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Dublin Site Specialist Teresa Lister, center, brought Columbus State to the Pyramids of Giza when she visited with former students Mahmoud Baheg and Hesham Zeiada in Egypt recently. Lister had served as a mentor to the two who were enrolled in the Community Colleges for International Development (CCID) program last year. Lister said that the camel was not at all impressed with his role as a billboard!
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The Switch to Semesters is right around the corner, starting in August 2012.
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Student writing forum pilot wraps up Winter Quarter at Delaware Campus
English faculty from Columbus State and OSU-Marion have piloted a program this Winter Quarter that celebrates the written words of their freshmen composition students.
Called "In My Own Words," this student writing forum selects the best essays from various first-year composition courses on the campus, culminating in a public reading on March 7 in Moeller Hall.
This quarter, faculty members highlighted the best personal narratives in their courses using a variety of methods ranging from teacher's choice, class vote, or blind peer review (where students from an entirely different class determine the best essay). On Wednesday, March 7, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., students will read their works at the Cyber Cafe in Moeller Hall. Prizes will be awarded to those students whose essays are recognized.
"The personal stories my students share each quarter are truly inspirational and deserve to be recognized publicly. I'm thrilled to participate in this project to showcase the powerful student voices on this campus." says Nancy Pine, a Columbus State instructor who teaches on the Delaware campus and one of the program's coordinators.
"In addition to shining a spotlight on our students' powerful writing, we wanted to set up a program that would be easy for participating teachers to implement in their classes without disrupting their respective curricula" says Ben McCorkle, Writing Program Administrator for OSU Marion. "I'm really looking forward to seeing the results this quarter."
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Dianne Fidelibus, assistant professor and program coordinator, Mental Health/Addiction Studies/Developmental Disabilities, was recently the speaker for the Columbus Area Inc. Recovery Celebration. Attending the celebration were individuals completing a residential treatment program, as well as six staff members who were graduates of the MH/AS/DD program.
Fidelibus is currently serving her sixth and final year as a member of the Board of Ohio Chemical Dependency Professionals, and was recently re-elected as secretary. A major emphasis this final year will be to assist with the passage of new legislation that provides individuals with a more reasonable pathway to licensure and rules revision. Fidelibus chairs the Treatment Committee of the Board.
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What Chancellor Angela Merkel has described as a revolution in energy policy is deemed a counter-revolution by Green member of parliament and energy expert Hans-Josef Fell. "The old ways are to be preserved, and new advances to be blocked and monopolised by the old powers," he warns.
The nub of the matter is the reversal of the 2002 nuclear phase-out law, which would have closed the last nuclear reactor in Germany around 2023. Controversy over the issue has led to major antinuclear demonstrations, similar to the protests of the 1980s and 1990s.
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On the face of it, efforts to promote wind energy set out in the draft energy plan look encouraging, with emphasis on planning, transmission network expansion, and integrating wind and renewable electricity into the market. But expert scenarios used to back up the plan show that extending nuclear reactor lifetimes by an average of 12 years could halt cheap onshore wind development.
By mid-2010, Germany's wind energy fleet, almost entirely onshore, stood at 26GW. Among the expert energy scenarios drawn up for the government, the outlook for a 12-year nuclear reactor extension sees onshore wind energy capacity increasing by just 7GW to 33.3GW in 2020, or 700MW/year, followed by an even more meagre expansion of 3.1GW to 36.4GW in 2050.
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But, the scenarios for more costly offshore wind development by large energy firms envisage 10.1GW in 2020, or an average growth of 1GW a year. This rises to 28.3GW to 2050.
The draft energy plan foresees a EUR5 billion support programme from 2011 by the state-owned KfW development bank, providing loans for the first ten offshore stations. E.on, RWE, EnBW and Vattenfall Europe, the companies profiting from nuclear plant extensions, would be among the beneficiaries. But they may choose not to develop offshore wind stations if this interferes with the optimal running of their nuclear plants.
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Government assurances that nuclear lifetime extensions will smooth the way to reliance on renewable energy sources are being questioned. "Extending lifetimes of existing nuclear power stations creates massive incentives for the operators to use their political and economic influence to stall, if not prevent, the expansion of renewable energies for as long as possible," says Olav Hohmeyer, professor at Flensburg University.
There has been added outcry over a government deal that sees the cost to protect German nuclear power stations against aircraft crash and terrorist attack being taken from a renewable energies fund. If the added measures required due to the longer lifetime of a nuclear plant exceeds EUR500 million per plant, the reactor owners will pay less or nothing into a new fund for renewables, energy efficiency, energy storage technologies and cogeneration.
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The data is in and all the plays have been counted, but who was (according to Last.fm) the biggest artist of 2011?
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Last.fm's annual countdown has become a music industry fixture. While most charts are based on sales figures and airplay, Last.fm's chart is based only on the music that fans have actually played. In 2009 Lady Gaga took the top spot, followed by Ke$ha in 2010. Does pop still rule the roost? Find out now at Last.fm.
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They may look too delicate to touch, but the exquisitely crafted christening gowns on display in Heyfield from April 3 to the 6, have stood the test of time. Stored in drawers, shoe boxes and under the bed, these intricate family heirlooms have been shaken out to take part in a unique exhibition.
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My first ever DIY blog posts appeared in Sunset magazine's now defunct blog, homebysunset.com. Because Sunset is no longer hosting these projects, I'm making revised and updated versions available here at Crafty Nest. This post comprises Make a ribbon wreath, originally published October 2007.
I originally made this as a Christmas wreath, but now that I see it again, it looks more like a Valentine's Day wreath. So I'm posting it now instead of waiting for Christmas. It requires few supplies and is easy to make as long as you can tie a bow. Read more »
Whenever people tell me they love painting, I'm suspicious. If you do the job right (protect the floor, clean and prep the walls, tape off moldings and edges, and start with primer), painting is anything but fun. And that doesn't even count cleanup. But it's worth the hassle because paint (or wallpaper) has the biggest influence on the mood and light of any room. Read more »
To say that choosing paint colors was difficult for me would be an understatement. Each color looked completely different depending on lighting, which I found to be extremely frustrating—especially now that days are short and sunlight is limited. Two months, 22 paint samples, and multiple splotchy walls later, I finally picked the colors I want on my walls. Read more »
I'm sorry to have neglected Crafty Nest for so long. But this time I have a great excuse. I bought my first house!
Here are some "before" pictures of my "new" house. It's a 1927 Mediterranean bungalow, with loads of charm including original light fixtures, push-button switches, built-ins, and gorgeous hardwood floors.
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I haven't even gotten to the fun part, like choosing paint colors and decorating. I'm still unpacking. But I'm blissfully happy to be living in my own home. Read more »
My first ever DIY blog posts appeared in Sunset magazine's now defunct blog, homebysunset.com. Because Sunset is no longer hosting these projects, I'm making revised and updated versions available here at Crafty Nest. This post comprises Making a paper-recycling tote, originally published January 2008.
Ever need something that you're sure exists, but once you go looking for it, you come up empty? I searched for a bin in which to toss all my paper recycling (let's face it: junk mail). And I wanted it to fit on the bottom pull-out shelf of my not-so-attractive-but-necessary microwave cart. I found zilch. So I made my own out of a cardboard box and fabric.
The tote is not exactly pretty, but it's oh-so-handy for carrying paper products downstairs to the recycling bins, and it only cost me $16.
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I removed this old, scratched, chipped mirror from an ugly plastic frame (which I turned into a bulletin board). Even though the mirror had seen better days, I couldn't just throw it out. Despite it's flaws, I loved the shape and thickness of the mirror.
I wanted to glue on some sort of frame and either hang it or use it as a vanity tray. The leftover glass gems from my studded tile mirror were the perfect solution. And they cover up most of the mirror's flaws. But all the glass gems had popped off of my studded mirror, one-by-one, so I hunted for a better glue. After trying three other glues, I found it. For the tiered jewelry tray tutorial, click here.
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This one is for Alyson. She's been asking me to blog about jewelry storage ideas for, um, years. I've had this tiered jewelry tray idea in the back of my mind for a long time. The delay came down to finding the right glue. I think I've found it—well, almost. This is the best glue by far for gluing glass to glass or ceramic to glass—and I've tried just about all of them. But there's one caveat. (More on that later.)
The large tiered jewelry tray is great for watches, bracelets, brooches, and rings. The smaller one is ideal for earrings. Or you could just make the larger one and use it for both purposes. Next week I'll show you how to make the beaded mirror in the photo above.
The three small plates are from a salvage yard. The medium plate is from Ikea. The large plate is from Crate & Barrel. If the Crate & Barrel plate looks lopsided, that's because it is. I've had the salvaged plates for years. It took me a long time to find larger plates that were the same bluish-white color and the same basic shape. It wasn't easy. The candlesticks were a thift-store find. And the knob is from The Home Depot.
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According to Orange County Parks Director Donna Scales, a 73-year-old woman was injured when a dead pine tree fell across the path while she was walking at Raymond Gould.
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"Someone could dump my wife's ashes in the Sacramento River, or dumpster, or down the sewer," Hayes told a local news station. "There can't be closure when I don't know where her ashes are, or if she's properly buried."
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The car and the ashes were missing for two days, until police spotted the car at the Port of Stockton and arrested two people in connection with its theft.
Hayes got his car back by Saturday, but more importantly, he says, he was reunited with the urn and its precious contents.
"I feel great," he said. "My heart is at ease, my soul is relieved."
Hayes said he won't let his wife's ashes out of sight until he gives her a proper burial.
The couple would have celebrated their 49th anniversary in January.


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Today's guest blog post is by the Task Force on Race and Racism in Anthropology co-chair, Dr. Raymond Codrington (Codrington Consulting)
Anthropology & Race/ism
Anthropology has made significant contributions to academic and popular understandings of race and racism. It's challenged commonly held notions of identity and justice while illuminating structural disparities that are based on racial identity.
Today's racism is coded and less overt, but it effectively continues policies and practices that restrict racialized minorities' access to social and economic equality. Anthropologists continue to name, analyze and challenge coded policies in recent pieces such as Faye Harrison's Who Has the Right to Self-Defense and Life in So-Called "Post-Racial" Society?, President's Mullings' discussion of the Supreme Court's ruling on the Voting Rights Act and Dana-Ain Davis and Christa Craven's discussion on race and the Defense of Marriage Act.
Unfortunately, race still plays a noticeable role in structuring the discipline. And this in turn helps maintain outdated public perceptions of anthropology as racially white.
The AAA recently took steps to address these issues. Last year, AAA President Leith Mullings formed the Task Force on Race and Racism in Anthropology to develop specific plans for recruitment and retention that will increase the numbers of racialized minority anthropologists in the anthropological workforce. This effort deliberately builds on previous efforts to address race in the discipline that go back forty-some years, to the Minority Experience in Anthropology (1973), and the more recent 2010 Commission on Race and Racism in Anthropology.
The Task Force on Race & Racism in Anthropology is charged with suggesting specific mechanisms for implementing the recommendations of the 2010 Commission.
What we've done so far:
Developed an online membership survey to learn about and analyze the current status of racialized anthropologists in the profession. It contains general questions and specific sections addressed to faculty, to students and to practitioners to get a broad sense of the discipline across race and ethnicity. The survey should provide a baseline of data and understanding from which to measure our progress going forward. Survey data will give a snapshot of the state of racial diversity and racial climate and the experience of racialized minorities today. It will also guide efforts to design interventions and improve the outcomes for racialized minorities in the discipline.
Worked with AAA staff to develop a webpage that will gather in one place a variety of information about race and racism in anthropology, including current works about race by anthropologists as well as links to initiatives, section programs, activities, and opportunities of interest to racialized minority anthropologists.
Organized a strategy session for Chicago with subfield and section leadership to develop specific best practices for recruiting students of color to the discipline, as well as recruiting and retaining racialized minority faculty, especially in subfields where they are severely underrepresented. The 2013 annual meetings will include a Task Force sponsored Presidential Workshop, Numbers Matter: How Do We Create a More Racially Diverse Anthropology? Section and subfield participants will share their knowledge about opportunities, challenges, and best practices in regard to recruitment and retention. The event will engage in open dialogue about the strengths and weaknesses of programs within their section or subfield. The workshop will also consider ways that the AAA can publicize and enhance existing programs such as summer internships, travel grants, and career development workshops that target students of color. The event is open to those who are actively engaged around these issues as well as those who want to learn more about their context and experiences.
What you can do:
Take the online survey. We will announce the survey launch on the AAA's blog as well as through target mailing through various listservs.
Attend the Presidential Workshop event on recruitment and retention in Chicago entitled Numbers Matter: How Do We Create a More Racially Diverse Anthropology on Friday November 22 at 12:15-1:30. Please consult the AAA Annual Meeting Program for room location.
The Task Force hopes to facilitate a more open and inclusive dialogue on race and racism in the discipline through structured dialogue that is informed by both quantitative and qualitative data. From this approach, a more measured conversation will hopefully follow that is focused on strategic interventions that will benefit the discipline as a whole. More generally, we would like to bring the discussion of race and racism in line with other professional associations such as the APA, ASA who have defined policies around diversity and closely monitor and document statistics in regard race, diversity and inclusion on an annual basis. We feel that anthropology has the great potential to reframe the relationship between race, research and practice that can have implications within and beyond the discipline.
Raymond Codrington, Ph.D.
Codrington Consulting


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Focus Turns to Aging with AIDS
As the global AIDS epidemic continues to age, greater focus is being paid to older adults living with HIV.
AIDS advocates are calling on service providers and health departments to tailor HIV prevention services, including HIV testing, to meet the needs of people aged 50 and above. And new guidelines for doctors with patients who have HIV are being released that highlight the need to focus on preventive care.
The issue of an aging HIV and AIDS population has been a growing focus for local health officials for several years now, with new programs being developed to address the specific needs older adults are confronting due to the AIDS epidemic.
A 2011 Bay Area Reporter story noted that for the first time people 50 years of age or older accounted for the majority of people living with an AIDS diagnosis in San Francisco.
The 2012 HIV/AIDS Epidemiology Report released by the Department of Public Health demonstrated the aging of persons living with HIV, with decreasing proportions in the 30-39 and 40-49 years age groups accompanied by persons aged 50 years or above rising from 42 to 51 percent between 2009 and 2012.
The number of people living with HIV in the city age 50 or older last year was 8,063. The second highest age bracket was among 40-49 year olds, who accounted for 5,150 people living with HIV.
In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 31 percent of people living with HIV nationwide are over the age of 50. As of 2010, the most recent year for federal data due to delays in reporting, an estimated 872,990 persons in the U.S. were living with a diagnosed HIV infection, according to the CDC.
By 2015, the federal agency predicts that more than 50 percent of people living with HIV will be over the age of 50.
"That is a pretty daunting statistic in terms of the rise in folks with an increased prevalence for HIV disease because of longevity," said University of Washington at Tacoma professor of social work Charles A. Emlet. "But guess what? Older people have sex and are at risk for HIV regardless of sexual orientation."
During the Gerontological Society of America's annual scientific meeting held last week in New Orleans Emlet presented a paper titled "The Impact of HIV on the Lives of LGBT Older Adults."
The paper is based on data from the Caring and Aging with Pride project, a national study of more than 2,500 LGBT older adults that issued a groundbreaking report in 2011.
The paper's co-authors were Karen I. Fredriksen-Goldsen, Ph.D., a professor at the University of Washington and director of the Institute for Multigenerational Health, and Hyun-Jun Kim, a research scientist and director of Caring and Aging with Pride at the University of Washington School of Social Work. Fredriksen-Goldsen oversaw the national LGBT study and was hired to conduct a similar study this year for the San Francisco LGBT Aging Policy Task Force.
The researchers reviewed the survey responses and estimated that 9 percent of the 2,560 LGBT older adults were living with HIV or AIDS. They found that the average age was 66 with 58 percent gay men. About half were living at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
"People didn't expect to live. Then antiretroviral therapy came along and they are living longer and healthy lives," said Emlet, who began working on AIDS issues for the Solano County health department in the late 1980s through 1999. "There are a number of issues, ways this population is affected adversely."
Those living with HIV or AIDS were less likely to have children, more likely to live alone and have experienced the death of a partner, according to the paper's findings.
Due to the loss of their same-sex partner there is a corresponding loss of social support as people grow older with HIV, found the researchers.
There is "the possibility of double jeopardy," said Emlet, from living longer with HIV and having elevated stress levels. The respondents in the national study reported having more anxiety, thoughts of suicide, and were more likely to be lonely.
"There was no difference in their physical health compared to HIV-negative people. But HIV-positive people had significantly lower mental health," reported Emlet. "Clearly, there is an issue around social support and social connectedness with this population."
The data from the study was unclear on whether the health issues older adults with HIV or AIDS are facing stem from HIV, age, or the medications they are taking. The Caring and Aging with Pride project has received federal funding to conduct a longitudinal study of older LGBT adults that could provide more insight.
The current survey data "begins to paint a picture of pretty serious risk for these individuals," said Emlet. "HIV appears to have additional impacts on LGBT older adults."
Aging HIV Epidemic Has Global Impacts
The rise in older adults living with HIV is also being seen across the globe.
According to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), which issued a report on the state of the worldwide HIV epidemic ahead of this year's World AIDS Day, an "increasingly significant trend" globally is the growing number of people aged 50 years and older living with HIV.
The agency estimates that, worldwide, there are 3.6 million people aged 50 years and older living with HIV. At the same time, UNAIDS reported that AIDS-related deaths have dropped by 30 percent since the peak in 2005 due to expanding access to antiretroviral treatment.
The majority of older people living with HIV - 2.9 million - are in low-and middle-income countries, reported UNAIDS in early November, where the percentage of adults living with HIV who are 50 years or older is now above 10 percent. In high-income countries almost one-third of people living with HIV are 50 years or older, according to the agency.
"People 50 years and above are frequently being missed by HIV services," stated UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe. "This is costing lives. Much more attention needs to be given to their specific needs and to integrating HIV services into other health services which people 50 years and over may already have access to."
The HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America has updated its HIV care guidelines, last revised in 2009, to reflect the fact that people with HIV are now living normal life spans, and their physicians need to focus on preventive care, including screening for high cholesterol, diabetes, and osteoporosis.
"In many HIV practices now, 80 percent of patients with HIV infection have the virus under control and live long, full lives. This means that HIV specialists need to provide the full spectrum of primary care to these patients, and primary care physicians need a better grasp of the impact HIV care has on routine healthcare," stated Dr. Judith A. Aberg, lead author of the guidelines and director of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology at the New York University School of Medicine. "Doctors need to tell their HIV-infected patients, 'Your HIV disease is controlled and we need to think about the rest of you.' As with primary care in general, it's about prevention."
The updated guidelines, under the heading "Primary Care Guidelines for the Management of Persons Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus," will appear in the January issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases.
One of the more significant changes is that patients whose HIV is under control should have their blood monitored for levels of the virus every six to 12 months, rather than every three to four months as previously recommended. It also urges doctors to be vigilant about screening for high cholesterol and triglycerides, as people living with HIV are at greater risk due to the infection itself, ART or such thing as smoking and eating unhealthy foods.
The guidelines include new recommendations for screening for diabetes, osteoporosis and colon cancer, and suggest patients with HIV infection should be vaccinated against pneumococcal infection, influenza, varicella and hepatitis A and B.
It also suggests that doctors consistently discuss and counsel patients on their sexual history (current and past) and any risky behaviors, such as the use of illicit drugs, in a nonjudgmental manner and determine how patients are coping with living with HIV infection and if they have a sufficient support network.
HIV specialists need to be familiar with primary care issues, and primary care physicians need to be familiar with HIV care recommendations, stated Aberg, and the new guidelines are designed to bridge both gaps.
"Patients whose HIV is under control might feel they don't need to see a doctor regularly, but adherence is about more than just taking ART regularly; it's also about receiving regular primary care," stated Aberg. "These guidelines are designed to help ensure patients with HIV infection live long and healthy lives."
Matthew S. Bajko wrote this article through the MetLife Foundation Journalists in Aging Fellowships, a program of New America Media and the Gerontological Society of America.


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'Furious' echoes in CIA-Senate spat
The court battle over the House's investigation of Operation Fast and Furious and the new showdown between the CIA and its Senate overseers have something in common: aggressive executive branch claims for secrecy.
At the core of both fights are bold assertions from President Barack Obama's administration that agencies like the CIA and the Justice Department have the legal right to put some of their internal communications beyond the reach of Congress — even though it funds those agencies, writes the laws they're supposed to obey and has a responsibility to monitor how they operate.
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While the Obama lawyers' claims are not wildly different than some made by the George W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations, many legal experts say Obama's secretive stance is sharply at odds with vows he made on the campaign trail — a reminder of how difficult it is to rein in the power of the presidency, even when a candidate promises to do it.
( From POLITICO Magazine: Feinstein Is Right. The CIA's Out of Control.)
"What strikes me as ironic is that this administration is picking up the cudgels of all these tired old shibboleths about executive privilege," former House Counsel Stan Brand said. "It pains me to say this, but it's Nixonian in its reach."
High-profile fights over executive privilege in recent memory have usually broken out over White House records, especially those involving advice to top presidential aides or the president himself. But the disagreement that triggered the new conflict between the CIA and the Senate Intelligence Committee was not about White House records — it centered on internal CIA analyses of records of its Bush-era interrogation efforts.
In a letter to the Senate written last month and made public Tuesday, CIA Director John Brennan said those summaries should have been off-limits to congressional investigators.
"These documents were not created as part of the program that is the subject of the Committee's oversight, but rather were written in connection with the CIA's response to the oversight inquiry. They include a banner making clear that they are privileged, deliberative, pre-decisional CIA documents, to include attorney-client and attorney work product," Brennan wrote. "The Executive branch has long had substantial separation of powers concerns about congressional access to this kind of material."
( Also on POLITICO: Michael Hayden: Dianne Feinstein charge 'a reach')
Brennan's argument is virtually identical to one the Justice Department and ultimately, Obama himself leveled in response to a House committee's demand for records relating to Fast and Furious, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives operation that may have allowed as many as 2,000 weapons to flow to Mexican drug cartels.
The Obama administration turned over thousands of pages related to the operation, but drew the line at certain records showing how it responded to congressional and media inquiries. That refusal led to a pair of House votes holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. A federal judge is now mulling a House-filed lawsuit seeking to force Holder to turn over the records.
Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa said Wednesday that the administration's contention in the CIA fight "appears to be the same unprecedented claim" he's been hearing from the Justice Department for nearly two years in the Fast and Furious faceoff.
( Also on POLITICO: Barack Obama weighs in on Senate-CIA flap)
"The Obama administration's argument is that even when the Executive Branch gives Congress false information or otherwise acts inappropriately, as long as it occurred in the course of responding to Congress, it shouldn't have to reveal the full truth," said Issa. "Their argument is a dangerous attempt to expand the reach of Executive Privilege to cover abuses within agencies – even if they are well below the level of the President himself."
In an interview last May, Issa said he generally believes the executive branch should be entitled to private communications, but not when some misconduct appears to have taken place.
"I'm one of those people that very strongly supports that the deliberative process in the ordinary course is not something that we should be asking for," he told NBC's "Meet The Press." "But…when people make a decision to give us something that's false and it's shown to be false, and then particularly if there's false statements to Congress, of course we have an obligation to look at it."


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This particular model from the brand is an all season performer, which lasts long and enables short braking distances.
1) Enhanced tread pattern – Has resistance from excessive wear.
Benefits –Highly durable.
2) Specially formulated rubber compound – Provides strength and increases tread life.
Benefits –Stable drive in all road conditions.
- Width265
265 is the width in millimetres of the tyres cross section.
- Aspect Ratio65
65 is the Aspect Ratio, it is the ratio of the sidewall height to the cross section width.
- ConstructionR
Radial construction. R stands for radial-ply construction.
- Rim17
17 inches, stands for the diameter of the wheel that the tyre is designed to fit.
- Load Rating112
112 (1120 kg) is the load index i.e. the maximum weight each tyre can carry at full speed.
- Speed RatingS
S (180 kmph) is the speed rating i.e. the maximum speed for the tyre at full load.
Compatible With
This tyre fits in 4 wheelers like:
Upsize Options
Tyre upsize options for HT-750 265/65 R17 112S Tube


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Rugby is a great team game where you can improve your fitness, learn some new skills and be involved with friends and family. During the summer months, players are encouraged to be involved in Touch to improve their Rugby skills.
Students in Year 3-6 play Rippa Rugby (Year 3-6) or Tackle Rugby (Year 5-6). In Year 7-8, a team will be chosen to play in the Intermediate Schools Field Days and in the St Peter's Winter Sports Exchange. For Year 9-13 students, we field teams in the North Harbour Secondary Schools Competition.
Reverend Rodney Ramsay
Email Rodney
09 415 9566 Ext 2362
Year 7-8: TBC
Year 9-10: End of Term 1
Year 11-13: End of Term 1
Registrations are completed online via our sport registration forms.
View our list of current registration forms >>
Season/Competition (Year 9-13)
All games are played on Saturdays throughout Term 2 and extending into Week 6 of Term 3. Students are required to be available to play on the first weekend of the July holidays. Games are played around the wider North Shore area, from Warkworth to Northcote, with some grades playing in an Auckland wide competition. Typically there are two practices a week in addition to a Saturday morning game.
We aim to keep this document as up to date as possible, however if you're looking for dates that are not listed here, or for the full competition draw, visit the North Harbour Rugby website.
There are a number of grades depending on the weight of players.
- 1st XV (Open Weight and U19 years old)
- 4th Grade - U19-U70kg
- 6th Grade - U16-U60kg
- 7th Grade - U15-U52kg
Jerseys and shorts will be provided but socks need to be purchased from the Retail Shop. Boots and mouth-guard (compulsory) are also required. The School tracksuit is compulsory for all students in School sports teams. Students are expected to arrive at all sporting events in their tracksuit.
Fees for Year 7-8 are approximately $20, Seniors (Year 9-13) are approximately $250. Fees for other teams are dependent on coaching costs, but will be between $150 and $250. Please note additional team gear such as jackets and bags will be an extra cost.
Junior Rugby (Year 3-6)
Year 3 and 4 students play Rippa Rugby while Year 5 and 6 can choose to play either Rippa or Tackle Rugby. Those selected play in the Rippa/ Rugby competitions, which are held over three tournaments in Term 2 and Term 3. This differs from Saturday Club Rugby as all of the above tournaments are held during school time mid-week, meaning a player can play for Kristin as well as their own club. Students may have the opportunity to also play on the Northern Bays Cluster Winter Sports Day held at Kristin each year in Term 3.
For Rippa Rugby tournaments, players wear their PE uniform with trainers. The tackle team are provided with a jersey and can play in their PE shorts. Tackle is played bare foot.
The cost for participation in Kristin Rippa and Tackle is approximately $50, depending on external coaching requirements and transport.


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Seek the wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew
Most everyone in Washington has an opinion about the rise of Chinese power and what the U.S. should do about it. Strongly held convictions range from confronting to containing to hedging to accommodating. As is often true on the Potomac, too few ask what others more qualified to have thoughtful views think about the issue.
Consider the toughest questions about the rise of China, the future of Asia and the impact of developments there on the U.S. Who is most qualified to have informed, insightful answers? For people in the know, the unanimous first choice is: Lee Kuan Yew. Founding father of modern Singapore and its prime minister from 1959 to 1990, Lee Kuan Yew has served as mentor to every Chinese leader from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping and as counselor to every American president from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama. He led a small, poor, corrupt port city-state to first-world status in a single generation and knows a lot about governance. Having guided a small nation whose survival depends on staying alert and agile in adjusting to the actions of big neighbors, he has developed a well-deserved reputation as "the man who saw tomorrow."
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As Henry Kissinger says in the foreword to our new book, "Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World": "I have had the privilege of meeting many world leaders over the past half-century; none, however, has taught me more than Lee Kuan Yew." China's new leader, Xi Jinping, calls Lee "our senior who has our respect." President Obama refers to him as a "legendary figure of Asia in the 20th and 21st centuries." For former Prime Minister Tony Blair, he is "the smartest leader I ever met." Another formidable former prime minister of the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher, praises "his way of penetrating the fog of propaganda and expressing with unique clarity the issues of our time and the way to tackle them." Lee "has the most modern and the most strategic view of anyone I have met," according to former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
Over the past 18 months, we have been privileged to put to Lee the questions we think Americans will find most important. His direct, candid answers summarize his strategic insights about why China is determined to displace the U.S. as the world's pre-eminent power, how it plans to do so, and how he thinks the U.S. should respond. Lee does not agree with those who believe that the U.S. is in systemic decline. Indeed, he is bullish on America's "can-do culture," despite his worries about our sclerotic political system. But America "cannot stop China's rise," so it must try to find some way to share leadership of the 21st century.


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This page does not track the UI cleanup for storage configuration.
This page does not track the UI cleanup for storage configuration.
Work Items:
Work Items:
* improve handling of parted's partition renumbering
* improve handling of parted's partition renumbering
* improve extended partition management
* improve extended partition management
Revision as of 19:00, 7 July 2009
Anaconda Storage Filtering
This is the main page for information about anaconda's further/continuing storage rewrite. The entire storage subsystem was rewritten from scratch in F11, this page tracks the cleanup and last bits of support.
Anaconda's storage configuration code was rewritten from scratch in F11 to address several design limitations and replace outdated chunks of code. A number of outstanding problem areas remain, and this page tracks progress. It also documents the storage device filtering design and test requirements.
- Name: Dave Lehman
- email: dlehman AT fedoraproject DOT org
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 12
- Last updated: 2009-07-07
- Percentage of completion: 25%
Detailed Description
The new storage code still needs numerous bugfixes and the addition of device filtering. This page tracks the broad categories of problem and the progress we're making.
This page does not track the UI cleanup for storage configuration.
- Storage device filtering
At the request of many folks with lots of storage available, we plan to add the ability to prune the available storage presented as an install target. We want to provide users the ability to select which devices to use during installation, a way to specify disks by something other than the device node name for kickstart, and we're also curious if there is a way we can control which LUNs are scanned/activated by the kernel. For device identifiers, the best we have right now is sysfs path, which is rather verbose.
This is a pervasive change. Work items include:
- Pick desired format (udev?)
- Review code for all places where device can be specified, ensure that it will accept desired format.
- Resolvedevice should handle all formats.
- Probably loader change, new class for Ignoredisk, review blacklist/whitelist support.
Additional Cleanup Work Items:
- improve handling of parted's partition renumbering
- improve extended partition management
- improve utilization of disk space w/ growable partition requests
- add support for optionally-partitioned devices (disks, md)
- improve UI handling of pre-existing devices and their formatting
- improve handling of unusual/broken pre-existing lvm/md setups
- update swap recommendation algorithm
- create md devices w/ bitmap by default
See Anaconda/StorageRewrite for further details.
Benefit to Fedora
We need to complete the newly redesigned storage management module and improve the stability of installation.
All of anaconda's code for creating and configuring disk partitions, LVM, mdraid, dmraid, multipath, iSCSI, LUKS devices, and filesystems was rewritten. Several known problem areas remain.
How To Test
Testing will need to be extensive.
We will have to verify the following areas of functionality as a starting point:
- creation/configuration of filesystems
- on new partitions
- on existing partitions
- on new LVM logical volumes
- on preexisting LVM logical volumes
- on new software RAID devices
- on existing software RAID devices
- creation of encrypted block devices at various levels in the device stack (partition, PV, LV, mdarray, &c)
- detection of arbitrarily complex device configurations (luks, mdraid, lvm, &c)
- management and configuration of existing encrypted block devices
- automatic partitioning of systems
- clearing of existing devices/partitions
- removal of existing devices
- reconfiguration of existing devices
- detection of existing upgradable installations with widely varied storage configurations
- rescue mounting of existing systems with a wide variety of storage configurations
There is more. Unit tests are being developed, and we will plan a Fedora Test Day. Before this code hits Rawhide it will be smoke-tested in a custom compose.
User Experience
This should improve the user's experience with regard to the storage configuration portion of system installation.
It additionally includes the ability to filter out unwanted storage devices as potential installation targets.
- Anaconda's storage code uses general storage utilities such as mdadm, parted, dmraid. If liblvm becomes available in time it would be an optional work item to replace existing calls to the lvm command line with library references, but this is more likely to happen in F13.
Contingency Plan
Revert to previous codebase and selectively include bugfixes. Which will be difficult to unwedge from the new functionality, which is minor and intertwined with the bugfixes. Basically, this is a lousy option.
See Anaconda/StorageRewrite for further details.
Release Notes
- Install Guide update to reflect ability to filter devices