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Fostering Intellectual Islam
The recommendations of the German Council of Science and Humanities call for the establishment of study courses for imams and Muslim clerics at the state universities. You say that the course in "Islamic studies" is an intellectually challenging discipline. In what way?
Peter Strohschneider: Islamic Studies, in the sense of a scholarly, theological self-reflection on Islamic faith and the religion of Islam, represent a challenge both for the academic disciplines already established at the universities as well as for the kind of Islamic Studies we're talking about themselves. The challenge consists simply in the fact that religious, intellectual, cultural and linguistic differences pose a crucial issue for Islam, and that these differences must be dealt with intellectually. Challenge is used here in a very positive sense.
Scholarship and science draw their life from intellectual challenges and from the ability of scholars to allow themselves to be perplexed, to perplex one another. And in this sense the institutionalisation of an Islamic theology at German universities is not only important for intellectual self-reflection by the Muslims, not only a vital project for reasons of integration policy, but also an intellectual, structurally significant project.
Why do you use the term "Islamic Studies" and not Islamic Theology? And what will become of the "Islamwissenschaften"?
Peter Strohschneider: The difference is that Islamic Studies as a theological subject are connected with a belief in Islam, while "Islamwissenschaften" are not. We suggested the term "Islamic Studies" even though it has some risks, for example the fact that in English it is equivalent to what we call in German "Islamwissenschaften", the subject we are trying to distinguish it from. We deliberately avoided using the word "theology" because it comes from the Christian tradition, but the problem is that the only terminology available in the German language has been shaped by Christianity or concepts with a traditional Christian background.
"Islamwissenschaften" are studies that are not bound up with a certain confession, similar to Literature Studies or History Studies. Islamic Studies in our sense by contrast is a confessional course of studies in the structural sense, just as Protestant Theology and Catholic Theology are.
In order to put the requisite cooperation between the state and the Muslim community on solid ground, the Council of Science and Humanities proposes setting up theological expert councils for Islamic Studies at the universities in question. The Islamic associations are also to be represented on these councils. There are some critics, however, who think the associations are represented too strongly in a council model of this sort.
Peter Strohschneider: We are aware of this problem. Indeed, we on the Council of Science and Humanities saw this coming from the start. But we are not making a proposal for the council that would establish exactly who should represent whom, but rather only want to make the principle clear. And the principle is that three groups should be represented on this council.
First, representatives of Muslim associations. These associations do not have church status; they are trying in some cases to achieve the legal status of a religious community, but this is always controversial. There are pitched social and socio-cultural battles amongst the Muslims to attain a monopoly here. At the same time, these associations are an important voice of Muslims in Germany; we can't simply ignore them.
Second, Muslim public figures should sit on the council because the majority of German Muslims are not organised into associations; and third, theologians. These might be Germans, along with – I assume – probably foreign theologians as well, because the parallel case would be the participation of churches.
If you were to invite church representatives to participate in a similar body, you would already have theological authorities included because all church representatives have studied theology. This is different in the Muslim associations, because the relationship, so to speak, between the community and the theological level is simply different in Islam than under Christian church constitutions.
The function of the councils is such that the confessionally neutral state is not permitted to intervene in planning the content of the curricula, nor is it allowed to check whether there are any religiously motivated objections to teachers, i.e. professors. But according to our church laws, parishes and religious communities must be able to make objections. The state therefore needs someone to address when issues arise in the course of this cooperation, and under these circumstances this addressee can only be some sort of council, organised in accordance with concrete local conditions.
Which social implications might this project have in the long term?
Peter Strohschneider: If things go as planned, namely if Islamic Studies as theology develops well at German universities, then it will on the one hand play an important role in the Islamic discourse in Germany, because it will create something one might call a vocabulary, a German vocabulary, for the intellectual self-reflection of Islamic faith. It will most certainly have an effect on the universities as a whole.
And it will lend the voice of Muslims in what is still the Christian-dominated majority society greater audibility, greater diversity and better means of articulation than are available today in some cases. I would view this, if not in terms of integration policy then in the socio-political regard, as an extremely desirable and necessary effect in our increasingly pluralistic society.
Interview: Eren Güvercin
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Editor: Lewis Gropp/Qantara.de
Islamic Theology in Germany
Lateral Thinkers Wanted
Calls for an Islamic theology in Germany are growing ever louder. But the challenge that this represents is underestimated not only by politics, but also by Christian theologians and cultural scholars, writes theologian Klaus von Stosch
Islam and Enlightenment
A Space for Doubts and Questions
Germany's Science Council has proposed anchoring Islamic theology at the German universities – rightly and fortunately so, says Matthias Drobinski. In the juncture of religion and science Islam has the chance to win back the ability for reflection and self-restriction that the faith once had
Rauf Ceylan: "The Preachers of Islam"
Scholastic Offensive
In his new book, Rauf Ceylan reports on the daily lives of imams in Germany. According to the professor for religious studies, imams are the key to a new Islam. By Thilo Guschas
College Training for Muslim Imams in Germany
A Laborious Process
One German state is hoping to improve the integration of its Muslim community by offering imam training programs at university. Michael Hollenbach reports


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Apple's iOS 6 3D Flyovers aim to be more helpful, less creepy than Google Street ViewApple is incorporating advanced 3D imaging to bring a variety of new features to iOS users, from building outlines to topographical terrain to fully rendered 3D models that not only replace Google's StreetView, but offer to provide 360 degree views across neighborhoods, behind buildings and even off roads.
Apple's strategy of taking its Maps solo in iOS 6 was described in Apple wants to wipe Google off the map with iOS 6, while a second segment, How Apple's new vector-based Maps leave Google Maps looking jittery detailed how the company will be levering vector graphics to greatly improve the Maps experience in iOS.
However, there are a variety of attractive features Google has bundled into its web and app-based Google Maps portfolio, providing a tall order for anyone hoping to replicate all those features. Apple certainly has big shoes to fill in the maps department. Among these are:
Google's 3D models and StreetView maps
Google Earth began mapping the world with 3D building outlines, a feature Google later brought into the Android version of its mobile maps client. Apple never adopted these 3D models however, so all iOS users see in the current iOS 5 Maps client is a 2D depiction of the building outlines Google has added to the bit mapped tiles it serves Apple's Maps client, without any ability to freely rotate the map (below, in contrast with Google's 3D massing models visible in Google Maps for Android).
More recently, Google has introduced 3D features that essentially paint images from aerial photography onto building outlines, resulting in a nearly photorealistic 3D model that users can explore from different angles. These features require significant client-side processing power to render, and just as with Google's basic 3D outlines, Apple hasn't ever incorporated them into its iOS Maps client.
In order to provide an explorable map that is efficient in both processing and bandwidth requirements (compared to 3D model rendering), Google first began its StreetView project, which sends out vehicles to all major roads, taking panoramic images that users can then access in a "you are there" view of virtually any block face visible from virtually any significant road Google's camera-equipped cars have traveled.
Conceptually, StreetView can be dated back to an ARPA project developed at MIT, which in 1978 began mapping the town of Aspen, Colorado, using photographs stored on interactive Laserdisc, allowing users to virtually walk down streets, and even bring up seasonal views of the town from multiple perspectives.
The Aspen Movie Map was one of the first advanced examples of hypermedia, and was described by a young Steve Jobs in a 1983 speech describing the future potential of personal computing.
"It's really amazing," Jobs said, describing the project in contrast with conventional, static forms of old media. "It's not incredibly useful," he added as the audience laughed, "but it points to some of the interactive nature of this new medium which is just starting to break out from movies, and will take another five to ten years to evolve."
Ten years later in 1994, Apple would release QuickTime VR, which allowed photographers to stitch together photos taken from a single location into a node that viewers could later explore dynamically, creating a new type of movie where playback was no longer fixed along a linear progression. Users could also jump between nodes, effectively exploring a virtual model of a real or imagined universe one spot at a time (or, alternatively, view an object from multiple perspectives).
QuickTime VR finds a use, 13 years later, in StreetView
While a variety of companies copied or extended upon Apple's work on QuickTime VR, there was never a huge market for the technology. That is, until Google realized that panoramic photography would make an ideal way to efficiently allow Google Maps users to explore the world right from their web browser.
Thus, Google's StreetView exploited a useful application for the QuickTime VR technology Apple pioneered commercially in 1994, four years before Google was founded as a company and 13 years before Google debuted StreetView in 2007.
While not without controversy from privacy advocates (and with government stopping Google's work of StreetView mapping the world in countries like Australia, Germany and India), Google has effectively covered vast areas of Europe, Russia, North America, Brazil, Japan, Thailand, South Korea and South Africa with its camera cars.
Apple incorporated support for StreetView in iOS 2.2 Maps in 2008, but accessing the feature is not necessarily obvious; users must drop a location pin, bring up its information panel and then tap the StreetView icon to view a local panorama image of the spot (if its is available, and not obscured by passing vehicles or other obstructions).
Users can then step along the street in increments, turn down other mapped streets, and get close enough to houses to see right in homeowners' windows.
On the web, Google still relies upon the Adobe Flash plugin to view StreetView panoramas, making them inaccessible to iOS users outside of Apple's specially designed Maps client. In iOS 6, Apple has removed the ability to access Google's StreetView images.
Duplicating Google's four years' worth of efforts in mapping streets from the ground level would be an enormous task (although other mapping companies have started doing this). But instead of skating to where the puck was in 2007, Apple has started promoting a new, overlapping feature for Maps in iOS 6: Flyover.
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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
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CFRA & Legg Mason on Actively Managed ETFs
John is Vice President of Equity Research. He joined CFRA in April 2019. He is responsible for fundamental equity research and analysis covering several segments within the Information Technology and Communication Services sectors, including enterprise software and SaaS/cloud providers, Internet advertising/social media platforms, and game developers.
Prior to joining CFRA, John co-founded Samadhi Capital Partners, an investment advisor and equity research firm where he developed an investment process and framework targeted at tech sector equities, with a particular emphasis on gauging the impact of and identifying the long-term winners from artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, neural networks, and related developments categorized under the larger "cognification of software" mega-trend. Before his entrepreneurial stint, he served as Senior Analyst and Portfolio Manager at Sands Capital Management, responsible for the firm's investments within the tech sector.
John began his career in equity research with an independent equity research firm, Precursor, where he was ranked as the top analyst covering network equipment stocks among independent research firms. He also spent the first dozen years of his career in various roles within the tech industry. During this time, he published dozens of white papers and research reports on topics ranging from network processors, Virtual LAN (VLAN) technology, and the historical evolution of enterprise application architecture.
John graduated from Harvard University with a BA in East Asian Studies.
Matthew is Vice President of Equity Research at CFRA. He is responsible for providing differentiated and actionable research and recommendations on equities in the Materials and Industrials sectors. Matthew's areas of focus include: metals & mining, construction materials, containers & packaging, and building products. Matthew previously held the position of Industry/Equity Analyst at S&P Global Market Intelligence.
Matthew joined CFRA in 2016 and S&P Global in 2014, after working on the buy-side as an Equity Analyst at London Capital Management in London, Canada, where he covered North American stocks in the Energy and Consumer Staples sectors. Prior to joining the equity research industry, Matthew worked as a Financial Analyst for companies in both the retail and fitness areas.
Matthew holds his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Colorado State University and his MBA from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He is also a CFA charterholder.
Prior to joining S&P Global in 1989 and CFRA in 2016, Sam served as Editor In Chief at Argus Research, an independent investment research firm in New York City.
He holds an MBA in Finance from New York University and a B.A. in History/Education from Muhlenberg College, in Allentown, PA. He is a CFP® certificant and is a Trustee of the Securities Industry Institute®, the executive development program held annually at The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania.
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Prior to joining CFRA, Todd previously served in other financial positions at S&P Global, such as International Mutual Fund Sector Specialist, Large Cap Value and Large Cap Growth Analyst and has served on the Fund Services Asset Allocation Committee. Prior to joining S&P Global in 2001, Todd was managing editor of Value Line Mutual Fund Survey and Senior Large Cap and Small Cap Value Mutual Fund Analyst. He was also a Financial Advisor with Morgan Stanley.
Todd holds a B.G.S in Finance from the University of Michigan and an MBA in Finance from New York University.
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Prior to joining CFRA, Lindsey worked as an Investment Strategist with S&P Global within the Investment Advisory Services division. She worked in several different capacities at TheStreet.com before that, from helping to manage Jim Cramer's small and mid-cap Charitable Trusts, to leading trader blog conversations and writing research. She learned the ropes as an equity research analyst at J.P Morgan and Deutsche Bank covering retail companies, and began her career in investment banking with Jefferies & Company's Mergers & Acquisition group.
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Prior to joining CFRA and S&P Global, Tuna was a Senior Equity Analyst at Lehman Brothers, New York. He participated in key decisions by the firm's Investment Policy Committee and was highly instrumental in managing a multi-capitalization equity portfolio, with primary focus on the Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) sectors. Tuna also gained extensive global consulting experience in his previous roles at Arthur Andersen and KPMG.
Tuna earned an MBA in Finance from the Strathclyde University Business School in Scotland, U.K. He also holds a B.Sc. in Accounting from University of Nigeria as well as LL.B. (JD). Tuna is a CFA charterholder and a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).


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GB and I were talking tonight about my earlier open carrying makes me feel naked post. He didn't realize that people had noticed that we were carrying as much as I did. He said to me that he didn't expect to notice because he's not paying attention for those things. I asked him what things he's paying attention to and he said he's watching for attacks. I told him that I watch how people are posturing because attacks don't just happen out of the blue, there are a couple of gear up stages the attacker goes through before he's on you and if you can recognize the gearing up behavior you can often change the outcome. He didn't know that there were escalation behaviors to watch for. I mentioned I had seen something detailing what to watch out for on www.defensivecarry.com posted by Ex-Soldier. Here's a direct link if you want to go check it out yourself: http://www.defensivecarry.com/vbulletin/reference-how-forum/29194-reference-section-threat-behavior.html
Aside from the obvious "bum" be on the look-out for behavior such as a shuffling, uncoordinated gait; a vacant, "thousand-yard stare"; incoherent mumbling; talking to himself or unseen associates; and other bizarre behavior.
With anyone you suspect to be mentally disturbed, try these tips to avoid or de-escalate a contact:
1. Remember his personal space, and don't invade it.
2. Do not try to touch him, unless you are prepared to fight him.
3. Do not make sudden, rapid, or startling movements.
4. Speak quietly and slowly. Do not shout.
5. Try to increase distance, and get an obstacle (parked car, fence, etc.) between you, as if he is armed it is probably with an edged weapon.
Criminals must go through certain specific stages of activity before they can assault/rob/abduct/rape/etc. These stages will differ slightly in different types of crimes, but will generally fall into these categories.
1. SELECTION- The criminal views you as a prospective victim. He looks at your "victim potential", on two separate bases. First, do you have the type of car he wants, are you wearing expensive watches and jewelry, have you flashed a roll of cash, do you fit his rape victim profile? We think of this as, "Do you have what I want?". If the answer is, "Yes.", he moves to the next question.
Then he evaluates you as a threat to him. First and foremost, are you paying attention to your surroundings? Are you aware of his presence? Do you look like you might be a physical problem? Do you look like you might be armed? I assure you he goes through these questions. We think of this as, "Can I get what I want from you, safely?".
If the answer to either question, "Do you have what I want, and can I get it from you, safely?" , is "NO", then off he goes, in search of easier prey. Thugs are not looking for a fight. What they're looking for is the easy mark. Someone they can get to, get what they want from, and get away from, without being hurt and without being caught.
Several years ago, a fascinating study was conducted by some psychology students. They took photos of ordinary people as they came and went from a downtown business area. They then planned to show these to criminals and ask them to identify the people they would choose as victims, and identify the people they would choose to bypass. In the preliminary write-up, they said that they expected to see a 10-15% correlation among the "victim" and "non-victim" groups.
They then went to a state prison and got a very large number of career violent offenders (rapists, muggers, etc.) to enter a room one at a time and view these photos. Time after time, the thugs said "I want that one", and pointed to others and said, "But I don't want that one!". When it was over, the psychologists were shocked. There was a 95% correlation rate! Ninety-five times out of a hundred, individual thugs, with no communication among them, picked the same people to be victims, or to bypass. How did they do that? Body language. The only thing available from these photos was body language, but that was enough for the thugs to instantly identify the true victims as well as the people they would not risk a confrontation with.
Whom did they choose as victims? Gender, size, and age were surprisingly not the keys. Instead, they looked for people who shuffled along, head down, avoiding eye contact, unaware of their surroundings (Condition White). In contrast, they avoided choosing people, even small females, if they were alert, confident, head up, and looked like they knew what was going on around them (Condition Yellow). Remember what he really wants. He wants to get to you, get what he wants from you, and get away from you, without being hurt or caught.
There are signs that you are being evaluated by a potential attacker. They include:
1. Anyone who appears to be watching you should be viewed with mild alarm. If every time you look up, the same guy is looking at you, ask yourself, "Why?".
2. Anyone who is inactive until you approach, then tries to look busy;
3. Anyone whose activity is geared to yours. You speed up, he speeds up, etc.
Once a criminal selects a victim, he must move into a position from which an attack is possible. Always remember that to assault, rob, or rape you, he must be close enough to talk to you. He will attempt to maneuver into this position by stealth (which is defeated by being alert), or by ruse. He may ask you for the time, for change, for directions, anything to distract you and preferably cause you to look away from him. When you look away, here comes the blow! The best course of action is to politely refuse any request, no matter what it is. Keep your eye on him and say, "No". Anything you agree to is the springboard for the next request, which then escalates to demands. Just say "No".
Positioning prior to the assault is vital to him, as he relies almost totally on surprise for success. If you avoid his attempts to properly position himself, you forestall the attack. Be alert and watchful for these cues:
1. Anyone who falls in behind you after you walk by;
2. Two or more people who are together, but split up as you approach;
3. Anyone staying in one place, observing, but begins to move toward you;
4. Two or more people lined up along a wall or fence; or
5. Anyone who moves to block an exit after you enter a confined space.
If you see one of these cues, cross the street, change directions, turn a corner. If he alters his course to match yours, he has tipped his hand. Go to Orange and start planning an escape or response.
The attack phase can only come after the evaluation phase and the positioning phase. It is simply not possible to attack you until these first two stages have been completed. The very best defense, therefore, is to circumvent the attack by not allowing the Evaluation Phase and the Positioning Phase to be fruitfully completed. Every single attack you avoid is a battle won! In every attack you fail to prevent, you are at enormous risk! A one-eyed, three fingered jackass can miss you by ten feet with a handgun, and ricochet a round off the pavement and into your femoral artery. Although you are "accidentally" dead, you're still dead. Be alert and use your head and you won't have to use your pistol nearly as often.
With the exception of the true sociopath (more on him later), there will normally be cues, principally body language, which will assist you in forecasting aggressive activity by an individual you are observing. Being aware of these cues is vital to your accurate threat assessment.
Of course, verbalization by the offender is a critical cue. Someone cursing, shouting epithets, and generally being aggressive verbally is a likely candidate for physical aggression. Bear in mind, however, that 80% of human communication is non-verbal, and you must be aware of and watchful for these sometimes subtle indicators.
One of the most reliable indicators of an impending assault occurs when you are in a position of authority and the offender fails to comply with or contemptuously ignores your commands. If, for instance, you encounter an intruder in your home, and he does not immediately comply with your commands, you are in for a fight!
Other definitive indicators can include these, alone or in combination:
1. hands on hips;
2. cocked head
3. arms folded across the chest
4. fists clenched, or clenched and flexed alternately
5. jaw clenched
6. spitting
7. deliberate avoidance of eye contact
8. continuously looking around
9. sustained verbal rationalizations
10. continuous yawning and stretching
11. target glancing.
"Target glancing" refers to brief, repeated shifting of the offender's eyes to your chin, your nose, or your weapon. Repeated target glances to your chin or nose means he is gauging the distance for a punch. Target glances at your weapon indicate a gun snatch may be imminent.
Always, when the pre-attack indicators are present, shift to the highest level of mental readiness (Condition Red) and be geared up. If at all possible, extend the distance between the two of you. Unless you are a Marine, you don't have to die for the piece of ground you're standing on!
Sociopaths: These ANIMALS are born without or fail to develop (because of abuse) any sort of empathy for their fellow man, they not only feel nothing when inflicting pain, IF it brings them sexual pleasure they may do so anytime or anywhere. There will be no "cues." The serial killer may be a sociopath, but likely his other symptoms are not such as would inhibit him from interacting with "normal" folks socially….like in a daily work situation. Some are so disconnected from reality they can't hold a job at any level. Society quickly detects these. But folks like the infamous and now deceased serial killer Ted Bundy are winsome and charming and you may like hanging out with a guy like this, at first. But most folks will eventually get a clue that there is something…..just WRONG. It may be too late at that point, especially if you belong to the target group. But there will be no attack indicators with a sociopath. What this means of course is that for folks you don't know very well…be polite, be professional but have a plan to kill everybody you meet. Be prepared to implement such plan instantly. If you run into a sociopath (highly unlikely unless you're a part of a target population) and he goes for you, you'll be behind the power curve from the start. But reaction as if you'd been caught in a near ambush with an immediate action drill….EXTREME violence in instant response may well put this sort of wolf off balance and allow you to either escape or finish him."


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All washes/rinses were performed in cylindrical glass slide incubators at room temp (30mL):
- Slides were briefly rinsed in dH2O three times.
- Slides were counter stained with 0.05% aqueous Bismark Brown Y for 3mins.
- Slides were briefly rinsed in dH2O, then 70% EtOH, then 100% EtOH.
- Slides were air-dried in the fume hood.
- Coverslips were added to each slide with three drops of Permount.
- Permount was allowed to dry O/N at RT.
Images were captured using Nikon BR Essentials.
The same section of each slide (within an accession number set) was captured at 4x, 10x, and 20x magnifications for comparisons. Auto white balance adjustment was the only image manipulation performed. All images (see Results below) are as they were captured by the software.
Quick summary: Both probes appear to be functional! With that being the case, I will proceed to run ISH on black abalone samples (these test ISHs were with red abalone) for the proper assessment of RLOv localization.
All images are here (Dropbox): 20151204_ISH_RLOv
Tryptic images of 10x magnifications are presented below showing the H&E staining, negative control and RLOv probe.
ISH staining is expected to appear as dark brown staining.
08:1-7 (RLOv)
H&E – RLO inclusions are seen as the deep purple oblong structures.
Negative Control – RLO inclusions exhibit no staining and appear as oblong empty regions. These regions also no have any apparent cell wall/membrane around them. This is in contrast to the two other accession groups (08:1-12 & 08:1-15).
RLOv tail fiber – Staining is noticeable surrounding the RLO inclusion locations, but not within the inclusions. The staining is similar to the 08:1-12 negative control. So, it's difficult to say if the staining in this sample is binding to its intended target (RLOv tail fiber) or if the difference seen is simply due to the particular section of this tissue.
RLOv membrane gene 1 – Not shown due to this region of tissue not being present on the slide.
H&E – RLO inclusions are seen as the deep purple oblong structures.
Negative Control – RLO inclusions appear similar to air bubbles, with no staining within them.
RLOv probes – Both probes stain within the RLO inclusions.
H&E – RLO inclusions are seen as light purple bulbous structures.
Negative Control – RLO inclusions are actually stained brown and are very noticeable. This is not expected.
RLOv membrane gene 1 - The staining is in the same locations as the negative control RLO inclusions. Intensity-wise, the staining seen from this probe is not much different than the negative control. However, the way the staining appears within the inclusions is different than the negative control. Not sure if this indicative of the probe working or if the different appearance is due to difference in tissue sections.
RLOv tail fiber – The staining is in the same locations as the negative control RLO inclusions. However, the intensity of the staining with the RLOv tail fiber probe is a much deeper brown, suggesting that the probe is binding within the RLO inclusions.


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Summer 2011
Art Posi+ive: Bead It
After overcoming a drug and alcohol dependence, Ron Horsefall started to string his life back together with beadwork and so reconnected with his stolen culture.
MY NAME is Mashkiki-waabika-inini (Medicine Circle of Stones Man); my given name is Ron Horsefall. I am from Pasqua First Nation, Saskatchewan. I am 45 years old and currently reside in Vancouver, BC. The first time I was tested for HIV was December 1996 and I was diagnosed with AIDS. At the time I was living in a room in a single-occupancy hotel in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. I had shingles, which was what prompted me to get tested.
After my diagnosis, I was put on HIV meds; AZT was one of them. For about four years, I was on and off meds: The times when I was not drinking were the times I was able to take the meds. My health finally made a turn for the better when I sobered up in 2000. Now my health is good: I'm on therapy, my viral load is undetectable and my CD4 count is 400.
I am a survivor of a residential school. I started attending when I was five years old and I was abused before and while at the school. After leaving, I wanted to distance myself from everything that had happened there and I discovered the best way to do that was to use drugs and alcohol. My addictions led me to ugly places and to a life of high-risk behaviour. I just didn't care about myself and, more fundamentally, I didn't love myself.
Bottoming out
In retrospect, I see HIV as a gift — it helped me hit bottom. Trying to manage my addictions and my health at the same time was not working. So I had a decision to make: Get sober and live or keep using and die. After 23 years of drinking and drugging, I reached out. I joined Alcoholics Anonymous, found a drug and alcohol counsellor and eventually saw a psychologist. These were the hardest things I had ever done up to that point.
HIV and the drug and alcohol use were symptoms of more deep-seated problems in my life. Under the surface were some very serious issues — issues that I've had to deal with over the years. Addressing them meant turning inward to look at myself and my life and putting away the blame and self-pity I was feeling. I became aware of why I used and why I became HIV positive. It is a very hard road to walk, and I didn't walk it alone; I had help from a great many people. It was the journey from my head to my heart.
Eventually, doing my own inner work and practicing a healthier lifestyle brought me to a place in my life where I could give back what had been so freely given to me. From 2004 to 2007, I worked with two Aboriginal AIDS service organizations: Healing Our Spirit here in Vancouver and All Nations Hope AIDS Network in Regina, Saskatchewan. I spoke publicly about my life with HIV — something I still do on occasion — and developed workshops for Aboriginal people with HIV. It gave me joy to help people on their own journeys, whether they were HIV positive or not.
The residential school system disconnected me from my culture and spirituality. I knew I was First Nation; however, I didn't know what that meant. As part of my healing, I embarked on another journey, this time to reclaim my culture and spirituality — my birthright. As I learned about my identity, I became interested in powwow dancing. I decided to make my own regalia (dance outfit) and this required beadwork. Thus began my artistry with beads. I am a self-taught bead worker — I learn from books, videos and the Internet.
Phoenix rising
I have always been creative; I took art classes throughout high school and at university. For years, low self-esteem and a sense of low self-worth prevented me from pursuing my dream as an artist and I listened to people who said it was hard to make it as an artist. More importantly, I listened to myself when I said, "I'm not good enough."
However, as I walked my journey I came to see that I was good enough and that I did have potential. Two and a half years ago, I made a commitment to my art and began selling it at arts and crafts fairs. Before that, I had done commissioned work for friends and friends of friends. Then, in September 2009, I learned that the Carnegie Community Centre — a drop-in centre serving the people of the Downtown Eastside — had an arts grant program that was funded by the Vancouver Foundation, Canada's largest community foundation. I applied and, surprisingly, I was selected. Not only was I very excited, I was also now accountable for my artwork. I had a body of work to produce and had to answer to someone other than myself for it. I had obligations!
The project included a series of beaded circular wooden and metal containers ranging from 1½ to 7 inches in height. I chose the name "Out of the Ashes," shortened from "Phoenix Rising Out of the Ashes," to represent how I rose out of darkness and into the light. I dedicated my project to my niece, Lorraine Horsefall, who died of AIDS in 2006. As part of the program, all recipients exhibit their work, and so last summer I had my first art show. Thanks to this experience, I now call myself an artist, without any reservations.
Creating is a spiritual process for me and what comes out is a tapestry of my life. When I sit still and bead, "me" catches up with "me" — feelings from the past begin to flow and they go into each piece I create. As I continue to walk in and with the Light and to expand spiritually, my work expands along with me.


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Aircraft mechanic program honors its first graduates
|Graduates participated in the tradition of "torque the bolt" after they received their certificates.
The Liberty University School of Aeronautics graduated its inaugural class of the Aviation Maintenance Technician School (AMTS) Friday at its temporary facility at The Plaza shopping center in mid-town Lynchburg.
Eleven students received FAA certification for completing the 12-month aircraft mechanic training program, which began in January.
AMTS Chairman Bob Howell opened the ceremony in prayer, followed by Dave Young, Dean of the School of Aeronautics, who welcomed the graduates and their families and friends.
"The responsibility of a maintainer is tremendous," Young said. "The profession you guys are entering, regardless of whether you do it in commercial aviation, on the mission field or corporate aviation, there are people who are going to put their lives in your hands."
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Hunter spoke about the opportunities available in all fields of aviation. He discussed the direct and indirect impacts of aviation on the nation's economy, in commercial aviation as well as missionary and military aviation.
"This is probably the class that had the most care and instruction, because each class is going to get bigger," he said after the ceremony. "I think it's an outstanding program. You've had a flight program for years, and now finally you have a maintenance program to go with it."
When graduates received their certificates, they joined in the symbolic tradition of "torque the bolt." Each student torqued one final bolt and applied the necessary lacquer, signifying the completion of the training process. The bolts will be displayed on a plaque alongside each graduate's name.
Young praised the program's first class for setting the standard for future graduates. He said their success contributed to the program's growth; 24 students are currently enrolled in the Class of 2011.
"We selected students who we believed would be success-oriented, we had great equipment, but I think the dedication of the instructors and the quality of the instructors we have was key to getting this class through and doing it in 12 months," Young said.
Liberty's AMTS will begin another class Jan. 3. For more information, visit www.liberty.edu/aviation.


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AMHERST, Mass. (AP) Chaz Williams scored 18 points and Massachusetts rallied from a seven-point deficit in the final 6 minutes to defeat Richmond 70-65 Sunday in Atlantic 10 Conference action.
Trailing 63-56, Williams hit a 3-pointer with 5:52 left to spark an 11-0 run. Kendall Anthony hit two free throws with 16 seconds left - the Spiders' first points in 5:46 - to make it 67-65. Williams made two free throws 2 seconds later, then clinched the win with a foul shot with 1 second remaining.
Cady Lalanne added 12 points and Sampson Carter 10 for the Minutemen (13-5, 3-2), who led the entire first half en route to a 34-29 advantage at the break.
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When Apple released the Google Maps app on Wednesday night, there was a rush to download it by iOS users. But many found that while the app appeared to be there, it really wasn't.
If you did a search in the App Store, you would have come up empty-handed. If you had a direct link to it, clicking it brought you to the Info page with screen shots and the app's description. But if you tried to download it, you likely got this error message:
Later in the evening, this problem cleared up, though some continued to experience it. Some users reported not being able to find the app in a search as late as this morning.
While it was frustrating to those who have been anxiously awaiting the return of Google Maps to iOS, the delay wasn't unusual. The inability to find a just-posted app in search, and being unable to download it if you find it, is a common occurrence.
What's going on here? I asked Apple, and a spokesperson provided details.
The App Store is hosted on many, many servers. When an app is posted to the store, it takes a while for the app to be saved to each one of those servers. When you click on a direct link, you may see the Info page for the app, but the file itself may not have made it onto the server you're accessing. (The text and screenshots for the Info page are much smaller than the file itself, so they are propagated across servers more quickly.)
The same thing is true with the app-search function. It takes a while for Apple's system to create an index that points to where the app can be found on all the servers that comprise the App Store.
The spokesperson said because it takes a long time to complete this process of making the app available, apps that are expected to be very popular are often posted late in the evening, so they're available across Apple's system by the time the U.S. East Coast starts waking up. Of course, if it's an app as highly anticipated as Google Maps, demand hits immediately.


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But attacks which have a purely domestic agenda are blown out of all proportion by corporate media as poster child for ailing war on terror
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, November 28, 2008
After brazenly declaring that the Mumbai attacks were the work of Al-Qaeda, the corporate media has been forced to backtrack, while India continues to blame Pakistan in a dangerous escalation of rhetoric between the two nuclear-armed powers.
Bellicose propaganda about Bin Laden being behind the massacre, which was initially propagated by the BBC, London Times and Fox News amongst others, has largely evaporated, with the majority of the establishment press being forced to admit they have no idea who was behind the siege on India's financial capital.
However, India's claim that Pakistan had a hand in the attacks is beginning to find favor in the U.S., where one counterterrorism official told CNN, "the level of sophistication in the attack leads officials to believe that it might be tied to Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (Army of the Pure), an Islamic extremist group that has carried out previous attacks in India."
Lashkar-e-Tayyiba would be a useful scapegoat because it has alleged links both to Al-Qaeda and Pakistani's ISI secret service, but since the group has vehemently denied responsibility and terrorists normally like to claim responsibility for their handiwork, any attempt to pin the blame is likely to run out of steam. Lashkar-e-Tayyiba always claim responsibility for their attacks, so their outright denial is the death knell for this explanation.
That India would immediately exploit the tragedy to demonize their arch-enemy Pakistan was fully expected, but how Pakistan, which has recently made numerous peaceful overtures towards India, could possibly benefit from crazed terrorists indiscriminately gunning down innocent people in shocking scenes played out on international television defies belief.
But that reasoning did not prevent India's Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee from telling a press conference today that, "Preliminary evidence, prima facie evidence, indicates elements with links to Pakistan are involved."
In reality, as we have repeatedly emphasized, the attacks were likely not the work of Al-Qaeda, Pakistan, the Mossad or the CIA, but Indian Muslims.
As author Tariq Ali points out today, "The Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, has insisted that the terrorists were based outside the country. The Indian media has echoed this line of argument with Pakistan (via the Lashkar-e-Taiba) and al-Qaeda listed as the usual suspects."
"But this is a meditated edifice of official India's political imagination. Its function is to deny that the terrorists could be a homegrown variety, a product of the radicalization of young Indian Muslims who have finally given up on the indigenous political system. To accept this view would imply that the country's political physicians need to heal themselves."
"Why should it be such a surprise if the perpetrators are themselves Indian Muslims? Its hardly a secret that there has been much anger within the poorest sections of the Muslim community against the systematic discrimination and acts of violence carried out against them of which the 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom in shining Gujarat was only the most blatant and the most investigated episode, supported by the Chief Minister of the State and the local state apparatuses."
"Add to this the continuing sore of Kashmir which has for decades been treated as a colony by Indian troops with random arrests, torture and rape of Kashmiris an everyday occurrence. Conditions have been much worse than in Tibet, but have aroused little sympathy in the West where the defense of human rights is heavily instrumentalised."
The identity and motive behind the terrorists is reasonably clear, these young men are disenfranchised, revenge-driven Indian Muslims, along with a smattering of Pakistanis, Kashmiris and Bangladeshis, based in India not Pakistan, who hate Hindus and believe it is their duty to kick-start a wider tribal war, which is why the vast majority of those killed were Indians, not foreigners, Brits or Americans.
The terrorists were not dispatched on their mission by the Pakistan government or Osama bin Laden, they are mostly Indians who represent a domestic problem for the Indian government, which is why the authorities are seeking to deflect blame and exploit the tragedy to demonize Pakistan in the eyes of the international community.
The spin that the terrorists deliberately targeted American and British citizens is still being pumped out by the western corporate media, despite the fact that only one Briton died, himself being originally from Cyprus, in comparison to well over a hundred Indians, and despite the fact that the rampage was a completely indiscriminate massacre.
The western propaganda machine has taken a domestic problem, which expresses itself almost on a monthly basis in India with routine bombings and attacks, and amplified it beyond all proportion to claim that the attacks were an assault on western democracy, capitalism, and ultimately the Anglo-American power alliance.
The horrible slaughter of hundreds of mostly Indian civilians in Mumbai will now be used as a poster child for continued bombing campaigns inside Pakistani territory and an expansion of the ailing war on terror under President elect Barack Obama, which in the long term only means that more innocent lives will be lost.
This article was posted: Friday, November 28, 2008 at 5:56 am


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School of Physics and Astronomy Professor Arkady Vainshtein will receive the 2005 Pomeranchuk Prize in theoretical physics.
Vainshtein will share the prize with his collaborator, Iosif Khriplovich of the Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk, Russia. The prize committee cited Vainshtein and Khriplovich for their "outstanding contribution to the understanding the properties of the standart model, especially for illuminating work on weak and strong interaction of quarks."
The Pomeranchuk Prize has been awarded annually since 1998 by the A.I. Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics in Moscow, Russia. The Prize commemorates the life and work of physicist Isaak Yakovlevich Pomeranchuk (1913 - 1966). Past winners include S. Drell, J. D. Bjorken, T. Regge, and F. Dyson.


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This weekend sees UK newspaper The Guardian giving away two audio adventures of the Eleventh Doctor:
- Saturday's Guardian will come with a free copy of The Hounds of Artemis, written by James Goss and narrated by Matt Smith and Clare Corbett. This CD has yet to be released commercially (currently listed as for the 7th April).
- Sunday's Observer will come with The Ring Of Steel, written by Stephen Cole and read by Arthur Darvill. This CD was previously released commercially in August last year.
- In addition, throughout next week readers can find out details on how to download free episodes from the Hornet's Nest audio series, starring Tom Baker and Richard Franklin.
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Marcum sets a date
TORONTO — Back after a day of fighting a nasty cold, but feeling better today. Pretty relaxed morning over here at the Rogers Centre, where the Jays lounged around playing cards and listening to the Bloodhound Gang. Awesome.
While hanging out in the clubhouse, Shaun Marcum strolled by and said he's down to go under the knife on Sept. 30. Dr. James Andrews will perform the surgery in Birmingham, Ala. In a best-case scenario, Marcum could be throwing again by June or so and maybe even pitching a few innings for the Jays by next September.
Also, young Travis Snider — he of the .333 average and .549 slugging since being promoted to Toronto — will not be taking part in the Arizona Fall League this October. Snider was originally down to play in the AFL, but that was before the Blue Jays decided to call him up for the season's final month.
Today's lineups:
BOSTON (90-64) at TORONTO (83-72)
at 1:07 p.m. ET at the Rogers Centre
Jacoby Ellsbury, CF
Dustin Pedroia, 2B
David Ortiz, DH
Kevin Youkilis, 3B
Jason Bay, LF
Mark Kotsay, RF
Jed Lowrie, SS
Sean Casey, 1B
Jason Varitek, C
PITCHING: RHP Daisuke Matsuzaka (17-2, 2.93)
Joe Inglett, 2B
Marco Scutaro, SS
Alex Rios, RF
Vernon Wells, CF
Adam Lind, DH
Lyle Overbay, 1B
Scott Rolen, 3B
Travis Snider, LF
Curtis Thigpen, C
PITCHING: RHP Scott Richmond (0-2, 5.06)
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I'm glad to see Marcum's operation scheduled early, although I doubt very much if he will pitch next year or at least be effective when he does. However, he should be good as new or even better than new in spring of 2010.
All things considered, Richmond has had a reasonable start so far. Too bad we're making Dice K look like Cy Young. I hope Minnesota win today or we could see the Sox celebrate on our field. On the other hand maybe that's a good thing and will send a message to ownership.
It looks like Snider is going to be our DH next year or the Jays would have sent him to the AFL. I expect the AFL will be extremely disappointed since Snider has been one of the players the league has really hiped in generating fan interest in the AFL.
Although, Travis Sinder is no where near the finished product, he has certainly showed he's close enough to belong here. I expect his time with Cito and the coaches will be far more beneficial than AAA. It's good news as far as I'm concerned and means there's more flexibility in players and potential dollars for other areas.
I still think we should have called up J.P Arrencibia instead of Thigpen and I think we'd have seen similar results with him as we have with Snider. I can't imagine Thigpen is long with the Jay organization with numerous other prospects coming behind Arrencibia.
It seems unrealistic to expect Marcum back for next September. Liriano missed all of last year and wasn't Major League ready until after the All Star break this year. BJ missed most of last year and still isn't Major League ready. Don't rush Marcum back.
hey i was wondering what the criteria is for an injured player to stay with the team. marcum is still with the team now, but mcgowan for example is not. do the players have a choice or is it is a team decision?
With Sabathia and Sheets likely on their way out of Millwaukee, rumour has it the the Brewers are dangling Prince Fielder for a front end starter. What does everyone think of Halladay to the Brewers for Fielder, Hardy and Gallardo?
If we trade Halladay what will be left for next year.
I was posting on the last blog all afternoon.Since Jordan was not here yesterday I thought maybe he went on a run and got himself lost.If you want to read what I posted just back up.lol.
I'd do Halliday and Overbay for Fielder, Hardy and Gallardo.
Andrew,on second thought,after checking them out I just might make the trade,But would they.
Or I'd trade Rolen, Overbay, Macdonald/Scutaro and Halliday for Fielder, Hardy, Gallardo and Gamel.
And pick up half of rolens salary for 2009 and 10
Then trade rios and lind for lester,than bring johnson back and were set.
To get talent, you have to give up talent. It'd be nice to say that the Jays should trade Overbay, Parrish, Richmond and MacDonald for Fielder, Gallardo and Hardy. But the Brewers wouldn't go for that. The Jays don't have the cash to go out and sign Sabathia and Teixeira, so they need to make some trades. Then you need to consider what the Jays have that other teams covit. Players like BJ have limited value because he has not pitched up to par since he came back. Overbay, Rolen and Rios have had very ho-hum seasons which gives them little trade value. The chips that the Jays have are Halladay and Wells. If they can make the right deals, they should move both of them to make the largest impact possible. The Jays have a pretty big shopping list: 1. Big Bat, 2. SS, 3. Leadoff hitter, 4. #2 pitcher (replace Burnett), 5. #3 pitcher (replace Marcum). The Jays need to find a way to fill 5 holes with as few moves and with spending as little cash as possible.
I believe it's always the club's decision. I think the decided factor with the Jays is when an operation is done that puts the player out for the year. Of course how the player reacts is also a factor, I'm sure.
If it's simple operation and the player is expected to return, then they tend to have them back, just before any rehab starts.
In Marcum's case, he'll likley be with the team until the operaion
I guess not to many want to play GM.
What about Halladay to the Mets for Reyes, Pelfrey and 2 high level prospects?
Wells to the Dodgers for Kemp, Ethier and Billingsley?
Halladay to the D-Backs for Scherzer, Upton, Jackson and a pitching prospect?
Wells to the Rockies for Atkins, Hawpe (or Tulowitzki) and Francis?
Halladay to the Angels for Figgins, Wood, S Rodriguez and 2 high level pitching prospects?
Andrew.Wow thats a lot of trades.
Looks to me, like if we had 3 Halliday's, we'd be able to build a nice team. lol
I think the first trade we need to do is with Godfrey and JP.
3 hallidays, lol. made me think about the starting pitchers in 1992
talk about stacked., no wonder we won. i had no idea at the time how amazing this was and how difficult to get there again.
In 92 and 93 the Jays had a larger payroll than the Yankees.
I just had to go back, take a looks and compare to this year.
92 team era: 3.91
93 team era: 4.21
08 team era: 3.54
92 team ba: .263ba/.331obp/.414 slg
93 team ba: .279ba/.338obp/.436slg
08 team ba: .264ba/.332obp/.400 slg
Garry, we drew more fans than the Yanks did in 1992 and 1993, so we did have a bigger budget.
I expect if we drew over 4 million fans in 2009 like we did in 92 and 93, our players payroll budget would go up right along with it.
Garry-here are the players salaries from 1993.
Joe Carter $ 5,550,000
Jack Morris $ 5,425,000
Roberto Alomar $ 4,933,333
Dave Stewart $ 4,300,000
Devon White $ 3,658,333
Paul Molitor $ 3,650,000
Rickey Henderson $ 3,550,000
Duane Ward $ 3,350,000
Pat Borders $ 2,500,000
Todd Stottlemyre $ 2,325,000
Darrin Jackson $ 2,100,000
Ken Dayley $ 1,800,000
John Olerud $ 1,562,500
Mark Eichhorn $ 850,000
Dick Schofield $ 800,000
Danny Cox $ 550,000
Darnell Coles $ 500,000
Alfredo Griffin $ 500,000
Juan Guzman $ 500,000
Luis Sojo $ 290,000
Al Leiter $ 287,500
Mike Timlin $ 262,000
Tony Castillo $ 185,000
Pat Hentgen $ 182,500
Ed Sprague $ 182,500
Turner Ward $ 160,000
Randy Knorr $ 112,500
Scott Brow $ 109,000
Rob Butler $ 109,000
Willie Canate $ 109,000
Domingo Cedeno $ 109,000
Shawn Green $ 109,000
Domingo Martinez $ 109,000
Woody Williams $ 109,000
1993 Team leaders
Batting Average Olerud .363
On-base % Olerud .473
Slugging % Olerud .599
Starting All Star team selection
Roberto Olomar
Joe Carter
Pat Hentgen
Paul Molitor
John Olerud
Duane Ward
Devon White
Boy would I like to see a repeat of that.Who knows if Tampa can do it so can we.
When was the last time that New York missed the playoffs,anyone out there know.
If the Jays play 500 ball the rest of the way Cito will have achived his goal of 10 games over 500,That makes me think he is the right man for 09,I wonder when we will know if he is going to be back or not.
The ERA and BA comparison from 92/93 to present is interesting….how much do think the ERA was affected by the fact that those years were smack dab in the steroid era? I'm betting that scoring runs on roids was easier than preventing them – no matter how juiced a pitcher is.
To the speculators.
I disagree with trading Halladay. Only because this is his team, he leads by example, and without him I bet a large portion of the Blue Jays fans just pack it in. Anybody else is fair game so long as the returns are good. I'm not a big fan of NL starting pitcher trades….with the possible exception of Josh Beckett, can anybody quickly name 2 starting pitchers that did as well or better than they did in the NL? (please no Nolan Ryan comments – dudes collecting social security) So as to Ben Sheets, pass.
I'd like to ask what everyone thinks about this though. JP et al have managed to sign some of our players (overbay, wells, rios) to some pretty heavily back-loaded contracts –affordable now, but overpriced 3-4 years from now. I think Aaron Hill contract is the only well structured one. Lets take the fact that these guys are affordable and attractive to others – and start trading them to near contenders to *push them over the top* I'm betting some of the GM's (Marlins, Giants, Rangers, Twins) might be coerced into making a few favourable deals for some quality, underpriced help now. Keep Roy, and rebuild it all around him for 2010. 2009 can be a season long spring training.
I'd expect quite a bit. The other thing I found interesting was reviewing John Olerud's great year. I had sort of forgot he almost hit .400 and yet, when ever there's any chat about who is the best Jay or the best 1st baseman, he's never considered or even in the conversation. I guess he was just too quiet.
I agree 2009 and poossibly 2010 are going to be rebuilding years. That being said remember Halliday is signed only through 2010 and he might not want to hang around, hoping this time we get it right. Right now his value is probably as high or higher than it's ever going to be, so it is the right time to trade him.
The real heavy contract is Vernon Wells who gets $21 mill in 2010, $23 mill. in 2011 and 21 mill each year after through 2014. The only way he gets traded is if he gets really hot next year in the first half. I would expect the best we'll be able to do is dump his contract, I can't imagine getting anything in return.
I would like to see them trade Wells because his contract is very loaded on the back end and it will hurt the team financially in the long run,I don't think they will get much for him because of his contract but a couple of good prospects will do just fine.Also trade Rolen even if they have to pick up 3 mil. of his contract for two years.Also sign Tex for 5 years,They will be able too with the money they save on Wells and Rolen and that means trade Overbay to make room for Tex.
You wont need a 4th outfeilder because you have Inglet.
Now they have to go after Manny and this team will be a powerhouse.
Some of the young pitchers will get all the run support they will need,That means Richmond and Purcey and whoever elce steps up will be able to grow with the team.
If they set the team up this way they can't lose ,I say they will win at least 97 games.
Manny will have to play the DH role only and if he is not happy with that then look for someone else with his power.
There is a great deal of talk about the designated hitter for next season. My answer is to simply go with Wells, Rios, Lind and Snider as the four outfielders and rotate each through the designated hitter's role every fourth game, thus freeing up one more position player or pitcher on the roster.
I don't want to trade Halladay either. But they have too. I don't think that dealing Wells will be enough to make the team competative. I think that they need to deal both in order to get what they need.
They don't necessarily need a DH… Either a DH or a 1B or a 3B or an ****… anyone that will drive in 100 RBI with regularity. DH is just being used loosely for a big bat because most DH are expected to put up big numbers.
What about John Garland,He will be a free agent this winter and he has a good record,His ERA is over 4 but he still wins games.As far as ERA goes 2 or 3 blowouts can bring that up.
Garland is a #5 starter at best. His W's are bloated because he plays for the best team in baseball. I'd rather see the Jays take a chance on a young guy and let him learn at the major league level. Cheaper too.
Shows you what the people who matter, think of our minor league system when Syracuse tell us to get lost, Buffalo do the same and we're forced to go to where no one else wants to go-Las Vegas. Great Move JP.
Oh, and the other sparkling move today was claiming Reid Santos from Cleveland. All this guy did last year was earn a 7.20 era in AAA-with opposing teams hitting .378. Obviously deserves a spot on our 40 man roster. I'd bet he's JP's replacemnt for Marcum. Two brilliant moves in one day.


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I'll be blunt: I don't know how to code. I am a literature professor, not a programmer. So, in theory, KDE should be way beyond my league, as some people insist it is too entangled for average computer users who are confused by choices.
KDE does include a lot of choices (perhaps too many). But you do not need to grasp everything KDE offers at once; you can gradually learn how to use it and, eventually, shape it to fit your workflow best.
When I first saw "Activities", I must confess that I did not find the concept practical. However, that was exactly the same impression I got when I first saw the virtual workspaces in Linux. Today, I cannot work without four of them.
|This is how my main workspace looks normally
The term is about to finish and I am busy calculating the grades of students, getting ready for my own French exams, and preparing the last lessons of the semester. In this hectic period, the whole concept of activities made sense to me in a sudden revelation.
|This is my customized School activity
1. a calculator
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3. an English dictionary
4. my notes to plan lessons
I can also have a Japanese and a Korean dictionary a click away with my School activity.
That is not all, though. Sometimes, one needs to select students at random. So, the second workspace of my School activity has a dice widget that facilitates that task, especially because the widget can have as many numbers as students I have in my class.
The third and fourth workspaces sport only black screens. I use one as a virtual blackboard to doodle freely with the KDE effect:
|This is convenient, but you must be good at drawing :-P
The other becomes a curtain, so that I do not have to minimize the programs I need to run for a particular class (e.g. an Impress presentation, a document, or a VYM mind map).
When I am done, I simply revert to my regular workspace. All the "mess" is cleaned with two clicks.
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Campus Struggles Against Sweatshops Continue
Indonesian workers and U.S. students fight back against Adidas.
Indonesian workers and U.S. students fight back against Adidas.
This article is from Dollars & Sense: Real World Economics, available at http://www.dollarsandsense.org
This article is from the September/October 2012 issue of Dollars & Sense magazine.
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Abandoning his financially ailing factory in the Tangerang region of Indonesia, owner Jin Woo Kim fled the country for his home, South Korea, in January 2011 without leaving money to pay his workers. The factory, PT Kizone, stayed open for several months and then closed in financial ruin in April, leaving 2,700 workers with no jobs and owed $3.4 million of legally mandated severance pay.
In countries like Indonesia, with no unemployment insurance, severance pay is what keeps workers and their families from literal starvation. "The important thing is to be able to have rice. Maybe we add some chili pepper, some salt, if we can," explained ex-Kizone worker, Marlina in a document released by the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), a U.S.-based labor-rights monitoring group, in May 2012. Marlina, widowed mother of two, worked at PT Kizone for eleven years before the factory closed. She needs the severance payment in order to pay her son's high school registration fee and monthly tuition, and to make important repairs to her house.
When the owner fled, the legal responsibility for severance payments to PT Kizone workers fell on the companies that sourced from the factory—Adidas, Nike and the Dallas Cowboys. Within a year, both Nike and the Dallas Cowboys made severance payments that they claim are proportional to the size of their orders from the factory, around $1.5 million total. But Adidas has refused to pay any of the $1.8 million still owed to workers.
The majority of what was produced in PT Kizone factory was athletic clothing sold to hundreds of universities throughout the United States. All collegiate licensees like Adidas and Nike sign contracts with the universities that buy their apparel.
At least 180 universities around the nation are affiliated with the WRC and have licensing contracts mandating that brands pay "all applicable back wages found due to workers who manufactured the licensed articles." If wages or severance pay are not paid to workers that produce university goods, then the school has the right to terminate the contract.
Using the language in these contracts, activists on these campuses coordinate nationwide divestment campaigns to pressure brands like Adidas to uphold previously unenforceable labor codes of conduct.
The precedent of withholding wages and benefits is strong in the garment industry as a whole. Apparel brands rarely own factories. Rather, they contract with independent manufacturers all over the world to produce their wares. When one factory closes for any reason, a brand can simply take its business somewhere else and wash its hands of any responsibilities to the fired workers.
Past campaigns run by United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) have cost brands like Nike and Russell millions of dollars when university contracts were cut. Campus activism has forced Nike to pay severance and Russell to rehire over 1,000 workers it had laid off, in order to avoid losing more collegiate contracts. Now many of these college activists have their sights set on Adidas.
At the University of Wisconsin (UW) in Madison, students in the USAS-affiliated Student Labor Action Coalition (SLAC) and sympathetic faculty are in the middle of a more than year-long campaign to pressure the school to cut its contract with Adidas in solidarity with the PT Kizone workers.
The chair of UW's Labor Licensing Policy Committee (LLPC) says that Adidas is in violation of the code of conduct for the school's licensees. Even the university's senior counsel, Brian Vaughn, has stated publicly at a June LLPC meeting that Adidas is "in breach of the contract based on its failure to adhere to the standards of the labor code."
But despite the fact that Vaughn claimed at the time that the University's "two overriding goals are to get money back in the hands of the workers and to maintain the integrity of the labor code," the administration has dragged its feet in responding to Adidas.
Instead of putting the company on notice for potential contract termination and giving it a deadline to meet its obligations as recommended by the LLPC, UW entered into months of fruitless negotiations with Adidasin spring of 2012. In July, when these negotiations had led nowhere, UW's interim chancellor David Ward asked a state court to decide whether or not Adidas had violated the contract (despite the senior counsel's earlier public admission that it had). This process will delay a decision for many more months—perhaps years if there are appeals.
Since the Adidas campaign's inception in the fall of 2011,SLAC members have actively opposed the school's cautious approach, calling both the mediation process and the current court action a "stalling tactic" by the UW administration and Adidas to avoid responsibility to the PT Kizone workers.
In response, student organizers planned everything from frequent letter deliveries to campus administrators, to petition drives, teach-ins, and even a banner drop from the administration building that over 300 people attended, all in hopes of pressuring the chancellor (who ultimately has the final say in the matter) to cut the contract with Adidas.
While the administration claims that it is moving slowly to avoid being sued by Adidas, it is also getting considerable pressure from its powerful athletics director, Barry Alvarez (who is paid $1 million in annual compensation), to continue its contract with Adidas. As part of the deal, UW's sports programs receive royalties and sports gear worth about $2.5 million every year.
"Just look at the money—what we lose and what it would cost us," Alvarez told the Wisconsin State Journal, even though other major brands would certainly jump at the opportunity to replace Adidas. "We have four building projects going on. It could hurt recruiting. There's a trickle-down effect that would be devastating to our whole athletic program."
But Tina Treviño-Murphy, a student activist with SLAC, rejects this logic. "A strong athletics department shouldn't have to be built on a foundation of stolen labor," she told Dollars & Sense. "Our department and our students deserve better."
Adidas is now facing pressure from both campus activists in the United States and the workers in Indonesia—including sit-ins by the latter at the German and British embassies in Jakarta. (Adidas' world headquarters are in Germany, and the company sponsored the recent London Olympics.) This led to a meeting between their union and an Adidas representative, who refused to admit responsibility but instead offered food vouchers to some of the workers. This, however, is clearly no substitute for the severance that they are still owed.
In the face of intransigence from university administrations and multinational companies prepared to shift production quickly from one location to another to stay one step ahead of labor-rights monitors, campus activism to fight sweatshops can seem like a labor of Sisyphus. After more than a decade of organizing, a recent fundraising appeal from USAS noted that "today sweatshop conditions are worse than ever."
Brands threaten to pull out of particular factories if labor costs rise, encouraging a work environment characterized by "forced overtime, physical and sexual harassment, and extreme anti-union intimidation, even death threats," says Natalie Yoon, a USAS member who recently participated in a delegation to factories in Honduras and El Salvador.
According to Snehal Shingavi, a professor at the University of Texas, Austin who was a USAS activist at Berkeley for many years, finding ways to build links with the struggles of the affected workers is key.
"What I think would help the campaign the most is if there were actually more sustained and engaged connections between students here and workers who are in factories who are facing these conditions," Shingavi told Dollars & Sense. Ultimately, he said, only workers' self-activity can "make the kind of changes that I think we all want, which is an end to exploitative working conditions."
But in the meantime, even small victories are important. Anti-sweatshop activists around the country received a boost in September, when Cornell University President David Skorton announced that his school was ending its licensing contract with Adidas effective October 1, because of the company's failure to pay severance to PT Kizone workers. The announcement followed a sustained campaign by the Sweatfree Cornell Coalition, leading up to a "study in" at the president's office. While the contract itself was small, USAS described the decision as the "first domino," which may lead other campuses to follow suit.
The USAS prediction has proved correct. Shortly after Cornell's decision, Oberlin College in Ohio told Adidas that it would not renew its current four-year contract with the company if the workers in Indonesia are not paid severance. Then in November, both the University of Washington and Rutgers terminated their contracts with the company, and reports indicate that Princeton, Montclair State, and other schools are reviewing the situation.
Perhaps just as significant as these successes, however, are the lessons that some activists are drawing from these campaigns.
"The people who have a lot of power are going to want to keep that power and the only way to make people give some of that up is if we make them," Treviño-Murphy said. "So it's really pressure from below, grassroots organizing, that makes the difference. We see that every day in SLAC and I think it teaches us to be not just better students but better citizens who will stand up to fight injustice every time."
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The Different Uses of the iPhone 5 Home Button
Dorothy clicked her red-sequined heels three times to go home. You need only press the Home button to get to the iPhone 5's Home screen. Pressing the Home button twice performs a couple functions, depending on where you start from, whereas pressing it three times makes your iPhone perform various Accessibility functions:
When iPhone is sleeping: Press the Home button twice quickly to reveal the Unlock slider, the Camera button, and the playback controls.
When iPhone is unlocked: Press the Home button twice quickly to reveal the multitasking bar. Slide the multitasking bar to the right to reveal the Orientation Lock button and playback controls.
Pressing the Home button once has four results, depending on your point of departure:
When iPhone is sleeping: Press the Home button once to wake your iPhone, and then slide the slider to unlock it or drag the Camera button up to take a picture.
From the first Home screen: Press the Home button once to open Spotlight Search.
From any Home screen that isn't the first one: Press the Home button once to return to the first Home screen.
From an app: Press the Home button once to return to the Home screen that was most recently viewed. The app remains running in the background until you close it from the multitasking bar.
Press and hold: Whether your iPhone is sleeping, locked, or awake, press and hold the Home button to summon Siri (an Internet connection is required for Siri to function), or Voice Control, if you have Siri turned off.
Press the Home button and On/Off Sleep/Wake button simultaneously: Captures an image of the screen, known as a screenshot, and stores it in the Camera Roll of the Photos app.
Hold the Home button and the On/Off Sleep/Wake button simultaneously: Your iPhone will turn off without displaying the Slide to Power Off slider.
Go to Settings→General→Accessibility→Triple-Click to activate any or all options including VoiceOver, Invert Colors, Zoom, and AssistiveTouch: When activated, triple-clicking the Home button solicits those functions.


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