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All eyes are on Jamal Fenwick when he walks into a fencing competition.
The lingering stares he receives when he's at elite tournaments and Junior Olympic qualifiers are nothing new, and it really doesn't bother him at this point.
As one of few African-American fencers, Fenwick understands people just aren't used to seeing a minority competing in the predominantly white sport.
"There's not a lot of black fencers," Fenwick said. "When I walk into a tournament, everybody does kind of [turn] their eyes towards me. Especially, like, when you see a minority and then you place high ... it's like everyone else around them has a high expectation.
"No, [it doesn't make me nervous], I think they're more nervous than me."
Fenwick, a Baltimore native, knew when he picked the sport at the age of 8 that he was going against convention.
He doesn't mind being different, however; in fact, he embraces it in some regard. Whether he stands out for his ethnicity or his high skill set, Fenwick doesn't allow the extra attention to take his concentration away from his goal of being an A-rated fencer.
"When [tournaments] post seedings up and they give rank, I don't ever look at my name," Fenwick said. "I already know what it's going to say [and] … I don't really care what rank [my opponents] are; it doesn't really affect me. I don't got no reason to look at it — I know what my ranking is [and] I don't need to know what anyone else's ranking is. All I need to know is get on the strip and fence 'em."
Fenwick, a student of the late Richard "Dick" Oles, is participating in the Maryland Division U-20 Junior Olympic qualifiers this weekend for an opportunity to compete in the National Junior Olympic Fencing Championships, which Baltimore will host in February.
The D-rated foil and E-rated sabre will also partake in the Richard F. Oles Memorial Charm City Classic on Dec. 1 and 2. The event was named in honor of his coach, who died in January 2011.
"[Coach] taught more than fencing; he taught life," Fenwick said. "He taught you what was right and was wrong, what was fair — he always had a strict rule on fairness, and on no complaining, and take what you get, and get what you got.
"He had a silent respectable foundation. It wasn't no loopholing around it: It's, 'This is fair, this is what you don't do.' [He wanted] you to grow up to be this kind of person."
Robin Haley, Fenwick's mother, said her son first approached her about taking fencing classes after he read a brochure about the sport. Initially, she was unable to find a place where lessons were taught, but with the help of Fenwick's T-ball coach, they discovered Oles' fencing club.
When Haley first met Oles, she said, it took her some time to warm up to him, especially after he nicknamed her son "X", because as he explained, "he was was the boy with no identity."
Eventually, though, Oles and the nickname grew on her, and looking back now, she says Oles was the father figure her son needed to help him realize there are better options waiting for him outside Baltimore.
"That meant everything to me," Haley said. "I wanted my son to be involved in something that's going to benefit him to become a man."
Fenwick, a City College student, already knows what he wants to do. If he doesn't go to college on a fencing scholarship, he said, he'll join the military service.
The 16-year-old, who received his first ranking at 14, said he believes he'll do great things in the in the future, and isn't too nervous about it.
"It's just an ongoing process," Fenwick said. "Just come to practice, work as hard as I can, go home, go to school; it's just something that comes over time. ...
"One thing that I think that holds me from everyone else is me not getting angry. You'll see a lot of fencers on strip, especially when they would lose ... start dropping tears or they would get mad and start throwing stuff and throwing tantrums. I can stay calm and listen to what I tell myself or my strip coaches tell me. [My calmness] allows me to listen when people tell me stuff."


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I came away from the second annual Linux Foundation Collaboration
Summit with mixed feelings. I mean, it's hard not to support the group
that pays Linus Torvalds to spend his time continuing to lead the
poster-boy project for free and open source software. But at the same
time, those golden chains are my biggest concern about the Linux
IBM sponsored the event, and they are the biggest supporter of Linux
in the corporate world. The foundation membership is made up of almost
all the large and and many of wanna-be-large IT firms around the globe
-- including Adobe, which is one of the foundation's newest members.
You can find a complete list of members [3] on
the foundation website.
There is no doubt that the time and money the corporate world has
spent -- and keeps spending -- to support Linux development has been
beneficial to Linux, and therefore to all of us who use the platform.
When world-class IT gurus like Torvalds are freed from the demands of a
day job not directly related to kernel issues, it's a good thing for all
of us. Likewise work on projects like the LSB [4], which can smooth
a few rough edges keeping some from adoption. But still, I worry about
the price.
As pointed out in Robin Miller's
video interview with Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin [5],
the Linux Foundation at present is focused on a core group of large,
sophisticated Linux users, not on the needs of individual users and
developers or the thousands of small-to-medium-sized companies using or
developing software for Linux. Zemlin also notes that the great thing
about open source is that anyone who wants to can start their own
organization or foundation, and suggests that if the Linux Foundation is
not right for some, they should do just that. While Zemlin's comments
helped to clarify the Linux Foundation's immediate goals and practices,
it didn't really quiet my discomfort.
Before I learned that the press was not welcome in any of the
working-meetings at the summit on days 2 and 3, I saw and heard
rumblings of discontent from more than one ordinary Linux desktop user.
One example: a top-ten list of inhibitors to Linux adoption, created by
a committee of foundation members, contained nothing at all relating to
desktop usage. Nothing. Everything on the list was about back-room
usage. Servers. Big iron.
Wi-fi drivers were mentioned in passing, but not addressed as an
action item. Jittery notebook keyboards/track pad/sundry rodents
weren't mentioned at all. Those two items are certainly on my top-ten
list of inhibitors to adoption, but not on theirs.
It's only natural that the people who are paying developers hard cash
and paying kernel folks' travel and documentation and system
administration costs want to have a say in what those kernel folk and
application developers are focusing on. This is the way things are
supposed to work. The problem is, or may become, that the close
relationship between core Linux developers and large IT firms may
overshadow the wants and needs of those who want Linux to become the
best desktop platform, not just the best server platform.
With the current makeup of the Linux Foundation membership, that may
never happen. The money people are concerned about money. IBM won't
make more money if Linux does well on the desktop, but they will if it
does better on big iron. HP and Dell make so much money from selling
Windows on desktops that they have precious little motivation to work
harder to see Linux grow in that space. That's fine, too.
That is, that's fine unless the wants and desires of IBM, HP, Dell --
substitute any other members names for any of those three, I use them
out of familiarity, not to pick on them -- so totally dominate the time
and the efforts of free software developers that Linux never gets to the
next level as a desktop platform. Money talks. And when Linux
Foundation money says do this, and this means backroom stuff, then the
desktop will continue to get short shrift.
Now, there are firms interested in seeing Linux do well on the
desktop. But by and large they are the smaller firms among the
foundation's membership. They are trying to make a go with small, cheap
laptops or eye-pleasing desktop distributions. And they don't bring the
same money to the table that the big boys do.
What's the answer to this dilemma? I don't know. But I do worry
over it. So does Paul Elliott, a longtime member and officer of the
Austin Linux Users Group. He read about the summit in the local paper,
and tried to attend. Unfortunately, he showed up on the second day and
attempted to register as a journalist, when the press was no longer
welcome in the talks and workshops. He blogged about his unhappiness with the
experience [6] on the LUG's website.
It doesn't make good business sense to have reporters sniffing around
business meetings. I won't argue with that. To a corporation,
information needs to be sanitized, not free. PR handlers need to be
present when management speaks to the press. This is life in the
corporate world. I don't have a problem with that, except when that
same lack of transparency begins to enter the FOSS world, as it seems to
have done at this Linux event. It doesn't belong here. It's not part
of our culture, or our community. I worry about what we're giving up
for the corporate dole.
I hope that the Linux Foundation's plans to broaden the membership base and
to address the concerns of individual developers and users, as mentioned in the
Zemlin interview, come to fruition, and that as they do they prove my worries to
unfounded and unnecessary.

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The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to strike down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act.
The decision marked a defeat for the federal government and sports organizations who fought to uphold the current ban in most states.
The 1992 law had barred gambling on football, basketball, baseball and other sports with some exceptions, like allowing people to wager on a single game only in Nevada. The Supreme Court ruling now gives states the go-ahead to legalize sports betting if they want.
"The legalization of sports gambling requires an important policy choice, but the choice is not ours to make," the opinion by Justice Samuel Alito said.
"Congress can regulate sports gambling directly, but if it elects not to do so, each State is free to act on its own. Our job is to interpret the law Congress has enacted and decide whether it is consistent with the Constitution. PASPA is not, the ruling said."
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"Every day we hear from Americans seeing these billboards," said Farah. "Many of them congratulate us on the work. Others are just now being introduced to the questions that have been systematically stonewalled by the major media. I believe this campaign has raised more awareness of the issue than just about anything else. And I believe we are reaching critical mass in getting to the bottom of the mystery."
Farah says his goal is to help persuade several state legislatures to pass simple, straightforward bills requiring eligibility tests for presidential candidates – especially for "natural born citizenship."
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While the press has ridiculed the idea that there are any remaining questions about Obama's eligibility, the entertainment media have been having a field day, turning the issue into the biggest running joke in America:
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- Conan O'Brien had this to say: "First, they said Obama's a socialist. Then they say he's Muslim. Now they're saying he wasn't even born in this country. It's got me thinking. OK, the guy might not be qualified to be president. But I guess he is qualified to drive a cab in New York."
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The latest billboard is the second running concurrently in the Austin metro area. Farah hopes the campaign gives a boost to efforts by Texas Rep. Leo Berman, who is pushing the legislation to require the establishment of eligibility before presidential candidates get on the ballot.
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- 1 pound sea scallops
- Kosher or sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted
- 3 bunches (12 to 14 ounces each) spinach, thick stems removed
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Forward Ivan Barbashev never felt out of place or intimidated as the youngest member of the Russian National Junior Team at the 2014 IIHF World Junior Championship in Sweden.
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Barbashev was the No. 1 pick by the Wildcats in the 2012 CHL import draft. He was inserted on the top line alongside Sam Reinhart of the Kootenay Ice and Michael Dal Colle of the Oshawa Generals for Team Cherry at the CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game in Calgary in January and had one assist.
"He's a tough kid; will play and give it his best," Central Scouting's Chris Bordeleau said. "He's a good skater."
It's interesting to note that Barbashev sat out five games with a lower-body injury in October, but struck for seven goals and 13 points in his first seven games back.
"I do think I can still improve in the defensive zone," Barbashev said. "I always have a minus in every game, and I don't know why. Coach [Darren Rumble] told me I need to work more in the defensive zone. I'm trying to do that and it's something I learned a lot at the World Juniors."
In addition to his participation in the 2014 WJC, Barbashev played for Russia at the 2013 Under-18 WJC, and had three goals and nine points in seven games.


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Can animals be idiots? Or maybe we can call Zurich's Loris Benito an idiot for trying to capture the marten—which Wikipedia informs is a wolverine/badger-like animal that feeds on squirrels, rabbits, mice and human digits apparently—during a Swiss Super League match with FC Thun today. He was able to catch him, but he suffered for his heroics: the weasel bit him.
As you can see in the video above (with appropriate musical accompaniment), and elsewhere, it took quite some time to corral the slippery beast and it appears Benito eventually lost hold of him, at which point the only guy wearing gloves—the goalie—caught the marten. It did not deter Zurich, however, which won handily, 4-0.
h/t tomuban
VIDEO: Top Swiss game delayed after wild animal intruder BITES player on the pitch... [Daily Mail]


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"Space, Geeks, and Johnny Unitas" (pilot season, episode 2; originally aired June 2, 1991)
Close call alert: Last week's assertion that there are no bad episodes of Pete And Pete nearly burned me this week with "Space, Geeks, and Johnny Unitas," the second stand-alone episode that Nickelodeon aired. Thankfully, it does just enough to dodge that bullet.
Centered around the end of the school year—hence the reason Nickelodeon ordered it, presumably—the episode focuses on Big Pete and Ellen's struggle to write their final papers, avoid summer school, and solve the big mysteries of the universe. All this hinges on the introduction of a new one-off character, Joe Jones, a kid in their class who showed up in December right after an unexplained sonic boom, has chronic static cling, and smells like steamed vegetables. There's even a rumor going around school that his cowlick always points magnetic north.
Long story short-ish, Joe convinces Ellen and Pete to change their science papers from their assigned topics to, respectively, the search for alien life in Wellsville and something called "Johnny U and the universe," which ostensibly focuses on the 1958 NFL championship game between the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants. The game, which was won in stunning fashion by the Colts—helmed by Johnny Unitas—would just be airing in 1991 in the Alpha Centuri star system, 365 billion miles away from Earth, and both Joe and Big Pete have an affinity for Unitas. As it turns out, Joe Jones is an alien, saw the game on his home planet, and he tells the duo all his secrets—off camera, of course—but really, what he is, at least according to Ellen, is a friend. (Aw!) Pete and Ellen end up doing time in summer school, but that's fine by them. At least they were true to themselves.
The episode itself is a little clunky overall, save a few Artie moments. Little Pete's personal superhero was introduced in the Nickelodeon shorts that predated the series, but he really gets a chance to go to town here, dancing a lunar ballet at the planetarium, helping Pete win death dodge ball, and taking Ellen's alien test while bench-pressing a desk with just one arm. There are other highlights, like a shot of a Golden Retriever smoking a pipe during a discussion of how the animals have been acting strange since Joe arrived, but if this episode were pizza, it would be Little Caesars. It's totally acceptable grub, and a hot-n-ready is a good value at $5, but yeah, there's a lot better pizza—and Pete—to be had.
One thing this episode—and most of Pete And Pete, for that matter—does well, though, is reiterate the idea that we, as kids and as viewers, aren't alone. While all his classmates are into Randall Cunningham, Pete's into Johnny Unitas because he saw a picture of him in a book and thought he looked like he "played each game as if the fate of the entire universe depended on him and him alone." That's some heavy shit for a junior high kid, but it's more the idea that we can focus on here: As weird as he is, Pete's still got friends, and he's got family, and he's cool for who he is. Everything will turn out all right for him just like that, and he doesn't need to bail on Johnny U—or Artie or his little brother or band or whatever—to be just fine.
It's a lesson that's reiterated over and over and over again on Pete And Pete in, really, almost every line uttered or decision made. And that's one of the reason the show succeeds, not only for us as adults watching it today but for kids back then and for a network like Nickelodeon. There's a canon of what kids want to see and what's "healthy" for them to see. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle fights don't get much of a positive message across, but kids making their own decisions and doing what they want—within reason—that's something that really flies. Parents don't mind their kids watching a show like that, and kids are reassured watching it. There's a line, of course, between something like Pete and total anarchy like The Suite Life Of Zach And Cody, but that's why one show presumably stands the test of time and the other gives grown-ups headaches.
It might seem like as an ex-nerd, let's say, or an ex-outcast, that no one understood you like Clarissa or Pete did. That might be absolutely true, but one of the reasons that shows like Pete And Pete or a lot of the stuff that aired on SNICK saw such wide success is not just because there were far too many kids getting pushed around and rejected but rather because every kid—from the football captain to the offbeat girl who always has a cast on her arm—felt at least a little out of it, a little like he or she was faking it just a little to get by. Kids can be a tough crowd, and especially around the Petes' age, it gets just a little worse. Kids that were entirely okay with themselves, like Little Pete, were anomalies, and that's why they were such role models. They were who they were, and they were who we wanted to be—and hopefully are, at least a little bit, today.
The Adventures Of Pete And Pete: "Space, Geeks, And Johnny Unitas"
"Space, Geeks, and Johnny Unitas" (pilot season, episode 2; originally aired June 2, 1991)


text: I thought I said I wasn't a fan of memes, but this was too good to pass up, especially as a long-time, vanilla player like myself. Vidyala over at Manalicious decided to talk about "then and now" when it came to such important things as her mage's looks, her UI and even where she played. I'd consider myself pretty boring in that regard. My gnome hasn't really changed much; there's been some cosmetic differences in the 6 years I've played her, but I haven't even been in a different guild!


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On a mission to save orangutans and their forest habitats.
Human need for more and more arable land is creating problems of basic survival for many wildlife species, but perhaps none more than the venerable "person of the forest"—the orangutan. These great apes are victims of the clearing of their rainforest habitats for forestry goods, agriculture, and in order to fulfill the ever-growing demand for cheap palm oil, an additive in an array of consumer products. The main goal of the Gunung Palung Orangutan Conservation Program (GPOCP), directed and established by Dr. Cheryl Knott of Boston University 20 years ago, is to work with the communities surrounding Borneo's Gunung Palung National Park to foster sustainable stewardship of the area's natural resources and build a future where orangutans and other wildlife can thrive alongside local villages.
GPOCP's primary mission is to conserve orangutan populations and forest habitat. Recognizing that most threats to orangutan survival are human induced, GPOCP strives to develop a human community that is aware and motivated to conserve and protect the orangutans, their habitat and the biodiversity within this rainforest. Since its inception, GPOCP has evolved into a landscape level conservation organization, working towards the protection of the park and surrounding ecological areas as a whole, using the orangutan as a flagship species. The approach consists of four main strategies: Forest Protection; Monitoring, Investigation and Human-Wildlife Conflict Mitigation; Sustainable, Alternative Livelihoods; and Conservation Awareness.
The central area of GPOCP's work has been identified as a United Nations Great Ape Survival Project conservation priority area. Of the seven main threats to Indonesian orangutan survival as declared by the Indonesian Orangutan National Action Plan 2007-2017, GPOCP works to directly mitigate five in the Gunung Palung Biodiversity Landscape Areas. Those five threats are: human population pressure, changes in land use patterns, poor law enforcement, deforestation, and poaching/illegal trafficking.
GPOCP protects forest areas surrounding Gunung Palung National Park through the Customary Forest Program, assisting communities in obtaining a legal decree for the right of ownership and community management over their traditional community lands. By securing these rights the areas are protected from sale to oil palm plantations, preserving the rainforest habitat and precious natural assets.
The only great ape species in Asia, orangutans have long stirred the imagination of people in the West. Unlike other great ape species, orangutans are rather solitary primates, living a primarily arboreal life in search of figs, flowers and other vegetation. The load-bearing limits of rainforest tops, combined with the scarcity of fruit, keep orangutans from living in large social groups. Human-orangutan conflict and illegal killing and trade now pose a significant threat to orangutan survival.
Wild populations of orangutans have severely declined across Borneo and Sumatra over the last few decades, with the danger of imminent extinction in the wild very real (IUCN 2012). In just 20 years, logging and rainforest conversion to plantations and agriculture have contributed to the destruction of more than 80% of the orangutan's rainforest habitat. The past decade has seen an estimated 30-50% decline in orangutan numbers, and the remaining wild population is confined to scattered patches on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra.
Woodland Park Zoo has long been involved in orangutan conservation. In 1998, devastating fires engulfed Indonesia's tropical forest, leaving orangutans homeless, many of them orphaned. WPZ staff traveled to the field to provide direct help, taking medical supplies, diapers and baby formula. Zookeeper Andy Antilla assisted at the Wanariset Orangutan Rehabilitation Center in Borneo to help young orangutans develop the skills they would need in order to be re-released into and survive in the forest.


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184 Court Street, Binghamton, NY 13901
The Mental Health Juvenile Justice (MHJJ) Project is a partnership with probation and families which targets youth charged as juvenile delinquents or Persons In Need of Supervision (PINS), who have been screened by DSST probation to have mental health, family, or substance abuse issues. The MHJJ Project provides masters level clinicians to offer mobile and flexible clinical assessment, counseling and case management services to identified youth in an effort to prevent further involvement in the juvenile justice system. The program is designed to improve the youth's ability to function at home, at school and reduce or eliminate delinquent behavior.
These services are delivered in school or in our outpatient clinic at 184 Court Street in Binghamton. It serves over 60 youth and family members annually. Services are offered Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
MHJJ provides the following services:
- Psychosocial Assessments
- Substance Abuse Assessments
- Individual Counseling
- Family Counseling
- Group Counseling
- Case Management Services
- Referrals and linkages for medication management, CSE Services (School), additional community services (SPOA, DSS, Other) and Family Court Advocacy for youth involved in MHJJ.
- Life Skills Training
- Assistance in navigating the Juvenile Justice System
- PINS Parent Orientation
For more information about the MHJJ Program, or for information about to how to file a PINS petition for youth in Broome County, please contact the Program Manager at 607-584-3118.
Detention Alternative After-School Program
The Detention Alternative After-School Program (DAASP) began in 2005 as a pilot therapeutic program offered to youth ages of 12 - 16 who are referred by Broome County Probation Department DSS and by Broome County Family Court. DAASP is a "last chance" opportunity for youth who would otherwise be remanded to non-secure detention.
All youth must either have an ongoing court case or have a current Probation or PINS case. Only Family Court judges, County Attorneys, PINS and Probation Officers may make a referral to the program. All referrals are reviewed by the Program Manager to make sure they are a good fit for the program.
We focus on reducing high-risk behaviors and improving school performance while building protective factors and resistance skills. Our ultimate goal is to increase positive decision-making, reduce repeat offending, and offer an alternative to detention while holding youth and their families accountable.
Over their 10-12 weeks in program youth will engage in strength based activities that will provide them with personal insight into their own behaviors and help them identify barriers to success. Participants will work on communication, stress/conflict resolution and academic success while in program. In addition the participants are introduced to positive recreational activities to help them develop healthy habits for the future.
The program is designed for a maximum of 8 youths ranging between 12 and 16 years of age, the small group size allows for more one on one interaction between staff and participants and the ability to focus on individual needs. The program has structured components concentrating on education, creative expression and the development of life-skills, self-esteem and self-discipline. This includes structured community based activities during the summer for program participants.
MHJJ and DAASP can only be accessed by referral from the Probation Department or Family Court system.


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21 Feb 2017
Democracy, Autocracy and Sovereign Debt in Mexico and Brazil during the pre-1914 Globalisation
Leonardo Weller (Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo)
17 Jan 2017
"It's all a matter of timing" - Human Rights Activism, Soviet Dissent and the Cold War
Dr Mark Hurst (University of Kent)
10 Jan 2017
Using Painted Maps as Evidence: Images in Colonial Mexico's Land Grant Proceedings
Ana Pulido-Rull (University of Arkansas)
13 Dec 2016
Imperial rivalries, insurgents and spies: Britain and Spain during Latin American Independence
Gregorio Alonso (Leeds)
25 Oct 2016
Operation Dhib: The Dhofar war and covert action in Yemen
Dr Geraint Hughes (King's College London)
24 May 2016
Margaret Thatcher's World
Dr Martin Farr (Newcastle)
7 Jan 2016
Le mouvement community photography dans les années 1970 et 1980: quelle approche méthodologique pour l'histoire des pratiques photographiques militantes ?
Mathilde Bertrand (Bordeaux 3)
17 Dec 2015
'An object of desirable achievement' : l'East India Company et la conservation des monuments en Inde (fin du xviiie siècle - milieu du xixe siècle)
Anne-Julie Etter (Cergy-Pontoise)
8 Dec 2015
Of Morals and Money: IG Farben and GAF, Ideology and pragmatism in the Kennedy Administration's Settlement with the Union Bank of Switzerland 1963-65
Declan O'Reilly (UEA)
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What is public history in light of the recent refugee crisis?
Professor David Feldman (Pears Institute, Birkbeck, University of London), Professor Peter Gatrell (University of Manchester), Susie Symes (19 Princelet Street), Juliano Fiori (Save the Children)
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amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research
July 2009–Infections with human papilloma virus (HPV) have been identified as a cause of most cervical cancers. Among HIV-positive women, HPV infection is a particular concern, and cervical cancer is considered an AIDS-defining illness.
There are over a hundred different types of HPV, with some types responsible for causing genital warts (cauliflower-like growths that occur on and around the genital area) and some that can lead to cancer. HPV in women is best diagnosed through a regular pelvic exam and Pap smear. While a pelvic exam allows doctors to carefully check for the presence of genital warts, the Pap smear involves taking a sample of cervical cells to look for evidence of early cancer. Of the 15-20 types of HPV associated with cervical cancer, HPV-16 and HPV-18 are the most dangerous, and responsible for approximately 70 percent of cancers.
Previous studies in India, Taiwan, and Thailand have linked HIV infection to increased incidence and severity of HPV-related abnormalities of cervical cells and to cervical cancer in Asian women. A recent study on the prevalence of HPV infection in HIV-positive women in Rwanda also yielded similar results.1 Of the 647 HIV-positive women enrolled in the study, 69 percent were infected with HPV, compared with 14 percent of HIV-negative women. Even more worrisome, 46 percent of the HIV-positive women were infected with cancer-causing types of HPV and 35 percent had multiple types of HPV.
Despite the increased risk of HPV infection in HIV-positive women, in Asia few women are routinely screened for cervical cancer. A vaccine exists against HPV-16 and -18, which has demonstrated greater than 90 percent efficacy in preventing infection, but it does not provide protection to those already infected nor is it easily accessible or affordable to most women in the region. Based on the growing number of research studies demonstrating a higher risk of HPV and cervical cancer in HIV-positive women, there is a greater need for HIV treatment programs to integrate Pap smear testing into routine care and to consider the use of HPV vaccines in high HIV prevalence areas.
1 Singh DK, et al. Human papillomavirus infection and cervical cytology in HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected Rwandan women. Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2009; 199:1851–1861.
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This procedure is for Tungsten Clustering Version 4.x and below ONLY!
For the correct procedures for Tungsten Clustering Version 5.0 and above, please see Section 6.8, "Deployment Security".
Tungsten Clustering uses JMX RMI to perform remote administration and obtain information from remote hosts within the dataservice. This communication can be encrypted and authenticated.
To configure this operation two files are required, one defines the authentication configuration, the other configures the username/password combinations used to authenticate. These files and configuration are used internally by the system to authenticate.
The authentication configuration defines the users and roles. The file should match the following:
monitorRole readonly controlRole readwrite \ create javax.management.monitor.*,javax.management.timer.* \ unregister tungsten readwrite \ create javax.management.monitor.*,javax.management.timer.* \ unregister
The contents or description of this file must not be changed. Create a
file containing this information in your configuration, for example
Now a corresponding password configuration must be created using the tpasswd tool. By default, plain-text passwords are generated:
tpasswd -c tungsten password
-t rmi_jmx \
-p ~/passwords.store \
-ts truststore.ts -tsp password
To use encrypted passwords, the truststore and truststore password must be
supplied so that the certificate can be loaded and used to encrypt the
supplied password. The
-e must be
specified to encrypt the password:
tpasswd -c tungsten password \
-t rmi_jmx \
-p ~/passwords.store \
-e \
-ts truststore.ts -tsp password
This creates a user,
tungsten, with
the password
password in the file
The password file, and the JMX security properties file will be needed during configuration. See Section 6.7.3, "Configuring the Secure Service through tpm".


text: FTAs major focus of Robb's North Asia visit 14 November 2013 FTAs major focus of Robb's North Asia visit Media release 14 November 2013 Trade and Investment Minister Andrew Robb will visit South Korea, Japan and China from 14 to 22 November to restart negotiations with his key counterparts on the stalled Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with Australia's three most significant trading partners. "Free trade negotiations with our three biggest export partners floundered under the previous government. Labor's failure to conclude any of these agreements in six years was a major lost opportunity," Mr Robb said. "We are determined to make up lost ground and conclude these agreements as soon as reasonably possible." In South Korea, Mr Robb will meet Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Strategy and Finance, Dr Hyun Oh-seok, and Minister for Trade, Industry and Energy, Mr Yoon Sang-jick. "South Korea is a key strategic partner in Asia and our third-largest export market. We see great scope to expand our trade and investment relationship," Mr Robb said. "Concluding an FTA with Korea will help maintain the competitiveness of Australian exports and provide new opportunities for business." In Japan, Mr Robb will meet with senior Japanese Ministers with trade responsibilities, including Foreign Minister Kishida, Trade and Economy Minister Motegi, Economic Revitalisation Minister Amari and Agriculture Minister Hayashi to discuss opportunities to enhance our deep and longstanding trade and investment partnership. "Japan is Australia's closest partner in Asia and second-largest trading partner," Mr Robb said. "I am confident we can address the remaining obstacles to conclusion of the Australia-Japan FTA, while advancing our mutual interest in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations." While in Tokyo, Mr Robb will also meet representatives of key Japanese firms with investments in Australia and members of the business community in Japan. Mr Robb will then visit China where he will discuss options for progressing bilateral Free Trade Agreement negotiations. "This agreement has been in the making since 2005. As the Prime Minister said recently, we should be able to bring it to a conclusion in the foreseeable future," he said. Mr Robb will also hold meetings with Commerce Minister Mr Gao Hucheng, Agriculture Minister, Mr Han Changfu, and Finance Minister Mr Lou Jiwei. Mr Robb is also scheduled to meet China's senior leadership, as well as Australian companies doing business in China and a number of China's top level businessmen and investors. Media enquiriesTrade Minister's Office: (02) 6277 7420DFAT Media Liaison: (02) 6261 1555


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Michael Chabon's best-selling new novel, "Telegraph Avenue," is set in and around Brokeland Records, a used-vinyl record store on the border between Oakland and Berkeley, Calif., where Chabon has lived since the late 1990s. The story follows the store's co-owners, band mates Archy Stallings (the son of Luther Stallings, a former star of Blaxploitation martial-arts movies) and Nat Jaffe, as they struggle to keep Brokeland going in the face of competition from a new megastore owned by Gibson Goode, a former NFL quarterback who's now "the fifth-richest black man in America." In their orbit are their spouses, Gwen and Aviva, both professional midwives; Nat and Aviva's gay son Julius; and his love interest, Titus Joyner, who turns out to be Archy's long-unacknowledged teenage son.
"Telegraph Avenue" is a return to the mainstream mode of Chabon's early novels, "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" and "Wonder Boys, following a period of genre hybrids that included his Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" and "The Yiddish Policemen's Union." Printers Row Journal caught up with Chabon during the Chicago stop of his book tour.
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Q: Brokeland was inspired by a real-life record store that you visited in 1999. What was it like?
A: There were two guys working in the store that day, one white, one black. The customers were all just standing around talking about records, talking about music, shooting the breeze, teasing each other. And it was that apparent community that they'd created, at least for that day, that was the inspiration for the book.
Q: Brokeland seems to specialize in music from the mid-'50s to the mid-'70s.
A: They carry a good selection of jazz vinyl from 1955, say, all the way up to the present day. But the particular passion of the owners of the store, the kind they play in their band — one plays bass, the other plays keyboards and guitar — is soul jazz and jazz funk, which flourished in the middle-to-late '60s to the middle-to-late-'70s, about 10 years. It's essentially jazz, played by jazz musicians with improvisation and all the hallmarks of jazz, but with the backbeat pushed very much forward.
Q: Which distinguished it from bebop.
A: Right. It had a kind of danceability that bebop had turned its back on. Jazz had been dance music up through the bebop era, and that was what the bebop musicians were rejecting — the pop nature of what jazz had become by the early '40s. Soul jazz and jazz funk were about restoring the roots of blues and black gospel and swing, essentially by restoring the backbeat. As a result, it was commercially popular. It's sort of forgotten as a genre today, but you had artists like George Benson and Freddie Hubbard and Herbie Hancock, and it was the last time that jazz had hit songs on the charts. It got so popular that it became sort of the soundtrack for that era. Every cop show from the period — the theme from "S.W.A.T." is an example — uses that brassy, jazzy, funky sound.
Q: I couldn't tell from the book whether you came to the writing as a fan of this music already or acquired your knowledge of it through research.
A: I already knew the music; I just didn't know it was a defined, separate genre, a micro-world within the larger world of jazz. George Benson? I knew his music. Those albums of Freddie Hubbard from the early '70s — I had those albums. But I also discovered the music of a lot of artists I hadn't known before: great organ players like Charles Kynard and Reuben Wilson and Leon Spencer, for example, and the guitar player Melvin Sparks.
Q: Forgive the cliché, but if you were going to be marooned on an island and could take three records with you, what would they be?
A: I guess you have to go not with the things you love the most, but things you could stand listening to over and over again. One would be Steve Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians," which is what I use most frequently as background music when I'm working. Maybe I'd go for a nice big meaty compilation like "Nuggets," an album of great garage rock from the '60s and '70s. And "In a Silent Way" by Miles Davis. That one I never get tired of listening to.
Q: There's a line in the book where Archy notes that the heyday of muscle cars "corresponded precisely with the most muscular moment in the history of black music in America." Do you share that view?
A: No, it just came from me putting myself in Archy's mind, including how he felt about muscle cars, in particular El Caminos. It just felt true.
I have a thing for muscle cars, and there's at least one in almost all my books. In "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh," there's a Plymouth Barracuda. In "Wonder Boys," there's a late-model Ford Galaxy. In "The Yiddish Policemen's Union," the main character drives a Chevelle Super Sport. And in this book, there's an El Camino and an Oldsmobile Toronado. It's part of how I imagine my characters.
Q: You know the crime fiction of George Pelecanos?
A: I love his work.
Q: There's a lot of riding around in cars, often of a certain vintage, listening to this very music we're discussing.
A: That's part of the reason I like his work so much. And of course, some of his books are set in D.C. in the early '70s, and I was there at the time.
Q: Which brings us to the topic of nostalgia. Your book is set in the present, and your characters have an appreciation for the music — and the cars — of 40 years ago. There's a scene in which the narrator says of some collecting cards that a character named Mr. Nostalgia is selling, "They were worth only what you would pay for them; what small piece of everything you had ever lost that, you might come to believe, they would restore to you."
A: Nostalgia is a word you can define in different ways. It's often used pejoratively, to define someone who believes things used to be better than they are now — the good old days, as opposed to the bad present days — and is hampered by that. But I think the nostalgia of the characters in the book is not about believing that things used to be better than they are now. It's more about an interest in things that give you an instantaneous, powerful, sensory, palpable dose of the past.
Q: Sounds like Proust.
A: Right, except that it doesn't have to be your own past. It's not merely your personal history in the Proustian sense, where your childhood is summoned by the madeleine in the spoonful of tea. When a building is torn down, and on the side of the building next to it is suddenly revealed a painted advertisement for a horse stable that used to be on that spot, you get that immediate, intense encounter with a surprise survivor from the past, almost as if a time capsule has been opened. That's what I'm talking about in the book — a sense that something wondrous has survived, and it brings it all back to you, even if you never experienced it in the first place.
Q: So I was on page 24 of the book — long before page 93, where there's a reference to "Kill Bill" — and I thought, "This is a Quentin Tarantino movie waiting to happen."
A: (Laughs.) What was it that made you feel that way?
Q: It was a combination of things: the music, the cars, the geography. Also the characters have a somewhat self-conscious way of speaking that I associate with Tarantino. I'm thinking you're familiar with his work.
A: You bet. I'm a fan. I think the answer is that he and I are almost exactly the same age. We both grew up as white boys fascinated by, steeped in and attracted to black popular culture — music, movies, television performers, athletes. ... He's been incorporating elements of it from "Pulp Fiction" to "Kill Bill," including "Jackie Brown," which I think is still his best movie.
Q: There's a flashback scene in the book — where Luther and his buddy Chan spend a fair amount of time discussing what the word "Toronado" means. It's the kind of conversation you'd have in a Tarantino movie.
A: Yes, but — and I don't mean this as any kind of a knock on Tarantino — it might seem like they're having a time-wasting discussion, but it's not just that. Luther is about to embark on an exciting chapter in his life, and Chan is feeling very envious of his friend, who just laid down $3,000 cash for a really sweet Toronado. So really it's about Chan taunting Luther because he resents the fact that he doesn't have a Toronado of his own.
Q: I hear producer Scott Rudin optioned "Telegraph Avenue," and Cameron Crowe is adapting it for the screen. It seems it's not destined to become a Tarantino movie.
A: Wouldn't that be cool, though?
Kevin Nance is a Chicago-based freelance writer.
Telegraph Avenue
By Michael Chabon, Harper, 480 pages, $27.99


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Hezbollah now claims that it doesn't shoot rockets from Qana. Yeah, right. Blog of the Week Vital Perspective has video of rockets being launched from that town. One thing puzzles me, though. The whole purpose of a terrorist organization is to commit mass murder in the most cowardly, dishonorable way possible. So…why would anyone ever believe anything said be terrorists?
Vital Perspective also notes Article 28 of the 4th Geneva Convention:
The presence of a protected person may not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations.
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More details were revealed Friday about the man who shot at Anchorage police officers a day earlier, causing dozens of officers to descend, closing a major thoroughfare and forcing SWAT teams to evacuate a motel.
Heavily tattooed Jason Barnum, 37, was arraigned on one count of attempted murder in the first degree and two counts of assault in the third degree. His bail was set at $500,000 cash.
At the arraignment Friday afternoon Barnum appeared fidgety, swaying from side to side, at times hitting his face on the microphone. When asked basic information from the judge like if his name was spelled correctly, Barnum replied "sure" and "sounds good."
His arm was in a sling, fractured because he was shot by police Thursday. Visible were his numerous face tattoos. The right side of his face is nearly covered with skulls and skeletons. His lips are rimmed with skeletal teeth and an eyeball in the middle of his forehead. His right eyeball was tattooed black.
The arraignment came after a press conference during which Police Chief Mark Mew and Lt. Anthony Henry offered more details on exactly what happened at the Merrill Field Inn, just off of Fifth Avenue, one of Anchorage's busiest roads and across the street from a commuter airport.
Police don't know why Barnum shot at officers. In charging documents, Barnum admitted to being a heroin addict. Henry said that based on his behavior, they have reason to suspect he was high during the shooting
Three officers arrived at the Merrill Field Inn Thursday morning after a stolen vehicle associated with a series of burglaries on the Anchorage Hillside was spotted in the parking lot.
Lt. Anthony Henry said these weren't just any burglaries, they were burglaries that occurred while residents could have been home.
"When you go into people's homes at night, that's risky behavior and that's not normal for burglars," Henry said.
So far police know of seven burglaries in the upper Hillside and Rabbit Creek areas that Barnum is associated with, but there could have been more, Henry said.
According to charging documents, police reviewed a video from the motel's surveillance system and saw a man associated with room 209 taking a tote from a Toyota truck into the room and then later to a Dumpster.
The officers went to room 209 to investigate. There they encountered Sam Williams, Jr. and Stephanie Callis, who both had outstanding warrants for their arrest.
According to charging documents, Williams tried to stall police while Callis and Barnum retreated to the bathroom. Williams told police Callis was sick, and Callis — instructed by Barnum — played the part, making retching noises in the bathroom.
Police, noticing stolen items, handcuffed Williams and demanded that Callis leave the bathroom.
As she walked out Barnum started firing at officers with a gun stolen at one of the Hillside burglaries. Officers returned fire, striking Barnum.
Police were able to evacuate the room and force Barnum to come out using verbal commands. Mew said getting a SWAT team in and out of a situation within a few hours is "fairly quick."
One officer, whose name has not been released, had a bullet slip beneath the back of vest, hitting him. However, the officer was released hours after the incident, requiring only a few stitches. Mew said the officer was expected to be back at work Tuesday.
Callis and Williams are in police custody, booked on their outstanding warrants. More charges are likely coming, Henry said.
In statements to police, Barnum admitted to being a heroin addict who burglarized homes and stole vehicles to finance his habit. In charging documents Barnum said he was not able to give a long list of the burglaries he'd committed, but did confirm three recent strings of burglaries in different neighborhoods around Anchorage.
Henry noted that Barnum has an extensive criminal history. Court records show incidents back to 1993, including burglary charges in 1994, 2000 and 2005 as well as multiple felonies including forgery. He pleaded no contest to all of the burglary charges.
Barnum may have prison gang affiliations, Henry said, although it's unknown if he has any street gang connections.
His tattoos are numerous. A Facebook photo shows some of them, including the word "pain" stylized and a Celtic cross. In the photo, uploaded in July 2011, Barnum is wearing an iron cross necklace with a swastika in the middle. Henry said he did not know if Barnum has white supremacist ties, although he officers are working with the department of corrections to examine the tattoos.
Records show that Barnum has been in Alaska since at least 1991. A sport fishing license from 1992 listed his residence as McLaughlin Youth Center in Anchorage.
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Kuwait's national women's team endured a game to forget last week, losing 21-0 at home to Jordan in an Asian Cup qualifier.
Whilst the scoreline sounds ridiculous, the visitors were chasing a victory by 18 goals or more to move top of the table – and they dominated from start to finish.
6-0 up after 20 minutes, Jordan showed absolutely no mercy on their opponents, whose notably small goalkeeper could do absolutely nothing to stop the barrage of shots from flying in.
The fact that the woman between the sticks is about 5ft tall does not help, and neither does the fact that she's useless.
Some of the goals conceded really do have to be seen to be believed. And, luckily for you, we've got them all below.
Enjoy the video, first seen on 101 Great Goals, and wonder just how this happened…


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Yesterday, the winners of the fifth annual Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition were finally announced—and man oh man, are they stunning. Over 1,200 amateurs and pros submitted shots, ranging from stunning aurora borealis images to a panorama taken by a ten-year-old whiz kid.
The photos hail from an incredibly diverse set of locations too, including Norway, Ireland, China, and the US of A. The finalists each give a description of their process and inspiration, with more details about the equipment they used and what exactly they captured, and the site even offers some helpful how-to guides if you're keen to give it a try.
If you're in London, you can check out the full exhibition at the Royal Observatory's Astronomy Center through February 23rd. The rest of us can sit and scroll while contemplating life, the universe, and everything. (This is, somewhat embarrassingly, the soundtrack that's going on in my head...)
Earth and Space Winner: Guiding Light to the Stars by Mark Gee (Australia).
Runner-up: Green Energy by Frederik Broms (Norway).
Deep Space Winner: Celestial Impasto: sh2-239 by Adam Block (USA).
Runner-up: Rho Ophiuci and Antares Nebulae by Tom O'Donoghue.
Solar System Winner: Corona Composite of 2012: Australian Totality by Man-To Hui (China).
Runner-up: Magnetic Maelstrom by Alan Friedman (USA).
The Sir Patrick Moore Prize for Best Newcomer: Venus Transit, Foxhunter's Grave, Welsh Highlands by Sam Cornwell (UK).
People and Space: Moon Silhouettes by Mark Gee (Australia).
Robotic Scope: The Trapezium Cluster and Surrounding Nebulae by László Francsics (Hungary)
Young Astrophotographers Winner: The Milky Way Galaxy by Jacob Marchio (USA), age 14.
Runner-up: Goodbye Sun, Hello Moon by Ariana Bernal (USA), age 10.


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I plan to run the led at 2.5v only and 200mA.
I have a tested the LED already, it's fine at 2.5V it takes 200mA and it's bright enough
Is there any way to drive a 3V led sinking 200mA from a 3V power supply using a microntroller which can at best source 40mA?
Apparently the only way is using a buck converter to ste-up the voltage and then use a CC driver?Thanks.
Any example that I can use as a startup point, on that web page all is pure theory.


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Former Goldman Prop Traders to Close Brummer-Backed Hedge Fund
Financial News's Harriet Agnew files this dispatch on the closing of Benros Capital:
Benros Capital has become the latest hedge fund run by ex-Goldman Sachs traders to shut-up shop in recent months following the decision by Pierre-Henri Flamand to close Edoma Partners last November.
Benros Capital, an event-driven hedge fund set up by two Goldman Sachs proprietary traders and backed by Brummer & Partners, Sweden's largest hedge fund manager, is closing down after Brummer decided to redeem its $300 million investment, Financial News can reveal.
Brummer's Multi-Strategy fund decided to redeem its investment in the Benros Event Driven and Opportunistic Fund because "the fund's performance has not met expectations," according to a statement published yesterday on Brummer's website. From its inception in June 2011 until January 2013, the Benros fund lost 7%, according to Brummer's statement. During the same period, the average event-driven hedge fund gained just over 3%, according to data provider Hedge Fund Research.
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Hawke's Bay Dog Friendly Cafes
I go looking for local establishments that welcome dogs and find some beauties...
There's been a lot of discussion recently about whether people should be allowed to take their dogs with them to cafes.
As a relatively new dog owner I was interested in this as I love being able to take my wee pup with me when I am meeting people for coffee or lunch (Any by this I mean to sit outside as we would never dream of crossing the line to be inside an eating or food service area)
This set me to finding out just where in Hawke's Bay we could go which led me to visiting some old favourite haunts and the discovery of some new little gems.
One of those is the newly opened Little Blackbird Cafe in Market St, Hastings. Open Monday-Friday 7:30am-4pm and Saturday 8am-2pm. I'd heard great things about this place so when they confirmed I could sit outside with my dog, I got straight along and am pleased to say it lived up to all its hype. It is bright, shiny and new on in the inside with a shop front that opens up so you can sit outside and enjoy the sunshine. They offer cabinet food and a Black Board menu (try the lime and chilli soft shell crab salad) as well as great selection of fresh juices.
Napier's latest editions Adoro and Albion Canteen are also happy to have you and your pooch sit outside. Adoro has been a long time favourite in Napier CBD and has recently moved to the old Post office building and is now three times the size of their old location. In addition to their usual array of fresh French pastries, salads and cabinet food they are now serving an a la carte menu for breakfast and lunch. My tip is the bacon and egg sandwiches which I think are without doubt the world's best. The cafe has a great vibe and has an extra element of cool with owner Paul Greave's beloved Ducati motorcycle taking pride of place as a feature.
Albion Canteen, corner of Hastings St and Albion Lane is the latest offering from the masterminds behind Opera Kitchen and F.G.Smiths. Bright and relaxed, they offer great simple food in super quick time, making it perfect for lunch time dates.
Mister D is another old favourite who will welcome your four legged friend to their courtyard-just make sure you enter from the side entrance and not through the restaurant. A particularly nice touch as the silver dog bowl filled with water for us when we arrived.
Dog bowls are also readily available when you dine at Milk and Honey on Hardinge Road in Ahuriri. Open from 7am for breakfast, lunch and dinner, you can enjoy great food, wine and coffee before wandering across the road to walk your dog beside the sea.
Last but not least is St.George's Restaurant on Havelock Road. This has become a real local for me over the Summer as the food is always superb ( the rosemary battered fish and chips are divine), the garden is gorgeous and they always make a fuss of my dog when we arrive, which includes bringing her water and treats. Best of all, the way the garden is designed we can enjoy our lunch without encroaching on other diners. Adjacent to the courtyard is their huge expansive field where kids and families are welcome to utilise in between their meal. Owners Francky and Kathryn have also collected an array of games for people to use such as Frisbees, Kubb and giant Pick-up-Sticks.
I'm looking forward to continuing my search for other places that cater for four legged friends but in the meantime, enjoy!


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Mount Vernon To the Editor:
In last week's Gazette, Adrienne G. Cannon's letter was published in which she said, concerning the Westgrove Park off-leash dog area issue: "Repeated letters from one person attacking individuals and offering misleading facts does not help readers understand the public policy issues at stake." This reader would appreciate Ms. Cannon enlightening us as to exactly which facts have been misleading. Of course, in so doing, Ms. Cannon should provide the documentation for her assertion.
Now on to a more pressing issue. The biggest scandal in American politics is the use of polls to try to influence the electorate. A poll is supposed to be a snapshot of public opinion at any given moment. However, pollsters can manipulate the data to make it come out any way they like. This tactic is most often used in an attempt to influence Presidential elections by discouraging the supporters of one candidate while simultaneously encouraging the supporters of the other.
Pollsters collect raw data by randomly contacting people and asking them a series of questions. People are asked who they favor in an upcoming election, the likelihood that they'll vote and their party affiliation. Some polls only ask if participants are registered voters without regard to whether they are likely to vote.
The raw data received is invariably skewed with respect to the actual ratio between Democrats, Republicans and independents. That ratio is well-established by polling conducted independently of any election poll. Thus, in order to turn the raw data into a poll, it must be normalized to conform with the known ratio.
This is where dishonest pollsters cheat. They skew the raw data by weighting it more toward the party of the candidate they favor. For example, if the known ratio is 37 percent Democrats, 37 percent Republicans and 26 percent independents (the actual ratio in 2004), a dishonest pollster can make it appear the poll is favoring one candidate by refraining from conforming the poll to the known ratio. This is what a recent CNN poll did to advocate for President Obama. The present ratio is not much different than that of 2004. CNN reported a poll it took after the recent Democratic National Convention in which it claimed President Obama was leading Mitt Romney among likely voters 52 percent to 46 percent. However, examination of the raw data revealed CNN used the ratio 50-45-5. Not surprisingly, since Romney leads among independents by 14 percent, reducing their percentage from 26 percent to 5 percent naturally depresses Romney's "support." After seeing this, who would ever believe a CNN poll again?
The only poll that has proven to be neutral, unbiased and accurate over a lengthy period is the Rasmussen 3 day rolling poll of likely voters. On Wednesday this week, that poll has Romney leading Obama 47-46 among likely voters. It can be found at the following link: http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll Rasmussen correctly predicted President Obama's victory in 2008 and the vote percentages to within less than 1 percent. I consider other polls to be agenda-driven and not worthy of consideration. Perhaps laws should be enacted requiring pollsters to publish the raw data and ratios used in any published poll. That way, the public will be in a better position to judge their credibility, including whether the poll is an accurate snapshot or an intentional distortion.
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I have come across a rather refreshing take on the U.S. and Britain foreign policy. Th author points out that countries like Pakistan and others in the middle east like to do a lot of blaming and not enough taking responsibility for their own ills.
Honestly I think he nails it on the head here. When are we going to stop letting them lay it all on the west?
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First off, the 'most prosperous patch in history' that you are referring to happens to represent the history of the petroleum economy - an economy based on an easily extracted and transported commodity that provides a surrogate for a huge labour force.
Secondly, the U.S. has in fact kept plenty of tyrannical governments in check, and if that could continue perpetually then we could sit back and watch global government coalesce. The problem is that isn't going to happen because we are well over half way through the prosperous patch provided by petroleum.
Thirdly, keeping tyrannical governments in check has resulted in a cultural dependence on an unsustainable daycare program. If the cultures in unstable countries do not evolve to the point of shrugging off their own tyrannical governments, that is exactly the system that will return when daycare funding runs out: when the petroleum runs out.
Forth, although diplomacy does not get us the instant gratification we desire, it is by far a more sustainable system of daycare that actually fosters cultural evolution in these unstable countries. The desired results of such diplomacy will take at least a century but that century does not start until that reliance on diplomacy commences.
Finally, as petroleum depletes, western economies are going to become very dependent on alternative energy infrastructures. Those infrastructures will be the prime target of all nations who, being without those infrastructures, will believe (justifiably) that their energy resources were stolen in order to create them. The nightmare that that will create will make our current turmoils seem like a walk in the park.
I have not, in this thread, suggested that U.S. world domination should be terminated - so you've missed the entire point. The means of domination, western domination, are unsustainable. My alternative is not to that domination, it is to the strategy, and that alternative is diplomacy over unsustainable military interventions.
I've already stated that this is a 100 year long process - but so is occupation of the middle east. Diplomacy, however, is sustainable for that hundred year plan.
Heather, look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves
We have currently 54 years of PROVEN reserves. And by the way, guess how many oil reserves were discovered in 2009? TWO HUNDRED.
I am afraid "peak oil" is as bogus as AGW...
Perhaps you could learn a bit about the calculations here:
- The US is the de-facto ruler of a world empire at this moment, and has been for over 60 years. As such, it is the most benign (by far) empire ever to have existed on Earth.
Benign, in what respect? Human rights, say? Sure. But what we have here is, primarily, an economic empire - and when it comes to diverting resources (especially non-renewable ones) from other countries for its own good, the US is the less benign (by far) empire ever to have existed on Earth.
It may look cynical to put human lives and mineral ores on the same footing, but let's face it - had the Roman Empire plundered the planet as well as enslaved its inhabitants, we wouldn't notice the effects of the latter today. But we sure would notice we live on a depleted world.
Interesting conversations.
How about we don't blame the west or the east but we do try to take a historical look at the cases of "American imperialism" and take responsibility for it. I think that's what several people in this thread have been doing. Of course they may be jealous of us for our prosperity, but for our freedom?
As the worlds only empire, we have to take responsibility. We pick and choose which regimes to support and take out. Based on what? In Syria the murder of civilians is arguably far beyond Libya, but we sit on the sidelines? It's hypocrisy. But this has been the status quo for the US for years. Let's begin with the genocide of the American Indian, which still has not been full acknowledged, and go from there.
Alejandro, the US may not step down, but may by default lose its position as a hegemony. Things are going from bad to worse in this country and our course is not sustainable.


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A Mexican American dog trainer, Cesar Millan will reveal the secrets of happier and healthier relationships between humans and dogs in his exciting live show in Jakarta. You can learn about dog's behavior and how to change it with him. Cesar will share his philosophies and methods, then present examples via live demonstrations with multiple dogs. You will also have the chance to ask Cesar your questions during the audience Q&A session.
As a self-taught expert, Cesar Millan is widely known for his television series Dog Whisperer in Nat Geo Wild which broadcast in more than eighty countries worldwide from 2004 to 2012. From his years of experience, Cesar showed amazingly way to bring harmony and balance into your and your dog's lives.
Cesar Millan Live in Jakarta will be held on Saturday 26th April 2014 at The Kasablanka, Jalan Casablanca Raya Kav. 88, Central Jakarta, 12870. If you want to see how Cesar perform his incredible dog training techniques, LIVE, don't miss this one!


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