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One of the really icky things about the Left is that it lacks a moral compass. There is no good or evil. There are only evil haves and victimized have-nots.
In a sane moral universe, cultural arbiters would readily be able to distinguish the good guys from the bad guys in the Middle East. The good guys are the ones that give equal rights to all religions, whether Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Bahai, or Atheist. The bad guys are the ones that impose horrific burdens on those who do not follow the bad guys' faith, with those burdens ranging from increased taxes, exile from the land of their ancestors, beatings, and mass murder.
The good guys are the ones that do not torture or kill people because of their sexual orientation. The bad guys are the ones who routinely torture and hang gay men.
The good guys are the ones who acknowledge that women are fully equal to men, and are therefore entitled to both respect and civil rights. The bad guys are the ones who view women as inherently evil, lascivious, stupid, and dangerous and, to that end segregate them; dehumanize them through clothing; institutionalize pedophilia; mutilate them; deprive them of basic freedoms, liberties, and rights; and turn any of their infractions, whether criminal or social, into capital crimes.
The good guys are the ones who put into place a defense system that allows them to suffer through thousands of rocket attacks before making the decision to retaliate and who, when they retaliate, will abort solid attacks against known targets if they realize that children are in the line of fire. The bad guys are the ones who take land for peace, only to break their bargain immediately and rain rockets down upon the opposite entity in the exchange. And the bad guys are the one who view children as both targets and shields, because they care more about propaganda than lives.
In a sane world, if these two entities went to war because the good guys got tired of years of being the bad guys' target practice, coverage would be much like the news was in the years leading up to and during WWII: the good guys would be praised and supported, while the bad guys would be excoriated. Back in those days, the media knew that the Allies had some bad individuals amongst them and that there were Axis soldiers who were forced to fight and hated what they did. The media understoid the fundmentak difference, though, between the Axis powers and the Allies — the latter was a healthy society fighting against a sick one before the sick society's cancer could spread.
Those days of sanity are over. The media hasn't gone quite so far as to pretend that the bad guys — the Palestinians, the Iranians, and the Islamists — are actually fighting a good fight. They do something much more insidious, because only people who pay attention are aware — as Dennis Prager explains, they pretend that the two sides are the same:
[A]n evil entity made war on a peaceful, decent entity, and the latter responded.
How has the New York Times reported this?
On Friday, on its front page, the Times featured two three-column-wide photos. The top one was of Gaza Muslim mourners alongside the dead body of al-Jabari. The photo below was of Israeli Jews mourning alongside the dead body of Mira Scharf, a 27-year-old mother of three.
What possible reason could there be for the New York Times to give identical space to these two pictures? One of the dead, after all, was a murderer, and the other was one of his victims.
The most plausible reason is that the Times wanted to depict through pictures a sort of moral equivalence: Look, sophisticated Times readers! Virtually identical scenes of death and mourning on both sides of the conflict. How tragic.
If one had no idea what had triggered this war, one would read and see the Times coverage and conclude that two sides killing each other were both equally at fault.
The Times technique works only too well. Just today, one of the women in my mother's retirement community said that none of this would happen if the Israelis would just give Gaza back to the Palestinians. She was surprised when my mother told her that Israel had already done this years ago, only to be rewarded with a barrage of rockets. The MSM, which this lady watches assiduously, failed to make that point clear.
Prager's conclusion, after giving more examples of the Times inability to understand moral absolutes, is the same as that with which I started this post:
As the flagship news source of the Left, the New York Times reveals the great moral failing inherent to leftism — its combination of moral relativism and the division of the world between strong and weak, Western and non-Western, and rich and poor rather than between good and evil.

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Across the Streaming Tide
Across the Streaming Tide is a song by the Tolkien metal band Summoning. It appears in their sixth full-lenght album, Oath Bound, released in 2006. The song is about the passing to Beleriand by Noldor.
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In autumn when the wind and sea
Rejoice to live and laugh to be
And scarce the blast that curbs the tree
And bids before it quail and flee
In winter when years when the years burn low
As fire wherein no firebrands glow
And winds disappear as they blow
The stormy wings of snow
The hearts of western elves burn bright
With joy that mocks the spring
To hear all heaven's keen clarions ring
Music, that bites the spirit, sing
And wind by night in northern lands
Arose, and Lord it cried
And drove the ships from ancient strands
Across the streaming tide


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Samuel Zaroukian is a pianist, singer, composer, and author. Classically trained, this versatile musician further developed his musicality while playing in several Gospel and Jazz bands. He currently leads the Gospel ensemble EV.E and the Riez choir, covering French folk songs. Samuel leads a solo career; he recorded and produced the beautiful album "En chemin". His music is passionate, sensitive and subtle. On stage, he likes to surprise and connect with the public. ". Samuel is also a sought-after arranger whose arrangement are published by editor "A coeur de joie".
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Click here for Jane's Oceania Home Page Newsletter for September/October 2011, November/December 2011, January/February 2012, July/August 2012 (Special Edition) and including our Special Christmas/New Year Edition!
An Islander is a person of the ocean who always has one foot in the water and the other on the land.
The sea is like a tonic without which the Islanders cannot live happily - the sea is their life.
The sea gives them their food and their tools are their canoes.
Like their forefathers of old, the present day fishermen are skilled navigators and canoe builders who are addicted to the sea.
They understand the moods of the sea; they are familiar with the stars and the sun, and they breathe inspiration from the prevailing trade winds.
They are adventurous people who, like the seabirds, have the instinct to migrate in their blood.
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The term Oceania is normally used to designate all the islands of the Central and the South Pacific including Australia (continent), New Zealand, and sometimes the Malay Archipelago.
On this Web site, the focus is primarily directed towards the Pacific Islands of Melanesia (including Papua - formerly Irian Jaya), Micronesia and Polynesia
(including the Polynesian nation of Hawai'i), as well as both Australia and New Zealand.
The islands of the Pacific, with their beauty and romance, have always gripped man's imagination. Raised above the sea, in wondrous and spectacular splendour, they shimmer like an oasis. For those of us in need of solitude and adventure, these idyllic, exotic and beautiful tropical islands also offer a dream escape - a place of refuge, serenity and excitement. In their greenness and freshness, the islands conjure up visions of unending youth and a heavenly paradise - crystal clear waters, sparkling white sand and surf, golden yellow rays of sunshine with a dawn to night sky of a kaleidoscope of dazzling and impressive array of superb colours - from sapphire blue to topaz and turquoise, garnet and ruby to amethyst, citrine, peridot and emerald to the unique mystique of a theatrical curtain of exquisite Tahitian black pearls and onyx, gloriously adorned by a galaxy and constellations of brilliant starlight diamonds, illuminated and moonlit by a silvery majestic mother-of-pearl - encapsulated by the jubilant embrace of delightfully cool prevailing trade winds. Of these wonderful dream-worlds, it is Oceania that offers the most beautiful, enchanting and magnificent chains of pure and natural multicoloured gem-clustered islands.
Visitors are invited to view an extensive collection of Oceania and related postcards at: Oceania Postcards And Picture Galleries
Other recent studies, which included DNA analysis of almost 700 samples from Aboriginal Australians and Melanesians, have confirmed the view that Aboriginal Australians are descended from the same small group of people who left Africa about 70,000 years ago. After arriving in Australia and New Guinea about 50,000 years ago, the settlers evolved in relative isolation, developing unique genetic characteristics and technology.
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The migration, thousands of years later, of the ancestors of the present day Polynesian out of Asia, brought with it languages and dialects that were essentially Asian in origin and which developed into the present day languages of Polynesia. Until recently, archaeologists had believed that Polynesian people came from Taiwan. Indeed, recent studies of DNA in Taiwan have provided some very interesting conclusions about the origins of the Polynesian and Melanesian people.
Certainly, linguistic studies have pointed to the fact that the Polynesians, undoubtedly the greatest seafarers in history, have their origins in Taiwan. Of the 23 million people in Taiwan, only 400,000 are descendants from the original inhabitants. These people originally spoke a language belonging to the Austronesian group which is unrelated to Chinese but includes the Polynesian tongues.
DNA studies of the original group found three mutations shared by Taiwanese, Polynesians and Melanesians, who also speak Austronesian. These mutations are not found in other Asians and hence suggest that the Polynesians and Melanesians have their origins in the original inhabitants of Taiwan. Indeed, genetic studies have now suggested that the ancestors of the sailors of the great canoes started out further along the trail in eastern Indonesia.
These seafarers moved eastward in small groups around the top of the Melanesian archipelago until they reached Fiji. Using Fiji as a staging area, some eventually sailed on to uninhabited Tonga and Samoa. To have developed the physical types, language and culture that the Polynesians share in common, these Polynesian forebears must have been isolated for a time in a home group of islands. A chain of archaeological discoveries leads us to believe that this isolation started in the islands of Tonga and Samoa roughly 3,000 years ago.
Beginning in 1909 in New Britain, archaeologists have found a type of pre-historic decorated pottery at various Melanesian sites. In 1947, samples were also excavated in Fiji, Melanesia's easternmost extension. Five years later the same pottery was uncovered at Lapita in New Caledonia. Now called Lapita-style pottery, these artifacts clearly trace the visits and attempted settlements of a maritime people moving along a Melanesian route towards Polynesia.
Lapita pottery was excavated in Tonga in 1963, and has recently been found in Samoa as well - both in western Polynesia. Tonga is the longest inhabited island group in Polynesia, with radiocarbon dates as early as 1140 B.C. Thus we conclude that Tonga's first settlers, the people who made Lapita ware, were the first true Polynesians. Language ties indicate that this migration continued via Samoa eastward to the Marquesas where the oldest sites in Eastern Polynesia have been found.
Far to the southeast of the Marquesas lies evidence of a truly remarkable feat - a voyage to Easter Island (Rapa Nui), some 2,400 miles away, in the face of prevailing winds and currents. Polynesia's easternmost outpost, Easter Island is not only the most isolated inhabited island in the Pacific, but it is also only 15 miles long. Assessing its chances of being discovered by early Polynesians, we can conclude only that their sailing canoes were already capable of traversing the breadth of the Pacific, and that on one such voyage, Easter Island was fortuitously sighted. Radiocarbon dating in 1955-56 indicates its discovery and settlement as early as A.D. 400.
The sites on Easter Island show clear evidence, when considered in conjunction with the archaeology and languages of the Society and Marquesas Islands, indicate strongly that the pre-historic culture of Easter Island could have evolved from a single landing of Polynesians from a Marquesan Island. These Polynesians would have been fully equipped to colonize an uninhabited volcanic island. Their success in making this windswept sixty-four square miles, without an edible native plant, not only habitable but also the seat of remarkable cultural achievements, is testimony to the genius of these Polynesian settlers.
A study of excavated adzes, fishhooks, ornaments and other artifacts indicates that Tahiti and the other Society Islands must have been settled soon after the Marquesas. Present information indicates that Hawaii and New Zealand were settled after A.D. 500. Radiocarbon techniques permit us to assign tentative dates to this entire Pacific migration: entry into West Polynesia about 1000 B.C., reaching East Polynesia about the time of Christ, completing the occupation by A.D. 1000.
Having reached the Pacific's farthest outpost, the early Polynesians possessed the skills to return. It is doubtful that one-way voyages could account for the early presence in the Hawaiian Islands, for example, of twenty odd cultivated plants of Tahiti and the Marquesas. Thus we conclude that the early Hawaiians repeatedly negotiated the longest sea route in Polynesia returning to Tahiti and then again to Hawaii, known as "Child of Tahiti".
The Polynesians in the Pacific generally occupy an area referred to as the Polynesian Triangle. The Polynesian Triangle has Hawaii in the north, New Zealand in the south, and Easter Island in the east. The lines drawn from Hawaii to New Zealand bends westward to include the Ellice Islands (Tuvalu) and passing between Fiji and Tonga. The north to south line forms the base with its apex on the path of the rising sun, located 4000 miles to the east. The Marquesas lie almost to the center of the eastern line, from Easter Island in the south to Hawaii in the north, Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti and the Cook Islands are surrounded by the triangle. New Zealand, the farthest south group of Polynesian islands is home to the Maori people.
Almost lost in the vastness of the Pacific Ocean are the tiny islands, the remarkable people and the ancient architecture of Micronesia. Across a distance of nearly 2000 miles, the archipelago of Micronesia encompasses a land area of only 271 square miles. It is believed that the original inhabitants of Micronesia came from the Philippines and Indonesia about 1500 years before Christ. The islands of Micronesia (and Polynesia) collectively comprise the last major region of the globe to be settled by humans. Both of these groups of islands were colonized within the last 5,000 years by Austronesian-speaking agriculturists. In the past, linguistic studies have been a major factor in suggesting the origins of both the Micronesian and Polynesian people who, in the main, are of medium stature with straight hair and brown skin.
Micronesia means 'small islands' and is derived from the Greek words mikros which means small and nesos which means island. This is a perfect way to describe these over two thousand tropical islands scattered across the heart of the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and the Philippines. They are spread over a great distance, yet each has its own culture, history, customs, rituals, myths and legends, lifestyle and topographical personality. The islands of Micronesia include the Federated States of Micronesia (Pohnpei, Kosrae, Chuuk and Yap), Guam, Palau, Saipan, the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Republic of Kiribati.
In a DNA study
undertaken in 1994, head hair in Micronesia was used to obtain DNA
samples. The study was undertaken in order to compare the genetic
relationships of various Micronesian groups to other Pacific Islanders
and Asians and their languages. The study examined DNA that is found
within mitochondria (mtDNA), small cellular bodies that function as
the energy factories and storehouses of our cells. Mitochondria are
inherited from the body of the mother's fertilized egg, and are
transmitted maternally to the next generation. Consequently, this
analysis ignores inheritance from a father.
In general, this study found that the majority of mtDNA sequences from Micronesian and Polynesian populations are derived from Asia, whereas others are inferred to have originated in New Guinea. The data supported the concept of an Island Southeast Asian origin and a colonization route along the north coast of New Guinea. The Marianas and the main island of Yap appear to have been independently settled directly from Island Southeast Asia, and both have received migrants from Central-Eastern Micronesia since then. Palau clearly demonstrates a complex prehistory including a significant influx of lineages from New Guinea. In addition, Chamorro mtDNA is very distinctive when compared to other Micronesians and Polynesians. This suggests that the Marianas have a different settlement history than the rest of Micronesia.
Thus genetic similarities among Micronesian and Polynesian populations result, in some cases, from a common origin and, in others, from extensive gene flow. As well as showing that Micronesians and Polynesians have a southeast Asian homeland, studies based on DNA contributed by both females and males to their offspring generally indicate a greater degree of Melanesian heritage for Polynesians and Micronesians.
The first European to see the Pacific was Balboa who was later executed by his political enemies. In 1517, a Portuguese nobleman named Magellan (Magalhaes) proposed a route to the Pacific by way of America instead of the recognized course from South Africa on the path of the trade winds. On 28th November 1520, Magellan passed through the southern tip of America which is now called the Strait of Magellan and sailed into the Pacific Ocean. Magellan gave the order for the ships to turn north-east. After incredible hardship, the first land they saw was right across the Pacific at Guam in Micronesia. They went on and Magellan was killed in a battle in the Philippines. (Click here for further information about Ferdinand Magellan's Voyage Round the World) It was not until the 17th century that Dutch merchants discovered parts of Polynesia. Tasman reached New Zealand and Roggeveen landed on Easter Island.
The leaders of the early expeditions kept logs in which they recorded their impressions of those things they had seen in Oceania. These accounts are interesting in terms of the descriptions of what they actually saw, but their interpretations of native culture were not always accurate. Many of the whalers and traders who came afterwards did not fully appreciate and understand the oral literature of our people. Also, many of the missionaries who followed in their wake were hypocrites and ignorant zealots who needlessly destroyed the rich cultural heritage of Pacific Island people that they did not understand. Indeed, they were too busy substituting their own mythology to take an immediate interest in the exact details of the mythology they sought to destroy. Island people were given new standards of value in which their myths and traditions were given no commercial or spiritual recognition. The continuity of their teaching was broken.
So much of the old world created by our island ancestors has passed away. The stone temples are now in ruins and the temple drums and shell trumpets have long been silent. Tane, Rongo, Tagaloa, Nareau and other members of the divine family of the Sky-father and the Earth-mother are still with us even though so much of the regalia and symbols of our spiritualism have been scattered among museums around the world.
It is probably premature at this time to endeavour to draw lasting conclusions on the merits of the missionaries' intervention into Oceania. Clearly there have been gains and similarly there had been losses. Perhaps the gains in the form of education and language translation can one day be balanced against the loss in so many important aspects of our cultural heritage ... let us hope so!
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The advent of the missionary into the island states of Oceania has had certain effects that even now have not been fully understood. One can no doubt sympathise with missionaries who came to these islands with little more to offer than their own beliefs. Forced to learn the language of the people and to survive in an alien environment would certainly put their faith very much to the test. Indeed, their early needs were in non-religious matters such as learning the language and teaching the rudiments of western knowledge to the local people. It was only after these things have been done that they were able to preach the gospel. Indeed, the missionaries also had to assume the role of doctors, nurses, teachers and public works administrators.
Certainly, the strong religious following in our island society today are testament to the perseverance of these early missionaries. Indeed, the church still continued to have an important role not only in the religious education but in the general education of so many of our people. In many cases, this has been given generously but in others in the past it has appeared to place an unnecessary impost on the local island communities. Captain Davis, in 1892, was quite critical of many of the activities of some of the missionaries on the islands he visited.
While providing useful documentation, the missionary writings on the Morning Star could by no stretch of the imagination be considered to provide an objective view of island life during this period. Certainly, there is a marked lack of balance in comments made about our island people. For example, the ruins of Nan Madol, Pohnpei (Ponape), Federated States of Micronesia, are considered to be some form of pagan, heathen temples rather than the significant place that it holds in the evolution of Micronesian people. Indeed, so much island culture had been destroyed as it was not pleasing to the missionaries and as such so many of our children will be deprived of certain aspects of our culture that were enjoyed by their forefathers. Perhaps the new nationalism among island people will go part or all of the way to restoring these cultural losses.
It is probably premature at this time to endeavour to draw lasting conclusions on the merits of the missionaries' intervention into Oceania. Clearly there have been gains and similarly there had been losses. Perhaps the gains in the form of education and language translation can one day be balanced against the loss in so many important aspects of our cultural heritage ... let us hope so!
Certainly, in my case, I would have to admit that it was my education in a missionary college - Immaculate Heart College - at Taborio, Tarawa, Republic of Kiribati, that provided the basis for my further studies abroad to enable me to undertake the things that I am presently doing. In this respect, I would like to acknowledge and thank the missionaries for this.
What the future holds may be unclear particularly when the ocean may claim many of our islands and many of our people are still under the control of others. Perhaps by reclaiming our cultural values we can understand who we are and what the future may hold for our people of Oceania.
I have also included some rare information on the amazing life of Alfred Restieaux, my dear paternal great grandfather, who was the first significant European trader on the islands of Tuvalu and, in particular Nukufetau and Funafuti, who had the foresight to document his experiences. His extensive memoirs of mid to late nineteenth century life on the islands of Oceania provide a unique insight into the life of a trader during this time. These memoirs are recorded on microfilm and are held at the New Zealand National (Alexander Turnbull) Library, Wellington, New Zealand as well as other major museums, archives and libraries in mainly Oceania. They have provided an invaluable source of information to researchers interested in life in the South Seas/Oceania during this time. In 1998, I took the opportunity of making available, for the first time, both online and in hardcopy, these valuable manuscripts, to be shared with everybody worldwide. You are invited to view a sample of Alfred Restieaux's original handwritten hardcopy,
While on Nukufetau, Tuvalu, Alfred Restieaux ( later abbreviated and known, in mainly the Pacific Islands/Oceania, as 'Resture' ) and his wife Litia (Tuvaluan) played host to Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife, Fanny, while they were en route from Auckland, New Zealand to Kiribati. The complete life of Alfred Restieaux, including his English background as well as his noble French background, along with his years in early colonial Australia, New Zealand, South America, North America, Honolulu, and the islands of Oceania, is shortly to be published. You are most welcome to visit the Alfred Restieaux manuscripts (links below):
Welcome everybody to our Pacific Islands Radio Station for your free listening to our Pacific Island music 24 hours daily! Wherever you may be, please make yourself feel at home, sit back, relax, and enjoy listening to the soothing, melodious, beautiful and exciting sounds of the Pacific. Music fulfills a need to communicate. It gives expression to thoughts, ideas, beliefs and moods. It connects us with our past and in doing so it arouses feelings of joy, sorrow, excitement and serenity. Music is a language that reminds us of memorable moments in our lives. Let us hope that we all experience these wonderful things and much more in our Pacific Island music.
The music played on Pacific Islands Radio has authentic examples of both the contemporary and traditional forms of indigenous Oceania music such as that of the Australian Aboriginal people along with Pacific Island music from the low atolls like Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Tokelau and Tuvalu to the volcanic peaks of islands like Samoa, Tahiti and Hawai'i as well as the mountain ranges of New Zealand, Cook Islands, Easter Island, Papua New Guinea, Papua (Irian Jaya), the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Fiji as well as Tonga, the Federated States of Micronesia (Pohnpei, Kosrae, Chuuk and Yap), Guam, Saipan and Palau. More music from the Caroline Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the Republic of Nauru will be added to the Playlists as soon as it is available.
The beautiful and enchanting music featured on Pacific Islands Radio 64 kbps in FM Stereo comprises traditional chants of our ancestors and mythology, gospel music, as well as the day-to-day music, including songs about the beauty of the sunrise, the sunset, the people and the islands, not to mention the uniquely beautiful love songs with their haunting lyrics and melodies.
Music is an integral part of life on the islands of the Pacific. Indeed, the songs and dances are woven into the very fabric of everyday life. Life, love, work, play, the ocean, the gods, the earth itself; they all flow through the music of the Pacific Islands, as surely as the sand erodes into the sea. Pacific Island music is truly the music of the world and is proudly featured on our four Pacific Islands Radio stations!


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Using the iPhone's microphone, the NHL's new Hardest Shot app can actually measure the speed of your slapshot and your NHL potential. With the right setup of course.
First you'll need the hockey basics, like a rink, equipment, and a frozen puck, as well as $2 for the app itself. You'll need to aim at a solid surface, not a net, because the app listens for the sound of the actual shot followed by it hitting the target. So once you specify the distance (anywhere from 20 to 40 feet) it calculates the speed of your shot based on the time delay.
It also encourages you to top the NHL's record which is 105.9 mph, though doing so unfortunately doesn't guarantee you a spot in the next draft. [NHL Hardest Shot via iLounge]


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HTML5 is a new technology that allows developers to build rich web-based apps that run on any device via a standard web browser.
Many think it will save the web, rendering native platform-dependent apps obsolete.
In a new report just out from BI Intelligence, we analyze the state of the native app vs. HTML5 race, explain why native apps are winning, and detail why it may take even longer for HTML5 to win out than previously thought.
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Here's a brief overview of why it may take longer for HTML5 to win out:
- Although it is often talked of like one, HTML5 is not a platform: HTML5 is a set of related standards. This is key to understanding the problems that beset HTML5. While the idea of one HTML5-powered app working across all platforms is a nice pipe dream, the reality is currently a bit more complicated.
- HTML5 has a burgeoning fragmentation problem: This is the very problem it is often trumpeted as a solution to. According to Appcelerator's Michael King, there is a 30% differential on feature support across browsers. In other words, some HTML5 features may be supported in Chrome, but not in Safari or Firefox. This problem carries into mobile browsers as well. This undermines the idea that developers can create one HTML5 app and deploy it across all platforms.
- Apple, Google, and Facebook have all defriended HTML5 - for the time being: Facebook has abandoned its HTML5-heavy app for one built from scratch with Apple's iOS SDK. Facebook's rating in the app store has jumped from 1.5 starts to 4 stars only a few weeks after launching the new app. While the development of the mobile web is clearly in Facebook's business interest because HTML5 supports payments for mobile web apps, it's not clear that it's Apple or Google's interest. Consumers strongly favor apps to the mobile web at the moment, and Apple and Google take a cut of native app transactions.
- But, the promise of HTML5 remains: Zuckerberg had this to say about HTML5 last week: "It's not that HTML5 is bad. I'm actually, long-term, really excited about it" His regret was not that Facebook spent two years dithering on HTML5, but that it spent two years on HTML5 when it wasn't ready, or, as he put it, "it just wasn't there." As we've argued before, HTML5 is the more promising technology in the long-term, which Zuckerberg alluded to in his interview.
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Clay Moorman's '55 Chevy Bel Air shakes it with style
Sometimes it's easy to see the writing on the wall regarding where destiny will take you. It's called fate and for Clay Moorman of Elkton, Maryland, it was obvious that he'd eventually find his way into the world of hot rodding, starting way back on his parents' farm in Roanoke, Virginia. When most kids were still learning how to ride a bike, Clay moved to the head of the class perched atop his dad's lap while tending to the fields and operating cut-down Ford Model A's serving as farm equipment. It was easy to see that learning to drive the doodlebugs fueled the fire for his automotive interests. There were also daily journeys taken while sitting on an old log shifting a left-for-dead transmission through the gears as well as cobbling together countless buggies from discarded wood and wheels to race down the meadows at the farm. As the years passed, Clay maintained his enthusiasm for horsepower, getting his fix while watching an endless array of cars light up the quarter-mile at Cecil County Dragway in North East, Maryland. At the same time, there was also plenty of cruising on the local 'strip in big-inch Chryslers with his friends. After raising a family, he decided to finally step into the rodding world and live out his dreams. Having always had a fascination with Tri-Five Chevys, he started to look for one with all the right elements. Sometimes the best cars are found through personal contacts and this time it was old pal, Rodney Manuel, who turned Clay onto a wicked '55 offered by a local collector. The car had some race history and a neat attitude so a deal was made with Clay taking the keys and driving it for a few years.
Feeling that the Bel Air needed some freshening up, Clay had a meeting with Larry Stewart, owner of One-Off Rod & Custom in Middletown, Delaware. Initially, the plan was to give the car a coat of fresh paint and make some minor updates, however the more the pair discussed their ideas it was obvious that a full reincarnation was about to take place. With Stewart's talents running deep in custom metal fabrication and attention to detail, the more he looked at the project, the more subtle design elements began to infuse their way into the mix. After the decision was made to start with a full teardown, Stewart and his team first focused on building a rock-solid base to anchor everything with plenty of attitude. Using the original spine, it was blasted clean, smoothed, and molded, and treated to a number of suspension upgrades to give it a great rake. Starting up front, a '70 Nova IFS was added, accented by a pair of RideTech ShockWaves while out back a RideTech triangulated four-link and ShockWaves support a Ford 9-inch rear filled with 3.55:1 cogs. To add plenty of grip and glamour, a set of 17-inch Colorado Customs Alcatraz wheels capped with Hoosier rubber sets the stance while a Corvette power master pushes fluid through a combination of Nova discs up front and Explorer discs out back to bring everything to a halt. Remembering the adrenalin rush he experienced at the dragstrip as a youngster, Clay wanted plenty of gusto nailed to the 'rails when it came time for a fresh V-8. He contacted longtime friend Bob McMillan of RM Motorsports in Middletown, Delaware, to build a vicious fire-breather starting with a 350ci Chevy base. Bob massaged the block to perfection and filled it with an Eagle crank and matching H-beam rods linked to SRP 10:1 slugs. A COMP Cams stick sets the thump while AFR 195cc aluminum heads meld with an Edelbrock RPM intake topped with a Demon 750-cfm carb to suck in plenty of air. Spent gases get dumped through a stainless exhaust while a custom designed air cleaner and valve covers by Stewart bring an exotic edge to the party. Transferring the power to the pavement, a tweaked GM 700-R4 trans from Deltrans of Newark, Delaware, provides neck-snapping acceleration through a custom driveshaft.
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1. What is the 48 Hour Film Project?It's your chance to stop talking and start filming! The premise? Filmmaking teams have just one weekend to make a short film. All creativity—writing, shooting, editing and adding a musical soundtrack—must occur in a 48 hour window beginning Friday evening at 7:00pm and ending Sunday at 7:00pm. The following week, the completed films are screened to an eager audience.
2. How much does it cost?
The registration fee is for the entire team and includes two free tickets to the screenings (which are given to the team leader).
In the United States, registration fees vary from $125 to $198 per team, as follows:
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3. If I have to drop out, can I get a refund?It depends on when you drop out. In the United States, if a team must withdraw from the 48 Hour Film Project, refunds will be paid on the following schedule: Notify 48 Hour Film Project, Inc. of withdrawal in writing more than 30 days before competition, you will be refunded $115; Notify 48 Hour Film Project, Inc. of withdrawal between 15 and 30 days before the competition, you will be refunded $100; Notify 48 Hour Film Project of withdrawal between 7 and 14 days before competition, you will be refunded $75; No refunds for withdrawal less than 7 days before competition. The refund policy may vary in other countries.
4. When will the 48 Hour Film Project come to my city?The dates for each city are listed on our 48 Hour Film Project website. If we do not have listed dates, then the dates have not yet been determined. If you want to be the first to find out when the 48 Hour Film Project is coming to your city, sign up for your city's newsletter.
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5. What are the films about?That's up to the filmmaker; however, each team must select the genre for its movie in a random drawing 15 minutes before the start of the competition. In 2015 there are 14 genres. In addition, teams are given a character, a prop and a line of dialogue that must appear in their film.
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6. Who sees the films?The films screen to sold-out audiences in every city we've visited. Of course the filmmakers, actors, family and friends are there to enthusiastically support the premiere of the weekend's work. But also supporters of the local film community, and discriminating viewers who want to see something new—something raw and alive—are there to feel the creative energy.
7. Who are the filmmakers?The 48 Hour Film Project is open to all filmmakers, pro and novice alike. Rules state that all team members (crew and cast) must be volunteers. Most teams consist of film and video professionals. And teams have attracted some top talent on both sides of the camera. Martin Freeman, Penn of Penn and Teller, Dennis Farina, and Nick Clooney have all appeared in 48HFP films.
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8. Is there a limit to the number of people on a team?No. Our smallest team was just one person—he sets up the camera then runs around to act. Our largest team to date was a team from Albuquerque with 116 people and 30 horses! The average, though, is about 15 people per team.
9. Am I allowed to be on more than one team?Yes, you're allowed. We hope you can make the scheduling work out!
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10. How long are the films?
The films are short; they must be a minimum of 4 minutes and a maximum of 7 minutes long Short is good. Not only are shorter films tighter and usually more interesting, they are more marketable.
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11. Where and when are they shown?On the first few days following the competition deadline, the movies are screened at a grand premiere in a local movie theater. A guaranteed standing-room-only audience of tired, excited filmmakers, crews and friends are in attendance to cheer on the films.
12. How is the event advertised?The event is advertised by word of mouth, on the web, and via local press. Local filmmakers and organizations are our most vocal supporters and do a great job spreading the word. In each city, the 48 Hour Film Project has generated considerable interest from local and national media. From CNN to the Washington Post and LA Times—we've had coverage in hundreds of media outlets to date.
13. What should I do with my film after the competition?Get it out there! Enter it into festivals, play it in public screenings, upload it to websites, get it on television, and show it to anyone you can. Be sure you abide by any restrictions in the Team Leaders's Agreement.
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14. May I show a modified version of my film?
Yes, presuming that the showing adheres to the Team Leader's Agreement that you signed when entering the 48 Hour Film Project. If it is a modified version of a 48 Hour Film Project film, please include a title card and a mention in the end credits that say:
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Most teens with mental disorders not on medication, study finds
Despite concerns that too many U.S. youth use prescription psychiatric drugs, a new study suggests just one in seven teens with a mental disorder has been prescribed medication, and far fewer without a diagnosis are on treatment.
Researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which funded the study, said there was "no compelling evidence for either misuse or overuse of psychotropic medications," which include stimulants for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), antidepressants and antipsychotics.
The findings are based on interviews with more than 10,000 teens and their parents - most of whom were at least high-school educated and middle-class or above - conducted between 2001 and 2004.
In contrast, data suggesting high rates of prescription drug use in that age group has come largely from pharmacy claims records, according to an editorial published with the study.
Researchers said it's possible the drugs are used too often among certain types of kids and not often enough in others.
"Certainly the use of psychiatric medications has been increasing in children and adolescents over the years," said Dr. Benedetto Vitiello from the NIH, who worked on the study.
But, he told Reuters Health, "Most of the adolescents who met the criteria for a condition were not receiving medication, which suggests that they were being treated with something else, maybe psychotherapy, or maybe they were not even treated."
"This data may suggest that there may be underuse (of psychiatric medications) in some cases," Vitiello said.
He and his colleagues found 2,350 teens had any type of mental disorder, including anxiety, eating disorders, depression and ADHD.
Just over 14 percent of youth with a mental disorder had been prescribed a psychiatric drug in the past year. That varied by drug and type of disorder: one in five teens with ADHD were recently prescribed stimulants, for example, compared to one in 22 with anxiety who were on an antidepressant.
In youth without signs of a current disorder, 2.5 percent had been prescribed a psychiatric drug recently - most of whom had some signs of distress or a past mental disorder, the research team reported in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
The study did not keep track of how many teens were taking drugs they weren't prescribed, such as misusing stimulants as study aids.
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Because the interviews were conducted in the early 2000s, the findings may not mirror current trends in prescribing to youth, the researchers cautioned.
What's more, in his commentary on the study Dr. David Rubin from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia pointed out that the report includes a disproportionate number of higher-income families.
Kids on Medicaid, the government-sponsored health insurance program for the poor, tend to take more psychiatric drugs. That's especially true among the smaller subset of youth in foster care, of whom 12 percent were prescribed antipsychotics in 2007, according to Rubin's own research.
Medicaid enrollees get mental health services for free. But where they can access them, those services are often skewed toward medication, Rubin said, instead of talk therapy, for example.
For middle-class youth, on the other hand, insurance co-pays may present more of a barrier to any type of care, including medication.
In the new study, only about 2 percent of African American youth with depression were on antidepressants, compared to 17 percent of white teens. Similarly, 6 percent of blacks with ADHD took stimulants, compared to 23 percent of whites.
"The concern regarding the overtreatment versus undertreatment of mental health conditions is really a difficult problem to answer," said Dr. Robert Fortuna from the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York, who has studied psychiatric drug prescribing to youth but wasn't involved in the new study.
"It really requires a more nuanced view that we are possibly overprescribing in some situations and missing opportunities to treat in other situations," he told Reuters Health.
"There has to be open discussion and recognition that mental health conditions do affect many adolescents," Fortuna said, and that medications can be one way to treat them.


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The Butler men's and women's cross country programs have introduced their 2012 schedule, which includes six meets that were not on the schedule for the 2011 season, including trips as far south as Texas and as far north as South Dakota.
The Grizzlies, under third year coach Jeff Becker, will compete in 11 meets, including eight regular season and three postseason competitions.
"I am very excited about the upcoming season. We have a great schedule that opens at Allen County on the 24th of August," Becker said. "A couple of big meets on our schedule are meets in Austin, Texas and later in the season as the teams will travel to South Dakota."
The Butler harriers will kick off the season in Iola at the Allen County Duals, before making the short trip to Augusta for Wichita State University's J.K. Gold Classic at RAFT Ranch the following week.
Their next five events are new to the regular season schedule for 2012. The first of which will be a trip to the Colby Community College Invitational on Sept. 7, followed by a race in Hutchinson at the Blue Dragon Invitational on Sept. 15. Then after a week of rest, the squad will take their first jaunt out of Kansas by traveling to Austin, Texas on Sept. 28 for The Grass Routes Festival. The next week it will be another trip to northwest Kansas for the Fort Hays State Invitational. The last of the new regular season meets is the University of South Dakota's Tim Young Invitational in Vermillion, S.D. on Oct. 13.
The final regular season meet is Butler's very own Ollie Isom Invitational on Oct. 19 at Wartick Ranch, which is located approximately four miles south of campus.
On Oct. 29, the postseason schedule kicks off with the Region VI Championships in Overland Park. Nearly two weeks after the Region VI event, Butler will compete at the NJCAA Championships on Nov. 10 in Ida, Ill. This season Butler also has added a new post-season event with the NJCAA Half-Marathon Championships in Levelland, Texas, on Nov. 17.


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|Agreement Near on Performance Funding Measures
With the implementation of Governor Whitman's performance funding initiative, New Jersey joins a growing number of states that tie a portion of spending for public colleges and universities to institutional performance...
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|After four years as executive director, Martine Hammond-Paludan plans to leave the
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|INNOVATIONS - Atlantic and Cape May Officials Agree on Joint College
Many years of discussion and study came to fruition in late August when Atlantic and Cape May counties and Atlantic Community College entered into an agreement to establish a joint college...
|INNOVATIONS - Commission Approves Funds to Establish VALE
Connectivity among New Jersey's colleges and universities took a major step forward in June when the Commission on Higher Education earmarked $500,000 for the Virtual Academic Library Environment, known as VALE...
|Virtual University Will Soon be Reality in New Jersey
In an effort to make New Jersey a leader in high quality distance education, the Governor's office is spearheading the creation of a New Jersey Virtual University...
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A "downsized" Commission on Higher Education convened its September meeting with nine voting members instead of 15. The change in composition was prescribed by the Higher Education Restructuring Act, which stipulates that the four-year terms of the Commission's trustee members expired at the end of June 1998...
|Commission Awards Urban Revitalization Planning Grants
In September, the Commission on Higher Education awarded 13 planning grants to 12 urban colleges and universities that will join with community groups and the private sector to develop proposals to address pressing local problems and needs.
With the implementation of Governor Whitman's performance funding initiative, New Jersey joins a growing number of states that tie a portion of spending for public colleges and universities to institutional performance.
In the current fiscal year, all New Jersey public institutions receive a performance-based increase equal to one percent of operating aid. Beginning in FY 2000, each institution's aid amount will be calculated based on the achievement of performance standards.
Governor Whitman specified four key areas of institutional performance that reflect state priorities identified in the long-range plan for higher education: graduation, transfer/articulation, institutional efficiency, and diversification of institutional revenues.
Over the past several months, the Commission staff has worked with New Jersey's 31 public colleges and universities to develop clear standards and agree on performance benchmarks in each of the four areas the Governor specified. Representatives from the Governor's office, Treasury, and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) also participated in those discussions.
The standards measure performance both in absolute terms and from year to year. Institutions will be judged against agreed-upon benchmarks that are suitable to institutional missions. They will not be compared with each other.
The performance funding indicators address issues of concern to the general public, said Martine Hammond-Paludan, executive director of the Commission. "New Jersey taxpayers want students at New Jersey's public colleges and universities to complete their studies in a timely fashion. They want institutions to enhance effectiveness by using their revenues efficiently, they want employers to value New Jersey college graduates, and they want tuition costs contained," she told Commission members at their September meeting.
Noting that the Commission first proposed performance funding in fall 1997, Dr. Paludan said she is pleased by the Governor's proactive stance in the FY 1999 budget. She said the Commission, working with the institutions, developed a plan that will both strengthen accountability and enhance the quality of New Jersey's public colleges and universities into the next century.
Citing the difficulty of being geographically separated from her husband Phillip, a professor at the University of Kansas, Dr. Paludan said the decision was purely personal.
"The past four years have been an incredible experience," she told the Commission. "I love the intensity and challenges that New Jersey presents and I believe restructuring has achieved much in four years."
"Dr. Paludan has been instrumental in bringing the Commission's planning efforts to fruition through the enactment of various funding and policy recommendations," Commission Chairman Alfred Cade said in announcing her resignation at the Commission's September meeting.
"She has done this through a broad knowledge of higher education issues nationally, her remarkable ability to focus on those items important to the Commission, and through her consultative style of listening and learning from campus leaders, legislators, and the Governor. Dr. Paludan deserves a large share of the credit for the Commission's successes over the past four years," he said.
"Dr. Paludan played a critical role in the evolution of the state's Commission on Higher Education—creating an efficient and modern organization that best suits the needs of New Jersey's higher education community," said Governor Christine Todd Whitman.
Mr. Cade appointed a committee to conduct a national search with the goal of appointing a new executive director early in 1999.
Atlantic and Cape May Officials Agree on Joint College
Many years of discussion and study came to fruition in late August when Atlantic and Cape May counties and Atlantic Community College entered into an agreement to establish a joint college.
Cape May is the only one of New Jersey's 21 counties that does not have its own or a joint community college. Creation of the new regional college will dramatically enhance higher education opportunities in New Jersey's southernmost county and will give Cape May residents a voice on the college's governing board.
In 1995, the Commission on Higher Education determined that a joint college would serve New Jersey's southeastern region more efficiently and more effectively than a stand-alone community college in Cape May County. The Commission pledged to actively support initiatives for a bi-county or regional college, and later recommended that the Legislature redirect $645,000 in unexpended funds from the Jobs, Education, and Competitiveness Bond Act to support higher education services in Cape May County.
Under the agreement, the joint college will get a new name and a new 60,000-square-foot full-service campus in Cape May Court House. However, course offerings in Cape May County will be expanded well before construction is completed in 2001, with additional classes available at the current extension center in Rio Grande and other satellite locations beginning in January 1999.
The three-party agreement stipulates that Atlantic and Cape May counties will provide funding for the new joint college based on the proportion of credits taken by the residents of each county. Currently, about 1,200 Cape May residents attend Atlantic Community College under a chargeback system that enables them to pay the same tuition rate paid by Atlantic County residents, with their home county paying an additional subsidy.
Because the new funding agreement is a departure from the current joint community college funding formula, legislative approval of the agreement is needed. Legislation (S-1380/A-2410) was introduced in the Senate and Assembly in September, and the counties are hoping for swift action to approve the joint college agreement.
When the joint college agreement takes effect on December 1, Cape May County will gain representation on both the joint college board of trustees and the board of school estimate, the body that sets college appropriations.
Commission Chairman Alfred Cade joined county and college officials in touting the historic agreement to create a joint college serving the residents of Atlantic and Cape May counties. Mr. Cade said the agreement is a creative approach to meeting the educational needs of southeastern New Jersey that is consistent with New Jersey's long-range plan for higher education.
"This win-win arrangement is a wonderful example of how higher education partnerships can improve services in a cost-effective manner," Mr. Cade said.
While the Commission is not required to act on the jointure agreement, eventually it will have to approve the creation of a full-service branch campus in Cape May County. The Commission is also required by statute to apportion the membership of the joint college's board of trustees, which it did in September.
Commission Approves Funds to Establish VALE
Connectivity among New Jersey's colleges and universities took a major step forward in June when the Commission on Higher Education earmarked $500,000 for the Virtual Academic Library Environment, known as VALE.
The Higher Education Technology Infrastructure Fund includes $5 million for institutional interconnectivity. While most of that money will be used to create a systemwide higher education network, the Higher Education Technology Advisory Committee recommended using $500,000 to establish VALE.
With institutional matching funds of $500,000 and an additional $100,000 provided by the State Library, a total of $1.1 million is available for the project.
VALE will enable academic libraries at the 45 public and independent institutions with a public mission to collaborate on database acquisitions, leveraging their collective buying power and providing access to information resources beyond those of any single institution. All institutions are currently receiving access to the four databases contained in VALE through the Internet. Phase in of direct access to databases will begin in November.
A steering committee will provide assessment and planning for VALE annually to ensure that it is meeting members' current and future information needs.
In an effort to make New Jersey a leader in high quality distance education, the Governor's office is spearheading the creation of a New Jersey Virtual University.
A 13-member design team chaired by Wendy Rayner, the state's chief information officer, is developing a blueprint for a virtual university and implementing the first phase of the initiative — an interactive, on-line catalogue of distance learning opportunities offered by New Jersey colleges and universities. The design team includes representatives from the higher education community, the telecommunications industry, and state government. (see box below)
Creating a New Jersey Virtual University will make students and employers more aware of the abundant opportunities for "any time, any place" learning. A coordinated effort to address the increasing demand for distance education will enhance access to higher education programs and encourage lifelong learning.
The on-line index of credit and noncredit offerings should be available by the end of December. The design team is studying similar efforts in other states to develop recommendations regarding the virtual university structure and full range of services that will best meet New Jersey's current and future needs.
|Virtual University Design Team
|Wendy Rayner, chair, Governor's office
|Robert Bocchino, DeVry Institute
|Leonard Bogdon, William Paterson University
|Ray Caprio, Rutgers University
|Edward Chapel, Fairleigh Dickinson University
|Lanse Davis, SETC
|William Freeman, Bell Atlantic-NJ
|Cary Israel, Raritan Valley Community College
|Wendy Lang, Governor's office
|John McMaster, AT&T
|Julie O'Sullivan Maillet, UMDNJ
|Jeanne Oswald, Commission on Higher Education
|Gale Spak, NJIT
A "downsized" Commission on Higher Education convened its September meeting with nine voting members instead of 15.
The change in composition was prescribed by the Higher Education Restructuring Act, which stipulates that the four-year terms of the Commission's trustee members expired at the end of June 1998.
Governor Whitman attended the Commission's June meeting and personally thanked the departing members for their hard work throughout the Commission's first four years. She presented proclamations of appreciation to Oswald Cano, Edward FitzPatrick, Donald Loff, Thomas Sayles, Jr., and Anne Thomas. The sixth trustee position was vacant.
The Governor also presented proclamations to departing student members Robert Benacchio and Nicole Parisi, and to Arnold Speert as he concluded his term on the Commission as chair of the Presidents' Council. Dr. Speert was replaced by the new chair of the Presidents' Council, Peter Burnham, who is the president of Brookdale Community College.
William Freeman, the president of Bell Atlantic-New Jersey, was recently confirmed by the Senate as a new member of the Commission, replacing Dr. Robert Albright. Mr. Freeman will be sworn in in November. Two other nominations to fill vacancies are pending.
The Commission's new student members are Anne Loyle, a liberal arts student majoring in math and science at Cumberland County College, and Maura Reilly, a psychology major at the College of New Jersey.
Ms. Loyle returned to college after working for 12 years in restaurant management. She plans to complete her associate degree program and then transfer to a four-year institution to prepare for a teaching career at the college level. The mother of a four-year-old, she currently tutors students in math and is also a member of the Cumberland County College Student Senate.
Ms. Reilly expects to earn her bachelor's degree from the College of New Jersey in May 1999. She is president of the Leadership Development Program, through which she developed and presented educational workshops on the college campus and at community high schools. Ms. Reilly also serves as a residence hall advisor and as an assistant in the Office of Campus Life. She is an associate member of the Student Government Association and the Society for Human Resource Management.
In September, the Commission on Higher Education awarded 13 planning grants to 12 urban colleges and universities that will join with community groups and the private sector to develop proposals to address pressing local problems and needs.
The Urban Incentive Grant Program grew out of the long-range plan for New Jersey higher education, which recommended that the Commission and the Presidents' Council jointly develop a proposal for incentive funding to promote higher education's involvement in urban revitalization. The grants of up to $25,000 each are the first phase of the program. Collaboratives with successful planning grants will compete for eight implementation grants of up to $1 million each, pending appropriation of the funds in the next fiscal year.
Planning grants were awarded to institutions located in all eight eligible locales – Camden, Elizabeth, Jersey City, Millville/Vineland, Newark, Pemberton, Paterson, and Trenton.
Each successful collaborative consists of multiple constituencies that include community organizations, business and industry, local government, and residents. Several of the collaboratives include more than one higher education partner. The participants were required to demonstrate previous involvement in community outreach and readiness to participate effectively in the project.
The planning grants may be used for technical assistance, travel, and clerical assistance.
|Urban Planning Grant Recipients
|Burlington County College (two grants)
|Cumberland County College
|Mercer County Community College
|New Jersey City University
|New Jersey Institute of Technology
|Passaic County Community College
|Rowan University
|Rutgers Uniiversity - Newark
|Saint Peter's College
|Thomas Edison State College
|Union County College
|University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ


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"Where does your contribution go?" is correct.
"does" is the third-person singular present tense form of the verb "to do" (I do, you do, he/she/it does, we do, they do).
"To do" is an example of an auxiliary verb, which I prefer to call a "helping verb", because that's what it does -- it helps. Some verbs are always helping verbs (for example, can, must, may...), while other verbs can sometimes be helping verbs and sometimes main verbs (for example, to do, to have...). Most verbs are main verbs only (to play, to sing, to go...).
In a normal sentence, the usual construction is: Subject, helping verb, main verb, followed by everything else. Here are some sentences, with the helping verb underlined:
Sue is playing the piano.
Peter can swim very well.
They have eaten the cake.
But this sentence doesn't have a helping verb:
Your contribution goes to people in third-world countries.
When we want to form a question, we usually (but not always) put the helping verb before the subject, like this:
Is Sue playing the piano?
Can Peter swim?
If we have a "question word" (an "interrogative pronoun" to be exact), that usually goes at the beginning of the sentence, but we still have the word order helping verb - subject - main verb:
What have they eaten?
But if we don't have a helping verb, how can we form a question? As I said, a question is formed by swapping subject and helping verb, but look at these two sentences:
Peter watches TV.
* Peter watches TV?
(The * means "This sentence is incorrect").
In some languages, like Spanish, you can do that -- just use the normal word order and use a question mark when writing, and intonation when speaking. (Spanish also uses the character ¿ at the beginning of a question to help readers recognise that this is a question.) But that is not formal English -- at best, it's informal; at worst, it's slang. We must have a helping verb.
So, to the rescue comes: "to do". This verb acts as a helping verb when a helping verb is necessary but no other helping verb works. It's a "dummy verb"; it doesn't mean anything, it's just there for the grammar.
When used in this way, "to do" takes the basic form of the main verb: this may be called the "verb word" or the "infinitve without 'to'":
I go; I do go
you go; I do go
he/she/it goes; he/she/it does go
Look at it this way: because the "-s" is now attached to the helping verb, we don't need it on the main verb any more -- one "-s" is enough.
So "Peter watches" becomes "Peter does watch", and now we can change the word order to helping verb - subject - main verb: "Does Peter watch TV"? Or: "What does Peter watch?"
So your example:
Your contribution goes to... (Oops! No helping verb. So let's use "to do")
Your contribution does go to... (So now we can make a question)
Does your contribution go to...? (And now we add a question word)
Where does your contribution go?
In the same way, we need a helping verb when making negative sentences, because a negative is formed by adding "not" (often shortened to "n't") to the helping verb:
Sue isn't playing the piano.
Peter can't swim very well.
They haven't eaten the cake.
Peter doesn't watch TV.
So, although ordinary sentences can work without a helping verb, questions usually can't (there are some that do work without a helping verb, though) and negatives can never work without a helping verb. If no helping verb is available, then "to do", wearing its "Superverb" costume, appears out of the blue and saves the day.


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With all the diet and weight loss products being sold today it's easy to forget that natural herbs for weight loss have been around for many, many years. Unfortunately, these herbs don't receive the heavy advertising budgets that other weight loss products and systems do. But, that doesn't mean that natural herbs don't work in losing weight. Here's a look at how herbs can help you achieve the results you've been looking for.
The problem with all the different weight loss pills, powders and systems on the market today is that you just don't know what actually works and what doesn't. Most of them are simply built around marketing and hype. That isn't a great way to spend your money and try to lose weight.
Natural herbs for weight loss provide many benefits, even some which go beyond reducing your weight. Some of these herbs include:
I know you may be thinking that dandelion is a pesky weed you try to keep from growing in your yard, but the truth is somewhat different. Dandelion is known as a diuretic when used in weight loss. It helps with the digestive tract when eaten in salads or put in a tea. Research is even proving dandelion to eliminate cholesterol, which is a major health concern today.
St. John's Wort
Used primarily as a mood enhancer, St John's Wort works as a natural herb for weight loss based on research that shows people who are happy tend to eat less than those who are depressed. It may cause much less binge eating, which can really pack on the pounds when left unchecked.
Licorice Root
This interesting herb helps with weight loss in that it cuts out the cravings. You will find yourself not craving those afternoon snacks like you may have been. Licorice root doesn't contain the high calories and carbohydrates as snack foods do. The one important thing to keep in mind though is that eating too much of it may have an adverse effect on blood pressure levels.
Garcinia Cambogia
This natural herb for weight loss is a good appetite suppressant as well as great for your metabolism. You can find garcinia cambogia in most all health food and drug stores. It comes in a capsule and for maximum effectiveness you take 500mg 3 times a day. As a weight loss herb, garcinia cambogia is one of the best you will find.
This is only a short list of the various natural herbs for weight loss that are available. You can find out much more by doing some research online. If you are looking to lose weight naturally, I would encourage you to further check into using herbs. It could be your best bet.[ad_2]
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