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Former vice president Cheney lashed out yesterday at the Obama-Holder Justice Department's decision to investigate cases of alleged abuse of terrorists detainees. Among other comments, Cheney said he was okay with cases where interrogators went beyond what they were authorized to do.
This is a significant remark, I think. The Obama administration is trying to walk a fine line with its investigation. By investigating something (and likely prosecuting someone), it hopes to satisfy its leftist base. By limiting the investigation to cases where interrogators allegedly exceeded their authority, i.e., to so-called rogue interrogators, it hopes to appear reasonable to a public that's (1) strongly inclined to sympathize with those who obtained information from terrorists during the perilous period following 9/11 and (2) strongly disinclined to see what looks like a political witch hunt. And, of course, the administration can always broaden the scope of its investigation if the political climate becomes more amenable to doing so — sorry, I mean if that's where "the facts and the law lead."
Cheney is having none of it. By affirming the actions of the so-called rogue interrogators, Cheney resists giving the administration its sacrificial lambs.
But Cheney wasn't the commander-in-chief. What I'd really like to see, if it's true (as I suspect was at the time), is a statement from President Bush that he too was comfortable in cases where interrogators went beyond what they were authorized to do.
Overall, I think it's to Bush's credit that he is staying out of the political fray. It's never very seemly when an ex-president starts sniping at his successor. But a statement about how he viewed the actions of interrogators wouldn't necessarily amount to sniping at Obama. On its face, it would just be a statement of support for those who did what they reasonably believed needed to be done to protect this country.
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PTSD and Physical Health Problems
When you have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), you may have physical symptoms that have no obvious cause. PTSD also may raise your risk of having other medical conditions.footnote 1
Having other conditions like depression or anxiety with PTSD also may result in having more physical symptoms.footnote 1
Physical health problems and mental illness can occur together in a number of ways:
- Medicine used to treat a health problem may lead to a mental illness, such as depression, or make it worse. For example, depression can be a side effect of some drugs.
- Health problems and mental illness may have a common cause, such as stress.
- Health problems and mental illness can bring a sense of loss. You may feel that your life isn't the same as it was before you got sick.
- Health problems can change the quality of your life. You may go through changes at work or at home. For example, a sickness may cause you to lose your job, which can cause stress. This added stress could make your PTSD symptoms worse.
- Mental health problems can cause physical health problems and vice versa.
When you have a physical illness and a mental illness, it can be much harder to cope. Being sick can impact every area of your life. It can change how you think and feel about yourself and your relationships. It may affect your ability to work and enjoy life.
It's possible that your mental illness and health problems aren't related. If you have PTSD and also get sick, this doesn't always mean PTSD is the cause of your sickness.
Getting the right treatments for PTSD and other health conditions is the best thing you can do. Talk with your doctor and your family about how you can cope with your health problems.
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A very small, newly started company consisting mainly of a coder/web guy and his girlfriend, focused on a single product: A web-based issue tracker with a somewhat strange name - Bugly.
Our web site: http://bug.ly/
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posted by Thom Holwerda on Fri 14th Jun 2013 11:39 UTC
"The key takeaway we've reached (after two less than 24 hours playing with the iOS 7 Beta release) is this - every App must consider even basic updates to its UI to survive in a post-iOS 6 world." Great. Telling developers to update their entire application - user interface and behaviour alike - to target a look and behaviour that isn't final yet. Seems like potential for a lot of wasted work here.


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British Euro lawmaker calls women 'sluts'
LONDON (AFP) – A veteran lawmaker from the UK Independence Party (UKIP) was stripped of the party whip on Friday after describing a room full of women as "sluts", the party said.
Godfrey Bloom, who sits in the European Parliament, had "gone too far", UKIP leader Nigel Farage said earlier.
Farage, who had earlier given a speech to UKIP's annual conference, told the BBC before the decision: "My recommendation is that we now today remove the party whip."
He said 63-year-old Bloom's behaviour had been "selfish" and was overshadowing "all the good things" happening at the conference.
Farage added: "The trouble with Godfrey is that he is not a racist, he's not an extremist or any of those things and he's not even anti-women but he has a sort-of rather old fashioned territorial army sense of humour which does not translate very well in modern Britain.
"What he ought to have learnt is that time and time again he says things that overshadow the whole agenda that UKIP is fighting for."
The whip was withdrawn after a formal disciplinary hearing.
Bloom made the comment at a fringe meeting at the party's annual conference in London, when he referred to previous comments he had made about women failing to clean behind the fridge.
When women delegates at the meeting protested that they had never cleaned behind their fridges, he said: "This place is full of sluts."
Bloom, who represents Yorkshire and Humber in northern England, had to defend himself earlier this year when he complained that British aid was going to "bongo-bongo land", in a reference to developing countries.
UKIP believes Britain should pull out of the European Union and is anti-immigration. Although it does not have a single seat in the British parliament, it made strong gains in local elections this year and could take away votes from Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party at the 2015 general election.


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TOKYO (AP) — Candidates are making final impassioned appeals to voters before parliamentary elections Sunday that are likely to hand power back to a conservative party that ruled Japan for most of the post-war era.
Polls suggest that voters will dump the ruling Democratic Party of Japan three years after it swept to power and give the most seats in the 480-member lower chamber to the opposition Liberal Democratic Party, which ruled Japan for decades.
That would give the hawkish Shinzo Abe, who was prime minister from 2006-2007, the top job again — raising concerns about ties with rival China amid a territorial dispute.
But the emergence of several new parties has confused some voters, and polls show that about 40 percent of people are yet undecided.


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In cunlliffe's lexicon, in the entry [face=SPIonic]u(pe/r[/face] it says [in form comp. fr. [face=SPIonic]u(po/[/face]]
Does this really mean that the one is (or was) a comparative form of the other?
Paul wrote:I'm not sure I understand quite how one gets 'under' from a root meaning 'on high, above'. Perhaps the latter always calls to mind the former, as in 'under high heaven'....
Kasper wrote:Similarly, but in latin, the word "altus, -a, - um" generally relates to something vertical. Eg. "altus mons" means a high mountain, and "altum flumen" a deep river.
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text: QB Bo Baldwin of South Aiken missed much of his junior season with a broken hand and that may have slowed his recruitment. Baldwin is receiving interest from USC, Georgia, North Carolina, Rutgers, Alabama, LSU and PItt among others. He recently attended a junior day at Georgia February 16th. "I really liked it a lot," said Baldwin. "I got to meet with the coaches. I really like their offense and coach (Mike) Bobo. Georgia would be a good place to go." This spring he plans to attend several spring practices including USC and North Carolina. "I may go to (USC's) spring game," he added. His trip to UNC will not be his first. "I like the school," said Baldwin. "They're similar to Georgia in that I like their offense and the new coaches." Baldwin will participate in an Under Armour combine in Charlotte next month and says his hand doing well. He does not have any favorites.


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The HP SDN Developer Kit will give developers the tools to write, test and certify applications that can then be sold on the HP SDN App Store. Developers will get API documentation for the HP SDN controller, as well as a developer guide and sample code. Developers can test their applications using an SDN simulation suite and a virtual lab.
HP says the development kit is free, but developers will have to license the SDN controller. The starting price for HP's base controller is $495. The company says developers that sign up for HP's Alliance Program can get a 50% discount on the controller.
The company also plans to offer support services for developers, including 24-hour phone support. HP says it hasn't decided whether it will charge for these services. The HP SDN controller will officially be available at the end of October, and the SDK will be available in November.
[What impact will SDN architectures have on your network? Get insights in "SDN, Overlays and Interior Decorating."]
Third-party applications can be validated for sale on HP's SDN app store, which the company plans to open in the second half of 2014. HP will offer full support for HP applications purchased from the apps store. It is working out support details for third-party applications. The company says it will have a live demo of the app store at Interop New York.
The company is still working out the details on its revenue-sharing plan for third-party applications sold through the app store. "The majority of the revenue will go to the developer," says Kash Shaikh, senior director of product and technical marketing at HP Networking. "Large organizations can develop apps, or a few guys in a garage can download the SDK and innovate and be able to sell the applications."
While HP is calling this initiative an Open Ecosystem, it doesn't include an open-source component. When asked if HP had plans to offer an open-source version of its controller, as Juniper recently announced, Shaikh says he wouldn't eliminate it as an option but that the current focus is on the enterprise market.
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Oh I love those pants! I need to make a pair - maybe this weekend :)ReplyDelete
ps...still LOVING those placemat boards - the boys enjoy them lots!
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Three of the most common places to find collectable junk are marchés aux puces (flea markets), brocantes (second hand shops) and antiquaires (antique shops). The following list will give you a little taste of everything and help you discover the wonderland of Parisian knick-knacks and decor.
Village Saint Paul
The block in between rue de Rivoli and quai des Céléstins as well as rue Saint Paul and rue de Fourcy. This area is filled with shops and ateliers. The best time to go is the weekend, as there are many places tucked away that are closed during the week.
• village-saint-paul.com, metro: Saint Paul
La Tortue Electrique
A shop mostly specializing in vintage trinkets and toys.
• 5 rue Frédéric Sauton 75005, metro: Maubert Mutalité
Carré Rive Gauche
One of the classics, and definitely a higher end shop … wonderful for a peek!
• 16 rue des Saints-Pères 75006, carrerivegauche.com, metro: Rue du Bac
Au Bon Usage
A wonderful shop with a variety of furniture and home décor. Amazing chairs.
• 21 rue Saint Paul 75004, aubonusage.com, metro: Saint Paul or Pont Marie
Et Puis C'est Tout
This place had loads of adorable vintage kitchenware at extremely reasonable prices. In the heart of the 9th district.
• 16 rue des Martyrs 75009, metro: Pigalle
Le Bazare Chic
A shop with wonderful kitchenware, furniture, books and artwork.
• 202 Avenue du Maine 75014, metro: Alésia
Au Fil du Coeur
This little shop has clothing and jewellery, as well as beautiful porcelain and silverware.
• 12 rue Sarrette 75014, metro: Alésia
La Salle des Ventes du Particulier
A shop with two locations; both specialize in bigger pieces - mostly furniture. They also have a dépot-vente which allows you to sell antique furniture.
• 117 rue d'Alésia 75014, antiquites-industrielles.com, metro: Alésia
Au Petit Bonheur de Chance
This is one of the hidden treasures of Paris. In this tiny shop you can find old notebooks, kitchenware, toys, and almost any other random trinket you could ever imagine.
• 3 rue Saint Paul 75004, aupetitbonheurlachance.fr, metro: Saint Paul or Pont Marie
Au Présent du Passé
A small shop with a variety of treasures such as paintings, dolls, china and even garden furniture!
•36 rue Davioud 75016, metro: Ranelagh
Zut - Frédéric Daniel Antiquités
This shop specializes in mostly industrial antiques: mostly furniture and décor made of metal and wood. Very design oriented.
• 7-9 rue Ravignan 75018, metro: Abbesses
Marché Paul Bert
This market and the Puces de Saint Ouen are two peas in a pod, and in the same area. Marché Paul Bert is open Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays.
• 96-110 rue des Rosiers 93400, Saint Ouen, paulbert-serpette.com, metro: Porte de Clignancourt
Marché de Porte de Vanves
Marché de Porte de Vanves is a weekend flea market. There are a large variety of vendors. The best time to pop by is before noon on Saturday or Sunday, and you're bound to find some goodies.
• 75015, metro: Porte de Vanves
Puces de Saint Ouen
A tiny stroll past the limits of Paris is the city's most famous flea market: the Marché Aux Puces de Saint Ouen. Here, you can find shop after shop after shop of antiques, vintage furniture, trinkets, clothing … you name it, it will be there. It is open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays year-round.
• 140 rue des Rosiers, 93400 Saint Ouen, metro: Porte de Clignancourt
Local Paris "yard sale" type markets
Vide-greniers.org is a guide to where all the local markets are in Paris (and elsewhere for that matter) on any given day. From the markets that take place every weekend to those that only happen bi-annually, this site has got them covered. You can search by neighbourhood and market type – even garage sales are on here! The neighbourhood markets are usually on weekends, and have many stands and vendors of all shapes and sizes. With these constantly happening in the streets of Paris, you're in for a treat with the locals. The website is in French only.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Post-it notes and other office products helped lift 3M's fourth-quarter profit, despite a slowdown in other parts of its business.
The Maplewood, Minn.-based company earned $991 million, or $1.41 per share, up 3.9 percent from a year earlier. The results matched expectations of analysts surveyed by FactSet.
3M said profits grew in its consumer and office business, which makes Scotch tape and Post-it notes, as well as in its health care unit. Profits fell in all four of its other divisions, which make things like industrial products and construction materials.
Because the company includes a wide range of industries and sells products all over the globe, its results are a closely-watched economic bellwether.
Its revenue rose 4 percent to $7.39 billion, above expectations of $7.17 billion.
The company also backed last month's profit forecast of $6.70 to $6.95 per share for 2013. Analysts had been expecting $6.86 per share.
Operating profits jumped 10.5 percent to $430 million in its health care unit. Strong sales growth for food safety, bandages, and mouth care lifted the results.
Profits jumped 28 percent to $230 million in its consumer and office business. Growth was led by retail health products, craft supplies and stationery and office supplies.
But profits fell slightly in its biggest unit, industrial and transportation. Profits were down 5 percent in its safety, security, and protection services business, 3 percent in display and graphics, and 7 percent in its electro and communications unit.
Net income for 2012 rose 3.8 percent to $4.44 billion, or $6.32 per share. Revenue rose 1 percent to $29.9 billion for the year.
"Our people executed well in the face of challenging macroeconomic conditions and we have built good momentum to innovate and move forward in 2013," said Inge G. Thulin, 3M chairman, president and CEO.
3M's stock price edged down 5 cents to $99.44 in afternoon trading.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Mortgage lender Residential Capital LLC is paying about $198 million to settle federal complaints that it wrongfully foreclosed on homeowners.
The Federal Reserve announced the agreement Friday with the company, known as ResCap. The settlement is similar to accords between federal regulators and 13 other financial firms that ended a review of loan files required under a 2011 government action. The lenders included JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, MetLife Bank, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Altogether, they are paying roughly $9.3 billion.
ResCap filed for bankruptcy protection in May 2012 after being hobbled by payments on debt taken out to finance soured home mortgages. The settlement with the Fed was worked out as part of the bankruptcy proceeding.
The settlements could compensate hundreds of thousands of Americans. Many had their homes seized because of abuses such as "robo-signing," when banks automatically signed off on foreclosures without properly reviewing documents. The agreement will also help eliminate huge potential liabilities for the banks.
Consumer advocates say regulators settled for too low a price by letting banks avoid full responsibility for foreclosures that victimized families.
The settlements cover borrowers whose homes were in any stage of the foreclosure process in 2009 or 2010.
ResCap is a subsidiary of Ally Financial, the former auto lending arm of General Motors.
Ally was among the five major banks that struck a separate $25 billion agreement in February 2012 over alleged foreclosure abuses with the federal government and 49 states. The others were Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan and Wells Fargo.
Ally, formerly known as GMAC, received a $17.2 billion bailout during the 2008 financial crisis. The government still owns 74 percent of the company.


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Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD (Phone: 301/286-6256) Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore (Phone: 410/338-4562) RELEASE: 94-188 HUBBLE RULES OUT A LEADING EXPLANATION FOR DARK MATTER Two teams of astronomers, working independently with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST), have ruled out the possibility that red dwarf stars constitute the invisible matter, called dark matter, believed to account for more than 90 percent of the mass of the universe. Until now, the dim, small stars were considered ideal candidates for dark matter. Whatever dark matter is, its gravitational pull ultimately will determine whether the universe will expand forever or will someday collapse. "Our results increase the mystery of the missing mass. They rule out a popular but conservative interpretation of dark matter," said Dr. John Bahcall, professor of natural science at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, and leader of one of the teams. The group, led by Bahcall and Andrew Gould of Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, (formerly of the Institute for Advanced Study), showed that faint red dwarf stars, which were thought to be abundant, actually are sparse in the Earth's home galaxy, and in the universe by inference. The team, led by Dr. Francesco Paresce of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD, and the European Space Agency, determined that the faint red stars rarely form and that there is a cutoff point below which nature does not make this type of dim, low-mass star.
The space telescope observations involved accurately counting stars and gauging their brightness. The observations overturn several decades of conjecture, theory and observation about the typical mass and abundance of the smallest stars in the universe. - more -2PREVIOUS GROUND-BASED RESULTS INCONCLUSIVE In our own stellar neighborhood, there are almost as many red dwarfs as there are all other types of stars put together. The general trend throughout our galaxy is that small stars are more plentiful than larger stars, just as there are more pebbles on the beach than rocks. This led many astronomers to believe that they were only seeing the tip of the iceberg and that many more extremely faint red dwarf stars were at the limits of detection with ground-based instruments. According to stellar evolution theory, stars as small as eight percent of the mass of the Sun are still capable of shining by nuclear fusion processes. Over the past two decades, theoreticians have suggested that the lowest mass stars also should be the most prevalent and therefore might provide a solution for dark matter. This seemed to be supported by previous observations with ground-based telescopes that hinted at an unexpected abundance of what appeared to be red stars at the faintest detection levels achievable from the ground. However, these prior observations were uncertain because the light from these faint objects is blurred slightly by Earth's turbulent atmosphere. This makes the red stars appear indistinguishable from the far more distant, diffuse-looking galaxies. PINNING DOWN THE LONG-SOUGHT HALO POPULATION Hubble's capabilities made it possible for the team of astronomers led by Bahcall and Gould to observe red stars that are 100 times dimmer than those detectable from the ground -- a level where stars can be distinguished easily from galaxies. Hubble Space
Telescope's extremely high resolution also can separate faint stars from the much more numerous galaxies by resolving the stars as distinct points of light, as opposed to the "fuzzy" extended signature of a remote galaxy. Bahcall and Gould, with their colleagues Chris Flynn and Sophia Kirhakos (also of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) used images of random areas in the sky taken with the HST Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 while the telescope was performing scheduled observations with other instruments. By simply counting the number of faint stars in the areas observed by HST, the scientists demonstrated that the Milky Way has relatively few faint red stars. The HST observations show that dim red stars make up no more than six percent of the mass in the halo of the Galaxy, and no more than 15 percent of the mass of the Milky Way's disk. The Galactic halo is a vast spherical region that envelops the Milky Way's spiral disk of stars, of which Earth's Sun is one inhabitant. - more -3FAINT RED STARS MISSING FROM A GLOBULAR CLUSTER By coincidence, Paresce pursued the search for faint red dwarfs after his curiosity was piqued by an HST image taken near the core of the globular cluster NGC 6397. He was surprised to see that the inner region was so devoid of stars, he could see right through the cluster to far more distant background galaxies. Computer simulations based on models of stellar population predicted the field should be saturated with dim stars-- but it wasn't. HST's sensitivity and resolution allowed Paresce, and co-investigators Guido De Marchi (Space Telescope Science Institute and the University of Firenze, Italy), and Martino Romaniello (University of Pisa, Italy) to conduct the most complete study to date of the population of the cluster (globular clusters are ancient, pristine laboratories for studying stellar evolution). To Paresce's surprise, he found that stars 1/5 the mass of our Sun are very abundant -- there are about 100 stars this size for every single star the mass of our Sun -- but that stars below that range are rare. "The very small stars simply don't exist," he said.
A star is born as a result of the gravitational collapse of a cloud of interstellar gas and dust. This contraction stops when the infalling gas is hot and dense enough to trigger nuclear fusion, causing the star to glow and radiate energy. "There must be a mass limit below which the material is unstable and cannot make stars," Paresce emphasizes. "Apparently, nature breaks things off below this threshold." Paresce has considered the possibility that very low-mass stars formed long ago but were thrown out of the cluster due to interactions with more massive stars within the cluster, or during passage through the plane of our Galaxy. This process would presumably be common among the approximately 150 globular clusters that orbit the Milky Way. However, the cast-off stars would be expected to be found in the Milky Way's halo, and Bahcall's HST results don't support this explanation. THE SEARCH FOR DARK MATTER The HST findings are the latest contribution to a series of recent, intriguing astronomical observations that are struggling to pin down the elusive truth behind the universe's "missing mass." Models describing the origin of helium and other light elements during the birth of the universe, or "Big Bang," predict that less than 5% of the universe is made up of "normal stuff," such as neutrons and protons. This means more than 90% of the universe must be some unknown material that does not emit any radiation that can be detected by current instrumentation. Candidates for dark matter include black holes, neutron stars and a variety of exotic elementary particles. - more -
-4Within the past year, astronomers have uncovered indirect evidence for a dark matter candidate called a MACHO (MAssive Compact Halo Objects). These previous observations detected several instances of an invisible object that happens to lie along the line of sight to an extragalactic star. When the intervening object is briefly aligned between Earth and a distant star, it amplifies, or gravitationally
lenses, the light from the distant star. The new HST finding shows that faint red stars are not abundant enough to explain the gravitational lensing events attributed to MACHOs. Bahcall cautions, however, that his results do not rule out other halo objects that could be smaller than the red stars such as brown dwarfs -- objects not massive enough to burn hydrogen and shine in visible light. Additional circumstantial evidence for dark matter in the halo of our galaxy has been inferred from its gravitational influence on the motions of stars within the Milky Way's disk. Recently, this notion was further supported by ground-based observations, made by Peggy Sachett of the Institute for Advanced Study, that show a faint glow of light around a neighboring spiral galaxy that is the shape expected for a halo composed of dark matter. This could either be light from the dark matter itself or stars that trace the presence of the galaxy's dark matter. The reality of dark matter also has been inferred from the motions of galaxies in clusters, the properties of high-temperature gas located in clusters of galaxies and from the relative amounts of light elements and isotopes produced in the Big Bang. The ultimate fate of the universe will be determined by the amount of dark matter present. Astronomers have calculated that the amount of matter -- planets, stars and galaxies -- observed in the universe cannot exert enough gravitational pull to stop the expansion which began with the Big Bang. Therefore, if the universe contains less than a critical density of matter, it will continue expanding forever, but if enough of the mysterious dark matter exists, the combined gravitational pull someday will cause the universe to stop expanding and eventually collapse. Bahcall stresses, "The dark matter problem remains one of the fundamental puzzles in physics and astronomy. Our results only sharpen the question of what is the dark matter." Bahcall's results appeared in the November 1, 1994 issue of the Astrophysical Journal. Paresce's paper will appear in the February 10, 1995, issue of the Astrophysical Journal. -more-
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Windham school board targets dodgeball: It's OUTBy APRIL GUILMET
Union Leader Correspondent
March 27. 2013 1:06PM
WINDHAM - The Windham School Board struck dodgeball from their curriculum last week, and now the question of whether or not to continue the traditional gym class activity remains a loaded topic in the district and beyond.
During the March 19 Windham School Board meeting, the board voted 4-1 to remove dodgeball and other so-called "human target" games from the district's physical education curriculum.
Earlier this year, when school officials revisited the district's concussion-prevention policy, a committee was formed to take a closer look at school-sponsored games that could pose risk for injury, Superintendent Dr. Henry LaBranche said.
"In my opinion, the human-target games seem contrary to our goal of avoiding concussions," he said.
The superintendent, who admitted Windham is probably the only district to ban such activities, noted that the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) said that "human target" games result in negative experiences for many students, pose safety concerns and in some cases, encourages instances of bullying.
The sole board member to object to the motion, Dennis Senibaldi, said he "definitely couldn't support banning these games."
"This is dodgeball; this is American pie," Senibaldi said. "You cannot deny that there are more injuries in football."
"If someone is being bullied, there are ways to address that. We have anti-bullying policies," he continued.
Others noted, however, that football players wear protective gear, while students in a regular gym class typically do not.
Windham teacher Rory O'Connor, spokesman for the district committee tasked with reviewing district physical education policies, said NASPE takes "a firm stance against human target games."
Ten such games have been used in the Windham district, including "Rescue 911," a game played with first- and second-graders at Golden Brook School. That game divides students into two teams. Players are hit with Nerf balls from opposing teams, and those who are struck by a ball must "freeze" until the player designated as the "doctor" can unfreeze them.
O'Connor recommended eliminating "all target games" from the district while urging educators to research less-combative alternatives.
Despite the fact that today's dodgeball games use Nerf balls rather than hard volleyballs, the risk of concussions remains, LaBranche said.
"I think it's prudent we have games designed to ensure safety at all levels. To do otherwise would be irresponsible on our part," he said. "Will I be popular for this decision? Probably not."
One game's title, "Slaughter," was particularly concerning, LaBranche said, noting that several parents had contacted him with concerns about the games.
"We've created a situation here where there are some wanting to play these games and others are wanting an alternative," said LaBranche. "Those students have been singled out by their peers because they're unwilling to play a game. That singling out doesn't end with gym class."
School board member Stephanie Wimmer said that as a parent, she trusted the superintendent's advice.
"I absolutely support this and we need to make some changes. We need to take the violence out of our schools," Wimmer said.
Marcia McCaffrey, an education consultant with the state Department of Education, said she's unaware of any other schools in New Hampshire banning dodgeball.
"However, I do know that physical education teachers, in general, are very concerned about the implications of the game," McCaffrey said. "The safety concerns have been there all along. Back in the day, if you shot someone in the head during dodgeball, you were pulled out of the game."
McCaffrey said she thought the issue was a hot topic simply because "it brings people back to their own school experiences."
"Of course, there are always the chances that the players might exhibit bullying behavior and that needs to be addressed," she added. "But ultimately it's up to each school board to determine which policies are appropriate in their district."
Windham Recreation Director Cheryl Haas said the dodgeball ban hasn't affected any of the town's children's programs yet, though she declined to comment further when asked if any plans were in the works to change that in the future.
YMCA of Greater Londonderry Director Lisa Fitzgerald likewise declined to comment on whether or not games of dodgeball posed problems for children attending afterschool and summer programs.
Derry School Superintendent Laura Nelson said she's had yet to hear a complaint from teachers, parents or students regarding the popular gym class activity.
"To my knowledge, we haven't had any issues here regarding dodgeball," Nelson said. "But we do take bullying very seriously here in Derry, so if there ever was an issue here where a child was being targeted in gym class, we'd certainly work quickly to address it."
Derry mother Suzanne Jean said she disagreed with banning dodgeball in the nearby town.
"Give me a break," she said. "It's dodgeball and we all grew up playing it. It's a fantastic way for kids to burn off some energy ... and if someone is playing too rough, then that person should be taken out of the game, simple as that. But don't punish all the kids because of the actions of a few."
Jean said she'd discussed the matter further with her 8-year-old son, Thomas, who offered up his own thoughts on the matter.
"He said, 'You learn who throws hard and you learn how to dodge - that's in the name of the game,' and he shook his head," said Jean. "Pretty sad that my 8-year-old gets it and adults don't."


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Budget cuts in Ralston Public Schools mean fewer school psychologists next year.
Ralston's board approved a resolution Monday eliminating four psychologists and an elementary school position next year.
KETV NewsWatch 7 recently reported the district was looking to save $2.7 million on next year's budget.
-- Ralston schools find budget cuts to save $2.7M
Administrators said enhanced buyouts for long-serving teachers helped open positions and save money, which meant fewer layoffs.


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1. You've only had him four days. He shouldn't be going to work with you.
2. That person has no business bothering him in his crate. You don't just "go say hi" to a dog you don't know through a crate door, a lot comes into play - barrier frustration, territorial, and being cornered.
3. If there is some "rule" that dogs must be friendly in their crates at your work, and/or this person knows that little about dog behavior and will continue acting that way, don't bring him back.
BigDogBuford wrote:Personally, I would have done at least a two week crate shut down for him. He's been through a *terrible* amount of stress and I think you're just adding to it at this point.
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As progressives, we can commemorate Black History Month by celebrating the lives of some of the African American progressives who have worked to bring equality to America. In 1976, February was officially designated by the U.S. Government as Black History Month. Black History Month was an idea of African American historian, Carter Godwin Woodson, who designated the second week of February, to celebrate the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas, as Black History Week. Mr. Woodson was a remarkable individual and I will explore his life in a later essay, however, today I want to focus on a remarkably brave woman whose life deserves to be remembered and celebrated by all Americans.
Ida Bell Wells was born in 1862 (one year prior to the Emancipation Proclamation) in Holly Springs, Mississippi. She was one of eight children. Her mother was a cook and her father a carpenter who used these skills to support their large family after being freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. Wells' father was very influential in the life of young Ida. He was actually the son of the man who owned him. His father was able to secure a carpentry apprenticeship for him and he became a master carpenter. Working as a skilled carpenter allowed him to support his family. He firmly believed that education was the way out of poverty. He was a very outspoken man who wanted to see his children educated. He had attended college (a rare feat for any individual at that time in American history) but had to stop to support his family. Ida grew up hearing her father speak of the importance of education and the equality of the races. She never doubted that she was anyone's equal. Later, she would describe her father's expectations by saying: "Our job was to go to school and learn all we could."
When she was 16 years old, a yellow fever epidemic claimed the lives of her parents and youngest brother. Family members told her that the best thing for the remaining children would be to place them with different relatives. She refused to break up the family. She dropped out of college and took a job as an elementary teacher at a black school. She was outraged when she learned that black teachers were paid 30 dollars a month, while white teachers made 80 dollars month. However, she managed to keep the family together. In 1888, after securing carpentry apprenticeships for her two oldest brothers, she moved the remaining family to Memphis, Tennessee to live with her aunt. She planned to keep working as a teacher; but she would soon experience a life changing event that would place her on another career path.
Ida wanted to teach in the Memphis public schools so she could be closer to her siblings. While waiting to the take the necessary teacher examination, she began a teaching job in the rural town of Woodstock, which is about 20 miles outside of Memphis. The 1875 Civil Rights Act had banned discrimination in public places (hotels, theaters, railroads) on the basis of race, creed or color. The law was not enforced and most railroads continued to segregate their passengers based on race. On a train ride from Woodstock to Memphis she had purchased a first class ticket for the Ladies Car. A conductor ordered her to move to the more crowded smoker's car. She refused. He grabbed her and attempted to physically drag her out of the car. She bit his hand and he let go. He left the car and returned with two other men who dragged her to the smoker's car. She was furious. She sued the railroad company and won a settlement of 500 dollars. The railroad company appealed the decision all the way to the Tennessee Supreme Court, which reversed the lower court's decision. Eighty years before Rosa Parks, Ida B. Wells refused to give up her seat, sued a powerful railroad company and won a victory for civil rights.
As a result of this experience she began to write political columns for her local church newspaper. Soon, she developed a reputation as a fighter for equality. Saving her money she was able to become part owner of a small, independent newspaper that served the growing Black community in Memphis. In 1891, she was fired from her job as a Memphis teacher for writing about the inequality of funding provided to black and white students. She never worked as a teacher again. She devoted the rest of her life to campaigning for civil rights.
In 1892, three of her friends were lynched in Memphis. The men, Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell, and Henry Stewarty operated a grocery store that served the black community. A group of white grocers felt that the store was stealing their rightful business. A white mob attacked the store and the black owners fought back. Three white men were shot and injured in the melee. The black owners were arrested and jailed. The white populace was enraged that a black man had shot a white man. A mob attacked the jail overpowered the police (one deputy was killed in the riot) and lynched the three men. Wells was outraged. She urged the black community to leave Memphis and wrote:
The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival. There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms. The white mob could help itself to ammunition without pay, but the order is rigidly enforced against the selling of guns to Negroes. There is therefore only one thing left to do; save our money and leave a town which will neither protect our lives and property, nor give us a fair trial in the courts, but takes us out and murders us in cold blood when accused by white persons.
Three months after the lynching of her friends, she began an anti-lynching campaign. She began a series of investigative articles that documented that blacks were being lynched for 'crimes' ranging from the failure to pay debts and being drunk in public. As a result of her articles her office was attacked and firebombed. In 1893, she left Memphis and moved to Chicago. She would never again live in the South.
While living in Chicago she continued to fight for equality. She campaigned with the social activist Jane Addams to prevent Chicago from establishing segregated schools. In 1909, she helped to form the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She was a suffragette who fought for Women's Suffrage. She toured America and Europe speaking for equality. Her energy was boundless. In 1930, at the age of 67, she ran for the Illinois Senate. She lost the race but her campaign helped make it easier for future female candidates. She died a year later at the age of 68.
Living in 2013 it is difficult, perhaps impossible, to understand the bravery of Ida B. Wells. She fought for equality and justice her entire life. She never backed away from a fight. She was not a pragmatist willing to compromise the principles in which she believed. She was a woman who wanted nothing more than equal treatment. She left the world a better place than she found it.


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Walt Rauch was a Special Agent in the US Army Intelligence and the Secret Service and a founder of USPSA and IDPA. He is a firearms instructor and writer and these are his Rauch's Rules for the Real World from his book Practically Speaking: An Illustrated Guide.
1. All predators are always killers. When they attack, your options for self-defense are very limited
2. The predator is smarter than you. Act and react accordingly.
3. Predators will use all the force necessary (and then some) to achieve their goals, without regard to consequences.
4. Predators evaluate their targets before attacking. If you are attacked, the predator has determined he will succeed without a heavy cost to himself.
5. If you are about to become a victim, you have already made serious mistakes.
6. Believe what you see; don't go into denial. Your attacker wont.
7. In a lethal confrontation, you will only have time to choose one course of action- and your life depends on making the right choice.
8. Predators rarely act alone, although the ones that do are the most dangerous. (If there's one, look for two, if there are two, look for three; etc)
9. Fear is the predator's friend… and your enemy.
10. Talk and negotiations rarely work.
11. Predators do not have a conscience. Don't waste time and effort appealing to any sense of mercy or kindness.
12. Some people cannot be frightened or intimidated. Displaying a weapon may well not solve-and in some cases, may exacerbate- the problem. Be prepared for this.
13. "Bullets don't work" …Gene Zink, a federal law enforcement trainer. No hand-held firearm fires a guaranteed "one-shot-stop" round. Anticipate needing follow-up shots.
14. "Stay plugged in. Stay in the fight"…Clint Smith, Director, Thunder Ranch.
15. Firearms don't work all the time and may well not work when you need them the most.
16. Don't be overly concerned about caliber. No one wants to "leak" or have holes put in them.
17. Carry only the biggest caliber gun you can control.
18. Carry a reload.
19. Carry a 2nd gun.
20. Be able to get to both handguns with either hand.
21. Don't assume you can prevail in the conflict due to your superior tactics and training. The predator only has to be lucky once. Avoiding him is the best defense.
22. The honest citizen pitted against a predator is an unequal contest. The predator is a professional. Most honest citizens are amateurs.
23. No competition or training, no matter how well learned or practiced, can equal hands-on experience.
24. Predators constantly validate their training with hands-on experience.
25. Getting hands-on experience can be fatal, but survivors learn their lessons well!
26. Expect to get shot!
27. When shot, don't expect to die.
28. If you are going to die, take him with you!
The legal standard is "what would a reasonable and prudent person have done, in the exact same situation, knowing what the defendant knew?" The cornerstone of the defense will be to show that your actions were reasonable and prudent; opposing counsel will argue that someone under the influence cannot BE reasonable and prudent.
I've noticed lately that the BG's tactics are changing with the times..If I'm the BG I am going to assume (because 38-40 states have "shall issue" laws) that whoever it is that I choose to assault for whatever reason that they ARE armed. I will have a plan, a place and a time to do whatever evil I choose to do with minimal risk but I will attempt my evil, thinking that whoever is my target is going to be armed.
I wont go it alone, there will be backup and it will be fast, intrusive, forceful and meant to disorientate, confuse, and cause fear. The BG's aren't stupid they will adapt, it is survival. Overwhelming force is the objective to obtain what it is I want..You will see more and more of this as they realize that people are arming themselves.
2 BG's coming at you and your family with Glock 19's, then what?? and you with a 6 shooter..If I'm the BG,you just lost the fight, BG's dont operate in singles anymore, it's pairs and 3's usually for backup..Sorry to say that society has degenerated to such a point that going anywhere alone without another armed companion is taking a risk, but it has.
Suarez IntnlMany years ago (I'm embarrassed to admit exactly HOW many! ) I found myself walking on a dark street where I encountered a number of... uh.... undesirable sorts. It was, ironically, the very first time I'd ever carried a handgun on my person, and this was more by happenstance than intent (my car had broken down in a bad neighborhood as I'd been coming home from a late-night college astronomy lab, and I had chosen to walk home; I simply hadn't wanted to leave my handgun in an unattended vehicle).
The individuals I encountered made it very clear - through movement and the display of improvised weapons - that I was to be badly injured or even killed. After a frozen moment of panic in which my brain crashed to a halt at the realization that I had become the target of a mugging, I suddenly remembered that I had a handgun with me, and I drew it out into a (forgive me for I did not know what I was doing) a low ready position.
The sight of their would-be victim drawing a .41 Magnum revolver was too much for my would-be playmates and they scattered....but not before the obvious leader - armed with a pretty nasty looking butterfly knife - bawled: "That's not FAIR!!!" before he himself took to his heels.
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That was not proven as I've talked about in another thread.The fact is, the planet is warming, and we know for a fact that human beings are doing things that can be shown scientifically to create conditions that accelerate that warming.
How much CO2 we put into atmosphere vs how much nature puts: ~3.76%
How much of CO2 is in the atmosphere: 0.039%
How much CO2 humans add to the atmosphere:.. 0.0014664%
http://www.skepticalscience.com/human-c ... ssions.htm
ftp://ftp.cmdl.noaa.gov/ccg/co2/trends/ ... an_mlo.txt
Not only that, but:
CO2 lags an average of about 800 years behind the temperature changes-- confirming that CO2 is not the cause of the temperature increases. One thing is certain-- earth's climate has been warming and cooling on it's own for at least the last 400,000 years, as the data below show. At year 18,000 and counting in our current interglacial vacation from the Ice Age, we may be due-- some say overdue-- for return to another icehouse climate!


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Chimney Rock Pork Loin
Source: Recipe from Chef Jeremy Kelly
After brining, pork loin is cooked on hot bricks in this unique preparation. The pork is paired with a sweet and spicy pineapple salsa and served with rice.
4 cups apple juice
3 1⁄2 cups water
1⁄2 cup salt
1⁄2 cup brown sugar
3 tbsp. peppercorns
1 bay leaf
8 1-in. thick-cut boneless pork loin chops
4 tbsp. ground cumin
2 tbsp. salt
1 tbsp. pepper
Firecracker Salsa:
1⁄2 cup pineapple
1⁄2 cup cucumber
1⁄2 cup red onion
2 tbsp. jalapeno
1 tbsp. brown sugar
1 pinch salt
5 cups jasmine rice
5 cups water
1 tsp. rice wine vinegar
1 pinch each salt and pepper
1. Combine brine ingredients and marinate for at least 4 hr. and up to 2 days.
2. Combine crust ingredients. Remove pork from brine, pat dry, roll in crust.
3. For salsa, chop first four ingredients in small dice. Mince jalapeno. Combine all and reserve.
4. Prepare jasmine rice according to package directions.
5. Preheat fire bricks in oven at highest temperature, preferably 700° F., for at least 2 hr. Put pork on bricks and sear both sides until desired doneness.
6. Place portion of rice on plate, top with Firecracker Salsa. Rest pork against rice and add small amount of additional salsa. Serve with grilled aspargus.


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|Vice President of Athletics and Athletic Facilities
Dr. Lynn Griffin has served as Coker's Director of Athletics since 2010 and in 2012 was promoted to Vice President of Athletics and Facilities. During her time at Coker, the Cobras have grown and succeeded in several areas of athletics. She has been a driving force behind the addition of eight new sports: men's lacrosse (2011-12), men's volleyball (2012-13), wrestling (2013-14), women's lacrosse (2013-14), men's and women's track and field (2014-15) and men's and women's indoor track & field (2015-16). Under her leadership, Coker made the transition to a new conference, the South Atlantic Conference in July 2013.
Griffin also helped bring Coker's newest athletic facility, the Harris E. and Louis H. DeLoach Center to life. The new 71,000 square-foot athletics facility that opened in June 2014. Designed by McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture, the facility will have a main gymnasium with seating capacity of 1,908 and a wide-range of features including practice gym, classroom space, state-of-the-art training rooms, offices, a conference room and a cafe.
In 2013, Griffin was inducted into the Tarleton State Athletic Hall of Fame in June of 2013. She was inducted along with the entire 1991-92 women's basketball team. She served as an assistant coach for the TexAnns for two years while completing her master's degree. During her second season under head coach Jan Lowrey, Tarleton State reached the NAIA Division II National Tournament, finishing second to Northern State College of South Dakota. Boasting four All-Americans that year, the TexAnns compiled a 30-8 overall record with an 8-0 mark in District VIII play. They finished the season ranked second overall in Division II.
In 2010, Griffin received the Indiana Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (IAHPERD) Pathfinder Award. Given to just one female member of Indiana AHPERD each year, the Pathfinder Award was established to honor members of Indiana AHPERD who have and/or continue to advocate, recruit and enhance opportunities for girls and women in sport and sport leadership. In addition, she was awarded the Indiana Pathfinder award by the National Association for Girls and Women in Sport.
Griffin came to Coker after spending seven years at the University of Indianapolis as the Senior Associate Director of Athletics where she oversaw 12 of the institutions 21 athletics programs. In 2008, the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators (NACWAA) named her NCAA Division II Administrator of the Year.
Griffin is a member of the NCAA Division II Nominating Committee, the NCAA Division II Management Council and has also served on two NCAA championship committees (women's basketball and swimming and diving). She is an active member of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) and NACWAA. Griffin serves as an instructor in Coker's Masters of Science in College Athletic Administration program.
Prior to her time at the University of Indianapolis, Griffin was the Associate Director of Athletics, Compliance Coordinator, Senior Woman Administrator, Head Women's Basketball Coach, and Sport Studies Instructor at St. Andrews University in Laurinburg, N.C. Before St. Andrews, Griffin was the head women's basketball coach and physical education instructor at the University of South Dakota. Prior to USD, she was an assistant woman's basketball coach and Physical Education instructor at UNC-Asheville. She began her career at Tarleton State University where she was the assistant women's basketball coach. While at Tarleton, the women's basketball team advanced to the NAIA National Championship game in Salem, OR.
Griffin received her bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke where she was a two-sport athlete, women's basketball and softball. At Tarleton she earned a master's degree in exercise and sports studies. She earned her doctorate in education in sport management from Northcentral University in 2011.


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"Dinner with the Elams"
There are family music acts and family circus acts, but the family improv act is a rarity. "Dinner with the Elams" at iO Theater in Wrigleyville seeks to rectify that, and it's a helluva idea. Three Elam siblings (Erica, Brett and Scott) perform alongside two future Elams (Scott's fiancee, Lisa Burton, and Brett's fiancee, Jet Eveleth) with uniquely intriguing results.
Eveleth (one of the city's strongest improvisers) was out of the country last week, with Josh Logan filling her spot, but the sense of connection and shared lives within this group is palpable, and the Elam siblings in particular seem eager to lovingly expose one another's childhood embarrassments and insecurities.
Scott, the youngest but most physically imposing of the three, took the brunt of it and good-naturedly so — yes, we now know in detail about his speech impediment as a child — but he is also the sharpest comedian of the bunch, with the most committed deadpan I have seen.
There's also a slightly evil side to their humor — and I mean that in a good way — when they gang up together, devising a scene that forced Logan to re-enact a bit of improvised dialogue over and over again. The fact that he was able to do it speaks to the kind of concentration improvisation demands, but beyond that, the group is just funny. "What's the thing you have to sign up for on Facebook?" someone asked. "Yahoo," came the retort.
One note about iO: There was an issue with the stage lights not working that persisted for nearly half the show.
These things happen — but come on, iO, the performances and audiences deserve better.
Through May 31 at iO Theater, 3541 N. Clark St.; tickets are $12 at 773-880-0199 or ioimprov.com/chicago
"All Girl Moby Dick"
As is the case with Herman Melville's 1851 novel on which it is based, "All Girl Moby Dick" doesn't really kick in until Ishmael and Queequeg board the whaling ship Pequod and meet that wack-job extraordinaire, Captain Ahab, played here with a wonderfully unstable, stump-legged, bug-eyed sense of purpose by Amy Harmon.
The atmosphere is briny and thick with discontented souls, served up like a platter of raw oysters, violently shucked.
And yet this may be the most restrained production yet from the Mammals, a company (led by writer-director Bob Fisher) that has shown less disciplined tendencies in the past.
If the storytelling is a tad ponderous and not particularly clear (this unwieldy book has felled many an adapter, including the dull recent miniseries starring William Hurt), there's no complaint with the way Fisher (working with co-writer Sara Gorsky) frames everything so that the focus is on the performances and the performances alone.
What to make of the riot grrrl casting?
They bash around on a set from John Wilson that simultaneously resembles a ship's deck and the rib cage of a heavy whale, but the presence of women in this traditionally all-male world does not, in fact, splinter open unforeseen mysteries and metaphors buried within the tale.
And so one is left to simply admire these actors on their own terms, whether it is Christy Arington as the quintessential salty dog Stubb or Liz Chase's witty and earthy turn as the harpooner Queequeg.
Erin Orr does much of the heavy lifting as Ishmael, and when she utters that evocative line about the "damp, drizzly November in my soul; when I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses ... then I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can," you buy the vaguely comedic existential angst hook, line and sinker.
Through May 26 at Zoo Studios, 4001 N. Ravenswood Ave.; tickets are $20 at 866-593-4614 or chicagomammals.com
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