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Strait of Gibraltar, Latin Fretum Herculeum, channel connecting the Mediterranean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean, lying between southernmost Spain and northwesternmost Africa. It is 36 miles (58 km) long and narrows to 8 miles (13 km) in width between Point Marroquí (Spain) and Point Cires (Morocco). The strait's western extreme is 27 miles (43 km) wide between the capes of Trafalgar (north) and Spartel (south), and the eastern extreme is 14 miles (23 km) wide between the Pillars of Heracles—which have been identified as the Rock of Gibraltar to the north and one of two peaks to the south: Mount Hacho (held by Spain), near the city of Ceuta, a Spanish exclave in Morocco; or Jebel Moussa (Musa), in Morocco. The strait is an important gap, averaging 1,200 feet (365 metres) in depth in the arc formed by the Atlas Mountains of North Africa and the high plateau of Spain.
The winds in the strait tend to be either easterly or westerly. Shallow cold-air masses, invading the western Mediterranean from the north, often stream through as a low-level, high-speed easterly wind, known locally as a levanter. There is also a significant exchange of water through the strait. A surface current flows eastward through the centre of the channel, except when affected by easterly winds. This surface movement exceeds a westward flow of heavier, colder, and more saline water, which takes place below a depth of about 400 feet (120 metres). Thus, only the existence of the strait prevents the Mediterranean from becoming a shrinking salt lake.
The Pillars of Heracles marked the western end of the Classical world. Of great strategic and economic importance, the strait was used by many early Atlantic voyagers and has continued to be vital to southern Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia as a shipping route. Much of the area's history involved rivalry over control of the Rock of Gibraltar.


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Complete Dr. King's legendary speech in the context of today's world. Replace Dr. King's words found with the parenthesis with your own.
I have a dream that one day this nation will: (will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.")
I have a dream that one day: (on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.)
I have a dream that one day: (even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.)
I have a dream that: (my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.)
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day: (the state of Alabama, whose governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.)
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day: (every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.)
This is our hope... With this faith we will be able to: (hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.)
This will be the day when: (all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.)
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The challenging - and euphemism-filled - history of tampon advertising is one long, strange trip.
I really wanted to use tampons, but I'd heard you had to be, you know, 'experienced.' So I asked my friend Lisa. Her mom is a nurse so I figured she'd know. Lisa told me she'd been using Petal Soft Plastic Applicator Tampax tampons since her very first period and she's a virgin. In fact, you can use them at any age and still be a virgin.
First of all, that ad is from the 90s, which goes to show how hard certain old wives' tales - or cultural backwardness - dies. Of course, back when everybody had hymens - or were supposed to - marketing tampons depended heavily on assuring potential customers that they could stick something phallic up their vadges and still be nice girls. Most of us remember the periodic reassurances Seventeen and its ilk would issue to readers (and apparently still do), assuring young girls that the two had no connection. But the concern wasn't an invention of youth; for decades, many considered tampons suspect.
Although it's thought the ancient Egyptians used some kind of softened papyrus tampon, and Hippocrates talks about a wooden insert covered in disposable lint batting, the commercial version wasn't patented until 1929. Early advertising highlighted the modern notion of "hygiene" and stressed vague medical authority. "Your doctor will be the first to tell you that Tampax is the most natural and the most hygienic method of sanitary protection... accepted for advertising by the American Medical Association," said the first Tampax ad in 1936. As tampon use became more common, the focus switched to the tampon's aesthetic superiority, which by the 1970s seems to have trumped concerns about hygiene or virtue. Take this 1972 varietal:
Dear Sirs, I want to thank you so much for sending me my free Pursettes Purse Container and Pursettes. You see, I tried tampons before, but they were so big and bulky, I was afraid I might break a membrane or something.... But I skate (roller) in competition, and believe me those short skirts & form fitting tights can really make you self-conscious! And who can afford to lose even one day of practice before State Meet? Luckily, your tampons came just in time!
Although these ads still treated a period as something essentially secret, they also implicitly discouraged the idea that a woman with a period was a delicate invalid, and, however problematically, the preponderance of tight leotards and swimsuits in the pictures helped end the notion that periods were inherently unsexy.
In addition to the fear that tampons would rupture the precious proof of virginity, apparently manufacturers and doctors of the era had to assuage concerns that they would cause unseemly sexual arousal in women - a claim some countered by charging that it was pads that would actually cause "the sexual stimulation of the woman by the friction of the pad against the vulva." (Someone inform Katherine Heigl's agent at once! Hijinx will ensue!) Now that the 1980's fear of the Toxic Shock Syndrome caused by super-absorbents is less of a concern, today the concerns are primarily environmental. As such, most brands are espousing their green and biodegradable bona fides as fast as they can print them, and we're buying.
Although the fact that tampon-virginity myths still proliferate on the internet is dismaying, it's not shocking: the notion's pretty rooted in popular mythology. (Although I can't find any actual verification I well remember a friend's aunt - a former nun - telling me that when she entered a convent in the 60's, she wasn't allowed to bring any tampons, just maxi pads.) While for young girls, the notion that they're being forced into a sexual situation before they're ready is of course scary, the fact that we as a culture still need the reassurance that Virginity Will Not Be Compromised speaks to its entrenched fetishization pretty clearly. But, while no one will claim there's anything sexy about a used tampon - and as things like Superbad prove, the period that isn't safely controlled and hidden is still supposed to elicit an automatic guffaw from men - it's obvious that we've come a long way, and some claim tampons have helped destigmatize the "broken hymen" - and are almost on a par with the ancient world.
Marketing The Tampon: "Will I Still Be A Virgin?" [Sociological Images]
A History of Tampons [Sarah Kowalski]
I Use Tampons. Am I Still A Virgin? [GirlsLife]
The History of Tampons [About.com]
Tampons As menstrual Guards [Museum of Menstruation]
Tampons Are Trash! [Resist]


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The Bravo network definitely has a way with shows as their latest hit series Shahs of Sunset is already stirring up some controversy!
The Ryan Seacrest produced show (no I haven't forgiven him for giving us the Kardashians either), which follows a group of wealthy persians living in Beverly Hills, has received some backlash from the Iranian community, with some creating petitions to have the show pulled, complaining that it perpetuates stereotypes.
One person firing back at the backlash is however the openly gay cast member Reza Farahan who tells the Hollywood Reporter: "The Persians that are complaining now, they would be complaining no matter what… If we were all tall, they'd say, 'You're too tall.' If we were all short, they'd say, 'Oh, they're all short, they don't represent us.' You can't make everyone happy, and I'm not trying to."
Valid point. Also speaking out is controversial castmember Golnesa "GG" Gharachedaghi. GG took some time off from
hating ugly people her schedule to give an interview to Bravotv.com. In the interview, GG opens up about her relationship with Mike Shouhed (they should just do it and get it over with no?), her fight with Anita in Las Vegas and getting the cold shoulder from her castmates afterwards.
Below are excerpts from GG's interview –
Bravotv.com: Talk to us about your relationship with Mike.
Golnesa "GG" Gharachedaghi: Mike and I have known each other over 15 years, and he was always like a big brother figure for me. He and I are both naturally very flirtatious, so it always gets a little interesting when we're around each other. The most common ground we share is that we both love each other and will always be there for each other. . .no matter what the title of our relationship is. I won't say much, but soon enough everybody will see for themselves how it plays out between us.
Bravotv.com: Tell us some more about Chris.
GG: Chris and I have known each other for a very long time. I could definitely say there was a point in our lives where we were interested in more (like a relationship) but we're very, very different from each other. I will always hold a big place in my heart for him because he's a very special person to me. But at this moment in my life, it's not going to be more than a friendship and maybe playtime (wink wink) when I go to Vegas. LOL!
Bravotv.com: Can you give us some back story on you and Anita? Why did you have a problem with her?
GG: I genuinely never had a problem with Anita. Some people have thicker skin than others. I guess this is why I've always had guy friends — because girls get too emotionally involved when they hear things. I genuinely do like Anita, and I think she's a beautiful woman. I never meant to hurt her feelings. But if you get in my face, be prepared for me to possibly bite. I gave her plenty of chances to lower her voice or walk away and talk to me calmly, but she went forth. . .as did I.
Bravotv.com: Why did you decide to leave the dinner after the fight?
GG: Being at the dinner table was very difficult for me. The showdown at the pool was very intense and I was feeling an overwhelming sense of exhaustion from all the emotions. I was going above and beyond to get a hold of Anita before dinner so we could talk it out. But she wouldn't answer and it made me more frustrated. I had no idea that when I walked up to the dinner table that I was going to feel so hated and left out. People see me as the one who gets feisty and I get quite ghetto at times. But I never react for no reason. So I felt nobody cared to understand that about me. Nobody cared to ask if I was OK. I was singled out, so it was best for me to just remove myself from the dinner table because I didn't want anyone seeing me cry.
Bravotv.com: Can you give us a preview of what happens next?
GG: As you've seen in the previews, I pack up and leave Vegas with no trace left behind. You'll see what happens when the rest get back to LA and the confrontations on "who was the real s–t starter" will begin. Will there be resolution? Will there be more fights? You better watch to find out.
Must say I wasn't expecting to like this show as much as I did. So many questions, so little time but I'll give it a go! Seriously, where does Bravo find these characters? Is Sammy really a "Playboy"? Doesn't GG kind of remind you of
a poor man's Aishwarya Rai? Doesn't MJ's mom deserve her own spinoff? Why does Reza insist on having that 80s porn star mustache?
Nonetheless an entertaining show all around. It will be interesting to see what happens between GG and Mike as there definitely does seem to be "something" there!


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GOP pollster Frank Luntz released his "anti-financial regulation reform" talking points! The days Luntz introduces the words that everyone will use over and over again until Fox listeners have completely internalized misinformation are like holidays.
Specifically, they are like "Weep for the English Language and the Concept of Political Discourse Based on a Shared Set of Objective Facts Day."
Here are your buzz phrases that you will hear, verbatim, as the White House attempts to reintroduce the Consumer Financial Protection Agency (which is dead anyway). The main talking point is that this regulatory bill that the banks desperately want to kill is a "bailout." ...??


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Since we often see exponents throughout all math courses, it is important to understand the rules of exponents. We need to understand how to distribute, add, multiply and divide exponents in order to simplify expressions or manipulate equations that have exponents. The rules of exponents, like those involving multiplication of terms, are important to learn and will be used throughout Algebra I and II and Calculus.
So as you know an exponent is the little number above a base, so if you have like 3 squared, the 2, 3 the second is your exponent. And basically all it's telling you is to multiply the base times itself that many times. So 3 to the fourth is just 3 times 3, times 3, times 3. Or 3 times 3 is 9 times 3 is 27, times 3 is 81. Okay and with exponents come a long a bunch of rules that we're going to go through one at time. Okay so let's start over here, our first rule is that, if our bases are the same we're multiplying 2 terms of exponents and our bases are the same we can just add our exponents together. So let's say I have 3 squared times 3 to the third. Basically I have 2 times 2 here, 2 times 2 times 2 here in that sense where I really have is 5 2's and this I just going to equal 2 to the fifth.
The other way of doing that is just adding 2 and 3. Similarly if we are dividing okay, if have the same base and have our exponents we then just subtract. And this one actually depends on which number is bigger, so if we have 3 to the fourth over just say 3 there's really a imaginary one right here. So only have 3 to the 4 minus 1, this is just going to be 3 to the third okay. If our power in the denominator is larger we're just going to be left with a power in the bottom okay. So another example of this we'd say like 5 squared over 5 to the fourth. We still go 5 to the numerator exponent minus denominator exponent but what we end up with is 5 to the negative second. We'll talk about it in a minute but basically what that negative exponent means is it's left in the denominator.
Okay so really the easiest way to look at this is first just look at your exponent see which one is bigger your numerator or denominator and that's going to be where your term ends up being. Okay another rule is anything to the zero power is equal to 1, easy enough 4 to the zero 1, 822 to the zero 1, okay anything to the zero of power is just going to be 1. This one is already touches back to what I talked about over with the division one. Anything to a negative exponent is basically going to put that in the denominator of a fraction so if we have 4 to the negative third this is just equal to 1 over 4 to the third okay. Basically it takes the same term, the same number just moves it down to the denominator. Common mistake is people like to think that okay this 3 can come out in front and makes the entire thing negative. No it just moves a term that's normally in the top down to the bottom.
Likewise if we have a negative exponent in the denominator, it's just going to move it up to the top okay. So anytime you see negative exponent really all that does is it takes something in the numerator moves it to the denominator, something in the denominator moves it up to the numerator okay. Moving on if we have a fraction to a power that power gets distributed into everything okay. So what we really end up doing is taking the m and putting it to both the a and the b ending up with a over m, b over m okay. So alright a to the m, b to the m, so example if we have 2 third squared what we really end up with is 2 squared over 3 squared which is the same thing as 4 over 9. That pen is about dead.
Alright same idea for multiplication, if we are multiplying inside of parenthesis and we have to a power this power can be distributed in. So say we have 3x to the fifth that 5 can get distributed in to both the 3 and the x giving us 3 to the fifth x to the fifth okay. Couple more to go, anytime we have an exponent, a term to an exponent to an exponent we just multiply these out okay. So what we end up with is a to the m to the n just turns up to a to the m times n. Example of this say we have 2 cubes to the fourth okay, all we have to do is say 2 to the 3 times 4 which turns into 2 to the twelfth okay. You could just write this out if you wanted to this is really 2 cubed, times 2 cubed, times 2 cubed, times 2 cubed each one has 3 so in essence we have 12 twos but this is a good shortcut to keep in mind.
And our last rule that we're going to talk about is anything, a fraction to a negative power okay, this is basically just going to be the denominator to this power over the numerator to the power. Reason being is we can go back to this statement up here and basically distribute this negative and n, and what would end up with then is a to the negative n over b to the negative n. Remembering our rules and negatives from over there a to the negative n is just going to be a to the n in the denominator b to the negative n is just going to be a b to the n in the numerator. So really all we did is distribute this term n and then the negative flips our fraction okay. So a lot of different rules they do take sometime to get used to and remembering how they work but the main thing is remember if you are multiplying your bases you add your exponent if you are taking a power to a power you multiply and anytime you see a negative exponent that is just going to flip where your term is. If it was in the numerator it goes to the denominator, denominator it goes to the numerator and if you have a fraction the negative exponent is just going to flip your fraction altogether.
Okay so a lot to remember but take sometime play around with them a little bit and I'm sure you'll be fine.


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One of my axioms when I lived in Washington was that you have to get up pretty early in the morning to get the drop on Ramesh Ponnuru, and Hayward's First Corollary of the Ponnuru Principle is that whenever I find myself disagreeing with Ramesh, I better check my math. Fortunate today we're in heated agreement about plastic bag bans. I had meant to flag yesterday the new research from George Mason's Josh Wright and Penn's Jonathan Klick on the adverse health tradeoffs of plastic bag bans, but Ramesh beat me to it in his Bloomberg column.
Wright and Klick have performed the simple task of comparing before and after rates for food borne illness in counties that enacted plastic bag bans and adjacent counties that didn't. The results aren't even close: counties that enact plastic bag bans see a sharp spike in hospitalizations for food-borne illness, much of it generated from reusable cloth bags that gather bacterial growths from raw food. From the abstract:
San Francisco County was the first major US jurisdiction to enact such a regulation, implementing a ban in 2007. There is evidence, however, that reusable grocery bags, a common substitute for plastic bags, contain potentially harmful bacteria. We examine emergency room admissions related to these bacteria in the wake of the San Francisco ban. We find that ER visits spiked when the ban went into effect. Relative to other counties, ER admissions increase by at least one fourth, and deaths exhibit a similar increase.
I'll just borrow Ramesh's summary here:
Klick and Wright estimate that the San Francisco ban results in a 46 percent increase in deaths from foodborne illnesses, or 5.5 more of them each year. They then run through a cost-benefit analysis employing the same estimate of the value of a human life that the Environmental Protection Agency uses when evaluating regulations that are supposed to save lives. They conclude that the anti-plastic-bag policies can't pass the test — and that's before counting the higher health-care costs they generate.
Simple!—the bag banners say: just get people to start washing their reusable bags. Okay, fine, but if public education is the remedy, why isn't that same remedy used for the purported evils of plastic bags, which are recyclable? I always recycled mine, and also used them for a variety of secondary uses.
Of course, one of the things you also hear in California is that we need to reduce water use. Twenty years ago the crusade of the greenies for a time was banning disposable diapers, which take up more than twice the space in landfills as plastic bags. Santa Barbara County, and then the state of California itself, considered a total ban on disposable diapers. They were routed in Santa Barbara County when someone did the calculations of how much additional water would be necessary to wash cloth diapers. The state legislature backed off when it contemplated the army of pitchfork- and soiled-diaper-bearing moms who would come at them if they passed a disposal diaper ban. I guess plastic bag users don't have as strong a constituency.
It's always fun watching environmentalists when they learn that tradeoffs are a real bitch. Doesn't happen often enough, especially when their refusal to consider tradeoffs result in increased deaths of real people.


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Panel Recommends Paying Eugenics Victims $50,000
More than half of states had forced sterilization programs at one time, but few were as aggressive as North Carolina's. Some 7,600 men, women and children were sterilized by that state's eugenics board up to the mid 1970s. Sterilization was seen as a way to control welfare costs and improve the caliber of the population. Well, today, a task force in North Carolina took a step toward becoming the only state to offer compensation to eugenics victims.
From member station WFAE, Julie Rose has the story.
JULIE ROSE, BYLINE: For more than 25 years, Elaine Riddick has fought for money from the state of North Carolina. But when she learned she may receive $50,000, she just sounded tired.
ELAINE RIDDICK: I just want it to be over. I just want it to be over.
ROSE: Through tears, Riddick once again told of how she was sterilized at 14, just after giving birth to her only son. It was 1968 and the North Carolina Eugenics Board declared her unfit for parenthood. Why? Because she lived in poverty and had poor hygiene. Riddick didn't realize the delivery doctor had sterilized her until she was 19, newly married and eager to get pregnant again.
She was one of the first North Carolina eugenics victims to come forward. She sued for a million dollars and lost. Fifty thousand dollars is hardly enough, she says. But...
RIDDICK: You just have to accept it. And with the mental health benefits, I think I would be able to get the help that I need to get over this.
ROSE: Riddick and other victims say they suffered depression, alcoholism and suicidal thoughts as a result of sterilization. Psychological counseling is another recommendation from a task force created by the governor to look at compensating eugenics victims.
Janice Black was 14 when social workers labeled her feeble-minded and recommended sterilization. Today, Black is 59. She says $50,000 is chump change.
JANICE BLACK: That's how I feel, its chump change. Still, no amount of money is not going to give back what was already taken from you.
MEGHAN BROWN: Governor Perdue knows that monetary compensation will never be sufficient.
ROSE: Governor Bev Perdue sent staff member Meghan Brown to the final meeting of the Eugenics Task Force with that message. The committee of five volunteers spent months listening to victims and wrestling with how much to pay the more than 2,000 estimated to still be alive.
The recommendation of $50,000 is now in the hands of Governor Perdue and state lawmakers who continue to struggle with tight budgets. That political reality led the task force to not recommend compensation for the families of sterilization victims who have already died.
Which means Australia Clay and her sister would get nothing.
AUSTRALIA CLAY: We took care of our mother. Our mother came home - they sent us home what was left and we took care of her. And otherwise, my mother has been sterilized involuntarily for nothing.
ROSE: The Eugenics Task Force did not come to its recommendations easily. Chairwoman Laura Gerald says it was much harder than she anticipated, but compensating the victims is important.
LAURA GERALD: And sends a clear message that we in North Carolina are people who pay for our mistakes, and that we do not tolerate bureaucracies that trample on basic human rights.
ROSE: North Carolina was hardly alone. Almost three dozen states had eugenics sterilization laws. To date, only seven have formally apologized and none have paid any money to victims. If North Carolina lawmakers do as the task force suggests, their state will have gone further than any other to make amends.
For NPR News, I'm Julie Rose in Raleigh. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Testifying before a Senate committee a few months ago, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lamented that America was "in an information war, and we are losing that war." This week, she blew a fuse at the "Friends of Syria" meeting in Paris, saying that Russia and China should "pay a price" for not supporting regime change in Syria.
Here's a thought: How about using the power of truth to get things done rather than cover and manipulation?
Russia and China aren't following America's script for one reason: They have major economic interests in Syria and rightfully see any attempt at regime change as America trying to steal their lunch. This isn't like the Libya situation, where Muammar Gadhafi, who essentially became America's ally of convenience in fighting terrorism in the wake of the Iraq invasion, signed his own death warrant when his iron fist started quivering as the Arab Spring roared all around him and ousted his pal in Tunisia, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, and the leaders of Egypt and Yemen. The subsequent uprising in Libya fit within that climate of mass outcry. If Western forces were involved in sparking the unrest at the outset, then at least the West had plausible deniability in appearing to be intervening under humanitarian pretext.
As Gadhafi began to feel control slipping away, he did what all control freaks do: He flipped out and started cracking down. This provided the window for NATO countries to invoke the U.N.'s "responsibility to protect." The end result was regime change The cause was Gadhafi's crackdown — at least by all appearances.
What's clearly frustrating Clinton is the fact that the urgency of the Arab Spring is long over, and so are all the favorable optics. All we're left with now is overwhelming evidence of Western-funded, Western-trained mercenaries causing trouble for Bashar al-Assad, thereby making it difficult for the world to tell if military crackdowns are just self-defense against what might be perceived as terrorists. Meanwhile, the State Department has been funding various groups to drum up the humanitarian cause for regime change.
But why even bother with all this cover and pretext? Hasn't Clinton seen the unemployment statistics? She should stop acting as if economics isn't a valid reason for military action. There's never been a better time to come right out and say that America and the West are in an economic war against China and its sphere of influence, and that Americans are losing jobs and the country is losing its manufacturing base to the Chinese, who only make a few cents an hour and live together in dormitories until the day they jump from a window because their lives are so miserable.
Just be honest about the fact that oil and gas are huge cash cows and growth industries of the future, and will provide economic expansion opportunities abroad, around which other industries will prosper. Explain that China, America and each of their respective allies are dividing up the global pie, whether people like it or not — and that it's time to decide who you'd rather have as a boss.
As military strategist Carl Von Clausewitz once said, war is just an extension of politics by other means. No one can doubt that the West is in a perpetual war with the Chinese sphere for global economic influence and supremacy.
Of course, there is one problem: China is largest foreign owner of publicly held U.S. debt, holding about 8 percent of it, or $1.2 trillion. But either way, a Syrian invasion — via mercenary proxies or otherwise — is going to anger China because it won't like the end result. Obama and Clinton just have to decide whether they're going to rip off the Band-Aid slowly or quickly. But one thing's for sure: If they continue to lose sphere and influence to China, that situation will only continue to deteriorate, with China owning increasingly more debt.
But why not explain all this to people?
This process of trying to convince voters, through pretexting and mental manipulation, to get on board for each military action is getting tedious. It's tiresome to watch people fronting for the State Department, petting goats and kissing babies in foreign countries while pretending that any resulting economic opportunities would just be icing on the cake. We're not stupid. Back away from the goat, put down the baby and simply tell the truth. You might be pleasantly surprised at the reaction.
Then, when the battleground moves to Iran, Sudan, Nigeria or elsewhere for the exact same reasons — as it inevitably will — your lives will be much easier because you'll at the very least have truth and reason on your side.
(Rachel Marsden is a columnist, political strategist and former Fox News host who writes regularly for major publications in the U.S. and abroad. Her new book, "American Bombshell: A Tale of Domestic and International Invasion," is available through Amazon.com. Her website can be found at http://www.rachelmarsden.com.)


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Monday 13 April 2009
by: David Bacon, t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Unions are good for workers.
Today, median weekly pay for union members is $886, compared to $691 for nonunion workers. Moving cargo on the Oakland waterfront pays three times what stocking shelves does at Wal-Mart, because longshore workers have had a union contract since 1934. Wal-Mart has fought down every effort its workers have made to organize.
That longshore union contract came at great cost. Nick Bordoise and Howard Sperry were shot down on Rincon Hill in the 1934 waterfront strike. All work in San Francisco stopped for three days in protest. When companies couldn't load ships for weeks on the whole Pacific coast, they finally settled the first contract.
Two years later, Congress passed the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), setting up a legal system in which private sector, nonfarm workers could join unions and bargain without paying that terrible price.
The preamble declares the law's purpose: "encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining and ... protecting the exercise by workers of full freedom of association, self-organization, and designation of representatives of their own choosing, for the purpose of negotiating the terms and conditions of their employment or other mutual aid or protection."
Those high ideals remain, but today the law itself is virtually unable to fulfill its intended function. Contra Costa County Congressman George Miller has proposed common-sense measures that would restore the law's effectiveness - the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA).
Today, employers are mounting a hysterical campaign against it. One corporate CEO even called the proposal "bolshevism." Suddenly, they claim to be protectors of their workers' rights.
We need a reality check about what actually happens when workers try to organize. The EFCA is a practical and necessary way to reestablish workers' rights in practice, not just on paper.
First, it would require employers to repay three times the back pay of a worker fired for organizing a union, with $20,000 fines for willful or repeated violations. Even though today it's illegal to fire a worker for union activity, pro-union workers were fired in 30 percent of union representation elections in 2007, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, up from 26 percent in 2001 to 2007, and 16 percent in the last half of the 1990s.
There are no fines or penalties for employers who fire workers for union activity - just reinstatement and back pay, and employers even get to deduct unemployment benefits. The NLRA is the only Federal law where violators get no punishment. That just encourages employers to fire workers. Legal bills are less than the cost of a union contract, so it's cheaper. And workers, knowing they can be fired so easily, are understandably afraid to join unions.
The EFCA would also bring back the process for forming unions used in the years after the labor act was first passed (and used today in Canada). Workers would be able to sign union cards, and employers would have to recognize their union if a majority signed.
Today, employers demand secret ballot elections, and then wage an anti-union fear campaign that peaks on election day. At Blue Diamond in Sacramento, for instance, the company told workers that growers wouldn't bring any more almonds into the plant if the union won. Hundreds of workers might lose their jobs.
In the weeks before these tainted elections, 51 percent of employers threatened to close if the union won; and, 91 percent forced employees to attend one-on-one anti-union meetings with supervisors. Companies use outside "union-busters", who've created a billion-dollar industry managing these anti-union campaigns. This conduct is effectively unpunishable. On top of anti-union firings, it makes free elections a mockery.
Signing cards is a safer, calmer process that workers control themselves. Anyone who's ever signed a union card at work knows it takes much more courage and real commitment than a brief moment in a polling booth. That signing process challenges unions also - to create strong organizations of committed employees, rather than making election-time promises.
Last, when workers do make this commitment and form their union, and a majority support it, companies should negotiate a contract. That's what the law says now. The reality? Even when workers win elections, companies don't negotiate in half the cases. After a year, they can legally walk away. When workers at the Rite Aid warehouse in Lancaster won an election, the most important agreement they could achieve after 18 bargaining sessions was the location of the union bulletin board.
With the EFCA, after 120 days of fruitless bargaining of a first-time contract, an arbitrator can step in and resolve the issues still in dispute. Companies say they fear an outsider, with no knowledge of its operations, imposing unrealistic conditions. In reality, with no mechanism to force agreement, companies know it's cheaper to chew toothpicks at the bargaining table for a year than to raise wages and provide better benefits.
Many employers just do not accept the law's intention - encouraging workers to organize. They created the need for the EFCA by undermining the process and rights established in 1936. But they should remember 1934. When the law did not provide an effective way to organize, reaching agreement took death on the picket line and huge losses by shipping companies. By first undermining the law, and then resisting Congressman Miller's common-sense changes, they are pushing for a return to that era.


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WATCH: LANGZHONG PART 2 — Grandma's Noodles and Ancient Chinese History
This is Langzhong, China. In part 1 of this two part series, we show you more street food, plus we show you the this ancient city's rich history, as it's been around for 2,300 years.
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A Visit to Shri Mangeshi Temple in Goa
The Shri Mangeshi Temple is located about 15 miles outside Goa's capital city of Panaji. The temple is dedicated to Bhagavan Manguesh, an incarnation of Shiva. I was in Goa as a guest of Goa Tourism, and one of the things they suggested I do was visit a temple. I love having authentic cultural experiences, so I(…)


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4725.0 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing: A focus on children and youth, Apr 2011
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 29/04/2011 Reissue
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Speaking an Indigenous language linked to youth wellbeing
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth in remote areas who speak an Indigenous language are less likely to experience risk factors associated with poor wellbeing, according to a report released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
The report found that in 2008, almost half (47%) of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth (aged 15–24 years) in remote areas spoke an Indigenous language. These young people were less likely to engage in high risk alcohol consumption and illicit substance use, than those who did not speak an Indigenous language. They were also less likely to report being a victim of physical violence.
However, the report also showed that there has been a decline in the proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth who can speak an Indigenous language. In 2008, 13% of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth could speak an Indigenous language, down from 18% in 2002.
Despite this decrease in Indigenous language skills, 21% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged 3–14 years who did not speak an Indigenous language at home were learning one. About one in three (31%) children aged 3–14 years also spent time with an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander elder at least once a week.
In addition, the report found that youth who had been discriminated against because of their Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origins were less likely to have some characteristics associated with positive wellbeing.
In 2008, one-quarter (26%) of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth reported having experienced discrimination in the past 12 months because of their origins. These youth were less likely to be employed, studying or able to get support outside of their households than those who had not experienced discrimination. They were also more likely to have experienced high or very high levels of psychological distress compared with their peers who did not experience discrimination.
More details on these and other topics are available in the April release of the report Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing: A focus on children and youth (cat.no. 4725.0). Additional analyses of the children and youth data will be available later in 2011.
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Hello all!
Receiving Prescott Grant funding, which started in October, has made training and future necropsies possible for our stranding network. The East Jefferson County Marine Mammal Stranding Network (EJCMMSN) now has funding to install information signs at 10 beaches, create and print a brochure, improve the marine mammal stranding information on our website, plan additional trainings, and perform and analyze samples from 5 necropsies.
Chrissy Mclean (PTMSC's Marine Program Coordinator) and I would like to thank our wonderful stranding network volunteers as well as Pete Schroeder and Betsy Lutmerding for their time, effort, and smiling faces they contribute to our stranding network. Thank you all very much!
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Marine Mammal Veterinarian Betsy Lutmerding measuring the blubber layer during the necropsy training. Photo by Sandy
PTMSC staff, stranding network volunteers, and marine mammal veterinarians worked together to perform two successful Harbor Seal pup necropsies. Photo by Sandy Dengler


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I have had, as we all have, many good moments in my life as a Catholic (greatly outweighing the inevitable bad ones); but yesterday was one of the very best. Have I ever, I try to recall, had such a vivid sense of how glorious it is to be a Catholic, of the transcendent splendor of the Catholic life? Probably, but I wonder if any liturgy ever passed off with such an exultant sense of joyful celebration? I am referring, as some of you who read my last post may have surmised, to the reception of 11 sisters led by their mother Superior (all the active ones) now formerly of the Community of St Mary the Virgin in Wantage, into the Catholic Church, and their formal erection (joined by another former Anglican sister who had already been received) as a new community by the Ordinary of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, Mgr Keith Newton.
They were received wearing their habits; but the habits looked different; it turned out that that was because the sisters, having now adopted the rule of St Benedict, had adopted the traditional wimple of the Benedictine order, and their habits were now black, not blue (two of the remaining CSMV sisters had come in their blue habits to support them, and were seated in the pew behind). There was something unexpectedly moving about the formal document erecting the brand new community, who will be known as the Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary (SBVM), despite its being couched in the unlovely bureaucratic language apparently beloved of canon lawyers; it was solemnly proclaimed by the Ordinary (who was wearing the most splendid baroque mitre I have ever seen, very tall indeed, and suitably impressive he looked in it): but the formal document brought home what had happened. Here was a pristine, freshly minted Catholic community, fizzing with new life and (unlike, I fear, most Catholic sisters these days) wearing full habits, based on their old ones but adapted to their new Benedictine lives. I had feared they might be received in lay clothes, only being clothed in their habits once the new community had been formally established, but there was no nonsense of that kind. An intrinsic part of their habit is still the rosary, which hangs at their sides, and each rosary was blessed and individually copiously sprinkled with holy water by Mgr Newton.
I have never been wholeheartedly one for the sign of peace: but during it, I looked over at the newly erected community, joyfully exchanging it among themselves, and a deeply moving sight it was. Others were looking too: it reduced one lady to tears. I remembered my own reception into the Church over 20 years ago: afterwards, an old lady came up to me and said, very simply, "welcome home": that was a moment I have never forgotten, and I have always greeted converts in these words ever since: I said it to several of the sisters afterwards.
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It turned out that Fr Daniel Seward of my own parish, St Aloysius, Oxford (he is provost of the Oxford Oratory), had been preparing the sisters for their reception for the last year (the ordinariate couldn't have chosen better, the Oratory is a great conversion center), and he made the same point, welcoming them home while at the same time taking seriously what the community had already achieved, against the Anglican grain, within the Church of England.
This is how he began his rather splendid sermon (you can read it all here):
"My dear Mother, my dear Sisters,
"Welcome home!
"I say this even though you do not have at present a physical home, because for all of us our holy Mother the Church is our home. In this life we have no abiding city, but already we know something of the heavenly Jerusalem, because we are united with the Church triumphant through the communion of saints. When in 1845, Blessed John Henry Newman was received into the One Fold of the Redeemer, he said, "what an outcast I seemed to myself, when I took down from the shelves of my library the volumes of St Athanasius or St Basil, and set myself to study them; and how, on the contrary, when at length I was brought into Catholic communion, I kissed them with delight, with a feeling that in them I had more than all that I had lost, and, as though I were directly addressing the glorious saints, who bequeathed them to the Church, I said to the inanimate pages, 'You are now mine, and I am yours, beyond any mistake.'
"Today sisters, you can say the same, for you become one with St Gregory the Great, St Augustine of Canterbury, St Benedict, St Edward the Confessor and all those holy men and women who have been signs through the ages of God's providence." He pointed out how deeply the CSMV was rooted in the history of the attempted Catholic revival in the Church of England, and how closely the Oxford Movement, linked with that, was later enriched and deepened within the Catholic Church by one man, John Henry Newman. "On February 2 1848," pointed out Fr Daniel, "two significant events which stem from this reawakening took place: John Henry Newman founded the English Oratory at Maryvale and William John Butler, the Vicar of Wantage, founded the Community of St Mary the Virgin": an act which sprang from a movement of which Newman had been the uncontested intellectual leader, and remained so, even after his "defection" to Rome.
The lives of the SBVM will now be uncertain. They have nothing: but they are full of confidence that all will be well, in God's way, not theirs. They will be spending the next six weeks with a Benedictine community, to acclimatise themselves to Benedictine ways. Then, they will be homeless and penniless: in the words of their splendid superior, Mother Winsome: "We've got an uncertain future. But we are doing this because we truly believe this is God's call. The Bible is full of people called to step out in faith not knowing where they were going or how they will be provided for and that truly is the situation we are following."
The ordinariate, I am told, is looking for a new home for them, with some realistic hopes of actually finding one. Meanwhile, the ordinariate monsignori are in no doubt as to the historic significance for the ordinariate itself of the establishment of this new community. As a spokesman said: "We are delighted to have a community of sisters at the heart of our work. As we continue to welcome Anglicans into the full communion of the Catholic Church, and establish a distinctive life of witness to the gospel of Jesus Christ, the prayerful support of these sisters will be invaluable. We look forward, also, to receiving a great deal from their rich liturgical and musical heritage, which is rightly respected far and wide as a positive contribution to the wider renewal of the Sacred Liturgy which we are currently seeing in the Catholic Church". (We got a small taste of that after Mass: there was no recessional hymn; instead, the sisters processed to the lady chapel, where they alone sang the Salve Regina, in Latin, clear and confident, a most beautiful sound). Then the Mass truly was over; it had all been an almost stunning and glorious experience, one I will never forget.
Now, it is for all of us to pray for the new community, that it may flourish and grow. I hope for new vocations to it (I would bet on several in the next 12 months: any takers?), and will certainly pray for that. This historic event (I don't think it's too much to call it that) is a sign of great hope for the future of the Catholic Church in England. Other signs are to be found in certain dioceses, both North and South, two in particular: and above all in today's news from the Diocese of Westminster. This is a time of hope for the Church in this country.
This column first appeared Wednesday, 2 January 2013 in the Catholic Herald of London and is reprinted with permission.


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Here's an open thread for various climate science related discussions, to prevent more off-topic clutter everywhere else. We have some good posts coming up, but if you want to discuss something you read in the media, saw in a press release or just wanted to ask about, this is the time.
Some interesting things we've seen recently include discussions on the epistimology of climate modelling, Andy Dessler's adventures in debate land and his new paper on water vapour trends, and a review of trends in the Columbia glacier. Have at it.
Addendum: Kevin McKinney has beaten us to the mention of this, but another recent article of importance is a thorough review of the state of knowledge of drought, past and future, by Dai. The article is open access here.


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Sunday, 15 May 2011
#SilentSunday 14th May 2011
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Your very own Harry & his backpack full of dinosaurs! I love shots that capture the little touches of family life. Lovely. Claire xReplyDelete
- Anonymous15 May 2011 at 00:25
I *love* this pic.ReplyDelete
Priceless x
- Anonymous15 May 2011 at 08:53
Fabulous! Looks like you just unzipped the bag and they are gasping for air!ReplyDelete
Hahahahaha. I've always got a handbag full of these. My son is mad on dinosaursReplyDelete
I think I can spot a Triffid in the background too. Fab pic.ReplyDelete
I love what little ones take to school with them. love this shotReplyDelete
Love it!! Kieran is a dino fiend at the moment! Great shot!ReplyDelete
Love it! Kieran is a dino-fiend at the moment. Great shot :)ReplyDelete
Ha ha I had to double take at first!ReplyDelete
Love it!! Looks like you live in Jurassic Park. ;)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous15 May 2011 at 15:53
Mummy with a backpack full of dinosaurs - that could catch on, lolReplyDelete
Very clever, very handy too!
Mines at http://wp.me/p1cFoK-rW
- Anonymous15 May 2011 at 20:46
great photo - very HarryReplyDelete


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Weekend Project: Customize Module Headers
March 02, 2012
We showed you some basics on styling module headers before, but this weekend we've decided to show off how you can use Custom CSS to customize the headers even further. Look at the cuteness!
From our example below you can see we've decided to customize three specific modules: the Search; the Categories List; and the Post Feed. There are more sidebar items with their own CSS class, but the three in our example are the most often asked about.
For the three modules we will be working on today, you will need to add them to your blog on the Organize Content screen, at Design > Content, then save your changes. When you reload your blog, and the modules appear, use your browser's View menu to select the "Source" option. That will display the HTML for your blog so that you can locate the HTML of the modules you added. Learning how to do this, and what to look for, will help you if you want to setup custom headers for other modules.
Search Module
If you view the source of your blog, you'll see a section of code in the HTML for the Search module code, which looks like this:

Search

<form id="search-blog" method="get" action="http://example.typepad.com/.services/blog/6a00e5521e0e2e88340133ec942a9a970b/search">
<input type="search" name="filter.q" results="5" value="" />
<input type="submit" value="Search" />
Categories List Module
The Categories List module code looks like this:

Categories

Film

Web/Tech

Weblogs

Post Feed module
Looking again at the source of your blog, you'll see a section of code in the HTML for the Post Feed module. That code looks like this:

Subscribe to this blog's feed
Looks a little different, right? For starters, it's a shorter snippet of code. Specifically, it's missing HTML referencing the module-header, which is what will be used for customizing the other two modules. We'll get a bit more into this further below.
What You Need to Look for
In each of the above module's code, you will be looking for the first DIV tag that includes the module class reference. Before module is that module's specific class that makes it unique, like module-search, module-categories, and module-syndicate.
Those three unique classes are what is needed to first pinpoint the individual modules before being able to customize them.
Let's Get Started!
You'll need to have created images for the modules you're customizing and uploaded them to your File Manager. Make a note of the URL for each image you uploaded, then go to the Custom CSS screen at Design > Custom CSS.
For the first module, Search, you'll need to reference it with its unique CSS class—module-search. In our example we have it setup so that the custom image replaces the header of the module, and we style the content section so that appears to be part of the header.
The CSS we used is:
.module-search .module-header {
background: #ffffff url(http://example.typepad.com/assets/search.png) no-repeat top left;
height: 80px;
text-indent: -1000em;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
.module-search .module-content {
background-color: #eee;
margin: 0 0 20px 6px;
padding: 10px 10px 0px 10px;
.module-search .module-content input[type="search"] { width: 65%; }
There are three sections for the Search module...
The first section is to change the header so that it displays the image we uploaded. It also sets a height and tells the blog that the default text should be hidden by negatively indenting the text.
Reminder: you will need to replace http://example.typepad.com/assets/search.png with the URL for your own uploaded image.
The second section sets the background color of the module content (what contains the search form and button), as well as makes sure there is adequate spacing and padding around the content. That is all so that the content meets the edges of the header.
The third section simply tells the search field to only take up 65% of the content section so that it and the search button can sit side by side.
Categories List
For the Categories List module we used the following CSS:
.module-categories .module-header {
background: #ffffff url(http://mustbetuesday.typepad.com/assets/categories.png) no-repeat top left;
height: 80px;
text-indent: -1000em;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
.module-categories .module-content {
background-color: #eee;
margin: -6px 0 20px 4px;
padding: 10px;
There are two sections for the Categories List...
The first section works exactly like the first section of the Search module. A custom image is setup, a height is given to make sure the full height of the image appears, and the default text is negatively indented to make sure it's hidden.
Reminder: you will need to replace http://example.typepad.com/assets/categories.png with the URL for your own uploaded image.
The second section sets the background color, margins, and padding, so that the content appears to meet the edges of the new header and gives the content some nice spacing.
Post Feed
The Post Feed module is slightly different than the above two modules. It doesn't contain a module-header section since the entire module consists of only a link to subscribe to the blog's RSS feed. Because of this, we've decided to replace the entire module with a custom image, but do so in a way that keeps the link around so it remains clickable.
Here's the CSS we used to do that:
.module-syndicate {
background: #ffffff url(http://mustbetuesday.typepad.com/assets/subscribe.png) no-repeat top left;
height: 80px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
.module-syndicate .module-content a {
display: block;
height: 80px;
text-indent: -1000em;
Even though there isn't a module-header section for the Post Feed module, there are still two sections of code to add.
The first section calls to the entire module by using the module-syndicate class. It applies the custom image and sets the height, like the two other modules.
Reminder: you will need to replace http://example.typepad.com/assets/subscribe.png with the URL for your own uploaded image.
The second section calls to the link within the Post Feed module, telling it to match the height of the image and negatively indent the text so that it hides itself.
Is that it?
For your own module headers and content you may need to tweak the height, margins and padding. Outside of that, your last steps are to preview and save your changes before sitting back and admiring your work.
Hey, did you know? If you aren't sure about something, why not ask your TypePad Community? You'll find a mix of fellow TypePad members and the Support team who are willing to discuss or help with all things TypePad!


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My laptop is Lenovo thinkpad T420, I only use the discrete graphic. So, I
install the nvidia drivers from rpmfusion, and the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file is below:
# RPM Fusion - nvidia-xorg.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "RegistryDwords" "EnableBrightnessControl=1"
before yesterday's updates everything works ok, I can adjust the LCD brightness with fn+ keys, but after updates, fn+ keys don't work any more.
But, I can adjust the birghtness by doing below:
echo 9 > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness
I don't know what happened, is there a bug in updates introduce this problem.
Thank you!
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I remember that after updating something like Dbus, the fn+keys don't work anymore. Is the bug of dbus introduce this problem.


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