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(USAToday) -- More than half of all babies born last year were members of minority groups, the first time in U.S. history. It's a sign of how swiftly the USA is becoming a nation of younger minorities and older whites.
Hispanics, blacks, Asians and other minorities in 2011 accounted for 50.4% of births, 49.7% of all children under 5 and slightly more than half of the 4 million kids under 1, the Census Bureau reports today.
The nation's growing diversity has huge implications for education, economics and politics. "Children are in the vanguard of this transition," says Kenneth Johnson, a demographer at the University of New Hampshire's Carsey Institute.
In all, minorities had 5.9% fewer babies last year than in 2010, but births among non-Hispanic whites fell even more, down 10.1%, Johnson says. A key reason: A greater share of the minority population is of child-bearing age.
The new report offers a broad picture of where and how the nation is changing. One telling sign: vast differences in the median age — the mid-point of all ages — of racial and ethnic groups. For Hispanics, the USA's largest minority group, the median age is 27.6. For whites who are not Hispanic, it's 42.3. Blacks (30.9) and Asians (33.2) are in between.
Other findings:
•The population of kids under 18 shrank by a quarter million last year — the same amount as the over-85 population increased.
•Three more metro areas — Columbus, Ga.; Dallas-Fort Worth; and Vineland-Millville, N.J. — joined a growing list of places where a majority of residents are minorities.
•Nine counties, including Cumberland, N.J., and Quitman, Ga., joined the 11% of the nation's 3,143 counties where at least half the residents are minorities.
•Washington, D.C., when included with the 50 states, was the only place that has gotten younger since 2000, a result of young and educated people moving to the nation's capital.
•Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire are the oldest and among the whitest states. Utah and Texas are the youngest states. Maine's median age has increased by 4.6 years since 2000 to an oldest-in-the-country 43.2 years in 2011, Census data show.
The growth of Hispanic children, especially those about to enter kindergarten, poses a big challenge in many states.
Nationally, more than three-fourths of the nation's teachers are non-Hispanic white and just 8% are Hispanic, Census data show.
The number of school-age Hispanics grew more than 5 million since 2000 while non-Hispanic whites fell 3 million.


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Dr. Radzins' research interests lie in the intersection of theology and political theory, philosophy, and women's/gender studies. She teaches courses in constructive, feminist, and political theology, Swedenborgian thought, and modern philosophy. Dr. Radzins has published articles on Emanuel Swedenborg and Simone Weil, and is currently working on a manuscript that explores the relationship between politics and cosmology in Weil's works.
Academic Credentials
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science, Washington University, 1989
Master of Divinity, Yale University Divinity School, 1993
Master of Sacred Theology, Yale University Divinity School, 1995
Doctorate of Philosophy, Religion, Vanderbilt University, 2005
Publications and Research
Book manuscript
The Spirit of Labor: Simone Weil's Political Theology – in progress
Under Contract with T&T Clark/Bloomsbury
""Completion without any Representable End:" A Theory of Artistic Creation in Simone Weil's Timaeus" in Cahiers Simone Weil (ed. Robert Chenavier), forthcoming Summer 2015.
"Simone Weil's Political Theology" in Political Theology (Maney Publishing), forthcoming Spring 2015.
"On Swedenborg's Critique of Theology" in Emanuel Swedenborg: Exploring a "World Memory" Context, Content, Contribution, ed Karl Grandin (Center for the History of Science, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences), 2013.
"Le christianisme matérieliste de Simone Weil: la "compatibilité entre marxisme et christianisme" in Cahiers Simone Weil Tome 34:3 (Sept 2011):267.
"A New Religion? Simone Weil's Revised Christianity" in The Relevance of the Radical: Simone Weil 100 Years Later ed Rebecca Rozelle and Lucian Stone (T&T Clark International), 2009.
"Simone Weil's Political Philosophy: Toward a Post-Colonial Critique of Power" in New Topics in Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Resistance, Religion and Ethical-Political Relations ed Pamela Sue Anderson (Kluwer), 2009.
"Simone Weil's Need for Roots" in Empire and Christian Tradition: New Readings of Classical Theologians ed. Kwok Pui Lan, Jeorg Rieger, Don Compier (Fortress Press), 2007.
Book Reviews
Review of James C. Livingston's Modern Christian Thought: The Enlightenment and the Nineteenth Century. Church History 77:1, Mar 2008 (American Society of Church History) 239-242.
Review of Gavin Flood's The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition. Church History 75:3, Sept 2006 (American Society of Church History) 718.
Other publications
Political Theology Syllabus discussion, forthcoming Sept 2014. www.politicaltheology.com/blog
Interview with Vincent Lloyd about his book, The Problem with Grace: Reconfiguring Political Theology, There is Power in the Blog, Oct 2011 http://www.politicaltheology.com/blog/?p=840
"Simone Weil" in the Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology; ed Fergusson, Kilby, McFarland, Torrance (Cambridge), 2011.
"Thinking Like the Angels: Swedenborgian House of Studies Graduation Address," The Messenger Volume 231:8, Nov 2008 (Swedenborgian Church of North America).
Marijas dziesmas un stāsti (Songs and Stories of Mary), co-editor (Klints Publishing, Riga Latvia), 2005. This book is an anthology of sermons, stories and poetry by Latvian women theologians.


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failure of patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs).While I was away on vacation, the big primary care news was the JAMA article on the
The pilot study found that "the use of a PCMH model didn't reduce hospitalizations, emergency department use, ambulatory services, or costs."
Discouraging, to say the least. Especially considering that professional primary care societies are pinning the future of primary care on this model.
I encourage readers to go to MedPage Today's Friday Feedback to skim a spectrum of informed opinions about the issue.
My take? While the study was not a promising start, PCMHs deserve more time before anyone renders a final decision on them. I agree with those who say that improvements in care take more than 3 years to measure.
But even when considering that, the cost of converting a practice to a medical home is high, and the rewards for meeting quality measures are nominal at best.
Adjusting those two factors may help move the needle. Make it less of a bureaucratic burden to become a "certified" medical home, and increase the performance bonuses so that they actually mean something.
Without those adjustments, changing the downward trajectory of the PCMH will prove difficult.


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The defence of the FA Cup begins on the banks of the River Trent. Forest are in disarray, managerless and in dreadful form; perfect giant-killing material if we're honest.
Not that many people have marked this one down as such and based on our experience of the past few years in cup matches, it will be a surprise. Which I guess is the essence of a giant-killing; no-one expects it.
Down to team news first, it will be a bit of a pick 'n' mix line-up. "Some of those who played against Chelsea will play again, but also some fresh players will come in," Arsène said. He went on to talk about next week's semi-final in tones which suggest a strong line-up will take the field at Stamford Bridge. Quite right too; it's the business end of a competition and it's hardly going to damage our Premier League campaign, is it?
I'd expect wholesale changes up front and in midfield. Out go Jack, Xhaka, in come Coquelin and Elneny; no Maitland-Niles in the centre, alas with Kolasinac and Monreal both absent through injury. Up front, Walcott, Welbeck and Iwobi will try to stop firing blanks and add to their combined nine goals in 49 appearances.
Forest are struggling, with 8 defeats in 13 games. It cost Mark Warburton his job with the club's new owners struggling to show any patience. Reaching the Premier League is the name of the game and failing to tap into the playoff places is unacceptable.
They did get a creditable point at Leeds but at home haven't scored in three of the last four. Even with my big club supporter hat on, the one which imbues footballing arrogance into every fibre of my being, I can't see us losing to them.
Sgt Rock
At the back, Ospina will come in with Wenger declaring the Colombian is "not happy" but "not unhappy" with his situation; in other words, he's like the majority of Britain's workforce, just considerably better paid. He'll get over it. I'd expect Mertesacker to re-appear to rest Mustafi with Debuchy on the right. Experience is not in short supply.
It leaves the team as:
Ospina; Chambers, Mertesacker, Holding; Debuchy, Coquelin, Elneny, Maitland-Niles; Iwobi, Walcott, Welbeck
The chance for Theo to show Southampton that he's worth a punt? They've got money to burn, after all.
January sales mean activity to replace players. We don't have a natural replacement for Walcott in the squad although Wenger could solve his Ramsey/Wilshere conundrum by shifting the Welshman to the right. That'll please him, I'm sure.
There's a lot of talk around of Sanchez and Özil both leaving this winter which frankly isn't going to happen. One maybe, but not both unless we get a sudden influx of cash which lets us replace both. Given Liverpool are about to be ripped off something chronic, it's probably best to let them buy either of Lemar or Mahrez and then go for the other.
Which sort of brings us around to the point of this little delve into the transfer window. Many are underwhelmed by another story or ten linking us with Jonny Evans but it's where we are at. A no-nonsense defender with experience of leading club and country is desperately needed to organise our defence.
We could also do with some proper defensive coaching; however, that isn't coming, so experience is the next best thing. Especially someone who has been Pulised; he'd know no-nonsense defending, surely?
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It vaguely ties into Wenger's comments about working with Sven Mislintat. A new era is new for everyone which is more a problem for them than Arsène he said. The whole conversation smacked of a more erudite 'stable genius' moment, an 'I'm not changing, they have to'.
There was a jibe about knowing all the players in Europe before he came unless it was knowledge of small German clubs Sven was bringing to the table. Well, I know all the players in Europe now I've got Football Manager 2018, Arsène, but there's a world of difference between knowing their names and knowing them. Sven falls into the latter category, by all accounts.
Overall, I don't see the comments as negatively as others, just Arsène's nose pushed out of joint by someone who is reputedly abrasive. This week's Mavropanos signing won't have happened without Wenger's say so which means business as usual. We're used to the club taking punts on young players and not seeing them again; this may be no different, maybe he'll make the grade. That's something for the future to decide.
If there is friction, I'd guess it will emerge when Raul Sanellhi officially joins in February; as if he isn't working for the club now.
The real relationship test is between Mislintat and Sanellhi; if that thrives then our recruiting will improve ten-fold because it's not been brilliant for the last decade or so, has it? That's more because of a lack of planning, the absence of coordination in what the squad needs and how the manager perceives its' weaknesses.
Interesting times ahead for all, I think.
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It's been a while since I looked at the stats for where deals are coming from. And let's face it – most come from relationships of some kind. Former clients, referrals, other agents and so on. But I was really interested in seeing how online sources were doing. For this brokerage, the numbers weren't that impressive. Overall, aggregator and social sites contribute only about 5% with the percentage fluctuating 2% either way in individual years.
I decided to see if there was a difference in online source contribution in the offices that had Premium LoopNet memberships. The data showed that in those offices, online sources were contributing up to 4 times more than the company average. In one office that recently signed up, you can even see a jump in deals from LoopNet beginning in the year they switched.
I want to point out that the offices with Premium Memberships tend to be in very small or fractured markets so they see LoopNet as pretty much the only way to promote their listings. And it seems to be a correct assumption. Even in the larger markets, those agents that do have Premium Memberships have higher rates of closed deals sourced from LoopNet.
So a Premium Membership is looking pretty good, huh? Well, that depends on whether the deal revenue covers the cost of the membership. And…the numbers show that for most years, it does.
Within offices, there are some agents who benefit more than others. Could be they have "better" listings or they're just better agents. So it seems that converting whatever you get from LoopNet varies on listing quality and agent skill.
Some other results:
- Sign calls are fairly steady continuing to attract buyers/tenants and contributing to about 7% of revenue.
- Cold calling still pays off for both acquiring tenants/buyers (nearly 10%) and finding owners (5%) to list.
- Email blasts (included in the Traditional category) have ticked up a bit but don't contribute that much overall (under 3%).
- A few years ago, the category "Research" was added. Meant to cover "discovered" opportunities (drive-bys, database searches and the like) it's proved to be a good way to find owners.
And a caveat about the data. It's self-reported by agents at the time they obtain a letter of intent or escrow deposit. Since there can be quite a bit of time between inception and those points, agents can forget where the lead actually came from.
In fact, one agent told me he got lots of leads from LoopNet that turned into deals but he rarely selected LoopNet as the source. Instead, he chose a relationship category. To him, no matter where the lead came from, it was his relationship building skill that made the deal happen. On one hand, I wanted to slap him. On the other hand, it was nice to know that agents see their clients as people and not as leads.


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The concept of Sauna originated in Finland about 2000 yrs ago. Originally it was a pit dug into a slope. Over the years it transformed into a cabin with fireplace.
The simple heat generation process has astounding sauna benefits. The soft heat created has a gentle penetrating and moisturizing effect. Perspiration in a non-polluted and healthy atmosphere eliminates harmful toxins and metabolic wastes from the body, consequently improving body's metabolism. A retreat to this exclusive haven promotes physical and mental replenishment.
Sauna may provide some relief to patients with asthma and chronic bronchitis and may also alleviate pain and improve joint mobility in patients with rheumatic diseases. Saunas does not cause drying of skin and may even benefit patients with psoriasis.
It may reduce the incidence of the common cold and temporarily relieve the symptoms. Regular saunas combined with exercise therapy can efficiently clear organic chemicals, drugs, and heavy metals from the body.
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This is one of those things where you just appreciate Russian innovation and creativity. They even have the factory steering rack working with the treads.
The factory W12 turbo was dumped for a Toyota 4.3 liter V8 which does not need an expensive rebuild and is not turbocharged simplifying the drivetrain and making it more reliable.
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Whale Games
I made 2 sets of matching whale cards. I chose favorites like Orcas, Blue, Narwhal, Beluga, etc. Then I found some very good black and white drawings of these whales and had them duplicated. The cards were mounted on cardstock and then laminated. One set had the name of the whales (in lower case) at the bottom under the picture, the other set was left with just the picture. I then lucked out and found some small, perfect replicas of all the whales. The object is for a young child to match the Orca card to the Orca name card, the Blue card to the Blue name card, etc. The child then finds the matching figure and places it at the bottom of the matched set. Took a bit of work but this is still one of the children's favorite things in my classroom.


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Posted: Feb 23, 2018
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Four Santa Clara pitchers combined to shut out Wake Forest, 2-0, striking out 16 Demon Deacons and not allowing a runner past second base all night. An RBI single by Jake Brodt in the first and a John Cresto solo homer in the fourth inning provided the runs for the Broncos (3-2) in the series opening win.
Wake Forest (2-4) put a pair of runners on base in every inning except in the second and third and each time, the Bronco pitching rose to the occasion.
In the first inning, Bronco starter Steven Wilson struck out Shane Muntz with runners at first and second to end the inning. The same scenario would play out in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings where a different Bronco pitcher would punch out a Demon Deacon to kill the threat.
Left-hander Alex Barden, who came in relief of Wilson in the third, struck out Johnny Aiello to strand two Deacs in the fifth frame.
In the sixth, sophomore Michael Praszker came in relief of Barden with two runners on and struck out Chris Lanzilli.
Redshirt junior Eric Lex relieved Praszker in the seventh and promptly struck out Wake Forest cleanup hitter Bobby Seymour. Lex would throw 2 1/3 innings to close out the game for his first save as a Bronco.
Steven Wilson struck out five batters in two innings in a predetermined pitching rotation to earn his first win since May 13, 2016. Wilson missed all of last season due to an injury.
Along with Brodt and Cresto, Jason Dicochea, Joe Becht, Austin Reyes and Grant Meylan each had a hit for the Broncos. Dicochea led off the game with a double down the left field line and eventually scored on Brodt's single.
The Bronco pitching staff has allowed just one run in the last two games, following a 4-1 win over San Jose State on Feb. 20.
Santa Clara will start right-hander Alex Waldsmith (0-1, 0.00 ERA) on Saturday against lefty Carter Bach (0-0 1.80 ERA). First pitch is scheduled for 1 p.m. PT.
HIGHLIGHT | John Cresto's 2⃣0⃣th career home run might have been the quickest to leave the park! Take a look at the long ball and celebration from Santa Clara's 2-0 victory over Wake Forest tonight. #StampedeTogether #SCUBroncos pic.twitter.com/Jtj7DFh9pp— Santa Clara Baseball (@SCU_Baseball) February 24, 2018
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I adore that picture of Ralphy! It is sooo him! I too don't believe that we should be getting these cheques. Why can't they lower our taxes? Why can't they put all that money into our school! Why do parents have to fight to get help for their kids in school!! I know, I have fought the good fight and will continue! It's frustrating! They can hand out all this money, but when a child needs help, well, they need at least 900 reports, at the parents expense, done!! Stupid Ralph! So, as you can tell, my money is going to pay for reports Katie needs to have done in order to get her an aid for school! Pisses me off.
Martha Bevy
- 2:41 pm
- Barbara Bruederlin said...
Ralph is good at robbing Peter to pay Paul.
- 3:24 pm
- Neil said...
Here in NS the Torie government did something similar to this, handily enough, just a few months before an election! About a year later, we ended up paying it back through new taxes because they didn't realize exactly how much they were handing out...
If there is a surplus in any government coffers, I think that it should go to public interests, but not their bank accounts directly. Like you, all of us would think "bonus" and spend it on stuff that we may not need. Although, come to think of it, I'd probably put that on my credit card debt....
Anyway, bottom line, my two cents, whatever you wanna call it, they should take that money and give it to Nova Scotia. ha ha. Just kidding but they should put it into health care, roads, school, anything like that. Or maybe even giant mechanical ants (ala Bart Simpson) that could protect our borders from unwanted Americans. lol
- 6:23 am
- Barbara Bruederlin said...
Neil, good to have the perspective of one who has already been there. The shortsightedness of governments is infuriating. Bring on the mechanical ants!
- 8:40 am
- Jas Bhambra said...
I'd agree with the surplus being used towards advancement of public interests (get more doctors for God's sake: its is so difficult to find a family doctor!!).
Nevertheless, I'd use that money to pay for my debt!!
- 9:04 am
- ~Jen~ said...
ralph is a clown....
- 6:51 pm
- Barbara Bruederlin said...
and not a funny haha clown either
actually he IS kinda funny
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Spec Data:
17-inch screen size (diagonal); 1280-by-1024 native resolution; 0.264-mm pixel pitch; 5:4 aspect ratio (pixels); supports analog/digital; 16-ms pixel response time; 160-degree horizontal rated maximum viewing angle, 160-degree rated maximum viewing angle; 500:1 rated contrast ratio; 250 cd/m2 ("nit"); tilt stand; 12.3 pounds; 3 years parts/labor/backlight warranty.
Generally good image quality. Analog and digital connections. Thin-bezel design.
Somewhat limited viewing angle. Weak performance on light-gray shades. Tilt-only stand.
Bottom Line:
The Sony SDM-S74 has a simple design and feature set and produces images of about-average quality. The price is competitive, especially for a dual-input model.
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A Stylish Sony LCDAt Good Value<
The new 17-inch SDM-S74 from Sony Electronics isn't the most feature-packed monitor on the market, nor is the picture tops in its class, but at a street price of $520, this LCD is a good value for the money. With 1280-by-1024 native pixel resolution, the display features digital and analog inputs; aside from this, however, it doesn't offer much in the way of bells and whistles.
Available in black or silver, the monitor has a thin bezel that's less than ¾ inch wide, giving it a stylish appearance and making it suitable for tiling with another screen. The case's other nice feature is a sliding panel that covers the back; it slides up halfway to reveal the LCD's connections and makes hiding the cables easy. The only stand adjustment available is for tilt.
The tiny control panel buttons along the lower-right edge have embossed icons on black plastic that make them extremely difficult to read. The input source select button has a light-gray legend that's marginally easier to read. What's more, there is no autosync button on the front panel.
We tested the display using images from DisplayMate (www.displaymate.com) with mixed results. The autosync featureaccessed through the on-screen menudid a perfect job of adjusting image size and position, with no observable pixel jitter. We saw no apparent pixel defects, brightness uniformity was even, and color tracking was excellent. There were noticeable hue shifts at about 60 degrees off center on the horizontal axis, and only 30 degrees on the vertical. Response for light shades of gray was a bit weak, and we also saw some faint banding on the color ramps under an analog signal.
The SDM-S74's ErgoBright feature lets you control the brightness of the backlight to accommodate different room lighting conditions. The company also provides a three-year parts and labor warranty, with a quick-exchange for defective units during the first year.
The Sony SDM-S74 doesn't blow away the competition when it comes to features and image quality, but its flaws are minor and its price makes it a decent value.
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Golfers -- no matter their skill level -- are known to work on their games constantly. We've all seen (or been) the person on a check-out line or at the DMW making an air swing. But to actually pull out a club in a random spot to get in some practice takes a special kind of dedication.
RELATED: 35 signs you're obsessed with golf
Enter one man who was spotted at a Scottish baggage claim by Stewart Cink's caddie, Taylor Ford. Fresh off a (probably) long flight, this dude's first move was to grab his putter and a golf ball to work on his short putting. Check out both videos:
Emiliano Grillo, last year's PGA Tour Rookie of the Year, was also on the scene (the Scottish Open is this week) and had a great reaction:
High praise.
Like a musician waking up in the middle of the night and rushing to an instrument to work out a song thought before it's lost, perhaps this guy had something pop into his head on his flight that he just couldn't wait to try. As long as he stuck to short putts, good for him. We hope it worked -- and that he wasn't apprehended by airport security.
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Michael Dorris papers
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Rauner Manuscript MS-1176
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10.5 linear ft., 7 boxes
Michael Dorris (1945-1997) author and professor. Contains manuscript drafts of books, correspondence, and research materials. Documents Dorris' teaching, writing and studies.
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Legal expert tackles dilemmas of asymmetrical wars.
By Philip Spiegel | February 11, 2011
The modern era of warfare has borne rise to profound and challenging new questions, forcing leaders, civilians and warriors to take a long look in the ethical mirror.
"We've moved from an era of collective guilt and collective punishment to an era where human rights really matter," said David Luban in concluding his lecture, "Asymmetrical Wars: The Three Hardest Questions," at Annenberg Auditorium Thursday afternoon. This talk was part of the yearlong "Ethics and War" series at Stanford.
Luban described asymmetrical war as war between two sides with radically different capabilities. It's often referred to as a "fourth-generation war." He posed the three "hardest questions" as these:
• Which civilians can be targeted by the military because they are direct participants in hostilities?
• How should militaries respond to human shields?
• How much risk must soldiers take to minimize casualties among enemy civilians?
Before addressing these questions, Luban pointed out that "trying to write laws to govern warfare has the smell of moral bankruptcy to pacifists." But as Luban doesn't consider himself a pacifist, he has no problem with dealing with ethical issues of war.
Regarding targeted killings—as in Israelis taking out leaders of Hamas or the U.S. drone strikes against Taliban militants in Pakistan—Luban said that it's a principle of international law that warriors killing warriors are not murderers. However combatants are not free to attack non-combatants.
But in asymmetrical wars, the principles of just war are under stress. The weaker side will often wear civilian clothes to make it harder for the stronger side. They will also put in danger the people they are fighting for.
The Geneva Convention requires discrimination between military and civilian targets. Civilians shall enjoy this protection "unless, and for such time that they take a direct part in the hostilities." It also calls for proportionality, stating, "unintended civilian injury cannot be excessive in relation to concrete and direct military advantage anticipated by the operation."
Luban brought up the fact that civilians often carry out military activities sporadically, returning to their homes and civilian jobs between hostile actions. He said the Israeli Supreme Court ruled in 2006 that such civilians lose their immunity "for such time as they are committing a chain of acts."
The Geneva Convention prohibits the use of human shields. The Israeli courts distinguish between involuntary and voluntary human shields, allowing only the former to be targeted while involuntary human shields are themselves "victims of terrorism." However the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) calls for protection of all human shields.
On the question of how much risk must soldiers take to minimize casualties among enemy civilians, Luban said he believes in "conducting a war in the presence of noncombatants on the other side as if your citizens were the noncombatants."
He quoted a U.S. Army major and ethics instructor at West Point, who said, "I am not sure that a soldier needs to treat his own life as any less valuable than that of a civilian, but I insist that he must not treat his own life as more valuable."
A member of the audience asked about the morality of using drones. Luban replied that he felt that there is no warrior-to-warrior belligerent privilege in controlling the drone 12,000 miles away from its target.
In response to a question about the differences in rules of conduct for police versus those for war, Luban said "ethical policing is using the minimum amount of violence."
David Luban is professor of law and philosophy at Georgetown University and acting director of the Center on National Security and the Law. He has written extensively on justice in war for the past 30 years and recently testified in Congress on torture during interrogations.
The next Ethics and War lecture will feature Nancy Sherman speaking on "The Moral Wounds of War: The War Within," on Feb. 22 at 4 p.m. in the Oak Lounge of Tressider Union.


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Nvidia Shield and Kodi go together like peanut butter and jelly. The Android-powered streaming and gaming console is perfect for streaming TV shows, movies, and music from the world's most popular open source home theater app. Nvidia Shield is compatible with pretty much every popular Kodi add-on out there, and its hardware is powerful enough to play content in high definition or even 4K without breaking a sweat.
And now that Kodi is listed on Google Play as an Android TV app, it's easier to install than ever. For most users, there's no need to sideload or download Kodi from any third-party sources.
Some Nvidia Shield owners might still want to know how to get Kodi from somewhere other than Google Play. Their reasons might be:
- Access to Google Play is blocked, such as for users in China
- Rrefer to use an older version of Kodi
- Prefer to use a specific third-party Kodi build
In this article, we'll show you how to get Kodi on your Nvidia Shield using two methods: Google Play and sideloading.
Before we start, get a VPN
Many Kodi users use Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to hide more illicit streaming activities. But even those who use legitimate, legal addons can benefit from a VPN. If you haven't already, learn how to install a VPN on Kodi in this tutorial.
Some ISPs throttle bandwidth based on the content you access. If it sees you're trying to stream a video, it might slow down your internet speed, resulting in lower quality and more frequent buffering. A VPN hides traffic from your ISP so it can't discriminate based on the type of data being downloaded.
VPNs help protect your connection from "Man in the Middle" attacks. These attacks occur when a hacker intercepts traffic between you and the server. They can include your usernames, passwords, or other valuable information. They can also modify the contents of data you download, potentially infecting your Nvidia Shield with malware. When connected to a VPN, your traffic is encrypted before being sent and received, so even if a third party intercepts it they cannot decipher or modify it.
While VPNs do a great job of protecting your privacy, connecting to an intermediary server can significantly slow down your connection. If you want to stream Kodi content through a VPN, you're going to need a fast and consistent provider. Additionally, some VPNs keep log files, completely discounting your safety.
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Method #1: Google Play (recommended)
If you've ever used Google Play on an Android device before, the process should be familiar. This will install the latest ARM version of stock Kodi for Android available. If Google Play is blocked for some reason, you can usually unblock it by using a VPN.
- Turn on your Nvidia Shield and open the Google Play Store
- Use the search function to find Kodi. It should be the first result, and the developer is the XBMC Foundation. Select the app
- On the app page, click Install to download and install Kodi on your Nvidia Shield. Accept the permissions when prompted.
- Launch the app by clicking the Open button once the installation is finished. You can also find it on your Nvidia Shield home screen.
- Continue through the preliminary setup, and start using Kodi!
That's it! Make sure your VPN is enabled before installing and using any add-ons. Kodi should automatically update through the Play Store.
Method #2: Sideloading Kodi on Nvidia Shield
If you prefer to use an older version of Kodi than what's available on Google Play or you want to install a specific Kodi build, you will need to sideload the app. This isn't hard; it just requires a few extra steps. Note that sideloaded apps will not automatically update, so you'll need to repeat the process if you want to take advantage of updates. If Kodi is already installed but you want to try a third-party build, be sure to uninstall any existing Kodi app beforehand.
- Locate and download the APK file for the version of Kodi you wish to install. An APK file is a package that contains everything you need to install an Android app. The only guaranteed safe place to download Kodi APKs is the official Kodi website, but older versions and third-party builds will obviously come from elsewhere.
- Once finished downloading, move the APK file onto a USB drive. APK files are usually small so just a simple thumb drive should do fine. Safely eject the drive when finished.
- Turn on your Nvidia Shield and open the Settings menu at the bottom. Then go to Security and Restrictions.
- Toggle on Unknown sources. This allows apps from outside Google Play to be installed. Press OK when the warning appears.
- Go back to the home screen and open the Google Play Store.
- Run a search for ES File Explorer File Manager and select the app of the same name. It should be the first result.
- Click Install to download and install ES File Explorer. Accept the terms and permissions.
- Once ES File Explorer is installed, plug the USB drive with the APK file on it into your Nvidia Shield's USB slot.
- A pop-up should appear asking if you'd like to open the USB drive using ES File Explorer. Click OK.
- ES File Explorer will launch. In the left sidebar, click Local, then scroll down to select your USB drive from the drop down list.
- Navigate to where you saved the Kodi APK file on your jump drive and select it. Click Install, then Install again to accept the permissions.
- When the installation finishes, select Open to launch Kodi. The app should now be accessible from the home page, too.
- Continue through the preliminary setup, and start using Kodi!
Once Kodi is installed and running, you can safely remove the USB drive. You can also download the APK file directly onto your Nvidia Shield using the web browser that comes built into ES File Explorer. We found navigating web pages and typing is a pain with the default Nvidia Shield controller, but if you don't have a USB drive or laptop handy, this works as well.
A note on third-party app stores
It's possible to find both Kodi and ES File Explorer on third-party app stores, but we recommend against it. Third-party app stores often do not have a strict or formal vetting process. That means the APKs you download could be out of date or modified to contain malware. If you absolutely cannot access Google Play or you plan to use a third-party Kodi build, please exercise extreme caution to avoid damaging your device or having your private information stolen.
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Terri Wangard's Friends and Enemies is about how 'real' people experienced WWII, including civilians in Germany. Her characters experience their own 'teacup tragedies' and triumphs in a world full of rationing, fear, love, and loss. A book in two parts, Wangard introduces a cast in Part 1, then follows them through their journey during the war in Part 2. The reader has no difficulty caring about these ordinary characters affected by a world on fire.
Friends and Enemies is an enjoyable read. As a member of Wangard's ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writer) Scribes group, I have had the privilege to read and comment on her work. She never disappoints. Her stories are intriguing woven tapestries drawn together with historic detail and the ordinary within. Each of her characters and his/her situations add the pattern and color to the sweeping drama of history. In addition, the characters share their faith with those who struggle without it.
I was provided a final copy of this copy in exchange for a review; however, I had already experienced this story as a critiquer. It is my pleasure to recommend Friends and Enemies to both those who have an interest in WWII stories, but also to those who enjoy curling up with a good book.


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Cooler fall weather is just beginning to emerge here in the NYC area and though it's still comfortable, I know the cold winter is just around the corner. I don't know about you but for me February seems like the longest month. It's cold, the holidays are over and I want nothing more than to get away to warmer weather. Well, this year I'm doing exactly that and I'd love to have my readers join me!
From February 6-9, I'll be one of over 20 paranormal/urban fantasy romance authors who'll be participating in the Coastal Magic Convention in sunny Daytona Beach, Florida at the Hilton Daytona Beach Oceanside Resort! The rooms are just $129 per night!
If you adore pnr/uf romance, then this con is for you and the best part? It's SO affordable! The entire conference is only $70 per person!!
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New York State court overturns ban on state gifts to corporations
David Cay Johnston reports how a decision by the NY state's highest court on November 21, 2011 effectively allows corporations to pick taxpayers' pockets.
Here's more bad news for taxpayers! Since 1846, the New York State constitution has had an absolute prohibition on gifts of money or even credit to corporations. The voters of this state re-upped in 1874, and again in 1938, and they turned away a 1967 effort to undo the ban. But New York state's highest court has just ruled it doesn't matter. The court says the state can give all the money it wants to corporations, so long as it just washes them through one of those economic development agencies that state legislatures all across the country have been creating. Now two of the seven justices dissented from this. They treated it as an outrage and said that it was very clear what it was that the constitution says and that just because it's been violated for years, doesn't mean it can continue. But unfortunately the court also ruled that if you want to challenge such a case in the future, you will have to prove before taking any testimony, before looking at any documents, that a gift violates the state constitution and you will have to prove it to the standard of a criminal case, beyond reasonable doubt. Hold on to your wallets taxpayers, corporate America has figured out another way to pick your pocket!


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Most large mammals, such as elephants, rhinos, and their modern ilk are ill-suited for domestication, but that doesnt exclude their use as engines of war. Rather than raise and train the Mammoth from birth, Mammoth Handlers instead capture the wild Mammoths at a young to juvenile age and train them for war. These animals are draped in armor and are unleashed as living war machines against the foes of the Mammoth Tribe.


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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Beta #6
There's my update. Any encouraging words would be appreciated.
Ultrasound is tomorrow at 9am CST.
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Yay! Glad that your beta went up...Praying that you see a healthy baby at your ultrasound tomorrow!ReplyDelete
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I thought you weren't going back to the same clinic? Most nurses are pretty good :)Replies
I'm not going TO the clinic, but they are still managing my medication. The nurse who called me today is from the main San Antonio office, not the ones here in Austin that did the ultrasound. And they didn't actually draw the blood, LabCor.p did.Delete
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Oh Liz I am sorry you did not get ideal numbers again! I wish I was an expert and could reassure you that these numbers are ood and strong but I just dont have enough experience! Know that we are here for you and cheering for you!ReplyDelete
Fingers and toes all crossed for a mind-easing ultrasound!ReplyDelete
The numbers are still going up! That is GOOD news! Although I do for sure understand what it is like to worry every step of the way. Especially after what you have been through. I hope that your appointment tomorrow will provide the much needed peace for you and your husband. Praying for you!ReplyDelete
Liz, so glad to hear the numbers went up!! And by a lot! I hope your ultrasound tomorrow will show a healthy pregnancy. Many prayers going up for you! -KellyReplyDelete
Yay! Glad to hear they are still going up! Praying for a good appt tomorrow.ReplyDelete
Beta going in the right direction.I am keeping the faith and I continue to pray for you and your pregnancy.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 13, 2013 at 12:09 AM
Good luck tomorrow! I've got everything crossed for you!! <3 *hugs*ReplyDelete


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Earl Ferrers: My Lords, perhaps I may seek clarification on that point. As the Prime Minister is Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom, is the Minister saying that that guarantee applies to Scotland as well as England?
Baroness Hayman: No, my Lords, I think I was saying the exact opposite. The Prime Minister is, of course, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. As I understand the situation, the Scottish Parliament has legislative capacity over hunting issues in Scotland--the noble Lord, Lord Mackay of Ardbrecknish, is present and will correct me if I am wrong. Therefore, it is possible that the regime in Scotland could be different from that in England. I can, therefore, give the noble Earl reassurances in regard to England, but decisions regarding the nature of any legislation on the matter in Scotland are for the Scottish Parliament.
Earl Ferrers: My Lords, perhaps I may interrupt the Minister once more. When the Prime Minister made
Baroness Hayman: My Lords, I am not sufficiently "on message" to be able to tell the noble Earl what the Prime Minister realised or did not realise. He normally realises quite well what he is saying. I almost wish that I had not dealt with what I thought was a simple issue raised by the noble Earl. If I spend too much time on specific issues I shall not get anywhere.
The debate has been well-informed. I was especially touched by the recognition on the part of the noble Earl, Lord Peel, that there are difficult choices to be made; and that choices may need to be made in the balance between long-term and short-term measures to support agriculture. Public money cannot be used twice. There must always be priorities in terms of public spending. Most noble Lords have recognised that a great deal has been done in the short term.
I must say to the noble Lord, Lord Rotherwick, that it is wrong to suggest that anyone has ever said that all is rosy, or has denied the state of the crisis in agriculture, or not recognised the very real, very personal consequences to which the noble Lord, Lord Carlile, the noble Baroness, Lady Byford, and others drew our attention. There are, among all the statistics, personal and family tragedies, and none of us should ever deny that. The farming industry is in deep recession. That has never been denied; nor has there been any turning of our backs on measures to help in the short term.
As well as the £3½ billion that goes into the CAP year on year, I remind the House of the packages of aid that have come in since May 1997: £150 million in early 1998; £120 million in November 1998; £150 million in September 1999, including some of the areas raised during the debate; the deferral of charges for inspections in relation to specified risk material from cattle and sheep carcasses; the deferral of charges for cattle passports; the money into HLCAs; the marketing support of £1 million, which was increased in October 1999 by a further £5 million; the £10 million of extra money that has gone into organic farming, which means that since we came to power there is now three times the area in organic farming or conversion.
Concerns have been expressed about abattoirs--I am well aware of those--and the charging regime for the Meat Hygiene Service. However, we have frozen the hourly rate of MHS charges for this year, and have guaranteed that they will not rise next year more than the rate of inflation.
The Countess of Mar: My Lords, will the noble Baroness kindly give way? There is a lot of misunderstanding in this industry. Will she make absolutely clear that it is just the hourly rates that have been frozen, not the number of hours? The number of hours is likely to increase in accordance with EU requirements.
Baroness Hayman: My Lords, I believe that I did use the term "hourly rate". I was trying to be careful. The
As was mentioned in the debate, we have also seen the £1.6 billion that will go into the rural development regulation over seven years; £300 million pounds of matched funding to match the effects of modulation, allowing us to double the countryside stewardship schemes; and the other help that will be given for skills training and marketing. The issue of young farmers was raised on several occasions. Those are areas that may well be of great benefit to young farmers. There have been the three red tape reviews that we have undertaken, together with the NFU, and the acceptance of the vast majority of the recommendations and work that is ongoing in relation to those. Mention was made of the announcement about the agreement reached with the industry on the pesticides tax.
I list those matters not just to remind the House of the Government's action but that even against that background, we are having this debate. I make no apology to the noble Earl, Lord Ferrers--with whom I hesitate to cross swords at this time in the evening--for emphasising what he called the long-term stuff. The long-term stuff is enormously important in terms of the CAP. We heard a wide variety of views on solutions to problems if not an analysis of the problems themselves.
Some trenchant speeches have followed a line that was not totally parallel with everything else that was said. However, opposition to the present state of the CAP probably united the whole House on this occasion. MAFF and myself feel that it is important to change the emphasis within the CAP, with a policy shift that reduces agriculture's reliance on subsidies based on production and focuses on support for the public benefits that agriculture brings.
There is recognition of the unique quality of agriculture. It is invidious to talk about the suffering of individuals from losing their employment in industries where families have worked for generations. That can apply to a coal mining community or one that has been dependent on shipbuilding, and can be as painful as for an agricultural community. We should not leave any such communities unsupported at times of enormous change.
My right honourable friend the Prime Minister made it clear in his speech to the National Farmers' Union that we recognise the interdependence of the environment, rural economy and countryside on the agricultural industry. We must make sure that the support given recognises that interdependence and supports the environmentally beneficial aspects of agriculture, with schemes that assist the role of stewardship of the countryside rather than perverse incentives.
The English rural development plan, in which we intend to invest £1.6 billion over seven years, sets out how we will deliver on that and other policy objectives,
My reading of the PIU report was not that rural economies and communities are rosey and blooming, and that everything is perfect there in a way that is not true of urban economies. The report pointed out the complexity of the issues. The noble Lord, Lord Carlile, expressed his concerns about depopulation in rural Wales. I do not have figures for the Principality, but the population of rural England has risen 24 per cent--four times the rate of growth for the whole country. The picture is more complex than simply everyone in the countryside suffering when agriculture has a difficult time. Different parts of the countryside have different problems. There are terrible pockets of deprivation, but there are also areas where things are not so bad. My noble friend Lord Hardy referred to issues that go wider than agriculture, such as rural transport and crime, which are important for the economic welfare of people living and working in the countryside.
As to what can be done in the short term, most of the debate centred on agrimonetary compensation. I was asked to give the Government's position, but I am unable to answer tonight. The Government are still considering whether to apply for the next tranche of agrimonetary compensation. That decision will have to be made soon.
Agrimonetary compensation is not free. It does not even require simply matched funding--to which the right reverend Prelate referred. Where compensation is compulsory because of the Fontainebleau agreement, the UK pays 71p for every £1 of agrimonetary compensation. If compensation is optional, 50 per cent is paid for by the UK and 50 per cent from EU funds, so it costs the Treasury--or the British taxpayer, as my noble friend Baroness Young pointed out--85p in every £1. That level of financing requires examination of the value for money that the industry overall would enjoy and relative priorities. Something that always concerns me and which we must consider carefully is the areas that would benefit from agrimonetary compensation. It would not benefit the whole industry.
Almost as much time has been spent talking about pigs as agrimonetary compensation. The pig regime, like the poultry regime in Europe, is extremely light and there would be no benefit. Choices may have to be made in terms of spending priorities.
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Interview: Calista at 3
26 March 11
What are you going to be when you grow up?
A ballerina.
What's that going to be like?
I'm going to be beautiful with a white dress and a crown and dance with a man.
What are your favourite toys?
Barbie dolls in a shop.
Who are your best friends?
Jesus and Daddy.
What makes you happy?
Ballerinas make me happy.
Why does that make you happy?
Because I like ballerinas.
What makes you sad?
Who are the baddies?
When we go to a bad place, that's when I don't like baddies.
When you dream at night, what do you dream about?
I dream about dragons biting my finger. But I ran away and chase the dragons and the dragons go away.
What do you like to do with Daddy?
Just dance with music.
What do you like to do with Mama?
Dance with ballerinas.
What's your favourite colour?
Pink and purple.
What's your favourite book?
Ballerina books.
What does Daddy do during the day?
When I am floppy and am asleep, Daddy takes me off the bed?
What does Daddy do during the day?
He makes chappatis.
What does Mama do during the day?
You cook breakfast.
What do you do during the day?
I do red persons with circle eyes and long hair and lines to be arms and legs and fingers.
*This is Calista's first interview. * It will be interesting to watch how she changes over the years! (You can read the rest of the birthday interviews here.)


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Development and Validation of a People Involvement & Engagement (I&E) Model for Achieving Superior Results in Management of Large Projects
Project Management (PM) is more of an art than science. Especially so in large projects. In view of the size and complexity of large projects, the magnified size of issues calls for extra efforts from the project management team. While whatever is applicable for small and medium projects is also applicable for large ones, there are significant differences. One is trust between team members. Another is the use of formal processes to ensure that team members work in a co-ordinated manner for mutual benefit. We have developed a model for managing people in large projects, called "the I&E (involvement and engagement) model for large projects management for superior results", which will deliver superior performance by involving and engaging the people working on the project. Essentially the model is a methodology of how to generate the best efforts out of a group of people to achieve a common purpose. We use a case study – the cold rolling mill project of Tata Steel, classified as a "world class" project in project management literature – to illustrate how to apply this model in practice and obtain the desired "world class" superior results and thus validate the model. Read more...
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Welcome to Wiki Dragons.
The free encyclopedia that anyone can post and edit interesting topics.
Getting started with encyclopedia quotes
- I am not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like i did. -Yogi Berra
- I love photography. And i just eat it up. I feel like I'm an encyclopedia, you know, inside. - Annie Leibovitz
- The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies.
- It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia. - Tracy Kidder
- The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language.
- Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way. - Jimmy Wales
- Today, I give my daughter what i really did not have as a kid: all the silly, dumb, extravagant,
- frilly, nonfunctional toys I can force on her. She probably wants an encyclopedia. - Lenny Bruce
- A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- When I hear other people's stories, I like to believe that they contribute to 'Encyclopedia of Human Experience.' The stories
- I hear help me expand my definition of what love is, what pain feels like, what sacrifice means, what laughter can do. - Sarah Kay
- I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up. - Karl Kraus
- There's a vast encyclopedia of fears and phobias, and pretty much any object, experience, situation you can think of,
- there is someone who has a phobia of it. - Scott Stossel
- When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the practical man.' By this time I knew,
- from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it. - Richard P. Feynman
- I'm a book guy first, and my education came from two encyclopedia. One was an encyclopedia of health, so I became morbidly obsessed with anatomy,
- and i thought i had trichinosis, an aneurism, jaundice! And then an encyclopedia of art. - Guillermo del Toro
- I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, :and I learned all the different flags, and I tired to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships. - George R. R. Martin
- What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given
- everything known about that species. - E. O. Wilson
- I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, Vacation packages ... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books.
- No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Britannica' showing up at their house. - Adam DeVine
- You have a diasporic black world, and the only wy to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the :'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years.
- That is a major contribution. - Henry Louis Gates
- Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia. - Robert Anton Wilson
- I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.' - Octavia Spencer
- Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. - Stephen Leacock
- I just do not want to stop finding things interesting. I do not want to ever stop learning.
- I want to be a weird encyclopedia of bizarre knowledge. - Brie Larson
- My original concept was to proved a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world. - Jimmy Wales
- When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American Biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone,
- Charles Lindbergh, my pantheon of favorite heroes. Then I would write my own things and sew them together and try to make my own book. - Douglas Brinkley
- To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person
- on the planet in their own language - That's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal. - Jimmy Wales
- People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia.
- It's like hating kittens. - Jimmy Wales
- I love working with Scorsese. He's not only a brilliant director and is great working with actors, but he's also a walking human film encyclopedia.
- It's fun to talk about movies with him. - Steve Buscemi
- Me, I'm an encyclopedia. I'm not a very smart guy, but I'm an encyclopedia. You can ask me about anything you want.
- probably I have the book; probably I have a first edition. - Jose Andres
- What I really had was stories, the oral traditions of my parents. We moved so much that that was really our encyclopedia.
- A dream world told to me from my parents in the living room. - Juan Felipe Herrera
- When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends.
- The encyclopedia was an item of luxury. We faced big limits in what we could learn, where we could be and who we could reach. - Vivek Wadhwa
- I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what
- classic Italian Cooking is. - Mario Batali
- As for Aamir Khan, he keeps raising the standard with every film. For an artist like me or a newcomer like me,
- we can only look up to that and dream, 'When will that be us someday?' There's so much to learn from him.
- He is the encyclopedia of acting. - Tiger Shroff
- In maybe 1963, we had 'Collier's Encyclopedia,' and they sent us their yearly LP. I heard the Beatles talking on there.
- That was the first time I tired altering my voice, doing a liverpudlian accent. - Dana Carvey
- You look into an encyclopedia and ask what fighter can do any type of martial art at a high-caliber level,
- my picture will show up. - Demetrious Johnson
- I would describe myself as having a healthy income, but I sure wouldn't describe the son of a postmaster and an encyclopedia saleswoman
- as upper class, by any stretch of the imagination. I would describe myself as decidedly middle class.
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CAPITOL HILL: Republicans think the Navy's new 30-year shipbuilding plan marks a fundamental mistake: cutting the size of the fleet from 313 to 300 or so when we are increasing our focus on the Asia-Pacific
And you can be sure they will let the Navy's top acquisition officials know that at tomorrow morning's House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee hearing about the Navy budget.
"It largely confirms our concerns that we're cutting shipbuilding while 'pivoting' to Asia. The Navy is going from a fleet of roughly 313 to a fleet of roughly 300, a GOP congressional aide said in an email. "It also confirms our concerns about amphib numbers that are low in the near term. Dropping the SSBN fleet to 10 in the 30's is a real big question. And we continue to be short on the DDG and SSN categories. Bottom line, we're shrinking the Navy, cutting shipbuilding money by 20% and somehow pivoting to Asia."
But one of the nation's most respected naval analysts says the new shipbuilding plan, which does see the number of ships dip to 279 in 2014 from the earlier planned fleet of 287, offered a much less glum assessment.
"This 30-year plan mitigates the projected shortfalls in cruisers-destroyers and attack submarines that showed in last year's 30-year plan, in part by putting additional destroyers and attack submarines into the plan," said Ron O'Rourke, naval analyst at the Congressional Research Service. "As a result, analysis of the 30-year plan this year may feature somewhat less (but still some) emphasis on the projected shortfalls, and somewhat more emphasis on the Navy's prospective ability to afford all the ships in the plan."
Republicans and senators from states with submarine bases and shipbuilding yards have highlighted their concerns about the delay in building the first Ohio-class replacement. It will almost certainly come up again at the Thursday morning HASC hearing.


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Aquent Sponsors "Spooktacular" Halloween-Themed Design Competition
BOSTON, MA (Oct. 15, 2007) — Aquent, the world's largest staffing firm specializing in solutions for creative and marketing organizations, announced today a Halloween-themed design competition for creative professionals.
The first-ever competition calls for creative design ideas to theme Aquent's website, www.aquent.com, for Halloween. The winning designer will receive a cash prize and have their work featured on the website's homepage. They'll also be profiled by Aquent's popular weblog, www.thetalentblog.net.
"Aquent's excited to celebrate Halloween with a design competition for creative professionals," said Ann Webster, president of the company's North America staffing business. "We're serious about marketing and creative staffing, but even we jumped at the opportunity to have some Halloween fun and showcase great design work."
Full contest details, including submission guidelines, creative specifications, and judging criteria, are available here. The contest ends October 22, 2007.
About Aquent
For over twenty years Aquent has led the way in transforming how companies find and utilize marketing and creative talent to execute their brand strategies. Aquent's pioneering approach to staffing and services has helped thousands of companies - including two-thirds of the Fortune 500 and 90 of the Fortune 100 - build their internal marketing and communications capabilities. Last year we placed over 11,000 Aquent talent at more 3,000 companies. Aquent is headquartered in Boston, MA.


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Amarillo Museum of Art
Amarillo Museum of Art © Anonymous Cow
The Texas Panhandle's one and only accredited art museum is the Amarillo Museum of Art. The museum was established in 1967 by a group of community leaders who felt that those living in the Amarillo area deserved a proper art museum, and in 1972 the museum opened its doors to the public. The museum has six galleries housing a permanent collection that includes 17th through 19th century European paintings, 20th century modernists, photography, Asian art and Middle Eastern textiles.
Some well-known artists represented in the collection are Georgia O'Keeffe, Franz Kline, Louise Nevelson, Helen Frankenthaler, and Francesco Guardi. Since 1995, the museum's collection has grown considerably due to the contributions of Dr. and Mrs. Price of Amarillo. Their contributions led to the naming of the Price Gallery of Asian Art, a collection that contains Edo period Japanese wood block prints, as well as South and Southeast Asian sculptures. The museum also offers frequently changing exhibits ranging from contemporary art to the American and European masters.
A Concert Hall building is part of the museum complex and hosts various concerts and talks throughout the year. The museum hosts regular Art After Dark events, when the museum stays open in the evening for a special exhibition that is accompanied by live music, street food stations, possibly a demonstration or presentation of some kind, and further activities such as screen-printing tutorials.
Address: 2200 South Van Buren Street
Website: www.amarilloart.org
Telephone: (806) 371 5050
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The New Phytologist Tansley Medal
Tansley Medal 2020
The New Phytologist Tansley Medal is awarded annually in recognition of an outstanding contribution to research in plant science by an individual in the early stages of their career (including students and any researcher with up to five years' experience since gaining / defending their PhD). The winner recives a prize of £2,000 (GBP) and authors a Tansley insight review, published in New Phytologist, accompanied by an Editorial.
Submissions for the New Phytologist Tansley Medal 2020 are now open!
Please read the selection procedure and rules before starting your application here.
The submission deadline for the New Phytologist Tansley Medal 2020 is midnight, 10 January 2020.
Tansley Medal 2019
Applications for the 2019 Tansley Medal are closed and judging is in progress. Please see below for details of the 2017 Tansley Medal winner.
Tansley Medal 2018
Applications for the 2018 Tansley Medal now closed and judging is in progress. Please see below for details of the 2017 Tansley Medal winner.
Tansley Medal 2017 winner
We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2017 New Phytologist Tansley Medal for Excellence in Plant Science. This year, the judges have decided to award the Medal to Stella Cesari, of INRA, UMR-BGPI, Montpellier, France. Stella's Tansley insight is titled 'Multiple strategies for pathogen perception by plant immune receptors'
Stella Cesari, winner of the 2017 New Phytologist Tansley Medal for excellence in plant science
The quality of finalists this year was very high. The details of the runners up and their Tansley insights are below:
- Yangnan Gu, Tsinghua University: Nuclear pore complex: a strategic platform to regulate cellular signaling
- Sean Michaletz, University of Arizona: Evaluating the kinetic basis of plant growth from organs to ecosystems
- Carla Staver, Yale University: Prediction and scale in savanna ecosystems
- Sambasivam Periyannan, CSIRO: Sustaining global agriculture through rapid detection and deployment of genetic resistance to deadly crop diseases
- Emily Josephs, UC Davis: Determining the evolutionary forces shaping GxE
The judging panel was comprised of New Phytologist Editors Prof. Amy Austin, Prof. Liam Dolan, Prof. Alistair Hetherington, Prof. Elena Kramer, and Prof. Natalia Requena.


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Fall 2016 Teaching
My teaching activities for Fall 2016 are
- CS 6475 Computational Photography (Part of the Online MS CS Program), supported by TAs, Kim Sirichoke, Chris Gearhart, Vickie Backman, Daniel Castro, and Phuc-Hai Huynh
- CS 6476 Computer Vision (Part of the Online MS CS Program) supported by Sarah Moore, Carleton Ericson, Prabhudev Prakash & Pedro Velez.
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