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Autism is a lifelong, complex and diverse neurodevelopmental condition affecting brain development and behaviour. It is a spectrum condition, which means that while people share certain difficulties, their autism will affect them in different ways. Some autistic people are able to live independent lives but many have learning disabilities or co-occurring healthcare conditions often requiring a lifetime of specialist support. Autism affects social communication abilities, patterns of behaviour and sensory processing.
In many, but not all cases, the symptoms of autism reveal themselves early in life, most notably through:
- Difficulties in social communication and social interaction across multiple contexts
- The presence of restricted and repetitive patterns of behaviour, interests or activities and atypical sensory responses
Many autistic people also have co-occurring mental health (e.g. anxiety, ADHD) and physical health (e.g. gut/bowel disorders, epilepsy) problems.
How common is Autism?
Around 1% of the population is autistic . In many communities the prevalence of autism has been increasing. This is mainly due to the fact that recognition and access to diagnosis is improving over time. Autism is currently more common among males than females.
What causes Autism?
Recent twin studies show that most cases of autism are caused by the interaction of different genes and environmental (biological as well as social) factors.
How are autistic people supported?
Each autistic person is unique and, so support and treatment plans are highly variable and should be tailored to address specific needs.
Current pharmacological treatment for challenges associated with autism are based on drugs that alleviate behavioural and physical symptoms to improve quality of life and well-being. Current therapies are aimed at treating co-occuring symptoms such as seizures, tics, irritability, obsessive-compulsive or hyperactive behaviour. Some people would like medications to help with the core difficulties of autism. There is no medication available for autistic people seeking such improvements.
Current psychoeducational approaches include behavioural and communication/interaction based interventions (for young children often working with parents) as well as structured and supportive approaches to managing the environment in the school, the home and work/activity place.
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Autism-Europe is an European umbrella organisation whose main objective is to advance the rights of people on the autism spectrum and their families and to help them improve their quality of life. It currently gathers over 85 autism associations in 38 countries.
Autism-Europe works alongside its members to:
- Represent people with autism towards all European Union institutions;
- Promote awareness of the appropriate care, education, and well-being of people with autism;
- Promote the exchange of evidence-based information, good practices and experience.
Autism-Europes representatives were invited to join the EU-AIMS annual meetings as observers.
More information: www.autismeurope.org


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Oven-roasted pulled pork is just about the easiest and most inexpensive way to feed a crowd of meat lovers. At my local supermarket, fresh pork shoulder (sold as pork butt or Boston butt in some markets, despite being anatomically nowhere near the hog's rear end) is by far the most inexpensive cut in the display case. Treated wrong, it come out tough, rubbery, or dry. Treated with just a bit of patience and know how, it'll be as tender and flavorful as you'd ever want it.
There are other benefits to roasting whole pork shoulders. For one thing, the neutral-but-tasty meat forms a fantastic foundation for any number of dishes. Mix it into your pasta sauce. Use it in soups. Beat it in a stand mixer to form a quick rillettes-style pâté. Crisp it up in a skillet and serve it in tacos. It's really versatile stuff. In this case we're seasoning it Eastern North Carolina-style with some cider vinegar and a hint of sugar and stuffing it into sandwiches with pickled cherry peppers.
As with true slow-smoked Southern-style barbecue pork shoulder, the key here is low and slow cooking. As the shoulder slowly heats up, protein-rich connective tissues will start to break down, causing the whole thing to become more tender. Simultaneously, creamy pork fat will render, lubricating and flavoring the meat within.
Let the meat get too hot, and you end up losing moisture through evaporation. But keep it too cool, and your pork can end up taking half a day to cook, if not more. At 250°F, for instance, a shoulder will lose only 20 percent of its initial wait in moisture loss. Cook the same shoulder at 375°F, and it'll take about three hours to cook, but will lose closer to 28 percent of its initial moisture. (See my discussion of slow-roasted pork shoulder for some more details.)
For this recipe, ease and time are of the essence, so I went with a moderate 325°F, resulting in meat that's still plenty juicy in just about three hours. To help it build some flavor, I rubbed the skin-on shoulder with a sugar, salt, and spice mix before roasting it.
See how nice and burnished brown it gets during its stay in the oven?
So how do you know when it's done?
Like this:
Jam a fork in there and twist it around. If the meat doesn't shred freely, then you still have some time to go.
In many parts of the country, it's difficult to find a pork shoulder with the skin still attached. If you live in one of these sad districts, I feel sorry for you. For everyone else, you'll probably notice that the skin on this pork is firm, but a little tough and leathery. We're going to fix that.
Start by lifting it up and off the meat in a single piece. If your pork is done cooking, this should work out with no effort.
Next, scrape off the excess fat and meat from the interior surfaces. Keep this stuff—it'll be used to add more flavor and moisture to meat later on.
At this stage, the skin's been largely broken down and softened, but to add crispness, we still need to blast it with heat to get it to puff and bubble, adding surface area and crunch. A short stay in a 500°F oven does the trick. I like to chop up the skin and mix it in with the meat, but you can keep it in distinct chunks if you prefer.
All that's left now is to pull the meat from the bones—it should come off with an amount of effort small enough that we can refer to it as zero in the parlance of our times—and shred it up, bark and all.
We're not really gonna kid anyone here—this is not an imitation or even an attempt at an imitation of smoked pulled pork. You get a similar juiciness and tenderness, but you won't get any of that smoke flavor in here. If you are so inclined, a modest amount of a naturally-produced liquid smoke (like Wright's) can actually do a decent job at bringing smokiness to the mix, so long as you don't overdo it.
You can also add some bottled barbecue sauce if sweet and ketchupy are your bag.
Personally, I prefer my pulled pork hot and vinegary. I use a mix of apple cider vinegar, red chili flakes, and just a touch of sugar to season my pork before stuffing it into soft, toasted buns.
For some reason I've been on a pickled pepper kick recently, adding them to everything from a smoky bacon and pickled cherry pepper relish to topping my pizzas with them. They make a great hot alternative to standard cucumber pickles on a sandwich.
Check out the full step-by-step recipe below, then stay tuned for next week when we'll use THE EXACT SAME PORK in a completely different sandwich. See how that works?


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GOIANIA, Brazil – After going five fights without seeing one of their own get his hand raised, the Brazilian fans were restless. Rafael Cavalcante solved that problem.
Unleashing a barrage of knees, "Feijao" toppled Igor Pokrajac along the fence and finished him off with punches as the home faithful exploded at the sight of his victory. The stop came 78 seconds into the fight as Pokrajac tapped to the strikes on the ground.
The light heavyweight bout was part of the main card of today's UFC Fight Night 32 event at Goiania Arena in Goiania, Goias, Brazil. It aired on FOX Sports 1 1 following prelims on MMAjunkie.com.
Pokrajac came forward quickly, and Cavalcante fired back. The two traded giant-sized right hands in close before finally clinching up along the fence. Pokrajac worked a shot to the body. But "Feijao" latched on to a Thai plum and the crowd screamed for knees.
Cavalcante obliged with knees to the body and bigger ones to the head as he pulled Pokrajac's head down into the blows. The Croatian finally started to crumple, and Cavalcante started landing punches. It didn't take long before Kevin MacDonald was in to shut things down.
"I was worried about his clinch, but I also knew I had my clinch," Cavalcante said. "I trained a lot with Anderson (Silva) and also with (Antonio) 'Big Nog' (Rodrigo Nogueira), and I knew I was going to be able to have him in my clinch. I really practiced this."
Cavalcante (12-4 MMA, 1-1 UFC) had his hand raised for the first time in more than two years, since a September 2011 Strikeforce win. Pokrajac (25-11 MMA, 4-6 UFC) lost for the third time in four fights – a loss this past December to Joey Beltran was flipped to a no-contest.
Up-to-the-minute UFC Fight Night 32 results include:
- Rafael Cavalcante def. Igor Pokrajac via TKO (strikes) – Round 1, 1:18
- Brandon Thatch def. Paulo Thiago via submission (strikes) – Round 1, 2:10
- Ryan Laflare def. Santiago Ponzinibbio via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
- Jeremy Stephens def. Rony Jason via KO (kick, punch) – Round 1, 0:40
- Sam Sicilia def. Godofredo Pepey via TKO (punches) – Round 1, 1:42
- Omari Akhmedov def. Thiago Perpetuo via KO (punches) – Round 1, 3:31
- Thiago Tavares def. Justin Salas via submission (rear-naked choke) – Round 1, 2:38
- Adriano Martins def. Daron Cruickshank via submission (kimura) – Round 2, 2:49
- Dustin Ortiz def. Jose Maria via TKO (strikes) – Round 3, 3:19
For complete coverage of UFC Fight Night 32, stay tuned to the UFC Events section of the site.
John Morgan contributed to this report on-site in Brazil.


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April 24, 2009— -- Life is short. Have an affair, urges AshleyMadison.com, a social networking site for married people looking for extracurricular love. Visit for an "erotic chat" or meet up for "anything goes."
On gay.com, check out "Cronic-Candy," a 22-year-old California man who is looking for a hook-up and insists, "I'm not gay, guys just like sleeping with me."
On Craigslist.org, sex-seekers can go "preference shopping" for sex with or without a condom on the site's "casual encounters" or "men seeking men" pages, where escorts and sex workers cruise the Internet's so-called "erotic underbelly."
Social networking sites connect friends, serve special interest groups and make it easier than ever before to stay in touch.
But when the Internet is used for anonymous and unprotected sex -- that touch can turn toxic.
Such was the case with Brett, now a 21-year-old college student who met up with men at a party through a connection his friend had made online.
"It was one of the few times I had unprotected sex," Brett, who asked that his last name not be used for this story, told ABCNews.com. "But my friend and I were still in high school and these guys were older and we had been drinking."
Today, after Brett's reckless encounter he is HIV positive.
"A lot of people don't like to use protection," said Brett, who lives in Chicago and was diagnosed when he was 18.
Some fear that online chat rooms and dating sites are becoming today's virtual bathhouses, where HIV/AIDS first percolated among gay men in the 1980s.
On April 28, the Kaiser Family Foundation will release a report that finds the number of Americans who list the disease as "the most urgent health problem" is at its lowest levels ever -- only 6 percent, compared to 44 percent in 1995.
That report comes on the heels of one from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that found the number of Americans newly infected with HIV/AIDS is 40 percent higher than previously reported -- 56,300.
More than 1 million in the U.S. are living with the disease, and 14,000 to 15,000 die annually.
"The epidemic has been roughly stable since the late 1990s," according to the CDC, though the numbers remain "unacceptably high."
More than one-quarter of HIV-infected people are unaware of their infections, according to the CDC. And more new infections occur among young people ages 13 to 29 than any other age group -- precisely the demographic that uses the Internet for social networking.
An estimated 16 million people say they have used Web sites to meet other people, according to report prepared by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
Gay men, in particular, have benefited from the "privacy" of the Internet, with 40 percent reporting they use it to find sex partners, according to studies cited by the University of California San Francisco AIDS Research Institute.
Their studies reveal that people who use the Internet to meet sexual partners engage in more risky behavior: they have more partners and are more likely to report sexually transmitted diseases than those who seek sex in more traditional ways.
"These sites are a great temptation for those who suffer from sexual addiction," said Dr. Kristen Ries, an infectious disease specialist from University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics. "I am especially worried about some of the younger generations who are so Internet savvy, but who seem nonchalant about the seriousness of HIV/AIDS."
"Remember that HIV positive people who are in denial about their HIV, or who are fearful of abandonment if they disclose their HIV positive status, are more apt to seek anonymous sex at such sites," she told ABCNews.com.
With that in mind, many public health agencies are using the Internet to change people's attitudes and educate them about the possible dangers of risky sex.
Internet a 'High Risk' Sex Environment
Some studies have not found the Internet to be inherently more dangerous than bars and dance clubs.
"We haven't seen a huge difference in the risk when sexual partners] are recruited in online rather than other venues," said Greg Rebchook, a researcher at CAPS.
But the center acknowledges that using the Internet to meet sexual partners "creates an environment" where high-risk and low-risk sexual partnering occurs and can increase the transmission of HIV.
Blacks and Latinos account for the largest numbers of new infections (45 percent and 17 percent respectively), according to the CDC, which suggests the cultural shame associated with homosexuality prevents them from seeking or disclosing their status.
"Men who want high risk sex will find it, especially in an urban environment, whether they do so face to face or online," said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, founder of the Men's Sexual Health Project at New York University.
"Rather than demonize social networking sites as drivers of the epidemic, we should look more to the root causes of homophobia and hate that generate shame and self-destructive behavior."
After Brett's reckless encounter, he and his friend found Chicago's Howard Brown Health Center online and arranged for free testing. Both are now undergoing treatment.
"I think finding out you are HIV positive makes you grow up a lot faster," said Brett, who graduates with a degree in interior design from Chicago's Harrington School in May.
"A lot of people don't like to use protection," he said. "Some people think if, 'I don't know about it, fine.' But once I found out I was positive, you make sure that you are using protection all the time, and I make sure my friends are."
Using the Web to Fight HIV/AIDS
Public health professionals are turning to social networks as a tool to combat the high numbers of HIV/AIDS infection.
"The whole idea of preventing HIV/AIDS is getting ahead of it," said Jen Kates, vice president of HIV policy for the Kaiser Family Foundation, which is using the Internet to bring more attention to HIV/AIDS. "You anticipate the forums where people meet."
Kaiser worked with MTV's 24-hour college network to develop "Poz or Not," an online game that challenges stereotypes and breaks down the barriers that may prevent people from talking openly about HIV/AIDS, getting tested and using protection.
The "GYT" (Get Yourself Tested) campaign was created under a partnership with MTV, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, CDC and others to increase testing for those under 25, using a Facebook application.
"A few years ago we had concerns about chat rooms and hooking up, but now are turning it on its head and using social networks for educational purposes," Kates said.
Craigslist.org has agreed to add a health message and link to the San Francisco City Clinic site on its "casual encounters" and "men seeking men" pages. AshleyMadison.com also posts an safe sex education forum.
"We became convinced that friends can be good medicine, and if we are able to increase the conversations in social networks about HIV, it can have a positive effect in decreasing the rate of infection," said Steve Morin, director of the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS), which also worked with gay.com to post an "Ask Dr. K" forum.
Using the Internet to notify partners is also becoming "standard practice" in public health, according to Morin.
Manhunt.com, with about 4 million active profiles, was the first dating site to address sexual health in 2002 with partner notification, outreach and research services on its Manhunt Cares page. Its directory lists hundreds of health clinics around the world where men can get face-to-face help.
"Manhunt has been an industry leader," said David S. Novak, a former CDC coordinator who heads up Manhunt Cares. "We are hoping to pressure Facebook and MySpace to create health profiles of their own because so many of the infections are with young kids. They can show us up, compete with us."
ISIS, an organization that finds technology solutions for sexual health, sponsors Inspot.org, where those who are HIV positive can send anonymous "e-cards" to notify up to six sex partners in 11 cities and three languages.
"It lets you know if you've been exposed and links you back to testing and resources," said ISIS Executive Director Deb Levine. "The social network mobile community is here to stay. This is not something we can ignore and it will go away. It's very much a part of our lives."
Warning Sex Partners
The Chicago's Howard Brown Health Center, where Brett sought help, has created active profiles on numerous sites, such as Facebook, Adam4Adam, Barkackrt and MySpace, to help those who are infected to contact their sexual partners.
The clinic also does proactive outreach on 30 other sites to raise awareness. According to Daniel Polner, the clinic's manager of disease intervention, social networking sites are less anonymous that the traditional venues where gay men gathered.
"In the bathhouses and bookstores the culture is not to ask the name," Polner told ABCNews.com. "But online you have a screen name or a buddy list or, on Craigslist, you can trace a person's e-mails."
"Some people call it anonymous, but it's not," he said. "There's a way to reach the person."
Just this week, in an unrelated incident, police were able to track the suspect in the so-called Craiglist killing in Boston through the e-mails he sent to a masseuse.
"I know it sounds very Pollyanna," said Polner. "But the one thing we always say is, it's not who you meet and where you meet them, it's what you do. The person makes the decision to wear a condom, and in many of those [Internet] situations, they are less likely to be drunk. Whatever their decision, it's more intentional."
Meanwhile, Brett has joined Howard Brown's board, and is taking good care of himself, preferring to make contact with his sex partners the old-fashioned way -- in person.
He still has accounts with gay dating sites, but said, "I don't use it for one night stands, and my profile says 'Do not contact for hook-ups."
"It definitely has become a bathhouse," he said of social networking. "Everyone I know has Manhunt or Adam4Adam, even my friends. It's really sad, even with Facebook, that we go online and meet these people and rely on the Internet rather than engage in person."
"If I meet someone in public, chances are I am with someone who knows something about them and give you a little more information."


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New Spring beer and pairingmenu from Gordon Biersch
200 Poydras St., 522-2739, GordonBierschRestaurants.com
Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant is offering a limited edition beer "Maibock" from April 16 to May 25, or until supply runs out. A pairing menu will also be available. Maibock is a lager known as the "Rite of Spring," and is named for the month of May. Its strong Einbeck-style has a warming, caramel malt goodness and uses noble Hersbrucker hops. Some highlights of the pairing menu are: Fried Calamari Starter, Strawberry Cheesecake, Flame Grilled NY Strip, Housemade Tacos, Cajun Pasta and Gorgonzola Pear Salad. Gordon Biersch, is a busy, upscale casual restaurant brewery located in the heart of downtown New Orleans.
Gott Gourmet Grows into GG's Dine-O-Rama
3100 Magazine St., 373-6579, GGsNewOrleans.com
Gott Gourmet on Magazine Street in the Garden District has rebranded as GG's Dine-O-Rama and added dinner entrées, desserts and appetizers. The new name reflects the extended hours and expanded menu. Christy Parker, co-owner with chef David Gotter, says: "The success of Gott Gourmet showed us that people want first-class cooking in a comfortable environment; we're excited to offer more opportunities to enjoy our refined comfort food." Gott Gourmet will continue as the catering part of the business, while the focus on fresh, homemade and unique remains the same.
Tujague's unveils new look for new chef
823 Decatur St., 525-8676, TujaquesRestaurant.com
Tujague's, the second oldest restaurant in the French Quarter, is staying up to date with a complete interior and exterior renovation. Owner Mark Latter has also hired chef Richard Bickford from Commander's Palace to develop menus including both the à la carte and table d'hote options. New dishes include Oysters en Brochettte and Soft Shell Crab BLT Po'Boy. Still open seven days a week for lunch and dinner, and brunch on the weekends, there's a monthly tasting menu and a new six-course wine paired menu. The newly decorated private rooms, some with balcony access, are also now open.


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Bill Cosby's attorneys have asked a federal judge to dismiss a defamation lawsuit by a Pittsburgh-area woman.
Renita Hill, of Baldwin, sued in October claiming Cosby drugged and had sex with her several times after they met on a children's educational TV show in 1983. She says denials by Cosby, his wife and his attorney that Cosby sexually abused women make her out to be a liar.
But Cosby's attorneys say those statements don't refer to Hill by name or otherwise specifically — and say even if they did, they are protected speech.
Cosby and his camp have said women who have made similar allegations are engaging in "innuendo" and targeting him for financial gain, among other claims.
Hill's attorney says the response isn't surprising and her claims remain "viable."
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Sometimes all we need is a little support when we're learning how to do things we've never done before. In the picture above, John is wearing something they call a walking harness and reins here in England. It's designed to increase stability and confidence when young ones are learning to walk. Parents can hold onto the reins giving the illusion of total independence, while keeping the child a bit safer and somewhat close at hand. You still see them in use here as I saw recently when we were out one day.
There are times lately when I feel like I could use a guiding hand at the end of a set of reins. The work I'm doing these days is multi-layered and requires a good bit of juggling. I'm teaching myself how to do things I've never done before and it's just plain hard at times. I see other people doing the very things I want to do with such ease and I forget that it often looks easy because they've been doing it a while. I try to remind myself of this when I feel frustrated that I haven't moved as quickly in the creative directions I have mapped out in my mind and on paper. On days when my frustrations threaten a total boycott of creative focus, I find myself saying, " Baby steps, Elizabeth…walk first." Being a runner in real life, my daily internal dialogue can mirror what goes on in my head during a race and suddenly the creative process gets bogged with chatter that sounds a bit like , "where's the finish line, how much time do I have left to get there, who's in front, and can I push through this pain…"
I've rewritten a last paragraph five different ways and still don't like the look it so..I'm going to finish with these last words and get back to work… remembering as I go, that baby steps are just first steps and they'll get bigger as I grow.


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We really hope you're going to take advantage of the variety of free/nominal fee events we have planned for you this coming weekend and throughout next week. The "Figaro in Flip-Flops" series of casual, pre-season events continues on Saturday with "Inside The Dallas Opera" at noon on WRR 101.1 FM when I pull up a chair with former "Star-Telegram" classical music critic Wayne Gay to discuss Puccini and with new General Director George Steel to talk about his life, vision, and all that jazz.
At 2:00 pm on Saturday, we're meeting at the McKinney Ave. Contemporary for a performance by one of our two Emerging Artists and the DADA Gallery walk. The other Emerging Artist will be performing as well, you can check the calendar for full details. It's all free of charge.
Sunday, the 14th it's Chef Sharon Van Meter, assistant Lenny Watson and the Milestone Culinary Arts Center class on French Cuisine. Reservations for the $50 course are required in advance, call 214.443.1000. You can opt for the $25 tasting, but call the same number to make your reservation.
On Monday, we have my bookclub at Barnes & Noble Prestonwood Center on Beltline Rd. and we're discussing "Literary Cafes of Paris." That's from 1:00 pm until 2:00 pm and it's free. Call 214.443.1044.
Monday evening, if you can, can, can; join us for a showing of "Moulin Rouge" with Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor, part of the Inwood Lobby Living Room series, beginning at 7:30. It's free but reservations are required because this fills up fast. Call 214.443.1044.
Tuesday the 16th, come see how today's up-and-coming young artists live and work at Centraltrak, 800 Exposition Ave. Our most popular lecturer, Dr. Stephen Dubberly, will regale us with stories about La boheme and we'll have a chance to view works by these local art students. 6:30 to 8:00 pm. Free.
Next Wednesday, Paula Lambert at Mozzarella Cheese Company on Elm Street hosts "French wines and Texas Cheeses" from 7:00 to 8:30 pm. It's 15 dollars per person and you'll need to make a reservation at 214.443.1000 or here: http://tickets.dallasopera.org/tickets/reserve.aspx?performanceNumber=2965
The following night is your chance to learn how to speak Italian at the Italian Club of Dallas (14865 Inwood Rd. in Addison) at 7:00 pm. Useful phrases and terminology — useful cultural tips, too. And it's free. Call 214.443.1044 to reserve your seat.
A few more things to make note of: SINGLE TICKETS FOR THE 2008-2009 SEASON GO ON SALE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22ND AT 10:00 AM. Don't keep it a secret, tell all your friends.
The following Sunday, September 28th, Dallas Opera Chorus member Kyle Hancock is presenting a recital of Irish music at 3:00 pm at the downtown Public Library auditorium. Admission to "Dear Harp of My Country: Irish Music for Harp and Voice" is free. We understand a few jigs and reels will be intertwined with the lovely ballads.
Later that afternoon, The Dallas Opera Guild is conducting its annual Season Premiere Party (this year's theme: the wedding of Susanna and Figaro!) at Edgemere, 8523 Thackery Street, from 5:30 until 9:00 pm. It's $50 per person to enjoy tapas and sangria, a seated Spanish dinner, entertainment and more but you will definitely need reservations. You can make them by calling the Guild office at 214.443.1040 or visit email@example.com
Suzanne Calvin, Assoc. Dir. of Marketing, The Dallas Opera


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There is something magical or mystical about visiting these very old sites. Unlike visiting the ancient ruins in Europe, built by kings or wealthy men, these sites are simple and built by unskilled craftsmen using only the materials at hand. To me they are more magnificent than Greek temples built by learned men using materials brought from miles away. Then there is the mystery of why these people built them and then why they abandoned them.Read More


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Orders being given for the fitting up of the place of worship,
in this and the following chapter care is taken about the priests that were to
minister in this holy place, as the menial servants of the God of Israel. He
hired servants, as a token of his purpose to reside among them. In this chapter,
I. He pitches upon the persons who should be his servants (v. 1). II. He
appoints their livery; their work was holy, and so must their garments be, and
unanswerable to the glory of the house which was now to be erected (v. 2-5). 1.
He appoints the garments of his head-servant, the high priest, which were very
rich. (1.) An ephod and girdle, (v. 6-14). (2.) A breast-plate of judgment (v.
15-29), in which must be put the urim and thummim (v. 30). (3.) The robe of
the ephod (v. 31-35). (4.) The mitre (v. 36-39). 2. The garments of the
inferior priests (v. 40-43). And these also were shadows of good things to
Verses 1-5
We have here,
I. The priests nominated: Aaron and his sons, v. 1.
Hitherto every master of a family was priest to his own family, and offered, as
he saw cause, upon altars of earth; but now that the families of Israel began to
be incorporated into a nation, and a tabernacle of the congregation was
to be erected, as a visible centre of their unity, it was requisite there should
be a public priesthood instituted. Moses, who had hitherto officiated, and is
therefore reckoned among the priests of the Lord (Ps. 99:6), had enough
to do as their prophet to consult the oracle for them, and as their prince to
judge among them; nor was he desirous to engross all the honours to himself, or
to entail that of the priesthood, which alone was hereditary, upon his own
family, but was very well pleased to see his brother Aaron invested in this
office, and his sons after him, while (how great soever he was) his sons after
him would be but common Levites. It is an instance of the humility of that great
man, and an evidence of his sincere regard for the glory of God, that he had so
little regard to the preferment of his own family. Aaron, who had humbly served
as a prophet to his younger brother Moses, and did not decline the office (ch.
7:1), is now advanced to be a priest, a high priest to God; for he will exalt
those that abase themselves. Nor could any man have taken this honour to
himself, but he that was called of God to it, Heb. 5:4. God had said
of Israel in general that they should be to him a kingdom of priests, ch.
19:6. But because it was requisite that those who ministered at the altar should
give themselves wholly to the service, and because that which is every body's
work will soon come to be nobody's work, God here chose from among them one to
be a family of priests, the father and his four sons; and from Aaron's loins
descended all the priests of the Jewish church, of whom we read so often, both
in the Old Testament and in the New. A blessed thing it is when real holiness
goes, as the ceremonial holiness did, by succession in a family.
II. The priests' garments appointed, for glory and beauty,
v. 2. Some of the richest materials were to be provided (v. 5), and the best
artists employed in the making of them, whose skill God, by a special gift
for this purpose, would improve to a very high degree, v. 3. Note, Eminence,
even in common arts, is a gift of God, it comes from him, and, as there is
occasion, it ought to be used for him. He that teaches the husbandman discretion
teaches the tradesman also; both therefore ought to honour God with their gain.
Human learning ought particularly to be consecrated to the service of the
priesthood, and employed for the adorning of those that minister about holy
things. The garments appointed were, 1. Four, which both the high priest and the
inferior priests wore, namely, the linen breeches, the linen coat, the linen
girdle which fastened it to them, and the bonnet or turban; that which the high
priest wore is called a mitre. 2. Four more, which were peculiar to the
high priest, namely, the ephod, with the curious girdle of it, the breast-plate
of judgment, the long robe with the bells and pomegranates at the bottom of it,
and the golden plate on his forehead. These glorious garments were appointed,
(1.) That the priests themselves might be reminded of the dignity of their
office, and might behave themselves with due decorum. (2.) That the people might
thereby be possessed with a holy reverence of that God whose ministers appeared
in such grandeur. (3.) That the priests might be types of Christ, who should
offer himself without spot to God, and of all Christians, who have the beauty of
holiness put upon them, in which they are consecrated to God. Our adorning, now
under the gospel, both that of ministers and Christians, is not to be of gold,
and pearl, and costly array, but the garments of salvation, and the robe of
righteousness, Isa. 61:10; Ps. 132:9, 16. As the filthy garments wherewith
Joshua the high priest was clothed signified the iniquity which cleaved to his
priesthood, from which care was taken that it should be purged (Zec. 3:3, 4.),
so those holy garments signified the perfect purity that there is in the
priesthood of Christ; he is holy, harmless, and undefiled.
Verses 6-14
Directions are here given concerning the ephod, which was the
outmost garment of the high priest. Linen ephods were worn by the
inferior priests, 1 Sa. 22:18. Samuel wore one when he was a child (1 Sa. 2:18),
and David when he danced before the ark (2 Sa. 6:14); but this which the high
priest only wore was called a golden ephod, because there was a great
deal of gold woven into it. It was a short coat without sleeves, buttoned
closely to him, with a curious girdle of the same stuff (v. 6-8); the
shoulder-pieces were buttoned together with two precious stones set in gold, one
on each shoulder, on which were engraven the names of the children of Israel,
v. 9-12. In allusion to this, 1. Christ our high priest appeared to John girt
about the breast with a golden girdle, such as was the curious girdle of the
ephod, Rev. 1:13. Righteousness is the girdle of his loins (Isa. 11:6), and
should be of ours, Eph. 6:14. He is girt with strength for the work of our
salvation, and is ready for it. 2. The government is said to be upon his
shoulders (Isa. 9:6), as Aaron had the names of all Israel upon his
shoulders in precious stone. He presents to himself and to his Father a
glorious church, Eph. 5:27. He has power to support them, interest to
recommend them, and it is in him that they are remembered with honour and favour.
He bears them before the Lord for a memorial (v. 12), in token of his appearing
before God as the representative of all Israel and an advocate for them.
Verses 15-30
The most considerable of the ornaments of the high priest was
this breast-plate, a rich piece of cloth, curiously wrought with gold and
purple, etc., two spans long and a span broad, so that, being doubled, it was a
span square, v. 16. This was fastened to the ephod with wreathen chains of gold
(v. 13, 14, 22, etc.) both at top and bottom, so that the breast-plate might
not be loosed from the ephod, v. 28. The ephod was the garment of service;
the breast-plate of judgment was an emblem of honour: these two must by no means
be separated. If any man will minister unto the Lord, and do his will,
he shall know his doctrine. In this breast-plate,
I. The tribes of Israel were recommended to God's favour in
twelve precious stones, v. 17-21, 19. Some question whether Levi had a
precious stone with his name or no. If not, Ephraim and Manasseh were reckoned
distinct, as Jacob had said they should be, and the high priest himself, being
head of the tribe of Levi, sufficiently represented that tribe. If there was a
stone for Levi, as is intimated by this, that they were engraven according to
their birth (v. 10), Ephraim and Manasseh were one in Joseph. Aaron was to
bear their names for a memorial before the Lord continually, being ordained
for men, to represent them in things pertaining to God, herein typifying our
great high priest, who always appears in the presence of God for us. 1. Though
the people were forbidden to come near, and obliged to keep their distance, yet
by the high priest, who had their names on his breast-plate, they entered into
the holiest; so believers, even while they are here on this earth, not only enter
into the holiest, but by faith are made to sit with Christ in heavenly
places, Eph. 2:6. 2. The name of each tribe was engraven in a precious
stone, to signify how precious, in God's sight, believers are, and how
honourable, Isa. 43:4. They shall be his in the day he makes up his jewels,
Mal. 3:17. How small and poor soever the tribe was, it was a precious stone in
the breast-plate of the high priest; thus are all the saints dear to Christ, and
his delight is in them as the excellent ones of the earth, however men may
esteem them as earthen pitchers, Lam. 4:2. 3. The high priest had the
names of the tribes both on his shoulders and on his breast, intimating both the
power and the love with which our Lord Jesus intercedes for those that are his.
He not only bears them up upon his heart, as the expression here is (v.
29), carries them in his bosom (Isa. 40:11), with the most tender
affection. How near should Christ's name be to our hearts, since he is pleased
to lay our names so near his! and what a comfort it is to us, in all our
addresses to God, that the great high priest of our profession has the names of
all his Israel upon his breast before the Lord for a memorial, presenting
them to God as the people of his choice, who were to be made accepted in the
beloved! Let not any good Christians fear that God has forgotten them, nor
question his being mindful of them upon all occasions, when they are not only
engraven upon the palms of his hands (Isa. 49:16), but engraven upon the
heart of the great intercessor. See Cant. 8:6.
II. The urim and thummim, by which the will of God was made
known in doubtful cases, were put in this breast-plate, which is therefore
called the breast-plate of judgment, v. 30. Urim and thummim
signify light and integrity; many conjectures there are among the
learned what they were; we have no reason to think they were any thing that
Moses was to make more than what was before ordered, so that either God made
them himself, and gave them to Moses, for him to put into the breast-plate, when
other things were prepared (Lev. 8:8), or no more is meant than a declaration of
the further use of what was already ordered to be made. I think the words may be
read thus, And thou shalt give, or add, or deliver, to the
breast-plate of judgment, the illuminations and perfections, and they shall be
upon the heart of Aaron; that is, "He shall be endued with a power of
knowing and making known the mind of God in all difficult doubtful cases,
relating either to the civil or ecclesiastical state of the nation." Their
government was a theocracy: God was their King, the high priest was, under God,
their ruler, the urim and thummim were his cabinet-council; probably Moses wrote
upon the breast-plate, or wove into it, these words, Urim and Thummim,
to signify that the high priest, having on him this breast-plate, and asking
counsel of God in any emergency relating to the public, should be directed to
take those measures, and give that advice, which God would own. If he was
standing before the ark (but without the veil) probably he received instructions
from off the mercy-seat, as Moses did (ch. 25:22); thus, it should seem,
Phinehas did, Jdg. 20:27, 28. If he was at a distance from the ark, as Abiathar
was when he enquired of the Lord for David (1 Sa. 23:6, etc.), then the answer
was given either by a voice from heaven or rather by an impulse upon the mind of
the high priest, which last is perhaps intimated in that expression, He shall
bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart. This oracle was
of great use to Israel; Joshua consulted it (Num. 27:21), and, it is likely, the
judges after him. It was lost in the captivity, and never regained after,
though, it should seem, it was expected, Ezra 2:63. But it was a shadow of good
things to come, and the substance is Christ. He is our oracle; by him God in
these last days makes known himself and his mind to us, Heb. 1:2; Jn. 1:18.
Divine revelation centres in him, and comes to us through him; he is the light,
the true light, the faithful witness, the truth itself, and from him we receive
the Spirit of truth, who leads into all truth. The joining of the breast-plate
to the ephod denotes that his prophetical office was founded in his priesthood;
and it was by the merit of his death that he purchased this honour for himself
and this favour for us. It was the Lamb that had been slain that was
worthy to take the book and to open the seals, Rev. 5:9.
Verses 31-39
Here is, 1. Direction given concerning the robe of the ephod,
v. 31-35. This was next under the ephod, and reached down to the knees, was
without sleeves, and was put on over their head, having holes on the sides to
put the arms through, or, as Maimonides describes it, was not sewed together on
the sides at all. The hole on the top, through which the head was put, was
carefully bound about, that it might not tear in the putting on. In religious
worship, care must be taken to prevent every thing that may distract the minds
of the worshippers, or render the service despicable. Round the skirts of the
robe were hung golden bells, and the representations of pomegranates made of
yarn of divers colours. The pomegranates added to the beauty of the robe, and
the sound of the bells gave notice to the people in the outer court when he went
into the holy place to burn incense, that they might then apply themselves to
their devotions at the same time (Lu. 1:10), in token of their concurrence with
him in his offering, and their hopes of the ascent of their prayers to God in
virtue of the incense he offered. Aaron must come near to minister in the
garments that were appointed him, that he die not. It is at his peril if
he attend otherwise than according to the institution. This intimates that we
must serve the Lord with fear and holy trembling, as those that
know we deserve to die, and are in danger of making some fatal mistake. Some
make the bells of the holy robe to typify the sound of the gospel of Christ in
the world, giving notice of his entrance within the veil for us. Blessed are
those that hear this joyful sound, Ps. 89:15. The adding of the
pomegranates, which are a fragrant fruit, denotes the sweet savour of the
gospel, as well as the joyful sound of it, for it is a savour of life unto
life. The church is called an orchard of pomegranates. 2. Concerning
the golden plate fixed upon Aaron's forehead, on which must be engraven, Holiness
to the Lord (v. 36, 37), or The holiness of Jehovah. Aaron must
hereby be reminded that God is holy, and that his priests must be holy. Holiness
becomes his house and household. The high priest must be sequestered from
all pollution, and consecrated to God and to his service and honour, and so must
all his ministrations be. All that attend in God's house must have Holiness
to the Lord engraven upon their foreheads, that is, they must be holy,
devoted to the Lord, and designing his glory in all they do. This must appear in
their forehead, in an open profession of their relation to God, as those that
are not ashamed to own it, and in a conversation in the world answerable to it.
It must likewise be engraven like the engravings of a signet, so deep, so
durable, not painted to be washed off, but sincere and lasting; such must our holiness
to the Lord be. Aaron must have this upon his forehead, that he may bear
the iniquity of the holy things (v. 38), and that they may be accepted
before the Lord. Herein he was a type of Christ, the great Mediator between
God and man, through whom it is that we have to do with God. (1.) Through him
what is amiss in our services is pardoned. The divine law is strict; in many
things we come short of our duty, so that we cannot but be conscious to
ourselves of much iniquity cleaving even to our holy things; when we would do
good evil is present; even this would be our ruin if God should enter into
judgment with us. But Christ, our high priest, bears this iniquity, bears it for
us so as to bear it from us, and through him it is forgiven to us and not laid
to our charge. (2.) Through him what is good is accepted; our persons, our
performances, are pleasing to God upon the account of Christ's intercession,
and not otherwise, 1 Pt. 2:5. His being holiness to the Lord recommends
all those to the divine favour that are interested in his righteousness, and
clothed with his Spirit; and therefore he has said it was for our sakes that he sanctified
himself, Jn. 17:19. Having such a high priest, we come boldly to
the throne of grace, Heb. 4:14-16. 3. The rest of the garments are but
named (v. 39), because there was nothing extraordinary in them. The embroidered
coat of fine linen was the innermost of the priestly garments; it reached to the
feet, and the sleeves to the wrists, and was bound to the body with a girdle or
sash of needle-work. The mitre, or diadem, was of linen, such as kings anciently
wore in the east, typifying the kingly office of Christ. He is a priest upon
a throne (Zec. 6:13), a priest with a crown. These two God has joined, and
we must not think to separate them.
Verses 40-43
We have here, 1. Particular orders about the vestments of the
inferior priests. They were to have coats, and girdles, and bonnets, of the same
materials with those of the high priest; but there was a difference in shape
between their bonnets and his mitre. Theirs, as his, were to be for glory and
beauty (v. 40), that they might look great in their ministration: yet all
this glory was nothing compared with the glory of grace, this beauty nothing to
the beauty of holiness, of which these holy garments were typical. They are
particularly ordered, in their ministration, to wear linen breeches, v.
42. This teaches us modesty and decency of garb and gesture at all times,
especially in public worship, in which a veil is becoming, 1 Co. 11:5, 6, 10. It
also intimates what need our souls have of a covering, when we come before God,
that the shame of their nakedness may not appear. 2. A general rule
concerning the garments both of the high priest and of the inferior priests,
that they were to be put upon them, at first, when they were consecrated, in
token of their being invested in the office (v. 41), and then they were to wear
them in all their ministrations, but not at other times (v. 43), and this at
their peril, lest they bear iniquity and die. Those who are guilty of
omissions in duty, as well as omissions of duty, shall bear their iniquity.
If the priests perform the instituted service, and do not do it in the appointed
garments, it is (say the Jewish doctors) as if a stranger did it, and the stranger
that comes nigh shall be put to death. Nor will God connive at the
presumptions and irreverences even of those whom he causes to draw most near to
him; if Aaron himself put a slight upon the divine institution, he shall bear
iniquity, and die. To us these garments typify, (1.) The righteousness of
Christ; if we appear not before God in this, we shall bear iniquity and die.
What have we to do at the wedding-feast without a wedding-garment, or at God's
altar without the array of his priests? Mt. 22:12, 13. (2.) The armour of God
prescribed Eph. 6:13. If we venture without that armour, our spiritual enemies
will be the death of our souls, and we shall bear the iniquity, our blood will
be upon our own heads. Blessed is he therefore that watcheth, and keepeth his
garments, Rev. 16:15. 3. This is said to be a statute for ever, that is,
it is to continue as long as the priesthood continues. But it is to have its
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NOTW hack-hackage: Inside the personal data press mess
Publish and be damned. Well, not damned exactly
Comment In the middle of the Major years (back in the 1990s), David Mellor, then a Cabinet minister (whose fascination for female toes was discussed by the tabloids, in the "public interest" of course) famously said that the press were drinking at "the last chance saloon". Fifteen years of hard drinking later, the recent events into phone hacking have shown that some journalists and editors were too drunk to notice.
In this fast-moving field, there are four data protection issues to watch out for. These are:
- The hacking issue is not limited to the News of the World;
- The absence of a custodial sentence in section 55;
- The Courts interpretation of Special Purpose exemption; and
- The role of the Press Complaints Commission Code of Practice.
For good measure, I suggest a solution to this mess which does not mean the government are controlling the press: we need a free press, but not this free perhaps.
The issue is not limited to the News of the World
The Information Commissioner has documented in his What Price Privacy? series that the practice of hacking is likely to be endemic. He reported that the invoice trail indicated that the few private investigators he had investigated had delivered "services" to the following tabloid newspapers:
Daily/Sunday Mail had paid for 1,218 investigations to be undertaken by private investigators on behalf of up to 91 different journalists. The Daily/Sunday Mirror ordered 824 investigations on behalf of up to 70 journalists. The Sunday People ordered 802 investigations involving up to 50 journalists, and the News of the World (the paper of current interest) had ordered 228 transactions of up to 33 journalists.
The evidence above suggests there were large number of invasions of privacy by hacking and the News of the World are not the only culprits. Any ministerial attempt to limit any inquiry to the Murdoch empire is an attempt to limit the scope of any inquiry.
The absence of a custodial sentence at section 55
The Labour government had greeted the What Price Privacy reports by conceding the need for custodial sentences. However in 2008, it backed down over its plans to introduce jail sentences of up to two years for those who obtained personal data by underhand methods. Although, it tabled two amendments to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 signifying the custodial offence was coming; the actual implementation of the custodial sentence needed the Minister to exercise his powers and lay an order before Parliament.
As there was no use of these powers, the effect of the amendments was to maintain the status quo of the current Section 55 offence and further delay any custodial element. The changes also created a new defence for journalists to the Section 55 offence which is operational.
Eighteen months of New Labour inaction followed. In the autumn of 2009, the Ministry of Justice tabled a consultation document on "The knowing or reckless misuse of personal data". This consultation ended in January 2009 and since the General Election was looming, the product of that consultation was quietly dropped. The reason for this can be found in my blog of 12th Feb 2010, where I wrote:
However, back to the main point. When ex-Labour Ministers or MPs claim invasion of privacy on our TV screens in the next few days, remember: they had their chance to do something about it, and blew it.
The courts' interpretation of Special Purpose exemption
The courts have changed how Section 32 works in the way Parliament did not intend. Back in 1997, Lord Wakenham for the Press Complaints Commission came to an agreement with the government of the day in Section 32 that was endorsed by Parliament. This was that there was an exemption for the Press (except the 7th Principle) up to the point of publication.
Lord Phillips (para 127 and 128 of Naomi Campbell*) has made an interpretation of section 32 which effectively ignores this agreement which said the exemption only applied prior to publication, to one that continues after the time of publication.
The result is that the Information Commissioner has been denuded of his few powers in relation to the press. Whether he should do is another matter, but at the moment the government has not made any attempt to address the Court's finding – mainly one suspects of fear of antagonising the press.
The role of the Press Complaints Commission Code of Practice
The Press Complaints Commission Code of Practice has already been identified as being relevant, but the Code is not a statutory Code. For instance, Section 32(3) in relation to the Special Purpose states:
(a) is relevant to the publication in question, and
(b) is designated by the Secretary of State by order for the purposes of this subsection".
The Press Complaints Commission Code of Practice has been identified in the "The Data Protection (Designated Codes of Practice) (No. 2) Order 2000" as being relevant. However, if Section 32, following Lord Philips interpretation that S.32 applies all the time, then the Code has become irrelevant to data protection compliance as there is nothing really to have regard for! The exemption applies: full stop.
My solution to this mess
2. Reverse Lord Phillip's remarks in Campbell so the consensus agreed in 1998 is restored: namely, that the S.32 exemption applies only up to the point of publication. This would give the Commissioner back his powers (Special Information/Enforcement Notice), AFTER publication. You would also have Monetary Penalty Notices in relation to security breaches by the press – you know the accidental disclosures that happen on Twitter.
3. Make sure the Commissioner can call on public funds if he "takes on" the press (or assists data subjects) in the courts if there is an issue of "public interest" to resolve. If you don't have this, he will not be able to fund the legal case.
4. Give the Commissioner the power to serve a Notice that can require changes to the Press Complaints Commission's Code of Practice. Any such change to be subject to the usual notice procedures (eg, to the Tribunal), so that differences in view can be resolved by a judicial process, having regard to the importance of freedom of expression.
The Duke of Wellington is famously supposed to have said "Publish and be damned" in 1824 when a publisher threatened to reveal details of a tryst. Nearly 200 years later, there is still a lot of "damning" yet to be done. ®
* Lord Phillip's comments at Para 128 of [2002] EWCA 1373: Campbell v Mirror Group Newspapers.
This story originally appeared at HAWKTALK, the blog of Amberhawk Training Ltd.


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AWEP projects are implemented by NRCS entering into partnership agreements with eligible entities. NRCS works with these partners to help landowners plan and implement conservation practices. Of the $61.2 million, approximately $40.4 million will be made available to AWEP partners whose projects were approved during the last fiscal year, and approximately $20.7 million will be available for new project proposals. Funding proposals can be submitted by federally recognized Indian Tribes, states, units of local government, agricultural associations, and other groups of producers – such as irrigation associations, agricultural land trusts, or other nongovernmental organization – that have experience working with agricultural producers.
When an AWEP project area has been approved and announced, individual producers may apply for program benefits through their local NRCS office.
Types of water enhancement activities intended with this request for proposal include:
- Water quality or water conservation plan development;
- Water conservation restoration or enhancement projects;
- Water quality or quantity restoration or enhancement projects;
- Irrigation system improvement and irrigation efficiency enhancements;
- Activities designed to mitigate the effects of drought; and
- Related activities determined to help achieve water quality or water conservation benefits on agricultural land.


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Washington (CNN) - Harry Reid is never one to mince words.
The Senate majority leader made it abundantly clear Saturday that a House vote on the two proposed amendments to the Senate-passed continuing resolution, which funds the Affordable Care Act, is "pointless" and that a revised bill would go nowhere in the upper chamber, declaring that "the American people will not be extorted by Tea Party anarchists."
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"The Senate will reject any Republican attempt to force changes to the Affordable Care Act through a mandatory government funding bill or the debt ceiling," Reid said in a statement.
Reid reprised a spokesman's statements from earlier in the week that attempting to delay the implementation of Obamacare for a year or repeal a tax on medical devices will amount to nothing, leaving the government on the verge of a potential shutdown.
"We are still at square one," the Nevada Democrat said. "Republicans must decide whether to pass the Senate's clean CR, or force a Republican government shutdown."
In a Saturday afternoon statement, White House press secretary Jay Carney did what California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa scolded a reporter for doing earlier this afternoon: presume an amended House bill would fail in the Senate.
The president's top spokesman slammed the House Republica caucus as "reckless and irresponsible," adding Republicans have already attempted to defund or delay the healthcare law more than 40 times.
"Republicans decided they would rather make an ideological point by demanding the sabotage of the health care law," Carney said.
A Democratic source indicated that it was unlikely the Senate would change its plans and return to Capitol Hill before Monday. Mimicking Reid, the Democrat told CNN's Dana Bash "there's no point" coming back to Washington so long as, in the veteran senator's words, Republicans are "playing futile political games."
Barring any changes in the Senate's schedule, the body would get the reworked continuing resolution Monday afternoon should the House pass an amended version of the bill. At that point, the Senate could table the House's version of the bill with a simple majority, which would send the measure back to the House.
In his statement, Reid did not signal how or when the Senate will "reject" the House Republicans' continuing resolution.
The same source also said that the Senate leadership feels comfortable it has lined up all Democrats against repealing the medical device tax, including the leading Democratic sponsor of the repeal in the Senate, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar.
Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray of Washington, taking verbal cues from Reid, threw more cold water on the GOP leadership's plan, accusing House Republicans of "pandering to the Tea Party."
"House Republicans are now actively pushing for a completely unnecessary government shutdown," Murray said in a statement.
Sen. Chuck Schumer, third-ranking Democrat in the Senate, added to the pile-on, both calling for House Speaker John Boehner to pass a "clean" continuing resolution and lambasting House Republicans for "holding millions of innocent people hostage."
"This is just another attempt by the Republican leadership to try and appease the hard right and simultaneously try to wiggle out of the blame for shutting down the government," Schumer said in a statement.
The left is going to suck the middleclass dry. They're too lazy to work and they enjoy living off of the government aka middleclass taxpayers' funds; it's a way a life. Now stop being lazy and all abled bodied Obama supporters go get a job, but you may need two since Obamacare has created a 30 hr work weeks rather than 40.
King Harry, back in 2007, Obama cried that he would reduce the deficit, and yet he and his minions are back at the trough for another 3 trillion reload! Obama has ruined this country, and you are aiding and abetting this economic terrorist. You need to go and help Cruz.
Reid is a hypocrite.
He's apparently a modern day Gadianton.
Hey Harry, what budget has been passed by both houses that even mentions ACA/Obama-care?
Oh, you haven't passed one in 4-5 years? You should have passed a budget when you had a chance ... duh?
He's right either fish or cut bait time. Tea Party Republican will continue this kind of tactics into Christmas and then the new year starts with giving the Democrat's all political ammunition they need.
As a former Republican, I couldn't write better sernario! It's like straping a shotgun to your leg aimed at your foot and telling me I can pull the trigger anytime! And then saying I'll let you reload anytime and repeat the procedure until I let you blow my whole leg off! And do it in shark infested waters
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Apple advertisments become cliches within a short space of time which is a testament to how good they are, or perhaps how often the fanboys go on about them in online forums…
Unfortunately Linux is still regarded as being a geeky system only and spoofs of the current Apple advert feature a guy dressed in a Tron costume look ridiculous and certainly won't help. This advert from Novell may help change that. If it doesn't, well it might pique the interest of some guys who will try Linux and like it. Even though the advert is sponsored by Novell, I recommend you try Ubuntu Linux. You can download and try it without installing and it's super easy to use!
Read all about it on Reverend Ted's site and download the first advert.
All in all, it's a balance that we hope to have struck right: representing Linux as sexy and confident, while avoiding sexual cliches that are degrading to women. While there may be some flaws in our execution (particularly how the third video throws out the people as computers metaphor altogether), overall I really hope that we managed to create a playful spoof that effectively subverts the "Mac vs Windows" framework that Apple has established with the "Get a Mac" campaign.
Ted updated his post with the second and third videos. I've included them here for your blogging pleasure.


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Just stop me when this sounds ridiculous: A tablet. Built for gaming. Like, really built for gaming. With twin analog joysticks. That are permanently built into it. That's Razer's Project Fiona. And it's more amazing than you think.
Project Fiona is a proof-of-concept and a prototype in the most serious way. What you're looking at is version 0.2. (Razer's already finished work on five more iterations of Fiona—they're up to version 0.8 at their labs, and expecting to hit 1.0 by the end of the year.) I can tell when I feel the heat coming out of the vents, as the fan spins up to cool the Intel Core i7 breathing fire inside. Or when the right analog stick feels a little sticky.
But when I run my finger along the edges of the brushed aluminum frame that provides Fiona's remarkably rigid structural integrity, or try to make its skeleton flex and creak, it feels more done, more solid than some other very finished tablets I've used. "And frankly, the final product will look much different," says Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan of Fiona. Which is also why I can't tell you battery life, or how much it'll cost, though Tan is aiming for under $1000 for the Windows 8-powered tablet—meaning it'll have full PC powers, though Razer is adding some software of their own on the gaming side, like the interface for browsing games. (Side note: Do you remember OQO, a little company that built little computers that were both radically ahead and behind their time? Appropriately, a lot of their engineers worked on this.)
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It's lighter than you'd think, for a tablet that's at least as thick as three iPad 2s—it'll be thinner, promises Tan—and has a pair of sticks bolted onto it. But I rest my elbows on my knees to play Warhammer 40K: Space Marine. And it feels totally natural. If you've ever used an Xbox 360 or PS3 controller, you know how to use Fiona's controls; Razer software takes care of the mapping PC controls to the buttons.
Do you know what the minimum spec requirements are for Space Marine? A 2GHz dual-core CPU, 2GB RAM, 256MB video card. And it ran beautifully on Fiona's glossy 10.1-inch, 1280x800 display. I held PC gaming in my hands, and I killed a bunch of Orcs and it felt fantastic. It sounds stupid that a 10.1-inch screen could be as immersive as a 24-inch display, but when you're able to bring your game up to your face, and it moves with you and your body, it's a different kind of connection. Speaking of moving! It's got an accelerometer and force feedback and a camera, so Razer's already thinking ways PC games could take advantage of gamers having access to traditional controls, touch and movement simultaneously.
The deepest PC gamers might balk at an analog stick and a handful of buttons truly replicating the PC gaming experience on the go—and I agree an RTS seems pretty hard to squeeze into those controls—but the potential of ubiquitous, for-real PC gaming anywhere, as defined by the games, is pretty incredible to consider even for the most hardened of PC gamers. And even if Fiona is not for them, they should still be thrilled to salty, Cheeto-infused tears that this thing (and the Blade) exists. It pushes the boundaries of what PC gaming is. And Razer might just be the only company willing to reinvigorate PC gaming—the exact kind of PC gaming that gamers love, not Zynga Facebook games—by radically re-inventing it at a hardware level.
So while Project Fiona itself might not literally be the future of PC gaming, I still feel like that's exactly what I just held in my hands.
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The recovered memory debate has been the most acrimonious, vicious and hurtful internal controversy in the history of modern psychiatry. From its very beginning in the late 1980s, it has been more an "ad hominem" war, appealing to feelings and prejudices, rather than a matter of reasoned professional disagreement. As such, it has demonstrated the wisdom of Louis Nizer's cogent observation that "mud thrown is ground lost" (Nizer, 1966). In this case, as we shall see, the ground lost has been considerable, and science, law and psychiatry have suffered the main casualties.
Common Ground
Until recently, the false memory/recovered memory controversy has been defined by zealots from both ends of the spectrum. Because the squeakiest wheel gets the most grease, the courts, legislators, public and professionals have heard, and acted upon, more diatribe than dialogue. To quiet this cacophony, we must make one fundamental observation: there is a crucial difference between opinion and belief on the one hand and science on the other. It is only by separating them that we can hope to understand and benefit from this unquiet controversy.
For hundreds of years, people believed that the earth was flat and the center of the universe. Their belief did not make it so. When science was able to demonstrate otherwise, people's beliefs changed. Sometimes, however, people prefer fiction to fact. Folklore is often more powerful than fact, as twentieth-century propagandists have proven time and time again. In discussions concerning false and repressed memories, a great deal depends upon what one believes, and what the science shows.
Perhaps we can find common ground with the understanding that the debate is most fundamentally about science, not belief. The important questions are all questions of science: whether repressed memories exist, whether they are accurate, whether false memories can be implanted, and how far suggestion can influence memory, thoughts and conduct. Regardless of what we may want to believe, as a civilized people we must be governed by what the science tells us is truth.
It is in this spirit that my colleagues and I wrote Memory, Trauma Treatment, and the Law (Brown et al., 1998). Apparently we were successful, because the book was the recipient of the American Psychiatric Association's 1999 Manfred S. Guttmacher Award. Reviewers have consistently praised the book for its "rare evenhandedness" (Behavioral Science Book Review, 1999). Other critics described its merits thusly: "The authors are always careful to discriminate between areas of well-established scientific consensus and areas of uncertainty or speculation" (Herman, 1999) "in a manner which is rigorously respectful of evidence" (Mollon, in press). Although some critics will quarrel with our interpretation of some of the science, praise has been universal for our attempt to turn the debate from rhetoric to reason.
Common ground should also be found in the commonsense observation that the term recovered memory is used exclusively as a pejorative. In fact, by definition, every memory is recovered. Furthermore, there are no known schools of recovered memory, no conferences on how to practice recovered memory therapy, nor are there any textbooks on the topic. The term was a clever rhetorical invention and, as such, it has even fooled many otherwise cautious scientists.
In the service of science, we must examine what the shouting is all about, even if it means that we must sacrifice some of our fervently held beliefs.
Shaky Ground
Courts have been treated to a parade of alleged experts (who shall remain unnamed) who have written or testified under oath to a truly astonishing array of opinions, including:
- There is only one memory system, therefore traumatic memories are not handled differently by the brain than ordinary memories.
- Repressed memory does not exist.
- Repressed memories are never accurate.
- Implanting false memories of horrific events that never occurred is easy and frequently done by therapists.
- Hypnosis, guided imagery and visualization are unduly suggestive techniques that always contaminate memory.
- Recanting of childhood sexual abuse proves that the abuse never happened.
- Repressed memories are always true.
- If you think you were abused, you were.
None of these claims is supported by science (Brown et al., 1998; Brown et al., 1999). Space permits brief discussion of only the two most central topics. At the root of the debate is the question of whether repressed memory exists. If it does, is it accurate? We know, and the courts have heard, what various people believe about these issues, but what does the science say?


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We've been to the moon and just about everywhere on Earth. So what's left to discover? In September, Future Tense is publishing a series of articles in response to the question, "Is exploration dead?" Read more about modern-day exploration of the sea, space, land, and more unexpected areas.
"What an inconceivable experience it is to attain one's ideal and, at the very same moment, to fulfill oneself. I was stirred to the depths of my being. Never had I felt happiness like this—so intense and yet so pure. That brown rock, the highest of them all, that ridge of ice—were these the goals of a lifetime? Or were they, rather, the limits of man's pride?"
- Maurice Herzog, 1952
When Maurice Herzog wrote these words, he was recalling his historic ascent of Nepal's Annapurna—the first time anyone had stood more than 8,000 meters above sea level. On the summit, gasping for air, Herzog was testing the limits of strength and endurance, and bringing vast regions of the high Himalaya into the realm of human knowledge. He was tired, wind-whipped, oxygen-starved, but clearly exhilarated. After all, he was exploring.
Such was the reality of pre-21st-century exploration. It wasn't for the faint of heart, this life-risking blitz of derring-do, but it was the only way to grasp at the outer edge of the known world, to try and make sense of the universe through knowledge acquisition.
But as humanity's technical prowess gained on our insatiable curiosity, something strange happened. It was no longer necessary to go places, dragging our corporal beings around, with their demands for oxygen, water, and an inconsiderately narrow temperature range. Instead, we could send robots to do the work, beaming back streams of 1s and 0s, seeing new vistas for us, enduring environmental hazards without complaint. And the digital spoils have been stunning: The Kepler spacecraft discovered more than 3,500 putative new worlds in four years. The Hubble Space Telescope peered 12 billion years back in time to the early stages of the universe. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter can spot rocks the size of a dinner plate on the surface of the Red Planet.
Exploration is, most certainly, not dead. On the contrary, more of the universe is open for our perusal than ever before, and the data deluge only continues to grow, a veritable Moore's Law of curiosity-driven knowledge.
But is this modern, screen-mediated form of exploration recognizable as the same enterprise that led our ancestors to the ends of the Earth with poetry on their lips?
Historically, our first knowledge of a place (What plants grow here? Is there gold? Any savages in need of salvation?) has been coincident with our first feeling of it (Why does the light look different here? Why is it so hard to breathe at this altitude? Are these blood-sucking insects bad?), intimately linked with a humanistic, highly personalized quest for self-realization (What has my suffering taught me about the human condition? What are the limits of my abilities?). This cocktail of intellectual, sensory, and emotional discovery infused the ventures with an intoxicating blend of novelty: This was life at its most essential, a distillation of our caveman roots and hardwired wanderlust.
But the future of exploration will be different: From here on out, our first experiences of new places will be virtual, not physical. By the time the first person walks on Mars, we will know every pebble of the landing site. The subsurface contours of new caves may be mapped by ground-penetrating radar or acoustic backscatter. New oceanographic environments will first be seen through the cameras of a remotely operated vehicle, as scientists watch from a shipping container on a boat.
We've entered a fundamentally new realm of exploration, one that divorces the intellectual jolt of new knowledge from the visceral thrill and personal fulfillment of self-transportation to new places.
This new paradigm cuts the cord that has historically linked adventure and exploration. In centuries past, fitness, strength, and endurance were competitive advantages in attaining new knowledge. If you could brave the whitecaps of the Southern Ocean and the mind-numbing Antarctic gales, then you had a scoop: all kinds of waddling flightless birds, for example, new to the realm of human knowledge.
Today, barriers to new knowledge are technical, not physical; we're limited not by food supplies and warm clothing, but by propulsive constraints and interplanetary bandwidth, making athletic daredevils less integral to the acquisition of new scientific samples. As a result, adventurers and explorers pursue different goals with distinct tools and incentives.
Modern-day adventurers—glorified stuntmen, some would argue—are in a constant race of one-upsmanship, collecting superlatives in an attempt to climb mountains faster or scale rock faces with less equipment. These daredevils are often remarkable athletes, but their contribution of new knowledge is minimal; their aim is corporate sponsorships, traded for with the professional currency of "extremeness." Our front-line explorers, like the scientists and engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who operate dozens of missions examining the far reaches of outer space, need not be Herzog-esque physical specimens. Mohawk-ed though they may be, carpal tunnel is the most pernicious physical risk.
What do we lose—and gain—by this great divergence? Does it matter that exploration is no longer so linked with physical exertion and bodily risk? The benefits, perhaps, are easier to recognize. Billions of pixels' worth of images, heat maps of the early universe, glimpses billions of years into the past. This information—and we're far from converting even a small fraction of it into "knowledge"—holds the secrets to the laws of the universe and our place in the cosmos.
The negative consequences are harder to define, but equally real. Without embodied emissaries, our connectedness to the endeavor is compromised. As the physical reality of exploration becomes more similar to video games, we are less present, less participatory, and perhaps less emotionally invested. The human drama of exploration has inspired compelling storytelling, forming the backbone of man-vs.-nature narratives. Some of the most riveting contemplations on mortality have come from those who have hovered near its edge while plumbing the depths of endurance in pursuit of the new.
Robots lack the emotional heft of human explorers, and we lose some of the inspiration inherent in seeing fellow humans at their physical peak, similar to a transcendent athletic accomplishment or dance performance. A clear consequence of this void is the psychic need to anthropomorphize our robotic emissaries, as shown by first-person Mars rover Twitter accounts and, most adorably, by Wall-E's emotive sensors.
Exploration is stronger than ever, but what of its spirit? We're learning more about the universe and our place in it than at any other time in human history, but the new era of roboticized exploration changes our relationship with our surroundings; there are emotional and philosophical losses that accompany this new paradigm.
Consider this: The photograph of Buzz Aldrin on the moon, boots planted firmly in the gray dust of another celestial body, is one of the most evocative signals of human progress and capability of the past century. But would this photograph, shorthand for the pinnacle of exploratory achievement, be just as affecting if there weren't a gold-tinted visor staring back at you?
More from Slate's series on the future of exploration: Is the ocean the real final frontier, or is manned sea exploration dead? Why are the best meteorites found in Antarctica? Can humans reproduce on interstellar journeys? Why are we still looking for Atlantis? Why do we celebrate the discovery of new species but keep destroying their homes? Who will win the race to claim the melting Arctic—conservationists or profiteers? Why don't travelers ditch Yelp and Google in favor of wandering? What can exploring Google's Ngram Viewer teach us about history? How did a 1961 conference jump-start the serious search for extraterrestrial life? Why are liminal spaces—where urban areas meet nature—so beautiful?
This article arises from Future Tense, a collaboration among Arizona State University, the New America Foundation, and Slate. Future Tense explores the ways emerging technologies affect society, policy, and culture. To read more, visit the Future Tense blog and the Future Tense home page. You can also follow us on Twitter.


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Officially Weighing in on QandANJ
May 12, 2011 at 2:27 pm Janie Hermann 1 comment
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Tomorrow afternoon at 1 pm the Reference Section of NJLA will hold a meeting at Princeton Public Library so that the library community can have a dialogue on QandANJ.org and on the state of virtual reference in New Jersey.
I personally hope that the room will be packed to standing room only so that we can get as many opinions and ideas as possible. My fear is that attendance will be much smaller than it should be. I know that some will not be able to attend due to other work commitments, desk schedules, or travel distance (NJ is a pretty big state). If you are in that category, please take the time to share your thoughts with Michael Maziekien, the chair of the NJLA Reference Section, or leave comments in this post.
If you are still hesitating about attending for other reasons — such as apathy or not wanting to "rock the boat", so to speak — then I encourage you to reconsider and take the time to come tomorrow. The key issue with this entire kerfuffle is not the decision to end funding for QandANJ, but the manner in which it was done. A decision about a statewide initiative that is staffed by librarians from over 50 libraries was made without any input from the stakeholders. This our chance to rectify the situation and have our say.
Until today my involvement with this issue since it surfaced about 5 weeks ago on April 4th has been to make several (some quite lengthy) comments based upon posts by Andy Woodworth and Pete Bromberg and to speak with other in our library community who are feeling the same sense of betrayal and shock over this decision. Pete and Andy have done an excellent job of framing the entire situation so I will not repeat what have they have said, but I did want to go officially on record as supporting their efforts to get the conversation started and not let the closure of a long-standing and beloved service be done without giving it a full and considered examination.
Tomorrow is not a "Save QandANJ" rally. It is a chance for open dialogue in which we can take steps to decide the future of virtual reference service in our state. It may very well be that the time has come to sunset QandANJ and even those of us who have been most vocal about this issue recognize this reality. Or it may simply be time to retoool the service, find new a funding model and/or scale down the service to recognize that many libraries have their own VR service and no longer need to be a member of the project.
The point is that we need to examine figures and facts, collect opinions from all sides both pro and con and then come to a consensus. This process won't happen in one day or one meeting and I am very relieved that QandANJ has been given a reprieve to allow us time to figure this out.
I am also grateful to the NJLA Reference Section for taking the initiative to get the conversation started by calling this meeting and to Pat Tumulty and the NJLA Executive Board for issuing a statement that began with this sentence:
NJLA believes the library community must have a voice in determining the programs and services provided by state and federal dollars to the residents of New Jersey.
I have long been an advocate of the NJ State Library and have served on several committees for them over the years, including the Blue Ribbon Panel on the Future of Libraries. I continue to be proud of the innovation that is sparked in the NJ library community with the leadership of our state library. The NJ State Library has led many successful marketing initiatives that have raised the profiles of libraries and shown our value to our stakeholders. My disagreeing about the manner in which this one decision was made does not mean that I am no longer an advocate for their work or any less proud of the innovative services they provide. It simply means that we do not see eye to eye on one issue.
Some in the library community feel that those who are being vocal in their opinions are "betraying" the NJSL to openly call for a reversal of this decision and to request a meeting to discuss the future of the service. I do not see it as a "betrayal". I see it as a way for all of us in NJ to grow as a professional community and am hopeful that the outcome will be a new way of doing business, one that is transparent and open and important decisions are given due consideration.
This has been a divisive few weeks for many, of that there is no doubt and it was evident at the NJLA conference last week. I know it has been very upsetting for many people for a variety of reasons. Let's put that all behind before 1 pm tomorrow and work together towards a solution. If you have yet to feel free to speak up about your feelings on this issue, please find your voice and give us your feedback. Your ideas count and can impact the future of service for all New Jersey residents.
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Too much of a boob thing? Jourdan Dunn, a British-born model who has walked runways for the likes of top designers like Marc Jacobs and Chanel, lost a chance to strut at the Christian Dior haute couture fashion show on Monday July 1, in Paris, because of her breasts, she claims.
The stunning 22-year-old model took to Twitter this weekend to vent her disappointment. "Ahahahahahaha I just for cancelled from Dior because of my boobs! I [HEART] fashion #Couture" she tweeted on June 30.
Dior has recently been criticized for its lack of diversity on the runway, and Dunn herself lightheartedly acknowledged the difficulties of being black in the fashion industry. "I'm normally told I'm cancelled because I'm 'coloured' so being cancelled because off my boobs is a minor : )" she tweeted a few minutes after her initial post. (According to Fashionista, the fashion house ended up hiring six black models for the July 1 show.)
Dunn, who is a single mom to a 3-year-old son, Riley, hosts a cooking show on Jay-Z's Life + Times YouTube channel; on "Well Dunn With Jourdan Dunn", she shares how to prepare her favorite dishes, sometimes with help from fellow fashion friends like models Cara Delevingne and Karlie Kloss.
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