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The council at the centre of a row over an Italian woman who was given a forced caesarean section and then had her baby taken from her said the decision was taken over concerns about the "risks to mother and child". According to reports, the 35-year-old woman came to Britain in June 2012 when heavily pregnant for a training course at Stansted airport in Essex. She reportedly had a panic attack connected to a failure to take regular medication for an existing bipolar condition, and was restrained and sectioned under the Mental Health Act. Essex social services won a high court order for the birth to be carried out by caesarean section and the baby girl, born in August, was taken into care [see footnote]. The mother returned from Italy in February to request custody of her daughter, telling a family court judge, Roderick Newton, that she had come to terms with her condition and was now sufficiently well. Newton expressed sympathy and said the mother was coherent and convincing, but ruled that social workers' concerns that the woman might again neglect to take her medication meant the girl, now 15 months, should be placed for adoption. In a statement yesterday, the council said: "The long-term safety and wellbeing of children is always Essex County Council's priority. Adoption is never considered until we have exhausted all other options and is never pursued lightly." The health trust had been looking after the mother since 13 June 2012 under the mental health act. Because of its concerns, it contacted Essex social services. Five weeks later it was the trust's clinical decision to apply to the high court for permission to deliver the unborn child by caesarean section "because of concerns about risk to mother and child", the council said. "Historically, the mother has two other children which she is unable to care for due to orders by the Italian authorities. In accordance with Essex County Council's Social Services practice, social workers liaised extensively with the extended family before and after the birth of the baby, to establish if anyone could care for the child." An MP who has taken up the woman's case is in discussions with the mother about what to do over the issue. John Hemming, the Liberal Democrat MP for Birmingham Yardley, said in a statement that he was also in touch with Italian officials to find out if they could help. Hemming, who chairs the Justice for Families Campaign, has said he hopes to raise the matter in parliament. "Unsurprisingly, there is a lot of media interest in this case," he said. "We do, however, need to remember that at the centre of this case is a mother and a baby, and the wider family including two siblings of the baby." A spokesman for the judiciary said: "The proceedings are not yet concluded. The president [Sir James Munby] has ordered that the matter be transferred to the high court and any further applications in respect of the child are to be heard by him." Hemming said: "I welcome the transfer of the case from Chelmsford county court to the high court in front of the president of the family division. The appointment of the president of the family division was a very positive step and I am certain that any applications to him will be heard justly. "I remain concerned that many decisions taken by the family courts are taken by the magistrates court (the family proceedings court) and are then appealed to the county court. This means that domestic proceedings can be exhausted without a case getting out of the area in which it is considered. "This means that there is never any public judgment and the case in the UK has come to an end. All people can then do is to take their case to Strasbourg." He also criticised Essex council for failing "to follow proper proceedings". He said: "The rules are straightforward when it comes to foreign nationals and care proceedings. The foreign country concerned should be contacted through their central authority (in Italy's case part of the Justice Ministry). This clearly did not happen and for this Essex County Council are clearly in the wrong. Essex have not managed to explain why no one in the wider extended family was competent to look after the baby when they were already looking after two of her siblings. "Additionally, Essex have not explained why this baby was in their control to get adopted when the mother always intended to return to Italy." Other groups have expressed concern about the case of the Italian woman, including the charity Bipolar UK and the human rights organisation Liberty. • This footnote was added on 4 December and updated on 6 December 2013. It was subsequently made clear that it was the local health trust which sought permission for the baby to be delivered by caesarean section. Essex council's social services then applied for an interim care order. The article has been amended to make clear that the woman's detention under the Mental Health Act started in June 2012, not July.

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Groupon, a deal-of-the-day website that features discounted gift certificates usable at local or national companies and they have recently reported that it actually made $14.3 million less in revenue during the fourth quarter of 2011. I think it is not a great news for Groupon and of-course it’s market’s stock is fall and we all know that about this and news is already reported by various media groups. We have a statement from Tech Crunch regarding this new ” $492.2 million, compared to the previously stated $506.5 million. It also spent more in operating expenses than it previously said it did — resulting in its Q4 operating income and net income being $30 million and $22.6 million less, respectively, than the company initially said it was”. And, In an interview with Bloomberg News Groupon’s Executive Chairman Eric Lefkofsky said the company is “going to be wildly profitable”. Bloomberg mentioned that The changes announced yesterday are “are primarily related to an increase to the company’s refund reserve accrual,” leading to higher reimbursement rates, Groupon said. Image Courtesy: Flickr

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Commentary: The pollsters seemed to have a better feel for the #1 Kentucky team as they were only ranked as the #4 team by Rewards after the regular season conclude. The teams they defeated didn't appear to be quite as strong as those beaten by Indiana and Kansas State, who finished with slightly higher overall ratings than Kentucky did, even though both the Hoosiers and the Wildcats suffered one more loss than Kentucky did. Adolph Rupp's Kentucky team vaulted into the #1 spot in the final Rewards ranking, after the Wildcats won the NCAA tournament; Columbia shifted downward into the #2 position after their first loss of the season (in the opening round of the NCAA tournament). UCLA lost twice in the roughly 30 games that were played after the final AP poll was taken (3/7/1951), and so their #16 ranking in the newly established UPI (Coaches) poll is somewhat dubious; Rewards ranked the Bruins as the #36 team, when including those two losses. (I don't know the date when the final UPI poll was taken). Rewards had Columbia as the #1 team, essentially because they were the only undefeated team. Oklahoma State was the #2 team in both polls, but they were #7 according to Rewards, and #12 according to the Power Rating System which had Kansas State (#4 and #3 in the polls) and Kentucky (#1 in both polls) as the top two rated teams, and KSU and Kentucky actually did play against each other in the NCAA Tournament Championship game! (OK State was tied for the 20th best team according to my Discrete Rating System. KSU and Kentucky were 1-2 in that one system as well). Therefore, it really was no surprise that the Kansas State knocked off the OK State in the NCAA tournament, though 68-44 was a larger margin than most would have imagined the 27-4 Cowboys losing by. Otherwise, the top fifteen teams in the polls appeared throughout Reward's top 25, but many were more than several positions away - especially BYU which was ranked in the polls at #10/#11 and Rewards ranked them as the #26 team. (BYU did have 7 losses, and the highest team in the Rewards rankings with that many losses was #15 St. Louis, followed by #25 Princeton. For the most part, teams with fewer losses are ranked higher by Rewards, assuming they have defeated a few high quality opponents.) (This page last modified February 01, 2010 .)

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This is definitely Eminem’s year. The rapper turned actor debuts in "8 Miles" this week. The reviews have not only been in his favor, but the soundtrack accompanying the film has already sold over 500,000 copies and has hit the top of the charts. The Los Angeles premiere was held last night with celebrities such as Kim Basinger, Alicia Silverstone, Pam Anderson and fiancé Kid Rock and Macy strutting their stuff on the red carpet. Even Christina Aguilera, with whom he’s had major beef with, attended the premiere in support of his new endeavor. The feature opens wide on Friday, November 8. Eminem has also partnered with JulianKeys, an application created by Equate Systems that allows website visitors to access the content of a website through the keyboard’s function keys [F1-F12] or a desktop toolbar. Upon downloading the program (located at http://eminem.com/eminemkeys/download), you’ll get instant access to Eminem content by simply punching your Function Eminem has proven himself to be a successful hip-hop artist, movie star and businessman in accordance with the times. Quite surely we can continue to expect more from him in the future.

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University of Phoenix is the United States’ largest private university. It has over 400,000 students split between a robust online learning program and 400 brick and mortar campuses. Through GeekMom, I have been offered the opportunity to take an online class (of my choosing) with UOPX and write about my experience. This post is part of that ongoing series. When I became a military wife twenty years ago at the age of 23, I had no understanding of what I was “signing up for.” I knew that my husband and I would be moving to three different regions of the country in the first two years of his commitment and that he’d be required to work 60-100 hour work-weeks as he progressed through the Navy’s nuclear power training program (fact: the United States Navy actually operates over 100 nuclear reactors–split between submarines, aircraft carriers, and nuclear training facilities–and trains most of their nuclear staff in-house). What I didn’t understand was how difficult it would be to create my own career around my husband’s. At the time, the nuclear training program was split into two components–a year of classroom instruction (for us, in Central Florida) followed by six months of prototype training that could occur at one of four nuclear training installations around the country. At the end of training, students would then receive orders for active duty at any of the state-side navy bases. The upshot of this was that in the span of twelve months in 91-92, we moved from Central Florida to upstate New York to Norfolk, Virginia–and with the ink still wet on my first paycheck at a new, hard-won job, we were told that my husband’s boat was being redeployed to San Diego. Now, there is a reason that I write for GeekMom and not Glib(GetsInvitedToSwankParties)Mom. At my core, I am an introvert that requires “a good bit of time to grow accustomed to new people and places” (as Robin mentioned in her April post on introversion). There are, apparently, people who can handle this level of upheaval in their lives but I am most definitely not one of them. Which is why we didn’t move to San Diego. I explained to my husband in decibels that had dogs up and down the Virginia Peninsula gnashing their teeth in anguish that his boat might indeed be moving to San Diego, and that he might even be a crewman on that boat, but that the only way I was joining him on the West Coast was if he trussed me to the front of the car and drove me there–and even then, the sainted ghost of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover himself would be unable to stop me from hurling myself bodily and with ill-intent into the spume-y Pacific upon arrival. I needed to grow roots and stay in one place for a while. In a brazen (and let’s face it: concerned) omnia vincit amor bid, my husband procured an unheard-of transfer to a Norfolk-based submarine and we were able to remain in the same home for the next four years. Even with this “victory,” however, these active-duty years were tremendously challenging. My husband was attached to a fast-attack sub with no set schedule that was often out at sea for months at a time–one year, the boat was out to sea and out-of-communication beneath a polar ice cap for almost ten months, cumulatively. Even when he was in port, “the nukes” pulled duty every third night, staying aboard the boat to monitor its reactor. (All this, I might add, on a salary that would have qualified us for food stamps had we gotten pregnant at the time.) We’ve been out of the Navy for 11 years now but all of these experiences came rushing back to me when I was offered the opportunity to take an online class with University of Phoenix for GeekMom last spring. Back in the 90′s, I’d felt trapped by geography–none of the colleges in our region offered media programs. It seemed I had a choice: I could physically separate from my husband to attend school and pursue my own professional dream or I could stay at home and put my education off until we were out of the military. One summer, I actually tested the idea and enrolled in a course in a media/journalism three hours away in Washington, DC, but ultimately, it didn’t feel like the right choice for that time, either personally, financially, or professionally, and I returned home. Would University of Phoenix have been a good option for someone like military-wife me, I’ve wondered? Since we’ve left the military, more attention has been paid to wives’ professional lives–at least in part because the numbers of military personnel coming home injured from Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom mean that some military wives are put in the position of becoming the primary wage-earner for their families. As a result, in 2009, the government began allowing a transfer of GI Bill benefits to a dependent spouse or child for the first time. Previously, the government had also created the Military Spouse Career Advancement Accounts Program (MyCAA) program for spouses of military members in the lowest pay grades to help cover costs associated with an accreditation or undergraduate degree. Financial access-wise: we’ve come a long way, baby… Cost-wise, like many schools, University of Phoenix actually charges active-duty military and their dependents lower tuition fees–undergraduate classwork is generally assessed at $250 per credit and graduate work costs between $465 and $575 per credit (depending on the program), while non-military students will pay hundreds of dollars more for each class. According to eLearner.com‘s comparison of online education costs: At the University of Phoenix, tuition for online business programs is $345 per semester-hour at the Associate’s degree level, $530 per semester-hour at the Bachelor’s degree level, $655 per semester-hour at the Master’s degree level, and $745 per semester-hour at the doctoral level. There are also additional fees, including a registration fee for each course. As I now know, to enter the military is to become a member of a cultural minority–there are behaviors, language, and experiences unique to military life that are difficult to appreciate and comprehend from the outside. University of Phoenix has been criticized for unfairly enticing military members and depending too much on federal student aid but as a former military-dependent I see its willingness to adapt programming to the needs of active-duty military and their spouses through their Military Division as one of the school’s greatest justifications. What do you think?

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Largemouth bass may be scaly, slimy and smelly, but that didn't stop Cookie Szabelski of McHenry from plunging her arms elbow deep into concrete tanks holding 65,000 of them. "I love to fish, and if I want to catch fish, I should help to make the fish that go in the lakes," she said. "That's why I'm here." Szabelski, a waitress in McHenry, joined 13 other outdoor enthusiasts, two state fisheries biologists and one fish hatchery manager Wednesday at the Spring Grove Fisheries Resource Center, where they "branded" 65,000 bass about 3 to 5 inches long. The branding was done as part of a fish-stocking and research effort on the Chain o' Lakes in Lake and McHenry Counties. Gages Lake and Grayslake in Lake County and Lake Atwood, in The Hollows Conservation Area outside Crystal Lake, also will receive fish. According to Joe Ferencak, state district fisheries biologist for Lake County, the branding and stocking serve two important purposes: to improve sport fishing and give biologists clues as to the health of fish and the bodies of water in which they swim. This is the fifth year the Spring Grove hatchery has been stocking the Chain o' Lakes with largemouth bass, and studies since 1992 indicate the bass and the Chain are doing well, Ferencak said. "The Chain has been documented as having a real good northern strain of largemouth bass, compared to other lakes in the northern third of the state," he said. "This strain has not been diluted by other strains of bass. Their survivability is good." In the 1970s, many sportsmen and biologists pushed to introduce Florida strains of bass to Illinois rivers and lakes because Florida bass grow bigger. But research in the last 10 years has shown that those bass grow bigger because they have a much longer growing season. When introduced into northern Illinois, their growth rates and survivability rates plunged, Ferencak said. "These bass here," he said, pointing to a tank teeming with emerald green and black fingerlings, "evolved up here. They're acclimated to this area. They do much better up here than other strains, even ones from southern Illinois. We've got enough documentation now that we don't like to stock northern bass in southern Illinois or bass from southern Illinois up here." Breeder bass from the Chain's hardy northern strain provide the eggs the Spring Grove hatchery uses for its fish stock. The fish that were branded Wednesday hatched this spring and until the last two weeks had been swimming and eating in hatchery ponds. Manager Dick Corey--the hatchery's only full-time employee--and volunteers began netting them two weeks ago and putting them in long water-filled concrete tanks about 30 inches high. One of those volunteers was Clem Haley of Antioch, owner of Blarney's Island, a bar on the Chain's Grass Lake. Haley is a member of the Northern Illinois Conservation Club, a 250-member sportsman's organization based in Antioch. "I grew up on the Chain, and I want to see it do well," for personal and business reasons, he said. Good water and fishing are likely to mean more business for Blarney's Island. So Haley joined in scooping fingerling bass out of their concrete tanks and holding them for a split second against a thin metal bar chilled by liquid nitrogen. The metal freezes the surface scales and skin, leaving a white mark that will blacken soon after the fish are released into the Chain. Next year biologists will net fish and look for ones with a black mark. By determining what percentage of the population comes from stocked fish, they'll be able to estimate how many fish spawn naturally. Eventually, stocking may stop if the bass begin reproducing on their own in large enough numbers. Until a few years ago, natural spawning and survival rates were low, despite the bass strain's relative hardiness. A big problem for the largemouths--which can weigh several pounds full-grown--was competition from smaller yellow bass or "stripers," voracious predator fish that reproduce in huge numbers. "We first detected them in the Chain in the 1970s," Ferencak said. "How they colonized the Chain is tough to say. In 1979, 35 percent of the fish in the Chain were yellow bass. By 1992, yellow bass made up 55 percent of the Chain's fish population. It was incredible." Then Mother Nature took charge. In 1993 and again in 1995, yellow bass died in large numbers, the result of too many from the species competing for food and shelter. The die-offs enabled other species, especially bass, bluegill and crappies, to bounce back. Today there are about 40 species of fish in the Chain, with a much better population mix, Ferencak said. Water quality also has improved.

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By Dr. Mercola A number of developments, including an increasing number of lawsuits, suggest that toxic industrial standards are no longer being shrugged off as a necessary cost of modern living. People really are starting to wake up to the very literal mess that we're in. For example, large factory farms, so-called confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs), generate massive amounts of toxic runoff that threaten water supplies and ecological health. Genetically engineered (GE) crop fields onto which large amounts of toxic pesticides are applied are also being increasingly challenged by concerned scientists, both for the potential hazard that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) pose, and the more well-recognized hazards posed by the chemicals. Attention Journalists—Start Reporting GMO Science Accurately! In response to the US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) deregulation of the GE Arctic ® apple, the Consumers Union, Friends of the Earth, Center for Food Safety, and Pesticide Action Network put out a joint statement1,2 calling on media to start reporting the science of GMOs accurately. At present, most if not all media coverage discussing GMOs is little more than a regurgitation of biased and inaccurate "facts" churned out by the industry PR machine. The March issue of National Geographic,3 which addresses "the war on science," is no exception to this rule. If there's a war on science, it's being waged against the real science of GMOs, which tends to produce results that run contrary to the industry's glossy advertisements. A major objection raised by sustainability advocates such as myself is against false reporting of science that either does not exist or has been convoluted by special interest groups. In fact, we're all trying to get the media and the chemical technology industry to address the actual science already, which is pointing to the fact that there are serious risks involved. You can look forward to my upcoming interview with Steven Druker later this month. He is the attorney who sued the FDA for their decision that made GMOs possible in 1992. An absolutely fascinating story that will reveal details you're likely unaware of. 300 Scientists Proclaim: There Is NO Scientific Consensus on GMO Safety On January 24, a statement signed by 300 scientists, researchers, physicians, and scholars was published in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Sciences Europe,4 asserting that there is no scientific consensus on the safety of GMOs. Moreover, the paper, aptly titled "No Scientific Consensus on GMO Safety", states that the claim of scientific consensus on GMO safety is in actuality "an artificial construct that has been falsely perpetuated." The paper—which, again, bears the signatures of hundreds of scientists and academics—also notes that such a claim "is misleading and misrepresents or outright ignores the currently available scientific evidence and the broad diversity of scientific opinions among scientists on this issue." The idea of "scientific consensus" has been repeated so many times that many people believe it must be true. It's time to sit up and take notice, and to call journalists out on their lack of professional integrity when making such claims. According to Doug Gurian-Sherman, PhD, senior scientist and director of sustainable agriculture at the Center for Food Safety:5 "Preeminent science bodies like the National Research Council have recognized that some engineered foods could pose considerable risk. It is widely recognized by scientists that those risks depend on the particular engineered gene and crop. It is unfortunate that self-appointed advocates for the technology have selectively cited the literature and organizations to suggest that GE crops, generally, present no risks that warrant concern." Michael Hansen, PhD, senior scientist at Consumers Union adds: "Not one independent, public safety study has been carried out on the Arctic apple, and yet some media stories have reported it is 'safe.' We call on the press to accurately report on the science of GMOs, particularly the health and environmental concerns raised by scientists and the lack of required safety studies that leave questions about the safety of genetically engineered foods." Hundreds of scientists have now put it out in black and white: There is no consensus among scientists that GMOs are safe. On the contrary, there are all sorts of concerns—virtually all of which are being ignored by the media. Contrary to what you read or hear in conventional news, the joint statement concludes that: "…the totality of scientific research outcomes in the field of GM crop safety is nuanced; complex; often contradictory or inconclusive; confounded by researchers' choices, assumptions, and funding sources; and, in general, has raised more questions than it has currently answered... Decisions on the future of our food and agriculture should not be based on misleading and misrepresentative claims by an internal circle of likeminded stakeholders that a 'scientific consensus' exists on GMO safety." Points of Objection to 'Consensus of Safety' Claim The authors and co-signers of No Scientific Consensus on GMO Safety,6 raise the following six points of objection to the claim of "scientific consensus" with regards to the safety of genetically engineered foods: There is no consensus in the science||According to a comprehensive review7 of peer-reviewed animal feeding studies of GMOs published in 2011, there are as many studies raising concerns about GE foods as there are studies proclaiming them to be as safe and nutritious as conventional foods. Moreover, the review notes that most studies declaring GE foods comparable to conventional foods were performed by biotechnology companies or associated parties. |There are no epidemiological studies investigating potential health effects of GE food on human health ||As noted by Friends of the Earth, "with no epidemiological studies, claims that 'trillions of GMO meals' have been eaten with no ill effects have no scientific basis." There's also the inconvenient fact that one GE supplement actually did kill. In the 1980s, the supplement L-tryptophan, which was the result of genetic engineering, was the first major GMO catastrophe, killing dozens of people who took it. Thousands were seriously sickened, and of those, hundreds contracted a rare and disabling disorder named eosinophilia–myalgia syndrome (EMS). The idea that you can claim GMOs safe for human consumption over an entire lifetime without presenting so much as a shred of scientific evidence—THAT is "war" on science! |GMO studies are frequently mischaracterized as showing safety||One example of this is the EU Research Project, which has been internationally cited as providing evidence of GMO safety. Alas, this research was not designed to test safety, and provides no reliable evidence of such. "Another example is the false claim that 'hundreds of studies' listed on the biotechnology website Biofortified demonstrate GMO safety; in fact, many of the studies on that list do not address safety concerns at all, and several of the studies raise serious concerns," the featured press release states. |International agreements show widespread recognition of risks posed by GMO foods and crops||Agreements such as the Cartegena Protocol on Biosafety and the UN Codex Alimentarius agree that genetic engineering differs from conventional breeding. Many pro-GMO reporters compare genetic engineering of plants to that of conventional cross-breeding and hybridization—completely ignoring the fact that nature does not cross-breed across kingdoms, blending insect and plant DNA for example. According to the World Health Organization8 (WHO), GMOs are "organisms in which the genetic material (DNA) has been altered in such a way that does not occur naturally by mating and/or natural recombination." International agreements also concur in their recommendations that safety assessments are necessary prior to introducing GMOs into the environment or the food supply. |Claims that government and scientific organizations endorse safety are exaggerated or inaccurate||The featured statement9 notes that: "Reports by the Royal Society of Canada and British Medical Association have noted that some GMOs could be of considerable harm. The positions of some prominent scientific organizations have been misrepresented or opposed by members, further highlighting the lack of consensus among scientists." In the US, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine10 (AAEM) has called on all physicians to prescribe diets without genetically modified (GM) foods to all patients. They've also called for a moratorium on genetically modified organisms (GMOs), long-term independent studies, and labeling, stating: "Several animal studies indicate serious health risks associated with GM food, including infertility, immune problems, accelerated aging, insulin regulation, and changes in major organs and the gastrointestinal system… There is more than a casual association between GM foods and adverse health effects. There is causation…" |There is no consensus on environmental impacts of GMOs||Scientists have also raised a number of concerns about the impact of increased pesticide and herbicide use to human and environmental health. For example, the toxicity of Monsanto's Roundup appears to have been vastly underestimated according to some researchers, and others have discovered previously unknown mechanisms of harm by glyphosate. Serious safety concerns have also been raised about neonicotinoids and other commonly used pesticides. Federal Lawsuits Over CAFOs Are Increasing Moving on to other related issues demonstrating that opposition against the status quo of toxic food production is strengthening. This trend includes a rising number of federal lawsuits being filed against confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs). As reported by Des Moines Register:11 "From Washington state to North Carolina, federal lawsuits are challenging the efficient, profitable livestock industry to change its ways. The arguments found in the lawsuits are based on studies that increasingly show the impact phosphorous, nitrate and bacteria from fertilizer and accumulated manure have on lakes and rivers as well as air pollution that may be harmful to respiratory health... Earlier this year, a federal judge in eastern Washington ruled that an industrial dairy farm's manure management practices posed an 'imminent and substantial endangerment' to the environment and to thousands relying on well water." A sobering statistic from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says that 68 percent of American lakes, reservoirs, and ponds, and more than 50 percent of rivers and streams are now adversely impacted by toxic agricultural runoff. Hog-producing states such as Iowa and North Carolina are seeing an uprising of residents complaining about declining water and air quality. In both of those states, lawsuits have been filed to curb the growing pollution produced by large-scale pork producers. Des Moines Water Works, for example, recently filed a notice of intent to sue CAFOs in three neighboring counties under the federal Clean Water Act for polluting the city's water supply with nitrates, 12,13 which is costing them $7,000 day to filter out. According to Bill Stowe, CEO and general manager of the utility: "In this state, obviously, industrial agriculture is king. We'll continue to get a lot of blowback, but our ratepayers are first and foremost in our minds and they're tired of paying for other people's pollution." New York Passes Bill to Protect Farmers Against Monsanto In New York, lawmakers have stepped in to help protect farmers in the state against lawsuits from Monsanto and other biotech companies, should they inadvertently end up with genetically engineered plants in their fields. The bill was passed by the state's Assembly on February 16. As reported by the Cornucopia Institute:14 "Seed producers have sued farmers around the country for allegedly growing their bioengineered crops without buying the seed. Farmers often argue the seeds arrived by wind or other natural means. Assemblyman Tom Abinanti said... that his legislation will make it easier for New York farmers to defend themselves against frivolous lawsuits. He says that in the case of organic farmers, genetically modified seeds are seen as a contaminant." Toxins Showing Up Here, There, and Everywhere... Meanwhile, researchers report finding flame retardants and pesticide byproducts at potentially toxic levels in sharks, rays, and other marine life in the Indian River Lagoon and the ocean off the coast of Brevard County, Florida.15 Shark livers have been found to contain byproducts of DDT and other pesticides banned decades ago, showing just how long these toxins remain in the environment... Further north, in Maryland, lawmakers have started working on proposed legislation that would limit the use of neonicotinoid pesticides, which have been shown to decimate bee populations. As reported by the Associated Press:16 "The Pollinator Protection Act would require any plants, seeds or nursery stock treated with certain pesticides to include a warning label. It also seeks to prevent people who are not experienced with using the pesticides, which are known as 'neonics,' from using them... 'The critical issues are neonic pesticides are a major contributor to honeybee decline, resulting in Maryland beekeepers losing nearly 50 percent of their hives in 2012,' said Sen. Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, who is sponsoring the bill." Under this bill, neonicotinoids would only be available for sale to certified applicators, farmers, and veterinarians. Joe Miedusiewski, a lobbyist representing landscapers, horticulturalists, and golf course superintendents expressed opposition to the bill, saying it would have "a devastating economic effect on our industry." What fascinates me is the pathological shortsightedness of these industry representatives. What good will it do to have money if you kill off all the pollinating insects, without which we cannot produce food? Even the most ignorant must still eat, but they act as thought they'll be able to somehow survive without such basics... EPA Study Finds No Financial or Agricultural Benefits of Bee-Killing Neonicotinoids One recent EPA study17 concluded that treating soybean seeds with neonicotinoids provides no significant financial or agricultural benefits for farmers. Moreover, the researchers note there are several other foliar insecticides available that can combat pests as effectively as neonicotinoid seed treatments. In response to these findings, researchers from the pesticide industry met with EPA pesticide regulators in a closed meeting to discuss the value of neonicotinoids. According to two researchers with Ag Informatics, banning neonicotinoids "would impose $848 million a year in initial transition costs on the agriculture industry and lead to huge increases in the use of older, more dangerous and less effective insecticides," Bloomberg18 reports. They also claim that neonicotinoids are applied to 56 percent of all corn, soybean, cotton, wheat, and sorghum crops planted in the US, and that (based on a phone survey), 75-80 percent of farmers in the US and Canada say they would continue to use neonicotinoid-treated seeds even if non-treated seeds were available. While it's possible that many conventional farmers would be clueless enough to take that route, I think it's foolish to propose that a toxic substance should remain on the market and/or avoid regulation simply because a phone poll suggests farmers wouldn't switch to less toxic alternatives even if they had the option! Should We Continue Feeding Antibiotics to Livestock? Pesticide producers and GE monocropping farmers are not the only ones lacking long-term survival skills. The same shortsightedness can be found among drug companies and livestock producers—not to mention our regulatory agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). An infographic in National Geographic19 lays out the statistics on the use of antibiotics in livestock, and it's a sad state of affairs indeed. Eighty percent of all antibiotics sold in the US are given to poultry and livestock raised in CAFOs, which has led to a man-made plague of antibiotic-resistant infections that is now killing 23,000 Americans each year. Yet livestock producers insist on continuing the practice to keep their meats "affordable." Well, over half of all the "affordable" chicken sold in your local grocery store is tainted with drug-resistant E.coli, and one could definitely argue that should you contract such an infection, you're not getting out of it cheaply! More Toxic News... So what else is going on? How about toxic glyphosate being detected in honey, including organic honey... That's the verdict issued by Boston University researchers20 working in collaboration with Abraxis LLC. In all, 62 percent of conventional honeys and 45 percent of organic varieties were tainted with glyphosate. Health experts in Argentina, which has long struggled with the health effects of pesticides, is also reaching out with dire warnings again. According to Dr. Medardo Ávila-Vázquez,21 a pediatrician and neonatologist at the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the National University of Córdoba, glyphosate use in connection to GMO seeds is having a notably deleterious effect on the health of the local people, particularly children. "We must recognize that the agrochemicals used are all poisonous: herbicides like glyphosate, 2,4-D...or Atrazine, are designed to kill plants, and endosulfan, chlorpyrifos, dimethoate, cypermethrin, imidacloprid, etc. are designed to kill insects and are the most widely used; they all have deleterious effects on human health and the environment," he writes. "The use of these pesticides has been increasing exponentially since 1990: back then, 30 million liters of poisons were used; during the 2012/2013 crop season more than 318 million liters were applied. On the same hectare where 2 or 3 liters of glyphosate were used per year, today 8 or 12 liters are used with 1.5 liters of 2,4-D in addition. In Santiago del Estero, Salta, and Chaco (north-western Argentina) up to 20 liters/ha/year of Round Up are used." The Results of Global 'Live' Testing of Chemical-Based Agriculture Are In Nearly two decades-worth of heavy pesticide use is now showing its real-life effects in Argentinean disease and mortality statistics. There has been a notable increase in respiratory problems, chronic dermatitis, depression, immune and endocrine disorders, for example. Miscarriages have skyrocketed, and 23 percent of women of childbearing age report having had at least one miscarriage in the past five years. Infertility among both men and women has significantly increased. Among animals—those proverbial canaries in the coal mine—up to 100 percent of spontaneous abortions and premature deaths have been due to malformations linked to pesticide exposure. Birth deformities are also rising—especially among mothers exposed to pesticides during the first few months of pregnancy. In some towns, birth deformities and defects such as Down's syndrome, spina bifida, and neural tube defects occur at three times the normal rate. Data also show that 30 percent of deaths in areas where pesticides are sprayed are due to cancer, while the average cancer death rate is less than 20 percent. "Significantly, the date coincides with the expansion in the use of glyphosate and other agrochemicals massively applied in those areas. In May 2014, the Ministry of Health of the Province of Córdoba published data from its cancer registry, confirming that in the most intensive agricultural areas, deaths due to cancer exceed by 100 percent those in the city, and by 70 percent the provincial average," Dr. Medardo Ávila-Vázquez writes.22 "For 100 000 years our species was in contact with minimum amounts of these toxins, but now, thanks to biotechnology, we are exposed to massive amounts of these proteins... Today we know that 40 percent of the genes of the human genome are shared with plants and regulate our cellular activities as in the plants, we also know that 60 percent of the genes of insects such as the fruit fly are in our genetic code. In other words, we share with insects and plants many mechanisms of cellular metabolism. When we attack these mechanisms with a heavy arsenal of chemicals, to block or distort them, to kill plants or insects, we cannot ignore the fact that these toxic products can reach people, either through occupational exposure, residential exposure or by ingesting food or water contaminated with residues, and may well have adverse effects on them; we cannot presuppose that they are harmless." What Are We Doing, and Where Are We Headed? Last but not least, an article by Elizabeth Grossman23 titled "What Are We Doing to Our Children's Brains?" raises the issue of toxic exposures via food, air, and water, and neurological health. Clearly all these toxins are not making our children smarter. I think that's a fairly reasonable assumption. The question is when will our lawmakers and industry bigwigs recognize the true cost of doing business as usual? How many people must be completely dysfunctional before food is recognized as something that actually must be pure? Grossman writes: "The numbers are startling. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 1.8 million more children in the US were diagnosed with developmental disabilities between 2006 and 2008 than a decade earlier. During this time, the prevalence of autism climbed nearly 300 percent... CDC figures also show that 10 to 15 percent of all babies born in the US have some type of neurobehavorial development disorder." Statistics like these tell us that we are well past the point where one can argue that "a little bit of toxin won't do any harm" because our environment and food supply is filled with tens of thousands of substances thought to be "harmless," in and of themselves, in the amounts used. But it's not just one chemical; one toxin. Even those who make an effort to avoid known toxins are undoubtedly ingesting and breathing and absorbing a plethora of chemicals every day, most of which have never even been studied for safety. It's the combination of all these exposures that spell doom for future generations—unless we act swiftly. Toxic industries have been allowed to flourish and dictate how our food is grown, processed and sold. But this is not the only system available. There are other non-toxic agricultural systems that can feed the world more efficiently, while simultaneously nourishing and protecting soils and wildlife. We need to make a U-turn, and we need to do it now. Regrettably, it may already be too late in some respects, considering just how long some toxins linger in the environment, but doing nothing will assure the end of our species... The choice is ours. You vote for the world you want to live in every time you open your pocketbook, so please take each of those opportunities seriously. Together, we can steer the food industry in a new direction.

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WASHINGTON – Katherine Figueroa was 9 and watching television reports of a workplace raid in Phoenix when she saw video of her parents being hauled away by sheriff’s deputies. They were eventually released, but the episode was jarring enough that Katherine, now 13, and her parents traveled to Washington to lobby lawmakers and rally with others Wednesday outside the White House against further deportations. About 100 immigrants who are in the country illegally converged on the White House as part of a project called #Not1More, to sing, march and chant for their cause. “Their dream is to be here,” Katherine said of her parents, at a Capitol Hill briefing with congressional staff. Nearly a dozen Arizonans took part in the rally to call for comprehensive immigration reform and an end to “Secure Communities,” an Immigration and Customs Enforcement program that checks immigration status and criminal histories of people who are arrested. But Secure Communities advocates said the program only detects and deports criminals. People nabbed by the program are those involved with criminal behavior like gang or drug activity, they said. “It’s not true to say that harmless people who are going to work each day are being swept up,” said Jessica Vaughn, the director of policy studies at Center for Immigration Studies. She dismissed the protester’s call for the president to halt deportations, saying he does not have the authority to do so. And it is unrealistic to think the president would deter deportation of people here illegally, Vaughn said, adding that the House and the general public do not support such action. Immigration reform should focus on local and state enforcement, and should require all employers to use E-Verify, the system that detects if a person is eligible to work in the United States, she said. But Jennifer Hernandez, a rising high school junior, recalled taking a family trip from Phoenix to California when border patrol agents stopped their car and asked the immigration status of everyone inside. Everyone was a U.S. citizen except Jennifer’s mom – agents ordered her out of the car and arrested her. “I just remember her crying because she knew she was not going to be with us for a while,” Hernandez said Wednesday outside the White House. Hernandez’s mom was in an ICE detention center for six months. It was hard for to wake up every morning and go to bed every night without being able to say good morning or good night, the teenager said. “When you think of someone being locked up, you think of someone doing something wrong,” Hernandez said. “But I know my mom didn’t do anything wrong. She wasn’t doing anything to hurt her community.” Katherine was separated from her parents for three months, but said it is still painful four years later. Tears built up and she began crying Wednesday, pausing to gain her composure. “I felt lonely and I felt like I had no one with me,” she said of the time while her parents were in custody. Katherine’s father, Carlos, proudly snapped a photo of his daughter at the rally. Her mother, Sandra, looked on with tears in her eyes as well. Also outside the White House, Guadalupe Garcia said she came to this country in 1995 at age 14. For years, she remained undetected. She got married and had two children, now 11 and 12 years old. But Garcia was eventually arrested in a workplace raid in Mesa. She was released, but arrested again later after ICE went through old records. They came to her home where her son watched as she was walked away in handcuffs, Garcia said. Since then, Garcia has been released and granted a one year deportation deferral. Garcia hopes President Barack Obama will defer deportation, so she can be with her children and family, and so others don’t have to go through what she did. But she is not sure if Obama will take such action. “No se,” she said through an interpreter, as she looked toward the White House. “I don’t know.”

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Louisiana House Reps. support the "Save the Picayune" movement http://www.bestofneworleans.com/imag...SavetheTP.jpeg New ?Save the Picayune? campaign-style yard signs that will be popping up around town this week are being funded by an unlikely source ? five New Orleans-area members of the Louisiana House of Representatives. Reps. Neil Abramson, Wesley Bishop, Jared Brossett, Walt Leger III and Helena Moreno have chipped in personally to pay for the signs, which say <strong>"EXTRA!? [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] |All times are GMT -5. The time now is 11:46 AM.| Copyright 1997 - 2014 - BlackandGold.com

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It wasn’t a marquee game, but a competitive one that could factor into the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League El Camino Division race. Wilcox beat visiting Lynbrook, 68-60, on Friday night, with junior guard Sean Brown starring for Wilcox (8-9, 3-1) and junior center Andy Meunier standing out for Lynbrook (6-10, 1-2). The 6-3 Brown scored 22 points, hitting four three-pointers in the first 11 minutes. In fact, Wilcox went wild from the outside in the first half, hitting nine three-pointers out of 12 total field goals. The treys came from five different players. Trevor Scott hit a three from the right corner to begin the second quarter, giving the Chargers a lead they would not relinquish. It came during a 17-0 run bridging the first and second quarters, ending with Wilcox ahead, 25-14. Lynbrook’s 6-foot-9 Meunier scored 16 of Lynbrook’s 25 first-half points, hitting six of seven free throws, and finished with 20 points. Though he didn’t have the best footwork, he showed good athletic ability — he’s also a tight end on the football team — and good touch from inside. He also blocked five shots. Lynbrook twice cut the deficit to four in the closing minutes, the latest on Jon Chang’s three with 1:12 to go. But Wilcox went eight-for-eight from the free-throw line after that (Max Dickson was six-for-six) and Lynbrook was held without a point on two crucial possessions in the final minute.

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Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2011.07.51 Christopher Stray (ed.), Classical Dictionaries: Past, Present and Future. London: Duckworth, 2010. Pp. viii, 229. ISBN 9780715639160. $80.00. Reviewed by Tom Keeline, Harvard University (email@example.com) [Table of Contents is listed at the end of the review.] When once pressed at a party about what he really did for a living, D.R. Shackleton Bailey is said to have acerbically replied, “I just look things up all day.” This remark, however ironic, carries more than a grain of truth: classicists do in fact devote vast portions of their lives to looking things up, especially in dictionaries of Greek and Latin. It is thus salutary to reflect on the nature of the tools we all spend so much time using. Classical Dictionaries, an edited collection of papers delivered at an Oxford conference in June 2009, does just that, considering the stories of both familiar and lesser known lexica. The book is subtitled “Past, present and future,” but it is mostly devoted to the history of scholarship, and in that field it scores an unqualified success: it is excellent both in treating dictionaries past and in evaluating the present lexical offerings as products of that past. When it comes to discussing the future of dictionaries, the book is occasionally on less sure footing, but nevertheless opens up important fields for discussion and debate. First, readers should be clear on what this book is not. There is very little discussion of lexicographic theory or of the thorny philosophical issues underpinning any attempt at compiling a lexicon. While two of the chapters are written by practicing lexicographers, the other seven are not, and the target audience is not writers of classical dictionaries but curious users of such works. Coverage of different dictionaries is uneven, with several chapters reacting to LSJ, but only one treating the OLD. The most noticeable omission is the TLL, which receives no chapter of its own, although its learned pages are sighted from afar in several of the contributions. Readers will also search in vain for names like Stephanus and Forcellini; indeed, the whole collection is decidedly Anglo-centric. However, the book does not purport to be systematic, and within its chosen remit it offers up a variety of interesting and informative essays. After a paragraph of preface and a brief introduction, the book plunges into the past with Eleanor Dickey’s discussion of Byzantine lexica. She describes the format and content of a series of entries in different Byzantine dictionaries, comparing them with the information in LSJ. Dickey is a reliable guide through treacherous terrain, and the chapter provides a clear and understandable survey of what the Byzantine lexica had and have to offer. It concludes with the provocative thought that ancient lexica invariably omit the most common words and focus on the rare and unusual, while modern dictionaries do the opposite—the more unusual the word, the larger the dictionary we must consult. She asks whether the modern system is actually useful, inasmuch as it is precisely the rare words that we look up in the dictionary. Joshua Katz’s second chapter treats etymological dictionaries of Greek and Latin. Setting out to investigate the value of having multiple competing etymological dictionaries, the essay quickly turns into an extended musing on the value of historical linguistics and etymology more generally. While sometimes overly discursive—one suspects that neither the audience of this book nor the attendees at the conference needed evangelization on the origins and value of comparative historical linguistics, complete with Sir William Jones address to the Asiatick Society on “the Sanscrit”—the chapter makes an important theoretical point and several useful practical observations. Theoretically, Katz rightly sees etymology as part of intellectual history, and thus recognizes that it can be (for example) just as useful to be aware of a folk etymology that ancient speakers believed in as to know the “true” origin of a word. More practically, he concludes with a candid appraisal of the virtues and vices of the current etymological dictionaries of Greek and Latin.1 In Graham Whitaker’s third chapter on lexica that cover a single author, we meet with one of the outstanding strengths of this book, thorough archival research. Whitaker covers a huge amount of ground succinctly and with interest, focusing largely on description and eschewing any generalized typology. He consistently tells fascinating stories that illuminate the background of the lexica he treats: to single out just one of many examples, he studies the slips that J. Enoch Powell used to compile his Lexicon to Herodotus, thus letting us into the lexicographer’s workshop and allowing us to see him ply his trade. The fourth chapter, David Butterfield on the history of that sine qua non of schoolboy versification, the Gradus ad Parnassum, couples bibliographical industry with a keen eye for revealing detail. For readers unfamiliar with the genre, a Gradus is a dictionary that helps in verse-making, giving the prosody of a word and some verses plucked from classical authors demonstrating its scansion and use, often complete with synonyms, epithets, and other helpful hints for the budding versifier. Butterfield traces the development of such works throughout Europe across three centuries, well illustrating both their progress and their tralatitious nature. The chapter concludes with a detailed appendix that lists the major editions of the Gradus from 1652 to 1967.2 The book’s central chapter, by Christopher Stray, provides sensitive and nuanced insight into the world of 19th-century English classical scholarship. In another example of first-class history of scholarship and archival research, Stray discusses the history of LS(J), interweaving the process of its composition and revision with the lives and personalities of the people involved. The piece’s most valuable contribution is an understanding of the constraints governing the origin and revision of the lexicon. These constraints were intimately bound up in the press’s desire to market a product and make a profit: as an example, to save money and simplify revision, the type was sometimes left standing or electrotyped for subsequent editions. This did indeed facilitate revision—but at the cost of allowing for only minor changes. Such a fundamentally conservative process has left a lot of venerable absurdities in its wake, and it goes a long way toward explaining LSJ’s current state. The faults of LSJ are too well known to need rehearsing here,3 and John A.L. Lee’s sixth chapter rightly claims it needs serious and substantive revision. The first part of the chapter is a perceptive analysis of the entry ἀγαπητός through successive editions of the lexicon, explaining how it got to be the (problematic and misleading) way it is today. He catalogs LSJ’s failings in some detail; I might simply say that it is uninformed by modern lexicographic method and that its formatting is a disaster. In any event, all would agree that the next stage of revision must enter the electronic world, and Lee devotes the last part of his chapter to sketching out a vision of what such a digital lexicon might look like. Unfortunately his prescriptions are both unrealistic and not universally helpful. Although he doesn’t phrase it this way, in essence he proposes that the lexicon should contain the same information as a TLL entry with the addition of translations of all passages, and this may be a logical, if lofty, goal. He further suggests, however, that the lexicon contain every single extant instance of each word, all appropriately categorized—an undertaking far beyond the ambit of even the TLL. The full collection and classification of the Greek evidence, even with electronic tools, would take forever, and one cannot imagine finding sufficient money, manpower, and time for such an enterprise in today’s world. Perhaps more importantly, it ultimately would not prove especially enlightening: once a word’s meaning is securely established, we are primarily interested in later instances only insofar as they deviate from or innovate on that meaning. This review is not the place to put forward a program for revisions to LSJ, but I might suggest that the key issues are those of lexicographic philosophy and principles. Formatting is of secondary importance; so long as the data is all appropriately encoded, its actual display should be infinitely fungible. In John Henderson’s chapter 7 we return to the history of a dictionary, this time that of the OLD. Henderson discusses the project’s genesis and usefully explains the origin of certain fateful decisions, like the notorious chronological limit,4 telling the story through the correspondence of the main players, sequences of early specimen entries with comments, plans, etc. Of particular interest is the close relationship between the OED and the OLD in everything from shared lexicographic principles to shared lexicographic workspace to shared lexicographers. Two personalities dominate the OLD’s early years, those of Alexander Souter and James M. Wyllie, who taken in tandem were responsible for many of the basic decisions on the layout and arrangement of the dictionary. Both had remarkable rises and falls, which Henderson chronicles in detail.5 After two decades of difficult gestation, Peter Glare took the helm in the mid-1950s and smoothly guided the publication of fascicles to a triumphant and (mirabile dictu!) on-schedule finish in 1982. This all makes for fascinating reading and greatly fleshes out the skeletal “Publisher’s Note” found in the OLD itself. The final two chapters take us to the world of contemporary lexicography, examining two dictionaries currently in preparation. For reasons of space I cannot discuss in detail Richard Ashdowne’s ninth chapter on the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, which usefully describes the background, scope, history, methods, and future of the lexicon from the perspective of one of its current editors. I will note in passing that the section on present editorial practice contains an excellent description of a lexicographer’s daily work. Chapter 8, by Patrick James, treats the Cambridge Greek Lexicon, a dictionary targeted at intermediate learners. The chapter provides case studies of three words, showing how the CGL’s treatment differs from that of LSJ. The criticisms of LSJ are by and large just, and the great virtue of the CGL is its simplicity: it appears well organized and straightforward to use. It offers both definitions and translations, which are typographically delineated and easy to understand. The lexicon is based on a fresh examination of a corpus of canonical Greek authors,6 and it will be disseminated both digitally (in integration with the Perseus project) and in print. My only reservation concerns one puzzling decision that the project has made: in its articles the CGL does not provide references to passages and only rarely gives quotations, preferring English paraphrase. If this dictionary were an abridgement of an existing lexicon and designed for print, perhaps such a decision would be understandable. As it is, however, the lexicographers have done the work of examining the passages afresh and drawing up their articles based on that examination; it seems perverse to discard this useful information. Providing references to passages allows lexicographers to justify their work; it also allows users to check it or arrange the material differently—to say nothing of the fact that illustrative quotations clearly give a deeper sense of the meaning of a word. James defends the decision primarily on the grounds of concision and clarity, but in an online world these considerations must be viewed differently. The lexicon already notes in which authors a given meaning occurs; it would be trivial to make the author’s name a clickable link that would expand into the specific passages underlying the definition. In this way learners could have the best of both worlds: a clear and simple presentation that can unfold into more detailed information if they so desire. Furthermore, with some tagging of the electronic data the press could easily decide to issue the dictionary in multiple print versions with no additional effort: the most basic (and cheapest) version containing no citations or quotations, an intermediate version containing references deemed important, and a full version containing all available information. The book concludes with a general index, including Greek and Latin words discussed, which is not complete but is generally useful and occasionally humorous.7 The book is attractively produced and contains numerous well chosen pictures. Typographical errors are relatively few and almost never such as to cause difficulties.8 TABLE OF CONTENTS Christopher Stray: Introduction 1-4 Joshua T. Katz: Nonne lexica etymologica multiplicanda sunt? 5-24 Graham Whitaker: Ploughing a lone furrow? The single-author lexicon 49-70 David Butterfield: Gradus ad Parnassum 71-93 Christopher Stray: Liddell and Scott: myths and markets 94-118 John A.L. Lee: Releasing Liddell-Scott-Jones from its past 119-138 John Henderson: A1-ZYTHUM: DOMIMINA NUSTIO ILLUMEA, or out with the OLD 139-176 Patrick James: Learners’ lexica: the approach of the Cambridge Greek Lexicon 177-194 Richard Ashdowne: Ut Latine minus vulgariter magis loquamur: the making of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources 195-222 1. In brief: the German ones (Frisk, Walde-Hofmann) are in some sense more thorough, but the French (Chantraine, Ernout-Meillet) are better on a word’s changes through time (les histoires des mots); the very recent Dutch offerings (Beekes, de Vaan; both written in English) do not always supersede the earlier works and are influenced by the controversial “Leiden school” of Indo-European linguistics. 2. A minor addition: Butterfield dates the first vernacular-Latin Gradus to 1890 (Ainger and Wintle); at least by Koch’s 1879 revision of Sintenis a basic German-Latin appendix is to be found. 3. The interested reader can start with the introduction to John Chadwick’s Lexicographica Graeca (Oxford 1996) as well as id., “The Case for Replacing Liddell and Scott,” BICS 39 (1994) 1-11. 4. This limit (the end of the 2nd century) was present in some of the earliest letters about the dictionary, but already much lamented in committee meetings by the early 1950s. For one of its most scathing indictments, see F.R.D. Goodyear, “The Oxford Latin Dictionary,” Proceedings of the African Classical Associations 17 (1983) 124-36 = K.M. Coleman, J. Diggle, J.B. Hall, and H.D. Jocelyn (eds.), F.R.D. Goodyear. Papers on Latin Literature (London 1992) 281-7. 5. One might have expected more on how Wyllie came a cropper; his spectacular meltdown is only alluded to. 6. “The major authors now studied in schools and universities from Homer to Xenophon … and Aristotle’s major works, Theophrastus’ Characters, the better preserved plays of Menander, the major Hellenistic poets (Callimachus, Apollonius of Rhodes, and Theocritus), Polybius, Plutarch’s Lives, and the New Testament gospel books and Acts of the Apostles” (191 n. 6). 7. The Greek index of Words Discussed, for example, lacks the case studies of θωρήσσω and θεραπεύω from James’s chapter. For humor see e.g. “Callimachus, J.T. Katz no.” 8. The most serious at p. 116 n. 67 1899-2008 for 1899-1905 (?). There are occasional slips in Greek and Latin: p. 13 ἀσχοί for ἀσκοί, p. 34 κώμος for κῶμος, p. 74 parsum for sparsum, p. 108 μη for μή, p. 111 λοιπὸν for λοιπόν, p. 142 ἀσφαλές for ἀσφαλὲς, p. 183 somnum for somnus, along with assorted other trivialities.

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We recently updated OUR website! Page is not at this link anymore! Since 2003, Cabinet Knobs and More has been a leader in the home decorative hardware industry. We specialize in sourcing the finest quality hardware products (guaranteed to fit all your decorum needs)! ***p.s. We recently updated OUR website- Unfortunately, many of the links were broken in the process. Most of the products are still available through our website but it may take a little searching on your end. 🙁 For this reason, we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and promise to keep working on fixing all of the re-directs and/or broken links. Please bare with us through this transition and feel free to contact us through our website: www.cabinetknobsandmore.com . Thank you!

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THE ACT Greens’ Shane Rattenbury deserves to be congratulated, rather than ridiculed by Mark Parton (“St Shane of the imaginary animals”, CN March 6). The banning of cage-egg production and sow stalls in the ACT ensures these inhumane and outdated farming practices can never again be part of the ACT landscape. After 18 years and seven attempts, this Bill has finally passed, what a truly fantastic day for the welfare of animals, imaginary or not. Chris Doyle, Gordon How stupid is this? THE absence of consistent street numbering in Canberra business districts (city and suburbs) is a disgrace and a symptom of government negligence as much as are broken pavements or clogged drains. As evidence, consider Brierly Street, Weston. On its western side the visible numbering from south to north is – Chicken shop, nil; pizza shop, nil; garden shop, nil; bank, 11; offices, 12; pizza shop, nil; wine shop, nil; mini market, nil; restaurant, nil; estate agent, nil; café, 6/25 (facing Brierly but could refer to Trenerry); estate agent, 9 &10; carpet shop, 8; restaurant, nil; hair salon, nil; estate agent, nil; hair salon, 3B 39; chiropractor, 4 (43 on high wall sign); café, nil; auto shop, nil and service station, nil (told it is 47). How stupid is this when strangers are encouraged to visit Canberra, or someone needs to find a business, or even figure out which way street numbers are running? One business on line gives its address as 28 Brierly Street, but Google Maps cannot find it. No wonder. P. Edwards, Weston Creek Wake up to our environment WHEN I first arrived in Australia from England in 1957, age 17, I found a job as a jackaroo at Gunnedah on a large sheep and cattle station. In the first weekend, the cocky explained a few things about local wildlife. He said go for a walk, take a gun and shoot anything that moves except sheep, cattle and the dogs. At that stage, I had not even seen a kangaroo, let alone giant goannas, which I thought were dragons. Goannas, kangaroos, wedgetail eagles, white cockatoos, foxes and snakes, shoot the lot, I was told. Some things never change. We shoot the kangaroos in Canberra, kill the sharks and crocodiles in other places when we know that there is a risk in being in their habitat, although the worst thing the kangaroos do is damage to speeding cars. Now it is the turn of the Koel. What next, open season on cockatoos or possums as some would suggest? Wake up, Australia and learn to live with the environment! Cedric Bryant, Watson Horse powerI WANT to tell you about my horse, Brego. I have had him for around six months and he means the world to me. I have had two other horses since I was about 14 and recently I put them both down. I was devastated and didn’t think I would get another horse – but things happen, and I met Brego. Since I’ve had him, he has been diagnosed with a cancerous tumour in his eyelid. It was recently operated on however tests show that there are still cancerous cells remaining. A further operation will be required soon. At the same time, the vet discovered issues with his teeth and operated on those as well. Throughout this procedure, Brego has taken it all in his stride and he has a beautiful nature. He has had a tough life, but through all of that he doesn’t seem to have lost faith in humans. Despite setbacks with his health, he is worth every effort and every dollar spent just for what he gives back in kindness. It just goes to show how animals can play such an important role in human well-being. Fiona Mckenna, via email

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A warm bed for every bebbeh! Wouldn’t that be a TERRIFIC thing? (Everyone nods their heads approvingly.) Q: How do you save an orphaned bebbeh animal? A: Keep them warm! The non-profit site Baby Warm.org just launched to donate incubators to volunteer homecare wildlife rehabbers who save orphaned bebeh animals in every community across the country. Bebeh Beavers, Otters, Sqwerls, Birds, ‘Munks, Buns, Possies, Skunklets, Ducklings, and more. If they don’t have a mom to keep them warm, an incubator is the next best place to rest their adorbs little noggins… …so they can grow up healthy and strong…and make it back to the wild where they belong. Baby Warm raises money for incubators- that’s all. Each incubator will be used for 10-12 years to keep hundreds of babies warm and healthy. You can see on the site that there are 12 rehabbers listed at any given time and you can see what kind of animals they care for, read their story, and pick one to help out and chip in toward their incubator.

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For well over twenty years the primary focus of my work has been landscape. What attracts me to painting images based on the natural world is probably similar to that which inspires other artists to depict landscape. For me, it is a sense of the spiritual underlying the beauty of nature. I appreciate the sense of freedom that I experience when painting landscape. There is a quality to these kinds of images that allows for expression and interpretation yet can still read as a landscape. I generally choose to paint the quiet, peaceful aspect of nature as opposed to the threatening or the volatile side of nature. So there are always decisions to be made, of which many are intuitive or develop slowly over time with a large body of work. There is a contemplative aspect to the approach that I take when studying and painting from the land. As one delves more deeply into the act of painting, the image evolves as a work about painting. There is a sense of departure from the image of nature as seen with our eyes or the lens of a camera. I prefer to paint in the controlled environment of the studio. For this reason, I work from photographs that I make mostly with a medium format camera as well as a view camera, which allows manipulating the image on a ground glass with camera adjustments. I generally work from 6×6 cm and occasionally 4”x5” transparencies The quality of the photographs is important as I prefer to select from images that have an abundance of detail and information. Quality of light is a key ingredient as I appreciate the play of natural light oftentimes in dramatic fashion. I spend time in State and National Parks when making many of these photographs and these experiences carry over into the studio. In the studio, the work develops slowly with an underpainting and layering of paint. Formal concerns of of compositon and cropping occur during the early stages. I like to work with a heightened color pallete, yet still remain faithful to the natural world. The play of light becomes clearer as color and contrast define the image. Through these more abstract concerns of light, color, and compositon, I hope that these paintings allude to an experience of the order and quiet beauty of nature. About Jeffrey Vaughn Jeffrey Vaughn from Alton, Illinois, received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1978 from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. He went on to receive a Master of Arts degree in 1981 from the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas, and in 1983 he received his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Dallas. He has an extensive resume of both solo and group exhibitions dating from 1979. One of his most recent exhibits was the Fall 2010 Solo Exhibition: “Natural Order” Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY. November 18-December 18, 2010. His work has also been featured in many publications. Vaughn’s works can be found in many public collections throughout the United States including the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., Nestle’s/Ralston Corporation, St. Louis, MO, Fidelity Securities, Boston, MA, Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis, MO, and Commerce Bancshares, MO. His work is also included in several private collections.

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Bruno Waterfield is telling us that the "colleagues" have just awarded themselves a handsome pay rise – backdated to six months ago. The rise, which applies to all EU staff, amounts to 3.7 percent across the board, despite negative or near to zero rates of inflation across Europe, soaring unemployment, falling wages and austerity measures in most national public sectors. Amongst the beneficiaries will be Baroness Ashton, who will now pocket an extra £9,000 on top of her basic annual salary of £241,000. Despite never having been elected to public office, she will now earn over £52,000 more than Gordon Brown. Meanwhile, average pay rises in Britain have fallen to one percent, the lowest increase on record, as almost half of British firms have frozen their employees' pay. And the reason we are not rising up and slaughtering the "colleagues" is?

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Emily Johnson, new Assistant Principal and Christy Bice, Principal of Haleyville Elementary The Haleyville City Schools Board of Education met Tuesday with Beth McAlpine absent. The Board approved the following items on the agenda. The financial statements and board expenditures for June in the amount of $1,432,184.67. Amendments to the Instructional Policy. Breakfast workers assignment. Lunchroom a la carte prices. Service agreements for the 2016 football season. An amendment to the HHS Fee Schedule. In addition, the board approved the use of three school facilities, one field trip, and seven fund-raisers. In personnel, the Board approved hiring Emily Johnson as assistant Principal at the Haleyville Elementary School. Suzanne Caldwell was hired as Special Education Teacher for Haleyville High. A Probationary Principal Contract for HES was approved for Christy Bice. The teachers and staff will return to the school on August 4 with the first day for students on August 10. The next meeting of the Haleyville City Schools Board of Education will be Tuesday, August 23. Are dead trees or tree limbs threatening your home? Call TREES-R-US. The right equipment and trained personnel to clean up your yard or larger property, TREES-R-US. Call Nathan Hulsey on his personal cell, 269-0198 for a free estimate. Mention you saw it on hbtv.us. Nathan will treat your right and the price is right! The Haleyville City Council met Monday afternoon for their regular bi-monthly meeting with Jonathan Bennett absent. The council approved the May general operation bills in the amount of 417,856.01. Not on the agenda, but brought up by acting city clerk Debra Hood, the need for new accounting software and computers to run it on. She stated she had checked with the Alabama League of Municipalities and the recommendations of other cities as to the software they were using and the support available. A motion was made and he decision of the council was made to purchase new software for $26,611.00 plus an additional $11,000 per year for support. An additional $12,393.00 to a local company, Jen-Eric for new computers. The first year total will be $50,0004 for the new computers, software, and support. The next meeting of the Haleyville City Council will be Monday, August 1, 5:30 at the City Hall. Marcel Weaver, the father of Haleyville Fire Chief Phillip Weaver, was reportedly struck by lightning about noon on Thursday while he was working on his lawn mower at his home in South Haleyville. He was transported to a Birmingham hospital where he was sedated and remained overnight under observation. According to family members, Marcel is at home and doing well. A reminder, remain vigilant as to the dangers of lightning. Do not stand under trees or even outdoors during a thunderstorm which contains lightening. Haleyville Police made a routine traffic stop on Saturday morning, July 9 at 2:14 a.m. on Pounders and Sims Roads off of Highway 195. The Toyota Camry was stopped because the officer noticed an equipment failure on the vehicle. After approaching the vehicle an open container of alcohol was seen by the officer. The driver and passenger were asked to get out of the vehicle. A large plastic bag containing 1.5 pounds of marijuana with a loaded 9 mm pistol laying on top was seen by the officers. A further search revealed a bag containing 112 grams of crystal methamphetamine in a more concentrated form of “ice. Arrested on the scene and taken to the Winston County Jail were Luis Andres Castro Sandoval, 25, 1116 5th Avenue, Haleyville, and Jose Rodriguez, 25, 12317 Pounders and Sims Road, Haleyville. The charges against both were possession of marijuana/1st Degree, Drug Trafficking Methamphetamine, Possession of a controlled substance, and possession of stolen property/2nd degree. The pistol had been reported stolen locally two years ago. Bail was set at $10,000 for each charge. Both bonded out later that weekend. The Haleyville City Council met Tuesday afternoon for a rescheduled meeting from July 4 with Bud Wilson absent. The council approved acting city clerk Debra Hood to perform the mayor’s duties during the upcoming city election in August. Mayor Sunseri is a candidate for mayor thus ineligible to perform election duties. The council approved the renewal of a five year lease on the old city owned elementary school building on 13th Avenue to the Community Action Partnership of North Alabama for the Head Start program. A low bid was approved for work on the CDBG project for water and sanitary sewer improvements in the Cripple Creek neighborhood. A bid of $596,842.00 from the Double Diamond Construction Company of Northport was approved. A resolution was approved which authorizes Mayor Sunseri to negotiate with a national chain which is exploring a location in Haleyville. Because this will involve a substantial investment and the creation a number of jobs the mayor will be able to offer incentives consistent with those offered to other developers of like size and investments. The final agreement will be finalized thru public hearings as required by statue. The city will be making application for funds through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for a grant for two storm shelters to be constructed at the new sports complex. The council approved advertising for two new police cars and the hiring of Crystal Whickwire as a Class II part-time police dispatcher. Four gentlemen complained to the council about the speed of vehicles on 15th Avenue at 26th Street. It was suggested the city consider installing two more stop signs on 15th Avenue making it a 3-way stop. Meanwhile, the police will step up patrols in that area. The next council meeting will be Monday, July 18, 5:30 p.m at the Haleyville City Hall. HALEYVILLE HIGH FOOTBALL 2016 AUG 19 Deshler @Sheffield AUG 26 Winston County @Double Springs SEP 2 *Hamilton @ Hamilton SEP 9 *Cordova @HHS SEP 16 *Winfield @Winsfield SEP 23 OPEN SEP 30 Madison Academy @ HHS OCT 7 *Good Hope # @HHS OCT 14 *Dora @ Dora OCT 21 *Fayette @HHS OCT 28 Central % @HHS ALL GAMES 7 PM KICKOFF # Homecoming Game * Region Games ^ Fall Jamboree % Senior Night ALABAMA FOOTBALL 2016 SEP 3 %vs. Southern California Arlington, Texas SEP 10 Western Kentucky Bryant-Denny Stadium SEP 17 *at Ole Miss Oxford, MS SEP 24 Kent State Bryant-Denny Stadium OCT 1 *Kentucky Bryant-Denny Stadium OCT 8 *at Arkansas Fayetteville, Ark. OCT 15 *at Tennessee Knoxville, Tenn. OCT 22 *Texas A&M Bryant-Denny Stadium OCT 29 Open Date NOV 5 *at LSU Baton Rouge, La. NOV 12 *Mississippi State Bryant-Denny Stadium NOV 19 Chattanooga Bryant-Denny Stadium NOV 26 *Auburn Bryant-Denny Stadium *Southeastern Conference (SEC) opponent %Advocare Classic (AT&T Stadium) Bold indicates home game Another fantastic 9-1-1 weekend in the books. Rain threatened early Friday night but held until noon on Saturday thus the concert and all the activities became another success story for the City of Haleyville. Friday night the crowd continued to build into the evening in the parking lot behind the Haleyville library. On the 9-1-1 Festival stage, a new group of teen-aged girls known as Sweet Tea Trio welcomed the crowd with an acapella version of the National Anthem. The local group Tremayne opened the musical show, followed by Winston Ramble, Sweet Tea Trio and at 9 p.m. the headliner Lonestar brought the huge crowd to its feet with not only their hit song Amazed, but also several songs by Pink Floyd, Styx, and the Eagles. An estimated record crowd of 5,000 plus came to the free concert. Street vendors, an antique car and tractor shows, musical entertainment and the annual 9-1-1 and HHS alumni parade provided much more on Saturday.

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Wednesday, July 18, 2012 Every day, WXXI News Director Julie Philipp checks newspapers and websites to help keep tabs on what's happening in communities across New York state. - Buffalo: County, Bills likely to miss training camp goal for - Rochester: New York third- and eighth-grade test results show slight increase in scores - Finger Lakes: State warns against wildfires - Syracuse: Crouse Hospital drug addiction expert will answer your questions about "bath salts" in live Q&A Thursday - Albany: City leaps into ballet issue - New York City: Charter Schools Celebrate Test Score Gains

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Iowa has 99 counties, but 100 county seats because Lee County has two. Note! To visit individual counties go to the County Index Page. Iowa County Facts & Info ©2005 Iowa Ghost Towns - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED In preparation for Michigan's statehood, part of Michigan Territory was formed into Wisconsin Territory in 1836. Two years later, the western portion was split off to become Iowa Territory. The south-eastern part of Iowa Territory became Iowa, the 29th state in the union, on 28 December 1846, by which point 44 counties had been created. Counties continued to be created by the state government until 1857, when the last county, Humboldt County, was created. One of the most significant days in Iowa county history was January 15, 1851, on which 49 counties were created. The Iowa Constitution of 1857, which is still in effect today, states that counties must have an area of at least 432 square miles (1,120). No county can be reduced below that size by boundary changes. However, exceptions to this rule were granted, as ten counties have areas below this size, but the Constitution deals with total area. The smallest county (Dickinson) has a land area of 381 sq miles, while the largest (Kossuth county) has an area 973 square miles. Polk County is the most densely populated county and contains the state's capital and largest city, Des Moines, Iowa. |EZ County Index with Towns| |EZ Town Index with Info|

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Why researchers think health officials may be vastly underestimating the obesity epidemic. And, ASU students will soon be able to get a date – on the school’s palm walk. Bus Drivers At Sky Harbor Airport On Strike Sky Harbor Airport travelers could be facing some problems Wednesday. The estimated 180 shuttle drivers who transport people from the rental car center to the terminals, and between terminals are on strike. Tuesday night’s walkout came after the union rejected what Veolia Transportation called it’s ‘last and best’ contract offer. The bus driver’s union says higher medical insurance rates and working conditions are the central issues. Bus drivers and striker Debby Jones says they will do what it takes to get that. “We are out here 24 hours a day until this is resolved one way or another,” Jones said. A top company official at Veolia says they have made a fair offer to the workers, and that they have a contingency plan in place to continue service. “There may be a couple of minutes extra waiting time for the next bus, and your route might take a little bit of a different turn than usual to make sure that make sure everybody gets service, but all-in-all there’s very little change at the airport,” Ostreicher said. If you park in the East Economy lot, you can avoid any delays by taking Sky Train to Terminal 4.

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The Texas Tech Univeristy System flag flew at half-mast over Memorial Circle Thursday, Oct. 10 at the Techsan Memorial. Every year as part of the annual homecoming celebration, Tech honors the students, faculty, staff and alumni who have died in the last year. On Friday, the flags beat steadily against the West Texas wind as Tech President Duane Nellis welcomed the families and friends of the deceased. "We're here to remember the memory of our Red Raider family," he said. Chancellor Kent Hance elaborated on the idea of a Texas Tech family.

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Ministry Saint Mary’s Hospital Foundation Purchase Big Screen TVs for Patient Comfort The Hospital Foundation at Ministry Saint Mary’s Hospital in Rhinelander recently funded the purchase of a big screen TV in the hospital’s Surgery waiting area. “A television isn’t one of those medically necessary pieces of equipment that we often fund,” states Foundation chair Judith Pagano, MD. “However, it greatly adds to the comfort of family and friends who are waiting while the patient is in surgery.” According to Chris Krebs, manager of Ambulatory Surgery, “People waiting for their loved one to complete surgery appreciate having a TV that is large enough to view—it really helps them pass the time.” The Hospital Foundation also purchased a big screen TV for the hospital’s Behavioral Health inpatient unit. “This group of patient’s do not have TVs in their rooms so having a television large enough for a group to watch has helped make patient stays more comfortable,” shared Pagano. For more information about the Hospital Foundation at Ministry Saint Mary’s or to make a donation contact Patty Fitzpatrick, coordinator Foundation and Volunteer Services at 715-361-2835.

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Editor’s Note: Each Tuesday My Green Side brings Simple Tips for Green Living to The Christopher Gabriel Program.We also highlight a favorite green site each week. You can stream the segment at approximately 1220pm (central) every Tuesday atWDAY.com or, if you’re in North Dakota or western Minnesota, listen on your radio at AM970 WDAY. Whether you work at home or in an office away from home, you can find simple ways to save energy, resources, money and the planet all at the same time. Greener homes are in the spotlight these days, but what about the other places where many of us spend huge chunks of our time–our offices? Some simple changes of habit can save energy and resources at work, and these small steps can be multiplied by persuading the powers-that-be at your workplace to adopt environmentally friendly (and often cost-effective) policies. - Artificial lighting accounts for 44 percent of the electricity use in office buildings. - Make it a habit to turn off the lights when you’re leaving any room for 15 minutes or more and utilize natural light when you can. - Make it a policy to buy Energy Star-rated light bulbs and fixtures, which use at least two-thirds less energy than regular lighting, and install timers or motion sensors that automatically shut off lights when they’re not needed. - De-Clutter Your Space - A Study from the Princeton Neuroscience Institute found that having a disorganized work space makes it difficult for people to process information efficiently. Things scatter around your office or cubical compete for your attention and disturb concentration. - Set up an inbox so your coworkers aren’t adding to your desk’s clutter when they’re dropping something off for you. - The average desk harbors over 400 times the bacteria, according to WholeLiving.com, of a toilet seat so make sure your dusting and cleaning keyboards along with de-cluttering. - Computers in the business sector unnecessarily waste $1 billion worth of electricity a year. - Make it a habit to turn off your computer—and the power strip it’s plugged into—when you leave for the day. Otherwise, you’re still burning energy even if you’re not burning the midnight oil. (Check with your IT department to make sure the computer doesn’t need to be on to run backups or other maintenance.) During the day, setting your computer to go to sleep automatically during short breaks can cut energy use by 70 percent. Remember, screen savers don’t save energy. - Make it a policy to invest in energy-saving computers, monitors, and printers and make sure that old equipment is properly recycled. Look for a recycler that has pledged not to export hazardous e-waste and to follow other safety guidelines. Old computers that still work, and are less than five years old, can be donated to organizations that will refurbish them and find them new homes. (You may even get a tax deduction.) - Print smarter - The average U.S. office worker goes through 10,000 sheets of copy paper a year. - Make it a habit to print on both sides or use the back side of old documents for faxes, scrap paper, or drafts. Avoid color printing and print in draft mode whenever feasible. - Make it a policy to buy chlorine-free paper with a higher percentage of post-consumer recycled content. Also consider switching to a lighter stock of paper or alternatives made from bamboo, hemp, organic cotton, or kenaf. - Recycle toner and ink cartridges and buy remanufactured ones. According to Office Depot, each remanufactured toner cartridge “keeps approximately 2.5 pounds of metal and plastic out of landfills… and conserves about a half gallon of oil.” - Go paperless when possible. - Make it a habit to think before you print: could this be read or stored online instead? When you receive unwanted catalogs, newsletters, magazines, or junk mail, request to be removed from the mailing list before you recycle the item. - Make it a policy to post employee manuals and similar materials online, rather than distribute print copies. They’re easier to update that way too. - Make it a habit to recycle everything your company collects. Just about any kind of paper you would encounter in an office, including fax paper, envelopes, and junk mail, can be recycled. So can your old cell phone, PDA or pager. - Make it a policy to place recycling bins in accessible, high-traffic areas and provide clear information about what can and can not be recycled. - Buy Recycled Products - Make it a policy to purchase office supplies and furniture made from recycled materials. - Watch what (and how) you eat. - Pack a waste-free lunch – make it a habit to bring your own mug and dishware for those meals you eat at the office. - Make it a policy to provide reusable dishes, silverware, and glasses. - Switch to Fair Trade and organic coffee and tea, and buy as much organic and local food as possible for parties and other events. - Provide filtered drinking water to reduce bottled-water waste. - Air Quality - Make it a habit to use nontoxic cleaning products. - Brighten up your cubicle with plants, which absorb indoor pollution. “Potted plants can filter volatile organic compounds (VOCs) – toxins like formaldehyde and benzene that are released from carpet, paint and the standard-issue pressed wood furniture that is found in most offices – from the air around your work space,” says Bill Wolverton, Ph.D, a former NASA scientist and the author of Plants: Why You Can’t Live Without Them. - Make it a policy to buy furniture, carpeting, and paint that are free of VOCs and won’t off-gas toxic chemicals. My Green Side’s web pick of the week: GlobalStewards.org has environmental tips and sustainable solutions for a healthy planet. The site was created in 1998 and has information on everything from how to Pack a Waste-Free Lunch to Eco Tips for Your Home and Finances.

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News You Can Use Check out Sloan-C Institute's Blended Learning Mastery Series - Next session starts August 16, 2013. Recordings from our 11/29/12 "Five Tips on How to Submit a Successful Conference Proposal" Missed the 2013 Blended conference? Purchase recorded sessions Check out the Wrap-up page, including pictures from the conference View the recordings of the Today's Campus interviews that were conducted at the conference Download the new Sloan-C Conferences Mobile App! - Available now in the Apple iTunes store for iPhone and iPad - Available now in the Google Play store for Android Watch the Recording of the Virtual Program Preview Webinar from May 15 Watch the Recording of the Onsite Preview Webinar from May 2 Save the Dates 22st Annual OLC International Conference November 16-18, 2016 | Orlando, Florida | Walt Disney World Swan/Dolphin Resort OLC Innovate 2016 - Innovations in Blended and Online Learning April 20-22, 2016 | New Orleans, LA | Sheraton New Orleans Hotel Best in Track July 8, 2013 - 1:00pmRebecca Petersen (edX, USA)Damian Bebell (Boston College, USA)Lynn Hunter (Massachusetts Bay Community College, USA)Jaime L L'heureux (Bunker Hill Community College, USA)Leadership and AdministrationInformation SessionLakeshore AInformation Session 150 MinutesVirtual SessionBest in Track Presenters will share outcomes and insights from a first-of-its-kind implementation of a blended edX MOOC at two Massachusetts community colleges. July 8, 2013 - 2:00pmMaria Lytell (RAND Corporation, USA)ResearchInformation SessionLakeshore AInformation Session 250 MinutesVirtual SessionBest in Track We present results of a multi-method study including student and graduate surveys, original case studies, and a review of empirical research on blended learning. July 8, 2013 - 3:00pmJuhong Liu (James Madison University, USA)Carolyn Schubert (James Madison University, USA)Student SupportInformation SessionLakeshore AInformation Session 350 MinutesVirtual SessionBest in Track This session will walk the audience through the life cycles of redesign, development, implementation and future models of student support in a blended program. Fostering Blended Learning: Successful Partnerships and Faculty Development for Institutional ChangeJuly 9, 2013 - 9:10amChantal Levesque-Bristol (Purdue University, USA)Tomalee Doan (Purdue University, USA)Faculty Development and SupportInformation SessionLakeshore AInformation Session 450 MinutesVirtual SessionBest in Track IMPACT course redesign. Purdue University is flipping, blending, transforming, and reinventing the way we teach, students learn across the disciplines, and institutional change is fostered. July 9, 2013 - 10:10amDr. Richard Jerz (St. Ambrose University, USA)Teaching and LearningInformation SessionLakeshore AInformation Session 550 MinutesVirtual SessionBest in Track By using modern technologies, education time can be creatively compressed, manipulated, and delivered to maximize a students learning endeavor. An instructor can "time-warp" education!

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Libertarianz leader Dr Richard McGrath ransacks the newspapers for stories and headlines on issues affecting our freedom. This week: Key cutting Our Prime Minister created ripples this week that extended well beyond the borders of the Shaky Isles when he shared the fact that he has been vasectomised. In fact he thought getting a vasectomy was such a good idea that he now wants to make the process compulsory, starting with his Cabinet Ministers. [Some of us would advocate a much deeper cut – Ed.] Given that last month was NZ Music Month, ministers were asked to nominate a song they would prefer as background music while their work is done. Deputy Prime Minister Bill English nominated Rod Stewart’s ballad ‘The First Cut Is The Deepest.’ Maurice Williamson could only think of the Joy Division dirge ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart.’ Gerry Brownlee betrayed possible hillbilly ancestry when he suggested Lynard Skynard’s ‘Gimme Back My Bullets.’ Murray McCully came over all misty-eyed as he recalled the Neil Diamond/Barbra Streisand classic ‘You Don’t Bring Me Condoms Any More.’ Judith ‘Crusher’ Collins had to be restrained from launching into a rendition of ex-Kiss member Ace Frehley’s number ‘Rip It Out.’ Wayne Mapp, a golden oldies fan, suggested ‘Great Balls of Fire’ by Jerry Lee Lewis. Chris Finlayson may have an S&M streak as he recalled 80s band Culture Club and their song ‘Do You Really Want To Hurt Me’, along with John Mellencamp’s ‘Hurt So Good.’ Nathan Guy thought ahead to possible future children post-vasectomy with his suggestion, Jim Croce’s 1973 hit ‘If I Could Save Sperm In A Bottle.’ Tim Groser winced as he hummed the tune to REM’s ‘Losing My Religion.’ Georgina Te Heu Heu cackled as she remembered a song by Queens of The Stone Age: ‘Suture Up Your Future.’ Tony Ryall contemplated elective surgery of a sterilising nature to Nirvana’s tune ‘Half The Man I Used To Be.’ Paula Bennett’s ideal background music as she supervises Phil Goff’s family planning with a rusty tin lid would be Gloria Estafan’s ‘Cuts Both Ways.’ Jonathan Coleman, a medical doctor, said he would prefer to do his own vasectomy with the benefit of local anaesthesia to a medley by Nine Inch Nails – ‘The Beauty of Being Numb’, ‘Somewhat Damaged’ and ‘Mr Self Destruct.’ Toward the end of his media conference yesterday, the Prime Minister said real men bike home after their vasectomies. He was then asked how things are in the nutsack region these days. ‘Love Hurts,’ he replied. [Note: The Libertarianz Party’s policy on vasectomies is that they should be done by mutual consent in the private sector, by whatever practitioner a person wants to employ. The medical monopoly and crumbling public hospital system should be opened up to competition, thus putting downward pressure on the cost of this surgical procedure.] When the people fear the government, there is tyranny - when the government fear the people, there is liberty. - Thomas Jefferson

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Rahayu, Fonny (2004) The Communication strategies in conversations used by the good and poor students of speaking 4 of the english department of petra christian university. Bachelor thesis, Petra Christian University.Full text not available from this repository. This study observed the communication strategies used by good and poor students of speaking four in Faculty of Letters. It focused on kinds of types of communication strategies produced by good students, kinds of types of communication strategies produced by poor students, and the differences between the good and poor students in using communication strategies in a conversation. The data were taken from recording the conversation in which the topics were made by the writer. The role-play was done by twenty students, ten of them are good students and ten of them are poor students. The data were analyzed based on the theory of communication strategies. The findings showed that the good students used seven strategies; meanwhile the poor students used six strategies. The number of using the strategies shows that the good students are more successful than poor students in maintaining conversations. |Item Type:||Thesis (Bachelor)| |Uncontrolled Keywords:||english language, discourse analysis, conversation, communication strategies, good and poor student| |Date Deposited:||23 Mar 2011 18:48| |Last Modified:||30 Mar 2011 09:10| Actions (login required)

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April 2012 - currently | Art Director | Obsidian Entertainment, Irvine, CA Unannounced Next-Gen Console title Tools: 3dsMax, Maya, Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, Z-Brush, Painter, Perforce, Vegas. Jan 2008 – April 2012 | Art Director | InXile Entertainment, Newport Beach, CA Hunted: The Demon’s Forge Collaborating with other team leads to develop a character based fantasy-action-RPG using the Unreal 3 Engine, for Xbox360 and PS3. Directing and Managing a staff of 18 artists and animators; creating themes, concept art and initial level prototype, directing and creating assets, managing development of concept art, assigning tasks, providing feedback, monitored all art progress toward milestone goals. Jan 2005 –Jan 2008 | Lead Artist | InXile Entertainment, Newport Beach, CA Worked with other team members to develop a gangster style action game using the Unreal 3 Engine, for Xbox360 and PS3. Created bank themes and concept art, created level art assets, planned naming and asset management conventions, conceived of and developed functional level streaming solution for entire city. Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 | Lead Artist | Sammy Studios, Carlsbad, CA Unannounced Action Title Collaborated with other team leads to develop “next-generation” action-shooter using the Unreal 3 Engine. Managed a staff of 10 artists and animators, created themes, directed and created assets (levels, actors, animations, effects) managed development of concept art, assigned tasks, provided feedback, monitored progress and involved Directors. June 2003 - January 2004 | Executive Producer | Treyarch, Santa Monica, CA Ultimate Spiderman | Spiderman 2 Worked with executive committee to manage the day-to-day needs of the studio and teams. Provided high-level to development team and managed development team’s relationship with publisher (Activision). Contracted writing and artistic talent from Marvel. For Spider-man 2, managed the implementation of key libraries, as well as accepted bids, contracted the talent (Blur), and managed the creative process of the pre-rendered cinematics for Spiderman 2. 2003 | Independent Contractor Eidos | Paradox | Backyard Wrestling Helped to evaluate the graphic status of the product, counsel Eidos executive management, provide art direction to team, and provided focused problem solving to insure successful delivery of title. Tools: Photoshop 6, Painter 6.1. Inxile | The Bards Tale Created Concepts and “turn-arounds”, built and textured character models for PS2 role-playing game. Tools: 3dsMax 5, Painter 6.1, Photoshop. Feb 2002 - May 2003 | Art Director | Shiny Entertainment, Aliso Viejo, CA Enter The Matrix Managed and directed a staff of 18 artists and animators. Coordinated with other leads and directors to develop production plans and implement them. Collaborated with creative leadership at Eon Entertainment to maintain visual parity with the movie. Developed original concepts to complement existing scripted locations. Worked closely with designers and programmers to insure the successful delivery of this crucial title (all 12 SKUs – 4 platforms x 3 territories; all released on the same date). 2000 – 2002 | Director of Development | Interplay Entertainment, Irvine, CA Directed and managed the flow of product from development through Audio, Localization, QA, and on to Operations for manufacturing. Monitored and assisted the development team at Shiny Entertainment with financial, creative, and developmental issues as they pertained to the Enter The Matrix project. 1995 – 2000 | Art Technical Director | Interplay Entertainment, Irvine, CA Recruited and assigned, talent and resources to specific development teams. Acted as strategic technical advisor, research coordinator, artistic guide, advisor, mediator, project facilitator, and “fire-fighter” to all teams internal and external. 1992 – 1995 | Art Director | Interplay Productions, Irvine, CA Created and managed, Interplay’s 3D Animation Department. Hired approximately 30 artists for over a dozen different projects. Researched and implemented a Silicon Graphics Lab complete with a dozen workstations and a Challenge multiprocessor-rendering server, as well as the relatively new technologies of motion capture and 3D digitizing. 1990 – 1992 | Artist/Animator | Interplay Productions, Irvine, CA Artist and animator. Responsible for sprite animations, background images, 3D modeling, texturing and animating of characters and environments. Bachelor of Arts and Sciences, San Diego State University, Design Major 3D Modeling & Animation Communication & Diplomacy Management & Organization Initiative & Follow Through Sense of Humor 3DS Max 2012 | Alien Brain | Photoshop CS4 | Perforce Painter 11 | Zbrush 3.5 | Maya 2012 | Unreal Engine References available upon request.

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|Lutheranism is a strong force in South Carolina. The Columbia area, alone, is represented by churches from every major Lutheran synod, as well as a Lutheran seminary. The question is sure to arise -- how are these groups different? Lutherans, like most religious organizations, can be placed into three general groups The Liberal, or Progressive Lutherans believe that it is important that the church changes with the times in order to continue attracting members. Progressive Lutherans proclaim that God's Word is no longer relevant to today's believer and allow people to decide for themselves what is or isn't God-pleasing. (Are these words blasphemous? Click to read a letter from a reader). or Progressive, such as the Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) - such as the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS) - such as the Church of the Lutheran Confession (CLC) - |The website Exposing the ELCA, exists to inform and expose the teachings, actions and beliefs of the ELCA. Majority of One" - a message for the members of the ELCA. Lutherans follow the Lord's command to "speak My Word faithfully" (Jer. 23:28) and teach the world "all things which I [Jesus] have commanded you" (Matt. 28:28). Confessional Lutherans realize that although God's Will isn't always the most exciting option to our sinful nature, it is definately what people need at this time of moral decline. Confessional Lutherans teach that people are sinful, and without Christ's redemptive work we would have no hope of eternal life. These scriptural truths were confessed by most Lutherans up until the breakup of the Lutheran Synodical Conference in the early 1960s. The Moderate Lutherans are torn between following the confession of their Lutheran ancestors and relinquishing God's teachings to make their churches more palatable to current and potential members. They therefore publicly confess that they follow God's Word, but in practice allow their pastors and people to decide for themselves which teachings they want to follow, and which they want to ignore. Both the Progressive and Moderate Lutherans are currently finding themselves in danger of alienating many of their members. Although the synodical leaders and many of the pastors are comfortable ignoring (or even denying) many of the teachings of the Bible, the people in the pew remember the catechetical training of their youth which taught them that the entire Bible is inspired by God (2 Timothy 3:16), and that holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit (2 Peter 1:21). These concerned Christians realize that the "cafeteria" approach to God's Word (take what you want, leave what you don't). is not God pleasing and is dangerious to their eternity. It doesn't take much research online to see the deep schisms dividing these organizations. Many members of these organizations (pastors and laypeople alike) are standing up and speaking against the erroring pastors and the synodical leaders. Many pastors, however, afraid to bring the controversies to their congregations, remain quiet - hoping that their members will not find out about the cancer which is slowly destroying their "beloved" church body. Many members, knowing about the error being taught by other pastors in their organization and supported by the synodical leadership turn a blind eye -- thinking that as long as their pastor teaches the truth they don't have to worry about what is happening in their sister churches. What is the purpose of this website? My hope, through this website, is to encourage many of the Liberal and Moderate Lutherans to pull their heads out of the proverbial "ostrich hole". It does not work to ignore the error taught by fellow pastors and supported by synodical leaders. Pretending that error isn't there doesn't make it go away. Saying that those errors don't represent you or that you don't support those errors is negated by your membership in that organization. These errors are a direct affront to our God who showed His love for us by sacrificing His Son for our eternal salvation. I hope through this website to encourage members of the erring church bodies to get up from their slumbers and stand up for Jesus. Are there any real men in these churches who will stand with Joshua and say “as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD,” and then leave the “house” of error in order to obey and keep their Is the error in these church bodies really that Don't take my word for it. Listen to many of the pastors and laypeople within these church bodies who are beginning to realize the distance their synod has fallen from the truth. Dozens of websites have been created by individuals within these organizations decrying the error being taught by many pastors and supported by synodical leadership. I list several of them at the bottom of this website. The errorists defend their teachings by saying their actions come from love. Such fine sounding words are in complete contradiction to what Lutheran have always believed - love the sinner but hate the sin. Denying even one small truth portrayed in Scripture raises the concern that we can therefore trust nothing in Scripture - even Christ's sacrifice for our sins - so the error in these church bodies IS really that bad! What got me interested in developing this website? This website will be a document in progress. It was started late January 2005 after I was approached by several families concerned about the error within their church body. Although they felt their pastor still taught true Scripture as confessed by the Lutheran Confessions - they could no longer allow themselves to show support for their erring church body through their membership. What about the CLC? I've spent some time discussing the Liberal and Moderate branches of Lutheranism. I guess it is to be expected that as a member of the CLC (Church of the Lutheran Confession) I would speak favorably of it - and I do! You will not find dozens of dissenting views by CLC pastors and members on the Internet. I challenge you to find any. Although we do occasionally find ourselves in conflict over one or more doctrines in the Bible, our differences are resolved on the basis of Scripture -- "What does God say?" Never do we allow ourselves the luxury of saying "Let's agree to disagree". We consider ourselves to be true confessional Lutherans - still believing and teaching the Scriptural truths as taught and confessed by Martin Luther and by the many confessional Lutherans unknowingly trapped in their erring church bodies. We are blessed to have the fellowship of which the Apostle Paul speaks in I Cor 1:10, speaking the same thing without divisions among us. A wonderful benefit of this fellowship is our confidence that we will hear the same teachings from all our pastors, whether they be in South Carolina, Virginia, Texas, the Dakotas, California or overseas. VISIT Some information about me... I am Glenn Oster, a retired pastor of the CLC (Church of the Lutheran Confession). I live in West Columbia, South Carolina and am a member of Holy Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church - CLC in West Columbia (see website). I left the full-time ministry several years ago to pursue secular interests but still assist CLC congregations where needed -- I am currently serving a congregation in the Fairfax, Virginia area on a monthly basis. I work full-time as a business analyst for NCR Corporation and own an Internet Hosting Company. If you have questions about what I believe, or would like to have a "sounding board" for your concerns, please feel free to contact me at goster@CLClutheran.com or 803-361-2739. or visit the CLC's website.

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Java Server Faces (JSF) is an important, new Java Web technology that offers great benefits for Web application... By submitting your email address, you agree to receive emails regarding relevant topic offers from TechTarget and its partners. You can withdraw your consent at any time. Contact TechTarget at 275 Grove Street, Newton, MA. development. This article provides a first look at the basic concepts of JSF and where they may pay off in your applications. More in-depth information will be covered in future JSF articles that show examples of different types of JSF development in IBM's WDSC toolset. While not supported in the current version of WebSphere Development Studio Client (WDSC 126.96.36.199), JSF will be supported in a future version. JSF versions and providers JSF's design is based on a Java Specification Request (JSR 127) managed by The Java Community Process (JCP) that sets Java standards. Today, a variety of JSF implementations are available. The current standard is now version 1.1. JSF support is available from several sources. Sun Microsystems offers JSF support in the Java Web Services Developer Pack version 1.3 that can be downloaded from www.javasoft.com. You can also download the JSF reference implementation from Sun at http://java.sun.com/j2ee/javaserverfaces/. And IBM offers a preview of JSF in WSAD version 5.1.1. There are open-source implementations available as well. Check out www.myfaces.org. JSF definition from Sun The Sun Java Server Web Services Developer Pack documentation for version 1.3 provides a basic definition of what JSF does nicely: "JSF is a server-side, user interface framework for building Java Web applications. . . . The main components of JavaServer Faces technology are - An API and reference implementation for representing User Interface (UI) components and managing their state; handling events, server-side validation, and data conversion; defining page navigation; supporting internationalization and accessibility; and providing extensibility for all of these features. - A JavaServer Pages (JSP) custom tag library for expressing UI components within a JSP page. This well-defined programming model and UI component tag library significantly ease the burden of building and maintaining Web applications with server-side UIs. With minimal effort, you can do the following: - Wire client-generated events to server-side application code - Map UI components on a page to server-side data - Construct a UI with reusable and extensible components - Save and restore UI state beyond the life of server requests" These are big benefits that go beyond the scope of any current Java Web framework available in IBM's WDSC tools today. JSF User Interface controls and events for Web pages Model objects available across a Web application JSF supports Managed Beans. A Managed Bean is a Java bean defined in the faces-config.xml file. By defining it there, it can be available across the application as needed to any Web page that needs reference to it. The properties for a Managed Bean are set (or bound to a UI control) using the valueRef elements and accessed using the getValue method for the element. You might have a Customer bean that has customerNbr, Name and phoneNbr properties that could all be accessed this way from a Web page. The Managed Beans can automatically be created as needed when referenced on a JSP using the ValueBinding definition (naming the Managed Bean in an expression). You can also define arrays or collections of objects for reference (for example, a list of items on an order). The impact is it now takes much less work to create Java objects for your Web application, as well as to populate Web pages and objects with values. A Web page as Java objects, not HTML In addition, there is full event support for the UI controls, so you can wire application behavior to a UI event. When a command button is clicked, for instance, the Web page can be submitted to the server specifying a given action to run. The UI controls are based on common application event patterns. For example, with a list or table you may want one of the following actions supported: SelectBoolean (something was selected), SelectOne (a single selection) or SelectMany (multiple items have been selected in a list or table). The JSF tag libraries fall into two categories: 1. Core tags that cover basic events, page definition, data validators and so on. 2. HTML tags that define JSF UI Control objects on a Web page. (For example, a command_button tag can define a button to open a JSP to view an Item catalog.) The JSF tag generates the HTML code for the JSP along with a UI Control object definition for the application for a button). UIInput and UIOutput components support different data types and default conversions between the Web page and the data value for the UIControl, eliminating the need to manually convert the data most of the time! Binding UI component classes to Model objects You can easily create or generate Java beans to represent business data (a Customer class, an Item class and so on). With JSF, you decide which UI controls are bound to properties of Managed Beans defined in the JSF application. This makes data validations easy and allows custom processing where needed. There are standard data converters for the normal data types. You can also supply your own by implementing a converter interface. Separate rendering from presentation: One application with many clients With JSF, specific rendering toolkits are provided for different types of clients. Usually an HTML rendering kit is provided in most implementations. You can also buy, find or create other rendering toolkits for different client environments. What's the impact of this? With JSF you can design one version of an application that can work in MANY application contexts: Web pages, WML, Web services, GUI applications and so on. No more coding for a specific type of client required. Web control events and the config file define your application workflow You're used to writing event-handling logic already. You've been handling conditions such as 'Customer not found' in the iSeries database for years in RPG or COBOL using indicators. The same concept applies on Web pages now. The UI controls (input_text or command_button) support one or more of the two event types in JSF: Action events (such as button clicked) or Value changed event (such as ZIP code entered). Your application can request to be notified when one of those events occurs so you can handle it (just like you handle events in RPG or COBOL) by registering an ActionListener for the event on a specific UI Control (a command_button for instance). The Action object has an invoke method that is called. The invoke method returns a condition name such as "success" or "orderShipped". Sure, that sounds great, but where's the mainline for my application workflow? In RPG or COBOL there is a usually a main subroutine or procedure for the application mainline. Here, the mainline workflow is defined in the faces-config.xml file. It has all the navigation definitions defined. For applications that aren't too large, you can read the workflow well from the XML file. Conditional events for navigation are represented by a three-part navigation definition that shows: the current JSP Web page, the named condition ("success", "orderShipped" and so on) and the target page to transfer control to. The default NavigationHandler will match the current page and the condition name to the navigation definitions in the faces-config.xml file to find the next page to transfer control to in the application. Here's a sample navigation rule defined in the faces-config.xml file for a logon application: <navigation-rule> <from-tree-id>logon.jsp</from-tree-id> <navigation-case> <from-action-ref>LogonForm.logon</from-action-ref> <from-outcome>success</from-outcome> <to-tree-id>/storefront.jsp</to-tree-id> </navigation-case> <navigation-case> <from-action-ref>LogonForm.logon</from-action-ref> <from-outcome>failure</from-outcome> <to-tree-id>/logon.jsp</to-tree-id> </navigation-case> </navigation-rule> The rule shows if the logon is successful, the user is transferred to the storefront.jsp Web page. If the logon fails, he's returned to the logon page to retry the logon again. How is JSF different than Struts? JSF encompasses most of what is useful in Struts and goes far beyond it in scope. Here's a quick list of some differences I see: - Naming conventions are different - JSP:UseBean tag defines beans IN Web pages. JSF Managed Beans are defined IN an application. - Rendering as a separate phase supports multiple client types nicely - The UI Control tree to represent a Web page is more refined than the basic ActionForm model in Struts. When can I use JSF? The negative to JSF is it's a newly published Java standard and not all tools support it fully yet. The next version of WDSC (v 5.1.2) will support JSF. Sun has a new toolset, Java Studio Creator, in beta now that supports JSF 1.1. You can also set up open-source implementations of JSF frameworks in the Eclipse-based IDE. I haven't tried (and therefore don't recommend) trying to add a JSF implementation into the existing WDSC version. The new version of WDSC should begin shipping in July, and it should include some of the JSF support that's available now in WSAD 5.1.1. What does JSF mean to your e-business plans? If you are ready to deploy a project now, use the existing WDSC frameworks such as Struts. 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Tuesday, March 12, 2013 Book Review: Palace of Stone by Shannon Hale (Whitney Finalist) Author: Shannon Hale Enjoyment Rating: *** This book would be rated: PG I never read Shannon Hale's first Princess Academy book, so I was a little bit worried that I would find Palace of Stone a little bit difficult to follow. But I was pleasantly surprised to discover that Palace of Stone is a stand-alone book. It's true that many of the characters were also present in Princess Academy, but Hale knows how to make characters feel real and memorable even to new readers of the series. In Palace of Stone, Miri and the girls have gathered in the lowland capital to help Britta prepare for her wedding to the prince. Peder follows along to apprentice as a stone mason, and when the group arrives, they find the city at the beginning of a revolution. Miri has to balance her desire for fairness with her loyalty to her friends. The book feels very much like a girl power book, and I think my 11yo daughter would enjoy both the story and the message.

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THE SIKH TIMES Noteworthy News and Analysis from Around the World In-Depth Coverage of Issues Concerning the Global Sikh Community Including Self-Determination, Democracy, Human Rights, Civil Liberties, Antiracism, Religion, and South Asian Geopolitics Home | News Analysis Archive | Biographies | Book Reviews | Events | Photos | Links | About Us | Contact Us P.M. to Unveil Sikh Portraits in Parliament The Hindu, New Delhi, Aug. 16, 2003 Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee will unveil the portraits of the late Master Tara Singh and freedom fighter Baba Kharak Singh - architects of the Shiromani Akali Dal (S.A.D.) and the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (S.G.P.C.), in Parliament's Central Hall on Aug. 21. National Commission for Minorities (N.C.M.) Chairman, Tarlochan Singh, said today that artist Phoola Rani was commissioned to do the work some months ago. 'These portraits are the first of any Sikh leader to be exhibited in the Central Hall of Parliament,' the N.C.M. chief said, adding, the Prime Minister the same day would unveil a statue of Sikh king, Maharaja Ranjit Singh, at the Parliament compound. The move appears to be part of the B.J.P.'s efforts to win favour of the Sikhs ahead of Assembly elections in five States, especially in Delhi which is home to a large population of the community. Earlier, the B.J.P.-led Central government had cleared a Delhi Assembly-passed legislation granting a second official language designation to Punjabi in Delhi, fulfilling a four-decade-old demand of the Sikhs. 'The portraits of the Master and Baba Kharak Singh partially fulfill the Sikhs' long-standing demand as the community also want to see the paintings of freedom fighters Udham Singh and Bhagat Singh, among others, exhibited in Parliament,' Tarlochan Singh said.

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How often do/should you pray? How long do/should you pray? Can you pray too much? What do/should you pray about? Is it possible to pray wrong? Are there certain words/phrases you need to use? What if you feel like God’s not listening? If God knows everything, why do I need to pray? Do I have to kneel every time I pray? What if you don’t have time to pray? Does praying really make any difference anyway? Have you ever asked any or all of those questions? I have. I really struggle with the particulars of prayer. It’s not that I don’t pray, I do. The problem, for me, is that I’m pretty sure I’m missing some important component. True confession time – I have a really hard time doing anything on a set schedule. It’s not that I don’t try or don’t want to keep a schedule. I really do! I make schedules and lists for myself all the time. I just rarely follow them, even though I know that certain things, (exercise, Bible study, cleaning, and prayer, for example) cannot be done correctly without scheduling them. It’s not that I don’t want to do those things, I do. I know they’re all important. And it’s not that I don’t ever do those things, I do, just not regularly or often enough to really get the benefit of having done them. I remember reading a story some time ago of an 85-year-old woman who got trapped in an elevator for four nights and three days. She was all alone – no one else in the building and no signal for her cell phone. Can you imagine how terrifying that would be? She came to the conclusion that she could either panic or pray. She chose to pray and turn the elevator into her own prayer closet. When the woman was interviewed later she actually said that she had felt God’s presences with her giving her both strength and joy. She said that she felt like the whole experience was a gift from God to provide her with an opportunity to develop a closer relationship with Him. Isn’t that amazing? I really covet that kind of a relationship with God. I’m fairly certain, though, that the woman had spent many years keeping appointments to spend time alone talking with God before being trapped in that elevator. That’s different than what Ron Halvorsen calls “crisis praying.” “We usually don’t say much about prayer, and we don’t pray much, until a crisis comes into our life. Aunt Tillie is sick, so you go on your knees and you pray for the next few days that Aunt Tillie will get well. Or Uncle John. Or someone in the church is sick. That’s crisis praying. When you are sick, have you noticed that you pray more than you did before you got sick? That’s crisis praying. It still works, but is not as effective as the continual spirit of prayer.”1 Praying in a crisis is a good thing, but it shouldn’t be the only time we pray. And I think it can kind of mislead us, give us a sense that we are praying, so everything’s ok with our prayer lives. And can you imagine if the woman trapped in the elevator only had that kind of prayer experience? After the first few hours in the elevator, with no signs of rescue, she may have come to the conclusion that God wasn’t listening and given up. When I was teaching, quite a few of our “classroom management” techniques involved learning the difference between “reactive” and “proactive.” You probably know the difference – reactive is dealing with each crisis as it comes along, while proactive is working in such a way that many of the crises don’t happen in the first place. The proactive route takes more time to begin with, but it works better than reacting to every little emergency as it comes along. I believe that prayer can be looked at much the same way. Like Halvorsen says, crisis praying still works, but is not as effective as the continual spirit of prayer. 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You cannot burden Him; you cannot weary Him. He who numbers the hairs of your head is not indifferent to the wants of His children. ‘The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.’ James 5:11. His heart of love is touched by our sorrows and even by our utterances of them. Take to Him everything that perplexes the mind. Nothing is too great for Him to bear, for He holds up worlds, He rules over all the affairs of the universe. Nothing that in any way concerns our peace is too small for Him to notice. There is no chapter in our experience too dark for Him to read; there is no perplexity too difficult for Him to unravel. No calamity can befall the least of His children, no anxiety harass the soul, no joy cheer, no sincere prayer escape the lips, of which our heavenly Father is unobservant, or in which He takes no immediate interest. ‘He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.’ Psalm 147:3. The relations between God and each soul are as distinct and full as though there were not another soul upon the earth to share His watch care, not another soul for whom He gave His beloved Son.” (Ellen G. White, Steps to Christ, p. 100) Ron Halvorsen describes prayer as “not what you say, it’s who you are. You see, prayer is your experience. It’s the breath of your soul. You don’t grab a breath at church, and then hold it until next week. And you don’t have to hit yourself on the head and say, ‘Breathe, Halvorsen!’ “No, it’s automatic. You see, once you come into that experience with God, you come in that experience with Jesus, you are with Him always in what you think.”3 The question is, how do I get to the point that talking to Jesus is a part of everything I do? I need to stop just reacting with crisis prayers and start, with the help of the Holy Spirit, building the spiritual discipline of personal prayer, worship and bible study time into each day so that when the crises do come, I can see them as opportunities to draw closer to God. Where do we start? Sing it with me: Into my heart, Into my heart, Come into my heart, Lord Jesus. Come in today, come in to stay, Come into my heart, Lord Jesus.

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Your daily news briefing, with the video of the day, top news and quote of the day. News to know Rescuers digging through the rubble of a collapsed Bangladeshi building found 50 more survivors this morning, CNN reports. The eight-story building collapsed Wednesday, and Bangladeshi authorities have stated that they will switch their focus from rescue to recovery when it has reached 72 hours after the collapse. Family members of those still missing protested they do not believe this is a large enough window of time, and were dispersed by police with tear gas. Saturday morning workers will begin using heavy equipment to retrieve bodies and haul away rubble. The death toll for the building collapse is currently at 304, and 2,438 people involved have been rescued. Quote of note "There's no question that when the United States takes a position that this crosses a line that our failure to respond has implications. I think the president was saying the use of chemical weapons is a game changer. I think most people agree with that. So that if we in fact determine that chemical weapons were used, I think the expectation is that we and the coalition and others take some action." - Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, on the White House's reaction to reports the Syrian government had used chemical weapons against rebel forces. Hot video: Twinkies to return as early as this summer More Content Now

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- Cooking Time: 45 min - Servings: 6-8 - Preparation Time: 240 min BackstoryThis is a great cook out for a family get together - 1 leg of lamb, butterflied, boneless - 1/2 cup olive oil - 1/4 cup lime juice - 1/4 cup orange juice - 2 tablespoons tequila (optional) - 2 tablespoons garlic, minced - 2 teaspoons ground cumin - 1 tablespoon chili powder - 1 tablespoon oregano, dry, whole - 2 teaspoons sesame seeds, whole - 1 tablespoon salt - 2 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper - Combine marinade ingredients in a bowl. - Place lamb in a shallow bowl and pour marinade over it. Cover with plastic wrap and marinate for 3-4 hours or overnight, turning the lamb over from time to time. - Set up a covered gas or charcoal grill for indirect cooking. Remove lamb from bowl and discard marinade. Cook lamb for 45 minutes or until the internal temperature in the thickest part reaches 125-130°F for medium-rare. Thinner parts will be more done. Remove lamb from grill and let rest, covered loosely with foil, for 10-15 minutes before slicing and serving. - To butterfly lamb, remove netting from boneless leg and open as flat as possible. Pound or use a knife to open out to desired thinness.

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i think the real issue is WC players being benched. The IPL is not meant just for Indian players. If you take out the Intl players then it will only be a meaningless battle. The purpose of IPL is entertainment, glamour, letting locals share words with intl players and so on. If a youngster of India does well against India, think about the confidence! Or a local who hardly gave runs to guyz like Gayle and sehwag. It mixes intl tender in domestic league. Otherwise it would be nothing but another Faysal Bank T20

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Salt star Liev Schreiber, 44, was spotted spending some quality time with his two boys Sasha, 5, and Kai, 3 in New York City on Monday (September 24). The proud papa carried his youngest son on his shoulders while sweet Sasha held his father’s hand as the trio made their way around the Big Apple streets. Liev and his partner Naomi Watts recently joined the likes of Kate Hudson and Matt Bellamy and hit the red carpet at The Reluctant Fundamentalist Venice Film Festival. Naomi has been busy shooting Diana on location in London but took a brief break to join Liev in Italy. He may return the favor next month when her upcoming feature The Impossible makes its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.View Slideshow »»

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There seems to be a lot of conflating of the two press releases. I think we should make clear distinctions. They should do the well considered thinking before they make a press release, instead of what appeared to be a knee-jerk reaction to current affairs. Knee jerk reactions almost always come off badly… better to come in later with a well thought out position, than to rush to judgment and spend precious time backpedaling while pulling your foot out of your mouth and other orifices. In a sense they reacted but it would be more accurate, I think, to say that they don’t see the problem. Telling other people that their churches are inappropriate crosses an important social line. If open Michael DeDora’s topic “Future of Humanism” on the religion forum, you’ll see an essay by Ron that begins with this statement: “Properly understood, humanism is not a religion.” It’s the same problem. Each person understands religion for herself. Telling people that their houses of worship aren’t appropriate and that their religion isn’t a religion is presumptuous. I suspect the Membership Committee discussed the release before it went out. So there was a content problem. What troubles me is that they all did it, apparently. It concerns me that they’re all politically tone deaf, apparently, and oblivious to this specific problem. So how does this myopia affect Humanism? Obviously it sets us up for unnecessary and unproductive conflicts with the people who already don’t agree with us, which is most of the country. That’s OK when we’re standing up for an important value or principle. But what is behind the sense of urgency in calling someone’s beliefs and practices “inappropriate,” as opposed to saying that we think centers based on reason are more beneficial to society; or in pontificating on the “proper” understanding of religion? It’s as though some among us are being driven by a primal need to categorize: fit it into the box to make the world simpler so we can deal with it. Well, then, what’s the point in being a Humanist? We have no credibility in our claim to reason and objectivity if we’re going to overcategorize and generalize like that. So it also sets up internal conflicts with people inside Humanism who see the problem. And now that I read CFI’s second press release, it’s still stinko - not as bad as before, but bad enough. They write: “All religions share a fundamental flaw: they reflect a mistaken understanding of reality. On balance, CFI does not consider houses of worship to be beneficial to humanity, whether they are built at Ground Zero or elsewhere.” That’s not true. Ethical Culture does not share that fundamental flaw. In addition, it opens us to criticism when people see how we treat each other within our ranks, and can then rejoin that they’re getting along better than we are, so who are we to preach? As the great philosopher the widow Paroo said in “The Music Man,” “But darlin’, when a woman has a husband and you have none, why should she take advice from you, even if you can quote Balzac and Shakespeare and all them other high-falutin’ Greeks?” A statement like that reflects a strain of tunnel vision within our ranks: reason isn’t the only means of seeing reality. There are elements of intelligence that come from emotion and experience. A statement like that makes us look foolish. I also think the statement that houses of worship are not beneficial to humanity is factually indefensible and politically suicidal. This statement is almost as bad as the first. Why was it so important to pass a categorical judgment on houses of worship? Why not just say that one element is disadvantageous to the human condition: the departure from reality and reason reflected by theistic narrative? If I’m ever fortunate enough to get a public forum to promote Humanism and I’m asked about CFI’s official statement, I can’t defend it. Quite aside from being disrespectful to most of humanity, the Membership Committee has put us all in an untenable position, potentially. A statement about the problems with theistic belief would not have been disrespectful but a categorical statement that the churches, synagogues, mosques and temples are doing more harm than good is; and it’s arrogant, especially considering that those institutions probably are doing more to help others than we are. I spoke far too soon in calling the new press release excellent. It’s another stinker, as anyone who is ever pressed to defend it publicly will find out.

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