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As reported by an English scientist, hair dyes contain chemicals that can be correlated with cancer. 87 to 100 women, who died their hair during a long-time period, have suffered breast cancer.
Percentage of women suffering from ovarian cancer, who have colored their hair from 1 to 4 times in a year, has decreased to 70%.
Using natural products will not give the same lasting effect but they will for sure make the hair stronger and less damaged. The National Institute of Cancer has found that more than 5000 chemical products in regular hair dyes and a large number of them are carcinogenic.
Coffee has beneficial effects and it is totally natural. Natural coffee can give you the expected results, it can also help your hair to grow. As stated in a study published by the International Magazine of Dermatology in January 2007, coffee is really helping in the process of hair growth.
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1. Make a truly strong organic coffee, for example, espresso, because some of the non-organic coffees contain chemical products.
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Mitt Romney's choice of the swashbuckling, budget-cutting ideologue, Paul Ryan, as his vice presidential nominee shows that when it comes to the GOP's economic policy, it's same script, different cast. Together, Romney and Ryan represent a retread of 40 years worth of Republican ideas on economics, race and the role of government. Not content to let failure remain dormant, they want to reanimate bankrupt concepts and take them to a whole, new level.
Ryan is the chair of the House Budget Committee, author of the jobs and social safety-net destroying "Ryan Budget," and a self-described "Young Gun." Romney announced his selection aboard the battleship USS Wisconsin. The seven-term congressmember hails from Janesville, Wisc.; population 63,000. He is a darling of the Tea Party and an adherent to its cause.
For progressives and people of color, it's hard to imagine a worse choice. Romney and Ryan may make a telegenic pair, but the reality of their policies and philosophies is downright ugly.
The focus of their campaign will be to reignite last summer's disastrous debate on the deficit and debt. But the problem isn't America's debt, it's America's values. Ryan and Romney's idea of a country where the rich matter more than the rest, fueled by tax cuts which make millionaires even more powerful, is exactly what caused the current crisis.
Under Romney and Ryan, the tremendous gains of the rich–which are subsidized by average Americans through the very deficits that they decry–will continue.
More disturbingly, Romney's and Ryan's discredited proposals would take America back to a less-just, less equitable place. To them, that era of racial and economic injustice was America at its best–and the effort to end it created the current economic mess.
Nothing illustrates this perverse understanding of economic history more dramatically than the very reason why Ryan was chosen: the popularity amongst conservatives of his infamous "Ryan budget."
Ryan's Priorities
Ryan's budget–or "A Roadmap for America's Future," as its formally known–would effectively end Social Security for those under 55; do the same for Medicare and Medicaid; strike the last bit of fairness in our tax code, by eradicating the principle that if you earn more you pay more; drastically reduce food stamps, and slash government education assistance, scientific research, and infrastructure spending.
As a result, America would be without a retirement plan for seniors; 47 million Americans would lose health insurance. The rich would receive a massive tax break. Fifty million Americans would be deprived of reliable food sources, and the investments we need to grow fairly and sustainably would be undermined.
The most radical and reckless idea embedded in the Ryan cuts is that America is at its best only when millionaires prosper.
It's disguised as fiscal responsibility, but according to The New York Times, almost 70 percent of the savings from Ryan's spending cuts go to fund tax cuts for the rich. The Ryan budget is a giveaway to millionaires made in the name of getting the nation's budgetary house in order.
Analysis of the Ryan plan by the non-partisan Tax Policy Center concludes, "those making $1 million or more would enjoy an average tax cut of $265,000 and see their after-tax income increase by 12.5 percent. By contrast, half of those making between $20,000 and $30,000 would get no tax cut at all."
Because of these tax cuts, Ryan's plan can't achieve its stated goal of deficit reduction. Ryan reduces spending by huge amounts, but his millionaire giveaways reduce revenue dramatically. Under his proposal, the U.S. would still have deficits for as far as the eye can see.
Though abhorrent, Ryan's ideas are not new. Touted as an attempt to rescue America's future, they're ripped right out of America's past.
We've Already Tried it Ryan's Way
In the late 1970s as a candidate, and then in the 1980s as president, Ronald Reagan was the first mainstream politician to demonize the less well off, cut the programs that help them, and then transfer the "saved" resources to fund tax cuts for the rich.
Newt Gingrich shut down the government twice in the 1990s to advance Reagan's goals further. In the 2000s, George W. Bush gave away huge, budget-busting tax cuts, while trying to destroy Social Security and Medicaid.
Last year, Speaker John Boehener pushed the country to the brink of default solely to protect the strategy of lowering taxes on the rich and targeting the poor.
This economic ideology might be acceptable if it worked. But it actually broke the world.
Since the Republicans began to have their way with the economy, the top 5 percent have accumulated a greater share of national wealth than at almost any point in history. All the while, the net worth of the poor and middle class has plummeted. Disturbingly, net worth amongst blacks and Latinos is at the lowest level on record.
The tremendous gains of the rich, underwritten by enormous tax cuts, have been subsidized through federal government deficits. Now the rich are dramatically richer and the national debt is sky high. When Reagan came into office the debt was $ 1 trillion. It now stands at $15 trillion, and the majority of that was tacked on during the presidencies of Reagan and George W. Bush. Their commitment to tax cuts sent America's debt burden through the roof.
Instead of serving as a "A Roadmap for the Future," Ryan's plan wants to take us back to the future of more tax cuts and more debt. And that retro-future has been one of the most difficult periods in American history for people of color and those that work for a living.
The Black and Brown Blame Game
The question is not whether the economic policies Ryan represents are effective. They clearly are not. The question is, "Why do they keep coming up?"
Here again, Ryan's plan clues us in. In it, he argues that a "culture of dependency" fueled by "progressivism" and "The Great Society" is the cause for America's economic crisis. To his mind, policies which promote fairness are the problem. Black and brown America are to blame.
Romney takes Ryan's black and brown blame game a step further.
Earlier this year he said that Democrats "(don't) have the same feelings about American exceptionalism that we do," and that we need "to restore to this country the principles that made this nation the greatest nation in the history of the Earth." New York magazine reports his book "No Apology" echoes the theme. Romney declares that the current economic crisis was caused by a "reorientation away from American exceptionalism."
Brought back into the public mind by Sarah Palin, exceptionalists believe that the policies promoted by Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson, centered on economic and race fairness, weakened rather than strengthened the country.
They are devotees instead of the off-the-chain individualist philsopher Ayn Rand. Ryan told The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza that, "What I liked about her novels was their devastating indictment of … too much government."
Like Karl Marx, Rand may have been accurate in the details of her analysis, but she was a wrong-headed radical whose conclusions are off the mark. Rand's book "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal" asserts that "government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights." She had controversial views on race which, like many modern conservatives, worked in tandem with her hate of government. "Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe," she declared.
An article on Rand by Sam Anderson in New York Magazine highlights her belief that "Native Americans, having failed for a millennia to create a heroically productive capitalist society, deserved to be stripped of their land." He concludes that she "suffered from some kind of undiagnosed personality disorder."
Rand's firebrand anti-government rhetoric and attack on the tribe-based "savage" are rallying points for many conservatives.
The problem with Rand, Romney, and Ryan is that in a democracy the people are sovereign. When everything works as it should, the government actually reflects the expressed will of the people; it's not apart from us.
Mid-century America unleashed a wave of changes which made it a fairer place. Black and brown Americans were able to participate fully in public life like never before. A person of African descent is now president. The country recently passed a demographic threshold: births amongst people of color now outnumber those of whites.
In the wake of these changes, conservatives have unleashed a wave of policies from immigration to health care to taxes to undermine the promise of this new reality.
Ryan's presumptive nomination to be vice president is only the latest effort to erase hard fought and necessary modifications to the United States. Romney wants him to be "one heart beat from the presidency."
The irony of course is that after the doors of opportunity were thrown open for millions of women and people of color–during the 1960s and 1970s–America had the strongest years of broad-based, equitable economic growth and lower debt levels. This era was when the modern American middle class solidified, especially for people of color.
Obama's Move
Romney's and Ryan's financial plans for America have little to do with the economy but are an attempt to the turn clock back legally, socially and culturally. But instead of calling them out on the wrongness of their proposals, President Obama has taken the bait and decided to argue the point on their terms.
The president could more forcefully and tenaciously prompt a debate about jobs. He has real proposals that if enacted would turn the economic crisis around. Romney and Ryan don't have a credible jobs plan. Economic growth would go a long way towards eliminating deficits. With the economic growth of the 1990s, for instance, we actually began to pay down debt. A successful economy solves a lot of problems.
Obama could also tell an inconvenient truth: Debts don't matter. What matters is the ability to pay for them. As the world's largest economy and with a currency that serves as the only true international means of exchange, the U.S. is not Greece or Spain.
We can print our own money and anyone will except it. In recent years, demand for U.S. government debt in the form of bonds has exceeded supply. It's almost impossible for the U.S. to go broke. For America, growth is more important than debt.
But unfortunately, Obama has embraced a deficit reduction plan of his own. Under it, cuts (cost reductions) outnumber tax increases (revenue enhancements) by 2-to-1. It could be argued that Obama is merely pushing a kindler, gentler version of Republican ideas. Last month he emphasized that he wants to keep the Bush tax cuts, too, for those making under $250,000 instead of millionaires.
The president could be on offense, but instead he is content with defense.
With his choice of Ryan, Romney has seized the reins of the race. The real consequence of Romney's choice is that at exactly the time our country needs a serious debate about the best way to grow the economy, and end the jobs crisis, we're going to get the opposite.
What will ensue is yet another argument over whether people of color and the working poor are to blame for the current economic catastrophe.
At the heart of the discussion, will be a drive to reduce government spending. Yet these very cuts in government spending are a leading reason why we remain mired in the worst recession in almost 100 years, and is why black unemployment is off the charts.
Romney and Ryan's proposals will almost certainly fail to turn the economy around. In fact, their policies will only exacerbate the crisis and inflame it.
Imara Jones writes about economic justice for Colorlines.com


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Is Hasidic Board To Blame for Gutting Public Schools in N.Y. Town?
The First Baptist Church is on a dead-end street in Spring Valley, N.Y., hard up against the railroad line that peters out a few blocks north. Adam Baldachin, a 30-year-old Conservative rabbi, stood at a podium under a fluorescent light in the church basement, backed by two-dozen religious leaders including black pastors in collars and women rabbis in yarmulkes, crosses pinned to lapels. They were there with a new solution to a crisis of democracy that has engulfed this upstate community.
"This system of governance of our public schools is unacceptable," Baldachin declared at the April 8 meeting, addressing the 80 or so locals and journalists who filled the basement room and spilled out into the hall. "Today we stand for justice."
The struggle over the East Ramapo Central School District in this poor suburb 40 minutes north of Manhattan has grown familiar after four years of press coverage: Ultra-Orthodox Jews who don't send their kids to the public schools control the majority of seats on the local school board. And the families who do send their kids to the public schools say the board members favor the private yeshivas in the district at the expense of the public schools.
The years of media attention have changed little. The East Ramapo district is getting worse. Elementary schools don't have assistant principals anymore. They don't have art classes or social workers, either. Middle school sports have been cut, as has summer school. Class size is up to 28 students in some elementary school buildings. Parents who can send their children elsewhere, do.
In the church basement in Spring Valley, local activists were launching a new strategy: targeting the governance structure that gives control over the schools to people who have little stake in the schools' quality, rather than merely attacking the school board's leadership. That structure must change if public school children are to get their fair share, the clergy leaders said.
Yet the clergy members' analysis isn't the only explanation on offer for the piteous state of the district's public schools. School administrators say that this is not a case of one side favoring their own over the interests of the public. Rather, they say, it's the state that is starving the system, setting each side against the other.
Recent statewide education cuts have disproportionately hurt East Ramapo and other poor districts, according to East Ramapo's superintendent, who argues that Governor Andrew Cuomo's funding policies are gougin poor school districts in general. That's not the fault of East Ramapo's ultra-Orthodox school board, he says.
What's clear is that a few thousand poor black and Hispanic students have been shunted into a neglected school district dominated by a booming ultra-Orthodox population, and that the two groups are being left to fight over scant resources. What isn't clear is whether there's any way to fix the problem.
Baldachin has had a pulpit in Rockland County for only nine months. A recent graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary, he hadn't heard about the East Ramapo fight before a local journalist asked his opinion on it not long after he became the rabbi of Montebello Jewish Center. He didn't know what the reporter was talking about, so he asked congregants, who filled him in.
Baldachin doesn't look much older than the high school kids whose cause he has taken up. Over the past few months, he has been meeting regularly with Oscar Cohen, the 72-year-old former school administrator turned local activist with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Cohen has led the local activists in their effort against the school board.
When Cohen addressed the crowd at the First Baptist Church meeting April 8, his white hair and gray blazer stood out among the younger, dark-suited spiritual leaders. Cohen and other local activists have agitated for years against the ultra-Orthodox board members without making much progress. They tried voting out the board, but the Orthodox bloc won every time. They tried complaining to the press, but the stories came and went, and nothing happened. They tried going to lawyers and prosecutors and politicians, but the law is slow.
"We weren't getting much traction from the politicians, other than the local politicians," Cohen told the Forward. Cohen said that he speaks regularly with officials in the governor's administration, who tell him that the governor's ability to intervene is limited. Cohen doesn't believe them. "I can't imagine this happening in Nyack or Clarkstown or Pearl River," he said, listing nearby wealthy districts.
Clergy speaking from the podium at the First Baptist Church event were careful not to lay blame for the bad state of the district on the ultra-Orthodox school board. "East Ramapo public school governance is broken, and we need Governor Cuomo to address this tragedy immediately," said Joel Michel, pastor of the French Speaking Baptist Church of Spring Valley, a tall man with a knack for biblical quotation. When an audience member asked why the clergy were only now organizing around the public schools, Michel stepped again to the microphone: "There is a time for everything under the sun," Michel said. "A time to remain quiet and a time to speak up. This is the time right now." The room erupted.
But beyond the energy the members bring, it's not clear if the clergy has any actual ideas on how to change things.
In a petition to Andrew Cuomo, the group set forth two demands: Initiate state oversight of the school district, and figure out a way to change how the district is governed.
But ask the clergy what they mean by the second point, and they can't answer.
"It really is developing a model that may not exist in New York State, may not exist in the United States," Cohen said. He wants the governor to set up a task force, invite in management consultants and policy experts, and figure out a different way to run the district and other districts that face similar problems.
Today, there are 8,100 public school students in East Ramapo and close to 20,000 students in non-public schools within the district. The only similar district in New York State is the Lawrence Union Free School District in Long Island, where the large Orthodox community of the Five Towns has also come into conflict with local public school parents.
At the podium, Cohen offered one possible policy fix for East Ramapo: Merge all eight of the school districts in Rockland County into one big school district, in which the disproportionate power of the ultra-Orthodox voting bloc in school board elections would be diluted.
It's an interesting idea, but not even Cohen himself thinks it could actually happen.
New York State has 695 school districts; Florida, with a similar population size, has just 74, roughly one for each county. "We are running on the vestiges of a colonial system," said Dana Goldstein, an education policy writer and author of the forthcoming book "The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession." New York's small districts are a relic of the earliest days of public education, when each town was split up into a handful of tiny districts. Today, these small districts are particularly popular in New York's suburbs, where affluent towns and villages are able to school their children separately from those of neighboring poor towns.
"It's a bipartisan issue" with the middle class suburban electorate, Goldstein said, referring to the tiny school districts. "It's affluent and influential people who want this."
Under current state law, the residents of all the districts involved in a merger would need to vote on and approve the change. And that's next to impossible, given the politics of New York State.
"There's a reason why low-income kids exist in places where there's a big Orthodox community," Goldstein said. "These are not the places where the affluent white people are choosing to live, and they like it that way."
Pressed for other ideas, Cohen and the clergy came up dry. "It's hard for me to believe that there is no solution to a problem," Cohen said. "That's what people do, they solve problems."
Ask the superintendent of the East Ramapo schools about what's gone wrong in the district and he, too, will point to structural flaws. But his analysis looks nothing like that of the clergy or of Cohen.
Joel Klein has been the district's superintendent since the board removed his predecessor, Ira Oustatcher, in 2011. In Klein's telling, the district's woes stem not from the depredations of Orthodox board members, but from state funding formulae and budget cuts that have hurt East Ramapo more than other districts.
Klein says that East Ramapo has lost $45 million in state aid over the past four years through the Gap Elimination Adjustment, a measure passed in 2010 by then-Governor David Paterson in 2010 to help close the state's budget deficit. That's more than most other districts in the region.
Klein said that the GEA had hit poor districts like his particularly hard. Because of their own poor local tax bases, the districts rely more heavily on state funding, and so they lost more when the state cuts hit.
"We're getting killed," Klein said. "And we don't have the political clout."
He and Yehuda Weissmandl, the current school board president, also blamed the state's funding formula for shortchanging East Ramapo. "There isn't enough money, it's that simple," Weissmandl told the Forward.
Weissmandl said that the cuts to school programs have been painful but the district hasn't had a choice. "The only way for us to balance the budget is to try to find ways to save money… and to cut programs, to cut jobs," Weissmandl said. "These decisions don't come lightly."
Still, even if Klein and Weissmandl are correct, the activists can, perhaps, be forgiven for their suspicion of the board members.
In recent years, a series of episodes has raised questions about the Orthodox-dominated board's concern for the public interest in its dealings with the Orthodox community. In 2010, the board closed and sold an elementary school to an Orthodox yeshiva at a sale price that was millions of dollars below market value. The real estate appraiser on whose appraisal the sale was based was later indicted, and the New York State Education Department annulled the sale.
The school board has also faced a range of administrative and legal challenges to its practice of using public funds to send Orthodox special needs children to Orthodox yeshivas rather than to public schools. Critics say that the district has spent too much on private special education placements, and the New York State Education Department has withheld state funding after determining that the district's practices broke state and federal laws. The district sued the state education department over its finding, but has since lost two court decisions in the matter. It is appealing the latest decision.
Even fellow board members have condemned the Orthodox board majority's stewardship of the district. Stephen Price, a board member for two decades who resigned in 2013 along with another non-Orthodox board member, said that the administration had declined to give him financial data and accused fellow board members of "intimidation."
Yet it's clear that these issues alone don't account for the cuts to services at East Ramapo schools. A series of audits from the Office of the State Comptroller has not uncovered fraud at the district, and the New York State attorney general's investigation has brought only a single indictment of the outside appraiser. Even if the ultra-Orthodox board members are treating the ultra-Orthodox better than the public school parents, it's far from clear that kicking them out would fix the district's problems.
Even under the best circumstances, East Ramapo's schools would be having a tough time.
Between the 1960s and the '70s, white families in the district were largely replaced by African-American and Haitian families. Today, Hispanic and Latino immigrants are replacing those communities. As of 2012, 37% of the students in the East Ramapo district were Hispanic, up from just 30% only two years earlier. A fifth of the district's students have limited English proficiency, according to state data.
A significant proportion of the district's parents are said to be undocumented immigrants who aren't allowed to vote in local elections.
As services in the district have been cut, families with means have done what they can to pull their kids out. The proportion of East Ramapo students poor enough to qualify for the federally funded free lunch program jumped to 67% in 2012, from 50% in 2010.
People in the area, meanwhile, are getting angrier. From the back of the crowd at the First Baptist Church event, one woman stood up to say that the state had abandoned the district. "Ever since East Ramapo changed from mostly white to black, nobody cared about these children," she said.
That might be the one point on which Cohen and Klein agree. Yet while Klein asks for patience, saying that he will be reinstating some of the slashed programs next year, Cohen is calling for a revolution in the state's system of electing school boards that he himself can't define.
"Blaming people's motives or blaming the actions of one community toward another, I think, is not productive," Cohen said. "The system is not working properly."
Contact Josh Nathan-Kazis at [email protected] or on Twitter, @joshnathankazis


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Thermaltake View 28 RGB Gull-Wing Window ATX Mid-Tower Chassis
The View 28 RGB Mid-Tower Chassis features a transparent gull-wing window, advanced floating GPU mounting system with an optional PCI-e riser cable, and a built-in power supply cover for clean cable management. The tinted front panel with a controllable RGB LEDs matrix gives users a clean look whilst adding incredibly stunning visual perspective to the system. The View 28 RGB supports all high-end PC hardware, graphic cards, and air/liquid cooling solutions. Build your ultimate PC chassis with the Thermaltake View 28 RGB.
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Welcome to the Biology Department at Monroe Community College. My colleagues and I hope you will find many useful links to courses, faculty, and special programs. The faculty have a variety of specialty training and provide a wide range of courses. As well as serving liberal arts and biology majors, the department offers basic science courses for students going into professional programs such as Nursing, Dental Hygiene, Radiologic Technology, Biotechnology, and Physical Education.
Our goal in the Biology Department is to support student learning and provide excellent teaching. We introduce state-of-the-art technology into laboratories and classrooms. Our Natural Science Learning Center (NSEC) provides a place for students to study and use models, charts, and microscopes in a supportive learning environment. We maintain a diverse collection of plants in our greenhouse which are used in several of our courses. The department offers a Biology Scholarship each spring semester, and we encourage all Liberal Arts Biology and Biotechnology majors to apply.
For more information, please use any of the links on our homepage or contact the Biology Department at (585) 292-2029.
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Lasers Help Weigh Dinosaurs
Some dinosaurs were really huge. And now we may have a better way to estimate just how heavy these giants were. Researchers have developed a method to weigh dinosaurs, based on laser scans of their skeletons. The study is in the journal Biology Letters. [W. I. Sellers et al.,"Minimum convex hull mass estimations of complete mounted skeletons"]
Looking at a bare human skeleton, how would you guess whether its owner was chubby or svelte? If you calculated how much space the fully-fleshed body occupied, you could multiply that volume by tissue density to find the weight.
Researchers laser-scanned 14 modern mammal skeletons to create digital models of each body. These 3-D models were unrealistically scrawny, with skin stretched tight over the bones. But their undersized volumes were consistent, measuring in as 21 percent less than the actual animals.
Based on this information, the researchers scanned Giraffatitan bones, added 21 percent to the digital model's volume, and then calculated the dinosaur's weight: about 51,000 pounds. The technique could become the preferred way to estimate mass based on skeletons, improving our understanding of how extinct species lived and moved. And helping paleontologists make earth-shaking discoveries.
—Sophie Bushwick
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The cost of prom night rose 5% this year to an average $1,139 per attendee—a staggering sum that should spark frank spending discussions in every household with a teenager.
Only three years ago, the recession was fresh and families were vowing to tighten their belts for good. In that environment, prom spending on everything from dresses and tuxedos to limos and flowers totaled an average $807. That's a lot. But as the economy improved spending shot passed $1,000 last year before jumping again this spring, according to an annual Visa survey.
Prom spending has been called the new social arms race, as both parents and their teens seek to stand out and choose to spend extravagantly for one evening. "Prom has devolved into a competition to crown the victor of high school society," Nat Sillin Visa's head of U.S. Financial Education, said in a release.
The most troubling aspect of this spending free-for-all is the recurring finding that those who can least afford it are spending the most. In households with less than $50,000 of annual income, spending plans this year average $1,245; parents who make more than $50,000 will spend an average of $1,129. Two years ago, Visa found that the top prom spenders had household income under $30,000.
(MORE: Communication Breakdown: If You Think You're Talking About Money, Your Kids Don't Hear It)
Prom night is also an opportunity for single parents to spend lavishly on their teens—forking over an average $1,563, which is almost double the $770 that married parents will spend.
What's going on here? People have not forgotten the lessons of the Great Recession. In a recent Fidelity survey nearly half said that even now they are saving more, reducing debt and building an emergency fund, and 78% of those taking such steps said the measures were part of permanent personal financial strategy.
Yet prom night appears untouchable. Okay, splurging has its place. But keeping up appearances and one-upping the cool kids probably isn't the wisest choice. Sticking to a budget almost always makes more sense.
Recognizing that prom has become a major expense for teen-bearing households, Visa recently introduced a smartphone Plan it Prom app that lets users make a detailed budget and track spending as they shop. See it on iTunes or at practicalmoneyskills.com.
(MORE: Is Paying Allowance to Your Kids Cruelty?)
To save on the cost of the prom, here are a few tips:
- Shop for formal wear at consignment stores or online. Many outlets rent tuxedos and formal dresses and accessories.
- Have make-up done at a department store's cosmetics department or enlist a friend to help.
- Split the cost of a limo with other couples, or simply drive.
- Take pre-prom photos yourself and have the kids use cell phones for candid shots at the events.
- Work out a prom budget in advance and set a limit for how much you will contribute. If teens want to spend more, encourage them to earn the money first.
Finally, when peers are overspending it's a perfect time to do your part to make fiscal responsibility cool. Talk about how much you saved with little real sacrifice—not about how much you spent. Then set the difference aside for something you'll need in the first semester of college, like books or a new computer. It will only hurt for a day.


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The Canonical Defender, Prof. Ed Peters, author of a useful book on "annulments" (paperback and Kindle) has posted at his excellent blog In The Light Of The Law about particular laws for the Archdiocese of New York issued by Archbishop Dolan.
This merits attention because, as I see recent developments, the harshest attacks on the Catholic Church are going to come, not from the pro-abortion industry, but from homosexuals. Also, Peters says that "other bishops" have issued similar decrees. Therefore, priests should double check the state of the question in the dioceses where they serve and also inform their employees about this matter.
Thus, Prof. Peters:
I understand that other bishops have issued decrees similar to the one issued by New York Abp. Timothy Dolan a few days ago, but anything that New York does inevitably serves as a reference for other local Churches, and so "Dolan's Decree", as it has been dubbed, against formal ecclesiastical cooperation with so-called "same-sex weddings", deserves a closer look. Catholics striving to think with the Church will, I think, like what they see.
Preambulatory matters
Most of the first paragraph of the decree is taken directly from Canon 1055 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law. The last sentence of the paragraph resonates strongly with Canon 747 § 2.
The second paragraph recites facts not in serious dispute.
The third paragraph begins with themes enunciated by Canon 386 § 1 and, drawing on episcopal authority recited in Canons 381 § 1 and 392, proceeds to enact particular legislation for the Church of New York. My lone quibble with the decree is here, with +Dolan's use of the word "moral" to describe the authority he has over those subject to this decree. I would have suggested that he say "canonical" authority, as its meaning is clearer in this context, but "moral" works too.
Disciplinary matters
Norm 1. Catholic clergy belonging to or working within the AONY are expressly forbidden from taking any part, at any time, in "same-sex wedding" ceremonies. While ministry to homosexual persons, even those claiming to be married to a same-sex partner, is not prohibited, of course, I would take the decree to prohibit clergy's mere attendance (as a type of 'advantage') at a "same-sex wedding". Canon 209 § 1 is also relevant here, as is, of course, Canon 273.
Church lay and religious employees acting in the course of their duties are also prohibited as above, but it's not easy to think of how they might actually be involved in such ceremonies, except as specified in norm 2, below.
The reference in the last sentence of norm 1 to canon law expressly prohibiting ecclesiastical solemnization or celebration of "same-sex marriages" comes about, I suggest, as follows:
Canon 1055 defines marriage as a consortium between a man and a woman, and Canon 1066 requires Catholic ministers to assure themselves, before any wedding is celebrated, that nothing stands in the way of its valid and licit celebration. Such could never be verified of a "same-sex wedding", of course, so a Catholic minister could never lawfully participate in such a ceremony. Indeed, to attempt to do so under these circumstances would be to violate Canon 1389. Moreover, among Catholics (and for that matter, among baptized persons), marriage is a sacrament (c. 1055 § 2) and, where a wedding would be null on its face (as would the case of two persons of the same sex attempting marriage), to attempt that wedding would be to simulate a sacrament, an action forbidden by Canon 1379. For the ecclesiastical would-be officiant, such would again be a violation of Canon 1389.
Norm 2. Specification of directives contained in norm 1.
Norm 3. In part, a specification of directives contained in norm 1, but also an application of Canon 1376.
Norm 4. It is not necessary, for the enforcement of most canonical penalties, to recite this kind of warning, but it serves to underscore the gravity of formal cooperation with actions forbidden by divine and canon law.
Finally, the decree became effective as soon as it was issued (as opposed to after 30 days, per c. 8 § 2), another sign of the immediacy of the problem that the Church is confronting here.


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WRC drivers are amazing pilots, but what happens when you take one out of his high-tech 4WD hatchback and stick him in an old Ford Escort?
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Oversteer. Lots and lots of glorious oversteer.
This is my favorite current WRC driver, the wonderfully aggressive Jari-Matti Latvala in his own Mk2 Escort RS1800 on the Lahti Historic Rally. Of course, you knew that already.


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This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System.
CEOs can use both signals and systems as powerful levers in tilting the focus of their company toward long-term societal value creation — which will take care of their shareholders perfectly well.
Setting a Personal Example
Because people in organizations watch what their leader does and follow suit, the CEO wields a powerful lever: modeling desired behaviors.
When P&G CEO A.G. Lafley insisted that in-home visits with consumers be arranged for him in whatever city he visited in the P&G worldwide network, executives throughout P&G realized that if the CEO wasn't too busy to do in-home consumer visits, neither were they. When he worked with the board to get his stock-based compensation to vest in one-tenth increments in each of the 10 years following his retirement from P&G, his organization got the unmistakable impression that P&G was focused on the very long term and that obsessing about one's own short-term compensation wasn't very CEO-like. When he spoke only rarely about shareholder value and only then as utterly derivative of P&G's performance on winning the consumer value equation and building powerful brands, P&G employees came to appreciate that while he cared about shareholder value, he saw it is an output of the things he aspired for P&G not a singular and direct goal.
Broader Corporate Signals
These personal behavior signals matter a lot, but a CEO can also use broader corporate signals — such as Lafley's removal of the stock tickers that his predecessor had installed in every P&G office to get his employees to focus on shareholder value maximization. And while it may seem corny and irrelevant, adding "now and for generations to come" to the corporate statement of purpose helped employees understand that P&G had its eyes on the very long term: "We will provide branded products and services of superior quality and value that improve the lives of the world's consumers, now and for generations to come. As a result, consumers will reward us with leadership sales, profit and value creation, allowing our people, our shareholders and the communities in which we live and work to prosper."
Aligning Core Systems
However, signals can be undermined if key systems contradict the signals. In this respect, no system is more important than the performance-measurement system. Commentators tend to focus on performance-measurement systems because they drive compensation. But their importance extends far beyond compensation. Everybody wants to succeed and get a pat on the back. If the performance-measurement system says that you didn't do a good job, you will be disappointed and you will make sure that you don't get rated badly again — regardless of the compensation consequences.
When Lafley took over as CEO, he made a subtle but important but change in a core, senior-management, performance-measurement criterion. He changed "Market Total Shareholder Return" (M-TSR)" to "Operating Total Shareholder Return (O-TSR)." M-TSR measured the market return to shareholders based on the stock price appreciation plus dividends over a three-year period. In the system he inherited, performance in the top tertile of a pre-determined peer group triggered a performance bonus; so it was a number on which senior management focused. However, what Lafley noticed was that that a period of high M-TSR was inevitably followed by a period of low M-TSR because the high M-TSR was a result in a big, short-term positive change in shareholder expectations and once those expectations soared, it was well-nigh impossible to follow that with another bout of expectations increases.
O-TSR measured three elements associated with the long-term improvement in the value of the business: sales growth, profit margin improvement, and increase in capital efficiency. And importantly, O-TSR correlated strongly with M-TSR, but only over the long term, not the short term.
Use of O-TSR discouraged management from doing things that would hype short-term expectations and instead focused them on pulling the levers that ratcheted up long-term performance, to the benefit of the shareholders who were interested in P&G in the long run.
With a few critical personal and corporate signals twinned with an adjustment of the performance-measurement systems, any CEO can focus the firm on building long-term customer and societal value that pays off for the shareholders who want to be shareholders for the long term. Shareholders who have no interest in the long term should be treated as they deserve to be treated: like the societal parasites they are.


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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
On-line version ISSN 2078-5135
Print version ISSN 0256-9574
SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.101 n.8 Pretoria Aug. 2011
Academics appeal to State: 'help us train where the needs are'
Over 46% of the country's population lives in rural areas where just 2.9% of local medical graduates end up annually.
With many medical schools boldly piloting on-site clinical training in vastly underserved rural areas, the top generalist educators among South Africa's eight medical campuses last month agreed to urgently petition government for expanded rural teaching platforms.
Over 46% of the country's population lives in rural areas where just 2.9% of local medical graduates end up annually, the massive unmet service delivery crying out for government intervention - and the academics want to suggest pragmatic solutions. The group, consisting of top rural health training advocates at the universities of the Witwatersrand, Pretoria, Western Cape, Stellenbosch, Cape Town and Walter Sisulu University (Mthatha), held a rural clinical schools workshop at UCT's Sports Science Academy on 23 June this year. Facilitated by Benguela Health, it followed an Atlantic Philanthropies-funded tour to South Eastern Australia (Gippsland and Victoria) by several participants to observe best practice in expanding rural health training facilities.
The timing of the workshop petition, to be presented to the South African Committee of Deans this October, after which a compelling best-evidence set of recommendations for increased rural clinical schools support will go to the Health and Higher Education ministries, could not be better. Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi is diligently setting up new district maternal and child health care teams, having publicly vowed to triple the country's 1 200 annual MB ChB graduate output in order to make some dent in the apparently intractable human resource (HR) crisis. His weapons of choice so far are a ninth medical school in Limpopo, rebuilding and expanding Medunsa as a stand-alone institution, asking the deans of all medical schools to find ways to increase their intakes and funding new infrastructure at four tertiary hospitals and their medical schools (George Mukhari, Chris Hani Baragwanath, King Edward VIII and Nelson Mandela Academic Hospitals).
We'll help you staff and sustain your programmes
The new rural clinical schools petition, backed by the country's top medical academics, will consist of a pragmatic plan based on best evidence globally. The group believes higher-intake rural clinical schools set in underserved communities will help address Motsoaledi's overall problem by producing greater numbers of appropriately trained doctors more likely to stay in the struggling rural health sector. Overall, the public sector scrapes by with just 30% of the country's doctors, serving 85% of the population. The overwhelming local rural HR need is best illustrated by the following data: the most rural province, North West, has 1.9 doctors and 0.3 specialists to 10 000 people and the next most rural, Limpopo, has 2.7 doctors and 0.2 specialists per 10 000 inhabitants. Country-wide the ratio is 2.9 doctors and 1.1 specialists per 10 000 citizens. So far, state strategies to attract health care professionals to underserved areas (i.e. rural and special skills allowances, foreign recruitment) have met with limited success. Appropriately trained and skilled doctors and nurses with the durability and commitment required by sustainable rural health care are as rare as hen's teeth - in spite of several ongoing complementary recruitment initiatives by the Rural Doctors Association of South Africa (RUDASA) and other NGOs which outstrip government efficacy. Currently most rural practising health care professionals are recruited in batches overseas (fraught, so-called government-to-government agreements), are urban-raised and trained locals (the majority being community service officers in compulsory state service), or come from diligent NGO recruitment. The majority have limited long-term investment in, or commitment to, the unfamiliar and predictably harsh rigours of rural health care life.
The suggested strategy by the country's top rural and underserved community-oriented teachers' centres on the growing body of evidence globally that career choice is strongly influenced by where and how a student is trained - and that those with rural roots are more likely to return to a rural setting. Successful local pilot programmes so far have medical schools designing their curricula around a significant portion of training at rural sites, with the most successful setting up rural clinical schools where the most needy populations are. Professor Dan Ncayiyana of Benguela Health, an innovative pioneer of 'problem-based learning' within communities in the Eastern Cape during his tenure at Walter Sisulu University (then Unitra), led the South African delegation to Monash and Flinders University in Australia. He said he returned more convinced than ever that rural clinical training was 'the way to go' for South Africa, for three main reasons. It enabled training of health professionals to attend to the health needs and circumstances of neglected communities by equipping and motivating them to serve. It dramatically lifted the quality of care in those communities and contributed to an expanded clinical training platform - which allowed for a bigger intake of students. He quipped that one needed to 'look no further' than his home town of Durban (the only place where black people could study medicine during the earlier apartheid days) for evidence that medical professionals returned to their training grounds to practise. 'It's the most diverse medical community imaginable - so if you want to produce a crop of doctors who stay rural, you must recruit and train them in rural areas,' he added.
Professor Jannie Hugo, the leading local developer of mid-level medical workers, Family Medicine Chief at the University of Pretoria and a top protagonist of community-oriented primary care, said he would 'do one simple thing' were he the national health minister. 'I would spend all the extra education money that comes free (of 'normal' budget) in areas of (health care) need'. He warned that the focus should not just be on the rural selection of medical training candidates, but on 'value of service with an emphasis on existing inequities'. The workshop agreed that underserved areas should be the target of expanded on-site, multidisciplinary training interventions, not just necessarily rural areas.
Rural-schooled doctors better leaders/team players
There was consensus that rural-schooled students regularly outperformed their urban trained colleagues in terms of enhanced team and leadership skills. The workshop also agreed that the emphasis should not just be on medical professionals but on 'inter-professional health care training' in underserved areas in order to develop teams appropriate to existing needs. Hugo said a pivotal aim should be to train people for task shifting in order to address the HR crisis, adding: 'Health-wise this country is in a state of war. During the war years, the Rolls Royce factories were making tanks. I regard South Africa in the same light. We need to create the types of people who fight the war, maybe a guerilla war. While I don't like the war metaphor, I'm certainly not interested in creating Mercedes' for exportation.'
Dr Elma de Vries, a former chairperson of RUDASA and a senior lecturer in Family Medicine at UCT, reminded her colleagues of the World Health Organization (WHO)'s policy recommendations on 'increasing access to health workers in remote and rural areas through improved retention'. These included locating health professions schools, campuses and formal medical residency programmes outside of capitals and other major cities because graduates of these schools and programmes were more likely to work in rural areas.
The South African delegation to Australia found that effective rural clinical training:
required continuous rural placement of at least one academic year
constituted an academically credible and socially beneficial innovation
made it possible to increase overall student intake and throughput
took place in areas where there was a sound district health service with appropriate infrastructure and amenities (including primary and secondary schools)
was in group general practices accredited for training
had political will and support
produced committed health practitioners who understood their role in workforce planning and support
contributed to improved quality of care wherever it was located
offered opportunities for multi-professional training
created synergy between programmes and a sharing of educational resources
worked best with a platform consisting of a regional hospital, group general practices and primary level clinics
enabled collaboration between different universities sharing the same teaching platform
was 'essential and feasible in South Africa'.
Professor Robyn Hill, who helped set up the graduate entry rural medical school in Gippsland for Monash University (and guided the South African visitors) said much of their training was in depressed socio-economic former mining areas. She pioneered the hugely successful on-site training of first-year medical students by clinical nurse educators. 'We have pockets of really depressed, needy areas which pale in comparison to your country-wide needs, but our objectives are beautifully aligned to uplift communities who really take ownership of these projects,' she told Izindaba.
Professor Ncayiyana told the workshop that he 'did everything short of getting Julius Malema to lobby for us' in persuading the national health minister and his or various provincial health directors general to attend the Cape Town workshop. However, he was optimistic that once they eventually saw the full report, backed by the Committee of Deans, progress towards their mutual goals would accelerate.
Chris Bateman


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Felix Hausdorff was of course a great mathematician, who had major effects on several branches of mathematics. However he also wrote literature and philosophy and was affiliated with important German musicians. When Nazism came to power, Hausdorff failed to escape in time, lost his job, and finally committed suicide in order to avoid being sent to concentration camp.
The above summary of Hausdorff's life comes from reading his wikipedia page and other similar documents. I would like to learn more about him, but for some reason I don't seem to be able to find a book-length biography. (Can there really not be one?)
Question: What is a good source for a detailed biography of Felix Hausdorff?


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For this manicure I started with China Glaze Blue Sparrow. I did this a while ago and forgot to write down how many coats I used. It was either two or three.
Blue Sparrow is a neon (it dries matte) that has lots of shimmer in it.
I topped it with Nicole by OPI Pitch-Black Glimmer (one coat). I got this at Target recently, along with some other really cool glitters!
I really liked this glitter! It's my second black glitter and I do love a good black glitter. Reminds me of pepper flakes, in a good way, I suppose, because I like pepper! Anyway, I think it adds something different and fun.


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For venting attic spaces, high roof lines, storage sheds and garages. You choose from Western Red Cedar, Cypress, Pine or PVC. Only clear, kiln dried lumber is used, with water proof glue, exterior fasteners and aluminum bug screen.
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Staying Fit
I'm an extremely structured guy. I plan. I have found that just by making appointments it's possible to achieve what you want to and also create space for the other things in your life. That's how I balance my work with the time I want to spend with my family, the most important people in the world.
For instance, I used to break from work every night at 10 o'clock, no matter what I was doing. That was so I could drive to Miami Beach and take my parents out for ice cream. When they passed away I understood why this time meant so much to me. Everything that needed to be said was already shared. No questions were left in my heart that I hadn't already asked.
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Then, as my two children were growing up, I was always home to make breakfast for them. When I'm producing, sometimes I'm working long hours, even till 4:30 in the morning. But I came home to eat and take them to school.
Every Sunday our whole family gets together, including my brother and nephews. We have dinner, spend a couple of hours together — it makes such a difference in your relationships. Your family will be with you forever, through the successes and the failures.
Gloria and I have worked and traveled together for 30 years. But this doesn't mean that we don't still have to decide what to do when. We just got back from two months in Europe, where Gloria sold out concerts. It was a huge success. I was so happy to take that quality time to be with her and to support her in every way, even though many of my projects are back in the States. I had to say "no" to some things and spend odd hours on the phone to keep others going. Those are the choices you have to make.
We try to make sure that our employees also have the opportunity to create a work-life balance that works for them. Each person is different: For one, having his dog in his office with him means everything. Another wants to work extra hours until his project is perfect. So many of them have worked with us for decades; they're like family. The keys to our relationships are respect, communication and appreciation. As chairman of our company I provide inspiration, but everything depends on the staff.
When you're planning for balance in your life, be sure to plan your retirement as well. Not only to have enough money, but to do what makes you happy. Go places that you always wanted to but couldn't when you were on the job. Have a cognac after dinner. Go out with friends. That way you can never really retire because you'll always have a goal, something you want to do.
"I know I still have an opportunity/I know it's not too late to reconsider.../With the years that remain for me," Gloria and I wrote in one of the first songs we created together. Plan — to make the most of all your time.
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Please complete the form below to register to attend the QFM User Group on Tuesday, 27th March at 10am Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), or to request materials from the event.
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A Union City man told to move a cache of farm animals from a Secaucus Road lot in mid-May allegedly failed to comply, and instead was caught by Secaucus Mayor Michael Gonnelli allegedly butchering them on Sunday, June 23, during a surprise visit, according to Gonnelli.
The story began last month when town officials, acting on tips phoned in, went to a lot on Secaucus Road. They found a collection of ducks, hens, roosters, and turkeys.
Officials notified Eugenio Oramas, 56, of Union City that he needed to move the animals by May 18 to comply with a town ordinance that prohibits the breeding and keeping of these types of farm animals.
He had originally kept the collection of animals on the lot while he operated a company there, and continued to do so, even after the business failed, according to various newspaper accounts.
On Sunday, when Gonnelli stopped by, he saw Oramas at the site with friends, along with a long-handled knife and two fires going, the mayor said last week.
The mayor said he observed a bow and arrow as well.
"I kept going by the site, I took a chance, and there they were, [allegedly] butchering them," Gonnelli said. "There were guys sitting around in a circle. One guy was plucking them. One guy was chopping them."
"I took a chance, and there they were, butchering them." – Mayor Michael Gonnelli
By the afternoon, more than 51 animals were caught, caged and sent to a new home, Swift Farms in Milford. Among them were 20 chickens, 10 doves, nine roosters, five chicks, and four ducks, as well as turkeys, pheasants, and guinea hens.
A summons has been issued for Oramas to appear in Secaucus Municipal Court on animal cruelty charges, according to the Secaucus Police Department.
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Downloading SteamCMD
1. Create a folder for SteamCMD.
For example
2. Download SteamCMD for Windows: https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/client/installer/steamcmd.zip
3. Extract the contents of the zip to the folder.
Create a user account named steam to run SteamCMD safely, isolating it from the rest of the operating system. Do not run steamcmd while operating as the root user – to do so is a security risk.
1. As the root user, create the steam user:
useradd -m steam
2. Go into its home folder:
cd /home/steam
Package from repositories
1. It's recommended to install the SteamCMD package from your distribution repositories, if available:
sudo apt-get install steamcmd
yum install steamcmd
Arch Linux: install steamcmd from the AUR.
2. Link the steamcmd executable:
ln -s /usr/games/steamcmd steamcmd
If your server is running Docker, you can simply use:
docker run -it --name=steamcmd cm2network/steamcmd bash
steamcmd.sh location: /home/steam/steamcmd
This image can be used as a base image for Steam-based dedicated servers. Example: https://hub.docker.com/r/cm2network/csgo/
You can find the associated Docker Hub page here: https://hub.docker.com/r/cm2network/steamcmd/
1. Before you begin, you must first install the dependencies required to run SteamCMD:
Ubuntu/Debian 64-Bit
sudo apt-get install lib32gcc1
yum install glibc libstdc++
RedHat/CentOS 64-Bit
yum install glibc.i686 libstdc++.i686
2. As the root user, escalate to the steam user:
su - steam
If you're not logging in as root and you instead use
sudo to perform administration, escalate to the steam user as follows:
sudo -iu steam
3. Create a directory for SteamCMD and switch to it.
mkdir ~/Steam && cd ~/Steam
4. Download and extract SteamCMD for Linux.
curl -sqL "https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/client/installer/steamcmd_linux.tar.gz" | tar zxvf -
5. Install tmux and/or screen for easy server management
sudo apt-get install tmux screen -y;
1. Open Terminal.app and create a directory for SteamCMD.
mkdir ~/Steam && cd ~/Steam
2. Download and extract SteamCMD for OS X.
curl -sqL "https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/client/installer/steamcmd_osx.tar.gz" | tar zxvf -
Running SteamCMD
On first run, SteamCMD will automatically update and enter you into a
Steam> prompt. Type
help for more information.
Open a Command Prompt and start SteamCMD.
cd C:\steamcmd steamcmd
Linux/OS X
Open a terminal and start SteamCMD.
If you installed it using the package from repositories:
cd ~ steamcmd
If you installed it manually:
cd ~/Steam ./steamcmd.sh
SteamCMD Login
To download most game servers, you can login anonymously.
login anonymous
With a Steam account
Some servers require you to login with a Steam Account. Note:For security reasons it is recommended that you create a new Steam account just for your dedicated servers. Note:A user can only be logged in once at any time (counting both graphical client as well as SteamCMD logins).
login <username>
Next enter your password.
If Steam Guard is activated on the user account, check your e-mail for a Steam Guard access code and enter it. This is only required the first time you log in (as well as when you delete the files where SteamCMD stores the login information).
You should see a message stating that you have successfully logged in with your account.
Downloading an app
1. Start SteamCMD and log in.
2. Set your app install directory. (Note: use forward slashes for Linux/OS X and backslashes for Windows.)
force_install_dir <path>
e.g. a directory named
cs_go inside the current directory:
force_install_dir ./cs_go/
For Windows: force_install_dir c:\cs_go\
3. Install or update the app using the
app_update command (supplying a Steam Application ID). Please check here for the dedicated server list: Dedicated server list. To also validate the app, add
validate to the command. To download a beta branch, use the
-beta <betaname> option – for example, the HLDS beta branch is named
beta and the SrcDS beta branch is named
prerelease. Some beta branches are protected by a password; to be able to download from them, also add the
-betapassword <password> option.
app_update <app_id> [-beta <betaname>] [-betapassword <password>] [validate]
HLDS is a special case: the App ID is always 90 and a mod must be chosen first. This is done by setting the app config option
mod to the requested value.
app_set_config <app_id> <option_name> <option_value>
Example: Install and validate the Counter Strike: Global Offensive dedicated server:
app_update 740 validate
Example: Install and validate HLDS with Team Fortress Classic:
app_set_config 90 mod tfc app_update 90 validate
Bug: HLDS (appid 90) currently requires multiple runs of the
app_update command before all the required files are successfully installed. Simply run
app_update 90 validate multiple times until no more updates take place.Example: Install and validate beta version of HLDS (Half-Life):
app_update 90 -beta beta validate
Example: install and validate beta version of the Counter Strike: Source dedicated server:
app_update 232330 -beta prerelease validate
Example: install and validate a private beta version of the Natural Selection 2 dedicated server (name
alpha, password
natsel):[beta name] is the name of the private beta branch[beta code] is the password for the private beta branch
app_update 4940 -beta alpha -betapassword natsel validate
3. Once finished, type
quit to properly log off of the Steam servers.
Validate is a command that will check all the server files to make sure they match the SteamCMD files. This command is useful if you think that files may be missing or corrupted. Note:Validation will overwrite any files that have been changed. This may cause issues with customized servers. For example, if you customize
mapcycle.txt, this file will be overwritten to the server default. Any files that are not part of the default installation will not be affected.
It is recommended you use this command only on initial installation and if there are server issues.
Supported Servers
A list of known servers that use SteamCMD to install is available on the Dedicated Servers List page. Note that any extra commands listed need to be executed before the app_update line.
Automating SteamCMD
There are two ways to automate SteamCMD. (Replace
steamcmd with
./steamcmd.sh on Linux/OS X.)
Command line
Note:When using the
-beta option on the command line, it must be quoted in a special way, such as
+app_update "90 -beta beta". Note:If this does not work, try putting it like
"+app_update 90 -beta beta" instead.
Append the commands to the command line prefixed with plus characters, e.g.:
steamcmd +login anonymous +force_install_dir ../csgo_ds +app_update 740 +quit
To install a specific game mod for HL1, such as Counter-Strike: Condition Zero:
steamcmd +login anonymous +force_install_dir ../czero +app_set_config 90 mod czero +app_update 90 +quit
For a game that requires logins, like Killing Floor:
steamcmd +login <username> <password> +force_install_dir c:\KFServer\ +app_update 215350 +quit
Creating a script
1. Put your SteamCMD commands in a text file. (You may add comments which start with
//.) Example:
// update_csgo_ds.txt // @ShutdownOnFailedCommand 1 //set to 0 if updating multiple servers at once @NoPromptForPassword 1 login <username> <password> //for servers which don't need a login //login anonymous force_install_dir ../csgo_ds app_update 740 validate quit
2. Run SteamCMD with the
+runscript option, referring to the file you created previously. Example:
steamcmd +runscript csgo_ds.txt
Cross-Platform Installation
It is possible to choose the platform for which SteamCMD should download files, even if it isn't the platform it is currently running on. This is done using the
@sSteamCmdForcePlatformType variable. (Yes, those are two "s"es at the beginning of the variable name.) For example, to download the Windows CSGO dedicated server on Linux, you can run the following command:
./steamcmd.sh +@sSteamCmdForcePlatformType windows +login anonymous +force_install_dir ../csgo_ds +app_update 740 validate +quit
or use the following script:
@ShutdownOnFailedCommand 1 @NoPromptForPassword 1 @sSteamCmdForcePlatformType windows login anonymous force_install_dir ../csgo_ds app_update 740 validate quit
The supported values are
macos and
Windows Software/Scripts
condenser is a bootstrapper for installing, configuring, & launching Steam dedicated server apps.
SteamCMD AutoUpdater
Install and automatically update any game server
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/C0nw0nk/SteamCMD-AutoUpdate-Any-Gameserver
SteamCMD GUI
This tool allows the user to use SteamCMD on Windows without command lines and/or batch files.
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/DioJoestar/SteamCMD-GUI
SteamCMD Guardian 1.2
View and download here: http://pastebin.com/BRUbsGQh
Linux Scripts
Linux Game Server Managers
Linux Game Server Managers
LinuxGSM is the command line tool for quick, simple deployment and management of dedicated game servers, using SteamCMD.
- Backup
- Console
- Details
- Installer (SteamCMD)
- Monitor
- Alerts (Email, Pushbullet)
- Update (SteamCMD)
- Start/Stop/Restart server
Supported Servers
There are now 70+ different game servers supported and rising. For a full list visit the website.
Website: https://linuxgsm.com/
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/GameServerManagers/LinuxGSM
SteamCMD Guardian 1.2
The following script was tested on Debian Wheezy.
View and download here: http://pastebin.com/hcpMpmaZ
To make this script work, we need a location. Preferably you created a user (e.g. steam) with it's own home directory (/home/steam) and are logged in as it via SSH, tty or using su.
- Make the file.
nano updateserver.sh
- Paste in the code
- Modify the code, add at least 1 game to the
- Close the file with Ctrl+O, followed by ↵ Enter and concluding with Ctrl+X.
- Give the file execute rights for the user
chmod u+x ./updateserver.sh
- Run the file
The file will auto-download SteamCMD, update it and install all chosen games (up to 4). Run the file again to update the games.
Known issues
ERROR! Failed to install app 'xxxxxx' (No subscription)
If you get the 'No subscription' error, the game/server you are trying to download either requires a login or that you have purchased the game. You will therefore have to log in with a Steam username and password – if that doesn't help, you may need to purchase a copy of the game on Steam first. See Dedicated Servers List. Note:For security reasons it is recommended that you create a new Steam account just for your dedicated servers.
For example
steamcmd +login <username> <password>
32-bit libraries on 64-bit Linux systems
Since SteamCMD is a 32-bit binary, 32-bit libraries are required.
The following error may occur:
steamcmd: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
The resolution depends on your distro:
Debian based distributions (Ubuntu, Mint, etc.)
sudo apt-get install lib32stdc++6
ia32-libs are not required to install SteamCMD;
lib32gcc1 is enough.
With Debian 7 "Wheezy" you may encounter this error:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: ia32-libs : Depends: ia32-libs-multiarch but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
To fix this, do the following:
dpkg --add-architecture i386 apt-get update apt-get install lib32gcc1
Red Hat based distributions (RHEL, Fedora, CentOS, etc.)
yum install glibc.i686 libstdc++.i686
Arch Linux
Don't forget to first enable the multilib repository.
pacman -S lib32-gcc-libs
Login Failure: No Connection
On linux servers, you may experience a "Login Failure: No Connection" error. This is related to missing iptables rules. You will want something along these lines:
iptables -A INPUT -p udp -m udp --sport 27000:27030 --dport 1025:65355 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p udp -m udp --sport 4380 --dport 1025:65355 -j ACCEPT
The port list is found here: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=8571-GLVN-8711&l=english
On Windows servers, you may experience "SteamUpdater: Error: Download failed: http error 0" and "SteamUpdater: Error: Steam needs to be online to update. Please confirm your network connection and try again.". This is usually fixed by checking "Automatically detect settings" in IE (Internet Explorer) through the lan settings in the Internet option menu.
- Open Internet Explorer (IE).
- Click on Tools → Internet Options
- Click on the Connections tab
- At the bottom, you should see Local Area Network (LAN) Settings.
- Check the first box (Automatically detect settings)
- Hit OK, and Apply. Try running the SteamCMD again; if it still doesn't work. try lowering your Internet Security level zone to medium or lower. You can find that in the Securitytab in Internet Options.
SteamCMD startup errors
Unable to locate a running instance of Steam
You may get the following error when starting a server with Linux:
[S_API FAIL] SteamAPI_Init() failed; unable to locate a running instance of Steam, or a local steamclient.dll.
Resolve the issue by linking
steamclient.so to the
~/.steam/sdk32/steamclient.so directory:
ln -s steamcmd/linux32/steamclient.so ~/.steam/sdk32/steamclient.so
ulimit Linux startup error
Some users may get a
ulimit error (no permission/cannot open file) while script is starting up. This error caused by a low setting of the
-n parameter (number of file descriptors) of
ulimit. SteamCMD uses standard commands inside of the initialization shell script to change the
ulimit automatically, but some servers may forbid increasing
ulimit values after startup (or beyond a limit set by
This can be fixed by changing the file descriptor number ulimit:
ulimit -n 2048
If an error appears (no permission), you will have to log in as root to change the parameter. To check the current setting, type ulimit -a; the system will reply with many rows, you need to find one:
open files (-n) 1024
In this case, 1024 is the current value.
root can also modify the limits in the
/etc/security/limits.conf file.
In most instances you will simply get a warning message however it will not stop SteamCMD from running.
Getting a Linux 64-bit steamclient.so on a Windows Machine
WLS does not play nicely with 32-bit files. If you need the steamclient.so 64-bit file you can simply run the following command:
steamcmd.exe +@sSteamCmdForcePlatformType linux +login anonymous +app_update 1007 +quit
You will then find the file here:
.\steamapps\common\Steamworks SDK Redist\linux64
Only the HLDS engine is downloaded
When trying to download a HL1 mod like TFC, initially it only downloads the engine files of the HLDS, but not the mod. This happens with both the regular version and the beta. You may have to try multiple times until all the required files are downloaded, but once this is done, the files should update correctly next time.
Work-around for this issue here: http://danielgibbs.co.uk/2017/10/hlds-steamcmd-workaround-appid-90-part-ii/
Just deleting the appmanifest files, without downloading replacements from a third party, may work as well! You will get an error at first though, complaining that something went wrong, which is due to the deleted files.
On a side note, for some reason CS is always installed as well.


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New discoveries of living corals
In 1990 Lophelia pertusa was reported off west Africa by Zibrowius and Gili, but only dead fragments were collected. Although cold-water corals in this region are still poorly known, working with oil companies that operate off these shores has led to the very first discovery of living, lush Lophelia reefs.
These exciting discoveries were described by Le Guilloux and others in 2009 during the research programme BIOZAIRE I. Researchers from the Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER) and the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle used coral records and multibeam data from the oil company Total and detailed geophysical surveys during the ZAIANGO project to document thriving Lophelia-structured coral reef communities inhabiting the region just south of the continental shelf off Angola, about 400 m deep. Cold-water coral reefs up to 30 m high and 300 m wide were found in a small area of about 12 km2 . Video from the ROV Victor 6000 showed thick living coral cover at the summit, which graded into coral rubble/dead coral along the mound flanks.


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The first two game times of the 2014 season have been set. The Buffaloes will take on the Rams in Denver at 7 p.m. on Friday, August 29th and the game will be aired on Fox Sports 1. Then, after traveling to UMASS (game time not yet announced), the Buffaloes will return home to take on the Arizona St. Sun Devils in Boulder on ESPNU at 8 p.m. Here's the full release from the University.
The Pacific-12 Conference and its television partners released arrangements for the first three weeks of the 2014 season for all games covered by their contracts, and the University of Colorado's two in-state games against Colorado State and Arizona State both will receive maximum exposure.
The season opener against Colorado State, also billed as the Rocky Mountain Showdown, will be televised on Fox Sports 1 (FS1) and will kickoff shortly after 7 p.m. mountain time on Friday, Aug. 29, at Sports Authority Field at Mile High in Denver. It will be the 14th time the two rivals will duel in Colorado's capital city, all since 1998, and the 20th straight year one of the nation's most underrated rivalries will be televised on a national or regional basis.
The Buffaloes will then travel to Foxboro to take on the University of Massachusetts the following Saturday (Sept. 6); the details for that game are not finalized yet but are expected to be within a week or so.
CU returns home for its home opener on Saturday, Sept. 13, which also will serve as the 2014 Pac-12 Conference opener when the Arizona State Wildcats visit Boulder. That game, the earliest conference game date-wise in Colorado history, will be televised nationally on ESPNU and will have a starting time of 8 p.m.
"We are pleased with these two games being selected for broadcast on FS1 and ESPNU," CU athletic director Rick George said. "The 7 p.m. kickoff time for the CSU game is perfect heading into Labor Day weekend, many people leave work early that Friday and can head down early to the stadium and tailgate or pop over to the Taste of Colorado and then head over to the game. As for Arizona State, we do understand that 8 p.m. is a little later than we'd normally like for a home game, but that time of the year the temperature in the evening averages in the low 60s, so it should be perfect football weather for our home and conference opener.
Starting with games the fourth weekend of the season, by contractual agreement with the conference's television partners (ESPN/ABC, FOX/FS 1 and the Pac-12 Networks), games will be selected on a 12-day notification beginning Sept. 8 for games on Sept. 20; up to a maximum three times a year, ESPN/ABC and FOX can delay those selections to six days.
Only 87 days until the Rocky Mountain Showdown.


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Trends in 2011 Trade – Records Set, Expectations ExceededMarch 5, 2012
The Office of Industry Analysis provides information and analysis pertaining to issues affecting U.S. industry competitiveness.
It's been said before that exporting has been a bright spot in an otherwise gloomy economic outlook. However, trends are improving in important areas such as manufacturing employment and productivity. Manufacturing is seeing a resurgence in investment and hiring. The average annual productivity in manufacturing grew 2.8 percent from 2010 to 2011. Also, while the manufacturing unemployment rate was 9.9 percent in January, 2011, by January, 2012, it had dropped to 8.4 percent. Beyond what's on the domestic horizon, more U.S. subsidiaries of foreign countries are also bringing manufacturing and jobs to the U.S., contributing to the export boom.
This past year saw a number of key records set and overall export growth on track to double exports by 2014. For the first time, total exports exceeded $2 trillion, $2.1 trillion to be exact. U.S. merchandise exports increased $202 billion to a record $1.48 trillion from 2010 to 2011.
Exports of petroleum and coal products jumped $40 billion, to a record $101 billion from 2010 to 2011. The increase in these products accounted for one-fifth of the $202 billion national increase.
Looking more closely at categories that had some of the strongest growth we see records set in nearly every major manufacturing category. Industrial supplies represented the largest goods export category (end-use) for the U.S. with a record $499.5 billion worth of exports in 2011, followed by capital goods (a record $491.4 billion); consumer goods (a record $176.3 billion); automotive vehicles and parts (a record $132.5 billion); foods, feeds and beverages (a record $126.1 billion); and other goods ($54.9 billion).
Exports of services were also record-breaking, as was the overall surplus the U.S. enjoys in the services trade balance. The services trade surplus reached $179 billion, up 22.8 percent from the $145.8 billion surplus in 2010. The U.S. showed large surpluses in royalties and license fees ($84.1 billion), other private services ($80.3 billion) and travel ($36.4 billion).
It stands to reason that while the nation as a whole set records for exports, most states also saw growth in their exports to the world. Thirty-six states experienced double-digit merchandise export growth in 2011; 23 states exceeded the national average of 16 percent growth for merchandise exports.
Texas accounted for 21% of the nation's increase in merchandise exports from 2010 to 2011. Texas, California, Illinois, Louisiana, and New York accounted for close to one-half of the increase in goods exports from 2010-2011.
Some of the states that saw the largest percentage growth in exports last year include West Virginia, Utah, New Mexico and Nevada.
Merchandise exports to some of our largest trading partners also grew to record-setting heights last year. Our exports to Mexico, The Netherlands, Australia and Brazil grew more than 20 percent from 2010.
U.S. merchandise exports were also at record levels to all of the priority emerging markets under the President's National Export Initiative, including China, Brazil, India, Turkey, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, South Africa, and Vietnam.
Our export growth will continue as U.S. businesses find new markets and new partners and expand on the current partnerships they've already established.
For more information about this and other export data, visit the International Trade Administration's Office of Industry Analysis http://www.trade.gov/mas/ian/index.asp


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Murder in Nairobi: Wikileaks related human rights lawyers assassinated
From WikiLeaks
Police must be brought to justice.
On Thursday afternoon, Oscar Kamau Kingara, director of the Kenyan based Oscar legal aid Foundation, and its programme coordinator, John Paul Oulo, were both shot dead at close range in their car less than a mile from President Kibaki's residence. The two were on their way to a meeting at the Kenyan National Commission on Human Rights.
Both had been investigating extra-judicial assassinations by the Kenyan Police. Part of their work forms the basis of the "Cry of Blood" report Wikileaks released on November 1 last year and subsequent follow ups, including a UN indictment last month.
Since 2007 the Oscar foundation has documented 6,452 "enforced disappearances" by police and 1,721 extra-judicial killings.
The murders come just two weeks after United Nations Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial killings Professor Philip Alston called on on Kenya's Attorney General and Police Commissioner to be sacked.
On 18 February 2009, the Oscar Foundation presented its findings for use in a parliamentary debate.
The Oscar Foundation vehicle was blocked by a minibus and a Mitsubishi Pajero vehicle, both of which had been following them along State house road. Several men were in the two vehicles. Two men got out, approached the vehicle of Oscar Kamau Kingara and John Paul Oulu, and shot them through the windows at close range.
According to eyewitnesses, the driver of the minibus was in police uniform whilst the other men were wearing suits. The closest eyewitness to the incident was shot in the leg and later taken away by policemen.
A coalition of civil society organizations released a statement blaming police for the murders.
"These were very decent men who had done more work than anybody in examining police killings," said Cyprian Nyamwamu, the executive director of the National Convention Executive Council, a non-governmental organization advocating social and economic reform. "I have no doubt that is why they were killed."
Police said that students from the nearby University of Nairobi moved Oulo's body into a hostel and one student was shot dead when officers tried to retrieve it.
The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights have demanded an immediate external investigation into the deaths. The US Ambassador to Kenya has offered the Kenyan government the services of the FBI. The offer has been declined.
Those with intelligence assets in the area, or non-public information on Police Commissioner General Hussien Ali or other suspects, please contact us via email@example.com
Make a contribution to assist our investigation of these murders. Every contribution helps:
If you are in a position to significantly fund a reward for conviction or apprehension of the assassins and those behind them, contact:


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From "Dodgers first baseman James Loney is a cool customer," a fine profile of James Loney by Dylan Hernandez of the LA Times:
"We joke that there should be a James Loney cam," Martin says. "Just on him, all the time."
"Crazy legs and crazy eyes," Wolf says. "He's like a baby giraffe."
That led to Loney being nicknamed "Geoffrey" after the Toys R Us mascot.
Loney is fine with that. If what he does gets people to smile and laugh, he says, great.
"I'd rather see people smile than frown," Loney says.
Thanks to Hernandez's piece, we learn that Loney's endearing oddness is part of what makes this Dodgers team so likable — and good. This is exactly the kind of article I'd like to see more of as the season progresses.
photo by Jon SooHoo/Dodgers