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Editorial: Climate Change and Garage Door Openers
California just approved legislation requiring all new garage door openers to have battery backups, so that doors would open even when electricity service is interrupted. The legislation—SB 969—sailed through with almost no opposition. Curiously, the only group to oppose the bill was the industry responsible for garage doors, the people most likely to benefit from it. What's going on here, and what does this have to do with climate change and home energy? More than you might imagine.
The origin of the requirement for battery backup of garage doors is easy to explain. Last year's tragic fires in Northern California trapped residents in their garages after power failures prevented them from opening the doors and driving away from the fast-moving flames. Several people died because they couldn't open the doors manually. Hence the new law. This year's fires are even worse, and some California utilities now shut off power in certain areas as a precautionary measure to prevent their lines from sparking during high-wind events.
The climate change connection is almost as easy to explain. The entire western United States (and Canada and Mexico) is becoming drier. The fire season, which traditionally ended in October, now extends into December. Climate change has also changed the character of the fires: A firestorm now better describes their size, speed, and ferocity. Whole communities can be reduced to ashes in minutes (as this year's fires demonstrated).
What is the home energy connection? Those batteries need constant recharging, which adds another continuous load in each new home, perhaps as much as 5 watts (50 kWh per year). That's about a 0.5% increase in an average home's electricity use and moving us in the opposite direction from our net zero goals, but perhaps still justified for the safety benefits it affords the occupants of a new home.
It's the batteries that deserve scrutiny. These batteries—typically 12V lead acid—need replacement every two years. At about $30 each, they cost more than the increased electricity, introduce a maintenance headache, and create a new waste stream. The garage door industry opposed the backup battery requirement because its products are not designed to provide emergency egress and it fears it will be liable when a battery fails to deliver during an emergency. Surely there is a better way to provide a safety service without all these attendant problems.
The better way might be a direct current (DC) network operating in the home. More and more appliances need backup power in case of power outages. The most important ones involve communications: a modem, a router, and chargers for cellular phones. Service providers of voice over IP (VOIP) phone connections are already required to make available a battery that can sustain telephone operation for several hours. Everybody keeps flashlights around in case of an outage, but a few emergency lights strategically placed around the home would be even better. Laptops operate very nicely on DC, too. A single larger battery offers many economies, as well as ease of management. A DC network could include a small dedicated PV collector to operate mostly grid-free. Poorer households and apartment dwellers might find this approach to be a sensible first step into renewables.
It's easy to think of climate change as something monolithic and all-encompassing the impacts of which are difficult to grasp. In fact, the impacts of climate change will first appear as extreme weather events with very specific consequences. The humble garage door opener is an unlikely early flashpoint of these extremes, but it won't be the last. With some creativity, though, we can find solutions that make us more resilient while saving energy.
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Helping Startups in Asia, Together with My Family
If you're a member of JustCo or JustOffice, chances are that you already know Lu Liu, Head of Operations, Regional.
Lu's primary focus is on creating a signature JustCo and JustOffice experience with uncompromising service standards, one which consistently delivers top-notch service with warmth and a personal touch.
A graduate of Columbia Business School, Columbia University, New York, Lu shares her story and successes since leaving CBS…
In my MBA application essay, I wrote about how I'd one day start my own business, doing something I love. Needless to say how grateful I felt when it came true. I've not only been part of building a business, but more importantly, I got to help and nurture many startups in Singapore and China everyday in my work.
It didn't happen on day 1 after graduating from Columbia Business School in '04. Like many of my classmates, I joined a well-known company as a Financial Analyst, honing my skills and learning about the foundation of great companies. I was also sorting out my personal life, while traveling from country to country for my various assignments.
Year 2010 was when it all came to fruition. In my marriage, I had to give up my much-loved NYC life, but I gained a beautiful family, and a husband who was just as passionate as me about making a difference in what we do. He started JustOffice, a serviced office in Singapore, in 2011, and I joined suit after a couple of years, when the business was accelerating in Singapore. Like any startup stories, the initial years were a series of tears and sweats, arguments and made ups, and at the end, both the process and results were worth all the while.
Our second brand JustCo, a coworking space in Singapore, was launched in 2015, and now we have 11 locations under our network in Singapore and China. It is a fun place where workspace, business support, events, and lots of networing opportunities all come together. People work in either individual offices or hot-desk style, either behind their computer screens or among pingpong table, arcade games, and swings (yes, like the ones you see in a park). They make friends and network within the JustCo community among Christmas champagne, Chinese New Year "lo heiâ€, gaining advice from Lazada COO, or pitching to PwC Venture Hub. Everyday, the community helps connect people and businesses, growing under one roof physically and virtually.
I never knew I could have so much fun (and yes stress too) in work. What's even more fun is that I get to do this with my husband and my brother-in-law. Can't describe how blessed I truly feel, to continue to grow as a person and a leader among the company and support of my family. The opportunies all started after I graduated from CBS, and I'd forever be an avid ambassador of the CBS experience, something everyone should have once in their lifetime.


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When O2 customers moaned about iPhone 3G S upgrades, the firm was quick to point out that version 3.0 of the iPhone OS would deliver almost everything the 3G S offered - without the pant-threateningly expensive upgrade prices.
So now it's here, is O2 right? Is Version 3.0 a whole new iPhone?
As far as everyday usability is concerned, iPhone 3.0 delivers three key features: copying and pasting, Spotlight searching and more use of the landscape keyboard. You now get a landscape keyboard in Mail, Messages and Notes, and the new developer APIs should see it in third-party apps, too.
However, we have one big reservation about the keyboard, and that's its size: it's still useless for fingers, but by taking the full width of the screen it's too wide for thumbs. For us at least, it's an ergonomic disaster area.
GO WIDE: The landscape keyboard is now available in Messages, Mail and Notes. The proportions are weird, though, and we found it very uncomfortable
With the arrival of Spotlight you can now search your iPhone in the same way as you search your Mac. Well, almost. While Spotlight does a decent job of phone-wide searches - for example searching for a name will bring up results from your Address Book, from Mail and from any other apps such as Calendar that contain that person's name - it's inevitably less powerful than its desktop equivalent, especially on email. You can search message titles and senders, but not the content of email messages.
SEARCH: Spotlight delivers quick and easy searching across your iPhone
FINALLY: Cut, copy and paste works flawlessly. You can also use it to copy URLs from Safari or images from your photo library
Copy and Paste is much more successful. Holding your finger on an object enables you to drag a selection area for text, and you can then cut, copy or select all; switch to your destination app, hold your finger down again and the paste option springs up. It doesn't just work for text: you can also copy photos, so for example you can copy a picture from your camera roll and paste it into an email or MMS, and it can also copy URLs from Safari's address bar.
Did we mention MMS? That's now implemented in the SMS application, now renamed Messages, although it comes at a price: the application is noticeably slower to load in version 3.0.
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2 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
1 large red onion, halved, sliced
2 large red bell peppers, cut into ½-inch-wide strips
1 large yellow bell pepper, cut into ½-inch-wide strips
1 large green bell pepper, cut into ½-inch-wide strips
2 tablespoons Sherry wine vinegar
½ cup coarsely chopped pitted Kalamata olives or other brine-cured black olives
Heat olive oil in heavy large skillet over medium-high heat. Add sliced garlic and stir 30 seconds. Add red onion slices and sauté until beginning to soften, about 5 minutes. Add all peppers and sauté until crisp-tender, about 7 minutes. Stir in Sherry wine vinegar, then olives. Season salad generously with salt and pepper. Cool completely. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate. Bring to room temperature before serving.)
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The possible charges for Minnesota State head football coach Todd Hoffner continue to grow as the Mankato Free Press is now reporting he's been booked on requested charges of using minors in a sexual performance.
That's in addition to the child porn possession charge that we covered yesterday. Authorities took Hoffner into custody yesterday morning and took evidence and his car away from his home during the investigation. Hoffner's been on administrative leave after university officials escorted him off the practice field on Friday. The Mavericks head coach was named Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference coach of the year in 2009 and is coming off a Mineral Bowl victory last season.
The Free Press also reported Hoffner has been the subject of two internal complaints at the university, one of which is currently pending.
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This is like the dog. Yes, forty or so years ago Mitt Romney went on a family vacation with the dog travelling on the roof in a crate. But at least he Romney didn't EAT his dog. You would have thought the Obama campaign that made such a big damn deal about Romney's dog would consider the contents of their boss' stomach.
Democrats are evil for a number of reasons. At the very pinnacle is the fact that Democrats are abject moral hypocrites and the quintessential sine qua non essence of liberalism is hypocrisy.
Thus Obama demonizes Mitt Romney as a jobs outsourcer when fact checkers not only have repeatedly said that Romney was NOT a jobs outsourcer, but that Barack Obama IS a jobs outsourcer (see even more evidence here).
We've got the shrill nasty shrew who is running the DNC – Debbie Wasserman Schultz – demanding that Mitt Romney release more of his tax returns than he already has when she herself not only hasn't released HER tax returns but in fact she has done all kinds of the same things she is demonizing Romney over (such as offshore investments).
Also newsworthy is the fact that Valerie Jarrett – Obama's "other other half" and his ÜBER top-level adviser – has an offshore account in Bermuda.
And it just so happens that Obama's very own handpicked jobs council is chock-full of hoity-toity liberal OUTSOURCERS:
If Romney really wanted a juicy example of outsourcing, he would have to look no further than the president's jobs council.
GE, Boeing, Xerox, American Express and Permac Industries – Obama jobs council members all – are documented outsourcers of jobs.
And now we've got Nancy Pelosi caught red-handed profiting from China and the Asian economies that suck American jobs away:
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Nancy Pelosi made between $1-5 million on Asian investments in 2011
On the heels of The Weekly Standard's report yesterday that DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz — a vocal critic of Mitt Romney's investing practices, had herself dabbled in the foreign markets — we can add Nancy Pelosi to the list of prominent Democrats to profit from overseas investments.
According to Pelosi's 2011 financial disclosure statement, the Democratic House Minority Leader received between $1 million and $5 million in partnership income from "Matthews International Capital Management LLC," a group that emphasizes that it has a "A Singular Focus on Investing in Asia." A quick trip to the company website reveals a featured post extolling the virtues of outsourcing.
"Designed in California, Made in Manila"sounds like an excellent title for a smear ad to be run the by the Barack Obama campaign. Instead, it appears to be Nancy Pelosi's investment strategy.
Pelosi is also a small investor in the embattled "Moduslink Global," one of the "outsourcing pioneers" that Mitt Romney has been criticized for associating with while at Bain Capital.
It's not surprising that a wealthy politician would invest globally (nor should it be considered problematic). This is interesting because of the attacks on Mitt Romney's investments — because Obama purportedly believes in the virtues of "insourcing" and anti-globalization. (Obama appears to be running on a protectionist platform that went out of style with Canadian tuxedos)
Obama sure can preach the economic nationalism, but it doesn't appear his fellow leaders and surrogates are buying the message.
If they aren't, why should other Americans?
Here's the thing: there's nothing wrong with Nancy Pelosi investing in Asia, or Valerie Jarrett or Debbie Wasserman-Schultz having offshore accounts, or Obama having "outsourcers" on his jobs council per se – apart from the fact that these rabidly evil pathologically dishonest cockroaches are vile hypocrites who do the very same thing that the demonize their opponents over even as demonize them. It's the same thing with our national security: Democrats have documented over and over again that they are pathological hypocrite liars who demonized Bush for policies only to have to turn around and uphold those policies because Bush was right and Democrats were evil. People ought to have the right to invest wherever they believe they will get the best return; outsourcing is complicated and is often – though hardly always – good for America. But the truth doesn't matter when professional liars slander and demonize at such high speed the truth cannot possibly keep up.
Democrats are dishonest liars. It is simply what they have become by their very nature. They couldn't care less about the truth; they couldn't care less about what abject hypocrites they are. All they care about is rhetoric and demagoguery. And so they spout outrageous lies when they themselves are far worse than the people they are lying about. And they get away with it again and again because they know that the mainstream media – propagandists all – are as dishonest as they are. And they get away with it because the American people are becoming more ignorant and frankly stupid and more apathetic and uninvolved with reality. The media repeats a liberal lie across the front pages and the network programs thousands of times, and the subsequent correction – if its even mentioned – comes so late and is so buried that an apathetic people will never be able to find it.
That's why the beast, the Antichrist, is coming. And that's why the American people will soon be worshiping him and joyfully taking this big government messiah's mark. And it is why they will burn in hell.


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Contemporary Anarchist Studies: An Introductory Anthology of Anarchy in the Academy
This volume of collected essays by some of the most prominent academics studying anarchism bridges the gap between anarchist activism on the streets and anarchist theory in the academy. Focusing on anarchist theory, pedagogy, methodologies, praxis, and the future, this edition will strike a chord for anyone interested in radical social change.
This interdisciplinary work highlights connections between anarchism and other perspectives such as feminism, queer theory, critical race theory, disability studies, post-modernism and post-structuralism, animal liberation, and environmental justice. Featuring original articles, this volume brings together a wide variety of anarchist voices whilst stressing anarchism's tradition of dissent. This book is a must buy for the critical teacher, student, and activist interested in the state of the art of anarchism studies.
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The Quiet Revolution, Women Entrepreneurship
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Jacqueline Baptist was amazed at how rarely the media tells stories of women entrepreneurs. As a result, she has decided to take matters into her own hands and has set out on a course to produce a documentary titled, "She Means Business."
The documentary will explore the key issues women entrepreneurs face such as similarities/differences in female-led versus male-led companies; women's access to capital and entrepreneur training/business skills; and successes and strategies of woman-led businesses.
She Means Business will share true, honest portrayals of human experience, focusing on four to six early-stage and/or transitioning woman-owned businesses, following their successes, failures, struggles, concerns, disasters, and miracles.
Tune in for this special episode as Jacqueline Baptist, Executive Producer of She Means Business, joins Anita Campbell to discuss her journey and the journey of thousands of female entrepreneurs.
Below are the questions we asked Jackie:
- (1:58) Jackie, can you tell us a bit about yourself and your background?
- (4:22) Why is it important to do a documentary like this?
- (5:59) What are the differences and similarities between women led versus male led businesses? Are we stereotyping or are there significant and meaningful differences and, if so, what are those?
- (8:51) Are you learning anything about how women owned businesses fund their growth after startup?
- (11:27) What are some of the successful strategies of women led businesses?
- (14:20) Are you seeing any patterns in certain age groups such as millennials preferring entrepreneurship versus working for a large company?
- (16:33) Do you think that's a fad or a sign of what's to come?
- (17:33) How you chose the documentary subjects – are there opportunities for others?
- (18:34) What are some of the surprises or unexpected insights you've learned so far?
- (21:36) What tips would you like to share with women attempting to get a business off the ground or grow it to the next level?
- (21:36) If people want to support the documentary and what you're doing, where should they go?
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Instruction and Federal Programs
The Essex County Public Schools (ECPS) Department of Instruction supports instructional processes at Essex High School, Essex Intermediate School, and Tappahannock Elementary School. The goals of the Department of Instruction and Federal Programs are:
ECPS manages several Federal Program grants aimed at supporting instruction for students through highly qualified faculty and staff. Grants include Title I – Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged, Title II Part A – Improving Teacher Quality, Title III – Language Instruction for Limited English Proficient and Immigrant Students, and Title V – Rural and Low-Income Program.
Standards of Learning
The Virginia Standards of Learning, often referred to as the SOLs, provide a framework for instruction in schools in Virginia. The SOLs outline state expectations for what students should know and be able to do when a grade or course has been completed. SOLs address expectations for English, mathematics, science, history/social science and other subjects. At the end of each grade, from grades 3 through 8, and at the end of specific courses in reading, writing, mathematics, science, and history/social science, students take SOL tests to measure success in meeting state expectations.
State Accreditation Ratings
Public schools in Virginia are measured by state accreditation requirements. Accreditation guidelines specify the percent of students that must pass annual state assessments in English, mathematics, science, and history for the school to receive a status of fully accredited. Schools must achieve pass rates of 75% or greater for English, 70% or greater for mathematics, science, and history, and a graduation completion index of 85% or greater.
Information about state accreditation is available on the Virginia Department of Education website at http://www.doe.virginia.gov/boe/accreditation. For answers to questions concerning accreditation denied status visit http://www.doe.virginia.gov/statistics_reports/accreditation_federal_reports/accreditation/faq_accreditation_denied.pdf.
School Quality Profiles
The Virginia Department of Education produces annual School Quality Profiles for schools and school divisions within the state of Virginia. School Quality Profiles provide information about student achievement, accreditation ratings, program completion, teacher quality, school safety, graduation rates, and other relevant data. To access the School Quality Profiles for Essex County Public Schools, Essex High School, Essex Intermediate School, or Tappahannock Elementary School, please use the side menu.
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A NY city agency said Friday that it has asked for a review of its policies and whether they were followed when it allowed more than 400 HIV-positive children in foster care to be enrolled in tests of HIV drugs from the late 1980s to 2001. John Mattingly, commissioner of the Administration for Children's Services, said the inquiry would look into whether the agency acquired the necessary parental or guardian permissions to include the children in the research. The agency said that about 465 HIV-positive children were enrolled in drug tests between 1988 and 2001, the majority before 1996. The tests were conducted as researchers tried to figure out what kind of drugs would combat HIV and AIDS in children. What have we learnedin the 33 years since the end of the 40 year Tuskegee Syphilis experiment? Once again it is the most poor and defenseless put up as lab rats for corporate experimentation.
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With an online or print subscription, consumers can obtain a full ratings report and comparison of mobile service plans and handsets.
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CTIA (www.wow-com.com) is a trade association representing the wireless industry. Its Web site contains tips for consumers on purchasing mobile service as well as an overview of all mobile handsets that have hands-free accessories.
AARP, the American Association of Retired Persons (www.aarp.org), provides on its Web site a publishedsurvey entitled Understanding Consumer Use of Wireless Telephone Service that discusses various issuesrelated to wireless service and older consumers.
Are you as fed up as I am with getting screwed out of your minutes? Or over billed for cable or whatever? These companies get away with it in part because we have such a limited voice in setting the prices or the quality of service. If we all do our part, thing might change a little.
All this week SprintPCS service has been completely screwed up. Outbound calls would drop after varying intervals of connection often within the couple of minutes. Also, I found that there were voice messages for calls that went directly to voicemail. This wasnt just a problem with my phone as I have two roomates who were having the exact same problem yet have 2 different and more recent phones than my own. So I call Sprint and after about 20 minutes of arguing with the representative, I am offered 60 free minites.Quick aside, if you are a person likemyself who has basically replaced his land line with a cell phone and has a plan with 2000 daytime minutes and unlimited off peak and evening minutes then free minutes as compensation is no compensation at all. This is no penalty for Sprint either. There needs to be real compensation in the form of reducing your bill as in the Quality of Service Agreement other copmanies like bandwidth providers offer. There is no leverage for forcing better service currently other than leaving the company. We need more consumer advocacy and lobbying of the government and public shaming of companies who like Sprint think they can provide sub standard services with imputinty.So back to the story at hand. I get 60 free minutes and tell my roomates to also call and make a compalint to empasis to Sprint that there is an issue. One of my roommates calls Sprint only to find that according to the operator she spoke with, that there was NO REPORT of an issue in our area on file. Moreover, her more polite approach only got her 5 minutes of additional airtime. 5MINUTES!!! This doesnt even equal the amount of time she had to waste speaking to these lazy jerks. Or the missed calls she had to then followup on. Or the wasted time in her life spent calling people over and over when calls repeatedly dropped. Or even the poor reflection on her professional image for having such defective service.After her call, I decided to call Sprint back to further berrate them for not recording the error in any appreciable way, for making client do the work of monitoring thier network, and for the lack of appreciable compensation. This lead to me being transferred to a supervisor named Ginger, operator number GROANE01. This woman, upon hearing my complaints at one point responded with "If you are so unhappy with our service why dont you just leave?" This is a great indicator of their actual respect for thier customers. My response to her was that the ONLY reason i have service with Sprint is because when working properly thier network is 230kbs. But as you will see in other posts to this blog, that is not so frequently the case and if it werent for the idiosyncrasies of my professional life i would probably just drop them and switch to using just my Bluetoth Modem enabled, international capable,T-Mobile phone. The only unfortunate thing is that T-Mobile has a network with only 115kbs. And for some reason there is a major dropped ball in the form of a bug with Bluetooth Authentication , the Nokia 3650 phone and important Windows services like Terminal Service and Fax Service. I will go into this further in a future post to see if any one else out there has the same problem.So in the end, I am told that they will review my case and make an "appropriate adjustment" but that that would not be in the form of reimbursement on my bill.


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Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that create huge inequalities.
Pope Francis
Life isn't Always Fair
It is a lesson we have all learned. Sometimes fate turns around and bites us. But I have never seen this inequity so clear and so devastating, as I have over the last three months in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea.
I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia from 1965 to 1967, a long time ago. It was an incredible experience for me, going from the University of California at Berkeley and California's super-urban Bay Area to the then small upcountry town of Gbarnga, where I met Africa face to face and received so much more from the experience than I was able to contribute.
Afterwards, the terrible civil wars tore Liberia apart in a way that was incomprehensible to those of us who had lived in the country and had come to know her people and culture.
Recently, I began to feel more optimistic about Liberia's future. There was hope. Liberia had known peace for ten years. Children were back in school. There was laughter in the street.
And then Ebola struck. Once again, Liberia teeters on the edge of chaos. How much more can the country take? Yes there are things we can do, must do, to help. But I can't help thinking, over and over: isn't it time that fate gives the people of Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone a break?
Curt Mekemson @ Wandering through Time and Place
Half of the profits from Curt's recent book, The Bush Devil Ate Sam and Other Tales of a Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia West Africa, will go to Friends of Liberia, a group of returned Peace Corps volunteers.
Wake Up and Think for Yourself
This year my sixty-seven year old country finally woke up. Millions of Pakistanis learned to think for themselves.
Four months ago, frustrated people stepped out of their homes and stamped their thoughts on the streets under the leadership of Imran Khan. Old men, housewives, students, and children slid open curtains of indifference and made history.
War is when your government tells you who the enemy is. A revolution is when you figure it out yourself. ~Anonymous
This year millions of Pakistanis learned about pain. Pain that transcends boundaries of flesh and geography. Pain that sets things into perspective. Love, family, home, and health. Everything else seems extravagant. You don't expect to send your children to school and never see them again.1
We saw hope and held on to it tight. Perhaps too tight because it left blisters. We learned about healing as skins of faith quickly formed protective layers on our stubborn wounds. My people are even more stubborn.
This year I learned about victory. A victory that marks an end to our closed minds and blind hearts. I have seen my extraordinary people walk to hell and back. They tell me to keep going. Because that is exactly what they will do. They always do. And this revelation makes me realize our power.
I had a dream about you last night…and in it you said, 'Chin up; it only gets harder.' ~ Marshal Ramsay
Think. Question. Challenge.
Because once people begin to think aloud, they are impossible to ignore.
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- On 16 December 2014, terrorists ran down an Army public school in Peshawar (Pakistan), leaving 132 children and 9 members of the school staff dead in cold blood.
In Search of a Messiah
I have thought about poverty and inequality, and for me, there are no easy answers yet. Years of inequality, poverty, rising unemployment (indices to gauge development according to economist Dudley Seers), and insecurity, have made many Nigerians pant for a benevolent dictator, a fairy godmother with a magic wand to wave all our problems away, while we dance with the prince and midnight never comes.
In the lyrics of Bob Marley, Most people think great god will come from the sky take away ev'rything, and make ev'rybody feel high. I believe in The Messiah, but I don't want to be guilty of a messiah complex. These days when someone offers me help, I ask why, I ask how, I ask what, I ask where, I ask how much. And, I keep asking until I understand.
The race for the 2015 presidential elections in Nigeria resembles a dem-all-crazy; they say we have to choose the lesser of two devils. Democracy delivers to us what we demand of her. Poverty and inequality like kwashiorkor, can make people swallow nutrition devoid of protein, and then roll over to sleep not realising death is waiting.
I have learnt that on the drive to my destination, it is unwise to hand over the keys of my life and snooze in the passenger seat. Going by what I read on social media it seems many have learnt this too. The challenge is to remind the driver that he is driving our car and so we decide where he goes and when he stops.
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Sparks of luminous energy fly when two galaxies meet. But scientists studying those galactic unions can't say yet if the bulk of the emission comes from the galaxies' offspring of bright young stars, or from the black holes they think lie at the heart of the new union.
Recently, a group of astronomers, including a brother, sister and spouse, found evidence for supernovae and black holes in Arp 220, a recent merger of two spiral galaxies. They think that much of Arp 220's luminosity is created by massive young stars that give rise to the supernovae. But when the dust settles in several million years, they suspect that a luminous quasar will have formed from the black holes at its heart.
"The sky is littered with objects in various stages of evolution," said Dr. Colin Lonsdale of MIT's Haystack Laboratory. "If we can figure this puzzle out -- what happens when galaxies collide -- then we can go and look at systems that are in different stages of merging and check out our ideas about how these systems evolve."
Dr. Lonsdale worked on the Arp 220 research with his sister, Dr. Carol Lonsdale of the California Institute of Technology, and her husband, Professor Harding Smith of the University of California at San Diego, and Dr. Philip Diamond of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, NM.
Dr. Lonsdale commented on the unusual constellation of siblings and spouses working together on the research team. "It's not that unusual for astronomers to marry and work together," he said, referring to his sister and her husband, "but I think our team is bordering on the unique."
Their work adds to our understanding of galaxy formation and how black holes -- which are believed to lie at the center of all galaxies, even our own Milky Way -- may become visible for a while as extremely bright quasars.
The Arp 220 galaxy displays a brilliant luminosity, about one hundred times brighter than normal, but at invisible infrared wavelengths. It's the closest good example of what scientists call an LIG, or Luminous Infrared Galaxy.
There are two leading schools of thought on the source of LIGs' luminosity, and the Lonsdale team's research suggests that both schools may be right. The first theory -- that new stars forming as a result of the collision release the luminous energy -- can be confirmed by the new research. But their evidence indicates that the other hypothesis -- that matter being sucked into the black holes at Arp 220's heart is the energy source -- may also be correct.
It's now a question of which energy source is predominant, and Dr. Lonsdale believes that could vary from one galactic collision to the next.
"We think we've found something that really sheds a lot of light on this problem," he said. "We're starting to get concrete numbers, but we need to try to reduce the uncertainties. We still don't know which of the two provides the dominant energy source, though at the moment I'd probably put my money on star formation in Arp 220."
The researchers published their work in two papers in the January 20 issue of the Astrophysical Journal of Letters.
Dr. Lonsdale said the research also indicates that the accepted model for masers (naturally occurring microwave equivalents of lasers) in external galaxies requires major revision, a discovery that may provide a new way for astronomers to measure the characteristics of black holes in colliding galaxy systems. By studying the masers in fine detail, astronomers can trace the gas motions caused by the gravity of hidden black holes, and estimate the black holes' contribution to Arp 220's luminosity.
When two galaxies collide and merge, they send massive clouds of gas and dust spiraling inward toward the center of the merging system, effectively blocking the center of activity from view.
Thus, the heart of the new merged galaxy, where all the action is taking place, can't be studied by direct optical observation, even with the most powerful telescopes. Instead, scientists must look at radio and infrared wavelengths to calculate mass and luminosity and to make inferences about other aspects of the galaxy, like age and stage of life.
The astronomers gathered information on Arp 220, the 220th object in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, using 17 radio telescopes set up in Europe and the United States. They found about a dozen tiny, unresolved points of radio emission scattered randomly over a region measuring a few hundred light-years in size. (A light-year is about six trillion miles.) Each of those points of energy is caused by a supernova explosion that has occurred in the last few years of observation, said Dr. Lonsdale.
"When you get a burst of star formation [which happens when galaxies collide], you get stars forming in a wide variety of masses. The higher-mass stars that will eventually turn into supernovae burn their hydrogen fuel quickly. So one of the signatures of active, ongoing star formation is a high frequency of supernovae," he said. Each supernova fades from the view of radio telescopes after only a decade or so.
Right now, Arp 220 boasts the brightest group of supernovae known to exist -- each one as bright in radio waves as the brightest supernova ever discovered -- and it is a prodigious producer. By contrast, the Milky Way currently generates only a single supernova every century or so; Arp 220 is thought to produce as many as two per year. This implies the formation of huge numbers of bright, young stars in a starburst, which can account for the vast energy output of Arp 220.
But the astronomers also found indications that at least some of Arp 220's luminosity is generated by the black holes at its heart.
"The evidence for supermassive black holes [at Arp 220's center] remains circumstantial at this point, but if the masers are indeed tracing such objects in Arp 220, the holes can be expected to contribute significantly to the overall energy budget of the galaxy," Dr. Lonsdale said.
How much of Arp 220's total energy budget is produced by the black holes and how much by the starburst is still unclear, but the researchers hope to figure that out with additional observations of the newly merged galaxy.
Dr. Lonsdale's research at the Haystack Observatory was funded by the National Science Foundation.
A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on February 25, 1998.


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The Elite Companies Charitable Foundation of Uwchlan and Penn Liberty Bank of Wayne will sponsor Chester County Futures' 7th annual College and Career Expo on Aug. 8 at Lincoln University.
The $10,000 sponsorship will fund the event that lets Futures' students learn about post-secondary opportunities available to them.
Chester County Futures provides low-income students with the help they need, through education, to break destructive cycles and to lead self-sufficient lives.
More than 250 high school and middle school students from five Chester County school districts will participate in this year's Expo.
SALES: Urban Outfitters Inc. on Thursday said for the 11-month period ended Dec. 31, total company net sales increased to $2.6 billion or 12 percent over the same period last year.
Comparable retail segment net sales increased 6 percent for the 11-month period while comparable store net sales decreased by 1 percent.
Direct-to-consumer net sales increased by 29 percent for the period and wholesale segment net sales increased 11 percent.
The lifestyle specialty retail company operates under the Anthropologie, BHLDN, Free People, Terrain and Urban Outfitters brands. The company owns Terrain at Styers in Chadds Ford.
MONOPOLY: AAA Mid-Atlantic is urging motorists to take action now – to save the Monopoly race car player token.
Battleship, Scottie dog, top hat – who cares?
The race car is one of the earliest Monopoly game tokens, introduced in 1935 and popular ever since, according to the motor club.
Now, the beleaguered game piece is in danger of getting sent to the junkyard and needs a roadside assist from loyal motoring fans, so AAA is launching a social media campaign to save the little metal roadster.
Hasbro, Monopoly's maker, plans to retire the token with the lowest votes.
Fans can vote until Feb. 5 to cast a vote.
To vote, visit AAA's Facebook page, https://apps.facebook.com/saveyourtoken/
SCHOLARSHIP: Pennsylvania American Water on Thursday said that applications are being accepted for its 2013 Stream of Learning Scholarship Program to provide college scholarship assistance to students who are planning to pursue careers in the water and wastewater industry.
The program is designed to support outstanding students living in Pennsylvania American Water's service territories who are charting a course of study in specific fields crucial to the water and wastewater business.
In Chester County, the utility provides service throughout the Coatesville and Spring City areas.
The company will award scholarships of $2,000 each to 10 students.
Applications can be downloaded at www.pennsylvaniaamwater.com and must be postmarked by Feb. 28.


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I thought I would be bored with silly Siri videos by now but nope! Not even close. I'm still laughing my ass off. This one shows a make believe feature in Siri that I wish was really real: Siri can rap any Notorious B.I.G. song.
Cleverly made by Robert Boehnke for Music Hack Day 2011 in London, Siri actually has some flow to her robotic voice. If Apple put this feature in from the start, I don't think Siri would be the broken promise it is. [YouTube via Thrillist]


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VA chief: Shutdown could hit millions of vets
WASHINGTON — About 3.8 million veterans will not receive disability compensation next month if the partial government shutdown continues into late October, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki told lawmakers Wednesday.
Some 315,000 veterans and 202,000 surviving spouses and dependents will see pension payments stopped.
Shinseki spelled out some of the dire consequences of a longer-term shutdown in testimony before the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. The short-term consequences have meant that disability claims production has slowed by an average of about 1,400 per day since the shutdown began Oct. 1, and that has stalled the department's efforts to reduce the backlog of disability claims pending for longer than 125 days.
In all, more than $6 billion in payments to more than five million beneficiaries would be halted with an extended shutdown. In some areas, like health care delivery, there have been few adverse effects. In others, such as reducing the claims backlog, he noted that the backlog has increased by 2,000 since the shutdown began Oct. 1. In the previous 190 days, the backlog had dropped by about 193,000.
Shinseki drew comparisons to the last shutdown in 1996, a time of sustained peace. The current shutdown occurs as the war in Afghanistan is in its 13th year and as hundreds of thousands have returned from Iraq. They are enrolling in VA care at higher rates than previous generations of veterans.
"They, along with the veterans of every preceding generation, will be harmed if the shutdown continues," Shinseki said.
Rep. Jeff Miller, the Republican chairman of the committee, said he called the hearing because he wanted to make sure veterans knew the impact of the shutdown. He questioned whether the Obama administration had been forthcoming enough. For example, the first guidance that VA put out regarding the shutdown did not mention any impact on payments to veterans or the processing of their benefits. Miller also said President Barack Obama had implied the day before the shutdown that counseling services for PTSD could be affected, but health services have been fully funded.
"We've had some difficulty in the last couple of weeks getting good information about VA's contingency plan and the effects a lapse in appropriation would have on veterans. " Miller said.
Shinseki said the VA planned for an orderly shutdown but has confronted "unprecedented legal and programmatic questions" and would do its best to keep lawmakers informed.
"I had no idea this was intended to happen," Shinseki said of the shutdown.
The House has passed legislation that would provide veterans disability, pension and other benefits in the event of a prolonged shutdown. But the White House has urged lawmakers not to take a piecemeal approach to continuing government services. Shinseki made that case as well, saying it's not the best solution for veterans. He noted that even if the VA were fully funded, some services to veterans would suffer.
He said the Labor Department has largely shut down its VETS program, which provides employment and counseling services to veterans. The Small Business Administration has closed 10 centers focused on helping veterans create and operate businesses. And the Housing and Urban Development Department is not issuing new vouchers to homeless vets, though those relying on vouchers to pay rent will be able to continue using them.
"Veterans, of course, are affected like other Americans by the government shutdown — more than 600,000 veterans are employed by the federal government, many others work for impacted federal contractors, or work for other businesses that are suffering from the shutdown," Shinseki said.
Veterans groups have largely avoided taking sides in the battle, supporting both the Republican-controlled House's efforts to pass legislation extending funding specifically for certain VA benefits as well as the Democratic-led effort to fund the entire federal government.
Some groups have expressed frustration with what they described as incomplete or inconsistent statements from the VA about the impact.
"These inconsistencies have left veterans confused, concerned and dismayed," said Alex Nicholson, the legislative director for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.
Nicholson says his organization has been fielding countless calls and messages fromveterans worried about the shutdown's impact.


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DENVER — LeBron James was knocking down shots no matter the angle, the degree of difficulty, the distance or the number of hands in his face.
Closing time just brings the best out in him. Still, as teammate Larry Nance Jr. aptly said of all James' off-balanced makes: "It was ridiculous."
James scored 39 points, including nine down the stretch, and dished out 10 assists as the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Denver Nuggets 113-108 on Wednesday night after squandering a 16-point, first-half lead.
"I just tried to implement my imprint on the game by just closing it out for us," James said.
He certainly did that.
James made one off-balanced shot after another in the waning minutes to turn back the Nuggets, who didn't take their first lead of the game until 8:35 remaining on a driving layup by Mason Plumlee. Jeff Green gave Cleveland the lead for good minutes later with a 3-pointer on a play set up by James after he tapped a loose ball out to him.
It was that kind of night for James. He made a deep 3-pointer with 1:11 remaining, thumping himself in the chest with two fists in exuberance.
"That's why he's the best in the league right now," said Nikola Jokic, who had a monster game with 36 points and 13 rebounds.
James wound up two rebounds shy of a triple-double to help the Cavs kick off a six-game trip in fine fashion. No matter what the Nuggets tried to slow him down, nothing worked. James was in that kind of rhythm.
"Those are shots that as a defender you just turn around to your coach and go, like, `Sorry," Nance said. "It was incredible."
Nance once again was in the starting lineup with big men Kevin Love and Tristan Thompson sidelined with injuries. Nance scored 13 points and grabbed 13 boards.
James was fueled in part by a 126-117 home loss to Denver last Saturday. He said in the morning shootaround: "You always want to try to give some giveback."
The Nuggets started out sluggish — trailing by 16 in the second quarter — as playing on the second night of a back-to-back caught up with them. They rebounded, though just a little too late in losing for a second straight night. They dropped a costly game at Dallas on Tuesday to tighten an already tight playoff chase.
"Everybody is talking playoff, playoff, playoff," Jokic said. "But we need to think about the next game."
Cavaliers: Green was back on the floor after missing two games with lower back soreness. He finished with 10 points. … F Rodney Hood added 15 points.
Nuggets: Denver native and longtime NBA standout Chauncey Billups was part of the ESPN broadcast team. .. Denver had 10 3-pointers. The team hit 19 against the Cavs over the weekend. … The Nuggets committed 21 turnovers.
Pittsburgh Steelers receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster is trying to court James to the football field. On his Twitter account, Smith-Schuster posted a picture of James in a No. 23 uniform for the Steelers.
"I'm fine with my sport. Pretty funny, though," James said. "I like tank tops and shorts. I've tried the shoulder pads and it was fun while it lasted. But I'm a tank top and shorts guy."
Love was astonished by all the positive feedback he received after opening up about his struggles with mental health issues. Love addressed the subject in a story for The Players' Tribune. He's already received more than 4,000 messages.
"So many people reaching out," said Love, who's sidelined by a broken hand.
The Paul Millsap and Jokic combination remains a work in progress, but they're starting to get on the same page. Millsap missed 44 games following surgery on his left wrist.
Coach Michael Malone stressed to Jokic he needed be more assertive. He was, too, connecting on 12 of 14 shots.
"He's our best player and we need him to step up," Malone said.
Near the end of the game, Nuggets guard Jamal Murray appeared to hit his head on James' knee. Malone doesn't think Murray will have to enter the concussion protocol.
"Being with LeBron for five years, he has big knees," Malone said. "I'm sure for Jamal that hurt him."
Cavaliers: Game No. 2 on their trip is Friday in Los Angeles against the Clippers.
Nuggets: Host the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday.
Courtesy: ESPN.com


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"Now when evening had come, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who himself had also become a disciple of Jesus. This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given to him. When Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his new tomb which he had hewn out of the rock…" Matthew 27:57-60a, NKJV
If at no other time of the year, it is during this season when we are drawn closer to the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. As well we should be. In just one day we will be celebrating Easter (Resurrection Sunday) when we are starkly reminded of the cost of our sins and the victory that Jesus gained over it all.
The cost was heavy but the price had to be paid. It was unavoidable. But, that's not the end of the story. To get to the end let's back it up some first.
Sitting at what we now call the Lord's Supper or the Last Supper, the Bible tells us, "And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to His disciples and said, 'Take, eat; this is My body.' Then He took the cup, and gave it to them, saying, 'Drink from it all of you. For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins,'" (Matthew 26:26-28, NKJV).
Through all of the hints and teachings, if the disciples never really understood Jesus' mission, He clearly lays it out here. Through the bread, He showed the brokenness His body would endure. Isaiah's prophecy would soon be fulfilled. "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed," (Isaiah 53:5, KJV).
With that fulfillment, a new covenant would begin. God's plan for salvation would once and for all be sealed by His shed blood.
Knowing that, after we arrive back to the point after His death, how must it have felt for Joseph of Arimathea to handle the lifeless body of the Savior, whom he has come to identify with, for he himself became a disciple also (Matthew 27:57)?
After His body was given to Joseph, the Bible says, "he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his new tomb." This is such a beautiful picture of the care and love for a Savior who gave it all up for him.
How are we handling the body of Jesus?
Joseph made sure it was wrapped in "clean linen." Through the brokenness of His body, we have been healed. Through His shed blood, we have been washed. We carry the Savior and His new covenant on the inside of us. Have we wrapped Him in "clean" vessels?
David said, "Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me," (Psalm 51:10, KJV). The spiritual house on the inside of each of us has to be clean. Dust particles of any works of the flesh (Gal. 5:19-21) have to be removed. "Such things will not inherit the kingdom of God," (Galatians 5:21, NKJV). "Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God?" (1 Corinthians 6:19, NKJV).
When God blessed us with the Holy Spirit, it's as if we are taking on a part of Christ. We can't wrap Him in just anything. We have to meticulously make sure what we wrap Him in is clean, using the same care that Joseph of Arimathea did.
Then, "he laid him in his new tomb." His refers to Joseph's. It was Joseph's new tomb that Jesus was being laid in. The vessel that Jesus was laid in was new.
When we have Christ on the inside of us we are not the same as we used to be. "If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new," (2 Corinthians 5:17, NKJV).
In handling the body of Jesus on the inside of us, we have to act like He is in something new. Renewed! Not to continue in all that old, used stuff before we knew and received Christ. But, brand new!
We're not talking about refurbished or recycled to appear new. The vessel that Joseph had to offer Jesus was new! Remember, as Christians, we are that which has been made new. Are we keeping it that way? Are we handling the body of Jesus with great care? Is He wrapped in cleanness and laid in the new?
How did Joseph feel? Maybe a little in awe but mostly I feel (and it's just my opinion) that he felt honored to be able to lovingly care for the body of the Lord. To be able to hold that brokenness with the knowledge that He went to the cross and died for him and all humanity – priceless!
"This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me," (Luke 22:19, KJV). Don't wrap Him in just anything.
Let's take special care today for how we handle the body of Jesus in our clean and new vessels. It was given for us, therefore, let us take care of it.
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ACLU on target in Nathan Dunlap claim
Say what you like about the ACLU, it's right about Nathan Dunlap's rights. He's a vicious killer, no doubt, but a humane society should provide even prisoners convicted of murder access to a little fresh air and exercise.
So Colorado made the prudent – and decent – move when it responded to an ACLU lawsuit by transferring Dunlap and its two other death-row inmates to a facility in Sterling where they will be permitted into an enclosed concrete courtyard five times a week.
It's not the Greenwood Athletic Club, in other words, but it's a taste of the outdoors.
If Dunlap had committed his crimes last year and faced execution in the near future, this dispute would be academic. But his murders date to 1993, meaning he's spent nearly two decades behind bars even though he was sentenced to die. And until that day comes, he should be treated – so long as he behaves himself – the same as any other long-term inmate in terms of outdoor access.


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Baskett beats odds
Indianapolis Star photo: Matt Detrich From left, Indianapolis Colts defenders Ed Johnson, Melvin Bullitt, Antonio Johnson and Hank Baskett try and block a field goal in the an October game against the Tennessee Titans. Baskett will be the first Clovis native to play in a Super Bowl on Sunday afternoon.
Of the approximate 100,000 youngsters who play high school football every year, only 215 of them will make an National Football League roster.
Then, assuming things are equal in the NFL — and they're not— a player on any NFL roster has a 1 in 16 chance to be on one of the two teams playing in a Super Bowl.
"It's the pinnacle of what everybody who plays football plays for," Clovis native Hank Baskett III said Wednesday.
So when hometown favorite Baskett, a receiver for the Indianapolis Colts, steps on the turf Sunday at Sun Life Stadium in Miami, the fourth-year pro will be doing what few organized football players will ever do and no other Clovis native has done before.
But then again, the 2001 Clovis High graduate has always been beating the odds.
"He's always been a fighter," longtime Clovis coach Eric Roanhaus said. "It's a challenge for him to do things."
Henry Randall Baskett first came to the Clovis Wildcat football squad as a sophomore. Four games later, he was the starting quarterback. The first two starters got injured, said Roanhaus, who recently finished his 32nd season guiding the Wildcats from the sidelines.
"It's pretty tough to step up as a sophomore and play quarterback for the Clovis Wildcats," said Roanhaus, a coach known for his toughness on quarterbacks. "But he handled it mentally and physically."
That wasn't enough to earn the "NFL bound" stamp, though.
"As a sophomore in high school, you couldn't foresee him being in the NFL," Roanhaus said, who remembered facing NFL-bound New Mexicans such as Jim Everett and Timmy Smith. "I thought in the '80s, Mickey Reeves at Roswell had a chance to do that. The way (La Cueva junior Ronnie) Daniels kid ran on us this year, that came to mind."
Just as injury put Baskett at quarterback, an ankle injury was what Roanhaus called "divine intervention" halfway into his senior year.
The injury robbed Baskett of his mobility, but he could still line up on the outside and run simple receiver patterns.
"He was a natural athlete," Roanhaus said of Baskett, who still holds New Mexico's state high jump record. "He could move in a straight line and beat other kids down the field."
A few months after the switch in positions, Baskett was signing a letter of intent with the University of New Mexico. At UNM, Baskett finished second in all-time in touchdown catches (17), third in receiving yards (2,288) and fourth in catches (140).
That's why his agent, Jim Ivler, was surprised when Baskett — ranked second among all college senior receivers by ESPN's Mel Kiper Jr. — was undrafted in 2005.
"Nobody could give me an answer," Ivler said. "The draft gods weren't with us that day."
Baskett was picked up as a free agent by the Minnesota Vikings. Three weeks later, the unheard of happened, Ivler said, as the Philadelphia Eagles traded former third-round pick Billy McMullen for the undrafted Baskett.
In his three-plus years with Philadelphia, Baskett became the second player in NFL history with two receptions of 85-plus yards in one season in 2007, and helped the Eagles reach the 2009 NFC Championship game.
It was enough to get him a one-year, $1.545 million tender offer for this season. But nothing's guaranteed in the NFL.
"It's not even a day-by-day business, it's a play-by-play business," Ivler said. "Opportunities are granted and taken away in a single play."
The Eagles cut Baskett two weeks into the season to make room for quarterbacks Jeff Garcia and Michael Vick. Ivler said the Colts were one of many teams who quickly called.
"It's an exciting thing to go with Peyton Manning," Ivler said, "and have them want you there."
Baskett has garnered a lot of attention this season. Not for his four catches for 28 yards with the Colts, but for his marriage to former Playboy model Kendra Wilkinson, their roles on the E! reality show "Kendra" (first season now available on DVD) and the birth of the couple's first child in December.
Hank Baskett IV will join Wilkinson in a luxury box at Sunday's game.
"If they create a book about the best year ever, they have to look at me," Baskett told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. "Get married, have your first child, now playing in the Super Bowl. That's my personal life peaking with my professional life peaking."
Baskett's career numbers include 76 receptions for 1,080 yards and six scores. Back home, Roanhaus is hoping for at least one more score for Baskett in Miami.
"I hope he gets in the ballgame and catches one; he's excited," Roanhaus said. "I'm hoping Peyton Manning plays well so he can win.
Coming Sunday: Baskett talks about his time with the Colts, and what's next for the Clovis native.


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That didn't take long: there's a new Twitter account, #patricktwittertypos. Democrats are in unrestrained glee.
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Campaigning at the speed of social media today got the best of Sen. Dan Patrick, who is vying for lieutenant governor in the Republican Primary. Responding to a San Antonio court ruling striking down Texas' ban on same sex marriage, Patrick's official campaign twitter account blurted: MARRIAGE = ONE MAN AND ONE MAN. Enough of these activist judges. FAVORITE if you agree. I know the silent majority is out there with us!"
Patrick, a well-known social conservative whose latest television ad is themed "Christian Leader," quickly deleted the mistaken message, but not before it was captured and went viral. One Facebook post cheekily invited him to serve as a "flower boy" to two gay men planning a wedding.
Within an hour, Patrick's Facebook page had been updated to include strong language against the decision with this post:
BREAKING NEWS: an activist Federal judge has struck down our gay marriage ban in Texas! Please SHARE if you agree: marriage is between one man and one woman. Let's make our silent majority be heard. As Lieutenant Governor I will work continue defending the sanctity of marriage and our Texas values system. Elections determine policy. Please get out to vote and I promise to not back down on this issue and change with the wind.
He also tried to make light of the issue with a follow-up Twitter message: "oops!
#twittertypo. We have a new job opening on our campaign: social media intern. Send resume to contact (at) http://danpatrick.org"
Spokesman Logan Spence said the error occurred as the result of a "staff typo that will unfortunately forever live in Twitterverse . "
Patrick is challenging incumbent David Dewhurst in the Republican Primary, along with Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson and Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples.


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The new iPhone is finally here. Yes, people would line up to buy it even if it was made of bottle-caps and dog-poo, but it isn't. It's predictably a very good phone. How good? Let's see how it compares to the top competition.
The following chart is a look at how these phones measure up by the numbers. Now, numbers certainly aren't everything, but they aren't nothing, either.
Note: the chart below compares the U.S. versions of all these phones. In the U.K. the One X and Galaxy S III both have quad-core processors, but here in the U.S. those don't work with our LTE (yet), so we've got the dual-core Snapdragon S4 in there. Also, the prices are where each phone starts (the iPhone 5 has three levels for different storage sizes) with a carrier contract. Got it? Good.
Obviously, the most noticeable difference between the 4S and the 5 is the screen. It has finally gone the now-standard 16x9 route. On paper it looks like it will hold its own against the Lumia 920 and the One X, but Apple is using a new screen technology from Sharp, so we'll see if it's as good as everyone hopes.
Apple MacBook Air Laptop
Powerful performance
The M1 chip delivers 3.5x faster performance than the previous generation all while using way less power. Get up to 18 hours of battery life.
The A6 chip sounds awfully nice, but we didn't get any of the particulars on clock speed or number of cores, so we shall see.
LTE of course is a very good thing, and it was a necessary move to keep up with the others. As someone who tests a lot of phones, once you use LTE for a little while, everything else feels like you're crawling. At the same time, it's a bummer that NFC was left out. No, people aren't screaming for it, yet, but putting it on an iPhone certainly would have helped the burgeoning technology's cause. Also, no word yet on the size of the battery. Apple claims it's vastly surperior to the one in the 4S, but we'd be surprised if it can measure up to the monster in 3,300 mAh battery in the RAZR MAXX HD. We'll see. All and all, by the numbers, the iPhone 5 certainly holds its own.


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Mojave, Calif. — Virgin Galactic's space plane, the Enterprise, will roll onto the runway early Sunday morning to begin its first solo test flight. Sources say that, after being lifted to an altitude of approximately 50,000 feet by its mothership, the craft will be released and glide to the runway in an unpowered descent that approximates the final phase of a space trip. Enterprise, designed to ferry six tourists into space, is the cornerstone of the best known attempt to start a space tourism industry.
During the past few weeks engineers at Scaled Composites conducted the final flight tests to ready a custom-built, four-engine airplane called Eve to carry and release Enterprise (better known as SpaceShipTwo) for the test. For an actual spaceflight, Enterprise would detach from its mothership and use a rocket engine to boost into space. During today's high-altitude drop test, however, the spacecraft will head directly back to Earth. PM is on the scene in Mojave, will file updates as the test proceeds, so stay tuned.


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As a student, instructor, or e-learning institution administrator, are there ethical issues in mobile learning? If so, are they the same as ones one might expect in e-learning? This post discusses several of the more worrisome ethical issues that could accompany mobile learning and suggests approaches to raise awareness. The goal is to avoid ethically problematic design or behaviors. Some of the other issues are not as easily addressed.
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1. Privacy issues. Mobile devices can invade privacy. Guidelines need to be set. They need to be clear and they should be enforced.
2. Uniformity of access. Ethical constructs that deal with justice and the administration of justice suggest that all individuals who participate in an activity should be able to do so with equal chances of success; which is to say they should be on a level playing field.
3. Non-biased, culturally equitable delivery and expectations. Signs and symbols can be subtle, and people may not be aware that a particular sign, symbol, or content item could be offensive to some groups. It is important to have focus groups and beta test the courses as well as the mobile learning devices. It is also important to expand the rules of proper mobile learning behaviors and to makes sure that students are not photographing or recording invasive or offensive items and then posting or sending them to fellow students.
4. Language barriers. Multiple delivery modes / redundancies. Are colleges ethically obligated to provide training, mentoring and support to learners who may not have the background or language skills to succeed in mobile learning? I would argue "yes." They are also legally obligated.
5. Learning preferences. Some students who sign up for mobile learning may not realize that they do not actually learn or retain content as well through audio as via other modalities. For example, they may be a spatial learner who needs to organize text. Will they be penalized for having learning preference differences? This is an ethical consideration.
6. Equity of instruction. Are some instructors trained more effectively than others? Does a difference in training and teaching philosophy result in uneven, inconsistent instruction within the same college or university? These are concerns, particularly when technology is an issue, as is the case of mobile learning.
7. Posting and other concerns. "Neti-quette" notwithstanding, impulse control is often lessened in an environment where one feels safe and fairly anonymous. One way to combat rudeness in the discussion board is to attach a real identity and impose social control.
8. Recognizing consequences of actions in an impersonal and sometimes invisible world. It is not always easy to be aware the consequences of one's actions when the action takes place "off the screen" and in the real world (rather than the virtual world). In the future, m-learning will help bring the "real world" more readily into the virtual world by means of video, images, and sound captured on location.
9. Cyber-bullying and cyber-stalking. According to utilitarian ethics, what matters most is the amount of discomfort one causes another. This puts the burden on the course creator or provider to assure an environment where individual learners are not caused discomfort or anguish through the actions of others. Harrassing instant messaging, posts, comment-spam, etc. are definitely off-limits.
10. Types of serious games, simulations. This topic could be a book in and of itself. While some games and simulations are clearly for the public good, others can be more questionable. Simulating crimes and violence, even if it is for historical re-enactment, can be ethical thin ice. Examples include JFK Reloaded and Grand Theft Auto Vice City.
11. Gender issues - relationships vs. justice. According to Carol Gilligan (1982), women have been conditioned to privilege care-giving, care-taking, and relationships over the execution of laws and justice. How this plays out in an e-learning or m-learning environment could be quite interesting, particularly when it might come to grades and performance. Females may express themselves differently in the m-learning environment, and may take on the roles of facilitation and relationships. Their responses may be more "gray area" whereas men may tend to have a more cut and dried approach, and may become impatient with the discursive strategies employed by women to facilitate relationships.
Broudy, O. (2006). The Practical Ethicist. www.salon.com/books/int/2006/05/08/singer/index_np.html
Gilligan, C. (1982). In a different voice: Psychological theory and women's development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
Singer, P. (1993). Practical Ethics. Cambridge UP.


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by Pink Lady
Who doesn't love a good head-to-head battle, especially when it comes to cocktails? This spring the Woodward at Ames will resurrect Cocktail Wars, one of our favorite industry events, back again after a long, cold winter's break.
Cocktail Wars is an Iron Chef-style bartending competition that will take place every Sunday from now until May 15. Two of Boston's best mixologists will go head-to-head to create the best cocktail using a series of secret ingredients (typically a spirit, a fruit, an herb, or a vegetable) in the allotted time. The creations will then be judged by some of Boston's biggest industry experts (which on one magical upcoming Sunday will include a LUPEC lady).
Thirty-two bartenders from Boston's different neighborhoods will compete during this seven-week tournament for an amazing grand prize: a weekend in New York including roundtrip airfare, swanky hotel accommodations at one of the Morgan's Hotel Group properties and some cold, hard cash. The stakes are high for these bar stars. For the rest of us, the event means a killer party featuring snacks, a DJ and inexpensive cocktails with some of our favorite beverage industry folks.
Next up on the docket: Asher Karnes – KO Prime (Beacon Hill)
Domingo Barreras – Market at W Hotel (Theatre District)
Chris Majka – The Citizen (Worchester)
Mark Vandeusen – Tico (Back Bay)
Loryn Taplin – Coppa (South End)
Eric Smith – Mezcal Cantina (Worchester)
Jon Parsons – Sam's at Louis Boston (Waterfront)
Don Wahl – Deuxave (Back Bay)
And mix up one of these, created by New York's John Pomeroy when the US Bartender's Guild of New York went head-to-head with Boston as you wait with baited breath.
by John S. Pomeroy, Jr.
1 oz dry gin
1 oz Galliano L'Autentico
1 oz Maraschino liqueur
1 oz fresh lime juice
Fresh basil
Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a flamed lime disc.
[Cocktail Wars. Sundays at Woodward at Ames. 1 Court St., Boston. 617.979.8200. 5:30pm/21+/free. woodwardatames.com]


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