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"Bill Duane knows most people can't afford homes like his $1 million bungalow on a hill overlooking San Francisco Bay. That's why the Marin County attorney volunteered for Habitat for Humanity. Until recently, that is, when the group announced plans to build two affordable duplexes just down the street from him. "Habitat usually goes into a blighted neighborhood and enhances it," Duane says. "Here, they are coming into an enhanced neighborhood and blighting it." Housing advocates say Duane exemplifies a vexing irony: People support affordable housing with their labor, money, and votes-just so long as it's nowhere near them."
"Marin is among the most liberal (and expensive) counties in the nation, but Duane says all of his neighbors back him. Indeed, opposition to affordable housing in the county was so fierce in the 1990s that a Marin chapter of Habitat disbanded, former members say, after finding itself unable to get a single project built in five years. On the opposite coast, in wealthy, liberal Martha's Vineyard, 10 homeowners sued earlier this year-on environmental grounds-to block construction of an affordable house for a fisherman who'd been living with his wife and children in a tent. In Boulder, Colorado, affordable-housing advocate Joni Lynch says her most strident foes were button-wearing progressives. And in the gentrifying Edgewood neighborhood of Washington, D.C., one resident who fought the construction of the low-income St. Martin's apartments nearby actually worked for a company that builds low-income apartments."


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Banks are cutting down credit while consumers, hit by job loss or the fear of job loss, are paying down credit, not good news for policy makers who are trying to stimulate spending. Consumer credit has been contracting at a record pace this year including in June when credit contracted $10.3 billion. The contraction was split evenly between revolving, down $5.3 billion, and non-revolving, down $5.0 billion. Consumer credit contracted at an annual rate of $5.2 billion in the second quarter, more severe than the $3.6 billion rate of contraction of the first quarter. There's never much initial reaction to the consumer credit report, mostly because it's issued near the end of the day. But this report is certain to appear in next week's commentaries, especially among the bears and realists.
"…especially among the bears and realists." Ha, ha, they're talking about us. Funny how he associated bears with realists like that. If you're not a "realist" then you must be a part of the Economic Mass Psychosis (delusional) that seems to have terminally infected America and most of the world as well…
While a $10 billion contraction in credit may not seem like much compared to the multi-trillion plus mega numbers thrown around lately, it is, in fact, very significant as most modern recessions do not see ANY contraction in credit – maybe slower growth but almost never contraction.
There are two types of dollars – real dollars and credit dollars. Credit dollars are made every single time you or any consumer takes out a loan or even uses your credit card to make purchases. Credit dollars are NOT REAL dollars. They are different in that they carry interest and must be paid back with REAL dollars earned through your productive efforts – the bank will NOT take back credit dollars in repayment of your loan (unless of course you take out a loan from another source).
In the world of consumer credit, there are two types, revolving (mostly credit cards), and non-revolving (installment credit). Revolving credit is a relatively modern innovation that has caused vast credit expansion that has been a part of the overarching credit bubble that led to higher corporate profits and thus higher stock market prices as well.
Generally, in recessions revolving credit growth slows and then turns back up… the stock market then follows. That's NOT what's happening now. Consumer credit is continuing to fall at a faster pace while the stock market is zooming in a reflexive rally.
When you look at the chart of total consumer credit, you will not see a spectacular cliff dive like the employment ( lack thereof ) charts I recently posted. No, you will see a massive parabolic rise above $2.5 TRILLION, and a little hook at the end. Look carefully at the "little" hook though. You will see NOTHING even close going all the way back to 1940:
Now, when we view that same chart in terms of year over year percent change, then we begin to see what a rare occurrence a contraction in consumer credit has been over the past ¾ of a century:
Note that the dip below the zero mark is the first since 1992, the only other time total consumer credit has been negative since 1940.
Now let's look at Revolving and Non-Revolving credit…
The chart below shows Total Revolving Consumer Credit since the late 60's in yoy percent change. Note that this is the first time in history that Revolving Credit has been negative (did not have revolving credit prior to that time):
And here's the same chart for Non-Revolving Consumer Credit – also negative and still trending downward:
Remember, the consumer is at least 70% of the economy. When they are no longer using credit – and this is just one aspect of their credit – then corporate earnings will suffer, and earnings are what ultimately underpin the price of stocks.
Of course we know that to offset the fall in credit that our own government is committing Seppuku (Hara-kiri) by gorging itself on debt that cannot ever hope to be repaid:
The shadow banking system is responsible for much of the bubble dynamics that were created. Consumer debt was securitized just like subprime mortgages were. In the following charts, note that the securitization of Non-Revolving and Total Consumer Credit began in about the year 1990 and is now very NEGATIVE:
Hmmm… 1990. Let's look at a non-logarithmic chart of the DOW Industrials. Notice anything starting to happen in the stock market about that time?
Think there's any coincidence?
In my mind there is no doubt that the shadow banking system and the securitization of debt process led to the largest credit bubble in history. That bubble grew out of control, mostly unregulated and untracked. We are now paying the price and will be paying the price for generations as that mechanism was so successful at pulling future incomes into "today" that there is now simply no way that people's earnings can pay back all the debt (Death by Numbers). This is just the beginning of the debt flush, it, quite unfortunately, will take years and years to get under control.
The shadow banking system and securitization of debt - it's the central banker's "secret garden" that all of the politicians so desperately want…
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By Julian E. Barnes, Jeffey Sparshot and Nour Malas
President Barack Obama authorized targeted airstrikes and emergency assistance missions in northern Iraq, saying Thursday the U.S. must act to protect American personnel and prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in the face of advances by violent Islamist militants.
The U.S. military said it completed a delivery of meals and water to thousands of members of a religious minority who fled the town of Sinjar and are trapped in nearby mountains by the group calling itself the Islamic State.
Mr. Obama said he ordered the use of U.S. airstrikes if necessary either to stop militants from closing in on the northern city of Erbil or to allow local forces to aid the Yazidis, the religious minority. No U.S. strikes had been conducted by late Thursday, officials said.
His remarks at the White House capped a day of soaring concern about militant advances in Iraq, where extremist fighters seized control of areas long considered safe and took over the Mosul Dam, the country's largest, according to local reports.
But Mr. Obama also acknowledged domestic jitters about renewed military involvement in Iraq, where America fought an eight-year war.
"American combat troops will not be returning to fight in Iraq because there is no American military solution to the crisis in Iraq," he said, emphasizing the word "American."
"The only lasting solution is reconciliation among Iraqi communities and stronger Iraqi security forces," he said. Separately, Secretary of State John Kerry in a statement stressed the U.S. view that Iraq can only regain stability through the formation of a new, more inclusive government.
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The sudden acceleration of U.S. military activity reflected White House concern over a burgeoning crisis in the semiautonomous Kurdish region of Iraq. An Iraqi military official said the Iraqi air force conducted its own airstrikes in the area Thursday.
The White House and Pentagon previously have said they reserve the right to use force in Iraq to protect Americans, and repeated that stance Thursday. The U.S. troops in Erbil are part of a force of planners and advisers working in joint U.S.-Iraqi centers.
Washington has held off on any direct military involvement as the Obama administration pressures Iraqi lawmakers to form a new government.
"We are sending a clear message to the Iraqi government," said a U.S. official.
The U.S. has considered airstrikes before in Iraq, but backed down as the advance by Sunni militants slowed and the threat against Baghdad seemed to diminish. But the extremists have renewed their push in recent days, this time against Kurdish controlled territories.
Dion Nissenbaum, Carol E. Lee, Maria Abi-Habib, Safa Majeed, Emre Peker and Joe Lauria contributed to this article.
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If the leaves are changing color, it means all things pigskin hog the spotlight, with the main focus on the football field as gridiron gladiators go to battle. But shift the attention to the sidelines to the cheerleading squad, and you'll find similar athleticism and the same kinds of debates over safety concerns as those currently at the center of football. It's a reminder of a question that would appear simple on the surface but is in fact bedeviling the world of athletics: Is cheerleading a sport?
The argument in favor sees an activity that requires a great deal of athleticism to perform a host of daredevil maneuvers that include flips, twists, and tosses, not to mention equal measures of control, balance, flexibility, and precision. Competitions for national high-school cheerleading championships are as demanding and heated as the win-or-go-home March Madness in the college Division I basketball tournament. Or, as Adams State College cheerleading coach Valerie Hagedorn put it in The New York Times last year: "We don't throw balls, we throw people. And we catch them." It certainly sounds like a sport.
But cheerleaders still serve the function that earned them their name decades ago: They're on the sidelines to lead cheers for the sports team out on the field. In that role, they're not competing against another team with a win or a loss at stake. They're supposed to get fans out of their seats and generate excitement. Off the field, they continue to provide team support, meeting with fans and performing at alumni functions and other events. None of that could be considered, in itself, a sport.
Currently, 29 of the 50 state high-school associations classify cheerleading as a sport, but there is a strong argument for elevating cheerleading to such a designation at all levels— creating cheerleading programs focused specifically on competition would be another step in giving women athletic opportunities equal to those of men.
Traditional cheerleading has its athletic elements, but because participants are supporters and not exclusively competitors, it doesn't fit the definition of a sport by the Office for Civil Rights. But imagine a type of cheerleading that focused on a schedule of competitions in a format that would declare a winner and an eventual champion. In fact, two such sports are being developed in that vein. The first is known as "acro"—short for acrobatics and tumbling. On the college level, athletes wear numbered uniforms instead of traditional short skirts and give performances that resemble gymnastic floor routines. Eight universities with acro teams are listed on the National Collegiate Acrobatics and Tumbling Association's site, including the University of Oregon. The other sport, developed by USA Cheer, is known as "stunt." Teams go head-to-head, side-by-side, with 23 schools listed in the rankings as participants in routines involving partner stunts, pyramids, basket tosses, jumps, and tumbling skills, according to the College Stunt Association's webpage.
Both stunt and acro are looking for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to deem them an "emerging sport," since their activity removes the facets of cheerleading (such as rooting on a team) that aren't considered athletic. That would go a long way in helping schools comply with Title IX, the landmark legislation passed 40 years ago requiring equal opportunities in athletics and education for both men and women—especially in light of a 2010 court ruling that competitive cheerleading did not count toward meeting Title IX requirements.
The case began in 2009, when Quinnipiac University in Connecticut tried to count competitive cheerleaders as athletes for its Title IX requirements and cut the women's volleyball team. The school also tried to get around Title IX by counting female runners who joined Quinnipiac's indoor, outdoor, and cross country track teams three times instead of just once. The volleyball coach sued and won the case: The ruling stated that Quinnipiac had engaged in gender discrimination. In August, an appeals court upheld the lower court's ruling.
The point of the case was not that cheerleaders aren't athletic. One of the results, aside from upholding the tenets of Title IX, was to show what competitive cheerleading would need to become to count as a sport equal to those played by male athletes, with requisite schedules, fully formed rules, and championships.
As stunt and acro continue to develop, they await the NCAA's decision on whether they qualify as an emerging sport. If they do and a school starts a team of its own, those athletes would then help fulfill that institution's Title IX requirements. According to Erin Buzuvis, a professor of law at Western New England University School of Law who blogs about Title IX, while a school could theoretically cut another women's team and replace it with competitive cheerleading, it could only do so if it stayed in proportion between men's and women's athletes. But, as she points out, having enough female athletes is a problem for many schools, so replacing another sport with cheerleading likely wouldn't happen.
"There's still a big gap between what boys and girls have, and schools need to add women's sports," says Nancy Hogshead-Makar, senior director of advocacy at the Women's Sports Foundation. "They're not in the position of being able to drop sports. Right now, the gap is women are 54 percent of the college student population, but they're only 45 percent of the college athletics education opportunities."
The New York Times reported in 2011 about the practices universities use to comply with Title IX—which include such as loopholes as counting men who practice with women's basketball teams as female athletes. Adding a sport for women would help schools comply with Title IX and expand opportunities for female athletes. In addition, recategorizing competitive cheerleading means, as Buzuvis says, "creating a new sport that … for once, isn't just the female equivalent of a men's sport, but a sport that's developed around women's participation and women's enthusiasm for the activity."
Another argument for categorizing cheerleading as a sport is safety. Last month, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) reported that 66 percent of catastrophic injuries—defined as including "closed-head injury, skull fractures and cervical spine injuries resulting in permanent brain injury, paralysis, or death"—to high-school female athletes in the last quarter-century came from cheerleading. The study's authors suggested that designating cheerleading as a sport would bring it under the "rules and regulations set forth by sports governing bodies … and school athletic departments," thereby helping participants get the kind of athletic training, facilities, and coaches necessary to treat and prevent injuries.
Although the study has been disputed—Jim Lord, the executive director of the American Association of Cheerleading Coaches & Administrators, says the AAP report ignored more recent studies showing that catastrophic cheerleading injuries have dropped significantly in the past ten years and that emergency room visits for cheerleading injuries (37,000 for females ages 6 to 22 in 2011) were still fewer than for basketball (nearly 95,000), soccer (70,000), and softball (53,000)—giving competitive cheer the same resources and regulations as other athletic programs would improve safety, something the cheerleading association has already been pushing for. Many of the suggestions being made by the AAP, Lord told Reuters, are "actually stuff we've recommended for quite a while."
Anyone who doubts that acro or stunt could be considered a sport needs only to watch a routine. All either athletic program needs is the stamp of approval from the NCAA to make it official, benefitting participants as well as institutions that start a team. Cheerleaders don't just have to stand on the sidelines and use their athleticism solely to get a crowd loud during a sporting event—they can be the main event. The NCAA has a chance to give female athletes around the nation more opportunities. And that's something worth cheering about.


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I have reviewed your responses to posts, you seem to respond on a weekly or 2 weeks basis. Updates are sadly needed to correct bugs, many device settings are well out of date and there has not been one new improvement since last June. I suspect the June update was more the result from Dennis rather than yourself.
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Two measures to increase funding for Bayfields schools were approved by voters, unofficial results show. A measure to increase property taxes gained stronger support than another measure to allow the district to issue new debt.
Measure 3A, a 4-mill increase that would bring in $1.2 million for the district in its initial year, found favor with 2,593 voters or 56 percent. Support was more tepid for measure 3B, which would allow the district to issue more debt by extending its repayment period. Of 4,600 votes, 2,350, or 51 percent, were for the measure and 2,250, or 49 percent, were against it.
The results are welcome news for Bayfield School District, Superintendent Troy Zabel said.
Voters really stepped up to the plate for us in a time that the economy has been pretty tough, Zabel said. It shows they have confidence in our schools and are ready for us to move forward in great ways.
Bayfield decided to ask for the mill-levy increase after years of seeing budgets decline because of reduced state funding. The district has seen its revenue decrease by $1.4 million or about 14 percent since 2008, Zabel said.
Most of the priorities for the funding increases were identified through the districts strategic planning process, he said.
Ballot measure 3A will increase the mill levy of property owners within the Bayfield School District by about $32 per $100,000 of property value. The money will be used to make staff salaries competitive with those of comparably sized districts, expand and improve programming in the schools, make technology upgrades and possibly add staff positions.
Measure 3B would authorize the district to issue between $8.9 and $11.9 million of new debt while maintaining current property tax rates. The district would do so by extending the repayment period for its outstanding bond debt by 13 years.
That money will be used to renovate old classrooms and construct new ones, build an auditorium, auxiliary gymnasium and varsity-level baseball field at the high school and purchase a 40-acre parcel of land in the middle of town that can be used for future expansion.
Durango School District 9-R and Ignacio School District both passed mill-levy increases during the past two election cycles, which sends a message to Bayfield voters, said Anne Cook, director of Citizens for Bayfield Schools.
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Choosing a Domain Registrar Actually Makes a Difference
When you run a website, regardless if it's for pleasure and enjoyment or as a business, you rely on other people to help make it work. When they fail you, it's not just a bummer, it's costing you money. When the electric, cable or your home Internet goes out, a cell phone call gets dropped or your GPS can't give you directions, it wastes time and money. In all the time I've been hosting websites, never before has choosing a domain registrar made such a difference to me.
For the best of my memories I started hosting my own website back around 2000, and the Internet did not make it entirely simply, but by 2001, with the dot com bubble growing, websites became easier to use and the mystery of how to build and host a website become much easier for a younger me to figure out. There are essentially three parts to having your own website on the Internet;
- A domain name
- Web hosting
- Website content
The first two can and are often done by one company, although many people use separate companies for each. Without making this article overly complicated and because there are more than enough ehow.com articles on how to register a domain name, where to get hosting and how to build a site, I'm going to focus on the actual choosing of these companies you wish to partner with, specifically a domain registrar.
A domain registrar serves one function, they are meant to help you acquire the lease for the domain name you want, such as Randomn3ss.com for example. Within their ability to renew this domain for you, you should be quickly and easily able to edit the DNS servers (to point the domain to your web host of choice), renew the domain name and transfer the domain to someone else or another web host. Those are essentially their core functions. For over a decade now I've been doing this, and most of the time it's been with GoDaddy.
At first it was because they were cheap, and it was the early 2000's and buying and selling domains was popular and one could actually make good money at it, so I used them for this. Everything was straight forward. Sometime around 5 years ago GoDaddy's business model started to transition and they began putting more money into advertising, including fun commercials online, sponsoring Indy cars and basically saying to the world hey world, we are the best! What changed, for the worse, was customer service, website usability and the core functions of what their website should do for a user. In the technical world, this is called the User Experience, or UX for short, and User Interface Designers, or UI Designers, get paid a lot of money to increase the rate at which we buy products on website.
I stayed with GoDaddy, through all their design changes and constant push to up-sell me services, web hosting and email that I didn't need.
As the years went on, the up-sells continued, but so did the amount of time and energy they put into getting me to renew my domain names. I started getting email notices 3 months before they were set to expire. 2 months before they expire a post card would show up in my mail with a coupon code and if it was a month before they'd expire I knew a phone call was coming from a sales associate, offering to help me renew, offer me a discount then try to up-sell me on some more services. At the time GoDaddy domain renewals ran about $7.49, I remember asking the sales associate at what point they made profit. After postal mail charges and paying his / her salary, how was there any meat on the bone? They were dumbfounded with the question.
By 2011, even with a nifty iPhone app, my allegiance to GoDaddy was wearing thin. Just doing something as simple as changing the DNS servers on a domain name, or even renewing it became a huge headache. In March a story broke about president Bob Parsons elephant hunting expedition in Africa, complete with video. I'm not anti-gun, anti-hunting and I'm not vegan, although I do support everything anyone I care about chooses to do, from religion to their stand on gun control, but this video is vile. This now left a bad taste in my mouth, as I don't want to line the pockets of that man anymore so he can do such cruel and unnecessary things with my money.
November was about the last straw for me, Godaddy publicly came out supporting SOPA. In a nutshell, SOPA is bad, really bad. So bad that people like Ben Huh sent out tweets saying they'd transfer 1,000 of their domain names if GoDaddy didn't change their stance, Kevin Rose was equally outspoken on the subject. No one wanted SOPA to pass as law, it did nothing good for the Internet. The day after this virtually every domain registrar on the web was offering discounts to those who wanted off of GoDaddy, these were put together in one of the most popular Reddit posts ever, complete with transfer instructions for virtually every company.
How bad was this impact on GoDaddy? Within two days at least 37,000 domain names were transferred away from the company, or roughly one quarter of a million dollars. I did my homework this time, I looked at more than price, I looked at support time, customer reviews, how active the social media aspects of each business were, I wanted to know that my new registrar was going to be with me for another decade of my business. I ended up choosing Name.com when it was all said and done. Not the cheapest, not the most expensive, but for me, the best.
Their website is clean, easy to use and actually makes sense. Support is top notch and get this, I actually enjoy following them on Twitter. In the one case I had specific questions and needed to reach out and submit a trouble ticket, it was answered within a few hours and was not auto-generated. Someone actually wrote it. I also didn't have to shift through 500 words of sales copy to find what they were actually trying to tell me.
Now, I didn't move all of my domains at once, in fact, as of this writing I have 2 left with GoDaddy and have been moving them as they expire. My options on why they need to be moved today is all that much more apparent. Yesterday GoDaddy was the victim of an Internet attack, not only did their site go down, and unknown number, presumed to be in the millions of websites, also went down. Full disclaimer, every web hosting company on earth offers 99.9% up time, what that really means is that 0.1% will equal out to about 2 hours of down time per year. No lawyer alive will make a 100% up-time guarantee, it's not possible. But, because of GoDaddy's wishy washy stance on SOPA and other matters, it's opened them up to become targets for hackers.
Today I'm making the move, and they are offering the first 500 transfers from GoDaddy to them for free, limited to 1 per person. The older I get (now in my early 30's) the more things like customer service and usability carry weight. I have roughly a dozen domain names registered a year, spending an extra 50 cents to $1 per domain to host with a company I believe in, who believes in me by providing a service I want to use, that's easy to use, is worth it. That company is Name.com.
In closing, I recently watched this wonderful video with Seth Godin titled This is Broken, and I think a lot of what he talks about in here, GoDaddy needs to listen to, specifically the first few minutes.


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Waterproof Bluetooth Speakers for Your Shower
Need more than a cold splash and a hot coffee to get you going in the morning? A shower speaker that plays your iTunes and your favorite radio apps from your phone might do the trick. AllThingsD's Lauren Goode takes a look at three different speakers.
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Police: Man, 31, arrested after gun shot through wall
Police seize cache of weapons, ammunition from home
A 31-year-old man was arrested after a gunshot was fired through a wall, police said.
Anne Arundel County police officers were called to a home at 8050 Montague Court in Glen Burnie for a report of shots fired on Thursday.
Police learned the shots came from within 8048 Montague Court and that's where they found a man on the porch and confronted him about the incident.
Police learned the resident of 8048 Montague was in his home when he discharged a firearm, and the round from that weapon penetrated a common wall and passed into a neighbor's home on Montague Court, coming to rest in an interior wall.
Six people, including three young children, were inside of the home, but none of the occupants of the neighbor's home on Montague Court were injured in this incident.
Police said the man tried to convince officers that the errant round was an accidental discharge from an air rifle, but police said they found a loaded handgun with a fresh spent round.
The man, identified as Matthew Joseph Klein, was taken into custody.
After obtaining permission to search the home, two high-powered rifles, two air rifles, a Tec9 assault pistol, and 14 handguns and over 1,000 rounds of ammunition were seized, police said.
Klein was charged with reckless endangerment and related offenses, police said.
Police said the investigation is ongoing and is being coordinated with the Maryland State Police Gun Center.


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Street department does excellent job
If you had to be out and about in Estherville early Friday morning, you were most likely greeted by clean and well-sanded streets.
And that's a whole lot more than can be said for some other communities that suffered through the latest storm.
City of Estherville street crews have in fact done an excellent job all winter long, keeping up with what seems like a long winter – and it has been.
So the next time you see a member of our street crew, wave. Show the guys you appreciate it.
Early out programs seem to be working
School kids may be getting some snow days this winter, but that's in addition to the Wednesday early outs that ELC students have had for teacher training since the start of this school year.
Fortunately, the community pitched in and helped fill the void. Between the Regional Wellness Center's Energizer Plus program and the Y Kids program, there are lots of opportunities for kids to have some meaningful after-school activities.
A year ago, a lot of people were in panic mode. But after community members put their heads together, they were able to solve a problem before it happened.
And that's a great thing.
Rotary pledges $1,000 to Pack Away Hunger
After hearing a presentation by Jolene Nichols and Sarah Ussery at their meeting last Thursday, the Estherville Rotary Board this Thursday pledged $1,000 to the Pack Away Hunger program that will provide food to children in need over the weekend.
There is probably no topic nearer or dearer to Rotarians' hearts than hungry children. All one has to do is look at a list of the accomplishments of Rotary International – like nearly eradicating polio and putting in wells in underdeveloped countries – to realize how well this program is matched to Rotarians.
If you would like to help, one $15 donation will fill one backpack each week. Donations may be mailed to: Pack Away Hunger, P.O. Box 230, Estherville, IA 51334. Also look at food drop locations around the community, including Blum-Leonard Agency at 418 Central Ave., Iowa Lakes Community College at 300 S. 18th St., Inman Electric/Radio Shack at 15 S. Sixth St. and the Estherville News at 10 N. Seventh St. Also look for other drop locations throughout the community.


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In a few short days, we'll see the first annual Youtube Music Awards with Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Eminem, and more. Jason Schwartzman and Reggie Watts are hosting and Spike Jonze is directing.
Jonze is quoted in a Rolling Stone interview as saying: "This is not a red carpet, fancy, pre-packaged, pre-produced thing. I like the idea of making it about music and videos as opposed to everybody getting dressed up."
Obviously I'm not a fan of Big Tech's lack of financial support when it comes to musicians, since they make so much money off of them. (Hello, Megaupload.)
In terms of artists getting their royalties fucked so royally, no one beats Big Tech. The money that should be distributed to musicians is going to google or to ad-supported pirate sites rather than the content creators themselves.
Yet Big Tech is doing what the recording industry can't. In terms of innovation, the recording industry's been asleep as the wheel since Napster first rolled out.
Case in point: While the long-in-the-tooth Grammy nominations are still be judged by a secret society, the nominees of the Youtube music awards are determined by the viewers.
At least in theory. It still is and will always be a popularity contest. As much has been made about the fact file sharing and access to copyright infringing content has widened exposure to all kinds of music, the winner is still the spending the most money on media. In that regard zero has changed.
Variety tell us: "YouTube determined the nominations based on data over the last 12 months, to represent the artists and videos with the highest levels of engagement, including views, likes, shares, comments and subscriptions."
All that access to all that music, and the nominees for the first annual Youtube Music awards include Nicki Minaj, One Direction, and Taylor Swift. Can't get much more middle of the road than that. And the youtube "discovered" nominees like Psy and Justin Bieber are hardly Lennon and McCartney, are they.
I'd love to believe this is collusion on the part of the recording industry to save itself. I'm more inclined to believe what an industry friend of mine said. The old record label types are sunsetting— waiting for their retirement so someone else can inherit the problem.
They have a few years left to go, for sure. However, if the First Annual Youtube Music Awards ends up a rousing success you can look at it as Big Tech telling the recording industry "We don't need you any more." If that ends up being the case, the old way of doing things will have never looked so old.
And while the recording industry is losing money, Youtube has a subscription service in the works.
I almost forgot. The First Annual Youtube Music Awards are being sponsored by Kia.
There is nothing new or innovative about this awards show. Just because people don't "dress up" doesn't distinguish it. In fact, by looking at the lineup it mimics very closely something MTV would produce, so there's nothing to get excited about here. Especially not for music lovers. zzzzzzzz
As far as the industry being 'asleep at the wheel', all content industries would have been much better off keeping their stuff as far away from the Internet as possible. 'Innovation' on the Internet is nothing but a death spiral for artists - ultimately, the only people making money on the Internet are ISPs and the gate keepers like Google - making money off of other people's information.
We all should have seen through the lie sued everyone and everything, and lobbied for tough regulations on Internet companies, starting in 1995. But, everyone was blinded by those fake dollar signs. Journos should know better, they were the first to get burned. Their business is ruined forever, fewer journalists making much less, but they still believe so strongly in the lie. Go figure.


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Pope opens Mideast trip lamenting Syrian conflict
AMMAN, Jordan >> Pope Francis thanked Jordan on Saturday for welcoming hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing the civil war in Syria, calling for an "urgent," peaceful solution to the conflict in the neighboring nation as he began a three-day visit to the Middle East.
Francis also lauded Jordan for the "climate of serene coexistence" enjoyed by Christians and Muslims in the desert kingdom. He called for greater protections for minority Christians across the region in a speech to King Abdullah II and Jordanian political and religious leaders.
"Religious freedom is in fact a fundamental human right and I cannot fail to express my hope that it will be upheld throughout the Middle East and the entire world," he said.
Francis' plane touched down at Amman's Queen Alia International Airport, where an honor guard, Catholic leaders and Prince Ghazi bin Mohammed, King Abdullah II's chief adviser for religious and cultural affairs, met him. He immediately headed to the king's palace in a simple, four-door sedan, a group of motorcycles riding alongside him. Small groups of people waving Jordanian and Vatican flags cheered him as he passed.
At the palace, Francis met with Abdullah and Queen Rania, their children gathered for the meeting. In his palace speech, Francis said Jordan's "generous welcome" to Syrian refugees warranted international appreciation and support.
Jordan last month opened a third refugee camp, evidence of the strains the conflict is creating for the country. Jordan is currently hosting 600,000 registered Syrian refugees, or 10 percent of its population, but Jordanian officials estimate the real number is closer to 1.3 million.
"I thank the authorities of the kingdom for all they are doing and I encourage them to persevere in their efforts to seek lasting peace for the entire region," Fracis said. "This goal urgently requires that a peaceful solution be found to the crisis in Syria, as well as a just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
Francis is due to get a firsthand look at the plight of Syrian, Iraqi and Palestinian refugees later Sunday when he celebrates Mass at Amman's international stadium and then meets with some 600 refugees and disabled children at a church in Bethany beyond the Jordan, which many believe is the traditional site of Jesus' baptism.
Christians make up about 5 percent of Syria's population, but assaults on predominantly Christian towns by rebels fighting President Bashar Assad's rule have fueled fears among the country's religious minorities about the growing role of Islamic extremists in the revolt. Christians believe they are being targeted in part because of anti-Christian sentiment among Sunni Muslim extremists and partly as punishment for what is seen as their support for Assad.
Francis has frequently lamented the plight of refugees, denouncing the "globalization of indifference" that often greets them in their newly adopted homelands. At the same time, he and his predecessors have decried the flight of Christians from the Holy Land, insisting recently: "We will not be resigned to think about the Middle East without Christians!"
King Abdullah referred to Christian-Muslim coexistence in his remarks, saying he had sought to uphold "the true spirit of Islam, the Islam of peace," which extends to protecting holy sites for Christians and Muslims alike. He urged the pope to help end the conflict in Syria and to encourage leaders to take the courageous steps needed to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"Your humanity and wisdom can make a special contribution to easing the crisis of Syrian refugees and the burden on neighboring host countries like Jordan," he said.
On the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he added: "The status-quo of 'justice denied' to the Palestinians; fear of the other; fear of change; these are the way to mutual ruin, not mutual respect."
For the refugees who will greet Francis on Saturday, his presence in Jordan is a chance to show the world their hopelessness as the Syrian conflict drags on.
"We are very happy because he will see Christians in the Arab world, he will see us and see our suffering," said Nazik Malko, a Syrian Orthodox Christian refugee from Maaloula who will be among the 600 or so people to greet the pope at Bethany beyond the Jordan. "We wish that peace will be restored in the whole world, and in Syria."
Francis will visit a Palestinian refugee camp Sunday when he travels from Amman directly to the West Bank city of Bethlehem. It's the first time a pope has landed in the West Bank rather than Tel Aviv first. Palestinian officials are eager to show Francis the limbo endured by generations of Palestinians who were forced or driven out in the war over Israel's 1948 creation. Today, along with their descendants, these refugees make up more than 5 million people scattered across the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
Technically, the main reason for the trip is for Francis and the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians to mark the 50th anniversary of a historic meeting in Jerusalem by their predecessors which ended 900 years of Catholic-Orthodox estrangement. That highlight will come on Sunday, when Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I preside over a joint prayer service in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, where Christians believe Jesus was crucified and resurrected.
Francis will spend Monday in Jerusalem, visiting the grand mufti of Jerusalem and Israel's chief rabbis, albeit separately. He'll also pray at the Western Wall and visit the Holocaust memorial at Yad Vashem and will become the first pope to lay a wreath of flowers on Mount Herzl, named for the founder of modern Zionism, Theodor Herzl. He returns to the Vatican just before midnight Monday night.
The Vatican spokesman had suggested that with such a grueling schedule, Francis might not have the strength for an on-board press conference on the return flight from Israel. Francis, 77, who has only one full lung and has battled a cold and fatigue that forced him to cancel some recent appointments, set the record straight at the start of the trip.
"One of you said a press conference wouldn't be possible because this is a 'deathly' trip," he told reporters on board. "But returning home, I intend to have the press conference."
He then greeted reporters one by one — and even posed for a "selfie."


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(a) The following definitions, regulations, and criteria in this subpart are designed to establish and implement procedures required by section 6079 of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, Public Law 100-690, 102 Stat. 4181. They are intended to supplement existing law and procedures relative to the forfeiture of property under the identified statutory authority. These regulations do not affect the existing legal and equitable rights and remedies of those with an interest in property seized for forfeiture, nor do these provisions relieve interested parties from their existing obligations and responsibilities in pursuing their interests through such courses of action. These regulations are intended to reflect the intent of Congress to minimize the adverse impact on those entitled to legal or equitable relief occasioned by the prolonged detention of property subject to forfeiture due to violations of law involving personal use quantities of controlled substances. The definition of personal use quantities of a controlled substance as contained herein is intended to distinguish between those small quantities that are generally considered to be possessed for personal consumption and not for further distribution, and those larger quantities generally considered to be intended for further distribution.
(b) In this regard, for violations involving the possession of personal use quantities of a controlled substance, section 6079(b)(2) requires either that administrative forfeiture be completed within 21 days of the seizure of the property, or alternatively, that procedures be established that provide a means by which an individual entitled to relief may initiate an expedited administrative review of the legal and factual basis of the seizure for forfeiture. Should an individual request relief pursuant to these regulations and be entitled to the return of the seized property, such property shall be returned immediately following that determination, and in no event later than 20 days after the filing of a petition for expedited release by an owner, and the administrative forfeiture process shall cease. Should the individual not be entitled to the return of the seized property, however, the administrative forfeiture of that property shall proceed. The owner may, in any event, obtain release of property pending the administrative forfeiture by submitting to the agency making the determination property sufficient to preserve the Government's vested interest for purposes of the administrative forfeiture.
As used in this subpart, the following terms shall have the meanings specified: Commercial fishing industry vessel means a vessel that:
(1) Commercially engages in the catching, taking, or harvesting of fish or an activity that can reasonably be expected to result in the catching, taking, or harvesting of fish;
(2) Commercially prepares fish or fish products other than by gutting, decapitating, gilling, skinning, shucking, icing, freezing, or brine chilling; or
(3) Commercially supplies, stores, refrigerates, or transports fish, fish products, or materials directly related to fishing or the preparation of fish to or from a fishing, fish processing, or fish tender vessel or fish processing facility.
Controlled substance has the meaning given in 21 U.S.C. 802(6).
Normal and customary manner means that inquiry suggested by particular facts and circumstances that would customarily be undertaken by a reasonably prudent individual in a like or similar situation. Actual knowledge of such facts and circumstances is unnecessary, and implied, imputed, or constructive knowledge is sufficient. An established norm, standard, or custom is persuasive but not conclusive or controlling in determining whether an owner acted in a normal and customary manner to ascertain how property would be used by another legally in possession of the property. The failure to act in a normal and customary manner as defined herein will result in the denial of a petition for expedited release of the property and is intended to have the desirable effect of inducing owners of the property to exercise greater care in transferring possession of their property.
Owner means one having a legal and possessory interest in the property seized for forfeiture. Even though one may hold primary and direct title to the property seized, such person may not have sufficient actual beneficial interest in the property to support a petition as owner if the facts indicate that another person had dominion and control over the property.
Personal use quantities means those amounts of controlled substances in possession in circumstances where there is no other evidence of an intent to distribute, or to facilitate the manufacturing, compounding, processing, delivering, importing, or exporting of any controlled substance.
(1) Evidence that possession of quantities of a controlled substance is for other than personal use may include, for example:
(i) Evidence, such as drug scales, drug distribution paraphernalia, drug records, drug packaging material, method of drug packaging, drug "cutting" agents and other equipment, that indicates an intent to process, package or distribute a controlled substance;
(ii) Information from reliable sources indicating possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute;
(iii) The arrest or conviction record of the person or persons in actual or constructive possession of the controlled substance for offenses under federal, state or local law that indicates an intent to distribute a controlled substance;
(iv) Circumstances or reliable information indicating that the controlled substance is related to large amounts of cash or any amount of prerecorded government funds;
(v) Circumstances or reliable information indicating that the controlled substance is a sample intended for distribution in anticipation of a transaction involving large quantities, or is part of a larger delivery;
(vi) Statements by the possessor, or otherwise attributable to the possessor, including statements of conspirators, that indicate possession with intent to distribute; or
(vii) The fact that the controlled substance was recovered from sweepings.
(2) Possession of a controlled substance shall be presumed to be for personal use when there are no indicia of illicit drug trafficking or distribution—such as, but not limited to, the factors listed above—and the amounts do not exceed the following quantities:
(i) One gram of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of heroin;
(ii) One gram of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of—
(A) Coca leaves, except coca leaves and extracts of coca leaves from which cocaine, ecgonine, and derivations of ecgonine or their salts have been removed;
(B) Cocaine, its salts, optical and geometric isomers, and salts of isomers;
(C) Ecgonine, its derivatives, their salts, isomers, and salts of isomers; or
(D) Any compound, mixture, or preparation that contains any quantity of any of the substances referred to in paragraphs (2)(ii)(A) through (2)(ii)(C) of this definition;
(iii) 1/10th gram of a mixture or substance described in paragraph (e)(2)(ii) of this section which contains cocaine base;
(iv) 1/10th gram of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of phencyclidine (PCP);
(v) 500 micrograms of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD);
(vi) One ounce of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of marihuana;
(vii) One gram of methamphetamine, its salts, isomers, and salts of its isomers, or one gram of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine, its salts, isomers, or salts of its isomers.
(3) The possession of a narcotic, a depressant, a stimulant, a hallucinogen, or a cannabis-controlled substance will be considered in excess of personal use quantities if the dosage unit amount possessed provides the same or greater equivalent efficacy as the quantities described in paragraph (e)(2) of this section.
Property means property subject to forfeiture under 21 U.S.C. 881(a) (4), (6), and (7); 19 U.S.C. 1595a; and 49 U.S.C. 80303.
Seizing agency means the federal agency that has seized the property or adopted the seizure of another agency and has the responsibility for administratively forfeiting the property;
Statutory rights or defenses to the forfeiture means all legal and equitable rights and remedies available to a claimant of property seized for forfeiture.
(a) Where property is seized for administrative forfeiture involving controlled substances in personal use quantities the owner may petition the seizing agency for expedited release of the property.
(b) Where property described in §8.19(a) is a commercial fishing industry vessel proceeding to or from a fishing area or intermediate port of call or actually engaged in fishing operations, which would be subject to seizure for administrative forfeiture for a violation of law involving controlled substances in personal use quantities, a summons to appear shall be issued in lieu of a physical seizure. The vessel shall report to the port designated in the summons. The seizing agency shall be authorized to effect administrative forfeiture as if the vessel had been physically seized. Upon answering the summons to appear on or prior to the last reporting date specified in the summons, the owner of the vessel may file a petition for expedited release pursuant to §8.19(a), and the provisions of §8.19(a) and other provisions in this section pertaining to a petition for expedited release shall apply as if the vessel had been physically seized.
(c) The owner filing the petition for expedited release shall establish the following:
(1) The owner has a valid, good faith interest in the seized property as owner or otherwise;
(2) The owner reasonably attempted to ascertain the use of the property in a normal and customary manner; and
(3) The owner did not know of or consent to the illegal use of the property, or in the event that the owner knew or should have known of the illegal use, the owner did what reasonably could be expected to prevent the violation.
(d) In addition to those factors listed in §8.19(c), if an owner can demonstrate that the owner has other statutory rights or defenses that would cause the owner to prevail on the issue of forfeiture, such factors shall also be considered in ruling on the petition for expedited release.
(e) A petition for expedited release must be received by the appropriate seizing agency within 20 days from the date of the first publication of the notice of seizure in order to be considered by the seizing agency. The petition must be executed and sworn to by the owner and both the envelope and the request must be clearly marked "PETITION FOR EXPEDITED RELEASE." Such petition shall be filed with the appropriate office or official identified in the personal written notice and the publication notice.
(f) The petition shall include the following:
(1) A complete description of the property, including identification numbers, if any, and the date and place of seizure;
(2) The petitioner's interest in the property, which shall be supported by title documentation, bills of sale, contracts, mortgages, or other satisfactory documentary evidence; and
(3) A statement of the facts and circumstances, to be established by satisfactory proof, relied upon by the petitioner to justify expedited release of the seized property.
(a) If a final administrative determination of the case, without regard to the provisions of this section, is made within 21 days of the seizure, the seizing agency need take no further action under this section on a petition for expedited release received pursuant to §8.19(a).
(b) If no such final administrative determination is made within 21 days of the seizure, the following procedure shall apply. The seizing agency shall, within 20 days after the receipt of the petition for expedited release, determine whether the petition filed by the owner has established the factors listed in §8.19(c) and:
(1) If the seizing agency determines that those factors have been established, it shall terminate the administrative proceedings and return the property to the owner (or in the case of a commercial fishing industry vessel for which a summons has been issued shall dismiss the summons), except where it is evidence of a violation of law; or
(2) If the seizing agency determines that those factors have not been established, the agency shall proceed with the administrative forfeiture.
(a) Where property is seized for administrative forfeiture involving controlled substances in personal use quantities, the owner may obtain release of the property by posting a substitute monetary amount with the seizing agency to be held subject to forfeiture proceedings in place of the seized property to be released. The property will be released to the owner upon the payment of an amount equal to the government appraised value of the property if the property is not evidence of a violation of law and has no design or other characteristics that particularly suit it for use in illegal activities. This payment must be in the form of a traveler's check, a money order, a cashier's check, or an irrevocable letter of credit made payable to the seizing agency. A bond in the form of a cashier's check will be considered as paid once the check has been accepted for payment by the financial institution which issued the check.
(b) If a substitute amount is posted and the property is administratively forfeited, the seizing agency will forfeit the substitute amount in lieu of the property.
At the time of seizure of property defined in §8.18 for violations involving the possession of personal use quantities of a controlled substance, the seizing agency must provide written notice to the possessor of the property specifying the procedures for the filing of a petition for expedited release and for the posting of a substitute monetary bond as set forth in section 6079 of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 and implementing regulations.


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Check if the specified UNIX user exists, if yes set your environment variable to that username else unset your environment variable
AX_CHECK_USER(USER, [gleensalmon]) if test x$USER = xgleensalmon; then bla..bla..bla.. else bla..bla..bla.. fi
Besides checking existence, this macro also set these environment variables upon completion:
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Lesson 25 Section 2
Solution. In this example, we may simply subtract the whole numbers and subtract the fractions -- similarly to adding mixed numbers.
But consider the following, in which the fractions are reversed:
To see how to deal with it, consider the following:
We cannot take 40 minutes from 10 minutes -- we need more minutes. To get them, we will break off 1 of the 7 hours, and decompose it into 60 minutes. We then regroup them with 10 minutes.
60 minutes + 10 minutes = 70 minutes:
2 hours from 6 hours is 4 hours. 40 minutes from 70 minutes is 30 minutes.
Solution. We cannot take 11 inches from no inches. To make inches, then, from 8 feet we will take 1 foot -- which is 12 inches:
5 feet from 7 feet is 2 feet. 11 inches from 12 inches is 1 inch.
We can now return to our problem:
We need more fifths. Where will we get them? From 8. We will
Actually, the simplest way to do this problem is mentally
The problem then becomes
Now the mystery, if any, is: How does that numerator get to be 9?
9 is the sum of the original numerator 1 and denominator 8:
7 is the sum of denominator plus numerator: 5 + 2.
Again, the simplest way to do this is mentally
(Lesson 21.) The problem then becomes
Solution. According to the meaning of subtraction,
Compare Lesson 7, Example 2.
Solution. First, we must make the denominators the same:
fraction becomes 4-fourths + 2 -fourths = 6-fourths:
Please "turn" the page and do some Problems.
Continue on to the next Lesson.
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Most of us will put up with a cramped middle seat on a short flight. But on trips more than three hours long, we are ready to crack open our wallets and pay for a window or aisle seat.
That is one of the findings of a recent Harris Interactive poll of 2,276 adults on the subject of airline pet peeves and passenger fees.
On flights shorter than two hours, 33 percent of those surveyed said they would pay for extra legroom. If the flight lasts more than three hours, 58 percent said they would be willing to pay. Thirteen percent said they would pay more than $25.
But even if fliers are willing to pay the fees, they won't necessarily be happy about it.
Creed Mamikunian, a doctor from Anchorage, describes all airline fees as ridiculous and offensive. "I would rather they charge an honest price and have most things included, not this a la carte price structure," he said.
As for pet peeves, the survey found that 63 percent of fliers would rather sit next to a crying baby than a smelly adult. When asked, 13 percent said they would prefer a plane with a child-free zone.
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Michael Ernstoff, an apartment manager from Los Angeles, likes the idea of segregating children on planes.
"Parents with ill-behaved children should be placed in the baggage compartment," he said. "I'm guessing that I might pay as much as 10 percent more to be on an adult-only flight."
Still, he said, such a plan might not work: "Too many people over 21 don't behave like adults, so segregating the adults can be difficult."
63 percent: Fliers surveyed who said they would rather sit next to a crying baby than a smelly adult.


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The cottages of the historic district will be adorned with their finest holiday decorations. Enjoy the history of Jekyll Island enriched in seasonal splendor as you venture inside the cottages of Jekyll Island's National Historic Landmark District. Tour lasts approximately 90 minutes.
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DNA tests in 1986 murder could free Somerville man
Michael J. Sullivan's claims innocence in death of Wilfred McGrath
A Somerville man who's been imprisoned for 25 years for a murder he says he didn't commit could be freed based on new DNA analysis of evidence.
A Middlesex Superior Court judge recently ruled DNA testing supports Michael J. Sullivan's claim he did not participate in the 1986 slaying of Wilfred McGrath.
McGrath was lured to a Cambridge apartment, where he was robbed and beaten. Still alive, he was wrapped in a blanket and dumped behind an abandoned supermarket, where he died.
Sullivan was convicted based on blood and hair found on his jacket that a state police chemist determined belonged to McGrath.
The Boston Globe reports that a judge granted Sullivan a new trial after new DNA testing determined that the blood and hair did not belong to McGrath.


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If ever there was Jewish clergy, in the sense of an intercessor between God and the people, who facilitated atonement, who held exclusive authority to perform rites and wear specific vestments it was the kohanim, the priests, the male descendents of Aaron. If all of Israelite experience, up until the destruction of the Second Temple, had centered around the sacrificial cult, there would be no Judaism, which is rabbinic Judaism, today. The Temple would have been destroyed and without the focal point of that sacrificial system, the Israelites would easily have been dispersed and absorbed into the surrounding cultures of the Roman Empire around them.
So what saved us? What was the safety net that caught us when the Temple fell?
The saving grace of our people was a populist movement that had begun to develop almost two centuries before the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem: the rabbinic movement had begun. The existence of scholars who were not kohanim/priests is extraordinary in a general culture in which the leaders of pagan cultic worship held the esoteric texts and practices of their faiths in closely guarded, limited circles. The general population had no access to the most sacred texts and instructions.
But in the book of Deuteronomy, Moses decrees that everyone, men, women, children, will all have direct access to the Torah, the Instruction of God:
And Moses commanded them saying: "At the end of seven years, at the appointed time of the year of the remission, on the Festival of Booths, when all Israel comes to appear before Adonay, your God, in the place that God will choose, you shall read this instruction in front of all Israel in their ears. Assemble the people--the men and the women and the infants and your alien who in in your gates--so they will listen and so they will learn and will be in awe of Adonay your God, and they will be watchful to do all the words of this instruction. (D'varim/Deuteronomy 31:10-12)
Those who came together to study and discuss Torah, while the Temple in Jerusalem still stood, were a populist movement. The Torah describes these men: wealthy and poor, landowners and shoemakers, with one thing in common: a commitment to exploring the depths of the Torah and making sure that the precepts of the Torah were being faithfully followed in a location and culture and economy significantly different from the place and language and culture and economy of the nomadic wandering generations who were present at Sinai. These scholars asked each other questions: What does this word mean now? How do we fulfill this mitzvah in this time and place? How do we integrate this piece of new realia into the framework of the Torah?
It is a conversation that continues until this very day on many levels . . . including, and most important, among "the men and the women and the infants", not just the scholars, not just the rabbis, but everyone who is part of the community.
There are lots of Jewish "things to do" . . . pray, give tzedakah/charity, support the institutions of the Jewish community, support one another through illness and bereavement, chose to keep the dietary laws of kashrut . . . but the Mishnah (the earliest layer of rabbinic text redacted in the 2nd century CE) declares that תלמוד תורה כנגד כולם / Talmud Torah kneged kulam / the study of Torah stands equally with all the other Jewish practices and observes combined. It's a bold statement. The traditional understanding has been that it is through the study of Torah that we will learn how and why and be inspired to pray, give tzedakah, support the community, take part in the community and deepen our individual Jewish identities.
The world of Jewish learning covers as wide a spectrum as the human experience itself . . . jewish learning leads to Jewish living. And Jewish living also covers a wide spectrum of identity and lifestyle and commitment.
It is for these reasons that the members of the Board of Rabbis of Greater Rhode Island is offering our first public event: an evening of eclectic Jewish learning. Drash and Dessert. "Drash" is the Hebrew term for the exploration and interpretation of Torah. "Dessert", well that's self-explanatory: Jews come together and there has to be food, yes?
We are proud and inspired by the wide variety of topics on offer at our Drash and Dessert event tomorrow evening after Shabbat. Whether you have sent in an rsvp or not, we hope you will join us. Click here to see the full program including time table and descriptions of our 14 different study sessions involving 16 members of our Board of Rabbis!


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So. Céline showed some weird shoes for spring. Weird, furry shoes. Um, okay. What better way to combine the frumpiness of fluffy novelty bed slippers with the acute discomfort of 4" heels?
There were also shoes in beige leather that had realistic-looking molded, pedicured toes. Reminiscent of the famous Comme des Garçons trompe l'oeil toe shoes or those Schiaparelli gloves (where the "nails" were actually red snakeskin appliqués), and also reminiscent of those God-awful Vibram shoes with their articulated toes, only, you know, creepier and more expensive. I wonder if they come in other skin colors or just white? Photos of these and other weird-looking shoes promptly blew up my Instagram — these shots are via Italian Grazia editor Ilaria Norsa and the stylist Tom Van Dorpe.
There were also furry Birkenstock-style sandals, fur-lined Birkenstock-style sandals, and God knows what else. Somehow, we don't see this attempt at shoe trend-setting from Céline proving as popular as the widely imitated glitter shoes Miu Miu started a few seasons back.


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If boys youth soccer continued along its current path, it's safe to say we'd be getting more of the same. Lots and lots of decent players, and a handful of brilliant players. Is that acceptable?
It shouldn't be. The USA is a giant country with tremendous resources and millions of players. There's no reason why it shouldn't be churning out world-class players the way countries like Brazil and Argentina do. But with all the growth at the grass-roots, with all the self-proclaimed highly competitive leagues and tournaments that spread through the nation like kudzu, with thousands of youth coaches earning good money to "teach" our kids how to play, how often do we produce the truly exceptional player?
Sure, we have more good players than ever. Guys who can play a role on the field and hold their own - those we have in abundance. But the rate at which we're producing players who hit the field and truly offer something extraordinary has not been increasing in proportion to the growth of the youth game.
Two decades ago, we had Tab Ramos and Hugo Perez. Why aren't we seeing scores of American players with such skill now? Why don't we have more players like Landon Donovan and Clint Dempsey?
Those are the kinds of questions that prompted Sunil Gulati, shortly after being elected U.S. Soccer Federation President in March of 2006, to launch a Technical Committee to review all the Federation's technical areas.
"Our players are not good enough at the highest levels -- we need to get better," reads the introduction to the Technical Committee's Player Development Report.
The report outlined changes the committee believed are needed at different age groups. Notably, for ages 6-12, the assessment summary included "Need more free play, less structure ... Encourage passion and experimentation." At ages 13-17 (the development stages): "Need to eliminate clutter in the environment -- elite players are stretched too thin."
These aren't revolutionary conclusions. U.S. national team coaches and the U.S. Soccer coaching staff have been saying such things for years. But the Federation has historically been reluctant to dive into the youth soccer arena -- a free market that now offers so many different programs promising players a path to glory that it has been described as the wild west.
Now the USSF is taking action. This fall it launches the U.S. Soccer Development Academy for boys -- its most ambitious move on the development front since it (in 1999) opened the U-17 boys residency camp in Bradenton, Fla., which houses 40 players. (The USSF is exploring a similar initiative "to enhance the development of female players.")
The U.S. Soccer Development Academy will be picking existing elite clubs to run Academy teams for U-16 and U-18 boys to compete in the regional leagues, providing opportunities for more than 2,000 players. Regional winners will compete in a national championship.
Up to 80 clubs will be chosen by U.S. Soccer's national team coaches. Players in the academy program will not take part in the Olympic Development Program, which is run by the state associations and U.S. Youth Soccer and has traditionally been the national team program's main source for discovering talent.
To counter the "growing trend of clubs playing an excessive quantity of games in lieu of consistent training patterns," academy teams will not play in any other leagues or State Cup competitions. Players will be allowed to play high school ball, for U.S. national teams and in a few other situations.
"It was never more clear to me that things in our youth soccer structure needed to change than at our first U-15 camp last summer," says U.S. U-15 boys national team coach Jim Barlow, "when about half of the players, on the very first day of national team camp, told their coaches that they were tired of soccer. Too many games, too many leagues, too many tournaments and camps, too much structured soccer had already taken its toll on this group of talented young players."
Bob Jenkins, U.S. Soccer Director of Youth Development, found that the club coaches whose teams participate in an excessive amount of competitions -- placing an emphasis on results over player development -- often agreed that their players were asked to play too many games. But they go along with it because the parents who pay them judge them on their teams' trophy-collecting ability and believe that if the children miss a showcase event they may miss a chance to be discovered by college or national team coaches.
The U.S. Soccer Development Academy will incorporate the elite clubs and their coaches but limit the number of games and travel while ensuring that the players will be seen by U.S. Soccer staff coaches and college coaches. The club coaches of Academy teams can now promise the parents that their children will be exposed to national team, college and pro scouts without traveling to an excessive number of events.
Included in the Academy structure: A minimum requirement of three training sessions and one rest day per week; academy teams will play 30 to 38 games per year (8-month season); the U.S. U-16 national team will compete in the U-18 Academy League; each player must start 30 percent of the time.
"One thing that's really important to understand," says Kevin Payne, the D.C. United president who heads the Technical Committee, "is that this is just one tactic in a very, very broad strategy. In the long term, we plan to work much more in the grassroots, at the younger ages, to change people's attitude about youth soccer and the process of youth soccer."
"We want to convince parents and administrators that there are ultimately more important ways to measure their kids' soccer experience than by placing value on wins and losses."
Although the Academy is focusing on the competitive U-16 and U-18 age groups, Jenkins says U.S. Soccer staff coaches will be forging relationships with the Academy clubs and offering direction that will impact the clubs' younger age groups. The aim is to change the focus at the younger age groups from competition to development.
"What we're doing at 16 and 18, that's our target area," Jenkins says. "Not that all the resources will go there, but that's what we want to get to for our clubs. Then you look at the younger ages and everything should logically fall in line to prepare the players to get there. The results are less important at the younger ages, if we're trying to get the kids prepared to play at the U-16 and U-18s. We didn't set up a competitive model for the younger ages because at that level we didn't want that to be the focus."
By August, the Federation will announce which clubs it has accepted for the Academy. Criteria for clubs selected to field Academy teams include a club's history of elite youth player development and past success in elite competitions. The regional leagues will comprise up to 15-20 teams and will play home and away matches against other Academy teams across a complete, eight-month season.
Well aware that one of the biggest problems in youth soccer are the high costs that shut out lower-income children, the Federation is prepared to make "pretty significant" financial contributions, says Gulati.
Payne says the MLS clubs will be fielding Academy teams and he believes that they are unlikely to charge their Academy players.
"The starting point which is the most important piece of the whole thing is," says Jenkins, "what is best for the players? What is the best model for helping to get these players the best opportunity to grow? When I have that in my mind it makes it much more clear as we move forward with this thing."
(This article originally appeared in the July 2007 issue of Soccer America Magazine.)


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ANAHEIM, Calif. – Mike Napoli homered against former batterymate Jered Weaver and Yoenis Cespedes hit a two-run double, leading the Boston Red Sox to a 4-2 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Friday night.
Allen Webster (2-1) allowed two runs and four hits over 6 2/3 innings in his third start since getting recalled from Triple-A on July 26, when Jake Peavy was traded to San Francisco. The right-hander struck out three, walked two and hit two batters.
Koji Uehara got three outs during a shaky ninth to get his 24th save.
Weaver (12-7) lost for the first time since June 16, allowing four runs and seven hits through six innings after going 5-0 in his previous nine starts. The Angels' fourth straight loss matched their longest skid of the season and dropped them four games behind AL West-leading Oakland, following the Athletics' 6-5 win over Minnesota.
Dustin Pedroia opened the scoring in the Boston third with an RBI single, and Cespedes lined a two-out double just inside the left field line for his first two RBIs since joining the Red Sox from Oakland at the non-waiver trade deadline.
But the Angels got two of the runs back in the bottom half. Efren Navarro drew a leadoff walk and came all the way around when Cespedes misplayed Chris Iannetta's double in the left field corner for an error. Iannetta scored on Mike Trout's sacrifice fly.
Last Saturday at Fenway Park against the Yankees, Webster was staked to a 3-0 lead in the second inning before walking his first three batters in the third and giving up four runs en route to a 6-4 loss.
But Napoli, who caught Weaver during their first five seasons in the big leagues, helped make sure there wouldn't be a repeat of that scenario for Webster when he hit his 14th homer to left-center with two out in the fifth. It was his third against Weaver.
Red Sox: Outfielder Allen Craig, who has played only one game since he was acquired from St. Louis on July 31, got a second opinion on his sprained left foot from Dr. Robert Anderson in Charlotte, North Carolina. There were no new findings.
Angels: Reliever Mike Morin, who hasn't pitched since July 31 because of a laceration on his left foot, has been doing some long toss and will continue to through the weekend before he gets back on a mound early next week. Manager Mike Scioscia is confident that he will be ready to come off the DL when he is eligible a week from Saturday at Texas.
Red Sox: Right-hander Clay Buchholz (5-7, 6.20 ERA) has never had a season with 30 or more starts – despite the fact that all but two of his 141 big league appearances have come as a starter. This is the fifth straight season he has spent time on the DL.
Angels: Right-hander Garrett Richards (12-4, 2.58 ERA) is coming off his first big league shutout, a five-hitter at Dodger Stadium in which he threw a career-high 122 pitches.
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Pharmaceutical industry ads praise Himes
Pharmaceutical firms push congressman for future help
The snappy, eye-catching brochures landing in mailboxes in Connecticut's 4th Congressional District that trumpet Rep. Jim Himes' health-care stance look like the postal equivalent of candidates' lawn signs sprouting up before an election.
"A strong Connecticut starts with good health care" reads one. "When health care is unaffordable, families suffer," another notes. "Jim Himes is working to fix the system." As proof, the brochure features a sick barefoot little girl in a johnny coat lying in a hospital bed, alone with her eyes half closed and her teddy bear just out of reach.
Another mailing states that "more Connecticut families are getting the care they need, thanks to Jim Himes."
Similar statements about the freshman congressman who bested longtime Republican incumbent Christopher Shays are being echoed in newspaper ads and cable television spots, too.
Fifteen months before the 2010 election, it appears the campaign season already is under way. But the rub is Himes has not crafted any health-care bills, staked out any bold new policy initiatives or outlined anything substantive that suggests specific health-care reforms he backs. Himes belongs to the House committees on financial services and homeland security. He holds no position on any congressional health-care committees.
So where does the former banking executive get off linking himself to the health-care debate? The answer is simple: he isn't.
Himes has nothing to do with these health-care missives to his constituents. He hasn't approved them. He never saw them before they hit the mail, the newspapers and television, he and his staffers say. Nor is he paying for them. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America and the Healthcare Leadership Council are.
The tag line at the end of the mailings, print ads and commercials, which are running for the next five weeks, directs viewers to call Himes at his main office number and "thank him for bring better health care home to Connecticut."
What's behind the campaign?
PhRMA has spent $6.2 million in the first quarter of 2009 on lobbying Congress with a portion of that on advertising associated with health-care reform. PhRMA's missives about Himes' are among about 100 or so such efforts PhRMA is orchestrating around the country.
"The object at the end of the day is to try and make certain congressional health-care reform becomes a reality," said Ken Johnson,
PhRMA's senior vice president for communications and policy. "We have a historic opportunity to pass health-care reform. But it's a narrow window."
One hundred thousand households in the 4th Congressional District received one of or all three of the mailings about Himes, a penetration level that Johnson called "heavy." And Himes' district office accepted more than 100 calls from constituents, voicing concern about health-care reform, said Elizabeth Kerr, a spokesman for Himes, adding that staffers have no way of knowing what percentage of the calls are connected with the pharmaceutical and health care industry push.
"As I hear stories from constituents [about their] coverage problems, it's become surprisingly clear to me that we do have to do something," Himes said, adding that it's ridiculous that some medical plans will pay for a diabetic patient's double amputation, rather than nutritional counseling to manage the chronic disease and avoid the costly surgery.
"The status quo is just no longer tolerable," Himes said. "In the most affluent country in the world, the fact that people don't have access to doctors, it's a moral indictment on our health care system."
Health-care reform is a volatile public policy matter, he says, adding that despite his freshman status, "this is an issue where every vote will count."
The ads and politics
The money PhRMA and the Healthcare Leadership Council are spending on their campaign-like literature does not need to be reported as a contribution to any congressional campaign financial disclosure report. "It's a legal exception to the rules that bypasses the normal campaign finance disclosure requirement," said University of Connecticut Professor of Public Policy Ken Dautrich, who considers the impact of the Himes health-care promotional literature a positive one.
Some of the constituents who've contacted Himes, the congressman said, have had "concerns" about the organizations paying for the advertisements.
"In congressional elections, name recognition and visibility tend to determine the outcome. That's why incumbents win so much," Dautrich said. "Here the pharmaceutical industry is improving Himes' name recognition. It certainly doesn't hurt him. Efforts to increase name recognition are costly" and someone who is new to congress, new to politics, is not likely to have a high one even among constituents in his district.
Dautrich isn't surprised either at how early these advertisements are hitting constituents' mailboxes -- more than 15 months before from the next congressional race.
"It's never too early when you're talking about a congressman because it's only a two-year term, versus a six-year one in the Senate," Dautrich said. "Members of the House of Representatives are in constant fundraising mode, particularly in districts that are competitive, like this one is."
Himes raised slightly less than $4 million when he unseated Shays in the 2008 election, according to campaign finance reports. So far, he has amassed $1.1 million since the start of the year for his 2010 re-election bid, with $526,000 raised in the last three months, Federal Election Commission disclosure reports show.
According to the CQ Politics MoneyLine analysis, Himes is among the top 10 House fundraisers. The CQ MoneyLine research showed that in the second quarter of 2009, "Democratic House candidates raised almost three dollars for every two for Republicans."
Current fundraising prowess aside, before Democrats controlled Congress, the pharmaceutical industry's purse was decidedly more Republican-oriented in its largess, according to The Hill, which reports that the drug manufacturers allocated three dollars for every one that they sent Democrats' way.
Pharmaceutical jobs in Connecticut
In Connecticut, according to PhRMA, 53,584 jobs are tied to the pharmaceutical research industry, that sector added $14.2 billion to the state's economy and a number of pharmaceutical giants, such as Pfizer, Boeringer Ringelheim and Purdue Pharma have a presence.
So why identify Himes' record, voting to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program, and for extending more health-care benefits to veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, when he is not assigned to any committee with a direct health-care role and is a first-term lawmaker?
"Sometimes freshmen are targeted with our advertising because they don't have long-held positions that tend to become entrenched," Johnson said, adding that Himes has kept some of his views on the specifics of reform to himself. Highlighting Himes is a "reflection that he represents a state where our industry is critically important to the local economy," Johnson said, and "he's among a group of freshman who have not dug in yet in one particular position."


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In the old (2016) replays interface is presented! In the newest ones too. I tried to use some console commands "cl_drawhud" and "hud_toggle_visibility", but it didn`t work.
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