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Brendan Gaughan took the lead after a green-white-checkered restart at Elkhart Lake, Wis., then held on to win the rain-soaked and wild NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Road America on Saturday.
Alex Tagliani was second, followed by Kevin O'Connell, Chase Elliott and J.J. Yeley as NASCAR drivers got a rare opportunity to race in the rain. It was a disappointing finish for Tagliani, who led in the closing stages of regulation but ran out of gas after a late caution flag came out.
It was the third time in Nationwide history that grooved rain tires have been used in a race; the previous two were in Montreal. NASCAR uses rain tires only on road courses, not on oval tracks.
"I love racing in the rain," Gaughan said. "It's fun. And when you're good at it, it makes it even more fun. I haven't smelled blood in a long time. That's been something I've been lacking lately is that killer attitude. When it started to rain, even without the wiper blade, I started to smell blood and said, 'I'm coming.'"
Gaughan won for the first time in the series, breaking through in his 98th career start.
Tagliani was second, followed by Kevin O'Connell, Elliott and J.J. Yeley as NASCAR drivers got a rare opportunity to race in the rain. It was the third time in Nationwide history that grooved rain tires have been used in a race; the previous two were in Montreal. NASCAR only uses rain tires on winding road courses, not on oval tracks.
McMurray takes pole for Sprint Cup race in Sonoma
Jamie McMurray won the pole for Sunday's Sprint Cup Series event at Sonoma Raceway with a track-record lap that bumped AJ Allmendinger from the top starting spot.
Allmendinger seemed to have the pole locked down until McMurray turned a lap at 96.350 mph in the final minute of Saturday's qualifying session. It broke the record of 95.262 mph set by Marcos Ambrose in 2012.
It's the first pole of the season for McMurray, 10th of his career, and third at Sonoma. McMurray also started from the pole last year but finished 25th.
Rookie Kyle Larson was third, followed by Carl Edwards, Kurt Busch, Kevin Harvick and Ryan Newman. The rest of the top 12 included Brian Vickers, Paul Menard, Joey Logano, Danica Patrick and Casey Mears. Patrick has now advanced into the final round of qualifying five times this season.
Massa gets first Formula One pole since 2008
Felipe Massa earned his first Formula One pole position since 2008 as Williams stunned Mercedes in Austrian Grand Prix qualifying at Spielberg.
Massa and Williams teammate Valtteri Bottas posted the two fastest times, setting up the first race of the season without Mercedes in the front row.
Championship leader Nico Rosberg was third, while Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton went off track in the final qualifying round and will start ninth.
It's Massa 16th career pole but first since the Brazilian GP six years ago. Williams had not had a 1-2 in qualifying since the German GP in 2003.
Brown top qualifier in NHRA top-fuel class
Antron Brown took the No. 1 qualifying spot in top fuel in the NHRA New England Nationals, and Robert Hight topped the funny car lineup.
Brown claimed the position with his 3.770-second pass at 323.58 mph on Friday night that shattered the New England Dragway elapsed time record. Brown has three victories this season.
Hight sped to the first three-second Funny Car run in track history Friday with a 3.998 at 321.58 in a Ford Mustang and it held through Saturday's two qualifying sessions.
Shane Gray led the Pro Stock field and Eddie Krawiec topped the Pro Stock Motorcycle lineup, each with a track-record time.


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The Hill reports that lawmakers from both parties are expected to continue to press for the extension of a wind energy tax incentive, even as President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner continue to bargain a deficit deal. The 2.2-cent per kilowatt-hour credit for wind power production is slated to expire on Dec. 31, The Hill notes. Supporters of the incentive "hope it will be included in legislation to avoid the 'fiscal cliff' at year's end, but there are no guarantees that an agreement will be reached," according to the newspaper. Lawmakers who back the credit "cite a wind industry-commissioned study that says ending it would eliminate 37,000 jobs," The Hill reports. "They say the uncertainty surrounding the incentive already has scared off installations for next year." But the politics will get tricky. Fiscal conservatives "say the credit is something the nation can no longer afford," according to the newspaper, and in the House, "a handful of fiscal conservatives from windy interior states and not-so-breezy Southeastern ones have asked Boehner to kill the tax carve-out." However, "With 81 percent of wind installations in GOP districts, there are a number of members who are under pressure to ensure the tax break survives," The Hill says.
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Energy companies are showing diminished interest in high-volume hydraulic fracturing in New York state, to the benefit of Ohio. The Press & Sun-Bulletin of Binghamton, N.Y., reports the companies' trepidations about fracking are driven by the threat of tough regulations in New York state. Jim Smith, spokesman for the Independent Oil and Gas Association of New York, tells the newspaper, "If you go to a meeting where there's a majority of our members, they will tell you that the opportunities are not here in New York right now. They will tell you that the opportunities are in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and not New York, and that's not a knock, that's just a fact." In recent years, more than 30 municipalities in upstate New York have passed bans on gas drilling, and more than 80 have enacted moratoriums, the Associated Press reported in July. Thomas West, an attorney for Anschutz Exploration Corp., tells the newspaper that the company is, for the most part, cutting its losses in New York. "New York state is not a friendly state to do business in," he says.
Shale is a big part of the energy boom in the United States, but the huge deposits of shale gas that have been found outside this country "are proving much more difficult to access," according to this story from The Wall Street Journal. "Among the reasons for the glacial pace abroad are government ownership of mineral rights, environmental concerns and a lack of infrastructure to drill and transport gas and oil," the newspaper reports. "In addition, much less is known about the geology in most foreign countries than in the U.S., where drilling activity has been going on for more than a century." The upshot is that the United States and Canada "could remain the main countries to reap the economic advantages of shale development for some time," The Journal says. In both countries, "a glut of natural gas and ethane is luring petrochemical companies and fertilizer manufacturers to build new plants — a huge change after years of shifting production abroad," according to The Journal. In the meantime, states such as Ohio, North Dakota and Texas that have the shale deposits "are getting additional boosts to their local economies from drilling activity." Poland once was regarded as one of the more promising plays, but early wells "have hit less gas than expected," the story notes. China is believed to have more shale oil and gas than the United States, but the problem is that most of it is in arid or heavily populated areas; oil companies "worry they won't be able to obtain enough water to hydraulically fracture the rock," according to the newspaper. "There was enormous irrational exuberance for global shale development," Joseph Stanislaw, an independent senior energy adviser to Deloitte LLP, tells The Journal. "Then the industry ran into reality. Global shale will happen and when it does begin, it will take off with the same force we've seen in the U.S. But the timeline will take longer than people think."
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Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs' has been ruled out for Sunday's game against the Washington Redskins, according to a team source.
The reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year had planned earlier this morning to warm up and see how his torn right biceps felt before the final call was made. The Ravens wanted to see if Suggs could properly protect himself out there. That was likely the deciding factor in him being ruled out.
Suggs later tweeted: "Don't worry Ravens Nation, the boys assured me they will get this one without me! LET'S GO!!!!! #10-3"
One positive sign was the sight of Suggs carrying a travel bag coming into the stadium with his injured right arm, but that seemingly wasn't an indication of his health.
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Electronics Projects: How to Make a One-Shot Timer
In this project, you build an electronic circuit that uses a 555 timer chip in monostable mode. When a trigger switch is pressed, an LED lights and stays lit for approximately five seconds. Then, the LED goes dark until the button is pressed again.
The circuit is based on this schematic for the monostable circuit.
An LED is the output (pin 3) and the resistor and capacitor values are included in the capacitor charging circuit.
This project uses a pushbutton switch that isn't designed to be inserted in a solderless breadboard. To make the pushbutton usable with the solderless breadboard, solder a small length of 18- or 20-guage solid wire to the end of each lead of the test strip. You can then insert these leads directly into holes on the breadboard.
When you are finished, the circuit will look like this.
To test the circuit, push the pushbutton. The LED should light, stay lit for just over five seconds, and then go back off. It should light again only when you press the pushbutton again.
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Make sure the battery is good. (Use a voltmeter to test it.)
Carefully double-check all the jumper wires and other components to make sure they're connected properly.
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With a premise based on the fact a little boy literally pops out of the ground and joins a family, The Odd Life of Timothy Green was never going to be a summer blockbuster. Wowing the audience with visual effects is not really what director Peter Hedges usually goes for, which is totally fine in my book. If you did miss The Odd Life of Timothy Green during its theatrical release, you'll be able to catch the film when it comes to Blu-ray, DVD, and digital on December 4.
This weekend The Expendables 2 crashed onto the scene, and while it took the number one spot out from under The Bourne Legacy it didn't bring any box office explosions.
While writer/director Peter Hedges' new film The Odd Life of Timothy Green has fantasy and magical elements, it's the heart and message that the filmmaker wants to get across. In classic fairytale fashion, it features a strange, somewhat supernatural being who arrives in to people's lives...
In conjunction with the release of The Odd Life Of Timothy Green, which is out in theaters today, I recently sat down one-on-one with Edgerton to talk about not only what stories inspire him the most, but also the parenting message of his newest film, how being a writer affects his approach to characters, and his approach to playing Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby. Check it out!
Disney's upcoming family film The Odd Life of Timothy Green begins with a premise that seems to promise heart-wrenching drama. Jennifer Garner, who won praise for her portrayal of a barren wannabe mom in Juno, plays another fertility-challenged wife, this time opposite Animal Kingdom's hard-chinned star Joel Edgerton.
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"I'm tired of these categories." —Patricia Yaeger1
In a recent New York Times opinion piece, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, who received a PhD in economics from Harvard University, asks, "How many American men are gay?" While this question is notoriously difficult to answer in any definitive way, and though he uses non-"ideal" sources such as "surveys, social networks, pornographic searches, and dating sites" to compile "evidence" on the "number of gay men" in this country, Stephens-Davidowitz still finds a "consistent story" that suggests at least 5 percent of American men are "predominately" attracted to other men. Millions of these "gay men," he goes on to say, still live in the closet, and many, the "evidence suggests," are married to women.2
The attempt to statistically classify and pinpoint the number of "gay" men "in our midst" is nothing new. Unveiling and unmasking our identities so that we can be categorized, numbered, and made intelligible forms part of what Michel Foucault, in his History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge, called the "deployment of sexuality."3 The "truth" of sex for Foucault is not found in individual identity; instead he insists that we must develop an "analytics" that views power as diffuse and capillary, refusing the perhaps too-easy notion that a power over sex can be wielded via a conquering "liberation" or dominating "affirmation" of one's own knowable, classifiable sexuality.4
|Participants march in the 2009 Memphis, Tennessee gay pride parade. Photograph by Debbie Ramone. Courtesy of Debbie Ramone.
Stephens-Davidowitz's Times opinion piece (and the larger work it suggests) explicitly places sexuality within this framework of exposure, intelligibility, and liberation that Foucault problematized. Stephens-Davidowitz returns us to the closet so that we may link hands with those who experience a "secret suffering" that "can be directly attributed to intolerance of [their] homosexuality" and walk with them into more tolerant climes and locales.5 The majority of these "secret" sufferers live in intolerant states, which according to Nate Silver, nearly all fall neatly below the Mason-Dixon line. The bottom six states, the "least tolerant," in descending order, are South Carolina, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi. Of the twenty-three states listed as above the national average of "tolerance," not one is in the South.6 In more tolerant states, "the openly gay population is dramatically higher." Yet, these "less tolerant states" or "intolerant areas" prevent what Stephens-Davidowitz finds implicitly possible: a "perfectly tolerant world" in which a neat 5 percent of men could say they are "interested in men," which of course is different from saying they openly identify as "gay." Stephens-Davidowitz finds no reason to believe there are fewer gay-inclined men in less tolerant states, but there are "far fewer openly gay men," and therefore, "there is a clear relationship between tolerance and openness" about one's sexuality.7
Stephens-Davidowitz buys into a narrative with a history. Mississippi has long been described with an array of debasing superlatives, consistently occupying the proverbial bottom rung of the ladder in our national obsession with rankings. Writing in 1931, H. L. Mencken and Charles Angoff labeled Mississippi the "worst" American state; in 2014, Politico writer Margaret Slattery echoed this line of thought, implicitly labeling Mississippi both the "worst" and the "weakest" state in her ranking of the fifty US states from weakest to strongest. (Slattery even gives us a formula: "1 = Best.").8 The strongest state, Massachusetts, is ironically the most "fabulous" state, while Mississippi, most intolerant, is far from fabulous; it is, Slattery writes, a "failed" state. According to both Silver and Stephens-Davidowitz, Mississippi has failed the tolerance test; it is the most intolerant, the least fabulous, and therefore the most "closed." Despite a recent Daily Show segment, in which an incognito gay couple elicited surprisingly tolerant and enthusiastic (some might even say fabulous) reactions from some Alabama and Mississippi residents, Deep South states like Mississippi continue to be figured as containing the most occupied closets with doors shut.9
|Screenshot from The Daily Show segment "Last Gay Standing," 2013.
Nowhere is this association of Mississippi with intolerance more problematic than the final turn of Stephens-Davidowitz's piece, when he "get[s] tired of looking at aggregate data" and talks with a real person, an unnamed retired Mississippi professor in his sixties who "has always known he was attracted to men" but has remained in a sexless marriage to a woman for forty years. This professor, however, did at least once sleep with a male student of his in his late twenties.10 The assumption Stephens-Davidowitz makes here is that this sixty-year-old man cannot live his life openly because he is trapped in a place of intolerance. Place becomes the diagnosed pathology. In his attempt to classify and order gay men, he fails to analyze the fact that place is only one factor in the power grid that determines what is tolerated and what is not: in his neat map of the United States's tolerance, where is an analysis or mention of gender dynamics, age and generational differences, race, class, educational and healthcare disparities, and, perhaps most glaringly, religious beliefs? Where is a discussion of intersectionality? Stephens-Davidowitz's final scene leaves one very strong desire unexamined: what of the student in his late twenties in Mississippi who slept with his older professor? Does he feel trapped in his Mississippi-closet?
To open our eyes to the realities of Mississippi beyond "aggregate data" and shed some light on that twenty-year-old gay man's reality, let us return to the University. On October 1, 2013, a University of Mississippi performance of Moisés Kaufman's The Laramie Project 11 garnered national attention when unidentified audience members uttered homophobic comments. Originally exposed in the university's Daily Mississippian, national media outlets picked up the story as another example of Mississippi's intolerance. As an alumnus of the university, I can attest that Meek Auditorium, where the performance took place, is a small and intimate space—seating only 150—in which hate-speech would reverberate loudly. The actions of those audience members are inexcusable, but are they indicative of Mississippi's peculiar intolerance of homosexuality or a microcosmic snapshot of our national discomfort in directly facing the harsh realities of hate? Does such an example make Mississippi the most backward, the absolute worst?
|Stop the Hate. Bedsheet Angels march in the 2013 Atlanta Gay Pride Parade. Photograph by Nick Mickolas. Courtesy of Nick Mickolas.
Here, the University of Mississippi once again comes to serve as the testing site for our national struggle to understand the complexities of hate, the different shapes of violence, and the challenges we face as a nation continuously confronted with difference. On October 1, 1962, James Meredith became the first African American student at the University of Mississippi. Chaos ensued. On October 1, 2013, the Ole Miss Theatre company performed The Laramie Project. Chaos ensued. Although the physical violence and loss of life associated with James Meredith's integration of the university during the height of the civil rights movement and the verbal violence associated with the recent Laramie performance are not to be equated, both events provoke reflective questions we must ask ourselves: in fifty one years, to the day, what has changed at the University of Mississippi? And more importantly, what has changed in how we, as a nation, think about difference and the ugly truths a hatred of difference can manifest?12 (The recent defilement and attack of a campus statue memorializing James Meredith's legacy at the university demands that such questions be discussed. Here again, the University of Mississippi serves, according to a recent New York Times article, as a testing site for "confronting a challenge with deep and difficult roots.")13
The Laramie Project and the wider story of Matthew Shepard's murder are often seen as convenient stories, neat narratives, in the teaching of prejudice and tolerance. However, Shepard's is but one of the many stories of gruesome homophobic violence in this country. All of these stories—even Matthew Shepard's—contain "raw and inchoate stuff that resists easy telling" and lack "clear beginnings and resonant endings."14 In the US South alone—those states defined as the least tolerant—a number of horrific murders attributed to LGBTQ-related hate have occurred in the last thirty years.15 Lost in attempts to locate and label sexuality, thereby freeing people from their uncomfortable closets, many are unaware of stories like these, in which LGBTQ people led open lives in the South and succumbed to hate-violence. Yet, such violence and "intolerance" are far from exclusively southern, despite what Stephens-Davidowitz's non-"ideal" sources revealed. Stephens-Davidowitz admits that intolerance is a national problem with a higher prevalence in southern states, yet his overarching narrative is another link in the chain of pathologizing southern space via flawed statistical aggregation. If we tolerate the received narrative of southern space, we neither think critically nor do justice to the stories of real people outside of often biased and imperfect data.
|Stage set for Lafayette College's 2011 Production of The Laramie Project. Photograph by Chuck Zovko and Lafayette College. Courtesy of Chuck Zovko and Lafayette College.
In 2012, according to a report from the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP), the most at risk LGBTQ populations remained transgendered persons, people of color, and gay men. Stephens-Davidowitz confines his study to "gay men," without any mention of race or gender-identification. Gay cisgender men remain the most likely to report acts of violence they have survived. As such, a 2011 FBI report indicates that of the 20.8 percent of hate crimes based on sexual orientation, 57.8 percent of those reported were classified as anti-male homosexual bias.16 The NCAVP report reiterates the 2012 UCLA Williams Institute findings that "gay men experienced higher rates of hate motivated physical violence than lesbians, bisexuals, or other federally protected groups including Black people and Jewish people."17 According to the NCAVP report, of the twenty-five reported hate violence homicides related to LGBTQ identity in 2012, only one occurred in the "deep" South: Marquita Jones was murdered near Memphis, Tennessee, the tenth most intolerant state in the country according to Silver and Stephens-Davidowitz.
Shifting the narrative requires an understanding that for every Duck Dynasty, there is a Southern Poverty Law Center, a Rethink Mississippi; for every Phil Robertson, a Jesse Peel. Hate and intolerance are neither tied to place, rooted in the soil, unyielding and unchanging, nor are they manifested solely via physical violence. We must remain aware of the complexities of prejudice's functionality: how it "works not just through the viciousness of physical violence but also through the daily erosion of selfhood by the friction of widespread, casually expressed hatred."18 The casually uttered "faggot" or "queen" or "queer" in response to a dramatic production has consequences that resonate beyond the walls of Meek Auditorium at the University of Mississippi. In isolating Mississippi, and the larger US South, as the least tolerant, we put the South on stage to be disciplined and punished. How easy it was for the Mississippi audience to isolate Matthew Shepard on a stage and re-victimize him with a slur.
|ATL, Love, graffiti in Atlanta, Georgia's Krog Street Tunnel, February 17, 2014. Photograph by Eric Solomon. From Eric Solomon.
How easy it must seem for scholars and thinkers to look at data and isolate the South as the land of intolerance: how easy it is to label the worst, the weakest, the most backward. The harder but necessary challenge is to understand and help prevent the diffuse and far-reaching consequences of homophobic violence and intolerance. The harder work is to take the lessons learned from The Laramie Project inside Meek Auditorium into Oxford, Mississippi and the world at large. To paraphrase a great man, the harder work is to understand that people aren't born hating and can learn to love.
- 1. Patricia Yaeger, Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing, 1930–1990 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), ix.
- 2. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, "How Many American Men are Gay?," The New York Times, December 7, 2013, accessed December 9, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/opinion/sunday/how-many-american-men-are-gay.html.
- 3. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: Volume One: An Introduction (New York: Pantheon Books, 1978), 78. The book's title is often translated as "Volume One: An Introduction."
- 4. Ibid., 8, 82–83.
- 5. Stephens-Davidowitz, "How Many American Men Are Gay?"
- 6. Nate Silver, "How Opinion on Same-Sex Marriage Is Changing, and What It Means," The New York Times: FiveThirtyEight blog, March 26, 2013, accessed December 9, 2013, http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/how-opinion-on-same-sex-marriage-is-changing-and-what-it-means.
- 7. Stephens-Davidowitz, "How Many American Men Are Gay?"
- 8. Margaret Slattery, "The States of Our Union ... Are Not All Strong: We Ranked All 50 from Fabulous to Failed," Politico Magazine, January 24, 2014, accessed February 3, 2014, http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/01/states-of-our-union-are-not-all-strong-102547.html.
- 9. Madison Underwood, "In Alabama-Mississippi 'Intolerance-off,' The Daily Show Tests Reactions to a Gay Couple, Gets Surprising Reaction (Video, Poll)," AL.com, October 30, 2013, accessed February 20, 2014, http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2013/10/in_alabama-mississippi_intoler.html.
- 10. Stephens-Davidowitz, "How Many American Men Are Gay?"
- 11. Kaufman's play, written in collaboration with the Tectonic Theater Project, details reaction to Matthew Shepard's 1998 brutal murder in Laramie, Wyoming. Combining personal interviews with town residents, journals of the theater company's members as they engaged in these interviews, and media coverage, Laramie creates a complicated portrait of how a town responds to violence, hatred, and loss.
- 12. Legislatively, some things have changed while some remain the same. As Christopher Lirette noted in an August 6 bulletin on the Southern Spaces Blog, since 2011 Baton Rouge police have unlawfully arrested at least a dozen men based upon a still-on-the-books state level sodomy law that was ruled federally unconstitutional with 2003's Lawrence v. Texas. In 2003, eight of the fourteen US states with anti-sodomy laws still on the books were in the South. Baton Rouge reveals the everyday slipperiness of archaic sodomy laws. Similarly, although the 2009 Shepard-Byrd Hate Crimes Prevention Act became the first all-inclusive federal bill, most southern states still do not include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected identity categories in hate crime legislation.
- 13. Alan Blinder, "Racist Episodes Continue to Stir Ole Miss Campus," The New York Times, February 20, 2014, accessed February 22, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/21/us/racist-episodes-continue-to-stir-ole-miss-campus.html.
- 14. Beth Lofredda, Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), x.
- 15. Some of these deaths include the 1973 UpStairs Lounge attack; the bludgeoning of Billy Jack Gaither; Scotty Joe Weaver's partial decapitation; Sean W. Kennedy's beating; the murders of Marcel Tye, Duanna Johnson, Tiffany Berry, Ebony Whitaker, Brenting Dolliole, Githe Goines, and Marquita Jones; and lastly, the beating and burning of Marco McMillan in 2013. The stories of these murders, all occurring on southern soil, are indeed horrific, but they remain a few of the raw seams to a larger narrative of hate-based crimes in this country; they are painful examples, but far from representative of a particularly southern problem or the array of hate-based crimes that occur every year. For more information on hate crimes legislation, state by state, visit Lambda Legal, Human Rights Campaign, and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. For information on LGBT rights in the US South and Hate and Extremism nationwide, visit the Southern Poverty Law Center. In addition, visit Robert T. Gonzalez, "An Interactive Map of Racist, Homophobic and Ableist Tweets in America," io9, May 10, 2013, http://io9.com/an-interactive-map-of-racist-homophobic-and-ableist-tw-499908637 to view the 2013 "geography of hate" map, in which hate's spatiality seems divided along an East–West line rather than a North–South one.
- 16. "Hate Crimes Statistics 2011: Incidents and Offenses," FBI, 2011, http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2011/narratives/incidents-and-offenses.
- 17. Shelby Chestnut, Ejeris Dixon, and Chai Jindasurat, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and HIV-Affected Hate Violence in 2012 (New York: National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, 2013), 51, http://www.avp.org/storage/documents/ncavp_2012_hvreport_final.pdf.
- 18. Lofredda, Losing Matt Shepard, x.


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Read this month's thematic series on boundaries on the Anthropology News website. This month we're pleased to start the series with essays by:
- Gwendolyn Ferreti-Manjarrez | Attrition via Enforcement: Snuffing Latino Immigrants Out of the Deep South
- Alissa Jordan | Border Agents of the Beyond in Haiti
- Peter C Little | Boundary Movements for Toxics Advocacy
- Mark Maguire and Fiona Murphy | Boundaries of the State and Politics of Everyday Life in Ireland
- Francesca Meloni and Marouane Tlili | Making Ourselves: The Re-creation of the Self in Political Revolutions in Italy and Tunisia
- Silvia Noguerón-Liu | Learning Across Boundaries: Mobilizing Resources for Immigrant Learners through Community Technology Programs
- Joowon Park | "I Can Send That Money to My Mother": Remittances, Telecommunication and Post-Migration Strategies of North Koreans
- Monica L Smith | Boundaries in Action: The Past and Present of Delimitation
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Deconstruction for Beginners
Head over to Playboy X's place at the north end of Algonquin. When you arrive at his apartment, you'll find him hanging out with some ladies (who don't seem especially fond of him). However, he excuses himself and brings Niko out to the balcony so they can talk. This is a lengthy cutscene, by the way, so sit tight and take it all in. Eventually, Dwayne Forge will show up at Playbox X's pad. This is the guy Playboy X mentioned earlier for a brief time, as the guy who is in prison but taught you everything he knows. The two don't necessarily seem thrilled to have to work with each other again, but we'll deal with that storyline arc later.
When you regain control, Playboy X will let you know of a car parked at the south end of the borough that's chock full of weapons we'll need to complete the mission at hand. Because Playboy X lives so far away, however, this is going to be a pretty epic drive southward through Algonquin. The good news is that you probably haven't gotten a chance to explore this borough in its entirety as of yet, and this is a good chance to do just that. Algonquin is impressive! Regardless, when you reach your destination off of the South Parkway, you'll find the car Playboy X was talking about. Bail out of your car and get into that one to retrieve said weapons.
You're now equipped with a heavy machinegun, some grenades, and most importantly, a sniper rifle (though you may have retained a sniper rifle from a previous mission). The first step of this mission is to use that sniper rifle on the roof of the tall building next to you. Follow Playboy X's lead and head to the roof via the makeshift elevator on the side of the building. Ride it all the way to the roof (it's a ways up, to be sure) and get ready to wield that sniper rifle with precision.
As Playboy X points out to you, there are three well-positioned snipers guarding the construction site that must be eliminated if you are to have any reasonable chance at killing the union leaders you will then go after. These guys can be a bit of a pain to find, to be honest, but a great way to spot them is to use your HUD. Try to line yourself up with the enemies you're seeking on the HUD, and then face their direction, using your scope to locate them. This is the best technique, simply because gazing through the scope wildly looking for the foes without knowing where to look is going to frustrate you beyond belief. Trust us.
When you locate one, pick him off. Remember to try to aim for the head or chest for a quick, instantaneous kill. You'll know when each foe is killed because a brief cutscene will show them falling to their death (or otherwise meeting their demise). You can also try to take out one or two other enemies below to thin the ranks before proceeding there yourself. When you've taken out all eligible enemies, descend with the same elevator you used to reach the roof in the first place. Then, equip that machinegun you now have in your arsenal and cross the street.
This upcoming part can be a little difficult, because not all of the enemies will show up as red dots on your HUD. Only the union leader you're targeting at the time will be shown. That means you really have to use your eyes and ears to watch and listen for anything going on around you. Try to take cover, take things slow, and keep a keen eye out for enemies as you proceed. There will be some innocent bystanders in the compound, but don't risk anything. Kill them as well, so no one is standing.
The first union leader is located straight ahead of the entrance into the construction site. Run forward, being sure to seek ample cover as his goons begin shooting on you. Remember -- the union leader himself will be represented as a red dot on the HUD, but you'll still need to nullify everyone in the area in order to safely proceed. Therefore, you might as well make the relatively-defenseless union leader for last and take out his much more heavily armed accomplices first.
Now, if you take a look at the construction compound as a whole, you'll realize that there are in fact two major structures. The one you infiltrate first is on the east side, and you'll generally be working in a westerly fashion. In other words, once you climb the structure on the right, you'll clear that structure before working leftward and clearing the other structure. En route, you'll have to deal with numerous union leaders and their cohorts. Remember to chuck your grenades to clear out groups of foes, or well-hidden enemies, and of course grab any health you encounter as well.
The one well-hidden enemy is located on the rooftop of a building you can't access, so be sure to spot that enemy on the HUD and use your sniper rifle to do him in. Otherwise, remember what we said earlier -- clear the structure as you go and head westward after an area is cleared. Be extremely careful not to fall into unfilled holes in the structure that will lead to your demise (or, at the very least, a pretty bad injury). Those pitfalls are at times hard to spot, so keep a keen eye out.
When you get to the western end of the series of structures, you're in good shape. A helicopter will show up, depositing more foes to help, and worst yet, giving union leaders a chance to escape. Therefore, when the helicopter shows up, rush the location of the helicopter, blazing through enemies in between you and the chopper. This will halt any escape plan and stymie the advance of any reinforcements. Thereafter, climb down a nearby ladder to the ground and clear the westernmost structure of the last union leader. And with that, this epic mission comes to an end, much to Playboy X's satisfaction.
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Drinal should no longer have a chance to cast more than one curse on the raid force at the same time.
Drinal should no longer drop hate on targets in the first half of his encounter.
Spiritual Exhaustion should no longer hit the entire raid 4 times. Instead the person in group that has to react will affect only their specific group with the damage. This damage has been made unable to be AE blocked.
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Liberty News
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Dave Campbell has an important job at Liberty University. He's part museum host, part recruiter, part student mentor and part athletics booster.
Well, he doesn't hold all those titles officially, but he does step into all those roles on a regular basis.
Campbell, an 83-year-old World War II veteran who was born and raised in Lynchburg, retired from banking after 41 years and worked in the hotel business 12 years after that. But when he learned the hotel where he was working was being sold and he would be without a job, he called one of his best friends –- the late Rev. Jerry Falwell. The two knew each other "from way back" through common business and community interests.
Shortly after their talk, Campbell said he received a call from Jerry Falwell Jr. who told him about the museum that was about to be presented to his Dad as a birthday gift. He wanted to know if Campbell could work at the museum. He agreed immediately and has remained museum host for four years. He works from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on weekdays and relies on his wife and his son for transportation every day.
"They know how important this is to me," he said.
The Falwell Museum, located off the grand lobby of the DeMoss Learning Center, was suggested by Falwell Jr. as a gift to his dad on his 70th birthday on Aug. 11, 2003. It includes displays of the history of the Falwell family and the ministries' growth through the years, a media room, equipment used for "The Old Time Gospel Hour" broadcasting and other historical documents chronicling each of the ministries. Paula Johnson spent the summer of 2003 working with Falwell Jr. and his wife, Becki, creating the museum and assembling the memorabilia that Falwell Jr. had collected over the years. Johnson now serves as curator and is still acquiring items for the museum. Wendy Kerstetter assists with the cataloging and creation of displays in the museum.
One of the biggest challenges was keeping Falwell Sr. out of the museum area while it was under construction, as he toured DeMoss almost daily.
"We finally had to board it up and tell him to stay out. He knew something was up, but not exactly what," said Falwell Jr.
Although it took many hands to complete the project, Campbell, you can be sure, will be the first one to meet you at the door.
"My job here is to make sure that all the visitors that come into the museum are taken care of by making sure all questions are answered and they see all the good things that have been done and where the vision started and where it is going," Campbell said.
And, in the months since his best friend's passing, he has also had to lend a shoulder to cry on.
"I had three ladies come in here and all three were crying, 'cause they were so close to Dr. Falwell. They were from out of town," Campbell said. "So I went up there and tried to console them. They walked all through the museum and one of them, she was still crying, so I just put my arm around her and said, 'Ma'am, you just cry all you want, and I'll cry with you because he was my best friend.'"
Campbell said the displays are so moving that visitors often comment on how nicely Dr. Falwell has been remembered.
"He touched so many people, all these people come in and they can't think of him being gone. They say they think they ought to bump into him here and there. I think the same way. He was a fixture and he was a friend to everybody."
Campbell said the best part of his job is meeting visitors from all over. In one day in December last year, he can remember people visiting from New York, Vermont, Montana, Florida and North Carolina.
"That's just one day … and there's lots of days like that," he said. "We have them from everywhere –- Hawaii, Japan, Canada. Some are alumni, have been in the mission field, and are back for their first time in years. They [alumni] go in shock. They can't understand all the things that have happened since they were here."
On one day during the semester break, Campbell greeted a couple from New Mexico, who were there to tour Liberty for their teenage son. Instantly, Campbell took on the role of recruiter.
With all smiles and no hesitation, he told them: "Don't send him anywhere else. This is where he needs to be –- morally and spiritually, the whole 9 yards. You'd feel safe with him here. … Bring that son in, I'd be glad to talk to him."
It is obvious Campbell takes this role seriously.
"I have a lot of families that come in here and bring their children who are prospects for the school and I try to take it upon myself to really be a strong encourager for them to come to this school," he said.
Campbell is there for the current students, too. He said they will sit beside him on a pew taken from the old Thomas Road Baptist Church and talk.
"I have a lot of students who will come by, and they'll have things on their mind ... and we'll sit here and try to iron them out," he said. "I have met so many good people and students. They kid me and say 'Dave's got his own clan.' They call it the 'Campbell Clan.'"
Although Campbell spends a lot of time at LU now, it doesn't compare with the time he spent here in the past.
"Before I had some physical problems, I never missed any of the sporting events. I helped start the Flames Club back when the school itself got started."
He also served on the first sports advisory board for Liberty and on the nominating committee for hiring several coaches, "one of them being Coach [Carey] Green and that has worked out very well," Campbell added.
Liberty's women's basketball team has won the Big South Tournament title and advanced to the NCAA Tournament seven times with Green as head coach.
Campbell did not attend LU (he went to Lynchburg College to study sports management) nor is he a member of Thomas Road Baptist Church (he is a lifetime member of Euclid Christian Church). But he has many loyalties to Liberty Mountain.
"I call this my school, although I did not go here," he said. "I was very fond of Jerry and all of his folks and I had friends that went here, too. I liked what they stood for."
Campbell has an unwavering loyalty to his country, too. He served in World War II, stationed with the 15th Air Force in Italy where he was the head of squadron supply. He flew with the crew some and saw a little action, but the hardest job he had was "when we lost some of the fellas, we'd have to get their things together to send back home. So many had wives, girlfriends and we didn't know what to do with what, so we just did the best we could."
He said that era was "a trying time. ... It's something I wouldn't want to do [again], but I'm one of those guys who's very patriotic and I will do what's right for my country."
Campbell also wants to do what's right for his Lord.
"I guess I'm lucky to be 83 years old and been through World War II and the good Lord's still looking out for me," he said. "He's got a reason for me to be here and hopefully the reason that he has is the same one I got — to be here at the museum."


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Some of the top economists say that America has suffered a permanent loss of jobs:
- JPMorgan Chase's Chief Economist Bruce Kasman told Bloomberg:
[We've had a] permanent destruction of hundreds of thousands of jobs in industries from housing to finance.
- The chief economists for Wells Fargo Securities, John Silvia, says:
Companies "really have diminished their willingness to hire labor for any production level," Silvia said. "It's really a strategic change," where companies will be keeping fewer employees for any particular level of sales, in good times and bad, he said.
- Former Merrill Lynch chief economist David Rosenberg writes:
The number of people not on temporary layoff surged 220,000 in August and the level continues to reach new highs, now at 8.1 million. This accounts for 53.9% of the unemployed — again a record high — and this is a proxy for permanent job loss, in other words, these jobs are not coming back. Against that backdrop, the number of people who have been looking for a job for at least six months with no success rose a further half-percent in August, to stand at 5 million — the long-term unemployed now represent a record 33% of the total pool of joblessness.
- Nobel Prize winner Edmund Phelps and Pacific Investment Management Co. Chief Executive Officer Mohamed El-Erian say the fallout from the deepest recession in more than five decades is driving the so-called natural rate higher, perhaps to 7 percent.
- And Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich wrote yesterday:
The basic assumption that jobs will eventually return when the economy recovers is probably wrong. Some jobs will come back, of course. But the reality that no one wants to talk about is a structural change in the economy that's been going on for years but which the Great Recession has dramatically accelerated.
Under the pressure of this awful recession, many companies have found ways to cut their payrolls for good. They've discovered that new software and computer technologies have made workers in Asia and Latin America just about as productive as Americans, and that the Internet allows far more work to be efficiently outsourced abroad.
This means many Americans won't be rehired unless they're willing to settle for much lower wages and benefits. Today's official unemployment numbers hide the extent to which Americans are already on this path. Among those with jobs, a large and growing number have had to accept lower pay as a condition for keeping them. Or they've lost higher-paying jobs and are now in a new ones that pays less.
Yet reducing unemployment by cutting wages merely exchanges one problem for another. We'll get jobs back but have more people working for pay they consider inadequate, more working families at or near poverty, and widening inequality. The nation will also have a harder time restarting the economy because so many more Americans lack the money they need to buy all the goods and services the economy can produce.
And see this.
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Sunday, February 19, 2012
Over-medicated America: the result of pharmaceutical companies directing medicine (infographic)
Created by: MedicalBillingandCodingOnline.org
11 comments:
- Rossa Forbes said...
Susan (and Gianna)
Great advice, with one caveat. It says to ask about therapy options for depression only. Many people have the mistaken idea (perpetuated by the pharmaceutical industry, of course)that therapy doesn't work for "serious mental health" diagnoses, like schizophrenia. So, there's room on that couch for more than just depression.
Best wishes, as always,
- February 20, 2012 at 3:05 AM
- Ruth said...
Thanks for posting this. It gives everyone a lot to think about.
- February 20, 2012 at 11:28 AM
- susan said...
Hi Rossa, I know that therapy works for schizophrenia, but I think you just gave me my next blog post. Thank you for the inspiration.
Ruth, glad you liked it. I thought it was salient, especially with the 60 Minutes piece yesterday.
- February 20, 2012 at 8:34 PM
- Mark p.s.2 said...
What is missing from the chart on over-prescribing is that members of the Government are large stockholders of the Drug companies.
This puts the Government into a conflict of interest.
- February 21, 2012 at 12:14 PM
- The Limitless Man said...
I should wonder what your take is on natural supplementation like nootropics and herbs as opposed to big pharma manufactured compounds?
- February 22, 2012 at 2:31 PM
Hi Susan,
I just found your blog and love the massive drug post. Luckily I only take one prescription med.....hmmm, wonder if there are other options. Have a great day and I'll come back to visit.
- February 24, 2012 at 6:32 PM
- susan said...
@Mark - I agree, but this was done by a school that teaches coding and billing. I thought it was a great introduction.
@Limited man- I see nothing wrong with supplements. I take a few. Unfortunately there are bad supplements out there and good ones. I got a list from Consumers and got my supplements from a company that got a high rating from them.
It's a very good thing you brought this up.
@Rita- I love your blog! A fellow kitty lover! Thank you for finding me. I look forward to reading you as well and having our kitties "meet" each other.
- February 25, 2012 at 3:48 PM
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Great diagram. Thank you for posting it.
- March 2, 2012 at 2:07 PM
- paz said...
Great post! I get really bothered by all of the pharmaceutical commercials, especially those for mental illness.
- March 4, 2012 at 4:51 AM
- Leigh Turgeon said...
Hello Susan,
My name is Leigh. Your exceptional blog deals with depression awareness and I know you are familiar with the importance of mental health. It is for these reasons that I contact you today.
I'm sorry it's in a comment, but I couldn't figure out how to contact you otherwise.
I am 'every woman', the girl next door and the one you never would have suspected, however, for years I have been struggling with depression. I have written a book about my experiences entitled "The Blue Veil".
Through this book, it is my aim to reduce the stigma of depression by increasing awareness of the issue. I am donating a large percentage of the proceeds to 15 carefully chosen mental health awareness organizations worldwide. I have provided the list of these organizations at the end of this email.
This is where you come in. I am organizing a 2 month long online book release campaign, structured around various depression awareness weeks around the world. It will be from July 1st to August 31st. My request is, during this period of time would you be willing to host me on your blog for a few days of those months? This can be carried out in a few ways:
-I would send you a couple/few articles that talk about my book and of course depression awareness. You would post these articles on your blog over a few days during those months (letting me know which days you will choose)
-You could write your own prose about "The Blue Veil" and depression awareness and post these articles on your blog over the course of the months (letting me know which days you will choose).
Now you may be wondering what is in this for you and your blog? Well, I could provide you with a free version of "The Blue Veil". You could also review the depression awareness organizations I've , which I will send you, to see if there is one you would like to be included and I will certainly look into it.
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Up to 58 MILLION suffer from it in the US alone, and VERY FEW talk about it. Is it your friend, colleague or neighbor? Now, finally, 'The Blue Veil' brings a modern, raw account of depression. Read it and understand your loved ones better. Be assured that no one is alone.
``Leigh has everything going for her when the unthinkable happens. She loses control of her own emotions and everything in her life begins to slip away. With a marriage strained to the brink, the loss of her father, fertility issues and the loss of her job, will Leigh be able to move beyond The Blue Veil and take back control of her future?``
Thanks so much for your consideration and efforts. I understand that you are busy, so I wanted to express my sincere gratitude. It is with great respect for you and your blog that I write this email and it would mean so much to me to have your readers aware of my efforts.
Please do not hesitate to contact me at any time if you have any questions regarding my request.
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Here's a link to my recent blog article on the New York Times' "Motherlode" parenting blog: "Letters From Sleep-Away Camp"
Yesterday, my 16-year-old son departed, by bus, for four weeks at a camp in northern Minnesota. I've already checked the camp's website for photos, and I found one photo of him from the Opening Day. I'm pleased to see that he arrived safe and sound.
As he posed for this photo, I think he chose body language that would convey as little emotion and information as possible. Because he had read my blog article about letters from summer camp, he knew that I'd be studying the photo carefully. Over the next four weeks, we will be engaged in a battle of wits as he tries to confuse me from afar with his micro-expressions.


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It started with what a witness said was a loud "crack" and ended up with about 15 people in the water.
A large water slide collapsed Thursday night at the Eagle Harbor community in Fleming Island, sending two people to the hospital, according to Clay County Fire Rescue.
They received a call about 7:15 p.m. and responded to the pool located next to a lake on Eagle Harbor Parkway just off U.S. 17, said Battalion Chief Tom Rodgers.
The slide is described on the Eagle Harbor website as a 110-foot water slide.
Rodgers said the top third of the slide broke off and fell into the lake on the other side of a fence. Ten to 15 people fell from the slide into the lake, Rodgers said.
The section of the slide that broke was about 10 to 12 feet from the lake water. By the time rescue crews arrived, all the people who fell were out of the water and being treated for minor injuries, Rodgers said.
Two people transported to hospitals were taken for precautionary reasons, Rodgers said.
He said there were multiple lifeguards on duty at the time of the collapse.
Sam Hense, a senior at Fleming Island High School, was at the pool when the slide broke for an annual party held by the marching band.
"It looked like there were way too many people on the slide when it collapsed," Hense said.
He said his 15-year-old brother, Ben, was on the slide when it collapsed and most of the others on the slide were members of the marching band.
Hense said his brother was making a "train" with about 25 people set to go down the slide together.
"One of his friends was on the top of the slide and then a big kid got on and they heard a loud crack," Hense said.
He said kids make trains to go down the slide a lot and usually the lifeguards allow it with about five people at a time. But on Thursday there were about 25 people in line for the train and the lifeguards didn't realize they were all going to go down at once, Hense said.
"I saw the aftermath," Hense said. "I saw everyone in the water."
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Luis Rosa necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 55 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
Wide Way, LDA - http://wideway.pt/
Wide Way is a trading company that works as a online retail for IT infrastructure solutions, namely in networking, servers and cabling solutions, from fiber optics to traditional copper wiring.
We work around the world, serving mostly Portugal, France and African nations such as Angola, Liberia, Guinea, etc.
Wide Way has a small but very dynamic team, with multidisciplinary skills. Although we support the corporate image, Wide Way is a fun and engaging team to work with.
Corporations, either large or small have been and will continue to be the target audience. We are looking for a corporate image, but not a boring one.
We work in international markets, so their should be no localized feel to the website, such as country specific icon.
We require that the logo is maintained, although it can me manipulated to integrate better with the website. We don't have a color schema pre-defined but the traditional colors have been orange and black.
Although remembering the purpose of the website (to promote the retail trading of IT equipments), the designer is free to be creative in the way the homepage should look.
We feel that their should be some visual of what we sell in the homepage, but we don't like the way it's presented today.
Homepage - The first page should clearly identify the company and what we do.
Product page - Main product categories we provide.
Contacts - Contact page with request for quote in project or equipment.
We don't feel the current look reflects a modern and resourceful company that we are in solving the end-customers sometimes difficult problems on setting up corporate LAN and WAN as well as specific solutions.


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This new mid calf capris from OceanLily gives you another great choice for running and workouts. These have the 3 in 1 Waist waistband which is all about options for support and comfort. The double layer waistband is a full 8" tall and is very stetchy. Do you like to keep your belly covered under loose or short shirts? No problem, the waist band will come up over your belly button and provide mild support. Need stronger support under the belly? Fold the waist band under one or two times for a supportive lift. Before you are showing and post partum you can fold the waist band in half and the capris look great for any occasion. The fabric is cottony-soft and fast drying. Shrink and fade resistant. This capris will provide a perfect fit during and after pregnancy.


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Nitin Gadkari today termed as "unfounded" remarks of RSS ideologue M G Vaidya that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was behind the campaign to make him quit as BJP President and said all party leaders are working unitedly for the organisation.
In a statement issued here, Gadkari also rejected Vaidya's attempt to link recent comments by party MP Ram Jethmalani with Modi.
"The BJP completely rejects such insinuation, as it is totally unfounded. All central leaders of the party and its Chief Ministers have been working cohesively and unitedly for the cause of the party," he said.
In his blog, Vaidya lamented the public statement of Jethmalani in which he had demanded the resignation of Gadkari and had sought projection of Modi as prime ministerial candidate.
Gadkari said BJP is fighting Gujarat assembly elections with "complete unity of purpose" and mutual confidence.
"BJP is firmly and unitedly behind Narendra Modi and we are confident that the party will win decisively in the ensuing assembly elections," he said.
Vaidya has said the needle of suspicion in the anti-Gadkari campaign in BJP points towards Modi who has never denied his ambition to become Prime Minister.
The RSS was quick to distance itself from Vaidya's remarks with Sangh leader Ram Madhav noting that it may be the ideologue's personal view and "it is not the opinion of the Sangh."


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Play 109 is an interactive sound, video and graffiti installation by Damian Castaldi & Solange Kershaw in collaboration with the artist/programmer Neil Jenkins and Jake Lewis of the Amerg Collective.
Watch a video of the opening night as part of the Renew Newcastle first Friday of the month events in the Newcastle mall on the 4th of December 2009.
Play 109 the second in a series of interactive sound installations sodacake are installing in 2009/2010. The first, Play 44 was installed in Melbourne in October 2009 at the historic house, Villa Alba in Kew. Each installation transforms a different location (shopfront, historic house, gallery, mall etc …) into a musical instrument, which people can then engage with and play. The instrument changes uniquely in relation to the location and its surroundings and takes the number of the street address for the title of the work, (as in 109 Hunter St Newcastle and 44 Walmer St Kew).
An underlying influence in this series of sound installations comes from the late 1940's and 1950's movement known as Musique Concrète, in that its pioneer Pierre Schaeffer, "emphasized the importance of play (in his terms, jeu) in the creation of music. Schaeffer's idea of jeu comes from the French verb jouer, which carries the same double meaning as the English verb play: 'to enjoy oneself by interacting with one's surroundings', as well as 'to operate a musical instrument'." This notion is the core of Musique Concrète and the underlying influence to Play 109.


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Globe 24-7 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 91 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
Globe 24-7
Globe 24-7 HR & Employment Services is an Australian based firm, specializing in the unique recruitment and HR needs of Resources Companies operating in Africa (90%) & Australia (10%). We have been operating for 6 years, and are one of a very small number of recruitment firms focusing on the African market. We have successfully built a name with some key players in the mining industry, operating throughout Australia and Africa. We only work with mining companies.
Combined with an existing Perth & Mauritian office, we recently opened three new offices; one in Ghana (West Africa), one in South Africa, and one in London (primarily targeting UK-based companies with mine sites in Africa). We also do a small amount of work within Australia and envisage that we will have further growth into Canada and eventually Asia.
Our current logo is red and blue, featuring a world globe in place of the 'O'. The text is black, and quite a standard font - with a white background. (see attched file).
This is our first time to use this service, and there is potential for more work as we develop new stationary and a website.
Our target audience is two-fold: we need to be attractive and memorable for both job-seekers and large multinational mining companies.
Our brand is built on strong relationships with clients and candidates.
We want a bold logo that will communicate our strength and permanency within the market. It should reflect our international presence but focus on Africa, perhaps using the bold colours of an African sunset, or landscape. We are looking for something modern, but long-lasting: not something that will need to be updated again in 3 years.
As our name does not explain what we do, we use various taglines under our logo including:
• HR Consulting & Recruitment Specialists (on business cards)
• HR Consulting & Recruitment Specialists in the African Mining Industry (on African specific brochures)
This may not have to be part of the logo, but we would like to see some options of designs with these included as well.
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Talk:National Honor Patrol Award
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Since the National Honor Patrol Award is to be worn below the patrol patch, shouldn't the picture shown on this page be rotated 180 degrees? (so that the concave section of the award patch matches the convex portion of the patrol patch.) --Bendavis2 19:22, February 13, 2008 (EST)
- Yes; it should. —RWSmith (Bureaucrat), 03:43, February 15, 2008 (EST)
- Done. —RWSmith (Bureaucrat), 16:21, August 7, 2009 (EDT)
Is it possible to receive more than one of these award? I ask because of the shape of the patch would allow 8 of them to go around the patrol patch.
- I have this same question. It seems like it should be available every year.-Howarthe 03:52, March 21, 2017 (EDT)
The page indicates this is taken from the Boy Scout Requirements 2009 handbook. However, the requirements handbook does not list the National Honor Patrol Award requirements. This is part of the Patrol Leader Handbook. --rabell 10:59, August 18, 2009 (CST)
I notice that there is no workbook for this award. If I make up some worksheets for my Boy Scouts, would you like a copy of them for your web page? -Howarthe 03:52, March 21, 2017 (EDT)
- I've created a worksheet for my patrol leaders to use this quarter. -Howarthe 18:36, December 16, 2017 (EST)


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Pop the bubbly! Dow closes at new record high
The Dow Jones industrial average notched a fresh all-time high today, a first step in erasing the bad memories of the 2008-2009 financial crisis and restoring Main Street's confidence in the stock market
NEW YORK — Break out the rally hats. Uncork the Champagne. Rejoice in rising 401(k) balances. The Dow is at a new record high!
The Dow Jones industrial average rewrote the Wall Street record books Tuesday, taking out its 2007 high of 14,164.53 as it soared 126.86 points on its way to a fresh closing peak of 14,254.38.
The Dow's stunning and unexpectedly lengthy bull run puts an exclamation point on one of the most turbulent periods in Wall Street history. The iconic 117-year-old stock barometer, home to famous American blue chips, such as IBM, JPMorgan Chase, Coca-Cola, AT&T and McDonald's, did what few thought possible back in the dark days of the 2008-09 financial crisis: it erased the 7,617-point, 53.8% loss — and the bad memories — it suffered in the worst stock market downturns since the Great Depression.
CHART: How Dow stocks have done
In doing so, the Dow once again proved the resilience of the stock market, which has been much maligned in recent years, highlighting its ability to overcome seemingly impossible obstacles, including financial panics, wars, natural disasters and a complete loss of investor confidence.
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The Dow's new high could change the dialogue on Wall Street and convert market skeptics into believers. Thanks to the Dow, this rally may finally shake off its reputation as "one of the most unloved bull markets in history," says James Stack, editor of InvesTech Research newsletter.
"It's still unloved but no longer ignored," says Stack.
There are still a lot of disbelievers out there, says Nicholas Sargen, chief investment officer at Fort Washington Investment Advisors. "I say to the disbelievers: Stocks have more than doubled off their lows. If it hasn't been a bull market, what has it been?"
STORY: More on Tuesday's stock surge
Nearly four years after a stock market rout so severe that many Americans lost their faith in equity investing and feared the Dow would never rise again, the Dow has risen from the ashes of the bear market on March 9, 2009, when it sank to 6547.05, a level never seen before in its history. Investors who held on, despite the scary roller-coaster ride, are now whole, their portfolios back to even. And those who have been on the sidelines in more conservative assets such as cash and bonds won't be able to ignore the Dow's move forever.
STORY: Does Dow's new high signal start of lengthy advance?
Individual investors, many of whom have fled the stock market in droves in search of safer investments since the financial crisis, now must reassess whether stocks are still a good place to invest money to build wealth.
USA TODAY's Matt Krantz talks about today's record setting day on Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped to an all-time high.
"It's a wake-up call," says Frank Holmes, chief investment officer at U.S. Global Investors. "Sunshine is replacing market storm clouds."
MORE: 5 lessons from 4-year-old bull market
Driving the gains and helping the Dow dig out of its deepest hole since the days following the 1929 crash was an activist government and central bank, which unleased the most aggressive, unconventional and unprecedented policy prescriptions this nation has ever seen. Billion-dollar bailout funds approved by Congress for banks, automakers and homeowners. Interest rates at zero and the purchase of government bonds and mortgage-backed bonds by the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates low and get the engines of commerce humming again and entice people to return to their risk-taking ways.
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By driving down interest rates to historic lows, the Fed basically dared investors to go out and take more risk, a plan devised to spark investment, reignite growth and avoid a downward deflationary spiral.
Hadley Malcolm talks to USA TODAY's Jim Henderson about the Dow reaching a new record high. USA TODAY, Kaveh Rezaei,
The central bank's gambit has payed off so far. The significance of the Dow's accomplishment is that it is signaling that years of economic doom and gloom are starting to lift and that the crisis mind-set that has dominated the investment landscape in recent years is diminishing.
"The most significant thing is it is another step towards restoring confidence," says Tim Hayes, chief global investment strategist at Ned Davis Research. "Confidence is self-reinforcing. It becomes a catalyst, a momentum builder, an additional driver. That benefits the market."
The Dow joins other key market indexes that have already hit all-time highs, such as the small-cap Russell 2000, another Dow average filled with transportation companies, as well as the Wilshire 5000, the broadest U.S. stock index with nearly 3,700 stocks of all sizes and all sectors.
Entering new-high territory has sparked a debate on Wall Street as to whether the long-term downtrend in the stock market that began in 2000 is finally over. Indeed, they are wondering if the Dow's climb to a fresh peak is a sign, a confirmation, a rallying cry that the bull market that began in early 2009 was, in fact, the birth of a multiyear uptrend akin to the great 1982-to-2000 bull market.
Skeptics say that the Standard & Poor's 500, a popular and closely watched market benchmark, must also make a new high before declaring that the big bad bear is dead and that the bull has wrestled back control of the market. The S&P 500 is 1.6% from its 2007 record high of 1565.15.
"Once you recover all the lost ground and then you start moving higher from there, then that is considered the start of a new multiyear, or secular, bull market," says Jeff Kleintop, chief market strategist at LPL Financial.
Ironically, today's Dow is different than the Dow of 2007. Gone from the Dow are casualties of the financial crisis, such as brand-name U.S. companies like Citigroup, American International Group and General Motors, all of which were dropped from the index when the government temporarily took them over after injecting cash into them to save them. Replacing them were Bank of America, Cisco Systems, Chevron and Travelers. It's hard to say if the Dow would be at a new record had the laggards been able to stay.
The Dow's Top 5 gainers since the average's previous record high on October 9, 2007:
1. Home Depot (HD): 109%
3. McDonald's (MCD): 67%
4. Wal-Mart Stores (WMT): 63%
5. Walt Disney Co. (DIS): 59%
And the Top 5 losers:
1. Alcoa (AA): -79%
2. Bank of America (BAC): -78%
3. Hewlett-Packard (HPQ): -61%
4. General Electric (GE): -44%
5. Cisco (CSCO): -36.0%


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WASHINGTON, May 3 (UPI) -- First-time jobless claims dropped by 27,000 in the week ended Saturday, with 365,000 initial claims filed, the U.S. Labor Department said
The four-week rolling average, which provides a steadier assessment than the weekly figures that can be volatile, rose marginally, up by 750 to 383,500.
The biggest increases in initial jobless claims for the week ended April 21 were all in the Northeast.
In New York, first-time claims for that week rose 15,467. In Massachusetts they rose by 4,333 and in Connecticut they rose by 1,776.
Concurrently, the largest decreases were in New Jersey (down by 5,748), Pennsylvania (down by 3,080) and Wisconsin (down by 1,841).
The U.S. unemployment rate is 8.2 percent, unchanged from February to March. The Labor Department's fresh look at the unemployment data is set to be released Friday.


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The University of Maine will will be on the road for four of its first five football games this fall, according to the schedule released Thursday.
Two of those games will be at Football Bowl Subdivision opponents; the Black Bears will receive a combined payment of $610,000.
UMass will host Maine on Sept. 7 at Gillette Stadium — home of the New England Patriots — in Foxborough, Mass. Two weeks later, Maine will travel to Illinois to play Northwestern, which is coming off a 10-3 season that included a Gator Bowl victory over Mississippi State.
"This schedule is one of, if not the most, challenging schedule a Black Bear team has ever played," said UMaine Coach Jack Cosgrove in a prepared statement. "For the first time, a Maine team will be playing two FBS teams, with the possibility of playing the highest-ranked FBS team ever in program history."
Maine's final eight games are against fellow Colonial Athletic Association members, culminating with rival New Hampshire on Nov. 23 in Durham.
"In addition to taking on a CAA schedule, which is always tough," Cosgrove said, "we will be playing Norfolk State for the first time and will continue our recently started rivalry with Bryant."
The Black Bears are coming off a 5-6 season. The schedule expands by one game this year because of where the Thanksgiving holiday falls.
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Most folks believe there is nothing better to solve a crime than an eye witness. Ironically, according to criminologists, eye witnesses can be notoriously unreliable and easily influenced to believe they saw someone they never saw.
It is not a minor issue. The vast majority of the nearly 300 innocent individuals freed from prison by DNA testing were convicted, at least in part, by eye witnesses who turned out to be dead wrong.
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday takes up a case examining whether judges should enforce broader protections to prevent the corrupting taint of unreliable eye-witness identifications in criminal trials.
The issue arises in a New Hampshire case involving Barion Perry, an African-American man who was identified as the suspect in a pre-dawn car break-in by a woman four floors up in a Nashua apartment building. The woman was later unable to identify Mr. Perry in a police photo spread.
Despite the eye-witness's inability to positively identify the suspect's face and clothing, the judge allowed her to testify at Perry's trial.
Prosecutors said in addition to the eye-witness testimony, other evidence and circumstances pointed to Perry as the perpetrator. The jury agreed.
Perry was convicted and sentenced to three to 10 years in prison.
In their appeal to the Supreme Court, Perry's lawyers argue that the purported eye-witness should have been excluded from testifying at the trial because her observations were unreliable. They say due process protections in the Constitution, which allows an accused person a fair opportunity to challenge testimony and evidence, require such trial safeguards.
Lawyers with the New Hampshire Attorney General's office counter that the witness was properly allowed to present her observations to the jury. With the aid of cross-examination, a jury is perfectly able to assess the reliability of a witness's information, they say.
"There is no specific constitutional right that requires evidence to be deemed reliable before it is admissible in a criminal trial," Stephen Fuller, senior assistant attorney general, wrote in his brief to the court.
Mr. Fuller added that since 1967, the Supreme Court has established an exception to that general rule. The high court has held that witness reliability must be tested in cases in which law enforcement officials used suggestive techniques that may have manipulated, influenced, or enhanced a witness's ability to identify an alleged criminal suspect.
Because there was no evidence that the police engaged in suggestive techniques in Perry's case, the judge acted properly in allowing the witness to testify, Fuller said.
Perry's lawyers disagreed. Public Defender Richard Guerriero wrote in his brief that the New Hampshire courts were wrong to allow the eye witness to testify against Perry.
Mr. Guerriero said pre-trial examination of eye-witness reliability should not be confined to cases involving suggestive tactics by law enforcement. In cases like Perry's, judges should determine before the trial whether an eye witness's testimony will be accurate and reliable, he said.
A coalition of lawyers running Innocence Projects across the country filed a friend of the court brief urging the justices to reverse Perry's conviction and establish a broader judicial rule for testing witness reliability.
"This court should now make clear what has long been implicit from its decisions and what two decades of exonerations have conclusively proven: that the admission at trial of a suggestive identification can amount to a due process violation even if the suggestive circumstances are not orchestrated by law enforcement," wrote Timothy O'Toole in a brief on behalf of the Innocence Network, a coalition of 63 lawyer-run projects established to identify and free innocent convicts.
On the other side, the Obama administration and 29 states are urging the court to uphold the New Hampshire court decisions.
"The due process clause does not require a judicial inquiry into the reliability of an eyewitness identification when the identification was not procured under unnecessarily suggestive circumstances orchestrated by law enforcement," wrote US Solicitor General Donald Verrilli.
He added: "The court adopted its limited due process rule because it was concerned that police suggestion would lead a witness to choose the wrong person, not because it believed that eyewitness identifications are inherently unreliable."
Suggestive and unreliable techniques include showing an eye-witness an individual in police custody and asking if he was the man who committed the crime.
It is also unreliable and suggestive for police to publish a photo of the suspect and then present those who come forward as eye-witnesses to the crime. In such cases the identification may be based on the published photo rather than a distinct memory of the suspect during the actual crime.
Potential testimony may also be tainted if police conducting a photo spread verify to the would-be witness that he or she has identified the "right" person. Studies show that police verification can give eyewitnesses an extra measure of confidence on the witness stand, which undercuts the ability of a jury to assess the witness's certainty and reliability.
The case, Perry v. New Hampshire (10-8974), is set for oral argument on Wednesday at 10 a.m. A decision is expected by next June.