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"Given the report's unambiguous findings, we believe there is no scientific basis for opposition to the deployment of backscatter-based body scanners."
Torrance, CA (PRWEB) May 08, 2012
European Union's Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR), an independent committee of top European scientists, supports previous studies carried out by the UK Government and the French Government in 2011 as well as several reports conducted by the United States Government, that the technology used in Rapiscan's body scanners poses no measurable risk to the public, to operators or to aviation employees.
- SCENIHR report finds that the radiation levels emitted by the Secure 1000 are well below accepted minimum levels
- Scientific research once again confirms the safety and effectiveness of Rapiscan's backscatter technology
- No scientific basis for opposition to backscatter x-ray body scanners
Rapiscan Systems, a leading supplier of security inspection systems, today announced that the latest report published by the European Union's Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR), confirms that the use of backscatter X-ray technology in body scanners is safe to use at security checkpoints. This report was written by an independent committee of top European scientists and supports previous studies carried out by the UK Government and the French Government in 2011, as well as several reports conducted by the United States Government; all these studies have concluded that the technology used in Rapiscan's body scanners poses no measurable risk to the public, to operators or to aviation employees.
The SCENIHR reports states that, with respect to the Secure 1000:
- The doses delivered by backscatter X-ray scanners are too low to cause any observable effects on the human body
- The dose levels are too low to form a scientific basis for making any quantitative risk estimates
The SCENIHR committee report was written by scientific experts from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the University of Oxford, the Paul Scherrer Institute, the University of Sofia, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique, the UK Health Protection Agency, St James Hospital, Dublin and the Helmholtz Zentrum (Munich, Germany).
"The SCENIHR report's conclusions are consistent with the findings of every independent expert that has assessed the actual technology and the evidence: backscatter X-ray scanners are safe for use at airports and all other high-traffic, high-security public venues," said Peter Kant, executive vice president for Rapiscan Systems. "After repeated tests, studies and assessments by independent and federal authorities across the globe, the conclusion remains the same: backscatter X-ray machines are completely safe for people screening. Rapiscan's Secure 1000 is the most effective people screening technology currently available, with both a high detection and low false alarm rate; perhaps most importantly of all, the technology is, once again, completely safe."
Mr. Kant continued, "Given the report's unambiguous findings, we believe there is no scientific basis for opposition to the deployment of backscatter-based body scanners. In fact, considering the demonstrated superiority of backscatter technology in terms of passenger throughput, privacy protection and threat detection, we believe the Secure 1000 is an essential component of a layered and risk-based approach to aviation security."
The Secure 1000 uses advanced backscatter technology and proprietary image processing software to rapidly detect potential threats that may be concealed on individuals at security checkpoints. Following rigorous testing, the Secure 1000 has been approved for use by multiple regulators, including the U.S. Transportation Security Administration and the United Kingdom Department for Transport and complies with U.S. and international health and safety requirements.
For the full report, please visit http://ec.europa.eu/health/scientific_committees/emerging/docs/scenihr_o_036.pdf
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Rapiscan Systems, a division of OSI Systems, Inc. is a leading global supplier of security inspection solutions utilizing X-ray and gamma-ray imaging, and advanced threat identification techniques such as neutron and diffraction analysis. The company's products are sold into four market segments; Baggage and Parcel Inspection, Cargo and Vehicle Inspection, Hold Baggage Screening and People Screening. The company has an installed base globally of more than 70,000 security and inspection systems. The Rapiscan Systems product line is manufactured at four locations and supported by a global support service network. As the world's leading security screening provider, Rapiscan Systems provides state of the art products, solutions and services that meet our customers' most demanding threat detection needs --- while improving their operational efficiency.
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|Parsing C: identifier VS typedef name firstname.lastname@example.com (Igor Baltic) (2005-04-16)
|Re: Parsing C: identifier VS typedef name firstname.lastname@example.com (Chris F Clark) (2005-04-17)
|Re: Parsing C: identifier VS typedef name email@example.com (Ira Baxter) (2005-04-17)
|Re: Parsing C: identifier VS typedef name firstname.lastname@example.com (DrDiettrich) (2005-04-26)
|"Ira Baxter" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
|17 Apr 2005 15:52:23 -0400
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"Igor Baltic" <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote in message
> The problem may seem a bit "old", but it does not really make it easier.
> As my utilite needs to parse a C program, I tried to use some of the most
> well-known grammars, ..
> ...[and I found that many such grammars are] ...
> dependent on whether the lexeme is an IDENTIFIER or a TYPEDEFname.
> To manage [this ... it is ]
> recommended to maintain a symbol table for current scope, ...
> But the grammar is dependent on distinguishing IDENTIFIER and
> TYPEDEF name even in declarations. [But for declarations, the
> lexer hasn't ] stored it in any symbol table yet, [!}
> [There's a variety of answers, all kludges. -John]
There are some very non-kludgey answers.
The one we use avoids the distinction of TYPEDEF name and IDENTIFIER
name, and thus avoids the problem of building the symbol table while
lexing/parsing. This is technically easy if you have a context-free
parser that will produce all possible (e.g., ambiguous) parses. GLR
parsers are ideal for this, and produce a parse DAG instead of a tree
with sharing of subtrees of ambiguity nodes.
Igor didn't say what he wanted to do, so this may be enough. However,
if you still want to know which is which after parsing, you can then
do symbol table construction by a tree walk. We implement this as an
attribute grammar, with a special value ERROR, having the property
that if the ERROR value is produced, the subtree producing is simply
deleted from the parse DAG.
We have implemented full C and C++ parsers + name/type resolvers this
way and use them for production program transformation tasks using
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I love movies, but they're usually about people I have nothing in common with. The new film Sunlight Jr. starring Naomi Watts and Matt Dillon so accurately portrays the difficult yet mundane lives of a working poor family in Florida that I was struck with a mix of discomfort and catharsis. I saw parts of my own life reflected on the screen.
Sunlight Jr. follows a relationship between a weary convenience store clerk, Melissa, and her achingly flawed boyfriend Richie. Living in a weekly rate motel, they struggle to make do on his disability checks and her tenuous job.
Having grown up in a working poor family on Florida's Gulf coast, I found the film chilling -- not because the poverty shown was overly dramatic, but because it was the subtle kind of poverty that permeated my childhood. It was never so bad; it was just bad enough that a living wage and job security would have made a difference.
My mom raised two kids on her own on a secretary's salary, supplemented with intermittent government assistance (never enough) and second jobs. To afford to send us to public school in the only "good" school district in my town, she slept on the couch for six years until I moved out. We ate generic food, we wore generic clothes, and we babysat ourselves. But we had a dedicated biological parent and avoided Department of Children and Families home visits.
In the movie, Melissa earnestly dreams of college and a better life. But she gets pregnant, loses her job, and, along with her beau, gets kicked out of the motel. (My family also spent some time in motel housing, and it's just as ordinary among working poor as it's portrayed in the film).
In the movie, as I experienced growing up, a few fleeting moments of happiness and hope for the future are quickly undone by the unyielding question of "how can we make this work?"
There are few whims. Baby clothes, food, gasoline, rent, sonograms, they all come from the same pot of limited cash and can trigger a volatile argument in an instant. Melissa, after seeing what her life could become, ultimately chooses to have an abortion. True to the film's tone, it happens without drama or suspense, just heartbreaking normality.
In addition to the pressure inside a family so honestly portrayed in the film, there's always "society" to contend with. When the working poor do have a few dollars to burn and we buy something that doesn't fit the expectations of how we "should" be spending, we're called stupid, lazy, greedy and even frauds.
For some people, these "stupid" purchases could be designer work clothes to help them fit in or get an office job. For others it's an iPhone or some other thing-that poor-people-shouldn't-have.
For my family, it was cable. We had a crappy pawn shop TV and a converted wood pallet for a TV stand, but we had cable. We always had it.
My mom's logic, which made perfect sense to me, was that we couldn't go out on the weekends, we couldn't take vacations and we couldn't go on school field trips that cost money. With cable, we could at least unwind, escape and feel like we were normal for a few hours each night. It kept us going when depression lingered. TV and movies were our lifelines, so my love of movies is deeply ingrained.
The film bills its stars as portraying "a young couple at odds with the American dream." For many working poor families, "at odds" is an understatement. It's more like we're under attack. And it's not a fair fight because for many families, working full-time on minimum wage is barely enough to cover rent and food, let alone buy Christmas presents on Black Friday.
Sometimes a movie can be an escape from reality, and sometimes it can awaken us to it.
Go out and watch this film before you hit the mall or the convenience store. Even if you've never had to live paycheck-to-paycheck, you'll feel yourself empathizing with the lead characters, and you'll get a taste for the real life of countless families -- some of whom you might see behind the cash register this holiday season.
And if you're moved to action, please join the movement to raise the minimum wage and to restore dignity to all work. These days, we need all the help we can get.


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LAFAYETTE — Louisiana-Lafayette's baseball practice Wednesday was business as usual.
It should be the same with Thursday's workout, and Friday's official NCAA-scheduled practice. Ragin' Cajuns coach Tony Robichaux has gone to great lengths to insure that his team sticks to a protocol that has worked throughout the season.
But this weekend isn't like any other, and not only because the top-ranked Cajuns will be a first-time host for an NCAA super regional when Ole Miss visits with a trip to the College World Series on the line.
Major League Baseball holds its first-year player draft Thursday through Saturday. And by the time those 40 rounds are completed, the number of Cajuns players' names that are called could reach double figures.
"For every baseball player, when you start when you're 5 years old, that's the big dream, to make it to MLB," Cajuns junior catcher Michael Strentz said. "If we get drafted, it's awesome and it's great. But right now, our main focus is to get to Omaha."
"Someone asked me if I was excited about (Thursday)," junior outfielder Caleb Adams said. "Me and Mike kind of looked at each other, like, what's (Thursday)? And they reminded us that the draft starts (Thursday). That shows you where our focus is right now."
Strentz and Adams join as many as six other Cajuns juniors who could be selected by a major league team in the draft, which has its first two rounds sandwiched around compensatory picks Thursday, Rounds 3-10 Friday, and Rounds 11-40 Saturday. UL-Lafayette also has several in its eight-senior graduating class who could get a chance to play professionally through the draft.
"We're pulling for all of them," Robichaux said. "We want them all to get drafted. I think it's good for our program and for the recruits that are coming in, to see this development and that they can come in here and get better. I'm proud of all of them."
Robichaux is not one of those college coaches who abhors the draft and its propensity to strip away his team's most talented players, even though much of his current junior class will likely have that option available. In addition to Adams and Strentz, that group includes his own son, pitcher Austin Robichaux, and second baseman and Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year Jace Conrad, both of whom have been projected in the top six rounds by at least one baseball-insider listing. Pitcher Carson Baranik and outfielder-pitcher Seth Harrison are other likely junior selections.
"The draft is an inexact science," Tony Robichaux said. "Some guys will be looking for senior drafts, and that's where we're hoping: The (Cody) Bouttes, the (Ryan) Wilsons, the (Matt) Plitts , the (Ryan) Leonards and all those guys get a chance. We're pulling for them with all our might. I can tell you, from my sons, that's their dream.
"But it's according to what teams are looking for. Some teams may be looking for young high school pitchers, some teams don't like pitchers that aren't over 6 feet. When you start adding budgets in now and teams trying to bring bonuses down, you can get 25th or 30th-round guys picked in the third round to save money."
The draft obviously falls at an inopportune time for the 16 teams still involved in the NCAA super regionals, but Austin Robichaux — already tabbed as the Cajuns' opening-game starter for Saturday — said the distraction will be minimal.
"Getting drafted was a goal for all of us at one point," he said. "But before that goal, we had set one to get to Omaha. The draft's the draft, but our main goal is to get there. We just push that aside for now."
Tony Robichaux said that he and his coaches will have one last meeting with the team Thursday to talk about the draft, among other topics.
"Just to make sure we're all on the same page," he said. "Our guys have done a great job this year taking care of their business. The draft is going to be finished by the time we take the field (Saturday), which is good."
Other teams in the super regional round aren't as lucky, since play begins as early as 11 a.m. Friday in Nashville, and the draft will still be in the single-digit rounds. Robichaux anticipates that Saturday's 30 rounds will be completed before the Cajuns and the Rebels have their first pitch at 7 p.m. at M. L. "Tigue" Moore Field.
"We're glad this is happening, because that means we have a good baseball team," Robichaux said. "We had seven guys drafted off the Omaha team (in 2000), and we have that chance again with this team. It's a bittersweet thing. ... You take them and you groom them and you get them ready, and they get really good at what they do. And then somebody buys their services. You have to understand that and be willing to let them go and start the process all over again.
"But we want this trouble. These guys really want to get to Omaha, and the draft is a by-product of that. I don't think you're going to get to Omaha and not have to worry about the draft. When you're one of eight teams left, you're going to be full of draft choices."
"It is a childhood dream," Adams said. "I was in high school writing down what you want to be when you graduate college, and I put professional baseball player. But our dream as a team is to go to Omaha and make a run at the national championship. There's plenty of time to play baseball beyond this, but we only have three weeks to win a national championship."


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Published 2016 (Portuguese translation and afterword by José Miranda Justo).
"Dieses vor allem: fragen Sie sich in der stillsten Stunde ihrer Nacht: 'muss ich schreiben?' Graben Sie in sich nach einer tiefen Antwort. Und wenn diese zustimmed lauten sollte, wenn Sie mit einem starken und einfachen 'Ich muss' dieser ernsten Frage begegnen dürfen, dann bauen Sie Ihr Leben nach dieser Notwendingkeit."
This book has been my favourite book for twenty years or more. When I was attending the Goethe Institute I had access to its library which is huge. I could request any book I wanted, and the services of the Goethe library would provide me with it. It was literally manna from heaven...Consequently, I never had a copy for myself. Until now. This gorgeous edition translated from German into Portuguese (bilingual edition), produced something worth having. It's a fine addition to my German library at home. On top of that the translation is far from serviceable. Apart from this translation, I only had come into contact with the translation done my Vasco Graça Moura which is a different beast altogether.
I think the first time I wrote about Rilke was in 2008. What more can I say that I haven't said before? Apparently still lots remained to be said and written…
Rilke's poems are considered quite difficult to translate from the German, and frankly, I even have trouble understanding them in English and Portuguese. His letters, on the other hand, are quite comprehensible and even inspirational. That's why, when given the chance, I always recommend this book to some of my literate friends. Some of them "get it", some don't. That's Rilke for you. But what shines out of everything he writes, be it in German, English or in Portuguese, rendered by anyone, is the astonishing purity and largeness of his poet's heart, even when he's writing prose, as it's the case here. That's one of the reasons why I love bilingual editions of something that lives particularly close to my heart. I get to follow the text line by line as I think about the choices done by the translator. Besides enjoying the original, I'm able to think about the translation as well, namely about the solutions found by the translator.
What does Rilke have that other poets do not possess? Talent is not enough, and vocabulary is not enough. What about rhyming words and phrases…? What Rilke achieved and what he advises us to seek is a state of Nirvana where certain characteristics synchronize to produce a poem that is at once lyrical and philosophical, understated yet powerful, terse yet tactful, and most importantly, honest and heartfelt.
I've always read the letters as if they were already detached from the persons they were sent to, and now they can be also addressed to each one of us...
One of the most valuable lessons I took away from reading these letters more than 20 years ago, was trying to create a private space to be creative. It goes without saying that in this day and age (it was true 20 years, and it's still true), I've had people trying to pry me out with "accusations" of being anti-social ("bicho do mato" as we say in Portuguese; I'm not sure about the translation, but it means something like "someone who has never seen daylight"). In creative growth I consistently run into the idea that you do that in your twenties and then you simply produce. Not so. I want to produce, and also be creative in other areas, be it in software developing, in poetry, or in prose. I still want to be creative in my old age, if I get to live that far, no matter the area I'm involved in…
And now, as Rilke said, "Und wo ein Großer und Einmaliger spricht, haben die Kleinen zu schweigen." Therefore, I remain silent.
NB: Justo's afterword is also something worth reading. I've read a lot of Rilke, but I'd never thought about his work in those terms. Enlightening... 5 stars for the original, and 5 stars for the translation and afterword.


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OK, so those smartypants over at Akashic Books turned down what I thought was a brilliant idea for a short-story collection: Ventura County Noir. No matter. I can at least content myself with the new Orange County Noir. And I can't think of two better people to focus on Los Angeles' neighbor to the south than this volume's editor, Rap Sheet contributor Gary Phillips, and author T. Jefferson Parker, whose latest novel, Iron River, should already be on everybody's Best of 2010 thrillers list.
In his foreword to this anthology, Parker writes: "I first set foot in Orange County half a century ago. Our new Tustin tract home cost $21,000. The dads wore showcase flattops and skinny neckties ... Now look at it. How that Orange County became the one we see today is a tale of migration and war and race and economics ..."
Phillips approaches this arena as an outsider, somebody who was born in South Central L.A. on the same day that Disneyland opened in Anaheim. "When I was a kid ...," explains Phillips, "what I knew about life behind the Orange County wall was nil. None of my relatives lived there, nor did my folks have friends in the area."
In putting together Orange County Noir, Phillips (who also has another book due out soon: The Underbelly) seems to have pulled out all the stops on his organ, persuading some of the top names in the crime-writing trade (including Dick Lochte, Robert S. Levinson, Robert Ward, and Susan Straight) to contribute original stories that are all dark, and some of which are very funny.
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A Darker Shade of Orange
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I'm waiting for Lake Woebegone Noir.
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12 October 2017
UA joins foreign peers for collaborative effort
University of Arizona will partner National Autonomous University of Mexico and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, two research institutions with similar climates and ambitions.
Author: Callum Cyrus, reporter
University of Arizona (UA) has partnered National Autonomous University of Mexico (Unam) and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Israel to develop joint research and entrepreneurship initiatives.
The partnership will jointly develop projects and applied research while collaborating on tech transfer initiatives and industry relationships.
Much of Arizona lies in arid conditions akin to pockets of Mexico and Israel's Negev Desert, enabling joint research in similar climates. The pact also links UA's Arizona Tech Park to technology schemes operated by Unam and BGU's Advanced Technologies Park.
The tie-up furthers UA's Arizona Global Advantage program, an international networking scheme that aims to encourage high growth business development in regions such as Arizona-Sonora, itself a desert area.
Delegations from UA and Unam visited several BGU departments to launch the joint initiative – Jacobs Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev and Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology.
Bruce Wright, associate vice-president of Techs Park Arizona, said: "This trilateral agreement leverages regional assets and international outposts providing a complementary package of resources to innovators worldwide."
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Energy Secretary Ed Davey has hailed the signing key contracts in the government's smart meter roll out as a "significant milestone".
The scheme to install 53 million electric and gas smart meters by 2020 is aimed at making energy consumption more transparent to households by showing real-time usage.
Four companies have now signed deals, worth more than £2bn over the coming years, to establish and operate the Data and Communications Company (DCC) that will provide the communications infrastructure needed for the roll out.
In his statement to MPs, Davey said: "Smart meters offer a range of intelligent functions. They will provide consumers near real-time information on their energy use in pounds and pence, as well as accurate bills to help them better manage their energy use.
"The roll-out will support investment and growth, offering significant net benefits to the GB economy."
Capita PLC has been awarded a 12-year licence to manage the DCC on behalf of users in a deal worth £175m. The DCC Licensee will be regulated by Ofgem.
CGI IT UK Limited has agreed an eight-year contract with Capita PLC to be the data service provider for smart meters. The £75m contract covers the system which controls the movement of messages to and from smart meters.
In the north of England and Scotland, Arqiva Limited has agreed a 15-year contract worth £625m with Capita to be the communications service provider – covering wide area communications to and from smart meters.
In the rest of the UK, Telefonica UK Limited has agreed a £1.5bn deal to be communications service provider.


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Based on how I feel, what I am seeing on here, what I am hearing on the tv, and what I am reading on other sites... this is going to bring on something historical. Weather its the crash of the US, a revolution, or whatever the case.. The people are pretty much standing together on this one.
P.S. The Dow in now -4
Wanna bet nothing extraordinary will happen and life will go on as usual. It's nearly XMas anyway and people's minds will soon turn onto it.
The earth will continue to spin, a couple more banks will be bought by other ones and many more CEO's will get fat bonuses, people in general will continue to impoverish, but hey, they have credit cards and so they will be happy ...
For something to happen people would need to move away from their screens, no revolution happens at home, well they can always go to the X-Box and kill some more evil aliens, but the world will still not change.
Originally posted by ezziboo
Here's what I'll be doing as my very own "quiet riot:"
I have single-handedly passed a bill in my OWN house (it's a dictatorship, sorry) which mandates the following: from now on, we will not spend money on any @8#damned thing that we don't absolutely NEED. Here's what made it into the bill:
beer (husband insisted this be added...as a benevolent dictator, I agreed)
foot massages (will train husband as concession for beer, so foot massages will be free)
EVERYTHING else currently in the household budget goes out the window...no ifs, ands, or buts.
We're a two-income household; since I'm not gonna be keeping up with the Joneses anymore, I think I just might quit my job (thus lowering income taxes). I hate my job anyway!! I've always felt that I'd be much happier and peaceful as a full-time homemaker, but always felt the need to bring home a lil' bacon to spend on absolutely worthless, disposable crap...not anymore.
If we all stopped spending, you'd better believe Wall Street would feel it, and so would the House, Senate, & President.
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[edit on 3-10-2008 by ezziboo]
Originally posted by RFBurns
reply to post by Kruel
Thats the spirit!!! Stick to your guns when the IRS comes a knockin ok.
Originally posted by RFBurns
Here is the deal folks.
If we really want to put a stop to this bailout BS, then simply do not pay any taxes. It will put a huge dent on their plan and allow you to funnel all that hard earned money into survival skills and supplies.
No matter what the government attempts...in short WE THE PEOPLE truely do have the power to overcome...its just a matter of takiing ACTION.
New slogan for the people...DONT PAY TAXES..DONT PAY TAXES...DONT PAY TAXES!!!!


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Recovery Strategy for the Salish Sucker (Catostomus sp.) in Canada (proposed)
Species at Risk Act
Recovery strategy series
Salish Sucker
- Preface
- Responsible jurisdictions
- Acknowledgments
- Strategic environmental assessment
- Residence
- Executive summary
- Recovery
About the Species at Risk Act Recovery Strategy Series
What is the Species at Risk Act (SARA)?
SARA is the Act developed by the federal government as a key contribution to the common national effort to protect and conserve species at risk in Canada. SARA came into force in 2003 and one of its purposes is "to provide for the recovery of wildlife species that are extirpated, endangered or threatened as a result of human activity."
What is recovery?
In the context of species at risk conservation, recovery is the process by which the decline of an endangered, threatened, or extirpated species is arrested or reversed and threats are removed or reduced to improve the likelihood of the species' persistence in the wild. A species will be considered recovered when its long-term persistence in the wild has been secured.
What is a recovery strategy?
A recovery strategy is a planning document that identifies what needs to be done to arrest or reverse the decline of a species. It sets goals and objectives and identifies the main areas of activities to be undertaken. Detailed planning is done at the action plan stage.
Recovery strategy development is a commitment of all provinces and territories and of three federal agencies -- Environment Canada, Parks Canada Agency, and Fisheries and Oceans Canada -- under the Accord for the Protection of Species at Risk. Sections 37–46 of SARA spell out both the required content and the process for developing recovery strategies published in this series.
Depending on the status of the species and when it was assessed, a recovery strategy has to be developed within one to two years after the species is added to the List of Wildlife Species at Risk. Three to four years is allowed for those species that were automatically listed when SARA came into force.
What's next?
In most cases, one or more action plans will be developed to define and guide implementation of the recovery strategy. Nevertheless, directions set in the recovery strategy are sufficient to begin involving communities, land and water users, and conservationists in recovery implementation.
The series
This series presents the recovery strategies prepared or adopted by the federal government under SARA. New documents will be added regularly as species get listed and as strategies are updated.
To learn more
To learn more about the Species at Risk Act and recovery initiatives, please consult the SARA Public Registry.
Recommended citation:
Additional copies:
Additional copies can be downloaded from the SARA Public Registry.
Cover illustration:
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Également disponible en français sous le titre « Programme de rétablissement pour le meunier de Salish (Catostomus sp.) au Canada [proposition] »
©Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, represented by the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, 2012. All rights reserved.
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Content (excluding the illustrations) may be used without permission, with appropriate credit to the source.
The Salish Sucker is a freshwater fish and is under the responsibility of the federal government. The Species at Risk Act (SARA, Section 37) requires the competent minister to prepare recovery strategies for listed extirpated, endangered or threatened species. The Salish Sucker was listed as endangered under SARA in June 2005. The development of this recovery strategy was co-led by Fisheries and Oceans Canada – Pacific Region and the British Columbia Ministry of Environment, in cooperation and consultation with many individuals, organizations and government agencies, as indicated below. The strategy meets SARA requirements in terms of content and process (Sections 39-41) and the British Columbia Ministry of Environment has reviewed and accepts this document as scientific advice.
Success in the recovery of this species depends on the commitment and cooperation of many different constituencies that will be involved in implementing the directions set out in this strategy and will not be achieved by Fisheries and Oceans Canada or any other party alone. This strategy provides advice to jurisdictions and organizations that may be involved or wish to become involved in the recovery of the species. In the spirit of the National Accord for the Protection of Species at Risk, the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans invites all responsible jurisdictions and Canadians to join Fisheries and Oceans Canada in supporting and implementing this strategy for the benefit of the Salish Sucker and Canadian society as a whole. Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the Province of BC will support implementation of this strategy to the extent possible, given available resources and their overall responsibility for species at risk conservation.
The goals, objectives and recovery approaches identified in the strategy are based on the best existing knowledge and are subject to modifications resulting from new information. The Minister of Fisheries and Oceans will report on progress within five years.
This strategy will be complemented by one or more action plans that will provide details on specific recovery measures to be taken to support conservation of the species. The Minister of Fisheries and Oceans will take steps to ensure that, to the extent possible, Canadians interested in or affected by these measures will be consulted.
Responsible jurisdictions
The responsible jurisdiction for Salish Sucker under the Species at Risk Act is Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the Province of British Columbia cooperated in the development of this recovery strategy. A recovery team was assembled to provide science-based recommendations to government with respect to the recovery of Salish Sucker.
Members of the Recovery Team for Salish Sucker are listed below:
Tom G. Brown, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Karen Calla, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (previous Co-Chair)
Todd Hatfield, Solander Ecological Research (Recovery Team Coordinator)
Don McPhail, University of British Columbia
Mike Pearson, Pearson Ecological (Writer)
John Richardson, University of British Columbia
Jordan Rosenfeld, British Columbia Ministry of Environment (Co-Chair)
Dan Sneep, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (previous Co-Chair)
Dolph Schluter, University of British Columbia
Heather Stalberg, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (Co-Chair)
Marina Stjepovic, Township of Langley
Eric Taylor, University of British Columbia
Paul Wood, University of British Columbia
Financial support for the development of the recovery strategy was provided by the Habitat Conservation Trust Fund and the Province of British Columbia.
Strategic environmental assessment
In accordance with the Cabinet Directive on the Environmental Assessment of Policy Plan and Program Proposals, the purpose of a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is to incorporate environmental considerations into the development of public policies, plans, and program proposals to support environmentally-sound decision making.
Recovery planning is intended to benefit species at risk and biodiversity in general. However, it is recognized that strategies may also inadvertently lead to environmental effects beyond the intended benefits. The planning process based on national guidelines directly incorporates consideration of all environmental effects, with a particular focus on possible impacts on non-target species or habitats.
While this recovery strategy will clearly benefit the environment by promoting the recovery of Salish Sucker, potential effects on other species were also considered. The strategy calls for the protection, creation, and enhancement of deep pool and marsh habitat, which could eliminate some of the riffle habitat of Nooksack Dace, another species listed as Endangered under SARA. The strategy recommends cooperation with local stewardship groups and agency staff on habitat management, and proposes to address potential conflicts with recovery of Nooksack Dace by coordinating recovery activities for both species in watersheds where they coexist through the development of a joint action plan. The recovery strategy also calls for minimizing probability of predator introductions, by documenting their occurrence and educating the public on their impacts, which could provide benefits to other species that could be affected by introduced predators. Further information on potential interactions with other species is presented in the Recovery section of the document, in particular under the headings Broad Strategies to Support Recovery Objectives and Effects on Other Species. Taking these into account, it was concluded that the benefits of this recovery strategy far outweigh any adverse effects that may result.
SARA defines residence as: "a dwelling-place, such as a den, nest or other similar area or place, that is occupied or habitually occupied by one or more individuals during all or part of their life cycles, including breeding, rearing, staging, wintering, feeding or hibernating" [SARA S2 (1)].
As stated in the Recovery potential assessment for the Salish Sucker (Catostomus sp.) in Canada (Fisheries and Oceans Canada, 2009), the concept of residence does not apply to Salish Sucker.
Executive summary
The Salish Sucker (Catostomus sp.) is a small-bodied, fine-scaled fish documented in 11 British Columbia watersheds, all in the Fraser Valley. At least four other populations occur in northwestern Washington State. One of the 11 British Columbia populations (Little Campbell River) is believed to have been extirpated. Salish Sucker populations have been in decline since at least the 1960s in Canada, and probably for longer.
Adults are most abundant in headwater marshes and beaver ponds. Juveniles are found in shallow pools or glides containing cover, but may also use other habitats. Spawning occurs in riffles over fine gravel; diet is composed predominately of insect larvae. Most individuals have small home ranges (mean of 170 m of channel, May - Oct), although some individuals venture kilometres during the spawning period. Within watersheds, distribution is extremely clumped, with a few sites harbouring most of the population. Consequently spatial distribution and longevity of habitat patches, in addition to their size, may be important for long-term persistence of Salish Sucker.
Salish Sucker populations appear to be most vulnerable to acute hypoxia and to habitat loss. These conditions are common throughout the range and result primarily from over-application of fertilizers and manure, drainage, channelization, dredging and infilling activities associated with agriculture and residential land development. Hypoxia is difficult to address in the current regulatory and policy context and is likely the single largest threat.
Although it is poorly known, predation by introduced species is currently considered only a moderate threat, as these species appear to have coexisted with Salish Sucker for a decade in some parts of their range. However, the ubiquity of introduced predators and their documented impacts on other species justifies the ranking of this threat as moderate. Habitat fragmentation is currently a moderate threat to Salish Sucker, but its impacts are poorly understood. Sediment deposition and toxicity (in the form of contaminated sediments) appear to be major threats in some, but not all, watersheds.
Critical habitat for Salish Sucker includes all reaches in streams currently containing populations with more than 50 m of continuous pool and a water depth exceeding 70 cm at summer low flows. As the primary habitat for the majority of the life cycle, with the exception of spawning, all deep pools in such reaches are important features of critical habitat for Salish Sucker. The 50 m threshold was chosen because it is the minimum length of all reaches known to contain moderate or high densities of Salish Sucker (catch per unit effort > 1.8 individual per trapFootnote 1, Pearson, unpubl.). Critical habitat for Salish Sucker includes all aquatic habitat and riparian reserve strips of native vegetation on both banks for the entire length of these reaches. Riparian reserve strips are continuous and extend laterally from the top of bank to a width equal to the widest zone of sensitivity (ZOS) calculated for each of five riparian features, functions and conditions. The ZOS values are calculated using methods consistent with those used under the Fish Protection Act (S.B.C. 1997, c. 21).
The total length of critical habitat identified for Salish Sucker in this recovery strategy is 145.74 km (of 329.1 km of surveyed stream channel). The areas identified as critical habitat are those considered necessary to support the species survival and recovery and to reach the population and distribution objectives for Salish Sucker. Additional habitats that fall outside the definition above will also be identified as critical habitat in subsequent action plans if it is known to provide a critical function as per the description of habitat in SARA.
Under SARA, critical habitat must be legally protected once it is identified. This will be accomplished through a SARA order, which will prohibit the destruction of the identified critical habitat. SARA includes a provision for permitting related to the prohibition against destruction provided specific conditions are met.
Recovery of Salish Sucker populations is both technically and biologically feasible. It will involve the establishment and/or maintenance of sufficient high quality habitat for all life stages in each creek. Required actions will vary, but will generally include water quality improvement and restoration of degraded or destroyed habitat. Management activities will be required in all watersheds.
The goal of recovery is:
To ensure long-term viability of Salish Sucker populations throughout their natural distribution in Canada.
The recovery strategy has three objectives:
- Prevent extirpation of Salish Sucker in each of the 10 watersheds with extant populations by preventing net loss of reproductive potential.
- Reach or exceed each of the following targets by 2020:
- occupation of all instream critical habitats,
- watershed-specific abundance targets for mature individuals,
- one or more source habitats with high density in each watershed.
- Reintroduce Salish Sucker to Little Campbell River, if feasible.
Nine broad strategies have been identified in support of these objectives.
- Reduce incidence of severe hypoxia in instream critical habitats.
- Protect existing habitat, restore lost or degraded habitat and create new habitat.
- Increase the integrity and function of all riparian habitats.
- Encourage stewardship among private landowners, local government and agencies, and the general public.
- Reduce fragmentation of instream and riparian habitats.
- Reduce toxic contamination of instream habitat.
- Reduce sediment entry to instream habitats.
- Reduce impacts of introduced predators.
- Assess feasibility of reintroducing Salish Sucker into the Little Campbell River.
The objectives and strategies are presented in detail in the recovery strategy.
- Footnote 1
Double ended cylindrical funnel traps 100 x 55 cm, 0.5" mesh, baited with dry cat food set for 24 h (see Pearson and Healey 2003).
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Underground saboteurs claimed responsibility today for the firebombing on Tuesday of a mink farm near Astoria, the first arson attack by animal-rights activists in Oregon in years.
"We delivered eight incendiary devices to the lovely folks at Ylipeltos Fur Farm," the arsonists claimed in an anonymous communique.
"It is nice to see that the enslavement, torture, and death of thousands of innocent creatures affords certain people luxuries like boats, nice cars, and various (expensive, no doubt) farm machinery, and we were more than happy to alleviate them of these," they wrote.
The communique, published online by the North American Animal Liberation Press Office, said the arsonists simultaneously attacked the front and rear of the mink farm to leave an impression on those subjugating animals for profit.
Fur Commission USA, an industry group that represents the interests of mink ranchers, decried the arsons and offered a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading to a conviction in that case and several other crimes.
The fires reportedly damaged a building, boat, car, two forklifts and a front-end loader at 92659 Simonsen Loop Road. But Clatsop County Sheriff Tom Bergin said the property owners had gotten rid of their mink after activists broke in and released many of their animals.
"They are an older couple, "Bergin said. "They said, 'We're tired, we're done.' There are not even any mink out there and these people come back."
Animal-rights activists broke into the mink farm and released animals in 2008 and 2009, according to Peter Young, who served two years in federal prison for a string of 1997 mink releases in the Midwest.
Young said he strongly supported Tuesday's attack, which is under investigation by the FBI and U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
"I think that people are aware that releasing mink from a farm can potentially shut farms down," he said. "But using incendiary devices can get the job done much more efficiently."
Young's underground campaign against the fur industry freed 8,000 to 12,000 of the animals in Iowa, South Dakota and Wisconsin during 1997. The activist, who grew up in the Seattle area, was wanted for seven years before his arrest.
A decade ago, Oregon became a national hub for eco-saboteurs after militant animal-rights activists and radical environmentalists joined forces. They sometimes broke into small underground "cells" to torch enterprises they accused of despoiling the natural world.
Many of their crimes were committed under the banner of the Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front, which the FBI classifies as the nation's most prolific domestic terrorist organizations.
Their firebombings subsided in Oregon about eight years ago after crackdowns by task forces of state, local and federal investigators. Their investigations put several people behind bars and made fugitives of others.
Young said he doubted law enforcement pressure put an end to the arsons in Oregon, and he suspected that the saboteurs who carried out Tuesday's attack thought the mink farm was going to reopen.
"People who carry out these actions do their research," he said. "If the mink farm was in fact closed, the activists were almost certainly aware of that fact and chose to strike it anyway."
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In-office and at-home whitening solutions are available to combat the yellowing effect tea, coffee, soda, red wine, and tobacco use, and certain medication have on our teeth. Our team provides our patients many whitening solutions to suit specific dental needs. In-office whitening is a chemically activated whitening treatment that can provide amazing results within an hour. You will leave the appointment with a whiter, younger smile. This process is very safe and performed under dentist supervision.
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What is Consent & Respect Training?
Consent & Respect is an online education program regarding sexual violence and bystander intervention. The course reflects the university's commitment to campus safety and compliance with the federal Violence Against Women Act and the Illinois Preventing Sexual Violence in Higher Education Act.
Consent & Respect is offered through 3rd Millennium Classrooms, an online provider that guarantees confidentiality. While SIU tracks whether or not the course has been completed, students' individual responses to questions within it are completely confidential and are not shared with the university.
Effective Fall 2016, Consent & Respect training is mandated for all students, whether traditional or non-traditional, in on-campus, off-campus, or online programs. Students will be notified of the need to complete the training via their SIU email accounts on an annual basis.
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1. Light up a building or monument blue on April 2 or anytime throughout the month of April.
2. Display the Light It Up Blue logo and announce that it's World Autism Awareness Day & Autism Awareness Month on the school's electronic marquee.
3. Light up the sorority and fraternity houses blue. If changing the lights is too difficult, turn the porch light blue or decorate the house with blue holiday lights.
4. Encourage students, faculty and staff to all wear blue on April 2, or on another designated day in April. Gather together and take a picture.
5. Hang a banner in the student center or a residence hall to let everyone know that it's World Autism Awareness Day.
6. Decorate a well-known statue, monument or mascot on campus with Autism Speaks U banners, gear and blue balloons.
7. Paint designated areas on campus blue and include the words "Light It Up Blue for Autism Speaks."
8. Host a "BLUE" fundraiser, like a blue ice cream social, blue bake sale blue flower sale or blueberry bagel eating contest.
9. Partner with the school's athletic department and have sports teams add Autism Speaks U logo to their uniform or helmets.
10. Work with the campus coffee shop to add custom stickers to coffee sleeves that promote events and Autism Awareness Month.
11. Sell puzzle piece cards for $1 each, have students sign their names and hang them up in the center of campus to raise awareness.
12. Have students Deck out in blue from head to toe or purchase a blue suit for someone to wear while passing out materials.
13. Have students wrap themselves in blue holiday lights to spell out the words "Light It Up Blue."
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For some here, that apparently is too many.
Hanover was the scene of a race riot last weekend that has left town officials defensive, and some residents puzzled, some amazed and others tense about what the rest of the summer might hold.
"This used to be a peaceful town.We never had any problems like this before," said Arnold Etzler, 84, a retired shoe factory worker and 63-year resident. "I just wonder what's next."


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Well I live in New Mexico which by the way is part of the United States. I go to school in Las Vegas City Schools. I live on the romero ranch (i wonder where it got the name? Sarcasm honestly) It's in this small, very small, community with a population of about not even 100 people. It's great to live out here.
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Charles Spurgeon Quotes About WarQuotes about: War
Brethren, do something; do something, do something! While societies and unions make constitutions, let us win souls. I pray you, be men of action all of you. Get to work and quit yourselves like men. Old Suvarov's idea of war is mine: `Forward and strike! No theory! Attack! Form a column! Charge bayonets! Plunge into the center of the enemy! Our one aim is to win souls; and this we are not to talk about, but do in the power of God!'
If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation. Like the old knights in war time, we must sleep with helmet and breastplate buckled on, for the arch-deceiver will seize our first unguarded hour to make us his prey. The Lord keep us watchful in all seasons, and give us a final escape from the jaw of the lion and the paw of the bear.
We are foolish to expect to serve God without opposition: the more zealous we are, the more sure are we to be assailed... Glory be to God, we know the end of the war. The great dragon shall be cast out and for ever destroyed, while Jesus and they who are with him shall receive the crown. Let us sharpen our swords to-night, and pray the Holy Spirit to nerve our arms for the conflict. Never battle so important, never crown so glorious. Every man to his post, ye warriors of the cross, and may the Lord tread Satan under your feet shortly!
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Dallas Holm in Concert: 6 p.m., The River Ministries International, 7615 La. 1 South. (225) 907-4664. riverup.org.
Community Bible Study: 10 a.m., Rock Zion Baptists Church, 1768 Alabama St. Pastor Michael A. Otkins Sr. will facilitate. Call (225) 328-7708.
Baton Rouge
concert: 7 p.m. Stevendale Baptist Church, 16545 Old Hammond Highway. The Proclaimers Quartet will be in concert. A love offering will be taken.
Holy Communion Service: 7 a.m., Israelite Baptist Church, 1841 Thomas H. Delpit Drive. (225) 344-3553 or israelitebc.net.
Revival: 9 a.m., Greater Divine Missionary Baptist Church, 6045 Hooper Road. Pastor Ronald T. Williams of Mount Carmel Baptist Church will speak.
Worship services: 9 a.m., Mount Moriah Family Baptist Church, 15366 Old Hammond Highway.
Lord Supper Worship: 9 a.m., Ravens All Faith Church, 1913 North St. (225) 571-1179.
Worship Services: 9-11 a.m., The New Christland Baptist Church, 5685 Robertson St. (225) 235-5207.
Pastor Installation Ceremony: 10:30 a.m., Sherwood Baptist Church, 1180 S. Flannery Road. Ceremony for the Rev. Craig Nelms, of Denham Springs, led by the Rev. Tommy Middleton, executive director of the Baptist Association of Greater Baton Rouge, and the Rev. Jeff Ginn, senior pastor of Istrouma Baptist Church. sherwoodbc.org.
musical program: 5 p.m., Scotlandville Magnet High School, 9870 Scotland Ave. Performance of "Solidarity With The Saviour Through His Works." Tickets are $10.
Gospel Saturday: 6 p.m., ACTS Outreach Ministries, 6892 Hooper Road. The event will include gospel music and food. (225) 246-0374.
Family & Friends '14: 6 p.m., Higher Ground Outreach Church, 3730 N. Sherwood Forest Drive. The largest family will be honored, and the first 100 people will get a free snowball.
Summer Bible Camp: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Higher Ground Outreach Church, 3730 N. Sherwood Forest Drive. The camp is for children ages 4-12, and will run Monday through Friday, June 2 to Aug. 1. Registration is $45 and includes camp shirt. Cost is $70 per week. Breakfast, lunch and snack will be served daily. Field trips on Fridays. (225) 273-6115.
Vacation Bible School: 5-7 p.m., Berean Seventh-Day Adventist Worship Center, 4555 Fairfields Ave. The program for children ages 3 to 12 is themed "Investigation Station: Galactic Quest-Kids Investigating God's Word." The closing program will be at 5 p.m. June 6. Refreshments will be served each day. Registration is free. Call (225) 355-4046.
Summer Enrichment Program: 8 a.m., Gloryland Baptist Church, 2575 Michelli Drive. The program run June 3 through July 25, and will include reading, cultural and social enrichment activities, music, library visits and field trips. Breakfast, lunch and snack will be provided daily and after-care is available. For children in pre-K through middle school. Registration is $60 and includes a shirt. Special rates are available for parents enrolling two or more children. (225) 356-0577.
Pastoral Testimonial Banquet: 7 p.m., New Jerusalem Baptist Church, 1627 Thomas H Delpit Drive. Banquet honoring the Rev. Van Smith Jr. for 29 years of service along with first lady Leola R. Smith. Guest speaker will be the Rev. Richard Rayborn Jr., pastor of Christian Assembly Full Gospel Church in Gonzales and Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church of White Castle. The Rev. Earnest Scott, pastor of Hartzell-Mount Zion United Methodist Church of Slidell, will serve as toastmaster. Special music will be provided by NJBC Music Ministry, St. Paul Catholic Church Trio and IPC Ensemble. (225) 687-6618.
Hurricane Season Mass: 7 p.m., St. Joseph Cathedral, 412 North St. A special Mass will be said to pray for God's mercy during the hurricane season. Call (225) 387-5928.
Saturday, June 7
Worship service: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Elevate Church of Baton Rouge (Miracle Place Church-Central), 9466 Greenwell Springs Road. "So I Am" worship service.
VBS training session: 10 a.m., The Women of McKowen Baptist Church, 1255 Louise St. Session to teach Bible school instructors how to plan and prepare lessons, tips for recruiting, training, budgeting and safety considerations and ways to teach the program for every age level.
Chronic Illness Support Group: 11 a.m. to noon, St. Margaret's Episcopal Church, 12663 Perkins Road. HopeKeepers of Baton Rouge is a nondenominational support group for anyone affected by chronic pain or illness, mental or physical. (225) 337-1633.
Sunday, June 8
Youth Service: 7 a.m., Little Rising Sun Baptist Church, 1275 S. 16th St. Speaker will be the Rev. Emma Woods.
Revival: 9 a.m., Greater Divine Missionary Baptist Church, 6045 Hooper Road. Guest speaker will be Pastor Ronald T. Williams, of Mount Carmel Baptist Church.
Worship services: 9 a.m., Mount Moriah Family Baptist Church, 15366 Old Hammond Highway.
Worship Services: 9-11 a.m., The New Christland Baptist Church, 5685 Robertson St. (225) 235-5207.
Monday, June 9
Vacation Bible School: 6-7:30 p.m., Jubilee Christian Center, 14595 Florida Blvd. The school, for children ages 5 to 17, will run until June 13. Registration is required. (225) 272-4545. jubileechurch-br.com.
Denham Springs
Friday & Saturday
Fish Fry & Garage Sale: Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, 865 Hatchell Lane. CommUnity Hands of Livingston Parish will hold a fish fry from 5-7 p.m. Friday. Cost is $7 per plate. A garage sale will be held from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday and 7 a.m. to noon on Saturday under the Parish Pavilion. (225) 937-1225.
Greenwell Springs
Monday, June 9
Vacation bible school: 9 a.m. to noon, Fellowship Baptist Church of Central, 14512 Greenwell Springs Road. (225) 261-8903. fbcofcentral.org.
Friday, June 13
SWLA Presents: 6 p.m., Clifton Chenier Center, 220 W. Willow St. A play in celebration of Juneteenth.
Saturday, June 14
Bag Mat Ministry: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Grace Presbyterian Church, 518 Roselawn Blvd. Learn to make sleeping mats for the homeless from recycled plastic shopping bags. firstname.lastname@example.com.
VBS Volunteer Registration: 9 p.m., Asbury United Methodist Church, 101 Live Oak Drive. Sign up to volunteer with Asbury for Weird Animals VBS 2014.
Sunday, June 8
Pastor's appreciation service: 2 p.m., Little Rock Baptist Church, La. 1. Thirteenth year appreciation service for Pastor Willie O. Richard Jr.
Sunday, June 8
Pastoral Appreciation Service: 3 p.m., St. James Church, 10151 Noel Thomas Lane. Service honoring Pastor Elder Christopher Huddleston and first lady Eleanor Huddleston for eight years of service. (225) 683-8228.
St. Francisville
Tribute to Sally James: 2 p.m., Sherobee Baptist Church, 10064 Jones Vaughn Creek Road. The guest speaker will be the Rev. Linda Ward.
Monday, June 9
Vacation Bible School: 6-8 p.m., Magnolia Full Gospel Baptist Church, 7910 U.S 61 N. The theme is "The Jesus Connection — What a Friend."


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The Economist was angry. Rarely have I seen an article as inflammatory as Schumpeter: The three habits ... of highly irritating management gurus. Usually subdued and intellectual, the Economist apparently had had about enough of the non-accountable tomes from consultants like Stephen Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, which provide prescriptions for business success using a combination of the latest management fads and self-help formulas.
Acknowledging that he indeed has management consultant credentials, the Economist nevertheless notes three particularly annoying habits Covey brings to his craft. "The first is presenting stale ideas as breathtaking breakthroughs." An illustration is a recent speech in which Covey proclaimed "capitalism to be in the middle of a paradigm shift from industrial management to knowledge-age management." Ya think?
The second irritating habit is identifying model firms. What's a positive model for one guru in a particular time period might be a negative for a second at a different point in time. Covey notes the outstanding management of General Motor's Saturn division, which is now on its way out of business. Almost comically, Campbell Soup is extolled as a winner in What Really Works, which assessed company performance in 1986-1996, while disparaged as a loser in Big Winners and Big Losers, when an overlapping 1992-2002 time frame was the baseline. "The gurus routinely ignore such basic precautions as providing a control group." They also forget that good (or bad) performance is not timeless. The three habits mentions the rigorous statistical research of Andrew Henderson to distinguish truly great performance from simple good luck. I discussed the driving article behind this splendid work by Henderson and Deloitte Consulting in Random Business Performance. Indeed, the comparative business performance measurement methodology outlined there should be a point of departure for all business performance research.
The third annoying behavior is the touting of numbered lists of facile principals to success – and diagnostic tools to assess, packaged with performance tools to improve. "Consultancies like to tell their clients that the key to success lies in customer relationship management and then sell tools to improve it... But most of these rules are nothing more than wet fingers in the wind."
Perhaps no one has a better handle on the dubious workings of management gurus in the business press than Phil Rosenzweig, author of the insightful, highly-entertaining and critically-important book: The Halo Effect...and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers. In Rozenzweig's analyses, one of the main reasons managers are deceived is because they listen to gurus! Principal among the delusions Rozenzeig articulates is The Halo Effect, wherein company financial performance colors attributions about leadership, culture and values. When a company's doing well, those attributions are positive; when it's not, the perceptions turn ugly. Rozenzweig's chronicle of the rise and fall of Cisco's halo in the business press is nothing short of brilliant. I often think of the halo effect when I listen to ESPN sportscasters rant and rave about professional sports teams, radically changing their management "theories" day to day, a function solely of the latest wins and losses.
The Delusion of Lasting Success could describe most of the major best sellers, including In Search of Excellence, Built to Last and Good to Great. In reality though, the "research findings" that designate the best companies often change drastically over time – as the great become mediocre and laggards improve (see Campbell Soup above). Anyone ever heard of regression to the mean? Finally, The Delusion of Rigorous Research plagues the analyses of most gurus who are plenty quick to over-interpret their data. What is viewed as top performance is often just the tailwind of the market – random good luck. The related Delusion of Connecting the Winning Dots studies performant companies looking for common factors behind their success, with no consideration of less-than-successful or control group firms for comparison. Indeed, the methodologies behind the guru "studies" generally fall far short of acceptable scientific rigor.
Alas, BI practitioners can analyze, critique and debunk the works of popular management gurus till the cows come home, but the demand for expert wisdom grows unabated. The gurus fill a need of business leaders to provide the magic formulas for management. Much as we critique the hokum they often deliver "...their failures only serve to stoke the demand for their services....the very fact than (management) defies easy solutions, leaving managers in a perpetual state of angst, means there will always be demand..."
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Movie Quotes: A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
(as per usual spoilers abound)
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas is the third in the hilarious trilogy about two stoners who end up unintentionally going on wild drug filled adventures. This time it's set during Christmas which means that those classic Christmas features can be incorporated, such as Santa, musicals, claymation and small, servile robots (oh wait, maybe those are just 80s related). Or as I gushed to the director Todd Strauss-Schulson who retweeted me on twitter.
(after jumping on Santa's lap in a mall)
Kumar: "Santa!"
Mall Santa: "Kumar, No"
Mom in Line: "C'mon, is this a joke?"
Kumar: "Hold the fuck on Reba, your son can rub his ass on Santa's cock in a minute"
Mall Santa: "What do you want for Christmas young man?"
Kumar: "That's a really good question. I want a Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine"
Mall Santa: "Done"
Kumar: "and a DeLorean"
Mall Santa: "Yes"
Kumar: "I want the Wu-Tang Clan to get back together"
Mall Santa: "I'll tell the elves"
Kumar: "and by the way this is just for my stockings okay, for my real present…"
Adrian: "…to a party she's throwing in Manhattan, best part of all you're coming with me"
Kumar: "No can do man, I gotta stay here and smoke this week, otherwise I won't get high…"
Todd: "All right, I'll Skype you later, or text you, or both"
Maria: "Now c'mon on fuck a baby into me"
Vanessa: "I'm pregnant"
Kumar: "Pregnant? We, we practiced safe sex. I mean I pulled out and came on your back, maybe a couple of squeaks got by but is that all it takes?"
Vanessa: "Yes, that's all it takes. No wonder you flunked outta med school"
Harold: "You look terrific, did you lose weight or?"
Kumar: "Oh, a gained quite a bit, actually…"
(inside of Harold's house)
Kumar: "Hey, this place is like not shitty"
Harold: "Ah, thank you, the bay window's brand new actually, we just put that in last week, the sconces are new, the sconces are actually brand new"
Kumar: "Yeah I was gonna say it looks like you guys got some awesome sconces" (cringes)
Harold: "Thank you, that's very sweet of you"
Harold: "Maria's dad grew that tree and now it is dead. Koreans killed his mother and now this tree. Christmas is ruined."
Todd: "Freeze, this is a robbery, give me all your friendship…"
Adrian: "So you two own this tree lot?"
Lamar: "Yeah, what a couple of brothers can't sell trees? Only swing from em like monkeys you honkey"
Adrian: "What? No, of course not, you can do both"
Adrian: "…pussy's not like yogurt, it has an expiration date"
Kumar: "Yogurt has an expiration date"
Adrian: "Does it? Damnit, okay, that explains a lot…"
Todd: "You got my baby high!"
Ava: "I got the munchies"
Todd: "Great, now we've got to stop and get some disgusting food for her so she can come down from her trip, fantastic"
Adrian: "…also I told her you work for the White House"
Kumar: "Yeah, like anyone's gonna believe that"
Todd: "…ah, Cocaine! Have you kids never seen VH1's Behind the Music? Do you not know what cocaine can do to the mind of a person as young as you?"
Kumar: "Okay dude, do you feel kinda weird?"
Harold: "Yeah, I do actually. My face is feeling kinda numb.
Kumar: "Fuck, I bet these kids put something in here"
Harold: "Was it drugs? Was it semen?"
Kumar: (gargles drink) It doesn't taste like semen."
Mary: "Sorry, I don't date black guys" (about Kumar)
Kumar: "Uh, excuse me, Miss, I'm not gonna let you rape my friend on Christmas Eve, all right, he's married"
Adrian: "Your coke baby has super powers"
Harold: "Holy shit, dude, you're claymated"
Rosenberg: "Okay don't start with this, all right, just cuz your wife made you convert doesn't mean you're not a Jew. His name is Seth Goldstein for christ sake"
Goldstein: "First of all, don't ever take the lord's name in vain, secondly I was baptized bitch!"
Goldstein: "The second the priest poured that holy water over me all my Jewish neurosis and self hatred just washed right off."
Kumar: "Sounds like you're really enjoying your new religion"
Goldstein: "Dude, it's the balls, these dirty Jew bastards have no idea what they're missing, fishing, hunting, I can tie knots on a sail boat. I've made some terrible investments, doesn't bother me a bit. And guess what? Next week I have an appointment to get uncircumcised. That's right I'm gonna get my schnozzle"
Kumar: "…then I'll head down to the nun's shower room"
Harold: "I didn't know the nuns all showered in the same room"
Kumar: "Of course they do, how do you think they stay so clean?"
Kumar: "…you and I will get the tree, we'll take it back to your place and when Maria's dad comes home and sees this beautiful tree sitting in your living room he'll jizz all over it"
Kumar: "No, dude, I don't understand. Look at you man, you've got a great job, you make good money, you don't beat your wife, what more could a Latino father in law wish for?"
Neil Patrick Harris: "Oh, what did I tell you about using tongue?"
David Burtka: "You said you wanted it to look realistic"
Neil Patrick Harris: "Yeah realistic, not fucking gay as shit. You know the only reason I put up with this homo crap is for the P'Tang"
Neil Patrick Harris: "Fuck Savage, that rock is mine"
Gracie: "Oh my god, I thought you were gay"
Neil Patrick Harris: "I am gay, gay for that pussy"
Neil Patrick Harris: "Morty, Kumar, long time"
Kumar: "Time the fuck out Neal, how the fuck are you still alive?"
Harold: "Yeah, how the fuck are you still alive man?"
Neil Patrick Harris: "What you talkin' bout?"
Harold: "We saw you get shot, remember?"
Neil Patrick Harris: "You have to be more specific"
Kumar: "in that whorehouse"
Harold: "in Texas"
Kumar: "you branded a prostitute"
Harold: "remember?"
Neil Patrick Harris: "oh yeah, now I remember…"
(on heaven)
Neil Patrick Harris: "…the chicks were hot, the music was sick, there were lasers, it was like being famous in the early 90s"
Jesus: "I'm sure you recognize me but I'm Jesus, so"
Neil Patrick Harris: "Jesus?"
Jesus: (points at crucifix necklace) "Jesus Christ, that's me, I'm Jesus Christ"
(or the version that was cut but used for commercials/trailers)
Jesus: "Neil Patrick Harris. Welcome to heaven, I'm Jesus"
Neil Patrick Harris: Jesus?"
Jesus: "Christ, I practically run this place"
Neil Patrick Harris: "Oh, for reals?"
Jesus: "I mean my dad owns it but I'm kinda number 1"
Neil Patrick Harris: "Oh, you're one of those"
Neil Patrick Harris: "Okay, ladies I'm Neil Patrick Harris, I played Private Carl Jenkins in Starship Troopers"
Neil Patrick Harris: "Jesus, what a cockblock"
Kumar: "You're not gay motherfucker!"
Harold: "at all"
Neil Patrick Harris: "…hey Merry Christmas guys, we'll see you in the next one"
Todd: "No, no, no more cocaine"
Ava: (rubbing face) "I need it, I need it"
Kumar: "No, nobody's dying Claus, not on my watch"
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