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This lecture covers modeling the neuron in silicon, modeling vision and audition and sensory fusion using a deep network.
Presentation of a simulation software for spatial model neurons and their networks designed primarily for GPUs.
Presentation of past and present neurocomputing approaches and hybrid analog/digital circuits that directly emulate the properties of neurons and synapses.
Presentation of the Brian neural simulator, where models are defined directly by their mathematical equations and code is automatically generated for each specific target.
The lecture covers a brief introduction to neuromorphic engineering, some of the neuromorphic networks that the speaker has developed, and their potential applications, particularly in machine learning.
The "connectome" is a term, coined in the past decade, that has been used to describe more than one phenomenon in neuroscience. This lecture explains the basics of structural connections at the micro-, meso- and macroscopic scales.
Introduction to the types of glial cells, homeostasis (influence of cerebral blood flow and influence on neurons), insulation and protection of axons (myelin sheath; nodes of Ranvier), microglia and reactions of the CNS to injury.
How does the brain learn? This lecture discusses the roles of development and adult plasticity in shaping functional connectivity.
This lecture will highlight our current understanding and recent developments in the field of neurodegenerative disease research, as well as the future of diagnostics and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases


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You can do your homework, yet nothing can simulate actually working an event. This is when reality hits, and you have the face-to-face opportunity to build or strengthen relationships that will help increase your sales or get you the job or promotion you want … or to miss the chance because you don't know networking etiquette or didn't engage in meaningful conversations that made you memorable. There's so much more to working an event than just showing up. This course details what to do from start to finish, giving you the framework to adapt to your style so you can succeed much more easily.
Prerequisite(s): While not absolutely necessary, it will be helpful for you to have taken CP002 ("Laying the Relationship-Building Foundation"), CP003 ("To Catch Trout, Don't Fish in a Catfish Pond"), and CP004 ("Create Effective, Powerful Verbal and Printed Business Cards and Know How to Use Them Effectively") in the five-part "Building Relationships for Business and Career Success" series.


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George Millman Papers
Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1919, George Millman attended Massachusetts State College briefly, but was forced to drop out after his freshman year due to financial hardship. After attending a three-month intensive training course, Millman was employed by the War Department in 1941 as a civilian inspector in the munitions plant in New London, Connecticut. In the months that followed the attack on Pearl Harbor, he felt it was his patriotic duty to join the armed forces and enlisted on May 28, 1942. Called to active duty six months later, Millman was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps on April 29, 1943. Already dating his soon-to-be-bride Lillian, the couple decided to marry immediately before he could be sent overseas. Assigned to a class on the theoretical aspects of radar at Harvard University, Millman was ordered to report to the Army Air Force Technical School in Boca Raton in late 1943. On June 24, 1944, he received secret travel orders assigning him to the 5th Air Force Service Command in Brisbane, Australia. There he began training fighter pilots on the use and operation of the newly developed airborne radar, AN/APS-4. Throughout his tour in the Pacific, which ended in early 1946, Millman traveled throughout the region, including time in Australia, the Netherlands East Indies, the Netherlands New Guinea, and the Philippines.
Containing almost 400 letters written to his wife Lillian during World War II, Millman's papers detail nearly every aspect of life in the service during wartime. From chronicling extreme environmental conditions to his feelings of frustration while awaiting assignment, Millman's letters offer a personal perspective of the impact of war on an individual and his loved ones. While his letters carefully avoid any details about his work that could have been censored, they capture in extraordinary detail the day-to-day life of a serviceman in the Pacific theater during WWII. Millman published his letters to his wife in 2011 in a book entitled Letters to Lillian.


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WASHINGTON, July 11 (UPI) -- Many state-run health insurance exchanges will provide distinct plan choices exceeding the Affordable Care Act's minimum requirements, U.S. researchers say.
A Commonwealth Fund report found state-run health insurance exchanges will exceed federal quality-reporting requirements, offering small-business employees a choice of health plans that won't be available in states with federally run marketplaces until 2015.
The report's authors, Sarah Dash, Kevin Lucia, Katie Keith and Christine Monahan of Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute, said many state-run health insurance marketplaces plan to promote a seamless "one-stop shop" for consumers to enroll in coverage.
The report examined 17 states, along with the District of Columbia, that elected to run their own health insurance marketplaces. The marketplaces begin to enroll consumers on Oct. 1, 2013, for coverage beginning Jan. 1, 2014.
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In a voice that trembles, then breaks, Chulda Sofer pleads for help finding her son, Aaron, who went missing during a hike in the Jerusalem Forest – a long way from the home he shares with nine siblings in Lakewood, New Jersey.
"I want to thank everyone for all their help, but I ask you please, please, please — I beg of you, I beg you, please — if anyone sees any whereabouts of Aaron, please call the police immediately," Chulda says, holding up a "missing" poster that shows her 23-year-old son, smiling in his traditional Orthodox Jewish clothing and black hat.
Aaron Sofer is an ultra-Orthodox yeshiva student pursuing his religious studies in Israel. He disappeared while hiking Friday in the Jerusalem Forest. He was there with a friend, and the two became separated while navigating a steep incline, the friend told police when he reported Aaron missing six hours later.
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Sofer's family fears he may have been kidnapped or attacked by Palestinian militants.The area where he disappeared is the same forest where Israeli extremists are accused of killing a Palestinian teenager in retaliation for the murders of three Israeli teens in June.
In the videotaped message, Aaron's father, Moshe, thanks law enforcement agencies in both countries, including the FBI and Israeli police, for their help. "The police are working tirelessly on all fronts and all options are being strongly investigated," he says.
Back home in the Ocean County, New Jersey, town where Aaron grew up, two of his younger brothers made brief appeals today before attending a community prayer service.
"Just please bring back our brother. I'm talking on behalf of the whole family that's in America. He's my brother right over me. I just have one message: Please bring back my brother," said Yaakov Sofer.
Aaron's brother-in-law Yehuda Wicentowsky described the missing man as a very kind and nice person and asked the public to keep pressure on the governments involved in his search. The sentiment from a seasoned New York politician was not as diplomatic.
"There's a sense that not enough was done from the very, very beginning," said Dov Hikind, a New York City assemblyman. He called for the Israeli government to ramp up their efforts and treat the search for Sofer the same as they would for an Israeli soldier.
"Because we know what the Israeli government does when an Israeli soldier goes missing. Every resource in the world is put into it. And Aaron is a soldier," he said.
The Sofer family is offering 100,000 shekels, which is equivalent to about $28,000, for information that leads to Aaron's whereabouts. They've launched a website – Search for Sofer – to help fund the search and reward.


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As millions of Chinese take to the road, air, rail and sea to make it home in time for Lunar New Year festivities on Sunday, overcrowding at a Beijing detention center has prompted the authorities to free many inmates.
At Majialou, a detention center on the outskirts of Beijing used to hold those who complain about their local governments, around 1,000 people are being told to leave, in a move which rights activists say could be prompted by concerns over China's international image.
Tian Lan, a petitioner from neighboring Hebei province, said she was released from the Majialou holding center on Friday.
"When I got out of there, they were in the process of emptying Majialou," Tian said. "There were a lot of security guards hired by different provinces there."
However, she said that many petitioners have no homes and no income, and their main priority was to stay warm and fed.
"Some people didn't want to leave because it was too cold, and they had no money for food or anywhere to sleep," she said.
"At least in there they had somewhere to sleep and a steamed bun to eat."
Tian said the detention center, which is an extrajudicial facility, or "black jail," appeared to be shutting down over the holiday period, and had been crammed with people.
"There are different detention rooms depending on which province you come from," she said. "They were jam-packed with at least 1,000 people; all of them people who came to Beijing to complain."
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Zhejiang petitioner Shen Zhihua said she was detained by police outside the United Nations offices in eastern Beijing on Sunday and taken to Majialou, before being escorted home by officials from her hometown on Friday.
But she said she had already bought a train ticket to return to Beijing on Saturday.
"Right now, they keep you for a day in Majialou to see if anyone [from your local government] comes to get you, but if they don't, they kick you out the next day."
"They won't let you stay there."
Hubei petitioner Jing Mingguo said the new policy didn't prevent local governments from holding petitioners in their own "black jails," however.
"There were 26 of us locked up in Huer Primary school; the shortest period of detention was more than two months," Jing said. "The longest was six months."
He said the authorities could be clamping down on the use of facilities like Majialou after pressure from the petitioners themselves.
"Firstly, it's partly pressure from the outside world, and secondly, we just kept telling them what is legal and reasonable behavior," Jing said.
"We demanded to be allowed to go home over Chinese New Year."
Closing accounts
Sichuan-based rights activist and founder of the Tianwang rights website Huang Qi said the move could have something to do with local governments closing down their annual accounts ahead of the the New Year.
"There are huge numbers of petitioners flooding Beijing at this time of year," Huang said. "The government ... doesn't want to have large numbers of people held for long periods of time in there."
"This wouldn't suit their purposes for the running of black jails," he said, adding that the government was likely concerned about its international image around its treatment of petitioners.
Sunday will see the end of the Year of the Dragon, and the beginning of the Year of the Snake, with the emergence of the new moon.
Around 200 million people are thought to have joined the biggest human migration on the planet this year, cramming onto trains and long-distance buses for many hours to make it home in time for the all-important New Year's Eve family meal.
China's petitioners, many of whom sleep rough in the underpasses of the capital as they attempt to complain against the ruling Communist Party, usually expect to be the target of official round-ups and harassment at this time.
Reported by Lin Jing for RFA's Cantonese service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.


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Using their secret formula for lunar propulsion (derived from the mooseberry bush), Rocky and Bullwinkle meet moon men Gidney and Cloyd. They explain to the moon men that they are from Frostbite Falls, and how they got to the moon in the first place (Bullwinkle's recipe blew the stove to the moon, so they had to get it back). Returning to earth, Rocky and Bullwinkle walk into a trap. No sooner do they escape the perils of Pottsylvania than, while mountain-climbing the Grimalayas, they encounter the moon men trying to get home. With Rocky and Bullwinkle's help, Gidney and Cloyd flunk their citizenship tests, and they are deported back to the moon.
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Why are people creationists? Like most of my colleagues at NCSE, I get that question a lot. Chris Mooney recently summarized some of the psychological research relevant to that question in a recent post at Mother Jones. "Our brains," he writes, "are a stunning product of evolution; and yet ironically, they may naturally pre-dispose us against its acceptance." Why? Because evolution contradicts many of our intuitions and cognitive biases. He lists seven major factors:
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The 29th Infantry Division
In 1985, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the US Army's Center of Military History began a program to honor US Army divisions that took part in the liberation of Nazi camps. To date, 36 divisions, including the 29th Infantry Division, have been recognized as liberating units.
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The 29th Infantry Division was created in July 1917, a few months after the United States entered World War I. It served in France in 1918. In early 1941, the "Blue and Gray" division was reactivated for service and became part of the first Allied assault on the Normandy beaches on D-Day (June 6, 1944), the massive invasion of western Europe. After landing at Omaha Beach, the unit pushed westward to participate in the attack on the French port of Brest.
In October 1944, the 29th advanced eastward. It reached the German border by the end of the year. In February 1945, it drove into Germany and in April was active in the fierce fighting in the Ruhr region. By war's end, the "Blue and Gray" had reached the Elbe River.
As the 29th Infantry Division advanced into Germany, it liberated Dinslaken, a civilian labor camp.
The 29th Infantry Division was recognized as a liberating unit by the US Army's Center of Military History and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995.
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Casualty figures for the 29th Infantry Division, European theater of operations:
- Total battle casualties: 20,620
- Total deaths in battle: 4,824
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The "Blue and Gray" was coined as the nickname of the 29th Infantry Division by the division's commander during World War I. The name commemorates the lineage of the mid-Atlantic states' National Guard units that formed the division, many with service on both sides during the Civil War.


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hi i am an amatuer programming student
i have to create a game in which the user guesses a number that the computer has already chosen, after every guess the computer must state whether the number the user chose needs to be higher or lower in order to get the answer right.
my problem i can get the user to enter a number and the computer does state whether the number needs to be higher or lower it just wont ask for another guess of the number...
how do i do this?
my code looks like this
int number; c.print("You have chosen Game 1"); c.print("\nThis game is very simple, the computer will have chosen a number, "); c.print("\nyou must figure out this number. "); c.print("\nEverytime you enter a number the computer will tell you if you must go higher or lower."); Random randomGenerator = new Random(); for (int idx = 1;idx < 2; idx++) { int randomInt = randomGenerator.nextInt(20) + 1; c.print("\n"); c.print("The computer has chosen a number please enter your first guess."); c.print("\n"); number = c.readInt(); if (number < randomInt) { c.print("The number you have guessed is too low, guess again"); } c.print("\n"); if (number > randomInt) { c.print("The number you have guessed is too high, guess again"); } if (number == randomInt) { c.print("Congrats! You found the correct number! You Win"); } }


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Kids Just Don't Get It!
I wrote a letter to John - WhyQuit's founder - in February 2000, shortly after we met. John and I were discussing presenting youth programs when he said to me that he had started smoking to impress a girl and would have given up his big toe for a chance at a date. In that she smoked, John thought smoking would somehow help in this effort. Much of the following article was part of my response to John. The reasons people give for starting to smoke are not the reason that they continue.
Kids just don't get it! On the surface, the preceding sentence explains why kids are smoking at such an alarming rate. Here we have a product that is deadly, so deadly in fact it has been deemed the most preventable cause of premature death in almost all developed nations. Many who don't die from cigarettes will still become impaired or crippled from them.
Not only are cigarettes deadly, they're expensive, too. Kids taking up smoking today are likely to spend their entire life dependent upon a product that will end up costing them tens of thousands of dollars. But today, kids are still taking up smoking in record numbers. What is the only logical explanation for this tragedy?
Again, it must be that kids just don't get it. But don't be too quick to interpret my meaning of this phrase. Yes, there are some kids who no matter what you teach them will not listen to any amount of reasoning. But this is not the majority of kids taking up smoking.
When I say kids don't get it, I don't mean kids lack the common sense to make a rational decision about smoking. What they don't get is the real information in a manner that helps them understand the magnitude of the danger and the power of the addiction. Without such understanding they are not equipped with the ammunition to overcome peer pressure, as well as tobacco promotion tactics by cigarette manufacturers.
When I try to offer programs to many local schools, free of charge mind you, I often get turned down for the reason that they can't take time out of the busy education schedule required in schools today. Besides this, the school officials often feel kids already are getting the facts about smoking in health classes and DARE presentations.
This is all well and good, except the message delivered in these programs is often presented quickly and most truly skim the surface of the depth of nicotine addiction.
I know when I do a school for the first time, the kids are amazed at the stories I relate about the dangers of smoking and the strength of addiction. More important than this though, it almost never fails that the health teacher comes up to me and tells me that he or she never understood the magnitude of the problem.
Recently, I spoke at a conference where representatives from many health organizations were coming to find out how to possibly obtain funding from tobacco settlement monies. The DARE officers present came up to me afterwards shocked about how dangerous smoking actually was. It was apparent that the people who were being relied upon to do the education didn't understand the dangers themselves.
The authorities in the schools who should have been responsible for making sure that students were actually being taught the dangers, were not working to make the information available to the students because they were under the false impression that it was being adequately covered by poorly-informed DARE officers.
Kids can get it if it is given to them. It's not only a financial limitation that this material is not disseminated. It is a lack of resolve and commitment by the public that allows this to happen. Parents should be demanding this information for kids. PTA groups should be screaming to increase the educational component of smoking prevention.
But unfortunately, most of them don't get it either. How often does a parent react to their child smoking by saying, "Well at least they are not using drugs." There are so many problems faced by kids today such as drugs, alcohol and violence that smoking seems minor in comparison.
What parents and other responsible adults fail to understand is that smoking is going to kill more children than all the other problems combined. Their child has picked up an addiction that is likely going to kill him or her.
What do I mean by likely? Well for every thousand 20-year olds who smoke today and don't quit, six of them will eventually die prematurely from being murdered (violence), 12 will eventually die prematurely from accidents, and 500 will die from smoking!
"But, at least they are not using drugs." Understand that when parents say this or think this they don't get it either. It is likely that the parents never learned the full extent of the dangers or the addictive properties of nicotine while they were young either.
John, you made the comment that you would have given up your toe for Kimberly back when you were a kid. Think about it though, do you really think you would have given up your toe?
If I was there with a chainsaw and made a promise that I would guarantee you a date with Kimberly if you let me lop off your toe, would you have accepted my offer? Probably not, and this analogy is not as farfetched as it may sound on the surface.
There are people who end up losing toes, fingers, feet, hands, legs, and arms from peripheral vascular diseases caused by smoking. Their doctors often give them the choice to quit smoking or lose the limb, but they really don't have a choice. They are addicts who lost control.
Kids need to understand the extent of that control before they begin smoking. Not just that it smells bad, not that it makes your teeth yellow, and not that it is just "bad" for you. Kids think lots of things are bad for them. But tobacco is in a league by itself. When more kids get this information in its full non-diluted strength, more will have the ammunition needed to say no.
Peer pressure is a real phenomenon. Just telling kids not to give into it isn't enough. Give them the reason not to give into it. Give them the full unadulterated message of the deadly and addictive nature of nicotine. Give them a reason to say no and they will be more likely to say no. Let's make sure kids do get it and I think we will see a turn-around in current trends.


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Nate Berg is a freelance reporter and a former staff writer for CityLab. He lives in Los Angeles.
Our cities are tweeting. Of the 75 largest cities in the U.S., 87 percent are using Twitter to engage with their citizens. That's the same percentage that are also active on Facebook.
Before you dismiss these figures as unsurprising, keep in mind that they represent a dramatic jump from just a few years earlier. A recent report [PDF] from researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago compares the websites of the 75 biggest cities in 2009 and 2011. Over that time, Twitter use increased 62 percent, Facebook use by 74 percent and YouTube linking by 59 percent.
Open data – sets of publicly accessible data about city properties, budgets and permits – is still a nascent development in city governments, with only 12 of the 75 largest cities offering such portals. Being a relatively new development among cities, open data wasn't tracked in the 2009 report.
With this increased emphasis on online engagement comes new challenges for city governments. As I discussed in a recent article on mayoral communications offices' approach to handling public input on Twitter and Facebook, dealing with the deluge can be difficult, especially after controversial decisions or unpopular moves. But the trend seems to indicate that city governments are willing to take the possible flak.
The data for this report was collected between March and May 2011. Based on the rapid changes reported between 2009 and 2011, the actual figures likely have changed even more since then.
The report also scores cities for their overall online civic engagement, based on 94 criteria (90 for governments without city managers). New York City and Seattle tied for first place in the ranking, with a score of 93.33 percent.
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The previous study in 2009 used slightly different metrics, and only those shared between the two years are used in this analysis. Nevertheless, the results speak to the rapidly changing makeup of government services outreach efforts today. And some cities are making these changes very rapidly. In 2009, Denver ranked 20th on the list. Now it's fifth. Kansas City, Missouri, jumped from 23rd to fourth.
Two cities not surprisingly in the top 10 are San Francisco and Philadelphia. As this recent article by Emily Badger explores, these two cities are thinking about how to use technology to better engage with their residents, and one way they're doing it is through a new city official called the Chief Innovation Officer. "Some cities now are realizing that what I really need is someone to help me advance digital quality of life for my city," Philadelphia Chief Innovation Officer Abel Ebeid told Badger, "rather than just keep a bunch of servers warm and running in a closet."
A few other interesting stats from the report:
But as the report notes, all the attention paid to social networking and better city websites isn't necessarily improving government:
Local websites play an important role in making basic information about cities available, including contact information, government policies and processes, government organization, information about council meetings, and important policy documents, such as budgets. This improves transparency and offers citizens information that could help them to intervene on issues if they so choose. As in 2009, however, local governments generally have not used their websites as a venue for citizen participation. Social networks pose some potential for this, but a scan of activity on the websites doesn't indicate much active discussion.
In other words, most of the online engagement cities are offering isn't exactly a brave new world. Anyone who's subscribed to a city newsletter can attest to that. But from a city's perspective, even this sort of no-brainer, low-impact outreach can achieve some goals. Cities know that not everyone wants to log into Facebook to leave a comment about the latest ordinance proposals, which is why the more ways to engage with people the better. But if cities are only providing an online format to have the same type of participation they could in City Hall, the ball of progress hasn't moved forward all that much.
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The Western New York city possesses a distinct mix of weather, geography, and infrastructure that could make it a potential climate haven. But for whom?
As a controversy over vacancy in the Bay Area and Los Angeles reveals, advocates disagree about what kind of housing should be built, and where.
Milwaukee now averages a mere 2.4 combined sewer overflows a year, thanks to a massive underground tunnel, green infrastructure, and flood-control measures.
A new study shows that the country faces different opioid challenges in urban and rural areas.
At the Cascadia Rail Summit outside Seattle, a fledgling scheme to bring high-speed rail from Portland to Vancouver found an enthusiastic reception.


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Lucchino prefers two leagues without DH
BOSTON -- The Red Sox don't have an Interleague game until May 28, when they travel to Philadelphia, but some teams started Interleague Play as early as Opening Day.
With Interleague games on display all season in 2013, there's already chatter about the possibility of the designated hitter becoming a permanent fixture in the National League.
If democracy has a say, Red Sox president/chief executive officer Larry Lucchino will vote against that change. Lucchino would prefer consistency through both leagues, and in Lucchino's mind, that would be without a DH.
"Rule No. 1 in the baseball rulebook," Lucchino said, "Baseball is a game played by two teams of nine players each. It doesn't say, 'Except for the American League, which is going to play with 10.' It says two teams with nine players each. Rule No. 1. Check it out."
Lucchino's memory of the baseball rulebook is accurate, and his preference for a game without a designated hitter is traditional.
"I've always accepted the notion of a DH in one league and not in the other, because it underscored that we have two different leagues and two different products," Lucchino said. "And it was important that the National League had a certain brand, the American League had a certain brand, and that was a big thing to underscore, to reinforce to the public.
"But now I think those brands will always be there and will always sustain themselves. And if I were to vote on it, had the only vote on it, or wave my proverbial magic wand, I think I would phase out the DH and probably have both leagues without the DH."


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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and prepare for the World Cup starting tomorrow. Are you sufficiently prepared? Do you have food and beer representing all 32 teams ready at your disposal? Beer from Cameroon? Cheese from France? Adult entertainment from Japan? Get on it, mister! LET'S GO!
LAKERS/CELTICS – 9:00PM (ABC) Usually, it's the odd numbered games that are considered most pivotal in a seven-game series. Ah, but this evening's Game 4 may be the pivotalest game of all! (NOTE: It's the Finals. They're ALL pivotal). Anyway, if Boston loses to LA at home tonight and LA takes a 3-1 lead, you can pretty much mark down the series as over. But if Boston pulls it out, we're back to even stevens and that sets up an extremely tense final two or three games to decide the title. Bold prediction: Boston wins, and then someone throw up on Newbury Street. I suppose the latter will happen regardless of the end result. ANTICIPATION: FEVERISH!
BETHENNY GETTING MARRIED? – 10:00PM (Bravo – an NBC/Universal network) The real housewife gets her own series on Bravo. Watch in rapture as Bethenny sits on a chaise lounge, eats bon bons, and watches soap operas. Very productive human beings, these housewives. ANTICIPATION: SNOTTY!
WORLD'S LARGEST CRUISE SHIP – 10:00PM (NatGeo – an NBC/Universal network) It's so big, they can actually hold NASCAR races on it. Actually, that's not true at all. Still, putting stock car races on a giant boat is an idea whose time has come. One big wave, and you got yourself the flaming seawreck you've always wanted to see. Anyway, take a virtual tour of this massive haven for old people and seaborne viruses. Kathie Lee Gifford sings at dinner! ANTICIPATION: WATCH OUT FOR THAT ICEBERG!
THE COMMITMENTS – 8:00PM (FOX Movie Channel) Still holds up after all these years. Take time to revisit one of the dirtiest musical comedies of all time. IT'S IMELDA QUIRK'S ARSE OUT ME WINDOW!! ANTICIPATION: AND AND EFFING AND?!
THE OCD PROJECT – 10:00PM (VH1) Tonight on this study of people with obsessive compulsive disorder, the group members are forbidden from showering or washing their hands. Uh… isn't this a massive over correction? Showering is okay. We want you to shower. No need to ring the doorbell 100 times, muchacho. But by all means, delouse yourself. ANTICIPATION: STARTS AT 10PM SHARP AND DO NOT BE LATE OR ELSE THE UNIVERSE WILL COLLAPSE


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Unit 1. Maps, Time, and World History
What tools do world historians use in the study of history? This unit begins the study of world history by examining its use of geographical and chronological frameworks: how they have shaped the understanding of world history and have been used to chart the past.
Unit 2. History and Memory
How are history and memory different? Topics in this unit range from the celebration of Columbus Day to the demolition of a Korean museum to the historical re-interpretation of Mayan civilization, exploring the ways historians, nations, families, and individuals capture, exploit, and know the past, and the dynamic nature of historical practice and knowledge.
Unit 3. Human Migrations
How did the many paths of human migration people the planet? From their origins on the African continent, humans have spread across the globe. This unit explores how and why early humans moved across Africa, Eurasia, and the Americas, based on recent studies in archaeology and linguistics.
Unit 4. Agricultural and Urban Revolutions
What do historians know about the earliest farmers and herders, and the evolution of cities? Newly emerging evidence about the "cradles of civilization" is examined in light of the social, technological, and cultural complexity of recently discovered settlements and cities.
Unit 5. Early Belief Systems
How did people begin to understand themselves in relation to the natural world and to the unseen realms beyond, and how was religion a community experience? In this unit, animism and shamanism in Shinto are contrasted with philosophical and ethical systems in early Greece and China, and the beginnings of Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, and Judaism.
Unit 6. Order and Early Societies
How do diverse political structures and relationships distribute power and material resources? Through the rise of the Chinese empire, Mayan regional kingdoms, and the complex society of Igbo Ukwu, this unit considers the origins of centralized states and alternative political and social orders.
Unit 7. The Spread of Religions
How do religions interact, adopt new ideas, and adapt to diverse cultures? As the missionaries, pilgrims, and converts of Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam moved around the world, the religions created change and were themselves changed.
Unit 8. Early Economies
How do societies assign value to land, labor, and material goods? Manorial economies in Japan and medieval Europe are contrasted with the tribute economy of the Inka, and the experience of dramatic economic change is illustrated by the commercial revolution in China.
Unit 9. Connections Across Land
How were land-based trade routes conduits of both commerce and culture? The Eurasian Silk Roads, the trans-Saharan Gold Roads, and the Meso-American Turquoise Road trace the transmission of commodities, religions, and diseases, as well as the movements of people.
Unit 10. Connections Across Water
How were water routes used as conduits of expansion and trade? The traders of the Indian Ocean, the early Mississippians, and the Norsemen carried death and disease, skills and technologies, philosophies and religion down rivers and across oceans.
Unit 11. Early Empires
What makes an "empire?" Through the Mongol empire, the Mali empire, and the Inka empire, this unit examines the construction of empires, their administrative structures, legitimating ideologies, and the environmental and technological conditions that shaped them.
Unit 12. Transmission of Traditions
What are traditions and how are they transmitted? Islamic Spain, Korea, and West Africa provide examples of many different modes of transmission, including oral, written, artistic, and architectural.
Unit 13. Family and Household
What does the study of families and households tell us about our global past? In this unit examining West Asia, Europe, and China, families and households become the focus of historians, providing a window into the private experiences in world societies, and how they sometimes become a model for ordering the outside world.
Unit 14. Land and Labor Relationships
What factors shape the ways in which the basic resources are exploited by a society? From Southeast Asia to Russia, Africa, and the Americas, the ratios between land availability and the usable labor force were the primary basis of pre-industrial economies, but politics, environment, and culture played a part as well.
Unit 15. Early Global Commodities
What is globalization and when did it begin? Before the sixteenth century, the world's four main monetary substances were silver, gold, copper, and shells. But it was China's demand for silver and Spain's newly discovered mines in the Americas that finally created an all-encompassing network of global trade.
Unit 16. Food, Demographics and Culture
What role has food played in human societies? Studying the production and consumption of food allows historians to uncover hidden levels of meaning in social relationships, understand demographic shifts, and trace cultural exchange. This unit examines the earliest impact of globalization including changing cuisine, environmental impact, and the rise of forced labor as a global economic force.
Unit 17. Ideas Shape the World
How do ideas change the world? This unit traces the impact of European Enlightenment ideals in the American and Haitian revolutions and in South America. It also examines the revitalization of Islam expressed in the Wahhabi movement as it spread from the Arabian peninsula to Africa and Asia.
Unit 18. Rethinking The Rise of the West
How does historical scholarship change over time, and why do the perspectives of historians shift? This unit recaps the economic and political events that led to the rise of the West, but examines and re-examines those events through differing opinions of its causes, reflecting changes in historical interpretation.
Unit 19. Global Industrialization
How was the industrial revolution a global process, not just a European or American story? This unit links Cuba, Uruguay, Europe, and Japan, examining the impact of industry on trade, environment, culture, technology, and lives around the world.
Unit 20. Imperial Designs
What lasting impacts did modern imperialism have on the world? The profound consequences of imperialism are examined in the South African frontier and Brazil, where politics, culture, industrial capitalism, and the environment were shaped and re-shaped.
Unit 21. Colonial Identities
How did colonialism and eventual de-colonization mutually affect the colonizer and the colonized? From Zanzibar to India, colonial and post-colonial identities are examined through clothing.
Unit 22. Global War and Peace
How "global" were the World Wars? This unit examines Japanese imperialism, the Belgian Congo, and twentieth century peace institutions to study how local, national, ethnic, and religious conflicts shaped these wars and their aftermaths.
Unit 23. People Shape the World
What is the impact of the individual in world history? This unit examines the role of individual and collective action in shaping the world through the lives of such diverse figures as Mao Zedong, the Ayatollah Khomeini, and Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo.
Unit 24. Globalization and Economics
How have the forces of globalization shaped the modern world? This unit travels from the Soviet Union to Sri Lanka and Chile to study the role of technology and the impact of economic and political changes wrought by globalization.
Unit 25. Global Popular Culture
What are the sounds and sights of an emerging global culture? From World Cup soccer to Coca Cola, modern icons reflect the intertwined cultural, political, and commercial dimensions of globalization. This unit listens to and looks at the music and images of global production and consumption from reggae to the Olympics.
Unit 26. World History and Identity
How have global forces redefined both individual and group identity in the modern world? This unit examines the transnational identity that emerged from the Chinese diaspora, and compares it to a newly re-defined national Chechen identity forged through war with Russia.
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Jay Z took a moment to honor Nelson Mandela during his latest concert.
The 44-year-old rapper, who is currently in the midst of his Magna Carta World Tour, took the stage on Monday, Dec. 9 at the Los Angeles' Staples Center, where he closed off his show by dedicating his final song to the 95-year-old South African leader, who tragically passed away last week.
"We want to dedicate this song to Nelson Mandela. A great man, spent 27 years in prison, came out to be president. All dreams are possible," the king of hip hop told the audience. "Tonight I'm living my dream in front of y'all. So anyone out there who got a dream, y'all chase that motherf--ker down as hard as you can."
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Hov then launched into a performance of his hit "Young Forever" as fans all held their cellphones in the air and sang along to the tribute tune. Watch a clip of the performance here.
According to a concertgoer, fans were "loving" the superstar's commemorative moment as he honored the former South African president, who died on Thursday, Dec. 5 after failing in health for some time.
Jay certainly isn't the first celeb to pay tribute to Mandela. A number of stars, including the rapper's wife Beyonce, took to social media last week to honor the revered South African statesman after his sudden death.
"Thank you for all you have sacrificed to improve the lives of other human beings. Rest in peace.," she captioned a touching photo of the pair.
Tens of thousands of people also packed into Johannesburg's FNB Stadium today to honor and celebrate the life of famous peacemaker.
Charlize Theron, a native South African, Bono, a friend and fellow activist, and Naomi Campbell were among the celebs in attendance as well as President Barack Obama, who praised the "people of South Africa...for sharing Nelson Mandela with us."
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Just like everybody else in the Big Ten, Ohio State's players look at the upcoming bullies on their schedule and wonder where they can pick up some wins.
In a league that includes two of the top three teams in the Associated Press poll (No. 1 Michigan, No. 3 Indiana), four of the top 13 (Ohio State at No. 11, Michigan State at No. 13) and five of the top 25 (No. 23 Minnesota), there aren't a lot of easy touches.
``Coach (Thad) Matta talked about it with us a couple of weeks ago that when you look at our schedule there are really no games where you can say, `OK, mark it down as a win,''' sophomore wing Sam Thompson said. ``We've got to bring our best every game.''
That's definitely the case on Tuesday night when the Buckeyes (15-4, 5-2 Big Ten) host Wisconsin (14-6, 5-2) in a series that has been transformed into a heated rivalry in recent years.
Matta knows the meetings between the Badgers and Buckeyes have taken on their own special luster.
``It seems like all the games that we've played so far have had major implications, for one reason or another, probably dating back to `07 when it was 1 vs. 2 in here,'' he said, referring to Ohio State's 66-49 win that helped propel them on to a conference title and a visit to the Final Four. ``Then they knocked us off when we were undefeated a couple of years ago.''
Bad blood has risen to the top during the most recent meetings of what was once just another date on the schedule.
The Buckeyes were 24-0 in February 2011 when Jordan Taylor scored 21 of his 27 points in the second half to help the Badgers climb out of a 15-point hole to upend Ohio State, the nation's last unbeaten team, 71-67.
After that game, Buckeyes center Jared Sullinger said a fan spit on him as he was leaving the court at Kohl Center. Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan was later asked about the alleged incident and famously said, ``All I know is, we won the game. Deal with it.''
When the teams met in Columbus later that season, Ohio State's students were all over Ryan, waving scarlet towels that read ``Deal With It'' as the Buckeyes pulled off a 93-65 victory. They set an NCAA Division I record by making 14 of 15 3-pointers, led by Jon Diebler who hit 7 of 8 behind the arc while scoring 27 points.
When Wisconsin came to Ohio State last February in the most recent meeting, Jared Berggren scored the 16th-ranked Badgers' final five points including a go-ahead 3-pointer with 31 seconds left to beat the No. 8 Buckeyes, 63-60.
As might be expected, that created some hurt feelings.
``That that was our senior night last year and they beat us in Will's last game,'' sophomore guard Shannon Scott said of the going-away gift presented to the Buckeyes' only senior last season, William Buford. ``So we kind of want to play this (game) for him. We didn't want to send him off with a loss. We didn't appreciate doing that.''
Both teams have had their share of highs and lows so far this season in the Big Ten.
The Badgers ended a brief two-game skid with a tense 45-44 win on Traevon Jackson's 15-foot jumper from the right side with 4 seconds left at home to beat no. 12 Minnesota on Saturday.
To add even more fuel to the fire, Jackson is the son of a legendary Ohio State player, Jimmy Jackson, a former two-time All-American and twice the Big Ten player of the year. The younger Jackson will take the floor at an arena where his father's retired jersey No. 22 is hanging from the rafters.
The Buckeyes have won four of their last five, including a 65-51 victory at Penn State on Saturday - their second win in a row. But they've watched big leads evaporate in the second half of both of those wins.
Tied for fourth coming into the week, a game back of Big Ten co-leaders Indiana and Michigan, both teams know they can't afford any more slips.
Asked if there was anything that had surprised him so far in the conference, Matta said to check back in a month.
``There's still so much basketball to be played,'' he said. ``That's why if you're fortunate to get a win, you kind of enjoy it momentarily and then it's on to the next one.''
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Expected Value and Risk Aversion
Expected Value isn't as simple as we think Written by Poker Penguin
People value money. Everyone who hasn't taken a vow of poverty would rather have more money than less (Duhh). However, people value risk differently. For example. Let's say you won a magical prize from happyland. Would you rather have $100 or a 50% shot at 200? The Expected Value (EV) is the same, so if you're a good poker player, you would say "it depends".
Actually, good poker players seem to say "it depends" a lot. But anyway. That example isn't very interesting. But what if the choice was between $100 and a 50% shot at S201? Technically, the EV is marginally higher if you take the coin toss. However, many people will give up the 50 cents in order to get a sure $100. They are what we would call risk averse.
The opposite is of course, risk seeking. These people would take a coin toss for $199 over a sure $100. Well, in theory anyway.
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What is ROS?The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a set of software libraries and tools that help you build robot applications. From drivers to state-of-the-art algorithms, and with powerful developer tools, ROS has what you need for your next robotics project. And it's all open source.Read More
ROS in Research"...Even at that early stage of development, it was impressive to see the extent of the capabilities offered by ROS, as well as the level of their integration. The low-level tasks, from sensor access, to diagnostics reporting, to power management, were transparently handled by ROS. And so were higher-level tasks, from a variety of arm controllers,over 1-D and 3-D perception, to autonomous navigation..." -- Pieter Abbeel, UC BerkeleyRead More
ROS in Products"When we set out five years ago to reinvent the manufacturing industry, we knew that smart, flexible automation was the key. We built our Baxter robot to work not just for people, but with people, removing the cumbersome safety cages and expert-only programming interfaces that had come before. And when we built Baxter, we built it on ROS..." -- Scott Eckert, Rethink RoboticsRead More
ROS in EducationROS is used by students of all ages, from kids interacting with robots in museum exhibits to graduate students learning about the latest solutions to common robotics problems. Because it supports such a wide variety of robots, including low-cost platforms like the TurtleBot and LEGO Mindstorms, ROS is especially well-suited to classroom use.Read More
ROS for Fun"Back in 2009, I was in the middle of programming my own general framework for robotics using Windows and C# when I came across a video of the Willow Garage PR2 plugging itself into a regular wall socket to recharge. Without another thought, I deleted every line of code I had written over the past two years, installed Linux over Windows and jumped on the ROS train..." -- Patrick Goebel, Pi RobotRead More


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I just recently got the Rainman version of this cd, so Never Mind What
You Leave Behind is new to me, and I really like it. But I've always
liked I'm Life and Precious Stone. So I like all three.
"your amour is love"
I'm Life
Driven Out
Precious Stone
Gypsy Feet
Calm Animals
Shred of Evidence
The Flow
World Weary
Cause To Be Alarmed
Never Mind What You Leave Behind
I just recently got the Rainman version of this cd, so Never Mind What
You Leave Behind is new to me, and I really like it. But I've always
liked I'm Life and Precious Stone. So I like all three.
"your amour is love"
Calm Animals was one of my favorite tapes I listened to during my high school years...YES...I said tapes, as in cassette tapes. I don't know if I can honestly choose only one from among the several on this album that I love.
This is my favorite Fixx Album, because it contains more of my all time favorite Fixx songs than any other, namely Subterranean, Calm Animals, Cause to Be Alarmed, The Flow, Driven Out, World weary, and I'm Life. Still getting to know Never Mind What You Leave Behind.
"Subterranean" for me, with a really great groove with bass and drums.
After, I hesitate between "Calm animals" and "Driven out" which seems the ideal song to drive a car on a highway, at night, between the sea on my left and the lights of a city on my right...
Well, I think I'd better go to bed, I start telling foolish things!
This was more challenging for me....I ended up selecting Calm Animals, but I love Gypsy Feet, Driven Out, and Subterranean, about as much. Great tunes.
I was a fan of this Group back when MTV first came on the scene.
Then I saw they were not going away. And, with time they have grown into something truly great.
I think the Elemental release is my overall fav...but I have yet to fully appreciate Beautiful Friction.
I wish I would have had the ability to see them last year as they toured the USA.
In fact, I believe they missed INDY altogether, which was one of the reasons I could not see them.
They should definitely play the MURAT TEMPLE downtown....
I really like their more recent music over the original early 1980's effort. No offsense, I hope. None meant.
I am older... almost 60 now... and listening to garage rock n roll was something that faded a long time ago.
With Elemental they broke their own mold, I believe. Or, maybe Calm Animals was the leaping off point to get there.
I really prefer PRECIOUS STONE over any of the others. But Calm Animals does have the catchier riff or attitude....
Precious Stone speaks to me and how humanity is showing how much they don't care about this pebble they live on.
I guess I can hear Cy Curnin's attitude... or "politics(?)" in the lyrics he brings to the songs.
As we like to say, one can tell he is AWAKE and not walking thru Earth's history half asleep....
Caused to be Alarmed, Crucify Me, Precious Stone, How much is enough, Stand or Fall.... You can tell Cy is AWAKE.
I have almost ALL of what FIXX has released. I will make it a point to complete my Collection.
I think it's great they have not given up on their craft... they have now joined other Lifers in the Biz. A rarity!!!
Congrats to FIXX.. the entire Band, and all who have helped them get so much accomplished.
I do hope they find a way to visit (play) here in Indianapolis, or close by the next time they are out & about.
Good luck!!!!
I'm Life.....


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Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left
From Conservapedia
Unholy Alliance is a book by David Horowitz about the relationship between the American left and radical Islam.
Horowitz wrote:
- The left does not exactly embrace the Islamist terrorists today. But it does the next best thing by offering them critical support in the form of apologetics for their savagery ("root causes" etc.), by mounting relentless attacks on America's defenses (our borders, the Patriot Act), by diversionary and morale-sapping propaganda campaigns over Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib and even through a political movement to sabotage the military effort to liberate Iraq. [1]
- Horowitz has answered ... why people on the Left had the propensity to speak more positively about people who would slit their throats than they do about their own country, which affords them more freedom and opportunity than anywhere else. (Kat Bakhu, Amazon.com)


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Mentor Month Spotlight: SavannahSavannah has been a student at Theatre Arts Training (TAT) since April 2013. Beginning that first day, she found the belonging and acceptance she longed for outside of our home. We like to say she "found her people" that day. TAT provides a productive outlet for her abundance of energy and flair for the dramatic. It is where she can be herself – share her ideas, develop characters that interest her and make friends who share her love of theatre.
The influence of TAT touches all facets of her life. Each class adds another block to Savannah's foundation and her fundamental skills grow with each session. The teaching artists at TAT provide a safe, supportive place for her to practice and refine these skills and challenge her to grow. Learning to collaborate and compromise with peers through TAT has been enlightening for her. Discovering that she can have a good idea, but it can become a great idea by working with others, is priceless. These are not just theatre skills; they are life skills that she is using every day.
Of all the amazing teaching artists at TAT, Chris Zappa stands out as her favorite. Chris connected with Savannah immediately and knew instinctively how to challenge her and channel her energy into productivity. Chris' unique ability to embrace each child's individuality and artfully weave their ideas together into an engaging lesson or performance is inspiring. She makes every student feel special and welcome at TAT.
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WASHINGTON � The Senate agreed last week to begin debating gun safety legislation, clearing the way for votes on a range of new controls in the wake of the latest mass shooting last December in Connecticut.
WASHINGTON � The Senate agreed last week to begin debating gun safety legislation, clearing the way for votes on a range of new controls in the wake of the latest mass shooting last December in Connecticut.
Senators voted 68-31 to proceed to debate, overcoming a filibuster threatened by 14 Republicans who said a bill being considered would threaten the Second Amendment rights of gun owners and prospective purchasers without doing much to limit violence.
�The country deserves a debate about the meaning and the purpose of the Second Amendment,� Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, told The Salt Lake Tribune. �They also deserve to make sure that legislation that threatens to restrict the rights of law-abiding Americans significantly while doing little or nothing to actually prevent violent crime ought not be hurried through the Senate and rubber-stamped through a series of backroom deals.�
The vote, on a procedural motion, does not guarantee passage of any new laws. But it opened the way for debate over the next few weeks on amendments that would ban military-style assault rifles, limits ammunition clips, expand background checks for gun buyers, and limit gun access for people declared mentally ill.
�As the deliberative body, let�s move forward with an open debate and give Americans an opportunity to better understand where their representatives in Washington stand on this issue,� said Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev.
The vote took place as families from Newtown, Conn., were brought to Washington by President Barack Obama to lobby in favor of stricter gun measures. Twenty first graders and six faculty members were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14 by an intruder wielding an assault rifle. The suspect, Adam Lanza, took his own life.
Sens. John Boozman, R-Ark., and Mark Pryor, D-Ark., voted to block debate on the bill.
Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., voted to open the debate. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., voted to block the bill.
Republicans Rap Obama Labor Board
The House voted 219-209 to force the National Labor Relations Board to halt its rulings on workplace matters until the Supreme Court decides on the legality of three members appointed by President Barack Obama.
An appeals court in January ruled unconstitutional the recess appointments that were made in January 2012, while the Senate was out of session. The Obama administration has appealed the decision to the Supreme Court.
In the meantime, Republican-written bill would stop the five-member NLRB from activity that would require a three-person quorum. Though passed in the House, it is expected to be ignored in the Democrat-controlled Senate.
During debate, Republicans said the court ruling casts legal uncertainty on any NLRB rulings, and so none should be issued until the controversy is cleared. Democrats charged Obama would not have had to make recess appointments if Republicans had not filibustered his nominees.
Reps. Steve Womack, R-Rogers, Rick Crawford, R-Jonesboro, Tom Cotton, R-Dardenelle and Tim Griffin, R-Little Rock, voted for the bill.
In the Oklahoma delegation, Reps. Jim Bridenstine, R-Tulsa, Tom Cole, R-Moore, James Lankford, R-Edmond, Frank Lucas, R-Cheyenne and Markwayne Mullin, R-Westville, voted for the bill.


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Judge Bettina Borders, who was a mom at 19, lived in a commune as a young mother, and led the country's first rape crisis center, has been trying to change systems since high school.
NEW BEDFORD — Judge Bettina Borders, who was a mom at 19, lived in a commune as a young mother, and led the country's first rape crisis center, has been trying to change systems since high school. Now, as first judge of Bristol County's Juvenile Court, she's in charge of one of the most innovative juvenile justice programs in the country. Borders, 66, of Dartmouth is this year's choice by The Standard-Times for SouthCoast Woman of the Year, selected for her contributions to the community as a justice and activist. Nominations for the award came from the community and members of the newspaper staff. Recipients were selected by a newsroom committee. "She has an incredible vision that sort of steps out of the box around how to deal with these problems early on and up front," said Bristol County Sheriff Tom Hodgson, whose office works closely with Borders. "She's not somebody who takes no for an answer. She's really passionate about her mission of making a difference in the lives of these kids."
Borders, 66, grew up in Rhode Island, the youngest daughter of a union organizer and a mother who "wasn't very good at" remaining a stay-at-home mom, parents who passed on their sense of social justice to their children. Her older sister became a nun; Borders became involved in the civil rights movement in high school. At 19, she gave birth to her first son and soon moved with her first husband, a journalist, to Connecticut, where they both worked and she studied for an undergraduate degree. Borders had their second son at 25. The marriage foundered — "we were very young," she said — and she and some friends bought a piece of land, where they lived communally and ran a school and daycare center. The experience of being a single mom informed a lifelong dedication to women's causes, said Borders, who continues to surround herself with a strong network of female friends and would later provide the founding donation to start New Bedford's Women's Fund. "I realized that I had to take care of myself and I had to really not ever rely on someone else to do that for me," she said. "That was what really pushed me to the forefront of the women's movement in Connecticut." In Hartford, Borders work in the women's movement led to involvement in state politics and a position as director of the Sexual Assault Crisis Service of Greater Hartford, which was housed in the YWCA — her first introduction to an organization she would also serve as board president in New Bedford. She received a B.A. in women's studies from Goddard College in 1975 and an M.A. in anthropology in 1980 from Columbia University, where she studied the role of women in the Chinese revolution, traveling to China to do research. "I was always interested in rules and how societies organized themselves and why and what was the purpose of such organization, who did it serve, and how did it change," she said. To get her doctorate, Borders would have had to uproot her children and move to China. She went to law school instead, completing her degree at New England School of Law in 1984, when she was almost 40.
"I always remember her going to school ... and also demonstrating that you can do anything. You can choose at any moment, to do anything," said son Philip Lang, 47.
Around the time she was finishing law school, Borders and her now husband Victor Mailey, a doctor, moved to the area. The couple now lives in Dartmouth. Mailey opened an office as a family doctor in the North End of New Bedford. Borders also soon opened her own practice, picking up work as a court-appointed lawyer. It was there she had her first experience with Juvenile Court, an institution that handles youths ages 7-17 on a range of issues from adoption to delinquency and she would help transform when she was appointed justice in 2000. "I just got enraptured," she said. "They were kids who could be transformed, possibly ... They were people you could wrap your hands around." As judge, Borders brought in collared shirts for those appearing before her and embraced alternative sentencing, steering offenders to programs such as "Changing Lives through Literature" and starting a juvenile drug court — currently the only one in the state — that enrolls youths brought in on a variety of charges in a three-step program during their probation period that involves drug screenings, counseling, community service and other measures if drug use is suspected. (Bristol County launched a drug court for adults in 2000.) "I started to rethink the role of a judge as being kind of in a glass box, untouchable, unapproachable determiner of justice ... I started to realize that we were a community court," she said, To start the drug court — and keep it going — Borders needed the cooperation of the city, school, probation and sheriff's department, which applies for the grants to fund the program. "Nothing was easy ... It was strictly her energy and focus on it I think that got the program off and running," said former Mayor Scott Lang, adding that what made Borders' approach unique was her focus on changing behavior, not simply meting out punishment. Between 2008 and June, 2012, 97 youth participated in the program and 51 successfully graduated, according to Pamela Talbot, coordinator for the Second Chance Court. Twenty-eight cases were terminated by the judge for a variety of reasons — moving away from the area, a determination that a different course would work better — and 16 youths were committed, she said. "A lot of judges look at that as that's for another department to take care of that or let me know how it goes," Lang said. "What she does is follow it through." In 2008, Borders took the effort one step further, making Bristol County a "Reclaiming Futures" site, inspired by a presentation at a professional conference. The court uses a restorative model developed by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, in which Bristol County court clinicians perform a short, standardized screening before the completion of the trial, allowing the court to recommend services or develop a plan for probation in a four-week time frame, instead of the six-12 months it took previously. "What we now are able to do is craft plans ... that really are looking at what the issues are," she said. "That's huge. It's not only huge for us, it's huge for the parents who sit in there and see nothing happening." Borders, who must retire at 70, said she now hopes to bring the drug court to Fall River, perhaps through video conferencing, and is talking to other judges in Massachusetts about developing similar approaches in their courts. "She's an activist," said longtime friend Peggy Bacon. "She sees a situation, she sees what's needed, she organizes it and it happens."