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Minority Rights : Putting Principles into Practice.
Round-table event to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities Strasbourg (France), 25 November 2013
Asbjorn Eide's keynote address was a fascinating 65 year journey through the development and application of minority rights. It is a "Tour de Force" on historical and contemporary issues, early on focusing on Article 1 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood".
It should of course have added "and in a spirit of sisterhood", a differentiation that this presentation will return to later.
These reflections draw on my own experience as a practitioner rather than as a scholar, Director of several INGOs since the 1970s and since the Millennium working as a programme planner and evaluator, mainly in the Western Balkans, often with Roma communities.
This presentation is entitled " Putting Principles into Practice" as many of those present at the 15th anniversary meeting have to face the challenge of what to do in practice to promote minority rights in their work every day and rarely have the luxury of time for reading learned papers. This presentation shares some of the lessons that that I have learned in this journey over 40 years as a human rights practitioner, developing, managing and evaluating programmes that seem relevant today in promoting minority rights in practice locally.
It is clear that treating people with dignity is a crucial theme in every aspect of human rights work. Another is building trust.
My own involvement in minority rights began in 1990, when I had the honour of being invited to join the UK Delegation at the Copenhagen Human Dimension meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe ( CSCE). This is described in more detail in the Festschrift in honour of Rainer Hofmann : "Minorities, their Rights, and monitoring of the FCNM – Beginnings" that was published by ECMI in the summer of 2013. I was invited to write the opening Chapter "The Beginnings" of this book, while others in this meeting wrote important contributory chapters
The Beginnings described my own initial cynicism toward the Helsinki Process that was begun by Finland in 1975. It seemed to consist of innumerable, lengthy conferences on hard security, economic cooperation and the human dimension bringing 35 countries together, in particular NATO and the Warsaw Pact with little action. My own prejudices were confirmed at the opening of the 1990 Human Dimension meeting, when there was a major debate on whether minority rights should or should not be on the agenda. It was argued by many western states that it would not be possible to reach a consensus on minority rights and, since the CSCE depended on a consensus, time should be better used on other topics. The Pentagonale group of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria, Italy and Yugoslavia successfully countered this argument by stating that if minority rights were not on the agenda, there would be no consensus on anything. Subsequently, after almost three months of discussions on human rights issues, a remarkable set of political standards were agreed that became the heart of the important work of the OSCE HCNM and the core of the FCNM.
Looking back on this, the success was not accidental. Finland had been a strongly motivated facilitator, due to its own geo-political situation, promoting a real dialogue between NATO and Warsaw Pact countries for over 15 years, developing trust and good will. Secondly during that period robust mechanisms had been put in place that had been tried and tested and the agreements were themselves trusted as binding. Thirdly in 1990 there was an assertive leadership from the Pentagonale Group. Fourthly there was a window of opportunity in 1990, with the major changes in the end of communism and the re-emergence of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. These four areas of leadership, facilitation, structures and timing, built on a common recognition of the importance of dignity and trust, were crucial for the binding agreement.
The UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic Minorities took a different path. Work began with a Working Group of the UN Commission on Human Rights in 1978 and by the beginning of 1989 only 4 articles of a declaration had been agreed, while these had a number of unresolved issues within square brackets. However it too had a capable chairperson, a Yugoslav, while there was a tried and tested structure with negotiators who knew each other. The Declaration was discussed in a transparent way allowing input from international NGOs, including Minority Rights Group and its associated academics. The Working Group captured the momentum; by the end of 1991 a second complete draft was agreed, then adopted by the Commission on Human Rights, where it was forwarded for approval by the General Assembly in December 1992.
The procedures adopted for the development of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM) was again different, drawing largely on the conclusions of the 1990 Copenhagen CSCE human dimension meeting. The text was drawn up in camera with no input except that by governments that were members of the Council of Europe. It was agreed the same year and open for signature in 1995, coming into force with 18 ratifications in 1998.
The lack of transparency led to the text being heavily criticised by a wide range of academics and minority organisations. Furthermore the same procedures were used for agreeing the Rules of Procedure of the Advisory committee in 1997 contradicting Article 15 of the FCNM itself. It consequently placed a heavy burden on the newly formed Advisory Committee to gain the confidence of minorities and in consultation with key Ambassadors to develop better procedures with the support of the Committee of Ministers Deputies in Strasbourg.
In general the first four years of the work of the Advisory Committee in promoting the FCNM were a success, the tensions and potential conflicts between states and national minorities, between states themselves or with the Advisory Committee itself were very largely avoided. Looking back at that time, this was largely due to team work and cooperation that involved the Advisory Committee and its Bureau, the Council of Europe Secretariat, minorities and supportive governments. Actions were transparent, participatory principles and process that involved all key actors were developed, while confidence was built step by step gaining the trust of very many members of the Committee of minister and of national minorities.
The Advisory Committee was charged with assisting the Committee of Ministers in evaluating the measures taken by contracting states in their implementation of the FCNM. In effect its role was to examine how the principles of dignity, detailed in the Framework Convention, were transformed into practice through policies and domestic legislation.
This presentation focuses on four areas of dignity; the dignity of ownership of minority rights, the dignity of dialogue on the issues, the dignity of employment for minorities and the indignities that Roma face throughout Europe.
One of the most important things that became apparent early on was the need to promote dignity through a local ownership of the FCNM, which went well beyond its adoption by Parliaments. It was crucial to reinforce good local institutions including Parliamentary Committees, Offices for National Minorities and their engagement of minorities, Ombudsmen, Commissions against Discrimination, and a range of Civil Society Organisations / NGOs in which national minorities participated effectively. I was reminded of this recently in Skopje, where I was working with the Agency for the Realisation of Community Rights, an organisation that has many challenges to meet in promoting minority rights in practice, but has the dignity of being "owned" and managed by members of minority communities.
The initial rules of procedure made it difficult to promote dignity through dialogue. However once the Committee of Ministers had developed its confidence in the Advisory Committee and the way it was conducting its affairs, it was able to persuade the Committee of ministers to allow information to reach the Advisory Committee from minorities and a wide range of sources. Monitoring visits took place to countries, these were developed to include visits to minority communities as well as encouraging a wide range of minority communities and government departments to liaise with the delegation from the Advisory Committee.
During these visits the Advisory Committee observed some good practices, not least of all in the Western Balkans after the Yugoslav conflict, to ensure that all minority communities were able to meet together and engage in a dialogue with the Advisory Committee. It was a confidence building exercise, which also enabled both government Officials and national minorities to understand the needs and boundaries of each other. The visits themselves were exercises in participation. On one occasion the committee was highly embarrassed to arrive over two hour late in a Roma settlement in Albania as the sun was setting. It apologised profusely for the delay. The leader responded generously that they had been waiting for the Council of Europe for 20 years, what was another two hours. A very informative and dynamic public meeting then took place in a large double garage in the twilight.
Dignity and Employment
One of the constant concerns that I had well before joining the Advisory Committee was the approach of many institutions towards those that were marginalised and denied their rights. A well intentioned welfare mentality often led to a major emphasis on the provision of social and economic services by State run or state funded services. The expertise of the service organisations centres on delivering welfare provisions and advice, while the organisations needed such programmes to continue to guarantee the organisation's future and their own employment. These welfare organisations rarely ensured the effective participation of the beneficiaries, while indirectly reinforcing a dependency culture.
One of the most enjoyable projects that I have managed was a successful employment project designed with refugee community groups, where employment opportunities were created within these groups enabling refugee themselves to be employed, albeit on a modest wage, while in their employment they provided advice and services to their community. The large proportion of the funds went directly to the beneficiaries, while many former refugees developed their skills and confidence to go on to find mainstream employment.
Employment schemes can give members of minority communities the dignity of work but also the opportunity to have the funds to become independent, make their own choices and take measures to ensure the realisation of their rights in practice. Such schemes depend on good will, trust and transparency alongside a genuinely participative approach and a determination to enable marginalised groups to become empowered individually and collectively. Many of today's top down Roma projects should be transformed to promote a rights based philosophy, where the projects are developed and managed by Roma for Roma and the large proportion of the funds spent within this community.
Dignity and Roma.
In Asbjorn Eide's keynote address there was a devastating critique of the situation of Roma in Europe today. It shows how time after time, in country after country, Roma are not treated with dignity.
Everyone will have seen the recent incidents in Greece and Ireland, where small children have been taken away from Roma families primarily because of the colour of the child's skin. The media played on the prejudices that are founded on small elements of truth that Roma are not white, that Roma may be child traffickers and that Roma parents are so impoverished that they cannot care for small children.
The behavior of the media throughout much of Europe would not qualify for inclusion in the project that I have recently evaluated "Best Practices of Roma Integration", where sadly there are too few good practices in the media. That aside, how many of us can with certainty state that the removal of white Roma children from their families would never happen in our own country?
There is a temptation for us all to fail to be self- critical; even in the Advisory Committee do we fall into the trap of generalizing about Roma in Europe? We all know that there are considerable differences in age, gender, location, language, religion, education, housing conditions and work roles of members of the Roma community. The focus of monitoring bodies is always on the problematic areas of those Roma who are marginalized at the edge of society, rarely acknowledging the talents and successes of many individual Roma despite their circumstances. A number of my Roma friends are infuriated by these generalisations about Roma that fail to treat them with dignity and consequently many hide their Roma identity. Many capable Roma are equally frustrated by being stereotyped and limited to working exclusively on Roma issues.
In our self-criticism we need to review the empowerment of Roma. How many Roma of the 10 to 12 million Roma in Europe are participating politically in European bodies as Members of the European Parliament or as Members of Parliamentary Assemblies?
How many members of minority communities are employed in Intergovernmental Organisations and how many of these are Roma?
Those here today know that the numbers of such Roma can be counted on the fingers of one hand. This has remained the same for the last decade, but what remedial action is being taken?
If we wish to address the situation of Roma in practice, we must have quality data and transparency, evaluating openly institutions that have received the large sums that have been allocated to Roma programming by governments and intergovernmental organisations. There is a need for honesty and self-criticism from each one of us and a determination by institutions to treat Roma with dignity, enabling them to become empowered to participate fully in public and political life.
We may be tempted to offer suggestions on how the Advisory Committee might strengthen its work. It would be arrogant for me to do so as I am out of touch with the current programme of work, while I know it has many capable independent expert members.
Nevertheless I do know that States, including many of the government officials present at this meeting, have provided a unique wealth of information in the reporting cycles. Furthermore the Advisory Committee has produced many thoughtful, well evidenced Opinions on the implementation of every article of the Framework Convention in 39 countries over the last 15 years. It would be invaluable if this richness of data was easily accessible article by article and that academics, government experts and members of minority communities were encouraged to undertake much of the ground work in preparing Commentaries on each article and cross cutting themes such as Roma. This would make a major contribution in developing understanding and towards transforming principles into practice.
The realization of human rights is a long journey promoting dignity and rights for all human beings.
I began my human rights work in 1970s with dictatorships throughout Latin America, when Southern Africa was repressed by racism, while people in central and Eastern Europe had little dignity under repressive communism and Franco was in power in Spain. There have been extraordinary changes over the last four decades, including one former refugee who was recently the Executive Director of UN Women and is likely to be re-elected as President of Chile.
Let me wish you all success in your continuing journey to promote the dignity and rights of minorities.
Bon voyage.


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LENOX -- The perils of "sexting" -- sending sexually explicit messages and photographs by cellphone -- include potential criminal prosecution, according to Berkshire Second Assistant District Attorney Robert W. Kinzer III.
As the head of the DA's computer crime unit, which includes several state troopers, Kinzer cited "kids, young adults, even adults who think it is a good idea to take nude or semi-nude photos of themselves on their cellphones and send them to other people via text message."
Youngsters who are under 18 fail to realize that they have created and manufactured child pornography, Kinzer warned a group of parents during an informational session at Lenox Memorial Middle and High School this past week.
"When you send that text message, you have disseminated child pornography" and when it is shared and shown to others, they are in possession of child pornography, he pointed out.
"We do not have any exceptions in our law for kids who are really in love, for girls who wanted to do it and for guys who promised they wouldn't share it, or for two kids who are dating," Kinzer said. "A nude photo of [a minor's] exposed genitalia is child pornography."
The prosecutor explained that he has spread the word at schools throughout Berkshire County.
"I'm done telling what the law is," Kinzer said. "When they start sharing photos like this, we are going to start charging people with the manufacturing, dissemination and possession of child pornography, and they're going to go to court.
"They're going to face [prosecution], probably not jail time unless they've got bad records. But that's OK. They'll just be put on probation and they'll get to register as a sex offender, and that's a great box to check off on any job application," he continued. "You're going to lose jobs and relationships, and you'll spend the rest of your life as a registered sex offender."
Kinzer listed new programs and applications that promote the sharing of explicit photos and messages -- including one that allows users to select Facebook "friends" as sex partners for casual "hook-up" encounters.
He told parents that "kids as young as 13 or 14 are using Facebook and getting access to information like this, and they're taking photos like that, not appreciating the dangers, the short-term and long-term consequences.
"Strangers can definitely hurt them, but [young people] have the biggest potential to hurt themselves. We need to make sure they understand what is out there and what can happen. Let's educate ourselves so we can communicate meaningfully with them and let's set clear, firm boundaries that we adhere to."
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You wouldn't want someone who commits wire fraud or identity theft thrown in jail because it doesn't involve violence? Getting hurt financially can be just as devastating as physical / verbal violence imo.
While I agree there are times the crime doesn't fit the punishment, just because the crime isn't violent shouldn't equate to no jail time.
Putting the said person in jails solves what? It does not solve the problem for the person who has been 'robbed' - thus no justice to him. And you are locking him up so that in future he does not cause harm to another; which is unjust too because you don't know if he will do that again; or you are punishing him ahead of a crime that he 'may' commit in future. The style of justice is based on a principle or idea that is fundamentally flawed. And finally, robbing someone of his freedom is a punishment conceived out of thin air, for lack of a more humane and in depth thinking on how to solve the problem. Jail works because that just seems like the easiest thing to do.
I generally do agree with SgtCupCake that prison time should be reserved for violent criminals.
However, the argument for locking up non-violent offenders is usually for the supposed deterrent effect. That is, if there is a threat of prison time then future would-be offenders will think twice. I think this is fine in principle, but in the US it has become perverse such that it is more about revenge than deterrence. Realistically most people don't break laws that are grounded in reason. For example, I don't need a law to tell me that stealing is bad. It's obvious to me why society doesn't allow that. For people that do need laws, I tend to doubt that there is much difference between a 45-year sentence and 1 year in terms of deterrence. This is simply because criminals don't expect to get caught. For people who are breaking/bending laws out of principle, no amount of prison time is truly a deterrent. For these reasons, I am OK with a threat of some prison time for non-violent offenders. But if we can't demonstrate a deterrent effect then we should save our money and find more appropriate sentences.
Also, we should be asking ourselves if the laws are actually good laws when they require the threat of prison to deter people from breaking them.
>...that is, if there is a threat of prison time then future would-be offenders will think twice. I think this is fine in principle.
This needs to be an automatic byproduct of a just punishment; not a factor. That is, you first punish the crime in a just fashion - to settle the score, so to speak. The deterrent effect can not be a factor in guiding what punishment to give. Punishment should be given independent of its ''other' benefits. It should only be targeted to 'meet' the crime; because doing anything otherwise (say, to blow up or diminish the punishment because of potentially larger deterrent on society or a deal that helps in nabbing others) would be unjust either to the offender or toe the offended. When punishment is just and meets the crime, then that would in itself act as a deterrent.
>...Also, we should be asking ourselves if the laws are actually good laws when they require the threat of prison to deter people from breaking them.
Excellent point; and the answer above solves this one implicitly.


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Fighting back against a wave of competing projects, mixed messages from Gov. Sean Parnell and an increasing sense of urgency regarding natural gas development in the state legislature, the Valdez City Council gave a unanimous thumbs up to a recommendation from the John Hozey, city manager, titled "Approval to Develop a Detailed Strategy to Ensure that Any In-state Natural Gas Line Terminates in Valdez subject to council approval."
The move came after a one-hour work session before Monday night's regularly scheduled council meeting. Bill Walker, city attorney and legal council for the Alaska Gasline Port Authority, gave city officials a list of suggested strategies to promote Valdez as the only port of choice for developing and exporting the state's vast reserves of undeveloped natural gas.
"It's a little bit of a head scratcher," Walker said, as to why other Alaska ports have gained political support as contenders for natural gas export.
The Port Authority already owns permits for a natural gasline to Valdez following the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS).
"Don't underestimate the value of having these kinds of documents," Walker said.
The Port Authority also recently released an independent study it commissioned with funding provided by the city comparing Port Valdez with Cook Inlet as a suitable port of export.
"No one can hold a candle to Valdez," he said, noting Port Valdez already has a large presence with the US Coast Guard, an existing oil tanker escort system in addition to an expired but renewable export license for natural gas.
"Valdez is a world-class port," Walker said. "We don't have to become one, we are one."
The council passed the statement as a political declaration –Walker said he was anxious to add additional Valdez support to his arsenal of legislative weaponry as the legislature prepares to reconvene in a special session Wednesday that was called for by Parnell.
What type of recommendations and strategy Hozey will bring back for council approval is unclear.
At the work session before passage of the statement, Walker suggested offering tax incentives tied in with TAPS property taxes.
"Nobody else has that ability," he said, to be able to bring down the cost of TAPS. Valdez has spearheaded court actions which have increased the taxable value of the oil pipeline. TAPS owners, BP, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobile and Koch Industries, are also the producers that hold many of the North Slope leases where the natural gas will be extracted.
He also suggested a natural gas "summit" much like the vast meeting Valdez hosted with Korean energy executives and elected officials from Alaska and Washington DC in 2003.
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Council member Mike Wells suggested and asked advice on hiring a natural gas expert to lobby the producers on behalf of Valdez.
The statement passed unanimously despite criticism from fiscally conservative council member Joe Prax, who complained the statement was too vague and had the aura of handing over a blank check.
The measure passed after the words "subject to council approval" were added to the statement.
During the work session before the actual meeting, Walker expressed a great deal of frustration over the large amount of what he claims is bogus information against a Valdez project that is passing for fact among elected officials in the legislature. He also warned of the looming threat after the passage of House Bill 9, which stalled in the Senate, but calls for a small diameter bullet line from the North Slope to Cook Inlet.
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He wondered also why elected officials are circumventing AGIA with competing projects while state coffers have paid out $200 million and committed a total of $500 million to it.
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In an interview with the Washington Times today, former senator Phil Gramm, who is Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) "econ brain," blamed the state of the economy on "the conviction of many Americans that economic conditions are the worst in two or three decades." "You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession," said Gramm.
Gramm decried the "constant whining" of the American people when it comes to the economy because he believes "we've never been more dominant":
"We have sort of become a nation of whiners," he said. "You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline" despite a major export boom that is the primary reason that growth continues in the economy, he said.
"We've never been more dominant; we've never had more natural advantages than we have today," he said. "We have benefited greatly" from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years.
Despite McCain's recent claim that we are in a recession, he has previously echoed Gramm's diagnosis of the economy. In April, McCain said that "a lot of our problems today, as you know, are psychological." Watch it:
At the same time he was blaming the state of the economy on the economic anxiety of the American people, Gramm also blamed the media. "Thank God the economy is not as bad as you read in the newspaper every day," said Gramm.
Blaming the economy on the media is a common McCain campaign strategy. In June, McCain econ adviser Kevin Hassett claimed that the press wants to "convince everyone that the economy is in recession" in order to hurt McCain. Informal McCain adviser Karl Rove argued in February that the economy "stinks" because of the media.
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James Mitchell wrote:What percentage of the Sun's heat (per day) does the population of Earth eat in calories per year? What changes could be made to our diets for the amount of calories to equal the energy of the Sun?
I feel like he kinda skimmed this one. He didn't go into a comparison of food energy density. No mention of a hybrid Mr. Coffee/Mr. Fusion appliance. No mention of whether you could start a fire from the blackbody radiation of enough hamburgers.
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Chiang is the son of immigrants from Taiwan. He was born in New York City and grew up in Chicago. Chiang attended Carl Sandburg High School where he served as student body vice-president alongside student body president Dave Jones. Lifelong friends, Chiang and Jones would run again together in 2010 on the California Democratic slate, with Chiang winning reelection as state controller and Jones being elected California Insurance Commissioner. He graduated with honors with a degree in Finance from the University of South Florida and has a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center. He came to Los Angeles in 1987 where he got involved with the Democratic Party of the San Fernando Valley and the West LA Democratic Club.
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Did you go with the streusel? What did you sub in for nectarines? Do tell!
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I made the recipe as written. I think my cake needed to cook longer than listed in the recipe, and/or my oven cooks too hot so I had to turn it down a bit at the end so it wouldn't burn.
I liked the struesel in and of itself, but I thought with the cake it was a bit sweet and couldn't taste the cake itself. But I love cake and even on birthdays, I eat cake for cake and not for the icing. I like just a little icing for adding sweetness. But if a cake is moist, the icing is not necessary, in my book.
I fudged the streusel – just having a layer of cinnamon, ginger,and brown sugar. My cake wasn't very chiffon-y – I have a problem with "folding". I also didn't have a springform pan, so I used a Bundt.
I skimped on the ginger because it's not my favorite. After reading your comment though, I might try the candied version next time. (It's just wasting away in my cupboard anyway!) Thanks for the tip.
I am getting so messed up on dates. I bought nectarines with plans to make this for our church dinner this coming weekend so I could post NEXT Tuesday. I've done this multiple times. I don't know what my problem is.
I so understand this!! I have done this several times. I am waiting for the catch up Tuesdays to use up some of the things I have bought!
I made the streusel and used it in the cake…but not on the top! I liked the way it looked without the streusel!
I made the cake yesterday. I didn't have a 10-inch springform pan, but I did have a 10×3 solid cake pan. That's what I used and it worked just fine. I buttered the sides of the pan and put a parchment paper round in the bottom. Instead of melting the butter in the pan, I melted it in another container and poured it into the pan on top of the parchment paper. Then I just followed the rest of the instructions. Baking the cake took about 60-65 minutes (not 45-50). After cooling the baked cake for 25 minutes, I ran a thin knife around the sides and inverted it on a cake plate. It came out of the pan perfectly, looked beautiful, and got rave reviews at my house.
I did put add the streusel. My husband loved it. I felt I could do without it. I did sub the nectrines for apples. Loved, Loved, Loved this cake through.
I went with the streusel and it was actually my husband's favorite part! He said it added a pleasant extra flavor in the middle…and I have to say, I agree – the slight bite of ginger paired beautifully with the nectarines. I did not use up all the streusel and ended up sprinkling some on ice cream/oatmeal later in the week. Like everyone else, my cake was in the oven a little over 10 minutes longer than the recipe indicated…however, I did use a smaller pan (9″ springform)…maybe that was the difference?


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The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office has published a patent application from Apple, prompting speculations that future iOS and iMac devices might come with a 3D eye-tracking-based interface that could be used for gaming, digital photography and videography.
Patently Apple - The new features could work in conjunction with Apple's current 3D head tracking and ambient light technologies. The solution would utilize a variety of sensors such as an accelerometer and compass in combination with eye-tracking technology to alter the perspective of 3D graphics displayed on an iPhone. The result would be a 3D experience that constantly adjusts to the user's position and a device's position, creating a unique experience far more advanced and precise than current solutions. The patent application was originally filed in the third quarter of 2010 and it is unclear if Apple is currently experimenting with the technology.
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I thought this was a Patriots site?
Gives the raiders two Safeties that can match up man to man with the top Te's. Look for Cedric Benson signing soon.
I thought this was a Patriots site?
What is a franchise safety? Is that like a franchise personal punt protector?
Not sure I ever heard the term "franchise safety". That moniker is usual reserved for QBs and should only be used for QBs IMO.
Another day. Another horrible contract the Raiders give to a Safety.
And I actually like Tyvon Branch but not at that contract value. Someone must have cloned Al Davis.
When your QB is 74 year old career flop C Palmer yoour defense is going to be on the field 47 minutes a game so you need explosive safeties.
Maybe when Bungles West scarfs up career flop C Benson next things will improve
At least Al's semi retarded son, the owner isn't making Pornaudition tapes with bimbos and crapping on the memory of a beloved departed family member
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The reason Gronkowski was so unstoppable last season is because teams didn't have players that could match up with him reliably and take him out of the game. He is also too big a target–and Brady too accurate a passer–to contain with zone coverage. He is a savvy enough receiver that he can attack the space between zones and Brady can get the football into those spaces, or high enough that only Gronkowski can come down with it, removing any chance the zone coverage has of stopping the plays.
Oakland went a different route. They eschewed zone schemes in favor of their usual aggressive man coverage, and found a guy who could live with Gronkowski both athletically and physically at the line.
In a league where players like Gronkowski and Jimmy Graham are becoming unstoppable forces as teams struggle to match up with them, everybody is looking for a safety with the kind of coverage skills to be matched up one-on-one and win. It turns out the Raiders have exactly what everybody is looking for in the shape of Tyvon Branch, who just might be the best man-coverage safety in the league.
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Maybe when the Jets find those kind Of safeties(m Huff is another that can do that) they will finally win the Afc East division. (having the best set of Cb's hasn't gotten them any closer to a division title.
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Maybe with those franchhise safeties the Raiders can amass another 7 or 8 win season allowing the retarded son of Al to make his annual coach and GM firing and replacement in Feb
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BTw Just watch how awesome both M Huff and T Branch look playing in a modern defense this year.
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Of course
Another explosive championship season like the last 9 youve predicted.
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The parking lot at the Blue Lantern Lounge was already mostly full when we arrived for an early Thursday night dinner.
Fortunately, we found a table in the bustling middle room of the restaurant. There's a compact barroom at the front, with tall tables and stools, where people can eat, order from a long list of specialty martinis and other drinks, and sometimes listen to live music. The middle and back rooms are outfitted with standard tables.
The overall decor was clean, artsy country house, despite the wall-mounted flat-screen television facing our table. We got glasses of water and warm Italian bread with butter.
We ordered a stuffed banana pepper ($6 each), the Buffalo standard that's elevated here with an ungreasy panko crust and bacon-studded cheese filling. It arrived in a pool of zesty, herbal tomato vodka sauce and a handful of field mix greens, enough for two to share a few bites each.
We also asked for one of the specialty spring rolls ($7), which come in chicken and black bean, banana pepper and sausage or Asian shrimp. They're more like egg-roll caliber, and our chicken and black bean choice included corn, pepperjack cheese and pico de gallo. Like the pepper, it was fried well, with a crispy skin, and the ingredients were fresh and distinct, not reduced to mush.
We also asked for a butternut squash salad ($11) from the regular menu. I chose the Thursday night dinner special of pot roast with roasted vegetables and mashed potatoes ($18). Cat went for the lobster cake entree ($19) with risotto and glazed carrots.
We noticed that others had ordered the signature "Sir Lawrence" pound-and-a-quarter burger, which comes on a custom-baked Frisbee-sized roll, and a pile of onion rings.
Butternut squash can be heavy, especially when chefs so often feel inclined to enrich it with cream and butter. The Blue Lantern squash salad surprised us with its restraint, offering warm chunks of sweet, tender squash in a nest of puckery baby arugula, dotted with halved grape tomatoes adding juicy acidity. What made it complete were crisped nubs of pancetta that contributed an earthy cured flavor to the salad's savory dressing. It was one of my favorite salads of 2012, though Cat thought the tomatoes pointless.
Her lobster cake dinner brought three puck-sized cakes of lobster mixture, which were aggressively browned in a crumb coat. Despite that, we wished for more exterior crunch to balance the expanse of soft middles. The flavor was acceptably seafoodish but like most lobster cakes, it didn't scream crustacean. The spicy aioli and basil oil added pools of flavor to dabble in, so the cakes didn't become a one-note opera.
The accompanying risotto with peas was a soft, creamy delight, and we both enjoyed the ample helping of firm glazed carrots.
My pot roast dinner arrived piled onto an oval plate. It wasn't much to look at, but it was fine to eat.
The beef was easily fork-tender, mild heading toward bland. The beef juice I found at the bottom of the plate helped amplify its flavor, but I wished there was more, or even a gravy.
The vegetables were overwhelmed, and seemed like an afterthought, even though the mashed potatoes at the bottom were soothingly creamy. There were chunks of soft carrots, squash and onions there, and I would have eaten more.
I asked our server for some horseradish. She brought a little cup and I happily finished the rest of my beef. Service as a whole was snappy, with answers and water refills coming without delay.
We looked at desserts, passing over strawberry cobbler, to pick a dark chocolate dipped brownie and a salty caramel crème brulee (both $6).
The brownie had morphed into more like a brownie sundae, but the warm brownie and ice cream provided a sweet final note nonetheless. The salty crème brûlée, with big grains of salt cracking between my teeth along with the pane of glassine sugar, was a real treat. The deeply caramel custard underneath made it a combination to savor.
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Treatments for myelodysplasia
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
I am struggling with secondary myleodysplasia, resulting from being given CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone ), for non- Hodgkin's lymphoma. Doctors say that my prognosis is poor because secondary MDS is fairly intractable to treatment. I do have a sibling donor match for a mini stem cell transplant. Any thoughts on the matter would be appreciated.
Selina M. Luger, MD, Director of the Leukemia Program and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, responds:
You are describing the dilemma that exists with myelodysplasia syndrome (MDS). It is a disease that results in cytopenias (low blood counts) and has a variable risk of progression to leukemia. Over the last decade there has been a scoring system developed in MDS, based on the number of low blood counts, the number of immature cells in the bone marrow, and the cytogenetics of the bone marrow cells. Patients with a low score can live for years with their disease, without the risk of developing leukemia and patients with a high score are at risk for life threatening complications and progression to acute leukemia.
Although allogeneic bone marrow transplantation remains the only known "curative" treatment for MDS, its place in the treatment of MDS is unclear. The patients who do best after a transplant (younger patient with low risk disease) are also the patients who do best without a transplant. Also, the older age group of patients with MDS makes most patients ineligible for a standard allogeneic bone marrow transplant.
Recently the use of mini-transplants has opened up the range of patients eligible for transplant. It appears that these procedures are better tolerated and result in responses in a significant number of patients. But the duration of the response (i.e. how long patients are in remission) is unknown, since the procedure is relatively new. Also, the optimal regimen for mini-transplant is not clearly defined.
At this point, given that you have the fortune of having an HLA identical sibling, it is reasonable to consider a mini-transplant in your situation, if your physician feels it is appropriate. It would be great if you could go on a clinical trial for treatment.
As you noted, there are not many other treatment options available for patients with MDS, other than supportive care with transfusions and growth factors, if they are working.


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Similar to the LastPass app for BlackBerry smartphones, the Android app for PlayBook includes:
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Map-Reduce With Ruby Using Hadoop
Tuesday, January 4, 2011 at 9:03AM
A demonstration, with repeatable steps, of how to quickly fire-up a Hadoop cluster on Amazon EC2, load data onto the HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File-System), write map-reduce scripts in Ruby and use them to run a map-reduce job on your Hadoop cluster. You will not need to ssh into the cluster, as all tasks are run from your local machine. Below I am using my MacBook Pro as my local machine, but the steps I have provided should be reproducible on other platforms running bash and Java.
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I see many questions on Stackoverflow that are basically variants of this: "How can I integrate my custom MembershipProvider into my IoC container?"
Integrating your custom MembershipProvider to a IoC container has many advantages, since it would let you treat it just like any other service: you could manage its lifetime, dependencies, configuration, even proxy it if you wanted.
Problem is, MembershipProviders are one of those things that are managed by the ASP.NET runtime. You just configure it in your web.config and the runtime instantiates it when it's needed. You don't really get much control over its creation.
A cheap solution is to use the container as a service locator directly in your membership provider (using something like CommonServiceLocator), e.g.:
public class MyMembershipProvider : MembershipProvider { private IUserRepository repo { get { return ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<IUserRepository>(); } } public override string GetUserNameByEmail(string email) { return repo.First(u => u.Email == email); } ... }
Using a service locator like this should be avoided as much as possible. Mark Seeman explains it thoroughly in this article. In a nutshell, you want to limit the usage of the service locator pattern to glue code (i.e. very low-level infrastracture), even there use it as little as possible, and never use it in application-level code.
As usual with this kind of problems, the solution is to write a wrapper/adapter/bridge/whatever-you-want-to-call-it that isolates the issue so that client code doesn't have to suffer it. It's similar in concept to the implementation of Windsor-managed HttpModules. It's actually simpler than that, we don't need a custom lifestyle manager here.
In fact, Spring.NET has had such an adapter for quite some time. The only problem with that implementation is that you can't change the lifetime of the custom provider, it's always a singleton. My implementation doesn't have this limitation: your provider can be transient, singleton, per web request, whatever. The price for this is that you can't use Initialize() (more precisely, it won't do anything), but since it's managed by the container, you can use the container to provide any configuration, which is much more flexible. The implementation is about 200 lines of boring, simple code so I'm not going to post it here. It does use Windsor as a service locator, but this is low-level infrastracture/glue code. The goal here is to keep your code clean.
The code is here, and here's how to use it:
- Write your custom MembershipProvider as a regular component, using constructor or property injection as you see fit.
- Implement IContainerAccessor in your global HttpApplication class. Use this article as reference.
- Register your custom provider in Windsor and assign a name to the component. E.g.:
container.Register(Component.For<MyMembershipProvider>() .LifeStyle.Transient .Named("myProvider"));
- Register your custom provider in your web.config using the adapter and referencing the name of the corresponding Windsor component in a "providerId" attribute. E.g.:
<membership defaultProvider="customProvider"> <providers> <clear/> <add name="customProvider" type="ProviderInjection.WebWindsorMembershipProvider, ProviderInjection" providerId="myProvider"/> </providers> </membership>
That's it. Here's a sample app that you can use as reference. This can be easily ported to any IoC container, and for any provider like RoleProvider, ProfileProvider, etc. I haven't used this in anger so let me know if you have any problems with it.


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MARSHALL, Minn. – The 2010 Daktronics, Inc., NCAA Division II All-America baseball team was announced recently, with two players from No. 4 Georgia College & State University (39-16) taking third team honors. Starting pitcher Martin Dewald (Mannheim, Germany) joined outfielder Sean Harrell (Martinez, Ga.) on the team voted on by members of the College Sports Information Directors Association (CoSIDA).
Dewald, a National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Honorable Mention All-American closer in 2009, made the move to a starting role this season, and pulled it off to the tune of 2010 Daktronics Southeast Region Pitcher of the Year accolades. Dewald is 11-3 after opening the College World Series Saturday night with a complete-game heartbreaker loss. He owns a 3.53 ERA and 117 strikeouts over 112 1/3 innings. Dewald has eight complete games on the year now, including three shutouts.
Harrell is hitting .444 with 11 home runs and 54 RBI, adding a team-high 77 runs scored. He is slugging second on the team at .708 and adds a .522 on-base percentage to go with 20 stolen bases.
The pair marks the first Daktronics All-Americans for Georgia College baseball since Justin Mills (2003-07) earned a spot on the 2007 squad. Georgia College student-athletes have now earned 16 All-American trophies in school history.
The Bobcats are back in action Monday, facing No. 2 University of Tampa at 3 p.m. at the Division II College World Series.
The GCSU Department of Athletics, winners of the 2008-09 PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Georgia College prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at Twitter.com username GCSUSID for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Philips makes a few portable DTV models, including the 9-inch PVD900/37 reviewed here, as well as the step-down 7-inch PVD700/37 and PET729/37, which combines a portable DVD player with a 7-inch DTV.
The PVD900, which online costs a little more than $150, looks and feels like your typical inexpensive tablet-style portable DVD player (sans DVD player). That doesn't mean it's ugly, it's just fairly basic and generic-looking, though at 9 inches diagonal, its screen is larger than some of the portable DTVs we've reviewed previously, like the Eviant T7 7-inch portable LCD TV and the Envizen Digital Duo Box Pro ED8850A. The TV is also surprisingly lightweight (1.5 pounds), so you can easily carry it. However, like all products that have shiny black finishes, the unit will attract its share of fingerprints if held in hand.
To prop up the TV for viewing, there's a kickstand on back that folds flush against the unit when not in use. To be clear, this is not a high-definition TV, but it can pull in high-def stations and display them on the TV's 600×220-pixel screen.
As for the DTV side of the equation, the PVD900 pulls in any TV signals being broadcast in your area, but you do have to attach a small, wired external antenna (its base is magnetized).
On the bright side, this model does have a built-in QAM tuner, so you can connect this to a cable TV outlet and receive basic unscrambled digital and HD stations via cable (so long as you have a cable TV signal coming into your house). We tried it out at home and had no trouble bringing in a wide variety of stations. However, on our cable system, the available channels were mostly the same we'd get via an antenna; don't expect to get CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, ESPN, or any so-called "premium" cable stations.
It's important to note two key caveats about the Philips PVD900. First, this model will not pull in any legacy analog or low-power stations that may still be broadcasting in your area–including analog over-the-air stations, analog cable channels, or those analog stations from Mexico or Canada available in border states. Secondly, this is a "portable DTV," but it does not use the newer Mobile DTV standard that is scheduled to be rolled out in 2010 and beyond. Mobile DTV products are designed to work while in motion (in a car or on a train). By contrast, this product–while easily transportable from room to room or on the go–is designed to be used only when stationary.


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As explained in an excellent letter to the editor of The Washington Post:
Capitalism's friends never had to cede moral ground to its enemies, but they will have to replace the current power structure to make room for a revival. President Obama summarized his understanding of free enterprise in his 2009 commencement speech at Arizona State University: "ruthless competition pursued only on your own behalf…"
That markets are built on voluntary transactions – mutual exchange for mutual benefit – is an alien concept in the academic environment that produced Mr. Obama and many of his staffers. That one accumulates wealth in a free market by providing value to willing buyers – the exact opposite of acting "only on your own behalf" – is another idea unlikely to penetrate the zero-sum mentality that dominates this administration.
The author is one Michael Smith of Cynthiana, Kentucky, a gifted and prolific letter-to-the-editor-writer.


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A Moment of Clarity, Please
Reading the blogs and comments by this site's members has been a rewarding, satisfying, enriching experience; thank you all. You've helped me to a clarity I'd like to illustrate with the following true story.
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MACON, Ga. – Lipscomb women's basketball standout Ashley Southern has been named Atlantic Sun Conference Player of the Week by both the league and College Sports Madness. It is the first time Southern has earned the honor.
Southern helped guide Lipscomb to its first league win of the season when the Lady Bisons defeated third-place Jacksonville on Thursday, 94-79. She scored 11 points and grabbed seven rebounds in the contest and hit her third 3-pointer of the year.
On Saturday, the redshirt-sophomore poured in a career-high 29 points in the 84-76 victory over North Florida. Southern was credited with 12 boards for her 18th double-double of the year.
The Tuscumbia, Ala., native connected on 12-of-17 shots from the field, setting Lipscomb's NCAA record for most field goals in a game. The 29-point effort was Southern's seventh 20-plus point game of the year, second most in the A-Sun.
Southern also tied a career-high with four assists in the victory.
For the week, Southern averaged 20 points and 9.5 rebounds in 32 minutes of play. The six-foot forward drained 16-of-28 shots for a 57.1 percent conversion rate.
Lipscomb gets the week off before returning to action Saturday Feb. 22 for a 6 p.m. matchup with Northern Kentucky in Allen Arena.


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