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The place I most enjoy using a pair of headphones is the gym. So when I had the chance to try out the AKG K 490 NC (noise-canceling) headphones, I grabbed it. I've used lots of different headphones for the gym. Finding something that fits in my ears and doesn't require constant re-adjustment is darn near impossible. The '490 NCs are an "on-ear" style of headphones that have noise cancelation. My hope was to have a comfortable fit while still being able to enjoy the music over the sounds of the TV and machines. I was not disappointed.
Striving for fitness
I've had nearly every major in-ear headphone brand pop out of my ears or lazily slip low while I bounced up and down on the stair climber. So I was interested trying the '490s with their "on-ear" design. I was concerned that they might be uncomfortable or too heavy. I fretted needlessly.
While the '490s certainly are heavier than earbuds, I didn't find them tiring nor did they interrupt my cardio workout with slippage. The headphones have a single, cloth covered cord that went to my iPod touch®. There was no tangling and the length of the cord was perfect for sitting the player on the climber's control pad.
Noise cancellation
I tested the '490s on two different levels — noise cancellation and sound quality. First and foremost, these are noise canceling headphones. My hope was that they would eliminate the noise of the TVs, and the whine of the machines in the cardio room. These AKGs have a simple noise-canceling (NC) switch on one ear cup. Switching between noise canceling and passive mode was really easy.
I found that the '490s significantly diminished the ambient sounds of the gym. When I checked them out in other instances where the noise was more random (sneezing and coughing) they didn't block noise out as well. In both instances, the bass dropped off noticeably in the NC mode. One thing I will say about the '490s is that for on-ear style headphones, they are among the best I've tried for noise cancellation.
Sound quality
As for music, I thought the sound quality of these AKGs were fantastic. The music library I tested came from my Spotify® premium subscription. I used both their mobile and streaming service. The sampling rates varied between 160 and 320 kbps. Not high resolution, but not bad at all.
I listened to the Dixie Chicks perform Wide Open Spaces. This track has a lot of string instrumentation as well as solo vocal and harmony. The '490s had this tune sounding as if it were being played in a wide open space. All instruments were uncolored by the headphones. The bass was present but not prominent, again with some drop in noise-canceling mode.
For comparative purposes and to get something with a little more of a bass line, I listened to Cake Showroom of Compassion. Here we have male vocals and a bit of electronica thrown in with some sound effects and the bass guitar more up front. There was an excellent level of detail coming through this track. The bass extended a bit further of where it was with the Chicks, but didn't still take over.
Overall, clarity is what stands out on these headphones. They just don't get in the way of the music.
The little things are important
The AKG K 490 NC use active noise canceling, requiring power from a built-in battery. Charging is easy using an included cord that has USB on one end and a headphone-type plug on the other. The '490s come with an adapter for travel and a foam pouch.
The pouch has a little stretch to it. The earcups of the headphones rotate and fold in for storage. It was nice to have some flexibility built into both the headphones and the pouch, especially as I took them back and forth to the gym and to work.
Bottom line
The '490 headphones have me thinking that on-ear is going to be my "go-to" style for cardio at the gym. And I liked them just as well working at my desk. These are comfortable, good sounding headphones that deliver spacious sound to the music you want to hear and a decent blocking out the noise you don't. If you're looking for comfortable, noise canceling headphones that reproduce your music very well, consider the AKG K 490 NC headphones.


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The Redskins have signed quarterback Pat White, Mark Maske of the Washington Post and multiple other media outlets reported Wednesday.
A second-round pick of the Dolphins in 2009, White played just one season for Miami before being released before the 2010 campaign began. For a time, he tried to rekindle his baseball career, but now he's back in the NFL, joining Kirk Cousins and Rex Grossman (who agreed to return to Washington Wednesday) as reserves behind Robert Griffin III.
Griffin is recovering from a January knee injury, so adding more QB depth makes sense for Washington. However, Cousins is a veritable lock to make the club, and if Griffin is healthy enough to be on the active roster in Week One, it will be interesting to see how many quarterbacks the Redskins will carry. It's rather rare to see four on a roster once the season begins.
But these are down-the-road issues. For now, White is getting another shot in pro football's premier league.


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Right before your very eyes: Alice Camille on the Transfiguration
Alice Camille reflects on the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ. She suggests that the Transfiguration should lead Catholic Christians to see that fullness in the face of others.
She spoke little English -- just isolated words you had to build the intended sentence around in your mind. But it never seemed to get in the way of our conversation. Mrs. Sottopietra was the oldest human being I'd ever seen, though every old person seems a hundred from the perspective of a child.
She lived in the tiny house bordering ours, with the world's smallest garden. Her "yard" was just a space to the side of the brick steps leading up to her porch, enclosed by a wrought iron fence that kept out more than it held within. That was the mystery: how she made a postagestamp-sized garden into such a land of wonder.
Sometimes when we played ball in the street, the object of our pursuit would wind up on the far side of her gate. If such a thing happened, say, at the Martelli's down the street, we would instinctively kiss that ball goodbye and go play something else. Some neighbors were like grizzly bears, not worth confronting in their lairs.
But if something landed in Mrs. Sottopietra's yard, it was no big deal. In fact, it might become an opportunity to engage one of the most extraordinary souls in the neighborhood. If the house seemed quiet and she might be napping, we'd carefully open the gate and tiptoe inside, rescuing the ball without disturbing her.
But often as not, as soon as the gate released its slight squeak of protest at being moved, the screen door would open and Mrs. Sottopietra would stick out her head. Her hair was creamy white and pulled into a bun in the back.
Her face was a contour of deep creases in leathery olive skin, with eyes like shining onyx stones embedded in it. Every crevice of her face seemed to be made for smiling, as if she'd practiced all her life and these amazing wrinkles were the sculptured result.
"Sorry, Mrs. Sottopietra. Our ball is in your yard."
"Ball?" She'd repeat the word experimentally, as if the sound were novel to her ears. "Bawl?" The child would point to the object in question, and the old woman would step cautiously down the brick steps as if they might break under her slight weight. Then, stooping, she would reach into the thorny bushes and retrieve the sphere--"Bawl!"--and return it to its owner with the mildest, kindest expression in her eyes, to affirm her boundless good will concerning the disturbance. We would retreat from her territory at once, to honor her privacy. But invariably she would call us back, beckoning with both hands. "You? See?"
I always returned to see. She wanted to show us her roses. With an infinitely delicate touch remarkable in her large coarsely lined hands, she'd lift the head of this bloom and that one.
When standing this close to the roses she would whisper, as if afraid to disturb their peace. The miracle was that she had a dozen kinds of roses in every color in that impossibly little space. Their fragrance was heady and sweet, unrivaled by any rose I've smelled in the 40 years since.
Mrs. Sottopietra would put her face close to one of those blooms and inhale. "Beautee-ful," she would say, tears welling up in her eyes. How she loved those flowers.
"Beautiful," I would murmur in agreement, smelling a rose courteously. And for some reason I did not understand, my eyes would grow moist, too. "Nice girl," she'd whisper softly, as if not to awaken the flowers.
This was my first experience with transfiguration, though I didn't know that then. I knew nothing of this old woman: what life had been like in her country far away, what troubles she bore, what loneliness might accompany living in a world where you could not speak to your neighbors. I didn't know anything about all the years signified by those deep creases on her face.
All I knew was that this tiny old woman, when standing in her garden whispering over her roses, was the most beautiful person I'd ever seen. Her radiant smile and the tears standing in her eyes made me think of God and how being in her yard was a little like being in church: hushed, peaceful, holy, safe.
The disciples saw something quite different, perhaps, when they awoke from their usual nap while Jesus was praying, and discovered their teacher transfigured. All of the gospel accounts speak of a brilliance no human factor could achieve. No bleach could make his garments that white; no light could shine as his face did.
In this startling revelation, they saw their teacher--a man they no doubt thought the world of--in conversation with the two greatest figures of Hebrew history, Moses and Elijah. No leader rivaled the authority of Moses, the only human with the courage to speak to God face to face and therefore to receive the law. And no prophet had the power of Elijah, who could raise the dead and command the elements in accordance with God's will.
These men were giants in the religious imagination, and to find Jesus among them as a peer must have been mind blowing. But more than a peer: as the revelation waned and Jesus was left standing alone, it might have occurred to the disciples that Jesus had superseded the legacy of the law and the prophets, not simply stood equal to it.
But it did not occur to them, as scripture writer Father Paul Boudreau has noted. Peter's question "Shall I erect three tents? One for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah?" betrays his confusion, not to mention his preference.
Peter would like to hang onto all three brands of authority: the gospel, the law, and the prophets. Peter doesn't want to have any of his allegiances challenged. He doesn't want to make a hierarchy of his values. As he proves so many times in the gospels and in the Acts of the Apostles, Peter would like to remain a card-carrying Jew in good standing, as well as a true student in the school of Jesus. If he can escape the crisis of having to choose which authority has ultimate reign over his life, he will gladly do it.
Peter is not alone in his preference. The first generation of the church was largely composed of Jewish Chrisbans trying fervently to be both. Later Christians would make a similar attempt to marry church and state, thinking that a merge between the two would be profitable to both and cause no serious threat to either.
Today not a few of us find ourselves with allegiances in several conflicting camps, "lighting candles at too many altars," as a poet once said, working to keep all of our gods on speaking terms. And while we are trying to get away with such trespass, to recover our ball and slip away with no harm done, something is being revealed to us that we must not miss.
Jesus seemed no different when the disciples hiked down the mountain behind him. His face no longer glowed, his clothes resumed their dusty appearance. Nothing had changed, except perhaps their perception of him. Who was he, really? What did they really know about him? And which was more true: the man they saw before them now, a little tired, hungry, talking his usual mysterious language about the Son of Man rising from the dead? Or the wondrous being they had glimpsed on the mountain, conferring with legendary saints?
He charged them not to talk to anyone about what they had just seen. In some ways, that made it easier to file it away and pretend nothing had happened. They could forget that a voice from heaven had called him "my beloved Son." Or that they had, for a moment, seen a beauty that made the tears come inexplicably to their eyes.
If they had held onto that vision and not forgotten what they saw, they might have recognized it again during that final meal on the night he was betrayed, when he took bread and gave thanks. They may have been able to accompany him to the cross, look upon that holy face, and not be overwhelmed with despair. They might have known, through those dreadful three days, that there was nothing to fear. They would have understood that when you bury a seed in the ground, it dies, only to produce its fruit.
But the church reminds us of this story twice every year, once during Lent, and once on the feast of Transfiguration, so that we do not forget and miss the transfigurings that come to us.
Like that of the homeless man who sits every day on the corner and asks for money, most days he is indistinguishable from the armies of homeless people I've met in every city. But once, on that wild election day some years back when the Florida count was uncertain and nobody knew who the next president would be, the man on the corner did not ask me for money. He asked me what I was hearing about the election. So I stooped down and started discussing the latest polling results. All of a sudden we were two Americans involved in civic affairs.
It did not matter that I was going home to dinner and he would be off to find a rolled up blanket behind a bush after dark. I try to remember the glimpse I had behind that dulled expression to the whole human being whose reality is a lot like mine.
Or how about the apartment-house neighbor who wore me down with her endless stream of poorly chosen romances and cyclical heartbreaks? She seemed the very definition of an unstable personality, ever red-eyed over some lover, a person hard to take seriously.
Yet she was a fine dancer. One night I attended a performance of hers and caught something in her face I had not expected to see. She was completely enveloped in the dance, at the poignant convergence of music and grace. She was focused, centered, balanced with a precision that was breathtaking. I did not recognize the precarious person who lived perched on the edge of reason. Here was quite another woman, whose body was the vessel of perfect knowing.
The glimpses of revelation are legion, once you start looking for them. The pregnant teen at the shelter starts to have the look of the Madonna about her, full of holy light and impossible faith in that tiny life within her. The organist at the cathedral is tethered to drugs, tragically made a thief and liar by his addiction. Yet when he plays that organ on Sundays, he is mystically transfigured into the instrument of God's mercy and healing and joy to thousands.
The beloved sons and daughters of God are everywhere, and if we cannot see them, it might be we have forgotten something we once saw. We slipped into the yard, grabbed the ball, and missed the rose.
This article appeared in the March 2003 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 68, No. 3, pages 43-47).


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Stamp Out Tab-Stops! (An Unsung Holy War)
At $DAY_JOB, I have for the first time encountered a coding style that I have problems adapting to. It's not that I can't do it; I easily re-configured my editors and IDE settings to accomodate it. It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth every time I commit code with tab characters still present.
It's a quiet holy war, nowhere nearly as loudly fought as Perl vs. Python (Perl, naturally) or Emacs vs. Vi/Vim (I take the Switzerland stance and use both while advocating neither). Do you expand your tabs to spaces? Do you even have tabs at all, have you instead configured your editor-of-choice to bypass them entirely? Do you prefer to retain tabs? Or do you, like the author of these styling guidelines, advocate mixing spaces and tabs together?
To me, that's the worst of the options– even though you're using spaces to make sure that sub-elements of a statement still line up, it only takes a few missed lines and a viewer (such as "less", or converted-printing such as "enscript") with tab settings that are different than yours. Then, you have source code whose flow is so much harder to read than it needs to be.
And what are the arguments for even using tabs? They're a hold-over from the days of mechanical typewriters, and some cool steampunk hacks notwithstanding, we don't use those anymore. Non-software-professional office workers don't even use them anymore! The closest they come is in word-processing software such as OpenOffice.org or Microsoft Word. Neither of which, last I checked, were popular as source-code editors.
My coding style has evolved over the years, and the way I code now doesn't always match what I wrote 15 years ago. Sometimes when I look at my older code it can be painful to see stylistic shortcomings. But when I look at code that uses tabs, let alone that mixes tabs and spaces, it's often outright jarring. Block structures in Java, Perl, even PHP can be all over the place if the author wasn't careful. And if there were multiple authors, it's almost guaranteed to be that much worse.
I've heard people say, fairly-recently even, that a tab-stop saves bytes over using spaces for the same indentation. Why is this even remotely an argument when terabyte disks are under $200? Is the savings of a few bytes here and there worth the headache of reading code who's format is skewed by inconsistent tab layout?
I've also heard that it's a matter of keeping people to a consistent style, and that not everyone has their editors set up to convert tabs. That's an even weaker argument, since even as I started re-learning Vi/Vim, it took me mere minutes to find the proper option to make it always use spaces in place of tabs (that would be "expandtab", in case you were wondering). In Emacs you can also configure it (because really, what can't you configure in Emacs?), and likewise it is trivial to set up in Eclipse, Padre, jEdit, etc., whichever editor is your favorite. And consistency in style is so much more than just tabs versus spaces, it seems like an insult to the question of stylistic guidelines to reduce them to this argument. And with tools such as pertidy, there's no reason to be that concerned about the relationship between editing and style-adherence.
So help me in my goal of stamping out every last tab-stop in source code that you find! End the tyranny of the mechanical typewriter!


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On the afternoon of Friday, Nov. 22, 1963, the turgid melodrama of "As the World Turns" was suddenly interrupted by grave news from the real world. In Dallas, three shots had been fired at President John F. Kennedy's motorcade. Fifty-eight minutes later, a visibly moved Walter Cronkite would confirm the unthinkable: The president was dead.
For the ensuing three days, Americans gathered around their televisions in a rite of collective mourning as the three broadcast networks abandoned their regularly scheduled programming to provide uninterrupted news coverage. From Nov. 22 through 25, 1963, 96% of TV-owning households tuned in for an average of more than 31 hours, apiece, and a record-setting 41.5-million television sets were in use during the president's funeral Monday afternoon.
This type of blanket coverage was unprecedented at the time — CBS had become the first network to expand to a 30-minute news broadcast just two months earlier — and would be replicated only after the Sept. 11 attacks 38 years later.
Television eventually returned to normal, of course, even if the popular imagination never completely did. Five decades after his death, Kennedy remains a fixture on the small screen, providing dramatic inspiration for shows such as "Mad Men" and fodder for hundreds of made-for-TV movies and documentaries.
Fittingly, the 50th anniversary of the assassination will be commemorated by the medium it helped define, because a veritable avalanche of JFK-related programming is scheduled to hit the airwaves in the coming weeks. CBS, NBC and PBS have prime-time specials in the works, as do the cable news outlets and a host of other channels, including History, Discovery, National Geographic and Discovery.
Whether because of lingering questions about the assassination, the perception that JFK's death marked the end of postwar optimism and the beginning of the '60s, or the simple power of the Kennedy mystique, television cannot seem to get enough of the so-called Camelot era.
"The four days remain imprinted in our minds, as do the significant moments that you see and re-see. Even if you were not alive in November '63, certainly you've experienced the television moments of it and are still grappling with what it means," said Ron Simon, curator of the Paley Center for Media in New York.
It seems there's a flavor of Kennedy coverage for every palate, from "Letters to Jackie" on TLC for first-lady fanatics to "JFK: The Smoking Gun," for the more conspiracy-minded, on Reelz. If television provided a way to collectively mourn a leader's death in 1963, today's cacophonous medium inevitably offers us dozens of ways to remember.
The retrospective began at last month's Emmy Awards, where Don Cheadle described the assassination as "the moment when the television generation came of age," then introduced "American Idol" star Carrie Underwood, who performed the 1965 Beatles hit "Yesterday."
The awkward tribute illustrated the difficulty of revisiting this chapter in American history in a way that feels fresh, appropriate and relevant, particularly for a younger generation of viewers — a challenge also faced by producers of the coming deluge of Kennedy-related programming.
One time-honored approach is to involve big-name celebrities, however indirectly. CNN has "The Sixties: The Assassination of President Kennedy" (Nov. 17), the first installment of a 10-part documentary series produced by Tom Hanks, who will also appear, along with Steven Spielberg, in NBC's "Tom Brokaw Special: Where Were You?" (Nov. 22).
Hanks notwithstanding, the JFK project with the most name recognition may be "Killing Kennedy," premiering Nov. 10 on National Geographic Channel and adapted from the nonfiction bestseller by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard.
The film, starring Rob Lowe as the ill-fated president and Ginnifer Goodwin as the long-suffering first lady, hopscotches through the major events of Kennedy's abbreviated term in the White House (Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis) in between scenes of his womanizing. More illuminating, at least to the average viewer, will be the film's depiction of Lee Harvey Oswald (Will Rothhaar), especially his alleged attempt to assassinate the far-right-wing zealot Gen. Edwin Walker and his tragically close brushes with the FBI.
In a decision that will surely draw jeers from certain corners of the Internet, "Killing Kennedy" hews closely to the Warren Commission's official version of events. "This is not a conspiracy-theory story, it's based on what's known and what's proven," said Howard Owens, president of National Geographic Channels.
But the Grassy Knoll will also have its moment in the spotlight (as arguably it should, given that only 24% of Americans believe Oswald acted alone, according to an AP-GfK survey conducted in April). Reelz, the obscure cable network that made headlines in 2011 when it acquired the History castoff "The Kennedys," has "JFK: The Smoking Gun," a documentary (of sorts) airing Nov. 3 which posits that the fatal shot to Kennedy's head was accidentally fired by Secret Service Agent George Hickey. (Appropriately, the network will also broadcast Oliver Stone's "JFK," the urtext of Warren Commission skepticism.)
Other specials, including CNN's "The Sixties: The Assassination of President Kennedy" and "Fox News Reporting: 50 Years of Questions: The JFK Assassination," will take a more measured look at the findings of the commission in 1964.
"Nova: Cold Case JFK," airing Nov. 13 on PBS, uses cutting-edge forensic technology to address some of the more persistent pro-conspiracy arguments, like the contention that only a "magic bullet" could have passed through Kennedy and Texas Gov. John Connally and remained intact.
Those interested in Kennedy's life and legacy, rather than the endlessly contested circumstances surrounding his death, are better served by "American Experience: JFK," also on PBS. Drawing extensively on recent scholarship, particularly that of historian Robert Dallek, the four-hour documentary will air in two parts on Nov. 11 and 12. (It was expanded after a two-hour edit was deemed too cursory.)
The first half focuses on Kennedy's life before the White House, charting his evolution from sickly scion to World War II hero to playboy senator, while the second chronicles his tumultuous 1,000 days in the White House. The film also delves into lesser-known aspects of the president's biography, particularly his struggle with Addison's disease and debilitating back problems.
What "American Experience: JFK" does not do, however, is brood over the events in Dealey Plaza , which are skipped entirely. "It was a very conscious decision," executive producer Mark Samels said of the omission. "We purposely wanted to do an ellipsis around that."
"JFK: The Final Hours," also on National Geographic, takes the opposite tack, recounting in minute detail the president's barnstorming trip across Texas and featuring interviews with many of the admiring well-wishers who greeted him (it's narrated by Bill Paxton, who as an 8-year-old boy stood outside Kennedy's Fort Worth hotel). It is loaded with surprisingly poignant trivia, like that Kennedy spent the last night of his life in a room decorated with a Van Gogh.
"The Day Kennedy Died," airing on Smithsonian Channel Nov. 17 and narrated by Kevin Spacey, follows a similar timeline, though it focuses on eyewitnesses to the crime and its aftermath. "To hear from people who had their eyes to the keyhole, not journalists one step back, not experts, not politicians but people who were primary witnesses, I think you get a special vitality from that," said director Leslie Woodhead.
The film consists almost entirely of archival footage and contemporary interviews with ordinary people who will forever be tied to one of the most notorious days in American history. We hear from Clint Hill, the heroic Secret Service agent who leapt onto the presidential limousine after the first shots were fired, and Buell Frazier, the 19-year-old co-worker who gave Oswald a ride to the Texas School Book Depository that fateful morning, among others.
"I think what I understood more deeply than I had done seeing it from afar was just how it changed individual lives," said Woodhead, "how it really got inside people."
The glut of coverage, which rivals that surrounding the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks two years ago, prompts a number of questions: When it comes to an event as cataclysmic as the assassination of JFK, is it ever possible to overdo it? And after 50 years and countless documentaries, movies and miniseries, what is the purpose of revisiting the tragedy once again?
Barbie Zelizer, author of "Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination, the Media, and the Shaping of Collective Memory," suggests our fixation with JFK is driven by a desire to achieve closure on an event that defies comprehension. "We're not good at stories without ends," she said. "Americans like our history neat and tidy, and the Kennedy assassination absolutely messes that up."
But, Zelizer said, the commemoration is productive in creating "a shared sense of ourselves."
In an era of ever-increasing fragementation, on TV and in the culture at large, this urge to relive a moment of national unity, albeit a tragic one, is understandable.
"The assassination was a shared national experience for the first time," said Tom Brokaw. "You could live in the most remote parts of Idaho or Texas or South Dakota and still have access to this state funeral, to the streets of your nation's capitol on live television. That was a transformative event."
Indeed, the four days were quickly recognized as a defining moment for not only the country but also for television, a turning point when the medium overcame its reputation as a "vast wasteland" and offered vital comfort to a traumatized nation. In January 1964, TV Guide published a special issue commemorating "America's Long Vigil," which opened with a statement of praise from the new president, Lyndon B. Johnson: "On that unforgettable weekend in November 1963, television provided a personal experience which all could share, a vast religious service which all could attend, a unifying bond which all could feel."
Bob Schieffer thinks the volume of coverage is entirely appropriate. "Television has a way of overdoing things, but in this case I don't think we are. It's impossible to overstate how traumatic this was for the country," he said.
Schieffer will host CBS' prime-time special, "As it Happened: John F. Kennedy 50 Years," planned for Nov. 16, and will anchor "Face the Nation" live from the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas, formerly the Texas School Book Depository, the following day.
It's a homecoming of sorts for the veteran newsman, who was a young police reporter working the night shift at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in November 1963. Schieffer's brother woke him up on the afternoon of the 22nd with the urgent news that the president had been shot; he rushed to the office and later that day gave Oswald's mother, who had phoned the paper, a ride to the police station in Dallas. Like many journalists of his generation, the assassination would change the course of his career.
"The country has never been quite the same as it was before the assassination," said Schieffer, likening Kennedy's arrival at the White House to the moment "Wizard of Oz" switches from black-and-white to color. "He was our first Technicolor president."


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I have heard and used agnostic to denote "uncaring". I was recently corrected on my usage of the word which got me thinking. What word should I use? Uncaring seems incorrect.
Some examples:
- This new applesauce recipe is truly apple agnostic.
Meaning it tastes great with any apple cultivar.
- My new computer backup tool is OS agnostic.
Meaning the tool works on any computer regardless of which operating system is running/installed.
- The study on american morality is God agnostic.
Meaning the study draws its conclusions without making a statement about the existence of God.
The meaning seems to be that something continues to function with disregard to a particular attribute or detail.


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Harvard Law School will actively cooperate with military recruiters this fall, despite the Pentagon's refusal to sign the school's nondiscrimination pledge, Dean Elena Kagan announced this evening.
Kagan's announcement marks a reversal of her November 2004 decision to bar Pentagon recruiters from using the law school's Office of Career Services. For most of the last 26 years, the office has only provided its resources to recruiters who promise not to discriminate against gay and lesbian employees and job applicants. The Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy prohibits gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military.
In an e-mail to students and faculty this evening, Kagan wrote that the Pentagon had notified the University this summer that it would withhold most federal grants to Harvard unless the Law School altered its policy to allow military recruiters access to the resources of the career services office. Harvard receives more than $400 million per year in federal grants.
Meanwhile, University President Lawrence H. Summers said in a statement tonight that Harvard will file a friend-of-the-court brief tomorrow urging the Supreme Court to invalidate the Solomon Amendment, the statute passed by Congress in 1994 that allows the secretary of defense to block federal funds to universities that deny military recruiters "equal access" to campuses.
"The Law School and the University share a deep and enduring commitment to the principles of nondiscrimination and equal opportunity for all persons," Summers said.
Summers also said that he agreed with Kagan's move to grant Pentagon recruiters an exemption from the nondiscrimination policy.
"This decision is prudent given the potential consequences to the University's research and other activities," he said.
Approximately 40 Harvard professors—including Kagan—have signed a separate brief urging the high court to overturn the Solomon Amendment, said Smith Professor of Law Martha L. Minow.
A federal appellate panel in Philadelphia ruled last year that the Solomon Amendment "requires law schools to express a message that is incompatible with their educational objectives" and therefore violates the schools' free-speech rights. The panel suspended the enforcement of the amendment.
But the panel consisted of judges from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, and its ruling did not make clear whether the Solomon Amendment still applied outside the Third Circuit—which includes Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The ruling came in response to a lawsuit filed by the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a coalition of more than two dozen law schools that oppose the Solomon Amendment. Harvard is not a member of FAIR, and Summers has said that the University will not file a suit against the federal government challenging the Solomon Amendment.
The Supreme Court announced in May that it will review the Third Circuit's decision later this year, when it is expected to offer the first definitive interpretation of the statute.
With Harvard facing the potential loss of its federal grants, amounting to 15 percent of its total budget, Kagan wrote in her e-mail, "I regret making this exception to our antidiscrimination policy" and reiterated her opposition to the "don't ask, don't tell" protocol.
"I believe the military's discriminatory employment policy is deeply wrong—both unwise and unjust. And this wrong tears at the fabric of our own community by denying an opportunity to some of our students that other of our students have," she wrote.
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Baltimore in late July is not normally considered paradise, but for many, there has never been a summer quite like this one — and not just because a cold front has briefly moderated temperatures and humidity to something manageable. We are a sports fan's paradise. Not only are the Baltimore Orioles contenders in the American League East, but the Baltimore Ravens have opened training camp on their season as defending world champions.
Yes, yes, everyone knows the Ravens won the Super Bowl more than five months ago, but seriously, does reminding ourselves of that ever become tiresome? World champions. World champions. World champions. It just has a nice ring to it — and a big, shiny trophy, too. Let's toss some more purple and black confetti like we did last February.
Even those Baltimoreans who care little about sports have to admit that it's just an awful lot of fun to know the local teams are showing up on ESPN SportsCenter highlights instead of the blooper reel. It gives us something to talk about around the water cooler, the food truck or even the front steps. How about those Ravens, hon? It brings a certain amount of community pride to a city that could use a little bit extra to brag about every once in a while.
For those who aren't regulars to the sports pages, here's the scoop. NFL training camps are like the fraternity hazing of sports. Large men will now huff and puff and run, lift and pound on each other to earn a spot on the 2013 squad. There are draft picks and free agents, veterans and rookies, all seeking to: 1) survive and 2) make the team. If you have further questions about the process, consult the HBO series, "Hard Knocks," which this year follows the Cincinnati Bengals as they do much the same thing.
The Ravens will be without nine starters from the Super Bowl team, including linebacker, team leader and inspirational dancer Ray Lewis, who has played here since the last Ice Age (or something like that). For most teams, this would be considered extremely bad news, but here's where the jury is out, to say the least.
Football prognosticators have already started doing their thing, and they've noted the substantial turnover in personnel and, as a result, few are picking the Ravens to repeat. Some don't even expect the team back in the playoffs. Bleacher Report fully expects a Super Bowl featuring the San Francisco 49ers against the New England Patriots (apparently on the theory that losing a tight end to a murder charge shouldn't be any big deal) while the Ravens stay home.
Of course, that's exactly how we like it here in Baltimore — with low expectations and a chip on our shoulders. Coach John Harbaugh is a master of cutting through the hype surrounding professional football and recognizing that it's still a game of blocking, tackling, running and passing — oh, and with apologies to Justin Tucker, sometimes kicking. When asked by an out-of-town reporter this week about who will be the next "face of the franchise" now that No. 52 is gone, he disputed the very idea that there was ever a face of the franchise to begin with.
History shows that Super Bowl champions tend not to repeat, whether their starters return or not, and many follow their big wins with mediocre seasons. Whether it's because of complacency, egos, distractions or just bad luck, it's hard to say. But it's clear these Ravens still have something to prove to the world. Even Joe Flacco, that Super Bowl MVP who threw 11 touchdowns with no interceptions in the playoffs, was dissed in a recent ranking of top NFL quarterbacks on NFL.com, which listed him 13th. Matt Ryan and Cam Newton were rated higher.
But things look pretty good from where we're sitting, particularly compared to our neighbors to the north in Philadelphia and New York, where mediocrity abounds. Last year, we had the good fortunate of watching the Orioles and Ravens march to playoffs and assumed it was all a dream. Well, the good times are still rolling. Let's enjoy them while they last.


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How To Format Text in a Microsoft Works Document
You can format text in a Microsoft Works document in order to change how it looks. Format text to change its size, apply effects such as bold or italic, or change its font (typeface style).
Try not to use too many formatting bells and whistles in a single document, as the formatting might become distracting or make the document difficult to read. A good guideline is to use only two fonts on a single page and to use effects such as bold or shadowed text for emphasis only.
1Click and drag your mouse over the text you want to format.
The text is highlighted to show that it's selected.
2Choose Format→Font.
The Font dialog box appears.
3Make selections from the Font dialog box.
Select a font from the Font list. Your selection is previewed in the large box near the bottom of the dialog box. Select a font style such as Bold or Italic from the Font Style list if desired; font styles are useful for emphasis. Choose a text size from the Size list. The higher the point-size number, the larger the text.
To underline the selected text, choose a style from the Underline drop-down list. Add color to the text by selecting a color from the Color drop-down list. Click any of the Effects check boxes to apply effects to the text.
4Click OK.
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- Premier League
Wenger: Ramires guilty in both Chelsea goals
Arsene Wenger vented his frustration at referee Martin Atkinson as Arsenal crashed to a 2-1 defeat at Chelsea.
The Gunners have won one league encounter against the five teams currently above them in the Premier League this season and were beaten 2-1 at a snowy Stamford Bridge. It was a result which left them 11 points adrift of the Blues and cast major doubt on their top-four credentials.
Arsenal were simply awful in the first half but manager Wenger was as critical of Atkinson as he was of his own players, insisting neither Chelsea goal should have stood. Wenger was livid on the touchline as Juan Mata fired the home side ahead moments after Ramires fouled Francis Coquelin, as he admitted post-match.
The Frenchman's mood was not improved when Gunners goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny was adjudged to have brought down Ramires in the box, claiming the Brazilian should have been booked for diving.
Wenger said: "The referee gave a lot of free-kicks today, and some much less than the Coquelin one. It's frustrating. It doesn't mean we should have conceded the goal but, in the big games, these decisions have big implications."
Admitting he was "surprised" Atkinson did not send off Szczesny after penalising him for a last-man foul, Wenger added: "He could have given Ramires a yellow card as well."
However, Wenger refused to absolve his players from blame for the defeat, the second league game in succession in which they were made to pay for a slow start after last weekend's loss to Manchester City.
"We had a similar start to Man City last week, didn't defend too well and gave them too much incentive," he said. "We didn't play well in the first half, but we were much more dangerous in the second half, with a different attitude.
"Unfortunately we didn't make enough of our corners, free-kicks and the chances we created. That's why we lost the game. It's very damaging for our position in the league and difficult to swallow."
Having trumpeted 15 successive top-four finishes as justification for the way he has managed Arsenal in recent years, a minimum six-point gap to fourth-placed Tottenham - albeit with a game in hand - will not make for happy reading.
Wenger added: "The table is the table. We have lost two big games in the last week, and that's very damaging for us. We cannot afford to drop points any more if we want to be in the top four."
The Gunners were all over the place at the back in the first half, although they might easily have snatched a point after Theo Walcott pulled a goal back after the break.
Admitting Arsenal's problems were both physical and psychological, Wenger added: "The team has fantastic quality and spirit, but we come into the game when we're 2-0 down. At the moment, that's worrying. In the big games, once you start 2-0 down it's very difficult.
"I feel we were not well positioned on the pitch. We were stretched, gave them too much room to play and didn't defend tightly enough. We were always allowing them to play wherever they wanted."


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Epson's BrightLink Pro 1430Wi
Epson is rolling out a host of expansions and new releases to its various lines of projectors, including the addition of three new models to its PowerLite series and the introduction of its BrightLink Pro ultra-short throw interactive projectors.
The announcements were made at this year's InfoComm A/V trade show in Las Vegas. The company also refreshed its PowerLite Pro Z line, designed for larger venues like lecture halls or auditoriums, that offers up to 11,000 lumens of color brightness as well as more powerful performance features and advanced display capabilities.
The new models of the PowerLite 1900-series projector line include the 1975W (5,000 lumens), 1980WU (4,400 lumens) and 1985WU (4,800 lumens). The 1975W and the 1985WU feature wireless full HD video transfer via Intel WiDi and Android Miracast, as well as two HDMI ports, one with MHL (Mobile High-Definition Link) for connecting multiple digital devices. All three models work with the free Epson iProjection app that allows for wireless projection from Apple or Android devices.
The BrightLink Pro 1430Wi and 1420Wi use built-in tools to transform flat surfaces, such as whiteboards and tables, into interactive, digital whiteboard-like displays. The new series feature a new Whiteboard Sharing Tool that allows up to 15 participants to join a sharing session directly from any mobile device with a web browser or from another BrightLink Pro projector. They offer 3,300 lumens of color brightness and the 1430Wi supports gestures, up to six fingers for annotations, and supports two pens writing simultaneously.
Nine new installation projectors were also added to the PowerLite Pro Z line, varying between 8,300 and 11,000 lumens. Some models also include WUXGA resolution with native full HD 1080p support, HDBaseT connectivity, and portrait mode projection. They support 360-degree installation and offer seven lens options with lens shift, including a new 0.7 short throw lens, as well as short-, wide-, rear-, and long-throw lenses. All models will be available by September.
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Well, it's all over now, and for most Americans, 911 will slide back into the recesses of their minds.
Sunday I was invited by my old friend, Jane, who is a Deputy Chief with the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department, to co-write and present a piece on USARS and DMATs at Ground Zero. It was an honor. As a federal government employee with the National Disaster Medical System, it's forbidden to wear the uniform for anything but official trainings and deployments, but they made an exception in the case of 911 10th anniversary tributes. The event itself was amazing. It was in a huge theatre (almost filled to capacity) and included all branches of the military with police and fire honor guards. There were speakers, bagpipes, videos, the flag folding, and the tolling of the bell. Quite impressive. Afterward there was a very nice reception where the folks could meet the participants and the Search and Rescue dogs which included Orion, the only Ground Zero dog still alive in Northern California.
I had written this piece for another purpose, but decided to use it here instead. I looked back at the things I learned while deployed at Ground Zero - the things can still impact me today. I wanted to share them with you.
Twenty-Five Lessons from Ground Zero
Sam Bradley, BS, EMT-P
"I think the essence of life is laying down your life for others. If you've ever felt that no one loves you, just look at a fire truck going by. Then you'll know that somebody does."
Regina Wilson, firefighter, Fire Department of New York.
Quoted from the book, "Women at Ground Zero – Stories of Courage and Compassion"
by Susan Hagen and Mary Carouba.
I received a gift last year. It was one of those large patches that honors the World Trade Center disaster. Embroidered within it are the patches of FDNY, NYPD and the Port Authority. If was left for me at our county EMS agency by someone in Public Health. It was to show her appreciation for a lecture I did for the County Medical Reserve Corp on my Ground Zero experience. The focus of the discussion was on critical incident stress in disaster. I spoke to a packed house. It was nice to know that, even after 9 years, people still cared.
In thirty-two years as a paramedic, I learned how each patient interaction, no matter how mundane or redundant, creates a certain level of stress. Some reach you on a very personal level - others will change you forever. A major airline crash and responding to the traumatic arrest of one of my fellow paramedics did it for me. Unfortunately, I discovered the meaning of post traumatic stress disorder by experiencing it.
By the time I joined a federal disaster medical assistance team in 1997, I had taken a significant amount of training in critical incident stress management (CISM). I felt prepared - better than most, I thought. It was that training that qualified me to be put in charge of CISM for the sixteen of us that responded to New York City to provide medical support for people working on the "Pile" at Ground Zero. Saying it was a life-changing experience is like saying Hurricane Katrina was a squall.
Lesson #1: It's hard to manage someone else's stress when you're in the thick of it yourself.
Lesson #2: You can't effectively defuse people (or yourself) when you're in a "work" mode."
Lesson #3: Everyone will react differently to events based on their individual experiences and coping skills.
Lesson #4: Going to a memorial service to honor one of the fallen firefighters was difficult, but gratifying.
Lesson #5: Meeting his family, learning more about him as a person, and making him one of our own was even better.
Lesson 6: Three horn blasts meant a body was found. Heavy equipment would be silenced and all work would stop as everyone honored the fallen. The same ceremony was repeated several times a day as firefighters walked along side a flag draped body on a gurney which would be loaded into an FDNY ambulance and taken to the morgue for processing. It was painful to watch, until I realized that one more family had closure. Most never would.
Lesson #7: Wearing steel toed boots on ground that was still 800 degrees below the surface was painful.
Lesson #8: Disconcerting can be defined by opening the back door of a treatment tent to see the headstones of a church graveyard covered in 6" of dust and the trees above decorated with brightly colored and torn clothing.
Lesson #9: It was gratifying to know how much the world cared based on the donated supplies from boots to teddy bears, and well wishes from people on the streets, for helping New York by being "out there". We appreciated the ever-present hot meals made available to us by local restaurants and served up by local volunteer agencies. The largest pot of jambalaya I've ever seen was transported and cooked up by a contingent from New Orleans.
Lesson 10: The cards from children that decorated our "respite" spoke of anger, patriotism and the kind of fear that kids in this country should never have had to experience. Firefighters were their new heroes, but they also acknowledged the ironworkers, trash truck drivers and volunteers. The cards had messages of, "I hope you're not dead or I'll be sad"; "remember your family"; and "relax and take some time for yourself"; We didn't.
Lesson #11: Children are smarter than adults.
Lesson #12: We were told the air we breathed probably contained the DNA of 1000 people. If so, I carry them with pride.
Lesson #13: Taking a special mission onto the Pile itself during a caving operation was the singular most intense experience I have ever had. In the deepest part of the most infamous place on the planet, it became very clear that myself, my partner Andy, and the firefighters were not alone. All I could do was tell them, "I'm sorry" ….
Lesson #14: Talking to firefighters who were already psychologically (and, most likely physiologically) crippled tore my heart out.
Lesson #15: Hot french fries and cold martinis (with three olives) after a shift at 0100 was the best part of the day. We could share experiences with the other half of the team and make peace with the events of the day ... as much as that was possible.
Lesson #16: We wrote a message to the firefighters on a plywood board the day we demobilized. We learned later that teams that came after us followed our lead (and the team before us). That board was secured, sealed in Plexiglas and was transported to Atlanta for our annual conference the next year. My handwriting is now in a museum somewhere.
Lesson #17: Trying to assimilate back into "real" life was extremely difficult.
Lesson #18: I was really pissed then.
Lesson #19: I still am.
Lesson #20: When it comes to Ground Zero, emotions still sit very close to the surface.
Lesson #21: The person that left Northern California in October of 2001, isn't the same person that returned two weeks later. My temper is shorter, I'm much more skeptical, and I have way less tolerance for stupidity.
Lesson #22: Disaster workers aren't easily discouraged, even in the worst of times. A few of those that deployed with me have left the team and disaster work. Others went on to experience other deployments like Hurricane Katrina and the Haiti Earthquake. Disaster work is what they live for.
Lesson #23: Each disaster takes a piece of our sanity, yet we're driven to go back for more.
Lesson #24: I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
Lesson #25: Memories of feelings, sounds, and odors from Ground Zero live in the far reaches of my mind, but, comparatively, I'm lucky. I met a pastor from Iowa several years ago. He had also been at Ground Zero. At the time I met him he would become incapacitated whenever he heard heavy earthmoving equipment, music he associated with a movie about Ground Zero, or three blasts of a horn. He has recovered, although not completely.
Am I still angry? Yes. Why? Because 343 firefighters, police and EMS people died along with thousands of civilians? That responders still need to have government physicals every year to see if the poisonous air we breathed has turned our cells to cancer? That too many Americans have forgotten that day like it was just another bad "B" movie? That we hear more about a pop star's latest addiction or infidelity more often than the ongoing suffering of those firefighters and their families? Because there are radical extremists that still focus their lives on destroying ours because they don't agree with our way of life? That good Muslims are chastised for the acts of a few radicals? Yeah ... all of the above.
It mattered to me that people came to the meeting that night to listen to my story. To know that firefighters, law enforcement, EMTs, paramedics, nurses and docs are willing to go out there every day and brave those dangers, face their demons, and fight the good fight tells me that the bad guys will never win. They can take our lives, but not our spirits. They sought to weaken us with fear, but initial shock turned to resolve and a level of patriotism this country hasn't seen in a long time. I am proud to have had the honor to take care of those heroes at Ground Zero and form a posthumous friendship with a young firefighter that died way too soon on September 11, 2001. We're still in touch with his family. Christian, you will always be in my heart.
This brings home the importance of being physically and mentally prepared for what we face, not just in disaster work, but every day on the streets and in our ERs. Situational awareness can't be taken for granted. The bad guys are still out there and first responders are their targets. That's why I believe in the efforts of all the experienced professionals who strive to make sure that every cop, firefighter, disaster worker and medical practitioner is aware, well-trained, and safe. It's a new world … a much more dangerous one, and we need to prepare each other for 21st century threats.
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The newest poll in the gubernatorial race showed a much tighter contest than previous surveys as the campaign turns the corner into the final two week before the primary election.
According to a Suffolk University-Boston Herald poll, Attorney General Martha Coakley holds a 12-point lead over Grossman with 42 percent of the vote to Grossman's 30 percent among very likely Democratic voters. Health care administrator Donald Berwick trails in third place with 16 percent, while 12 percent of likely Democratic primary voters are still undecided.
The poll, conducted Aug. 21 through Aug. 24, had a 4.9 percent margin of error.
The last SocialSphere/Boston Globe poll released last week had Coakley winning by a 21 point margin. The margin in the Globe poll shrunk to 18 points among voters who definitely plan to vote on Sept. 9. While Coakley held a commanding lead over Grossman among women (49 percent to 26 percent) in the Suffolk poll, she trailed the treasurer by a point among likely male voters in the Democratic primary. More than 13 percent of likely Democratic voters said they would vote for either the Republican nominee or an independent if their preferred candidate losses the Democratic primary, with 7.5 percent saying they would vote for the Republican and 5.75 percent saying they would vote for one of the three non-party candidates on the ballot in November.
The Suffolk poll also showed former state Sen. Warren Tolman holding a 6-point lead over former assistant attorney general Maura Healey in the Democratic race for attorney general, while former Brookline Selectwoman Deb Goldberg leads the primary race for treasurer with 20 percent. Goldberg's nearest rival in the three-way race for treasurer is state Sen. Barry Finegold at 8 percent, with Rep. Thomas Conroy in third at 7 percent.
Also, the three-way race for lieutenant governor is a toss-up with the three Democrats - Stephen Kerrigan, Mike Lake, and Leland Cheung - essentially splitting the small percentage (29 percent) of voters that have made up their minds in the race. On the Republican side of the ballot, expected nominee Charlie Baker holds a commanding lead over political novice Mark Fisher with 70 percent of likely GOP voters to Fisher's 11 percent.
New poll shows race for governor tightening
The newest poll in the gubernatorial race showed a much tighter contest than previous surveys as the campaign turns the corner into the final two week before the primary election.


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While certainly not the same form of beauty as found in nature, there is undoubtedly something beautiful to behold in the shapes and forms of freeway and highway structures - especially elevated ones. Aerial views of these intricate freeway interchanges, commonly found in major urban areas such as the MacArthur Maze in the East Bay, can often be as breathtaking (to some eyes) as some sights in nature, such as looking at a river meandering its way down a mountain side towards the sea. Equally satisfying is the view looking up from below at these giant concrete creations.
I thought of this recently as I cycled the dirt track along the railway tracks under the elevated merging 580 and 880 freeways in a desolate (except for the overhead rumble of traffic and the occasional homeless encampment) part of Oakland and Emeryville - not far from where that oil tanker burst into flames and screwed up the freeway structure about a year ago. From the relatively peaceful vantage point, directly below this network of connector ramps that merge the East Bay's major interstate freeways and highways, one can, without being bothered, take in the engineering beauty of the concrete roadways as they wind and meld together overhead.


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Over the past few years, Dropout Nation has had plenty to say about once-respectable education historian Diane Ravitch. From pointing out the factual inaccuracies and logical misfires in her sophistry, to spotlighting the fact that she discredits herself with every tweet and blog post, there has been more than enough evidence to show that the Camille Paglia wannabe doesn't deserve to be taken seriously by anyone. So it isn't shocking that Ravitch debases herself further with a piece on her eponymous site on last week's massacre of 26 teachers and children in Newtown, Conn., that shows her to be the kind of intellectual opportunist that would take advantage of tragedy to score points.
Instead of simply reflecting on the heroism of teachers and school leaders such as Sandy Hook Elementary School principal Dawn Hochsprung (who was slain while protecting a child from the murderous rampage of Adam Lanza), Ravitch decided to spend much of the piece defending tradtitionalist thinking, as well as arguing against Nutmeg State Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform efforts (including the expansion of charter schools, Ravitch's bogeyman of late). Declares Ravitch: "Let us hope Governor Malloy learned something these past few days about the role of public schools in their communities. Newtown does not need a charter school. What it needs now is healing. Not competition, not division, but a community coming together to help one another. Together. Not competing."
Wow. Just wow. Declares Jacob Waters in a recent tweet, Ravitch's piece counters: "any doubt that [Ravitch] is the [Rush Limbaugh] of education policy." Or as the inestimable Terry Stoops of the John Locke Institute notes in his own comments about the piece: " Ravitch does her best to exploit the Newtown shootings to advance her own political agenda." [Ravitch, by the way, has attempted to defend her claptrap after being criticized publicly and rightfully by David Rosenberg, an executive at Teach For America.]
As your editor, I'm not even going to dissect her arguments or her insinuations because it is not the right time for all that at all. Nor am I going to do some pearl-clutching, or call for Ravitch to be banished to some imaginary hinterland. I'm not even happy to be commenting on this piece at all. What I will say is that Ravitch is engaging in pure intellectual demagoguery in obituary form. This is absolutely, positively inappropriate to do. Not even Fleet Street writers, whose tradition of skewering the deceased in obituaries is legendary (and often admirable in a way) would defend this. Certainly Ravitch could have found a more-appropriate topic through which she could argue for her positions. She could have even devoted her piece to discussing how the Newtown massacre is an opportunity for all of us to build caring cultures for our children. Yet Ravitch has proven incapable of such decency or logical thinking. And this fact speaks loudly about Ravitch's capacity for thoughtfulness, sensitivity, and decency.
UPDATE: As you would expect, Ravitch has found a few folks willing to defend the indefensible. I'll let you judge their views for yourself.


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Prepare Your Food Truck for Health Inspections
The goal of health inspectors isn't to shut down your food truck or commercial kitchen. Their role is to enforce local food codes as well as to educate food service staff on proper food handling practices.
When an inspector visits your food truck (typically once a year, but make sure you contact your local health department to verify its requirements), he looks at certain areas to assist in protecting the general public. You need to understand what a health inspector is looking for in order to educate your employees as well as help you keep an eye on these items yourself.
Critical items on a health inspector's checklist
At the top of an inspector's checklist are the critical items that relate directly to food-borne illness. These items are denoted in red on inspection sheets in many municipalities. Any violation of a critical item requires immediate attention and correction or a follow-up inspection will be scheduled to verify that the violation has been corrected. The following are typical critical items:
Observing proper hand-washing
Making sure food is coming from an approved source (such as a retail grocery store that's properly licensed for food processing)
Ensuring that foods are kept at safe temperatures
Verifying that no cross-contamination has occurred between raw and cooked products
Noncritical items on a health inspector's checklist
Although noncritical items aren't directly related to food-borne illnesses, they can still become serious problems if they're not corrected. Noncritical items like the following are usually listed in blue text on inspection sheets:
Labeled food storage containers
Current operator permit
Properly calibrated meat thermometers
Properly cleaned floors, walls, and ceilings
Potentially hazardous foods
Health inspectors must pay attention to potentially hazardous foods due to the heightened risks they present in spreading food-borne illnesses. These foods require precise time and temperature oversight for the prevention of bacterial growth and food-related illnesses.
The health inspector will spend a lot of her time checking the food holding and storage temperatures of all your meat, poultry, and seafood products to ensure that they're kept at safe temperatures.
Food safety knowledge
Food truck owners are required to have a firm grasp of their local health codes as a prerequisite to operating a commercial food establishment. Your staff must have up-to-date training on food safety practices, and employees must be able to demonstrate a strong knowledge of safe food handling and preparation. In many cases, inspectors will quiz you and your employees on this knowledge.
Here are a few questions you or your staff may be asked:
Do you prepare any food in advance of service? How are these foods cooked, cooled, and reheated?
Do you have temperature records? Who records them? Where are the thermometers? How do you calibrate them?
What potentially hazardous raw foods do you prepare and serve (eggs, meat, poultry, seafood, and so on)?
Do you prepare foods from scratch? What is your food labeling process?
Where are your salad ingredients washed, and what is the process?
What is your procedure for limiting bare-hand contact with ready-to-eat foods?
What is your hand-washing and glove-use policy?
Do you have a written policy for an employee reporting illness or injury?
Who does your pest control?
What is your process to train new employees? Are your managers certified in food safety?
Check with your state Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) office to determine the required frequency of this training.
Employee health
When your employees are sick, you must make sure they don't handle and prepare food. To protect your customers, send sick employees home or give them a duty that doesn't involve handling food or utensils. Person-to-person contact is a leading cause of food-borne illness, and sick employees can easily transfer their germs to your customers, no matter how cautious the sick staff members are.
If one of your customers gets ill and the cause is rooted in your food, the health department has the authority to check your staff's medical records and take samples of the food they've prepared. The purpose of this action is to locate the exact cause of the illness in hopes of preventing further contamination.
In some instances, food establishments have been shut down until all their employees are no longer sick and the establishment has been sterilized. To avoid this type of closure, and the consequent hit to your food truck's name, send your employees home if they show signs of a serious illness.
Keep track of the time you send employees home and how long they stay out of work in their employee record. Doing so allows an inspector to quickly find out the specifics of the illness.


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Glass Particles Found in Generic Version of Lipitor
(WASHINGTON) -- The pharmaceutical company that makes the generic version of the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor, also known as atorvastain, has shut down production while it tries to figure out how tiny glass particles got into the pills, the Food and Drug Administration announced on Thursday.
The federal agency said it had not received any reports of patients being harmed by the glass particles found in pills manufactured by Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals.
Earlier this month, the company, which is the largest producer of the generic version of Lipitor, recalled more than 40 lots of the drug because of the glass contamination.
The company has not said where the generic drug was manufactured or how the problem occurred, but a spokesperson for the FDA said Ranbaxy has agreed to stop making the pill's active ingredient until an investigation is complete. The active ingredient is made in India.
The incident is the latest episode in a recent history of manufacturing lapses at the company. Earlier this year, Ranbaxy was barred from importing 30 drugs after federal authorities discovered the company had numerous record-keeping violations and manufacturing problems at overseas facilities.
Dr. Edward Boyer at the University of Massachusetts Medical School said the contamination is not necessarily a threat to a person's health, but it is a cause for concern.
He says eating a pill that has particles of glass a millimeter in size or less is akin to swallowing a pill containing small bits of sand. Still, Dr. Boyer said if a patient on the medicine came to him, he would recommend they replace it with a known, safe alternative.
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Friday, October 29, 2010
Things That Bump Off in the Night
Resurrection men stole corpses. They'd sneak into cemeteries late at night, dig into fresh graves, break open the coffins, and pull out the bodies, then sell them to medical schools to be dissected in anatomy classes. Sounds grisly, doesn't it?
You'd think medical schools would protest. I mean, how many people walk up and try to sell you a dead body? Apparently, quite a few. You see, the Murder Act of 1752 required that only people who had been executed could be used for dissection. In the 1700s, as Marissa and I have mentioned, you could be executed for hundreds of pretty minor crimes, so there was no lack of fresh bodies. But in the 1800s, magistrates began balking at making everything a death sentence, and, as a result, there were a lot fewer criminal bodies available when the medical school, by some accounts, needed upwards of 500 bodies. So, resurrection men stepped in to fill the lack.
And a lucrative business it was. They received 8 to 10 guineas a corpse, more for a fresher one. One team admitted to stealing between 500 and 1,000 bodies over 12 years. With a guinea being worth a little more than a pound sterling, and a fellow being able to live nicely for a year in London for 100 pounds, the resurrection men made good money!
Families, of course, were appalled to return to the cemetery with flowers for dear Aunt Florence only to find that her grave had been dug up and her coffin emptied. They turned to a number of ingenious ways to safeguard their loved ones, such as standing guard over the grave, circling the grave with an iron fence, burying their dead in iron coffins that couldn't be broken into, or covering the grave with a stone so heavy it couldn't be moved, like this mort stone. The protections didn't have to last forever; they only had to protect the body until it had decayed enough that it was no longer useful for dissection.
But some resurrection men got greedy. Fresh bodies were worth more, so why not create a few? They begin murdering the homeless and the orphans, the teens who were doing odd jobs to make ends meet. In 1830, for example, John Bishop and Thomas Williams were found guilty of enticing several people to a dark part of town with offers of cheap lodging, drugging their victims, and dropping them into wells to kill them, then selling their stripped bodies for cash. Their case was so publicized, and the public outrage so great, that the police decided to make a bit off the case too. They opened the house where the murders had occurred to the public for 5 shillings a look. Supposedly, the viewers ripped off pieces of the house as souvenirs, until nothing was left. In a quirk of fate, both Bishop and Williams were hanged for their crimes, in front of 30,000 people, and their bodies given to a medical school for dissection.
Partially as a result of these dark deeds, Parliament passed the Anatomy Act in 1832, which allowed bodies found and not claimed and ones that relatives donated to be used for dissection. It also required that anatomy teachers be licensed, which was supposed to make them more honest and less likely to buy dead bodies that showed up mysteriously at their doors. The changes affectively cut into the resurrection men's trade, and the practice faded away like a tired ghost.
And for that I think we can all be thankful! Happy Halloween!
5 comments:
- QNPoohBear said...
Thanks for the pre-Halloween treat!
I remember reading about this subject in 19th century America in Ann Rinaldi's An Acquaintance with Darkness. The History Detectives on PBS also had an interesting story about a grave alarm!
- October 29, 2010 at 10:03 PM
- Shirley Marks said...
This is chilling ::chattering teeth:: and oh, so creepy.
The good news is that the Anatomy Act was passed =after= George IV. I can use this in a Regency story. :)
Thanks, Regina.
- October 30, 2010 at 9:59 AM
- Regina Scott said...
QNPoohBear--yep, America had these problems too. Mark Twain even wrote about it.
Shirley--you're welcome! Can't wait to read your story. :-) If you want more grisly details, try Googling Burke and Hare. Their case, in Edinburgh, was the most sensational.
- October 30, 2010 at 7:59 PM
- Joanna said...
I know I havent popped a comment in a while but I found this little post really interesting! thanks for posting it!
- October 31, 2010 at 3:33 PM
- Regina Scott said...
You're welcome, Joanna! It's nice to hear from you!
- October 31, 2010 at 4:27 PM


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Jon Stewart hammered Senate Republicans for voting against a United Nations treaty that seeks to protect the rights of disabled people around the world.
The treaty would have had no effect on existing U.S. law, but a handful of Republican Senators voted against it because of concerns it would hinder U.S. sovereignty and the ability of parents to home school their children. The final vote was 61-38, failing to reach the required two-thirds majority.
"What is wrong with you people?" Stewart said. "I guess it's time for our new segment: 'Please tell me this is rock bottom.' How did this happen?"
"It's official. Republicans hate the United Nations more than they like helping people in wheelchairs," Stewart said.
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'Virtual Installation' Brings Support to Military Families
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Army Lt. Gen. Jack C. Stultz credited his wife, Laura, for coming up with the concept of a "virtual installation" for families who live too far away to tap into the kind of information, services and support provided at large military bases.
Laura Stultz has experienced firsthand the challenges of holding down the home front far from the nearest military installation, when her soldier deploys. She recalled her husband's deployments to the Persian Gulf and the Balkans in the 1990s, when she had four young children at home and couldn't make the two-hour drive to a family readiness group meeting for help and support.
So when Stultz became the Army Reserve chief three years ago, she began pressing for a "virtual installation" to better serve and connect with military families.
"She said, 'We have got to do more. ... You have to bring the installation to the family,'" the general said at the Sept. 12 ribbon-cutting ceremony. "Because you have Fort Bragg, [N.C.], and you have Fort Drum, [N.Y.], but you don't have Fort Rochester. So what will military families do there when their soldiers leave? How will they get the support that you would expect to receive if you lived on Fort Drum in Watertown, N.Y.?"
The answer is tucked away in a cheery corner of the Rochester Army Reserve Center. Brightly colored toys, shelves of books and a cozy seating area beckon visitors inside. Strategically positioned display racks bulge with brochures about services available and how to take advantage of them.
But the heart of the center rests in what Stultz conceded can't be delivered online or through a toll-free call-in center: caring staffers and volunteers who families can talk to face to face to get the information they need.
Michelle Zelaya, one of two full-time staffers at the center, said families come with a full range of questions or concerns.
Many of the 800 Army Reserve families that live within 50 miles of Rochester have had little or no contact with the military in the past, she said. Fort Drum, the nearest large Army post, is 120 miles away, so many of the local families find themselves starting at square one when they begin learning what benefits and services are available and how to tap into them.
Others families who come to the center are geographically isolated, hundreds or thousands of miles from where their spouse deployed from, and unaware of local resources to help them.
Some come with specific questions, needing a new military identification card or help with the Tricare military health care system. Others worry that their children are the only ones in their school classes with a deployed parent, and need a way to connect with other kids in the same situation.
The staff and volunteers at the Army Strong Community Center answer their questions, help them network with each other for support, and refer them for services they need "not just with a phone number, but with a warm hand-off," Zelaya said.
"The biggest thing they take away is that they are not alone," she said. "We want them to know that while you are standing tall, we are standing behind you."
That message has big implications for the Army Reserve in terms of readiness, as well as for recruiting and retention, her husband said.
Deployed Army reservists can focus on their mission, knowing that if there's a problem at home, the staff at the Army Strong Community Center will take care of the family, Stultz said. Soldiers whose families are helped through the center appreciate that the Army Reserve cares about them and their families -- and as a result, decide to continue serving.
And when the community starts recognizing "this great support structure that is down there for the military," Stultz said, he expects more people to say, "I want to be a part of that" and join the military.
The Army Strong Community Center appears to be catching on in Rochester. Since opening its doors in early December, the staff has received 650 requests.
And just as Laura Stultz had predicted, the center is helping to fill a gap for the many active-duty families who leave their post for their hometowns during their loved one's deployment. Almost one-third of the requests so far have come from active-duty families, including Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force families.
"This is for anybody in any branch of the service to come and get the referrals they need," she said.
"For those of you in the other services, you can call it Rochester Air Base or Navy Base or Coast Guard Station, but we are going to call it Fort Rochester," her husband joked at today's ceremony.
If Laura Stultz has her way, the "Fort Rochester" concept will become as commonplace in American communities as the local post office. "I hope this is the start of a big expansion of the centers," she said.
"There is a lot of interest out there," her husband said, with communities around the country offering to partner with the Army to open new centers. Others are saying, "We'd like this in our community. We see the need and the community wants to help," he said.
The next center, possibly in the Midwest or Western part of the country, will probably be out in the community rather than in a reserve center.
Laura Stultz admitted she was wary of establishing the first center in a facility she feared families might find imposing or shy away from because of security restrictions. And while emphasizing that "they do a great job here" in Rochester, she said she'd like to test out other approaches that are more visible to the community and easier to access.
It could be a kiosk at a local mall or a center set up at a local Veterans of Foreign Wars or American Legion site. Stultz said he plans to pitch to Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki, a former Army chief of staff, the idea of opening "virtual installations" at some of the VA outreach centers that dot the country.
"We have a lot of ideas," Laura Stultz said. "We hope that everything, we learn a little bit, we try new things to make it better for our families."
Army Master Sgt. Dennis Frink, a 98th Division's supply noncommissioned officer, said he sees the new centers as a way to ensure military families have better, more convenient access to support than his own family experienced when he deployed from 2006 to 2008.
"This is good outreach, and brings an awareness of what's available," he said. "For the reserve community, this really brings it all together."
"It's fabulous," echoed Army Master Sgt. Victoria Ferris, the division medical noncommissioned officer. She contrasted what's being offered to Army Reserve families today, particularly through the new Army Strong Community Center and other family-support programs, to what was available when she deployed to Operation Desert Storm in the early 1990s.
"Families left at home had no support and no idea where to go for what they needed," she said. "I am so glad for the programs we have now."
All military families -- whether they're active-duty, reservists or National Guardsmen, and regardless of whether they're Army, Navy, Air Force or Marine Corps -- deserve the same level of services and support when their loved ones deploy into harm's way, Laura Stultz said.
The new center, she said, represents a big step in the right direction. "This is our attempt to make it equal throughout the military," she said.
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Re: Don't have a country room? Request one here!
Wow , i like these smileys!
Post any new feature ideas or game and website related bugs post here!
comeandcatch wrote:Indian Room , please !
bryan wrote:We want active rooms and forums, so why reward lazy Tunisians?
If 20 of them can't be bothered to post here, they won't be bothered to use their room or forum.
20 is not a big number at all!
Aquatique wrote:Well... how can you explain the few number of people that can't exceed 3 users in some rooms? (that i can cite them for sure!)
That means that the condition used here (20 requests for a room) cannot be a great criterion to be sure that the room requested would be active
bryan wrote:You are quite correct - we do need to do another review of rooms and close some once more
Also we were actually thinking of 100 - but seeing how much people complain about 20, imagine 100!!
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