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They say it's a small world. This is a story about just how small that world is.
First of all, you need to know that we had this idea and it went something like this: What if we wanted to visit some really wonderful cities around the world, the kind of places that even seasoned travellers just haven't managed to get to, perhaps because they're off the beaten tour track or maybe just because they haven't made it on to otherwise busy vacation itineraries.
And what if we found an intriguing hook, like, say, the vernacular architecture of that place, and then set up tours to those hot spots to visit local homes, all the while soaking up the culture (not to mention sampling the cuisine), and what if we invited along a few dozen interested Sun readers.
Which is why I found myself standing in artist Georgia O'Keeffe's glorious Abiquiu adobe compound in Santa Fe last week along with 36 Vancouver Sun readers, who travelled with me to the charming town high in the northern New Mexico desert on the inaugural outing of our Vancouver Sun Tour series.
It seemed from the moment we all met at the Vancouver airport gate that it was old home week. Hey, said one, I was on the Sun 100th birthday cruise last September. Hey, said one to another, weren't you on the same European tour as I was a few years ago? Hey, don't I know your sister, work colleague, cousin, uncle? And, hey, Shelley, I live just a few blocks from you. And hey, when I was younger I worked in The Sun's classified advertising department on Granville Street.
And so it went, happening so often that we began to call it the Six Degrees of Santa Fe, borrowing from a concept popularly ascribed to actor Kevin Bacon that theorizes that any two people on Earth are six or fewer acquaintances apart.
We were, in what seemed like a heartbeat, an instant family, an energetic and eclectic mix (32 women and four very brave men joining our four Sun staffers) that included a geologist, a farmer, an opera singer, an airport docent, several teachers, a wood broker, a retired architect and more than a few women who turned out to be expert practitioners in the art of retail therapy. Some were travelling alone, others with a spouse or best friend or close relative. A number started out as strangers, bunking in the same room to save on the pocket book.
For six days and five nights, we shared our stories, talking about the torrid desert heat and bucket lists and regrets and blessings. We compared newly acquired turquoise bracelets, and ate croissants for breakfast and green chile sauce for dinner, and found our way to the endlessly fascinating museums and art galleries and local landmarks, lamenting that there would never be enough time to take it all in.
There was Winnie, a petite whirlwind who managed to amass more souvenirs than seemed humanly possible, including a huge chopping block of polished juniper that barely fit in her luggage.
There was Angus, a bear of a man who insisted he never cooks but donned an apron and roasted vegetables for a salsa class at the Santa Fe Cooking School, so adept at the task that he bought a cookbook to continue his salsa studies at home.
There were John and Margaret, a seasoned couple who seem made for adventure, and who tried to keep secret (like that was going to happen) that they were, in fact, newlyweds of two weeks. After first meeting in 1969, mind you, and after spending the past 30 years together.
There was Chuck, a quiet widower who seldom could be found dining alone and who couldn't wait to show off a treasured purchase, a unique work of art made from delicate computer chips.
And then there was Lois, who best represents how small our world, here in Vancouver and, it seems, in Santa Fe, really is.
There we were, a group of us, lounging around the lobby of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture high up on Museum Hill while one of Santa Fe's renowned short-lived downpours turned the outside plaza into rivers of mud when Lois and I got to talking about life, about kids and such things.
"Well, I know your daughter, of course," she said.
"You do?"
"Well, yes, I was her piano teacher."
Oh. My. God. Lois. Of course. How embarrassing and how wonderful and, yes, it was 20 years ago so please forgive my fading baby boomer memory for not recognizing you, but holy small world.
Turns out Lois is not only an ace piano teacher but — as we learned while returning on the bus late one night to the hotel after, um, some spirit-fuelled revelry — she not only has never met a microphone she doesn't love and could easily have her own standup comedy routine, but she is also an opera singer who is only too happy to let loose those prodigious pipes.
Here, then, is a toast to Lois and Chuck and John and Margaret and Angus and Winnie and all the other delightful folks we were lucky enough to share margaritas with south of the border.
Cheers to Cynthia, Johanna, Angus, Sharon, Gayle, Ellen, Catherine, Sandra, Bonnie, Chuck, Sally, Barbara A., Barbara M., Liz, Pauline, John, April, Terry, Margaret M., Margaret H., Winnie, Ivy, Judy M., Judy B., June, Kathleen M., Kathleen L., Irene, Lois, Brett, Helen D., Helen S., Fern, Susan, Arlee and Margot. And, yes, their last names are being withheld to protect the innocence of their families.
And, as you might expect, the stories don't end here. Stay tuned for more reports — about the food and the town and culture and the architecture — from our trip to Santa Fe.


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Kyla Duffy is known for her dog projects, but she is certainly no stranger to kitties. She shares her home with her husband, two rescue cats and her Boston terrier, Bill. Bill is the inspiration behind Duffy's Happy Tails Books, an organization that publishes books that give rescue dogs a voice.
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The Daily Cat: Are there plans for more cat-related books after the newly released Lost Souls: Found! Inspiring Stories About Cats?
Kyla Duffy: I have to admit that our Inspiring Stories About Cats turned out to be one of my favorite books. The stories people submitted were just so heartfelt -- these adopted cats obviously had a big impact on their lives. We would love to do another cat book. If we receive enough stories from people about their adopted/fostered cats (at least 65 to 70 stories), we will most certainly do another addition.
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K.D.: When my boyfriend (at the time) and I decided to get a cat, we only considered adoption. We found a great organization in Denver that kept its cats in foster homes, so we went to one to meet a new litter. We brought a laser pointer and figured we'd take home the most fun kitten, which turned out to be Tux. (Guess what colors he is. ...)
I never had a cat, but Tux was so wonderful that we decided to get another. We went to Cat Care Society in Denver and adopted Chewie, a male tabby. Chewie was found in a field at about 16 weeks old, neutered, and we adopted him the next day -- Tux was born in a laundry room and was weaned at the appropriate age. Chewie has a strong desire to be outdoors, while Tux couldn't care less. I keep them both inside, however.
TDC: Thank you for speaking with us! Is there anything else you would like to add?
K.D.: I'd like to encourage readers to consider volunteering with a cat rescue, as there is such a need. Volunteers are needed in many areas, like fostering, transport, bookkeeping, feral colony caretaking, etc. Also, if you have any shopping to do for pet-loving friends, please check out HappyTailsBooks.com. We've got gifts for dog and cat lovers, including stationery, hand-crafted glass ornaments, and books. No less than 25 percent of our net profits are donated back to rescue organizations. Lastly, if you have a great story about an adopted cat, please send it over to us at HappyTailsBooks.com!
Kelly Hoffman is an avid animal lover and the human companion of Boris Kitty
Madison says: This is the most boring interview I have ever read in my life. Only thing less informative is your stupid rescue stories. These stories are horrible; you should have just made something up.
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In the wake of President Obama's reelection, one CEO is doubling down on his criticisms of Obamacare.
Papa John's CEO John Schnatter said he plans on passing the costs of health care reform to his business onto his workers. Schnatter said he will likely reduce workers' hours, as a result of President Obama's reelection, the Naples News reports. Schnatter made headlines over the summer when he told shareholders that the cost of a Papa John's pizza will increase by between 11 and 14 cents due to Obamacare.
"I got in a bunch of trouble for this," he said, referring to the comments he made in August, according to Naples News. "That's what you do, is you pass on costs. Unfortunately, I don't think people know what they're going to pay for this."
Schnatter went on to say he's neither in support of, nor against the Affordable Care Act, even admitting that "the good news is 100 percent of the population is going to have health insurance." But he's not the only one in the chain restaurant industry to admit that workers hours may be reduced, since Obamacare mandates that only employees that work more than 30 hours per week are covered under their employers health insurance plan. For example, Darden restaurants, the parent company of Olive Garden and Red Lobster, has already experimented with reducing workers hours in anticipation of the legislation.
Others have responded to the added costs of Obamacare more harshly, includingApplebee's which has said it won't hire new workers because of the law. Just this week, a Georgia business owner also claimed he cut employees due to Obamacareand in fact had specifically laid off those who he thought had voted for President Obama.
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"I was blown away immediately upon spotting the half-mile structure that once carried freight for the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Embankment holds an untouched beauty, and really reminded me of the feelings I had years ago in the early days of the High Line. It's a quick PATH ride from the High Line to Jersey City, and it's another amazing opportunity for a great linear public space. The Coalition project really needs support right now, so I urge you to check out their Web site to find out more and see what you can do.
"The Embankment is six acres of space broken into six segments which were originally connected by metal bridges and are now separated by city streets. It runs west to east through a residential neighborhood, and ends overlooking the river, practically right across from the High Line. While the Embankment is much wider than the High Line, measuring 100 feet across, and considerably lower to the ground, the landscape is reminiscent of the High Line's original wilderness. When I went the fall colors were spectacular – it was an easy sell."
[After the break, more photos, and info on the future plans for the Embankment.]
"The Embankment Preservation Coalition is aiming to preserve this beautiful stone structure as a walkable, bikeable greenway. Officially called the Harsimus Stem Embankment, it has been sold by Conrail, the railroad company, for 7 million dollars to a developer that intends to rip it down and build residential development. The City of Jersey City and the Coalition is suing Conrail in order to preserve the Embankment for public use.
"I took these pictures to give people a better sense of the space. Remember that everything the High Line is and has provided for its community would not exist if it wasn't for early grassroots support. Please visit the Embankment Preservation Coalition's web site to find out more and support the preservation of the Embankment."
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Sydney has again turned on an astonishing New Year's Eve fireworks display on the harbour.
The city has once again outdone itself with another amazing fireworks display to ring in 2018 after a year that many were happy to leave behind.
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A heavy police presence watched over a largely well-behaved crowd with the balmy weather ensuring a summer-party atmosphere.
In true New Year's Eve spirit, Canberra celebrated the start of 2018 into the early morning on Monday.
Civic was busy with people saying goodbye to 2017 with friends until dawn, when the clean-up got under way.


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text: The Ericsson Globe Arena was built to host the 1989 IIHF World Championship. Since that, Ericsson Globe has staged all kinds of events, ranging from a papal visit to the Eurovision Song Contest final, to shows by the world's greatest artists. The arena can quickly be changed from a hockey rink to a gala dinner or to a rock concert venue.Today, the Globe is a symbol for both Stockholm and Sweden. The arena's diameter is 110 metres, its inner height 85 metres, and its volume is 600,000 cubic metres. To illustrate, consider this: It would take 40 years to fill the Globe with water from a water tap.The arena has a capacity of 13,850 spectators, and in the surrounding area, there is a football stadium, Söderstadion, and the venue for IIHF World Championships from pre-Globe era, Hovet. A new football stadium, Stockholmsarenan, is being built close-by, to be ready by May 2013.


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Here are some info about the partition sector of an hard drive which is used during the booting process. Rcgreen has already written an excellent article about the pc boot process here . I will try to add some elements of my knowledge to complete his article.
During the boot process, the BIOS (for Basic Input/Output System or Basic Integrated/Operating System) launch a script called the Bootstrap. It will search the partition sector which contains all the infos about the partitions into your hard drive and some others interesting things.
Structure of the Partition sector
1BEh.......1st partition...........16
1CEh.......2nd partition .........16
1DEh.......3rd partition...........16
1EEh ......4th partition...........16
1FEh....identification code.......2
Each sector of an hard drive can contain generaly 512 octets of memory and the rule is the same with the Partition sector. It contains in the first 446 octets a partition code most commonly called the MBR (Master Boot Record),it's a script which will read the Partition table, and run the boot sectors of the activated partitions. For example it's in the MBR that you can install LILO in order to select between different OS's on different partitions.
After the first 446 octets, there is the Partition table. This table contains 4 structures of 16 octets providing infos about partitions. This number of 4 explain why it is not possible to create more of 4 primary partitions on a hdd without using extended partitions (in fact the extended partition contain more than 1 partition but count as only 1 primary partition in the partition table). You need to understand that even if you have not partitioned your hdd, you have 1 partition counted in the partition table.
Structure of a Partition table
01h.................head of begining...........................1
02h...........sector & cylinder of begining...............2
04h....................partition type.............................1
05h......................head of end.............................1
06h.............sector & cylinder of end....................2
08h.....distance with the fist partition sector.......4
0Ch........number of sectors in the partition.........4
The state can be "00h" if the partition is not activated or "80h" if it is. The info about the head, sectors and cylinders of begining and end of the partition are needed in order to physically find it. We will notice that sectors and cylinders are coded in order to put the cylinder code in only 5 bits and the sectors in 10 bits (1 octet + 2 bits). As a bit can only be a "1" or a "0", this system allow the capability to recognise 2^10 = 1024 sectors. That's why it is not possible to launch boot sectors after the 1024th sector (a real problem with Linux and Windows on the same hdd). The partition type can have differents values like "00h" for a free partition (the partition don't exist) or "04h" for the primary DOS.
Ok, I think that I have told the more interesting about this subject (in fact, I don't know really more than this )
If you have coments or if you find an error, don't hesitate to post or to pm me.
Hoping it will help you...


text: Last Stop on the 'Administrative Ride'In the Bri-Chem trilogy, a tribunal found that the Canada Border Services Agency was disregarding regulation. Challenging the agency proved an uphill, but ultimately worthwhile, battle.Aug 23, 2017by Julius Melnitzer Lexpert Magazine July/August 2017 IssueHOW FAR CAN BUREAUCRATS GO in refusing to follow decisions of administrative tribunals? That was the question raised by an importing company in Canada v. Bri-Chem Supply (2016 FCA 257). The court's answer seems intuitive: not very far. But if not for an anonymous source who, in the late stages of litigation, provided Peter Kirby of Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, lead counsel for the importers, with an envelope of critical documents, the bureaucrats and administrators at the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) might still be getting away with disregarding the directions of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT), the statutory body that oversees the agency. Kirby had earlier been counsel for the importer in Frito-Lay Canada v. Canada Border Services Agency (CA CITT), a 2012 ruling in which the CITT upheld the ability of importers to correct erroneous customs declarations in order to obtain more favourable tariff treatment. The CBSA appealed, but eventually discontinued the appeal. Still, the agency steadfastly refused to apply Frito-Lay when identical issues arose with regard to goods imported by Bri-Chem, Ever Green Ecological Services and Southern Pacific Resource Corp. (SPR), the three companies whose consolidated cases make up the Bri-Chem trilogy. This despite the fact that, as the Federal Court of Appeal (FCA) later noted, the CITT ruling in Frito-Lay was directly on point and rationally indistinguishable from the facts in the trilogy — so much so that the FCA felt compelled to uphold the CITT's conclusion that CBSA's conduct amounted to an abuse of process. PERHAPS ALL OF THIS is not surprising. Bureaucrats are answerable to politicians — as well as to the rule of law. This includes attempting to anticipate political considerations in view of the Canadian-US relationship. Indeed, sources have it that one reason the CBSA took the stand it did in Bri-Chem was because the United States, Canada's NAFTA partner, was concerned that the Frito-Lay interpretation of the Canadian version of the rules was contrary to the way in which the corresponding American rules, which had been drafted more clearly, had been interpreted. However that may be, quasi-judicial administrative tribunals are the mechanisms our system has chosen to resolve these types of conflicts, to ensure procedural fairness, and to filter out and rule on the issues through the specialized expertise that generally characterizes tribunal members. It's only if parties are unhappy with a tribunal's decision that courts are asked to intervene. For the most part, however, judges — recognizing tribunals' specialized expertise — are reluctant to override them. Still, the relationship between bureaucrats and administrative tribunals can be murky. To begin with, tribunal decisions, which are based on the application of law, may not mesh with the policy considerations that tend to drive bureaucratic action. Complicating the matter is the fact that administrative tribunals, unlike courts, are not bound by stare decisis, or the force of precedent. The upshot is that two tribunal panels deciding the very same issue can supposedly reach varying conclusions. From a bureaucratic perspective, this leaves room for civil servants to sidestep the decisions of tribunals in similar cases by simply pointing to the fact that a tribunal that is hearing a future case could arrive at a different result than a previous panel did. "While it gave us some comfort that Bri-Chem was a rehearing of the very same issue that was decided in Frito-Lay, the fact that stare decisis did not apply meant that we were not dealing with a slam dunk," Kirby explains. "Although we were no longer pushing a frontier on the issue, there was uncertainty as to whether the [Canadian International Trade Tribunal] would accept our argument." As it turns out, sidestepping CITT decisions turned out to be the CBSA's modus operandi in Bri-Chem. That Kirby and his team, Arif Chowdhury of Calgary and Aïda Mezouar in Montréal, were able to thwart the bureaucracy is not only a tribute to the rule of law and a significant landmark in shaping the relationship going forward between administrative tribunals and public officials, but also a testament to thoughtful strategy, hard work, focused preparation and skilled advocacy, as well as an object lesson in managing complicated, hard-fought litigation against the state within the strictures of clients' budgets. LIKE A VOLCANO, many years in the making before it erupts, the circumstances giving rise to Bri-Chem have a long and volatile history. "What CBSA did in Bri-Chem is not different from what it has been doing for 35 years," says Darrel Pearson, an international trade and customs lawyer in the Toronto office of Bennett Jones LLP. "The agency has always viewed itself as the self-proclaimed final authority on customs law and policy, feeling at liberty to dispute any legal argument or decision on the basis that it knows better because it understands the underlying policy and has been involved in the negotiations leading to the relevant international treaties." The Canada Border Services Agency's intransigence is so ingrained, sources report, that after one trade lawyer outlined the agency's attitude in a public forum, senior CBSA officers subsequently confronted the lawyer with unpublishable expletives and refused to shake the lawyer's hand. As well, when the CBSA — whose counsel in Bri-Chem did not respond to a request for an interview — loses at the CITT, it is rarely comfortable with an appeal to the Federal Court of Appeal because that, too, might produce a "wrong" decision. "When it comes to customs classification, procedure and valuation, CBSA has a pattern of leaving CITT decisions in place but refusing to change its policy," Pearson says. "Their reasoning is based on the fact that stare decisis does not apply at the CITT, and their attitude is, 'If the tribunal can change its decision, why should we be bound?'" This was precisely the border agency's approach in Bri-Chem. "CBSA took the position that Frito-Lay was a singular case and they were not going to apply it as a general rule," Kirby says. The reasoning, however, ignores the fact that the CITT is statutorily charged with reviewing the CBSA's decision — an appellate body, so to speak. "Stare decisis is a horizontal concept that affects only the other tribunals deciding the same question," Kirby says. "Stare decisis does not affect the CBSA and it does not mean that tribunal decisions cannot be applied in a general way in accordance with the rule of law, to which the CBSA is clearly beholden." The alternative is chaos. "The rule of law, which includes respect for tribunal decisions, is central because otherwise we would have administrators making unpublished law," Kirby says. BOTH FRITO-LAY AND BRI-CHEM turned on the applicability of certain duty rates and importers' right to correct their original declarations. The duty rate applicable to goods imported into Canada is a function of their tariff classification and their tariff treatment. In both Frito-Lay and the Bri-Chem trilogy, the tariff treatments at issue were Most Favoured Nation (MFN) and NAFTA US tariff treatment (NAFTA). The MFN tariff treatment is available to goods from every country except North Korea. It is the fallback tariff treatment for all goods. At the time of entry, the importers mistakenly claimed MFN treatment. As the imports were of US origin, the proper declaration ought to have cited tariff-free NAFTA treatment. But because the particular MFN tariff rate in each case for the classifications claimed was also zero, there was no immediate incentive for the importers to correct their declaration, as they were entitled to do under the rules. As it turned out, all four importers not only chose the wrong tariff treatment, but also the wrong tariff classification. Had they chosen the correct classification under the MFN treatment, the importers would have been liable to duty. In Frito-Lay, for example, the goods had been erroneously classified as "cardboard," which attracted a zero MFN rate, as opposed to "corn snacks," which attracted an 11-per-cent MFN rate. After CBSA began audits, several years after the goods' first entry, it became evident that the chosen classifications were incorrect. CBSA's practice was to assess duty on the basis of the erroneous classification by reclassifying the goods correctly but to do nothing about the erroneous tariff treatment. In these instances, then, CBSA refused to accept the change in tariff treatment from MFN to NAFTA even though the goods were demonstrably eligible for NAFTA tariff treatment. The agency reasoned that, as the country of origin had not changed, there was no basis for correction of the treatment. This was important because the Customs Act limits requests for refunds based on NAFTA to a one-year retroactive period. In stark contrast, however, the same rules would have permitted reassessment based on tariff reclassification for the four retroactive years affected by the erroneous classifications in Frito-Lay and Bri-Chem. Consequently, if the tariff classification changed but the tariff treatment did not, the importers would have to pay four years' MFN duty. Even if the correction to the NAFTA version was accepted after the duty was paid, the importers would have been limited to refunds for only one year. In all four cases, rather than wait for CBSA to finish its audit and change the tariff classification only, the importers filed simultaneous corrections to the tariff classification and the tariff treatment. This moved the duty rate from a zero (but incorrect) MFN classification to a zero NAFTA tariff treatment, meaning the change was revenue-neutral. The importers' argument was that these simultaneous corrections to tariff classification and tariff treatment were not a request for a refund and therefore were not barred by the one-year limitation on NAFTA refund claims. THIS CLEARLY STRUCK the CBSA as bordering on original sin, resulting in tactics that eventually earned a reprimand from the tribunal. "The Tribunal understands the foregoing as straightforward corrections to everyday mistakes and believes that the CBSA should have simply acknowledged these corrections for what they were. In the Tribunal's view, that should have been the end of the matter in this case," the CITT stated in its Frito-Lay reasons. "Instead, as of the filing of the corrections, the CBSA took Frito-Lay for what can only be described as somewhat of an administrative ride." The "administrative ride" included challenging the jurisdiction of the CITT: the CBSA argued that its very failure to respond to Frito-Lay's tariff corrections meant that the agency had not rendered a "decision" that could found an appeal. "The case was an uphill struggle to get to the Tribunal because the CBSA did everything they could to avoid the litigation," Kirby says. "So much so that, after waiting for two years for a decision which the Customs Act requires to be issued 'without delay,' we had to convince the CITT that the CBSA's refusal to issue a decision was a decision in itself that was capable of appeal." Fortunately, Frito-Lay's struggle ended with the tribunal's conclusion that the chip maker was entitled to correct both the tariff treatment and the tariff classification, thus avoiding duty for any of the four years of imports. Frito-Lay, however, did not spare other importers similar grief. The issue arose again in March 2014 with respect to three separate importers, whose cases constituted the Trilogy: Bri-Chem, Ever Green Ecological Services Inc. (EGES) and Southern Pacific Resource Corp. (SP). "Early on in these matters, it became clear that CBSA would not follow the Frito-Lay ruling," Kirby says. "Not only that, but we had to face the same stalling tactics and refusal to issue decisions that we encountered in Frito-Lay." THE TRILOGY PROVED even more complex than Frito-Lay. After Bri-Chem and EGES filed their simultaneous corrections to the treatments and classifications specified in the original declaration, CBSA rendered a decision accepting the change of classification but rejecting the change of treatment from MFN to NAFTA. "That meant we had a 'decision,' and we could move on to the next level," Kirby says. Not so with respect to Southern Pacific. CBSA backdated its final audit of SP to a date before SP filed its changes to both the tariff classification and treatment. For its part, the audit, by contrast, changed the original classification but did not affect the original treatment. However, by making the change of classification retroactive to a date before SP filed its own changes to the declaration, CBSA put SP in a situation where the company would now be seeking a refund, making it subject to the one-year NAFTA limitation on refunds. Had the audit not been backdated, SP's amendments would have amounted to a "reclassification" not subject to that limitation. As a young lawyer called to the Québec Bar in 2015 in the midst of these proceedings, Mezouar was shocked by CBSA's conduct. "Originally I was more concerned about the legal challenge raised by the CBSA and not the legitimacy of their conduct," she says. "But when I understood what the issue in this case was really all about — whether the CBSA could simply ignore a CITT decision when faced with the same factual and legal issues — the agency's conduct seemed outrageous, unreasonable and completely at odds with the core values of our judicial system." Shock value aside, Kirby found himself on the horns of a dilemma. "One of the most difficult things that a lawyer must do is explain what is going on to the clients," he says. "This is a very technical area, one with which clients generally don't tend to engage. But the more arbitrary the decisions are, the more difficult it is to keep the clients — who in this case went so far as to ask how it was that such things happen in Canada — on board. When the clients see such irrational behaviour, they always ask themselves if there's any point in getting further involved." Getting further involved would be costly. Although Frito-Lay was a case with upwards of ten figures at stake, SP involved less than $1 million and both Bri-Chem and EGES had exposure under $500,000 each. "Deciding whether to continue is the kind of business decision that happens all the time, and it requires counsel to come up with a realistic budget," Kirby said. Through a combination of circumstances, Kirby and his team were able to do that. To begin with, the fees could be spread across the three clients. But perhaps more importantly, the situation demonstrates how much experience counts. "We weren't starting from zero and probably knew the issues as well as anyone in the country," Kirby says. "Luckily, we had litigated Frito-Lay and had access to all the work and legal arguments in that case. So not only had a great deal of the work already been done, but in revisiting issues with which we were familiar, with the benefit of hindsight, we were able to make significant improvements to our case. Had these been cases of first instance, we may not have been able to put together a satisfactory budget." Indeed, the Fasken team's combination of experience, cost-effective approach and strategy impressed Southern Pacific so much that the company's investors decided to continue funding the case even after the company went into receivership. TO DEAL WITH the backdating issue on the SP file, Kirby and his team resorted to judicial review in Calgary, where the company's Canadian operations were based. Kirby enlisted Chowdhury, who was based in Calgary and had an administrative law background, to file Federal Court applications ordering the CBSA to process SP's corrections and cancel the backdated decision. "The basis of our argument was that CBSA's conduct was procedurally unfair," Chowdhury says. "Essentially, we resorted to procedural tools to allow us to move forward with the substantive arguments." When CBSA filed a responding affidavit in the judicial-review proceedings, the affiant turned out to be from an individual devoid of useful knowledge. "Instead of producing the officer who made the backdated decision, CBSA produced someone whose knowledge about customs procedure was much more general," Kirby said. It had become apparent that CBSA wanted to avoid explaining the backdating. Kirby ramped up the pressure by filing a motion to strike the affidavit. With pressure building on the agency, the parties agreed to hold the judicial review in abeyance and proceed directly by way of an appeal to the CITT. To facilitate that, CBSA processed SP's correction. Unsurprisingly, the agency rejected the NAFTA treatment change on the grounds that the original MFN treatment was not incorrect. Once again, the rejection blithely ignored the impact of Frito-Lay. SP then appealed to the CITT. Despite the agreed stay of the judicial reviews, the CBSA's appetite for co-operation was hardly whetted. The agency refused to have all three appeals heard on the same day and sought to revisit the jurisdictional argument again, also in three separate hearings. "That could have been a disaster from a budgetary perspective," Kirby says. As it turned out, the jurisdictional arguments in all three cases were heard together on one day. At the hearing, the futility of separating the jurisdictional hearings from the substantive case became apparent when the CITT refused to decide the issue prior to the argument on the merits. But the CITT also refused to consolidate the three substantive appeals. Fortunately, the tribunal scheduled Bri-Chem and EGES on successive days, and set SP for hearing on the week following. Still, the Fasken team had to file three sets of pleadings, and budgetary considerations forced Kirby to attend all the hearings on his own, without support from his colleagues. IN THE COURSE OF PREPARING for the hearings, however, Kirby continued to press for information. Fasken filed a request under the Access to Information Act for all CBSA documents relating to the decision to disregard Frito-Lay. CBSA responded that it would take two years to process the application because of the large number of documents involved. This meant that the information would not be available for the three companies' appeals to the CITT. Then an envelope appeared on Kirby's desk. "It contained documents that included a PowerPoint presentation on how to end-run the CITT, and that proved there was a high-level, concerted plan formulated by CBSA to ignore the CITT and Frito-Lay. I was amazed to see the degree of effort to which CBSA resorted by way of training officials to ignore the decision." The documents arrived anonymously. No one knows, or no one is saying, where the documents came from. At the time, Kirby did not know who the source was, but when interviewed was able to confirm that they did not come from within the CBSA. "They clearly originated with someone who was concerned with the direction the issues were taking," he says. Given the long history of friction between the CBSA and the tribunal, that "someone" could easily have been an insider at the CITT. The possibility that the leak came from the CITT shows how important these cases were to Canada's administrative law structure. "I think these documents were critical in convincing the tribunal that it had a serious problem on its hands," Kirby says. "The evidence made it clear that we were not dealing with a case where the agency was putting a new interpretation on a different set of facts. Instead, the CBSA was baldly stating that it wouldn't follow the tribunal's decisions even when they were applicable." By contrast, the CITT followed its mandate to the letter. Although the CITT member who heard the Trilogy, Jason Downey, was the same individual who decided Frito-Lay, he did not blindly follow his own previous decision, correctly treating the appeals as de novo matters. "Downey made us argue the law as if Frito-Lay had not been decided," Kirby says. "But he also asked the CBSA to distinguish the case and all they could do was point to distinctions without a difference." Needless to say, the CITT decisions were disastrous, if not shameful, for the agency. "The CBSA got caught with its pants down this time," Pearson says. "It's a lucky thing that the parties affected had the wherewithal to take this on and retained good counsel to do so." The CITT not only applied Frito-Lay in all three cases but found that CBSA had committed an abuse of process by re-litigating Frito-Lay and deliberately ignoring the decision. Using harsh language, the tribunal implied that it would have awarded costs to the importers had it the power to do so. "It's very rare to see language of that ilk employed in administrative decision-making," Kirby says. More importantly, perhaps, the tribunal addressed the rule of law in no uncertain terms: "Finally, the Tribunal wishes to articulate its concern in regard to the practice of putting the precedential value of its decisions into question by the CBSA. Both respectful and responsible application of Tribunal precedent is important for stability and predictability in the importing community. Importers should not be subjected to costly and unfair litigation of cases for matters that have already been dealt with through proper legal authority. This is a matter that goes to the heart of, and constitutes a fundamental tenet of, the rule of law and fair and easy access to Canada's system of administrative justice. Such opposition ultimately leads to a breach of trust in the system and obfuscates the proper administration of justice." Undaunted and apparently unabashed, the CBSA appealed to the FCA, where it fared no better than it had at first instance. In October 2016, the court upheld the CITT's substantive ruling and its finding of abuse of process, quoting liberally from Downey's reasons, including his concern that the CBSA "knowingly frustrated importers from the applicability of Frito-Lay in either similar or even identical situations of fact" and had "embark[ed] on what appears to have been a policy of outright disregard for Frito-Lay." Finally, the court provided definitive guidance on the proper relationship between Canadian administrators and administrative tribunals in general: "Tribunals and administrators are both public bodies established by legislation. Both wield public power and both must obey all relevant legislation, often the same legislation. They are independent from each other. But they are in a hierarchical relationship. Tribunals pass judgment on the acts of administrators." Although tribunals were not bound by the decisions of earlier panels, they were not entitled to depart from the decisions "unless there is good reason." For their part, administrators regulated by tribunals "must" follow tribunal decisions. AT PRESS TIME, about six months had elapsed since the FCA ruling. Pearson believes that the CBSA will come to its senses and "pull back" on its resistance to and become "more respectful" of the CITT. Kirby predicts that the agency will likely "take the FCA decision to heart." Pearson says the decision provides much needed clarity. "As lawyers working in the field, we now have a much better road map for advising importers on what to anticipate and how to move forward." For that, the Fasken team can deservedly take a fair share of the credit. Julius Melnitzer is a freelance legal-affairs writer in Toronto.Lawyer(s):Peter E. Kirby,Darrel H. PearsonFirm(s):Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP,Bennett Jones LLPPractice Area(s):International Trade Regulation


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Do you want to be one of the first 10 people to play with the Xperia Play ("PlayStation Phone")? Sony Ericsson is holding a special contest right now on their Facebook page called First2PLAY that could hook you up with an early device. All you need to do is vote for their Super Bowl commercial and then answer several questions describing your wants and needs.
No U.S. carriers or release dates have been announced, but I would bet on AT&T launching this device by summer. Sony Ericsson will showcase the Xperia Play at their Mobile World Congress booth next week, so we will be sure to spend some quality time with it and let you know how it plays.
The Xperia Play might not have a fancy dual-core processor, but it will be one of the first Android devices to have dedicated game controls, be PlayStation certified, and have access to a huge library of PSX classics. How many PlayStation fans out there are thinking about picking up this device when it comes stateside?


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Actress Vanessa Hudgens spent two weeks in a homeless shelter as she prepared to play a pregnant teen living on the streets in new movie Gimme Shelter.
The High School Musical star also underwent a dramatic transformation to play tomboy Apple Bailey in the drama, hacking off her long hair and sporting fake piercings, and Hudgens admits the whole experience was an eye-opening one.
She says, "For Gimme Shelter, my character ends up at this pregnant, homeless teen shelter that's actually ran (sic) in New Jersey by a woman and I actually went and stayed in the shelter for two weeks before I started filming... I lived there with all the girls, with all the kids... you find so much more about yourself."


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"Function prediction at different spatial scales", Peer Bork, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany (www.bork.embl.de)
"Function prediction at different spatial scales", Peer Bork, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany (www.bork.embl.de)
**STITCH 3: zooming in on protein-chemical interactions,Kuhn M, Szklarczyk D, Franceschini A, von Mering C, Jensen LJ, Bork P, Nucleic Acids Res., 2012
**STITCH 3: zooming in on protein-chemical interactions,Kuhn M, Szklarczyk D, Franceschini A, von Mering C, Jensen LJ, Bork P, Nucleic Acids Res., 2012
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This section has been created in order to keep track of the conferences attended by the CBG members.
International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB) - Latin America 2012 - Santiago, Chile - March 17-21
- General info
The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) has held the ISCB Latin America Conference on Bioinformatics in Santiago, Chile, in March 17-21, 2012. This meeting constituted the second regional ISCB Latin America meeting, with the first held in Montevideo, Uruguay, in March 2010.
Conferences are key to the development and exchange of new ideas in science. Over the years many thousands of participants have attended ISCB's annual ISMB conferences. As the majority of those attendees do their research in North America and Europe, the ISCB Regional Conferences aim to break the barrier imposed by high cost travel. How? By bringing a high quality conference, including lectures delivered by world-renowned scientists, to the regions of Latin America, Africa and Asia.
Toward this aim, in 2009 ISCB began organizing a newer series of smaller, regionally-based meetings as part of its mission to advance the science through world-wide education and training activities. These regional meetings have included ISCB-Africa (Mali 2009, South Africa 2011), ISCB-Latin America (Uruguay 2010) and ISCB-Asia (Malaysia 2011).
ISCB also aims to provide more students the opportunity to discuss and participate in the latest developments in bioinformatics and computational biology by bringing these meetings closer to home. We hope the ISCB-Latin America 2012 has been the second of many conferences that will contribute to the growth of the field within this region and support scientific innovation across Latin America.
More than 250 people attended, primarily from countries in Latin America.
The first two days of the meeting (March 17-18) were dedicated to hands-on practical tutorials and workshops covering different topics of interest.
The main conference took place March 19th-21st and featured the following six topic sessions (Each session had two keynote speakers and six oral presentations. There were also two poster sessions):
Session I. Comparative Genomics and Evolution
Session II. Genomics, Proteomics, Metagenomics and Metabolomics
Session III. Macromolecule Structure/Function Prediction
Session IV. Computer Aided Drug Design and Docking Simulations
Session V. Biomedicine and Immunoinformatics
Session VI. Functional Genomics and Systems Biology
The programme book of the conference
Poster presented at the conference
- Selection of talks
"Function prediction at different spatial scales", Peer Bork, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany (www.bork.embl.de)
- STITCH 3: zooming in on protein-chemical interactions,Kuhn M, Szklarczyk D, Franceschini A, von Mering C, Jensen LJ, Bork P, Nucleic Acids Res., 2012
To facilitate the study of interactions between proteins and chemicals, we have created STITCH, an aggregated database of interactions connecting over 300 000 chemicals and 2.6 million proteins from 1133 organisms. Compared to the previous version, the number of chemicals with interactions and the number of high-confidence interactions both increase 4-fold. The database can be accessed interactively through a web interface, displaying interactions in an integrated network view. It is also available for computational studies through downloadable files and an API. As an extension in the current version, we offer the option to switch between two levels of detail, namely whether stereoisomers of a given compound are shown as a merged entity or as separate entities. Separate display of stereoisomers is necessary, for example, for carbohydrates and chiral drugs. Combining the isomers increases the coverage, as interaction databases and publications found through text mining will often refer to compounds without specifying the stereoisomer. The database is accessible at http://stitch.embl.de/.
- Drug target identification using side-effect similarity.Campillos M, Kuhn M, Gavin AC, Jensen LJ, Bork P, Science,2008
Targets for drugs have so far been predicted on the basis of molecular or cellular features, for example, by exploiting similarity in chemical structure or in activity across cell lines. We used phenotypic side-effect similarities to infer whether two drugs share a target. Applied to 746 marketed drugs, a network of 1018 side effect-driven drug-drug relations became apparent, 261 of which are formed by chemically dissimilar drugs from different therapeutic indications. We experimentally tested 20 of these unexpected drug-drug relations and validated 13 implied drug-target relations by in vitro binding assays, of which 11 reveal inhibition constants equal to less than 10 micromolar. Nine of these were tested and confirmed in cell assays, documenting the feasibility of using phenotypic information to infer molecular interactions and hinting at new uses of marketed drugs. "
- Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome, Arumugam M et al. ,Nature, 2011
Our knowledge of species and functional composition of the human gut microbiome is rapidly increasing, but it is still based on very few cohorts and little is known about variation across the world. By combining 22 newly sequenced faecal metagenomes of individuals from four countries with previously published data sets, here we identify three robust clusters (referred to as enterotypes hereafter) that are not nation or continent specific. We also confirmed the enterotypes in two published, larger cohorts, indicating that intestinal microbiota variation is generally stratified, not continuous. This indicates further the existence of a limited number of well-balanced host-microbial symbiotic states that might respond differently to diet and drug intake. The enterotypes are mostly driven by species composition, but abundant molecular functions are not necessarily provided by abundant species, highlighting the importance of a functional analysis to understand microbial communities. Although individual host properties such as body mass index, age, or gender cannot explain the observed enterotypes, data-driven marker genes or functional modules can be identified for each of these host properties. For example, twelve genes significantly correlate with age and three functional modules with the body mass index, hinting at a diagnostic potential of microbial markers.
my.microbiomes.eu to donate or participate.
"Amazing protein folds", Manfred Sippl, University of Salzburg, Austria
"Using genomics to improve response to neoadjuvant therapy in patients with rectal cancer", Anamaría Camargo, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Brazil
"Using 'omics' data to study regulator-target interactions and organizational principles in networks", Yves van de peer, University of Ghent, Belgium
"On the evolution of PPI networks", Sandro Jsé de Souza, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Brazil
- Bioinformatics Training and Education in Iberoamerica


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"Ian Clement, age 44 (DOB **.*.**), from Crayford, Kent, has this morning been charged with five offences under section 1 and 2 of the Fraud Act in connection with alleged misuse of expenses.The referral was made to police by the Greater London Authority on 24 June 2009 and the charge was placed after consideration by the Crown Prosecution Service."
"Mr Clement is surprised and saddened that the CPS should have felt that prosecution was appropriate."He has co-operated fully with the investigation, which relates to five meal expense claims which have a total value of £227.00."In the context of other, and far more significant, investigations it is a matter of regret that political expediency appears to be present."He added: "Given that proceedings have been brought it is inappropriate to comment further at this time."
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If you want to see the twenty-eight worst mistakes that NFL replacement referees made during Week 2, sports commentary website Deadspin has the breakdown. If there is interest in reading about all of the blunders in real time, just do a Twitter search of "replacement ref" and follow the myriad of tweets attacking the replacement referees' decisions (or general indecision, which has been criticized for slowing down NFL games). A player slipped on a referee's thrown hat in the end zone, a referee reportedly told Philadelphia Eagles running back LeSean McCoy that he needed him to perform well for his fantasy football team, and multiple referees appear to be having trouble remembering how many timeouts remain for various teams.
The result of constant replacement referee missteps is an abundance of questions asking whether the integrity of the NFL game is in serious jeopardy. Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines integrity as "firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values." For a league that has been hell-bent to prevent the demise of its product, its hard-line approach in the ongoing negotiations with the NFL Referees Association is apocryphal.
The NFL is currently a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the State of New Jersey's Governor, Assistant Attorney General, and Executive Director of the New Jersey Racing Commission, which seeks to prevent the state of New Jersey from establishing a sports gambling system. In 2009, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell explained that "NFL owners and players have worked hard from the league's inception nearly 90 years ago to protect its integrity," and thus, the NFL has taken the position that gambling on NFL games should be prohibited. Goodell's stance has not changed since he first expressed that opinion.
[Related: Constitutionality Of Sports Betting Prohibition At Issue In NCAA And Professional Leagues' Lawsuit Against New Jersey].
On August 10, the NCAA, NBA, MLB, NHL, and NFL filed a motion for summary judgment in its suit against New Jersey. Commissioner Roger Goodell drafted a declaration in support of the motion, which makes many references to the integrity of football, including,
"As Commissioner of the NFL, my most important responsibility is maintaining the integrity of professional football, and preserving public confidence in the NFL.
The great popularity of NFL football, and the goodwill it has achieved with its fans and the public as a whole, is rooted in the integrity of the game itself. NFL football stands for clean, healthy competition, and rewards hard work, dedication, and honest effort. Maintaining these values and the highest integrity of the game of professional football is a critical aspect of the NFL's goodwill.
The spread of sports betting, including the introduction of sports betting as proposed by the state of New Jersey, threatens to damage irreparably the integrity of, and public confidence in, NFL football.
Once the character and integrity of NFL football have been compromised, and the bonds of loyalty and devotion between fans and teams have been broken, NFL football will have been irreparably injured in a manner that cannot adequately be calculated in dollars." (emphasis added)
Has the imposition of replacement referees compromised the character and integrity of NFL football? Arguably, the character and integrity of NFL football has been damaged (at least temporarily). Further, Roger Goodell's stance on sports betting has become almost disingenuous. How can he claim that the spread of sports betting (which is completely legal in Nevada) threatens to irreparably damage the integrity of NFL football while he continues to employ replacement referees that are unjustly affecting the outcome of NFL games? If Goodell's most important responsibility is maintaining integrity, then he has some explaining to do. The National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) agrees.
On September 20, the NFLPA sent a letter to owners of all NFL teams concerning the claimed negative impact on football resulting from the NFL's lockout of referees. The second paragraph of the letter says,
"Your decision to lock out officials with more than 1,500 years of collective NFL experience has led to a deterioration of order, safety and integrity. This affirmative decision has not only resulted in poor calls, missed calls and bad game management, but the combination of those deficiencies will only continue to jeopardize player health and safety and the integrity of the game that has taken decades to build." (emphasis added)
The overarching concern for the NFL should be that the replacement referees' influence negatively affects the outcome of individual games and/or lead to disinterest in the game among casual fans. An unintended consequence; however, could be that the league's failure to do everything in its power to protect the integrity of the game through a resolution with the NFL Referees Association has a spillover effect in its pending litigation aimed to prevent states, such as New Jersey, from implementing sports betting schemes. How can Commissioner Goodell say that protecting the integrity of NFL football is his pinnacle concern while he allows replacement referees to continue to botch fumble calls and fail to stop the clock on incomplete passes?
Darren Heitner is an attorney at Wolfe Law Miami, P.A. in Miami, Florida, Founder of Sports Agent Blog, Professor of Sport Agency Management at Indiana University, and author of The Plight of PASPA: It's Time to Pull the Plug on the Prohibition. Follow him at @DarrenHeitner.


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Faculty honored with state, national and global honors in 2013
Professor of Accounting Perry Moore was elected president of the international honor society Delta Mu Delta in November. He is just one of many accomplished faculty, students and alumni who have made scholarly and industry accomplishments in the past semester.
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Moore elected president of international business honor society Delta Mu Delta
Perry Moore, professor of accounting, director of the graduate accounting program and assistant director of graduate business programs, was elected president of the international honor society Delta Mu Delta in November 2013. He served on the society's board of directors as vice president before his election as president.
Delta Mu Delta is an international honor society for business programs which are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs at the baccalaureate, graduate and doctoral levels. Founded by educators from Harvard, Yale and New York universities in 1913, the society recognizes and encourages academic excellence of students at qualifying colleges and universities to create an atmosphere that fosters the well-being of its individual members and the business community.
In 2012, the society inducted 10,073 student members at 296 chapters hosted on 208 different university campuses located in the United States and in eight foreign countries.
Moore is in his 32nd year at Lipscomb. A member of the Institute of Internal Auditors, Moore serves as Chair of their Regional Conference Committee and is a past president of the organization' Nashville chapter. He also directs the Accounting Academy for the Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants, a four-day summer camp that provides high school students with first-hand experience of the diverse fields in accounting.
Moore serves on the CPE (continuing professional education) Task Force for the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA).
FACULTY and STAFF
Administration and Staff
Farris appointed director of National Association of College and University Mail Services
Ronnie Farris, manager of The Connection, the Lipscomb post office, has been appointed a member of the board of directors of the National Association of College and University Mail Services (NACUMS) association.
NACUMS was created to establish standards and foster professionalism for campus mail personnel. The association serves as a communication channel for colleges and universities to share ideas with the United States Postal Service, Postal Rate Commission, or others to insure the best interest of the mailing industry.
A political science and sociology major, Farris has worked with Lipscomb since 1979.
Hargis inducted as secretary of University Risk Management and Insurance Association
Kathy E. Hargis, director of risk management at Lipscomb University, was inducted as secretary of the University Risk Management and Insurance Association for the 2013-2014 membership year.
In October at the association's 44th Annual Conference in Phoenix, Ariz., the association inducted the new executive committee and board of director members for the association, who were elected by the association's membership.
College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Hutchinson wins STEM grant for teacher workshop
Professor of Chemistry Ben Hutchinson won a $240,000 Race to the Top iSTEM grant to conduct the iSTEM (Integrating STEM) Workshop for teachers in Tennessee's Williamson and Davidson counties. Eleven teachers have spent 18 months learning how to incorporate STEM education (instruction in science, technology, engineering and math) and make science subjects entertaining and engaging for students.
The iSTEM workshop provides the teachers with 80 hours of in-depth, cutting edge professional development. Emphasis was placed on health care, wastewater treatment and alternative energy. Nanotechnology, fuel cells and superconductor inquiry-based experiments were used to illustrate STEM topics and make connections.
Department of Communication
Tate appointed to Aspen Institute Task Force, published op-ed
Deborah Taylor Tate, adjunct professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism and executive-in-residence at the Institute for Civic Leadership, was appointed to the Aspen Institute Task Force on the Internet and Learning.
The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization aiming to foster leadership and provide a non-partisan venue for dealing with critical issues. The task force will analyze the use of digital media in learning, innovation and safety.
Tate is a two-time U.S. Presidential nominee and former U.S. Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission.
Department of Mathematics
Wells wins grant to continue SEE-Math workshop
Carroll Wells, chair of the math department, received $300,000 in 2013 to train 72 teachers over the summer at the SEE-Math Workshops. The workshop provided interactive math teaching tools for Middle Tennessee's high school and middle school math teachers.
In addition, the math department was awarded nearly $240,000 in race to the Top iSTEM grants to hold two additional workshops called Function of Algebra and Making Math Matter.
All three workshops are part of the state's ongoing investigation of the most effective methods of teacher professional development programs to improve K-12 education.
Department of Music
Wilson wins grant to host Men's Choral Festival
Gary Wilson, director of choral activities, received a $6,000 grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission to hold the 2013 Men's Choral Festival, featuring the as "the premier men's vocal ensemble in the United States," Cantus.
Wilson plans to make the Men's Choral Festival an annual event and has secured an additional grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission. In January, 2014, Cantus member Tim Takach will premiere a choral work he wrote specifically for the Lipscomb Men's Choral Festival, called "Little Blades of Grass."
College of Bible
Black teaches ministry in Germany sponsored by Ministry for Theological Education
Mark Black, professor of theology, hosted a class on Paul and the church conflict in 1 Corinthians for missionaries and ministers in Gemunden, Germany in October.
The Ministry for Theological Education is a small non-profit organization created by Professor Richard Oster, professor of theology at Harding School of Theology in Memphis. Oster has raised funds to send teachers abroad in order to educate and encourage Church of Christ ministers and missionaries in Europe.
Lee Camp receives BioLogos Foundation grant
Lee Camp, professor of theology, received a grant from the BioLogos Foundation for the development of a public television special on Christian faith and evolutionary theory.
The foundation is a community of Christians who believe in the blending of evolutionary creation and biblical faith.
Camp attended the BioLogos grantee conference at Gordon College in Boston in June. BioLogos was founded by Dr. Francis Collins, former head of the Human Genome Project and current head of the National Institutes of Health.
Michael McRay authors "Letters from Apartheid Street"
Michael McRay, a 2011 Lipscomb graduate and adjunct professor in the College of Bible, had his first book published this year: "Letters from 'Apartheid Street': A Christian Peacemaker in Occupied Palestine." Friends, fans and family gathered in Beaman Library in October, for a book-signing and to hear McRay discuss his work.
After his college graduation, McRay became involved with the Christian Peacemaker Teams, a faith-based organization that supports, among other things, Palestinian-led, nonviolent, grassroots resistance to the Israeli occupation. McRay became part of a team in the West Bank city of Hebron for two months.
College of Business
Eldridge appointed to accreditation board of examiners for business schools
Ray Eldridge, senior associate dean and professor of management in Lipscomb University's College of Business, has been appointed by the Tennessee Center for Performance Excellence (TNCPE) board of directors to the 2013 Board of Examiners.
The TNCPE's award program annually recognizes organizations demonstrating excellence in business operations and results. As an examiner, Eldridge is responsible for reviewing and evaluating organizations that apply for the TNCPE Award. The Board of Examiners comprises experts from all sectors of the regional economy, including health care, service, non-profit, manufacturing, education and government.
Eldridge was appointed to the board previously in 2004, and has served as a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award examiner since 2005. He is a Certified Quality Manager/Organizational Excellence and also serves as an accreditation examiner and mentor for the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs.
Established in 1993 as a public-private partnership, the Tennessee Center for Performance Excellence strives to promote economic development and drive organizational excellence by helping companies and organizations grow more competitive in today's global marketplace through affordable, in-depth assessments.
Eldridge was also appointed in September to a three-year term on the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) Baccalaureate and Graduate Degree Board of Commissioners.
The ACBSP commission serves as an autonomous body to determine whether institutions that apply for accreditation of their business schools and programs meet the accreditation standards that are promulgated by that board of commissioners. The board of commissioners is composed of nine members elected from the membership and one appointed to represent the public at large.
ACBSP is a leading specialized accreditation association for business education supporting, celebrating and rewarding teaching excellence. The council accredits business, accounting, and business-related programs at the associate, baccalaureate, master and doctorate degree levels worldwide.
College of Education
McQueen testifies on Common Core Standards before Senate committee
Lipscomb University's College of Education Dean Candice McQueen was one of a handful of people selected to testify before the Tennessee Senate Education Committee on the Common Core Standards.
McQueen currently serves in Tennessee's Educator Leader Cadre for the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) Consortium, a 23-state group working to develop national tests for students, based on Common Core. The PARCC tests will be completely online, which is bringing major changes to many school systems throughout the state.
She also serves as the liaison for higher education for the State Department of Education's Common Core State Standards Leadership Council for K-12 and on the Common Core advisory board for the Tennessee Higher Education Commission's Institutes of Higher Education.
College of Professional Studies
Long appointed chair of Governor's Task Force on Aging
Charla Long, dean of the College of Professional Studies and founder of Lipscomb's School of TransformAging®, has been appointed by Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam to chair a new Task Force on Aging. Haslam formed the group to create a plan to improve the lives and care of older Tennesseans and their families through a collaboration of public, private and nonprofit leaders.
The Task Force on Aging is an outgrowth of discussions that began at the Governor's Summit on Aging that took place on the Lipscomb campus on June 21, 2011. It was a partnership between Lipscomb University and Haslam that brought together public, private and nonprofit leaders to discuss ways to improve the lives of Tennesseans as they age. Participants were challenged to think creatively in finding ways to better serve seniors.
Abdulla honored at White House
Kasar Abdulla, a native of Kurdistan, was recently recognized by the White House's Champions of Change program for her work to convene interfaith dialogue and conversations of significance about immigration issues. The program recognizes "everyday Americans who are making positive changes in their communities," according to the White House website.
Each week, a group of individuals selected as Champions of Change are invited to the White House to share their ideas. Abdulla was honored in a special ceremony at the White House in September.
Dalton awarded Waller Diversity Scholarship
Alé Dalton, a 2012 Lipscomb University magna cum laude graduate, was the third recipient of the Diversity Endowed Scholarship at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville College of Law.
At Lipscomb, she was awarded the Angie Greene Scholarship, a full tuition scholarship awarded to the most outstanding student in the Department of History, Politics and Philosophy. She was the Student Government Association's academic chair and served as a peer advisor in the academic advising office.
Waller, Nashville's oldest and largest law firm, created the Diversity Endowed Scholarship. The scholarship considers students' ethnic and cultural backgrounds, career goals, social and economic disadvantages, age, race and gender. Waller will formally recognize Dalton in January 2014 at the firm's annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King's life.
Gleaves named dean of College of Biblical Studies at Faulkner University
Scott Gleaves, Lipscomb alumnus, was named dean of the College of Biblical Studies at Faulkner University.
After attending Alabama Christian College from 1980 to 1982, Gleaves finished his bachelor degree at Lipscomb University. He has M.S. and M.Div. degrees from Abilene Christian University and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Southern Christian University.
Gleaves joined Faulkner in August 2011 as assistant dean for the College of Biblical Studies. He was named associate dean a year later.


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About Skrill Dec 1, 2014 23:11:31 GMT -5
Post by Chaudhry on Dec 1, 2014 23:11:31 GMT -5
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To report an emergency in progress, call 911.
Our mission is to reduce the impact of tobacco on Placer County residents by:
If you have any questions or would like to join the Placer Tobacco Prevention Coalition, please Contact Us.
Tobacco Prevention Coalition Invite
Tobacco Prevention Coalition Recruitment: We want you!
Mythbusters: The Potential Dangers of E-Cigarettes (2015)
Congratulations to Oak Ridge Health Care Center on becoming a 100% smoke-free campus!
Smoke-Free Healthcare Facilities
In 1993, the Joint Commission on Accreditation and Healthcare Organizations implemented tobacco control standards that mandated the banning of smoking in hospital buildings. Since then, more healthcare facilities are adopting voluntary 100% smoke-free campus policies as they recognize the value in projecting a healthy image to the community. Not only do smoke-free policies further endorse a healthcare facility's overarching health-promoting mission, but smoke-free healthcare facilities can also result in the following:
Smoke-Free Fact Sheet
The Dangers of Secondhand Smoke
Can My Healthcare Facility Go Smokefree?
Smoke-Free Healthcare Facility Infographic
Residential Care Facility Smokefree Infographic
Is Your Healthcare Facility Smoke-Free?
Placer County Smoke-Free Healthcare Facility Data
A Guide for Implementing Smoke-Free Policies
Smoke-Free Fact Sheet
The Dangers of Secondhand Smoke
Can My Healthcare Facility Go Smokefree?
Smoke-Free Healthcare Facility Infographic
Residential Care Facility Smokefree Infographic
Is Your Healthcare Facility Smoke-Free?
Placer County Smoke-Free Healthcare Facility Data
A Guide for Implementing Smoke-Free Policies
Capacity Building
To engage local organizations and community members in tobacco prevention efforts, The Placer County Tobacco Prevention program has established a Placer County Tobacco Prevention Coalition. The goal of the coalition is to bring together a diverse group of prevention stakeholders and enable them to effectively engage in tobacco control measures and activities to reduce tobacco-related health inequities. As a group, the Coalition plans to utilize each contributor's energy, leadership, and expertise in order to discuss current tobacco-related trends and collaborate on various tobacco prevention efforts.
Interested in tobacco prevention and education? The Placer County Tobacco Prevention Program offers trainings to educate the public on tobacco issues and gain a better understanding of the environmental and social factors that influence tobacco use.
Tobacco prevention program presentations
Tobacco Retail Licensing
To further restrict where tobacco products can be sold, the Placer County Tobacco Prevention Program plans to collaborate with local jurisdictions and discuss the benefits of adopting a tobacco retail licensing policy. Under a local tobacco retailer licensing law, the city or county government requires all businesses that sell tobacco products to obtain a license from the government in exchange for the privilege of selling these products. Local governments may require licensed retailers to pay an annual fee, which can fund administration and enforcement activities such as store inspections and youth purchase compliance checks. Additionally, tobacco retailer licensing may also being used to promote other innovative policy solutions, such as controlling the location and density of tobacco retailers and imposing additional restrictions on the sale and promotion of tobacco products.


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plantpoweredwoman wrote: I've even taken out most starchy carbs even if they are "whole" like potatoes, oats, or rice.
I never liked the starchy stuff most people seem to crave: Potatoes, squash, rice, water chestnuts, etc. just seem to put chalk in my mouth and lead in my ass. Oats, I'm okay with and thrive on, especially soaked whole oat groats. The less processing, the more my body recognizes stuff!
veghead25 wrote:Makes sense. You learn to trust your instincts.
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LucidLink wrote:HAGART wrote:To ESPer:
Perhaps I have grown accustomed to Summerlander's antics and the way he talks down to others who don't view things his way. I let it roll of my back, but I can see how you have every right to be annoyed. And if you have a good comeback that puts him in his place, I'm all for that!
I feel exactly the same way haha. I almost posted something similar but I couldn't word it right! And I don't even really agree with him and I can say this so I'd say I'm being objective and honest enough.
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I think a lot of us are tired of being talked down to and honestly I don't even bother reading the dissertations any more. Most of them could be edited down to around 3 or 4 sentences max. Those who feel they are being talked down to, insulted, etc. should complain to the moderator as I have done.
On the subject: While I'm interested in Astral Projection, it isn't science at this point because so far it has not been demonstrated by reproducible experiments and it does not have a theory to accompany the experimental evidence. So as far as the science goes, that is really ALL that needs to said. I am interested in setting up my own experiments, but not to further science, just to satisfy my own curiosity.