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HOLLAND - Korfball, a sport unique to America but growing in popularity, will
again be showcased at Hope College when tryouts are held for the U.S. team that will compete in the 2007 World Cup, on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 10-11.
Korfball was introduced to the West Michigan sports scene in 2005 by Hope
College professor and softball coach Karla Wolters. The sport had caught her
fancy when she saw the game played in the early 1990s and after researching
the popular European coed game. She now teaches a class in korfball and is a
member of the International Korfball Federation. Last summer Wolters took a
team comprised of Hope students and alumni to Europe for a series of games.
USKF will bring players from throughout the U.S. to Hope for the two-day
tryout. They will include a high school team from West Virginia and a
contingent of Hope students and recent graduates. Training will occur Friday (Nov. 10) at the Dow Center and a series of games will be played Saturday (Nov. 11) at the DeVos Fieldhouse.
Games on Saturday morning will be played 10 a.m., 11 a.m. and noon and in the afternoon at 2:30 p.m., 3:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Admission will be free. The U.S. team will be announced at the end of the games.
The Korfball World Cup will be played in the city of Brno in the Czech
Republic in October, 2007.
Korfball dates back to 1902 and is billed as the world's only coed team sport.
Korf is a Dutch word for basket and elements of the game are similar to
basketball. There are baskets at each end of the court, but no backboards.
There is no dribbling; only passing. A team consists of four players, two men
and two women. Each shot is worth one point.
Current Hope College students planning to try out are sisters Amanda and Erika
Guijarro of Los Angeles, Calif., Kendra Scanlon of Holton, Chris Olds of
Brainerd, Minn., Matt Simon of Grand Rapids, Aaron Kenemer of Zeeland, Mike
Forbes of Lone Tree, Iowa, Chris Maybury of Holland, and Antoine Williams of
Holland. Recent Hope grads expected to try out include Emily Adams, Gracia
Kamps, Julie McGowan and Tyler Basler.
A Brief Overview of Korfball
Korfball traces its origins back to the Dutch teacher Nico Broekhuysen.
Broekhuysen developed the game in 1902 and dubbed it Korfball. "Korf" is
Dutch for basket, so "Korfball" literally means basketball, which the game
does mimic in some ways. Korfball was very progressive for its time as it is
a co-ed game where equality and cooperation are the key principles.
Some key components of the game of Korfball include a basket 11 ½ feet above
the ground (compared to 10 feet in basketball) - with no backboard - attached
to a post. There are eight players on the field of play (which can be either
indoors or outside); four on the offensive zone of the field and four on the
defensive side of the field. A zone is very much comparable to a half-court
in basketball. The co-ed aspect of the game is achieved by having two male
and two female athletes make up the four athlete total that the team must have
in each zone.
Other key features of the game include a rule that does not allow a player in
possession of the ball to move - a rule much like that of Ultimate Frisbee's.
Also, to create better equality, members of the opposite sex may not hinder an
opponent trying to pass the ball. Korfball uses a penalty system much like
that of soccer's, with referees giving out yellow cards and red cards,
depending on the severity of an athlete's wrong-doing.
Also of interest, the scoring system in Korfball is derived from soccer, with
each goal counting as one point. A match is typically comprised of two
thirty-minute halves and final scores are usually in high teens for the
winning team and low teens for the losing team depending on the closeness of
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Youngest Clarets fan hopes for Premier League spot
Ben Walsh and wife Ashley were the first couple to be married at Turf Moor when the club first won promotion to the Premier League in 2009.
Now, they have celebrated the birth of their second child, Henry, by securing a season ticket for next season to Turf Moor.
Padiham-born Ben, who now lives in St Helens, said: "I was eight years old when I had my first season ticket and so I thought it would be nice to start Henry young.
"He will then always be able to say he's been on the Turf since I was baby. I will obviously only take him on when the weather's warm, but I hope he grows up to be a big fan."
Clarets legend Jimmy McIlroy was the star guest at Ben and Ashley's wedding on June 27th, 2009, which Ashley had organised as a surprise for her sweetheart.
Ben (34) added: "When Ashley booked the wedding 18 months before we were sitting third from bottom in the Championship and by the time of the wedding we had won promotion to the Premier League.
"The team have had another brilliant season and I hope we can get back to the Premier League again."
Henry's season ticket will be in the Jimmy McIlroy, formerly the Bee Hole End, where Ben first started watching the Clarets.

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• Someone copied your original photograph or video, sold it in volume, and became a rich and famous "artist" as a result?
• Someone copied your term paper, which you spent the better part of a semester working on to obtain your degree, and has published it online as his own?
• Someone took credit for an original song that you wrote and it hit number one on the charts?
• Someone published your manuscript under her name and it becomes a best seller?
• Someone duplicated your product without your permission, sold it, and ended up providing customers with inferior products that have your name on them? And now you are getting calls, comments, and tweets from unhappy customers who think you are to blame?
Unfortunately, the last scenario is a familiar experience for NAMC. In the past few weeks, we have encountered someone reproducing and selling multiple copies of our curriculum support material to purchasers who thought they were buying NAMC's original work. This person illegally used our material and profited on NAMC's hard work and good name.


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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Jazz announced Friday that they have hired Atlanta Hawks assistant coach Quin Snyder to replace Tyrone Corbin, who was let go earlier this year after three-plus seasons in Salt Lake City.
Snyder most recently completed his first season as an assistant with Atlanta. He has also been an assistant with the Los Angeles Lakers, the Philadelphia 76ers and the Los Angeles Clippers. He was the head coach at Missouri for seven seasons, from 1999 to 2006, leading the Tigers to four NCAA tournaments. That included an Elite Eight appearance in 2002.
"He has an impressive basketball pedigree, including more than a decade of head coaching experience that positions him well to succeed in the Jazz organization," Jazz CEO Greg Miller said in a statement. "We look forward to Quin's contributions both on the court and in the community."
Snyder succeeds Corbin, who was not offered a new contract. Corbin went 112-146 in Salt Lake City after taking over on Feb. 10, 2011, following the resignation of Jerry Sloan, for whom he played three seasons and served as a longtime assistant.
Corbin reached the playoffs in the strike-shortened 2011-12 season, but his team was swept by San Antonio in the first round of the playoffs. The Jazz went 43-39 the next season and dumped a number of veterans. This year, they went 25-57, the worst season by the Jazz since 1979-80, when Utah was 24-58 following the franchise's relocation from New Orleans.
"The opportunity to join the Utah Jazz and to be part of such a highly respected franchise with an incredibly bright future is a great honor," Snyder said in a statement. "I approach this opportunity with gratitude and humility and am committed to doing everything I can to help the Jazz become a championship-caliber team."
Former Jazz forward Paul Millsap, who went to Atlanta last season, posted to Twitter: "Congratulations to Quin Snyder for being named head coach of the (at)utahjazz!!! The Jazz are getting a great coach and person."
Snyder is the eighth head coach in Jazz history. The team planned a news conference on Saturday.
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Nobumichi Asai has used projection mapping to put CGI onto cars, docks, building and more. His latest canvas? A real, live human face.
Meet Microsoft's New Surface Laptops
Asai used Omote, a combination of real-time face tracking and projection mapping to transform a model's face into mesmerizing patterns. SlashGear calls it "electronic makeup", but as you will see in the (creepy-ish) video, it goes much, much beyond anything makeup can possibly do. [SlashGear]


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Dems buy anti-health-reform ads
Democratic candidates are spending three times more advertising against the health reform law than they are in support of it.
Since the beginning of Congress's August recess, Democratic candidates have poured $930,000 into ads deriding the health overhaul but just $300,000 in pro-reform spots, according to Evan Tracey at Kantar Media.
"Go back to 2006, and even before that, and Democrats used health care as their No. 1 issue," Tracey said. "They had a villain in the pharmaceutical industry. Now that they passed this law, it's almost disarmed them rather than given them an opportunity."
Moreover, Tracey's data shows that health reform opponents – inside and outside of Congress – are increasingly outspending supporters. Opponents now spend seven times as much on anti-reform spots as supporters spend on pro-reform spots, a marked change from early May, when their dollars only doubled those of reform advocates.
Anti-reform forces, including the Chamber for Commerce, Americans for Prosperity and Crossroads GPS, have spent $14 million on advertisements since early August, Tracey said.
At the same time, pro-reform groups have spent just $1.8 million. The most notable buy comes from the Health Information Campaign, a new-Democrat led group currently running a three-week, national ad campaign in support of the new law.
Even Democratic candidates' pro-reform ads can offer tepid support for the law. Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) ran an ad last week that mentioned his support of health reform briefly, sandwiched between other legislative accomplishments.
"When the economy collapsed, Sen. Feingold helped pass tax cuts for 95 percent of Wisconsin family," the script reads. "Russ also fought for tax credits for small businesses and relief from rising health care costs."
"There's not any messaging out there by incumbent Democrats trying to promote what people liked, like allowing dependents to stay on their parents' insurance," says Tracey. He describes the Health Information Campaign's advertisements, which do hit on popular provisions of reform, as "one voice screaming in a crowd. They're not going to get heard with everyone else screaming."
As POLITICO has previously reported, at least five Democrats have run ads touting their opposition to health reform.
Anti-health reform groups continue to pour millions into attack ads. The Chamber of Commerce went up Tuesday with new ads attacking Attorney General Jack Conway in Kentucky for supporting the law and accusing Florida Gov. Charlie Crist of flip-flopping on the issue.
"Democrats haven't found a good rejoinder," Tracey said. "There doesn't seem to be a significant effort to try and dial some of that criticism down, turn a negative into a positive."


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(visited by Targ Parsons and Zifeng Liu)
22-Jul-2008 -- Story continues from 37°N 119°E.
We catch a minivan back to Hóuzhèn, then a bus SW to Shòuguāng. We arrive in Shòuguāng just in time to hop onto a Zībó City (淄博市) bus as it's leaving the station. It's now 12 noon, and we are hopeful of achieving a second confluence today. However, the bus immediately starts a slow crawl through the streets of Shòuguāng, trawling for passengers - the bane of confluence hunters eager to get going!
We eventually arrive in Zībó - also known as Zhāngdiàn (张店区) - at 2 p.m. It then takes us half an hour of walking backwards and forwards, between three different bus stations, before finally finding the bus north to Tiánzhuāng Town (田庄镇). Unlike other big cities we've visited on this trip, we find Zībó to be incredibly disorganised when it comes to bus stations.
Our bus departs (slowly) at 2:40 p.m. When we reach Tiánzhuāng, we are able to get off the bus just 750 m SW of the confluence. From here, we turn down a dirt side street, and it's an easy walk through a residential area, passing by people relaxing out front of their ornate doorways, to get to the wheat-cum-cornfield in which the confluence is located.
The corn plants at the confluence are fairly mature - as tall as me. After taking the GPS shot, I need to hold the camera up above my head in order to get reasonable views to the north, south, east and west.
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27 Jan 2014
Award-winning author of The Luminaries Eleanor Catton, is to receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature at Victoria University of Wellington's May graduation.
"We are extremely proud to count Eleanor among our illustrious alumni, and look forward to formally acknowledging her achievements with an honorary doctorate," says Victoria University Vice-Chancellor Professor Pat Walsh.
Professor Walsh says Ms Catton's remarkable success so early on in her writing career is clear evidence of her outstanding talent.
"As the youngest ever author to win the 2013 Man Booker Prize for The Luminaries—only her second novel—Eleanor has been catapulted to the forefront of New Zealand literature, and can claim a significant place internationally among authors writing in English," he says.
Ms Catton has a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Victoria University, conferred with Distinction in 2008 and a Bachelor of Arts, conferred with First Class Honours in 2009.
Prior to beginning her Masters at Victoria, her flair for writing was acknowledged when she won the 2007 Sunday Star-Times short-story competition.
Ms Catton wrote her first novel The Rehearsal as her Master's thesis at Victoria's International Institute of Modern Letters, receiving Victoria's annual Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing for the best portfolio submitted in the Master's programme. Her novel was subsequently published, in 2008, by Victoria University Press and won the 2009 United Kingdom Society of Authors' Betty Trask Award, the 2009 New Zealand Society of Authors Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction and the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. It was also shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the Prix Femina literature award, the abroad category of the Prix Médicis, the University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize 2010, and longlisted for the Orange Prize 2010.
In 2008, Ms Catton was awarded a fellowship to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, widely regarded as one of the world's premier writing schools. Other accolades include being awarded the 2008 Louis Johnson New Writers' Bursary, being named one of Amazon's Rising Stars in 2009 and receiving the New Zealand Arts Foundation New Generation Award in 2010.
She was awarded the Ursula Bethell Residency at the University of Canterbury in 2011.
In 2013, as well as winning the prestigious Man Booker Prize for The Luminaries, Ms Catton was awarded the Canadian Governor General's Literary Award for fiction and was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit.
Ms Catton currently teaches creative writing at the Manukau Institute of Technology.
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Utah Children's Care Coordination Network (UCCCN) - Update
The Utah Children's Care Coordination Network (UCCCN) is a project of the Utah Bureau of Children with Special Health Care Needs (UDHHS) and the Medical Home Portal, intended to provide care coordination-related information, education, tools, support, and networking opportunities to pediatric practices and other health organizations focusing on children in Utah.
Current participants include those in care coordination roles from more than 23 practices, plus some health departments and health systems in and around Utah. Meetings focus on key topics recognized as components of quality care coordination in the Medical Home model, and include the opportunity to brainstorm about cases and to share local resources with each other.
We're looking forward in the coming months to presentations from:
- The Utah Office of Home Visiting
- Shriners Hospital - Salt Lake City
- Utah Department of Health - Asthma Program
- funding care coordination in the practice
- mental and behavioral health options for children in Utah
- population management and health registries
If you have a care coordinator or employees who could benefit by attending these free meetings, have them contact us to join! Meetings are held on the 3rd Wednesday of each month from 8:30 – 10 am. Locations rotate between the Eccles Outpatient Building on the U of U Health Sciences campus or the IMC Doty Education Center in Murray. Our next meeting will be Wednesday, July 15th, at the Doty Education Center, 5121 Cottonwood Street. For more information, contact Mindy Tueller at firstname.lastname@example.com or Tay Haines at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Customizable Local Service Provider Lists
A major project of the Portal's for some time now, we're excited to let you know that our beta feature is available to try on our Development server. You'll be able to maintain lists of regularly referred-to services for your practice that stay up-to-date through regular updates by the Medical Home Portal.
This feature allows you, after logging in, to quickly and easily create a custom list of local service providers in our database. You can then:
- name it
- share it via a link
- make a copy to modify
- save it as a PDF
- print it
If you would like to try out our Customizable Service Provider Lists beta feature, please contact Mindy Tueller at firstname.lastname@example.com for a test login.
New and Updated on the Portal
We're very pleased about the publication of our new Premature Infant Follow-Up diagnosis module. Pediatricians have access to lots of information about how to care for preterm newborns in the NICU, but what about once they leave the hospital? The new Premature Infant Follow-Up module in the Medical Home Portal provides clinical information and guidance for the multiple conditions that can be associated with preterm birth. From immediate nutritional needs and tracking of growth to management of developmental issues and potential health problems, the module discusses these related issues and provides resources and services relevant to caring for preterm babies in the Medical Home.
|New Diagnosis Modules
|Updated Diagnosis Modules
|Premature Infant Follow-Up
|Intellectual Disability & Global Developmental Delay
|XXY (Klinefelter) Syndrome
|Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
|Autism Spectrum Disorder
Next up for the Portal
- Customizable service provider lists - live on our main production website
- Improvements to search features and results display
- Improvements to navigation of content pages
- More new and updated content, including
- Fabry Disease (new diagnosis module)
- Leukodystrophies (updated diagnosis module)
- Constipation (updated issue page)


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Do not click on this post if you don't want to see a hockey player's mangled mouth. OK, the rest of you can proceed.
Mitch Callahan, a Red Wings prospect currently playing for the Grand Rapids Griffins, took a puck to the face from his teammate in the first period of tonight's game. Callahan already didn't have his two front teeth, and now he has fewer. Poor kid.
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Evangelical Christians Rally Against Occupation as Palestinians Gain Support
On a bleak and rainy morning, the Israeli military checkpoint in Bethlehem looked especially depressing: rain-soaked concrete walls, a loose tin roof clattering in the wind, and Palestinian workers running across wet gravel into a cage-like narrow corridor to cross into Israel.
That's the sight that greeted two dozen Christian visitors to the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Their visit to the checkpoint was part of the third Christ at the Checkpoint conference, organized by the local Bethlehem Biblical College. It was a scene designed to move the Christian visitors — from the United States and around the world — to consider what the conference sponsors say are Israel's violations of human rights in what Christians term the Holy Land. This year, 600 people attended, including dozens of American students of theological seminaries. What they saw is changing their minds.
British volunteer Michaela Whitton guided the morning walk to the checkpoint. As an "Ecumenical Accompanier" based in Bethlehem, Whitton escorts Palestinians who report harassment from Israeli soldiers and Israeli Jewish West Bank settlers. She details what she says are Israeli abuses to the UN.
"The checkpoint isn't on a border," Whitton told the group. "It's two kilometers inside the border, and it is illegal under international law."
Leah Ennis, a 26-year-old from the Reformed Church in Churchville, Pa., was stunned.
"It's incredible that some people have to go through the checkpoint all the time," she said. "It seemed a bit intimidating with the huge walls, and going through these long corridors."
The wall in Bethlehem is part of a separation barrier that Israel has built since 2002 in response to a wave of Palestinian attacks. Palestinians point to its many departures from Israel's pre-1967 border to loop deep into the West Bank, which they say amounts to a brazen land grab.
On the day the Forward visited the conference, there was no discussion of Islamic threats to Israel, although other reports quoted Ron Cantor of Messiah's Mandate who said "no terror, no wall."
Christ at the Checkpoint is both the evidence of a growing skepticism among young Christians toward this Israeli policy, and a vector for its growth.
The meeting in Bethlehem has raised hackles within Israel's government. Earlier, Yigal Palmor, the chief press officer for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was quoted denouncing the conference as "an unacceptable and shameful act."
"Using religion for the purpose of incitement in the service of political interests stains the person who does it with a stain of indelible infamy," Palmor was quoted in the English language publication Israel Today.
America's evangelical leadership has a long history of staunch support for Israel. And some of its major leaders directly oppose the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, held as gospel by Washington, Jerusalem and mainstream American Jewish leaders.
But Ennis – and many other Christ at the Checkpoint attendees – took pains to say she was simply trying to get a more evenhanded view and to open a discussion in her church.
"There's a good portion of our clergy and elders who still don't think we should partner with certain [Palestinian] groups here to aid in the conflict," she said. "We need to help people specifically, and not just by supporting armies, as we have traditionally been supporting the U.S. and the Israeli army."
Christ at the Checkpoint is a far cry from other Christian trips to the Holy Land. For example, the Christian Zionist International Christian Embassy Jerusalem is promoting a summer tour including camel rides, an authentic Shabbat meal, and bringing "joy to the children of Bethlehem." By contrast, visitors to the Bethlehem conference spent nights at the homes of Palestinian hosts and ate lunch at the Deheisheh refugee camp. On Tuesday, they visited Hebron guided by former Israeli soldier Mikhael Manekin, who showed them the Jewish settlement where Palestinians cannot walk the main street; their shops have been soldered shut by the Israeli army.
Tory Devries attended the conference with her parents Tom and Laura. Tom is the Executive Secretary of the Reformed Church in America. Like most attendees, they included the conference in a longer trip around the Holy Land, including sites inside Israel.
"I've been putting imagery to the stories I've seen in the Bible and it's such a happy experience," Tory said. "And then coming to something like this is just a harsh juxtaposition of what I thought Israel would be like and what I would want the Holy Land to be like."
After the visit to the checkpoint, the conference schedule moved to a morning worship session. Prayers were printed in the conference handbook against a background of the concrete separation barrier.
Steven Haas, vice president of World Vision, an international evangelical development organization, said it was his third time attending Christ at the Checkpoint. He said World Vision workers noticed the same young Palestinian students they helped with schoolbooks and healthcare were wetting their beds because of Israeli night raids on their homes. He said questioning Israeli policy could often bring about a crisis of faith among evangelicals.
"For many the love for Israel is akin to their own conversions," he said. "If you don't believe this, your own belief in Jesus has a cloud around it."
Speakers at the conference mined the theological implications of questioning Israel. One of the top-billed speakers was Gary Burge, a Presbyterian minister and New Testament scholar at Wheaton College in Illinois, and author of "Whose Land? Whose Promise?: What Christians Are Not Being Told About Israel and the Palestinians."
In his speech, titled "A Dialogue on Replacement Theology," Burge discussed how Christians ought to view Israel and the Jewish people. One idea that has held sway among Christians in the past – and is currently strong at the Bethlehem Biblical College – is Replacement Theology. This means that the covenant forged between Abraham and God, which gave Jews God's blessing, land and protection, passed onto Christians after Christ.
"[Replacement Theology] does violence to the validity of the Jewish world, which has contributed richly to who we are in the 21st century," Burge said.
But giving equal prestige to both the Jewish Covenant with Abraham and the Christian covenant would "demote Jesus," Burge said. The solution, he said, was "Fulfillment Theology": the idea that "in Christ the covenant of Abraham becomes what it is intended: a vehicle of redemption not only for Israel but for the entire world. "
The extension of that conclusion is that Abraham's promise of land and blessings no longer specifically apply to the Jews, especially to the secular Jews who created modern Israel. "Clearly you cannot be broken off from the root of Abraham and still claim covenant blessing," he said.
Burge spoke on a panel with Daniel Juster, the director of Tikkun International, an umbrella organization for Messianic Jews, a term taken by Jews who accept Jesus as messiah while continuing to uphold their Jewish identity. Juster spoke about the pain of Palestinians suffering under Israeli rule, and the pain of Jews who experienced pogroms and the Holocaust.
"How this can be solved with two people experiencing such levels of pain together in this land?" he asked. "Only Jesus and the power of His cross can overcome this. There is no other way."
The audience clapped with approval.
Just prior to his appearance at the conference, Juster, who has previously denounced Islam as an inherently violent religion, sent an email to other Messianic Jewish organizations that gave an important nuance to his appearance at the conference. Messianic Jews, he said, need both "to acknowledge the injustices suffered by the innocent under Israeli rule and the injustices suffered under the rule of the P. A. and Hamas, the corruption, the stealing of foreign aid, and so much more."
"If we do not acknowledge the Israeli injustices, however," Juster said, "we will not get a hearing for the bigger issues of Israel's election and the orientation of the Muslims to destroy Israel."
Juster's email, implicitly rejecting Replacement Theology, was reported on Rosh Pina, an Israel-based Messianic Jewish website.
Palestinians at the conference were buoyed by their guests. "I feel our message is reaching the world," said Rev. Ashraf Tannous, of nearby Beit Sahour.
He said Evangelical support for Palestinians was new but noticeable – whether as teachers in local Christian schools or volunteers in the annual Palestinian olive harvest.
The conference included Canadians, French, British and other attendees – but the Americans were the most prominent and the most vocal. Burge summed up why:
"American Evangelicals live with an American exceptionalism," he said. "America has a destiny, a theology of entitlement. Commitment to Israel is part of the American theology. And we will be blessed as a nation and church if we align ourselves to Israel."
"The whole construct is problematic," he said.


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Are you currently receiving the Homestead Deduction on your primary residence? The Homestead Deduction can significantly reduce your property taxes. If you are not currently receiving the Homestead Deduction, then click the Homestead Deduction link below to submit an online application.
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Facebook, Twitter and Google are under more pressure in Europe to comply with regional rules. The latest issue they find themselves on the hook for relates to complaints pertaining to a variety of consumer rights that have been investigated by EU regulators since last year.
EU consumer authorities have been specifically looking into complaints about unfair terms and conditions, and looking for ways to tackle fraud and scams that mislead consumers when they are using the social networks — such as fake promotions to 'win a smartphone for €1' that also sign the user up to a hidden long term subscription for hundreds of euros.
Last November the three social media firms were sent letters by the EU regulators asking them to address the areas of concern. That was followed, earlier this month, by a meeting between the companies, regulators and the European Commission to discuss proposed solutions.
The companies have now been given a month to come up with fixes. If their proposals fail to pass muster they could face enforcement action in future, the EC said today.
Contacted for a response Facebook, Twitter and Google all declined to comment, saying they have nothing to share at this stage.
A variety of EU rules are involved in the matter, including the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, the E-commerce Directive, the Consumer Rights Directive or the unfair contract terms Directive.
The latter directive, for example, can invalidate standard terms & conditions if they create a significant imbalance in parties' rights and obligations to the detriment of the consumer — meaning the terms would be judged unfair.
The Directive also requires that T&Cs be drafted in "plain and intelligible language" — to ensure consumers are informed in a clear and understandable manner about their rights.
Some of the specific things the EC emphasizes today that social media companies cannot do under EU consumer rules (suggesting the three are being accused of, at least, some of these failings) are:
- Social media networks cannot deprive consumers of their right to go to court in their Member State of residence;
- Social media networks cannot require consumers to waive mandatory rights, such as their right to withdraw from an online purchase;
- Terms of services cannot limit or totally exclude the liability of social media networks in connection with the performance of the service;
- Sponsored content cannot be hidden but should be identifiable as such;
- Social media networks cannot unilaterally change terms and conditions without clearly informing consumers about the justification and without given them the possibility to cancel the contract, with adequate notice;
- Terms of services cannot confer unlimited and discretionary power to social media operators on the removal of content;
- Termination of a contract by the social media operator should be governed by clear rules and not decided unilaterally without a reason;
T&Cs are something we've long criticized as a horrible problem in the tech space. And while Facebook, Twitter and Google are clearly not the only companies in the industry that could be accused of muddying their terms with opaque language, swingeing vagueness and impenetrable layers of complexity, the huge and growing societal power of social media platforms — and these three giants specifically — is bringing them into contact with regulators' spotlights, more and more.
Earlier this week, for example, Facebook and Twitter were criticized for continued failings to promptly remove hate speech from their platforms in Germany. The government there has now proposed a new law aimed at standardizing social media platforms' content moderation processes to ensure compliance in future.
Meanwhile growing awareness of how algorithms that social media firms use to distribute content on their platforms can encourage and amplify the spread of 'fake news' continues to ruffle feathers — and is starting to land on political agendas.
In recent years social media giants have also come under increased pressure to do more to help government agencies in the region combat terrorism. With great power, it would seem, comes increasing societal and regulatory responsibilities for social media platforms.
Mark Zuckerberg's recent open letter — which sought to reframe some of the societal divisions that have been demonstrably exacerbated by social networking as a need to further embed social networking structures into human societies to harness even more of people's activity — is unlikely to be the last public pronouncement the Facebook CEO feels moved to make as social networking platforms and political discourse are wound ever tighter.


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Short-listed for the $25,000 Lenore
Marshall Poetry Prize, awarded
by the Academy of American Poets.
Marianne Boruch is the author of four previous collections
of poetry: Moss Burning and A
Stick That Breaks and Breaks,
both published by Oberlin College Press, as well as Descendant (1989)
and View
from the Gazebo (1985). The director of
the graduate program in creative writing at Purdue University,
Boruch's complex and compelling poetry astonishes with
its precision, depth, and lucidity.
"Ever since her first book, Marianne Boruch has been
among our most formidable and thought-provoking practitioners
of poetry. It is not that she is flamboyant or flashy,
armored in theory or swimming with a school. Her poems
are contained, steady, and exceptionally precise. They
build toward blazing insights with the utmost honesty and
care. How, we wonder, did she accomplish that so effortlessly?
And the answer arrives not far behind: through attention,
craft, integrity, and vision."--David Young
They make a great noise in the leaves,
trying to be quiet, these
ROTC boys, to be stealth
as the bomber eaten
by fog. Their faces
smudged black, their slow
passage under maples, under
the huge oaks. It's fall,
its wild ravishments. Everything's
past camouflage into almost
freeze and rest
and the last thought. They do not
look at my son and me, where
we might walk, or where
we've been in these woods.
And their emptiness, which is
a kind of focus, they practice it
like prayer, like the sad violinist, fierce
and without any hope
of song, climbing his C minor scale
for the twentieth time. Afternoon nearly
lost to twilight. They look--where else?--
perfectly ahead. A line
is a line. And their rifles, even
the smallest--I watch him--holds his
not gently, hard against him.
Oh, to be
a threat, to swallow
anything. Dear boy, go home.
Go home, where you left your longing.
--Marianne Boruch
Copyright c 2004 by Marianne Boruch. May not be
reproduced without permission.
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text: The MKT (Missouri-Kansas-Texas) is more commonly known as the Katy Railroad. Defiance did have a depot, but it was miniscule, and few photos of it as it existed in 1920 seem to be available. The stucture here is actually styled more after the St. Charles MKT depot. It too has been long defunct, but exists in a restored state in Frontier Park as one the area's dwindling, sentimental reminders of just how integral the railroads once were to American life and business.


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When I told many of my friends and family I was riding some of the Tour de France routes, they automatically assumed I would be participating in the race. As nice as that would be, I would be shelled off the back of the pack before the Tour had left the start village.
Although I've occasionally dreamed of joining the pro peleton and perhaps donning the maillot jaune – the yellow jersey of the Tour de France leader – pro riders are on a whole other level than average cyclists like me.I'm lucky enough to know and have ridden with several domestic elite and professional riders. While I'm a decent enough cyclist – I've won a couple of amateur races and lead my share of segments on Strava – I know my pro friends could ride me off their wheel with little effort. They're on a whole other level, and the elite international pros that contest the Tour de France are at a whole other level above them.
Just how much better are they than your average Joe squeezed into spandex? According to an article in Bicycling magazine, quite a lot.
Your typical cycling enthusiast averages up to 18 mph on flat roads and about 10 mph on hills. But according to Bicycling, the pros in the Tour de France average up to 10 mph and 15 mph faster, respectively. Your elite Tour de France rider averages more than double the wattage of the enthusiast, and can top an incredible 1,400 watts in the finishing kick of a stage sprint.
How do they get so fast? A lot of it is genetics for sure, but it's also insane amounts of training and discipline. (We won't get into other, less-legal reasons why.) I average about 150 miles a week on my bike; pros can average up to 800 miles during that same seven-day period.
But we do have advantages over the pros. While I can reward myself with a beer or three after a particularly grueling ride (or a not-so-hard ride as well), pro riders need to be cautious with every calorie they consume in order to maintain a body-fat percentage under 10 percent. If I have a bad race, I might be upset at myself for a day or two, but for a lower level or budding pro, a few bad races could mean the end of their career. Best of all, pro riders must look at cycling as a job, while we can just hop on our bikes and have fun.