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The Gunners last advanced to the Champions League quarter-finals in 2010 and lost to Bayern in the last 16 last year.
Wednesday's first leg against Bayern in the last 16 takes place 12 months to the day since a 3-1 home loss to the Germans which cost Wenger's men their place in the next round.
Once more Arsenal take on a side Wenger believes are the world's best - "at the moment you can't say the opposite (as) they win every game," he said - but this season on the back of an FA Cup victory over Liverpool, rather than a morale-sapping elimination to lower-league opposition.
"We are in much better mental shape today than we were one year ago," Wenger said.
"We lost against Blackburn at home in the FA Cup and it was a big disappointment for us
This time we won against Liverpool.
"We have a strong team spirit, a strong desire to do well and a united team.
"I believe we always had these kind of qualities but not always the belief
The belief is built by the results.
"On that front we are stronger, of course
We believe we can do it, but that's down to the quality of our performance tomorrow."
Arsenal's home loss gave them a gargantuan task heading to the Allianz Arena, where they won 2-0, exiting the competition on away goals and Bayern went on to lift the trophy at Wembley.
Under new boss Pep Guardiola, Bayern are cantering towards a successful Bundesliga title defence and hold a 16-point lead at the top of the standings.
Arsenal, meanwhile, are involved in one of the most competitive Premier Leagues in memory, with Chelsea, Manchester City and Liverpool all alongside them in title contention.
Wenger believes the fact his men are battle hardened, including in Europe where they advanced from a group which included Napoli and 2013 runners-up Borussia Dortmund, will serve them well against a Bayern team who have scored 16 goals without reply in their last four games.
"In every single game we have to be absolutely 100 per cent," Wenger added.
A solid start and defensive performance is essential for success, too, with Arsenal hoping to show they have learned from falling 2-0 down after 21 minutes last term.
Lukas Podolski pulled a goal back, but then Mario Mandzukic netted a third for Bayern to take a handsome advantage back to Bavaria.
Wenger said: "Every minute counts in a game of that stature
We'll try to start very strong.
"We have built a home strength recently, because we don't give goals away
That will be certainly vitally important in this tie."
Midfielder Jack Wilshere added: "We were a bit nervous going into the game last year
We lost to Blackburn the game before.
"There was a lot of tension in the stadium and it was a big game.
"Once we calmed down a bit, we took the game to them a little bit.
"The third goal was a lucky goal and that killed us.
"This year we'll be intelligent going into the game
First of all we'll work on our defensive duty and then we'll play."
Wilshere has taken confidence from the win at Bayern and knows the margins of victory in the Champions League are small.
"We've spoken about the importance of staying in the game," the England midfielder added.
"If it's 0-0 at home we've still got a big chance to qualify
The away goal is massive in this competition."
Wilshere is poised to return to the starting XI after dropping to the bench against Liverpool due to a stiff back.
Mikel Arteta is suspended, with Tomas Rosicky replacing him in the matchday squad, while goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny, Santi Cazorla, Kieran Gibbs, Bacary Sagna and Olivier Giroud are all in line to be recalled.
Wilshere believes Arsenal's unity will shine through as Arsenal's quest for a first trophy since the 2005 FA Cup goes on.
"It's been a long time since we won a trophy, but we showed this season in games when we didn't play our best but we won," he said
"That shows the team spirit
We fight for each other."
Wenger hopes his leading men show their true quality.
"If you look at the history of the Champions League, you will see that it's always the big players that make the difference," said Wenger, playing down the influence of himself and Guardiola.
"The main heroes are on the pitch, not on the bench."
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DES MOINES - The names of Iowans with permits to acquire or carry guns would become private information under legislation proposed by a Republican lawmaker.
Rep. Matt Windschitl of Missouri Valley sponsored the bill, which was debated by a House subcommittee Tuesday. Currently the names of permit holders are a public record.
Windschitl said he was concerned public permit information could put Iowans in danger by leading criminals to guns or giving them information to target homes without guns.
The state Department of Public Safety said about 144,000 Iowans have permits to carry a firearm. Statewide data was not available on the number of permits issued annually to allow people to buy handguns.
A lobbyist for the Iowa Newspaper Association argued against the measure, saying government actions should be publicized.

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|Left: Jack White hammering away at the Peach Thief guitar Parsons built for White's wife, singer/songwriter Karen Elson. Right: Randy Parsons poses in jest after White's round of chiseling on the Peach Thief. "I was trying to make fun of Jack for screwing things up."
Jack White is one of your most well-known customers. How did that association begin?
It's just one of those phone calls you get. I had put myself in the right spot, I guess. Some person who knew me knew someone who knew Jack's drummer at the time. Jack had the idea for a new band called the Raconteurs and, instead of making everything red and white like he does with the White Stripes, he wanted his color of choice to be copper. So he was looking for someone to make a copper guitar. So, Jack's people called me with this idea for a guitar called the Triple Jet, and it was going to have three pickups and all this cool stuff. On the first guitar, we actually painted the top—it was a copper top with metallic paint. He played that for about six months, and then they started their tour and I didn't like it. One day, I said, "Why don't we just make the thing out of real copper?" I took about two months and made the actual Triple Jet #2 out of real copper, and that's the one he uses all the time now. It's his number-one guitar.
In the 2008 documentary It Might Get Loud, Jack White uses a guitar you built with a retractable microphone in the body. How did that design originate?
Jack could call some company and say, "Hey, there's no budget, sky's the limit, get your research team on it and make me this guitar." But with me, I'm just a one-man show. I had to figure it out, and it was a challenge. That guitar has a heavy microphone that he pulls out and screams into. He's very brutal onstage, so he lets it fly and then retract back up into the guitar. But of course I was like, "Oh yeah, I can totally do that." I bought a bunch of hair dryers and stuff with retractable cords, and I immediately discovered there was no way those parts were going to work—the bullet microphone weighs at least four pounds. I started talking to people in the industry that do big tools, but all their stuff was just huge and this guitar has a thin body. I finally ran into the Rain Man of vacuum cleaners: I walked into his shop and I just laid it out. I said, "This is the guitar, this is how much the microphone weighs." And he says, "The Hoover 2002 XL31." He went to the back of his shop and pulled out this wheel, and I swear to God this must be the only thing on the planet Earth that would fit into Jack's guitar and pull the microphone back inside. So I bought three of them and just kind of figured it out. That vacuum part is 10 years old, and we had some problems with it breaking down a few times on the road. I freaked out and went back to this guy to buy some more, and he had no idea what I was talking about. I'm like, "Man, come on! I came here six months ago and I showed you the guitar," and he just looked at me and said, "Nah, I don't know what you're talking about." So we're kind of screwed. We've got one wheel left, and that's it. But I think that's what Jack likes. He likes the fact that there is only one wheel and that if he's on the road somewhere and it breaks down, he's kind of screwed. He'll have to figure it out.
The finished Peach Thief features an armrest, a single TV Jones pickup, and petals from four sets of roses that were dried in books for three weeks.
I made a guitar for Jack White's wife, Karen Elson. She wanted a guitar the color of a peach, and the idea was to just paint it that color. Of course, me and my big mouth, I said, "Why don't I find some peach-colored roses, dry the petals in books, and then glue them all over the guitar?" And that's what we did. The guitar is called the Peach Thief and looks like Jack's Triple Jet, but it has two pickups. I really like that idea of using flowers and organic petals. I came across these sunflowers, but instead of being orange and yellow, the leaves were dark, dark, blood red and black. So the new Gretsch guitar uses these pointy, sharp, sunflower-seed petals all over the front, with kind of a gray-black finish on the back and sides. It's very dark, very gothic, so it's actually called Sleeping Hollow. They pulled a Gretsch Anniversary Jr. off the assembly line and gave it to me to modify. I replaced the fingerboard, reshaped the guitar, changed the f-holes. It's a completely different guitar. They don't know quite what they're going to do with it yet, but they came to me because they wanted to identify with the rock-and-roll crowd versus the country cowboy crowd.
Back to your own brand, you've got a new model coming out in August.
It's the Diablo Antigua [August cover image], which is my new line and what I'm most excited about. I'm working with this incredible metal artist named Shawne Reeves, and this thing looks like it's 500 years old. It's got this cool copper etching all over the top, and the fingerboard is actually made from recycled newspaper and car tires. It's got aged copper block inlays. It has the cow skull construction and some other hidden stuff inside. One of the cool things about this guitar is that all the hardware goes through a two-step process. First, we copper-plate all the hardware before we do our acid treatment, because we turn everything black after it's been coppered. It just has this unique look that you can't buy anywhere. It also has a killswitch and a boost control—which are two things production guitars usually don't have.
What's the price point for the Diablo Antigua?
It ranges from $5000 to $7500. Most things at Parsons start there. What I'm trying to do is avoid doing production guitars. I'd rather offer my clients something that has value because it's handmade by me, so we do a small run every year of no more than 50 guitars.
A $5000 guitar is not entry level, but it's not outrageous either. A customer could easily drop that on a high-end axe off an assembly line. How do you create handmade quality while still keeping prices at least somewhat reasonable?
It's tough, because ultimately I want people to play them and be able to buy them. Five [grand] is kind of the area where, if I can get that much, I can continue doing what I do. I don't want to get greedy and just sell to collectors or rich people. But at the same time, I recognize that $5000 is a lot of money for a guitar. What I'm trying to say to someone is that you can spend $5000 on a Les Paul and it's going to hold its value and you're going to get a quality instrument. But you can also buy a guitar from me—that's actually made by me—and it may be worth a lot more in the future. This is the birth of a new company.


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As part of many hobbies (origami, sculpting, construction toys) I often find myself building polyhedra from regular polygons. I am intimately familiar with all of the Archimedean and Platonic solids, and can construct most of the other isohedra, deltahedra, and Johnson solids from memory. The smaller prisms, antiprisms, and trapezohedra are of course trivial. However, I often forget the precise arrangement of faces and vertices for some of the Johnson solids and most of the Catalan solids. Thus, the question that I pose is this:
Where can I find the most complete, robustly indexed, and searchable database of polyhedra?
I would like to use such a database to answer, in short order, questions of the following nature:
Which solid is comprised of exactly eight hexagons and six squares? Which solids are comprised of less than 10 triangles, eight squares, and six hexagons? How many solids can be constructed with exactly 24 edges? What solid with 12 vertices has the most edges (or faces)? etc...
I imagine that such a database does not exist and I am going to be forced to create one, so answers suggesting features for such a database (likely to be web-based) are welcome as well.


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I think I must be losing the plot with my Dreamboxes!! LOL Both now come up with .ipkg errors when I try to install TS media. Can anyone suggest if there is a newer, better media app or how I get rid of .ipkg errors? Ive not usually been stuck like this before. Any suggestions [ other than but a new box!! LOL] will be very welcome indeed. Thanks in advance. Brain[less!!]


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"Academic freedom is the life blood of the modern university. It is the right to teach, learn, study and publish free of orthodoxy or threat of reprisal and discrimination."
So begins the statement on the need to protect the need for freedom of expression in academia on the website of the Canadian Association of University Teachers.
Mark Jaccard teaches resource and environmental management at Simon Fraser University. He is a smart guy, an acknowledged expert in his field and not afraid to speak his mind, which he does often. On Thursday, he was on the Bill Good show on CKNW repeating his assertion – one I happen to agree with – that the notion of achieving carbon neutrality through the purchase of carbon offsets is an expensive illusion.
Two weeks ago, Jaccard wrote an article for The Vancouver Sun that ran on the OpEd page. He used it to argue forcefully that anyone who writes in The Sun or other publications in support of projects that release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere should have to also explain how they will contribute to catastrophic climate change.
He said The Sun should add a warning similar to that carried on cigarettes to any article that failed to make such a connection. It would say:
"The author has declined to explain that, according to scientists, this project would contribute to a climate catastrophe for you and your children."
Jaccard went on to say that the newspaper would be unlikely to perform that role but urged readers to take it on themselves, a reasonable position that encouraged public debate over a contentious issue.
A week later, incensed by an editorial in The Sun that argued the port of Vancouver should be open to all legitimate commercial users, including coal producers, Jaccard went further. On his personal blog page, he urged his followers to threaten to stop subscribing to The Sun if the paper is "unwilling to qualify its carbon pollution jingoism with an honest and consistent depiction of the scientifically-determined global health implications of continuing on this path."
Jaccard represents what is considered the consensus view, the orthodoxy, if you will, but it is not the only point of view. Even among those who accept the theory that we are hurtling towards a man-made cliff by continuing on our current path of fossil fuel consumption, there are disagreements about what we should be doing about it.
Witness Jaccard's dismissal of the value of the trading of carbon offsets, a practice that is endorsed by other prominent climate activists, including the David Suzuki foundation, presumably with the blessing of the great man himself.
Jaccard dismisses the editorial's assertion that the city of Vancouver threatens the local economy with its attempts to halt the increase in oil and coal exports from the port as "facile."
Fair enough. He can also argue, as he does, that we should impose his view of climate change on Alberta and developing nations, such as China, through trade measures.
"There is no other way to tackle this extremely difficult global problem," he states unequivocally.
Personally, I think there is room for argument here as in most things, but I have my view and he has his.
I take offence, however, when Jaccard uses the security of his well-paid academic post and the security that goes with it to threaten my job when he doesn't agree with something he read in the newspaper.
According to the figures supplied by Simon Fraser University and published as part of the public sector salary database compiled by The Vancouver Sun, Jaccard was paid $155,274 in the 2011/12 fiscal year and claimed $10,979 in expenses.
I am sure he earned every penny. But it makes it lot easier to argue that the economy shouldn't be a prime consideration in public-policy making when your own place in it is secure.
Jaccard argues that the economy is a red herring, that while important, it's possible to have a robust economy that is less threatening to the environment that our children and grandchildren will inherit.
Possibly. But so far that is even more of a theory than climate change.
Until it's demonstrated, perhaps any articles that focus narrowly on addressing climate change without explaining the impact suggested measures will have on the lives of individuals should carry a warning of the kind that Jaccard wants on articles about energy projects.
Perhaps something to the effect of, "The author has declined to explain that, according to current theory and experience, these measures would contribute to an economic catastrophe for you and your children."
That would still leave room for an argument, of course. But that's what freedom of speech is all about and it shouldn't just be for academics.


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By Ajai Shukla
Business Standard, 30th April 16
Just five months after the government liberalised foreign direct investment (FDI) in defence, by permitting global vendors 49 per cent stake in Indian joint ventures (JVs) without the need for further permissions (i.e. "under the automatic route"), the doors for foreign vendors are being opened wider.
So far, incremental liberalisation has failed to attract significant foreign investment. On Friday, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar told parliament: "From August 2014 to February 2016, a total amount of Rs 112.35 lakhs has come into the country as FDI in defence sector."
In a fresh bid to create a more liberal FDI environment, the ministry of defence (MoD) last week invited defence industry representatives to discuss a briefing note it had prepared on liberalisation. Business Standard has reviewed the note.
The current FDI policy, promulgated in November 2015, permits 49 per cent foreign investment through the automatic route. For FDI above 49 per cent, up to 100 per cent, the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) must grant permission on a "case-to-case basis". However, lack of clarity on what conditions apply has created uncertainty.
Now, to bring in clarity on what "case-to-case" actually means, and thereby facilitate decision-making on the grant of higher FDI, the MoD note stipulates four conditions.
First, it mandates that proposals for FDI above 49 per cent must be examined "on case-to-case basis by a Standing Committee headed by Secretary (Defence Production), with all stakeholders as members."
Second, the foreign original equipment manufacturer (OEM) is required to "ensure a minimum level of indigenous content as its value addition in India." This is intended to ensure that the joint venture (JV) does not serve as a front for simply importing foreign-built equipment.
Third, the MoD regulations for licensed defence industries, i.e. appointing resident Indian citizens as chief security officer (CSO) and cyber information security officer (CISO) "may also be put in for the proposals beyond 49% FDI from national security imperatives (sic)."
Finally, the new guidelines stipulate that the foreign OEM's home country regulations, which may continue to operate even for its units in India, do not prevent the sale of its output in India. It says "to avoid such possibility, a clause of usage of products manufactured by them in India by Indian Industry/Organisation (sic) may also be retained."
Foreign OEMs, most recently Airbus Industries, have been demanding higher FDI limits that would give them greater control over joint ventures that they establish in India. They remain uncomfortable with the minority position that is imposed by a 49 per cent cap.
Parrikar has viewed foreign OEMs' demands sympathetically. At the India Today Conclave in New Delhi on March 13, he said: "If there is a company that has the technology and wants to make, for example, fighter planes in India without any obligation on the part of the government, I am willing to give them approval for 100 per cent investment in the venture."
Business Standard learns from three persons who attended the discussion in the MoD that Indian private industry had reservations, but eventually came around to agree on the benefits of more liberal FDI clearances.
However, there were exceptions. Innovative Indian defence companies that develop new systems have always opposed increasing FDI limits. In an op-ed article last month, Ashok Atluri, who heads simulator design company, Zen Technologies, argues that FDI limits need not be raised since the Indian defence market is anyway too large for foreign vendors to ignore. He fears foreign OEMs will use higher FDI limits to enter the market and then "kill" Indian competitors by underpricing products until they establish a monopoly.
"The MoD officials did not specifically say FDI limits would be raised to 74 per cent, or to 100 per cent. But it seemed quite clear that more liberal conditions will soon be announced", said a defence industry chief executive.
The government of India has traditionally been cautious on FDI in defence. In May 2001, FDI up to 26 per cent was first allowed, subject to licensing. In August 2014, that was raised to 49 per cent, subject to government clearance, with cabinet clearance needed for FDI above 49 per cent, on a case-to-case basis. This also permitted foreign portfolio investment up to 24 per cent.
The policy imposed conditions on the JV. First, its management had to remain in Indian hands, with an Indian chief executive and CSO. The company had to be self-sufficient in product design and development, and be able to support the defence equipment it manufactured all through its service life.
Business Standard learns that several large investments are currently waiting for FDI liberalisation. French warship and submarine builder, DCNS, is reportedly keen to set up a fully owned venture to which high-end submarine technologies could be transferred.
Separately, Israeli company, Rafael, is reportedly keen on a joint venture with Pune-based Kalyani Group. But Rafael wants 74 per cent holding in the JV.


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"Were the ex-bandits unreliable at night? Oh no it was not that. On the contrary they were very disciplined. Well then, what was it?….the tigers, perhaps? No it wasn't the tigers either..but the fact was that after dark Angkor was a very bad place for the neak ta eysaur and the neak ta en – in other words, the spirits Siva and Indra.
Thus had the powerful Brahamical gods of the Khmer Empire shrunk and shrivelled along with the Empire itself. And now they were no more than neak ta – mere tree spirits to frighten babies with; of no more importance than the khmoo pray – the wicked dead, such as women who have died in childbed; the beisac – the famished souls of those who have died violently, who return from hell to implore food; the smer, who, losing their reason, have become werewolves, and the srei ap, beautiful girls, who through dabbling in black magic have inadvertently turned themselves into heads, accompanied only by alimentary canals, and live on excrement. The Khmer gods have accompanied their worshippers in their decline."
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Well, i've technically written a lot of play scenarios but not all of them as organized as this one. I just finished this one and since my players don't have accounts here i can post here for comments and reviews. I'm sure its still got spelling errors and grammar... but i'm not too worried. One of my own players who GM's for another group is running this as a play test. I tend to write sparsely and fill in as i go, so this is more verbose than normal. I run plot heavy, but this is pretty short;
Yes, its summer and its definitely more difficult to get groups together to game. Why? Because its summer dammit! Of course it is, and rightfully so. Even hardcore gamers appreciate the better weather to a certain degree. What that means for me is generally gaming sessions go down, but i get a chance to write more. I dont have to stay on top of the campaign, so i get to catch up on writing more adventure notes, updating the world and rule sets, and just play with ideas in general.
I just am on the other side of 3 days of severe neck pain and being dosed with anti-inflammatories, ice, pain meds, and sleep medicine gave me a burst of creativity. In the middle of it i had a great idea for an adventure down and wrote it down on the backs of 3 pieces of a character sheet print out i had next to my bed.
Now that i look at it a little clearer to type it up, its absolutely brilliant. And it takes place on a ship, not many of my adventures are on water. It surprisingly
I gave my players an opportunity to earn rewards - action points in the system we use - for blogging about their adventures in their characters voice. More if done from a literacy view limited by appropriate level of literacy. A couple people clamored for it, but it turns out in several months not one player did it. I'm not sure what point this proves, or why i'm even bringing up the point, and i wont say i'm not disappointed... but i'm not surprised either.
I guess i was hoping
Sometimes its hard to decide... I've long past the power gamer stage where i need a character that is the hero and can do everything in every situation. Heck, i don't worry about dying so much as i worry about a good death when it comes. But... what do you do when you are faced with the proposition of the possibility of resurrection vs. the opportunity to play a really cool new character concept? On the one hand, there's a lot invested in the old character... but its old hat. Its known and understood,


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Nowadays, it is pretty hard press to find value for money set lunch. Hence, when I found out that Pizzeria Bella Italia is offering their set meals from RM 9.90 onwards, I was more than eager to try it out. Pizzeria Bella Italia has been around in SS2 for a long time. The funny thing is that I never actually stepped into this restaurant until I was told that the food is really good there.
The Margarita pizza that came with the set meal was served on a round wooden board.
The thin crust (which is how a real pizza should be prepared) and the light toppings tasted really good.
The cheesy texture was more than enough to make me smile. For RM 9.90, this is one of the best lunch deal around.
The classic spaghetti was equally delicious. Cooked with olive and slice chilies , the meal was simply good.
And for the price (RM 9.90), there is really nothing that I can fault about it.
Each set meal came with a bowl of mushroom soup and a piece of bread. The soup tasted pretty decent and did not have the floury texture offered at some other restauraunts.
Pizzeria Bella Italia is one of those restaurant that offers great food at a cheap price. Truly a rare gem in the neighbourhood of Petaling Jaya.
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No. 61, Jalan SS 2/75
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Baby survives fall onto train track
(Video) It took only a second for a baby stroller to slip away and roll onto train tracks, security footage shows.
It took only a second for a baby stroller to slip away and roll onto train tracks in Australia, security footage released this week shows. The 5-month-old boy survived with barely a scratch, according to the UK's Telegraph.
What's really astounding: A passerby didn't even look up from his phone as the baby rolled by him and off the platform.
Station officials confirmed that the baby was rescued uninjured before the next train arrived.
The incident at Fairfield station late last year is understood to be one of three involving prams rolling off platforms in 2011 alone.
An identical accident involving a 6-month old baby at a different Melbourne station in 2009 prompted the redesign of platforms in the Australian city, but so far only new platforms slope away from the tracks.
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Today, we're announcing official support for more web browsers on both iOS and Android devices. To get these latest browser support updates, simply republish your kits.
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City of Dana PointHome Menu
Events & Activities
A Walk through History
- Date: 01/21/2017 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
- Location: Dana Point Nature Interpretive Center
34558 Scenic Drive
Dana Point, California 92629
This walk focuses on local Dana Point History. It is designed to introduce participants to the several different main historical periods (ie, Acjachemen, Spanish Mission, Rancho, and Modern Era). In more detail, participants will learn about the "Woodruff" Era of the 1920's and 30's, the surfing heritage, and the harbor construction. Stories of the past will link the participants to the history of some of the local buildings, structures, and areas as well!
This history walk occurs on the third Saturday of each month. The walk begins at the Nature Interpretive Center (34558 Scenic Drive, Dana Point, CA 92629) at 9 AM and is approximately 1.5 to 2 hours long, covering about 1.5 miles.
Please RSVP to email@example.com or (949) 248-3527
Trails are open 7AM to Sunset daily
Nature Interpretive Center hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10AM to 4PM
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UNU world hunger programme
The overall objectives of the World Hunger Programme are to contribute to an understanding of the causes and consequences of hunger, both overt and hidden, and to initiate or promote the design, implementation, and evaluation of actions for its elimination, All approaches adopted for the achievement of these objectives are interrelated.
Sub-programme I. Hunger and Society
The objectives of the sub-programme on Hunger and Society are to uncover the relationships between hunger as a poverty syndrome and societies as characterized by their specific economy, technology, ideology, and politics and to initiate or promote the design, implementation, and evaluation of policies and actions to eliminate hunger. To achieve these objectives, the sub-programme is focused on the following:
- the development of an understanding of the relationships between hunger and society, emphasizing the causes of hunger in different societies and including the identification and exploration of specific processes at the international level that cause hunger;
- improvement of the awareness and knowledge of political and other leaders of the causes and consequences of hunger;
- the development of methodologies for the evaluation of the food and nutrition effects of policies, programmes, and projects, including an evaluation of the implementation of UN resolutions and recommendations for alleviating hunger;
- evaluation of the role of community organizations in the alleviation of hunger.
Sub-programme II. Hunger and Technology
The objectives of the sub-programme on Hunger and Technology are to uncover the actual and potential effects, both positive and negative, of technology on hunger and to initiate or promote the design, implementation, and evaluation of policies and actions for the application of technology in ways that will contribute to the elimination of hunger. To achieve these objectives, the sub-programme is focused on the following:
- the development of an understanding of the relationships between technology and the role of women in the production, conservation, and distribution of food, in order to contribute to the improvement of the status of women;
- identification of suitable technologies that will reduce the losses and improve the handling of food after harvest, in order to achieve more equitable food consumption;
- investigation and facilitation of the application of microbiology to the use of vegetable and animal residues for the production of bio-energy and big-mass that will contribute to animal and human feeding.
Sub-programme III. Hunger and Health
The objectives of the sub-programme on Hunger and Health are to uncover the relationships between hunger and health within societies and to initiate or promote the design, implementation, and evaluation of policies and actions to eliminate ill-health related to hunger. To achieve these objectives, the sub-programme is focused on the following:
- the completion of the series of workshops, research projects, and publications on protein-energy requirements under conditions prevailing in developing countries, leading to a joint FAO-WHO-UNU Expert Committee meeting on protein-energy requirements to be held in 1981;
- the ascertainment of the functional and practical consequences of iron deficiency and anaemia in developing countries, and the support of the evaluation and application of practical measures for their prevention.
The World Hunger Programme seeks to achieve all these objectives through research, advanced training, and dissemination of knowledge.
Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP) Carretera Roosevelt, Zona 11, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Tel. 43762. Cable: INCAP GUATEMALA. Co-ordinator Dr. Guillermo Arroyave.
The Nutrition Center of the Philippines (NCP) Nutrition Center of the Philippines Bldg., South Super Highway, Nichols Interchange, Makati, Metro Manila 3116, Philippines, Tel. 85-30-71 to 79. Cable: NUTRICEN MANILA. Co-ordinator: Dr. Rodoffo Florentino.
Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) Mysore 570013, India. Tel. 22298. Cable: UNVERCENT MYSORE, Telex: 0846-241 FTRI IN. Co-ordinator: Dr. C.P. Natarajan.
Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology (INTA) University of Chile, Casilla 15138, Santiago 11, Chile. Tel. 214105, 214030. Cable: INTACHILE SANTIAGO. Coordinator: Dr. Ricardo Uauy.
Tropical Products Institute (TPI)
5842 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1 X8LU, UK. Tel. 01-242-5412.
Cable: TROPRODS LONDON WC1. Co-ordinator: Dr. E.M. Thain,
The International Food and Nutrition Policy and Planning Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard School of Public Health (IFNP). Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 20A-201, Cambridge, Mass. 02139, USA. Tel. (617) 253-7617. Cable: MITUNATUNIV CAMBRIDGE. Telex: 92-1473 MITCAM. Co-ordinator: Dr. Josef Broek.
Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Ghana (DNFS) PO Box 134, Legon, Ghana. Cable: UNIVERSITY LEGON. Co-ordinator: Dr. R. Orraca-Teneh.
Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University (INMU) Salaya Campus, c/o Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Rama Vl Road, Bangkok 4, Thailand, Tel. 282-6435. Co-ordinator: Dr. Aree Valyasevi.
Universidad del Valle (UVC) Apartado Aereo 20353, Cali, Colombia. Co-ordinator: Dr. Luis Fajardo.
University of the West Indies (UWI) St. Augustine Campus: Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Crop Science, St. Augustine, Trinidad. Tel. 662-7171. Cable: STOMATA PORT OF SPAIN. Resident Co-ordinator: Dr. Lloyd Rankine. Mona Campus: Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica. Tel. 927-6661. Cable: UNIVERS JAMAICA. Contact: Dr. Alan Jackson.
National Food Research Institute
2-1-2 Kanondai, Yatabe-machi, Tsukuba-gun, Ibaraki-ken 300-21,
Japan. Tel. 02975-6-8011. Coordinator: Dr. Nobuzo Tsumura.
Through IFNP
Department of Nutrition, Cornell University, USA
Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, USA
Department of Nutrition, University of Connecticut, USA
Food Protein Research and Development Center, Texas A&M
University System, USA
Division of Geographic Medicine, Tufts University Medical
Center, USA
Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of
Massachusetts, USA
Through TPI
Dunn Laboratories, Cambridge, UK
Department of Food Science, University of Reading, UK
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford, UK
Through NCP
University of the Philippines at Los Baños, Philippines.
Through INCAP
Food Protein Research and Development Center, Texas A&M
University System, USA
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
International Union of Food Science and Technology (lUFoST
International Union of Nutritional Sciences (IUNS)
The World Hunger Programme co-operates with the appropriate units or divisions of the following organizations with which the University has memoranda of understanding: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) World Health Organization (WHO)
It represents the University on the Administrative Committee on Co-ordination-Sub-committee on Nutrition.
Dr Nevin S. Scrimshaw, Senior Adviser.
Ms. Rozanne Choriton, Assistant Programme Officer
Mrs. Audrey Yuse, Administrative Assistant
Mrs. Elsie Kimi Buma, Secretary
Ms. Noriko Hasegawa, Secretary
Mrs. Masako Nakagawa, Secretary
Field staff
Dr. Fred T. Sal, Inter-regional Co-ordinator for Africa and Europe
Dr. Samir Miladi, Regional Co-ordinator for the Middle East and
North Africa
Dr. Maria A. Tagle, Regional Co-ordinator for Latin America
Dr. William Rand, Research Co-ordinator
Miss Jane Dittrich, Editorial Assistant.
Ms. Patricia Jayson, Administrative Assistant, Cambridge
Programme Office
Mrs. Donnalee Reagan, Secretary, Cambridge Programme Office.
Department of Nutrition and Biochemistry, Korea University Medical College. 4, 2GA Nyoung-Yun-Dong, Jong-Ro-Ku, Seoul, Korea 110. Principal investigator: Dr. Jin Soon Ju.
Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University. Salaya Campus. c/o Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Rama Vl Road, Bangkok 4, Thailand. Principal investigator: Dr. Aree Valyasevi.
Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital. Rama Vl Road, Bangkok 4, Thailand. Principal investigator: Dr. Kraisid Tontisirin.
Food and Nutrition Research Center, National Science Development Board. Pedro Gil St., Ermita, Manila, 2801, Philippines. Principal investigator: Dr. Carmen L. Intengan.
Division of Nutrition, National Institute of Nutrition. San Buenaventura y Viaducto Tlalpan, Tlalpan, Mexico 22 DF, Mexico. Principal investigator: Dr. Hector Bourges.
Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP). Carretera Roosevelt, Zona 11, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Principal investigators: Dr. Ricardo Bressani, Dr. Benjamín Torún, Dr. Fernando E. Viteri.
Universidad del Valle. Apartado Aereo 20353, Cali, Colombia. Principal investigator: Dr. Luis F. Fajardo.
Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Prêto. 14.100-Ribeirão Prêto, São Paulo, Brazil. Principal investigator: Dr. Jose E. Dutra de Oliveira.
Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology (INTA), University of Chile. Casilla 15138, Santiago 11, Chile. Principal investigators: Dr. Ricardo Uauy, Dr. Hector Araya.
Department of Nutrition Requirements and Growth, Nutrition Institute. 16 Kasr El-Aini St., Cairo, Egypt, Principal investigator: Dr. Mohammed Amr Hussein.
Department of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ibadan. Ibadan, Nigeria. Principal investigator: Dr. Tola Atinmo.
Institute of Child Health, Hacettepe University. Ankara, Turkey. Principal investigator: Dr. Imran Ozalp.
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research. GPO Box 128, Dacca 2, Bangladesh. Principal investigator: Dr. Abdul Meiid Molla.
Department of Paediatrics, Institute of Medical Sciences, Benares Hindu University. Varanasi-5, India. Principal investigator: Dr. K.N. Agarwal.
Institute of Health, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. 29 Nan Wei Road, Beijing, People's Republic of China. Principal investigator: Dr. Hsue-Cun Chen.
College of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, Taiwan University. No. 1, Sect. 1, Jen-Ai Road, Taipei, Taiwan. Principal investigator: Dr. Po-Chao Huang.
Department of Nutrition, School of Medicine, Tokushima University. 3 Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima City, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. Principal investigator: Dr. Goro Inoue.
University of Cambridge, and Medical Research Council. Dunn Nutritional Laboratory. Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 IXJ, UK. Principal investigator: Dr. Roger Whitehead.
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, Keppel Street, London SC1 E 7HT, UK. Principal investigator: Dr. John C. Waterlow.
Department of Nutrition and Food Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, Mass 02139, USA. Principal investigator: Dr. Vernon R. Young.
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of California. Berkeley, Calif. 94720, USA, Principal investigators: Dr. Doris Calloway, Dr. Sheldon Margen,
The editors of the Food and Nutrition Bulletin welcome contributions of relevance to the concerns of the World Hunger Programme (see page 56). Submission of an article does not guarantee publication-which depends on the judgement of the editors as to its relevance and quality.
Language. Contributions may be in English, French, or Spanish. If French or Spanish is used, the author should submit an abstract in English if possible.
Format. Contributions should be typed, double-spaced, preferably on A4 1210 x 297 mm) or American lettersize (81/2 x 11 in.) paper with margins of at least 2.5-3 cm (1 - 11/4 in,) on each side. (If larger paper must be used, the type area should be kept within the limits for A4 paper.)
Length. Ordinarily contributions should not exceed 4,000 words or an equivalent length in pages including figures, tables, and references.
Tables and figures. Any tables and figures should be on separate sheets of paper. Tables should use horizontal ruled lines only. Figures should be clearly and accurately drawn and clearly labelled.
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UNU World Hunger Programme Publications
Protein-Energy Requirements of Developing Countries: Evaluation of New Data
A report of a joint UNU-lnternational Union of Nutritional Sciences working group describing and evaluating data obtained from research to determine the amounts of protein in usual diets required for nitrogen balance and, in the case of children, for growth as well. The discussions and presentations of data from nineteen countries are accompanied by a comparative tabulation and analysis of the nitrogen-balance data reported; and the working group's recommendations for the additional research most urgently required for an in-depth review of international recommendations for protein-energy requirements are outlined.
WHTR-4/UN UP-295 ISBN 92-808-0295-X 268 pages, 16.5 x 23.5 cm, paper-bound
Nutritional Evaluation of Protein Foods
A report of a joint UNU-lnternational Union of Nutrition Sciences working group presenting a revision of the methods for the comprehensive assessment of the nutritive value of food and feed protein sources. It begins with the determination of nitrogen content, the identification of the principal nitrogenous constituents of the food, and the assessment of nutritional values, including digestibility, by means of in vitro and in vivo assays. The methods and procedures as well as their significance and limitations are considered.
WHTR-3/U N UP-129 ISBN 92-808-0129-5 154 pages, 16.5 x 23.5 cm, paper-bound
Food Price Policies and Nutrition in Latin America
A workshop report analysing the effects of governmental food price policies on the nutritional status of the populations of Latin America and the Caribbean. It points out areas that need further research and suggests methods for conducting it that can be adopted by third-world governments, It also seeks to increase the awareness of industrialized countries of the impact of their international trade policies on the citizens of developing countries.
WHTR-2/UN UP-128 ISBN 92-808-0128-7 170 pages, 16.5 x 23.5 cm, paper-bound
Bioconversion of Organic Residues for Rural Communities
A compilation of papers from a workshop on the development of techniques for the production of biomass from organic residues-focusing on the potential of bacteria, yeasts, fungi, and algae to upgrade organic wastes into valuable feed products through simple fermentation processes. Especially for developing countries with predominantly rural populations it is imperative that such low-cost bioconversion techniques be fully encouraged for improvement of the socio-economic, nutritional, and health conditions of rural areas.
IPWN-1/UNUP-43 ISBN 92-808-0043-4 176 pages, 21.4 x 28 cm, paper-bound
Protein-Energy Requirements under Conditions Prevailing in Developing Countries: Current Knowledge and Research Needs
A report on the current state of knowledge regarding protein and energy requirements and appropriate dietary allowances for people living under the conditions prevailing in developing countries and consuming local diets. It brings together much previously unevaluated original data-and points up the failure of present international recommendations to take sufficiently into account the protein-energy needs for recovery and catch-up growth following frequent acute and chronic infections and differences in the digestibility and protein quality of local diets. A principal function of the report is to provide suggestions for further needed research.
WHTR-1 /UNUP-1 8 ISBN 92-808-0018-3 73 pages, 16.5 x 23.5 cm, paper-bound
Interdisciplinary Dialogue on World Hunger
In order to define an acceptable set of goals, processes, and indicators for food and nutrition policy and to forge practicable recommendations for research and training, the UNU World Hunger Programme met with the Human and Social Development Programme in a workshop in March 1979. This report describes an attempt to apply the approaches of one group to the research and training programmes of another through substantive interdisciplinary dialogue.
IPDHW-1/UNUP-229 ISBN 92-808-0229-1 67 pages, 16.5 x 23.5 cm, paper-bound
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Duick v. Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc., 2011 WL 3834740 (Cal.App. 2 Dist. August 31, 2011)
Someone signed plaintiff up through a Toyota website to take part in a "Personality Evaluation." She got an email with a link to a website, and on the second page that she had to click through, she was presented with the well-known check box next to the words "I have read and agree to the terms and conditions."
Later plaintiff started getting creepy emails from an unknown male calling himself "Sebastian Bowler" who indicated that he was on a cross-country road trip to come and visit plaintiff. He even listed plaintiff's physical address. One of the emails had a link to Bowler's MySpace page, which revealed he "enjoyed drinking alcohol to excess." A few days later plaintiff got another email from someone purporting to be the manager of the hotel in which Bowler had trashed a room, and attempted to bill plaintiff for the damage.
As one would expect, plaintiff was disturbed by these messages. She finally got an email with a link to a video that said Bowler was a fictional character and that the emails were part of an elaborate prank, all to advertise the Toyota Matrix.
Plaintiff sued Toyota for, among other things, infliction of emotional distress. Toyota moved to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing that the online terms and conditions contained an arbitration provision, so the case did not belong in court but before an arbitrator. The court rejected this argument, finding that the terms and conditions were void, because plaintiff's agreement to them was procured by "fraud in the inception or execution."
The court found that the terms and conditions led plaintiff to believe that she was going to participate in a personality evaluation and nothing more. A reasonable reader in plaintiff's position would not have known that she was signing up to be the target of a prank. For example, the terms and conditions were under the heading "Personality Evaluation Terms and Conditions" and made vague and opaque references to terms such as "interactive experience" and a "digital experience." Simply stated, plaintiff, through no fault of her own, did not know what she was getting herself into.
For these reasons, the court held that the terms and conditions were void, and all the provisions contained in those terms and conditions, including the purported agreement to arbitrate any disputes, did not bind the parties.


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Healthy Obsession: Dancing, skating on wheels
Laura Sunday, 60, is an event coordinator, dance teacher and self-described "Chili Empress" of Petaluma. On Sundays, Sunday drives to the city with her dancing skates.
Why: It combines two activities I love - dancing and skating - and it is the fountain of youth. The music goes from disco to hip-hop. It attracts people from pre-teens to those well into their 70s and crosses all socio-economic lines. I skate all day and barely ever sit down to rest. We share and learn new routines, and there's nothing better than when you have 20 skaters all working in time, rhythm and step with each other.
Greatest accomplishment: I watched the skaters in Golden Gate Park for 20 years just wanting to roller dance. When I was 50, I bought myself some dance skates, started taking lessons and practiced six days a week for a few years. Now I choreograph routines and teach new skaters how to roller dance every Sunday out in the park.
Gear you can't live without: My Riedell 220 Epic quad skates, with the sparkly wheels. I had them in white and had a shop dye them royal blue for me. Some skaters use inlines, but I can't feel my soul in that big rigid boot. My quads feel completely natural, like a dance shoe.
Where you train: Golden Gate Park, at Sixth Avenue and John F. Kennedy Drive
Best time to train: Every Sunday from 1 p.m. until dark.
Biggest misperception about your sport: That quad skates are old school.
Advice you'd give a rookie: Learn how to be comfortable on your skates before you try dancing on them. Learn the basic steps and moves, wear protective gear, and take it slow; it's really tricky. And most important: practice, practice, practice.


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I had a rude awakening a few weeks ago when my mom called and asked me what I'd been reading lately. Crash Course in Genealogy I told her proudly. "I blogged about it a few days ago." Truth be told, I've been lusting over content and the 1940 census breakdown the way some folks might admire a busty pin-up.
"Don't you ever read anything else?" She asked.
Needless to say I was a little hurt and more than a little offended. But as a matter of fact, yes I told her, I had been reading two other books as well: The Sinner's Grand Tour: A Journey Through the Historical Underbelly of Europe by Tony Perrottet and If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska by Heather Lende. Both non-fiction, and both considered to be uninteresting material for both my parents.
"You should read Nora Roberts, you'd really like her," my mother began listing a gourmet dinner grocery list of books I should be reading.
'Tis the season for road trips, cemetery research, and pumping information from relatives at the family reunion, I explained. It's time to enjoy the ride to the Allen County Public Library, eat the food I don't normally allow myself to even look at, and justify the resulting credit card statement as an 'educational expense.' My complaints were unacknowledged.
So in the face of such overwhelming criticism of my literary habits, I broke down and read the In the Garden series (Blue Dahlia, Black Rose, & Red Lily) by Nora Roberts. And I'm very pleased to report that genealogy is a major plot device in the series. I'd definitely recommend it if you don't mind genealogy research sharing the stage with gardening, romance, southern culture, and a psychotic ghost. But maybe, that was my mom's point all along. Use your interests as a spring board and maybe you'll find some inspiration to look at research in a new way.
But I have to share this one irk with the book; the characters said they found information pertaining to their ghost problem and Memphis in the 1890 census.
The closest thing we have to the 1890 census in Tennessee is the Veteran's Census from 1890. Not helpful in this aspect of the plot. Most researchers rely on the Memphis City Directory from 1890-1891 to assist them with this 20 year blackout between census records.
I've let this fact rest, as the book series is entirely fictional. But I'm still shaking my head over it. I'd love to live in a book where I have access to the full 1890 census. It would totally make most of my research much easier.
Keeping this literary tune in mind, what books (both fiction and non-fiction) with a genealogical bent have you read and could recommend? Leave your interesting, creative, or otherwise informative responses in the comment area below this post.
Next week I'll give you the scoop on our special August workshop "Bringing Family History to Life: The Stories We Could Tell." This presentation will help people interested in telling their family stories to convert their past into well written and published collections. Click here for registration and more information.
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Boundaries in Medieval Art and Architecture (Annual Medieval Postgraduate Colloquium, 2nd February 2014)
The Thursday before the nineteenth annual medieval colloquium, the longest running of all the Courtauld's postgraduate student conferences, was a very special occasion. It was the official launch of the new book of the Institute's longest serving current lecturer, Joanna Cannon. Religious Poverty, Visual Riches is a long-awaited and sizeable achievement, and all were treated to a feast of black and white nibbles to match the habit of the Dominicans that the book focuses on as artistic patrons. But also much thought is given to the theme of boundaries in its pages. Not just between what is history and art history to create an engaging story of art serving the Religious Life, but also conceptual: what is connoisseurship and what is technical analysis. Most important are the boundaries of the very churches themselves: the spaces of the Laity and the Friars and the liminal areas between form the architecture of the book's chapters.
This was why the following Saturday conference was given over to theme of Boundaries in Medieval Art and Architecture. The first session brought us into the conceptual realm of historiographical geography and nationalism. Sophie Dentzer begun the day by showing the exuberant vaults of fourteenth-century England were subject to circumstances. Being often retro-fits on to earlier buildings, and not unknown elsewhere in Europe, consequently she advanced that the English Decorated Style may not have been as English as we thought. James Hillson similarly used his new research into the almost obliterated royal chapel at Westminster to show that some parts may have been designed and built nearly half a century later than usually proposed, 1340s rather than 1290s, to remind us that invention should not be tied to centres of power.
In session two, Federica Gigante's illustration of painted textile showed how meaning could be carried across media: the draping of holy Islamic objects in fabrics into the painting of whole sections of Christian buildings in such patterns to demarcate their importance. But Maria Alessia Rossi's extremely involved study of fourteenth-century pictorial cycles at Thessaloniki through the textual evidence of homilies and the liturgy reminded us that a work of art can contain different but parallel meanings. A contemporary audience could read motifs in multiple ways, and it is no mean task for the art historian to synthesise them into a single interpretation.
After lunch, we had consideration of objects that stood at a physical threshold. First Cristina Dagalita gave us a new reading of the tempting prince with a horrifying gisant back among the Wise and Foolish Virgins on the portal of Strasbourg Cathedral. He was identified with the fool "who said in his heart there is no God", as pictured in the margins of Psalters, tempting the foolish Virgins away from the true door where Christ waits inside for His brides. Karl Kinsella applied an intellectual exegetical reading to Doors in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, a transition between realms: Earthly and Heavenly, pre- and post-lapsarian, Life and Death.
The day was brought to a close with one of the oldest boundaries of all: that of gender. Monica Winiarczyk showed Synagoga, the downfallen counterpart of Ecclesia, as a positive figure: an illustration of the Jewish people within salvation history, and therefore a potential bride of Christ rather than totally damned. Andrea Mattiello's case studies of some fourteenth-century Byzantine churches in Greece with fascinating surviving frescoes showed that delimiting their two-storey spaces into male and female, priestly and lay, elite and common was more difficult than it first seemed. Finally Niamh Bhalla's study of gender in Byzantine Last Judgements brought the day to a thoughtful close: an apparently misogynistic view of sin that was reinforced in a society with a extremely fluid concept of the performative act of gender: where does a masculine female saint stand in a culture of Eunuchs, celibate priests and the glorious Virgin Mary?
Such literal gendering reminds of the wider view of the importance of concepts of contraries, but also the vast spectrum in between which all speakers touched on throughout the day. The conversations within the community of the Courtauld and our gratefully received visiting speakers and audience this weekend certainly boded well for such far-reaching art historical discourses in the next generation of scholarship.


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From 2008-09 through 2012-13, Denison University awarded 24 student-athletes impermissible financial aid when it considered athletics participation when determining financial aid packages, according to findings by the NCAA Division III Committee on Infractions. The university offered prospects an application process that allowed the prospect to submit information that considered, among other things, athletics participation in place of a standardized test score in order to gain admission. Because of this, the committee determined that Denison failed to monitor its financial aid process and failed to educate its admissions and financial aid personnel.
Penalties in this case, including those self-imposed by the university, include two years of probation, a review of the financial aid process during each year of probation and a vacation of participation in NCAA championships in three sports, administrative and reporting requirements.
This case was resolved through the summary disposition process, a cooperative effort where the involved parties collectively submit the case to the Committee on Infractions in written form. The NCAA enforcement staff and school must agree to use the summary disposition process instead of having a formal hearing.
Over five academic years, when applying to the university, a prospect could choose to submit subjective information that was then entered into a form by the admissions staff in place of a standardized test score. The form detailed the prospect's subjective information ranging from extracurricular activities to interest level in the university, and ultimately produced a rating. A prospect's high school athletics participation could add points to the rating. The university used the total form numbers for admission purposes and the formation of financial aid packages without removing the athletics component. As a result, the university considered athletics components when determining financial aid packages for student-athletes who used the alternative application process.
The university failed to monitor the composition of financial aid package when it used the athletics components from the admissions ratings and to determine the packages. Additionally, Denison did not educate its admissions and financial aid personal. While athletics personnel at Denison received rules education and knew that using the form to determine financial aid was against NCAA rules, non-athletics personnel did not receive the same education.
The penalties include:
- Public reprimand and censure.
- Two years of probation from June 19, 2014 through June 18, 2016.
- A vacation of the university's NCAA championship participation in men's lacrosse, women's basketball and softball.
- Request a Level Two review from the NCAA Committee on Financial Aid during each probationary year. During this review, the committee looks closely at a school's policies and procedures for awarding aid, as well as the impact of those factors on aid received by student-athletes (self-imposed by the university).
The members of the Division III Committee on Infractions who reviewed this case include Dave Cecil, chair and associate vice president of financial aid at Transylvania University; Amy Hackett, director of athletics at University of Puget Sound; Keith Jacques, partner at Woodman, Edmands, Danylik, Austin, Smith and Jacques; and Nancy Meyer, director of women's athletics at Calvin College.


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Donna Lou Pickett
Donna Lou (Welch) Pickett, 78, of Kirksville, Missouri, passed away unexpectedly, Monday (November 5, 2012) at her home.
The daughter of Warren Hugh and Elma Ellen (Taylor) Welch, she was born September 28, 1934 in Kirksville, Missouri. On March 22, 1953 in Kirksville, Missouri, Donna was united in marriage to Carrol Pickett who preceded her in death on September 20, 1991.
She was also preceded in death by her parents and one brother, Jim Welch.
Donna is survived by four sons and daughters-in-law, Tim and Cindy Pickett of Hannibal, MO, Jeff and Stacy Pickett of Kirkwood, MO, Bruce and Karen Pickett of Warrensburg, MO and Chris and Terra Pickett of Hallsville, MO; two daughters and sons-in-law, Julie and Sia Ataee of Des Plaines, IL and Candee and Doug Stanley of Kirksville, MO; nineteen grandchildren, Sara Ataee, Ryan Pickett, Josh Pickett and wife, Esther, Katie Pickett, Kyle Pickett, McKenna Pickett, Zach Pickett, Wyatt Pickett, Niki Shouse and husband James, Jamie Pickett, Rudd Pickett, Jada Pickett, Carlee Pipes, Chelsee Pipes, Emma Stanley, Drew Pickett, Jax Pickett, Ella Pickett and Jake Harriman, as well as six great-grandchildren.
Donna was a graduate from Kirksville High School with the Class of 1952. She worked a number of years with the family business (Welch's Grocery.)
She enjoyed gardening, watching Cardinal baseball, watching Chicago Bulls basketball, cooking, collecting cook books and social networking on Face Book.
Donna was a member of Kirksville Baseball/Softball Association and of the Kirksville Booster Club.
Public visitation will be held Thursday (November 8, 2012) from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. in the chapel of Travis-Noe Funeral Home in Kirksville.
Funeral service will be held 11:00 a.m. Friday (November 9, 2012) at Travis-Noe Funeral Home in Kirksville, with Dan Welch and Pastor Jim Pitney presiding. Interment will follow the service at Maple Hills Cemetery in Kirksville.
Pallbearers will be Tim Pickett, Bruce Pickett, Rudd Pickett, Ryan Pickett, Kyle Pickett and Josh Pickett.
Expressions of sympathy in memory of Donna Pickett may be made to the Kirksville Booster Club. Memorials may be left at or mailed to Travis-Noe Funeral Home, P.O. Box 306, Kirksville, MO 63501.


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Claims law enforcement are being blackmailed into backing down
Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com [1]
Mar 11, 2013
Sheriffs in Colorado have accused Senate Democrats of threatening to withhold pay raises as payback for the law enforcers' opposition to multiple draconian gun control bills currently making their way through the legislature.
El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa told a local radio talk show host this weekend that he had been notified by lobbying group The County Sheriffs of Colorado (CSOC), that "the Senate Dem leadership is very upset with the sheriffs and their opposition to the gun control bills."
The group also allegedly told Maketa that unnamed members of the Democratic leadership in the Senate had threatened to delay a vote on a legislation that would see sheriffs' salaries improved in Colorado.
Saying that he would take up the matter with Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, Sheriff Maketa said "What they're saying is 'you have really upset us… and it's almost a coercion, extortion, blackmail or influence of a public official through pay."
Maketa added that sheriffs in the State have had their pay frozen since 2006, and are entitled to a 10 percent increase.
With reference to the content of the gun control bills, Maketa noted that they amount to an attempt to ensure some residents would be forced to surrender their firearms and ammunition.
"Even prior to conviction for a crime, they are forcing citizens, before being proven guilty, to surrender their weapons," he said.
Listen to Maketa's comments below:
"I think it absolutely needs to be looked into," Maketa noted, describing the alleged threat as "sheriffs obey or you will pay."
"A line needs to be drawn between right from wrong and a legal approach versus an unlawful act on behalf of the leadership." the Sheriff said.
In further comments on his Facebook page, Maketa wrote:
"This message insinuated that this could negatively affect the salary bill which has been delayed and put off by the Democrats with the excuse that they would expect bipartisan support."
"I do believe the salary proposal is being held hostage and I believe that if they're willing to send gun control measures without bipartisan support then they should be willing to take a stand as the majority leadership and follow a democrat-created [sic] commission's recommendations."
When asked about the allegations, CSOC president Fred McKee told the Denver Post [2] that he had not heard anything about the matter.
In a statement issued Monday, Senate president John Morse denied the allegations were accurate:
"These allegations are not only false, they are ridiculous," he wrote. "Sheriff Maketa is referencing an email from a member of the sheriff's trade association, CSOC — a lobbying and political organization. He has provided no evidence that anyone in leadership actually said or emailed they were withholding a pay increase to get support on the gun safety bills."
The Colorado Senate advanced five of the gun control bills for a final vote scheduled for today. Three of the bills have already passed the House.
As we have previously reported [3], County Sheriffs all over the country have been very outspoken [4] with regards to State efforts to institute gun control legislation essentially passed down from the Federal level. Many sheriffs have declared such efforts to be unconstitutional and have vowed not to enforce any laws that encompass gun confiscation or infringements on the Second Amendment.
Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones' Infowars.com [5], and Prisonplanet.com [1]. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.


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Huntsville City Schools Selected For the "League of Innovative Schools"
Digital Promise has selected the Huntsville City School District as one of only thirteen districts in the nation for the 2017-2018 League of Innovative Schools cohort. The coalition connects the most forward-thinking school district leaders to work together and share the pioneering and creative learning practices that lead to improved outcomes for students and helps to prepare them for the future. Huntsville will be one of only three school districts in Alabama accepted into the organization which has a total of 93 school districts in 33 states.
Superintendent Dr. Matt Akin says that he felt very fortunate to "come to a community in which so many people have already worked to change education through technology and innovation, and I am honored to be a part of a team to continue that work for our students." The League of Innovative Schools offers an opportunity for Huntsville City Schools to continue that innovative work, by connecting the district with other school systems across the country to help establish best practices, as well as discover new ideas from a diverse group of educators. According to Roy Albright, a Media Arts Magnet Student, "we get to know what other schools are doing, [...] and give them things that we do." He adds that the interconnected league could potentially help to improve education across the country.
In the fall of 2013, Huntsville City Schools made the move to an all-digital learning environment with 1:1 Windows laptops for all students in grades 3-12, and iPads in Pre-K through 2nd grade. A wireless network provides all students at every school reliable and equitable access of digital material and resources. The shift to a digital curriculum has created educational opportunities that have impacted students in every grade.


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Bill would make "revenge porn" a crime
Jilted lovers who hold grudges and post nude or partially nude photographs of their exes could get thrown into prison for a year under a law being considered by the General Assembly.
Connecticut could join California and New Jersey in tailoring laws to discourage the practice of "revenge porn," a dark side of the instant communication available through the Internet. It usually takes the form of nude photos of women, taken during happier days of a relationship, posted by former husbands and boyfriends in acts of post-breakup retribution.
Although no victims testified on the pending legislation during a hearing of the Judiciary Committee on Monday, state prosecutors and victim advocates cited several pending cases in Connecticut for which existing state law against harassment is flawed in its application against those allegedly caught for posting nude photos of their ex-lovers.
But an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut said the proposal violates First Amendment rights to free speech and could set up media outlets for lawsuits because third parties, including websites, could be held liable.
"Laws concerning this issue must be narrowly drawn," warned Sandra Straub, the ACLU's legal director, who suggested that if lawmakers want to protect victims, they should consider rewriting the current proposal to mimic California law.
"You would have to amend almost all of it to make it right," Straub said to Rep. William Tong, D-Stamford, who asked for guidance for a possible redrafting of the legislation before the committee's April 2 deadline.
She said the California law, which was not opposed by that state's affiliate of the ACLU, said it hinges on the agreement, written or non-written, between lovers to keep intimate images private, and an attempt to cause harm to the person whose image gets posted in revenge.
Under the Connecticut proposal, intimate images would be prohibited from posting if a person were attempting to "harass, annoy, alarm or terrorize another person."
State Victim Advocate Garvin G. Ambrose said the issue is just emerging, but several criminal cases are active in Connecticut.
"States are only beginning to acknowledge and criminalize revenge porn," he wrote the committee.
"If this proposal is adopted, victims, law enforcement and prosecutors alike will not have to rake through Connecticut's criminal code attempting to find and stretch a provision that may fit the crime," Ambrose said. "Victims need a means for prosecution and financial recovery. Moreover this proposal empowers law enforcement to take swift action upon a report of distribution of revenge porn, as there will be identifiable legal grounds for their intervention."
A private relationship represents an informal contract, said Jillian Gilchrest, director of public policy for Connecticut Sexual Assault Crisis Services, in prepared testimony.
"When individuals are in a relationship, there is an unwritten understanding that private moments and intimate exchanges will be kept within the confines of that relationship," she said. "While relationships don't always last, the intimate moments that occurred within that relationship should remain private."
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