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On December 6th fifteen Members of the UK Parliament put to the House of Commons an early day motion deploring the way Spain is treating the Speaker of the Catalan Parliament, the Rt. Hon. Carme Forcadell. In October 2016 the public prosecutor was advised by the Constitutional Court "to take the necessary criminal action, as they see fit", on grounds of contempt of court, for defying its ban on the outcome of an ad hoc committee being debated by the House. The chief prosecutor, Consuelo Madrigal, was looking forward to this: she had already stated in September that she was ready to prosecute Forcadell.
The ban on a debate held on July 27 2016, almost certainly unprecedented in post-war western Europe, sought to abort a decision on the road map towards independence. The text, which was put to the Plenary despite the ban, has three main sections. The first foresees the convening of a forum to discuss a future Catalan constitution. The second initiates three bills to "disconnect" from Spain. The third calls for the setting-up of a Constituent Assembly to draft a constitution, to be put to a referendum. The report was adopted by the pro-independence parties – the "Junts pel Sí "( "Together For Yes") coalition, comprising the Republican Left (ERC) and the European Democratic Party of Catalonia (PDECat) and the radical left Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP) coalition. Together they hold a commanding 72 seats in the 135-seat Catalan Parliament.
The setting up of the Study Committee was included in a parliamentary resolution on this issue, No. 1/XI, "on the start of the political process as a result of the 27 September 2015 election results", adopted on November 9 2015. It basically said that Catalonia was sovereign and, as such, its Parliament would no longer obey Spanish governmental or judicial authorities. It had been deemed unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court in record time: its judgment, STC 259/2015, was adopted on 2 December 2015, just 23 days after the Resolution! The court stated that it was "a parliamentary deed … the contents of which can be understood as the recognition of inherent powers of sovereignty superior to those deriving from the autonomy recognized by the Constitution to the nationalities that make up the Spanish Nation". Even the Bureau meeting held immediately before the November debate, on the 3rd, was deemed nul and void by another Constitutional court judgment, in response to procedural complaints by the opposition parties.
The Resolution laid down the establishment of an ad hoc Study Committee on the Constituent Process. Despite the court ruling banning it, the committee was set up by Resolution 5/XI, on 20 January 2016, and first met on 28 January 2016. On February 1 2016, that is, just four days later, the Spanish government's legal representative called on the Constitutional Court to warn Forcadell and the members of the Study Committee that they could be committing an offense if the committee was active and met regularly. 0n 19 July 2016 the Constitutional Court decided to warn the authorities involved and their office-holders, and especially the Bureau of the Catalan Parliament, under its responsibility, of their duty to prevent or paralyze any initiative that involves ignoring or circumventing the stated mandates.
Not surprisingly, this warning was issued just eight days before the Study Committee was due to put its report and recommendations to the Plenary, which it did on July 27. It was adopted as Resolution No. 263/XI by the above-mentioned majority, at the end of a tense plenary session of Parliament in which the opposition made its presence vociferously felt.
The Spanish government machinery went into operation again, and the Constitutional Court, on 6 October 2016, declared that Resolution 263/XI was null and void, as well as issuing still more dire warnings, this time in the form of individual letters sent to the Speaker, the other members of the Bureau, the Secretary-General of the Parliament, the President of Catalonia and each of the members of the Government with the threat of cirimnal action against them if they acted in accordance with the July 2016 Resolution.
It also called on the State prosecutor to consider charging the Speaker, the Rt. Hon. Carme Forcadell, and if need be other officials, with contempt of court.
The popular uproar against these measures has been considerable. When it was announced that the High Court prosecutor was charging her, thousands gathered outside the Parliament building to the chant of "Tots som Forcadell" ("We are all Forcadell").
Sra. Forcadell has joined the growing list of Catalan politicians facing charges: former president Artur Mas, former ministers Joana Ortega, Gemma Rigau and Francesc Homs (for organising a non-binding poll on November 9 2014), officials of nearly three hundred local authorities, and several people with no official post: Joan Guirado and Santiago Espot, for instance.
On November 13 over 80,000 people demonstrated in Barcelona against the Spanish government's strategy of judicializing what is a political conflict (for which, incidentally, the governing party is largely to blame in the first place). The Guardian quoted Omnium Cultural's chair, Jordi Cuxart, as saying "If you attack our democratically elected representatives, you attack our institutions, all our people and our sovereignty, and we will never allow that… Our cause is democracy and we will never let our elected representatives down."
The day before, right across Catalonia, thousands of citizens will gather before their town hall in silent protest. And on the day, thousands are expected to gather in front of the High Court. For many perhaps most, it will be hard to remain silent in the face of these political trials.

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Hurricanes 4, Sabres 3: Alexander Semin had a goal and two assists to power host Carolina to its fourth consecutive victory.
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Hurricanes 4, Sabres 3: Alexander Semin had a goal and two assists to power host Carolina to its fourth consecutive victory.
Jussi Jokinen, Jiri Tlusty and defenseman Joe Corvo added goals and captain Eric Staal collected three assists as the Hurricanes completed a three-game sweep against Buffalo this season.
Justin Peters, who was making his first NHL appearance in 13 months, made 37 saves to secure his first win since Feb. 20, 2012. Ryan Miller had 24 saves for the Sabres.
Cody Hodgson scored a pair of goals and defenseman T.J. Brennan had a power-play tally for Buffalo, which cut a two-goal deficit in half three times before absorbing its second straight loss following a three-game winning streak.
Hodgson scored 25 seconds into the final period to cut the deficit to 2-1, but Jokinen answered 50 seconds later to restore the two-game cushion. Brennan's one-timer at 14:33 again brought the Sabres within a goal before Semin snapped a wrist shot from just inside the right circle past Miller at 16:13.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Staal collected his 600th career assist on Tlusty's goal. Semin scored his first goal at home and picked up his 16th assist on Tlusty's tally, extending the entire line's point streak to four games. ... Sabres captain Jason Pominville notched his 265th career assist to move into 10th place on the franchise career list. ... Peters was called up from Charlotte of the American Hockey League after Hurricanes G Cam Ward suffered a sprained knee in Sunday's game. Ward will be out six to eight weeks.


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"It simply means that misbehaviour of priests in Africa has not been exposed to same glare of media as in other parts of the world," said Archbishop Buti Tlhagale of Johannesburg.
We have been watching for this story the past week:
Catholics returned convicted priest to Sierra Leone where he had preyed on boys
MAKANKA, Sierra Leone - A rutted red dirt track leads to the "bar," a couple of homemade wood benches in the shade of an old tree dripping with wild mangoes. Within easy reach, there's a yellow plastic jerry can of the fiery palm wine the American priest loved.
A 40-year-old schoolteacher now charges that Rev. James Tully gave the palm wine to teenage boys to make them more susceptible to his advances.
This faraway corner of West Africa — with no electricity or piped water — is where the Roman Catholic Church sent Tully, twice. The teacher told The Associated Press that Tully abused him and other boys repeatedly during his first stint in Sierra Leone, from 1979 to 1985. After a conviction in the U.S. for giving minors alcohol and groping them, the church sent Tully back to Sierra Leone for a second stint from 1994 to 1998.
Tully's story is an example of how the church transferred abusive priests from country to country, in a scandal now emerging worldwide. But it also shows the deep reluctance to come out against a Catholic priest in many parts of Africa...
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The crisis has passed now, right?
The Yankees outlasted the Blue Jays 10-7 last night at Yankee Stadium, completing the series sweep of their mirthless Canadian neighbors. They have won five straight games, seven of their last eight and 10 of their last 14, and remember how we kept using July 18 — when they increased their American League East lead to 10 games over Baltimore — as a line of demarcation? Well, now they're 29-29 since that date.
So all is well? Call off the dogs and start projecting the Yankees' postseason roster?
Nah. Because of those miracle makers down in Baltimore, the Yankees aren't much further from disaster than they were when they launched this upgrade.
"We need to continue to play good baseball, because the other teams behind us are doing the same thing," manager Joe Girardi saidafter the game. "It's good to see. If you're going to heat up, this is the time of year to do it."
Their victory last night improved the Yankees to 86-63, a game up on the Orioles (85-64), who enjoyed a day off after sweeping the Mariners in a three-game, 38-inning series. A loss would have dropped the Yankees back into a tie with Buck Showalter's boys atop the American League East.
On the bright side, the Yankees have gained ground on the riffraff fighting for a playoff spot; the Angels, who lost 3-1 to the Rangers last night, are 81-69 mark, 5 1/2 games behind the Yankees, and they're the AL's best non-playoff team. Yet the revised postseason format makes the wild-card slots quite undesirable, as the two wild cards must face off in a winner-take-all contest to advance to the Division Series.
Losing that wild-card game, ending their postseason in nine innings, wouldn't feel much different than missing October festivities altogether for baseball's priciest team.
Since the Yankees began their revival, the Orioles are 9-5 and, more recently, 6-2. They're displaying no signs of deceleration, zooming right past the 81-win mark to register their first winning campaign since 1997.
While the Yankees must entertain the dangerous A's this weekend, Baltimore will be at Fenway Park, where they will try to beat up on Bobby Valentine's moribund Red Sox. Then it's back home to Camden Yards for four games with Toronto and three with Boston before a three-game visit to Tropicana Field, where they will wrap up their regular season with the Rayswho very well might be eliminated by that juncture.
After this weekend, the Yankees can coast, too: Three games in Minnesota, four in Toronto and finally three in The Bronx to wrap up Valentine's first and only year leading the Red Sox. Nevertheless, if the Orioles won't let up, then neither can the Yankeesas both sides will work hard to capture the division title.
"We know we have to win games," Girardi said. "That's the bottom line."
There have been enough signs of encouragement to think the Yankees can capture the division title. If their offense has been inconsistent in this run … well, that's better than how consistently bad it looked for a while.
Their biggest pitching headache remains CC Sabathia, who will start tonight's game on six days' rest, and that's no small matter. Everyone else, though, looks pretty good. Even on an off night, Phil Hughes struck out nine in five innings last night to raise his record to 16-12.
Oh, and Ichiro Suzuki, who homered and doubled last night, driving home three runs, apparently has convinced himself that it's 2001. Which reminds me: To all the fans out there who think that Ichiro should be the Yankees' everyday right fielder and leadoff hitter in 2013, you are out of your minds.
The Orioles still have a negative run differential (653 scored and 663 allowed), and they rank ninth in the AL in both runs scored and runs allowed. They are a baseball marvel. They serve as living evidence that, while statistical analysis rocks, wins and losses trump all else.
Thirteen games to go in this marathon. The Yankees have risen from the pavement and picked up their pace. But will it be enough? Despite all of the knowledge we have gained on this team from the past 16 days, we still have no idea.


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President Clinton's reluctance to nominate Bradley Smith to serve on the Federal Election Commission illuminates more than Clinton's aversion to anyone who respects the Constitution. His reluctance also reflects the strength of the people trying to eviscerate the First Amendment with the knife of campaign finance reform.
The FEC administers the government's regulatory fidgets regarding political speech. (Eeeeeeeeeeeek! Did someone commit "express advocacy"?) If the Shays-Meehan bill, which the House passed last year and will debate again soon, becomes law, the FEC's speech police will enforce its complete censorship of any private organization's broadcasting of even factual material about a mentioned candidate within 60 days of an election.
There are six FEC commissioners, three from each party. Recent practice has been that when vacancies occur, presidents nominate and the Senate confirms persons chosen by each party's Senate leadership. Smith, a professor of law at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, is the Republicans' choice for a Republican vacancy, but President Clinton, heeding groups eager to expand government rationing of political speech, is balking.
Courts frequently and approvingly cite Smith's scholarship concerning why regulating campaigning is constitutionally problematic. He believes that the rationales for regulating political giving and spending -- preventing corruption, or the appearance thereof, and promoting political equality -- usually cannot survive the strict scrutiny that courts give to laws that seem to conflict with the constitutional proscription of laws abridging freedom of speech.
Which is why the anti-First Amendment forces, led by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, oppose Smith: He thinks the way the Supreme Court and other courts increasingly do. Indeed, Smith thinks like Justice William Brennan, the saint of liberalism for whom the Brennan Center is named.
In the 1976 Buckley vs. Valeo decision, holding key provisions of the 1974 amendments to the 1971 Federal Election Campaign Act (one amendment created the FEC) unconstitutional, the Supreme Court issued a per curiam opinion. The court issues per curiam opinions when for some reason it is not appropriate to list a single author. However, it is generally known that Brennan was the principal author of the opinion for the court in Buckley.
In Buckley the court struck down (among other things) expenditure limits for House and Senate candidates, for presidential candidates who do not accept public funds, for any candidate spending his or her own money, and for independent expenditures by private individuals or groups. The court held there is an indissoluble link between such spending and political speech. In all this the court agreed with another liberal saint, Justice William Douglas, who had said:
"It usually costs money to communicate an idea to a large audience. But no one would seriously contend that a limitation on the expenditure of money to print a newspaper would not deprive the publisher of freedom of the press. Nor can the fact that it costs money to make a speech -- whether it be hiring a hall or purchasing time on the air -- make the speech any the less an exercise of First Amendment rights."
The law creating the FEC should be displayed in the Smithsonian as a rare survivor among the laws passed in the spasm of post-Watergate moralizing. Richard E. Cohen of National Journal lists their fates:
The War Powers Resolution, with its baroque provisions for Congress to authorize and terminate military operations, is a dead letter, having been disregarded as unworkable and unconstitutional by every president since the resolution was passed over President Nixon's veto in 1973.
The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 established the timetable of today's budgeting process, which, Cohen says, Congress "routinely ignores."
The Independent Counsel Act, originally passed in 1978, has been allowed to expire, Congress having come to Kenneth Starr's conclusion that the law was "structurally unsound, constitutionally dubious."
As for the post-Watergate amendments to the 1971 campaign act, Cohen correctly says that what remains of them has "little practical effect" on parties or candidates.
On this silver anniversary of the FEC, note that there are no federal elections. Presidents are chosen in 51 elections, in the states and the District. In all but two states, all electoral votes go to the statewide plurality winner. Maine and Nebraska allocate the two electoral votes for their senators to the statewide plurality winner, but the other electoral votes go to the presidential candidate who wins each congressional district.
See? These are not "federal" elections. Nevertheless, we are stuck with the FEC. However, it can be improved by Smith, who understands how constitutionally dubious is government regulation of political speech.


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Dr. Hackett studies the organization of the nonhuman primate and human auditory cortex combining anatomical and neurophysiological techniques. The major emphasis of the research is to assemble a model of auditory cortical processing from: 1) identification of the cortical areas involved in the processing of auditory information; 2) reconstruction of the circuitry that underlies the auditory cortical network; 3) recording of neurophysiological response profiles for neurons in individual areas; and 4) comparative analyses of these features in humans and nonhuman primates. The long term goal of this research is to establish a comprehensive model of auditory processing in the cerebral cortex. Research is supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIDCD).


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Reviewed by Andrew O. (age 10)
I have many opinions about and reactions to this book. The Contest is like many other books that I have read. One book that is similar is titled "The Dive" by the same author. I found these Gordon Korman books to be similar in format except with different people and different dreams. The Contest is the first of three in the Everest Series. This book is different because in all the other books they have to worry about survival in the real sense, rather than being "cut" from the team. This book made me feel like I was there because the author used vivid and specific words that really gave me that feeling.
I recommend this book. It is adventurous and suspenseful. I think that a boy around the age of 10 would get the most out of this book. The part that would most interest readers is you never know what will happen next.


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Nats Cannot Take Winning for Granted Against Anyone
The exuberant confidence that gripped Washington in March was a false dawn. It was not backed up by the play of the Nationals in Viera, Fla., and now two months later, the giddy talk about the postseason does not deserve ink. Happy talk does not win games. The precious commodities absolutely essential to winning – determination and focus -were not there in the spring and they have been missing for much of the first two months of the season.
The hell-bent-for-the-World-Series Nationals have a losing record at the beginning of June. That fact is disturbing enough. But what confounds the depression is players like Ian Desmond echoing the Tom Boswell line – no disrespect meant – that it is going to get better from here on in because the schedule is easier.
Believe in magic if you like, my friend, but the rest of the teams on the schedule will not roll over and play dead for the Nationals any more than the Orioles did. Boswell cannot make a 6-2 lead hold up against the Mets or Twins. The runners on third with no one out can not be driven in by fairy dust. If the Nationals continue to play as they have in the first two months, they will not win against the Mets, Twins or any of the other teams who we might believe are sure things.
Twice in the past week, the Nationals had the game within their sights. If the situation were the same, if the 2012 Nationals who made the most of their opportunities were faced with two runners in scoring position against the Braves and a chance to win in the ninth inning, they would have found a way to score the run and hang on for the win. They would not have waited for someone else to do it; they would have pulled the trigger.
There are hungry players in the minors who would like a chance to show whether they can step up in those key situations and deliver. Erik Davis took his first bite at the apple and looked better than Zach Duke, Henry Rodriguez or any number of Washington relievers in the first two months. Anthony Rendon played second base at Triple-A Syracuse on Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. He is one hot streak away from promotion to fill in for the injured Danny Espinosa.
The recent promotions of Rendon, Nathan Karns and Davis should send a message to minor league players. There will be openings in Washington in the near future. Rise to the occasion and the opportunity will be yours eventually because the current major league roster is not getting the job done.
Caleb Clay heard the commotion and he tossed a three-hit, nine-inning shutout for the Double-A Harrisburg Senators on Saturday. Ross Ohlendorf struck out 22 over twelve innings in his last two starts and gave up only a single run. That kind of rising to the occasion gets attention.
After Rendon, Chris Marrero is the best answer Syracuse can offer. He has 10 home runs and is batting .341 for the last 10 games because he hears someone knocking at the door.
Much of the talent is at Harrisburg. Ian Krol has been superb out of the Senators bullpen. His partner in crime, Michael Broadway, was promoted to Syracuse just a week before Rendon. Broadway has a 1.80 ERA in his first two relief appearances at Triple-A, and may be next in line after Davis.
The best hitter still at Harrisburg is Stephen Souza, who is just back from an injury and is raking at a .436 clip, showing both power and speed. His OPS of 1.261 is off the charts. If he can stay healthy and continue to hit, he may be the left fielder of the future who plays for an injured Bryce Harper or Jayson Werth.
Is it too late? It is never too late. But wishing will not make it so. Assuming that an easy schedule is going to make losers into winners is absolutely the wrong approach. It is all hands on deck time; the bells are clanging. There is a fire. Who will put it out? The next few months will answer that question. It will be players who perform in the clutch whether they be Davis or the same players who did it in 2012. All 30 major league teams play the game the same way and it is time for Washington to look for players who come to win against any and all of them. Wherever we can find them, we should look.


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Why do you think I mentioned in an earlier post about people who have no clue what they are talking about playing games. You're not near as smart as you want to believe.Went Primal: 20 DEC 2011
Starting: 6'1" 220 lbs
Starting Energy: "bleh...."
Current: 183 lbs @ 8.33% BF (Jackson/Pollock 4 caliper method)
Current Energy: "WOOHOO!" See my journal HERE.
"Paleo? Try it, but be wary of the cult mentality that comes with it. Paleovangelists are everywhere and a bit scary."
I see your point, but keep in mind that what you are referring to does not constitute a personal attack.
Look, I don't agree with 100% of what Mark has to say. But where I disagree with him (insidious weight gain....) I don't post here about those points declaring that they are 'obviously wrong' as that would be trolling the people on here who hold a different opinion from my own. I need to be mindful of the opinions and ideas of others.
But I do agree that I could have handled things a little differently. On the other hand I find it interesting that the focus keeps getting put on me and people ignore the fact that I was being targeted in this thread even before I made my first post. Then there is the fact that I mentioned about people playing games, which one poster just admitted to in another post. Yet despite all this and the continued attacks off topic I am being made out to be the bad guy.
However, it's really easy to have misunderstandings flare up on 'the internets', and I definitely see that with you. You start out thinking that you are giving 'nothing', when actually you have misperceived the baseline environment you are posting into and are provoking. Then people respond to the perceived provocation. Then you give as good as you get in a tit-for-tat manner, forgetting that
1. They may be responding to a perceived insult from you in a previous post, or
2. They might not be intending to insult you at all
If either of those situations is the case, then tit-for-tat is the wrong response for you to take. I think that it's actually more constructive for you to just let some insults fly. Rise above them. Maybe even apologise. I personally find it *very* easy to apologise for things where I haven't done anything wrong (since in my head I'm really apologising for them being a mental defective). Make sense?
So how is it that if I make a generalization about people not using common sense for example and I am evil yet people can be posting personal attacks against me even before I start posting and they can continue throughout the entire thread and not only is there not even a peep about that but I am not expected to react even though it is acceptable for people to react to a generalization that is not a personal attack. You don't see something wrong with this extreme one sidedness? I feel like I am in the middle of a bunch of juveniles in high school and because I am not part of their clique and kissing their butts that I am to be ostracized as much as possible. Its too bad that expression of other ideas is so controlled by a few here so that only what they approve is allowed. That really discredits a site since only a few views, right or wrong, are allowed. So if false information is being propagated people are still only going to hear that false information. Being a lawyer that would be like you going in to Court and only the opposing counsel being able to speak and present evidence. Would you like that and think it is fair? What would our court system be like if that were the case? Everyone would be guilty or innocent depending on what side is allowed to speak and present evidence.
Additionally, there's usually 10x the number of readers as posters, so most of the 'value' in your posts is actually going to people who are not posting at all. Why not direct your helpful guidance to them?
Edit: case in point - BONZ. He is one of the nicest trolls you'll ever meet, but he is still clearly trolling you. In actual fact, I think they are trying to help you. The lesson to be learned from BONZ is, don't feed the troll. Just go to your mental happy place and move past his posts without responding.Last edited by magicmerl; 09-22-2012, 12:07 AM.Disclaimer: I eat 'meat and vegetables' ala Primal, although I don't agree with the carb curve. I like Perfect Health Diet and WAPF Lactofermentation a lot.
Griff's cholesterol primer
5,000 Cal Fat <> 5,000 Cal Carbs
Winterbike: What I eat every day is what other people eat to treat themselves.
TQP: I find for me that nutrition is much more important than what I do in the gym.
bloodorchid is always right
In actual fact, I think they are trying to help you. The lesson to be learned from BONZ is, don't feed the troll. Just go you your mental happy place and move past his posts without responding.Went Primal: 20 DEC 2011
Starting: 6'1" 220 lbs
Starting Energy: "bleh...."
Current: 183 lbs @ 8.33% BF (Jackson/Pollock 4 caliper method)
Current Energy: "WOOHOO!" See my journal HERE.
"Paleo? Try it, but be wary of the cult mentality that comes with it. Paleovangelists are everywhere and a bit scary."
Originally posted by BONZ View PostAwww shucks, thanks!
<sly smile> Guilty
Or don't be a condescending a-hole to EVERY SINGLE PERSON you talk to and BONZ will mind his own business and simply soak in the information provided.... which is after all why I come here in the first place. I don't like bullies, even pissant little internet bullies...... if you insist on poking people in the eye, I'm gonna poke you in the chest and redirect your energy.
You are so close, this close, to seeing that we aren't attacking you, as a person, nor are we attacking ALL of your assertions & evidence. We dislike & we attack your attack mode while claiming, apparently without either self-awareness nor humility nor perhaps the inability or the unwillingness to apologize, a flip flop between "poor misunderstood me" & "stupid you". Mostly the latter. People are offended & pissed off by that "stupid you" tone & overt wording, your haughty, dismissive tone & put downs.
Can you not see that? Can you apologize? Is that part of your natural or enforced psychological make-up? Or do you ascribe to the view, that many too-smart-for-their-own-good intelligent people, that are trapped in & by their egos, into thinking their shit doesn't smell? But the rest of us, man, we're seriously stinking up this place.
My business partners are both Mensa members, one is off the charts intelligent (I think he's an E.T. or at least a half-breed!)
So, I do have some recent real-life experience in dealing with arrogant geniuses. It's not always fun (but often it is actually, when I keep my cool & humour), but I'm seeing the forest not just the trees. Plus they are great guys, & someday we'll sit on a private beach with the stereotypical umbrella drinks in hand & laugh about all my/their argumentative bantering & debating.
Why do I take the time and effort to reply to you in such terms, James?
To toss out some things for you to think about & self-reflect on?
Is it because I'm attacking you, or is it coz I'm trying to help you?
Think of these things, James. & take your time. No need to reply point by point in a defensive nor an offensive way to my post or anyone's posts. Just look in the mirror & see your inner self & honestly reflect & consider these things I/we are saying...Last edited by Betorq; 09-21-2012, 12:19 AM."Science is not belief but the will to find out." ~ Anonymous
"Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart." ~ Gandhi
"The flogging will continue until morale improves." ~ Unknown
Betorq, first of all you're too kind, thank you sir! Second... his reply to that is, I believe..... going to be epic! Maybe not in a good way if his past behavior is any indicator.
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." ~ Doesn't matter who said it, every quote on the internet is credited to Abraham Lincoln. Ghandi is ready as a second in the event you have two quotes in the same paragraph.Went Primal: 20 DEC 2011
Starting: 6'1" 220 lbs
Starting Energy: "bleh...."
Current: 183 lbs @ 8.33% BF (Jackson/Pollock 4 caliper method)
Current Energy: "WOOHOO!" See my journal HERE.
"Paleo? Try it, but be wary of the cult mentality that comes with it. Paleovangelists are everywhere and a bit scary."
The WAPF is a complete joke. Their ridiculous claims have been discredited so many times. And now they have Mercola as a spokesperson who has also made numerous discredited claims. I have addressed the bogus claims made by both WAPF and Mercola in previous posts. Again, this is an example of why I don't follow propaganda sites like WAPF and rely on real sources of research such as Medline.
1. FDA Soy References
2. Studies showing adverse effects of soy 1939-2008
3. Studies showing adverse effects of isoflavones 1951-2010
Back when I was first introduced to this information, it was 2001-ish. I was a vegan then, and a member of a very large board of vegetarians. It caused a massive stir, and most everyone said the same thing that you did: that WAPF was a propaganda organization, not backed by science, making ridiculous claims, etc.
Because -- at the time -- I still had research capacity through the university library and access to most of these papers in their electronic format (through Lexus/Nexus searches and similar), i was actually able to read the majority of the articles on this list, and couldn't refute the conclusions that WAPF had drawn, even though I tried to.
I am not an ignorant, uneducated fool who is easily "duped." I study and read and dig deeper. I have this whole time.
As far as I'm concerned, the organization is not a "complete joke" -- even though I do not like a lot of their particular methodologies in communicating their messages (which I find clumsy and often difficult for the average person to take seriously). I feel that if their information wasn't presented in such an "alarmist!" fashion, then it would be more accessible to people.
That being said, as an organization of people who have had some great political impact, I have to say that the activism has worked. By being a part of the WAPF, we were able to work to help maintain the family run farms that provided the many dairy, egg, and meat products that we prefer -- and I've been able to do that in two countries.
Socially, the organization here not only provides easy access to difficult-to-get products (like fermented cod liver oil which my husband has taken religiously since 2001 and it cleared up his psoriasis after he'd lived with it for over a decade trying any number of treatments that didn't do much for symptoms, let alone causes), but also great opportunities to meet like minded people, access to our cow share, a network of people who love fermenting things. I'm looking forward to our summer mass gatherings where we go out to the cow-share farm, grab inexpensive produce along the way, set up long tables as a group, and get to fermenting the heck out of salsa that we then pick up several weeks later all jarred up at the milk-drop place. It really gave us a reliable social network of farms and a community of people when we first arrived.
So, I do not accept that the organization is a "joke" or even that their science is.
Going soy-free improved my health. I'm not going to simply consume soy because whatever you refuted says that I should. There's plenty of things to eat, so why would I "need" to consume soy?
I don't know much about mercola. I've heard of him over the years, but. . . I never thought anything of him really.
In an attempt to show solidarity, I have not used any tamari this past week, while this thread winds down.
I still think its not harmful for me, as its such a tiny % of my diet. I gave up miso & tempeh/tofu many years ago, after reading WAPF info about shrinking gonads & Hawaiian soy-eating men's brains weighing less in autopsy compared to non-soy eating men in their community. THAT got my interest!"Science is not belief but the will to find out." ~ Anonymous
"Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart." ~ Gandhi
"The flogging will continue until morale improves." ~ Unknown
Just one, maybe two questions.
With regards to the assessment of Soy value to nutrition in the article introduction:
On a good-bad scale, they probably come in at a 35:65 ratio, with the 65 lined up on the negative side.
Do you agree with that statement?
If not what ratio would you put the Soy pro's & con's at?
If you can not answer this in one or two lines, please don't bother answering at all.
For the record I agree with the article and feel that the 35:65 ratio of Pro's vs Con's is fairly appropriate given all the evidence I have seen."There are no short cuts to enlightenment, the journey is the destination, you have to walk this path alone"


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Seeking employment in another state
My girlfriend recently accepted a job in Washington DC and will be moving in June. I would like to be able to move with her, so I am going to start hunting for jobs in the DC, MD, VA, area. My question is, should I obtain that state's nursing license prior to applying for jobs?
Will having that state's licensure help me to secure a job with greater ease, than just applying with my current PA license?
I need every edge that I can get since I only have just over 1 year of experience and most jobs require 2 years of minimum experience. Not only that, I am an ADN-RN, not BSN-RN, which creates issues trying to find jobs at magnet institutions.
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Specialty: 7 year(s) of experience in NeurologyMar 19, '12what kinda of experience do you have? because some specialties are more in demand than others like ER or ICU... it wouldnt hurt to get a license in that state just to increase your chances. Are you able to enroll in a RN to BSN online program to show your potential employer that you will have your bsn? Most program can be done online and are self paced but are EXPENSIVE. Otherwise you may have to stay the extra year to have the required two years experience... best of luck to you!Mar 20, '12I would. It depends on the state how fast they issue licenses, some are fast, and some, as long as they know your job is depending on you license they may issue it faster, but if you already have it, its one less roadblock, and you can start sooner rather than later. I mean, if you plan on moving there, your going to need it either way, may as well get it sooner.Mar 20, '12I have moved to different parts of the country several times. My recommendation would be that you at least talk with a travel nurse recruiter (I have always used AYA healthcare, and LOVE them). You can get a 13 week travel assignment somewhere in the area you want to be, and 'try out' a hospital (although not all hosptials that use travelers are necessarily hiring). Be honest with the recruiter about what your plans are. Most travel nurse recruiters are very well versed in license law and can give you some good information. Good luck!!Mar 20, '12I have worked in both DC and VA and did not get my license until I got a job offer. I think VA was about 6-8 weeks, but VA wasn't the issue- CA was (my original license); they are slow. If PA does the NURSYS thing, it's probably much faster. I know there are people that do get them before applying, but to me, it's too expensive, and so far, it hasn't hurt me.Mar 20, '12I have 1 year of experience in a neurology outpatient department. Currently I have an ADN-RN and am enrolled and working on my RN-BSN. I would love to use a nursing recruitment agency, but I don't have any acute clinical experience.
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Summer in Fayre
At St Pauls Church
Walliscote Road
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20th August
Adult's 20p
Children –Free
In aid of two local Support Groups
Fibro Friends WSM – Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue
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We have raffles, tombolas and fun and games. Also Craft and Make up stalls.
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The launch of a new seasonal beer from Revolutions Brewery at a newly re-opened freehouse – the Robin Hood at Altofts, not far from Normanton, had previously attracted me to the pub. Having enjoyed a great evening, a return visit was made to find out who, what, when, where and why this great pub had surfaced on to the real ale scene.
There are two parts to the business, the Robin Hood pub itself and the Tarn 51 brewery which is taking shape at the rear of the pub. The pub is owned by former WF6 brewer Rob Turton and Chris Cable and run by Andy Page. The brewery is under the auspices of Rob and Hayley Lumb. However at these early stages they are all involved in all aspects of both.
Hayley's dad, Bernard and Rob were literally neighbours in Altofts and used to drink together and also with Chris locally for many years. They had become disillusioned with the range and quality of beer available in the village. With real ale on the up elsewhere they took to travelling further afield to satisfy their drinking desires. This was fine but not ideal. They wanted great real ale in a local pub.
The light bulb moments came in late 2013. Hayley and Rob had the idea for the brewery and Chris and Rob, the pub. They approached Admiral Taverns pub group to purchase the Horse and Jockey just down the road but were unsuccessful. However, they had identified the potential of the Robin Hood which at that point was a run down non-real ale pub. Despite it not being on the market, they made a successful offer to Admiral Taverns and it was "all systems go". Rob approached old school friend, drinking partner and business colleague Andy to manage the pub. Andy's background of growing up and working in pubs together with his retail and management experience meant that he could immediately slot into the team – right at the deep end!
After nine months of sorting out business red tape everything finally fell into place and a whirlwind operation took place. Vacant possession was obtained on Saturday 17th January 2015 and the keys were obtained two days later at 1pm on Monday 19th. In just three and a half days all the lines had been ripped out and re-laid and four beers were made ready - namely Acorn Barnsley Bitter, Revolutions Clash London Porter, Roosters Yankee and Great Heck Simcoe.
The pub reopened on Friday 23rd at 4pm to the delight of the queue of thirsty drinkers who, thanks to the local jungle drums, had gathered outside to slake their real ale thirsts.
Andy and his team listen to the locals. Many come in for a session so the usual policy is to have beer at under 5% ABV of which one is always used for a dark beer. On a busy Saturday when the pub is full, the car park is empty – a true sign of a local. After just three months over 10,000 pints were served. With Acorn Barnsley Bitter as the regular beer, over seventy different beers from more than twenty Yorkshire breweries have been dispensed from the three guest lines. Wowee - some going indeed!
With the pub being a roaring success work continues on the Tarn 51 Brewery to the rear of the pub. "Why that name?" you may ask. Tarn is the West Yorkshire term for "village by the water" and 1851 is the year that the pub was built. The new bespoke brewing kit has been manufactured by local Featherstone firm CNG Engineering Ltd, who have previously made the kit for the highly successful new Atom brewery in Hull.
With getting everything just right, it is expected that the brewery will be up and running later this year. This use of local firms, businesses and craftsmen has been a feature of the development of both the pub and brewery. By employing local tradesmen the owners are giving back to the local community and aiding the local economy. Well done guys.
Work has still to be done to the pub too and now that Hayley has completed her University studies at Durham she is intending to further research the history of the pub. It's all go.
The key to the success of the pub is that all of the partners are friends from different backgrounds, each contributing with their own skill sets.


text: Guest Post: Lessons for a Life with No Regrets by Eric Sinoway |Oct 11, 2012|Comments Guest blogger Eric Sinoway is the author of Howard's Gift: Uncommon Wisdom to Inspire Your Life's Work and president of Axcess Worldwide, a global partnership development firm. He has been associated with Harvard University's Hillel as a student, fundraiser, and strategic consultant. My friend Howard Stevenson - the iconic Harvard professor - likes to make jokes about the day he "died" five years ago, when his heart simply stopped beating during an otherwise pleasant walk across the Harvard campus. How he survived to tell those jokes is an amazing story - a newly installed portable defibrillator, a CPR-trained friend looking out the window, a top-notch hospital two miles away. Nearly as amazing - to me anyway - was the conversation we had during his recuperation. I asked if, looking back from what could have been the end of his life, he'd had any regrets. Nope, no regrets, he said. With anything, I asked? Nope. His simple, direct answer led to lots of questions for me about my own life. And to many conversations about how a person could live a full life with no regrets. Those talks form the core of a new book, Howard's Gift: Uncommon Wisdom to Inspire Your Life's Work. One of the key ideas in Howard's Gift is "create a Legacy Vision" - a single picture representing all the facets of the life you want to build. Creating a legacy vision means drawing together your most highly valued beliefs, desires, goals, and priorities into a holistic, aspirational portrait of the ultimate you. This picture will become the guide for the myriad personal and professional decisions you'll need to make along life's path. Recently, in discussing the Legacy Vision idea with a friend, she said, "Isn't that what we just did during the high holidays - take stock of the right and wrong things we've done and decide how to act in the future?" Yes…but no, I responded. Whereas Yom Kippur is, in many respects, about how to make ourselves better people, a Legacy Vision is about making ourselves more authentically ourselves. They are complementary, but not the same thing. It's in college and grad school that many of us really hone in on who we want to become. That's one of the reasons Hillel plays such an important role: it presents an opportunity to deeply consider how Judaism is woven into their lives and careers. A legacy vision is less about "right and wrong" than about how we choose among the endless variety of "right" options we encounter in our lives. Recognizing all the options - and making effective decisions among them - is essential to having a deeply satisfying life and career. And a Legacy Vision is the personal roadmap that enables each of us to reach the place Howard had arrived at: a life lived with no regrets. Back to Top Tags: Higher Education Jewish Life {{Title}} [x] Add or, Select from existing Opening existing... Close existing Most popular tags Click to select: Show all2440Tags Show only most popular Opening all... {{Title}} ({{ItemsCount}})


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Experts for formula-based approach on petro pricingFebruary 9th, 2009 - 8:14 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Feb.9 (ANI): Professor Arjun Sengupta, well-known economist and Chairman of the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector, Government of India, today suggested a formula based approach to ensure stability and predictability in the petroleum product prices.
Delivering the keynote address at a Focus Group Discussion on "Petroleum Product Pricing Reforms: Now Is the Time", Sengupta said the formula can be developed either by a group or committee.
"There is need for reforms — whether it is today or tomorrow. Every time is important time," an ORF press release quoted Sengupta as saying at a discussion chaired by S.C. Tripathi, former Secretary of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Commission.
Criticizing the government''s subsidy policy, Prof. Sengupta said he is of the opinion that HSD (high speed diesel) should be taxed on par with motor spirit (petrol). He said contrary to the claims of transporters and politicians of right, centre and left, HSD prices have miniscule effect on prices of essential commodities.
He suggested that while big farmers do not deserve subsidized diesel, the cases of small and needy farmers should be handled through prices or income.
Saying that Government policy should not discriminate between government and private companies, Prof. Sengupta said there is an urgent need to deregulate entry and exit of companies in the sector. "Oil sector reforms should not be linked to pricing reforms alone," he remarked.
Tripathi, who had drafted the bill on Regulator in the petroleum sector, said there is an immediate need to give more powers to the Regulatory Board, which is virtually non-existent because of lack of powers to it.
"The Regulator has not come into the picture yet. There is a law. The Government should withdraw," Tripathi said.
Sunjoy Joshi, Senior Fellow, ORF, warned of a 90s-like situation of shorter supply and higher prices if the present situation of less investment in the upstream continues. He said investments should keep pace and adhocism should be eliminated if uncertainty and unpredictability are to be ended.
Surya Sethi, Principal Advisor (Energy) to Planning Commission, warned that if one tried to control the petroleum prices, it would only mess up things as petroleum is and will continue to a volatile product.
Describing the sector in India as "heavily distorted", Mr Sethi said petroleum price reforms are interlinked with taxation sector reforms. He said Indians pay highest prices in the world for energy products.
Stressing the need for level playing field in the sector, he also called for empowering the Regulator.
Raghavendran, President of Reliance Refineries, said even China, which had a similar pricing system like India, has changed its policy and has adopted a liberal price band linked price control. He agreed with Prof. Dasgupta on the formula based approach to ensure stability and predictability.
R.P. Sharma, President, LNG Business, Reliance Industries and M.B. Lal, former CMD of HPCL, also underlined the need for empowering the Regulator to ensure a level-playing field in the sector. Mr. Lal also suggested a formula based system to be developed by an independent group or a group formed by the Regulator.
Criticising the government''s policy of taxing aviation fuel about Rs. 3 while taxing petrol around Rs. 13, Dipankar Mukherjee, Secretary, CITU, said the pricing issue cannot be left to the market.
He said the consumer should know the economic cost of petroleum products while the government should decide on the political cost. Asking what had happened to the so-called "independent" directors in the collapsed companies, he said the Government should keep the power to regulate prices.
"If the government has to any way step in when the market fails, then why not keep this power with it always?," he asked.
Manish Tiwari, Congress spokesperson, also favoured the view that the Regulator should be empowered enough to deal with the situation. Saying that the problem is with the taxation structure, he said he cannot visualize any government giving away its taxation power to the Regulator. He said subsidy is a larger governance issue. (ANI)
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P.O. Box 404,
Butte, MT 59703
17 West Mercury St. Map
(406) 723-3231
10 a.m.-4 p.m.
$5 adults
|Tours all year by appointment
| Mai Wah
Board meetings are open to the public. They are on second Tuesdays, 6:00
p.m, at the museum, unless indicated otherwise. The Mai Mai Wah Society
Meeting will be at 6:00 pm on Tuesday
Jan. 10 at the Butte Archives.
January 2016 Newsletter
opening day will be mid-June 2017.
|The Mai Wah Museum's main season is early June through late September. In the off season, please call us at 406-565-1826 -- we always try to accommodate visitors with a day or two advance notice. You can also get the Mai Wah tour as part of Old Butte Historical Adventures' East Tour when we are closed and in the off season.
The Mai
Wah Society is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization established
for educational, charitable, and scientific purposes, including
research and public education about the history, culture, and
conditions of Asian people in the Rocky Mountain West.
The Society collects and preserves artifacts, preserves historic buildings and sites, presents public exhibits, and supports research and publication of materials of scholarly and general interest.


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Experience an 8-week series of Kundalini Yoga classes that reduce stress and bring the body, mind and spirit into balance.
All levels of practise welcome.
The classes will explore a combination of postures, breath-work, meditation and mantra. Each week we will focus on a different chakra or energy wheel. By understanding the chakras we can deepen our knowledge of self and further our understanding on the complexity of our human experience.
$20 per class. Drop ins are welcome or you can book online for the 8 weeks and receive a 10% discount.
Please bring comfortable clothing and plenty of water.
A yoga mat and pillow are provided but you are welcome to bring your own.
Want to know a little more about your Kundalini yoga teacher?
You can find out on Aimee's website below.


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Wow! I never expected to win, with all the other great entries. Thank you.
I'll get a new challenge up later today.
Phil what I really liked about your image was the fence line bringing you almost to the edge of the frame and then sharply back into it guiding the eye to constantly explore all textures and colors in the frame. I find it a bit bright with all the sky at the top and I think it does compete a bit with what I think is really important but not enough take it out of the my favorite of the bunch. I would suggest you take a piece of paper or your hand and cover the top part of the frame down to just below the sky/tree line. But I still really like this image.


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This division provides the full range of law enforcement services including patrol, traffic enforcement, investigations, problem-oriented policing and neighborhood watch. Various operational grants are also included in this division.
The operations division is managed by Commander Andrew White. Commander White has served with the Suisun City Police Department since 2002. He has worked in various capacities including as a volunteer, patrol officer, school resource officer, recruit training officer and as a sergeant. As a sergeant, he supervised patrol, code enforcement, marine patrol and the field training program. He also managed the department's fleet and information technology.
Commander White is a graduate of the POST Sherman Block Supervisory Leadership Institute and has a bachelor's degree in Organizational Management/IT. He has taught at the regional law enforcement academy as an instructor since 2007. He was hired as the Police Commander in May 2015.


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The number of books in a child's home is one of the greatest predictors of a child's academic success.
That's why we applaud the efforts of the Kiwanis Club of Baton Rouge to get more books into the homes of local youngsters.
Through the organization's "3 Rs for 3BR" program, the club provides new and used children's books to public locations throughout Baton Rouge where adults and their young children from infants to 5-year-olds are likely to spend time. Sites currently include health clinics and pre-K programs.
At selected sites, on donated bookshelves, Kiwanis volunteers place books that can be selected and read to young children. Once the adult caregiver or parent is finished reading one of the books to the child, the book is then signed over to the child for permanent use at home.
Local residents can help this effort by donating used children's books, new books, or money for new books. Residents can also offer a site for the program, or host a book drive. For more information on how to get involved, contact Noel Hammatt at (225) 938-3832 or email@example.com.


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Saturday, April 16, 2011
The Grass is Green on My Side
There are very few signs of Spring still in Michigan, but one that I did notice earlier this week is that the grass is turning from that stale, dried out yellow, to a fresh, lush green. Even little changes like this excite my little heart. I know I've gone on and on about it before, but it was a long, cold, hard winter for me this year, and I am Beyond ready for a change.
In other news, today is Record Store Day, so I need to clean myself up and head out to see what I can find! Also, I am in desperate need of a haircut. Maybe I can get Josh to squeeze me in today and work is Magic.
I hope you all are enjoying your Saturday!
Dress: burlapp (ideeli)
Cardigan: Forever 21
Shoes: White Mt. (TJ Maxx)
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More than at any other time, with sports it's important to keep up with the game -- this is true whether you are a spectator or participating. There are a wonderful range of apps that can help in both these ways and we've pulled together some great options, grouped together for easy reference.
For example there are some great news apps and RSS feeds that can keep you up to date with the latest sporting headlines, or you can opt for something more specific and make a choice about your favorite sport to follow -- many of these also offer the option of narrowing it down to just your team. Add the ability of push notifications and you need never miss out on a scored goal ever again when you can't make it to that important match.
For those of us that like to get stuck into a sport and participate though, there are probably an even greater number of fantastic apps to choose from. We've covered many here such as golf, surfing, fishing, sailing, cycling and even skiing. Some of them just update you on local conditions and keep score, whereas others are a bit more complex and help train you to become a better sportsperson too.
Whatever sport you prefer, our last section brings together some great apps to make your pursuit that bit more enjoyable. So what are we waiting for?
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Know What's Going On?
We begin our Android sports guide by looking at your best options for all-round great sports apps that keep you abreast of the action, on and off the field of play. Our first article is a great place to start, as we take a wander through the top ten Android sports apps to give you a flavor of what's on offer. The Google SportTap Tracker is great for keeping up with scorelines, and Dogcatcher is an RSS feed that you can customize to show just sports news.
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Apps for Sports Fans
There are plenty of apps out there that are for specific sports teams, but the ones we've included in this sports fan section are looking at particular sports -- although many of these allow you to select 'favorites' so your team news and league table position will be given priority for an at a glance look. The sports we look at here are football (soccer), baseball, cricket and NASCAR.
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Sports Participation
For letting off some steam there's nothing like participating in your chosen sport which is where these app round-ups and reviews come in. Many of these also make strong use of your phone's GPS feature for route planning and recording, as well as showing you how far away you are from the tee when playing golf, for example. There are apps here that help improve your performance as well as track your personal progress.
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Sports Participation - Water Sports
For those of you that prefer sports to take place away from dry land, there are some truly wonderful apps of quality that can come to your aid. The best apps here not only give you tips they also give you detailed information about appropriate weather conditions - tide times, swell, wind direction etc. Again many of these make good use of the GPS on your phone so you can chart your course. Don't forget that your phone itself might need a bit of extra protection if you are venturing out on water too, so we've included some top round-ups of waterproof cases to keep your phone protected and dry.
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Make Sports More Enjoyable
There are simple ways your phone can be used, that we tend to overlook when have such great apps, but even using the music player on your Android can make going running or cycling more pleasurable, as well as inspiring you to go that bit faster. There are other things you can do to make the experience more enjoyable, even if you are a sports fan rather than a player. Load up some top radio apps for sports radio, record action shots with a specialist camera app, and use sat nav and maps to find the stadium your team are playing at.
- Best Android Radio Apps - Great sports radio choices here
- Top Android Apps - Sports, Music and PIM
- Take Great Action Shots with the Action Snap App
- Find the Stadium with Offline GPS Apps
With so many great apps, it was hard to narrow it down to this selection, but I hope it's given you a flavor of what's available. What is more, if there is a must-have app that we've missed from the list, please leave a comment below.


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Print Magazine
Master class
We were commissioned to take a shot at a classic school assignment
Class of the Titans, The Collage Project
Joe Marianek (senior designer at Pentagram, teacher at SVA), Ellen Lupton (writer, designer, director of the graphic design MFA program at MICA and Strange Attractors Design, (teachers at the Design Academy Eindhoven, The Royal Academy of Art and Parsons, The New School for Design) took their best shot at a few classic school assignments.
We were given an assignment by Ed Fella. "The project description asked students to take two articles from published sources and fuse them together into a flat, text-and-image composition on a single piece of paper with X-acto knives and glue sticks, then create a photostat to get the collage onto one surface. The goal of the assignment was to rearrange the visuals to make political or social messages that were not apparent in the original material. For this project, we took our material from newspapers and magazines published in the last week of 2009, when one seemingly ordinary individual with explosives and a detonation syringe forced airports and governments to reconsider their screening procedures. It was another seemingly ordinary person—not a U.S. air marshal or undercover informant and armed only with swift instinct—who thwarted the attempted airplane bombing above the skies of Detroit on Christmas Day. How did we get to this point? What inspires such hatred in a young and privileged 23-year-old student that he would want to take the lives of 200 alongside his own? Our collages considers the simultaneous shades of truth and narrative qualities in visual media."
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Joe Marianek
Ellen Lupton
Design Academy Eindhoven
Royal Academy of Art
Parsons, The New School for Design
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Quick Reference
A phylum first encountered in the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale, British Columbia, Canada. The hemichordates are related to the chordates (Chordata), for although they lack a notochord, the gill slits are very similar to those of primitive vertebrates and the dorsal collar nerve cord of hemichordates, which is sometimes hollow, is similar to the dorsal, hollow nerve cord of chordates. Hemichordates are exclusively marine. The body and coelom are divided into three sections, the middle section bearing gill slits. Development is by a tornaria larva, indicating affinities with the Echinodermata; the link between echinoderms and chordates is supported by biochemical evidence, all three groups containing creatine phosphate in the muscles whereas in all other invertebrates the phosphate is a compound of arginine. The two classes, Enteropneusta and Pterobranchia, may not be descended from a common stock and nowadays are often ranked as separate phyla.
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How to Work for the CIA
Do You Want to Be a Spy?
Would you like to be a spy? Shhhh! Don't answer that. The agency usually thought to be synonymous with spying on behalf of the United States government, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), has two very specific rules for applicants. Rule number 1: don't tell anyone you're applying for a job. Rule number 2: Don't tell anyone you are even thinking of applying!
In other words, if you want to find out how to work for the CIA, don't ask anyone. Doing that would give away your aspirations, and therefore break both those rules. You can, however, read this article, which spells it all out for you.
CIA Careers
If you find the idea of being a spy appealing, you will want to work for a specific arm of the CIA—the Directorate of Operations (DO), formerly named the National Clandestine Service (NCS). The DO is the component of the CIA that is responsible for covertly collecting human intelligence (aka spying). These are the entry-level positions that are available for job candidates after they have completed an extensive training program.
- Core Collectors and Operations Officers usually work overseas recruiting and handling foreign sources of human intelligence.
- Core Collectors and Collection Management Officers also spend the majority of their careers working abroad. They manage the collection of human intelligence and evaluate and disseminate it to the U.S. foreign policy community and intelligence community analysts.
- Staff Operations Officers are the liaisons between DO stateside headquarters and overseas field officers. They spend most of their time in Washington but may have temporary overseas assignments. They are experts in either a particular region or a transnational target, for example, terrorism or crime.
- Specialized Skills Officers work either at Washington headquarters or overseas. They utilize their experience in the military, or their language, technical, or media skills to conduct or support CIA operations. Job titles that fall under this category include targeting officer, language officer, paramilitary officer, program and plans officer, and information resource officer.
Entry-Level CIA Careers and Job Qualifications
Entry-level job candidates can join the Directorate of Operations as trainees in the Professional Trainee Program, the Clandestine Service Trainee Program, or the Headquarters Based Trainee Program. The program they participate in is determined by the job for which they apply and their level of experience.
Those who want to be core collectors enter either through the Professional Trainee Program or the Clandestine Service Trainee Program, depending on their prior experience. Individuals with several years of work or military experience will go directly into the Clandestine Service Trainee Program. Those who have only a college degree have to enter the Professional Trainee Program before eventually moving into the Clandestine Service Trainee Program. Applicants who want to become headquarters employees, such as staff operations officers and specialized skills officers, take part in the Headquarters Based Trainee Program.
At the end of a candidate's training period, the DO will place him or her on a career track that agency officials deem appropriate for his or her demonstrated skills and the agency's needs.
All job applicants need a bachelor's degree with a grade point average of at least 3.0. Proficiency in a foreign language is required for those who are training to become core collectors. Applicants for headquarters-based jobs must have a demonstrated interest in international affairs. While candidates come from a variety of disciplines, those with a background in international business, finance, international relations, economics, physical science, or nuclear, biological or chemical engineering are considered the most desirable.
U.S. citizenship is a requirement for all positions, and all candidates must qualify for security clearance.
Spying is a career rife with stress. If you want to work for the CIA, you must be able to cope with this. Other necessary qualities include good judgment, the ability to multitask and manage time well, and excellent writing, listening, and verbal communication skills. Strong problem solving and critical thinking abilities are also essential. A willingness to continuously learn is also important. Since assignments often require one to be part of a team, the capacity to work with others is imperative.
The Application Process
If you are interested in working for the Directorate of Operations, you can apply for a job online at the CIA's website. There you will also find complete details about the application process. Before you apply, you must create an account. Don't do this unless you are sure you have enough time to complete the application. You will need to do so within three days of creating your account. When that time is up, your account will be disabled. It will also be disabled once you complete your application.
When you are finished applying, you will receive an on-screen confirmation. The CIA will not send one via email. You can apply for up to four positions on one application, but the agency requests that applicants do not submit multiple applications.
If your application is accepted, pre-employment processing may take up to one year. During that time you will have personal interviews and be subject to medical and psychological testing, drug testing, a polygraph, and an extensive background check. Through this background check, the DO will ensure that you have no allegiances to other countries, are trustworthy, can't be coerced, and are willing to protect sensitive information.
Pros and Cons of Working for the CIA Directorate of Operations
If you want intrigue, the DO has it. Even the pages containing information about career opportunities read like a spy novel. The word "spy" is never used, and applicants are warned never to reveal their intentions. A life undercover isn't for everyone, though. One must keep his or her identity hidden from others. And because the work is covert, there is little public recognition for a job well done. The agency, however, rewards and recognizes its employees internally.
DO officers serving overseas receive competitive pay. Their benefits include housing for themselves and their families. Their children get educational benefits. They also have the opportunity to travel around the world.
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SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah is the only state that requires people to fill out an application and pay a fee before entering a bar.
But the shelf life of this law -- enacted 40 years ago in a state where nearly two out of three residents are members of a religion that shuns drinking -- appears to be dwindling.
In Utah, and across the country, governors and lawmakers faced with budget deficits are advocating loosening laws that restrict alcohol consumption in the hopes of boosting tax revenues.
-- In Georgia, Connecticut, Indiana, Texas, Alabama and Minnesota, lawmakers are considering legislation this year that would end the ban on Sunday liquor sales. All but 15 states sell booze on Sundays.
-- In Nebraska, a state lawmaker has proposed allowing beer to be consumed in state parks as a way to boost tourism.
-- Other states, including Utah, are considering allowing the sale of liquor on Election Day.
Drinkers shouldn't break out the bubbly just yet: Two dozen states, including California, Massachusetts, Oklahoma and Virginia, are looking to help their budgets by raising alcohol taxes.
Alcohol taxes are a popular budgetary crutch for lawmakers because liquor sales tend to hold up relatively well, compared with other revenue streams, during hard times, said Steve Schmidt, vice president of the Alexandria, Va. based National Alcohol Beverage Control Association.
In 2008, revenue reported by liquor suppliers rose 2.8 percent from the previous year to $18.7 billion, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States. That's slower than the 6 percent average annual growth rate since 2000.
The council's president, Peter Cressy, calls liquor "recession resilient" not recession proof -- a point that industry officials make when cautioning lawmakers about raising taxes.
Earlier this month, distillers in Kentucky poured bottles of bourbon on the statehouse steps there to protest a proposed tax increase.
In Pittsburgh, a 10 percent tax placed on alcohol last year inspired an animated satire, resulted in some bars printing signs saying the tax's architect was not welcome and one restaurateur challenging Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato to a charity boxing match.
Ben Jenkins, a spokesman for the Distilled Spirits Council, said states would be better off if they simply made alcohol more accessible to meet consumer demand. States that lift the ban on Sunday sales see a 5 percent to 8 percent annual sales increase, he said.
"Dozens of states consider alcohol taxes and every year most of them fail because the legislators become educated as to the effects a tax increase on alcohol would have on the hospitality industry," he said. "Since 2001, we've seen 245 major tax proposals and 227 of them have failed."
Those opposed to reforming Utah's liquor laws cite concerns about overconsumption and drunk driving. But religion also plays a key role.
About 60 percent of the state's residents are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which tells its members not to drink alcohol. An even greater percentage of lawmakers -- 80 percent to 90 percent -- are Mormon, though some of them are open to changing the law for the sake of the state's economy.
The state's private club system as it's currently known, was created in 1969 after voters -- encouraged by the church -- killed a proposal to allow the sale of liquor by the drink in restaurants.
But for Utah's $6 billion-a-year tourism industry, liquor laws are a major issue, too. They say it hurts their efforts to compete with neighboring states like Colorado for the lucrative convention and ski market.
If there was ever a question if Utah has an image problem because of its quirky liquor laws, business travelers like Marty Cano can answer it.
"Originally, I thought alcohol was illegal here," the Austin, Texas IT consultant said one recent night after downing a few pints of beer at the Poplar Street Pub, a few blocks away from the downtown Mormon temple.
Utah's bar industry has come up with a compromise to the hassle of making patrons fill out forms. Its leaders have proposed scanning driver's licenses before customers enter a club to verify nobody under 21 enters. Some lawmakers would like information about who goes into a bar stored on the scanners so police could use it.
There are other ways in which Utah's liquor laws are getting stronger. Last year, it became the only state to ban the sale of flavored malt beverages from grocery and convenience stores.
Other states, meanwhile, are trying to eliminate much less onerous hassles associated with buying alcohol.
In Colorado and Kansas, grocery stores are fighting for the right to sell full-strength beer. Most of the opposition in those states isn't coming from morality groups, but instead from liquor stores who like having a corner on the market.
A similar effort is occurring in Tennessee, where lawmakers are considering allowing the sale of wine in supermarkets.
In Alabama, a proposal to raise the amount of alcohol allowed in beer from 6 percent alcohol by volume to 13.9 percent is being considered, although some church groups fear it would result in people getting drunker quicker.
Dave Morris, owner of Salt Lake City's Piper Down, an Irish-themed pub, said keeping a database of who enters a bar would be "a public relations nightmare" but he says he's willing to accept scanning IDs if it helps tourism officials lure more visitors to the state, and put more money into the pockets of his customers.
"If they have more money, they can come out more often," he said. "It will all trickle down."