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I was in a game with a GM that had a Masters in History, who made is a point to mention that the local peasants didn't have wheelbarrows. The rest of the players just shrugged that off but I knew that the GM was trying to tell us the peasants were on the knife edge of starvation.
All that from wheelbarrows? Yes, because before the invention of the wheelbarrow it took two men to carry that load. In it's time the wheelbarrow was the most explosive production multiplier that the peasantry could get their hands on.
This is worth two tips: One about the power of the Wheelbarrow and the other is the moral of the story...that people need to know the point you are trying to make.

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In a hearing that left many in tears Wednesday, Chief District Judge Michael Singer ruled there was probable cause to move forward with a case against Jeremy Rupp, the father of 5-year-old Diezel Rupp, who died in an ATV accident in June, 2012.
An exhaustive interview of Logan County investigator Michael Archer and court arguments led Singer to believe Rupp could be held responsible for putting his son's life at risk. He faces a charge of negligent child abuse, causing death – a class 3 felony.
Rupp and his girlfriend, Jennifer Harms, had visited the leased property of Chris and Donelle Harms outside Crook, and Diezel had been riding on the back of an ATV driven by Chris and Donelle's 6-year-old son.
According to interview recounts, the boys had ridden between a quarter and an eighth of a mile away from the home during a 2-minute span when they weren't being watched when they crashed into an embankment on the side of the road. The 6-year-old escaped with minor bruises and abrasions, but the ATV struck Diezel as it rolled over.
"This is one of the most tragic cases I've ever had, both as a lawyer and a judge," Singer said. "Based on sympathy I'd say dismiss. He's had enough… But I decide the case based on the law."
He said a jury might believe that Rupp had the responsibility to make sure his son was supervised while he and the other victim were riding the ATV in a "safe area" – a flat area close to the home – which Chris and Donelle had said they could ride in.
Originally Rupp, Jennifer, Chris and Donelle Harms had been watching the children, but at some point Rupp left to ride a dirt bike on the 50- to 60-acre property. Chris then left to refuel the bike, Donelle left to make lunch and Jennifer shortly followed, leaving the children alone until Jennifer realized they were missing.
Deputy District Attorney Travis Sides argued the ATV the children were using – a 500 cc Polaris – could go upward of 60 mph, according to Archer's estimate. It had no roll bars and no restraints, and a sticker on the front said that no one under the age of 16 should ride it.
Archer said Rupp had tried to put a helmet on his son earlier, but it was too big.
"We don't let children play with heavy machinery," Sides said. "This was a heavy machine, one of incredible power."
Charles Fife, Rupp's attorney, argued that it was negligible for the children to be riding an ATV as they're part of the culture in Logan County. And Rupp, who gone to ride a dirt bike, left the children in the hands of three adults.
"They were two boys, they disobeyed their parents and it resulted in this accident," Fife said. "Statutes recognize that accidents can occur."
Singer agreed that this was "four-wheeler country," that the inclusion of a sticker didn't mean younger children didn't drive them here and that saying it wasn't reasonable for the boy to be on an ATV at all would be a hard sell to a jury.
But he said the particular ATV they were riding had an engine "like a small motorcycle," with little safety equipment.
"(Rupp ) relied on a 5-year-old to hold onto a 6-year-old, and have the strength to do that," he added.
Rupp pleaded not guilty immediately after Singer announced his decision, and is set for a half-day motions hearing May 7 at 9 a.m. His trial will run five days, from Aug. 5 to Aug. 9.
The court dropped the case against Jennifer Harms in late November after her preliminary hearing. Singer found that because Harms was Rupp's girlfriend, not his wife or the victim's mother, she was not in a position to decide the children's actions.


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If I mount a filesystem that's been part of another Ubuntu installation (systemB let's call it) how does my system (systemA) work out permissions? Specifically:
- Does userA on my system get access to userA's files in the foreign filesystem from systemB just because they have the same name? Must the passwords match? That implies to me that the filesystem must store user+password together somewhere so they can travel with the filesystem.
- What happens if there is a userB on systemB and no matching user on my system? Who can access his files from systemA? Can root?


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The Omni Theater Usher is the front-line host for the Theater. The Usher ensures that our visitors are treated as welcome guests, given whatever assistance they need, and provided a clean, inviting environment. The Usher is responsible for the overall guest experience in the Theater including safety, greeting, direction, escort, ticket taking, and clean-up. Reports to: Theater Projection Manager & Theater Projection Supervisor and is part of the Programs team.
BASIC FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES including but not limited to:
Verify and tear tickets for the Omni Theater
Assist guests into the Theater
Assist guests find seats in the Theater, esp. for full/sold-out shows and/or for late arriving guests
The Usher will also be aware of guests on the stairs and alert the Console Operator to turn on/off the step-lights in order to provide improved safety for guests.
Responsible for assisting guests with finding the restroom and/or "Quiet Room".
The Usher will carry a two-way radio and flashlight at all times
Must assist guests in need up the elevator and into the theater and/or Pre-Seating lounge.
Responsible for queuing guests and/or school groups as needed.
Responsible for cleaning the theater between all shows and continuously monitoring the cleanliness of the theater, inside and out
Make sure all areas of the Omni Theater meet show quality standards
Responsible for seating school groups as needed.
Morning usher will attend the morning Guest Services huddle to learn about daily and special events and groups for the day. Will communicate this information to the rest of the Omni team.
Greeting, organizing, queuing, and seating of school groups for the Omni Theater in a timely manner.
Verify daily show schedule with master schedule, projectionist, and box office
Responsible for accurately counting all torn tickets for each show and totaling daily attendance data.
Ability to interact with public and resolve basic guest questions and needs
Awareness and understanding of emergency procedures and performing duties as required in such situations.
Must be in frequent contact with Console Operator and/or Projectionist and Box Office, and in case of system disruption.
Prefer to be 18 years of age or older.
Qualified candidate will be a mature, responsible, dependable individual who enjoys working in a fast paced environment.
Must have a positive attitude.
Possesses excellent communication skills. Must be comfortable addressing the public to make necessary announcements.
Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
Ability to ascend/descend four or more flights of stairs in less than 1 minute.
Ability to stand for extended periods of time.
Ability to lift a minimum of 25 pounds; as well as frequent bending, reaching, pushing, pulling, squatting, and lifting.
Acts as team player by contributing to effective team management of all problems, issues, and opportunities.
Performing other projects/duties/tasks as required or assigned by the Projection Manager or Supervisor.
Ushers are expected to be at their assigned position, ready to work at the start of their shift.


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Antibacterials aren't the answer for every infection your child gets. In fact, there are 2 major types of germs that cause most infections, viruses and bacteria, and antibacterials are useful only against bacteria.
For children, antibiotics are available in a number of forms, including tablets, capsules, liquids, and chewables. Some antibiotics come as ointments and others come as drops (eg, for ear infections).When your pediatrician prescribes an antibiotic, your pediatrician will choose the best one for the specific germ that is making your child sick.
Antibacterials fight infectious bacteria in the body. They attack the disease process by destroying the structure of the bacteria or their ability to divide or reproduce. Scientists often categorize antibacterials in the following way:
Some antibacterials are called broad spectrum and can fight many types of germs in the body, while others are more specific. If your pediatrician uses blood, urine, or other tests that identify the specific bacteria causing your child's infection, your pediatrician can prescribe an antibacterial that can target those germs.
Remember, if your child has a cold, antibiotics aren't the answer. It's sometimes difficult for parents to determine if their child's illness is caused by viruses or bacteria. For this reason, never try to diagnose and treat your youngster's illness yourself. Contact or visit your pediatrician's office.
As powerful and useful as antibiotics can be, they may produce side effects in some people. In children, they can cause stomach discomfort, loose stools, or nausea. Some youngsters have an allergic reaction to penicillin and other antibiotics, producing symptoms such as skin rashes or breathing difficulties. If these allergic symptoms become severe, causing labored breathing, difficulty swallowing because of a tight throat, or wheezing, call your pediatrician and go to the emergency department right away.
While antimicrobial drugs are mostly used to treat infections that your infant or child may develop, they are sometimes prescribed to prevent an illness from ever occurring. For example, children who have frequent urinary tract infections are sometimes given antibacterials to reduce the likelihood that they'll recur. Medicines can kill the bacteria before they have a chance to cause an infection.
Here are other circumstances in which prophylactic (preventive) antibacterial drugs may be prescribed for children.
If your pediatrician believes that your child can benefit from taking medicines as a preventive measure, your pediatrician will choose them carefully and prescribe them for the shortest possible period. This strategy will reduce the chances that use of these drugs will contribute to the problem of antimicrobial resistance.


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Hard drives that provide prime material for identity theft are more likely to come from a company for which you are an employee or client than from your own computer, according to a study released by the Information Commissioner's Office in the UK on Thursday. ICO had a computer forensics company read 200 used hard drives using freely available tools, and found that files containing personal data like bank account info and tax forms were more likely to have come from an organization than an individual.
The 200 hard drives were sourced from computer trade fairs and online auction sites by the forensics company NCC Group. The drives were first searched without any particular software, and then searched again using "forensic tools freely available on the internet."
Fifty-two percent of the drives had been wiped, but 48 percent still had readable information, with 34,000 recoverable files. Of the 200 drives, only two had enough data to allow a new owner to steal the former owner's identity. Four more drives, however, contained information on employees and clients of four organizations, including health and financial details.
Recoverable data on those four hard drives included detailed reports with personal and sensitive data, job applications, copies of passports, birth certificates, and drivers' licenses, tax forms, full bank account information, and health information. ICO noted that the drives were "either personally or corporately owned," and the data they contained was the result of unauthorized working from home in some cases.
ICO stated that it had since contacted the four organizations associated with each of the drives, and all four had assured ICO that new strategies had been put in place to prevent the same level of data exposure.
While four hard drives out of 200 are a small number, the fact that they were company property suggests that each one could have exposed data and facilitated identity theft for large groups of people. That the data recovery required no specialized tools is particularly troubling. Sadly, individuals often have no choice but to trust an employer or business with sensitive information, and there's little they can do to ensure their data is treated properly once in corporate hands.


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Welch advocates sales tax for online retailers
BENNINGTON -- Vermont Rep. Peter Welch used Cyber Monday, the busiest online shopping day of the year, to once again call for legislation that would require online retailers to collect sales tax.
Welch, a Democrat re-elected earlier this year to a fourth term, called on Congress Monday to pass legislation he has sponsored that would "level the playing field between Main Street retailers."
Americans were expected to spend about $2 billion Monday in online sales. Many of the sales will be tax free, however.
Welch said his Main Street Fairness Act would help simplify the collection of sales taxes on online purchases so brick-and-mortar and online retailers would all collect the same taxes. Currently, Internet retailers are only required to collect sales taxes in states where they also have a physical location. Welch said that puts local retailers at a competitive disadvantage because they are required to collect sales taxes at the point of sale. Out-of-state retailers, however, including many large online and catalog retailers, can provide customers with a "discount" by collecting no state or local sales taxes.
"Online sales are here to stay and they are a real convenience. But, if there is a sales tax on the product and you require the brick-and-mortar store to collect but not the online retailer, that's obviously not fair," Welch said in a telephone interview.
Out-of-state, online retailers are not currently required to collect sales taxes but consumers are required to report sales taxes owed on online purchases on annual tax returns. Welch said that reporting requirement is ill-conceived and not followed.
"Nobody ever does that and it's really impossible to do," he said.
Welch said he wants Congress to act during the lame duck session. And, he said there's more reason to be optimistic that it could pass. He said the bill is "consistent with the discussions we're having about a budget resolution." Additionally, there is growing support among Republicans about the idea.
"That gives us a shot. Uphill, but it gives us a shot," Welch said.
Former Mississippi Republican Gov. Haley Barbour is "a public advocate" for the bill, Welch said. And the discussion in Washington about taxes is shifting, he said.
"The opposition was that many of my Republican colleagues treated this as though it was a new tax. And the doctrine, of course, was to oppose any new tax," Welch said. "But, they've got merchants as constituents, too. I'm impressed with the growing support I'm getting from my Republican colleagues."
"The word tax just has been an obstacle and it's prevented people from stepping back and looking at it the way it should be viewed," Welch added.
The legislation would simply require online retailers like Amazon to collect sales tax and remit it to the state or district where products are purchased. Welch said lawmakers are looking to make it simple for large retailers, and protect small businesses that sell few goods online. There could be uniform software for everyone, or exemptions for small businesses, Welch said.
"Our goal here is to establish fairness, but also to have a practical way of protecting our small online retailers," he said.
Local retailers say the bill could help them, but there are bigger factors that drive consumers to online giants like Amazon. Sue Congdon, owner of Star Electric on Main Street in Bennington, said free shipping has hurt her business the most.
"I find a lot of people go online to do research and then they come in and look at it," she said. "Have lost some business? Probably. How much I don't know."
Still, Congdon said forcing online retailers to charge sales tax would likely help some. "I think it would be great. I really do. But, you're going to have a lot of people fighting it."
Rick Havlak, owner of the Bennington Bookshop, also on Main Street, said there is not a huge sales tax cost on small-ticket items such as books. Shoppers are choosing Amazon and Barnes and Noble for the convenience of shopping from home and free shipping. But he, too, said the bill should be passed to help cash-strapped states collect.
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There have been a lot of questions about how, exactly, Brazilian director Jose Padilha will modernize the story of Robocop for his upcoming remake of Paul Verhoeven's 1987 film. With the current international socio-political climate, and major advancements in technology (and our relationship with technology) there is seemingly much juicy material that can be mined for an interesting and relevant new take on the story.
Well, the Robocop (2013) script by relative newcomer Joshua Zetumer and Gran Torino screenwriter Nick Schenk has apparently leaked out, and some of the details about this new take on Alex Murphy/Robocop are sure to make fans of the classic version take up arms in protest. Read on to find out more, but be warned - MILD SPOILERS FOLLOW!!!
Drew McWeeny from Hit Fix was the man to get his hands on the script, and took to Twitter to let the universe know how he felt about it. The folks over at Bleeding Cool did us the favor of compiling McWeeny's tweets into a more serviceable transcript, which you can read below:
I'll share this one detail. In the film, when Murphy is turned into Robocop 1.0, it's described "a high-tech version of the '80s suit."
Then they show a focus group scene where criminals laugh at the design. "He looks like a toy from the '80s!"
So they redesign him to look "meaner" as Robocop 2.0, who passes focus group approval.
So they not only make sure to include the original design, they also point out it's dated and stupid. *facepalm*
Hold onto your sides for more hilarious "Robocop" details. They outsource his construction to China. #seriously
And we meet the ED-209s in the field in Iran, where they're used to subdue suicide bombers. #ineedallthedrinksnow
Ahhh… now they just dropped Robocop 3.0 onto an Al Queda training camp to see what he does.
"He should be programmed to incapacitate in all scenarios." "Agreed. Let's keep him PG-13, Dr. Norton." No. No. No. No.
By page 54, they are already onto Robocop 4.0, who looks like a "cop on steroids painted metallic blue."
Oh, god… oh dear god… Robocop is a Transformer. He goes from "social mode" to "combat mode" and back. Full transformation..
Okay… the two "best" lines in the script. First up is at the unveiling ceremony for Robocop in Detroit, from a TV reporter covering it.
"I think it's safe to say that Alex Murphy is now part man, part machine, ALL COP!" Yes, I too remember the original poster, asshat.
If you can get past Robocop The Transformer, there are some interesting action beats. And I'm sure Padilla will direct the hell out of it.
But overall? Ouch. Ouch. Ohpleasedon't. Ouch. And a big side order of ouch.
There's more to it, but for the full breakdown you'll need to head over to either Bleeding Cool or Drew McWeeny's Twitter feed.
So far, I'm not freaking out about the actual plot details as much as I am the writing style of the script. Joshua Zetumer and Nick Schenk have very few actual feature-length screen credits between them, and nothing on the scale of this Robocop remake. Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner turned the script for Verhoeven's original film into a satirical jab at everything from American consumer/corporate culture to violence in media, while still creating an intriguing and memorable central character, who they then spun-off into numerous sequels and other media forms (TV, comics).
The writers of this new version seem more content to... "borrow" ideas from other tech-centered blockbuster franchises, with the most of shades of influence coming from the Iron Man and Transformers films. Aside from that "implementation" of familiar ideas, the writers of the new Robocop seem equally content with dropping heavy-handed references to real-world situations and figures, rather than using the sort of hyperbolic and/or metaphorical inferences that made the original at once so clever and, arguably, still relevant to our days and times.
Of course, we don't know much about the action in the film, which is an area that helped Padilla's Elite Squad become the all-time highest-grossing film at the Brazilian box office. Between that, and a cast that includes Joel Kinnaman, Samuel L. Jackson, Hugh Laurie, Michael Kenneth Williams, Gary Oldman and Jackie Earle Haley, there is a ray of hope that this remake will be more enjoyable than the Total Recall remake (read our review), which also attempted to translate a clever Verhoeven film into a modern day blockbuster, but only managed to create a hollow action flick, instead.
Robocop will be in theaters on August 9, 2013.
Sources: Bleeding Cool and Drew McWeeny
Early Robocop Concept Art Header Image via Film O Philia (NOT actual armor design in film)


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There's no need to keep searching for the right actress, Warner Bros.; Gina Carano is Wonder Woman. While you might think I'm joking around….I'm not. That's because after watching director Steven Soderbergh's awesome spy-action pic Haywire twice, I really believe Carano is who you're looking for. After everyone gets the chance to see her kick ass next week (the pic opens January 20), I'm extremely confident that fandom will agree with me. Hire a new writer to craft a script with Carano in mind; they'll be inspired. I think one of the reasons Wonder Woman hasn't come together is you didn't know who to cast. Thankfully, the search is over.
Being serious, after watching Haywire the second time, I kept thinking Carano would be great as Wonder Woman and it was on my mind when I sat down to talk to her a few days ago. While I usually start with my karaoke question, I decided to ask what she thought of Wonder Woman and if anyone had asked her to play the part yet. Watch what she had to say after the jump.
Look for my full interview with Carano soon. Also, below the video are a few images of her in Haywire and here's a few clips of Carano in action.


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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
ummm....theres millions of people who use open source stuff that dont know how to contribute, and instead of whining about whining, why dont you help to convince them they could contribute something (other than bitching at them)? anything at this point helps i suppose. also....i guess its just a shot in the dark when you tell people to help with the programming, but they arent always programmers or theyd probably try. you could always mentor people into programming i am sure its a bit daunting to quite a few who wish they were able to do it. hows it go...sugar...water...vinegar....hmm...idk...im sure youve all heard it anyway. oh...and that other one...fishing...guy....eat dinner...or make his own meal...idk
Sorry guys! I did not mean to be rude to anyone. just asking questions and giving opinions. did not intend to be insulted either. Can't we all calm down and get useful discussion here? So my simple question is: is there any chance in the foreseeable future that HDDVD/Blu Ray be supported by LMCE? My understanding from this thread is no.Am I wrong?
Too few see differences, too many bad hardware (i say only 24p), expensive and bad cabling (look what you pay for 10m hdmi or for active repeaters, switchers, ...), expensive content (35€ for 480p Blu Rays [laugh])..
$25 bucks for 10m of cable isnt so bad.
A 480P blu ray? uhh....have you seriously seen one?
too few see differences?
do you know how many people use the "office xp operating system"? how many "primetime" people will use repeaters or switchers? the stupidity of the average consumer will astound for millenia to come. that doesnt mean it wont be ready for primetime. primetime is just the people who accept using something they dont understand and are unable to use to its full potential and the rest of us.
Of course it looks great when you hook a ps3 up to the Samsung. But many other situations are really _not consumer friendly_ and therefore that crap is not primetime ready yet.And when you spend more for the cable and the repeater on a 10m link than for the player device itself, man thats broken. punt.
which parts did they say are broken? everyone can find something wrong with everything....everythings always broken to someone. punt?
Legal ?It's not legal to crack the key. Just as with DVDs under Linux... That's not legal as well (in most countries), as the Encryption Key of the DVD is cracked when you insert it. That's why the lib is not shipped with most Linux Distributions...


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Blendium necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 44 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
Trying to improve our overall image of our online presence. Need to incorporate new technology and schemes into the website. Brilliant colors over a white background, shading, etc. to make the site visually appealing to our customers. Ease of use and a clear front landing page are critical.
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To make clear, this is a re-design of eMedResponse.com
Other sites that capture some of what we are looking for include: medhelp.org (graphics in the top site navigation bar)
Some sort of doctor/nurse image without being starchy or too dry. Bright colors, blues, sky look.
This site is for hospitals who want to improve their image and patient satisfaction scores. Somewhere they can look to a better future, feel impressed by the site and know we are on top of the technology world.....and confident we can help them get there.
The prize is for a two page design. While the home design is important, we also want to get a feel for the inner pages. We have two basic wireframes here to get you started:
- Admin Page
- Work History
Finally, the contest winner need not code the site (we expect delivery of PSD files). However, once the prize is awarded, we'd like to offer to the designer the opportunity to code the site (for additional $$$, of course) with HTML, CSS, etc.
Our logos are available here (top row): http://www.emedresponse.com/v2/accu…health.psd
- See our logo at accuratehealth.com
- Bright colors
- Professional looking
- Breadcrumbs through-out the site
- Minimal (or no) Flash
- Next Generation web technologies (web 2.0)
- Starchy
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Dubach, La., was named "Dogtrot Capital of the World," and how cool is that? Very cool in the "small house" obsession embraced by urban hipsters. A dogtrot house is typically a modest home in which the cooking and living sections are divided by a breezeway (the dogtrot). Another Southern invention is the "shotgun house," a narrow rectangle whose handful of rooms line in a row. Elvis was born in one.
How the poor fit their families into these tiny spaces has become the stuff of wonder for the urban young seeking to do likewise in expensive cities -- but with considerably fewer people and more polished style. This month's Dwell magazine, the hipster bible, shows how these clever people can turn a two-room third-floor walkup into a stylish and low-maintenance place. The "Small World" issue features houses that are 235 square feet, 900 square feet and 2,000 square feet (that's cheating, IMHO).
This is not impossible, as pre-McMansion suburbia showed. The original Levittown house built after World War II was 750 square feet. My cousins lived in one, and they felt like kings. Three-kid families were the neighborhood norm.
What makes small living spaces cool -- in addition to their historic environs -- is the thinking that's involved, the sort of thinking you need heavy black-rim glasses for. You have to "curate," a favorite hipster word. That is, you pick the one or five things you really want to keep and get rid of the rest. This can be a brutal task.
Minimalism is an attractive ethic in moderation. (Bare concrete walls don't do much for me.) But it remains my dream. The iPad, though I love it, hasn't replaced my affection for books. Where do you put the books in 500 square feet? You don't. You store them in your parents' basement or a rented storage unit -- a minimalist cop-out, but one I understand.
To be a purist, you've got to let go of your childhood dolls, comic books and art projects. In a big house, these items can sit unmolested in a closet gathering dust. Would taking photos of them -- digital, natch -- provide memory enough of the armless Barbie doll?
The photos of these imaginative and perfectly arranged homes/apartments show young couples intently reading a screen or even a book. You want to yell at them: "Bravo, but don't put down the book! That would ruin everything."
Once the thinking is done, though, you can ponder higher things, like writing a symphony, inventing a new app or what's for supper. That's because the stuff you got rid of doesn't have to be moved around, polished or updated. And money is time. You save hours not shopping for more stuff. The smaller spaces cost less to buy, heat and electrify. Fixing one leaky toilet is cheaper than fixing four. All this adds up to less time spent in unpleasant day jobs trying to pay for consumption. Less of the material also creates less distraction. There's a reason why holy men choose small, bare rooms for meditation.
I'd like to be more like them, but I can't be them. What would I do with my ancestors' Victrola? I supposed I could roll it near the kitchen and put a butcher block on top. Thank goodness I played the flute and not piano.
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I'm interested in the interplay between the Hamiltonian cycles of graphs and the compact surfaces they embed in. I was doing some reading on the Lovász conjecture for Cayley graphs, I started noticing a pattern when drawing the Hamiltonian cycles once the graphs have been embedded in a compact surface, for which I don't have a counter-example, so I figured I'd ask here if such a connection has been studied.
We have a finite group $G$ together with a presentation $\langle g_1,g_2,\dots,g_n \vert R\rangle$, and a cyclic orientation on the generators. This orientation gives $\Gamma(G)$, the undirected Cayley graph of $G$, the structure of a ribbon graph, and therefore it gives an embedding of $\Gamma(G)$ on a compact oriented surface $S$.
It is conjectured that every $\Gamma (G)$ is Hamiltonian. When looking at some small examples I noticed that all homotopy classes of Hamiltonian cycles of $\Gamma (G)$, as elements of $\pi_1(S)$ have the same length. Is there an example of a group $G$ so that $\Gamma(G)$ has two Hamiltonian cycles which correspond to homotopy classes of different length in $\pi_1(S)$?
Moreover is it true that most Hamiltonian cycles will have high length in $\pi_1(S)$? This should be morally true, according to the heuristic that when a graph is Hamiltonian then it has exponentially many Hamiltonian cycles. Have such ideas been considered before, and are there non-trivial theorems of this flavor?


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There are over 230 million international migrants worldwide, and this number continues to grow. Migrants tend to have limited access to and knowledge about resources and preventative care in their communities of reception, but nonetheless they are often in better health by many measures compared with native-born people in their communities of reception and with the people they left behind at their place of origin. With time since arrival, however, immigrants' health advantages often dissipate and they experience increases in health problems, especially obesity and diabetes, which are chronic diseases that are increasingly prevalent in the overall population as well and are associated with multiple co-morbidities and limitations. It may be that immigrants have specific health endowments leading to these health patterns, or that the processes involved in migration, including exposure to new environments, behavioral change, and stress of migration may also affect risks of obesity and other chronic conditions. Understanding the health patterns of migrants can be useful in identifying their specific health needs, as well as contributing to our understanding of how specific environments, changes in environments, and individual health endowments interplay to shape the long-term health of populations.


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This report was written by Kate Shellnutt, author of our Houston Belief blog on Chron.com, Believe It or Not.
Time magazine reported Tuesday on the behind the scenes support among Christian leaders for Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a name that's being thrown around more and more as a possible Republican candidate.
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In early June, TIME has learned, a group of prominent figures on the Christian Right held a conference call to discuss their dissatisfaction with the current GOP presidential field, and agreed that Rick Perry would be their preferred candidate if he entered the race. Among those on the call were Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council; David Barton, the Texas activist and go-to historian for the Christian Right; and John Hagee, the controversial San Antonio pastor whose endorsement John McCain rejected in 2008.
Religious conservatives have often played a substantial role in choosing past Republican nominees, but leaders on the Christian Right have been conspicuously quiet so far in this campaign season. Privately, however, they are enthusiastic about Perry and are encouraging the Texas governor to throw his ten-gallon hat into the ring.
With Mike Huckabee out and Newt Gingrich working on a small campaign, Perry– who has yet to declare candidacy– has become the their default pick.
The names backing Perry shouldn't be a surprise. Nearly all of these leaders have partnered with him before in campaigns, worship gatherings and other events. Perry attended Hagee's Cornerstone Church in San Antonio a day before his 2006 re-election, and this year, "evangelical kingmaker" David Lane organized a prayer breakfast on his inauguration, TIME wrote.
Sarah Posner chimed in on Religion Dispatches:
When I wrote about Lane's activities back in 2007 and 2008, it was commonly thought that Lane and his associates played a key role in achieving at least the Iowa victory for Huckabee, to the chagrin of other Republicans. (Lane scoffs at the notion that his mingling of Christianity and politics is in any way inappropriate.)
Looking ahead, Texas political columnist Bud Kennedy reported in May that Lane associate Laurence White may be organizing a "Draft Perry" movement by pastors. And they are undoubtedly looking for their anointed one to go the distance this time.
Perry's large-scale Christian prayer rally in Houston, now just a month away, has them holding out hope that the Texas governor will take on the national stage.


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IDAHO FALLS, Idaho – Northwest Cosmetic Labs has agreed to settle a federal suit charging discrimination based on race, color and national origin and retaliation against a black employee for $30,000 and other relief, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.
According to the complaint, the employee, a British subject born in Zimbabwe, was hired after a series of phone interviews for a full-time paid internship in cosmetic formulation. She did not interview in person because she was living in England at the time. Upon her arrival in Idaho Falls, she was told by her supervisor that employees at the company would likely be "surprised" to find out that she was black, since she was British. From the beginning, the EEOC said, she received little to no direction from her supervisors and was rarely given assignments, despite her repeated requests to be given work. Her treatment stood in stark contrast to that of the company's two other interns, who were both Caucasian. They were given ample opportunity to participate in projects and to receive feedback from supervisors. After consistently receiving different treatment from her white counterparts and hearing more race-based comments, she raised these issues with management. Soon thereafter, the EEOC said, she was fired.
Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed this suit after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement through conciliation. Under the consent decree settling the suit (EEOC v. Northwest Cosmetic Labs LLC, Civil Action No. 10-608-CWD, U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho) approved by Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Candy W. Dale, Northwest Cosmetic Labs will pay the employee $30,000. In addition to the monetary payment, the company will adopt a comprehensive non-discrimination policy and complaint procedure, conduct anti-discrimination training for staff and management officials and submit semi-annual reports to the EEOC detailing any complaints of race discrimination or retaliation that may have arisen in the prior six-month period.
EEOC San Francisco Regional Attorney William R. Tamayo said, "Employment decisions must be based on merit and ability, not race and color. We are pleased that Northwest Cosmetic Labs took this lawsuit seriously and that it will be taking steps to make sure that race and color are not a barrier to success in its workplace."
"Instead of encountering the exemplary American values of justice and equality, this young visitor was treated to discrimination and punishment for standing up for her rights," noted EEOC San Francisco District Director Michael Baldonado. "Fortunately, this country also has an EEOC to fight for discrimination victims, and we will continue to do so."
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We are a software company who allows retailers to use/brand our "Photo Finale" photo sharing website. Our working retail name that we use in site and store mockups is Studio 110, but each retailer would brand it with their own name and logo. Our retailers sell photo prints and enlargements, as well as pretty much anything you can put a photo on: folded greeting cards, flat cards, photo books, canvas prints, posters, notepads, calendars, mugs, mousepads, playing cards, photo plates…etc.
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As Texas works toward implementation of an "A-F" rating system for its districts and schools, a new report is out that, ironically, grades the 50 states on several aspects of funding public schools.
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April marks the nation's Month of the Military Child. As a way to honor military youth affected by deployment, school district employees and students across the state are encouraged to wear purple on Friday, April 15, as part of "Purple Up! for Military Kids."
The Northside Swim Center continues to make a big splash in the world of swimming and diving competitions when approximately 330 champion divers from across the country compete next week. On April 6-10, Northside School District's world-class facility will host the USA Diving Synchronized National Championships.
Once again, Northside is expecting a large kindergarten enrollment for the upcoming school year, making it all the more critical that parents register their children during Kinder Roundup in order to secure a seat at their neighborhood school. More than 7,500 kindergarten students are expected to enroll for the 2016-17 school year.
Northside ISD is holding a Job Fair for teaching positions at 10 specific, secondary schools to fill expected vacancies for the 2016-2017 school year. Northside expects to eventually hire around 500 teachers in the next three months Districtwide.
Gifted and Talented students and Student Council members at Michael ES are providing care packages to foster children as a service project.
You know it is almost Fiesta time when groups start showing off their medals (or shoes!) and NISD has quite a few medals available for purchase this year.
For the second year in a row, NISD juniors will be able to take the SAT college entrance exam for free, thanks for money allocated by the Northside ISD Board of Trustees.
Northside's 11th comprehensive high school will open in August 2017 with around 1,600 students in grades 9 through 11 in a proposal that was presented to the NISD School Board.
Last night, Trustees discussed and took action on several items: reviewed the Harlan HS boundary proposal, approved 2016 Summer School programs, and appointed two elementary school principals.
There are thousands of amazing educators throughout Texas, but the H-E-B Education in Excellence Awards highlight only the best. Four NISD educators are finalists in this prestigious statewide program. Click here to watch their surprise reactions when they receive the good news.
Northside magnet schools offer a focused, career-specific education for students who show an interest in a particular field or know what career path they want to take. Today, about 3,000 students are enrolled in NISD's five magnet high school programs.
Northside ISD is holding an Auxiliary Job Fair to fill 170 positions for bus drivers, food service workers, police officers, custodians, and warehouse and maintenance workers.
Real life heroes visited 300 San Antonio area schools, including all of Northside's elementary schools for "Heroes for Health" rallies. Law enforcement officers, fire fighters, first responders, military personnel, and community leaders talked to children about the importance of staying fit and eating healthy. San Antonio Mayor Ivy Taylor was one of many speakers at Carson ES.
Three NISD teachers and one principal are finalists in the prestigious 2016 HEB Excellence in Education Awards, naming them among the best educators in Texas.
Three first-year and three veteran teachers were named District Educators of the Year at special celebrations held annually to honor teachers who give 100 percent when it comes to improving the lives of children. In addition, Northside's nominee for the 2016 Trinity Prize for Excellence in Teaching was announced.
Natalie Tan, 5th grader at Locke Hill ES, is the grand prize winner in the 2016 Texas Cavaliers River Parade Art Contest. She was one of four NISD elementary student finalists.
Students at Business Careers HS are expanding their personal development and understanding of the business world with the help of mentors from the business community. The magnet school has about 140 mentors who meet with the students on a one-to-one basis
When you think of a badge, what comes to mind? For a teacher or administrator in NISD, it is a TECHIE Badge. TECHIE stands for Technology, Engage, Challenge, Hook, Inspire, and Educate.
Recently, I visited with some giants. No, not like the ones in fairy tales. The giants I speak about served on the School Board and as superintendents in the last century, over the last six decades.
Northside ISD is hosting a Job Fair to fill 40 positions for food service workers and food service manager trainees in the Child Nutrition Department.
Last night, Trustees discussed and took action on several items: approved the Cole ES attendance zone, recognized award-winning Fine Arts educators and Counseling programs, named the Rhodes ES library after longtime principal, and approved contractors for bond construction projects.
Warren HS students in Chase Haecker's Construction Technology classes, also known as woodshop, are learning about community responsibility through class projects. The students build items for non-profit organizations such as toys for the Elf Louise Toy Drive and framing walls that will be used in houses for Habitat for Humanity.
Construction of new schools and classroom additions at older schools is at a fever pitch to ensure that classrooms and improved facilities are ready for current students and the thousands of new students expected over the next couple of years. NISD is growing by around 1,500 to 2,000 students a year.
Congratulations to Northside ISD's 201 campus first year and veteran educators of the year for the 2015-16 school year.


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Eight years ago, FIFA launched the Football for Hope programme to help the world's most popular game bring about positive change in the lives of young people. Funding, equipment and training have been offered around the world in order to help people make a real difference to their lives. Since 2005 it has assisted with more than 250 programmes in over 60 countries dealing with issues from HIV/AIDS education to conflict resolution.
Wanting to create a tangible social legacy for South Africa 2010, FIFA launched the campaign of '20 Centres for 2010' in 2007. Its aim was to create 20 Football for Hope Centres for education, public health and football across Africa. The importance of this legacy is highlighted by the fact that many communities on the Mother Continent continue to face serious social challenges
With the official opening of the Alexandra Football for Hope Centre in South Africa, the Host Country for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™, FIFA is nearing completion of this regional legacy campaign. But the story does not end there.
As a result of the campaign, the centres have already been able to improve education and health services for over 70,000 young people in disadvantaged communities in 16 countries across Africa. Indeed, hundreds of thousands more youngsters will benefit from the centres in the years to come, showing the power football has in terms of social development.
"Before the Football for Hope Centre was here, I would see kids mainly hanging out on the streets," said a health academy counsellor at one of the Football for Hope Centres. "But since it was built, there haven't been so many kids loitering around.
"The centre is a place where they can go and learn about being healthy and safe. Some come here for help with school assignments, to play games, to do arts and crafts, learn how to play chess, and so the clinic has become something more than just a health centre."
The pride of the communityCommunity involvement and ownership is crucial for the success and sustainability of the centres. Local communities have been involved in the entire process from the very first step, including the architectural design for the centre, construction and, whenever possible, the involvement of the local workforce and skill-building programmes. Over 600 local coaches have been trained to deliver programmes and 60 full-time managers, education officers, and health officers have been hired for the centres.
Each centre consists of a building with rooms to provide informal education, and public health services, office space, common space for community gatherings, and a small-size artificial turf pitch.
"FIFA is passionate about embracing the popularity of football to improve the lives of young people," said FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter. "As football becomes a bigger economic and social force in the world, it is vital that we ensure the beautiful game plays its part in building a better future for all."
The 20 centres are based in Bujumbura (Burundi), Bamako (Mali), Santiago (Cape Verde Islands), Cape Coast (Ghana), Mamfe (Cameroon), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Lubumbashi (Congo DR), Nairobi (Kenya), Kigali (Rwanda), Iringa (Tanzania), Manica (Mozambique), Windhoek (Namibia), Ramotswa (Botswana), Luveve (Zimbabwe), Maseru (Lesotho), Khayelitsha, Alexandra, Qwaqwa, Mogalakwena, Edendale (all South Africa).
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Teenagers have been let down by an exams system that is abused by teachers who are under intense pressure to achieve good grades, Ofqual has warned.
Teachers in some of England's secondary schools were guilty of 'significantly' over-marking pupils' GCSE English work this summer in order to boost results, according to chief regulator Glenys Stacey.
In a new report into the GCSE English fiasco, Ms Stacey said that it is hard for teachers to maintain their integrity, when they believe that others are abusing the system.
She laid blame for the debacle on intense pressure on schools to reach certain targets, which led to over-marking, as well as poorly designed exams and too much of an emphasis on work marked by teachers.
"We have been shocked by what we have found. Children have been let down. That won't do," Ms Stacey said.
"It's clear that children are increasingly spending too much time jumping through hoops rather than learning the real skills they need in life. That won't do.
"Teachers feel under enormous pressure in English, more than in any other subject, and we have seen that too often, this is pushing them to the limit. That won't do either."
Headteachers have said that tens of thousands of teenagers received lower GCSE English grades than expected this year after exam boards moved the grade boundaries between January and June.
An initial report by Ofqual concluded that some of January's assessments were "graded generously" but the June boundaries were properly set and candidates' work properly graded.
The regulator today published its second report, looking at the reasons behind the changes in results.
The new English GCSEs, which were awarded for the first time this year, were split up into modules, with pupils sitting written exam papers and "controlled assessment" - coursework completed under strict classroom supervision.
It was down to schools to decide when pupils submitted their controlled assessment work and sat the exams.
Ofqual's report found that many schools used the marks pupils received in their first exams and the January grade boundaries to work out what score a pupil would need in their controlled assessment and marked it accordingly.
The majority of controlled assessment work was submitted in the summer, and examiners saw evidence of over-marking.
As a result, grade boundaries were raised to take account of this, and led to some students getting lower grades than expected.
Ms Stacey said the distribution of this year's GCSE English results, which saw bunching around the C grade boundary, was "shocking".
"The unexpected pattern, the unprecedented clustering around perceived grade boundaries for each of the whole qualification is striking."
She said this was "not simply aspirational marking" by paper or unit but a "targeted approach to the whole GCSE", she said.
"It is very hard for teachers to maintain their own integrity when they believe there is widespread loss of integrity elsewhere," Ms Stacey said.
Ofqual had spoken to teachers who said they believed that "teachers elsewhere were abusing the system", she added.
"No teacher should be forced to choose between their principles on the one hand and their students, their school and their career on the other."
Under the current system, schools are judged on the number of pupils who score at least five C grades at GCSE, including English and maths.
This measure is included in league tables, with schools expected to have at least 40% of students reaching this standard.
Those which do not, and fall short on other pupil progress measures, are considered failing.
The report says the new qualifications "reinforced the trend" of schools running the GCSE schools years (Years 10 and 11) as a "tactical operation to secure certain grades and combinations of grades".
"This has come to be seen as 'what good schools do' despite the awareness of many teachers and parents that the concept of broad and deep learning can get lost along the way."
Ms Stacey said their investigation had told them there were "special pressures on this subject and the fact that this GCSE is designed in such a way that it is susceptible to these pressures".
Other subjects do not carry the same pressures as this "one key central measure, C grade English".
Mr Stacey later added that it was "appalling really for students to be wrapped up in anything like this".
From September next year, English GCSEs will no longer be modular in England, she said.
Any exams or work submitted next January will be marked, but not graded until after June's exam season.
Moderation of the exams will also be tightened, she said, and exam boards will have to improve their communication with schools.
Ofqual will also talk to the Government about the findings as it is due to look into accountability, she said.
It will also advise on exam reform, Ofqual said, warning that care must be taken when introducing new exams such as the Government's new English Baccalaureate Certificate, which are set to replace GCSEs.
Asked about the effect on future qualifications, Ms Stacey said it was "early days" and it was not known yet what a new course would look like.
"Choices would have to be made," she said.
"If pressures stay as they are, qualifications will need to be locked down."
This would most likely mean more written exams and less controlled assessment, as well as different systems for marking.
It has been estimated by the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) that hundreds of schools saw a large fall in the numbers of pupils scoring at least a C in GCSE English this year.
ASCL deputy general secretary Malcolm Trobe, said blaming teachers and schools was "outrageous" and questioned the impartiality of Ofqual conducting an investigation "into its own conduct."
Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), accused Ofqual of "shifting blame".
Exam regulator says teachers guilty of 'significantly' over-marking pupils' GCSE English
Teachers in some of England's secondary schools were guilty of 'significantly' over-marking pupils' GCSE English work this summer in order to boost results, according to chief regulator Glenys Stacey.


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The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has instituted an investigation to assess the comprehensive bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) that the President has proposed to establish with five Central American countries -- Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua -- and with the Dominican Republic.
The investigation, U.S. Free Trade Agreement with Central America and the Dominican Republic: Potential Economywide and Selected Sectoral Effects, was requested by the U.S. Trade Representative in a letter received on January 28, 2004.
The Trade Act of 2002 granted the President authority to negotiate trade agreements that can only be approved or disapproved (but not amended) by the U.S. Congress. The law requires the ITC to prepare a report that assesses the likely impact of proposed FTAs on the U.S. economy as a whole and on specific industry sectors and the interests of U.S. consumers. The ITC's report, which will be public, is due to the President and the Congress no more than 90 days after the President actually signs the agreement, which he can do 90 days after he notifies the Congress of his intent to do so. The President notified the Congress on February 20, 2004, of his intent to enter into the FTA with Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. In that letter, the President also stated that negotiations were underway to integrate the Dominican Republic into the FTA with Central America.
The ITC will hold a public hearing in connection with the investigation on April 27, 2004. Requests to appear at the hearing (one original and 14 copies) should be filed no later than 5:15 p.m. on April 13, 2004, with the Secretary, U.S. International Trade Commission, 500 E Street SW, Washington, DC 20436. For further information, call 202-205-1816.
The ITC also welcomes written submissions for the record. Written submissions (one original and 14 copies) should be addressed to the Secretary of the Commission at the above address and should be submitted at the earliest practical date but no later than 5:15 p.m. on May 4, 2004. All written submissions, except for confidential business information, will be available for public inspection.
Further information on the scope of the investigation and appropriate submissions is available in the ITC's notice of investigation, dated March 17, 2004, which can be obtained from the ITC Internet site (www.usitc.gov) or by contacting the Office of the Secretary at the above address or at 202-205-1816.


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2010 Holiday Gift Guide: Logitech Wireless gaming Mouse G700
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Every PC gamer needs a good mouse, and the Logitech Wireless Gaming Mouse G700 more than fits the bill. You get thirteen programmable controls and buttons, easily allowing you to map complicated in-game commands and macros directly beneath your fingertips to be executed with a click. It's got a matte black finish with a few green LEDs and a tiny wireless USB receiver, and is super responsive with 1,000 reports per second from the high-precision laster tracking. It's even got enough onboard memory to store commands for up to five different game profiles. The Gaming Mouse G700 usually sells for $100, but Amazon is currently selling it for $84.82, a 14% discount.
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The Tampa Bay Times reports the Pinellas County Florida Board of Education has revoked the license of a charter school that uses a religion-based curriculum after its students tested poorly in the state-wide FCAT exams (Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test). By itself this summary is not likely to generate more than local or even parental interest. However the title of the article contains a noun that perked my interest; "FCAT scores at Pinellas charter school that used Scientology 'study tech' are among lowest in Tampa Bay", while the lede pulled me into the story.
DUNEDIN — When Hanan Islam and her management company took control of the struggling Life Force Arts and Technology charter school here last summer, she passed out lesson plans based on the work of Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.
She said Hubbard's "study technology" would enlighten children and help save the school. But grades from Florida's standardized FCAT test released Thursday show that, in one year under Islam's management, Life Force students' education suffered.
The article did an excellent job in outlining the local issues involved and was able to pull strong quotes from supporters of the school, teachers and the school district. This comment from school district --
"It's a classic case of how a management company mismanaged this school, was paid an extraordinarily large fee for dismal services, and the ultimate victims were those poor children," said Dot Clark, the Pinellas County school district's coordinator of partnership schools.
Islam's company, Clark added, "promised the world and gave them nothing. ... It breaks my heart."
-- is nicely paired with this one from a teacher:
Some blamed students' poor marks on instability due to Islam's repeated firings of, as third-grade teacher Lynne Kittredge said, "good, certified teachers, because they wouldn't accept her Scientology stuff."
"We worked our butts off. We did after-school, we did tutoring; we weren't even being paid. But I'm not a miracle worker," said Kittredge, who was hired in February. "By the time we came in, the best we could do was damage control."
And stands well with these comments from the school:
Life Force board chairman Louis Muhammad, appointed by Islam in January, defended her management of the school, saying students' scores would have drastically improved if study tech had been given more of a chance.
He also blamed the low scores on the Tampa Bay Times, saying the newspaper's coverage of Life Force's problems "caused confusion and, in other words, hindered the school."
"You all put out this confusion on religion, and we're not talking religion: we're talking technology," Muhammad said. "If you all had left the school alone, it would have been better."
This aspect of the article is very well done. I applaud reporter Drew Harwell for doing a thorough job.
But I stopped short of giving full marks as the religion ghosts in this story were rattling their chains. For the casual reader two screamed out for attention: What is a Scientology-based curriculum and are we dealing with Muslim Scientologists?
I have no idea what a Scientology-based curriculum might be. The Washington DC Fox affiliate in 2010 ran a brief story over parent concerns over "study technology" after the DC school district approved the Scientology-based education program. The Tampa Bay Times article reports the school board chairman says this dispute is not over religion but technology. What does Mr. Muhammad mean by that?
And, the names in this story, Mr. Muhammad, Ms. Islam -- to my eyes do not seem to belong to a Scientology story.
I checked Mr. Harwell's past articles for the Tampa Bay Times and learned the failing was not the newspaper's, but mine. I had come late into the game and had not read his February story that reported on parents complaining about the takeover of the school by the Nation of Islam and Scientologists.
Linking on its website or mentioning its past stories in the body of the article would have helped bring me (and I assume other readers) up to speed on the story. But I should say the Tampa Bay Times has done a superior job in reporting on Scientology and this article is further evidence of their fine work.
I have seldom reported on Scientology as it has not appeared on the radar that frequently in Europe. Reporting on the foibles of the Church of England is also a full time job. But when it does enter into a story my editors have always cautioned me to take special care as the group has a reputation for resorting to litigation when displeased.
What I have not seen before is a practical link between the Nation of Islam and Scientology. The Chicago Tribune reported last year on a speech given by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakahan that touted its benefits for "white people".
He praised Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. Farrakhan extolled the virtues of Scientology and its auditing process, which is considered spiritual counseling by its members.
"L. Ron Hubbard is so exceedingly valuable to every Caucasian person on this Earth," Farrakhan said.
"L. Ron Hubbard himself was and is trying to civilize white people and make them better human beings and take away from them their reactive minds. … Mr. Hubbard recognized that his people have to be civilized," Farrakhan said to a cheering crowd.
The Nation of Islam is a black-nationalist or empowerment movement that does not allow for white members. Is Minister Farrakhan saying that those unable or unwilling to join the Nation of Islam consider Scientology? Is the Life Force Arts and Technology Charter School dispute a practical working out of this meeting of minds between the Nation of Islam and Scientology? How should reporters develop this story? Or is there even a story to develop?
Setting to one side the controversial public image of the two groups, the Nation of Islam and Scientology do share some common tenets including the place of UFOs in the great scheme of things.
The LA Times states that Scientology's founder L. Ron Hubbard taught that:
Seventy-five million years ago a tyrant named Xenu (pronounced Zee-new) ruled the Galactic Confederation, an alliance of 76 planets, including Earth, then called Teegeeack.
To control overpopulation and solidify his power, Xenu instructed his loyal officers to capture beings of all shapes and sizes from the various planets, freeze them in a compound of alcohol and glycol and fly them by the billions to Earth in planes resembling DC-8s. Some of the beings were captured after they were duped into showing up for a phony tax investigation.
The beings were deposited or chained near 10 volcanoes scattered around the planet. After hydrogen bombs were dropped on them, their thetans were captured by Xenu's forces and implanted with sexual perversion, religion and other notions to obscure their memory of what Xenu had done.
Soon after, a revolt erupted. Xenu was imprisoned in a wire cage within a mountain, where he remains today.
But the damage was done.
During the last 75 million years, these implanted thetans have affixed themselves by the thousands to people on Earth. Called "body thetans," they overwhelm the main thetan who resides within a person, causing confusion and internal conflict.
In the Operating Thetan III course, Scientologists are taught to scan their bodies for "pressure points," indicating the presence of these bad thetans. Using techniques prescribed by Hubbard, church members make telepathic contact with these thetans and remind them of Xenu's treachery. With that, Hubbard said, the thetans detach themselves.
In the Chicago Tribune report of Minister Farrakhan's 2011 speech we find this statement:
The keynote address, titled "God Will Send Saviours," capped a weekend of workshops focused on health, preparing for natural disasters and unidentified flying objects. The Nation of Islam believes in a UFO called "the wheel" or "the Mother Plane."
Farrakhan has described a 1985 religious experience in which he ascended into a flying saucer and heard the voice of Elijah Muhammad predicting events that came to pass.
A speech by Minister Farrakhan printed in the Final Call, the Nation of Islam's newspaper, develops this theme:
The final thing is the destruction. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad told us of a giant Mother Plane that is made like the universe, spheres within spheres. White people call them unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Ezekiel, in the Old Testament, saw a wheel that looked like a cloud by day, but a pillar of fire by night. The Hon. Elijah Muhammad said that that wheel was built on the island of Nippon, which is now called Japan, by some of the original scientists. It took 15 billion dollars in gold at that time to build it. It is made of the toughest steel. America does not yet know the composition of the steel used to make an instrument like it. It is a circular plane, and the Bible says that it never makes turns. Because of its circular nature it can stop and travel in all directions at speeds of thousands of miles per hour. He said there are 1,500 small wheels in this Mother Wheel, which is a half mile by-a-half-mile. This Mother Wheel is like a small human built planet. Each one of these small planes carry three bombs.
What say you GetReligion readers? Are we seeing a meeting of minds? Or is this a local issue whose religious connotations can be exploited for sensationalist purposes? Or is this news?


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Okay I found one tape which has:
2 episodes of Full House
1 episode of Family Matters
Somewhere I have a tape with The Brady Bunch episode and
The Saturday Night Live episode with Candice Bergen (sp?) from the 1970's. And I'm sure I have other SNL Christmas episodes recorded. I went through a phase and that was all I watched!
See my problem is I'll record something and then get tired of it so I'll record over it and then I'll go back to liking the thing I liked before and get mad because I've recorded over it.


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Malloy: Bridgewater deal up to Stamford
Stamford controversy kept at arms' length: Bridgewater project is for city 'to act on'
STAMFORD -- Amid growing speculation about the fate of a development that would bring hedge fund behemoth Bridgewater Associates to Stamford, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Tuesday distanced himself from negotiations between the city and developer Building and Land Technology, saying that the decision to bring the company was "Stamford's to act on."
"That's a decision for this community to make," Malloy said in a brief interview following his keynote speech at an event hosted by the city's Downtown Special Services District, a group of property owners and stakeholders.
Roughly 200 high-profile members of Stamford's development and business community turned out at the Stamford Marriott Hotel & Spa to listen to the former Stamford mayor deliver what amounted to a state of the union speech.
During that speech, Malloy emphasized the failure of his predecessors to adapt the state's economy to its needs, while holding up Stamford as a model for other cities to follow.
"I grew up in a city unlike other cities in the state, one that 50 years ago made a decision to change its course," he said. "That has not been the model of Connecticut for a very long time. We're not trying to manage for a one-year period of time. This is about changing the trajectory of the state of Connecticut."
The aging state, he said, needed become more "urban centric."
Touting employment growth under his tenure, Malloy said that the state had created 37,600 private sector jobs. Among the firms he mentioned was Bridgewater, although the governor was careful to note that its plans were still "pending."
Regarding Bridgewater, Malloy said in the interview: "What happens in Stamford is up to Stamford," he said. "I'm not making any judgments. I structured the transaction to keep (Bridgewater) in the state."
Malloy said that his foremost goal as governor was to keep the world's largest hedge fund in Connecticut, but he added that Stamford stood to gain from a roughly $1 billion investment by Bridgewater.
Since March, the city's negotiations with BLT have been stalled over the replacement of a boatyard on the project's 14-acre waterfront site. The prolonged talks have generated questions about the notoriously secretive hedge fund's relocation plan, which will benefit from a $115 million tax incentive deal brokered by Malloy's administration. Early on, the company was said to be targeting opening its new $750 million, 850,000-square-foot headquarters in 2016. That deadline now appears highly unlikely.
But Mayor Michael Pavia, Malloy's successor who was set to give welcoming remarks, did not attend.
The two men have been sharp contrasts in style. As mayor, Malloy was known to be intimately involved in shaping developments and helping to move projects through the approval process. Pavia has said that he prefers a more hands-off approach to planning and zoning.
Among the attendees at the event was Joseph Capalbo, the city's director of legal affairs. Asked what was holding up the deal with BLT developer head Carl Kuehner, Capalbo said, "I would say that it's Carl. Carl would say that it's the city. There's a lot involved. We're working through it."
Capalbo said he expected that an agreement should be finalized shortly.
"There's never any guarantees, but I'm optimistic this is going to get done," he added.


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Horrible Bosses 2
Director: Sean Anders
Writers: Sean Anders (screenplay), John Morris (screenplay)
The follow-up to the 2011 hit comedy Horrible Bosses reunites Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis as everyone's favorite working stiffs: Nick, Dale and Kurt. Jennifer Aniston (We're the Millers) and Oscar® winners Jamie Foxx (Ray) also reprise their Horrible Bosses starring roles, while Chris Pine (Star Trek: Into Darkness) and Oscar® winner Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained, Inglourious Basterds) star as new adversaries standing between the guys and their dreams of success.
Fed up with answering to higher-ups, Nick (Bateman), Dale (Day) and Kurt (Sudeikis) decide to become their own bosses by launching their own business in Horrible Bosses 2. But a slick investor soon pulls the rug out from under them.Outplayed and desperate, and with no legal recourse, the three would-be entrepreneurs hatch a misguided plan to kidnap the investor's adult son and ransom him to regain control of their company.