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"iPro Studios" and "iPro Putt"
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I believe it is a unique and innovative app that offers a new way for users to interact with their iPhone.
I will be featuring the winning designer's name and contact information (if desired) within the app, on the iTunes store and on my future website.
For iPhone and iPod Touch users and golfers specifically. While there is a game element to the app, it will mainly used as a putting training device.
New: The current designs have basically followed my initial instructions. Now I'm looking for designs that think outside of the box for the iPro Studios and iPro Putt logos. I'm looking for something with a little more serious tone and colors (but fun). Think Apple design.
The icon that will appear in iTunes should be 57x57 and 512x512 png.

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Trigonometry, by Lial, Margaret L.; Hornsby, E. John; Schneider, David I.; SCHNEIDER, I. DAVID
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- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 10/1/1996
Student's Solution Manual Complete, worked-out solutions are given for odd-numbered exercises and chapter review exercises and all chapter test exercises in a volume available for purchase by students. In addition, a practice chapter test and cumulative review exercises are provided for each chapter.
|p. viii
|Supplements Guide
|p. xii
|Trigonometric Functions
|p. 1
|p. 2
|Basic Terminology
|Degree Measure
|Standard Position
|Coterminal Angles
|Angle Relationships and Similar Triangles
|p. 9
|Geometric Properties
|Trigonometric Functions
|p. 20
|Trigonometric Functions
|Quadrantal Angles
|Using the Definitions of the Trigonometric Functions
|p. 27
|Reciprocal Identities
|Signs and Ranges of Function Values
|Pythagorean Identities
|Quotient Identities
|p. 37
|Review Exercises
|p. 39
|p. 42
|Quantitative Reasoning
|p. 44
|Acute Angles and Right Triangles
|p. 45
|Trigonometric Functions of Acute Angles
|p. 46
|Right-Triangle-Based Definitions of the Trigonometric Functions
|Trigonometric Function Values of Special Angles
|Trigonometric Functions of Non-Acute Angles
|p. 55
|Reference Angles
|Special Angles as Reference Angles
|Finding Angle Measures with Special Angles
|Finding Trigonometric Function Values Using a Calculator
|p. 62
|Finding Function Values Using a Calculator
|Finding Angle Measures Using a Calculator
|Solving Right Triangles
|p. 68
|Significant Digits
|Solving Triangles
|Angles of Elevation or Depression
|Further Applications of Right Triangles
|p. 77
|Further Applications
|p. 86
|Review Exercises
|p. 88
|p. 91
|Quantitative Reasoning
|p. 92
|Radian Measure and Circular Functions
|p. 93
|Radian Measure
|p. 94
|Radian Measure
|Converting Between Degrees and Radians
|Finding Function Values for Angles in Radians
|Applications of Radian Measure
|p. 99
|Arc Length on a Circle
|Area of a Sector of a Circle
|The Unit Circle and Circular Functions
|p. 108
|Circular Functions
|Finding Values of Circular Functions
|Determining a Number with a Given Circular Function Value
|Applying Circular Functions
|Linear and Angular Speed
|p. 116
|Linear Speed
|Angular Speed
|p. 122
|Review Exercises
|p. 124
|p. 128
|Quantitative Reasoning
|p. 129
|Graphs of the Circular Functions
|p. 131
|Graphs of the Sine and Cosine Functions
|p. 132
|Periodic Functions
|Graph of the Sine Function
|Graph of the Cosine Function
|Graphing Techniques, Amplitude, and Period
|Using a Trigonometric Model
|Translations of the Graphs of the Sine and Cosine Functions
|p. 146
|Horizontal Translations
|Vertical Translations
|Combinations of Translations
|Determining a Trigonometric Model Using Curve Fitting
|Graphs of the Other Circular Functions
|p. 155
|Graphs of the Cosecant and Secant Functions
|Graphs of the Tangent and Cotangent Functions
|Addition of Ordinates
|Summary Exercises on Graphing Circular Functions
|p. 168
|Harmonic Motion
|p. 168
|Simple Harmonic Motion
|Damped Oscillatory Motion
|p. 173
|Review Exercises
|p. 175
|p. 178
|Quantitative Reasoning
|p. 779
|Trigonometric Identities
|p. 181
|Fundamental Identities
|p. 182
|Negative-Angle Identities
|Fundamental Identities
|Using the Fundamental Identities
|Verifying Trigonometric Identities
|p. 188
|Verifying Identities by Working with One Side
|Verifying Identities by Working with Both Sides
|Sum and Difference Identities for Cosine
|p. 197
|Difference Identity for Cosine
|Sum Identity for Cosine
|Cofunction Identities
|Applying the Sum and Difference Identities
|Sum and Difference Identities for Sine and Tangent
|p. 205
|Sum and Difference Identities for Sine
|Sum and Difference Identities for Tangent
|Applying the Sum and Difference Identities
|Double-Angle Identities
|p. 212
|Double-Angle Identities
|Product-to-Sum and Sum-to-Product Identities
|Half-Angle Identities
|p. 221
|Half-Angle Identities
|Applying the Half-Angle Identities
|Summary Exercises on Verifying Trigonometric Identities
|p. 227
|p. 229
|Review Exercises
|p. 231
|p. 233
|Quantitative Reasoning
|p. 234
|Inverse Circular Functions and Trigonometric Equations
|p. 235
|Inverse Circular Functions
|p. 236
|Inverse Functions
|Inverse Sine Function
|Inverse Cosine Function
|Inverse Tangent Function
|Remaining Inverse Circular Functions
|Inverse Function Values
|Trigonometric Equations I
|p. 249
|Solving by Linear Methods
|Solving by Factoring
|Solving by Quadratic Methods
|Solving by Using Trigonometric Identities
|Trigonometric Equations II
|p. 256
|Equations with Half-Angles
|Equations with Multiple Angles
|Equations Involving Inverse Trigonometric Functions
|p. 262
|Solving for x in Terms of y Using Inverse Functions
|Solving Inverse Trigonometric Equations
|p. 269
|Review Exercises
|p. 271
|p. 273
|Quantitative Reasoning
|p. 274
|Applications of Trigonometry and Vectors
|p. 275
|Oblique Triangles and the Law of Sines
|p. 276
|Congruency and Oblique Triangles
|Derivation of the Law of Sines
|Solving SAA and ASA Triangles (Case 1)
|Area of a Triangle
|The Ambiguous Case of the Law of Sines
|p. 287
|Description of the Ambiguous Case
|Solving SSA Triangles (Case 2)
|Analyzing Data for Possible Number of Triangles
|The Law of Cosines
|p. 293
|Derivation of the Law of Cosines
|Solving SAS and SSS Triangles (Cases 3 and 4)
|Heron's Formula for the Area of a Triangle
|Vectors, Operations, and the Dot Product
|p. 305
|Basic Terminology
|Algebraic Interpretation of Vectors
|Operations with Vectors
|Dot Product and the Angle Between Vectors
|Applications of Vectors
|p. 315
|The Equilibrant
|Incline Applications
|Navigation Applications
|p. 322
|Review Exercises
|p. 325
|p. 329
|Quantitative Reasoning
|p. 330
|Complex Numbers, Polar Equations, and Parametric Equations
|p. 331
|Complex Numbers
|p. 332
|Basic Concepts of Complex Numbers
|Complex Solutions of Equations
|Operations on Complex Numbers
|Trigonometric (Polar) Form of Complex Numbers
|p. 341
|The Complex Plane and Vector Representation
|Trigonometric (Polar) Form
|Converting Between Trigonometric and Polar Forms
|An Application of Complex Numbers to Fractals
|The Product and Quotient Theorems
|p. 347
|Products of Complex Numbers in Trigonometric Form
|Quotients of Complex Numbers in Trigonometric Form
|De Moivre's Theorem; Powers and Roots of Complex Numbers
|p. 352
|Powers of Complex Numbers (De Moivre's Theorem)
|Roots of Complex Numbers
|Polar Equations and Graphs
|p. 359
|Polar Coordinate System
|Graphs of Polar Equations
|Converting from Polar to Rectangular Equations
|Classifying Polar Equations
|Parametric Equations, Graphs, and Applications
|p. 371
|Basic Concepts
|Parametric Graphs and Their Rectangular Equivalents
|The Cycloid
|Applications of Parametric Equations
|p. 379
|Review Exercises
|p. 382
|p. 385
|Quantitative Reasoning
|p. 386
|Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
|p. 387
|Exponential Functions
|p. 388
|Exponents and Properties
|Exponential Functions
|Exponential Equations
|Compound Interest
|The Number e and Continuous Compounding
|Exponential Models and Curve Fitting
|Logarithmic Functions
|p. 402
|Logarithmic Equations
|Logarithmic Functions
|Properties of Logarithms
|Evaluating Logarithms; Equations and Applications
|p. 413
|Common Logarithms
|Natural Logarithms
|Logarithms to Other Bases
|Exponential and Logarithmic Equations
|p. 426
|Review Exercises
|p. 428
|p. 431
|Quantitative Reasoning
|p. 432
|Equations and Inequalities
|p. 433
|Solving Linear Equations
|Solving Quadratic Equations
|Solving Linear Inequalities
|Interval Notation
|Three-Part Inequalities
|Graphs of Equations
|p. 442
|The Rectangular Coordinate System
|The Pythagorean Theorem and the Distance Formula
|The Midpoint Formula
|Graphing Equations
|p. 450
|Relations and Functions
|Domain and Range
|Determining Whether a Relation Is a Function
|Function Notation
|Increasing, Decreasing, and Constant Functions
|Graphing Techniques
|p. 460
|Stretching and Shrinking
|p. 469
|Solutions to Selected Exercises
|p. S-1
|Answers to Selected Exercises
|p. A-1
|Index of Applications
|p. I-1
|p. I-3
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OMAHA, Neb. -- An insurance company that canceled the homeowner's policy of a Nebraska sheriff's deputy because of his K-9 unit dog said Thursday it's looking to change its practices regarding police dogs.
American Family Insurance Co. also offered an apology Thursday to Douglas County Deputy Andy Woodward, who received a letter from the insurer this month informing him his policy would end Dec. 19 "due to the additional liability exposure of your police dog."
Woodward, 36, said he learned in July after the insurance company conducted its annual inspection of his home that American Family was considering ending his homeowner's policy because he cares for his K-9, Diezel _ which the insurer said violated its policy of insuring those with aggressive dogs.
Woodward said he informed his agent that the county carries liability insurance for the dog and thought the matter was settled, until he received the cancellation letter on Oct. 15.
"It was just like a slap in the face," said Woodward, who is required by the sheriff's office to keep the 4-year-old Belgian Malinois at his home. "I'm going to get dropped from my home insurance for this?"
Steve Witmer, a spokesman for American Family, called the cancellation "an unfortunate misunderstanding" Wednesday, saying the company expected the deputy to provide confirmation that Douglas County held liability insurance on the dog.
On Thursday, Witmer said the company was at fault.
"The miscommunication was on our part," Witmer said. "This is something that should have been a relatively easy process, and it turned into a hardship for Mr. Woodward. For that, we truly do apologize."
Woodward is the fourth law enforcement officer in 33 years to face having his American Family homeowner's policy canceled because of the presence of a police dog, Witmer said. In all the cases, except for Woodward's, coverage continued because proof of liability coverage on the K-9s was shown, he said.
Dog bites account for the largest percentage of homeowners' liability claims, Witmer said, and because of that, American Family's underwriting guidelines list certain types of dogs as being ineligible for homeowners' insurance, including breeds deemed to be aggressive, such as Akitas, American pit bull terriers, chows, Rottweilers and wolf hybrids.
The company, he said Wednesday, does not sell policies to those who own a trained guard or attack dog, and the company had deemed police dogs as such.
But that changed Thursday.
"We're looking at our guidelines as they apply to police dogs and acknowledging that the interpretation of those guidelines wasn't in the spirit of what was intended. The guidelines weren't intended to cover households with police dogs," he said.
Woodward said Thursday he had not heard from American Family. He has already obtained homeowners' insurance through another company.
"My only reaction is that I don't want this to happen to another law enforcement officer," he said. "It was gut-wrenching ... I have two boys and a wife who come first, and to have that happen and the possibility of not having insurance to cover my family was just one of the most stressful things I've gone through in a long time."
News of Woodward's predicament grabbed the attention of the nation's largest law enforcement union. Jim Pasco, executive director of the National Fraternal Order of Police, had earlier warned that American Family should prepare to be shunned by its 325,000 members.
Pasco said Thursday he wasn't buying the company's apology and questioned its sudden about-face.
"They acted in self interest in terminating the deputy's insurance, and they've clearly acted in enlightened self-interest in changing their policy," Pasco said. "That being said, we're happy that American Family has joined the entire insuring universe in recognizing that police dogs enhance safety rather than adversely affecting it."
Woodward said American Family's policy of lumping police dogs in with other aggressive dogs doesn't make sense. He said Diezel, a drug-sniffing and patrol dog, will attack only at his command and undergoes eight hours of obedience training a week.
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I am currently using Firefox, use Opera a lot, have IE for some limited reasons, and have a Chrome app.
What search engine do you use?
I've become quite fond of Bing and find it gives me better responses than Google - which I also use.
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In Custody: Journalists Behind Bars
By Michael Edison Hayden
SRINAGAR, India – Sahil Maqbool winces through his tender smile with the kind of vulnerability typically seen in people who have endured either great public humiliation or private tragedy. In his case it's been a heavy dosage of both. The 44-year-old Kashmiri journalist and poet says he was deceived by men he trusted, thrown in jail, and, according to him, brutally tortured after his arrest on Sept. 16, 2004.
Mr. Maqbool had been making his living as an investigative journalist in India's troubled region of Kashmir.
"I lost everything," Mr. Maqbool says from the lobby of a houseboat in Srinagar, the morning sun beating down on Dal Lake behind him. "I lost my sources, my contacts. You can appreciate the importance of such things. I even lost my family home that I had been maintaining for years. My camera. Laptop. Passport. Everything. Gone."
Mr. Maqbool joins a list of Indian journalists and editorialists who claim they have been jailed simply for doing their jobs. The arrest of political cartoonist Aseem Trivedi earlier this year, created a national debate about free speech, but cases like that of Mr. Maqbool's have received significantly less publicity.
The lush, mountainous region of Kashmir straddles India and Pakistan and is claimed in its entirety by both countries. Tensions between law enforcement authorities and Kashmiris seeking their region's independence from Indian rule occasionally flare up into violence. The years around Mr. Maqbool's arrest, were a particularly tumultuous time in Srinagar, the main city in Kashmir.
A devout Muslim, Mr. Maqbool says he was detained one afternoon after Friday prayers, outside of an office of the Indian Army in Badami Bagh, a cantonment town in Srinagar heavily populated by military bases. Mr. Maqbool says that an army public relations officer he knew from his work at the Urdu newspaper "Chattan," invited him into the offices under the pretense of the army placing an ad in the paper. Chattan is a paper with a small staff, and uses employees to fulfill multiple roles.
An Indian army spokesman denied any knowledge of Mr. Maqbool's claims. The public relations officer implicated by Mr. Maqbool could not be reached for comment.
After an hour of waiting in the offices and sipping chai, Mr. Maqbool says he was eventually dismissed. As he left the entrance of the cantonment at an area known as Rajendera Singh Gate, he says he was tossed into a jeep by five men in civilian clothing and blindfolded. Mr. Maqbool claims that he was able to recognize them as army personnel from his time working as an investigative journalist in the region.
Mr. Maqbool says he was then taken to Hari Niwas. Once the residence of the local maharaja, and located in a picturesque spot beside Dal Lake, human rights activists like Khurram Parvez, program coordinator of the human rights group Jammu & Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society, say this place became an interrogation center for the army between 1997 and 2007, a time when militancy was at its peak in Kashmir. The army declined to comment on allegations Hari Nawas was used by the army to interrogate suspects during that time.
The army denies any knowledge of Mr. Maqbool's interrogation. An army spokesman said interrogation cells in Srinagar are no longer in use due to an overall decrease in military operations throughout the region. "These are things from the past that are being phased out now as Kashmir enters a more peaceful time," he said, when asked about allegations of torture in these chambers.
The army's account of interrogation cells differs from that of human rights groups who claim that such places are still active throughout Srinagar, and regularly moved to new locations in order to maintain discretion. Mr. Parvez and his organization, for example, are currently putting together a report alleging torture in Jammu Kashmir that includes first-hand accounts and medical records.
Mr. Maqbool said in an interview that he had visited Hari Nawas as a journalist and says he immediately recognized the peeling, white interiors. He claims he was held approximately 15 days under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, a law that protects soldiers operating in conflicted areas from prosecution for alleged human rights abuses, before espionage-related charges were formally filed against him.
Mr. Maqbool was accused by the army of working in collusion with Pakistan's intelligence agency during a visit to that country in 2001. Mr. Maqbool denies this, saying the purpose of his visit was to interview migrants who had left the Indian side of Kashmir for Pakistan. An army spokesman declined to comment on allegations Mr. Maqbool visited Pakistan for the stated purpose of conducting the interviews he described.
Mr. Gilani was charged nine days after his arrest on charges of espionage on behalf of Pakistan's ISI, the Inter-Services Intelligence.
During his preliminary interrogation, before he was charged and sent to the central jail in the state of Jammu & Kashmir, Mr. Maqbool alleges that he was beaten, suspended by his arms from the ceiling, and had the muscles in his legs mauled by rollers. According to Mr. Maqbool, the officers who conducted the interrogation were army officers he recognized from his time working as an investigative reporter. He claims that by the time he reached prison he had lost the ability to walk on his own strength.
The army spokesman claimed that harsh interrogation practices were "not common" in today's Kashmiri prisons. "I cannot comment on specific cases," the officer said, "but such an incident would only occur with a dangerous terrorist."
No medical records could be produced to verify Mr. Maqbool's story. His account is similar to cases of prison abuse reported by local and international human rights groups in the region. For instance, in the report "Alleged Perpetrators: Stories of Impunity in Jammu and Kashmir," conducted by two local human rights groups – the International People's Tribunal for Human Rights and Justice in Indian Kashmir and the Association of Parents and Disappeared Persons – many of the 214 cases of alleged abduction, torture, and judicial killings it listed occurred not in prisons but in temporary holding stations or interrogation cells.
After being transferred to Jammu and Kashmir's Central Jail, Mr. Maqbool remained in prison for another three years and four months before ultimately being let out on bail. Eight years after his arrest, he is still awaiting trial.
Mr. Maqbool believes that the sensitive nature of his reporting was why he was detained. "I was reporting on corruption, custodial killings, encounters, things of that nature," Mr. Maqbool says. "I had been focusing on human rights abuses, specifically, performed by the army," he adds. The work to which Mr. Maqbool refers had been published in the daily Urdu language papers of Chattan.
When asked about allegations that the army targets journalists, including on the specific claims made by Mr. Maqbool, an army spokesman responded by saying that ties with the local press are "very strong." He did not elaborate.
Mr. Maqbool is not the only Kashmiri journalists who has spent time in prison on similar accusations.
Iftikar Gilani, 45, is the author of "My Days in Prison," a memoir that recounts his own experience of going from being a respected journalist to an alleged spy in Tihar Jail.
Mr. Gilani, who today reports for the newspaper Daily News and Analysis, was arrested in 2002 while writing for the Kashmir Times, a local paper.
Mr. Gilani, like Mr. Maqbool, had been covering military operations in Kashmir for many years.
"When they realized I was a journalist and they figured what I was writing about they came down hard on me," he said. The military declined to comment on questions about the arrest of and detention of Mr. Gilani.
Mr. Gilani, a resident of Delhi, was ultimately taken to the city's Tihar Jail where he claims he was beaten, tortured, and forced to clean excrement with a shirt that he was later made to wear for three consecutive days, instances he describes in his memoir.
"Don't believe that nonsense about reforms," he says, "Tihar is the worst jail in the entire world."
Sunil Gupta, a spokesperson for Tihar Jail, told me during my visit there that while individual cases could not be addressed, torture is strictly forbidden in the facility.
But unlike Mr. Maqbool, Mr. Gilani was out of prison within a matter of eight months, after charges were dropped. He attributes this to the active support of the Kashmir Times, which lobbied for his release. Anurata Bhasin, the paper's executive editor confirmed Mr. Gilani's statement, saying that the Kashmir Times did "everything it possibly could" to support Mr. Gilani's cause for freedom.
Mr. Maqbool could not count on the same support from his organization, Chattan. "I was unlucky," Mr. Maqbool recalls, with reference to Chattan, "under pressure of the army, they kept silent."
Tahir Mohidin, a senior editor at Chattan, spoke with sadness and resignation about Mr. Maqbool's plight. "There were allegations against him but they have never been proven," says Mr. Mohidin who contends that the paper did as much as they could to help Mr. Maqbool at the time of his arrest.
"We contacted different officials and argued on his behalf," he says.
The Director General of Prisons for Jammu and Kashmir, Navin Agarwal, 51, says that, while tragic if true, Mr. Maqbool's case cannot be proven. "The alleged instances of torture did not occur either of the region's two main jails," he said. Mr. Agarwal is responsible only for the imprisonment that occurs after a suspect has been formally charged, and is either awaiting trial or serving a sentence after conviction.
Mr. Maqbool wrote about his time in prison in a memoir, "The Darkness Inside," which was written in Urdu. Once inside Jammu and Kashmir's Central Jail, where regulations against torture are strictly supervised, Mr. Maqbool claims to have grown almost fond of his time in prison, focusing on writing and prayer.
"I turned prison into a library," he says proudly.
Mr. Maqbool is now back to working as a journalist for the weekly Urdu paper Pukaar. He also hosts a show for a local radio and television station. But the healing process for Mr. Maqbool has been slow, and he is still waiting to clear his name.
Tomorrow we look at what prison reform experts say should be done to improve the country's prison and custody system.
- Vibhuti Agarwal contributed to this post.
Michael Edison Hayden is an American writer currently living in Mumbai.
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Jose gets "smart" with this five-spot campaign for BBDO Berlin. For our very first co-production with our friends at Film Deluxe, we are very proud to showcase the work of Shilo co-founder and director Jose Gomez for BBDO Berlin and the phenomenal smart vehicles from Daimler AG. Over the past several months, Jose has directed five spots for the smart campaign. The "A Big Idea" campaign ads from BBDO Berlin creative director Ton Hollander and his colleagues focus on the new smart fortwo vehicle that recently arrived at smart center dealerships worldwide. Each spot presents an important quandary many people face, and uses clever copy to position the smart fortwo as the ideal solution. To interest a wide range of viewers within the narratives, the spots' simple style features engaging animated characters coming to life on live-action city walls. At the end of each one, the location-based stop-motion background cinematography finds a smart fortwo.
Project Title: smart fortwo A Big Idea campaign "A big idea for two"
Spot Length: :30
Debut Date: Feb. 11, 2011
More Info: http://bit.ly/JGsmart
Client: Daimler AG smart
Advertising Agency: BBDO Berlin GmbH
Creators: T. Bazarkaya, T. Hollander, D. Mously, J. Ringena, W. Schneider, A. Fruscella
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Official Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson has given an interview to the New York Times where he reveals what Steve Jobs was going to tackle next at Apple, including television, text books, and photography.
He had three things that he wanted to reinvent: the television, textbooks and photography. He really wanted to take these on. I didn't go into details about these products in the book because it was implicitly Apple's creations and it's not fair to the company to reveal these details. But, he did talk about the television. He told me he'd "licked it" and once said, "There's no reason you should have all these complicated remote controls."
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William Paley
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Paley was born in Peterborough in July 1743. His father, William, was vicar of Helpston, Northamptonshire, and, later, headmaster of the Giggleswick School. William attended Giggleswick prior to entering Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1759, where he had a brilliant career, excelling in mathematics and debating. After a brief period as a school-teacher Paley was elected a fellow at his college in 1766 and tutor in 1768. He remained at Cambridge until his marriage in 1776. Subsequently Paley, who had been ordained in 1767, accepted a series of ecclesiastical appointments which were less distinguished than his abilities because of his liberal political views.
Paley was the author of four books. He published The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy in 1785. Horae Paulinae, a defense of the New Testament, appeared in 1790. A view of the Evidences of Christianity, issued in 1794, achieved great fame. Natural Theology; or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity Collected from the Appearances of Nature was published in 1802. He died in Lincoln on May 25, 1805. Paley's most successful work was Natural Theology, which presented in a clear and lucid manner all of the evidences for the existence of God. Philosophers and theologians have always distinguished between knowledge of the fact that a supreme being exists and knowledge of what such an existence would involve. Paley, as a liberal theologian and thinker, was close to the position of medieval negative theology and 17th-century deism, believing that man can know that the Supreme Being exists but that he can know nothing of His attributes. Thus Paley attempted to establish that the evidence for the existence of God exceeds the objections. Paley's method was analogical reasoning.
His most famous illustration was that a reasonable man will admit that experience establishes that the intricate and connected parts of a watch can be produced only by an intelligent designer. If evidence suggests that the workings of the present universe are more complicated and interdependent than those of a watch, then a reasonable man must conclude by analogy, that it is highly probable that God exists as the designer of the universe. Indirectly, said Paley, a reasonable man can attribute personality and power to such a being because these are the experienced conditions of a designer. The weakness of Paley's argument consists in his failure to question the analogy between a watch and a world.
Works by William Paley
In Evidence of Christianity, Paley argues for the truth of Christianity by providing his readers with evidence in favor of the Bible's authenticity and the existence of God and miracles. Paley considers many historical and biblical factors; for example, he considers the legitimacy of ancient Jewish prophecy, the fulfillment of prophecies in the New Testament, and the early propagation of Christianity during the first century. One way that Paley argues for the authenticity of the Bible is by citing the significant overlap that is observed in the individual accounts of Christ found in the New Testament. Paley is very diplomatic in his presentation. He considers several objections to the evidence that he has offered. He presents several sides of every issue and resolves disputes by appealing to the strongest body of evidence. As Paley was an influential philosopher, many of the points in this book directly respond to the work of other philosophers of his time. Paley's book does an excellent job of piecing together the facts which form the foundation of the Christian faith.
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Meet the lawyer who argued money is speech, and won
WASHINGTON — A conservative Indiana lawyer engineered the string of legal victories that have enabled corporations and wealthy individuals to channel tens of millions of dollars into this year's midterm elections secretly, a study by campaign watchdogs has found.
James Bopp Jr., a Republican-backed lawyer from Terre Haute, Ind., who's fought campaign finance laws for 30 years, filed the suit that led to last January's Supreme Court decision allowing unlimited corporate and union dollars to bankroll independent election ads.
Bopp said he's now challenging laws in at least a dozen states, including California, Florida, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, Ohio, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin, which require disclosure of the names of campaign contributors.
Some of those cases, Bopp said, challenge requirements to disclose all donations of $25 or more, a threshold he considers to be too low.
"James Bopp is the point man for conservative wealthy interests whose goal is to dismantle the laws and regulations we have in place to stop the buying of Congress and other elected officials," said former Democratic Pennsylvania Rep. Bob Edgar, the president of the liberal-leaning lobby Common Cause.
Labor unions also have capitalized on the relaxed rules to spend tens of millions of dollars from their treasuries this year, but there's no mystery about the source of their funds: members' dues.
By Sunday, nonprofit groups backing Republican candidates or opposing their foes had spent $105 million, compared with $61.7 million by those supporting Democrats, according the Washington-based Sunlight Foundation. However, national Democratic Party committees had narrowed the gap by doling out $67.9 million, outpacing their GOP counterparts by more than $7 million.
To be sure, prominent outside groups that support Democrats are in the game, too. Abortion-rights group EMILY's List and the liberal activist group Moveon.Org, for example, have spent less than $1 million combined so far, and they've disclosed their large donors.
Common Cause and another liberal-leaning group, Public Campaign, commissioned Klein Research Services to conduct the study of Bopp's record, headlined "The Man Behind Our Secret Elections." McClatchy obtained an advance copy.
Reached by telephone, Bopp chuckled at the findings and said: "Oh gosh, this is probably the most credit I've ever gotten. And I already think I get an unwarranted amount of credit, because judges write the opinions."
While the study cited a statement in which he purportedly said he had a 10-year plan to dismantle campaign finance laws, Bopp said that came from a joke he made earlier this year.
"I said I had a 10-year plan in my head," he said. "There's no 10-year plan. There's just things I think about."
The study said that Bopp has served as both a legal defender of and a recipient of political cash from undisclosed donors, in addition to payments of more than $1 million since 2003 from the Republican National Committee.
Bopp said that he's crusaded against both federal campaign donation limits and disclosure requirements because he thinks corporations have First Amendment rights in election campaigns and shouldn't be "punished" with negative publicity for exercising them.
A series of court cases spearheaded by Bopp, his nonprofit James Madison Center for Free Speech and other conservative legal centers have unraveled key underpinnings of the 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, which Congress enacted in an effort to plug the unlimited flow of cash into federal elections.
The court rulings, capped by the Supreme Court's landmark Citizens United decision early this year, reversed the prohibition on the airing of campaign-season issue ads that identify candidates, but don't directly support or oppose them. The high court also lifted a long-standing ban on independent corporate spending to influence elections.
The rulings, however, left intact a bar on direct corporate donations to political campaigns, and the Supreme Court appeared to encourage rules to require disclosure of the donors' names. Eight of the nine justices concurred in a section of the opinion that envisioned "effective disclosure" of donors' names via the Internet, available to voters.
However, the Federal Election Commission implemented the ruling more narrowly, requiring only identification of contributors who designate money for specific advertisements, not those who donate for general campaign themes.
In the past, conservative legal strategists argued that full, timely disclosure of the sources of campaign money is all that's needed to regulate campaign spending. Now, said Paul Ryan, a lawyer for the Campaign Legal Center, they seem to have changed their minds.
A McClatchy review of recent FEC reports has found that the court's action and the FEC's implementation of it have enabled special interests to pour big bucks into this fall's races, often without disclosing the sources of the money.
Take the political committee American Crossroads, created by Karl Rove, the chief architect of George W. Bush's two presidential victories, and former Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie. The group has identified large donors, some writing seven-figure checks, to finance the nearly $16 million it's spent to support Republican congressional candidates since Sept. 15, mainly in 10 key Senate races.
However, Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies, a sister group that operates from the same offices, hasn't disclosed the identities of any of the donors who've bankrolled $11 million in expenditures for GOP candidates, especially in seven Senate contests.
Yet another group sharing the office suite, the tax-exempt American Action Network, headed by former Republican Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota, has spent $3.3 million directly supporting GOP candidates or opposing their Democratic rivals and another $14.8 million since Sept. 1 on issue ads naming candidates, also without disclosing its donors.
Both Crossroads GPS and the American Action Network have claimed 501(c)(4) tax-exempt status, which is permitted only if influencing elections isn't the groups' "primary purpose."
They've kept their donors' names secret under a rule that exempts those who didn't designate their money for specific ads. Democratic Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, has asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the legitimacy of such groups' tax status.
In other examples:
_ The U.S. Chamber of Commerce created a tax-exempt entity to air issue ads as part of its campaign for a Congress that's friendlier to business. The new rules require these groups to identify donors who give $1,000 or more to back such campaign communications unless the money doesn't go for particular ads.
Citing the breadth of its campaign, the Chamber has declined to identify any of the contributors who've financed more than $32 million in expenditures through Friday.
_ The Club for Growth, a political action committee that's backed GOP candidates for years and some anti-tax tea party candidates this year, found a way to assist its former president, Pat Toomey, in his campaign to succeed Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who lost the Democratic primary to Rep. Joe Sestak.
While Toomey's campaign, like all others, is constrained by a $2,400 limit on donations from any one individual, the newly formed Club for Growth Action Fund solicited unlimited donations and has spent at least $3.9 million aiding GOP Senate candidates, including $2.1 million to help Toomey against Sestak.
_ According to the Sunlight Foundation, the Citizens for a Working America PAC has spent $250,000 to oppose the re-election of South Carolina Democratic Rep. John Spratt, the chairman of the House Budget Committee. The group reported one donor: New Models, a Virginia-based tax-exempt group that doesn't reveal its contributors.
Bopp said that some conservative tax-exempt groups have begun collecting donations of less than $1,000, putting them into separate accounts for use in financing ads so the donors don't have to be identified and "drug through the mud" even if they bankroll specific ads.
While large campaign donations can corrupt a candidate, Bopp said, "There is literally no evidence that independent spending corrupts candidates."
Ryan counted that that under the current rules, "it's extremely easy to launder your money through a harmless-sounding group like Americans for America, while hiding the identity of arguably less-popular true funders."
Tidal wave of outside money swamping 2010 elections
Will flood of big money make a difference in election?
Does big ad spending matter if voters just tune it out?
Democrats' Senate odds improve as key races tighten
Candidates ignore media, but it's voters who stand to lose
To avoid GOP romp, Democrats must get out black vote
Michelle Obama hits trail to help vulnerable Democrats
McClatchy's politics blog, Planet Washington


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MILAN (Reuters) - Italian prosecutors called on Monday for a six-year jail sentence and a lifetime ban on holding public office for centre-right leader and former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who is charged with abuse of office and paying for sex with a minor.
The 76-year-old billionaire media tycoon and senator is accused of paying for sex with Karima El Mahroug, better known by her stage name "Ruby the Heartstealer", when she was under 18, during the now notorious "bunga bunga" parties at his villa at Arcore near Milan in 2010.
However, prosecutors considered by far the more serious charge was that he abused the powers of his office during a separate incident by arranging for her to be released from police custody where she was being held on theft charges.
They requested five years imprisonment for that and a year for paying for sex with a minor. The verdict is expected on June 24. But no final verdict will be enforced in either case until the appeals process, which can last for years, is exhausted.
Still, Berlusconi's legal difficulties have created growing tension within Prime Minister Enrico Letta's governing coalition, which includes the ex-premier's center-right party.
"At Arcore there was a system of organized prostitution aimed at the satisfaction of the sexual pleasure of Silvio Berlusconi," Milan chief prosecutor Ilda Boccassini said in a more than six-hour closing argument.
Boccassini said a small army of young women, many of them aspiring starlets, took part in the sex parties at Berlusconi's residence, hoping to make it big on one of his television channels. Those who stayed on after dinner were rewarded with cash, cars or free apartments, she said.
The prosecutor said mobile phone records showed that Ruby, a Moroccan runaway, had spent the night at Berlusconi's home on at least seven occasions between February and May 2010.
"There is no doubt that Ruby had sex with the defendant, from whom she received benefits," Boccassini said, adding that Berlusconi was well aware she was a minor.
Berlusconi flatly denies the accusations. El Mahroug, who staged a dramatic protest outside the Milan court last month, denies being a prostitute or having had sex with Berlusconi.
Boccassini portrayed Ruby as a "shrewd, intelligent girl who like some young people of the latest generations has only one objective: that of making it in the world of show business and making easy money".
When, in May 2010, she was held by police on suspicion of stealing a 3,000-euro bracelet, Berlusconi "was forced to intervene and abuse his office" to keep her quiet and cover up the affair, Boccassini said.
In a statement, Berlusconi called Boccassini's arguments "lies inspired by prejudice and hatred".
The sentencing request added to a morass of legal problems facing Berlusconi, who last week lost an appeal against a four-year sentence for tax fraud in connection with his Mediaset broadcasting empire. He has launched a second and final appeal against that sentence.
Berlusconi mounted a fierce attack on prosecutors over the weekend at a stormy rally in the northern city of Brescia that was attended by centre-right members of the government including Interior Minister Angelino Alfano.
Letta's own centre-left Democratic Party (PD) sharply criticized Alfano's presence at the rally and the prime minister warned his coalition partners that there could be no repeat if the government was to survive.
Berlusconi's campaign continued on Sunday with a lavish two-hour special on his own Canale 5 channel presenting his version of the "bunga bunga" evenings.
The program showed El Mahroug admitting that she had lied about certain aspects of her life to investigators but flatly denying any sexual relationship with Berlusconi and complaining at media representations of her as a prostitute.
It filmed the dining room and theatre at Berlusconi's palatial villa near Milan and presented an array of witnesses who said the evenings there were convivial parties where he entertained guests by singing and telling stories.
However several women who testified at the trial spoke of girls, sometimes dressed up as nuns, stripping off at the parties while performing raunchy pole dances.
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A brief taxonomy of prolific musicians, in terms of popularity. We have the obsessed cranks, those who toil in underground music caves without the usual industry strictures to condense their output: R. Stevie Moore, Jandek, Senmuth. You've got your restless creatives, the major figures who earned the cultural and actual capital to indulge their every musical itch: James Brown, Frank Zappa, Prince. And you have the simply manic, the ones whose audience is larger than a WFMU Christmas party, but not large enough to send a new record careening up the charts. Bob Pollard comes to mind, and David Tibet, and the Mountain Goats' John Darnielle.
Sasha Frere-Jones' 2005 proclamation that Darnielle was "America's best non-hip-hop lyricist" has gotten a lot of play in interview prefaces. (Presumably, SF-J was creating wiggle room for Nigel Blackwell and Daniel Dumile, respectively.) As the driving force behind the Mountain Goats, he's maintained a breakneck recording pace for more than two decades; and as his band declines to take a breath, so, too have his fans. Darnielle's a beloved indie-rock figure, someone whose considered opinions on politics, sexism, and death metal have garnered him endless Tumblr reblogs. And yet, critical consensus has yet to alight on a particular album the way it has for so many of his peers.
The band's career can be divided into three periods: 1991 to 1995, 1996 to 2001, and 2002 to the present. The first phase was essentially solo Darnielle, with frequent contributions from bassist/singer Rachel Ware. Around 1995, other obligations kept her from touring and recording, and Darnielle began collaborating with a variety of other musicians, including Alastair Galbraith and future Goat Peter Hughes. In 2002, newly inked to 4AD, the band released its second LP of the year, and first as a full band recording in a studio. (Previous efforts were infamously laid down on personal four-tracks and cheap boomboxes.) The current lineup is John Darnielle, Peter Hughes, and drummer Jon Wurster (who also plays in Superchunk and Bob Mould's band).
The uniformity of Darnielle's output — nearly every song under four minutes, a singular recording approach until the 4AD years — and the conceptual framework in which he works — the "Alpha" and "Going to" series of songs, the Latin phrases that accompanied his releases for a time — make it an ideal temptation toward completism. He's resisted the retrospective impulse, even as his songs burrow into the psyches of fresh crops of undergrads. There are no best-ofs, no expanded reissues, and just a handful of compilations gathering the harder-to-find stuff. There would certainly be some kind of market for them; on last.fm, the Mountain Goats' songs have been scrobbled 30 million times, a shade under Pavement's 32 million, and more than contemporary bands like Built to Spill (16 million), Yo La Tengo (24 million), and Guided By Voices (14 million).
The success of the Mountain Goats speaks to a market inefficiency in indie rock. College rock repudiated the literalism of hardcore, spawning two decades of elliptical, allusive works. The Goats weren't the sole torchbearers of directness in the '90s and '00s, but they boasted a deep catalog of earnest, structurally simple works. Pick any of a hundred entry points into their songbook; I'm sure we could construct a thousand best-ofs between us. (I mentioned that no one Goats album sticks out as particularly acclaimed, but 2002's "No Children" and 2005's "This Year" would seem to be, far and away, the songs with the furthest reach.)
Darnielle has spoken often about his songs being short stories. Until 2004's We Shall All Be Healed, he was keeping the personal stuff at arm's length. (Although you can certainly argue, a la Yoko Ono, that all art is inescapably about the artist.) As for the actors within these songs: they're a rough bunch. Most everyone is hungry for something: good news, revenge, a split. Often, they're hungry for food. A lot of time is spent comprehending — or trying to comprehend — a lover, a friend, a mortal enemy.
That's not to say that his ragged crew is a set of unmoved movers. The psychogeography of a Mountain Goats album is invariably as thick as a cloud of gnats. Most narrative lyricists depict a situation by getting into the narrator's thoughts; often as not, Darnielle likes to get in through the screen door out back. Songs hinge on a scuffle in the kitchen, the sight of a peacock in the front lawn, copulation on the boggy Scottish earth.
Always, there's a real empathy. He's not putting his characters through their existential paces, springing cruelty or failure on them. His population typically boasts fiery wills, the certainty of their decisions, and the singlemindedness of a Captain Ahab who's perpetually late on the mortgage. The couplet I've seen quoted most often belongs to Zopilote Machine's "Going To Georgia": "The most remarkable thing about you standing in the doorway is that it's you / and that you're standing in the doorway." The narrator, of course, isn't being dug lovestruck out of a closet; he (or she) is bearing down on Atlanta with a revolver and a maniacally beating heart.
Speaking of Atlanta, it's worth taking a second to note the importance of location to the Mountain Goats' output. Darnielle's lived in a fair number of places. (Wikipedia — which currently has an article subsection called "Places Darnielle has lived" — pegs the journey as Bloomington, IN; San Luis Obispo, CA; Grinnell, IA; Tallahassee, FL; Colo, IA; Ames, IA; Chicago, IL; Portland, OR; Milpitas, CA; Denton, TX; and lastly, Durham, NC.) The sheer number of countries and cities he's referenced could comprise an indie-rock Domesday Book, or at least a new New Traveler's Atlas. A lot of these places are loci of suggestion, rather than immersion. "Going to Lebanon," for instance, is typical; it gets no more specific than cedars. But the sheer accrual of landmarks across his discography has a universalizing effect, as the action plays out in a thousand varieties in a hundred towns.
As if this activity weren't enough, Darnielle has maintained a consistent, genial online presence. Arguably, it's contributed to his continued popularity, as the man has been continually available on the band's message board, as well as perfectly willing to assure hundreds of indie-rock interviewers that yes, he's genuinely into Meshuggah. His internet CV encompasses the "South Pole Dispatch" column for Decibel, contributions to the late Magnet magazine, and an incredible series of music writing on his own Last Plane to Jakarta site. Last Plane to Jakarta was the accelerant for my Mountain Goats fandom; I don't know exactly what I expected from a boombox singer-songwriter, but it wasn't impassioned advocacy for Cretin, Aura Noir, and late-period Geto Boys. That ecumenicalism is the biggest clue that the Mountain Goats' corpus isn't just a collection of impeccably imagined portraits — even though it'd be just fine if that were the case — but the work of someone led by an unslakable thirst for experience.
It's that thirst that has seen the Goats through two decades of musicmaking. A mere three years in that span have passed without the release of new material: 1999, 2007, and 2010. Unlike a Robert Pollard, who made the transition from cassette recording to studio work with his penchant for fractured mod-pop intact, the Mountain Goats have undergone a slow evolution in sound and composition. I can't go from flops to tops with their output; I can only indicate preferences.
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France coach Jean-Michel Degrange told UEFA.com he was confident his side could etch their names on the trophy for a second time ever since their first training session ten months ago. A picture of "pride and joy", he is already looking to the future, hoping this is merely the beginning, not the end. That sentiment was echoed by England counterpart Mo Marley, who conceded France deserved their 2-1 victory but is already looking to next month's FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.
Jean-Michel Degrange, France coach
It is a real pleasure to lift that trophy. Last year we were not far away, but we unfortunately lost to Sweden having played a very good match; this year we were able to take the final step. I am very happy for the girls and French women's football. I hope this victory will help us to develop. A title can be a very good boost.
Most of all I feel a lot of pride for myself and a lot of joy for the players, because they were very good against an English team that was not easy to face. They caused a lot of problems, especially at the start because I decided to play with three attackers. At half-time I asked the team to play more compact and reinforced the midfield.
Arriving here we were able to keep 12 out of 18 girls from last year, which is an advantage for the cohesion and the comprehension of our tactics.
I have never told the press this before but I thought this group could win this championship right from the start of the season. From the first training [session] in August 2009, we fixed ourselves this objective to become European champions – and here we are.
Mo Marley, England manager
We know how France are feeling – it will be a great moment for them, a great occasion.
We've got no qualms as they deserved to win and it's a good opportunity for those young girls to experience what we've experienced. We've had highs and lows; hopefully from now on we have more highs than lows.
[Rebecca Spencer and Lucia Bronze] were crucial to our victory last year. We're not going to stop how we play [passing right from the back]. It's about the players recognising that in a final you don't get away with those [errors] − when you're up against technically gifted players like the French you get punished. That's exactly what happened, but I'm sure my players will learn from that and be better and stronger for the future.
In ten days' time we start preparations for the World Cup, so it's a lesson learned – positive and negative. On any other day you'd be delighted to get to the final, delighted with the silver medal, but for us it doesn't feel as good as last year when it was gold. We've got to three finals in the past four years which proves we're a top quality side, but from tomorrow we move on, preparing for the World Cup. We've always bounced back after a setback.


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The dead are often described as sleeping, but archaeologists in Cambridgeshire have uncovered a bed on which the body of a young Anglo-Saxon woman has lain for more than 1,300 years, a regal gold and garnet cross on her breast.
Three more graves, of two younger women and an older person whose sex has not yet been identified, were found nearby.
Forensic work on the first woman's bones suggests she was about 16, with no obvious explanation for her early death. Although she was almost certainly a Christian, buried with the beautiful cross stitched into place on her gown, she was buried according to ancient pagan tradition with some treasured possessions including an iron knife and a chatelaine, a chain hanging from her belt, and some glass beads which were probably originally in a purse that has rotted away.


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2. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
3. Star Island, by Carl Hiaasen, Knopf
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5. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell, Random House
6. Super Sad True Love Story, by Gary Shteyngart, Random House
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8. The Red Queen, by Philippa Gregory, Touchstone
9. The Postcard Killers, by James Patterson, Liza Marklund, Little Brown
10. The Rembrandt Affair, by Daniel Silva, Putnam
11. The Passage, by Justin Cronin, Ballantine
12. I Curse the River of Time, by Per Petterson, Graywolf
13. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, by Aimee Bender, Doubleday
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1. Sh*t My Dad Says, by Justin Halpern, It Books
2. Let's Take the Long Way Home, by Gail Caldwell, Random House
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17. The Murder Room, by Michael Capuzzo, Gotham
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1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson, Vintage
2. The Girl Who Played With Fire, by Stieg Larsson, Vintage
3. Little Bee, by Chris Cleave, S&S
4. Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese, Vintage
5. The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial
6. Tinkers, by Paul Harding, Bellevue Literary Press
7. The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein, Harper
8. Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann, Random House
9. A Gate at the Stairs, by Lorrie Moore, Vintage
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4. Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Penguin
5. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, by Rhoda Janzen, Holt
6. Lit, by Mary Karr, Harper Perennial
7. The Good Soldiers, by David Finkel, Picador
8. Open, by Andre Agassi, Vintage
9. Food Rules, by Michael Pollan, Penguin
10. Half the Sky, by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, Vintage
11. The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan, Penguin
12. Shop Class as Soulcraft, by Matthew B. Crawford, Penguin
13. The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, Scribner
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Despite censorship in China, social media thrives
On Nanjing Road, the home of flagship stores like Apple and Coach, it's hard to miss the giant Nike billboard that covers the façade of an entire building.
A familiar Nike swoosh, "Air Max," and then "Air," are prefaced and followed by # symbols. To social media users who now comprise almost 300 million Chinese, this billboard serves as a prompt to search #Air# in Sina Weibo, which will return any results mentioning the Nike Air product.
In many ways, the prominence of #Air# in an advertisement on Shanghai's busiest shopping street mirrors the prominence of social media in Chinese culture. China already has far more Internet users than any other country, with 564 million of its citizens hooked up to the web. Despite heavy Internet censorship, almost 300 million are using social networks and microblogs to stay in touch with one another, share information and participate in e-commerce.
Microblogs, which translates to "weibo" in Chinese, are sites where users can publish short posts that are limited by a certain number of characters, typically 140 or less. These microblogging platforms are distinct from social networks, like Ren Ren, which impose no limits on the number of available characters in a post.
"Nowadays, it seems like people can't live without Weibo," said Fu Yinfang, a 58-year-old Shanghai resident.
Weibo, a privately owned, uniquely Chinese site that has flourished in the face of government bans on access to Western sites like Twitter and Facebook, is still subject to government censorship.
"We have this censorship review system," said Tracy Teng, a 26-year-old public relations specialist in Shanghai. "If you post something sensitive, it'll be deleted and prevented from being reposted."
In January, the Sina Weibo account @Geniune_Yu_Yang – believed to be the account of a Sina Weibo manager – publicly disclosed details about the censorship process at Sina Weibo. As explained in this post, the policy of the Sina Weibo managers is to remove certain flagged comments, with a specific warning that the only alternative to deleting a comment "is that your account will be banned."
"People who air opinions on social networking sites are very displeased if the opinion is deleted," said Wang Shaodi, a 38-year-old English teacher at Shanghai International Studies University. "One of my students said some words about the party and had them deleted, and he was very, very displeased."
As Chinese students move to work or study in major cities in China or around the world, their parents are turning to microblogs and social networks as a modern way to connect with their children.
"Social media can facilitate older people connecting with their children who may be studying or working far away," said Baohua Zhou, a professor at Fudan University in Shanghai who studies media's impact on political institutions. "It can increasingly help parents still living in rural areas to be able to connect with their children in urban areas."
Yinfang Fu, 58, the mother of a graduate from Fudan University who moved to Singapore to study journalism, uses social media to connect with her daughter.
"In China, if you want to call someone abroad, you have to open an international account, and that's not cheap," Fu said.
Fu's eyesight is poor, so she turned to Skype in order to keep in touch with her daughter. But that wasn't her first choice.
"For us common people, the site QQ is very popular, especially among people whose kids have moved far away," Fu said. "A lot of my friends use QQ to contact daughters or sons who have gone to study or work abroad."
Beyond a means of keeping in touch, microblogs and social networks in China are used to share ideas.
"These are platforms where we can get diverse information, discuss things, learn from experts in other fields, and also maintain friendships," Zhou said.
Social media in China also appears poised to capture the vast potential of advertising in a country that has established itself as an economic superpower with a rapidly expanding class of consumers.
Teng, the Shanghai public relations specialist, focuses on social media marketing at Citigate Dewe Rogerson, an international financial communications consultancy in China.
Teng uses social media platforms to coordinate advertisements and monitor what people are saying about her clients' products.
According to a recent report by McKinsey & Co. about Chinese microblog and social media user trends, 30 percent of social media users "use social-media sites to learn about products and services that they want to purchase."
"As e-commerce rises, a compelling opportunity for brands will be to prompt immediate purchases online by consumers searching for product information using social media," the report says.
Given geographic trends in social media use, it makes sense that brands like Nike are employing social media terms in their ads in cities like Shanghai.
According to the same McKinsey & Co. report, which references a recent survey of 5,700 Internet users in China, 95 percent of those Internet users living in the large urban areas of Shanghai, Beijing, and Guangzhou are registered on a social media site.
"Using social media requires time, money and computer skills, so wealthier people, particularly those living in urban areas, tend to use it more," said Zhou, the Fudan professor studying new media.
According to a June 2012 study by University of Hong Kong professors King-wa Fu and Michael Chau, those who use microblogs or social media networks to comment on social injustices "seem to comprise a tiny portion of the overall microblog environment."
That number could grow if censorship loosens. Until then, Chinese citizens will continue to use social media mainly to keep in touch with one another, consume and share information, and participate in e-commerce.
"In coming years, I think (Weibo) will become much more popular, although who knows?" Zhou said. "I'm sure there will be something new after Weibo."


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Iteris introduces premium weather system for precision agriculture
Jul. 4, 2014
Iteris' cloud-based software solution provides actionable, field-level weather information needed for data-driven decision making for efficient crop management, risk reduction and mitigation, and resource allocation.
ClearPath Ag is the latest development from the ClearPath API platform, a scalable, high-performance content platform that combines the power of big data and analytics with the experience of Iteris' in-house staff of farmers, agronomists, meteorologists and data scientists.
This new technology is able to support agribusinesses-from retailers and manufacturers to crop consultants and the growers themselves-with critical tools and information needed for optimal crop management.
"The official release of our ClearPath Ag technology marks the first stepping stone in our strategy to align services and products with complementary adjacent markets," said Abbas Mohaddes, president and CEO of Iteris.
"The ClearPath Ag suite brings a tremendous value proposition to the precision ag marketplace, as it should enhance decision making for agribusinesses to maximize crop yields, minimize risk, and improve compliance reporting.
"This value proposition is further demonstrated by our recently established partnership with Agrian, a leading provider of widely adopted agri-data tracking and information systems. We look forward to the continued enhancements in our product suite and the planned upcoming release of our ClearPath Ag precision radar and mapping content, which includes soil, climatology, planting and harvesting information."
ClearPath Ag's high-resolution content can provide field-specific weather data down to a one kilometer by one kilometer resolution. It also provides current weather conditions, hourly and daily forecasts, and historical information, as well as additional ClearPath API data such as growing degree day, hail risk advisor, virtual rain gauge and Nowcast.
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1. an almond-shaped structure.
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a·myg·da·lae(ă-mig'dă-lă, -lē),
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2. General term used for the amygdaloid body [TA], which is thought to assess and assign emotional valence to somatic, visceral, and olfactory sensory input.
[L. fr. G. amygdalē, almond; in Mediev. & Mod. L., a tonsil]
amygdala/amyg·da·la/ (ah-mig´dah-lah)
1. almond.
2. an almond-shaped structure.
n. pl. amygda·lae (-lē)
Either of two small, almond-shaped masses of gray matter that are part of the limbic system and are located in the temporal lobes of the cerebral hemispheres. Also called amygdaloid nucleus.
Etymology: Gk, amygdale, almond
See amygdaloid nucleus.
a·myg·da·la, gen. and pl. amygdalae (ă-mig'dă-lă, -lē)
Denoting the cerebellar tonsil, as well as the lymphatic tonsils (pharyngeal, palatine, lingual, laryngeal, and tubal).
[L. fr. G. amygdalē, almond; in Mediev. & Mod. L., a tonsil]
amygdalaAn almond-shaped brain nucleus at the front of the temporal lobe. The amygdala is concerned with memory registration.
amygdala (·migˑ·d·l),
n a key component of the limbic system in the brain, involved in the experience of anxiety, distress, and fear.
1. the corpus amygdaloideum.
2. (rare) a tonsil.


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Inter Milan hoping to recover under Walter Mazzarri
Inter Milan's decision to appoint Walter Mazzarri was met with a sense of relief from the club's fans after the disastrous season that unfolded under Andrea Stramaccioni.
The success with Inter Milan's Primavera saw the profile of Stramacionni raised rapidly. The club's hierarchy were intrigued by the fresh inventiveness, the aggressive tactical approach and where swayed by the young Italian tactician's vision.
The appointment was intended to place a foundation from which to build upon for the Nerazzurri and the task of returning to the forefront of Italian football had begun.
The club wasted no time in showing their ambitions by fortifying and re-energising the centre of the midfielder with the additions of Napoli's Walter Gargano and more importantly Porto's influential Colombian Fredy Guarin.
Optimism was beginning to grow as the board and fans began to increase their expectations for the new season ahead.
The first half of the season had seen Inter performing well with wins against fierce rivals AC Milan in the Milan derby, Fiorentina, Juventus and Napoli. It was impressive and the groundwork for a run at the Scudetto was firmly set.
The second half of the season saw a torrid, exhaustive and gut-wrenching change take its course, destroying the hopes of the club in the process.
An injury crisis had rocked the team seemingly butchering and mutilating what started off as a promising season.
The conclusion of the Serie A season saw the 18-time champions of Italian football banished to an unacceptable effrontery final position of ninth. It is a season that will reside in unfortunate fans memories for years to come.
This disastrous campaign ended with Stramaccioni being relieved of his duties by Massimo Moratti and replaced with Mazzarri.
A major overhaul is expected this coming season as Inter try to forget the embarrassment of last season. Mazzarri brings a wealth of experience, and he managed to finish runners up to eventual champions Juventus with his Napoli side last season.
The collapse of the team has been unbearable for the fans but this summer will symbolise the beginning of an arduous journey to return the club to its rightful place in Italy.
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