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Men put a strong value on kissing and snuggling, despite their tough exteriors, says a new study by the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction.
The researchers found that a lot of tender kissing — and not hot-and-heavy lovemaking — will make a man want to stick with his partner. Women, meanwhile, are more likely to stay in a sexually satisfying relationship.
The study also found that rather than wanting to stray after a few years, men get happier the longer a relationship goes on.

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Building young minds and Massachusetts' future
Started in 2010 as a joint initiative of the Department of Early Education and Care (EEC), and the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley, Brain Building in Progress is a statewide campaign to raise public awareness and involvement in young children's healthy development and learning.
Our work is based upon the latest science and research on early childhood development. Our mission is to raise awareness of the critical importance of fostering the cognitive, social and emotional development of young children by emphasizing its future impact on the economic prosperity of everyone in Massachusetts.
The "Brain Building in Progress" campaign promotes the important role everyone can play in building young children's brains. We welcome the business, education, and policy-making communities, as well as members of the media to be part of this crucial venture. By giving a strong start to our youngest citizens, we create a stronger, more prosperous future for all.
A child's brain development in the first five years of life significantly influences his/her ability to learn over a lifetime. Early experiences shape how the brain is built during this time. Strong brains provide children with a strong foundation for future success in school and in life.
Brain building happens when children are exposed to enriching environments with positive stimulation and engaged in back-and-forth interactions with adults. Activities such as reading to children, asking them questions, and engaging them in conversation promote brain building.
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I just love the colors and shabby textures in Amanda's new kit, Sunlight From Heaven! I created this page using bits of the kit and the add-on. This picture of my daughter trying to eat a whole Easter egg has always been a favorite of mine. I created a little scene by extracting my daughter, sitting her in the frame, and scattering some beads and the cracked egg on the floor. The hardest part of this layout was trying to get the shadows to look realistic!
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Join me at Digitals where I am the featured designer for the next 2 weeks! Stop by every day for some pieces of Sunlight from Heaven.
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Go over and "like" my facebook fan page and get this great mini kit free!
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March Wallpaper
Hi, it's Lynn here again with your March wallpaper. This month I used Amanda's Denim Dreams.
What a fantastic boy kit. Not little kid toys, just all boy, but also can be used in so many ways.
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Higgins Receives Merton Society's Louie Award and New York Festivals International Radio Competition's Gold Medal
It was an embarrassment of riches recently for Sacred Heart University's Michael W. Higgins, vice president for Mission and Catholic Identity, when he received two prestigious honors in less than a week – the International Thomas Merton Society's Louie Award for International Contributions and the New York Festivals International Radio Competition's Gold Medal.
The Louis Award, one of three awarded biannually, honors the name that Thomas Merton took for religious purposes – that of Saint Louis de France (King Louis IX). The purpose of the Louis awards is to recognize those involved in research, scholarship and administration related to Thomas Merton, Higgins said. The awards are presented at the General Meeting of the Society.
Higgins was on his home turf when the award was announced as the Thirteenth General Meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society took place at Sacred Heart University June 12-16. The other two winners were Anne McCormick, a distinguished New York-based editor and publisher, for her publications and noted artist Donna Kristoff for her work with the Society.
Higgins said he was "surprised" to receive the award. He has published extensively on Merton, including writing the award-winning book, Heretic Blood: The Spiritual Geography of Thomas Merton, and co-editing Thomas Merton: Pilgrim in Process. He has also written dozens of articles and columns, produced documentaries and organized conferences.
"It was very gratifying, because you have a personal sense that people appreciate the work you have done, which is affirming. This year was the icing on the cake, because we were the host of the conference and celebrating Sacred Heart's 50th anniversary. I am happy to share the Louie with the dedicated Sacred Heart team that put the conference together," he said.
Higgins was also elected vice president of the Society and will be working on commemorating the 100th anniversary of Thomas Merton's birth, which will be celebrated at the Fourteenth General Meeting of the Society in Louisville, Ky., in two years.
Higgins was equally gratified to learn that his radio series, Genius Born of Anguish: The Life and Legacy of Henri Nouwen, was the Gold Medal winner for the World's Best Radio Programs in the Documentary/Religious Program category. The series was produced by Bernie Lucht and Kevin Burns and written and presented by Higgins. It aired earlier this year on CBC Radio 1 and Sirius Satellite Channel 159. It can be heard at www.cbc.ca.
"This is a wonderful validation of the documentary approach to religious faith that understands it as constitutive of human meaning," Higgins said. "So often the efforts to explore the religious sensibility are reduced to creedal, institutional and authority-specific issues. Genius Born of Anguish, by contrast, portrays the personal and existential aching into holiness of a complex and compelling figure more attuned to the tortured genius of a van Gogh and Kierkegaard than a conventional believer. We are honored by this prestigious recognition."


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Chief Scientist Ian Chubb has launched new guidelines for Australian research investment.
The National Research Investment Plan, released yesterday, sets out a whole-of-government approach to the way research is funded and carried out in Australia.
The strategy is designed to replace one-off policy decisions from the government regarding the research sector, and provide guidance on investment from 2013-16.
Professor Chubb said it would help prioritise which research was most important for the nation.
"We don't have enough money to do everything," he said.
"If as a consequence we have to recut our cloth, we have to do it after careful consideration and not just respond to whatever is the flavour of that moment."
He said the most pressing concerns for Australian researchers were responding to a changing planet and the challenges of the Asian Century.
"If we're going to be looking after ourselves as well as making a contribution to the future of humanity, we need to be in there right now seeking solutions to some of these challenges."
The plan identifies 11 "actions" that need to be implemented to improve investment in research. These include making careers in research more attractive and easier to pursue.
"The option of a research career that was viable for people of my generation is much harder to get for people of this generation," he said.
"Our education system prepares people for research careers but it prepares many more people than we have careers for as they graduate. So a lot of them have to do multiple post doctoral fellowships before they have a chance of securing a more permanent position."
"The teaching and research career that was there for people of my generation is much harder to get for people of this generation.
"We have to make sure we don't waste talent in this country. It is too precious to lose"
The plan also tackles Australia's unwieldy grant process, pledging to make applications more efficient and freeing up more time for conducting research.
Nobel prize-winning physicist Brian Schmidt recently criticised the current process, saying scientists had to spend 30-50% of their time applying for or reviewing grant applications instead of doing world-class research. His concerns have received strong support from Shadow Minister for Finance Andrew Robb.
Professor Chubb said such criticisms were well-founded.
"Brian is correct in his assumptions, what he said was accurate, and it's good that he said it, but it's not new."
"It's an issue that's been growing with time, rather than suddenly appearing, but it is certainly time to do something about it."
"There ought to be a simpler way of supporting our best people for longer, leaving more of the system focusing attention on young and emerging researchers."
"They need support to begin a career that is not so dependent on a supervisor getting a research grant every three years or so," he said.
The plan will quell consternation among the higher education sector about the end of the $542 million National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), which ran out of funding earlier this year.
Australia's peak body for higher education, Universities Australia, has welcomed the new plan, but warned it needs proper funding, or the jobs required won't exist.
"The strategy is likely to be strongly supported, as it is a good strategy, but the obvious question is: how will it be funded?" CEO Belinda Robinson said.
"The absence of a replacement program for NCRIS is of great concern and has the potential to leave hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of research facilities stranded, hundreds of our best and brightest researchers without jobs and the abandonment of very substantial investments in world-class research facilities, networks and infrastructure."
"Like all good investments, generating the best returns means careful planning and stable management, including funding for the indirect costs of research."
More detail, including specific research priorities and objectives, will be released in April next year.


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An introduction to the use of descriptive and inferential statistics and design in behavioral research. Weekly laboratory work in computerized data analysis. Required of majors no later than the junior year, and preferably by the sophomore year.
Professor Lovett specializes in cognitive development. She teaches courses in child development, language development, and statistics. Her research interests are children's conception of probability and randomness and their ability to distinguish between the mental processes of comprehension and memory.
Pillow, B.H. & Lovett, S.B. (1998). "He forgot": Young children's use of cognitive explanations for another person's mistakes. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly.
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Lovett, S.B. & Pillow, B.H. (1995). Development of the ability to distinguish between comprehension and memory: Evidence from strategy-selection tasks. Journal of Educational Psychology, 87, 523-526.
Lovett, S.B. & Flavell, J.H. (1990). Understanding and remembering: Children's knowledge about the differential effects of strategy and task variables on comprehension and memorization, Child Development, 61, 1842-1858.
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According to numbers published by Royal Pingdom in 2009, the estimated number of emails sent per day was around 247 billion. Unfortunately 80% of those are thought to be spam and viruses. With junk and spam filters working overtime it's no wonder people are finding alternatives to email when communicating with their friends, family and colleagues. Over the past decade widespread adoption of Instant Messaging and SMS has opened up alternative digital channels for people to send and receive quick messages and data.
More recently social media platforms have provided yet another viable alternative to email. Over 4 billion messages are sent through Facebook every day by 350,000 million of its 600,000 users. Twitter recently topped over 50 million tweets sent per day, which certainly must include thousands of Direct Messages between users.
In a recent poll of 1000 members of our AskingCanadians™ panel we asked, "Which of the following applications do you most often use instead of email?"
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It came as no surprise that we saw that Facebook at 27.6 percent was the most popular alternative to email. SMS Texting was next at 16.2 percent, Instant Messaging was third with 15.9 percent and well behind at 1 percent was Twitter. When we broke the results out by gender it became evident that woman are using Facebook much more than men as an alternative to email by nearly 20%. It also appears that more men have been slower to abandon email (43.1 percent hanging on vs 34.1 percent of women) and instant messaging (18.7 percent usage vs 11.7 percent of women).
Smartphone users accessing their social media platforms has increased by more than 8.3 percent over the previous year and now stands at 30.8%. In fact access to Facebook via mobile browsers grew 112 percent and Twitter grew by a staggering 347 percent. Based on this increased usage of mobile to access and send messages through social media platforms, we can surely expect to see email usage shrink even more in the coming years.


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I am reading Niall Ferguson's latest, Civilization, for Al Jazeera at the moment. Thought I would flag up something interesting along the way.
In chapter 4 Ferguson discusses the relationship between imperialism and science and includes some fairly sensible remarks on the origins of Francis Galton's pseudo-science of eugenics. He goes on to emphasize the widespread acceptance of loony claims about human evolution, racial hierarchy and the rest:
The crucial point to note is that a hundred years ago work like Galton's was at the cutting edge of science. Racism was not some backward-looking reactionary ideology; the scientifically uneducated embraced it as enthusiastically as people today accept the theory of man-made global warming.
(Niall Ferguson Civilization: The West and the Rest, London, 2011, p.177)
Ferguson seems to be suggesting that the science of climate change is a piece of appealing crankery that will one day go the same way as eugenics.
There are plenty of pseudo-scientific ideas out there that the scientifically uneducated do embrace, ideas about efficient markets, say – something that is crying out for Ferguson's mordant revisionism surely. And modern medicine – one of Ferguson's killer apps – also has its fair share of well-funded myths.
At any rate, perhaps the author should make it clear that he doesn't think that the scientists of International Panel on Climate Change are the modern day equivalents of Francis Galton.
After all, those who are concerned about the possibility of catastrophic climate change aren't exactly like the enthusiastic sterilizers, lobotomists and mass murders who went along with Galton's brand of batshittery.
UPDATE, 24.4.11: I've finished the book now and Ferguson later comes round to the idea that there might be something to the whole global warming thing. So his decision to draw parallels between eugenics and climate science seems all the more strange.


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Nicene and Ante-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XIV:Early Church Fathers Index Previous Next
The Canons of the Council in Trullo; Often Called The Quinisext Council.: Canon XCVI
Canon XCVI.
Those who by baptism have put on Christ have professed that they will copy his manner of life which he led in the flesh. Those therefore who adorn and arrange their hair to the detriment of those who see them, that is by cunningly devised intertwinings, and by this means put a bait in the way of unstable souls, we take in hand to cure paternally with a suitable punishment: training them and teaching them to live soberly, in order that having laid aside the deceit and vanity of material things, they may give their minds continually to a life which is blessed and free from mischief, and have their conversation in fear, pure, [and holy 386 ]; and thus come as near as possible to God through their purity of life; and adorn the inner man rather than the outer, and that with virtues, and good and blameless manners, so that they leave in themselves no remains of the left-handedness of the adversary. But if any shall act contrary to the present canon let him be cut off.
Ancient Epitome of Canon XCVI.
Whoever twist up their hair into artistic plaits for the destruction of the beholders are to be cut off.
For the intricate manner of dressing the hair used in the East, and for a description of the golden dye, see the scholion of Zonaras. Van Espen remarks that the curious care for somebody elses hair in the form of wigs, so prevalent with many laymen and ecclesiastics of his day, is the same vice condemned by the canon in another shape. 387
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It is curious to note that so great was the care of the clergy for their wigs that the very shape of the vestments was changed so as not to disturb them, and the surplices were slit all the way down the front, as they continue in some places even down to our own days, after the original cause had long passed away.
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California Adult Education Leadership InstitutePosted on 02/07/2014
The California Adult Literacy Professional Development Project (CALPRO) in conjunction with the California Department of Education (CDE) is seeking nominations and applications for the 2014 California Adult Education Leadership Institute (the Institute). CALPRO is seeking aspiring and new administrators (defined as three or fewer years) for this FREE Institute. For the 2014 year up to 20 nominations for participation in the Institute are being accepted.
Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Title II funded programs are invited to apply for the 2014 California Adult Education Leadership Institute and join the ranks of the more than 600 California adult education administrators who have participated in this program since its inception in 1985. Institute participants have numerous opportunities for networking with experienced and new adult education administrators. The Institute covers topics and skills that new and aspiring adult education administrators need to perform their jobs effectively including:
- Setting the Context for Adult Education Tomorrow,
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- Instructional Leadership.
The Institute will be held over a total of five days. Following are the scheduled dates:
- March 27–28, 2014–the two–day spring session, to be held in Sacramento, California; and
- June 9–11, 2014–the three–day summer session, to be held in Sacramento, California.
Completed applications must be received in the CALPRO office via mail or fax by February 19, 2014. CALPRO will notify selected participants and their nominators by February 28, 2014.
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Islam and Biological Futures: Ethics, Genders and Technology
Anees, Munawar Ahmad
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London, England: Mansell; Distributed in the U.S. by: Herndon, VA: Books International, 1989. 286 p.
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Abortion; Biology; Biomedical Technologies; Biotechnology; Circumcision; Contraception; Embryonic Development; Ethics; Females; Fetal Development; Genetic Intervention; Genitalia; Infertility; Islamic Ethics; Koran; Males; Methods; Muslim Religious Scholars; Muslim World; Personhood; Reproductive Technologies; Sex Determination; Sex Factors; Sex Preselection; Sexuality; Social Dominance; Sociobiology; Technology; Theology; Religious Ethics; Philosophy of Biology; Science, Technology, and Society; Sexuality / Gender; Reproduction / Reproductive Technologies;
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I'm trying to configure a DAO structure in my application so I created a generic Dao interface:
I implemented the Specific Dao for an entity:
Then I created a specific Dao implementation for JPA:
And a the end my specific implementation for JPA DAO for Role entity:
So I created a Junit test to test the application that contains an autowired field:
But when I launch the application I get an error:
The strange thing is that if I implement all the methods in the JPADaoRole class everything works perfectly and the field can be autowired. I think the problem is caused by the Dao structure I'm using... any help on how to solve this problem?
Thanks in advance for your help.
I'm trying to configure a DAO structure in my application so I created a generic Dao interface:
public interface Dao<E, K> { public void persist(E entity); public void remove(E entity); public E findById(K id); }
public interface DaoRole extends Dao<Role, Integer>{ //some other specific DAO method for Role entity }
public abstract class JpaDao <E, K> implements Dao<E, K> { protected Class<E> entityClass; @PersistenceContext protected EntityManager entityManager; public JpaDao() { ParameterizedType genericSuperclass = (ParameterizedType) getClass().getGenericSuperclass(); this.entityClass = (Class<E>) genericSuperclass.getActualTypeArguments()[0]; } @Transactional public void persist(E entity) { entityManager.persist(entity); } public void remove(E entity) { entityManager.remove(entity); } public E findById(K id) { return entityManager.find(entityClass, id); } }
@Repository public class JpaDaoRole extends JpaDao<Role, Integer> implements DaoRole { //implementation of the methos in DaoRole }
@Autowired public JpaDaoRole dr;
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No matching bean of type [com.windy.spring.JpaDaoRole] found for dependency: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this dependency. Dependency annotations: {@org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired(required=true)}
Thanks in advance for your help.


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Where The Sidewalk Ends
As Richard Nixon, Bob Halderman and every other politician caught in the wake of the Watergate break-in can tell you, it's often not the original crime that will do you in but rather the cover-up. It's a lesson that Mark Dixon, the cop at the heart of Where The Sidewalk Ends would have done well to have learned.
The film opens in a police precinct where the cop corps is gathered to celebrate the promotion of Lt Thomas. He is a colleague of Mark's who joined the force at the same time. However, while Thomas is racing up the institutional ladder Mark is still on the beat riding a patrol car. Worse yet, he has such a hot temper and a reputation for roughing up criminals, the first thing the district commander does after his friend's promotion is to threaten Dixon with a demotion back into uniform.
Not that he takes the slightest bit of notice. There is this local gangster by the name of Tommy Scalise, you see. He's arrogant and seemingly untouchable. Mark is driven by an almost monomaniacal desire to take him down. When word gets to him that a dead body has turned up at one of Scalise's floating crap games Mark gets himself to the crime scene in double quick time. True to form he assaults the gang boss then picks up the trail of the man in the frame for the killing. When Dixon finds him he once again lets loose with his fists, only this time the recipient ends up dead.
It's at this point he chooses the Watergate path. Rather than reporting the (accidental) death to his superiors, he cleans the crime scene, dumps the body in the river and arranges a trail that will implicate the gangster boss. For the rest of the film Mark is beset on all sides by the criminals he is trying to frame, his police colleagues, the dead man's widow and his own conscience. Which will get to him first?
Director Otto Preminger dipped his toe into the Noir genre a couple of times, with this effort, the psycho drama Whirlpool and the supreme Fallen Angel but his career demonstrates he was more at home with courtroom procedurals and political backroom dealings. There are certainly elements of these tropes in his crime pictures and they make this film all the better for it. One sensational scene takes place in the cramped basement apartment of the victim's neighbour. She saw him leave his place at a time when the police chief thinks he was already dead. Convinced she is mistaken he makes one of his men play act the departure wearing the dead man's hat and coat. With a terrifying irony it's Mark who is forced to don the disguise and reenact his own criminal footsteps.
I'm not sure Where The Sidewalk Ends is strictly a noir. There is no femme fatale for a start, and while the protagonist is abstractly on the run from his crimes he is under the protection of his detective's badge, which remains adamantine right up until the closing credits. However, the intrigue, the ticking clocks and the high contrast lighting (shot on location in Manhattan, those doorways look beautiful) all go a long way to please fans of the genre.
I'm delighted to offer this review as part of the Film Noir Blogathon hosted by The Midnight Drive-In.
Where The Sidewalk Ends directed by Otto Preminger (1950)
In Short
A vengeful police detective on the trail of a gangster boss kills one of his men by misktake. He covers up the crime and his life starts to spin out of control from there.
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Crushable Quotable: True Blood's Alexander Skarsgård Explains Why Swedes Have So Much Sex
Our beloved A-Skars recently sat down with Swedish filmmaker Jonas Åkerlund to do a tag team interview with Out Magazine. Over the course of the interview, they discussed many interesting facts about their icy homeland, but the most delightful part came at the end, when they explained why Swedes have such a lax attitude towards sexuality:
Skarsgård: Also, I think part of the reason why there are so many musicians coming out of Sweden is you're encouraged to play an instrument, or to sing and be creative, from a very early age, and it's free. It's a combination of a good school system and the long, dark winters. Because that means people sit in their garages and play music for five months because it's too cold and dark to be outside.
Åkerlund: That's the boning season. [Laughter] And then it's spring, and that's also boning season. And summer's the best boning season.
Skarsgård: And that's also why we're so liberal and so cool with our sexuality — because we fuck a lot [laughter].
Åkerlund: How much time can you spend playing the drums?
Skarsgård: When you're bored, just have sex.
I feel like there are lots of people out there who would not at all mind having boredom sex with A-Skars, during the boning season or not. I'd also like to take a second to appreciate the fact that Out Magazine seems to have similar taste in men to us here at Crushable. Congrats on your excellent taste, Out.
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"I'm an exhibitionist," says Contessa Rose, whose first XXX video was for SCORELAND. "Anything that involves the outdoors or groups of people or even one guy watching me turns me on. Having real sex with a guy in front of a camera and knowing that lots of people will be watching is an even hotter fantasy come true. It's way different than having sex in private at home. It's difficult to explain in words. The energy is so different, more naughty and forbidden. Before I did it, I was thinking and fantasizing about it. Also, the idea that people are watching my every move is very exciting." Contessa Rose was one of the stars of the DVD Boob Science. During a break in the filming, Contessa, an accomplished belly dancer, showed off her skills and gave co-star Eva Notty a lesson in the erotic, ancient art. In Boob Science, Contessa has an asshole for a boyfriend.


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Zheng Enchong is a self-taught lawyer and a dogged human rights activist. In many countries, he would be considered a gadfly. But in China, during this Olympic year, he is treated like a threat to national security.
One police surveillance camera captures on tape whoever enters or leaves his Shanghai apartment. Another monitors whoever presses the elevator button. A third records people in the building's elevator. Lest the cameras prove unreliable, plainclothes police officers lounge in one corner of Zheng's landing throughout the day, smoking, sipping tea and playing cards.
Often, Zheng said, they prevent him from leaving his building. When he tried in February to go out to buy dumplings, the guards beat him up. In recent months, he said, they have been allowing him to attend church services most Sunday mornings. But sometimes not. He never knows exactly why. 'That's the way things are for me,' he said, smiling haplessly as if embarrassed by his fate. 'It's been going on for the last two years.'
As Beijing prepares to host the Olympic Games in August, the grinding controls imposed by the Chinese government on Zheng and other civil rights activists over the last decade are coming under growing scrutiny abroad. China's security forces have extensive experience and little legal restriction in suppressing dissent.
But domestic challenges to Communist rule are playing out today within a rising international debate over what place China's human rights record should have in the Olympics. Beijing insists that the Games should have nothing to do with politics. Foreign activists, however, argue that the desire to celebrate athletic achievement should not be a reason for the world to ignore the dark side of Chinese policies.
But while much focus has been on China's record in Tibet, little mention is being made of the daily challenges - from monitoring to arrest - risked by Zheng and any of China's 1.3 billion residents if they question the party line.
Zheng, a 57-year-old native of Shanghai, first encountered trouble during the Cultural Revolution at the age of 17. He was sent to far northern Heilongjiang province, just south of what was then the Soviet Union, interrupting his secondary school studies.
When he arrived back in Shanghai six years later, he had no diploma and no place to live. Zheng quickly caught up with his studies, however, and entered Fudan University to study economic administration. Before the Eighties were out, he had also taught himself law and qualified for a licence to practise. Sensitised by his past, he started defending Shanghai families expelled from their homes to make way for the explosive development that would turn the city into China's largest, richest and most modern. 'Why did I worry about those people who lost their homes?' Zheng asked, sitting in his living room in front of a wall full of legal manuals and case files. 'Because I had the same experience.'
Feng Zhenghu, a friend and fellow activist, said Zheng started out like any other lawyer, but began to see his clients' problems as the result of government corruption and misconduct. As a result, Feng said in an interview, Zheng gravitated increasingly towards human rights cases and confrontation with Shanghai authorities.
His tactic was to use the letter of Chinese law, which offers broad guarantees in theory, to harass city officials who were seeking to plough ahead with their development deals. By asserting that the deals were often driven by officials' desire for self-enrichment, Zheng became known as an adversary up and down the Shanghai government and party bureaucracy.
'In such cases, it's their own interests they are protecting,' Feng said. 'Why are they so concerned? It's just speaking out and writing articles, right? Well, it's because people respond to these ideas. They want change. They can produce a lot of pressure on the government.'
Zheng converted to Christianity along the way and started attending services at a Wesleyan church about a 15-minute walk from his home. His wife, Jiang Meili, also became a member. Their faith, Zheng said, has given them values that inform his legal activism.
In recent years, several dozen lawyers have made it their business to use Chinese law to defend people against the government. Like Zheng, a number have suffered retaliation.
One, Li Heping, was kidnapped and beaten in September. His car was recently rammed by a police vehicle as he took his son to school. Another, Teng Biao, was kidnapped for about 40 hours last month, presumably because of his friendship with Hu Jia, the internet essayist who was sentenced on 3 April to three and a half years in prison. Gao Zhisheng, a lawyer who became famous defending practitioners of the spiritual movement Falun Gong, has been under house arrest for months.
In defending homeless families caught up in land confiscation, Zheng got into trouble by suggesting publicly that corruption had infected senior officials in the Shanghai leadership.
He specifically pointed a finger at Huang Ju, a former mayor who rose to the Politburo's elite Standing Committee; Chen Liangyu, the Shanghai party secretary; and two sons of Jiang Zemin, the national party leader and President before Hu Jintao. 'Corruption is a large-scale problem in China,' Zheng said. 'But the biggest problem of all is corruption in land seizures. So that's why they're always after me.'
The Shanghai authorities acted first to invalidate Zheng's law licence. Undeterred, he kept taking cases. Then came the criminal prosecution. Zheng had been given a New China News Agency dispatch describing the Shanghai land disputes. Unknown to him, he said, it was an 'internal' article, distributed only to officials above a certain level. He gave the dispatch to local reporters for the BBC and Agence France-Presse and faxed a copy to a US-based human rights organisation.
For that, he was convicted of revealing state secrets and sentenced to three years in prison. After serving his time, he was released in 2006. That, he said, was when the surveillance cameras were installed and plainclothes police from the local Public Security Bureau were stationed on the landing.
The Zhabei District Public Security Bureau, queried by telephone, said it knew nothing about the team monitoring Zheng. 'Don't disturb us,' a woman said before hanging up. An official at the city Public Security Bureau's information office said he would investigate and call back, but did not.
Zheng also has been unable to return to work because of the restrictions, which include disabling his land line and mobile phones. He said he relies on his wife's pension and contributions from sympathetic lawyers in Beijing and the China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group in Hong Kong.
Police cited Zheng as a suspect because his wife's younger brother has been accused of evading taxes on an adjacent apartment, Feng said. He has repeatedly been called in to testify. 'But the more they try to pressure him, the more he sticks his neck out,' Feng said, smiling.
In what was interpreted as a gesture of US government support, Zheng's daughter, Zheng Zhaojia, 22, was granted a US visa last year and has gone to the United States to study. 'We are dismayed by the restrictions on Mr Zheng's freedoms, including his inability to leave his residence and meet with other people,' the US Consulate here said in a statement.
Long after Zheng's accusations irritated officials, party secretary Chen was fired and tried for massive corruption; he was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment on Friday. Huang Ju died of cancer last year, but his secretary, Wang Weigong, was taken into custody on charges of corruption in the same case. The Shanghai government, however, still appears to be concerned with Zheng. A pair of civilian officials visited him on Wednesday last week, he said, and urged him not to post anything on the internet about the troubles in Tibet because of the 'sensitive situation'. On Friday, the plainclothes police squad upbraided him for trying to leave for the evening services at the church down the street.
'Why are you trying to surprise us?' he quoted them as saying, suggesting that they had orders that the Sunday morning leave was all he was going to get.
The rights champion
Yang Chunlin
Jailed for five years for subversion
An unemployed former factory worker from Heilongjiang province, Yang Chunlin, who was jailed for five years for subversion, was accused of accepting money from foreign organisations, writing critical articles and organising a petition for farmers who had lost their land to developers. The petition said: 'We don't want the Olympics, we want human rights.' His sister, Yang Chunping, said: 'He might have criticised the party and some officials, but all he did is improve the development of democracy. What he said is based on freedom of speech.'
The husband and wife activists
Hu Jia and Zeng Jinyan
Jailed for subversion and under house arrest respectively
Internet essayist Hu Jia, 34, has received much international attention since his jailing, with critics of China alleging that his sentence is part of a crackdown to silence dissent before the Olympics. Hu Jia was jailed for posting articles on overseas websites, including one criticising China for breaking its promise to improve human rights ahead of the Olympics, and for interviews he gave to foreign journalists. Although Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has denied a crackdown on dissidents, the cases of Hu and Yang Chunlin - jailed for five years - have drawn condemnation. Hu first rose to prominence as an Aids campaigner, later fighting for democratic rights, religious freedom and self-determination for Tibet.
His wife, Zeng Jinyan, who has been under house arrest since he was seized in December, is a prominent activist in her own right and a prolific internet blogger, documenting a wide range of rights violations in China and the government's attempt to whitewash them.


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Luscious marshmallow pink and Granny Smith green, delicious typography and finger licking cool characters are the ingredients of the shared show called 'Bubblegum Poetry'. Toss those ice skates aside and be warmed by the hot fluorescent rainbow cocoa that is called the work of art pals Leendert Masselink and The Sauerkids (Mark Moget & Taco Sipma). They share the walls of the Amsterdam based Koch Bos Gallery with their bright coloured paintings and drawings.
Poetry indeed, so get on your feet -don't take it slow- go see this show!
Bubblegum Poetry runs untill Januari 24, 2009. For details check: www.kochxbos.nl (thanks for the photo's E & H!)


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Tokyo 2020: 30,000 glowing lanterns fan Olympic Fever for the bid and London 2012
LAURA WALDEN / Sports Features Communications
July 17 – Tokyo Bay was ablaze with Olympic spirit hopes as 30,000 lanterns showed the city's support for the 2020 summer Games bid campaign.
The annual Lantern by the Bay Festival took place at Odaiba Marine Park which is the proposed site for the triathlon and marathon swimming competitions in the bid plan. The outline of the Olympic rings rallied the support in the city and was symbolic of the "Japanese people's passion for promoting sport and their desire to host Games of excellence, excitement and respect" said the bid in a statement.
A lantern lighting ceremony was held led by Japanese Olympic swimming champion Ai Shibata, the Athens 2004 women's 800-metre freestyle gold medallist, bringing the rings to life on the beach.
Tokyo hopes to host a global festival Games dedicated to sport, culture and world peace. The bid is also working as a catalyst to raise the spirits of the earthquake hit areas and the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) has been endeavoring with extensive sports programs in these areas.
With the start of the Olympic Games in London in just about 2 weeks the lantern display helped to fan the Olympic fever as the nation gets ready to cheer on the team.
Tokyo is competing against Istanbul and Madrid to host the 2020 summer Olympics. The final vote will take place in Buenos Aires on September 7th of 2013.
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Abstract: In a recent study (Koutsoyiannis et al., On the credibility of climate predictions, Hydrological Sciences Journal, 53 (4), 671–684, 2008), the credibility of climate predictions was assessed based on comparisons with long series of observations. Read more
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Abstract: We compare the output of various climate models to temperature and precipitation observations at 55 points around the globe. We also spatially aggregate model output and observations over the contiguous USA using data from 70 stations, and we perform comparison at several temporal scales, including a climatic (30-year) scale. Read more


text: With this assignment, I took 2 unrelated images and combined them using a superimpose app. I used a picture of Kim Kardashian's face and I put it in place of a baby's crying face. I had to put the background up and then take the second picture, cut it out, and put it in place.


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AS Dahir, a Somali driver, approached a checkpoint manned by the United States Marines and the French Foreign Legion, his machine gun lay on the floor of the back seat.
In the first few days after the Western troops arrived, he had left the gun at home. Now, however, the reemergence of such weapons in the hands of Somalis here who fear armed robbery, highlights a dilemma facing the United Nations military operation: Can the problem of armed robbery of food, which created a crisis of mass starvation and the need for UN troops, be solved if no attempt is made to confiscate weapons?
US military officials here say they will seize only those weapons that pose "a direct threat" to their troops. They say their mission is limited to protecting food distribution, not policing or achieving a political settlement.
But Somalis and Western relief officials have joined in saying that this approach is not enough. They point out that most gunmen have fled the Marines, thus avoiding a "direct threat." These officials say the Marines should go after them. According to the Associated Press, US officials confirmed yesterday that UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali had asked the US to accept a role that includes disarming feuding clans.
"Unless the guns are collected from the whole country, everything will be the same," says Ali Duraleh, a member of a Somali committee here trying to restart public schools.
And without such a collection of arms, "the significance of the troops coming in [to Somalia] will be completely void," adds Abdullahi Yassin, another member of the education committee and a former regional education officer.
The US policy on disarmament may yet change. Maj. Steve Little, a liaison officer between Washington and Somalia, told the Monitor the policy is still "developing."
But it may already be too late to the get bulk of the weapons, say some relief officials who charge that the US made a serious mistake in letting many armed gunmen escape.
Bob Koepp, director of the Lutheran World Federation office in Nairobi, Kenya, says that instead of taking control of Mogadishu alone last week, the Marines also "should have taken Baidoa and Kismayo," two relief distribution towns menaced by armed Somali food looters. "They could have bottled them [the gunmen and their weapons] up and destroyed them," he says.
Lacking security, many relief personnel have been evacuated from Baidoa and food distribution has been reduced.
"The purpose [of the military intervention] was to provide security,' says William Berquist, an official with Catholic Relief Services in Baidoa. "They have failed in Baidoa."
Somali gangs and free-lance thieves, with heavily armed vehicles known as "technicals," were still menacing Baidoa, Kismayo, and Belet Huen, another key food distribution point, over the weekend, UN and private relief officials said. A large number of "technicals" also fled Mogadishu toward the Kenyan and Ethiopian borders, they say.
US Marine Col. Fred Peck told reporters here that such developments are not the main concern. "We're not looking for confrontation.... If we see weapons openly displayed in an area over which we hold control, we will consider them hostile."
On Saturday two US helicopter gunships reportedly destroyed three armed Somali vehicles in Mogadishu after the helicopters were fired on. The helicopters were not damaged. It was not immediately known if any Somalis were killed.
Even these actions, however, are too isolated and limited, argue the Somali educators Yassin and Duraleh, both of whom would prefer that Western troops surround the city and conduct house-to-house searches for arms. Colonel Peck, however, insisted "We will not be searching houses or cars." That, he said, will be the work of a Somali police force, whenever it is formed.
As for the arms of the two major warring factions, both sides have agreed to withdraw weapons from Mogadishu into camps. But Somalis caution that many weapons will be hidden elsewhere.
In an exception to the no-search rule, marines detected but did not seize a large arms cache last week in a building near the US Embassy. But either because the weapons were not a "direct threat" to US forces, or because it was learned that they belong to Gen. Mohammed Farah Aidid, one of the main protagonists in the civil war in Mogadishu, the arms were not seized.
Roadblock searches for arms were abandoned late last week on US orders, to the disgruntlement of French officers, after two Somalis were killed and seven others injured at a roadblock Thursday night. As the Somalis sped past the roadblock, French Legionnaires opened fire and US marines joined in. The resulting crash, not the bullets, killed the unarmed Somalis, Peck said.
But those killings have left a bad taste in the mouths of many Somalis interviewed here. "The people are now against the French troops," one Somali says.


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With all deliberate speed and a bit of pell-mell scramble, the White House is trying to keep up with lawmakers as they race to implement the recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission. While determined not to be outflanked by Democrats on terrorism with just 98 days before the election, there is one major recommendation Bush aides can't accept.
The "National Intelligence Director," the commission proposes, "should be located in the Executive Office of the President and report directly to the president, yet be confirmed by the Senate." The director of the National Counterterrorism Center also would be "placed in the Executive Office of the President, headed by a Senate-confirmed official."
Ain't gonna happen.
Since President Bush came to office, his administration has been working to build executive power and to keep Congress and the courts from meddling: blocking access to records of Vice President Cheney's energy task force, fighting numerous efforts to get documents and congressional testimony from White House officials, and expanding executive authority over terrorism detainees.
Here's what happened in 2002, when lawmakers tried -- and failed -- to get a Senate-confirmed counterterrorism director in the White House: The White House threatened a veto, saying the legislation "seeks to interject Congress into the daily operations of the Executive Office of the President by requiring the director and a senior advisor to the president, within the president's own executive office, to report directly to Congress and participate in agency budget processes in a statutorily mandated fashion that is unacceptable. The creation of this office represents undue interference with presidential prerogatives and management of his own staff and support structures."
In the Executive Office of the President, only the top officials of the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative are confirmed by the Senate. Even the national security adviser, though of Cabinet-level rank, does not answer to the Congress -- a point the White House made loudly in opposing the Sept. 11 commission's demands for Condoleezza Rice's testimony.
The White House was at first skeptical last week about the need for rapid action on the panel's recommendations. Rice said there was no cause for a "rush headlong" to enact them. Bush, while endorsing the general thrust of the commission's recommendations, has not yet taken a position on installing a national intelligence director in the White House.
Though he did not use the balance-of-power argument, press secretary Scott McClellan last week offered a different reason for opposing the position. "You want to make sure that the intelligence continues to be something that is independent, and you want to strengthen its independence," he said.
So far, the White House is following the script it used with great success in 2002 when Congress was considering a Homeland Security Department. Bush originally opposed the idea, preferring to have an office in the White House handle the matter without congressional confirmation.
But when the push for the legislation gathered strength, Bush endorsed the creation of a Cabinet department but threatened a veto if Congress did not drop provisions that would have reduced presidential authority.
Bush then clobbered Democrats in the midterm elections by charging that they were delaying the legislation's passage because they opposed his version. Bush said the Democrats were "more interested in special interests . . . than they are in protecting the American people" -- a charge credited with helping return Senate control to the Republicans.
This time, with a bipartisan group of commission members vowing to fight for their recommendations, it may be more difficult for Bush to use that technique. But after 31/2 years of unwavering dedication to executive power, the president is unlikely to yield now.
President, Interrupted
As the years go by in Bush's term, he and his spokesmen apparently have had more trouble getting their thoughts out without questioners stopping them.
"If you'll let me finish my statement," McClellan protested last week while laying out Bush's view of the Sept. 11 commission. It was the 14th time White House briefers or the president used the line this year, on pace to exceed last year's 26. From 2001 to 2002, the phrase was used only six times.
Though McClellan is the most frequently interrupted, Bush used the phrase nine times in one interview last month with Irish television, including this plaintive request: "Let me finish. Let me finish, please. Please. You ask the questions and I'll answer them, if you don't mind."
On the other hand, one of the perks of being president is you get to interrupt people whenever you wish. "Let me stop you there," Bush told a participant in an "Ask the President" campaign event in Iowa last week. It was the ninth time he had done that on stage this year.
Time Flies
"If that different future for the Middle East is to be realized, we and our allies must make a generational commitment to helping the people of the Middle East transform their region. This has been the president's clear and consistent message."
-- Condoleezza Rice, national security adviser, Aug. 7, 2003.
"I need four more years to complete the work. . . . We will finish the work of democracy in Afghanistan and Iraq."
-- President Bush, July 14, 2004.


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Ridgestone specializes in offering barrier free and accessible modifications, for people of all ages and physical abilities. Accessible housing doesn't simply mean a house with a ramp or lift anymore. Today, the concept of universal design extends to all—old, young, tall, short, disabled, non-disabled, so you can remain in and enjoy your home in comfort.
We offer accessibility evaluations, consulting, and complete accessibility management. By making your home accessible with simple home modifications, you can improve your lifestyle and the ability to live at home.
Whatever your accessibility challenges, our knowledgeable and professional team will work with you to find the solution that is best for you.
Our goal in this process is to promote increased mobility and independence by providing an accessible living environment with a focus on safety and functionality.
Ridgestone will work to enrich the life of each customer by providing unique solutions and exceptional service.


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San Diego, CA - Just in time to rescue failed New Year's
resolutions to improve health and personal finances, the Cooperative
Extension system is launching an online Small Steps to Health and
Wealth (SSHW) Challenge called "Winter 2011 SSHW Challenge." This
free six-week program, open to anyone who enrolls online, will be
held from Sunday, January 16, through Saturday, February 26. Prizes
will be awarded for participants who report the highest point totals.
To sign up for the SSHW Challenge, follow the "Challenges" link
on the Small Steps to Health and Wealth
Web site.
Set up a user name and password and download a simple one-page user's
guide with instructions about how to proceed. Enroll in the Challenge
titled "Winter 2011 SSHW Challenge."
The SSHW Challenge is part of Small Steps to Health and Wealth,
a national Cooperative Extension program developed to motivate Americans
to take action to simultaneously improve their health and personal
finances. SSHW was built around a framework of 25 research-based
behavior change strategies. The Challenge was originally developed
in a "paper and pencil" format with printed worksheets and is now
available online.
It has been well documented that, when people monitor their behavior
and measure their how they're doing, they are often inspired to
do better and achieve positive results. Participants in a SSHW Challenge
are "on their honor" to report their activities accurately. If they
"cheat" on reporting their points, they are only cheating themselves
by not following the recommended daily Practices.
The SSHW Challenge is based on the performance of ten recommended
Practices on a daily basis: five that involve health and nutrition
and five that involve financial management. Ten points are given
for performing each one for a maximum of 700 points per week and
4,200 points for the entire challenge. "The Challenge is a great
way to convert ambitious New Year's resolutions, like losing weight
and saving money, into daily action steps," notes Dr. Barbara O'Neill,
Extension Specialist in Financial Resource Management for Rutgers
Cooperative Extension.
The five daily health and nutrition Practices are: eat at least
4 cups of fruits and vegetables; get at least 30 minutes of exercise;
drink water or unsweetened beverages instead of sugar-sweetened
beverages; walk 10,000 or more steps with a pedometer; and learn
something new about health and nutrition.
The five daily financial management Practices included in the
SSHW Challenge are: save a $1 bill (or more) and/or pocket change;
invest $5 or more per day (including automated retirement savings
plan deposits); track money spent throughout the day; eat lunch
prepared at home; and learn something new about personal finance.
The latter activity, for both health and personal finances, can
be accomplished by visiting Web sites, attending seminars, or by
reading, listening to, or viewing media reports.
New this year, Winter 2011 SSHW Challenge participants will have
an opportunity to replace one daily health activity and one daily
personal finance activity with unique daily personal challenges
of their own. "Providing some adaptation of the traditional SSHW
Challenge format will make the Challenge more "personal" for participants
and give them an opportunity to practice new behaviors if they are
already doing all of the 10 pre-selected activities," explained
Dr. O'Neill.
As participants enter their personal data, they will see their
point totals for each day of the week and for each of the ten activities
described above. They'll also see a bar graph that compares their
personal progress to the average scores of everyone else participating
in the Challenge. Daily motivational messages will also be provided
to participants. Paper tracking forms can be downloaded to keep
track of daily activities until they are entered online.
Doing even one of the ten recommended daily Practices is a great
way to get started on the path to better health and improved financial
security. The more SSHW Challenge activities that are performed
by participants, the better. To sign up for "Winter 2011 SSHW Challenge"
visit the Rutgers SSHW
Web site.
Before today, which of these myths did you believe? Which of
these did you already know but can't seem to convince your family
and friends that you are right? Are there bigger myths than these
out there that need tackling?
Sent by:
Paul S. Richard
President - Executive Director
Institute of Consumer
Financial Education (ICFE)
The Institute of Consumer Financial Education (ICFE) was founded in 1982 by the late Loren Dunton (creator of the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) designation). The ICFE is dedicated to helping consumers of all ages to improve their spending, increase savings and use credit more wisely.
The ICFE is an award winning, nonprofit, consumer education organization that has helped millions of people through its education programs and Resources. It publishes the Do-It-Yourself Credit File correction Guide, which is updated annually. The ICFE has distributed over one million Credit/Debit Card Warning Labels and Credit/Debit Card Sleeves world wide.
The ICFE became an official partner with the Department of Defense/Financial Readiness Campaign in June of 2004.The ICFE was an active partner in the California Student Debt Resource Awareness Project (CASDRAP) which resulted in a new web site: (studentdebthelp.org). CASDRAP disbanded in 2010, shortly after the web site project was completed. In 2011 the ICFE assumed the single sponsorship of the (studentdebthelp.org) web site and is now responsible for its content and operation.
The ICFE is also an on-line help for consumers who spend too much. ICFE's spending help was featured in PARADE Magazine in the Intelligence Report section. The money helps and tips are from the ICFE's Money Instruction Book, our course in personal finance.
Visit the ICFE's other web sites at: www.financial-education-icfe.org and studentdebthelp.org. Both sites helps consumers and students with mending spending, learning about the proper use of credit, budget and expense guidelines, how to set up and implement a spending-plan and also how to access financial education courses and how to teach children about money. Other ICFE services include: Ask Mr. G, a free eNews, and an online resource center for students, parents and educators, plus financial education learning tools and a book store.
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