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(ENS) WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, has denied California's request to impose greenhouse gas emissions limits on motor vehicles. It is the first time the EPA has ever denied a waiver request under the Clean Air Act, and California officials are already preparing their lawsuit.
California sought a waiver of federal standards as the state is entitled to do under the Clean Air Act so that the state could adopt stricter standards.
California's law requires a 30 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions standards from motor vehicles by 2016, while the federal government does not regulate greenhouse gas emissions at all.
The denial will trigger a lawsuit against the EPA, said California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today.
"There is absolutely no legal justification for the Bush administration to deny this request," he said. "Governor [Arnold] Schwarzenegger and I are preparing to sue at the earliest possible moment."
Sixteen other states -- Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, Washington -- have adopted, or are in the process of adopting California's emissions standards. Approval of California's waiver would have meant that other states get approval automatically.
In rejecting California's request, EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson said the energy bill signed into law by President Bush today is "a national solution" that is better than a "confusing patchwork of state rules -- to reduce America's climate footprint from vehicles."
But the Energy Independence and Security Act does not regulate greenhouse gas emissions, although it does mandate a fuel economy standard of 35 miles per gallon in the year 2020.
The two policies differ in that the California Clean Cars Program would begin with model year 2009, a decade before the 35 miles per gallon standard in the energy bill kicks in.
"It is completely absurd to assert that California does not have a compelling need to fight global warming by curbing greenhouse gas emissions from cars," said Brown.
State and local clean air officials today decried EPA's denial of California's request for a waiver. Executive Director of the National Association of Clean Air Agencies Bill Becker said, "By refusing to grant California's waiver request for its new motor vehicle standards to control greenhouse gas emissions, the Administration has ignored the clear and very limited statutory criteria upon which this decision was to be based. Instead, it has issued a verdict that is legally and technically unjustified and indefensible."
Environmentalists are angry. Fred Krupp, president of the nonprofit Environmental Defense, called the denial "outrageous."
"Doing nothing about global warming is bad enough -- but going out of your way to block the leaders who are trying to solve this is an outrage," said Krupp, adding that he will be working "with the rest of the environmental community to explore all legal avenues to fight this decision."
The nonprofit Environment California said the EPA "has chosen to ignore the science behind global warming and the Clean Air Act and bowed to political pressure from automobile industry and their friends in the White House."
"While President Bush signed into law fuel economy standards today, the two policies are not comparable with regards to global warming pollution reductions by 2020," Environment California said in a statement.
"In fact, California will emit three times more global warming pollution per year by 2020 under the fuel economy standards signed into law today by President Bush, than it would have under the Clean Cars Program had the waiver been granted," the organization said.
David Doniger, Climate Center policy director with the Natural Resources Defense Council, said denial of the waiver will be damaging to the climate.
"The California standards are the single most effective step yet taken in the United States to curb global warming," he said. "By blocking the California standards, the administration has stuck a thumb in the eye of governors from both red and blue states who have led the way on global warming by adopting these landmark rules."
"Their right to do so has been affirmed by three federal court decisions this year, including the Supreme Court's landmark ruling that carbon dioxide is an air pollutant, just like any other," Doniger said. "The new energy law signed by the president today explicitly preserves this Clean Air Act authority."
EPA Administrator Johnson argues that California's current waiver request is "distinct from all prior requests" because previous requests "covered pollutants that predominantly impacted local and regional air quality. Greenhouse gases are fundamentally global in nature," said Johnson.
"These gases contribute to the challenge of global climate change affecting every state in the union," Johnson said. "Therefore, according to the criteria in section 209 of the Clean Air Act, EPA did not find that separate California standards are needed to "meet compelling and extraordinary conditions."
But Attorney General Brown argues that California does face compelling and extraordinary conditions.
There are 32 million registered vehicles in California, twice the number of any other state and cars generate 20 percent of all human-made carbon dioxide emissions in the United States, and at least 30 percent of such emissions in California," Brown said.
"If California's landmark global warming law -- and the corresponding 30 percent improvement in emissions standards -- were adopted nationally," he said, "the United States could cut annual oil imports by $100 billion, at $50 per barrel." Today, the price of oil hovers around $90 per barrel.
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Theater arts give children a venue to express their imagination and creativity, improve communication skills, gain self-confidence and learn teamwork. They also give them a tremendous sense of pride as they experience being part of the magic created onstage.
Theater arts give children a venue to express their imagination and creativity, improve communication skills, gain self-confidence and learn teamwork. They also give them a tremendous sense of pride as they experience being part of the magic created onstage.
Shawnee Playhouse summer camps help children discover many aspects of theater through stage movement, dance, music, art, creative games, role-play and scene study of pro shows being staged this summer. Although it's March, sign-ups are under way and counselors are being evaluated.
"We have five camps this summer — two 'Beauty and the Beast,' two 'King and I' and one 'Emperor's New Clothes' — all of which will give the campers not only the experience of working with the performers in these shows, but also ultimately the experience of performing in one performance of the show that correlates with the camp," said Midge McClosky, playhouse executive director.
"This opportunity allows the children to be part of an established show, to perform alongside accomplished performers and to really get a feel for what it is like to be an actor.
"Each week the campers will get to watch theater, learn about theater and do theater. We have a blast playing theater games, working on techniques and having fun. If you know someone who is interested in the camps, please encourage them to register early. We always have a wait list for our camps."
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Shawnee Playhouse is seeking a college student to intern this summer as a camp counselor. The intern will assist in developing and implementing the theater camp program for youths in grades K-9.
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What prevents young cops from training to win?
By Lt. Jim Glennon, Lombard, IL (ret.)
Apathy, denial, procrastination, and fear...
Having spent almost 30 years in law enforcement I have accumulated enough time to be classified as "seasoned." I don't really mind the seasoned moniker but I hate being in any group where the word old is the main descriptive. I try not to act old — though my kids would argue that point and would tell you that I look for any excuse to teach life lessons and begin a lot of sentences with the phrase: "Damn kids."
I work out, eat fairly well, am on the move all the time, constantly stay abreast of the latest law enforcement realities, read incessantly, and I try to think "future" rather than "past." But I really hate being considered an old guy because somehow my experiences may be viewed to be irrelevant — somehow brushed aside as issues of a bygone era — even as I can't help but notice some of the questionable trends of the younger generation.
I know, I know, you younger people don't care what I think. You don't want to hear anything negative about your... tendencies. You're more sophisticated than us old guys — more culturally, socially, and intellectually aware. You surf, you e-mail, you 'Google' and 'Facebook' and 'Twitter.' You are comfortable with technology, have many more acquaintances than you'll ever need, know how to find vital information, download useless information, and you are really good at navigating around the menu-driven world.
But there are some downsides to your current state of affairs. As I continue however, understand that what follows is admittedly a list of theoretical generalizations. If you don't think they describe you accurately, well they probably don't, simple as that. But, those born after 1980 tend to — like all generations — have their own particular traits. Here are a few:
• You like orders, rules, guidelines, and menus — you're more comfortable with black and white answers and work really well (and are very creative) within the established lines
• Your feelings are easily hurt and you don't know how to end relationships because there is no reason to end them because there are about a "Gazillion" ways to stay in touch
• You're not comfortable dealing with confrontation because you've never had to — there were always guidelines, rules, referees, umpires, and parents who stepped in to resolve conflict before anyone's fragile psyche was bruised
• Everyone is equal because winning and losing was deemphasized — you tried, therefore you succeeded — no one ever really lost and everybody got a trophy just for showing up
• The 24/7, 360-degree media made you skeptical because you were privy to unbelievable levels of scamming, cheating, lying, and exploitation by those in leadership positions
• You sometimes can't differentiate between the famous, the insignificant, the essential, and the important since the plight of the Bachelor and the Survivor were presented as vital outcomes and monumental moments in history
• You won't risk answering a phone that doesn't have caller ID ("Why would I answer it Dad, if I don't know who it is?") and you text, text, text, text, to the point of anti-social behavior (I read that people under 30 prefer to use e-mails and texting to break up with romantic partners in electronic "Dear John" letters)
• Most of you have never been in a real fight and have no concept of true violence
• And if you need training that may save your life, someone else will send you and someone else should pay for it
Every generation has its pros and cons, I fully recognize that. I could write volumes about the rigidness of the generations that have gone before. But what has spurred me to write this particular article is a trend I have noticed more and more lately, and it involves that last bullet point: Officer Safety. Staying Alive.
I am honored to be one of five Instructors for the Calibre Press Street Survival Seminar. Without too much bias I think the program is one of the best in the world. This view is supported by roughly 98 percent of the approximately 10,000 attendees of the program each year. The standard quote we get on our evaluations is a variation of:
"Every law enforcement officer in the country should attend this seminar."
The reason the Seminar is so good has less to do with the five instructors and more to do with the fact that the two days is packed with the experiences of officers from all over the country over a period of close to 30 years. I can say without hesitation and without qualification that the Seminar saves lives.
At these Seminars I have had the opportunity to meet officers from all corners of the country with experience that ranges from one day on the job to 55 years. To my dismay in the past six or seven years I have consistently encountered particular mindsets and excuses about taking personal responsibility when it comes to dealing with the reality of violence and learning the skills necessary to win on the street.
Apathy — Many younger officers (though this certainly applies to cops in every generation) have told me that they have colleagues who have no interest in attending any training that they are not assigned to by administrators and not paid for by their department. "If they think it is important then they'll send me and pay for it" is a prevailing mindset for far too many, and increasingly so in this new millennium.
Denial — "It'll never happen to me." Officers tell me that they have friends who say things like this all the time. I even wrote a column about it last year after a disturbing conversation with a young officer from a small town in Montana. The article was titled: No one on my beat will try to kill me, I know them all and they like me and it generated more e-mails and emotional comments than anything else I've ever written.
Procrastination — "I finally got tired of waiting for my buddy to go with me or my department to make a decision so I signed up myself." This is another common comment we hear at the Seminars. As one officer (an obvious exception to this tendency toward procrastination) recently said, "Putting off this training isn't putting off the guy who may want to kill me tomorrow. I finally figured out that my life is mine. My performance is up to me. Coming here is the smartest thing I've done in my career."
Fear — There are two fears that must be addressed here. The first comes from the line level officers and I've heard it dozens of times: "If my department finds out I came here I'll be in trouble." The first time I heard this I approached our Senior Instructor Dave Smith, who in his subsequent explanation revealed fear number two. "Yeah, there are some departments, and particularly some supervisors, who are scared of us. They are afraid that their officers will learn something not under their control. So not only do they not send their guys, they forbid them from attending even on their own dime."
I'll address both of these fears more in depth in a future article, but as we say in our Peak Performance block during the Seminar: Your safety is your responsibility.
So learn your craft, get your head out of the sand, don't let apathy, denial, procrastination, and fear override your need to recognize the real dangers inherent in your chosen profession. You ain't making widgets. You're not selling insurance. Accept that while treating people with dignity and respect is an absolute, it is no more of an absolute than your life being in your own hands every second you are on the job. Make safety a top priority. Don't wait for others to make it more important than you do. It has to be on top of your list. Live it. Practice it. Demand realistic training. Expand your horizons and seek ideas and principles that exist outside of your own cultural comfort zone.
Train to Win! Which, by the way, is the entire point of the Seminar.


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Remember, learning how to raise a child with a disability is a process, not an event. You may need time to understand the demands and challenges of raising a child with a disability. At first you may have difficulty accepting that your child's life may be different from what you planned and expected.
Despite the difficulties, raising a child with a disability can bring many blessings to your life. Drawing close to your Heavenly Father in prayer can help you find comfort and peace. The sacrifices you make for your child can bring spiritual blessings into your family. Some fathers who are raising a child with a disability report that the experience strengthened their ability to be a good father.1
- Believe in the importance of the family in God's divine plan. Understanding God's plan of happiness can help you look beyond mortal disability. A mortal body, even with a disability, is part of your child's eternal progression. God has a plan for your family's happiness here as well as in the eternities.
- Believe in an eternal relationship with your child. This belief will help you build a loving bond.
- Believe in a commitment to fatherhood as a sacred responsibility. Fatherhood is a divine calling. Live worthy of temple covenants and provide leadership in helping family members understand and accept the child's disability. Doing so can strengthen your role as spiritual leader in the home. Use the priesthood to bless your child.
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- Talk with other members of your family to help them understand your child. Your wife and other children in the family can benefit from your support as you work together to help the child with a disability.
- Do not punish or blame yourself or others for the child's disability. Anger and bitterness drive the Spirit from us (see 3 Nephi 11:29–30).
- Exercise your faith as you seek answers to your questions. Trust that Heavenly Father loves you and your child.
- Remember to take time to strengthen yourself and your marriage.
- Keep your family balanced.
- See David C. Dollahite, "Fathering for Eternity: Generative Spirituality in Latter-day Saint Fathers of Children with Special Needs," Review of Religious Research [2003], 44[3], 237–251


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One-on-One with Sylvia Vázquez-O'Shaughnessy
I chatted briefly with Sylvia Vázquez-O'Shaughnessy, facilitator for TPAN's support group for HIV positive women, following a recent Chicago HIV Services Planning meeting. Day and night, good health or bad, Sylvia's always there for her clients. She's a dynamo, a powerhouse, and sometimes a holy terror. In every sense of the word, Sylvia's a patient advocate. I managed to get Sylvia to sit still for a bit just as she was preparing to visit with her parents in Puerto Rico -- with her new husband Arthur -- for a well deserved rest.
On Treatment Activism
"I'm an activist," Sylvia proudly proclaims. "I love putting my foot up somebody's ass for someone else." When she's not busy with her full-time responsibilities as a program and support group coordinator with TPAN, Sylvia serves as a member of the HIV Positive Action Coalition (HIV-PAC) and on the HIV Services Planning Council. "This is HIV positive people working for other HIV people, representing and advocating for them."
"Sometimes I don't think I make sense. I don't think that people understand, because I get so frustrated, I just want to get it all out." Not one to bite her tongue, she maintains, "I'm not afraid to ask questions until I fully understand what the situation is. Wait a minute. Stop. I don't understand." Because of her sheer forcefulness, sometimes people get the wrong impression of Sylvia. "I think people hate me and people love me. I see it. The clients and people I work closely with appreciate the advocacy work I do. I just do what I love doing. Helping."
On HIV Stigma
Her advocacy work began in 1991. "I was really a big mouth, with picket signs and everything." However, she pulled back from HIV/AIDS activity in part because of the stigma attached to HIV and the toll it took on her previous marriage. "I was married to a man who didn't want everyone to know I was HIV positive. And he didn't want people to assume he was positive, because he wasn't," she states. "He was in the penitentiary . . . and in the penitentiary if you're HIV they outcast you. He didn't want to have to go through that. But when that marriage dissolved, I was back full force, doing what I like to do."
On Miseducation and Cultural Barriers to Understanding HIV
HIV became a permanent fixture in Sylvia's life around the end of 1983. Her first husband had been sick on and off for months. "I got tired and frustrated with him going in and out . . . and there was never a diagnosis. Well, it wasn't that there wasn't a diagnosis, it was the fact that he wasn't telling me. He had full blown AIDS."
She continues, "It wasn't that he didn't tell me. But I don't think he understood the doctors, because he spoke Spanish." Sylvia and her husband both understood English at the time, but didn't understand the seriousness of his illness.
"I had just had [my last child]," she explains, and her husband told her he had cancer. "Well, he did have cancer," she remembers. "He had Kaposi sarcoma." The doctor eventually pulled Sylvia to the side and advised her that her husband had Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
But for a young Latina, who at the time read at a third grade level, the explanation was meaningless. Sylvia adds, "She told me that gay men and intravenous drug users get it [AIDS]. And your husband is both . . . bisexual and an IV-drug user."
"I couldn't understand [when] she told me that I needed to get tested. I said, 'Why? I'm not gay. I don't use drugs.' I didn't understand how me having sex with my husband would make me ill, when he was the one shooting up drugs and was bisexual."
The ability to read is often taken for granted in HIV prevention campaigns, but Sylvia was basically illiterate until the age of 27. "Reading is still tough for me," she adds.
On Her Experience with Testing for HIV
"I was sitting down in the [city clinic]. I don't know if he was a nurse, counselor or a doctor. I don't know what the hell he was. He never introduced himself."
What she remembers distinctly were those three little words: "You have AIDS." She continues, "Wow, I got AIDS and my husband has this big thing -- Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome." Sylvia still hadn't made the connection between AIDS and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Sylvia (and I) can chuckle about it today, but it wasn't funny to her some 16 years ago.
In a very serious tone she tells me the counselor said, "'You're gonna die. Do you know that?'" And near tears, Sylvia adds, "I nodded my head. I never opened my mouth to say a word. Then he asked if I had any questions. What the hell kind of questions was I going to ask? You'll telling me I'm gonna die. I don't know what the hell is going on. All I'm thinking about is my babies . . . in an orphanage. Then he said, 'Have a good day.' That was it."
"I got up, walked out the room, and closed the door behind me. My whole world collapsed."
On the Road to Self-Empowerment
Like many newly diagnosed individuals, Sylvia's path to self-empowerment was frightening, frustrating, and not without detours. First, she had to deal with having her infant tested for HIV. "I didn't want to hear that. But we did test him, and they told me he was positive." Once that bomb was dropped, Sylvia withdrew from all medical advice. As she explains, "I didn't need to go to the doctor anymore. I was gonna go home and take care of my baby."
When her child entered school, his condition was reported to his teacher, who told the principal, who informed the school nurse. The next thing Sylvia knew, a freaked out nurse was at her door. "She was telling me that [my child] chews on his pencil and there's saliva all over the place. And I looked at her and my daughter. It was like, 'What is her problem?' We already knew we couldn't get it [HIV] from saliva. We had some clue."
Sylvia finally found a doctor she felt comfortable with, and told him she had AIDS. This doctor helped her to understand how HIV was transmitted, but more importantly how to take care of herself and her children.
With great hesitation, Sylvia took her son back to the hospital for additional tests. "I didn't want to hear what I was going to hear again. So when we got his results and they told me he was negative, I said, 'No, no, no. You've got the wrong paper.'"
"That's when they explained to me about how a child is born with the mother's anti-bodies and then he builds his own immune system. And that's when I grew furious. And that's when I started to learn about this disease. And that's when I sat my kids down and said, 'I'll be damned. I'm gonna teach these people about this disease.' I told them that I was going to start talking about this disease and kids weren't going to want to play with them because their parents are gonna to say, 'No, they're the family with AIDS.'"
On Support Networks
"My kids gave me support, since they were little. Always. They said go mom. They were the only ones who could have stopped me from doing what I do. From that point on I became a sponge -- observing and learning." Sylvia has a solid support network -- her children, her husband, her family, and her sister, Enid Vázquez.
Sylvia maintains that she's "still learning a lot," and sometimes she gets scared. "A lot of things change [in regards to therapy], but a lot of things haven't [in taking care of yourself].
"Usually clients come to me with concerns about a bad interaction with someone. Or they tell me something that was told to them, which was totally inaccurate. What I say is that you have to ask questions. The only dumb question is the one you don't ask. If you feel that what someone is telling you is not right . . . then ask someone else. You have to take care of yourself."
On Women and HIV Treatment
"Women in particular . . . are raised to believe that the husband and children come first. My generation and before, the husband handles everything, the wife takes care of the kids. Everything comes before the woman's health. Doesn't matter if you're Asian, African-American or Caucasian . . . it's the same. Prevention and treatment messages go in one ear and out the other. Educating women is my primary concern."
"Women have a lot of strength, but don't get recognized for that . . . holding down a home, working and raising kids. We don't even get credit for that. I have to pay rent, clothe the kids and put food on the table. Because we don't take credit, because society doesn't really value the work of women, we don't see the value in it. I tell women, 'take care of yourself, stay strong, and speak up.'"
On Inner Peace
"I want people to see that I'm doing this because . . . I found God from within. It's really difficult to describe everything that has happened to me, everything I've been through . . . people think I'm crazy. But when I learned to love Sylvia unconditionally, and learned to accept myself as I am . . . I was able to give to others and love people for who they are. Women need to remember to concentrate on themselves, but that's difficult thing for a woman to do when she has other responsibilities. But we're fighters. We're survivors." Indeed.


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Innovating American English Outreach in Collaboration with the Private Sector
By John Mark King on April 24, 2017
Success in teaching English depends a great deal on our ability to tap into advances in learning and technology. As we recently marked English Language Day, an opportunity to understand English's importance as a world language, we look at how a team of English language instructors spearheaded an innovative social media-based teacher training project to crowdsource best practices for English learners.
The idea was born last fall, when the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs hosted a conference for more than 30 experts from U.S. universities and educational technology (EdTech) companies to improve English language teaching and expand markets internationally. One of the topics discussed was the American English E-Teacher program, an initiative that helps the State Department partner with educational institutions and private companies to develop and deliver online training and collaboration tools.
To inform the development of the American English E-Teacher platform, a team of educators and administrators from the University of Pennsylvania, Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) International Association, the University of Calgary, and Westcliff University crowdsourced advice from teachers around the world. The team created short videos with simple questions about teaching, and posed them to the American English Facebook audience of English language professionals. The group presented their project and its results at this year's TESOL International Convention in Seattle. TESOL is the world's largest professional organization for teachers of English.
"I truly enjoyed watching the video clips and reading the advice of all the teachers around the world," said group member Sarah Sahr, Director of Professional Learning & Research at TESOL International Association. "I'm thrilled that so many people were willing to put themselves out there and share advice."
Jen Hirashiki, TESOL Program Chair at Westcliff University and another member of the project team, also had positive feedback about her experience. She acknowledged, "Hearing the questions in each video definitely reinforced the idea that teachers are part of a larger teaching community and are united in the struggles they face and the benefits of colleague collaboration."
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If you're trying to resist temptation—whether that temptation is in the form of a bad boy (who you know is going to be a heartbreaker, but you're also pretty sure he'll be a bed-breaker too) or a pair of expensive shoes or a cupcake—you'll want to know about a new study just conducted at Northwestern University. Researchers found that the best way to avoid giving into temptation is to not think about what's tempting you.
It sounds a little too simple (it also sounds like it needs to be filed under #duh), but listen to this: A lot of experts previously thought that if you're trying to resist something, you should think—about why it's a bad idea and about why you should say no to it. And then your logical side would take over, win out, and convince your impulsive side to not drop $375 on those shoes.
One of the authors of the study, Loran Nordgren, explained that old way of thinking like this: "If we think of the reason versus passion struggle, we tend to think [of] the angel on one shoulder and the devil on the other. Your thoughts—the angel—are in the right place, but you give into temptation—the devil." But this new research claims that putting mental energy into the decision doesn't do any good. Nordgren says that thinking "corrupts the cognitive processes that would help you interrupt that [impulsive] behavior." So essentially, when you think too much about it, "you have the devil on both shoulders," and it's more likely that using your rational brain will make you succumb to your craving.
So the way we see it, you need to distract yourself when temptation strikes. If your coworker put out a bunch of sugary snacks in the pantry, go on Facebook and look at the most recent photos added. Or if you're trying to keep yourself from texting some bad boy, distract yourself by going for a run or giving yourself a mani (you can't text during either of those activities).
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An armed man allegedly ran off with a filled bank deposit bag at a little bank branch Tuesday afternoon.
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With the guest lineup of World Net Daily's Taking America Back 2010 national conference, it was no surprise that birtherism and bigotry were prevalent throughout the convention. After all, WND's Joseph Farah and Jerome Corsi are perhaps most (in)famous for their repeated birther attacks against President Obama.
Displaying shocking ignorance of his own publication, Farah kicked off WND's first national convention by asking if "anyone at WorldNetDaily ever asserted" that President Obama "is foreign-born." We can. It turns out that one of WND's commentators, Craige McMillan, has referred to President Obama as an "illegal alien" in at least three separate posts on WorldNetDaily's website. Despite Farah's suggestion that WorldNetDaily held itself above the tired questions about President Obama's citizenship, Jerome Corsi was quick to jump on the case.
Questioning the president's citizenship, and thus his eligibility as president, was not the only way speakers at WND's convention attacked Obama. Speaker after speaker attacked Obama's faith as a Christian. Jerome Corsi alternatively claimed that Obama "doesn't believe in God" and that he's a Muslim, Floyd Brown claimed that Obama "hates Christianity" and "is a Muslim," while Aaron Klein said that the president "has a certain affinity toward Islam."
Other attacks against Obama included the zombie lie that Obama supported "infanticide" and an absurd demand by Corsi that Obama "come out and renounce Lucifer." Floyd Brown also stated that the "most important step" for the next session of Congress is to impeach President Obama.
Anti-gay bigotry was also out in force at the Taking America Back convention. WorldNetDaily founder, editor, and CEO Joseph Farah suggested gay marriage would lead to "sexual anarchy" and claimed that opposing gay marriage was akin to opposing "sexual offenses" such as "polygamy, incest, statutory rape, child pornography, molestation, [and] prostitution." Noted anti-gay bigot Robert Knight similarly compared a gay marriage ban to bans on polygamy and incest. However, Jerome Corsi refused to be outdone in this vein, going so far as to link same-sex marriage to pedophilia and bestiality.*
Speakers at the convention were also, to put it mildly, displeased with Imam Rauf's proposal to build an Islamic community center in Manhattan to serve an existing Muslim community as a place for worship and community. After nine months of right-wing anti-Muslim bigotry and incidents of violence against mosque sites nationwide, WND's speakers decided to rachet up the rhetoric against the Islamic community center by declaring that its intention is to promote further attacks by Muslims against America. Aaron Klein flatly stated that "the individuals behind" the Islamic community center in Manhattan don't "have peaceful intentions." As well, WND speaker William Murray said that the purpose of the community center is to host "raiders" to "do even more damage" in America.
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The CCRI Players' production of "The Receptionist," an office comedy with a dark side and a timely message, is in the running for national honors. The CCRI students were selected to restage their play in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) Region 1 competition, beating out shows performed all over New England and New York.
They will perform in Hyannis, Mass. In the black box theatre of Cape Cod Community College (the host school of the festival), on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, 2013 at 1:00 pm for a chance to go on to the KCACTF National Festival. Before they leave, they will stage two special encore performances of "The Receptionist" at CCRI's Flanagan Campus on Jan. 26 at 2:00 and 7:30 p.m. Admission costs $10 and will help fund the students' trip to the festival.
"This is as if CCRI is in the Sweet 16 looking to go to the Final Four," said CCRI Assistant Performing Arts Professor Luke Sutherland, who directed "The Receptionist."
He added that only five shows were picked to go to the Regional Festival in Hyannis out of about 60 that were in the running.
CCRI has not had this honor in about 20 years, Sutherland said, although individual actors and actresses have been honored for their work more recently.
CCRI Student Erin Archer won the Irene Ryan Acting Audition Award at last year's KCACTF. This year, she plays the lead role in "The Receptionist" (the titular office assistant named Beverly) and has the privilege of competing with her fellow drama students.
"I'm excited that I get to perform in this play one more time with Alex [Rotella], Nick [Viau] and Brittney [Boudreau]," she said. "I love all of them and I'm glad we get to bring this production to the festival and show it to the rest of the region."
Sutherland said that the KCACTF judge who viewed the original run of "The Receptionist" (Oct. 18 to 21, 2012) selected it to advance to the Regional Festival for three reasons: it was a timely selection for the students to perform, it had a strong cast with great performances and it had good set design.
"We have a strong script, a strong cast and crew, and students that are really dedicated," Sutherland said. "That's what it takes."
The CCRI Players will spend four days in Hyannis performing their play, watching the shows of their competitors and attending workshops on acting, set design and more. Only four productions will be chosen out of eight regions to go on to the National Festival in Washington, D.C.
The show they will perform at CCRI before leaving will serve both as an encore for the CCRI community and a chance to rehearse the stringent demands of the theater festival. In Hyannis, the students will have five hours to load in all of their equipment, set up the stage, don their costumes and make-up, perform the play, and leave no trace of it to make room for the next production. The CCRI show will serve as a dry run and their one chance to simulate these conditions.
Both Sutherland and Archer said the show's cast benefitted tremendously from a visit to CCRI last fall by Adam Bock, the award-winning playwright who wrote "The Receptionist." Bock met with the cast and crew and helped them better understand their characters.
"He gave us a lot of insight into what he was feeling while he was writing the play and he helped us to shape a better show," Archer said. "Nothing helps more than talking to the playwright."
She added, "I'm thrilled that we're going to the festival and taking the whole show there. I think it will be wonderful."
The cast includes Providence resident Erin Archer as Beverly Wilkins; Brittany Boudreau of Woonsocket as Lorraine Taylor; and Cranston natives Alexander Rotella as Martin Dart and Nick Viau as Mr. Raymond. Understudy was for Beverly was Kerri Schiff of Providence completing the cast.
For the first time in CCRI Theatre program history, three of four major design elements were created by student designers in the Associate of Fine Arts technical track under the mentorship of Sutherland. Scenic design is provided by Branigan Duguay of Warwick, lighting design by Laura Ducharm of Woonsocket and sound design by Kaisey Caputo of Johnston. Makeup is by Krystal Terilli of West Warwick. Professor Jeffery Butterworth designed costumes.
CCRI Theatre students and faculty had a solid showing in their annual pilgrimage to the KCACTF Region I Festival 44 in Fitchburg, MA. Four teams of CCRI actors competed in the Irene Ryan acting competition at the festival this year. The nominees were 2011 Irene Ryan winner Erin Archer(Cephalopod), Laura Minadeo(Various Kinds Of Truth), Sam Pike(Dracula), and Alexander Rotella(tick, tick...BOOM!). Edward Warren(CCRI '12) a Performance Track graduate, was selected to perform in Searchers, one of the eight featured, student written, ten minute one act plays. Warren was directed by Linda Murphy Sutherland (CCRI '91), Associate Director of Academic Programs for Emerson College's Department of Professional Studies.
Technical Track major Branigan Duguay was invited to work as a KCACTF Region I technical scholarship support crew, under the technical direction of James Dougherty of the University of Vermont, in the Dukakis Center for the duration of the festival. In addition to this honor, Duguay won a Certificate of Merit in the Tech Olympics for "Fastest & Most Accurate Prop Table Assembly."
Assistant Professor Ted Clement (CCRI '98), has been CCRI's Irene Ryan acting coach for five years. This year he served his second year as Hospitality Coordinator at the festival. In the fall of 2011, Clement was appointed Region I Respondents Chair, and as of this January, has begun a three year term on the Region I Play Selection Team, the team that selects and invites the best college/university productions to be presented at the regional festival.
After a three year term as Vice Co-Chair, Assistant Professor Luke Sutherland completed his first year as Region I Co-Chair of Design, Technology and Management. Prior to the Region I festival, he traveled to Ames, Iowa, in Region V, as a KCACTF National Design, Technology and Management Respondent. He critiqued and responded to the KCACTF Region V student design entries hosted by Iowa State University. At the Region V festival, Professor Sutherland presented a two-part workshop for scenic design students and faculty titled "Developing Your Scenic Design with a Thumbnail Model."
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The members of Jackson Shrine Club would like to thank Brad Munn and his staff at the Kickstand. Brad and his staff have helped the Shriners raise more than $30,000 during the past three years for Shriners Hospital for Children in Greenville. We would also like to thank the merchants in Lancaster County for their continued support.
We will have our 19th annual Memorial Day program at 3 p.m. today at Lancaster Memorial Park.
We ask our community members to join us in remembrance of those who have given so much to assure all our freedoms and now rest in cemeteries throughout this county and South Carolina. We remember them all.
If this were the wild, wild West, we would call him trigger-happy
Indian Land residents are paying up to 17 cents more per gallon for gas than folks in Lancaster, Fort Mill (Valero charges $2.44), Rock Hill and even Tega Cay.
When you ask the business owners at the S.C. 160/U.S. 521 and Marvin Road and Doby's Bridge intersections why, they say to attract North Carolina customers.
They don't reduce prices to equal the other South Carolina communities. They only want to entice the North Carolina folks for profits while fleecing local residents. I would surmise that many of the South Carolina residents do not even know it.
Jaylen Jackson, my 3-year-old granddaughter, was killed in a tragic way. It has been a little more than a month since she was shot while sitting in her car seat. She touched so many hearts. But I found out there are some rude people in this world who are trying to make a profit off my grandbaby's death.
Dear fellow citizens of Lancaster County:
I am humbly writing and seeking forgiveness from you all for being one who has committed the horrible act of criminal domestic violence in the past. It's a terrible crime that destroys the very fabric of a family unit.
You hear it over and over: It is vital to our future and well-being to be counted every 10 years.
Although there has been little consistency over time, the results have always determined the number of congressmen each state is entitled to.
On May 7 and 8, the city of Lancaster celebrated community and the arrival of Spring with the first Red Rose Festival. Citizens and visitors enjoyed top entertainment on two stages, arts and craft vendors, kids activities, great food and a Koss Motorsports car show. Because of the foresight of our City Council, the festival provided a boost in our economy as well as community spirit.
In reading Rudy Schmidt's May 9 letter, "Conservatives are now moving again," my first thought was that we've been down this road before.
The last time he "enlightened" us with his revisionest history I attempted to point out the historical facts. Apparently he felt that they would get in the way of his opinion. Sir, you are entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts.
Time is better spent in the library than with the entertainers on Fox News or talk radio.
First of all, I'd like to thank God for his many blessings that he has bestowed upon me. I am also thankful to him for the opportunity to meet with some of the leaders, pastors, evangelists and ministers of the Lancaster County community.
The recent violence and crime in the community has me concerned, not only as a citizen, but as a father who cares for all children, not just my own.
I would like to thank the lady in front of me at Chick-Fil-A about 8 on Thursday morning. You paid for my breakfast, but you did much more than that. You reminded me that there are caring, generous people in Lancaster. What you did was a blessing and it carried through my whole day – because of your generosity. I am going to return the gift by doing the same gesture for someone else.
Patricia Threatt
Are you perfect? If you think you are perfect, try walking on water. I'm not perfect. I've made lots of mistakes and still have a lot to learn. The only way I can go from day to day is with God by my side to help guide me along the way. I don't know anyone who hasn't said or done something they are sorry for. I'm glad God gives us second chances to right our wrongs.
I want to express my gratitude to the community of Lancaster for showing such wonderful support to the Lancaster Area Literacy Cooperative (LALC) during the Red Rose Festival. LALC hosted several events in conjunction with the festival and the success of each was due to the help of the community.
The results far exceeded my expectations. Thank you to all of the runners and walkers, who came out to participate in the 5K Race for Literacy.
I read the recent letter written by Gil Small, chairman of the Lancaster County Democratic Party. It sounded like he was having a party all his own. Mr. Small thinks that all Republicans are not good neighbors or friends, like the Democrats are. He also states that the Democrats go to church and send their children to Lancaster county public schools. I guess us Republicans are all heathens and uneducated.
Maybe I'm looking at things from a different perspective, but is Continental Tire really donating $35,000 to the Lancaster County School District? Did Continental Tire really donate $65,000 worth of tires to Lancaster County's law enforcement? Or is Continental Tire using Lancaster County politicians for some sort of free publicity and free advertising?
The company was allotted more than $500,000 in state and Lancaster County incentives (corporate welfare), including tax credits for job creation for moving its headquarters to Lancaster County.
I think we should step back and take a deep breath before getting all excited about the Haile Gold Mine.
The process of mining is invasive, extractive and destructive, and the mine is not going to yield much for the community when compared to the benefits others will obtain.
Hello, it's me. I'm your local census enumerator. Yes, I left that little note that I had been by, trying to reach you. My job is simply to make sure that you and your household have been counted in the 2010 Census.
About 5:35 a.m. on May 14 my husband started having chest pains and I had to call 911 and request an ambulance to come to our home.
We live on S.C. 5 just off of U.S. 521. There was a first responder at my door within a few minutes. Within 10 minutes EMS from Indian Land was at my home as well. These people were so professional and showed so much care to my husband and me.
My husband was transported to Rock Hill by them and I felt confident that he was being well taken care of on the way.
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By Cliff Kincaid
July 30, 2012
Obama biographer David Maraniss wrote an 1139-word article, "The Audacity of Doubt," for The Washington Post on Sunday that purported to be a refutation of what some critics have been saying about the President. Maraniss focuses mostly on questions about Obama's religion and place of birth and pretends to have the answers.
However, Maraniss ignored the fact that the critics were right four years ago when they identified communist Frank Marshall Davis as Obama's mentor in Hawaii and the mysterious "Frank" from Obama's book, Dreams from My Father.
Maraniss had written a 10,000-word piece for the Post in 2008, when the information could have made a difference in the campaign, ignoring this critical fact. He told me in an email that he had ignored Davis because he had somehow concluded that Davis didn't have much of an impact on Obama.
The Maraniss piece, "Though Obama Had to Leave to Find Himself, It Is Hawaii That Made His Rise Possible," ran in the August 22, 2008 edition of the Post.
Not content to slink away with egg on his face for ignoring the story of the century, Maraniss spent years working on a book about Obama, thinking the public would regard it as definitive. He is suffering under a delusion.
Since Maraniss wants us to believe he dwells on "facts," here are some inconvenient facts about Davis before we get into the tawdry and highly personal side of the Obama-Davis relationship:


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CIF Football Open Division State Bowl
St. John Bosco vs. De La Salle
Site: StubHub Center, 8 p.m. Saturday
Records: St. John Bosco (14-0); De La Salle (14-0)
There isn't a bigger high school football game in the world this weekend and this could be the biggest clash of styles at any level.
The Braves are the new kids on the block under head coach Jason Negro and won their first football CIF title two weeks ago.
In 2010, Negro took over a 6-4 team that went 1-3 in the Trinity League. After going 5-5 in 2010, the Bosco went 8-4 in 2011 and 3-2 in league and then reached the CIF semifinals after going 8-5 in 2012 with a league title in tow.
Obviously, this overnight celebrity has brought with it some challenges. The one that looms largest this weekend is controlling these relatively new, big game emotions.
"I think it's something we have been working on since January," said Negro of staying composed. "It's not something that all of a sudden this week said, 'OK, we are going to be playing in the open championship in front of 20,000 on Saturday night,' we just now have to go out and finish it and know that it's just a football game."
In the other corner, the Spartans are can act like they've been here before because they have. After 28 section titles, 17 state titles and seven national championships since 1982 under Bob Ladouceur, De La Salle is left to compare this state bowl game to the four consecutive titles it's won since 2009 when the new bowl configuration was introduced.
"They're definitely one of the better teams we've faced from down south, there's no doubt," said Da La Salle first-year head coach Justin Alumbaugh. The long-time assistant has been groomed for this job and his era has gone off without a hitch so far. "(Bosco) is really good up front, I love our line play. Their runner runs hard, our runners have been running hard. Their defense is solid and really aggressive. They play a more aggressive style than we do. Across the board it's going to be a great matchup and a tough game."
The key to the entire night might be the first 12 minutes of the game. Both champions have been able to grind teams down after taking early leads this season, so the team that wins the first quarter will have a huge advantage.
The Bosco defense doesn't want to let the Spartans eat clock with John Velasco and their rushing attack, something that will be easier to do with the lead. The De La Salle defense doesn't want to let the Braves pick them apart with the short passing attack to speedy wideouts like Jaleel Wadood and Shay Fields, something that will be easier to do with the lead.
"If we are able to run against that front we could soften them up to throw it," Negro said. "It's just going to be kind of the same game plan we have had leading up to this. Everyone has tried to take something away, I think we have made pretty good halftime adjustments in games that we have had to and I don't think that is going to be any different on Saturday night."


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1. To Choose Life
This is the aim of the Work That Reconnects: help us take part in the epochal shift from the industrial growth society to a life-sustaining civilization. This Great Turning is happening now on many fronts. Its three main dimensions–(1) holding actions, to save lives and species; (2) alternative structures for a livable future; and (3) shift in consciousness, cognitive, perceptual, and spiritual–are all essential and mutually reinforcing.
2. The Greatest Danger: Apatheia, the Deadening of Mind and Heart
Given the widespread suffering of our time, as well as the dangers confronting us, sorrow arises, and fear and anger. "Pain for our world" is a normal, healthy response; but cultural, political, and psychological factors lead us to repress this pain–at enormous cost. This repression, or psychic numbing, is dispelled through the Work That Reconnects, in particular an experience called 'The Truth Mandala'.
3. The Basic Miracle: Our True Nature and Power
Tremendous resources are at hand to guide and fuel our actions on behalf of life. These gifts of our time include the breakthroughs represented by living systems theory and deep ecology, as well as the resurgence of non-dualistic spirituality. Each in its way helps us come to a new understanding of our power to take part in the self-healing of our world. These are the foundations of the Work That Reconnects.
4. TheWork that Reconnects
The goals and assumptions of this group work are presented here straightforwardly, then evoked in a mythic fashion with the Shambhala prophecy.
5. Guiding Group Work
The work is best done in groups, where people can support, inspire, and learn from each other. The keys to effective facilitation of groups are offered. Guidance ranges from forming intention and dealing with heavy emotions, to the nuts and bolts of planning a workshop and sustaining its coherence and flow.
6. Affirmation: Coming from Gratitude
This is the first stage of the group's work. Why is gratitude essential at the outset, as well as being implicit throughout the work? We discuss its primal role, and offer simple, brief ways for eliciting it.
7. Despair Work: Owning and Honoring Our Pain for the World
This second and crucial stage is also the most politically subversive; here group members experience, express, and explore what mainstream culture persistently denies: our inner responses to the suffering in our world. Methods for despair work range from simple sentence completion exercises to ritual forms, like the Truth Mandala, which are structured to allow and contain intense emotion.
8. The Shift: Seeing with New Eyes
The third stage of the work, described in chapters 9 and 10 as well, brings forward our radical inter-connectedness, the source of our capacity to suffer with our world. Here new paradigm thinking plays an important role; so suggestions for presenting "brain food" to the group are offered, along with lively exercises like the Systems Game and quieter ones like Widening Circles.
9. Deep Time: Reconnecting with Past and Future Generations
Our inter-connectedness in the web of life extends through time as well as space. Deep Time work helps us break out of our culture's frenzied and atomizing experience of time, and reclaim a strong, conscious relationship with those who have gone before and those to come after us. Methods range from simple letter-writing to more complex processes, like Harvesting the Gifts of the Ancestors and the Double Circle with the seventh generation.
10. The Council of All Beings: Rejoining the Natural World
It is also our birthright to enjoy an empowering kinship with other species. Deep ecology has long inspired the Work That Reconnects, and here we offer methods particularly designed to take us beyond the anthropocentrism of our culture and dramatize our embeddedness in the web of life. These include such favorites as the Council of All Beings and the Evolutionary Remembering.
11. Going Forth
In this culminating stage of the work, group participants prepare to take the insights and motivation they have gained and apply them in their ongoing lives and home communities. They are helped to clarify the particular projects and roles they feel called to take on in the Great Turning, and also the ways they can continue to support each other after the workshop.
12. Meditations for Coming Back to Life
One workshop, or even several, is insufficient to keep us anchored in the wider sense of identity with Earth and all beings, that we experienced there. From birth we have been conditioned by assumptions underlying the Industrial Growth Society. To de-condition ourselves, we need ongoing practices–and these are available to us now from the many non-dualistic spiritual traditions re-emerging in our time. Seven, found especially useful in the work, are given here in full. From the Web of Life to the Gaia Meditation, and the Great Ball of Merit, they are suitable for shared practice at almost any stage of a workshop.


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Contiki is an open source operating system for the Internet of Things. Contiki connects tiny low-cost, low-power microcontrollers to the Internet. Contiki is a powerful toolbox for building complex wireless systems.
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Contiki provides powerful low-power Internet communication. Contiki supports fully standard IPv6 and IPv4, along with the recent low-power wireless standards: 6lowpan, RPL, CoAP. With Contiki's ContikiMAC and sleepy routers, even wireless routers can be battery-operated.
With Contiki, development is easy and fast: Contiki applications are written in standard C, with the Cooja simulator Contiki networks can be emulated before burned into hardware, and Instant Contiki provides an entire development environment in a single download.
Contiki runs on a range of low-power wireless devices, many of which can be easily purchased online.
Contiki is developed by a world-wide team of developers with contributions from Atmel, Cisco, ETH, Redwire LLC, SAP, Thingsquare, and many others, led by Adam Dunkels of Thingsquare.
Contiki is open source software: Contiki can be freely used both in commercial and non-commercial systems and the full source code is available.
Contiki provides community support through the Contiki developer community.
Contiki is designed for tiny systems, having only a few
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Contiki provides a full IP network stack, with standard IP protocols such as UDP, TCP, and HTTP, in addition to the new low-power standards like 6lowpan, RPL, and CoAP. The Contiki IPv6 stack, developed by and contributed to Contiki by Cisco, is fully certified under the IPv6 Ready Logo program.
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Contiki devices often make up large wireless networks. Developing and debugging software for such networks is really hard. Cooja, the Contiki network simulator, makes this tremendously easier by providing a simulation environment that allows developers to both see their applications run in large-scale networks or in extreme detail on fully emulated hardware devices.
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In wireless networks, nodes may need to relay messages from others to reach their destination. With Contiki, even relay nodes, so-called routers, can be battery-operated thanks to the ContikiMAC radio duty cycling mechanism which allows them to sleep between each relayed message. Some call this sleeping routers, we call it sleepy routers.
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Contiki runs on a wide range of tiny platforms, ranging from 8051-powered systems-on-a-chip through the MSP430 and the AVR to a variety of ARM devices. There are also a number of more exotic platforms thrown in there for good measure. Read more about Contiki hardware platforms:
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In situations when bandwidth is at a premium or where the full IPv6 networking stack is overkill, Contiki provides a tailored wireless networking stack called Rime. The Rime stack supports simple operations such as sending a message to all neighbors or to a specified neighbor, as well as more complex mechanisms such as network flooding and address-free multi-hop semi-reliable scalable data collection. Everything runs with sleepy routers to save power.
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The Contiki build system makes it easy to compile applications for any of the available Contiki platforms. This makes it easy to try out applications on a range of different platforms. Don't have the hardware available? Use the Cooja simulator to emulate any of the available hardware devices!
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Contiki runs on a range of different hardware platforms and is designed to be easy to port to new hardware.
Contiki is designed to run in small amounts of memory. A typical system with full IPv6 networking with sleepy routers and RPL routing needs less than 10 k RAM and 30 k ROM.
Contiki is designed to use well-known and well-tested standards such as IPv4, IPv6, and HTTP.
No need to install complex compiler tool chains on every development system: simply download and install Instant Contiki.
Contiki is open source, which means that the source is and always will be available. Contiki may be used in both commercial and non-commercial systems without restrictions.
We run nightly regression tests on the Contiki code to make sure that it works as it should.
Contiki is developed by a world-wide community of hardcore experts, many of which are happy to help out on the contiki-developers mailing list.
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29th June 2017
San Francisco intern, Max Reichardt considers the immense responsibilities that come with immense scale.
As many of us are now aware, Facebook recently surpassed 2 billion users, 27% or so of the world population. Milestones aside, what might seem like just a newsworthy statistic is much more than mere spectacle. It serves as a reminder of the burgeoning presence - and growing influence - of social networks in our lives, and in the world at large.
For any company, corporate social responsibility is an important part of marketing, public relations, and simple moral fiber. For a behemoth like Facebook, CSR assumes new meaning; Facebook must consider its massive role in facilitating the communications of over a fourth of the world, let alone ensure they follow simpler elements of CSR like philanthropy or ethical advertising practices.
Ethics, in Facebook's realm, are embodied in their choices relating to what users can see, hear, or post; we still determine what we think, luckily. But there is no shortage of influence regarding that, as well. Facebook faces a unique challenge in how they determine what appears in each user's unique News Feed, whether that news is "fake" or not.
Between conventional accounts for people, groups, and businesses, Facebook's rules are fairly clear-cut. No spam, nothing illegal, nothing pornographic, and restrictions on terror and hate speech. However, what constitutes "hate speech" and Facebook's role in preventing it has proved complex and controversial.
During the 2016 presidential election, criticism of their "Trending Topics" algorithm surfaced. The trending function was not only accused of liberal programming bias, but was also prone to showing users more of the stories that they seemed to like. While the latter is a seemingly harmless oversight - by a poor AI only trying to do its job, mind you - such a model invites confirmation bias, which can restrict the free, open thought and discussion that drives a healthy democratic election.
Facebook has since modified the algorithm, which now gives users a choice between a variety of left- and right-wing publications for fairness' sake. Authenticity and relevancy of content is Facebook's aim for each unique user, though the subjective analysis behind such determinations makes this problem difficult to solve on Facebook's global and governmentally-diverse scale.
As Facebook inevitably and exponentially grows, so do its unique challenges and ethical considerations. Creating a communications platform for a quarter of the world is no small feat, and maintaining it is no easy task, but they must face the challenge they have created - sleep in the bed they made, so to speak. Until this great ethical challenge of our time is solved, the majority of us will likely continue to use the world's largest social network to circulate memes, watch videos of cute animals, and post about our lunches. Bon apetit.
Max Reichardt is an under-graduate at California Polytechnic State Unversity, San Luis Obispo, and is participating in Grayling's summer internship program.
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As we all learn more about Adderall, the ADD medication that gives people without ADD laser-sharp focus and concentration, more questions are emerging.
For starters, we're all learning that, even though it doesn't enhance performance by helping guys run faster or push harder, it provides an unnatural level of mental acuity. Beyond its impact on the day of games, the added focus can help some of the 37 players per team who will get cut before the start of every season learn the playbooks, pay attention during meetings, and otherwise seem to be better students of the game than they really are.
But we're also learning that the drug is used for reasons unrelated to football. As explained by Jorge Castillo of the Newark Star-Ledger, Giants safety Tyler Sash claims he took it in March to combat nerves before events in his hometown celebrating Sash's role in a Super Bowl win.
After getting a prescription from his doctor to help deal with the fact that he'd be expected to speak on Tyler Sash Day (a Saturday) and then when receiving a key to the city (a Sunday), Sash learned on Monday that his number had come up for a random drug screen. Sash tested positive, lost the appeal because he didn't have a therapeutic use exemption (despite having a prescription), served a four-game suspension, and lost $120,000.
Here's the problem. Why does the NFL care about whether a guy takes Adderall when he's not working? Offseason programs no longer launch until April. There's no edge to be obtained in February or March (or dead period in June and July) by using it.
The fact that the NFLPA has agreed to a continuous ban makes the issue moot, but the league office likely won't be inclined to adjust the testing procedures during future negotiations. Though the NFL's ultimate position would be that Adderall is a prescription medication that should not be abused, the league is an employer, not a law-enforcement agency. When there's little or no connection between use or abuse of any prescription or illegal drugs and performance once the player is working, any effort to tell players what they can and can't do seems to go too far.