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It's no surprise that these are turbulent times we are living in, but they are particularly so today. While a general strike and public protests sweep southern Europe in response to neoliberal "austerity" in this time of economic crisis, Israel has launched a fresh attack on the Gaza strip, killing and injuring civilians, a woman has died in Ireland after being denied an abortion due to religious reasons, and last month a teenage girl activist in Pakistan was shot in the head as a response to her campaigning for girls' education.
We commend those who are taking collective action to protest being forced into more dire economic conditions due to austerity, taking on both the police and the state in hopes of ensuring a better future. We stand in solidarity with the Palestinians who are suffering yet another grave injustice at the hands of the IDF. We honor the deceased and keep the injured in our thoughts.
We are grateful for the survival of 14-year old Malala Yousafzai and support her courageous work to ensure girls in a misogynist society have access to education, and are overjoyed to hear of the passing of Pakistan's Universal Education Bill, undoubtedly spurred by international attention on Malala. Yet at the same time, we mourn the loss of Savita Halappanavar, who died unnecessarily due to an archaic law and sexist medical and religious culture that refused her requests for a termination. Along with many other feminist activists, in her honor, we will continue to work for the rights of all women to authority over our own bodies and lives.
Many are resisting. In addition to the millions on strike, Spanish and Portuguese demonstrators are blocking roads and clashing with police, vigils have been held in Ireland and London to remember Savita and call for legalized abortion in Ireland, and a list of emergency global actions for Gaza to happen in the next few days is currently being compiled. Support actions in your area or add to it if you are able to help organize one.
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General Strike Sweeps Europe as Millions Reject Austerity as Solution to Economic Crisis [Democracy Now!]
Anti-austerity strikes sweep southern Europe [Reuters]
Israel launches fresh strikes on Gaza [Al-Jazeera]
Emergency Global Actions for Gaza (being updated and compiled by @southsouth and @riverdryfilm)
Scandal in Ireland as woman dies in Galway 'after being denied abortion' [Guardian]
Vigils and protests over Savita held [Irish Times]
Vigil held at Irish embassy in London to protest over 'denied abortion' death [Guardian]
Thousands call for Nobel peace prize for Malala Yousafzai [Guardian]
Has Malala's dream for girls' education come true? [Avaaz]
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Josh Koscheck and Paul Daley - Douchebags of the Month
You can't write a regular column about douchebags without occasionally getting a little douche on yourself. Of course, not literally, although the idea of walking around all day telling people you'd just been making a salad is mildly amusing. No, what I mean here is that he who fights douchebags must take care that he not become a douchebag himself.
I say this as a preface to this column because I had to defer to the better angels of my nature to avoid using the term "Cock Joshcheck" as I wrote this. I sincerely felt entitled to use this moniker for the guy, given his behavior last night. Also, as this is a MMA website and not a politics one, I had to refrain from making a "Daley-Kos" joke. But alas, I'm a dick, not a douchebag, so I did neither.
For those of you who were busy fapping to a Jet Li film, or playing Modern Warfare 2 instead of watching the UFC last night (in the case of the latter, you can do both; I did), there was a veritable douche fountain on display in the Josh Koscheck/Paul Daley fight. It was as if just before the fight, the Padouchesha Emperor, from his throne, commanded "The Douche must flow".
Ok, so you didn't read Dune either. Whatever. There were two incidents in the fight that will forever go down in MMA history as a low point. And by "forever", I mean, for a few months until the memory span of the average MMA fan expires.
CocJosh Koscheck blatantly faked being hit with an illegal knee. Seriously, I've seen better acting at a no-budget wrestling promotion out of Waco, Tx. He laid there on the canvas clasping his head when Daley's knee didn't even make contact with it.
2. Paul Daley clocked Koscheck after the final bell. Not much to explain here. He walked over and just suckerpunched him. And it was a crappy punch too, since it didn't wipe off Koscheck's perpetual ****-eating grin; it actually made it bigger.
The aftermath of this fight can be boiled down into two sentences: Dana White permanently barred Daley from ever fighting again in the UFC. And Koscheck admitted in a post-fight interview with ESPN that he'd been running his mouth to Daley during the entire fight, egging him on.
As someone who judges MMA I've seen hundreds of fights, close enough to have shirts ruined from bloodspatter (and, unfortunately, close enough to learn that you should keep your mouth shut at all times unless you want some dude's sweat flung into it.. *retch*). I can count on one hand the number of fights in which the two guys spoke to each other during the match. And that's not just because we've got some good refs out here, and maybe or some classier fighters. I've judged fighters from all over the planet, for M-1, Strikeforce, etc.
Nearly all of them kept their mouths shut.
Now don't misunderstand me here:
A.) Daley was wrong, no doubt about it. It doesn't matter if the lilly-
whitetan Koscheck was whispering sweet nothings about Daley giving up fighting to go pick cotton into his ear. Clocking someone after the bell is a criminal act. If you can't settle it in the cage, train harder.
B.) I realize that animosity sells tickets. Ken Shamrock and Tito Ortiz are both masters at this. And they're both grown-ups in that once the fight is over, win or lose, it's time to move on. I don't think Koscheck has learned this lesson, or even the lesson that it really isn't personal.
Regardless, I'm aggravated. If it weren't for the fact that Mauricio "Shogun" Rua beat Lyoto Machida down so hard last night that a dozen Karate schools went out of business, I'd probably be genuinely cranky.
Instead, I'm simply looking forward to the humiliation Koscheck is going to suffer at the hands of GSP. I'm no fan of the French Canadian (or his floppy head), but nobody can dispute that he's a genuine class act, and that the sport needs one hundred and thirteen more fighters just like him.
Josh Coatcheck, Paul Daley, you are our co-Douchebags of the Month.
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Excellent choice, both guys were completely classless in that fight. I thought the pre-fight banter was amusing and was optimistic that after the fight, they would bury the hatchet a la Serra-Hughes or Oritz-Shamrock. I guess I'm just naive.
This is the second fight in a row Koscheck has faked getting hit by a knee. I don't care if your hair gets parted by Daley's knee or Daley's pinky toe poked you in the eye, you know the difference between that and actually getting kneed in the face. That's a dick move and the only reason he did it was because Daley broke free in the scramble and had some momentum on his side. Doesn't excuse Daley for throwing the knee, but the timeout sure iced Daley's momentum.
I'm dying to know what Koscheck whispered in Daley's ear. I think a smart PR move by Daley would have been to shrug it off, accept the loss and then tell the media what Kos said during a post-fight interview. Combine that with faking the knee and Daley can hype his was into a pretty quick rematch. Now he's fucked. And deservedly so.
Oh, and LOLlercoasters at "Daley-Kos"
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In De Janerio, in blackest night,
Luta Livre flees the fight,
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Beware my power... Blue Lantern's light!
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Does this mean that he who controls the Douche, controls the universe?
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Government Sues Sprint For Overcharging For Wiretaps Under CALEA
from the everybody-loses dept
Now it appears that at least one of the telcos is being focused on for round two, with the news that the government is suing Sprint for overcharging for wiretaps under CALEA. Under CALEA phone companies are allowed to recoup "reasonable expenses," but the lawsuit claims that Sprint overcharged the government to the tune of $21 million, overinflating charges by approximately 58 percent between 2007 and 2010. The Prather case claimed the telcos overcharge for taps in general, but have historically dodged culpability by simply hitting the government with large bills that don't itemize or explain why a wiretap should magically cost $50,000 to $100,000.
Sprint appears to have been specifically nabbed by the Justice Department's Inspector General because it wasn't clever enough about passing on the costs of modifying its network to adhere to CALEA back to the government, something the law prohibits:
"Despite the FCC's clear and unambiguous ruling, Sprint knowingly included in its intercept charges the costs of financing modifications to equipment, facilities, and services installed to comply with CALEA. Because Sprint's invoices for intercept charges did not identify the particular expenses for which it sought reimbursement, federal law enforcement agencies were unable to detect that Sprint was requesting reimbursement of these unallowable costs."It should be interesting to see if AT&T and Verizon face similar lawsuits down the road, or if their lawyers and accountants were simply better at obscuring overbilling. It's kind of a lose-lose scenario for you and me either way. Not only do we get to be spied on, we likely paid for these wiretaps both on the taxpayer side and on the telco side as the companies passed on both real and imaginary wiretap costs to you.


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Grand Theft Auto IV Walkthrough
|Liquidize the Assets
When you return to visit John at the hospital in Broker off of Cassidy Street, you'll find him accompanied by a familiar face. Remember the mysterious paper company with the shady guy in glasses who sent you on all sorts of miserable missions, seemingly for no reason? Well, here he is, and he appears to know your dying friend John pretty well. The two men tell Niko about the Russians and a rival Italian family that seem to be working together. This isn't good for the interests these men oversee, and they dispatch you to take care of the problem.
Just like the last job you undertook for John, this job takes place clear across the city in Alderney. Boost a car and head westward as your GPS on the HUD brings you along. When you arrive in Alderney, you're looking for Farnsworth Road, a non-discrete road in an industrial area of the overly-industrial borough. Upon arriving at the predestined location, the game will show you some great shots of the compound you have to sack. There are five vans you have to destroy in your sacking of the compound (represented by red dots on your HUD), and there are a plethora of enemies guarding the compound. All-in-all, this is going to be a fairly difficult mission. But that's to be expected, as we are quite near the end of the game at this point.
There are a number of ways you can go about this mission, including utilizing techniques that are a bit unnecessary (such as scoping out an area around the building and killing from afar). We recommend a much more straight-forward approach. Instead of holding back, simply bust through the fence blocking the only way in or out of the small compound, using your car to run over some foes and thin out the enemies on the ground. Make sure to be quick, though, because enemies here are well-armed and shooting to kill. When you've seemingly-exhausted your ability to kill foes with your vehicle, park it in such a way that you can use it as a barrier, and get out with guns blazing.
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While damage from the 2010 BP oil spill is not fully understood, money is becoming available to help protect and sustain the southern Louisiana coast, a government official told the South Central Industrial Association Tuesday.
While damage from the 2010 BP oil spill is not fully understood, money is becoming available to help protect and sustain the southern Louisiana coast, a government official told the South Central Industrial Association Tuesday.
The state's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority has identified 109 projects that could benefit the coast when it developed its 2012 Coastal Management Plan, and there are now three funding sources, said Drue Banta, counsel to the governor for coastal activities.
"It's a 50-year, $50 billion plan. It's very aggressive," Banta said.
Banta said the funding sources are the Natural Resource Damage Assessment, Civil and Administrative Clean Water Act Penalties and Criminal Clean Water Act Penalties.
"The NRDA was set forth by federal laws and passed in 1990 after the Exxon Valdez oil spill," she said.
The assessment fund will help restore damaged resources and restore natural habitats, she said.
"It might take up to 10 years to do assessment. They would have to test sediment samples, water samples and tissue samples from animals. It is very expensive, and BP has joined in on it," Banta said.
Banta said BP has agreed to fund $70 million for 10 projects. Some of those projects include the Oyster Re-establishment Program, which involves placing oyster clusters on about 850 acres of public seed grounds throughout coastal Louisiana so oyster larvae can get attached and grow. Another project is the construction of an oyster hatchery at Grand Isle.
The Clean Water Act was signed into law last June and provides money to five Gulf states from 80 percent of administrative and civil penalties paid by the parties responsible for the 2010 oil spill. The remaining 20 percent will be directed to the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund.
Thirty-five percent of the oil spill fine money will be split equally between Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida for environmental and economic recovery along the coast.
Another 60 percent will be dispersed by a restoration council, which will be made up of the federal chair of the Council on Environmental Quality, the secretary of the interior, the secretary of the Army, the secretary of commerce, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, the secretary of agriculture and the head of the Coast Guard. It will also include governors from all five states or their appointed representatives.
Of that 60 percent, 30 percent must be sent to states based on factors such as oil spill impacts and coastal population. The other 30 percent will be used to implement a coastal restoration plan developed by the council, focusing on projects that have been authorized and are ready to move forward quickly.
Terrebonne and Lafourche could both see projects come out of the percentage allocated to the Gulf states, Banta said, and this left some SCIA members hopeful.
"It's a very big topic involving a lot of money, and there are many ways it can be distributed," said Mart Black, senior planner for Providence Technical Services LLC in Houma. "The devil is in the details, and it could take a long time before it's a reality for Louisiana, but I hope they will restore our coast."
The criminal fines and penalties against BP will also help with the oil spill damage, she said.
"BP has to pay $4 billion in criminal fines and penalties over five years and plead guilty to 14 counts," she said. "About $2.4 billion goes to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and $150 million is for barrier-island restoration and river diversion in Louisiana."
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Human Security Report 2012: Sexual Violence, Education, and War: Beyond the Mainstream Narrative
The Human Security Report 2012 challenges a number of widely held assumptions about the nature of sexual violence during war and the effect of conflict on education systems. Both analyses are part of the Human Security Report Project's ongoing investigation of the human costs of war.
Part I: Sexual Violence, Education, and War first reviews the fragmentary data on sexual violence against adults and children in wartime. It finds, among other things, that the mainstream narrative exaggerates the prevalence of combatant-perpetrated sexual violence, while largely ignoring the far more pervasive domestic sexual violence perpetrated in wartime by family members and acquaintances. This bias has unfortunate implications for policy.
Turning to the impact of war on education, the Report shows that—surprisingly—education outcomes actually improve on average during wartime. It confirms that conflict-affected countries generally have substantially lower educational outcomes than nonconflict countries, but it challenges the widely held notion that this is because of war. It points out that educational outcomes were also low—or lower— during the prior periods of peace. They could not, therefore, have been caused by warfare. The Report offers the first explanation for the apparent paradox of education outcomes that improve in wartime.
Part II of the Report reviews global and regional trends in the incidence and severity of organized violence. It highlights new research on the deadliness of external military intervention in civil wars, challenges the notion that conflicts are becoming more persistent, and shows that even \"failed\" peace agreements save lives.
Human Security Report Project. Human Security Report 2012: Sexual Violence, Education, and War: Beyond the Mainstream Narrative. Human Security Press, Vancouver, Canada (2012) 230 pp. ISBN 978-0-9917111-0-9
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We're pleased to announce that we have applied to participate in the Yellow Ribbon Program under the Post 9/11 GI Bill. Veterans qualifying for 100% of the Post 9/11 GI Bill funds will attend OC tuition free.
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Explore Australia's oldest surviving German settlement in the heart of the Adelaide Hills.
You half expect to spot men in lederhosen yodeling in Hahndorf, the picturesque German village just twenty minutes out of Adelaide.
Settled in 1839 by Lutherans fleeing religious persecution in Prussia, Hahndorf was named after the ship's captain. His name was Hahn, while dorf is German for village.
Today Hahn's little slice of Germany attracts visitors from all over the world. Join them to stroll streets lined with historic buildings and hundred-year-old plane and elm trees as well as native gums. Browse the quaint antique, vintage and knick-knack shops, where half wine barrels flow with colourful flowers out the front.
Learn more about the life of the early German settlers in the museums and galleries. You can see original sketches by Sir Hans Heysen, the famed landscape artist and Hahndorf resident, in a local gallery or on a tour of his studio and house.
Nearby you'll find wonderful wineries and a strawberry farm famous for its jams, chutneys and sauces. When you've finished exploring stay in Bavarian-style chalets and dine out on sausage, sauerkraut and apple strudel with a stein of German beer.
Expect to leave with a hamper of gourmet German goodies and an urge to yodel.


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"Constant touring can cause artists to seek out refuge in the recording booth along the way. Here, Life + Times catches up with Curren$y after a show in Chicago, as he and fellow Jet Life Recordings emcee Young Roddy spend two days recording "3 Piece Set," an EP for "Closed Sessions" at Soundscape Studios. Featuring an original score by Thelonious Martin." - Jay-Z's Life+Times
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Toll Brothers, a residential real estate developer in Horsham, Pa., has purchased 65 acres of land in Branchburg to develop 50 high-end homes.
Toll Brothers, which has about 19 active communities throughout the state, purchased the property on Burnt Mill Road from Branchburg Builders. Neither Toll Brothers nor Weichert Commercial, the broker on the deal, would specify the purchase price.
"We love the location. Branchburg is conveniently located right there in central New Jersey," Chris Gaffney, Toll Brothers group president, said in an interview. "The property itself is just magnificent — rolling hills, wooded backdrops."
Gaffney said homes in the new community, which has already been named Steeplechase at Branchburg, will range between 4,000 and 6,000 square feet. Purchase prices will range between $950,000 and $1.5 million.
Toll Brothers just broke ground on the Steeplechase property and is in the process of clearing trees and preparing to put in roads. Gaffney said the company should be ready to start laying foundations in the next few months.
Although construction is still several months away, Toll Brothers has already started selling the new community out of its Randolph property. Gaffney did not specify how many contracts have been signed so far, but there has been "a tremendous amount of interest in the property."


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September 2010- Suffolk County Police Department call to Babylon Town Shelter: "There's a dog obstructing a homicide investigation." Thinking there was a Pit Bull at the scene, the shelter director dispatched an animal control officer (ACO) to Wyandanch. Surprisingly, the ACO returned with a two-pound Yorkie puppy that had been hiding under the bed where there had been a fatal drive-by shooting several days before.
That's how Gigi's survival story begins. Our youngster Yorkie has already endured a murder and a pair of devastating hurricanes. However, with details varied, her storm story can be repeated hundreds of thousands of times to represent every affected Long Islander. I've always been reluctant to chronicle the Yorkie's murder saga because the crime with possible gang/drug ties remains unsolved, and because I wanted no paper trail to lead to our witness protection pup.
To recap the police part, after a robbery at a Lake Drive address, local teens allegedly went back to see if there were any more goods to plunder. A squatter was waiting for them, and shot through the bedroom window (Gigi's hideaway) killing one of the teens. The next day someone shot at more teens in a car outside the victim's home while a policeman was assaulted at his wake. No one was ever arrested. Anyone who would have come forward to claim the poor pup would have been linked to the crimes.
My connections to this Wyandanch house were uncanny. Thirty years before via the Beacon, I had placed a kitten with Ruth, a feisty, older Polish woman who lived there. My future sister-in-law had rescued the cat in Massapequa. Ruth was truly alone, with no family except for her cherished cats and a dog she had saved from the block. I began driving her to vet appointments to spare her taxi fare, and made treatment arrangements with my vet after her new dog tested heartworm positive.
Since the statute of limitations is up, I can say that we also "liberated" a puppy next door sentenced to life on a chain. When Ruth started saying that she wanted to leave her house to the League for Animal Protection (the rescue I worked with at the time), or me, I stepped away because I felt uncomfortable; later guilty, for forsaking her. I never knew what had become of Ruth until police records showed that she must have died four years before the shooting, and her house, the scene of this murder, belonged to an LLC.
The police signed the Yorkie over to the shelter. My brother- and sister-in-law had recently lost a 14-year-old to tightrope the catwalk to the shed roof. A Terrier terror, she'd charge to the edge of the dock to bark at boat intruders, as if she owned Great South Bay. For a while, she did.
Last year Irene hit the tiny island hard. The family fled with pets held over their heads when water in the street was chest deep. The yard and dock were decimated but with relatively little water inside compared to the next deluge. Once the oily mud was shoveled away, Gigi got used to a penned off mini-yard. Irene's rebuilding was just finished weeks ago (dock and bulkhead a month old; bathroom only completed a week ago). All this now seems like a trial run for what was about to come.
Sandy was Irene to an exponential degree. This time the family heeded evacuation warnings with two peeps and four pets holed up in a motel room while the surge ravaged their yard and everything in its way- dock, garage, fence, deck- so it could knock off the back door and churn all their belongings, including a family heirloom grandfather clock, elevated in vain into a four foot deep soup of muddy slops, leaving an uninhabitable shell as a souvenir of what was once home sweet home. Repeat this soggy saga thousands of times all over our South Shore, and you have Sandy's legacy.
Like so many other of our neighbors, this family is now homeless and possession less. They and their cats are temporarily with our 91-year-old father. Gigi is quasi-integrating with our three dogs but how long she stays is not completely up to me. I may have to find her a new home, and that will break my heart. Besides, I feel like a hypocrite. How can I forsake her too?
Sandy has wreaked havoc with so many lives, directly and indirectly. The storm has rocked people's world with a domino effect. My 91-year-old dad goes to the gym everyday, and to dances several times a week with a lady friend contemporary. Her waterfront home suffered severe damage. She will be staying with relatives in Florida. He feels as if he lost her; perhaps he has. A rescue friend has a blind and autistic son who lives at a Coney Island group home during the week. For decades she has taken him home every weekend. He needs constant monitoring. The group home flooded; her son is with her until repairs are made. She may have to take a leave of absence from her job until then.
Pet friendly, interim housing will be scarce. Shelters are already seeing more dogs abandoned and tied up at strange refuges. Rescuers fear that thousands of beloved pets will be relinquished when people can find no place to live that welcomes them. With all due respect, there is no intent here to equate a dog's fate with the suffering of so many people. Gigi is merely a symbol. In her short life, she has weathered a homicide and two hurricanes. Her future remains uncertain, like so many of us, but she is a survivor. And so are we. For Adoption at Babylon Town Shelter (631- 643-9270) Lamar St. W. Babylon: The shelter is packed. Please consider adopting a dog or cat. A Yorkie mix and Elkhound were tied up together in an industrial area; a Cockapoo tethered at a fire department; "Coco Chanel," a Poodle mix, was found sewn into a tight purple costume. There are so many needy Pit mixes and cats too. Please visit the shelter soon.


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UMLS::Similarity::jcn - Perl module for computing the semantic relatednessof concepts in the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) using the method described by Jiang and Conrath (1997).
Author = {Jiang, J. and Conrath, D.},
Booktitle = {Proceedings on International Conference
on Research in Computational Linguistics},
Pages = {pp. 19-33},
Title = {Semantic similarity based on corpus statistics
and lexical taxonomy},
Year = {1997}
use UMLS::Interface;
use UMLS::Similarity::jcn;
my $umls = UMLS::Interface->new();
die "Unable to create UMLS::Interface object.\n" if(!$umls);
my $jcn = UMLS::Similarity::jcn->new($umls);
die "Unable to create measure object.\n" if(!$jcn);
my $cui1 = "C0005767";
my $cui2 = "C0007634";
$ts1 = $umls->getTermList($cui1);
my $term1 = pop @{$ts1};
$ts2 = $umls->getTermList($cui2);
my $term2 = pop @{$ts2};
my $value = $jcn->getRelatedness($cui1, $cui2);
print "The similarity between $cui1 ($term1) and $cui2 ($term2) is $value\n";
This module computes the semantic similarity of two concepts in the UMLS according to a method described by Jiang and Conrath (1997). This measure is based on a combination of using edge counts in the UMLS 'is-a' hierarchy and using the information content values of the concepts, as describedin the paper by Jiang and Conrath. Their measure, however, computes values that indicate the semantic distance between words (as opposed to their semantic similarity). In this implementation of the measure we invert the value so as to obtain a measure of semantic relatedness. Other issues that arise due to this inversion (such as handling of zero values in the denominator) have been taken care of as special cases.
The IC of a concept is defined as the negative log of the probabilty of the concept.
To use this measure, a propagation file containing the probability of a CUI for each of the CUIs from the source(s) specified in the configuration file. The format for this file is as follows:
A larger of example of this file can be found in the icpropagation file in the samples/ directory.
A propagation file can be created using the create-icfrequency.pl and the create-icpropagation.pl programs in the utils/ directory. The create-icfrequency.pl program takes plain text and returns a list of CUIs that are mapped to the text and the CUIs frequency counts. This file can then be used by the create-icpropagation.pl program to create a file containing a list of CUIs and their probability counts, or used directly by the umls-similarity.pl program which will calculate the probability of a concept on the fly.
Since the Jiang and Conrath measure was initially calculated as a distance measure and turned into a similarity measure, we need to take care ofthe special cases in which the similarity of the two concepts results in zero but does not mean that the two concepts are not similar. Here is an explaination of how we did and why. This is taken from the discussion about this measure when it was being implemented in WordNet::Similarity. The actual message chain is located here:
The Jiang and Conrath measure is calculated as follows:
sim(c1, c2) = 1 / distance(c1, c2)
c1, c2 are the two concepts,
distance(c1, c2) = ic(c1) + ic(c2) - (2 * ic(lcs(c1, c2)))
ic = the information content of the concept.
lcs(c1, c2) = the least common subsumer of c1 and c2.
Now, we don't want distance to be 0 (=> similarity will become undefined). The distance can be 0 in 2 cases...
(1) ic(c1) = ic(c2) = ic(lcs(c1, c2)) = 0
ic(lcs(c1, c2)) can be 0 if the lcs turns out to be the root node (information content of the root node is zero). But since c1 and c2 can never be the root node, ic(c1) and ic(c2) would be 0 only if the 2 concepts have a 0 frequency count, in which case, for lack of data, we return a relatedness of 0 (similar to the lin case).
Note that the root node ACTUALLY has an information content of zero. Technically, none of the other concepts can have an information content value of zero. We assign concepts zero values, when in reality their information content is undefined (due to zero frequency counts). To see why look at the formula for information content: ic(c) = -log(freq(c)/freq(ROOT)) {log(0)? log(1)?}
(2) The second case that distance turns out to be zero is when...
ic(c1) + ic(c2) = 2 * ic(lcs(c1, c2))
(which could have a more likely special case ic(c1) = ic(c2) = ic(lcs(c1, c2)) if all three turn out to be the same concept.)
How should one handle this?
Intuitively this is the case of maximum relatedness (zero distance). For jcn this relatedness would be infinity... But we can't return infinity. And simply returning a 0 wouldn't work... since here we have found a pair of concepts with maximum relatedness, and returning a 0 would be like saying that they aren't related at all.
So what could we return as the maximum relatedness value?
So the way I handled this was to try to find the smallest distance greater than 0, so that sim would be a very high value, but not infinity. To find this value of distance I consider the formula of distance...
distance = ic(c1) + ic(c2) - (2 * ic(lcs(c1, c2)))
we get distance = 0 if ic(c1) = ic(c2) = ic(lcs(c1, c2)) So consider the case that ic(c2) = ic(lcs(c1, c2), but ic(c1) is the information content value just slightly more than that of ic(c2) (and ic(lcs(c1, c2))). We want to find the value of distance corresponding to such a case and this would be the next highest value of distance after 0.
We could select ic(c2) and ic(lcs(c1, c2)) to represent a highly specific concept or a highly general concept for this computation... We'll decide which one to select later... For now we want a formula to represent a value of distance = "almost zero".
ic(concept) = -log(freq(concept)/freq(root))
For ic(c1) to be just slightly more than ic(c2) (or ic(lcs(c1, c2))), what if we just reduced freq(concept) in the above formula by 1. i.e.
ic(c2) = ic(lcs(c1, c2)) = -log(freq/rootFreq)
ic(c1) = -log((freq-1)/rootFreq)
Since frequency is counted in whole numbers, this is the closest ic(c1) could be to ic(c2) (but not equal to it). With this formula we would have
distance = ic(c1) + ic(c2) - (2 * ic(lcs(c1, c2)))
= ic(c1) + ic(c2) - (2 * ic(c2))
... since ic(c2) = ic(lcs(c1, c2))
= ic(c1) - ic(c2)
= -log((freq-1)/rootFreq) + log(freq/rootFreq)
Now comes the part where we want to decide whether to select a highly specific concept or a highly general concept for ic2 and ic3... I selected them to be the most general concepts for some non mathematical reasons (tho' I think I had come up with some mathematical ones)...
My reasons...
The most general concept is the root node... we always have the frequency count of the root node (non zero)... (if the root node is zero then there is something really wrong with the information content computed). It would be very difficult to find the most specific concept (tho' not impossible).
Somehow, mathematically, I had a feeling that the more general ic(c1) and ic(c2) are, they would be closer to each other on the log scale than if they were more specific concepts (I could be mistaken and it could be the other way around... and I don't have a proof right now to support what I'm saying)
anyway, taking the most general concepts (the root concept), we have
distance = -log((rootFreq - 1)/rootFreq) + log(rootFreq/rootFreq) = -log((rootFreq - 1)/rootFreq) + log(1) = -log((rootFreq - 1)/rootFreq)
This is the distance corresponding to "almost zero"... And this is what I put in the code for the 0 case (sim = infinity case).
With the hocus pocus above I have made an artificial bound on relatedness to "almost infinity".
The Information Content (IC) is defined as the negative log of the probability of a concept. The probability of a concept, c, is determine by summing the probability of the concept ocurring in some text plus the probability its decendants occuring in some text:
For more information on how this is calculated please see the README file.
The semantic relatedness modules in this distribution are built as classes that expose the following methods: new() getRelatedness()
To create an object of the jcn measure, we would have the following lines of code in the perl program.
use UMLS::Similarity::jcn;
$measure = UMLS::Similarity::jcn->new($interface);
The reference of the initialized object is stored in the scalar variable '$measure'. '$interface' contains an interface object that should have been created earlier in the program (UMLS-Interface).
If the 'new' method is unable to create the object, '$measure' would be undefined.
To find the semantic relatedness of the concept 'blood' (C0005767) and the concept 'cell' (C0007634) using the measure, we would write the following piece of code:
$relatedness = $measure->getRelatedness('C0005767', 'C0007634');
The UMLS-Interface package takes a configuration file to determine which sources and relations to use when obtaining the path information.
The format of the configuration file is as follows:
SAB :: <include|exclude> <source1, source2, ... sourceN>
REL :: <include|exclude> <relation1, relation2, ... relationN>
For example, if we wanted to use the MSH vocabulary with only the RB/RN relations, the configuration file would be:
SAB :: include MSH REL :: include RB, RN
SAB :: include MSH REL :: exclude PAR, CHD
If you go to the configuration file directory, there will be example configuration files for the different runs that you have performed.
For more information about the configuration options please see the README.
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Nicolas is one of the best VCs I've had the pleasure to work with, and I've worked with over 20 during my career. Nicolas is now on my second board and he brought me in to run the current company based on our experience working together at the last company I ran. Nicolas is the strongest VC I have worked with from the perspective of personnel issues. While he is careful to look out for the interests of his limited partners, he is also sensitive to the personnel management issues within our company, and has done an excellent job in balancing those two forces. Nicolas is also an excellent problem solver. He has historically been the VC I have gone to when large challenges arise such as creative deal structuring with an acquiror. His combined experience as a serial entrepreneur plus his time as a VC makes him uniquely suited here. I would strongly recommend Nicolas as a VC for any enterprise software or systems management company. Aside from Nicolas, I have not closely worked with other members of Partech, but have always found them to be upstanding where I have had the opportunity.PRIVATE: Members Only


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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Resurrection
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Follow up to Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Reverie. Gabriels fate and that of the Belmont clan is laid bare, as he battles the evil demon known only as The Forgotten One. Imprisoned by the original founders of the brotherhood, this evil is now breaking free from its dimensional prison. Who will prevail? A demon who wishes to destroy mankind or a dark soul filled with furious rage, intent on revenge at any cost. Find out in Resurrection, the stunning finale to Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.
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The Senior Assignment (SRA) is the hallmark of a baccalaureate education at SIUE. The SRA serves as a demonstrable connection between the student's major area of study and the full breadth of general education skills and competencies. Each department or program has ownership over their Senior Assignments, thus the faculty have been given the autonomy to construct the SRA to assess the unique capabilities of their graduates and also to assess overall program effectiveness and the degree of interdisciplinary competence among graduates. While involved in the Senior Assignment, students are actively engaged in the development, rather than the consumption, of knowledge. The SRA optimizes assessment that recognizes the importance of open-ended, holistic, problem based assessment that requires critical thinking. After all, "institutional assessment efforts should not be concerned about valuing what can be measured but, instead, about measuring that which is valued." (Banta, Lund, Black, & Oblander, 1996)
Within broad limits, the structure of each Senior Assignment is owned by the individual department, which announces the goals for its students, sets the standards and expectations, and then openly presents and assesses the resulting SRAs. The "broad limits" across all departments are these: (a) each student must demonstrate a grasp of general education as well as of the major discipline itself, (b) the assessment must be "high stakes" to assure motivation, with a grade or even graduation itself hanging in the balance, and (c) the departmental faculty as a whole must view and assess the results.
For the sixth consecutive year, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has been recognized by U.S. News and World Report for having an outstanding senior capstone experience. In the publication, "America's Best Colleges 2009," SIUE joined the ranks of 17 other institutions of higher learning, including Yale, Princeton, Harvard and MIT, in the "Programs to Look for: Senior Capstone" category. The Senior Assignment was also recognized as an "exemplary practice" for assessment of learning outcomes in "Communicating Commitment to Liberal Education: A Self-Study Guide for Institutions," published by the Association of American Colleges and Universities in 2006.
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Nederland man pleads guilty to murder
A Nederland man could spend the next 20 years behind bars after stabbing another man to death in February 2012.
Kurt Ray Kasper Jr. was indicted by a Jefferson County grand jury March 1, 2012, and pleaded guilty Monday, Sept. 2, to murdering Timothy James Melancon.
According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by The Examiner, Nederland police were called to 324 N. 15th St. in reference to a stabbing Feb. 15, 2012. When they arrived, they found Melancon face down in the street with a single stab wound to the chest.
When they entered the home, police found Kasper inside along with the weapon he had used to stab Melancon. According to the probable cause affidavit, Kasper told police he stabbed Melancon because he "had a vision that (Melancon) was going to rape a female."
After stabbing Melancon, witnesses said Kasper "went to the bathroom, washed the blood off the knife, returned it to the scabbard and placed it in his belt line," and waited calmly for police to arrive, according to the probable cause affidavit.
Melancon was rushed to St. Elizabeth Hospital where he later died of a stab wound to the chest.
Police later interviewed Kasper's mother, who told police her son had just been released from Baptist Behavioral Center due to "mental issues" and because he "sees things that are not there," according to the probable cause affidavit.
Kasper was mentally evaluated before pleading guilty.
With a plea of guilty, Kasper avoids facing a jury and a possible 5 to 99 years or life in prison if convicted.
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Honestly, I think most of you would be suprised how few Pepp students are truly "hardcore" conservatives. Yes they are there, but no nearly in the large droves many of you imagine like at Regent, Liberty or Ave. Maria. Also, itis a non-sequitor to equate Christianity with Conservatism, many Pepp Christians are of the Sojourner/Progressive stripe. One prominent Catholic Pepp professor was an advisor to the Clark campaign and several consulted for the Clinton adminstration.
Re: Temple vs. Villanova.I looked at the new issue today at Borders, and the big difference is in the reputation scores- Villanova is at a 2.6-3.2, while Temple is at a 2.6-2.9.
Just having Ken Starr as the Dean was enough for me to place Pepperdine in the "do not bother" list. A school that appoints such a controversial person to a leadership position is making a statement. A statement, by the way, that excludes about half of the population.
I suggest we call the ABA regarding Pepperdine's "sexual misconduct" policies. I believe it's illegal for an ABA-accredited school to discriminate against one's sexual preference, and to expel a student because he/she is gay/lesbian is truly outrageous! The ABA requires that Pepperdine not discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. But just like Liberty, BYU, Baylor, Regent, Notre Dame, and several other schools, Pepperdine interprets this to mean that they still can discriminate on the basis of "sexual behavior." I love the way Baylor puts it in their statement of non-discrimination -- "We do not discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, per se, but we do discriminate on the basis of sexual behavior."And most schools justify it by saying that they don't allow hetrosexuals to have sex before marriage, either. But while Baylor (for instance) kicked an undergrad out of the school last year for being gay, I'd be willing to bet that such has never happened to a straight person who was caught having premarital sex. And isn't it odd that they say that the real issue is having sex before marriage, but then they're the same people who're fighting against gay marriage?


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Eco Light Bulb Technology: What's Next
While we are finishing up with the Light Bulb Wars where we test drive the CFL and LED bulbs on the market today, designers from all over the world are dreaming up the eco friendly light bulbs of the future. Here we take a look at what tomorrow might bring, including light bulbs made of paper, powered by wind, and disguised as incandescents.
1 The Eco Light by Tien-Ho Hsu is a space saving recyclable EL coated bulb made of paper. It is the winner of a 2011 Liteon award.
2 The Saving Energy Multitap by Dong Hoon Han, Hwa Yong Shin & Dong Jin Shin is an ambient light that reminds you to power off your energy sources.
Here is how it works: when you switch off an appliance plugged into a power strip without powering off the strip, energy continues to flow. Remembering to switch off can be difficult to remember or physically challenging when the strip is out of reach. The Saving Energy Multitap aims to help you with just that. When a strip is not turned off or unplugged, the corresponding light on the Multitap is turned on. All you have to do is tap the light and the source is turned off for you. See the prototype in action here.
3 The D: Light by Tim Edgeler is a light bulb, hanging lamp and disposal container in one. If you are using a CFL, it is important to dispose of used bulbs correctly. The designer of the D:Light wants to help make that process as easy as possible. Once the D:Light is finished, simply seal the package it comes in, which serves as a lamp while it is in use, and toss it in the mail. It is shipped back to the company which will dispose of it for you.
4 The Wind Bulb by WenCheng Hsiao & Jin-Dian Cheng is another winner of the LiteOn award. This hanging lamp and bulb collects and stores wind power that is converted into energy that powers the attached light bulb. It installs easily into any light bulb mount, by simply twisting the screw thread into any socket.
5 The LED by Frog Design could easily be confused for a traditional incandescent, but don't let looks fool you, this LED bulb is only designed to look old fashioned. The people at Frog Design believe that the best way to get consumers on board with eco friendly LEDs is to design one that works and looks like an incandescent.
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I went with all black. You can never go wrong with that. I've got on legging style pants from H&M, Target tank and H&M faux leather jacket. I'm wearing my Aldo Maxwells. I haven't worn these since the last time I posted about them. They're so comfy. I thought it would be fun to take some pics with my BEATS headphones. This was one of the best purchases I ever made. I've got minimal accessories.. just my MK watch and Suite201 leather bracelet that you can't really see, small black earrings, 2 rings and my shades. A very simple, laid back outfit for a sunny Tuesday!
I purchased a new closet shoe rack yesterday and now I can actually see all of my shoes! My other one made it difficult to see them all. So I posted a picture of it on my instagram (make sure to follow my pics on there: username is natybaby) and I was asked where I got it from and how much because it's a nice size and holds a lot of shoes. I got it from Target for $26.99 and was able to fit 6 pairs of shoes on each row. Not too bad! It unfortunately doesn't hold every single pair I own, and it's kind of long so my closet can only fit one, but I'm so happy with it. Here's a photo of it:
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Valladolid: Real Madrid twice came from behind to emerge 3-2 winners over an impressive Valladolid side at the Zorilla stadium on Saturday evening.
Some sloppy defending typified the early exchanges, with Manucho putting the hosts ahead early on before Karim Benzema levelled just five minutes later. Manucho added his second from another corner in the 22nd minute but one goal either side of half-time from Mesut Ozil guided the champions to a much-needed victory.
Madrid have been poor on the road so far this season and it seemed as though their woes would continue as some awful marking from a corner enabled the hosts to take a seventh-minute lead. Drawn to the ball, Sergio Ramos left Manucho free in the area and the Angolan pounced on Alvaro Rubio`s pass to open the scoring.
However, Valladolid soon became the culprits of some dire defending themselves as Jose Callejon latched onto a short back pass from Omar Ramos. Combined with a slip from Marc Valiente, the Madrid man was able to lay the ball on for Karim Benzema to slot in a simple equaliser.
Los Merengues had responded well to going behind but their good work was undone at the first half`s midway point. Patrick Ebert`s corner was met by Manucho, who outjumped Ramos at the near post to head his side back into the lead.
Callejon missed a chance to draw level immediately after as his poorly struck lob dropped wide of the goal and on the half-hour mark it was Cristiano Ronaldo`s turn. The Portuguese sent a venomous strike at Dani Hernandez`s goal but the goalkeeper turned it behind with a strong hand.
Madrid also had a goal incorrectly ruled out for offside as Ramos netted and was penalised despite being in a legal position, even though three of his team-mates were not as the ball was played through.
But the champions` persistence finally paid off on the stroke of half-time as Ozil found Benzema after a mazy run in from the left. The striker held the ball before rolling it back to the German and his effort squeezed under Dani and into the net.
Mourinho took young left-back Nacho off at half-time but in introducing Angel Di Maria, the Portuguese subsequently moved Callejon into the defence.
Despite it being a clear signal of intent from the visitors, Valladolid were unperturbed and a powerful strike from Oscar was unconvincingly kept out by Iker Casillas in the 60th minute.
Mourinho was once more spurred into action and two minutes later he replaced Alvaro Arbeloa with Luka Modric, moving Alonso back into the defence.
It seemed to galvanise his side and Los Blancos` gambles finally paid off with 18 minutes remaining. A cheap free kick was given away by Henrique Sereno and Ozil took a short run up before bending a majestic effort towards the top corner which crashed in off the bar.
Dani made another great stop in the closing stages to keep out Ramos but ultimately Valladolid`s run of five games without defeat at home came to an end, with Mourinho`s men moving to within two points of second-placed Atletico Madrid in the process.


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My term as the first Chancellor of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa after a break of almost twenty years will end with the completion of my third year in office. I end my term with pride in what my management team and I have been able to accomplish, but with recognition that there is much unfinished business. Key accomplishments during my tenure as Chancellor have included (1) improvements in the quality of teaching and research, (2) uncompromising support for existing areas of excellence, (3) encouragement and investment to achieve excellence in other strategic areas, (4) outlining and promoting a vision for UHM as one of the leading research institutions in the Asia-Pacific region. In short, I have worked hard and with considerable success for the advancement of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.My return to the faculty will open up new avenues for me to support the University, to focus on my Mars Odyssey research with NASA, and to prepare for other leadership roles.Facilitating change at University of Hawaiʻi is, as some say, "possibly the toughest job west of the Mississippi." During my three years service as Chancellor, we achieved a great deal of change through new initiatives and restructuring efforts. The opportunities for leadership of a growing research campus took place against a backdrop of dramatic changes in system leadership, governance, and political circumstances.Among the key achievements during my three-year period as Chancellor, from 2002 to 2005 are:*Growth of enrollment from around 17,000 to more than 20,000 students, while maintaining teaching quality and increasing class offerings without any increase in state funding;
*Continued growth in external research funding from less than $200 million dollars to over $325 million dollars annually; internal investment in major research initiatives in biotechnology, high technology, astronomy, and earth and ocean sciences; an increase in private fund raising from about $15 million dollars to over $25 million dollars per year for the Mānoa campus;
*Key recruitment of top level appointments at the level of vice chancellors and deans, including Walter Jamieson, School of Travel Industry Management, from the University of Calgary; Aviam Soifer, William S. Richardson School of Law, from Boston College; Neal Smatresk, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, from the University of Texas at Arlington; Vance Roley, College of Business Administration, from the University of Washington; and Gary Ostrander, Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, from Johns Hopkins University; as well as vital appointments in leadership positions in Nursing, Social Work and other departments and divisions.
*Repositioning Mānoa as a key player in global higher education through new strategic partnerships. We now offer diverse new experiences for local and non-resident students, improved cultural knowledge, respect, and revenues through international outreach programs, and unique opportunities for international cooperation in teaching and research. To that end, I was elected to be a Board Member of the International Association of Universities (IAU) and have been an active participant in the American Council on Education's (ACE) International Education Commission.
*Successful implementation of the key strategic goal of transforming the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa to a "Hawaiian Place of Learning." This included substantial growth of Hawaiian Language and Hawaiian Studies programs; the establishment of Hawaiian Language and Hawaiian Studies graduate degrees; the development of a leadership role for the Kūali'i Council; and imbedding Hawaiian values across the curriculum.
*Development of a new and efficient structure for the management and operation of the Mānoa campus, as well as a new image of a unified and coherent research campus. There is now greater cooperation and coordination across campus to achieve campus priorities and much-improved processes for financial accountability, transparency, and allocation of government and other funds in line with campus priorities.
When I became Chancellor, I made it clear that I relished the challenge of moving the Mānoa campus closer to the stature that the people of Hawaiʻi expect and deserve. The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has enormous potential to be a major player in the Asia-Pacific region. To achieve the status the University deserves, Mānoa will have to continue along the difficult path my colleagues and I set it upon, transforming itself into a unified campus that pursues its strategic goals in a transparent, efficient, and rational manner.


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The Cortez Silver uses a darker base, which gives it that great silver color. The Synergy Green uses a sliver metallic base as the green is a candy with pearl tint. The sparkle you see in the green is actually the silver base. I have a '69 SS waiting for my next project. An original Cortez Silver car that someone painted an awful red color. One of my favorite original colors.
That Camaro looks great. Very well done. I've seen some people end up with what I call tiger stripes. The even flow on your car is fantastic. I actually loved the look of my car in the silver base. As for the question of masking, we use a foam tape, round and about the diameter of a penny. The round shape allows a soft blend, If you watch the video you might see the tape in the door jambs at the quarters, with the doors out slightly. This gives an even blend with no need to sand after.


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JAMAICA PLAIN, Mass. - MIT men's cross country opened the 2006 season with its 10th consecutive victory at the annual Engineer's Cup featuring WPI and RPI. Sophomore Jake Ruzevick led an impressive 1-2-3-4 finish for the Cardinal and Gray, breaking the tape with a clip of 26:30.
Senior Kevin Brulois earned runner-up honors in the 8,000-meter circuit, out-dueling rookie Brandon Pung who just missed breaking the 27-minute barrier on the rolling and naturally slow course. Sophomore Joe Roy-Mayhew finished fourth overall after crossing the line one second back of Pung.
WPI and RPI each placed a runner ahead of MIT's No. 5 to prevent the sweep, although the Engineers' impressively displayed its depth by taking seventh through 14th in the individual standings. Out of the first 19 finishers, 16 came from MIT.
MIT finished with 17 points to claim the Cup, while RPI edged WPI after totaling 54 points. Worcester's version of the Engineers closed with 71 points to finish third.


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It was spring break last week for my university-employed husband. What does that mean for my family? A trip to Mexico? Ski trip? Hardly. It means getting down and dirty on a whole slew of projects around the house. At the top of the list? Painting the front door.
The door was dark green on the outside (the shutters still are, but are awaiting a fresh coat of light gray paint). And the interior was a white that blended in with the trim. We decided on painting the entire door slab the same color inside and out. Now it stands out on the interior in a way that demarcates it as the main door.
I am happy with the color, Iron Mountain by Benjamin Moore Aura. We used an exterior satin finish. Aura paint goes on and stands up much like oil paint while being low-VOC and much easier to clean up. This was important, as the front door will see lots of traffic over the years.
We removed the old paint down to the primer by peeling it off (this was easier than it sounds because of the terrible condition of the old paint) and wet-sanding where needed. After removing all of the door hardware, I boiled it to remove the gooped-up paint that covered its edges. This revealed nicely patina-ed brass. We then brush-painted the Aura in two coats and re-installed the hardware four hours later.
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Plans were sharpened Wednesday for a Lenawee County government strategic planning session that was postponed a month to Oct. 10.
The three-hour session at Weber Center of Siena Heights is to involve all nine county commissioners and county department leaders in setting a direction for county government to move toward in the future.
The session was to be Wednesday. It was delayed a month after three commissioners, the county administrator and several department heads all reported they were not available.
"Hopefully, we'll be able to get more people to attend," said commissioner K.Z. Bolton, D-Adrian, chairman of the human services committee. She and the two other committee members are to lead the planning session they said is aimed at overcoming any lingering opposition and lay out a path for the future.
"Just because it hasn't been done doesn't mean it shouldn't be done," said commissioner Chris Wittenbach, R-Clinton, during a human services committee meeting Wednesday to work out final details for the Oct. 10 session.
"If we all work together we're going to make the county a better-run government," said commissioner Donald Welch, R-Adrian.
Bolton suggested in January the commission start a strategic planning process. The effort gained momentum in the spring due to criticisms from two citizen groups.
A citizen committee appointed by the commission to evaluate a possible millage proposal to increase sheriff's department funding came back with a recommendation for strategic planning that would include setting county budget priorities rather than raising taxes.
Strategic planning was also suggested as an alternative after OneLenawee brought a proposal for a manager system to bring sharper focus and efficiency to county government.
Wittenbach was assigned to start the Oct. 10 session with an explanation of why strategic planning is needed. The plan is to set goals and objectives that will move the county "in a positive direction," he said.
Welch is to go over steps the committee has taken so far in setting up a framework for a strategic plan.
Bolton is to lead a discussion on the plan's purpose before asking everyone in attendance to take part in setting specific goals and objectives.
An evaluation process should come out of the plan, Wittenbach said.
The current county administrator arrangement put in place two years ago should be evaluated. The commission should be responsible for regular performance evaluations and goal updates for the county administrator, he said. Self-evaluations and goal-setting should be done by each department head, he said.
"If the departments are not involved, it's not going to work. Period," said Welch.
An evaluation of new computer technology the county is installing this year will also be needed in the future to measure its success at improving efficiency and productivity.
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text: Korean Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Don't kill yourself! Get an older friend!! Speak Korean Now! Korean Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Don't kill yourself! Get an older friend!! Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Job-related Discussion Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message humanuspneumosJoined: 08 Jun 2003 Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 1:46 pm Post subject: Don't kill yourself! Get an older friend!! The following information is not for persons who complain about the smell of Kimchi and think that's a big deal. I often find that teachers who don't have older "friends" can get into a mess of trouble that will make their head spin. I also noticed that many teachers- being "bugged" by the older guy who wants to just chat in a club or something brush them off as a huge irritant. They give a card- say, "Pone me" and it's all left at that. I've gathered about 100 business cards in my course in Korea. Government officials, school owners, billionaires, lawyers, ... I was always surprised to see the position of the person giving me their card. It was never the card of a shoe sales-clerk. In fact- I just reached down randomly to pick a card to see what it was- it's Dr. Seung-Doo Wee (Professor at Chosun University). Lots of teachers need to learn the value of spending time with older folk- rather than the younger club crowd with funky T-shirts and who are not respected in society. Some people say- "Get a life!" I say- "Get an older friend." I've had several interesting experiences in Korea and had to pull out the big gun once- when a school was going bankrupt. The owner of a major china (bowls, cups, dishes- beautiful) and his lawyer came in handy. The Hotel owner especially came in handy. And the Dr. , Pharmacist, and a Hogwan director too came in handy. Under any and all conditions- don't drag your young friend with the funky T-shirt to immigration or the Labor Board- infact- don't even take them through the doors of your school! It only spells trouble. Get an older friend- don't be judgemental- give them some time- you can never have too many older friends in Korea (40-60 yrs of age)- they spell HELP- big time! When you have exhausted all diplomacy channels- get on the horn to your older friend. If you insist on hanging only with the torn T-shirt crowd you might as well hold a gun to your Korea ESL career when things get nasty. (Actually- I know- many of the club hoppers dress far better than Westerners- it's just an analogy) Back to top rapierJoined: 16 Feb 2003 Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 7:33 pm Post subject: Probably wise advice. But it smacks of the "finding friends that you can use" philososphy. I'd rather spend the evening drinking with someone fun I met on the subway, than talking about God only knows with some Doctor who knows someone who might oneday be able to do "X" for me. Friendship is a pleasurable thing, not a chore, taking up liesure time, by which you claw your way up the social scale. C'mon, be a real person....! Back to top humanuspneumosJoined: 08 Jun 2003 Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 8:25 pm Post subject: Rapier is right! Rapier is absolutely right- and those people with whom I have made friendships with have also shed tears with me and I with them. That's why posting boards really suck sometimes and my writing- trying to squeeze one concept in to counter-balance another can really come off sounding extreme, arrogant or any other bad word you can think of. Those who know me know that the older Koreans are cherished far beyond helping and helping is really at the bottom of the list. However, being a cripple in a foreign land- the older friends proved to be true and good friends who carried me at times on their backs up the stairs- and I they- when possible. I say again- don't brush off the older person- they really can turn out to be a true friend and last but not least- a great help. Back to top OdysseusJoined: 01 Feb 2003Location: Earth Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 7:20 pm Post subject: Re: Rapier is right! humanuspneumos wrote: the older Koreans are cherished far beyond helping and helping is really at the bottom of the list. ...I say again- don't brush off the older person- they really can turn out to be a true friend and last but not least- a great help. Yes, you make an excellent point! These peope can be imbued with kindness, wisdom and fasinating lives. Some of the more interesting and enjoyable conversations I've had, have been with older folks. 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ROSEMONT — With no place to play outside, Stillman Valley went indoors for a history-making season-opening victory.
Payton Abbott got the final two hitters out on grounders to second baseman Lexi Morrison and shortstop Karissa Dobson to strand the tying run at second in Friday's 3-2 win over Marengo at The Dome at The Ballpark.
"It's the first time we've ever beaten Marengo in Stillman Valley history, so it's a good start to the season," Dobson said.
"It meant a lot. Last year was not very good," Abbott said, alluding to a 10-run defeat. "So this means a lot."
Stillman (1-0), the Big Northern West favorite, and Marengo, a BNC East power, are both state-title contenders, Stillman in Class 2A and Marengo in 3A. Snow and rain have delayed the start of baseball and softball season for two weeks, but the Dome, adjacent to the Chicago Bandits' outdoor stadium, has given a few teams a chance to play. East, Winnebago, Freeport and DeKalb have also played games this week in the 1 1/2-year-old, $8-million facility that can host two games at a time.
"It's just a beautiful complex," Marengo coach Dwain Nance said. "And they are very accomodating to high school teams. The game is quicker, a whole lot quicker, but the hops are a lot truer. The first few games, that's what you want to see, a true hop. You don't want to baffle your infielders with bad hops."
Abbott had allowed only two bloop singles until Marengo led off the bottom of the seventh with a one-hop double to the fence by Gabbi Markison and a line single by Aubrey Wzientek.
"I was a little nervous, but not really," said Abbott, who struck out eight and walked three. "I knew my team could do it. I had them behind me."
Abbott got out of the jam with three straight ground outs, the last to Dobson.
"Getting the ball off the bounce was definitely interesting, with all the rubber down there, but I just knew I had to make the play," Dobson said.
Marengo (1-2) had taken a 1-0 lead with an unearned run in the first, but the Cardinals caught up in the third with two-out singles by Markie Woolbright (2-for-3, 2 runs) and Abbott (2-for-3, 2 RBIs). Stillman then took the lead in the fifth with a walk to Woolbright, a triple by Abbott that bounced off the spongy turf over the left-fielder's head and an RBI groundout by Dobson.
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RIYADH - One of Saudi Arabia's top conservative clerics has said women who drive risk damaging their ovaries and bearing children with clinical problems, countering activists who are trying to end the Islamic kingdom's male-only driving rules.
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San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick responded Friday to reports that he and two other players are involved in a sexual assault in Miami.
Police said Thursday they were following up on a sexual assault claim that involves Kaepernick, 49ers wide receiver Quinton Patton and Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Ricardo Lockette.
Kaepernick wrote on Twitter Friday that media reports are false.
"The charges made in the TMZ story and other stories I've seen are completely wrong," he wrote. "They make things up about me that never happened."
According to the police report, the incident occurred April 1 when a woman went to Lockette's apartment in Miami at 9 p.m. Kaepernick and Patton were there.
The woman, whose name is redacted, reported the incident to police on April 3. She acknowledged a prior sexual history with Kaepernick, the report said.
"I take great pride in who I am and what I do, but I guess sometimes you have to deal with someone who makes things up," Kaepernick wrote.
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- Center back to hem: 32" (81 cm)
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Shells83 from Smoking hot dress! This dress looks amazing!! I've wore it twice already, and both nights I've felt like a million bucks. LOTS of compliments from both men and women. The black panels in the middle give the illusion of an hourglass shape to your body (which I don't have). Very sexy! I purchased the XXS and it was perfect.
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