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This site provides a refreshingly new add-on to the art & science of critical thinking by taking into account that human biases and assumptions, will always be involved in any thinking process
The site is packed with innovative yet straightforward tips and tactics on how to navigate through a world saturated with numerous types of bias. Examining these pages will improve your discernment, develop your interpersonal skills, and allow you to successfully manage bias in yourself and others
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Don't be trapped by dogma (bias) – which is living with the results of other people's thinking
Change your thoughts (and biases) and you change your world
Paraphrases of Steve Jobs - co-founder of Apple Inc. & Norman V. Peale - leading self-help author
- to identify bias in even the smartest people
- bias subtly controls your thoughts and beliefs
- bias in race issues is likely not what you think
- to avoid being biased by hype & disinformation
- and why there is such a thing as legitimate bias
- to recognize disguised biases in technical concepts
Out of control biases are typically triggered by allowing one's emotions to accept facts which are comfortable, almost always simplistic, and frequently selfish; while rejecting facts which are annoying, embarrassing, or difficult to comprehend
It is not possible to exist, or even think, without bias.
Our personal biases, in the form of our assumptions and axioms,
form the starting point for all our truths, assumptions, and opinions
- Why does debate and logic rarely change our opinions?
- Why do so many people avoid logical and clear thinking?
- Why are so many scientific ideas found to be wrong in 5 years?
- Why do we often hold such varied and conflicting opinions - while claiming we are impartial?
This website shows the answer to all these types of question in a single word: Bias
Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices
William James – Philosopher and Psychologist
Our idea is to make this a go-to site on the topic of Bias by providing a practical discussion of the topic and the understanding that everyone is biased to some degree.
An Overview of Bias
Biases or biased assumptions are typically thought to a simple and straightforward issue. They are often characterized as a human weakness and, every so often, a mental problem. This attitude towards bias has sadly produced no real advancement in its resolution. The one solution social scientists have proposed is that people must to be coerced into accepting "experts" for their ideas about what are acceptable as being fair and balanced opinions.
In contrast this website presents a pragmatic portrayal of bias which highlights its astonishing complexity. The many facets and causes of bias, once they are recognized, show that the topic requires two stipulations: a precise way of assessing bias and its context; with the corollary that bias can never be eliminated but only managed by specific techniques (see: The World of Bias).
Bias can be likened to lying - but this similarity is not helpful in exploring the topic. While full and exhaustive information on lying is available (books and internet sites like: Ten easy ways to Spot a Liar, Secrets of Body Language, and Detecting Deceit) few, if any, of the proposed ideas help in identifying certain types of "bias". One reason for this is that most of us feel somewhat uneasy when we do not tell the truth; but when we are biased we can be blissfully unconscious of the need for self-reproach and frequently imagine we are acting righteously.
As displaying a bias is always a less conscious act than lying, it might be imagined it would be far more difficult to spot. But this is not the case. Firstly, bias is more common - we are all biased most all the time – so it is reasonable to assume that everyone is biased. The need with bias is not its existence but finding the roots of its cause. Ten keys, called Bias Flags, have been identified for this task and they focus on word use and the overall approaches that people use in discussing a matter.
But there is another useful knack in pinpointing bias, and that is to contrast a writer's or speaker's behavior with those who sincerely aim to be unbiased. Those who have developed ways of managing bias usually speak gently, use simple language, can support the reasons for their opinions, and know how to provide the big picture for their judgments. They tend to ask questions and never focus on persuading others.
Just as some people have mastered the dubious skill of lying without feeling guilty there are those who can feign fairness and open-mindedness. Their trick is to adopt a position of licence and to demean or entirely reject any opposing idea. This "skill" – which I call Acute Bias - is only available to a few people or groups but it has regrettably taken root in many of our universities and media. This development has also filtered into much of our culture. It has its roots in egoistic bias as described in The Three Bias Reflexes. All being well our society will soon pass through this stage.
THe First essential Step to Mange Bias
The first necessary step in the personal management of bias is to look at any contentious issue or situation from as many perspectives as possible. To achieve this carry out the following "thought experiment":
Start off with considering the positive and negative aspects of your perspective; then immediately switch to consider the positive and negative aspects of one or more opposing perspectives. Nothing particularly challenging, so far. We often call this empathy.
But, now comes the difficult part of the experiment: imagine now that you are a detached observer who is about to be placed into the actual situation under consideration, and must now decide regarding what is biased, or not. What you don't know at this point is which side of the issue you will be placed regarding your personal characteristics such as gender, education, wealth, beauty, age, intelligence, etc. - which you will have to live with for the remainder of your life.
The goal of this thought experiment is not primarily meant to produce ideal solutions but rather to awaken your intrinsic moral sense, broaden your understanding of issues, and to eliminate some of your more obvious biases. (See also: Bias Aware Thinking)
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Friday, February 3, 2012
Days #28-#30 - Three new starts!
10 comments:
- Ginnie said...
wow you have some lovely things on the go. I love the cut thru range but haven't yet attempted one.
- February 3, 2012 at 2:20 AM
- Unknown said...
Great starts and I to love the cut thru...I hope you get caught up and best of luck with the 29 starts in February. I do think you may have enough to keep you going for a month or two this year.
- February 3, 2012 at 4:48 AM
- Lesleyanne said...
Great new starts. Good luck with 29 new starts in February too. I think you might just manage to have enough to keep you going this year.
- February 3, 2012 at 5:37 AM
- Katie said...
Wow 3 new starts. I would love to see a picture of how you organize your stitching to do piles.
I can't believe you are starting new things every day in Feb too. You're crazy haha. I can't wait to watch.
- February 3, 2012 at 6:29 AM
- Unknown said...
Okay, I believe that you have officially gone overboard - LOL!! That will make 60 projects going at the same time????? You must be the most organized woman in the world. I'm with Katie - I would love to see how you keep up with all of them!
- February 3, 2012 at 6:48 AM
- demeter83 said...
Oooh, look at the pretty Bothy! Not that the others aren't gorgeous, but I do love the Bothy's
- February 3, 2012 at 3:12 PM
- sharine said...
I love the cut thru charts. More wonderful starts!
- February 3, 2012 at 3:35 PM
- Linda said...
Great starts Debbie. I love them all. We're half way there.
- February 3, 2012 at 5:20 PM
- Otter said...
Can't wait to see what you do in February. It's not like you chose a bunch of small projects in January. I had a hard enough time with just 15 in January! You are my hero!
- February 3, 2012 at 9:08 PM
- Kaisievic said...
Fantastic starts - you and Linda are both doing so well with your UCJC and now FCJC.
hugs, Kaye xoxox
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New Programs for your korg krome ? You will :)
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Higher Education
Women weren't admitted into universities until 1848, and even then, they initially attended with a lot of controversy and criticism. Beyond the fact that it was generally believed that women weren't smart enough for college, there was also a concern that educated women would make unfit wives and mothers, or that their intellect wouldn't attract a husband. As it turned out, more than half of the first generation of college graduates either delayed marriage for a career or chose to pursue a career instead marriage. Now-a-days, female college graduates outnumber men.
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Carolina Panthers fans this week on Panthers360 Radio we will be talking about Cam Newton's status, Carolina Panthers end of the season, topics and issues surrounding other teams in the NFL, and making some bold predictions along with our game of the week picks. That is right, tonight we will be hosting our 23rd Episode of Panthers360 Radio at 7pm ET. If you want to join the call the instructions are below.
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Lavin will join the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra March 17 at 8 PM at Kenan Auditorium (601 S. College Rd.) in Wilmington, NC. She will perform with the 60-piece orchestra, along with her band, which includes Bucky Pizzarelli (guitar), John Brown (bass), Steve Bakunis (drums), musical director Billy Stritch (piano) and singer Jim Caruso.
On March 21 at 8 PM Lavin will play San Francisco's Rrazz Room. The evening, a benefit for St. Jude Hospital, will also feature Freda Payne, Mary Wilson, Sharon McKnight, Cece Peniston, Pia Zadora, Natalie Douglas, Billy Stritch and Will and Anthony Nunziata.
At both concerts Lavin will perform selections from her first-ever CD "Possibilities," which includes such tunes as "It Might As Well be Spring," "You've Got Possibilities," "Two for the Road" and "Small Hotel." The recording is available from Sh-k-boom Records.
Linda Lavin won her Tony for her performance in Neil Simon's Broadway Bound and earned Tony nominations for Collected Stories, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, The Diary of Anne Frank and The Last of the Red Hot Lovers.
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Last year, two close associates of one of the most powerful members of the U.S. House spent part of their New Year's holiday 8,000 miles from Washington in the Northern Marianas. Although the islands are known for their balmy weather, golf courses and great snorkeling, the trip could hardly be described as a junket--the advisers to House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) were there on a political mission.
Ed Buckham and Mike Scanlon wanted to lend support to a conservative politician vying to become speaker of the U.S. territory's House of Representatives. As the two operatives toured airstrips and ports, assessing the islands' infrastructure needs, their message was subtle but clear: Elect Ben Fitial speaker, and congressional largess would follow.
Soon after the visit, several local lawmakers switched sides and threw their support to the DeLay-backed candidate, saying they were convinced the islands would have a better chance of winning federal funds if they elected someone with such close ties to congressional leaders. Fitial became speaker in January.
It was only the latest success in an extraordinary campaign by a powerful network of GOP lawmakers, conservative activists and lobbyists to apply their free-market ideology to this small outpost in the western Pacific, home to a bustling, low-wage garment industry that sends more than $ 1 billion worth of goods every year to the U.S. mainland.
For years, labor unions and human rights activists have tried to improve conditions at what they consider the sweatshops of the Northern Marianas, whose best-known island is Saipan. But they have been blocked at virtually every turn by the coalition of conservatives assembled by Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds, a firm that has used the issue to cement its reputation for lobbying congressional Republicans.
With the aid of powerful GOP allies such as DeLay and House Resources Committee Chairman Don Young (R-Alaska), Preston Gates has turned the Marianas into a cause celebre for conservative activists and a profitable business for itself and its allies. The firm has collected more than $ 6 million in fees from the government and businesses in the islands, and Buckham--DeLay's former chief of staff--has leveraged his ties to both the whip and Marianas officials to secure a multimillion-dollar power plant contract for a major energy company in DeLay's district.
Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), a strong critic of the lax wage and immigration laws on the islands, said the conservative campaign on the Marianas is a cautionary tale in which the very people at the center of the controversy are the only ones who lose out. "It's a story of a very narrow special interest triumphing over the rights and dignity of the workers," he said.
But Jack Abramoff, who has directed the Preston Gates lobbying campaign, compares the laws Miller and others are seeking to impose with the Nuremberg Laws restricting Jews' activities under the Nazis.
"These are immoral laws designed to destroy the economic lives of a people," Abramoff said. Conservatives "see in this battle a microcosm of an overall battle. . . . What these guys in the CNMI are trying to do is build a life without being wards of the state."
Composed of 14 islands in the Pacific just north of Guam, the area now known as the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or CNMI, was seized by the United States from the Japanese during World War II. But it wasn't until 1986 that a covenant went into effect granting Northern Marianas residents U.S. citizenship and all the benefits that flow from that, except the right to vote in federal elections.
For House Republicans, the territory embodies many of the ideals they promoted when they seized the majority in 1994. It is exempt from federal labor and immigration laws, setting its minimum wage at $ 3.05 an hour; of the roughly 79,000 residents, many are low-wage workers from China or the Philippines. The factories churn out clothes bearing the label "Made in the USA," which can be sent without tariffs or quotas to the mainland. "It is a perfect petri dish of capitalism," DeLay said in an interview. "It's like my Galapagos island."
But Democrats and labor activists say the dearth of regulations has fostered abhorrent conditions for workers. They accuse the garment manufacturers of forcing people to work long hours without overtime, failing at times to pay them at all, and requiring them to live in crowded "barracks." In 1995, when the U.S. Senate adopted a bill to impose U.S. immigration standards on the Northern Marianas, then-Gov. Froilan Tenorio hired Preston Gates to block the measure in the House.
The man Tenorio turned to, Abramoff, had impeccable GOP credentials. A former chair of the nation's College Republicans, Abramoff become so close with his executive director, Ralph Reed, that he let the future Christian Coalition leader sleep on his couch for a time. These days, Abramoff is a top fundraiser for DeLay and other House Republicans and a major fixture on the city's power lunch circuit.
Abramoff and his team, which includes DeLay's former deputy chief of staff, Bill Jarrell, and ex-representative David Funderburk (R-N.C.), launched a full-scale push to elevate the Marianas into a major issue for House Republicans, coordinating a series of free visits for lawmakers and their aides. More than 85 people took part in these visits: DeLay celebrated New Year's Day 1998 on the Northern Marianas with his wife, daughter and Buckham, his top aide at the time.
At the suggestion of Preston Gates, the territory also cultivated conservatives outside Congress. Among those who visited the Marianas at the government's expense were officials from conservative groups such as the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, Citizens for a Sound Economy, the Institute for Justice and the Traditional Values Coalition, a major conservative lobbying force.
Andrea Sheldon Lafferty, executive director of the Traditional Values Coalition, had heard from a Senate Democratic staff member that forced abortions were performed on the islands. One Sunday at church she confronted a Preston Gates employee, who offered to pay her way to the Northern Marianas.
"I was loaded for bear," recalled Lafferty, who made the journey in August 1997 and became convinced the allegations were false. She has now become a fierce proponent of the territory, starting a chapter there and even arranging for lawmakers to visit.
Other groups that have traveled to the Marianas at the territory's expense, such as Citizens Against Government Waste and Americans for Tax Reform, have launched blistering attacks on legislation that would strip the garment manufacturers of some of their special privileges, such as being able to use the "Made in the USA" label.
Indeed, Preston Gates has managed to scuttle just about every legislative thrust aimed at the Marianas. Early this year, when Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Frank H. Murkowski (R-Alaska) tried to revive his bill to apply U.S. immigration laws to the islands, the lobbyists persuaded Sen. Robert C. Smith (R-N.H.)--two of whose former aides work at Preston Gates--to put a hold on the measure and delay its consideration for weeks. Though the measure ultimately passed in the Senate, giving the firm its sole legislative defeat of the year, it stalled in the House after Resources Committee Chairman Young declared his opposition.
Young, who will be honored at a Preston Gates reception during the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, has been helpful to the cause in several other ways. He helped force the resignation of an Interior Department critic of the islands' garment industry after his committee uncovered evidence that the official engaged in partisan activity on government time. He also killed an effort this March by Democrats to impose the federal minimum wage on the islands, saying it would place an "undue burden" on the people there.
But for Preston Gates, there has been no better congressional friend than DeLay, who has repeatedly cranked the legislative gears on the territory's behalf. He and his allies have taken a particular interest in the political fortunes of Fitial, who before he became speaker this year served as second-in-command to Willie Tan, the Marianas' most powerful garment factory owner.
DeLay and his aides made local lawmakers aware of the whip's close ties to Fitial, putting an airport runway wanted by some Marianas lawmakers on a list of projects in this year's transportation spending bill.
Now his aides are hoping to add $ 350,000 to an energy and water bill to promote projects on the islands.
"I just see a very clear interference," Diego T. Benavente, a local politician and supporter of Fitial's rival, said of DeLay's efforts.
Buckham said in an interview that he went to the Marianas as a favor to Fitial. "They always say, 'We hope you can help us,' and we say, 'We hope we can help you too,' " he said. "I'm sure it did show he had powerful friends in Washington. I'm not going to deny that."
Fitial, who boasts that he is the defending putting champion at DeLay's annual charity golf tournament, said he was forced to call upon House Republicans to fend off attacks from liberal Democrats. "He's a friend. Of course I look to my friends for help," he said, adding that the islands' policies have come under fire "because there are stupid people in Washington who do not understand, or pretend not to understand, our issues."
Another beneficiary of DeLay's assistance has been Buckham, who has represented the energy giant Enron Corp. in a power plant permit dispute in the Marianas, making $ 50,000 in fees last year. When Enron felt it was unfairly cut out of the territory's bidding process, Buckham asked DeLay to write local officials.
DeLay sent the letter last summer, emphasizing that the territory "desperately needs a fair hearing in far-off Washington D.C., which at least some of us here have been able to provide," and that the same courtesy should be extended to Enron. The bidding was reopened, and Fitial subsequently pushed through a measure helping ensure that Enron would obtain the $ 120 million contract for an 80-megawatt power plant, prompting outcries from other bidders.
Fitial and his allies plan to keep up the pace regarding Washington. Although Fitial's legislation to provide $ 700,000 for new federal lobbying fees, which the speaker said would go to Preston Gates, was vetoed as part of a larger spending bill, Abramoff and Preston Gates have reason to be optimistic. On Friday the House held a special session to approve a resolution calling on the governor to hire D.C. lobbyists.
Despite the criticism, Abramoff says the Preston Gates lobbying campaign has been a success. "They were one step away from being taken over," Abramoff said. "We had a limited amount of time, so we went and educated the Republicans. It saved them."
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This day was so busy with fun things for Jake, but what will stick in his mind the most is cleaning out the old bird nests from under the deck when we got home. Dan let him do all the climbing. Jake was in heaven! Thanks for looking. Angie
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BlackStain added a post in a topic 09 Zed 18" cracked spoke!!!Yep I ended up going to a Nissan wrecked and picked up a new wheel for $300 then took it to a tyre shop and have the wheel swapped over. All in all a pain in the neck since you don't expect this to happen to an OEM part but it did and has happened to others from what I have found while researching...
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BlackStain added a topic in 370Z Wheels & Tyres09 Zed 18" cracked spoke!!!So the story goes...
A few months back while washing my Zed I noticed a slight crack on one of the spokes on the RHS front wheel, car is out of warranty but took it into NIssan regardless for them to have a look at and see what my options are. That exercise on it's own was a total waste of time since they pinned it on me saying I'd hit a pot hole or something for it to crack. I know for a fact that while the car has been in my possession I have never done so and take great care while driving.
So now few months later while coming back from a drive up in Healesville, I took a sharp left turn and heard a masie thud from the front of the car, I pulled into my garage and started to inspect and saw that the crack has gone completely the whole way through the spoke!!!
I'm now totally worried to drive it like this and don't know whether or not I should try go through the hassle of going back to Nissan or should I just cut my losses and buy a new front pair of wheels from a wrecker (cheap option), or upgrade all four??? (expensive)....
Anyone else on here experienced the same??? Like why haven't they done a recall when it is obviously a manufacturing fault???
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BlackStain added a post in a topic GTR mode: ACTIVATEDYep I've got the same, how much better does it look huh???
BlackStain added a post in a topic Boot Spring / Penny Trick / Boot Release DIY FIXJust order two of these http://www.nissanpartsdeal.com/parts/nissan-spring-lift~84415-1ea1e.html
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I did the coin thing and occasionally it still wouldn't lift in one go...
I also removed the boot lid weight and I've never had a problem since!
BlackStain added a post in a topic How to remove counter weight from bootI did this and also got the updated part for the boot springs and the boot now opens on the first go!
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BlackStain added a post in a topic 2009 370z sat nav updateHey guys
I haven't been on here much lately and have had a number of ppl asking for the update....
I will be making a new batch shortly, so those interested can you please PM me with your details.
BlackStain added a post in a topic 2009 370z sat nav update
Guys please use Nero it has a burning ROM application which is what I used to burn the .ISO file onto.
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BlackStain added a post in a topic 2009 370z sat nav updateInteresting...
I never experienced any addware with the DL, I have Avast and as always I did a check on the file.
The update is for maps including new roads and suburbs, it does have advance lane guiding and I have also noticed the accuracy has improved.
If it helps PM me and I may be able to sort something out for ya....
BlackStain added a post in a topic New 370z owner - aux question
There is also this which I've recently found but just not sure how good it is...
BlackStain added a post in a topic New 370z owner - aux questionI personally use the Quadlock case/cover with the car mount: http://www.quadlockcase.com/products/car-mount-kit-samsung-galaxy-s4
I also have the bike mount for when I'm on the bike and despite the fact that it makes the phone feel a little more "bulky" I actually don't mind the fact that I've dropped it like 5 times + and it's saved my phone.
Re: BT to Aux I was thinking on getting a BT transmitter as per what Zipkicker has on his: http://www.belkin.com/uk/p/P-F4U037/
Thing is that they're getting hard to find as I think Belkin don't make them. I've seen a couple on eBay but you have to get a phone specific one and one that has the A2DP so you can stream music.
BlackStain added a post in a topic Buying 2nd hand springsYep that's 100% correct, springs alone will make the car very bouncy after some time, the damper force on the shocks may not be a match for the springs and the car will jump all over the place. I had this happen on my NC MX-5, I then upgraded to coilovers and never looked back!
BlackStain added a post in a topic Headlight Washer Covers RemovalThanks for the info Jason, I'll give that a go some time this weekend, I have to get the car all detailed up for a mates wedding in a couple of weeks!!!
BlackStain added a post in a topic 2009 370z sat nav updateI'm still seeding it, but if worst case I can burn you a disc....
BlackStain added a post in a topic Not a Z but close enoughNice car mate!
I test drove a 370GT a couple of years back, and was a nice black couple with 6spd manual, I wish I could have bought it at the time but then again I'm really happy with my Zed!


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These 1992 - 2007 oem original equipment ford factory bench seats are new take out seats that van be installed in any van. The bench seats are equipped with latching legs and can be removed by pulling up 2 handles. Installation is only a matter of drilling and bolting. With the seat in place floor is marked through the included brackets. most find this easy enough to install themselves at home. The 1975-1991 had different cloth coverings but use the same legs and floor clamps. From 1992 to 2007 the only changes have been in minor upholstery design.
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NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — Stevie Wonder is set to be signed, sealed and delivered into the Apollo Theater Legends Hall of Fame.
Wonder, known for overcoming blindness and becoming a pop music superstar and recording hits such as "Superstition," "Living for the City," and "Part-Time Lover," will be honored Monday night at the Apollo Theater's annual spring gala.
Billy Mitchell, the Apollo Theater's historian, said that while Stevie Wonder has played in great venues across the country, the Apollo has always held a special place in his heart.
"The Apollo has always been like a home base for him and he feels very comfortable there. He's got a lot of friends," Mitchell told 1010 WINS.
Mitchell said it was "very exciting" to see Wonder as a young artist at the Apollo in the 1960's.
"I think it's very apropo that Stevie's being inducted into the Apollo Theater Hall of Fame because the Apollo Theater is known to be the epicenter of black culture and Stevie is just one of our leading acts of all time," Mitchell said.
Wyclef Jean, Sinbad, Spike Lee, and Yolanda Adams will be among the stars in attendance Monday.


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Category: California
When a peaceful protest becomes a riot
The broad coverage of the First Amendment is one of the greatest rights we have as citizens of the U.S. because it can take many forms, even those that have not yet been realized. However, it's important to note that this right isn't all encompassing and that, as a nation, we must acknowledge the inherent dangers that free speech can present to the general public.
The demonstrations in Anaheim, California this week are just a taste of free speech gone bad. The problem? The transition from peaceful demonstration to riot is an issue that is mostly ignored in political and social discourse that justifies the First Amendment right to assemble and protest. The demonstrations began as a result of Anaheim police officers shooting an unarmed man known to have a criminal record. The sixth fatal shooting by the police department this year, many are outraged that Continue reading
UC tuition freeze result of student entitlement?
As part of a 2012-2013 budget proposal sure to satisfy parents of college students, Gov. Jerry Brown has recently worked with Democratic leaders to guarantee to hold tuition rates flat for both the UC and CSU systems over the course of this year and the next. This guarantee comes on the heels of initiatives to cut state spending and reduce the state's $15.7 billion deficit. The proposal will cost the state $125 million for each system and is contingent upon Brown's November ballot measure to raise state taxes to account for the shortcomings.
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By Eamonn Byrne
Tinryland players played their part in Carlow's great victory in round 6 of the Allianz N.F.L. away to Antrim in Belfast on Sunday last. The 3 point victory ensured the Barrowsiders promotion to Division 3 for the 1st time in 33 years. Paul Broderick had his usual star game scoring 7 points with Shane Redmond, playing well in defence. Cian Lawlor was introduced early in the 2nd half while Danny Moran and Diarmaid Walshe all played their part in the six match winning sequence over London, Limerick, Leitrim, Waterford, Wicklow and Antrim. Carlow will face Laois this coming weekend at Netwatch Cullen Park in the final game of the league having already secured promotion.
The club football season will begin on this coming Sunday in Bennekerry at 6 p.m. when Tinryland senior footballers open their campaign against our neighbours Palatine. This game will also double up as the Andy Murphy memorial tournament which was first contested in 2015 during the Andy Murphy memorial week which raised over 30,000 euro for the Carlow Hospice fund. Tinryland has won the cup twice with Palatine winning in 2016 when the game was last staged in Bennekerry.
Adding further spice to this fixture is the fact that both clubs have been drawn together in the opening round of the 2018 Carlow S.F.C.
The re-scheduled Tinryland G.F.C./Bennekerry-Tinryland ladies G.A.A. dinner dance will be held at the Seven Oaks hotel on this coming Friday 23rd March at 8 p.m. Those planning to attend are requested to purchase tickets prior to tomorrow Wednesday 21st March so that numbers can be given to the hotel. The u21 championship medals and the ladies senior championship medals will be presented at the function.There is a door prize of a weekend for 2 at any Great National Hotel for one lucky ticket owner attending next Friday's function.
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Attached the reset timing initialization specifications.
1. Reading the attached spec, the 'POR Configs hold time is 2 SYSCLK's min 5 SYSCLK's M At 100 MHz that's a 30ns window', is this correct? Are we reading the requirements correctly? Yes, we do use actively driven configs.
2. Since NxP is specifying this in such small numbers of SYSCLKs, are these inputs intended to be synchronous to the SYSCLK of the MCU? If synchronous, we are concerned that an internal CPLD generated clock (+/- a few %) may not work well, would this be the case?
3. Do we need to input the SYSCLK anyway in order to support the "PLL input setup time with stable SYSCLK before HRESET_B negation" with any accuracy? The PLL lock time (given a stable 100MHz clock with easily a millisecond start-up time) is 100uS.
4. HRESET_B" is both an output and an input, but it is less than clear how/when to handle the transition. How and when is this transition handled?
5. There is a requirement to drive PORESET active low "BEFORE" the core and platform supplies are powered up". Why is the requirement needed? What is the source and reason for this requirement?


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Sunday, March 31, 2019
Melissa Etheridge Cruise
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Dar will be joining Melissa Etheridge, Shawn Colvin, Paula Cole, Jill Sobule, Antigone Rising, Delta Raye and many other amazing artists on Melissa's spring cruise from March 31st through April 7th.
We'll board the beautiful Norwegian Pearl in Tampa and journey to Harvest Caye, Costa Maya, and Grand Cayman for seven days of great music, adventure, and new friendships on the high seas.
To join Dar and all the other fine musicians get your cabin now!
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End Notes
1. Associated Press, "Universities undefendable to ID thieves." MSNBC 12/18/2006
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Our mission is to develop our existing gas discoveries in the Black Sea, expand our presence and become a leading player in the Romanian oil and gas sector. BSOG also has a mandate to become a significant independent development and production company in the region.
We believe we are well positioned to achieving these objectives because:
- Health, Safety, Environment and Quality are core to our company. We perform our operations in compliance with national and international regulations and best practices in the offshore oil & gas sector.
- Our activity is aimed at offering the best possible value for our shareholders, while providing a basis for community benefits and maximizing the opportunities that communities can harness.
- We benefit of solid financial backing from supportive and strong financial shareholders such as The Carlyle Group and the EBRD.
- We have put in place a fit-for-purpose workforce and experienced management team. Accountability, perseverance and a pioneering spirit are the main characteristics that define our company.
- We are soon to inaugurate the 1st new offshore gas development project in the Romanian Black Sea after 1989. We will have the ability to tie back even more discoveries once infrastructure has been built.
- Our ongoing work in Romania is extremely important to the country in terms of developing an industry which could provide, according to a Deloitte study*, over $70Billion to the economy, over 30,000 jobs and over $26 Billion to the state in terms of taxes and royalties.
Additionally, the growth of this industry has the potential to make Constanta the Aberdeen of the Black Sea. This industry is also important for the region as the country holds a strategic geopolitical location in terms of access to markets and its ability to provide energy security.
*Deloitte Report, May 2018: The contribution of Black Sea oil & gas projects to the development of the Romanian economy


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After a delayed launch because of problems, Wolfram Alpha has now appeared to many – therefore technically launched. The new search engine has been called the Google competitor, which I refuse to call it because it uses Google under its "Search the Web" feature, but it isn't. It's so much more.
The search engine is a very intelligent search engine as it manages to compile a huge amount of data, like trading data, recent returns, charts, dates, historical facts, timelines, etc. in one single search page – and while you can say it does a step better than Google, it does take time to load up all that information, as it image intensive – mainly because of the font they are using is not a "web standard font". Still, the design is pretty sleek.
While it is an intelligent search engine, being a computer can bring some mixed results – since it will choose the most common assumption. While it does make such assumptions, you can change the assumption to something else, like in the below above.
However, it is not only used for financial data or getting information from other sources. It is, at its core (like the company that created it) is a mathematical calculation website. You can put in any mathematical equation (simple or advanced) and it will calculate and produce a graph if need be. This is something that makes it outstanding, as you can see below:
Not only its a search engine, but it is also will make a developer happy. Wolfram Research, the company that is making all of this happen, is allowing you access of the API that powers Wolfram Alpha – with its mix of its flagship product, the powerful Mathematica software.
The website is open right now, and you can try it our yourself. You can also download a lot of its gadgets for Windows Vista, iGoogle or the Mac Dashboard – or even get its toolbars or add it as an IE8 Accelerometer. The site, however, will make it a dream for those who need it for math calculations – because no other website has ever done such an accomplished task like Wolfram Alpha.


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Mar 07, 2006 | ISBN 9780451218049
Praise for Lover Eternal
"Ward wields a commanding voice perfect for the genre, and readers new to the world of the Black Dagger Brotherhood should hold on tight for an intriguing, adrenaline-pumping ride featuring a race of warrior vampires who fill enemies with terror and women with desire. Like any good thrill ride, the pace changes with a tender story of survival and hope and leaves readers begging for more."—Booklist
"The concepts and consequences of friendship, loyalty and love are critical to this extremely intense and emotionally powerful tale. Ward's ongoing paranormal world is, among other things, colorful, dangerous and richly conceived. With both intricate plots and believable characters, she has penned a surefire hit."—RT Book Reviews
More Praise for the Novels of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
"Delicious, erotic, and thrilling."—New York Times bestselling author Nicole Jordan
"Dark fantasy lovers, you just got served."—New York Times bestselling author Lynn Viehl
"To die for. I love this series!"—New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann
"J. R. Ward's urban fantasy romance series is so popular I don't think there's a reader today who hasn't at least heard of the Black Dagger Brotherhood."—USA Today


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Join Adam Wilbert for an in-depth discussion in this video Introducing forms, part of Access 2013: Forms and Reports.
- One of the things that I really like about Access, is that it's not just a place to store data. Yes, we talk a lot about data, and records, and relationships, and queries, but where Access truly shines is in your ability to create a fully customized application that is uniquely tailored to your specific needs. Where this really becomes apparent, is when we start digging into forms. Forms are all about user interface. They provide the mechanisms that translate what you want to get done to the inner workings of the database. In fact, in a well designed Access database, there may never be a need to actually even see a datatable, or a query, or a relationships map.
Those are all background processes that organize input and output, and once they're set up properly should just work with little maintenance. Forms handle all of the grunt work of capturing user intent and moving it through the system. They help guide users through the available options. Now I'm currently in the database that we're gonna have created by the end of this course. The main starting point for this system is the Main Menu form, which is right down here. I'll go ahead and double-click on it to open it. We can see that we're inside of the KinetEco Database Main Menu. Here this gives us access to do a lot of things with our data.
For instance, I can view the Employee Directory, I'll click on this button, and the Employee Directory opens up. Where I can scroll through my different employees to see where they work. Let's go ahead and return to the Main Menu here. I can also take a look at our Product Listing if I wanted to, I'll click on this button here, here's my Product Listing, I can click through it to see all the different things that we sell. Let's go ahead and return to our Main Menu here. I can email reports, I'll just press this button here, and notice that a report gets packaged up and in just a moment we'll get into Outlook with my report attached to an email, ready to go.
Let's go ahead and close this Outlook window. Finally, I can even run reports based on my specifications. For instance, here we can see a Profit Summary, and I can choose what Year I want to see, and even which Product Category I want to see. I'll make some choices here on the form, and I'll press this button to see the Summary Report here. Let's go ahead and close this report. And that brings us right back to our Main Menu. So as an end user, that has never seen this database before, we can accomplish some specific tasks without having to dig at all into the Navigation Pane of all the underlying Tables, Queries, Forms and Reports.
Now if we think about Microsoft Word as a tool for creating documents, then we can say that Access is a tool for creating more specific tools. Now I know that that's kind of an abstract idea, so let me explain. You can use Access and have a fully operational database with nothing more than a few tables and queries. And in fact, that's where a lot of other database programs end. But when you layer on forms and reports on top of that data, you start creating something more. It becomes a custom application where Access, the program itself, doesn't really matter anymore. Access is kind of a unique program, in that it provides a framework for creating a customized application.
Unlike say, Microsoft Word, where you need to be somewhat familiar with the program to write a Word document, Access provides an environment where a novice user can get work done without having to know much at all about Access. And that's largely what creating a well designed form is all about. Your job is to create a system that makes moving around and interacting with the database easier and more streamlined so that someone, anyone really, can open up the file and feel comfortable getting data into and information out of the database. Your job, as the database designer, is to create the tools.
Then the course dives into reports: creating efficient and readable layouts, grouping data into categories, tying reports to queries, and using conditional formatting rules to highlight key takeaways from the data. Finally, Adam demonstrates how to link forms and reports together and print your results, and introduces unique ways to save time filling out paperwork and generating form letters.
- Creating forms with the Form Wizard
- Aligning form controls
- Adding buttons, links, and attachments to forms and reports
- Building database navigation elements
- Grouping and sorting data in reports
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Despite China's official assurances that hosting the 2008 Olympic Games will help to strengthen the development of human rights in the country, the Chinese government continues to deny or restrict its citizens' fundamental rights, including freedom of expression, freedom of association, and freedom of religion.
The government's extensive police and state security apparatus continues to impose multiple layers of controls on civil society activists, critics, and protesters. Those layers include professional and administrative measures, limitations on foreign travel and domestic movement, monitoring (covert or overt) of internet and phone communications, abduction and confinement incommunicado, and unofficial house arrests. A variety of vaguely defined crimes including "inciting subversion," "leaking state secrets," and "disrupting social order" provide the government with wide legal remit to stifle critics.
Human Rights and the 2008 Olympics
Despite temporary regulations in effect from January 1, 2007, to October 17, 2008, that give correspondents freedom to interview anyone who consents, foreign journalists continue to be harassed, detained, and intimidated by government and police officials. The temporary regulations do not extend to Chinese journalists or foreign correspondents' Chinese assistants, researchers, and sources, who continue to risk reprisals for violating government directives on taboo reporting topics.
Official efforts to rid Beijing of undesirables ahead of the Olympics have accelerated the eviction of petitioners-citizens from the countryside who come to the capital seeking redress for grievances ranging from illegal land seizures to official corruption. In September-October the Beijing municipal government demolished a settlement in Fengtai district that housed up to 4,000 petitioners.
The countdown to the Olympics has also sparked a construction boom. An estimated one million migrant construction workers are integral to this effort, yet their labor conditions are harsh and unsafe, and workers are often unable to access public services. When a subway tunnel under construction collapsed in March, trapping six workers, the first step the employer took was to prevent workers from reporting the accident by confiscating their mobile phones.
Freedom of Expression
In 2007 the Chinese government stepped up its efforts to control increasingly vibrant print and online forms of expression, and sanctioned individuals, journalists, and editors for failing to conform to highly restrictive but inconsistently implemented laws and regulations.
China's system of internet censorship and surveillance is the most advanced in the world. Filtering, blocking, and monitoring technologies are built into all layers of China's internet infrastructure. Tens of thousands of police remotely monitor internet use around the clock. The elaborate system of censorship is aided by extensive corporate and private sector cooperation-including by some of the world's major international technology and internet companies such as Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft. Writers, editors, bloggers, webmasters, writers, and journalists risk punishments ranging from immediate dismissal to prosecution and lengthy jail terms for sending news outside China or posting articles critical of the political system. For example, Zhang Jianhong, former editor-in-chief of the Aegean Sea website, was sentenced to six years' imprisonment on March 19 for "inciting subversion."
The countdown to the Beijing Olympics has seen the threshold lowered for internet content considered "sensitive" by China's censors and prompted closure of access to thousands of websites in 2007, including popular international sites such as Wikipedia and Flickr. The government has expanded its traditional criteria for internet censorship from topics including references to the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre, the outlawed Falungong "evil cult," and content perceived as sympathetic to "separatist" elements in Tibet, Xinjiang, and Taiwan, to include "unauthorized" coverage of everything from natural disasters to corruption scandals that might embarrass the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). By official estimate the government shut down more than 18,000 individual blogs and websites since April 2007, and in August censors widened their focus to include shutting down numerous internet data centers. Official measures to filter or remove "sensitive" content from domestic websites sharply accelerated in the run up to the 17th CCP Congress in October.
Chinese journalists continue to risk severe repercussions for pursuing stories that touch on officially taboo subjects or threaten powerful private interests. Miao Wei, former executive editor of Sanlian Life Weekly, confirmed in April that he had been demoted in connection with a cover story on the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Lan Chengzhang, a reporter with China Trade News, was murdered in January while investigating an illegal coalmine in Datong, Shanxi province. In mid-August five journalists, including a reporter from the party mouthpiece People's Daily, were interviewing witnesses to the Fenghuang bridge collapse in Hunan province when plainclothes thugs interrupted the interviews and kicked and punched the journalists, who were then detained by police.
Legal Reform
Legal reforms proceeded at a fast pace in 2007 in order to achieve the CCP's overriding goal of making the rule of law "the principal tool to govern the country." New legislation was adopted on a wide range of issues such as property rights, labor contracts, administration of lawyers, access to public records, and the handling of emergencies. But the party's continued dominance over, and interference with, judicial institutions, as well as weak and inconsistent enforcement of judicial decisions, means that overall the legal system remains vulnerable to arbitrary interference.
Ordinary citizens face immense obstacles to accessing justice, in particular over issues such as illegal land seizures, forced evictions, environmental pollution, unpaid wages, corruption, and abuse of power by local officials, a situation that fuels rising social unrest across the country. The authorities have stopped disclosing figures about the number of riots and demonstrations after they announced a decline from over 200 incidents per day in 2006, but large-scale incidents were reported in 2007 in almost all of China's 34 province-level administrative units. Several demonstrations involved tens of thousand of people, such as in Yongzhou (Hunan) in March 2007 and Xiamen (Fujian) in June. In speeches and articles top security officials acknowledged the heightening of social conflicts, but remained defiant toward greater independence of the judiciary, blaming "hostile" or "enemy forces" for trying to use the nation's legal system to undermine and westernize China. A string of lawyers defending human rights cases have been suspended or disbarred under a yearly licensing system that acts as a general deterrent to taking cases viewed as "sensitive" by the authorities.
The rights of criminal defendants continued to be sharply limited and violated by law enforcement agencies. Defense lawyers face chronic difficulties including accessing defendants in custody, consulting court documents, and producing exculpatory evidence before the court. Despite the reiteration by the Supreme People's Court in September that judges ought to "pay more attention to evidence and treat confessions with more skepticism," torture, especially at the pretrial stage, remains prevalent. The Public Security Bureau continues to make wide use, including for political and religious dissidents, of the reeducation-through-labor system, which allows detention for up to four years of "minor offenders," without trial.
Human Rights Defenders
Chinese human rights defenders, seizing on the official promise of lawful governance, are becoming more assertive and skillful at documenting abuses and mounting legal challenges. But the authorities, who have never tolerated independent human rights monitoring, have retaliated with harassment, unlawful detention, forced disappearances, and long prison sentences, often on trumped-up charges.
Authorities have targeted a small, loosely-organized network of lawyers, legal academics, rights activists, and journalists, known as the weiquan movement, which aims to pursue social justice and constitutional rights through litigation. The movement focuses on the protection of ordinary citizens in matters such as housing rights, land seizures, workers' rights, and police abuse. Yang Chunlin, a land rights activist, was arrested in July and charged with subversion for his role in organizing a petition titled "We want human rights, not the Olympics." Lu Gengsong, a former lecturer turned activist who documented illegal eviction cases and official collusion, was arrested in August on suspicion of subverting state power. Both are awaiting trial. The same month environmental activist Wu Lihong was sentenced to three years' imprisonment under ill-defined business fraud charges; his wife reported he had been tortured while held incommunicado. Yang Maodong, a Guangzhou-based land rights activist arrested in September 2006 and still awaiting trial, also reported that he had been repeatedly tortured in detention.
Defenders who document and report abuses against other activists are particularly vulnerable. In September lawyer Li Heping was abducted in broad daylight, held for six hours, severely beaten, and told he should leave Beijing. Li Jianqiang, a renowned human rights lawyer, was disbarred without reason. The human rights monitor Hu Jia has been kept under extralegal house arrest in Beijing for most of the year. Yuan Weijing, the wife of the blind activist Chen Guangcheng who is currently serving a three-year sentence for exposing family planning abuses, was prevented from traveling abroad to collect a human rights prize on his behalf.
Labor Rights
Chinese workers continue to be forbidden to form independent trade unions, as the government maintains that the party-controlled All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) adequately protects workers' rights. This restriction on legally-sanctioned labor activism coupled with increasingly tense labor disputes in which protesting workers have few realistic routes for redress have contributed to increasing numbers of workers taking to the streets and to the courts to press claims about forced and uncompensated overtime, employer violations of minimum wage rules, unpaid pensions and wages, and dangerous and unhealthy working environments.
Workers who seek redress through strike action are often subject to attacks by plainclothes thugs who appear to operate at the behest of employers. In July a group of 200 thugs armed with spades, axes, and steel pipes attacked a group of workers in Heyuan (Guangdong), who were protesting over not having been paid for four months; they beat one worker to death.
Children's Rights
Under "Work and Study" programs regulated by the Ministry of Education, schools in impoverished areas are encouraged to set up income-generating activities to make up for budgetary shortfalls. According to the ministry, nationwide more than 400,000 middle and junior high schools, for children ages 12 to 16, are running agricultural and manufacturing schemes. Overly vague program regulations and poor supervision have led to chronic abuse by schools and employers alike: some of the programs interfere with children's education, lack basic health and safety guarantees, and involve long hours and dangerous work. Children as young as 12 have been employed in heavy agricultural and hazardous construction work. Others have been dispatched to local factories for weeks or months of "summer employment." Some schools have turned into full-fledged workshops to produce local handiwork or foodstuff while relegating teaching to a few hours a week.
Women's Rights
Gender-based discrimination and violence remain entrenched problems in China. Despite slowly increasing attention to domestic violence, public awareness and access to services in rural areas are especially low. Strong son preference contributes to sex-selective abortions, differential care of girls leading to significantly higher rates of female infant mortality, and in extreme cases female infanticide or sale to human traffickers.
A senior central government official in September described China's HIV/AIDS situation in several provinces as "very serious" due to drug trafficking and illegal blood sales. But despite government assurances that it had prioritized all possible measures to contain the spread of HIV/AIDS, activists and grassroots organizations continued to come under attack in 2007 by local officials and security officials.
Dr. Gao Yaojie, a doctor who helped expose the Henan province HIV-contaminated blood sales scandal, was barred in February from going to the United States to receive a human rights award until an international outcry forced the government to reverse that decision. In August the government forced the cancellation of two meetings of HIV/AIDS activists in Guangzhou (Guangdong) and Kaifeng (Henan). On August 15 Henan Public Security Bureau officials also ordered, without explanation, the temporary closure of two provincial offices of the nonprofit China Orchid AIDS project.
The government's announcement in September that it would introduce compulsory screening of all blood products beginning on January 1, 2008, to prevent the transmission of HIV and other blood-borne diseases through transfusions and pharmaceutical products is an important step forward in official efforts to help control the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Freedom of Religion
The Chinese government recognizes the right to believe, but limits worship to a state-controlled system of registered and controlled churches, congregations, mosques, monasteries, and temples.
The official registration process requires government vetting and ongoing scrutiny of religious publications, seminary applications, and religious personnel. The government also closely monitors the membership and financial records of religious institutions and the personnel they employ, and retains the right to approve or deny applications for any group activities by religious organizations. Those who fail to register are considered illegal and are liable for criminal prosecution, fines, and closure.
Reprisals against non-registered religious organizations have primarily focused on arrests of Protestants who attend "house churches," for Bible study meetings and training sessions. The majority of those arrested are rapidly released, some after paying fines, but leaders of such underground churches are sometimes held on fabricated charges including "illegal business practices." The freedom of belief of certain groups designated by the government as "evil cults," including Falungong, continues to be severely restricted.
Involuntary Resettlement Programs
The growing scale of forced resettlement projects across China to make way for infrastructure, environmental, and urbanization projects in 2007 continued to be marked by widespread irregularities, including lack of consultation, forced evictions, embezzlement, and corruption. China announced in October plans to relocate up to 4 million more people from areas surrounding the Three Gorges Dam-the world's biggest hydroelectric power project.
Multiple programs to remove indigenous populations from environmentally fragile areas, such as on the Tibetan plateau, appear to be motivated, at least in part, by an integrationist agenda aimed at weakening minority cultural distinctiveness and extending Chinese control over their lives. An official policy of forcibly relocating ethnic Tibetan herders in Tibet, Gansu, Qinghai and Sichuan to urban areas is seriously disrupting traditional lifestyles and has put under threat the livelihoods of approximately 700,000 such people already resettled. In September the Chinese government announced that it would resettle another 100,000 nomads from Qinghai province alone.
The Chinese government accuses the Dalai Lama, in exile in India since 1959, of being the linchpin of alleged plots to separate Tibet from China. It views Tibetan Buddhism as complicit in those efforts. The government lodged strong objections to meetings between the Dalai Lama and US, Australian, Austrian, and German leaders in 2007.
Widespread and numerous instances of repression target ordinary citizens, monks, nuns, and even children in an effort to quash alleged "separatism." Seven Tibetan boys in Gansu province were detained for over a month in early September after they allegedly wrote slogans on the walls of a village police station and elsewhere calling for the return of the Dalai Lama and a free Tibet. Ronggyal Adrak was detained and charged under state security offenses by police on August 1 after he called for the Dalai Lama's return at a horse race festival in Sichuan province. He is awaiting trial.
The Chinese government has failed to bring to justice those responsible for the shooting death by People's Armed Police officers of a 17-year-old nun, Kelsang Namtso, while trying to cross the border into Nepal on September 30, 2006.
Drastic controls over religious, cultural, and political expression of Muslim populations remained in place in 2007 in the Uighur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang-aside from Tibet, the only province of China where the ethnic Chinese population is not the majority, despite in-migration of over a million people from other parts of China in the past decade. The government only tolerates religious activities in state-controlled religious venues, conducted by state-appointed clerics. Minors are prohibited from participating in religious activities and, in some localities, barred from entering mosques.
In June Xinjiang authorities started confiscating Muslims' passports in an apparent bid to prevent them from making non-state-approved pilgrimages to Mecca. Civil servants, teachers, and clerics are subjected to intense indoctrination against the "three evil forces"-separatism, religious extremism, and terrorism. Eighteen people were killed and 17 arrested in January in a raid on what the government described as a "terrorist training camp" of the East Turkistan Islamic Movement, a group whose existence independent analysts have been questioning since 2001. In November five of them were sentenced to death, and one to life imprisonment under various terrorism charges.
There is widespread evidence that the government uses isolated incidents to conflate any expression of public discontent with terrorism or separatism. Chinese officials have labeled the exiled activist Rebiya Kadeer-a Nobel Peace Prize nominee-a terrorist, and in April 2007 Ablikim Abdiriyim, her son, was sentenced to nine years' imprisonment for "having spread secessionist articles over the internet." Another son, Alim Abdiriyim, was sentenced in November 2006 to seven years' imprisonment for tax evasion. Huseyincan Celil, a former political prisoner who had fled China in 2000, was forcibly returned by Uzbek authorities to China in 2006, and sentenced to life imprisonment in April 2007. China refused to recognize his Canadian citizenship and did not allow Canadian diplomats to attend his trial.
Hong Kong
The government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has failed to clearly indicate how it will fulfill two requirements of the Basic Law (the territory's mini-constitution) that have crucial human rights implications: the direct election of the chief executive and the drafting of anti-subversion legislation under article 23. Despite an adequate legal framework to uphold freedom of expression, Hong Kong journalists denounced the self-censorship prevalent in the media, particularly with respect to the coverage of mainland issues.
Key International Actors
China continues to describe itself as a "responsible power." Yet its resistance to the United Nations Security Council's and the Human Rights Council's taking decisive action to respond to serious human rights violations and hold individual countries accountable for their human rights records contradicted that label. China increasingly uses its leverage to minimize criticism in international institutions, most notably by forcing the World Bank in June to remove information about the consequences of pollution in China from a draft report. It continues to resist requests for cooperation with key UN offices, including the special rapporteur on North Korea, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), regarding the status of North Koreans in China.
Largely in response to considerable international pressure, China took more concrete and public steps to help ameliorate the human rights crisis in Darfur, Sudan. It appointed a new special envoy on Darfur and agreed to contribute peacekeeping troops, but it continued to enable Khartoum's brutality by consistently blocking international efforts to impose sanctions. In addition, while China consented to some critical UN Security Council language following the August-September repression in Burma, it refused to speak strongly itself or take steps to end the crisis, such as suspending all military aid and cooperation.


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Keep tuna on hand for quick, last-minute pasta sauces. Lemon zest, lemon juice, and tons of fresh herbs brighten this one. Though Italian cooks stick to canned tuna for this kind of sauce, you might try it with fresh tuna steaks, seared and sliced. Plus: More Pasta Recipes and Tips
How to Make It
In a small frying pan, toast the walnuts over moderately low heat, stirring frequently, until golden brown, about 5 minutes. Or toast them in a 350° oven for 5 to 10 minutes.
In a large pot of boiling, salted water, cook the linguine until just done, about 12 minutes. Drain.
Meanwhile, in a large frying pan, heat the olive oil over moderate heat. Add the garlic and cook, stirring, for 1 minute. Stir in the tuna and its oil and break up the tuna with a fork. Remove from the heat. Toss the linguine with the tuna mixture, the lemon zest, lemon juice, salt, pepper, herbs, and the toasted walnuts.
Canned Tuna Brands of tuna vary tremendously. Here we use tuna packed in oil (preferably olive oil),and we count on that oil as part of the sauce. If your tuna has less than one and a half tablespoons oil per can, add more olive oil to make up the difference.


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Hmm, you know, a new anarki forum could have the benefit of adding a tags feature for posts. A few good tags could be 'lang-design', 'arc', 'anarki', 'help', etc., etc. Not only would this allow our subtypes of members to zero in on their content of interest, but would make searching for meaningful info much easier. Now that would probably make me jump over.
I've often thought that the structure of the news.arc forum is rather unhelpful for the arc community, especially now that we're so small and lethargic. Conversations can go extended periods of time without comment, so they get locked. Or they fall off the front page, and hard to find again. Neither is conducive to long-term development and improvement; we probably lose a lot of valuable work and ideas that way.
One thing I'm considering as part of developing a new community site is collecting and archiving all of the arclanguage.org content, so we can actually access it. And preserve it, if the site goes down.
But I end up wasting all my time on discussion, instead of actually making progress on that...
I suppose I could set up a proxy or something. And I was planning on scraping everything to a new community site anyway, so maybe I should take this as the incentive to do so.
Hacker News has an IP unpanning procedure[0] but I don't think Arc Forum has one.
In the Arc 3.1 code there is a function `set-ip-ban` for unbanning users, but no `unban` op.
(Someone should add that to Anarki, actually.)
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4761102
(def set-ip-ban (user ip yesno (o info))
(= (banned-ips* ip) (and yesno (list user (seconds) info)))
(todisk banned-ips*))


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So, you're the man who's going to give Dubai the gourmet cupcake.
[Laughs] Yes. I went to New York for a holiday, and my friend Mae told me, 'You have to check out this place called Magnolia's, it has the best cupcakes.' You might know them from Sex And The City. She even got me the Magnolia's cookbook and the pictures in it looked so delicious. The place was really cute and vintage, and very '50s and homey. All the cakes looked like something your mum or grandmother would make. I thought, wow, we have nothing like this in the Middle East. I told Mae I wanted to open something like Magnolia's in Jordon, and she said go for it.
You started out in marketing. How'd you get into the cupcake business?
I started making Magnolia recipes from the cookbook. I would take them into work the next day and people loved them. That's when I said, 'That's it, I have to put this plan into action.' I went on the internet and found a culinary school in New York. I applied and got accepted, then I resigned and moved to New York.
You opened up your first Sugar Daddy's in Amman last year. How's business?
Amazing. I started taking orders on a daily basis and I hadn't even opened my shop, so by the time I did, a lot of people already knew about it. Dana [my business partner in Dubai] ordered a carrot cake for her baby shower and said, 'have you ever thought about franchising?' I said, 'Not really, but it sounds like a great idea,' and that's how it all started.
How is Sugar Daddy's different from other bakeries?
Any dessert shop you go into, you'll find they use ready-made batters, and they add oil and eggs. That's why when you taste a cake that's brought in by a patisserie, it tastes mass-produced. We make everything with the highest quality ingredients. With our caramel apple pecan cheesecake, we peel and core our apples and sauté them in cinnamon. It tastes like something your mom would make at home.
You specialise in classic American desserts. Was it difficult making these recipes in the Middle East?
Most of the flour you get in this part of the world has a 10 to 12 per cent protein. The more protein you have, the more gluten is formed. If you have too much, your cakes will taste stiff. Dana went to 10 to 12 different suppliers until we found something we were all happy with. I made a batch with it just yesterday. I'm sick of my desserts, because they're coming out of my ears, but after I bit into this cupcake, I was like, wow.
Sugar Daddy's, Village Mall, Jumeirah Beach Road (04 344 8204; www.sugardaddysbakery.com). Open Saturday-Thursday 9am-10pm


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Check out this year's fantastic speaker line-up for the Florida Public Relations Association's 72nd Annual Conference! Expect to be enlightened, surprised and inspired during the conference, which will be held August 8-11, 2010 at the Naples Grand Beach Resort.
This year's event will shine a spotlight on The Big Picture: Bringing PR Leadership and Strategy into Focus!
Today's thought leaders will share ideas and trends from a variety in industry angles. Below are just a few to expect:
- Embracing the new PR and social communications for business
- Reinventing the PR role
- Becoming more valuable in the eyes of your organization's decision makers
- Learning how to become the most trusted and essential team member to your CEO
- Avoiding legal pitfalls and wisely using technology to market your group and protect internal data
- Tips for making sure that your personal choices positively influence your professional success
On a budget? Read our earlier post, Annual Conference on a Budget?, for some ways to experience The Big Picture on a budget.


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General Policies and Procedures
The "General Policies and Procedures" section provides information regarding student conduct and regulations governing university facilities. Another section in the Student Handbook delineates policies governing student organizations. Both the General Policies and Procedures and the Student Organization Policies and Procedures are to be considered equally in force, not mutually exclusive, even when one set of policies does not specifically cite regulations listed in the other.
This handbook has been prepared by the Division of Student Affairs and put online by the WSU Web Team. The university reserves the right to update, revise, and promulgate these and other policies at any time. Final interpretation of these policies remains with the university. Every effort is made to keep this website updated.
Questions and concerns may be addressed to the Office of Student Support Services.


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James Knight
Senior Manager - Moore Kingston Smith Licensed Insolvency Practitioners
+44 (0)20 7566 4020
James is responsible for the day-to-day control of a large portfolio of cases. This is formed primarily of corporate insolvency work but also includes bankruptcy and IVA cases.
He has dealt with solvent liquidations large companies, where maintaining good client relationships is essential, as well as dealing with more contentious matters where investigations into a company's prior dealings and conduct of the directors are required.
James joined Moore Kingston Smith Licensed Insolvency Practitioners in March 2009 as a trainee insolvency administrator and was promoted to supervisor in 2014. James is based in the City office.
He passed the CPI exam with a distinction in 2010 and has since gone on to pass the JIEB exams in 2013.
James enjoys travelling and photography, but currently spends most of his weekends completing DIY projects at home.


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Florida-based band TORCHE will release a collection of singles, aptly titled "Songs For Singles", on September 21 via Hydra Head.
The track listing for the effort is as follows:
02. Lay Low
03. Hideaway
04. Arrowhead
05. Shine On My Old Ways
06. Cast Into Unknown
07. Face The Wall
08. Out Again
TORCHE's second full-length album, "Meanderthal", came out in April 2008 through the Hydra Head imprint (vinyl on Robotic Empire). Recorded throughout November 2007 at Godcity Studios in Salem, Massachusetts, the 13-track album was TORCHE's first with Kurt Ballou (CONVERGE, GENGHIS TRON, DISFEAR) at the helm.


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Local Government Agencies
From contacting the City to setting up a new business, you may have a need to contact one or more of our local government agencies.
Reno enjoys a relatively low tax exposure compared to other cities, especially those nearby. Nevada does not have a state/personal income tax.
Getting Around Reno
Reno only has 2 freeways, I-80 running East and West and I-580 running North and South (formerly 395); in addition, we have McCarran, which is essentially a belt loop. Reno-Tahoe Airport is gaining more flights all the time.
Reno Weather
The weather here is amazing! You can ski in the mornings and golf in the afternoons. You get to experience all 4 seasons and the beauty each of them bring to our area.
Fascinating Facts
Learn some fascinating facts about Reno!
View the Reno area demographics.


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From the Squam Lake Inn, Holderness, NH
Preheat griddle or large skillet on medium high. Wisk together dry ingredients. Combine w/ beaten eggs, buttermilk and milk in a bowl using a fork. Do not over mix. Cut melted butter into the batter. Brush griddle or pan generously with butter before pouring patter. Add fresh blueberries to the pancakes after pouring batter onto griddle. Cook till bubbles appear in the center of the pancake. Flip and finish until golden brown Serve with NH Maple Syrup and Rae's Maple Sugar Bacon.
Add julienne apples sprinkled lightly with cinnamon and sugar, after pouring batter onto griddle.
This recipe works great if you have some "plain" eaters at your table. Simply leave out any berries or apples!