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What do the terrorists who attempted to strike US territory in 2009 have in common? What is their connection with the Arab Middle East, often presented as the cradle of Islamic radicalization.
The answer seems to be very little.
What ties together Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian-born, British-educated, trained-in-Yemen man charged in the failed Christmas Day plane bombing; Anwar al-Awlaki, the fierce radical Islamic preacher who, in fact, holds a degree in civil engineering from Colorado State University instead of a master's in divinity from an Arab theological school; and Nidal Malik Hasan, the US Army psychiatrist of Palestinian descent charged in the November shootings at Fort Hood, Texas?
To understand, we have to consider lesser-known activists, like Daniel Patrick Boyd, a white US citizen and convert to Islam accused of leading a jihadist group in North Carolina, and Bryant Neal Vinas, an Hispanic US citizen from Long Island, N.Y., who pleaded guilty last year to assisting Al Qaeda and other terrorism-related charges.
These men are not devout Middle Eastern Muslims who left a war-torn fundamentalist Arab society to attack the West. Most have only distant connections with the Middle East. Converts are overrepresented among Al Qaeda activists, from Jose Padilla to Dhiren Barot, who was sentenced in the UK in 2006 for planning to bomb the New York Stock Exchange (and other sites).
How to connect the dots?
They are first of all globalized young people identifying with a virtual and imaginary Muslim ummah. Their life is often spent along a triangle: The family comes from one country; they move to a Western country (or were born there), where they become radicalized; and go to fight in a third one.
In fact, neither Pakistan nor Yemen nor Afghanistan is the key place for radicalization. These terrorists go there after being radicalized in the West or in a Western environment. And radicalization does not occur in a concrete political praxis with real people but in a solitary experience of a virtual community: the ummah on the Web.
The Nigerian Mr. Abdulmutallab studied in an English international school in French-speaking Togo, before going to the United Kingdom. Dhiren Barot came from an Africa-based Hindu family and was educated in the UK, where he converted to Islam. English is the language of recruitment and communication. These radicals don't have any permanent link with a specific country: As with their forerunners of the 1990s, they travel from one jihad to the other, use training camps where available, and have never been involved in local politics in the countries of training or residence.
Their anger is not the expression of the wrath of a real community, but of a virtual one.
The generational dimension is obvious: Most of the radicals have broken with their families or become estranged, as illustrated by the puzzlement of many parents, like Abdulmutallab's father who cautioned the US embassy about his son. Their Islam is a reconstructed one, not one transmitted from the past. They never refer to traditions or to traditional Islam; they don't mention fatwas from established clerics.
They act on an individual basis and outside the usual community bonds (family, mosques, and Islamic associations). They usually remain aloof from any communal group.
They are lonely travelers not involved in social or political action or even religious predication. They find socialization in personal bonding with alter egos, either from a local closed group of buddies (the 9/11 pilots, the London bombers of 2005), from a training camp in a remote place of Pakistan, or just through chatting on the Web.
After a usual "normal" life, they suddenly jumped into violence. They are psychologically losers, uprooted deterritorialized individuals who can become imaginary heroes of a virtual ummah through their own death.
There is something puzzling in Al Qaeda: While many terrorists are just dispensable, like Jose Padilla or Richard Reid, the "shoe bomber," the "one shot" strategy deprives the organization of probably bright people who could have been more efficient in the long run. The case of the Jordanian terrorist who blew up himself for a spectacular but short-term success in a CIA base in Afghanistan is typical. He would have been far more useful as a mole for the Al Qaeda leadership in the long term. Here suicide terrorism is not a tactic; it is an end in itself, a part of the motivation.
What this says of Al Qaeda is that they do not have a political strategy of establishing an Islamic state. Al-Qaeda does not play a vanguard or a leading role in the conflicts of the Middle East but is fighting mainly at its periphery. It has a global enemy: the West, not the local regimes. Instead of promoting a territorial caliphate in the Middle East, Al Qaeda is committed to a global struggle against the world power – the United States – in the continuation of the radical anti-imperialist struggles of the 1960s and '70s by the likes of Ché Guevara and the Baader-Meinhof gang.
Al Qaeda stresses radical but individual action and addresses a wider audience than just the Muslim community, hence the converts.
Ideology plays little role in the radicalization of the jihadist internationalist youth. They are attracted by a narrative not an ideology: that of a global, indistinct suffering ummah. And that of the lonely avenger, the hero, who can redeem a life he is not happy with by achieving fame while escaping a world where he finds no room.
If the US and the rest of the West gear up once again for another round of fighting terrorists without understanding these realities, they will have as little effect as they have had during the last 8-1/2 years since 9/11. The threat comes not from some soil that can be invaded or occupied, but from within the globalized web in which we are all today entangled.
Olivier Roy is a professor at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He is the author of "Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah" and the forthcoming "Holy Ignorance: When Religion and Culture Diverge."
© 2010 Global Viewpoint Network/ Tribune Media Services. Hosted online by The Christian Science Monitor


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Hybrid motor starter
Woehner USA's hybrid motor starter, Motus ContactronControl, offers system designers unique advantages in space and labor savings, while delivering versatile, reliable and long-lasting motor control.
Targeted at industries using motor controlled motion, Motus is used in place of traditional motor starting components. It is perfectly suited for system or machine designs that require motor loads of up to 5 hp.
Motus is also the first hybrid motor starter that not only incorporates three mounting options – 60mm System Classic, 60mm System Compact and DIN-rail mounting, but also incorporates short-circuit protection into the housing of the device, eliminating the need to mount circuit protection elsewhere in the panel design.
Motus is a hybrid device because it uses a solid-state semiconductor switch to start and stop motor loads at up to 5 hp, at 480 volts ac. The advantage of using a hybrid motor starter lies in the non-mechanical nature of the semiconductor switch. Hybrid motor starters can achieve up to 10 times as many switching operations as a mechanical contactor. Once the motor load is brought up to speed, the current is shunted through a traditional set of contacts to insure cool operating temperatures.
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Library at the Robert Koch Institute
General information
Source: RKI
The Robert Koch Institute has sectoral libraries at all its locations: the library in Berlin-Nordufer 20, in Berlin-Seestr. 10, in Berlin-General-Pape-Str.62 and in Wernigerode.
The library collects literature in accordance with the focal work areas of the Institute. The historical stock from the time of Robert Koch is unique.
Approximately 100,000 stock units, encompassing books and periodical volumes as well as a large number of electronic magazines, are available to the staff.
A use by external visitors is possible, but only subject to appointment by phone or email (Library)! The library stocks can only be consulted on site. Lending outside the Institute is not possible.
Directions for use
- External visitors should mention their literature wishes already when making an appointment, since in particular older volumes of periodicals must be made available from the depot.
- Lending of books or periodicals outside the Institute is not possible.
- PC workplaces and connection possibilities for laptops are available.
- Library users are responsible for complying with existing copyright and privacy provisions when copying or duplicating books and other materials. In the event of loss or damaging of books and other library holdings, damages must be paid.
- The Terms of Use must be complied with.
Date: 17.04.2009


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Cheating used to be so cloak and dagger. I mean, you'd have to go hunting for receipts or check bank statements to see if your significant other was stepping out on you. Now, though, thanks to the influx of social media sites and smartphones, you barely have to turn around to see what your partner's been up to.
So should you? Should you check in to make sure your partner is being faithful?
My vote is no.
With the availability of information at our fingertips, it can be tempting to see what our partner is doing in his or her off-time. He could be chatting with an ex, or chatting up someone he met on Facebook. He could be exchanging naughty pictures! You just don't know.
Until you do. And when you do know, you can't unknow that sort of thing.
I'm not suggesting that we turn a blind eye to our partners, pretending that the possibility of infidelity doesn't exist. Far from it. I'm merely suggesting that there are other, better ways to determine whether your partner is being faithful.
Namely, by asking him or her. Based upon his or her reaction, you should be able to tell one way or another if something is up.
I'd rather be accused of being "crazy" than accused of invading my partner's privacy. I think even now, in the age of the Internet, people deserve their privacy. If he's talking about me to another woman? Maybe he needs to vent to a female ear. If he's talking about a hot chick to a buddy via Facebook? He's being human.
And frankly, I don't need to know about it. Planting seeds of doubt is hard to turn back from.
If, by all means, your partner acts cagey when questioned about cheating, ask for proof. But ask for it -- don't go seeking it out. Because what you might find could be the answer ... but more likely, you'll just find out that your partner is human.
And if he should catch you snooping through his or her private emails, calls, texts, and Facebook messages? Well, that's a hard one to get over.
I say let sleeping emails sleep and do your communicating with your partner, not with a computer.
What about you? Do you check your partner's email or Facebook?
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Chris Brown: 'Art Was My Only Outlet'
Chris Brown is all smiles as he jokes around with photographers outside a recording studio on Monday (January 24) in Hollywood, Calif.
The 21-year-old singer has recently used his Twitter to show off some of his colorful collaborations with Australian graffiti specialist Kid Zoom.
"I fell in love with art around the age of six. I always took pride in kind of winning the coloring contests in school," Chris explained. "Art was my only outlet. Aside from music, art is the thing that I like to use as an escape. I appreciate other artists who have that talent and that eye for detail and eye for their own imagination. Art is a part of my life and it influences me completely."
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I don't believe the A's are a good bet today, but they are a GREAT bet for the series.
The latter, Europa, but tonight I'm rooting for the Tigers for the reason you mentioned. The adjusted series price has the potential to be the real pot o' gold!
So? Then you should pass. You just can't take a baseball team +140 when they're as high as +157 elsewhere (like The Greek).
Unless I get a price I can't refuse, I won't be betting on the A's in Game 2. I'll be betting the adjusted series price prior to Game 2.


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Current and Recent Projects
Andrew University Risk Behavior Survey
This is a survey that has been conducted about every five years. We examine the prevalence of youth risk behaviors, risk and protective factors, and trends in risk behaviors. These studies have resulted in a number of research presentations/publications for IPA related faculty and students as well as national and research awards for students. The data was collected in March of 2012 and is now being processed. We will examine the role of religion, parental bonding, childhood trauma, personality, depression on substance use and obesity. This was funded by a gift to the IPA. Follow up research was done in the form of qualitative interviews on the motivation for not using substances or engaging in other high risk behavior.
Christian Record Services for the Blind
This project is evaluating the products and services of Christian Record. We did an evaluation about 15 years ago and this is a follow-up. Duane is leading a survey and Curt is conducting a qualitative analysis and has completed that report. Overall, the focus group research showed a high level of support for all services. This project was funded by Christian Records.
Evaluation of Hope Channel Programs
This project utilized survey, focus group and diary methodology to examine Andrews University student evaluation of all Hope Channel Programs. Overall, we found that Evaluations were significantly more positive for students from developing countries. There was over 90% market penetration, no interest in reducing any type of programs, and a desire to increase programs directed at youth and families and a desire to improve production quality. High support for health programs the support base is strong and can grow if production issues are addressed.
Goodwill Industries of Greater Grand Rapids
This project will conduct three evaluations of programs currently being offered by Goodwill Industries in the area of job re-training programs for high-school dropouts, mentally ill and substance abusing clients on disability, and developmentally disabled clients.
Formal research involvement concluded in 2012. IPA involvement ran for over a decade and allowed us to work at the highest levels of drug policy research. Publications from this project appeared in high impact journals including the American Journal of Public Health and the Journal of Primary Prevention. In 2002 this partnership developed an Illicit Drug Policies chartbook "a Policy Research Partnership to Reduce Youth Substance Use." We also were able to organize a number of Oral Sessions at the annual meetings of the American Public Health Association and the American Society of Criminology. The IPA is still listed as the Illicit Drug Team on the project website.
Methamphetamines from Policy to Practice
The IPA conducted research from 2005-2008 examining state policies attempting to control the increasing production of methamphetamines in Small Toxic Labs. Generally, these state policies focused on the control of access to precursors used to make methamphetamine. Research addressed three questions:
- What is the nature and extend of state laws (as of October 1, 2005) focusing on controlling the salve of precursor chemicals used for the domestic manufacturing of methamphetamine?
- Do law enforcement personal and other professionals such as pharmacists with day-today responsibility for policy implementation perceive state methamphetamine chemical precursor laws to be effective, and what environmental and/or structural issues hinder or facilitate precursor law development, implementation, and effective?
- Is there an association between states with more restrictive precursor chemical laws and changes in the number of state methamphetamine-related lab seizures and what elements of laws are most related to STL seizure declines?
Research was sponsored by the National Institute of Justice. Several reports were published: the National Survey on Drug Use and Health Report "State Estimates of Past Year Methamphetamine Use", "The Relationship between State Methamphetamine Precursor Laws and Trends in Small Toxic", and "Controlling Methamphetamine Precursors: the View from the Trenches".
Pastoral Family Study
We have applied for an Andrews University faculty grant, as well as matching funding from the G.C. to examine the stressors in pastoral families, their relationship to risk behaviors and develop programs to reduce stressors. Findings suggest that stress levels are relatively high (30-40%) and the major causes are Church politics/disputes, financial and conflict between family expectations and church demands. Addiction issues tend to focus on pornography for males and a perception of verbal and spiritual abuser from children's perspective. This is a combined project of the Andrews Seminary Department of and Religious Education, Behavioral Sciences/Family Studies, the IPA, Department of Social Work and The School of Social Work and Family Studies at Southern Adventist University.
State of the Church Survey
This study examined the key issues that NAD Leaders perceived the Church faced. The issues that were deemed the most significant for the Church to address were family issues (divorce, neglect/abuse), youth retention and youth risk behaviors. There were deemed more important to address than such issues as National Sunday Laws. This study is directed by Dr. Duane McBride and Dr. Karl Bailey
United Way Evaluation Projects
For the fourth year in a row, the United Way of Southwest Michigan has contracted with the Center for Community Impact Research to develop and monitor its four community Impact Areas: Health, Education, Income, and Basic Needs. Students from the Andrews University Social Work Department's Advanced Practice Evaluation class also conduct six to eight individual program evaluations for local agencies each year. Current programs under evaluation include:
Girls on the Run:
The purpose of this program evaluation is to determine whether girls who participated in the 2013 Girls on the Run (GOTR) and Girls on Track (GOT) programs in Berrien County, Michigan experienced improvements in four major areas: a) self-esteem; b) body image; c) participation in physical activity; and d) commitment toward physical activity. Results from the 2012 program evaluation showed statistically significant improvements in all four areas. New areas for evaluation in this year's survey included levels of bullying, healthy eating choices, and amount of screen time with all forms of media. This is the third year we have conducted this survey for the United Way.
Adult Health Programs:
This evaluation combines questions from a nationally normed health behavior surveys to examine whether patients across five United Way-funded programs showed improvements in physical and emotional health as a result of services provided.
Pre-School Education Programs:
This program evaluation tracks changes in children's' developmental risk statuses of United Way-funded pre-school programs. The evaluation collects and analyzes data using the nationally normed Ages and Stages and Brigance developmental evaluations.


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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Buzz Williams has never been this far in the NCAA tournament before, so it might take a while for him to deal with it.
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Buzz Williams has never been this far in the NCAA tournament before, so it might take a while for him to deal with it.
The Marquette coach was just as irritable in victory as he might have been in defeat Thursday night after his Golden Eagles beat Miami 71-61 to put the school in the Elite Eight for the first time in a decade.
Williams relished the Golden Eagles' underdog status after come-from-behind wins in the subregional. But this was a dominant win over the champions of the Atlantic Coast Conference, so why the dour demeanor?
"That's a good question," he answered.
Williams then spoke of the pride and love he has in his players, how they've matured and all the works his staff does. Then the coach who doggedly worked his way up from his days as a student assistant at Navarro College got to the point.
"Because of my path to this point, I do have an edge," he said. "And I probably need to have better wisdom in how I handle that edge. But it's really delicate, because our edge is why we win."
"I'm really not good postgame," he added. "Actually, I'm really not good at all day of the game to you (reporters), my wife, my kids, because I do want to win, and I don't want to win for the outcome, I want to make sure that I and our team learn the lessons from what the day is going to give us."
Williams and the third-seeded Golden Eagles (26-8) will face No. 4 seed Syracuse in the East Regional final on Saturday, aiming for a spot in the Final Foul for the first time since the 2003 team lead by Dwyane Wade.
Marquette was knocked out in the round of 16 the past two years, and the team appeared headed for an earlier exit this year before pulling off the rallies that beat Davidson by one point and Butler by two.
This game was nothing like that. The Golden Eagles were never threatened after taking a double-digit lead in the first half. It's a good thing Vander Blue made his buzzer-beater before halftime. This time, Marquette didn't need one at the end of the game.
"It's fantastic. It feels good not to have to worry about, are you going to lose on a last-second shot or are you going to win on a last-second shot?" said Jamil Wilson, who had 16 points and eight rebounds. "To have a cushion like that, these guys played with tremendous heart, and we did it all game."
It was simple to decipher how the game was won. Marquette could shoot; Miami couldn't. The Hurricanes (29-7) had sentiment on their side, returning to the arena where coach Jim Larranaga led mid-major George Mason to the Final Four seven years ago, but they made only 35 percent of their field goals and missed 18 of 26 3-pointers.
"You ever have days where you're just out of sync or things just don't run along smoothly?" Larranaga said. "Almost like our trip over here. Our hotel is a mile and a half, it took us 45 minutes to get here. We had to go on nine different streets, weaving our way in and out of traffic and everything. And that's the way it seemed on the court. We were trying to find our way and never could. Never could get in rhythm offensively, and defensively. I don't think we communicated like we have been doing all season long."
Shane Larkin scored 14 points to lead the No. 2 seed Hurricanes, whose NCAA run to the round of 16 matched the best in school history.
"I think what we did this year was lay a foundation of what the program could be like," Larranaga said. "We're not anywhere near where I would like to be."
Marquette, meanwhile, shot 54 percent, a stark turnaround from its 38 percent rate from the first two games in the tournament. Davante Gardner added 14 points, with 12 coming in the second half when the Golden Eagles were comfortably ahead.
Blue finished with 14 points. He wasn't Marquette's leading scorer, but his offensive and defensive energy pushed the Golden Eagles to a big lead early.
He got going when he picked off a pass and converted the steal into a one-handed jam to give Marquette an 8-4 lead. His running one-hander made it 12-4. He and Junior Cadougan forced a steal, getting Larkin to commit his second foul in the process.
Blue ended the half with an exclamation point, hitting the step-back 15-footer just before the horn to give Marquette a 29-16 lead at the break. He drained the shot, strutted backward downcourt, cocked his right arm and gave Wilson a chest bump.
"We're so used to people not giving us credit. ... That fuels our fire," Blue said.
The Hurricanes couldn't sink anything. They started 2 for 12, including 0 for 6 from 3-point range, and Larkin's 3-pointer more than 11 minutes into the game was the first Hurricanes field goal scored by anyone other than Kenny Kadji.
In the second half, Blue's basket with 10:03 to play gave Marquette a 51-30 lead. The Hurricanes, who by then had started to press full court, then put together their best sequence of the night, a 7-0 run that cut the lead to 14 with 8� minutes left.
But Wilson's dunk and Gardner's inside basket stretched the lead back to 18. Gardner became the scene-stealer late, thumping his chest to the Marquette fans after a dunk in the final four minutes.
The Hurricanes played without backup center Reggie Johnson, who had surgery Tuesday for a minor knee injury. Johnson was averaging seven rebounds, but he would have helped only if he could've put the ball in the basket.
"There are only two things you have to do in basketball: One, put the ball in the basket. Two, stop the other team from putting the ball in the basket," Larranaga said. "We weren't able to do either."


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TOKYO: Japan's Sharp, a leading supplier of displays to Apple, said it will form a $2.9 billion alliance with state-owned China Electronics that includes an agreement by Sharp to license its advanced power-saving IGZO screen technology.
The new venture will be 92 per cent owned by China Electronics, also known as CEC, which supplies equipment to China's military. The venture will set up a an LCD plant with the goal of mass-producing panel displays for televisions, notebook PCs and tablets in 2015.
Licensing IGZO, or indium gallium zinc oxide displays, fits into a strategy by cash-strapped Sharp to leverage its technology to bolster its finances. Sharp, in December, signed a pact with Qualcomm, selling the US company an equity stake for $120 million and agreeing to develop new screens based on IGZO technology.
IGZO screens boast power consumption as low as a tenth of conventional LCDs, high resolutions and faster reaction speeds. While an agreement to license the technology to a Chinese military-linked state company may raise eyebrows, Sharp does not exclusively own the technology, only being the first to commercialize it.
The agreement, which is a revised version of one agreed to with CEC in 2009, may instead represent a retreat by the Chinese company to win access to Sharp's more advanced tenth-generation LCD manufacturing techniques. CEC is planning to build an 8.5 generation facility.
Sharp is the only panel maker in the world to have built a tenth generation factory able to fabricate liquid crystal sandwiched in glass sheets thinner than a credit card that are 3.13 meters long by 2.88 meters wide. Smaller 8.5 generation sheets measure 2.2 meters by 2.5 meters.
CEC in November blamed deteriorating ties between Japan and China over their territorial spat in the East China Sea for shelving cooperation with Sharp to build a tenth-generation facility. Sharp, which sold a stake in its advanced LCD plant to Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry last year, says no such agreement ever existed.
Thursday's deal, including the construction of the 8.5 generation factory in Nanjing, represents one of the highest-profile transactions between a Chinese and Japanese company since tensions flared last year over a chain of disputed islands known as the Senkakus in Japan and the Diaoyu in China.
A Sharp spokesman declined to say how much in royalties the company expected to receive for the technology transfer. A portion of those proceeds will be used to fund Sharp's 8 percent stake in the joint venture, the spokesman said.
The new joint-venture will represent a total investment of $2.9 billion for Sharp, which was rescued in October by its banks. To rebuild its business, Sharp has also sought closer ties to Samsung Electronics, selling it a 3 percent stake for $103 million and pledging to supply it with small display screens.


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James Rebhorn, who played the father of Claire Danes' Carrie Mathison on Homeland, died Friday after a long battle with skin cancer. He was 65.
Rebhorn was diagnosed with melanoma in 1992 and had been under treatment ever since, his wife, Rebecca said.
The disease dramatically worsened and he had been under hospice care in his New Jersey home.
Rebhorn recently appeared in White Collar, and was also in Meet the Parents, Scent of a Woman and Independence Day. He most recently appeared in a theater gig in January.
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Could a new Sonic game be on the way?
Better be Generations 2. That was the only real worthwhile one in years in my opinion. They had a wonderful concept with it, and a fantastic game. Just do that again, with some improvements over the last (more stages like Death Egg Zone, not sure why that wasn't in the first., tighten up controls a little, try and keep a constant frame rate, etc.) and we have a winner.
sonic adventure 3 with sonic, tails, knuckles,silver,shadow,blaze, and espio playable.
sonic generations sequel or a game similar, i cant get enough of that gameplay.
a sonic action rpg.
a real (sonic4) meaning a game that truly feels like the classics.
id be happy with these or something completly new just as long as it doesnt suck.
Sonic team needs to be replaced all together.. They havent made a glitch free game in over a decade.. Sonic just cant be in 3D without rails.. & with rails & speed boosters everywhere, your not really controlling him... The computer does most of it so please PLEASE reboot the series in 2D but fire the current sonic team & make a new 1 cuz they screwed up 4 ep 2 really bad..
No shadow, silver, Big Cat, or any of those other franchise killing plagues.. Keep it cool like it used to be in the genesis/saturn days.. It had more of a darker tone to me in the past too.. The music was even better than the rock n roll songs in it now..
Sega should do for sonic what Nintendo has been doing with Mario the last few years.
Like the 2d new super mario bros., sega should just go back to basics and do 2d sonic again in the style of the genesis games.
With today's high tech consoles, im sure a fully 2d sonic game would look and play amazing I think.
Add the chaos emeralds and super sonic levels and bam! There's your sonic reboot.


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In December 1960, Marjorie Sullivan Lee's sixth child was born. After five other children, Marjorie and her husband, John, were used to the routine. But what made this time different from the rest was the diagnosis given by their pediatrician the day after Kevin was born — their son had Down syndrome.
The doctor explained their options, which at the time meant telling Sullivan Lee she could send her son away. She immediately told the doctor, "No."
This experience, along with others involving her son, Kevin, is described in the book "Bloom Where You Are Planted," which published this year.
Through this book, Sullivan Lee has been able to share the message that "life with Down syndrome is OK" with parents of children with Down syndrome and those in the community.
"I want to help others learn that people with cognitive disabilities want to be a part of — rather than apart from — the rest of the community," she said.
And Sullivan Lee has spent the last five decades searching for this inclusion both in the educational system and the community.
Kevin went to a school for people with disabilities away from his neighborhood until he was 17, despite efforts by Sullivan Lee and her husband to keep him closer to home.
The Education for All Handicapped Children Act — the predecessor of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA — was passed in 1975 and required that children with disabilities be educated alongside peers without disabilities whenever possible, as long as that environment could provide the education they needed.
Based on this new law, Sullivan Lee and her husband initiated a due process procedure that won Kevin the right to be educated in his own neighborhood school with peers who were not disabled.
Kevin was the first person with Down syndrome to graduate from Glenbard East High School in Lombard.
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Kevin has a volunteer job shredding documents at a government office, which he has been doing for about 20 years. He also takes physical education and individualized reading courses at the College of DuPage.
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Lawmakers go NIMBY on sequester
In some lawmakers' minds, there's no stopping the sequester. So they're making a plea to the Obama administration: Just don't cut in my backyard.
With the automatic budget cuts set to strike all aspects of the federal government March 1, members of the House and Senate are beseeching administration officials — both in private and during public hearings — to spare key programs and employment hubs back home.
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( Also on POLITICO: Obama decries sequester)
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) recently asked the Army Corps of Engineers' top civilian official if she had a way to steer the looming cuts within the agency, making the case that President Barack Obama can't boost exports by underfunding water projects along the Mississippi River. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) has been huddling with top Navy officials at the Pentagon and in the Capitol about how to protect thousands of jobs at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and related contractors.
And Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) has been sounding the alarm about potential cuts to his state's White Sands Missile Range and two national laboratories, which help manage the nation's nuclear stockpile.
The panicked pleas from Capitol Hill offer a reminder about one big reason why Congress has failed to tame the $16.5 trillion debt: Politicians may talk a lot about tightening Washington's belt, but they get the blame if federal pork stops flowing back home.
( Also on POLITICO: OP slams Obama sequester speech)
"I'm almost relishing the moment all these tough-talking guys say: 'Can you help me with my base?'" Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), one of the most vocal critics of the sequester, told POLITICO.
"When it's somebody else's base and district, it's good government. When it's in your state or your backyard, it's devastating," he added.
While many lawmakers have been directly urging the administration to save their pet projects, others are employing an outside-in approach. During the weeklong Presidents Day recess, they tried to fire up voters to pressure Congress to strike a deal to avert the cuts.
( Also on POLITICO: DOD to warn Hill about furloughs)
Illinois Reps. Cheri Bustos, a Democrat, and Adam Kinzinger, a Republican, toured local defense contractor SupplyCore on Tuesday and warned of the sequester's impact on Rockford. Meanwhile, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) put his national anti-sequester tour on hold, instead taking his message to local town halls in Green Valley, Sun Lakes and Phoenix this week.
For months, the retired Navy pilot has argued broadly that the across-the-board cuts would cripple the nation's defense capabilities, but McCain mentioned one specific: "They make the Apache helicopter in Mesa, Ariz. If they cut back, it would have to be affected there."
In all, 1,200 budget accounts across the government would be hit by the sequester if no deal is reached by the March deadline. Office of Management and Budget Controller Danny Werfel testified on Valentine's Day that the cuts would be implemented "equally" across all programs, projects and activities within each of those accounts.
But that hasn't stopped lawmakers from trying to figure out if agencies have any wiggle room on how to enact the cuts. At a recent hearing on Capitol Hill, Wicker warned that cuts to the Mississippi River and Tributaries Project, which manages inland waterways and flood risks, would harm the local economy and pose a safety threat.
He pressed Jo-Ellen Darcy, assistant secretary of the Army for Civil Works, about whether she could send a request "upstream in the bureaucracy" for more flexibility in carrying out cuts to the Army Corps.


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Top Quality International Fleet Assembles In Porto Cervo For Third Leg Of The 2011 Melges 32 Audi Sailing Series
16 June 2011
Porto Cervo, Italy - A top quality international fleet, comprising 19 teams from 6 countries (ITA, CZE, GBR, NED, USA, FRA), has gathered at the Yacht Club Costa Smerelda on the beautiful Mediterranean island of Sardinia, on the eve of the third leg of the 2011 Melges 32 Audi Sailing Series.
Going into this regatta, John Kilroy on USA 13131 Samba Pa Ti, leads the overall series by a margin of 6 points, from second placed Vincenzo Onorato on ITA 2121 Mascalzone Latino. Lying third in the series and tied on points with Mascalzone Latino is Alessio Marinelli on Audi Fratelli Giacomel Armonia. With Onorato not in attendance this weekend, no doubt Kilroy and Marinelli will both be equally keen to turn in strong performances in order to consolidate their positions at the top of the leaderboard.
Such is the competitive nature of the International Melges 32 Class, that a large percentage of the teams competing at this event are each capable of winning individual races and even stringing together a series good enough to win the regatta outright. Amongst the talented owners likely to be vying for the podium positions this weekend are reigning Melges 32 World Champion Luca Lalli onITA 23 B-Lin Sailing, 2009 World Champion Pieter Taselaar on USA 169 Bliksem, as well as reigning European Champion Joe Woods on GBR 500 Red. Beyond these proven championship winners however, teams like Edoardo Lupi's ITA 487 Torpyone, Lanfranco Cirillo's ITA 212 Fantastica and Filippo Pacinotti's ITA 667 Brontolo HH have all previously proved themselves to be highly potent forces in this series.
Today's practice racing was sailed in warm sunshine and a fitful 6-7 knots easterly breeze. Local forecasts suggest that the breeze may remain light for the first two days of the regatta, with stronger winds anticipated for the final day.
Racing in the main 8 race series gets underway tomorrow Friday 17th June and will run through until Sunday 19th June. Racing is scheduled to get underway at 11:30 local time each day, except for Saturday, when an additional standalone 'Audi Invitational Race' will be run, scheduled to start at 11:00 local time.
You can follow all of the action on the Official Melges 32 Blog, where we will be bringing you live text and video updates from the racecourse throughout the regatta, with these updates also being posted to the International Melges 32 and Melges Europe Facebook pages.
Racing at the Porto Cervo leg of the 2011 Melges 32 Audi Sailing Series begins on Saturday 18th June and runs through to Sunday 19th June. Eight races are scheduled for the series with one additional standalone 'Audi Invitational Race' to take place on Saturday morning.
1.) Alessio Marinelli/Riccardo Simoneschi, Audi Fratelli Giacomel Armonia
2.) Antonello Morina/Paola Cian, Sei Tu 32
3.) Martin Knetig/Jakub Kozelsky, Black Mamba
4.) Peter Rogers/Ruairidh Scott, Highlife
5.) John Kilroy/Nathan Wilmot, Samba Pa Ti
6.) Carlo Perrone/Lorenzo Bodini, Atlantica 19
7.) Edoardo Lupi/Branko Brcin, Torpyone
8.) Luca Lalli/Lorenzo Bressani, B-LinSailing.com
9.) Kees Kaan/Bouwe Bekking, ROARK
10.) Ferdinando Battistella/Andrea Casale, Cuervo y Sobrinos
11.) Pieter Taselaar/Jeremy Wilmot, Bliksem
12.) Filippo Pacinotti/Daniele Cassinari, Brontolo HH
13.) Lanfranco Cirillo/Michele Paoletti, Fantastica
14.) Carlo Alberini/Enrico Fonda, Calvi Network
15.) Mauro Mocchegiani/Matteo Ivaldi, Rush Diletta
16.) Roberto Pardini/Salvatore Paderi, Janas
17.) Jean Francois Cruette/Stephane Christidis, Teasing Machine
18.) Joe Woods/Paul Goodison, Red
19.) Edoardo Pavesio/Andrea Felci, Fra Martina
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Anyone at the Treasury Department waiting for a $5.6 billion check in the mail from the U.S. Postal Service last week was disappointed. The USPS defaulted on the payment, the second time this year it has done so on a major payment due to the Treasury, fo
Anyone at the Treasury Department waiting for a $5.6 billion check in the mail from the U.S. Postal Service last week was disappointed. The USPS defaulted on the payment, the second time this year it has done so on a major payment due to the Treasury, for a total of $11.1 billion.
In fairness, the USPS legitimately could have marked the Treasury's demand for payment: "Return to Congress."
Last year postal officials notified Congress that it would not be able to make a payment to the Treasury by the due date of Sept. 30, 2011. Congress pushed back the due date to Aug. 31 of this year as it worked on legislation to resolve some of the systemic financial problems afflicting the USPS. Congress missed its own deadline, failing to adopt any reform legislation. The USPS then missed the 2011 payment in August and, a month later, the 2012 payment.
Those missed payments are the largest components of $15 billion deficit the service reported at the end of the federal fiscal year, Sept. 30.
Now, the USPS has a $1.5 billion workers compensation insurance payment due to the Labor Department, which it says it will make. Doing so, however, will leave the service with a $100 million cash shortage, which it hopes to make up over the impending holiday season.
The post office faces obvious business problems because of the conversion of so much correspondence and bill-paying to online systems.
But its most pressing problem is the result of a 2006 law requiring the USPS to pre-pay retiree health benefits 75 years into the future. That is meant to preclude deficits down the road but no other federally related enterprise faces such a mandate, and the USPS clearly can't meet it.
The Senate passed a bill in April that would mitigate those payments and return to the USPS, for operations, about $11 billion that it has overpaid into a pension fund. The bill would not, however, allow the USPS to carry out all of its planned closings of distribution centers, nor would it allow the service to end Saturday delivery to save cash.
That bill is imperfect yet helpful. The House has failed to act on its version. It should do so immediately after the elections to enable the USPS to tighten its operations and end unrealistic and unfair up-front obligations that threaten its ability to provide services.


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The U.S. monthly international trade deficit decreased in April 2012, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau. The deficit decreased from $52.6 billion (revised) in March to $50.1 billion in April, as imports decreased more than exports. The previously published March deficit was $51.8 billion. The goods deficit decreased $2.7 billion from March to $64.8 billion in April, and the services surplus decreased $0.1 billion to $14.8 billion.
Exports of goods and services decreased $1.5 billion in April to $182.9 billion, mostly reflecting a decrease in exports of goods. Exports of services also decreased.
The decrease in exports of goods was more than accounted for by decreases in capital goods and industrial supplies and materials.
The decrease in exports of services was more than accounted for by a decrease in other private services (which includes items such as business, professional, and technical services; insurance services; and financial services). Changes in the other categories of services exports were small.
Imports of goods and services decreased $4.1 billion in April to $233.0 billion, reflecting a decrease in imports of goods. Imports of services increased.
The decrease in imports of goods resulted from decreases in all major categories. The largest decreases were in capital goods and industrial supplies and materials.
The increase in imports of services was more than accounted for by an increase in other private services.
Changes in the other categories of services imports were small.
Goods by geographic area (not seasonally adjusted)
The goods deficit with Canada increased from $3.0 billion in March to $3.3 billion in April. Exports decreased $1.9 billion to $24.4 billion, while imports decreased $1.5 billion to $27.7 billion.
The goods deficit with China increased from $21.7 billion in March to $24.6 billion in April. Exports decreased $1.4 billion to $8.5 billion, while imports increased $1.5 billion to $33.0 billion.
The goods deficit with Japan decreased from $7.1 billion in March to $6.3 billion in April. Exports decreased $0.4 billion to $5.8 billion, while imports decreased $1.2 billion to $12.1 billion.
To learn more about U.S. international trade in goods and services, read the full report.


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This little antique box is made of wood veneered with real tortoise shell. The interior edges are lined with ivory and it has the original red velvet linings. The condition is excellent with no chips, cracks or loss of tortoise or ivory. Inside is a sterling silver (tested) English cable thimble*. This is also in excellent condition, crisp and in round with no holes, dents or repairs. It is about an American size 7/8 (14.8 mm diameter opening) and has a script monogram engraved on the cartouche (M E S).
The box measures 1 1/4" tall x 1 1/8" in diameter. It has a push button opening that works well and the top closes with a click. A tortoise thimble case like this is shown on p. 97 of Gay Ann Rogers' book "An Illustrated History of Needlework Tools".
*A thimble like this one was used in 1866 to make a tiny battery that produced the power to send the first message through the newly completed Atlantic Cable. One is shown at the bottom of p. 84 of Bridget McConnel's book "The Story of the Thimble".


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Appalachian Studies 460
APST 460: Seminar in Appalachian Studies
Credit Hours: (3)
This seminar focuses on a designated topic of current interest in Appalachian Studies and is designed to give students in-depth exposure both in the classroom and in the field. Topic examples include mountaintop removal, coalfield labor practices, cultural attachment to place, Appalachian-Scottish-Irish connections, Appalachia and the media. The course will serve as a capstone for the Appalachian Studies minor and as a complement for a variety of majors.
Note(s): Required for Appalachian Studies minor. May be used to fulfill B.S. requirement for some majors. May be repeated for credit when content differs.
Detailed Description of Content of Course
The seminar in a topic of current interest in Appalachian Studies offers an intensive exploration of an issue in a single discipline of this interdisciplinary field or it may include several disciplines. Since the focus of Appalachian Studies is on a specific geographical region but embraces all aspects of the region, topics are likely to vary widely in different iterations of the course. Examples of topics include mountaintop removal and other mining practices; coal field labor relations; environmental justice in specified cases such as Saltville, Virginia; cultural attachment to place; Appalachian-Scottish-Irish connections; traditions in mountain music; media representations of the region. The latter topic, Appalachia in the Media, has been offered in the past and will be referenced here as a model. As much as possible, the course will tie in to issues of concern and debate at the annual conference sponsored by the national professional organization, the Appalachian Studies Association, which students will be encouraged to attend.
As an example, the content of the course "Appalachia in the Media" is detailed below to show a fuller picture of materials covered in a topical seminar of this type.
- Images of Appalachia: Overview (Documentary films: Appalshop, Strangers and Kin; Rory Kennedy, American Hollow)
- Appalachia in Commercial Film (Examples: Deliverance, October Sky, Nell, Next of Kin)
- Appalachia in Television (Examples: The Andy Griffith Show, Beverly Hillbillies, Dukes of Hazzard, The Waltons)
- Appalachia in Television News Magazines (Examples: 48 Hours, 60 Minutes)
- Appalachia in Newspapers and Magazines (Current stories brought in by students and instructor)
- Appalachia in Textbooks and Children's Literature (Secondary history, geography, and literature texts, children's picture books such as Rylant's When I Was Young in the Mountains)
- Appalachia in Fiction (Novels such as Giardina's The Unquiet Earth and Thom's Follow the River)
- Appalachia in Music (Video and audio tapes of performers such as Doc Watson, Ralph Stanley, local performers; PBS and other television productions)
- Appalachia in Museums (Area museums, including field trip to one or more)
- Appalachia on the Worldwide Web (Student discoveries and instructor-designated sites)
Detailed Description of Conduct of Course
The course will engage students through varied delivery of the content. Among the delivery methods are readings, audiovisual materials, Internet sites, guest performances, lecture, and discussion. In true seminar fashion, students are expected to participate fully in interactive class activities. Students may participate in group-learning sessions where they will research, study, and present orally a specific segment of the course content. Each student will be responsible for field research on a selected topic and a presentation of the findings to the class. Students will be encouraged to attend professional conferences and/or other educational events relevant to the topic being studied. Of particular importance is the Appalachian Studies Conference, held in the region each year in March. Field trips to relevant sites will also be a significant component of the course.
Goals and Objectives of the Course
Having successfully completed this course, the student will …
- Be knowledgeable about a specific topic area of Appalachian Studies.
- Have reflected upon and shared his gained knowledge both orally and in writing.
- Have participated in discussions, lectures, multi-media presentations on the topic.
- Have participated in group-learning and sharing activities.
- Have completed primary field research on a selected topic.
- Have presented the research findings in a specified written format.
- Have presented the research findings orally to class colleagues.
- Have taken part in professional activities, as appropriate and possible.
- Have participated in field trips to relevant sites, as appropriate and possible.
Be equipped to enter the broader scholarly dialogue about this topic area of Appalachian Studies.
Assessment Measures
A variety of assessment measures are expected for this seminar topics course, among them the following:
- Regular participation in class discussion, raising issues and questions and responding to those advanced by colleagues.
- Response logs submitted on a regular basis, reacting to readings, discussions, multi-media presentations, and other activities related to the course content.
- Examinations at periodic intervals.
- Small-group learning activities resulting in oral and multi-media presentations to the class.
- Analytical essays on subjects treated in the course materials and/or designed by the students themselves.
- Major field research project and written analysis of the findings
- Oral and multi-media presentation of findings in major field research project.
Other Course Information
Review and Approval
September 2001 Reviewed by Dr. Grace Toney Edwards, Chair


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We miss you, Rudy. Stay cool and I hope the heat breaks soon.
I'd put money on april and ollie she hates april! and she won't give ollie a chance to got for veto so happy days are here again!haha i will die if april gets sent to jury with libra !!
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