walks & Talks for a special presentation on just sustainability and food justice from Julian Agyeman, Professor and Chair of Urban and Environmental Policy & Planning at Tufts University. His most recent publication, Cultivating Food Justice, examines how many low-income neighborhoods and communities of color do not have access to nutritious food. They often live in "food deserts" where the lack of grocery stores and healthy options often leaves them with no choice but convenience stores and fast food. "Cultivating Food Justice" envisions an environmentally sustainable and socially just future for the food system. Julian Agyeman is an environmental social scientist and the originator of the concept of 'just sustainability', the full integration of social justice and sustainability, defined as the need to ensure a better quality of life for all, now and into the future, in a just and equitable manner, whilst living within the limits of supporting ecosystems. RSVP here.
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A Chattanooga woman has been charged with aggravated arson after firefighters said she set fire to a trash can on the porch of a home at 1920 Sherman St.
Spokesman Bruce Garner with the Chattanooga Fire Department said in a news release that the woman, Cheryl Hale, often visited the people who lived in the home and was allowed to sleep on the front porch.
He said the residents had caught Hale, 45, trying to start several fires, including burning and American flag. The trash can fire was started about 5 a.m. and one of the residents called 911 after being unable to extinguish it, Garner said.
Capt. Anthony Moore, fire investigator, said the blaze was quickly put out and damage was limited to the porch. No one was injured.
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Cristiano Ronaldo has won the Ballon d'Or for a fifth time to move level with rival Lionel Messi.
The Real Madrid forward was named the winner of France Football's prestigious award at a ceremony in Paris on Thursday.
The award caps a year in which Ronaldo has won LaLiga, the Champions League and the Spanish Super Cup with Real Madrid, as well as helping Portugal qualify for the 2018 World Cup.
"I feel very happy, it's a fantastic moment in my career, I've been waiting for this for a long time," the 32-year-old said in the ceremony at the Eiffel Tower.
"This year has been great, we won the Champions League and LaLiga and, on a personal level, I was a top scorer in the Champions League.
"Trophies help win these awards and we have to thank my colleagues from Madrid and Portugal, it was very important for me."
Messi, the only other player to have won the award since 2008, finished second in the voting while Neymar, who joined Paris St Germain in a world-record transfer deal this summer, was third.
Ronaldo previously won the award in 2008, 2013, 2014 and 2016.
Ronaldo and Messi stand alone with five wins, two ahead of the three managed by Michel Platini, Johan Cruyff and Marco van Basten.
The Portugal international has scored a total of 49 goals in all competitions for club and country, and became the first player in Champions League history to score in each of his club's group-stage matches.
Chelsea's N'Golo Kante was eighth in the voting, the highest-placed of the seven Premier League players nominated, with Tottenham's Harry Kane 10th.
Manchester City's Kevin De Bruyne was 14th, Chelsea playmaker Eden Hazard 19th and Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea 20th.
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VATICAN CITY – He wasn't at the top of the lists of candidates that Vatican experts, pundits and journalists considered most likely to become the next pope. In fact, he wasn't on most lists at all.
So when Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the cardinal of Buenos Aires, Argentina, was announced as the 266th pope Wednesday night in St. Peter's Square, most of the world was caught off guard.
How did Bergoglio seem to come from out of nowhere and sweep to the papacy? And do it barely 24 hours after the voting by 115 cardinals started, even though experts had predicted a drawn-out conclave because of deep divisions among the cardinals and no clear front-runner?
In the end, it turned out there was a front-runner, or at least a very strong contender. Only the world did not know it.
Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, was elected after five ballots, almost as quickly as his predecessor, Benedict XVI, who made it in four votes. John Paul II was elected after eight ballots.
Much of the misreading of what the cardinals were doing behind closed doors as they selected the new pope is being laid at the feet of the Italian media. It reported on who the front-runners were, and much of the international media and church experts took their lead, said the Rev. Thomas Reese, a senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University.
"This shows that the Italian press doesn't know what it is talking about when it comes to the papal election," said Reese, who is in Rome. "We were all fools for paying attention. The Vaticanistas are supposed to know all this stuff. They obviously didn't."
Jason Berry, author of "Vows of Silence" about the Vatican and the church sex abuse scandal, agreed the local press didn't get it right — and much of the world followed. "This election shows the utter fallibility of the Italian press," he said.
The major Italian papers had reported a tight race shaping up between candidates, including Cardinal Angelo Scola of Italy and Cardinal Odilo Pedro Scherer of Brazil.
"No one ever took Bergoglio seriously, even though he came in second last time" behind Benedict XVI, Berry said.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York and Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston were also mentioned as potential candidates — the first time Americans seemed to have a serious chance.
In the end, it was the unheralded Bergoglio leading the pack. Most Vatican experts, church analysts and journalists never reported that, although a few had a sense of what was going on in the Sistine Chapel this week and the week before when the cardinals held general meetings.
Longtime Vatican reporter John Thavis, author of "The Vatican Diaries," said his sources were telling him Bergoglio "spoke up clearly and forcefully during general congregations" the week before "and got the cardinals' attention." Thavis reported that Monday, the day before the conclave convened, on his blog.
In retrospect, Bergoglio fit the profile the cardinals were looking for, analysts said. "It was the cardinals recognizing that the church's universal center needed a new style of papacy, one that was simpler and more focused on standing with the poor," Thavis said.
"They also wanted someone to restore order in the Roman Curia and make it less of a barrier between bishops and the pope," he said.
That he was elected so quickly showed he was not a compromise candidate of factions among the 115 cardinals, church experts said. Rather, he had strong support from the outset as their first choice.
"He obviously entered with some gravitas," Berry said. "He obviously had people behind him from the outset."
The quick selection also showed the cardinals were not as split over many issues as widely reported, said Dennis Coday, editor of the Kansas City-based National Catholic Reporter.
"The cardinals showed unity at the same time the media portrayed them as divided," he said.
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This is a follow up to my last post about Doubling Skill.
When I meet someone who is higher ranked and more skilled than me, I am never jealous of his rank -- I am jealous of his skill. And since skill can only be earned by our own hard work, I think to myself, "I must work harder to be like this fine Karate Sensei!"
I realize that "jealous" is the wrong word. Meeting a fine Sensei is inspiring, motivating, humbling.
Also, I am never ashamed to be less skilled than a fine Sensei. When Sensei Morio Higaonna visited my dojo, I am sure that my students must have been extremely impressed -- I certainly was. If one of my students had said to me, "Sensei, I think that Higaonna Sensei is more skilled than you," I would have said, "You got that right!"
The issue is what we are to do about it. The answer is that we must train harder to earn the skill of such fine Sensei. It is not something to complain about.
I should add one thing. I would feel bad if I felt that I was less skilled than someone who had trained much less than I have. From time to time, we meet such students. If they are my own students, I say, "I get credit for their skill too!" (Only joking, sort of.)
But if a student is more skilled than me and has trained much less, I will try to figure out what it was about his training curriculum that enabled him to develop such skill. Is there something I can learn from his experience?
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This is a follow up to my last post about Doubling Skill.
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A resident of the real-life haunted house featured in The Amityville Horror has made a documentary about his experiences living on the property, which inspired the 1979 movie.
Daniel Lutz was only 10 when he moved into 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York with his family in early 1976, one year after a drug addict, Robert DeFeo Jr., killed his mum, dad, and four siblings in cold blood in each of their rooms.
Lutz and his relatives vacated the home 28 days later after a series of strange occurrences, and the whole world soon learned of the spooky happenings in the biographical horror film franchise, the last of which hit U.S. theatres in 2005 and starred Ryan Reynolds.
Now Lutz, 47, has opened up about his own harrowing ordeal at the house in an upcoming film.
Recalling his final night at the home, he tells the New York Post, "My brother and myself shared a levitation experience in our beds. We both woke up, and our headboards and footboards were smashing each other and banging off the ceiling. Mum said, 'Go pack a bag. We're going to Grandma's. We're getting out of here.'"
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Can You Trademark Your Pot?
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Of course, if you were dealing with a pot brand rather than a variety, could you trademark it? Well, you don't need to register a trademark to get protections. There are common law trademarks which get you pretty far without registering -- though it doesn't appear that anyone's tested such a pot trademark in court. As for a registered trademark, the USPTO apparently created a medical marijuana category for trademarks... very, very briefly. And then someone apparently realized this might be a political nightmare and that category suddenly disappeared.
Amusingly, the pair note that someone did try to trademark "Marijuana" for a drink, but it was denied with a bit of moralizing from the PTO: "the term MARIJUANA refers to an illicit drug that is associated with illegal behavior and adverse health consequences. The proposed mark is therefore immoral or scandalous and thus unregistrable." Personally, I think it's kind of awesome to have a trademark rejected for being "scandalous." I'm impressed.
Either way, the end result is basically that there doesn't appear to be much in the way of legal protections for the various brands of pot that are found in medical marijuana dispensaries. While Raustiala and Sprigman don't get into it, it would seem like this creates another "pure" market to study, to see what happens in a brand-based market without trademark protections. Is copying of brand names common? Do less potent forms of pot try to draft off of more famous brands? Or does the market have a way of working itself out? It seems like a worthwhile market to study for someone enterprising.
Update: By the way, if you find this interesting, Raustiala and Sprigman's new book, The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation is now available for pre-order...


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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- Organizers of the National Buffalo Wing Festival say competitive eater Joey Chestnut has devoured a record 191 chicken wings in 12 minutes.
Chestnut set the record Sunday during a wing-eating contest at the annual festival in Buffalo. He beat the old record of 183 wings, set last year by Sonya Thomas, the Black Widow.
Earlier this year, the San Jose, Calif., resident won his sixth straight Fourth of July hot dog-eating contest at Coney Island with 68 dogs in 10 minutes.
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The preseason is over, and the Miami Dolphins are making plenty of moves on Friday ahead of the NFL's 9 p.m. deadline to trim rosters from 75 players to 53.
The team has already started making the cuts necessary to finalize its roster. According to the Miami Herald, WRs Clyde Gates, BJ Cunningham, and Roberto Wallace, DE Jamaal Westerman, CB Quinten Lawrence, and LBs Cameron Collins, Ryan Baker, Gary Guyton, and Vince Agnew have been released as of Friday morning.
Though Miami must make all its cuts by 9:00, the team has a practice scheduled for 4:15, so it is likely that the team could have its roster down to 53 players by the time practice starts.
QBs David Garrard and Matt Moore have not been released, but one or both of them could be gone very soon in order to clear salary cap space. Both were expected to compete for the starting job, but were beat out by rookie Ryan Tannehill.
Garrard had been the early leader to win the starting job when training camp opened, but has been out for three weeks after undergoing knee surgery. Moore had a dreadful preseason, and could be trade bait for a team in need of a seasoned veteran backup.
While cutdown day is often overlooked by fans who are unfamiliar with many of the players losing jobs, today's roster moves have not reflected too kindly on Dolphins general manager Jeff Ireland. He drafted Gates in 2011 and Cunningham in 2012, and signed Wallace as an undrafted free agent in 2010. Now, Ireland would rather take his chances on receivers waived by other teams.
Making Ireland's past moves look even worse, the team is reportedly talking to Washington about trading RB Steve Slaton to the Redskins for WR Anthony Armstrong. Armstrong was cut from the Dolphins' practice squad in 2009, now the team must give up an asset just to get him back.
The Dolphins brought in WRs Donte Stallworth, Brian Tyms and Mike Sims-Walker for workouts on Thursday. Stallworth and Sims-Walker are both veterans who were cut earlier this preseason, while Tyms is a rookie recently released by San Francisco.


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Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs
Remarks by Deputy Secretary Sloan Gibson
Ribbon Cutting, Tampa VAMC Polytrauma and Rehabilitation Center
Tampa, Florida
April 12, 2014
Thank you, General Steele.
Congresswoman Castor; Congressmen Jolly, Nugent, and Bilirakis; General Austin; Ms. Fogarty and Dr. Cutolo; fellow Veterans; ladies and gentlemen.
Last year, I went to West Point for the first home game of the season. At lunch before the game, I was seated next to a young soldier. His dad, Craig, introduced me to his son, Army Sergeant First Class Cory Remsburg.
All of America got to meet Cory in January during the President's State of the Union address. The staff here at the Polytrauma Center got to know Cory much sooner and much better.
Four-and-a-half years ago, on this campus, Cory received the cutting-edge medical care that trumped his life-threatening injuries. As some of you remember, he arrived comatose—with a severe traumatic brain injury and long odds for recovery. But VA's remarkable medical staff never gave up on the effort to jump-start his brain. Supported by the latest medical knowledge and know-how, they tried a countless variety of sensory approaches to bring him to consciousness—everything from aromatherapy to TV sitcoms.
Three months later, Cory became one of seven-out-of-ten patients with severe TBI who come back to life through VA's groundbreaking Emerging Consciousness program. Thanks to the love and support of his family and the miracle workers at this Polytrauma hub, he's made steady progress. How much progress? Well, his proud dad, Craig, emailed me just this week telling me that Cory recently walked a full mile without crutches or a walker.
I've been at VA less than two months, but I've been here before—a little over a year ago. I got to see the new USO space under construction, and I specifically asked for a tour of the new Polytrauma Center. A few minutes later, this crusty-looking guy in blue jeans and a cowboy hard hat showed up to take us through the construction site. It turned out that Mike Tixier was a West Point grad I remembered from cadet days.
He gave us a great tour. By the time we were actually on the amazing Polytrauma floor, it was clear that he cared deeply about the work he was doing. In fact, one of the folks with me said, "Mike, you seem to be very passionate about what you're doing here." He paused, which made me look right at his face, and I realized there were tears in his eyes. And he said, "That's because I know who it's for."
There is a theme that connects these two stories.
We're here today to celebrate completion of this incredible new facility and to say a special "Thank You" to everyone who played important parts in making it a reality. It is important that we do so. But I think there is a bigger cause for celebration—today and every day. And that's the many thousands of dedicated professionals all across VA who care deeply about our mission, and who work hard to deliver on our promise to Veterans and their families.
This marvelous facility would be an empty shell without the doctors, nurses, therapists, psychologists, social workers, technicians, and staff, like Mike, who bring it to life every day.
When Veterans and families arrive here facing what seem to be insurmountable challenges, they experience the embrace of these caring men and women and they come to learn that these extraordinary professionals don't accept hopeless.
Last January, before attending the State of the Union address, Cory Remsburg visited Secretary Shinseki. The Secretary asked what Cory saw as his new mission in life. He didn't hesitate for a moment—he said he wants to show other wounded warriors that they, too, can beat overwhelming odds.
That is the legacy of this place and the very special men and women who work here.
Thank you for the tremendous work you've done here; for what you do every day; and for what you'll continue to do in the future, all because you "know who it's for."


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School of Engineering - Graduate Programs
The Coulter School of Engineering offers Master of Science, Master of Engineering, and Ph.D. degrees in each department. There is also an interdisciplinary Engineering Science graduate program managed by the dean of the School of Engineering.
The graduate programs are designed to prepare students for careers in research, development, design, and education. Admission to graduate study will be granted to qualified applicants who hold a baccalaureate degree in engineering from an accredited institution or who have equivalent qualifications. Complete details of the Coulter School of Engineering graduate programs and opportunities are available at http://www.clarkson.edu/engineering/graduate/index.html.
M.S. and Ph.D. Programs
Through the Coulter School of Engineering, Clarkson offers the following Master of Science (M.S.) degrees: chemical, civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering, and engineering science. At the Ph.D. level, students may pursue chemical, civil and environmental, electrical and computer, and mechanical engineering, and engineering science. Interdisciplinary information technology (IT), computer science (MS) and environmental science and engineering (MS, PhD) degrees are also available.
For those interested in an academic or industrial research career, Clarkson's M.S. and Ph.D. programs in engineering provide an opportunity to pursue leading-edge research and a high degree of specialization. An off-campus Ph.D. program provides opportunity for fully employed students to pursue a Ph.D. in conjunction with their professional work,
For information regarding the admission process, application procedure, degree requirements, and financial assistance, see the Graduate School. To learn more about faculty members and research areas, contact the appropriate department or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com. Additional information is also available at http://www.clarkson.edu/engineering/graduate/index.html.
The University offers a wide range of opportunities to pursue research interests. See details for each department and the Research and Academic Centers.
Financial Assistance
A wide range of financial assistance is available to full-time graduate students. Full Research and Teaching Assistantships are available on a limited basis for M.S. and Ph.D. students in engineering. This includes a stipend and full-tuition waiver. Partial tuition scholarships are also available in all areas.
Master of Engineering Program
The Master of Engineering program provides a flexible mixture of engineering practice, design, and specialized coursework. The program includes a minimum of 30 semester hours of graduate credit and is structured to be completed by full time students within one calendar year. The 21 hours minimum of required coursework must include at least 12 credits earned from the Coulter School of Engineering.
Partial tuition scholarships are available for students in the Master of Engineering program.
ME/MBA Dual Degree Option
Students have the opportunity to earn two master's degrees in two years, developing both engineering and management skills in a stimulating, project-based environment.
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I recently spotted Howard Kirk, the chef at Riverside's 13 Gypsies, dining at 5 Points' Corner Taco, which prompted a question: Where do local chefs choose to eat when they're not at work devouring their own culinary creations? After all, these guys know food, so maybe their choices can inform ours.
I put the question — four questions, actually: 1.) What three restaurants do you frequent the most in Northeast Florida? 2.) What's your go-to dish at these places? 3.) Why do you eat most often at your favorite spot? 4.) What's your guilty culinary pleasure? — to four high-profile local chefs. Their answers were illuminating.
Scott Schwartz, 29 South Restaurant (Fernandina Beach), chef for 23 years
1. Taverna, Black Sheep, Moxie Kitchen + Cocktails.
2. Taverna's pasta with pork Ragu, Black Sheep's pastrami sandwich topped with chicken liver mousse, and Moxie's fried chicken livers or the short rib.
3. The restaurant I eat at most often in Northeast Florida is Taverna because I love the simple approach to classic Italian cooking.
4. Good old-school soul food at the Soul Food Bistro. My wife only lets me eat there a couple times a year, but sometimes I sneak in a lunch with the boys. Always finish the meal with a slice of hummingbird cake.
Chris Dickerson, Corner Taco (5 Points), chef for 8 years
1. Orsay, 13 Gypsies, Pom's.
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My husband also holds a master's degree in Composition and Theory. He is a pianist. He taught university level for 15 years. Back to top nomad soulJoined: 31 Jan 2010Posts: 11381Location: The real world Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 8:33 am Post subject: Re: Where to begin Some questions: - Do you have any teaching experience? If so, teaching what, specifically, and for how long and where? - As for TEFL, what level or situation do you want to teach? K-12 schools? Adults in a language school? University level? - What countries or regions are you interested in? Any that you absolutely want to avoid? - Does your husband expect to continue teaching music, or are his interests also in TEFL? - By the time you finish your MA, your oldest will be close to his last year of high school. Do you plan for him to stay and graduate in the US, or will he be going with the family overseas and graduating from a foreign school? Back to top scot47Joined: 10 Jan 2003Posts: 15323 Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 11:13 am Post subject: 1. Education for your own children ? Make sure that provision is made in the form of an education allowance. This is NOT as common as it used to be 2. Have you looked at the possibility of teaching in an international school ? Do a search on here and do some googling. There are recruitment fairs. Back to top GlenskiJoined: 15 Jan 2003Posts: 12844Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:10 pm Post subject: International schools require a license from the home country and 2 years of experience there (at least for ISs in Japan). What does your family think of all this? Can your husband speak/read/write any foreign languages? Back to top lmace41Joined: 28 Feb 2011Posts: 11Location: US Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 6:56 am Post subject: Where to begin Thank you all for your responses. I have about 15 years of experience in teaching. I would like to teach at a university but am flexible. As far as the place, I am not that picky. Somewhere sunny would be nice, though. I am very interested in teaching at an international school. I have a license to teach in two different states, plus a reading endorsement. My dream is Austria, I am not sure about the sunny part though. I think my husband would have some possible opportunities. He has 15 years of teaching at the university level and is a pianist. ISS has a recruitment fair, but they charge a fee. Is that something I should expect? Thanks again for all you help. Back to top VietCanadaJoined: 30 Nov 2010Posts: 590 Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 9:36 am Post subject: I typed this into google and there were quite a few hits. "International schools in Austria" I'd start there. I would never pay a fee to find a job in this industry. Recruiters get paid by the school. I would line up a couple referees and contact the school directly. Read their web page, look at the teachers if they are listed on the site. Use Linkedin. Go for Austria! Why compromise before you even begin looking? Go to the Austria or general European board on this site. Search for a forum dedicated to Austria or Europe or professional teachers working or seeking work at international schools. The Internet is your friend. Back to top spiral78Joined: 05 Apr 2004Posts: 11511Location: On a Short Leash Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 11:03 am Post subject: I've lived in the European region for the past 15 years. I have to disagree with VietCanada here to some degree, based on my first-hand knowledge of the teaching scene in Europe. Not sure what VC has based his advice upon, but his optimism is in conflict with what I know of employment conditions in this part of the world. As regards Austria specifically, I have two long-term friends teaching in Austrian universities and 'my' university on the border with Germany partners with several universities in Austria, so we have considerable contact. There are occasional openings at international schools in Austria, but they are extremely rare. The issue is that there is relatively little turnover in these positions; people who teach in international schools here (as in universities) usually have family ties and are here for the long-term. Most will want you to have at least basic German language skills, and you will need direct contacts to be considered in most cases. You'll need to be aware that Austria (as with the rest of Central and Western Europe) will strongly prefer teachers with passports from an EU country. An international school can get exceptional visas for non-EU teachers, but so long as there is an EU member citizen with equivalent skills and qualifications, there is little need for them to go through the expensive and complex legal processes required to do so. There are lots of highly qualified teachers around; the last position for 'my' university advertised drew well over 25 solid CVs, meaning related MA + relevant experience + EU citizen. It is by no means impossible that you will find something, and it's worth a search, but it's by no means a given that Europe or Austria will be within easy reach. Back to top zactheratJoined: 24 Aug 2011Posts: 295 Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 12:29 pm Post subject: spiral I just want to say that i love 'your' apostrophes. Back to top SashadroogieJoined: 17 Apr 2007Posts: 11061Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 12:31 pm Post subject: Spiral's capitalisation is worthy of affection too! Back to top SashadroogieJoined: 17 Apr 2007Posts: 11061Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 12:35 pm Post subject: To follow up Spiral's post, the EU will not be an easy place to start out in, if it is even possible to find a job from abroad. So, come to Russia! Also has a fine musical history, which I would imagine husband would greatly enjoy. See the Russia board for the ins-and-outs of finding gainful employment in the Motherland. Back to top SashadroogieJoined: 17 Apr 2007Posts: 11061Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 12:37 pm Post subject: By the way, is Spiral really using apostrophes in the phrase 'my' university? Back to top spiral78Joined: 05 Apr 2004Posts: 11511Location: On a Short Leash Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 12:57 pm Post subject: Quote: spiral I just want to say that i love 'your' apostrophes Spiral is indicating that the university in question is not a private one, owned by Spiral Actually, a little research indicates that my use of this particular form of punctuation for this purpose is non-standard. Apologies. Won't happen again. Proper wording: ...the university where I work.... Back to top SashadroogieJoined: 17 Apr 2007Posts: 11061Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 1:29 pm Post subject: I dunno about that, Spiral. Aren't quotation marks used for irony, or unusual usage? I think you can stretch your usage to that. But 'the university where I work' is probably less dramatic Back to top lmace41Joined: 28 Feb 2011Posts: 11Location: US Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 5:59 pm Post subject: Where to begin Hello all, You are all too funny. 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|January 22, 2013, 06:24 PM
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question about "arms" in 2nd amendment
What does "arms" mean?
I read a lot of places where it means portable weapons that an average military guy might carry around. This definition seems to include fully automatic weapons.
I read somewhere else that most of the cannons in use during the time the constitution was written were owned by civilians and the 2nd amendment included weapons like that as arms.
I thought most of the battle ships of the time were commercial ships retrofitted to be battle ships and I included them in an argument I was making one time.
|January 22, 2013, 06:38 PM
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From my understanding the "common use" you're talking about came from Miller, where the SCOTUS held they didn't know what the second amendment was, but they knew what it protected... the weapons that would be used in a militia. Then a few decades later, along came Heller- they held they knew what the second amendment was- an individual right to bear arms- and that arms were the ones in common use of the time. And while there's some places where Heller and Miller can theoretically grind their gears hashing some stuff out I suppose, for the most part, they're pretty safe saying the militia would be civilian, and the arms in common use, are the ones in common use by civilians. At least that's where I am in my reading.
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|January 22, 2013, 06:42 PM
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|January 22, 2013, 06:45 PM
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"Arms" is a term of art that predates 2A and the broad use of firearms by a couple of centuries in various laws related to the right of an individual to self-defense against predation by individuals or mobs.
Arms are what is effective and appropriate to the threat against an individual, and so edged weapons and the like are included, as are firearms. When firearms are replaced by phasers, 2A will mean the same and include them.
The basis of the "militia" is individuals, who by definition had to keep, bear and use contemporary arms so that they could be practiced and effective. The arms contemplated there were whatever modern military arms were, so that the militia could offer an effective defense.
Possession of cannon and Apache helos by an individual, as frivolously imagined by some people I have talked with, are outsized arms compared to the fundamental intent of 2A, but IMNHO, possession of an M4 carbine and large magazines would fit. Standard infantry arms. I think grenades and the like similarly would be excessive in the circumstances of modern life, but not so much, perhaps. The Mexican cartels use them...
I am sure someone can provide a more learned response.
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|January 22, 2013, 07:22 PM
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I look at it this way…..
He said to them, "But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one." Luke 22:36
The arms of the times were swords, therefore God intended man to have the right to keep and bear swords.
The arms of the times of the writing of the constitution were flintlock muzzle loaders. The Founding Fathers as well as God intended man to have the right to keep and bear flintlock muzzle loaders.
Today, the arms of the times are many, but let's just focus on, say the AR15. God intends man to have the right to keep and bear AR15's.
There is no doubt in my mind about this.
|January 22, 2013, 07:53 PM
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The original use of the militia was to fight against foreign enemies (which would include the Indian tribes on the frontier) and domestic tyranny (just as the British subjects in America were subjected to prior to the War).
With that in mind I believe we would have to say the 2A confirms the right of citizens to use at least what would used by militia in fighting battles to defend their country, communities or homes. At a bare minimum this should be the standard issue arms of the infantry soldier: M16/M4 class rifle, sniper rifle up to .50BMG, shotguns, pistols, MP5 submachinegun, etc. These should be 100% allowed without question.,
A good case could be made for other arms commonly issued to individual infantry such as light and medium machine guns suchas M240 and M249, grenades, claymores, grenade launchers, LAWs, etc. If you were fighting an all out battle on the frontier, or an invading or tyrant army and could not wait to be supplied by the national standing army you would want all of those arms at a minimum.
Reality is that we have fallen far from our "inalienable right." From what I understand the Court has ruled that the 2A covers "the" standard infantry arm (rifle) and that "reasonable" restrictions are allowed on this right. Presumably semi-auto only action is one of these reasonable restrictions. We have yet to find out what other restrictions the Court will find reasonable, but I presume they will have difficulty allowing standard infantry arms such as SAW, grenade launcher, LAWs rocket.
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|January 22, 2013, 08:07 PM
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NWPilgrim, are you okay with people owning grenades and claymore mines etc? I am not sure I am, but maybe I am.
I think the problem is that so many people arent okay with that. If you convince people that is what the constitution supports they are more then okay pretending the constitution says something else.
I dont know.
|January 22, 2013, 09:03 PM
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I was ot saying what I want necessarily. I was saying how I read the 2A and what it should mean in that context.
What I said was the standard arms like rifle and pistol should be a no brainer. I also said a good (logic) case could be made for other standard infantry arms such as the SAW, grenades, LAW, etc.
The point I was trying to make is we have so corrupted such simple language about the 2A that not even the standard rifle and pistol is allowed in all parts of the US. Let alone have a rational debate on the full meaning and how that applies to other standard arms.
If we don't like the 2A we should change it. But we should not have Court decisions and laws made that neuter the 2A just because we/they/someone don't like what it means. We should agree on the actual meaning before we launch off into a plethora of gun laws, and if fight the gun laws we should state the truth and not settle for spinless compromises just to feel good.
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|January 22, 2013, 11:59 PM
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Outside of the 2nd Amendment itself, the contemporaneous writings of the Founders on the topic of the 2nd Amendment clearly indicate that what they had in mind was "all the terrible implements of the soldier" (Tench Coxe), and that the militia (that is to say, the People) were to be armed sufficiently so as to be stronger than any standing army. Back then, that meant cannon. Today, that means full-auto portable arms, tanks, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, Apache gunships, and the most advanced fighter aircraft the Navy and Air Force have got.
Yeah, I know they won't let me park a fully-armed Apache in the garage, but that IS what the 2nd Amendment means. And always has meant.
|January 23, 2013, 12:50 AM
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As with most other rights, the Second Amendment is not an unlimited right. In his dicta from the Heller case, Justice Scalia noted that regulation or prohibition of "dangerous our unusual" weapons would not run afoul of the Second Amendment. What was left ambiguous, however, was what exactly constitutes a "dangerous or unusual" weapon. As is usually the case with restriction of rights, the best test when speaking about the regulation or banning of weapons is to compare the proposed regulation's benefit to public interest against its abridgment of personal liberty. A regulation that greatly increases public safety while only minimally affecting liberty is a reasonable one while the regulation that serves little or not benefit to public safety but greatly diminishes personal liberty is an unreasonable one.
Now, as to high explosives and weapons of mass destruction, I think it's fairly obvious that the benefit to public safety created by banning such things greatly outweighs the abridgment of personal liberty that such a ban represents. These weapons are so indiscriminately destructive that there are very few, if any, ways to utilize them that does not represent an obvious danger to innocent bystanders. I cannot think of any way that a person could use a brick of C4, canister of VX nerve gas, or suitcase nuke to defend himself/herself that would not pose a likely, if not certain, threat to the safety of anyone else around.
Firearms, however, are a different kettle of fish. Firearms do not generate indiscriminate destruction and, in skilled hands, a firearm can be used to destroy only that which the user wishes to destroy. SCOTUS obviously agrees with this notion as they have twice ruled that a total ban of private firearm ownership is unconstitutional.
Where the true debate lies is whether or not specific types of firearms represent a grave enough threat to public safety to justify heavy regulation or outright prohibition of their ownership. Currently, this debate seems to be focused on so-called "assault weapons" but, when the facts are considered, this should be fairly obvious because most of the features which have come do define a firearm as an "assault weapon" are cosmetic and have no bearing on the gun's destructiveness.
Another facet of this debate which has been discussed at length on this very forum is whether or not NFA weapons such as silencers/suppressors, guns with bore diameter over 50 caliber, short barrel rifles/shotguns, and most contentiously fully automatic weapons are destructive enough to warrant a ban. Many argue that fully automatic weapons in particular are indiscriminate by nature and thus warrant heavy regulations or complete bans on private ownership.
I personally do not agree with this sentiment. While fully-automatic fire, by its nature, is indeed more indiscriminate that semi-automatic fire, it is not so to the degree that explosives or WMD's are. A bullet fired by a full-auto weapon is no more destructive than one fired by a semi-auto weapon and the bullets will still only go where the muzzle is pointed. Furthermore, many fully-automatic weapons have a selector switch which allows the user to choose between semi-automatic and fully automatic fire as is appropriate for the situation at hand. Police seem to have found merit with select-fire weapons and I fail to understand how they should be any less concerned with indiscriminate fire than anyone else. Finally, just because a fully automatic weapon can cause indiscriminate destruction, that does not mean that it can only be used to do so. If I want a machine gun to simply burn up lots of ammo at the range because I think it's fun, I'm not hurting anyone else by doing so and thus I do not feel that it should be anyone's business but my own.
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|January 23, 2013, 04:23 AM
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arms are weapons.
That includes knives, swords, axes, halberds, pikes, bows and crossbows and not just firearms. In my opinion it includes much more than what I just listed.
arms are military weapons.
Weapons used in war.
Not sporting weapons such as a skeet shotgun.
Once you whittle the 2nd amendment down to the point that only sporting firearms are allowed than you enter into a legal trap.
|January 23, 2013, 08:39 AM
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"Now, as to high explosives and weapons of mass destruction, I think it's fairly obvious that the benefit to public safety created by banning such things greatly outweighs the abridgment of personal liberty that such a ban represents. These weapons are so indiscriminately destructive that there are very few, if any, ways to utilize them that does not represent an obvious danger to innocent bystanders. I cannot think of any way that a person could use a brick of C4, canister of VX nerve gas, or suitcase nuke to defend himself/herself that would not pose a likely, if not certain, threat to the safety of anyone else around."
The problem with the banning of anything related to the 2nd ammendment, for any reason, starts a crack in the entire debate that weakens further arguments for non restrictions of lesser arms. If the whole idea was to have militia equally armed so that no standing army could act, I believe this was meant to disuade any one president from becomming a king or monarch,(include sir cuomo also) then so be it.
|January 23, 2013, 08:52 AM
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The more useful test would be:
1. Does the government have a compelling interest in creating the law?
2. Is the statute "narrowly tailored" to meet the government's objectives?
3. Are there less restrictive means of accomplishing the same thing?
A court that reaches its conclusion first then cobbles together ad hoc reasoning in support of that conclusion can distort any test, but at least conventional strict scrutiny puts them to a bit more effort.
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|January 23, 2013, 09:53 AM
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Otherwise, I agree with Webleymkv, except to the extent that I believe there are considerations beyond self-defense.
C4, for example. Defensively it's a stretch, no doubt, but at one time not so long ago, it was completely legal, and quite common, for farmers and folks with similar needs to buy dynamite. I see no reason that C4 wouldn't be similar. Dynamite was baneed for essentially the same reason that they're going after our guns... a few nuts did some really bad stuff so the powers that be took the stuff away.
Personally, I believe the limits should be on items of truly massive destruction only, such a nukes and nerve gas.
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|January 23, 2013, 10:12 AM
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I believe we as citizens have been more than reasonable in the compromise of our 2A rights. I don't know any civilian that has an Apache, etc., tanks, grenades, claymores, etc. that the government forces have access to that they could use against us. We are already under-armed as compared to the potentially "tyrannical" government that 2A was intended to protect us from.
We need to look at all the various forms of power the federal government has grabbed that the original Founders never meant the federal government to have. Most of the federal laws and programs that the federal government has were meant to be dealt with on the state level. I realize however that if the states tried to recover the authority that was intended to be theirs that the federal government would make it extremely rough on such states up to armed invasion against its citizens. Remember the War of Northern Aggression (aka the Civil War)? What was civil about that?
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|January 23, 2013, 10:49 AM
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No matter how you parse it, there is simply nothing in "shall not be infringed" that in any way opens the door to "reasonable regulation." Regulation = infringement. The Founders were conversant with the word "reasonable." They specifically provided in the 4th Amendment a prohibition against "unreasonable" searches and seizures. That they did NOT provide in the 2nd Amendment for "reasonable" infringement (regulation) should be clear proof that they did not INTEND for the RKBA to be subject to regulation.
In fact, that's just what they said. Exactly.
|January 23, 2013, 11:17 AM
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If I had my way full auto guns would still be under NFA restriction but I would lift the registered before 1986 requirement.
To me it is silly that you can have one if you are rich, but a "normal" guy you could never afford one.
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I have been very conservative in my comments here about the 2nd amendment but I generally think the definition of arms should be broadly (liberally, if you will) defined. However, other points of the amendment give much more trouble.
While I doubt there were many cannon parked in people's carriage houses during the 1780s and 1790s, it is true there were armed merchantmen (commercial sailing ships) at the time. Here the sticking point is that the owners of those ships had to obtain letters to permit them to act as privateers or, private warships. That system was also in place in other countries at the time. Such licenses only authorized the holders to attack only ships of certain other countries that we happened to be at war with. The lack of such a license essentially made them pirates. Perhaps you have heard of pirates. That's where the expression "shores to Tripoli" came from, fighting them where they lived.
Private ship owners did not want to become privateers out of patriotism but rather because of the profit motive, which still exists, apparently.
More to the point, however, is the question of exactly why they just had to go and mention the militia, which, contrary to some folk's idea, was not the whole people. It was a legally defined body (which excluded well over half the population) and it was mostly compulsory. Chances are, were it the same today, people would kick at the idea of compulsory military service, even if it were only for local defense purposes.
If the second amendment were replaced with a rewritten amendment, how doyou think it should read?
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The unauthorized USE of their ships against unauthorized targets made them pirates.
The OWNERSHIP did not and the use of which for any ordinary purpose, such as proficiency training or BOOM! Wow that was fun!, did not.
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It is asked often what they meant when the 2nd amendment (and the other amendments in the bill of rights) was written. An interesting question to consider is what they would write today, given the things that have been happening in the last 100 years, or what would appear were the constitution itself rewritten.
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No doubt you're right that there would be major resistance to mandatory militia duty but I think we would be far better off as a nation if we went back to that model for our primary national defense. If nothing else it would make military adventurism less politically popular.
Personally, I think it's almost inevitable that our financial situation will force major military cuts eventually, either that or a major war to prop things up.
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To nazshooter, I have mentioned useful duties of a real militia several times but even here on this board there doesn't seem to be much interest. However, it is an arguable point as to whether or not it would make the country less likely to engage in foreign adventures, as you put it.
One reason is that the current full integration of the national guard into the overall military picture, as I understand it, was supposed to insure the complete agreement of the citzenry in any major military undertaking. But so far it doesn't seem to bother anyone any more than having females among the casualties. I suspect that the reason is because so relatively few among us actually ever have anything to do with the armed forces anymore, or so I am led to believe. In my own family I served, my son served and my son-in-law is currently serving. I guess we're among the few.
Other countries have, at times, raised military used specifically for home defense. That is, they weren't supposed to be liable for overseas service, although really only a handful of countries ever had overseas colonies. We've had troops stationed overseas for over a hundred years but never in what you would call a colony, unless you count Hawaii.
It is also worth pointing out that required military service such as exists in most countries always meets a certain amount of resistance from those who actually have to go, even including Switzerland, but I suppose that's natural.
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If the bankruptcy of cities and counties continues, the police forces they have fielded will be decimated. San Bernardino CA is an example.
The militia concept may be the only way for law-abiding citizens to provide for common defense. How that all gets put together and its formality may be very ad hoc or reasonably planned. It is possible that existing police agencies could collaborate in this. More likely, they and politicians will oppose it, for the threat they figure it presents to their authority.
During the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles CA, Korean shop owners armed and collaborated to the defend their properties, and those shops survived without being looted or burned. Adjacent, undefended businesses owned by others, including blacks, were looted if not burned. Los Angeles PD was nowhere to be found.
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And in New Orleans post-Katrina, members of the police department themselves engaged in looting.
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There was no standing army, other than the British army, prior to the Revolution. And the Founders wanted no part of a standing army after the revolution. So if the cannon were not in the hands (or carriage houses) of "the People," where were they?
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