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BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian activists accused President Bashar al-Assad's forces of launching a nerve gas attack that killed at least 213 people on Wednesday, in what would, if confirmed, be by far the worst reported use of poison gas in the two-year-old civil war.
Reuters was not able to verify the accounts independently and they were denied by Syrian state television, which said they were disseminated deliberately to distract a team of United Nations chemical weapons experts which arrived three days ago.
The U.N. team is in Syria investigating allegations that both rebels and army forces used poison gas in the past, one of the main disputes in international diplomacy over Syria.
Activists said rockets with chemical agents hit the Damascus suburbs of Ain Tarma, Zamalka and Jobar before dawn.
A nurse at Douma Emergency Collection facility, Bayan Baker, said the death toll, as collated from medical centers in the suburbs east of Damascus, was 213.
"Many of the casualties are women and children. They arrived with their pupil dilated, cold limbs and foam in their mouths. The doctors say these are typical symptoms of nerve gas victims," the nurse said.
Extensive amateur video and photographs purporting to show victims appeared on the Internet. A video purportedly shot in the Kafr Batna neighborhood showed a room filled with more than 90 bodies, many of them children and a few women and elderly men. Most of the bodies appeared ashen or pale but with no visible injuries. About a dozen were wrapped in blankets.
Other footage showed doctors treating people in makeshift clinics. One video showed the bodies of a dozen people lying on the floor of a clinic, with no visible wounds. The narrator in the video said they were all members of a single family. In a corridor outside lay another five bodies.
A photograph taken by activists in Douma showed the bodies of at least 16 children and three adults, one wearing combat fatigues, laid at the floor of a room in a medical facility where bodies were collected.
Syrian state television quoted a source as saying there was "no truth whatsoever" to the reports.
Syria is one of just a handful of countries that are not parties to the international treaty that bans chemical weapons, and Western nations believe it has caches of undeclared mustard gas, sarin and VX nerve agents.
Assad's officials have said they would never use poison gas - if they had it - against Syrians. The United States and European allies believe Assad's forces used small amounts of sarin gas in attacks in the past, which Washington called a "red line" that justified international military aid for the rebels.
Assad's government has responded in the past with accusations that it was the rebels that used chemical weapons, which the rebels deny. Western countries say they do not believe the rebels have access to poison gas. Assad's main global ally Moscow says accusations on both sides must be investigated.
Khaled Omar of the opposition Local Council in Ain Tarma said he saw at least 80 bodies at the Hajjah Hospital in Ain Tarma and at a makeshift clinic at Tatbiqiya School in the nearby district of Saqba.
"The attack took place at around 3:00 a.m. (0000 GMT / 8:00 p.m. Tuesday EDT). Most of those killed were in their homes," Omar said.
The timing and location of the reported chemical weapons use - just three days after the team of U.N. chemical experts checked in to a Damascus hotel a few km (miles) to the east at the start of their mission - was surprising.
"Logically, it would make little sense for the Syrian government to employ chemical agents at such a time, particularly given the relatively close proximity of the targeted towns (to the U.N. team)," said Charles Lister, analysts at IHS Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Center.
"Nonetheless, the Ghouta region (where the attacks were reported) is well known for its opposition leanings. Jabhat al-Nusra has had a long-time presence there and the region has borne the brunt of sustained military pressure for months now," he said, referring to a hardline Sunni Islamist rebel group allied to al Qaeda.
"While it is clearly impossible to confirm the chemical weapons claim, it is clear from videos uploaded by reliable accounts that a large number of people have died."
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group, said dozens of people were killed, including children, in fierce bombardment. It said Mouadamiya, southwest of the capital, came under the heaviest attack since the start of the two-year conflict.
The Observatory called on the U.N. experts and international organizations to visit the affected areas to ensure aid could be delivered and to "launch an investigation to determine who was responsible for the bombardment and hold them to account".
Additional reporting by Erika Solomon in Beirut; Editing by Peter Graff
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Mandela successfully treated for gall stones: presidency
PRETORIA - Agence France-Presse
AP photoSouth African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela on Saturday underwent a successful procedure to remove gall stones, a week after he was admitted to hospital for a lung infection, the office of the president said.
"This morning, 15 December 2012, the former president underwent a procedure via endoscopy to have the gall stones removed," it said in a statement.
"The procedure was successful and Madiba is recovering," it added, using the clan name by which Mandela is affectionately known.
The 94-year-old is being treated at a private hospital in the capital Pretoria. Initial tests revealed that he was suffering from a recurring lung infection.
"The medical team decided to attend to a lung infection before determining when to attend to the gall stones", the statement from the presidency said.
He was previously hospitalised for an acute respiratory infection in January 2011, when he was kept for two nights.
Mandela has a long history of lung problems dating back decades to when he contracted tuberculosis while in prison.

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Nikole KillionWashington Bureau Reporter
Nikole Killion is a correspondent for Hearst Television's Washington bureau.
Some of her most notable stories include the death of Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, the 2008 presidential campaign and the first U.S. visit of Pope Benedict XVI.
Nikole is no stranger to politics. She joined Hearst from WJLA-TV in Washington, where she served as a general assignment reporter and substitute anchor.
Before moving to the nation's capital, Nikole worked on air at WHAG-TV in Hagerstown, Md., WKYT-TV in Lexington, Ky., and Black Entertainment Television.
Nikole began her broadcasting career as an assignment editor and field producer at NBC News in New York, where she covered the World Trade Center collapse on Sept. 11.
Nikole is a member of the White House Correspondents' Association, the National Association of Black Journalists and serves on the Board of Visitors for the Institute on Political Journalism. She is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
To comment on this story, send an e-mail to Nikole Killion.


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LOS ANGELES, CALIF. — Helen Mirren, Jennifer Hudson, James Franco and the Backstreet Boys are among the famous folks getting stars on Hollywood's Walk of Fame in 2013.
Actress Marg Helgenberger and the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce announced the new 24 inductees Friday at a news conference on Hollywood Boulevard's star-lined sidewalk.
A committee selects celebrities eligible for a star and those who accept pay $30,000 in costs and fees.
Other entertainers slated for a star next year are Javier Bardem, Viola Davis, Simon Baker, Bryan Cranston, Jane Lynch, Katey Segal, Matthew Perry, Ellen DeGeneres and Olympia Dukakis; performers Penn & Teller; makeup artist Rick Baker; filmmaker Ron Howard; radio personalities Steve Harvey and "Shotgun" Tom Kelly; and musicians Jane's Addiction, New Kids on the Block, Janis Joplin, Usher, Thalia and Luther Vandross.


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Zoom lenses are expensive. Telephotos lenses are really expensive. But if you want to shove a little extra optical oomph into you camera, this 2x $50 telephoto adapter is a killer deal. Just screw 'er on and shoot.
It's as easy as it is cheap—each lens adapter is made for whichever lens you're seating it on—77 through 49 mm threads—and about doubles the focal length of your cam. A 50mm lens becomes a 105mm, pretty much. And for $50, that ain't bad! The thing is pretty, cheap, and portable—three wonderful adjectives, and rare when it comes to photography. [Photojojo]


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A loaf of wholesome oat whole wheat sandwich bread. For recipe, buy this book! Good to the Grain. One of my favorite baking books and I tried almost all the recipes!
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Daydreaming: A loaf of sandwich bread
About two years ago, I was inspired to make my own loaf of whole grain sandwich bread because I felt there was nothing in the market that was real enough for me. I got into the habit of making this bread every once in a while but it's been over a year now. I miss the kneading and the waiting and the smell of a freshly baked loaf!
I should get back into the bread making habit. Having a sandwich using the bread you've made yourself is amazing!
I will let you know if I actually commit. Stay tuned!


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Chances are, if you own a dog, you have these notions in your head about how you love your pet or how it's part of your family. You think of your dog as your companion. What you have to understand is that the reason you think this is that you are an awful human being. A total and complete monster. You are not completely ignorant of this fact, you just happen to be engaged in a gigantic game of pretend with the entirety of our culture. I'm not going to tell you not to feel bad about it either. You are guilty of a miserable, disgraceful thing and it's about time that people start telling you the truth, instead of letting you dance around in that little bubble that you refer to as reality.
This strange dog fantasy you are experiencing has been nurtured by the fact that our culture tends to hide its greatest cruelties under a veneer of nostalgia and manufactured love. You turn on the television and there's another dog bouncing around with respect and great reverence for its master. You look on a Hallmark card and there's another stupid looking dog performing some humiliating show for your entertainment. Getting its nose caught in a cookie jar or cuddling with a kitten or accidentally tracking mud on the new carpet with an "aw shucks" type dog grin. AWWWW…look at that, the dog surrendered its dignity again. Don't you just love when it demeans itself? Isn't that cute?
Maybe you think back to when you were young and that special animal filled you with the warm feeling of home or family or some other absurd illusion. And maybe, just maybe, the dog really did love you, too. But I doubt it. Look at it from the dog's point of view. Its entire way of life has been annihilated. It has no freedom. No self-determination. We've bred all of the characteristics and will out of it and turned it into a hollow shell into which we project memories and myth. You are its ticket to survival. Better put on a hell of a show.
To the loving owner, the dog is moving, highly symbolic furniture. They are a showpiece meant to express unspoken facets of the person's identity. Kind of like a table. In truth, it is nothing more than sick product of an insane society that revels in debasing anything that cannot speak for itself. If dogs truly understood their lot, they would bite every human they came in contact with. Of course, if they did that, they'd be exterminated immediately. No opposition to our hegemonic pet fantasy can be tolerated!
I saw a bumper sticker the other day that indicated that you should neuter your dog so that you don't have to euthanize a bunch of other dogs in the future. A big, goofy Labrador sat on the person's front seat. That person probably thinks of themselves as a kind, loving pet owner. I imagine they have conned themselves into thinking that these two actions are the only possibilities. But, can we seriously consider anyone compassionate who thinks that castration or genocide are the only two conceivable actions when discussing a living creature?
Whether you treat your dog well is beside the point. Maybe you let him run around outside and give him treats all the time. Maybe you scratch her belly and heap upon her massive amounts of affection. Maybe you take care of him when he is sick. None of this matters. The autonomy of a living thing is all that means anything. It has been systematically stripped of that through decades upon decades of love and adoration. We have killed its spirit with kindness. You may love it, but it has never been given the honest choice to love you back. It cannot leave or dislike you without existential peril. It is not your pet; it is your captive.
Dogs are the ultimate nightmare scenario. Life without choice. Life without will. Being paraded on a leash. Being entirely controlled and objectified. Broken, not just as an individual animal, but also as a species. Our victory over dogs is so complete that they have become our culture's mascot. Children laugh and pull on their tail. We dress it up in sweaters and cute little outfits to impress other people. We go so far as to delude ourselves into thinking that they are our "best friends". But, they are not. Friendship requires mutual consent from both friends. The dog has never been given the option to consent. It has been given its place and it will stay there.


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As image resolution increases and 3D video becomes a more common format, digital data storage requirements for the entertainment industry are predicted to grow quickly over the next five years.
According to a new report from IT consultancy Coughlin Associates ( download PDF ), the creation, distribution and conversion of video content is creating a market for storage device manufacturers.
The 159-page report was compiled from information provided by industry end users and vendors, as well as a survey of members of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, an international standards organization for the motion-imaging field.
The report said that storage systems sales for the entertainment and media industry will grow from $3.8 billion this year to $6.4 billion through 2016.
Active archiving of digital video content is driving increased use of hard drives instead of tape drives for long term archives, the report states. Flash memory will also find wider use in cameras and content distribution.
About 57% of the total storage capacity will be used for content archiving and preservation in 2011. "We believe that this will increase to 60% of total capacity by 2016 due to more efficient and cost-effective conversion services... (and) lower overall storage costs," the report states.
From 2011 to 2016, the media and entertainment industry will see about a 7.7-fold increase in the required digital storage capacity and a more than five-fold increase in storage capacity shipments per year from 11.2 exabytes to 62.7 exabytes. An exabyte is 1,000 petabytes or one million terabytes.
This year, Coughlin estimated that about 43.6% of the total storage media shipped for all the digital entertainment content segments will be tape; about 39.1% will be hard disk drives, 17.1% for optical and 0.2% for flash memory (mostly in digital cameras and some media distribution servers).
Lucas Mearian covers storage, disaster recovery and business continuity, financial services infrastructure and health care IT for Computerworld. Follow Lucas on Twitter at @lucasmearian or subscribe to Lucas's RSS feed . His e-mail address is email@example.com .
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and accounted for 150,000 direct jobs, which is nearly twice Boeing's workforce in our state. But our state invests no money — nothing, zippo, nada — in statewide tourism promotion.
Now, consider what Florida is doing. Last year, Florida's legislature increased state funding for VISIT FLORIDA, the state's tourism marketing organization, by 55 percent to $54 million a year.
It makes financial sense because tourism is Florida's largest industry, employing more than a million people and accounting for 23 percent of its sales tax collections. In 2011, Florida welcomed 86.5 million visitors, generating $67.2 billion in direct economic impact.
Gov. Rick Scott (R), who pushed the enhanced tourism budget through the legislature, said. "This investment is good for Florida taxpayers because for every dollar spent on tourism marketing, VISIT FLORIDA generates $177 in tourism spending and $11 in new sales tax collections."
Other states recognize what tourism adds to their economies, and some have learned the hard way what happens when you don't sell your state to the traveling public.
For example, when Colorado lost its statewide tourism program in 1993, tourism dropped 38 percent in seven short years. In contrast, Michigan invested $30 million, which resulted in 10,000 new jobs and $43.5 million in new tax revenues.
Over the years, state funding for tourism in Washington has been a hit-and-miss proposition. In good times, legislators toss a few million to the travel industry, but when things get tight, tourism funding is one of the first things on the chopping block.
In 2006, the Legislature allocated a paltry $500,000 and got "SayWA." It misfired. In short, we got what we paid for and even today; we live with that unfortunate stigma. In 2011, the Legislature defunded our state's tourism office.
Stacked against the tourism budgets in neighboring Montana ($18 million), Oregon ($12 million), British Columbia ($55 million) and Idaho ($9 million), you can see why slogans like "SayWA" don't resonate like "Beautiful BC" or "Big Sky Country."
Over the years, Washington governors and legislatures have treated tourism as a marginal program, whereas most of the other states and provinces view it as essential to their economy. We whack it when budgets are tight. They don't.
In 2011, when the state jettisoned the tourism office, the Washington Tourism Alliance formed to market Washington. The WTA wants the tourism industry, rather than the government, to fund those high-quality ads you see on the web, in magazines and on television.
To jumpstart the effort, WTA is asking the Legislature for $1.9 million in seed money. According to Kevin Clark, owner of Argosy Cruises in Seattle and WTA chair, "State involvement is necessary as both the short term funding and implementation of the long term self-assessment funding model will need to be approved by the Legislature."
The WTA is modeled after California's program where private industry partners fund 98 percent of that state's tourism promotion.
The WTA notes that Washington families pay $400 less in taxes because of revenue generated from out-of-state visitors. As long as funding a tourism effort generates more revenue than it costs, the decision for legislators is clear: Washington can't afford not to invest in tourism.
Editor's Note:Don Brunell is the president of the Association of Washington Business. Formed in 1904, the Association of Washington Business is Washington's oldest and largest statewide business association, and includes more than 8,000 members representing 700,000 employees. AWB serves as both the state's chamber of commerce and the manufacturing and technology association. While its membership includes major employers like Boeing, Microsoft and Weyerhaeuser, 90 percent of AWB members employ fewer than 100 people. More than half of AWB's members employ fewer than 10. For more about AWB, visit www.awb.org. This article first appeared on www.hometowndebate.com 5/15/13. If you would like to respond to this story go to hometowndebate.com


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Reposting this so you can see an actual blog of the Aeva GG skin by a real live blogger, rather than a cut & paste vendor advertisement…
Two looks for you today, including a nice sweater from American Bazaar that you can get from the Falling Into Autumn Hunt. It is actually the last call for that hunt since it ends tomorrow. Also shown again is Aeva's excellent skin gift, which I also used in my last post. Make sure you go check out the Aeva store to get that gift.
- Sweater: American Bazaar – Turtleneck L Automn (Falling into Autumn Hunt #63 until Oct 21, MESH)
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- Sweater: Nerd Project – Sweater006 03 S size (Not Free, MESH)
- Shorts: HuHu – Bermuda w/Boxer (New Release, MESH, Texture Change version available)
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- Necklace: KOSH – Uncut Necklace (Group Gift, Unisex)
- Bracelet: KOSH – Ice Mint Bracelet (Group Gift, Unisex)
- Glasses: Le Primitif – Metal Top Cat Eye Sunglasses Wood (Previous hunt gift)
- Pose: HisPose – HisAttitude 4 (100l for 4 poses)
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Northern Michigan Events: Get outside and get active at these Traverse City events!
Slay the Bay 2013!
Slay the Bay 1 & 2 Mile Open Water Swims Traverse City, Michigan
Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013 9:00AM (EST) Bryant Park Beach, Downtown Traverse City
Swim and a Family Picnic
You won't need an Olympic Medal to enjoy the TC Breakers Open Water Swim Event! The Open Water Swim is a fundraiser for the Traverse City Breakers Swim Team and ages 12+ are welcome to participate. Swim in West Grand Traverse Bay and help support the Traverse City Breakers Swim Team! 1 & 2 Mile Distances. Both events start and stop from Bryant Park Beach. In addition, t-shirts, a stadium cup and lunch provided.
Find out more or register here!
Here's Mud In Your Eye 5K
Saturday, Sept. 14, 2013 12:00PM (EST) Timber Ridge Resort, Traverse City
Bring your sense of adventure and an extra set of drawers for this one-of-a-kind race experience. The distance will be approximately 5K and will include mental and physical challenges along the way. The event is sure to be loads of fun with an after party to boot. Race Waves START at NOON.
Find out more or register here!
Turkey Trot Registration Opening Soon!
Festive 5K and 5M Races
Thanksgiving Morning 2013 Thursday, Nov. 28, 2013 9:00AM (EST)
LEAP Under the Lights on Wed.
Thirlby Field on 14th Street, Downtown Traverse City


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relay, electromechanical switch operated by a flow of electricity in one circuit and controlling the flow of electricity in another circuit. A relay consists basically of an electromagnet with a soft iron bar, called an armature, held close to it. A movable contact is connected to the armature in such a way that the contact is held in its normal position by a spring. When the electromagnet is energized, it exerts a force on the armature that overcomes the pull of the spring and moves the contact so as to either complete or break a circuit. When the electromagnet is de-energized, the contact returns to its original position. Variations on this mechanism are possible: some relays have multiple contacts; some are encapsulated; some have built-in circuits that delay contact closure after actuation; some, as in early telephone circuits, advance through a series of positions step by step as they are energized and de-energized.
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The Demarcation Problem in Jurisprudence: A New Case for Skepticism
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 32, No. 1, Spring 2012
23 Pages Posted: 6 May 2010 Last revised: 20 Jun 2011
Date Written: June 2, 2011
Legal philosophers have been preoccupied with specifying the differences between two systems of normative guidance that are omnipresent in all modern human societies: law and morality. Positivists such as Kelsen, Hart, and Raz propose a solution to this "Demarcation Problem" according to which the legal validity of a norm can not depend on its being morally valid, either in all or at least some possible legal systems. The proposed analysis purports to specify the essential and necessary features of law in virtue of which this is true. Yet the concept of law is an "artifact concept," that is, a concept that picks out a phenomenon that owes its existence to human activities. Artifact concepts, even simple ones like "chair," are notoriously resistant to analyses in terms of their essential attributes, precisely because they are hostage to human ends and purposes, and also can not be individuated by their natural properties. 20th-century philosophy of science dealt with a kindred Demarcation Problem: how to demarcate epistemically reliable forms of inquiry from epistemically unreliable ones, that is, how to demarcate science from pseudo-science or nonsense. Like the legal philosophers, they sought to identify the essential properties of a human artifact (namely, science). They failed, and spectacularly so, which led some philosopher to wonder, "Why does solving the Demarcation Problem matter?" This essay develops the lessons for legal philosophy from this episode and its philosophical aftermath, and concludes that, lest we want to become embroiled in pointless Fullerian speculations about the effects of jurisprudential doctrines on behavior, it is time to abandon the Demarcation Problem in jurisprudence.
Keywords: legal positivism, natural law theory, morality, legal validity, non-cognitivism, psychologism, general jurisprudence, H.L.A. Hart, Hans Kelsen, Joseph Raz, John Finnis, Rudolf Carnap, Carl Hempel, Karl Popper, Larry Laudan, Lon Fuller
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A Calgary Centre Tory candidate's comments at a Saturday forum resulted in the hashtag #CBCporn trending on Twitter.
While answering a question about CBC funding, Joan Crockatt commented on CBC programming, saying "I think they do provide some good programming, I think there are areas that they need to look at."
"As well, is there still funding some porn channel on the web?" she asked, "There are going to be people that are going to look at CBC and say there's still room for cuts."
This isn't the first time CBC has found itself in the middle of a discussion that brings up pornographic programming. Earlier this year Sun News published a story in the Toronto Sun, accusing CBC of using taxpayer money to pay for soft-core pornography.
The story revealed that the French-wing of CBC, Radio-Canada, has been airing the program "Hard" on its on-demand web service Tou.tv, which included explicit sex scenes and nudity.
As a result of the story and Heritage Minister James Moore contacting the CBC to review the content, CBC took action. Radio-Canada now has restricted access to "Hard" to between the hours of 12 a.m. and 4 a.m.
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Crockatt had started off by saying, "Full disclosure I have worked for CBC," adding that she has worked with them quite a lot in the past ten years in different roles.
She stated that whenever a government funded monopoly exists, it should go through a similar scrutiny that the budget deficit would, and CBC should not be immune to cutbacks.
With no further explanation on the remark, Crockatt continued to say that CBC provides some valuable programming but if we're seeking to balance the budget CBC is also going to have to share some of that.
The forum gave birth to the term #CBCPorn, which starting trending in Canada. Many took to Twitter with satirical plays on CBC programming and its presenters as a result of Crockatt's comment.
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Aramark recently introduced an environmentally friendly "Blue Cleaning" program to its custodial management customers across North America. Tested in several universities and school districts, convention centers, and businesses across the country, this program uses electrically activated water in place of chemicals to clean most floors, carpets, and hard surface areas safely.
"We are committed to finding sustainable solutions that provide optimal safety for our employees and customers, while reducing the overall impact on the environment," said Chris Hackem, president and CEO for Aramark's Higher Education, K-12 Education, and Correctional Services businesses. "By leveraging the power of electrically activated water, our program can help custodial clients minimize their environmental footprint and increase safety, productivity, and convenience."
The Blue Cleaning program employs multiple technologies, which apply a low-level electrical charge to tap water, transforming it into an electrically activated water (EAW) cleaning solution that breaks apart and lifts dirt from surfaces like a magnet. Hard surfaces can then be wiped clean quickly without leaving a surface residue like chemical-based agents. In partnership with Orbio Technologies, a Tennant Company Group, and Activeion Cleaning Solutions, Aramark tested the Blue Cleaning program at several of its client locations across the country.
"Our testing found that the Aramark process was effective in a variety of routine cleaning applications, including spray-and-wipe cleaning, hard floor scrubbing, and carpet cleaning," said Matt Judge, Aramark's senior director of facilities innovation. "Even in large venues, such as universities, schools, and convention centers, the program proved to be comparable to conventional chemical cleaners."
The custodial operators who participated in the testing across all of the different venues reported positive findings, including that there was no odor compared to chemical cleaning; carpets were softer; and there was no streaking on glass surfaces or degradation on wood or terrazzo flooring. Additionally, there was no need to mix general purpose chemicals.
Aramark provides operator training and customer support as part of the Blue Cleaning program to ensure the ongoing safety and effectiveness of the program across all custodial applications. For more information about Aramark's Blue Cleaning program, visit www.aramarkhighered.com.


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Odds-on favorites Cambridge University lost last year's boat race against ancient rivals Oxford. This year, the light-blues have been advised to follow Business School theories for coping with the heady mix of individual ambitions and team spirit. We assess whether the ideas hold water.
Last year Cambridge lost the annual varsity bragging rights on the Thames. Defeat sometimes sharpens the appetite for new ideas. According to this week's Economist, Cambridge Coach Duncan Holland has been assisted by Mark de Rond from Cambridge's Judge Business School.
Mark is an American strategy theorist who is tipping his toe into more behavioral waters here (I can't get away from aquatic imagery at the moment). The article goes on to mention a recent idea on how members of organizational work teams relate to one another.
Competent Jerks and loveable fools
The basic idea, by Casciano and Lobo, originated in the prestigious Harvard Business Review last June. Their work examines the relationships between managers with differing levels of competence and of likeability. Details of the work can be found in a summary by AsiaOne Business:
The authors studied four organisations – one which is profit-motivated, one non-profit, another large and the fourth, small. No matter which organisation they studied, they found that everybody wanted to work with a lovable star and nobody wanted to work with an incompetent jerk. They say things got more interesting when people faced the choice between competent jerks and lovable fools … surprise, surprise, the two researchers found out that the reverse was true in the four companies they analysed.
"Personal feelings played a more important role in forming work relationships – not friendships at work, but job-oriented friendships – than is commonly acknowledged, even more important than evaluations of competence."
The competent jerks represent an opportunity for the organisation because so much of their expertise is discounted.
Evaluation of the research: The popularity of the 'two-by-two matrix'
The research study is presented in the form of the two-by-two matrix. As a teaching and diagnostic tool the two-by-two is among the most popular ways of helping people escape the 'either-or' trap and think in more dimensions. After a while the experienced management trainer becomes adept at turning any relationship between two variables into a two-by-two format for teaching purposes. (Try it for yourself, if you don't believe me).
For example, in the famous management matrix by Blake and Mouton we can explore more deeply the interplay between task-oriented and supportive preferences of leaders.
This new two-by-two contrasts high and low likeability and high and low competence. As with the Blake and Mouton matrix, this immediately makes sense to many people. The four boxes are nicely labeled. The simple idea simply expressed has another nice wrinkle. It gets to the trade-offs and dilemmas when people have to chose between workmates they believe to be one or two dimensions short of being a likeable and competent star.
Will the model stand the test of time?
Casciano and Lobo have got their idea off to a good start. It has every chance of being a fashionable concept which works its way into Organizational Behavior (and Organisational behaviour) textbooks. After which there is a mimetic force at work. Does the theory extend or challenge sound organizational theory? Not really, but that is to be ungracious. At least, it has several features of earlier successful 'thought leadership' stories. The publication in the prestigious Harvard Business Review will do its prospects no harm.
Will it help Cambridge win the boat race?
I can't quite see it. In the boat race, the rowers have all already have been selected as highly competent. There's no rowing incompetent among the candidates for the top boat. Actually, the article implied that there was, mentioning one rower who is a not the technically most-gifted and yet who is much liked and a motivational character. I'm not sure how the Cambridge business coach got that message across (unless, of course he is himself a highly competent and likeable star; neither a competent jerk nor a likeable fool).


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Public Records Police Officer Shelley Rowe ( Olson), Duvall Washington
Recently, I deposed a law enforcement official from Duvall Washington who is entrusted to answer public records requests. What I discovered is Ms Rowe apparently has a criminal history.
Imagine you've been accused of a crime, you request access to public records, and you have not only one Duvall police officer as an undisclosed Brady Cop, but you also have an undisclosed Brady Cop who answers your public records request.
In Brady v Maryland, our court held that any police officer with credibility problems are referred to as "Brady cops". Due to the Brady ruling, prosecutors and city attorneys ( civil or criminal) are required to notify defendants, and their attorneys, whenever a law enforcement officer involved in their case has a sustained record for knowingly lying or criminal history in their background that could likely lead to other discoverable evidence must be disclosed, regardless of whether its a criminal or civil case.
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Welcome to Duvall Washington. King County Washington is such a lovely place to raise kids.
In 2015, We reported on Duvall Brady Officer Lori Batiot. As a result of our investigation of Brady Officer Lori Batiot was constructively terminated from the City of Duvall last week (2/10/2017). But not before she committed gross civil rights violations against several reporters, fabricated evidence, lied under oath, and filed false instruments in countless jurisdictions, against countless of defendants and residents all over the state, from Ferndale to Brier to Duvall Washington.
The number of people Brady Officer Lori Batiot falsified evidence against is unknown, but my investigation continues inside Duvall Washington, turning over every record request sent by or answered by two Brady cops.
So the question from a reader is: Did the City of Duvall pay her off to go away or in exchange for her testimony in your public records case? An issue we're investigating.
Now on the heels of riding our community of one Brady Cop, last week We learned that Shelley Rowe ( Olson) Duvall's public records officer is also an undisclosed Brady Cop. Perhaps the City of Duvall's application says " Criminals or those charged with criminal conduct need only apply"
As correctly reported below, Duvall Brady Cop Lori Batiot's drug addiction and drunkenness, caused not only problems within the Duvall police department's moral, but also for defendants who were wrongfully charged, and in one vehicular case from Grays Harbor, Lori Batiot rear-ended a man while drunk causing permanent major life damage to a man's spinal cord.
Thankfully for Lori Batiot, Gray's Harbor police officers did what any good police officer does in Washington, they covered up that fact that Lori Batiot was on drugs and drunk when you caused irreparable damage to a citizen. The only reason we learned of Lori Batiot's criminal conduct is because she was sued in Skagit County.
For over 15 years Duvall police officer Lori Batiot managed to stay under the radar, committing racketeering crimes of trumping up criminal charges on honest hard working citizens as political favors. However, when Ms. Batiot ( Hoffer) came after us for First Amendment protected speech on behalf of another Duvall criminal ( residents John Pennington, child rape Colwitz County 19992, and his bank frauding wife, Crystal Berg, bank fraud 2005 Snohomish County and 2000 North Carolina), she hit a road block, the First Amendment and one fantastic constitutional law scholar.
What we later learned from a whistleblower who released unredacted employment files iot is the Duvall Police department knew Lori Batiot was a Brady Copy, but they failed to disclose this fact to countless defendants she testified against and falsified evidence against. One said resident told the Gold Bar Reporter " she ( Batiot) planted drugs in my school locker. Why, because she didn't like me sticking my middle finger up to her.Had we known that she was a Brady Cop, we would have used that to discredit her. Duvall Washington should be sued for the harm they caused so many. I recently told the Mayor I want her fired! "
Lori Batiot's employee file documented that she was an uneducated political appointee to John E. Pennington and Duvall's Mayor Will Ibershoff. The deal was this: John Pennington would get former Executive Aaron Reardon to contract with Will Ibershoof's employer, Waste Management, for county services, and Mayor Ibershoff would hire John Pennington's mistress Lori Batiot. Why, because John Pennington had just been charged with beating up a 3rd trimester pregnant Duvall City Council Member Ann Laughlin. See below.
Corrupt Duvall police officer Lori Batiot, involved in extramarital affair with John E. Pennington, a source states for years while he was FEMA Region 10 Director.
Public records from Lori Batiot's criminal complaint file inside the City of Shoreline document that attorney Sandra Sullivan and Margaret King set up a King County Sheriff's Officer named Cary Cobltanz, a RICO Enterprise member, who tried to trump up criminal charges on Gold Bar Reporter for trying to warn the public about John E. Pennington's pedophilism. All protected free speech issues.
Perhaps Ms. Sullivan failed constitutional law or she's in so deep with Michael Kenyon and John E. Pennington's racketeering that she saw no other way out of being exposed once Gold Bar's emails are release from January 2009 to June 2009 ( months when Sandra Sullivan agreed to quash criminal charges against John Pennington in exchange for political favors from Snohomish County.
Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe: what a tangled web You've weaved when you attempt to deceive.
In late June 2015, King County Prosecutors released public records documenting that corrupt Duvall police officer Lori Batiot's criminal complaint was "unfounded." The Prosecutors reasoned what Judge Meyers reasoned in his opinion when the DISMISSED John and Crystal Hill Pennington's complaint in March 2015, " Protected Free Speech."
Records released from the City of Shoreline and Duvall document that the records that corrupt police officer Lori Baiot placed inside the public record belong to another blogger, were altered by Crystal Hill Pennington ( who with no surprise plead guilty to bank fraud in 2005) and pedophile from Snohomish County named John E. Pennington.
John E. Pennington is Snohomish County's former Director who caused 43 people in Oso Washington to suffocate to death in March 2014, because instead of doing his job, he was off operating his own company on the County's dime, and according to an insider, he was criminal harassing Gold Bar Reporters, while blogging on his Sky Valley Chronicle blog spot.
A source inside the City of Brier stated " it was pretty common knowledge that Lori Batiot was engaged in an extramarital affair with John Pennington while he was FEMA Region 10 Director. In fact, she was caught taking the police car home so her and John could meet up. John was friends with Mayor Lane. You might remember Mayor from City of Brier was the Mayor involved that unsolved murder. He let Lori Batiot run her real estate business on the City's dime for Windemere, and he set up John Pennington's extramarital meet up with Lori Batiot. When the new Mayor came after Lane was alleged to be involved in the murder, he put an end to Lori Batiot's misuse of the City's resources for her personal and extramarital affair with John Pennington."
Corrupt King County Sheriff's Officer, Cary Coblantz, a RICO member
Those of us who love and support open government, can rest a little easier tonight knowing that King County released public records from a Sheriff's Officer Cary Coblantz documenting gross civil rights violations. See below. Illegal tracking of US citizens without a warrant overseas, in violation of the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution. Shoreline Officer Cary Coblantz was notified that he is being sued under 42 USC 1983 and RICO for his illegal conduct.
Cary Coblantz's phone records confirm beyond any shadow of doubt that Sandra Sullivan assisted John Pennington's little Racketeering efforts attempting to have the Gold Bar Reporter charged with a crime.
King County records also confirm that John E Pennington's criminal conduct as stated herein took place using county resources and while on the County taxpayer's dime, and he was behind the illegal tracking on the Gold Bar Reporter and her partner from London Heathrow airport. Records we will be posting once our 1983 suit is filed this week.
A RICO suit has been filed noting the City of Duvall's municipal law firm of Kenyon Disend for Racketeering. Attorney Sandra Sullivan was informed on Thursday that she will be added to the next RICO suit after text messages and phone records from King County link her to the RICO Enterprise. Some really good shit!
We tried contacting attorney Sandra Sullivan ( Meadowcraft) for comment but she refused.
A little hint about what's behind the curtain up here in Gold Bar Washington, hence why the City of Gold Bar has misappropriated over $1,000,000.00 hiding Kenyon Disend's Racketeering crimes. All for a pedophile named John E. Pennington and a bank frauder named Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg) .
According to Redmond District Court records, Sandra Sullivan (Meadowcraft) was employed by Kenyon Disend when she was assigned to prosecute Snohomish County's number one political scum/appointee John E. Pennington for kicking and punching Duvall council member Anne Laughlin during her 3rd trimester and just three weeks before delivery of her daughter.
Instead of Sandra Sullivan prosecuting violent John Pennington, she quashed criminal assault charges from 2008-2009 against him. ( Snohomish County pay stubs document Pennington has been on paid administrative leave since Oso).
I spoke to attorney Sandra Sullivan seeking comment regarding her lack of objecting to John Pennington's template motion to dismiss he filed in May 2009. Sandra Sullivan (Meadowcraft) and I spoke for sometime, and as soon as she realized that we were onto her predicate acts in violation of RICO, she hung up.
Agreeing to Quash Criminal Charges in Exchange for Political Influence. Racketeering ? I believe so
Click to above to view John E. Pennington's criminal assault charges of a pregnant woman ( in her third trimester of pregnancy).
see above Sandra Sullivan's ( Meadowcraft) King County filing noting John E. Pennington is a dangerous man RICO Issues that we reported about over the last year in "Kenyon Disend's Dirty Bag of Secrets"
See https://goldbarreporter.org/2015/04/04/attorney-michael-kenyons-dirty-bag-of-secrets-part-ii/
Kenyon Disend and all of its lawyers were contacted for comment but refused comment.
Last month, King County Prosecutor's released a statement stating that Duvall police officer Lori Batiot's and Crystal Hill Pennington and John Pennington's complaints based solely on issues of free speech, protected First Amendment activity were "unfounded."
In March 2015, King County Judge Meyers "DENIED" Lori Batiot's friends, Crystal Hill Pennington and John Pennington's request to "restrain" the Gold Bar Reporters as a "prior restraint on free speech."
Public emails released from King County confirms that King County Sheriff's Officer Cary Coblantz issued a false statement inferring that Gold Bar Reporter Anne Block and her partner were wanted for "felony warrants" thus luring the Department of Justice Interpol ( DOJ) into their little RICo gang.
Cary Coblantz then illegally tracked Block and her partner coming from London Heathrow Airport to Seattle as well las Block's private investigator and his wife. And now thanks to King County, we know that John Pennington is directly linked to the illegal tracking of the Gold Bar Reporter and her partner coming back from London Heathrow Airport.
As of now, John Pennington is being sued in US Federal Court for Racketeering, and a new suit is on its way just in time for 2016.
A Internal affairs complaint has been substantiated against King County Officer/scum Cary Coblantz, and he was notifed that he will be named in a RICO suit coming soon.
All over assisting a corrupt police officer who has a long history of conduct hardly becoming of any person let alone a police officer.
Duvall Mayor Will Ibershoff Hired John Pennington's Mistress, a drunk pill popper
The City of Duvall released Lori Batiot's Washington State Patrol record documenting that she was drunk at the time of a car accident; she blew a blood alcohol content (BAC) of .129 (between 6- 7 drinks), lied to Whatcom County Sheriff's Officer, and she was on mental health pills Zoloft and Valium at the same time she was driving drunk.
Above are copies of Lori Batiot's police report verifying everything we've written about her conduct being " unbecoming" of any police officer.
Better question those of us involved in exposing corrupt public officers like Lori Batiot is whether she had a legally issued prescription for the anti-depressant and valium's she was using at the time she was arrested for DUI.
According to Batiot's police report, she was using valium to "relax" herself because of a dentist appointment. We're not sure about our readers but we don't know too many dentists who are open at 0145 am ( time of Batiot's arrest).
This police report is also at least the 3rd public record where Batiot accuses a person of "stalking." Seems like any time someone starts to uncover her crimes, she alleges "stalking."
In the above record, it's clear just based on Batiot's BaC at the time of the her DUI arrest, she lied about the amount of alcohol she had just before driving and causing a major accident along I-5 ( Bellingham). She is "unfit" for public duty.
Our readers should note that Lori Batiot managed to get hired as a police officer from the City of Duvall after being fired for misconduct from the City of Ferndale and from the City of Brier. We have ample reason to believe that Lori Batiot managed to get hired in Duvall because that's where her very very very good friend John E. Pennington lives.
According to the below public record, John Pennington enjoys taking naked showers with little girls. There is no evidence that John Pennington ever tried to Motion to Strike out this declaration, which would be pretty hard to do since the truth is an affirmative defense.
Further, public records from Duvall documents that John E. Pennington's friend and Mayor Will Ibershoff hired Lori Batiot. Emails from John Pennington's divorce files confirms that Mayor Ibershoff assisted John Pennington in removing his wife Anne as a duly elected council member ( which is alleged in a RICO suit to amount to extortion), after she fled Duvall for her life when John Pennington kicked and punched her just three weeks before the delivery of her daughter.
John Pennington, a source inside Snohomish County, used by several newspapers, managed to get news story in the Seattle Times about Anne Laughlin not being a resident of Duvall thus she had to resign. What the Times did not report was that John E. Pennington had just been charged with criminal assault of 3rd trimester pregnant woman and that was the reason Anne fled from Duvall ( temporarily seeking battered women's shelter).
See more on " The Stoning of Anne Laughlin" https://goldbarreporter.org/2015/04/16/the-city-of-duvalls-stoning-of-anne-laughlin/
Some of these issues we've researched and written about in this article was also exposed in "Kenyon Disend's Dirty Bag of Secrets"
See https://goldbarreporter.org/2015/04/04/attorney-michael-kenyons-dirty-bag-of-secrets-part-ii/
Kenyon Disend and all of its lawyers were contacted for comment but refused comment.
The Bellingham WA State Patrol DUI police report confirms our worst fears; the City of Duvall knew about Lori Batiot's criminal history before she was hired, and we believe that this makes her unfit for public service. Popping pills while drunk driving at minimum should speak for itself.
Before Lori Batiot managed to obtain a job as a police officer, her work experience was that of a coffee Barista!
The City of Duvall's employee file of Lori Batiot also supports that she has no college degree and was fired from the City of Ferndale and City of Brier.
We feel that her days as a coffee Barista and her affair ( as stated in her DUI arrest record) lead to her obtaining a job with the City of Ferndale. A job she was unqualified for but managed to obtain.
We have ample evidence to state that Lori Batiot was hired by the City of Duvall as a political favor to Snohomish County's number one welfare recipient John E. Pennington.More that issue soon.
John Pennington often brags that he set up little RICO members inside government agencies to protect him from being charged with crimes. Police reports from the City of Duvall confirms that Lori Batiot ran criminal obstruction for John Pennington anytime someone filed a criminal complaint against him.
Thus, the Gold Bar Reporters add one more cockroach to our list of public officials who need a hell of a lot of sunshine. As such, we will continue to post records relating to Lori Batiot's misconduct so long as she's a public official.
As former Washington State attorney general Rob McKenna nicely argued in Referendum 71, all public officers are subject to public scrutiny, or as Justice Scalia said "the fact is that running a democracy takes a certain amount of civic courage. And the First Amendment does not protect you from criticism or even nasty phone calls when you exercise your political rights to legislate, or to take part in the legislative process."
Whether it's a police officer, public official, politician, or a former Mayor of Gold Bar who is responsible for over $200,000 missing from Gold Bar's water fund, to allow a person in a position of power to retaliate against a well respected news source would mean that I condone such criminal behavior from our public officials. Simply put, I do not and will not.
Citizens are the checks and balances to a clean government. It's our responsibly to expose corrupt public officials regardless of the personal cost to one's self. Justice has no borders, has no price tag. Corruption harms all of us and must be exposed regardless of the personal cost to one's self.
Thomas Jefferson said " the highest form of patriotism is dissent." This doesn't mean that I believe our entire system is corrupt. I do not.
As an idealist who believes that our courts are simply one prong to a healthy democracy. But lately they are failing to uphold the laws instead are hiding public officials crimes. So it's up to "we the people" to be the guarders of public agency employees we created and who are paid with the public's trust. It's we the people that must protect the First Amendment from all invaders. Police officers are no exception, and yesterday, the Washington State Supreme Court agreed with us. Requesting access to public records, especially emails, is our statutory right.
After reviewing some of King County Detective Coblantz's records as well as Kenyon Disend's contract attorney Sandra Sullivan (Meadowcraft) records. I believe we unearthed another dirty cop and attorney who spit on basic constitutional principles that I love more than life itself. Thus, I cannot turn a blind eye, especially after Coblantz caused an honest taxpaying citizen to be physically raped for a dirty cop from Duvall.
To turn a blind eye when a wrong has been committed against any person for simply exercising First Amendment rights is not something that I can do.
One must wonder whether or not police departments are hiring officers with a high school diploma or high school dropouts. The City of Duvall not only hired uneducated cops but also corrupt cops convicted of DUI who have been fired from two other City's for misconduct.
For those of you who have past criminal convictions, enjoy filing false reports, enjoy having extramarital affairs with city residents, and no college degree, You should inquire within the City of Duvall at http://www.duvallwa.gov/jobs.aspx.
I feel fortunate to have been raised in a "free speech" zone, and most of all I am thankful to Thomas Jefferson for bringing the First Amendment back with him from Europe.
As new public records come out involving corrupt officers, I promise my readers they will be posted.
Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg) criminal conduct crosses county lines
John Pennington (prime suspect in the rape of a 5 year old) , Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg, bank fraud 2005), and Lori Batiot ( corrupt Duvall WA cop)
Correction: We originally posted that corrupt Duvall Police Officer Lori Batiot was fired from Bellingham. This was a clerical error. Batiot was arrested for drunk driving in Bellingham, but fired for conduct unbecoming of a police officer in the City of Ferndale.
City Brier PRR click to the left to view Drunk Driving report from WA State Patrol from City of Brier.
What's most interesting about the above public records is that the above reports documents that anytime corrupt Duvall police officer Lori Batiot gets caught committing crimes, she alleges " stalking." Or as we correctly report " The little damsel in distress ploy."
Another corrupt cop EXPOSED by the Gold Bar Reporters.


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Do you enjoy the plays of William Shakespeare more than the average person? Are you nostalgic for the golden era of '70s horror movies? Do you have a vested interest in the future of cultural criticism? Do you ever think to yourself, If only Vincent Price were still alive? Okay, maybe this isn't a movie for everyone, but if you answered even a faint yes to any of the above questions, you need to stop everything you're doing and immediately watch Theatre of Blood (1973).
Despite its title, it's hard to really call Theatre of Blood a horror movie, not only because it's as ludicrous as it sounds, but also because it has one of the wittiest scripts of any horror movie ever made. The premise: A Shakespeare-obsessed theater actor in London (Price) is denied an award by a group of newspaper critics and sets about killing them one by one, using the very methods and words of the death scenes in Shakespeare's plays against them. Watching the Shakespeare readings enacted as grindhouse fare is not only hilarious (a critic's dogs are baked into a pie, per Titus Andronicus), but it also gives those scenes back some of the chaotic energy you imagine they must've had when they were first staged, before they became prim Kenneth Branagh vehicles. Among the best set pieces is Price's reading of Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy on a balcony, after which he fakes his suicide and comes across a group of alcoholic hobos, who help him commit his murders, suggesting the movie's own version of groundlings. (There's also the Romeo and Juliet duel, staged as possibly the most fantastic fencing scene in a movie ever, with all due respect to Die Another Day.) Price, who had been typecast to some extent as a horror star, always wanted to do Shakespeare. Theatre of Blood was his chance to bring Shakespeare to him.
You can't sympathize with anyone in Theatre of Blood. Vincent Price's has-been thespian is consumed by his own pretensions. The critics are all soulless and snarky to the end. (The quotient of pithy British putdowns is at least as high as on any episode of Downton Abbey.) The movie, at its heart, is fondly about the seesawing between art and criticism, the passion and vengeance that constantly define their relationship. In the end, Price goes down in flames while performing King Lear, his glorious swan song. The critic, though, gets the last line: "Yes, but he overacted as usual."
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Anna Peele is a culture writer and editor who has written features for Esquire, GQ, The Washington Post Magazine, and New York Magazine.


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History of Banned Books Week
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"Steven Pico, a 17-year-old high school student, led a group of students who sued the (Island Trees Union Free School District) board in U.S. District Court, claiming a denial of their First Amendment rights." -- Banned Books by Claire Mullally, contributing writer to First Amendment Center Libraries & First Amendment; Last updated: February 15, 2010.
- Supreme Court Case: Board of Education, Island Trees School District v. Pico - Topic of The Right to Read of The National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance; List of all nine books removed from the school library (links at bottom of page bad)
- "Island Trees Union Free School District Board of Education v. Pico 1982" - Supreme Court Drama: Cases That Changed America. Ed. A Walton Litz, et al. Vol. 1: Freedom of Assembly & Association/Freedom of the Press/Freedom of Religion/Freedom of Speech/Right to Privacy. Detroit: UXL, 2001. 226-231. Gale U.S. History In Context. Web. 2 Dec. 2011.
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Brady clicks with rookies as Pats beat Bucs
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Tom Brady's rookie receivers are starting to catch on.
And the New England Patriots are 3-0 for the first time in six seasons.
After slow starts to their NFL careers, Kenbrell Thompkins caught two touchdown passes and Aaron Dobson had seven receptions as the Patriots beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 23-3 on Sunday.
"They're doing a great job," Brady said. "They've worked really hard to understand what we're trying to do on a weekly basis."
That effort didn't pay off in the first two games when Thompkins and Dobson, who missed the opener with a hamstring injury, combined for just nine catches and several drops.
But on Sunday, Thompkins, an undrafted free agent, scored on plays of 16 and 5 yards in the first half.
And Dobson, a second-round draft pick, led the Patriots with his seven catches and 52 yards receiving.
"I feel good. 3-0. You can't ask for anything better," Patriots defensive tackle Vince Wilfork said. "We know our offense, sooner or later, they're going to start clicking."
On his fourth possession, Brady completed passes of 15 and 6 yards to Dobson then got the ball to the Bucs 16 on a 4-yard completion to Julian Edelman.
Then Thompkins caught a pass over the middle and ran it in for his 16-yard touchdown, the first of his career.
"That's a play that we work on every day in practice," Thompkins said. "For me to be open and to have Tom trust me to throw me the ball felt good."
The Patriots led 17-3 at halftime as the Buccaneers (0-3) wasted several opportunities.
They turned the ball over twice on downs, Rian Lindell missed a 38-yard field goal attempt before making a 30-yarder and Josh Freeman threw an interception to former Bucs cornerback Aqib Talib with 11 seconds left in the first half.
Three plays later, Stephen Gostkowski kicked a 53-yard field goal on the final play of the half.
"We did some things at times offensively, but then were unable to finish drives," Bucs coach Greg Schiano said. "You're not going to win in this league that way."
The Patriots (3-0) have allowed just 34 points this season but haven't played a top quarterback.
They faced rookies EJ Manuel of the Buffalo Bills and Geno Smith of the New York Jets before going against Freeman, who entered the game with a completion rate of 45.3 percent, the worst in the NFL.
He had another bad game Sunday, completing 19 of 41 passes for 236 yards. But Schiano said Freeman still gives the Bucs the best chance of winning.
"It's a rough start, obviously, but we played three quality football teams," Freeman said.
The Patriots held Doug Martin to 88 yards on 20 runs one week after he gained 144.
And Vincent Jackson had three catches before leaving the game in the third quarter with a rib injury. There was no update on his condition.
The Bucs lost their first two games by a total of three points on a field goal with 2 seconds left and another as time expired.
They were out of Sunday's game much earlier.
New England punted on its first three series as it continued to struggle without tight end Rob Gronkowski, who hasn't played this season while recovering from forearm and back surgery, and wide receiver Danny Amendola, out the past two games with a groin injury.
"We were playing good defense," said cornerback Darrelle Revis, who had played the Patriots 11 times before being traded to the Bucs before this season. "Then they up-tempoed us a little bit, and they executed on their plays."
The first touchdown to Thompkins stretched Brady's streak to 51 games with at least one scoring pass. The only longer streak in NFL history, 54 games by Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints, ended last year.
The Patriots got the ball back after the Bucs failed to gain the 1 yard they needed on third and fourth downs. Brady started a 62-yard drive with a 9-yard pass to Dobson and ended it with a throw to Thompkins in the end zone as the Patriots went ahead 14-3.
Brady had his best game of the year with 25 completions in 36 attempts for 225 yards as part of a balanced offense that gained 156 yards rushing.
Gostkowski added two field goals in the second half, a 46-yarder in the third quarter and a 33-yarder in the fourth.
NOTES: The Bucs had only four penalties after entering the game tied for the NFL lead with 23 in two games. ... LeGarrette Blount, traded by the Bucs in the offseason, led the Patriots with 65 yards rushing.
AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and http://twitter.com/AP--NFL


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J76 BAMBOO RAYON BLENDBamboo fabrics will maintain their special qualities when washed in cold to warm water (up to 60 degrees Celsius) with a gentle detergent, free of bleach. You may want to use a gentle cycle for some finished garments and fabric types. If necessary, bamboo fabrics may be tumble dried on low. Note: Fabrics containing vegetable dye should be dried away from direct sunlight.
We recommend washing rather than dry cleaning for our Bamboo and or hemp fabrics. Use the gentle wash cycle or hand wash and use a good brand of gentle soap, powder, or liquid. We recommend that you don't use bleach. Chlorine bleaches often causes yellowing.
If hand washing, rinse well to help prevent staining caused by oxidation of cellulose by the leftover soap build-up.
Fabric pilling can be prevented to some extent by proper washing and care. Wash your garments inside out on a shorter wash cycle with gentle agitation and remove them from the dryer promptly. To remove fabric pills, stretch the fabric over a curved surface and carefully cut or shave off the pills.
Line drying in the sun is best, if possible. Machine drying is okay, but don't overdo it! Over drying can result in damaged fabrics.
Ironing hemp is easier if you do it when the hemp is slightly damp.
Dampen the hemp first and see how you go.
Avoiding fabric stretch
Jerseys have elasticity in them. If it is hung, the weight of the item may stretch and pull it down. You'll eventually lose the shape of your garment. This is the same for jersey fabrics. Don't hang it as it will stretch. Once you make something out of it, it might be misshaped. For jersey fabrics, it is best to fold them neatly and fold them away. Do the same for garments.
Leo Star SUPPLEX® fabric offers consumers the feel of cotton with the benefits of advanced fibre technology. Cotton's natural texture and aesthetics make it the fabric of choice in many garment categories. Garments made with cotton tend to crease and shrink easily, and they often fade in colour. Our scientists wanted to give consumers the benefits of cotton, without the pitfalls. They did so by developing SUPPLEX® fabrics. Not only anti-abrasion, but also anti-tear. It is also breathable, holds shape, resists pilling, dries fast, retains colour, and can be UPF 40 built-in sun protective. It's uniquely 100% nylon but has all the advantages of a cotton product. When combined with Spandex, SUPPLEX® can bring comfort, fit, and freedom of movement. This fabric is suitable for making activewear for yoga, ballet, and or gymnastic.
Care Instructions:
This fabric is best machine washed, inside out in cold water, with similar fabrics. Hang to dry or tumble dry on low. Do not bleach or iron.


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05/01/2013 Brit Air Selects Liebherr-Aerospace for CRJ 700/1000 Components Repair
Liebherr-Aerospace and Brit Air have recently signed a Repair-by-the-Hour agreement for components of the integrated air management systems (ATA 21, 25, 30, 36) on board the airline's CRJ 700/1000 aircraft. Brit Air is a fully owned subsidiary of HOP!, Air France's regional carrier based in Morlaix (France).
The five-year agreement ensures Brit Air component availability, securing the maintenance costs for the airline in the long term with guaranteed turnaround times.
The repairs will be carried out at Liebherr-Aerospace Toulouse SAS, Toulouse (France), which is the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) of the CRJ 700/1000 air management systems.
Liebherr-Aerospace is a leading supplier of systems for the aviation industry
Liebherr-Aerospace & Transportation SAS, Toulouse (France), is one of ten divisional control companies within the Liebherr Group and coordinates all activities in the aerospace and transportation systems sectors.
Liebherr-Aerospace is a leading supplier of systems for the aviation industry and has more than five decades of experience in this field. The range of aviation equipment produced by Liebherr for the civil and military sectors includes flight control and actuation systems, landing gear and air management systems. These systems are deployed in wide-bodied aircraft, single aisle and regional aircraft, business jets, combat aircraft, military transporters, military training aircraft, civil helicopters and combat helicopters.
Liebherr's aerospace and transportation systems division employs over 4,400 people. It has four aviation equipment production plants at Lindenberg (Germany), Toulouse (France), Nizhny Novgorod (Russia), and Guaratinguetá (Brazil). These production sites offer a worldwide service with additional customer service centers in Saline (Michigan/USA), Seattle (Washington/USA), Wichita (Kansas/USA), Montreal (Canada), Sao José dos Campos (Brazil), Hamburg (Germany), Moscow (Russia), Dubai (UAE), Singapore and Shanghai (People's Republic of China).


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Two indicted for attempted murder
An Anderson County man and woman have been indicted on attempted second-degree murder charges resulting from a April 2012 shooting and are to be arraigned in Criminal Court at the Anderson County Courthouse in Clinton on Monday.
A grand jury met in its regular session earlier this month at the Courthouse and returned indictments against 36 people on 56 criminal charges.
Among those indicted were 30-year-old James Matthew Boyd, 2672 Dutch Valley Road, Clinton, and 29-year-old Renee Edith Boyd, 433 Center Valley Road, Marlow community. They are each charged with attempted second-degree murder, but James Boyd is also charged with tampering with evidence.
The shooting happened about 8 p.m. April 14, 2012, on an old gas pipeline service road off New River Highway on the mountain between Briceville and Graves Gap.
The victim — 33-year-old Christopher Paul Pruett of Batley Loop Road in Marlow — was shot once and was flown by LifeStar air ambulance to the University of Tennessee Medical Center at Knoxville. He has since recovered from his wound.
Anderson County Sheriff's Department reports said the victim and the alleged assailants were all off-roading in the area off New River Highway when the shooting happened. When deputies arrived at the scene, Boyd and a woman were sitting next to Pruett on the ground. Pruett reportedly told the deputies Boyd "shot me for no reason."
Boyd reportedly threw the gun away, telling the deputies "I was scared and knew the law was coming." Deputies using a canine found the gun in the woods.
At the time, James Boyd was charged with tampering with evidence. The case was later taken before a grand jury.
Records don't indicate how Renee Boyd is connected to the case or her part in the shooting. She was listed as a witness in the original report.
Beverly Majors can be contacted at (865) 220-5514.


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I am looking for an attractive, but rigorous definition of area; say in Euclidean plane. Probably there is no short definition. It is OK to make it even longer, but can it be built from useful parts in a not boring way? Say in such a way that not all the students will sleep on the lecture?
The real problem is to prove existence, the uniqueness is easy.
Using integral does not seem to be a good idea.
There is an approach where you write the formula for area and then proving its properties. I do not like it since it moves you to discrete geometry which is completely irrelevant and the ideas used nearly useless anywhere else (so no reason to learn this stuff). [See for example "Geometry: A Metric Approach with Models" by Millman and Parker.]
The method with measuring grid (cutting everything into small squares and counting) looks much better. One can consider this method as an introduction to integral. There is only one technical statement which has to be proved --- if you rotate square then its area does not change. The only problem is that it is not generalizable to say absolute plane or sphere...
One may define the area as a limit of $\varepsilon^2\cdot N_\varepsilon$, where $N_\varepsilon$ denotes the maximal number of points in the figure one distance $>\varepsilon$ from each other. The only hard part is to prove existence of the limit $\varepsilon^2\cdot N_\varepsilon$ for say polygons. (You can exchange the limit to ultralimit --- this way everything works smoothly, but I do not want to sell my soul just to get a def of area...)


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This is much an encore post from a couple of years ago.
Wise man Alfie Kohn Tweeted a photo of this list by Bill Ferriter. I'd blogged about it before.
It's still solid, and most school administrators still miss the point. Teachers get sent to courses to "learn to do a PowerPoint," but rarely can anyone leading those courses tell when to use a PowerPoint, or Keynote, and when a simple list on a chalkboard/whiteboard is more effective, or perhaps when having students copy a list would be more effective, or when students making a poem/song/poster of a point would be more effective.
An international law firm recently directed that it's army of a couple thousand lawyers would, henceforth, use Prezi instead of PowerPoint. Nevermind that the lawyers hadn't mastered PowerPoint and don't have a clue what to do with Prezi: Some "managing co-partner" was taken in by the swoops of Prezi. More than four years ago I learned Prezi at a technology course for technologies my district later decided not to support (money, use, lack of internet connections, etc., etc. — I suspected a lack of planning and thinking about how technology could be used). In the course, I asked the instructor how to tell when to use Prezi instead of PowerPoint — and how to embed YouTube videos for classroom use of a Prezi. After working for too long, we decided we couldn't figure out how to embed videos, and so PowerPoint might be more useful. Then the instructor confessed he didn't know how to embed videos in PowerPoint, either.
Let alone, when does a video work better than other instructional methods? Long or short? Notes, quiz, or oral feedback?
Many Texas districts struggle to teach "keyboarding" to students who have difficulty printing notes, letter by letter, because they don't know cursive writing (and therefore, cannot read their teachers' comments on their written work).
Is "integrating technology" really the problem?
Anyway, here's Mr. Ferriter's list, a checklist to tell whether you're getting close to actually using technology, or whether you're just ringing the bells and tooting the whistles of machines on the desks.
What do you want kids to do with technology?
|Wrong answers
|Right answers
|· Make Prezis
|· Raise awareness
|· Start blogs
|· Start conversations
|· Create Wordles
|· Find answers
|· Publish Animotos
|· (Answers to
THEIR questions)
|· Design flipcharts
|· Join partners
|· Post to EdModo
|· Make a difference
|· Use Whiteboard
|· Take action
|· Develop apps
|· Drive change
Technology is a tool,
"Technology is a tool, not a learning outcome," Bill Ferriter says. He's right, of course.
Tip of the old scrub brush to April Niemela
Alfie Kohn's Tweet:
More, generally:
- The Best Advice On Using Education Technology (larryferlazzo.edublogs.org)
- Learning Out Loud Reshared post from Martin Cisneros: (mwacker.wordpress.com)
- Connecting My Classroom (michellelvidotto.wordpress.com)
- The Best Advice On Using Education Technology (teacherlingo.com)
- Several Useful Resources On Implementing Common Core (larryferlazzo.edublogs.org)
- Must Have List of Common core Checklists for Teachers (educatorstechnology.com)


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'Bates Motel': New 'Psycho' Has Rape, Violence, Incest for 14-Year-Olds
Alfred Hitchcock's film masterpieces thrilled audiences with imagination and suspense, but if Hitchcock focused the cameras instead on graphic violence and rape, "Psycho" might resemble today's "Bates Motel" series. And throw in some implied incest just because it's TV.
The A&E show provided a modern-day prequel to Hitchcock's horror film, "Psycho." The "Bates Motel" series illuminated the twisted relationship between 17-year-old Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) and his mother Norma Bates (Vera Farmiga), which later transformed Norman into the infamous "Psycho" killer.
The graphic rape in the show's debut, "First You Dream, Then You Die," among other scenes, abused the TV-14 rating of the show. When a town local, Keith Summers (W. Earl Brown) barged in for revenge against Norma Bates for buying the hotel his family once owned, he knocked her to the floor and slashed her with a knife, before sitting on her. He proceeded to duct tape her mouth, carry her in his arms screaming and kicking to bend her over a table and chain her via handcuffs. Because she continued to struggle, he banged her head on the table, before forcing himself on her.
That's A&E's version of television meant for 14-year-old viewers.
Soon after the rape, Norman rushed in intervene – but the violence didn't end there. When Summers later sneered, "You liked it," to Norma, she stabbed him repeatedly until he lay motionless in a pool of blood.
Unlike the TV-MA rating which deems programs unsuitable for children under 17 years for crude indecent language, explicit sexual activity, or graphic violence, the "Bates Motel" was given a TV-14 rating. That meant certain scenes appeared inappropriate for children under 14 years due to intensely suggestive dialogue, strong coarse language, intense sexual situations, or intense violence.
Executive producer Kerry Ehrin explained the reasoning for the rape scene to the liberal site BuzzFeed: "From the beginning, it was something we wanted to be real. That you would feel for her what she was going through. We didn't want to gloss over it, and be, like, oh, and she gets raped."
Concerning violence in general, Ehrin expressed that, "if you're going to do 'Bates Motel,' you have to accept it's going to have violence in it," and continued, "The goal of writing these characters was to express them in a fully rounded, human way. And that was also the joy of writing them, I have to say."
When the violence concluded, Norma and Norman spoke in a language that hinted towards an incestuous future in the series, which other critics have already noted. Norma smothered her son, from saying things like, "Everyone I have ever known has sucked – except you" to "As long as we're together, then nothing bad can really happen" while nestling her head between his shoulder and chin.
Norman reciprocated, relaying sentiments such as, "Mom, you're everything to me, and I don't want to live in a world without you" and "You're my family – my whole family – my whole life, my whole self." The two characters may have illustrated a permissible relationship between a protective mother and dependent son – except for the fact that he's 17-years-old. In modern day.
Reviewers agreed that graphic content oozed from the show, like The New York Daily News: "'Bates Motel' contains some raw and graphic violence." The article also added, "But like its ancestor ["Psycho"], it understands that we are most disturbed by what's seeded in our imagination."
Or does it? So far, the series appears to join the ranks of films like "On the Road" and "Spring Breakers" in holding nothing back for the spectators.


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Brioni Eau de Parfum is the ultimate signature of effortless Roman chic accompanied by an irresistible temptation. It is the ideal complement to Brioni's sartorial universe, the last, invisible, touch to the perfect outfit.
A unique formula
Created in collaboration with the renowned Master Perfumer Michel Almairac, the Brioni scent is a perfectly tailored formula. Accurately cut from superior ingredients, both natural and man-made, the fragrance is well-balanced and effortless.
Infused with a sense of quiet confidence and understated elegance, the perfect finishing touch created with a few ingredients only, championing ease as the ultimate sophistication.
An elegantly fresh opening by a modern ozonic accent – cool pink peppercorn and crisp green apple.
The gentle warm heart carries a soft powdery violet that contrasts with the silky warmth of ambroxan. The sophisticated dry-down bares the clean scent of naturally grown cedarwood infused by smooth tonka bean and cashmere-soft musk.
The main ingredients, cedarwood, and hand-picked peppercorn are both sustainably sourced.
"Our new fragrance, like all things Brioni, perfectly balances between sophistication and charisma. A perfume that does not shout yet envelops the wearer with an irresistible presence, a comfortable caress, and magical charm."
- The bottle, a timeless shape, is inspired by the Brioni navy blue tailored suits.
- The Italian glass with a curved base is square-shouldered and slightly slimmer towards the bottom to adds to its elegance.
- The label is soft black satin with a golden cross-stitching, reminiscent of the one inside the Brioni suits.
- The cap is magnetic with the iconic B logo on the top, also featured on the pump and inside the cap as special hidden detail.


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Statement on growing manifestations of Christianophibia in the world
Adopted by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on May 30, 2011
With profound concern the Russian Orthodox Church has taken reports coming from various countries in the world about recurring manifestations of Christianophobia. Christians have been subjected to persecution, becoming victims of intolerance and various forms of discrimination. The recent tragic events in Egypt's Giza on May 7 and 8, when during mass disorders Christian churches were set on fire and parishioners of the Coptic Church were killed, are only one chain in the link of such developments. Our brothers and sisters are killed, driven away from their homes, separated from their relatives and friends, deprived of the right to confess their religious beliefs and to bring up their children according to their faith. Regrettably, the manifestations of Christianophobia cannot be treated as occasional incidents: they have become a settled tendency in some parts of the world.
Discrimination against Christians varies in expression from country to country. In some cases Christians are attacked in hooligan actions, which as a rule are manifestations of extremism on religious grounds. In some countries where Christians are a minority their freedom of faith is considerably restricted with regard to the right to celebrate, to own property and to establish and run theological schools. There are cases where Christians are rendered extremely severe court judgments and given even death sentences according to laws on blasphemy (as disagreement with the beliefs of other religions is described in such cases). But even in those countries where Christianophobia is manifested only in seeing Christians as 'second-rate citizens', our brothers in faith remain in distress. All this leads to the mass emigration of Christians from countries in which they have lived for centuries, as we see it in today's Iraq and some other countries of the Middle East.
At the same time there are manifestations of Christianophobia also in countries where a majority of citizens confess Christianity. The domination of rigid and sometimes even aggressive secularism leads to the forcing Christians out of public life, while public statements and actions motivated by Christian faith, especially its moral assessment of events taking place in a society, rouse a negative reaction.
By drawing the public attention to the growing manifestations of Christianophobia, discrimination and persecution against Christians of various confessions, we do have as our aim to interfere in the internal affairs of state and do not call the world community to do it. Christianity teaches its followers to obey law and to respect lawful governments, according to St. Paul who said, Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities (Rom. 13:1). At the same time, governments, too, as responsible before their citizens, are obliged to respect people's dignity and rights and, accordingly, to ensure the free confession of religious faith and security of religious communities.
Nor do we see other religions as sources of Christianophobia. The Russian Orthodox Church has always opposed any discrimination against individuals and peoples on the grounds of their religious affiliation and resolutely condemned any manifestations of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. Russia, just as other countries under the canonical jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate, has accumulated a rich experience of peaceful coexistence between religions, as well as mutual respect and interreligious solidarity. We are ready to share this experience with all those who wish to build a just society.
Christianophobia is manifested in the first place in situations where religious differences are used in political struggle mostly by extremist forces who pursue their own purposes incompatible with the welfare of the whole society. Such manifestations ought to be unequivocally condemned by all the healthy social forces including public and religious leaders. Discrimination on religious grounds can be overcome only through a broad dialogue involving governments, international organizations, religious communities and the civil society.
We call the world community, religious leaders and all the responsible public forces to develop a comprehensive and effective mechanism for protecting Christians and Christian communities who are subjected to persecution or restrictions in their religious life and work.
The Russian Orthodox Church stands for a more intensive dialogue between religious leaders and the international community for working out foundations for peaceful coexistence between believers belonging to different traditions.
We express solidarity with our brothers and sisters – Christians who are subjected to discrimination, persecution and violence, empathizing with their suffering and deprivations wherever they may be on their earthly journey.
We pray and call the faithful of the Church to augment their prayers for suffering and persecuted brothers and sisters. We pray that they may be strengthened in their faith and spiritual courage.
Sankt-Petersbourg, May 30, 2011


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use Bio::Phenotype::MeSH::Twig
# create a twig object
my $twig = Bio::Phenotype::MeSH::Twig->new();
# the term has only one parent in any twig
# a twig makeas sense only in the context of a term
# which is a Bio::Phenotype::MeSH::Term object
# a term can have many twigs i.e. it can appear in many places in
# the hierarchy
$ term->add_twig($twig);
# adding the twig into a term adds a link into into it
$twig->term eq $term;
# a twig can know about other terms under the parant node
$twig->add_sister('Bread', 'Candy', 'Cereals');
print join ( ', ', $twig->each_sister()), "\n";
# a twig can know about other terms under this term
$twig->add_child('Butter', 'Margarine');
print join ( ', ', $twig->each_child()), "\n";
DESCRIPTIONThis class represents the immediate surrounding of a MeSH term. It keeps track on nodes names above the current node ('parent') other nodes at the same level ('sisters') and nodes under it ('children'). Note that these are name strings, not objects.
Each twig can be associated with only one term, but term can have multiple twigs. (Twigs can be though to be roles for a term.)
Mailing ListsUser feedback is an integral part of the evolution of this and other Bioperl modules. Send your comments and suggestions preferably to the Bioperl mailing lists Your participation is much appreciated.
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SupportPlease direct usage questions or support issues to the mailing list:
rather than to the module maintainer directly. Many experienced and reponsive experts will be able look at the problem and quickly address it. Please include a thorough description of the problem with code and data examples if at all possible.
Reporting Bugsreport bugs to the Bioperl bug tracking system to help us keep track the bugs and their resolution. Bug reports can be submitted via the web:
AUTHORHeikki Lehvaslaiho, heikki-at-bioperl-dot-org
APPENDIXThe rest of the documentation details each of the object methods. Internal methods are usually preceded with a _
Title : parent Usage : $obj->parent( "r1" ); or print $obj->parent(); Function: Set/get for the parent. Returns : A parent [scalar]. Args : A parent [scalar] (optional).
Title : term Usage : $obj->term( "r1" ); or print $obj->term(); Function: Set/get for the term. Returns : A term [scalar]. Args : A term [scalar] (optional).
Title : add_child Usage : $obj->add_child( @children ); or $obj->add_child( $child ); Function: Pushes one or more child term names [scalars, most likely Strings] into the list of children. Returns : Args : scalar(s).
Title : each_child() Usage : @gs = $obj->each_child(); Function: Returns a list of gene symbols [scalars, most likely Strings] associated with this phenotype. Returns : A list of scalars. Args :
Usage : $obj->purge_child(); Function: Deletes the list of children associated with this term. Returns : A list of scalars. Args :
Title : add_sister Usage : $obj->add_sister( @sisters ); or $obj->add_sister( $sister ); Function: Pushes one or more sister term names [scalars, most likely Strings] into the list of sisters. Returns : Args : scalar(s).
Title : each_sister() Usage : @gs = $obj->each_sister(); Function: Returns a list of gene symbols [scalars, most likely Strings] associated with this phenotype. Returns : A list of scalars. Args :
Usage : $obj->purge_sister(); Function: Deletes the list of sisters associated with this term. Returns : A list of scalars. Args :


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1N5400/ 50V/ 3A General Purpose Diode
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1N5400/ 50V/ 3A General Purpose Diode
A diode is a two-terminal electronic component with asymmetric conductance; it has low resistance to current in one direction, and high resistance in the other direction.
Features of 1n5400/ 50v/ 3a General Purpose Diode:
- Peak Repet. Reverse Voltage (Vrrm): 50V.
- Average Rectified Current (Io): 3.0A.
- Max. Reverse Current (Ir): 0.5mA.
- Max. Forward Voltage Drop (Vf): 1.2V.
Applications of 1n5400/ 50v/ 3a General Purpose Diode:
- It is used in rectifier circuit.
- It is used in switching devices.
- It is used in short circuiting protection purposes.
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