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13 September 2013
The University of Sydney Business School Global Executive MBA has been ranked as the nation's leading Executive MBA program by the Australian Financial Review's BOSS Magazine.
BOSS, which has decided this year to rank EMBAs as well as MBAs, says it gave the top spot to the University of Sydney Business School program because it provided an "in-depth experience" to its student cohort.
Welcoming the number one ranking, the Business School's Co-Dean, Professor David Grant, said that it clearly established the School as one of Australia's "leading centres of management learning".
Co-Dean, Professor Tyrone Carlin said that the BOSS ranking validated "a well defined strategy" to join the world's leading Business Schools.
"Our strategy is focused on high quality infrastructure, a high quality curriculum underpinned by experiential learning and a high quality cohort of students admitted to our courses," Professor Carlin said. "We can take considerable pride in this ranking which provides independent validation of our strategy."
Describing the EMBA as "revolutionary", the Business School's Associate Dean (Management Education), Professor Richard Hall said the aim had been to develop a program that was "genuinely global, thoroughly experiential and one that was profoundly personal in its impact".
"We are delighted that this vision has become a reality and resonates so strongly with participants and with business," Professor Hall said.
EMBA programs are typically designed for a more experienced student cohort drawn from managers normally more senior than those who join MBA programs.
The University of Sydney Business School's 18 month Global Executive MBA consists of five, two week modules two of which are undertaken in Australia. The others are delivered in California's Silicon Valley, in the Indian city of Bangalore and in London and the south of France.
"All of these modules involve a combination of intensive classes and real business consulting projects," said Professor Hall. "This result is a testimony to the hard work and commitment of our very talented students."
"We know that this program makes a massive difference to the personal and professional development of our students," said Professor Hall. "We know that they graduate with new skills, greater confidence and a capacity to deliver outstanding results on the global stage."
"We also know that they come out of the Global Executive MBA with a broader view and a deeper appreciation of the social as well as the economic purpose of business," he added.
"Our graduates have gone on to take up leadership roles at the very pinnacle of their professions and businesses."
"Leadership sits at the very heart of our Global EMBA program and is absolutely integral to our mission to improve Australia's business leadership and our strategy for doing so," said Professor Grant. "Our program creates a learning environment in which the executives can build on the already exceptional leadership qualities that they display and it is a pleasure to work with them as they do so."
"The effect of the program is such that it often impacts in profoundly positive ways on the way our students' think about and lead their business organisations and for this reason, after they have completed their studies they remain passionate about the School and its mission," he said. "As alumni, they are invariably highly engaged in its teaching, research and other activities."
Professor Carlin concluded by saying that while the Global EMBA sits at the apex of the curriculum, it has had a profound impact on the entire Business School. "What we have learnt, particularly through our focus on experiential learning and our engagement with business has brought enormous benefits to all of our programs," he said.
The AFR BOSS ranking process took ten months and involved over 1700 student responses across a number of criteria. It also included an assessment of faculty academic credentials, business experience and research output.
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This April, Royal Ballet dancers have the opportunity to showcase their choreographic skills by presenting new, developmental works as part of Draft Works.
The annual performances, staged since 2007, provide a platform for experimental choreography created around The Royal Ballet's busy schedule.
'I've just started my draft work for this season,' explains First Artist Nathalie Harrison, 'This year is tricky as our schedule is packed, but we snatch rehearsals in lunch breaks and often rehearse late into our free nights. We surprise ourselves by what can be squeezed in!'
'At the moment, I'm just playing with short sketches and doodles. It takes a moment to switch from corps de ballet conformity to creativity, but it's liberating to be given the scope to make something. I'm really enjoying the accidental accomplishments that happen when you play with movement.'
Last year, Draft Works included a diverse range of dance, ranging from Kristen McNally's comical, cowboy-themed Lonesome Gun, to Valentino Zucchetti's neo-classical Brandenburg Divertissement.
'I got the inspiration for my own piece when observing crowds in the National Gallery,' continues Nathalie. 'I want to explore people's internalization when observing or reflecting on art. My piece is a short glance at both human interaction and lack of interaction, exploring concentration and contemplation.'
'The ideas in your head never appear immediately in the studio. It requires patience, but I'm quite impatient and so it is an excellent exercise for me. It also makes me realize the pure talent and professionalism of my colleagues.'
This year, Draft Works will feature work by Royal Ballet Affiliate Choreographers Alexander Whitley and Mayuri Boonham, Royal Ballet Choreographic Apprentice Robert Binet and Associate Artist Sarah Dowling as well as Royal Ballet Soloists Kenta Kura, Kristen McNally and Valentino Zucchetti, and First Artists Nathalie Harrison and Ludovic Ondiviela.
'I'm also dancing in Ludovic Ondievela's piece,' adds Nathalie. 'I love Ludo's work: he is an incredibly efficient choreographer with a very clear vision of his piece.'
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Bangkok, May 30, 2012--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns today's conviction of Chiranuch Premchaiporn, webmaster and director of the Prachatai news and commentary website, for violating Thailand's 2007 Computer Crimes Act.
A Bangkok criminal court handed Chiranuch an eight-month suspended prison sentence and 20,000 baht (US$630) fine for user comments posted on Prachatai's Web board between April and November 2008 that were deemed critical of the Thai royal family, news reports said. The Computer Crimes Act states that any service provider "intentionally supporting or consenting" to transmission of unlawful content within a computer system under their control is subject to the same penalty as the original creator.
Chiranuch had faced up to 20 years in prison, two years for each of the 10 comments, but was convicted for a single comment, which was left on the Prachatai board for 20 days. The court reduced her sentence because she had cooperated with authorities by deleting nine of the comments upon request.
"While we are relieved that Chiranuch Premchaiporn was not imprisoned, her conviction is disastrous for Internet freedom in Thailand," said Shawn Crispin, CPJ's senior Southeast Asia representative. "Today's precedent is completely out of step with international norms on third-party liability for the Internet and will inevitably lead to more self-censorship among Thai media organizations and individual Internet users."
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The judgment failed to elaborate on how the objectionable comment was a violation of the country's lèse majesté laws or represented a threat to national security. Lèse majesté charges in Thailand carry up to 15-year jail terms and have been abused for political purposes during the country's protracted political conflict. The maximum penalty for a comment deemed objectionable under the Computer Crimes Act is five years' imprisonment.
Chiranuch told reporters outside the court that the verdict and penalty were "bearable," but it would likely lead to more self-censorship on the Internet. Prachatai closed down all of its Web boards after the Computer Crimes Act-related charges were first filed against Chiranuch in 2009. Chiranuch said today she had not yet decided whether to appeal the decision or reopen her site's closed Web boards.
The verdict marks a major setback for freedom of expression over Thailand's Internet and sets a repressive new precedent by making third parties liable for content posted by users of their online platforms, even if the third parties did not intentionally support or consent to the posting. O'Brien noted that this would inevitably lead to more self-censorship among media organizations, Internet users, and service providers.
Charges under both vague and arbitrary laws have surged during Thailand's six-year-old political conflict, pitting supporters of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra against a royal conservative establishment. Civil society movements calling for the reform of both lèse majesté laws and the Computer Crimes Act have gained momentum in recent months, according to CPJ research.
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The nation's mortgage crisis worsened last month as thousands of homeowners across the country failed to keep up with their monthly payments and faced the possibility of losing their homes.
Foreclosures rose 9 percent in July compared with June and were up 93 percent from a year ago, according to the latest monthly figures released Tuesday by RealtyTrac, a Web site that tracks foreclosed properties.
Nearly 180,000 fillings — including default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions — were reported during the month. That means that one in every 693 U.S. households was hit with foreclosure in July.
The new foreclosure data, along with ongoing turmoil in the financial markets, renewed debate in Washington over whether the government has responded adequately to the meltdown of the mortgage market. Caught in the middle are borrowers who may qualify for better terms but remain at risk of losing their homes because they can't refinance their existing mortgages.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are considering various measures to restore a mortgage market that has fallen into disarray. Some are suggesting that lenders and borrowers involved in the risky loans that are now going bad should simply suffer the consequences. But supporters of more aggressive measures argue that the government may need to step in before the current mortgage mayhem threatens the wider economy.
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd, D-Conn., urged the administration Tuesday to raise limits on the portfolios of mortgages held by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, federally chartered companies that play a huge role in the housing market.
"The power exists today with regulators to lift those caps," Dodd told a news conference following the meeting following a meeting with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. "That does not require statutory language or new laws."
But Dodd, a Democratic presidential candidate, said Paulson indicated the Treasury was "not likely to move in that direction."
"I'm still concerned Treasury does not appreciate the importance of this issue," said Dodd.
Earlier, Paulson told CNBC that the Treasury is "talking to a wide variety of participants in that market, including Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and we're thinking through options to reduce the strain in the mortgage market."
Paulson said the turmoil in the credit markets would take time to settle, but stressed that the underlying U.S. economy remains in good shape.
"This will play out over time, and liquidity will return to normal when the market has a better understanding, when investors have a better understanding, of the risk return trade-off," Paulson said.
But while investors cope with the turmoil in the financial markets, millions of homeowners remain at risk of losing their homes. Like everything else involving real estate, the impact of the mortgage mess and the ongoing wave of foreclosures have been felt unevenly across the country. Much of the damage has occurred in the states like California and Florida where the housing boom — combined with rampant speculation and easy-money lending — grew the fastest.
Other hard hit states such as Michigan were already battered by weak economic conditions before the recent credit storm hit. Detroit posted a 70 percent month-over-month increase in foreclosures in July, pushing the city's foreclosure rate to one filing for every 97 households — more than seven times the national average.
Though 43 states have seen higher year-over-year foreclosure rates, more than half of the total has been concentrated in just five states — California, Florida, Michigan, Ohio and Georgia.
Nevada topped the list with with one filing for every 199 households — more than three times the national average. Georgia, with one foreclosure for every 299 households, ranked second. Michigan's foreclosure rate of one filing for every 320 households ranked third. Other states with foreclosure rates in the top 10 included Colorado, Ohio, Arizona, Massachusetts and Indiana.
As foreclosures have risen, the flow of new money into the mortgage market has slowed sharply. Hardest hit have been buyers applying for so-called "jumbo" loans (more than $417,000 for a single-family home) which have become much harder to come by — and more expensive when available — in just the past few weeks. Some borrowers with good credit looking for so-called "conforming" loans below that limit are also having a hard time getting mortgages approved.
The worry is that a slowdown in the availability of new mortgages could deal yet another blow to a housing industry already suffering its worst downturn in more than a decade.
"The reduction in credit availability to the broader mortgage market in recent days represents a new and potentially more damaging phase to the housing correction," Credit Suisse's chief economist Neal Soss wrote in a research note Friday. "We have sharply lowered our residential investment forecast accordingly."
Soss figures that home sales "could register huge declines over the next several months" which could, in turn, set off a new round of construction cutbacks. Credit Suisse now forecasts a 33 percent drop in residential real estate investment from the last year's peak. That would be bigger than the 24 percent decline in the late '80s and early '90s, but not as big as the 45 percent drop in the early '80s, according to Soss.
Both of those housing pullbacks sent the U.S. economy into recession. But Soss, among others, believe that the current strength in the U.S. job market, strong consumer spending and a rapidly expanding global economy could limit the impact of the current mortgage mayhem on the broader economy.
"Whether or not the current financial episode devolves into a more significant storm for the business expansion remains to be seen, but history suggests that financial crises on Wall Street are often treated as a spectator sport by Main Street, with little impact on the real economy," he wrote.
Despite last week's efforts by the Federal Reserve to put out the fire, some lawmakers on Capitol Hill are working on broader measures to try to stem the ongoing wave of foreclosures and calm the mortgage markets.
"We've got a serious problem, with a lot of potential foreclosures out there. How can we keep people in their homes?" Dodd told CNBC Monday. "That's an ongoing problem here in addition to trying to change the regulatory environment that allowed this to happen in the first place."
A key issue under discussion in Congress is whether Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should be given more leeway to expand their reach in the mortgage market.
As the housing market boomed earlier in the decade and subprime lending took off, these quasi-governmental agencies lost market share to more lenient lenders with easier terms like no money down or little or no documentation. (Along the way, they also lost friends in Congress following disclosure of accounting problems and other issues.)
Now, backers of the two agencies are pushing a series of reforms to help them regain mortgage market share. Because these loans carry the implicit backing of the federal government, they typically charge lower interest rates because the risk to investors who buy them is lower. The hope is that homeowners now at risk of foreclosure — because of pricier terms offered by subprime lenders — could avoid default by converting to cheaper loans that conform to lending standards required by these government-chartered agencies.
"(Fannie Mae) checked on subprime mortgage issuance out there, and they say roughly up to half of the holders of subprime mortgages would qualify on a credit basis for a Fannie Mae conventional conforming loan," said Sam Lieber, president of the Alpine Mutual Fund Group.
In April, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., proposed spending hundreds of millions of dollars of government funds to help troubled borrowers avoid losing their homes. In May, the House passed a bill that would raise current limits on the size of mortgages that can be insured by the Federal Housing Administration.
But the bill would also allow FHA to insure loans with no money down and charge higher premiums to riskier borrowers. Critics of those moves, including Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., and other Senate Republicans, say the changes that eased lending standards could expose the FHA — and taxpayers — to the kinds of risks that got subprime borrowers and lenders into trouble to begin with.
"We have to be very careful going down this road," said Michael Darda, chief economist at MKM Partners. "Longer term, we're going to have a problem with risks being mispriced. That is how we got into this situation in the first place. So I think we need to be very wary about federal government actions."
Though the details of any reform package have yet to be worked out, the turmoil in the mortgage markets has provided momentum to legislation that has been stalled for months. Last week, President Bush indicated general support for giving federal housing agencies enough "flexibility" to help try to avert more foreclosures.
It remains to be seen how far Congress and the White House will go to use taxpayer dollars to help bail out homeowners facing foreclosure. But some see a significant shift in the political wind in the past few weeks.
"I do smell a federal bailout," said Darda. "We have a Democratically controlled Congress and a Republican president with a disastrous international situation and a plummeting approval rating. So this could be irresistible."
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A number of officers from the Congolese army have recently joined with, or started their own, rebel paramilitary organizations to oppose the current government of the DR Congo after it was announced by the president of the DR Congo that one rebel commander in particular should be arrested for 'crimes against humanity.'
The fighting between this rebel commander, his supporters and the Congolese army has reached the city of Goma approximately 40 miles from our children's village. Over 20,000 refugees from the surrounding territories have fled into Goma or across the border into Rwanda to escape the fighting. In some cases entire villages have been deserted as the occupants flee the conflict.
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Please contact ICC at (800) 422-7729 to make a contribution or use this link — Congo Emergency Supplies Fund — to make a secure online donation at our website. When you donate online be sure to write, "Congo Emergency Supplies" in the description box.
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This post is part of a new series called "So What Do You Do?" in which LIS students talk about their experiences as interns. We want to showcase the wide range of things people are doing in the world of library and information science.
Tell us a bit about yourself.
My name is Jameson Rohrer and I am from Newburgh, Indiana. My undergraduate degree is a B.S. in History and Anthropology from the University of Southern Indiana. I have been working in the library world since I was a senior in high school and I am currently a student at San Jose State's Graduate School of Library and Information Science. This spring is my last semester in the program, and although I am exceptionally busy with many projects and assignments I am beyond excited that my graduation is nigh. My interest is in public libraries and I currently volunteer with My Info Quest, an SMS text messaging virtual reference service for 27 libraries, in addition to an internship with the Lubuto Library Project.
The Lubuto Library Project is an international organization that is headquartered in Washington D.C., however the majority of the work actually occurs in the country of Zambia. The Lubuto Library Project works with communities and the government of Zambia in establishing public libraries in the rural countryside for the at-risk children. (two libraries so far, with a third in the works) In constructing these public libraries, the organization provides historical preservation of culturally relevant materials, promotion of reading and education services to the children, and also provide a space for social services for their families as a gathering place and safe haven that cannot be underestimated.
So what do you do?
My internship with the Lubuto Library Project is essentially part time, though it is turning into an almost full time position with the assortment of things I am responsible for. My primary responsibility is aiding the organization in making its website more efficient and organized. This includes renaming many of the reading lessons and removing truncation to make them more easily accessible to the children using the website. I have also been given the outcome of constructing a social media policy for the organization. The Lubuto Library Project does not have such a document in place currently and it will help the organization greatly to be able to analyze the various social media platforms they currently employ, the audience they seek to reach, the frequency of updates, the number of participants, analytics as to how those participants come across these platforms for the organization, how effective each platform is, and also what social media platforms are not being used and what the pros and cons of those are.
My last main responsibility for the Lubuto Library Project is to draft an official collection development policy. The majority of the print collections at the two public libraries are from donations (in addition to an assortment of digital materials and resources for the children to access and use). My task is to assimilate all the content in these collections while taking into account the various languages spoken in the country of Zambia and future directions for the physical and digital collections. I was informed by the president of The Lubuto Library Project that this collection development policy will be the first of its kind in the country of Zambia!
Are you finding your coursework helpful in this position? In what way?
Absolutely! The course in Collection Development (LIBR 266) that I took last fall has provided me with extensive knowledge on how a collection development policy is constructed and what its objectives should be. This course also gave me a great feel for how to assess future directions for the collections at the Lubuto Library Project. My coursework in Information and Society (LIBR 200) and Archives and Manuscripts (LIBR 256) provided me with an opportunity to pursue my research interests on the use of social media in a variety of information organizations. From these courses I learned about the multitude of uses for social media in library settings and how each platform can be used to maximize effect for a given organization. Lastly, my course on Instructional Design (LIBR 250) provided me an opportunity to understand how informational programs and services are designed to help users with comprehension, self-motivation and use of library materials and resources for their diverse and culturally significant informational needs.
What would you say are the lessons you've taken away from this internship?
This internship has introduced me to an aspect of the library world that many in the U.S. do not deal with firsthand: the introduction of library materials, infrastructure, and technologies to a geographic location that formerly had severely limited access to any of these points of access we take for granted.
I have also learned how important time management is—specifically, how vital it is to set a schedule to complete the required numbers of hours of internship credit for the MLIS degree—as well as how to collaborate with previous professors to share ideas and learn from their expertise. Lastly, I've learned the importance of constant communication to ensure that the work being completed is in sight with what the organization is seeking.
How do you think this will help your career?
Prior to this internship I had only limited classroom experience in creating important documents for libraries. I believe the skills I have developed this semester will aid me greatly in finding employment at a public library—not just here in the U.S., but potentially anywhere in the world where English is spoken and read. This internship has been an ideal experience to have while in library school because of the ways in which it is beneficial both to myself and the Lubuto Library Project. For my career specifically, I am obtaining first hand experience in drafting important documents, a social media policy and collection development policy which every library today must have in order to function. Secondly, it will demonstrate my comprehension of ethnically and culturally diverse communities for a public library. This internship will give me valuable experience towards working in a public library in the near future, wherever that may be!
If you're interested in learning more about the Lubuto Library Project, feel free to connect with the Lubuto Library Project on any of our social media platforms (listed below). It is greatly appreciated!
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Postponement request in Perlitz sentencing prompted by issues in Haiti
A cholera outbreak, damage from a recent hurricane, political unrest and riots in Haiti are behind a defense request to postpone -- until late January -- the sentencing of Douglas Perlitz, the humanitarian who admitted sexually abusing at least one homeless boy under his care in that country.
The prosecution team is opposed to a postponement, however, and has asked U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton to conduct a hearing on the matter this week.
At any hearing, the prosecution wants the judge to question the defense as to what steps have been taken in the past four months to prepare for Perlitz's sentencing, what specifically happened in the past few days to lead to this request and why wasn't the prosecution notified earlier this month about any defense problems.
Perlitz, 40, a Fairfield University graduate who was honored by the school, which chose him as the 2002 commencement speaker and gave him an honorary doctorate degree, is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 21.
At that time, he faces anywhere from eight to nearly 20 years in prison. Although he pleaded guilty to just one charge of traveling from the U.S. to Haiti to engage in sex with one boy, Assistant U.S. Attorney Krishna Patel has said she will present evidence at his sentencing that he had sex with up to 13 boys.
But whether that happens could depend on when the sentencing takes place.
But even the government admits that given "the rapidly deteriorating conditions in Haiti caused by the January 2010 earthquake, the recent cholera epidemic and the very recent rioting in Cap Haitien, the hometown of the victims, and Port Au Prince (the capital city where the international airport is located), the government cannot guarantee ... it will be able to bring the victims and witnesses to the U.S. for a Dec. 21 sentencing."
Last week, members of the prosecution team, including Senior Special Agent Rod Khattabi of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement, traveled to Haiti to finalize travel for at least 11 witnesses, who include victims and staff members from the now-shuttered Project Pierre Toussaint -- the three-stage education program Perlitz helped establish for homeless boys in Cap-Haitien, the country's second largest city.
Federal agents spent the past week meeting with U.S. and Haitian government officials to obtain passport and conditional parole visas and travel authorization for the witnesses.
Yet, even while the prosecution opposes a delay, they did concede that because of "civil unrest currently taking place in Haiti, the victims spent 10 hours making the trip" from Cap-Haitien to Port Au Prince. Prior to the earthquake such a trip took less than an hour by air. But the earthquake damaged airports in Port Au Prince leading to a restrictions in the number of flights there.
A first attempt by the witnesses to travel to Port Au Prince "was aborted when insurgents with machete knives threatened to harm the victims," the prosecution team advised the judge. A second trip had the victims "walking and traveling on motorcycles to avoid insurgents threatening passengers in vehicles," they told Arterton.
Additionally, the country is facing what has become a heated and somewhat tumultuous presidential election scheduled for Nov. 28.
Still the prosecution team -- which includes Patel, Khatabi and Assistant U.S. Attorneys Richard Schechter and Stephen Reynolds -- claim that because of the "deteriorating conditions in Haiti, any delay.... might very well mean that the victims will not be heard at all and will not be able to attend, the sentencing in this matter."
Haiti has been wracked by natural disasters beginning with the earthquake in January that destroyed much of Port au Prince. That destruction and the inability to rebuild the infrastructures so food shelter and health care could be provided to the hundreds of thousands left homeless probably led to the recent cholera outbreak. In October, Hurricane Tomas brought more destruction and flooding when it hit the country's northern section.
"All of this turmoil has interfered with our ability to communicate with individuals in Haiti," said Attorney David T. Grudberg, who with Attorney William F. Dow III, represent Perlitz.
"Because the defendant lacks the resources and political clout available to the U.S. government, the defense is at a greater disadvantage in trying to work through logistical hurdles," Grudberg said.
The defense wants to fly in several former students, some of whom spoke to the Connecticut Post in Haiti last December, who intend to voice their support for Perlitz.


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Outlandish false claims circulated widely on the web in late 2008 regarding America's first black president. For years extreme black separatists have used falsified evidence to claim that five presidents were black. The chief source is a self-published book by a black militant named Leroy Vaughn, Black People And Their Place In World History (2002).[1] Vaughn got his gossip from The Six Black Presidents: Black Blood, White Masks, USA by black militant Auset Bakhufu (1993),[2] who in turn drew on Sex and Race: Negro-Caucasian Mixing in All Ages and All Lands (1940) by Joel Augustus Rogers, a black militant of the 1930s. The goal of the propaganda was not truth but hatred of whites and the American political system. No conservative scholar gives the slanders any credence.
Barack Hussein Obama, who was inaugurated on January 20, 2009, sought to be considered as a fellow black man by African American voters. For example, he awkwardly referred to black teenagers 30 years younger than him as "brothers", declaring that "brothers should pull up their pants."[3]
President-elect Obama is multiracial; his father was part Arab and part black, and his mother was white.[4] Some argue that he will be the first Affirmative Action President.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said Thursday that the way the U.S. grants asylum to immigrants may need to be addressed after the Boston Marathon bombing.
Accused Boston Marathon bombers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are ethnic Chechen brothers from Russia who came to the United States about a decade ago with their parents. The family was granted asylum.
"People getting asylum because they are in the minority, but engaging in aggressive tactics in their home country that may cause them to be susceptible to doing the same thing elsewhere, that obviously ought to be a part of our consideration in granting political asylum to avoid situations like Boston," said Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., who's working to develop a series of bills to fix problems with the country's immigration system.
Goodlatte didn't specify what might need to be changed in the asylum process, only saying it's something that bears examination in the wake of the Boston bombings. So do with other aspects of the U.S. immigration system, including the naturalization process by which immigrants become U.S. citizens, Goodlatte said. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is a U.S. citizen while Tamerlan Tsarnaev had sought citizenship but had not had his application granted.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a shootout with police last week. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was arrested after being found hiding, unarmed, in a boat.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano defended the asylum process this week in an appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying it involves multiple layers of vetting.
A comprehensive immigration bill introduced last week in the Senate also may undergo changes in response to Boston. One of its authors, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., has suggested strengthening background checks done on certain immigrants considered higher-risk, such as refugees or asylum-seekers.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., another author, said Thursday that it's too early to know what changes might be needed.
"We are completely open to amendments that would in any way prevent what happened in Boston," McCain said at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast for reporters. "I am sure that by the time this bill reaches the floor we will be able to reach conclusions and we will include provisions like that if we feel they are necessary."


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A planar diode in a vacuum bulb can support current in only one direction. To even get current flowing, you have to heat up the cathode filament to excite the electrons. However, once current is flowing, there is a certain limit imposed on it, making the resulting graph of current versus voltage look like this:
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I didn't run Tuesday… how could I? With the election, my brain was too a-twitter to focus on a run. So I went this morning instead. Went down to Carrier Park and ran mostly on the pavement. There are a couple sections of raw earth where I ran, but mostly I had the concrete or asphalt below me.
The toal run was about 45 minutes and it was another of the speed workouts.
I bundled up because I was quite chilly: 3/4 pants, long sleeve tech shirt, over ankle socks, ear warmer headband and thin fleece gloves. I don't know about the rest of you, but I almost always over dress when I run. I am happy to say that until the very end, I was appropriately dressed, although very sweaty.
Last week, I wasn't impressed with my running during this workout, so I was a little anxious about it, in addition to the fact that I was a day late.
I spoke to Katherine last week briefly about my intervals and how I had felt. I explained the basic discomfort during my speed sections, even though they were only 60 seconds long. I was trying to keep in mind what Danny had said about being long and loose, but it just wasn't working. So Katherine said, "You know, I had a great experience with that once. I needed to go out for a run and I just wasn't really feeling like I wanted to. When I got outside, I just told myself to get really relaxed… like loosey-goosey ridiculously relaxed. I knew I needed to keep my core engaged, but I just let everything else be relaxed… I ran the fastest loop I'd ever done. Ever."
That was awesome to hear, but I just couldn't get my head around it. That's one of those things about ChiRunning that's so hard for me, and I think hard for a lot of people:
- How can you actually relax that much and run faster? It really is so counter-intuitive that I just want to dismiss it as impossible. My brain doesn't want to dismiss, but my body certainly does
BUT, I had a breakthrough today! It really DOES work! I am so giddy about it I can hardly stand it.
I started my run very relaxed. In gear 1, I just started off nice and easy. [I did do Body Looseners of course.] Even at that pace, it was really focusing on what it felt like to totally relax. I kept my core engaged, and then I let that relax and feel an anterior pelvic tilt, just for comparison. It didn't feel good, so of course, re-engaged my lower belly. But I then played for the first 15 minutes, moving out of gear 1 and staying in gear 2 for most of the warm up, with just being relaxed. RELAXED. It's such a hard word to physically manifest when you're running. Isn't it? Well, I started with my feet, and noticed that I started to scuff a little but just ignored that and moved up my legs, loosened my calf muscles, my quads, my butt, my back, my shoulders (tough one), my neck, my arms, my wrists, my fingers (also tough)… I didn't get so loose that my hands bounced or made unnecessary movement, but I felt like cotton: it will hold form, but it certainly doesn't hold tension. T'ai Chi named the Needle in Cotton very well.
Anyway, so I just stayed loose. The warm up went well and then the intervals started: 2 minutes in gear 2, 1 minute in gear 3, 1 minute in gear 1, start over. Do 4 of 'em. I am happy to report that I did all 4 of them and I did them joyfully.
All I focused on was relaxing. That's it. Every time my calves engaged, I made them let go. Anytime my hands wound tight, I forced them to let go. I really focused on falling. It felt like I was just doing a series of falls, over and over again. I didn't really even focus on keeping my legs behind me or anything, or even keeping my chin down. My only focus was relaxing.
When I moved into gear 3 for each of the intervals, I forced myself to relax more. [I have a girlfriend who used to say, "We-wax"… when she was young. She didn't have a speech impediment or anything, but her Mom used to say that to her all the time to get her to chill out.]
So while I was running, transitioning into 3rd gear, I said, outloud, "We-wax, Liz… we-wax". It worked, that's all I can say.
I just let go. I let go of feeling pressured to run fast, I let go of feeling like I had perform at some speed or level. I let go of gripping, of getting too excited, of power running.
I noticed that when I started to move into gear 3, unless I very consciously told myself to calm down and relax, my heart rate jumped big and my legs tensed almost immediately. It was a very important recognition, and if you're reading this and have a hard time 'letting go' when you're in faster speed: Go try this run. Be gentle with your expectations, but really try to see the miniature changes in your body and mind when you force yourself to relax. It's amazing.
I told Ivan last night when we went to the gym to lift weights (I do very minimal weight and lots of reps: like 30 lbs for 12 reps, 3 sets for arms, maybe 50 lbs for legs… FYI. I am not trying to bulk up at all, but I do sometimes like to lift some metal)… anyway, I told Ivan that my run was fabulous and I had this breakthrough moment and finally understood that business of relaxing more to go faster. I said, "I just got ridiculously loose and goosey and let myself fall. It was easy!" He looked at me a little sideways and frowned. I don't blame him, because just 24 hours earlier, I had felt the same way.
But people! A breakthrough! I hope I am able to recreate it and I hope too you can feel it if you have a hard time… And guess what else? The end of the intervals is supposed to be 10mins/1 mile of gear 3. I was also very leary of that because I only did 6.5 minutes last week and was fighting it every step…
Today was awesome! I took the 1 minute jog break after the intervals and then gradually started moving into gear 2, then gear 3. I would say that within 2 minutes I was up to gear 3. I tried not to think about anything except that silly relaxation stuff. "We-wax, we-wax, we-wax" It was my mantra. I really let the relaxation translate to a lean and let myself fall. I kept falling over and over again, but thankfully my feet prevented a face plant. It was so cool, and when 10 minutes was up, I felt like I probably could have gone longer, and I am sure I ran more than 1 mile.
I jogged it out at the end and then walked. I ripped off my gloves during the gear 3 and my head warmer after starting to walk: I was so sweaty I didn't even want to put the warmer on my kitchen table. Ewwww.
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I have been on medication (after so many failed disaster attempts of finding the right ones) for quite some time. Now my soon to be ex-husband is dropping my health insurance and I will not have any coverage for prescriptions or otherwise. I don't qualify for state help. I've recently lost my job and have zero income.
My doctor even tried getting an advanced 3 month prescription so I would have some leeway, and the insurance company denied it.
I am terrified. I really REALLY need my medication. What do I do?
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My Own:
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- So, how much experience do I get for killing %t?
From the Forums/Blogosphere/Misc Quotes:
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- %t, stop worshiping the ground I walk on and get up.
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- DISCLAIMER: I learned how to rez from a recipe on the AH, so accept at your own risk, %t.
- Alright, %T, I'm going to res you. Just relax and let your mind go blank... shouldn't be hard for you, considering you're, well, dead.
- So you just figured you'd come here to the most hostile environment known to men, with no training of any kind, and see how it went? What was going through your head, %T?
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- Sooner or later, %t, you always have to wake up.
- Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move... lucky for you, %t, I can give you another chance.
- It's my job to keep you alive. I will not succeed. Not with all of you. *looks pointedly at %t*
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- Not a bad bit of resurrection, huh, %t? You know, sometimes I amaze even myself.
- Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... %t's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?
- You know, between the raid's howling and %t blasting everything in sight, it's a wonder the whole instance doesn't know we're here.
- You don't need to see %t's identification. This isn't the corpse you're looking for. You can go about your business. Move along.
- I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened... oh wait, no, that was just %t.
- Judging by your current state, I suggest a new tactic, %t: let the wookie win.
I'd love to hear what others have to add to the list. Remember, the above quotes are only the "new" ones I have added: you can find my full list here, where I've been updating it since its original posting last year.


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|December 21, 2007, 21:09
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[Un] Unangband 0.6.2-wip7e has been released
This is a work in progress (and moreover interim, by Bandobras) release, so please save often and report bugs. Savefiles are compatible, unless the level you are on has fallen out of the levels range of the current dungeon, so it's safest to upgrade when in Rivendell, Bree, Hobbiton or Bucklebury (their depths are unchanged).
To play the freshly downloaded competition savefile, load the character, quit, start again, answer 'y' to quickstart question and you'll have no problems with some dungeon guardians prematurely dead (those not in the game when the competition savefile was created). Doing quickstart every time you die you'll also get more monster memory, which is OK in this competition (since code-diving is allowed, anyway). Social-status scumming to become a king's only child is not OK.
The source code is available at
A precompiled Linux executable is available at
A precompiled Windows executable is available at
Changelog from wip7c to wip7e is below (don't ask me about wip7d, OK? I'm still a greenhorn sidekick ). Some changes are listed as tentative, please test and provide feedback. Thank you all good people for help, tests, interest.
### Gameplay ###
- If the player is blocking, he gets a +20 to hit in melee and +15 to hit with bows/throwing. This allows bad melee practitioners to increase their odds of hitting by blocking.
- If the weapon you are attacking with or the ammo you are firing / item you are throwing is not an ego item, artifact, coated weapon or magic item, it will inherit brands/slays from your equipment as follows:
* In melee, your gloves/gauntlets are checked first.
* If you have no gauntlets, instead, your right hand ring.
* Except for blows with your secondary weapon, which use your left-hand ring.
* For throws and ammunition, only your left hand ring is checked.
- Rings of ice/acid/fire/electricity now have the appropriate brand. This makes them highly useful for archers/throwing specialists as well as mage-type spell casters which do not use gloves/gauntlets.
- Modified low-level bard spells, replacing Holy Water with a more bard specific spell.
- Added spells that modify a single round of blows, shooting or throwing.
- Scale down upper end of monster drop sizes.
- Minimise number of townsfolk who drop gold.
- various changes and additions to the wilderness map, guardians, depths; in particular, added the Great Grey Wolf and a slight upgrade to Boldog, the Orc Captain, to have missile attack.
- substituted guardians (e.g. Black Riders) now guard only the first zone and are described as such
- recycled some guardians so that changes to the world, as the game progresses, do not make uniques undefeatable, except a few plot-motivated cases
- ad hoc tweaks to pseudo-id (until this is rethought and rewritten more systematically), in particular, broken items are no longer reported {average} for mages;
- on shallow levels, OOD monster rarer and not so OOD
- moved multiplying monsters (especially shallow but high HP ones) much deeper by increasing their hp rating in the power calculations; giant black louse is thus level 6, not 3 as before (is 7 in monster.txt)
- removed restore potions, made stat potions much more common and cheaper, tweaked prices of starting magic devices
- made traps, potions, etc. that do more than p_ptr->mph/2 damage leave player at 1HP instead of killing him; please revert if this is too munchkinish, but note that it only affects early game, when detect traps and ID are scarce; with this also later in the game test-id and no-trap-detection become viable; tentative
- made apple and berries a bit lighter and berries somewhat nourishing
- you can now die from starvation second turn after travel, beware
- other minor tweaks and additions
### User Interface ###
- Pval modifier is now included in the description of an item.
- added dungeon level names (only about half of dungeons, please contribute)
- more information in the dungeon knowledge menu; the location blocked by a guardian revealed
- some info about dungeons reachable via one step of travel, in particular, warning if no way back or if no escape via maps
- overhauled and sorted visited dungeons listing in the character dump; tentative
- added link to map and to dungeon knowledge from the travel menu
- overhaul of the main screen UI, especially of the no-sideboard mode; the town level is now one line lower, I hope this does not break anything; tentative
- corrected layout of the top line inside shops
- warn about starvation, especially after travel
- changed default wrap column to 80 now that we have long texts to print, e.g. dungeon descriptions; some are still 75 column, e.g. ego powers, because they are subordinate to their main item descriptions; tentative
### Bug fixes ###
- Fix for Bug #12538 Chain-summoning Termite Mounds.
- This also modifies the 'power curve' of monster ecologies so may have far-reaching effects.
- Fix for Bug #12570 bards "Find Hidden Traps/Doors" =|= "Find Traps".
- Fix bug Bug #12569 browsing spellbooks "prerequsite" => "prerequisite"
- Fixed by Bug #12568 Priest Cure Moderate Wounds required mage Cure Light Wounds as a pre-requisite.
- Fix for Bug #12457 Rings of tele not activable when identified via ring spec
- rings of teleportations should now be always found cursed
- Fix for Bug #12567 Potion of Detonations .. broken ?
- Prevent loading a character from marking worthless items as broken.
- corrected the destinations of maps (the ones bought, sold, etc.)
- fixed a bug that made all MFLAG_STRONG monsters twice as strong as intended (I think); these included (some?) low level uniques
- as a temporary fix to the problem of empty Nature book and others, I've removed the books of Negations, Nature, Space, Annihilation, the Void, Immolation and Gambits; please report if any of the books worked for you in earlier versions
- some code cleanups, minor fixes and changes to the engine under the hood
- crashes when inspecting bags, etc. fixed, I hope
- fixed another crash with bags and lack of equip term refresh when canceling item selection from a bag
- gmake from Vanilla that allows both native- and cross-compiling using mingw (by takkaria)
- Windows build packaging script for use on Unix, to complement build_win.bat (by takkaria)
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|December 24, 2007, 05:50
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Mac OS/X version now available as well.
See http://unangband.blogspot.com for details.
Thanks again Bandobras.
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|December 25, 2007, 23:47
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I registered just to comment on this variant.
I wanted to say that this is, at current time, my favorite variant. I have played Angband and its variants for years, and still have yet to beat one. lol Although for the last 6 months or so Dwarf Fortress has been sucking my life away. I wanted to post just to show my support and let it known that there are people like me who just lurk in the shadows that play UN, among other variants/roguelikes. Keep up the good work, I see good things for this variant.
I can't really comment to much, because I haven't really made it too far. But since it seems that andrew and band are ones looking for comments/complaints/ideas I will share a few minor ones that I have thought of.
Would it be possible, or maybe it is, to change the display of stats from 18/100, to a regular number. Tome allowed for this and for me personally this is something that has always irked me. But don't change it on just my account. Another, when traveling in the wilderness, would it be possible to automatically, or something like that, eat something that is in your pack. Instead of arriving at your destination weak from hunger when you have food in your pack. I am sure there are others, but don't see much of a point in bringing up too much since the game isn't really complete yet and I don't know what is coming.
Overall though, I really like the additional things that one can do. Coating of weapons, searching the cabinets (among other things) in rooms for treasure, and being able to throw spores is a blast too. Oh, and there are also the runes, but I have yet to be able to play around with them. One of the best features in my opinion is the unlockable races. I have always been a fan of unlockable content and I know others hate the idea in roguelikes, but I think it's pretty slick. From the playing I have been able to do I see more things coming that just aren't in the game yet.
Keep up the good work.
|December 26, 2007, 00:28
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What you would miss out with this option is knowledge of the fractional increments you get from boosting a stat by a partial amount (e.g. less than 10).
I'm actually a fan of this particular argument as as a game designer, I'm never able to make my mind up about which features work, and which don't, and which choices are interesting and which are not. There's always a risk in balancing this, as you can end up with a game that gets played automatically for you, but the popularity of Progress Quest and the Angband Borg screen saver suggests that automatically played games are a great untapped genre.
I've tentatively sketched out a 'gambit system' design, which allows this, so consider it another 'up and coming feature'.
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|December 26, 2007, 00:54
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Karzack, when you manage to explore a few dungeons, it'd be great if you posted your character on the ladder. We discover a lot of things just looking at the dumps (todays I"ve spotted a probable bug, thanks to thorgot's rain of dead characters). And, of course, join the competition!
Also, the various phases of stat increases are less visible. At around 18 the boosts become big, at around 18/50 they start dimishing, at 18/80 they are minimal and so it stays. Only this last phase is visually easy to discern (by ! before the stat) with linear stats. 18 is not that different from 13, also 18/50=23 does not look special. So, stats would have to be somewhat scaled or translated to make the thresholds visible. I guess I could do that, but I think it will be hard to keep both systems in sync. And, frankly, I don't like options (e.g. I have a lot of trouble with the two main screen setup modes).
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|December 27, 2007, 19:25
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How does one enable additional term windows in the linux version? I've been running the windows version in wine because I needed the other windows.
|December 27, 2007, 21:21
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Hm...next version and same old bugs plus few new......
First, "Ignore corpses by default" is just not working. At all. Everytime I step on a corpse I recieve "Get which item?" prompt. Highly irritating.
Second, dropped items (both by monsters and from inventory) cause "X dissapears from view" message, and become invisible until I step on them. As if my char hadn't any source of light even wielding torch or something.
Last, for the moment at least, and not a bug, I really hate that pressing Enter opens a menu of some kind. I use that key as a "more" key, and no, I can't use Space instead. Also maybe that just me, but I really don't like unlockable races.
I play Angband with variants for more than a decade now, and the last thing I find interesting is having to play dull races to be eventually able to play "cooler" ones. How about an option to unlock them?
Well, still this variant is one of the best and also most buggy...I guess those two are inevitably tied together......
|December 27, 2007, 21:35
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where '4' is the number of terms
this, assuming you use the distributed binary
P.S. Hehe, better reflexes, Nick. ;P
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Will Wright, creator of The Sims and SimCity, hasn't worked on a video game since 2008's Spore. What's he been keeping busy with in the meantime? How about making a TV show.
Yes, the super-successful game designer has teamed up with Albie Hecht, former boss of Spike and Nickelodeon, to develop a series called The Creation Project. There's no real gaming angle. It's "just" a TV show.
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After one of the most exciting Manchester derbies ended yesterday, tempers flared again after an alleged Manchester United supporter ran on to the pitch and was then tackled by stewards. However, while the stewards held the offender, Manchester City's Craig Bellamy walked over and punched him in the face.
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