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RE: Comments:Criticize public figures regarding their public work. Don't attack a private citizen by name nor repeatedly/ Need an explanation for today's insanity? Here it is: "woe to you people of the world, for the devil has come down to you in great anger, knowing that he has little time." Rev. 12:12 TLB :
Friday, April 20, 2012
Suspended ASU Professor....
<"Just some random thoughts on today's meeting and a small piece of news (or two)
1. A comment to the professor who remained seated while everyone else in the room stood and pledged allegiance to the flag. I want you to know that I strongly support your right to sit there while others salute the flag. I also support your right to burn the flag, spit on it, or engage in any other act of disrepect to our flag or our country as you want to. I am sure others on this board will agree with me.
Just as I am sure that you and others will respect my right to form my opinions of you based on the actions or lack of actions I observe in you. It is unfortunate that you are in a position to influence young, impressionable minds as you are...and particularly so that you do so at taxpayer expense. But, as I said, I respect your rights."
Today, when I read THIS ARTICLE on GoBlueRidge.Net concerning her recent activity, I couldn't help but wonder about this STATE EMPLOYEE who refused to stand in respect for others who were pledging allegiance to their country and is now apparently showing pornographic films to her students. This is what our tax dollars are supporting!
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Typical professor. You know it absolutley killed ASU leadership to do it, but in this case they probably had no choice. For every one of these dolts fired, a thousand more do just the same every day. Let's hope she's denied welfare, food stamps and all public assistance as well.
Pamela Houlton
- April 21, 2012 at 12:19 AM
These liberal professors work for liberal colleges who make money off students. How come colleges aren't considered corporations by Occupy Wall Street hippies and other liberal degenerates? Funny, a stupid liberal will pay 100,000 for a generic 4 year degree and not complain, yet over that same period 5,000 dollars of gas is criminal. WTF? What a bunch of dolting idiots the fringe left liberals really are.
Extremist corporations that would hire a professor like the one fired at ASU are the real problem here folks. Wake up!!
- April 21, 2012 at 12:41 AM
Any extremist liberal feel like some literary jousting this fine Friday night? It gets lonely being at the top all them time. Sad kinda too. Perhaps one of you slug degenerate racists would like to prove your worth (LOL) on the field. How bout it?
Dear old Rainsford perhaps?
Or maybe Shylock
Or maybe the idiot broken record POV
Your ole pal
Hope Cassidy-Owens
- April 21, 2012 at 12:43 AM
- NewGuy said...
At his point she has not been fired...she is apparently on a paid suspension (Administrative leave)...
My bet is that ASU will end up doing nothing.
- April 21, 2012 at 9:02 AM
How is pornography not an appropriate topic for study in a sociology class? These are all adults, right? Porn is an industry that generates over 10 billion dollars a year in this country alone. Shouldn't it be studied by someone?
- April 21, 2012 at 3:09 PM
Idiot. So you're a porn supporter now? Fantastic. Legal prostitution in Colombia is a big money maker too. With this in mind, your saying the 6 pre-madonna Secret Service idiots shouldn't have been fired? Expound on this for us, please.
This ought to be interesting......
Your ole pal
Johnny Rico
- April 21, 2012 at 4:36 PM
Johnny, the professor was reprimanded for not warning the students about the upcoming, possibly offensive material.
It was a film about the porn industry, not a pornographic film itself. Plus, it was part of a sociology course. The film was part of the university's library to begin with, for Pete's sake.
And I believe you meant prima Donna and not pre-Madonna (pre-1958?)
- April 21, 2012 at 5:45 PM
Watch the trailer for the movie. It is rated adult and contains pornographic scenes. The professor was wrong to show this film without warning. I know the type -- a student that might have asked for an alternative would have been identified by the professor, who most likely, like so many liberals, would adopt a disrespectful and condescending tone for the "prudish, ignorant religios" student. Why do you assume in your post that all adults would be okay with viewing pornography? If a person chooses not to watch pornography in their own life, why should they have to in a college sociology class that they are paying for? And if the point was to discuss the negative impacts of pornography on society, why can that conversation not take place without actually viewing pornography?
- April 21, 2012 at 9:36 PM
The left certainly supports strange causes.
One banned leftist poster supported pedophilia, voter intimidation, and terrorism.
This one is apparently a supporter of pornography and forcing private businesses to conform to her wage criteria.
When you add this to the fact many of them are rabid in their support of murdering unborn babies because women are not responsible enough to practice abstinence or birth control, the pattern of lunacy becomes glaringly apparent.
- April 21, 2012 at 9:37 PM
Why do you assume in your post that all adults would be okay with viewing pornography? --Nobody
When in the world did I say that!? Please kindly keep your pathetic projections to yourself.
- April 21, 2012 at 11:31 PM
Sorry, it was Brushfire who made the comment, "These are all adults." I mistakenly attributed that to you, since both of you seem to be supporting the professor. The "pathetic projection" comment was uncalled for. Would you agree that the video IS inappropriate for viewing in a classroom without warning or offering an alternative assignment? Would you agree that a discussion regarding the damaging effects of pornography can take place without actually having to view pornography? You are the one who said, "It was a film about the porn industry, not a pornographic film itself." If you need to see what I'm talking about, the video she showed was titled, "Price of Pleasure." You can google it -- there's a webpage for the video that identifies the rating as "Adult" and has a trailer.
- April 22, 2012 at 7:15 AM
Nobody, I agree with you on all those points. No doubt at all. I was responding to Johnny's over-dramatization of the documentary, which has educational value, versus showing an unedited pornographic movie, which does not.
Perhaps Johnny was just being a "pre-madonna".
- April 22, 2012 at 8:00 AM
No, your wrong in supporting the liberal professor as usual. The professsor showed porn in her class. Period. In addition to showing porn, this liberal socialist sheep of a professor made disparaging remarks about male athletes.
Like most liberals, this professor engages in race baiting. Classifying male athletes into a certain category is stereotyping; a strong form of discrimination. Hitler, before killing them, first stereotyped Jews and others to turn public tide against them. Same for the liberal socialist sheep of a lemming professor.
She went so far this time that liberal faculty at ASU had no recourse but to suspend her. I'm sure it hurt their souls to do so, but let's hope she is summarily fired and her pension taken away. Treason should be treated harshly. Don't you think? LOL!!
Your ole pal
Johnny Rico
Stings don't it
- April 22, 2012 at 11:51 AM
First, it's "you're" not "your". If you are (you're) going to claim intellectual superiority over the huddled liberal masses, at least have the fortitude to use proper grammar.
Second, I never claimed to support the professor in her decision to spring pornographic material on her students without warning (I believe we agree on this point).
Stop being such a "pre-madonna"
- April 22, 2012 at 12:24 PM
Is this all you-ins can come back with? This is it? LOL! Once again I have befuddled, intimidated, and won the day. It was easy, let me assure you. Dealing with a lot of idiots is (yawn) always entertaining and always easy, often to the point of bordom.
The liberal professor is paying the price for showing porn to her students and for degrading male athletes as some inferior class of individuals. Let's hope she, and thousands more like her, are fired and denied government aid of any sort. Great stuff!!!!!
Your ole pal
Johnny Rico
Stings don't it
- April 22, 2012 at 3:16 PM
- April 22, 2012 at 3:25 PM
You once again prove my point. LOL! Your ole pal
Johnny Rico
- April 23, 2012 at 12:31 AM
I take issue with the class of ADULTS because if all ASU students are adults then why is it policy not to publish names of adult students who break the law on campus?
- April 23, 2012 at 4:45 PM
Good point Anonymous.
Also, if they were adults, then it would only be logical for them to have the means to defend themselves on campus. They may be adults off campus, but are not considered so on campus because the argument against concealed carry on campus is that the students are not mature enough to do so. Therefore no one can carry as the discrimination factor would sink the argument if non students could carry.
There is absolutely no logic in disarming adults on a college campus when they can legally carry one foot off of campus.
- April 23, 2012 at 6:58 PM
It's good to see the liberal activist professor on suspension isn't it? She showed porn to the class and is paying the price for it as well as her comments towards athletes. Funny how a liberal says stereotyping is racial and then they stereotype. What a bunch of hypocrites.
Looks like we shut your down on this post George. It was easy, let me assure you. LOL!!
Your dear ole pal
Pam Salone-May
- April 23, 2012 at 10:05 PM
Looks like the liberals socialist sheep didn't want any more to do with this thread. Facts and logical reasoning get them every time! LOL!!
Your ole pal
Tony Rodez
- April 24, 2012 at 9:33 PM
- NewGuy said...
This professor who refused to stand in respect of those saluting our flag in a county commission meeting, is now complaining about her "rights" being violated.
Ironic. Would those be the "rights" provided by our " One nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all"?
- April 25, 2012 at 11:50 AM
- NewGuy said...
When a serious allegation is made, the most appropriate course of action for the administration to take is to place the individual on administrative leave pending the results of an investigation.
The on line Watauga Democrat has a good article today about this case. Predictably, all the liberals have jumped in to support the professor. Remember how, when the allegations were made against Duke Lacrosse players, all the liberal professors at Duke jumped in and insisted that these student athletes continue in school until the allegations were proven? Don't remember that?
That's because it didn't happen.
- April 25, 2012 at 12:12 PM
Call me silly, but I'm perfectly fine with the notion of withholding judgement until a full investigation is completed. I realize that might sound ridiculous to knee-jerk activists, jaded academics, paranoid conspiracy theorists and general opponents of "The Man," but I can live with that.
- April 25, 2012 at 4:06 PM
Administrative leave in order to have time to investigate a matter is not a rush to judgement. It is quite the contrary.
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Stéphane Leathead-Exocet Multifunctional Chair
At Design Interviews
Interview with Stéphane Leathead : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Stéphane Leathead : To design a chair that would have multiple functions while remaining comfortable and easy to use. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Stéphane Leathead : To create a chair using very few pieces. Could it be possible to design a chair using only one basic form .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Stéphane Leathead : To create an Exocet Collection .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Stéphane Leathead : 2 months .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Stéphane Leathead : As a personal challenge. I had enough of the traditional existing long chair. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Stéphane Leathead : I'm planning to sell the production rights but I do produce limited edition myself. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Stéphane Leathead : The desire to create something meaningful, different, pleasing. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Stéphane Leathead : no .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Stéphane Leathead : Design lovers, Luxury Lifestyle, High-end furniture boutiques, Interior design, Architecture, Exclusive Hotels & Resorts, Exclusive International Cruise lines & ships, Luxury Spa Resorts & Centres, Private collection .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Stéphane Leathead : The fact that you can transform it to your needs very simply. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Stéphane Leathead : When configured as a lounge chair, it looks like a fish. The Exocet name became obvious when I realized I could combine the "X" and the "O" to create one possible configuration. Exocet is the name of the flying fish. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Stéphane Leathead : 3D software and good old .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Stéphane Leathead : It is designed from one slat shape. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Stéphane Leathead : no .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Stéphane Leathead : The technology is crucial to create pieces of the exact same shape. Without technology this design wouldn't be possible. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Stéphane Leathead : no .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Stéphane Leathead : To produce perfectly identical slats. To avoid friction problems. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Stéphane Leathead : When I received amazing response form all around the world. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Stéphane Leathead : I realized that furniture design in something I should push further. .
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When it comes to agile engineering practices, software craftsmanship skills are very important. Today, our engineering approaches with less documentation, team collaboration and incremental continuous deliveries demand your craftsmanship skills as never before.
There have been many initiatives by many software companies and organizations recently to help our industry for acquiring such skills. It's so better than just complaining about lacking skills in our own industry.
www.coderetreat.lk is such an initiative taken by us, We have invited a reputed community expert to come to Sri Lanka and do pair programming with our software engineers to improve their coding styles. As a contribution to the industry, we decided to open such event to public so that many developers out there also can gain the benefit of the event.
This will happen on 2nd June, It's a long weekend in Sri Lanka. However, all what matters is your passion!


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You will need a dedicated account if you set up in business but that can bring its own rewards, as chris dighton discovers
Opening a business account is very different to having one for your own private banking.
First, the number of transactions is likely to be far higher; secondly the way it works will be different – mainly because the cash flow is likely to be far more variable. Then there is the small matter of policing it.
Let's face it: everything you do in business revolves around money. This money needs to be identifiable at every stage of the transaction. Opening a business bank account is the simplest way to achieve accountability and provide a good degree of transparency in your business dealings to allow government departments, creditors and auditors to accurately assess your business.
A business account will also give you credibility as your bank has, to a degree, assessed and accepted your business proposal.
The good news is that the success of the banks, their profits – a quite staggering £750 million – has led to a government initiative that has forced the big banks to offer all small businesses interest accounts at 2.5 per cent below the bank base rate, or an account that offers free transaction charges.
With a small business it is probably more prudent to look at charges as opposed to interest rates. Whatever your bank balance is, small business accounts will always attract charges for one reason or another.
If you are a sole trader, open a current account that will have your name and trading style, for example, Bob Brown T/A Brown Business Services (T/A means 'trading as'). Having a business name will give you a more professional look, and will also allow you to ask for cheques to be written in your business name only i.e. 'Brown Business Systems'.
If you have created a limited company you will want to open an account in the name of, say, 'Brown Business Services Limited'. You will need to have your limited company set up before your visit to the bank.
Your current bank is not necessarily the best bank to open your account with. There are a few reasons for this: banks offer a varying degree of business start-up accounts; some have no charges for two years, Internet banking, an instant cash card, 24 hour availability etc. Also, keeping your business life away from your personal life will ensure that your bank is not in total control of your finances, and a bank that does not have you using all of its products is very keen to offer you the best deals.
In the initial free period, you may get a choice of monthly statements, and some may allow free weekly or fortnightly statements. Whatever they offer for free, if it is not weekly, then it's not enough. It is better to pay extra (£1 to £2 per month) than to estimate from month to month as you wait for your statement.
No bank allows free periods for penalty payments and only experienced bookkeepers can survive with monthly statements.
If you are PC literate and you feel confident enough to use and understand on-line banking it has to be a solid choice, but do look at the points listed in the box on the left.
The British Bankers Association (BBA) says people should speak to their own bank first about a business account but advise that they compare what's on offer from at least three different banks.
'There is no such thing as a typical small business,' says a spokesman. 'Shop around to see what the banks have on offer, how closely each matches your needs and how much they will charge for operating your account, and make sure you compare like with like.'
There are a whole range of services and charges that are unique to business accounts and they often come as a surprise to people venturing down the self-employed route.
Some emphasise on-going advice and consultancy services and appoint individual business advisers in branches – often vital for someone taking their first tentative steps into self-employment.
As far as the costs of business accounts go, there are plenty – fixed fees for running accounts and even charges per transaction are common. Some are charged monthly, some quarterly, and the level of charge often differs depending upon the turnover of a business.
'As a rule of thumb, the greater the amount of cash handled and the greater the volume of cheques passing through your account the more you will pay in charges,' adds the BBA. In the case of start-ups, some charges may be waived while your new business is finding its feet. A number of banks offer free basic banking for the first 12 to 18 months. The catch is that it may only apply if the customer has their personal account with the same bank.
Other things to consider are the cost of overdrafts and loans and whether the account pays interest.
The importance of finding the right business account cannot be over- emphasised. Each year, many of the 400,000 or so start-ups choose a business account with any old bank, usually where the owner has his or her personal bank account. About a tenth of these businesses close within a year, and only around half are still trading after four years.
Amazingly, most of the UK's small businesses have never shopped around to find better tariffs, charges and interest rates. In fact, according to the Institute of Directors, less than a third of firms (31 per cent) with up to 20 employees have switched banks in the last five years. However, bigger businesses were much more likely to switch, with 54 per cent of businesses with 21 to 100 workers changing banks during the same period.
That's a shame because, according to the Banking Liaison Group, four out of five small businesses are paying too much in banking charges.
Too often there is a sense of misplaced loyalty, but do bear in mind that you shop around for other suppliers, so why not shop around for a bank account that suits the needs of your business? And don't worry too much about ditching a long-term relationship with your bank. When the going gets tough, banks are far more interested in your current financial situation than in the length of time that you've banked with them.


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Job Title: Showroom Supervisor
Department: Entertainment
Gaming License: Class III
FLSA Status: Exempt
Reports To: Production Manager
Enhances the overall quality and appeal of our internal entertainment program through supervision of scenery placement and technical details in order to increase excitement and satisfaction of our guests.
Supervisory Responsibilities
Directly supervises the Showroom Technicians.
Education and/or Experience
HS/GED required; Associate's degree (A. A.) or equivalent from two-year college or technical school preferred; One to two years' experience in live audio/lighting/video as either a front of house engineer, monitor engineer, lighting director and or video operator and/or an equivalent combination of education, training and work experience; two (2) years supervisory experience required.
Computer Skills
To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of ticket distribution software; Database software; Spreadsheet software and Word Processing software.
Other Qualifications
Must be able to quickly assimilate data and communicate corporate information to key external and internal audiences. Ability to deal effectively with executive clients (internal and external). Must be able to lift and carry the weight needed to perform the duties of the job. Must be able to work at a fast pace and in stressful situations.
* Must meet MVR requirements to be authorized to use company vehicles (See Authorized Vehicle Drivers - Job Description Appendix)
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Must be able to read, write, speak and understand English.
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While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to walk; use hands and fingers to handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
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With recent news accounts that the President of Hungary is being asked to resign due to the discovery that his Ph.D Dissertation had unusually extensive copying, the issue of plagiarism has once again been catapulted into prominence. There is an even more fundamental issue, that of intellectual honesty. Unfortunately, this issue also intrudes itself into the every-day practice of genealogical research.
I live in a different research world. In the legal community, you have to cite your sources. Period. If you fail to cite a source, no matter how good your argument, the court can completely disregard it. The reason is that our legal system relies on the principle of stare decisis or precedent. As much as is possible, legal writing and legal arguments rely on the decisions in previous cases. Not only is it mandatory to cite your sources, you generally are required to quote them exactly and extensively. In writing a legal brief, failing to cite a source would not only be intellectually dishonest, it would be ineffective and poor legal writing.
In the academic world, failing to cite your sources and extensive copying are considered plagiarism. We don't hear a lot about plagiarism in the genealogical community, but I can say with certainty, that it is rampant and that failure to cite a source is endemic. This is completely apart from any further issues of copyright. Even if something that is copied is in the public domain failing to cite a source and copying without attribution is intellectual dishonesty. Any time you are appropriating ideas and work as you own without giving credit to the originator you are being dishonest.
Violating copyright laws is also intellectually dishonest. The mistake is thinking that as long as an item is not under copyright you can copy it to your heart's content. The answer is yes, you can copy it without violating the copyright law, but failure to provide a source citation, failure to attribute the work or appropriating the work as your own is intellectually dishonest.
You don't have to go very far to find extensive genealogical plagiarism, just look at any collection of family trees. There are almost always multiple copies of anything original without a shadow of attribution. This problem is especially prominent with the use of photographs. When was the last time you saw the name of the photographer associated with an old photograph? It may be an extensively common practice but it is intellectually dishonest when there is any possibility that the work would be improperly attributed to the appropriator.
But intellectual honesty goes far beyond mere copying. Is it intellectually honest to appropriate someone's research and present it as your own? I cannot count the number of times I have heard complaints from genealogists about someone copying their research and then publishing or putting it online as their own work without so much a mentioning the source of the information. It doesn't matter that the originator cares or does not care about being recognized, intellectual honesty requires some sort of notice to a reader that the work is not your own.
Mind you, I am not talking about facts. Facts are facts. "George was born in 1835" is a fact. But it is dishonest to represent that you did the research without giving the source. So this is not an issue of copyright, which does not extend to protecting facts and ideas, but an issue of intellectual honesty.
It is further intellectually dishonest to copy unsupported data without verifying that it is correct. I have mentioned in this blog before about the long line of Tanner surname books that contain the same copied inaccurate information. In this case, even if the copies are given full attribution, it is equally intellectually dishonest to republish unsupported and inaccurate data.
When was the last time you heard a presentation or read a blog post on intellectual honesty. The idea of attributing your research and sources is often discussed, but without mentioning the basic concepts.
The solution is quite simple. Don't violate the copyright laws. Cite your sources as completely and consistently as possible and always attribute the work of others.


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KOR unveiled its latest innovation, the Nava: a filtering bottle that provides the ultimate in style and convenience for consumers seeking an alternative to bottled water. Nava contains its own replaceable filter that lasts three months under normal use, replacing 300 disposable water bottles and saving consumers up to $400 in bottles water purchases.
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[First published July 10, 2005] In response to my empirical claim that democracies have never had a famine, I sometimes get questions about India, particularly about the 1943-1945 Bengal famine when India was under British rule.
First, of the 86,000,000 people who died in famines in the 20th century, not one of them lived in a democracy. Nor has any famine occurred in India while it was a democracy. Consider the work of Amartya Sen, for example, the 1998 Nobel Prize winner in economics from India. He became the youngest chairman of the Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, at the age of 23. He has been the President of the Econometric Society (1984), the International Economic Association (1986-89), the Indian Economic Association (1989), and the American Economic Association (1994). He is now Master of Trinity College Cambridge. So, he should know something about India. Sen says as well that no democracy has had a famine, and as far as India is concerned, its last famine was the 1943 Bengal famine ( Development as Freedom , p. 180) when India was a colony of Britain.
Second, as to the devastating Bengal famine, I've put some time into studying the scholarly works on it, including those by Indians. The highest estimate of the famine toll I could find is 4,500,000 dead; the lowest at 1,500,000. After going through these works, I settled on a range of 1,500,000 to 4,500,000 dead, most likely about 3,000,000. I did not mark this famine down as British democide. True, they are partly responsible for it, since it was aggravated by the British taking food supplies for their Burma campaign and to stock up for a possible Japanese invasion.
However, the famine was not intended and once it happened the British took steps to deal with it. This is the same argument I used for not counting the Chinese communist famine of 1959-63 as democide. If the Bengal famine is to be defined as British democide, then the Chinese famine must also so be counted, which would add at least 27,000,000 or more to the Chinese communist of about 35,000,000 murdered.
Link of Note
"Facts About Hunger" From CARE
CARE's facts:
More than 840 million people in the world are malnourished — 799 million of them live in the developing world.
More than 153 million of the world's malnourished people are children under the age of 5.
Six million children under the age of 5 die every year as a result of hunger.
Malnutrition can severely affect a child's intellectual development. Malnourished children often have stunted growth and score significantly lower on math and language achievement tests than do well-nourished children.
Lack of dietary diversity and essential minerals and vitamins also contributes to increased child and adult mortality. Vitamin A deficiency impairs the immune system, increasing the annual death toll from measles and other diseases by an estimated 1.3 million-2.5 million children.
While every country in the world has the potential of growing enough food to feed itself, 54 nations currently do not produce enough food to feed their populations, nor can they afford to import the necessary commodities to make up the gap. Most of these countries are in sub-Saharan Africa.
Most of the widespread hunger in a world of plenty results from grinding, deeply rooted poverty. In any given year, however, between 5 and 10 percent of the total can be traced to specific events: droughts or floods, armed conflict, political, social and economic disruptions.
True, hunger and malnutrition occur even when famines are not present, but famine is the extreme and most deadly case of hunger and is reflected in these "facts." Then note what is missing. There is no reference to democracy or dictatorships. Yet, the most glaring cause of extreme hunger and poverty is that thugs rule a country. How does one explain this blindness about hunger and poverty? How about ideological blindness and ignorance?
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Gr3en Energy: A New Organic Kale Energy Drink
A new organic energy drink by Oahu entrepreneur Alan Joaquin.
Photo: David Croxford
The health food pitches keep coming: Kale will fight cancer and lower your cholesterol! Coconut water has 16 times the potassium of your favorite sports drink! Green tea is packed with antioxidants!
Alan Joaquin, the serial entrepreneur behind FarmRoof and Wiki Garden, wanted to put all three power ingredients together and came up with Gr3en, his latest kale-fueled product. It's an organic energy drink, available statewide in most supermarkets. Even the Hokulea made space for 288 cans on its worldwide voyage.
"Necessity is the mother of invention," says Joaquin. "I was looking for something for myself that was functional, healthy, organic and without chemicals. We wanted to provide something to help an athlete, busy mom or someone stressed out at work."
We've all been there, in need of an extra energy boost. I personally avoid energy drinks because of their sickly-sweet artificial flavor. But Gr3en is not that type of energy drink.
"The big brands have synthetic ingredients and stimulants like taurine and artificial flavors," says Joaquin. "You don't know what they are. Why does it make you all twitchy? It's all the chemicals in it. Gr3en, on the other hand, has nothing artificial or synthetic about it. It's loaded with antioxidants and nutrients, and engineered with 12 grams of sugar for the optimal energy boost to your glucose levels."
When I picked up a Gr3en at Whole Foods, the 8.4 oz can was smaller than I expected, particularly for $3.29. But finally, here was an energy drink with ingredients that didn't read like a foreign language: sparkling green tea, coconut water, cane sugar, kale juice, guarana extract and citric acid. Guarana is Brazil's caffeine-packed fruit: "In its natural organic plant form, it gives you a heightened sense of clearness and focus, and doesn't give that jittery hyper buzz," says Joaquin. "It's a mellow enjoyable energy boost with clarity to it."
GR3EN is rather refreshing, fizzy, coconut-y, with a slightly tangy kale aftertaste. I felt a bit buzzed and alert, rather than wired. It was the perfect afternoon pick-me-up, and it grew on me with each sip.
Launch party, Saturday, June 14, 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m., Rumfire in the Sheraton Waikiki, gr3en.org. Bring in an empty can of GR3N energy to get in for free.


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Reaching Sunday's RFU Intermediate Cup final at Twickenham has been an achievement for all the teammates at Trowbridge, but it has an extra significance for four of the team's oldest friends.
Four members of the current team first played together for the club's under-8s, and despite new jobs and university separating them, they are all looking forward to lining up together at Twickenham.
Right wing James MacFarlane, 20, plays for the team while studying sports coaching in Cardiff.
He said: "It's good to come back to see your old friends at the weekend, then go back to concentrate on work in the week.
"It's surreal really, to get into a final with some of the mates you have grown up and played rugby with all your life. We never would have thought of it at the start of the year. "
Fellow student James Davies travels back home to Hilperton from Portsmouth every weekend, and fits training in around the first year of his geography degree.
"They are my best friends and it's great to play alongside them for the games, but also for the socials afterwards," he said.
"My parents are good friends with James MacFarlane and Tom Weaver's parents as well, so it's great for them to all keep in contact through the club."
Bath-based sales consultant Tom Weaver, 19, also lives in Hilperton. He said: "The new club is perfect for me, as it's within walking distance after a heavy night.
"As well as this final it was great that we all got selected to represent Dorset and Wilts under-20s this year, so to run out with James, James and Tom and get representative honours for that was a great moment."
Open-side flanker Tom Coombes lives in Westbury, where he works for the MOD.
He said: "Some of the boys have gone to different colleges and moved away but we all still come back to Trowbridge.
"We have all developed together, which helps on the pitch. I know Tom has got quick hands, and James and James are both very fast guys.
"I'm quite proud that we've all come through the ranks together."


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Raymond Johnson Named to Wyoming Aviation Hall of Fame
Raymond A. Johnson, one of Wyoming's early commercial pilots, has been named the 2013 inductee into the Wyoming Aviation Hall of Fame.
In addition to flying for commercial airlines, Johnson's aviation career included barnstorming, air racing, weather observation, flight instruction, flight testing, crop dusting, and serving as a forest fire lookout and the state's aviation safety officer.
He was selected as the 22nd inductee into the Hall of Fame by its board of directors, with the approval of the Wyoming Aeronautics Commission. An induction ceremony is being planned for later this fall.
During World War II, Johnson was a test pilot for North American Aviation in Kansas City. He conducted test flights on the P-51 and B-25. After the war, he worked at airports in Mitchell, Neb., Huron, S.D., and Great Falls, Mont.
He flew for Mountain Airways, Inland Airways, Cheyenne Flying Service, and Plains Airways, where he was promoted to operations manager of its Army Air Corps training program at Cheyenne, Laramie, and Fort Morgan, Colo.
He earned his Civil Aeronautics Administration advanced flight training instructor rating and became the chief pilot for the newly formed collegiate training class at the University of Wyoming. He also was a CAA district flight supervisor at Lambert Field, Mo.
In 1951, he became flight instructor and later flight commander at Columbus Air Force Base in Mississippi, where he trained pilots during the Korean War.
In 1960, Johnson returned to Wyoming and became the Wyoming Aeronautics Commission's safety and enforcement officer. He also served as a pilot for Govs. Jack Gage and Cliff Hansen.


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Equipment arrives, at last, for Jamaican bobsledders
KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — On Wednesday, Jamaican pilot Winston Watts told reporters the team's runners (blades for the sled), bobsled shoes and other equipment had not made it from New York to Sochi.
Late Wednesday night, a Twitter account dedicated to the Jamaican bobsled team posted photos of their equipment at Sochi International Airport.
Watts confirmed the gear arrived just before midnight Wednesday, and the Jamaicans were at the track early Thursday for two practice runs.
"The first run was a little bit shaky, but when you go on a new track that's how you feel," Watts said. "You're going to feel butterflies, but you have to overcome that."
There was an additional luggage snafu, though.
"We got our clothes, but it was full of protein powder. (Security) opened the protein powder containers, and never closed the tins," Watts said. "The containers were sealed. And they left them open. In my helmet today I had protein powder going into my eyes."
Even though Watts was frustrated on Wednesday, he maintained a positive outlook. Had the equipment not arrived, he was prepared to borrow gear from another country, and the Jamaicans have a close relationship with the Canadian bobsled federation.
"There's no such word to explain how I felt being here," Watts said. "The atmosphere, the fans, the friends, you the media, it's pretty exciting. … Every moment is positive. We always keep the guys smiling. That's our motto."
While they are not medal hopefuls, Jamaican bobsledders have routinely captured attention, starting with their first Olympics in 1988 and the movie Cool Runnings, loosely based on their story and starring John Candy.
This year the Jamaicans, who are based in Wyoming, were underfunded and needed an aggressive crowdfunding campaign to make the trip. They raised nearly $130,000 and will compete in bobsled at the Olympics for the sixth time.


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LA QUINTA, Calif. (AP) The final Q-school that granted direct access to the PGA Tour could turn out to be a waste of a remarkable effort by Si Woo Kim.
The 17-year-old from South Korea made it through all four stages of qualifying - that includes a pre-qualifying stage in September - and was among 25 players who earned their cards Monday at PGA West. Trouble is, he can't become a PGA Tour member until he turns 18 on June 28.
Kim might play as few as three tournaments and go right back to Q-school - only then, he would have to spend a year on the Web.com Tour.
The PGA Tour has no provision for Kim to appeal to be a member before he is 18, so his options are limited until his next birthday.
He can accept as many seven sponsor exemptions before June 28, but those exemptions might be hard to come by for a kid hardly anyone knows, especially with the likes of Camilo Villegas needing a spot next year. Kim also can try to qualify on Mondays in open tournaments. Whatever points he earns would not count in the regular FedEx Cup standings, though he could transfer those points when he becomes a member.
Kim turns 18 the week of the AT&T National, and will be the lowest-ranked member (zero points) among this Q-school class. He can only hope he gets in The Greenbrier Classic and John Deere Classic. There are two events he can count on (Mississippi opposite the British Open, Reno-Tahoe opposite the Bridgestone Invitational). He also might have a chance at getting in the Canadian Open.
And then the FedEx Cup playoffs begin for the top 125.
The players who finish from 126 to 200 would qualifying for the four tournament series called ``The Finals'' that, in effect, replaces Q-school and awards 25 cards to the top finishers on that separate money list. With so few starts, Kim would have to play well to get into the top 200.
Claiming an injury so that he could start the season fresh in October would not do him any good because he would only get about four starts, the same as he realistically could have played starting in July.
His best hope would be to get a few exemptions earlier in the year and make the most of them. But those rules have changed, too. Because of the short season, tournaments no longer have four unrestricted exemptions to award. The number has been reduced to two, and tournaments have to award four spots to players from Q-school or the Web.com Tour based on their priority ranking. Kim is toward the bottom.
So the kid with the polished swing came a long way to get his PGA Tour card. And he still has a long way to go.
RYDER CUP REVIEW: Ian Poulter struggled with jet lag going from Dubai to California, and he was on his own last week, giving him plenty of time to kill. It turned out to be the perfect opportunity to watch highlights of the Ryder Cup for the first time since Europe's comeback at Medinah.
And he still couldn't believe it.
``I knew the outcome and I'm still sitting there saying ... `look at the board.' The board kept changing, changing, changing,'' he said. ``It was really solid blue, then it went empty with three matches all square, more red numbers, then it went blue again. Calculations were going all over the place.''
The two shots that stood out for Poulter were Steve Stricker's chip behind the 17th green that went 7 feet past the hole and led to bogey that gave Martin Kaymer the lead, and Justin Rose making a 35-foot putt on the 17th to square his match with Phil Mickelson.
``If you're trying to find something late in the field, those were it,'' he said.
His only criticism of U.S. captain Davis Love III was the very thing Love already has said he regrets - the hole locations for Sunday singles. The pin was far right on the 17th and front right on the 18th.
``If he goes left corner, left corner, they win the Ryder Cup,'' Poulter said, noting that most of the Americans favor a right-to-left shot.
His overall observation of this Ryder Cup is one that few can dispute.
``I'm not sure we'll see another one quite like it,'' he said.
OBNOXIOUS FANS: Keegan Bradley's comments about a fan who called him a cheater for using a belly putter gave Graeme McDowell a platform to speak out against another kind of noise from the gallery that has gone on too long.
``You da man!'' has given way to ``Get in the hole!'' to ``Mashed potatoes.''
``I'm kind of fed up with all this `mashed potatoes' and all this rubbish that the crowd are kind of enjoying shouting right now,'' McDowell said after his win at Sherwood.
``Keegan had a guy out there ... after every shot he was `Yabba dabba doing' and it was just stupid. It's something for the players. It's not a lot of fun, and it's kind of becoming a little bit of a cool thing to do for the spectators. It gives them their two or three seconds of fame. But it gets a little frustrating for everyone.''
COUNTDOWN TO RIO: Few things in golf get Suzann Pettersen more excited than the Olympics in 2016.
``Growing up in Norway, the Olympics was the biggest thing in sports,'' she said. ``I never thought that I would ever compete in an Olympic Games as a golfer. So when that chance came up a couple years ago, it was a very obvious goal for me. It would be nice to complete a career with a gold medal or a medal in the Olympics. That's kind of where I see my road right now, and it's quite exciting.''
Some players believe an Olympic gold medal would not be as valuable as a U.S. Open trophy, a green jacket, a claret jug or even a jump into the pond at the Kraft Nabisco. Pettersen believes that will change over time, assuming golf becomes a permanent part of the Olympic program.
``I think it will take a generation to build the kind of respect and the honor it is to actually have a gold medal in golf,'' she said. ``I think you will see the kids at 4, 5 years old now seeing Rory and Tiger compete for an Olympic medal. Once they see that, they want to be there, as well, and I think that's when you start building the new generation where the Olympics would be a major part of the sport of golf.''
Her Olympic inspiration came from winter sports, and she lists Kjetil Andre Aamodt as Norway's greatest Olympian (putting him ahead of Johann Olav Koss). As for the best Olympian in summer sports?
``Summer is not our strongest season,'' she said.
DIVOTS: Counting only past champions who played in eight or more events last year, the PGA Tour membership for 2013 features 80 players from 21 countries outside the United States. Australia continues to lead the way with 22 players, followed by 10 each from South Korea, England and Sweden. ... Jason Dufner, coming off a breakthrough year of two wins and an impressive Ryder Cup debut, will be playing in Abu Dhabi and Qatar in January. That means missing three PGA Tour events he played this year - Sony Open, Humana Challenge and Northern Trust Open. Asked his first time to play overseas, Dufner mentioned Panama on the Nationwide Tour. ``That's probably not what you meant, is it?'' he said. ... The HSBC Women's Champions returns to Singapore next year with its $1.4 million purse, though it is changing courses to Serapong Course at Sentosa Golf Club. The tournament will be played Feb. 28 to March 3. ... Ricardo Santos won The Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year Award on the European Tour, making him the first player from Portugal to do so. Santos won the Madeira Islands Open. ...
STAT OF THE WEEK: Three players who earned their cards at Q-school have never competed in a PGA Tour event - Si Woo Kim, Donald Constable and Henrik Norlander.
FINAL WORD: ``It feels like we've been here for a month.'' - Ross Fisher, after earning his PGA Tour card at Q-school.


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A young British Conservationist has won an international award for helping to create a new model of community-run Marine Protected Areas, which both saves marine diversity and helps to feed marine dependent communities.
Alasdair Harris, 30, was selected as winner of the 2010 Young Conservationist Award, an award by the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas and the International Ranger Federation which honours outstanding achievements by young people in the world's protected areas.
In Madagascar, Alasdair established Blue Ventures, a conservation organisation dedicated to working with local communities to conserve threatened marine environments. In 2004 Blue Ventures launched the region's first community-run Marine Protected Area (MPA), which resulted in significant increases in fishing yields and size, increasing earnings of fishers.
Within a year, Madagascar's government adopted the model to create seasonal fishing bans throughout Madagascar, and within two years, other villages independently adopted it. It became 'Velondriake'—meaning 'to live with the sea'—the largest community-managed MPA in the Indian Ocean, providing a regional blueprint for community-based marine and coastal conservation planning.
Alasdair avoided top down conservation by working with coastal communities to develop his ideas and create social enterprises to ensure sustainable financing of conservation efforts. Blue Ventures organizes expeditions of scientists and volunteers to support conservation while bringing economic and environmental benefit to local communities.
"Alasdair's outstanding work has benefited the marine environment and local people in Madagascar. It has shown that the involvement of local people with conservation can result in benefits to the environment and to people's livelihoods. We warmly congratulate Alasdair on his leadership and well deserved award. We look forward to his further contributions to the global challenge of conservation." says Nik Lopoukhine, Chair of the IUCN World Commission Protected Areas.
Velondriake's communities have led grassroots education efforts to help other villages establish dozens of further marine reserves in Madagascar. This year Blue Ventures replicated its work in Malaysia, Fiji and Belize, and supported the Indian Ocean's first international fishermen exchange, with the Mauritian islands. Blue Ventures' vision is to scale this model for maximum impact: thousands of tropical marine communities in the Indian Ocean could benefit from this approach to marine conservation.
"This award is an incredible honour, but also a reminder of the sobering reality of the condition of our oceans today" says Alasdair. "Throughout the world fisheries are collapsing on an unimaginable scale. In the tropics, many coastal people are already among the most marginalised communities on earth, acutely vulnerable to the impacts of developed-world over-consumption and climate change. In these environments conservation is not just about protecting coral reefs and biodiversity – it's about ensuring the survival of people and the fragile ecosystems they depend upon. This award is testament to the commitments of some of the world's poorest communities to finding a sustainable future. Never has the need for commitments like these been greater."
Alasdair will soon be in Australia to be presented with the award at the Healthy Parks Healthy People Congress in Melbourne, Australia, this April.
"The IUCN-IRF Young Conservationist Award honours the contribution of young people to conservation. Many of us in the world of Protected Areas know that local communities are and will be the key to taking care of these special places" says Deanne Adams, President of the International Ranger Federation. "The work that Al has done is an inspiring model for engaging local fisherman in identifying and managing sustainable conservation efforts. His work gives us hope for our planet's future.
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Chuck Close: The 2014 Hollywood Portfolio
Posted by Jay at 7:17 PM
For its 2014 Hollywood Issue, Vanity Fair called on the services of two legendary photographers to capture the actors, directors and producers of note. Annie Leibovitz lent her services for the magazine's cover, but for the individual portraits, Conde Naste went with a different master of the lens. This is Chuck Close's 2014 Hollywood Portfolio.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that the County of Maui has agreed to a settlement to resolve alleged violations of air pollution laws at Central Maui Landfill in Puunene.
The settlement requires the County to implement enhanced gas monitoring to help reduce the threat of underground fires at the landfill and to follow fire response procedures in the event of a fire. Additionally, the County will be building a renewable energy wind farm to reduce fossil fuel power plant emissions near the landfill. The County will also pay a civil penalty of $380,000.
"Today's settlement is good news for the families living in Kahului," said Jared Blumenfeld, EPA's Regional Administrator for the Pacific Southwest. "Achieving compliance with the Clean Air Act and reducing emissions at a landfill and the power plant, while supporting renewable energy, is a win-win."
The County estimates that it has spent about $4.5 million to design and construct a gas collection and control system required by the Clean Air Act at the landfill. Federal law requires large landfills to install and operate systems to collect gases generated by decomposing refuse, such as air toxics, organic compounds, and methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Effective gas controls at the landfill reduces the release of these gases, preventing them from escaping into the atmosphere.
Maui will also benefit by the reduction of power plant emissions as a result of the wind turbine project. The County is responsible for the installation of at least eight wind turbines collectively capable of generating approximately 55,000 kilowatt hours per year which could supply up to 38 percent of the Landfill's power needs. The wind turbines and installation are estimated to cost at least $250,000. In addition to reducing emissions from power generated by fossil fuels, the project is aligned with sustainability goals of the County and the State of Hawaii.
The settlement resolves allegations that the County violated the Clean Air Act by failing to design, construct and operate a gas collection/control system, apply for a permit from the Hawaii Department of Health, prepare a startup, shutdown and malfunction plan, and operate controls within the gas temperature limit.
The consent decree, lodged in the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii, is subject to a 30-day public comment period and court approval and may be viewed at www.justice.gov/enrd/Consent_Decrees.html.
For more information about CAA landfill regulations, please visit the EPA's web site at: http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/landfill/landflpg.html#IMP.
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Sooner or later there will come a time when you want to get rid of your IT equipment. When that time comes, you'll want to use an IT disposal service. If you want to learn what types of IT equipment can be collected by an IT disposal company, who should use such services, how much it costs and how to choose one, then continue to read on.
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Bielinski M. Santos, Craig K. Chandler, Stephen M. Olson and Teresa W. Olczyk2 1. This document is HS1120, one of a series of the Horticultural Sciences Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date October, 2007. Reviewed, November 2010. Visit the EDIS website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu. 2. Bielinski M. Santos and Craig K. Chandler, assistant professor and professor, respectively, Gulf Coast Research and Education Center; Stephen M. Olson, professor, North Florida Research and Education Center; Teresa W. Olczyk, extension agent, Miami-Dade County Extension Service, Cooperative Extension Service, IFAS, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 Strawberry production represented approximately $240 million in gross sales in Florida during the 2006-07 season (U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2007). Although the majority of the production areas are located in west central Florida, there is a considerable number of small farms in the northern and southern part of the peninsula. In all those locations, climatic conditions greatly change, especially in late fall and winter when most strawberries are planted in Florida. These environmental differences could translate into variations on cultivar performance. Most of the strawberry cultivars planted in the U.S. and adopted worldwide come from breeding programs in California and Florida, which are the leading producing states in the country. Those cultivars have been bred to satisfy specific horticultural, flavor and marketing requirements in each state. For instance, most California cultivars tend to maximize yields under warm weather, which make these unsuitable for Florida conditions, where production occurs during winter. Varying requirements justify the existence of different breeding programs across the country. During the last two decades, several Florida-bred cultivars have been released and extensively planted, including 'Sweet Charlie', 'Earlibrite', 'Carmine', 'Strawberry Festival' and 'Winter Dawn'. One of the most important requirements for strawberry production is yield earliness, because it allows growers to have fruit when premium prices are available. Therefore, finding cultivars with high early yields is a desirable trait. The objective of this study was to compare cultivar performance in multiple locations throughout Florida. Three field studies were conducted simultaneously at Balm, Quincy and Homestead, Florida. In Balm, the trial was established at the Gulf Coast Research and Education Center of the University of Florida. The soil was Myakka deep sand with 1.5% organic matter and pH 7.3. Planting beds were 32 inches wide at the base, 28 inches wide at the top, 8 inches high, and spaced 5 ft apart on centers. Finished beds were fumigated with methyl bromide
Strawberry Cultivar Evaluations in Florida: 2006-07 Season 2 plus chloropicrin (67:33 v/v) at a rate of 350 lb/acre to eliminate soilborne diseases, nematodes and weeds in the soil. Simultaneously, beds were fertilized pre-transplant with 50 lb/acre of a 15N-0P-25K granular formula, planting beds were covered with black, high-density polyethylene mulch, and drip irrigation tubing was buried 1 inch deep on the bed center. Plant nutrients were supplied to the crop through the drip lines following statewide recommendations (Peres et al., 2006). In this experimental site, plots were established under 12-ft-high passively ventilated tunnels. Planting dates were September 27 for 'Camarosa'; October 4 for 'Albion', 'Treasure', and 'Winter Dawn'; 10 October for '00-51', and 22 October for 'Carmine', 'Camino Real', and 'Strawberry Festival'. In Quincy, the soil at the North Florida Research and Education Center of the University of Florida was a fine-loamy soil with pH 6.4 and <1% organic matter content. Planting beds were 34 inches wide on base and 8 inches tall. 'Albion', 'Treasure', and 'Winter Dawn' were planted on 16 October; 'Carmine' and 'Strawberry Festival' were established on 18 October; and 'Camarosa' and 'Camino Real' were planted on 26 October. The Homestead trial was established in a grower's field and the soil was classified as a very gravelly loam soil with pH 6.5 and <2% organic matter content. Planting beds were 36 inches wide on base and 6 inches tall. Two drip irrigation lines separated 14 inches from each other were placed on each bed. Planting dates were 13 October for 'Albion', 'Carmine', 'Strawberry Festival', 'Treasure', and 'Winter Dawn'; and 26 October for 'Camarosa' and 'Camino Real'. In Quincy and Homestead, mulching, soil fumigation, drip irrigation and fertilization were similar to those procedures previously described. Bare-root transplants from nurseries in Canada were established 15 inches apart in double rows in Balm and Quincy, and in triple rows in Homestead. The tested cultivars were 'Albion', 'Camino Real', 'Camarosa', 'Carmine', 'Strawberry Festival', 'Treasure', 'Winter Dawn', and the advanced line '00-51' from the University of Florida strawberry breeding program. The latter was only established in Balm. The crop was harvested 22, 27 and 16 times in Balm, Homestead, and Quincy, respectively. Early yield was defined as the total marketable fruit of the first eight harvests. There were significant differences on early and total strawberry yield among cultivars at all three locations. At Balm, the highest early yield was obtained with '00-51' (8.4 ton/acre), followed by 'Winter Dawn', 'Carmine', 'Albion', and 'Strawberry Festival', which ranged between 5.4 and 6.4 ton/acre (Table 1). 'Winter Dawn' had the best performance over the duration of the whole season, producing more than 34 ton/acre. There were no differences in the total yields of 'Carmine', 'Albion', 'Strawberry Festival', 'Camarosa', '00-51', which ranged between 20.7 and 24.8 ton/acre. At the Homestead location, 'Strawberry Festival', 'Carmine', and 'Camino Real' had the highest early yields, ranging between 2.2 and 1.8 ton/acre (Table 1). 'Winter Dawn' and 'Camarosa' had the same early production as 'Camino Real' and 'Carmine'. The total yield of 'Winter Dawn', 'Strawberry Festival' and 'Camarosa' were not significantly different. In Quincy, 'Strawberry Festival' and 'Winter Dawn' had the highest early yield (3.9 ton/acre) among all cultivars, whereas 'Camarosa' and 'Strawberry Festival' had the highest season-long production, ranging between 9.7 and 11.6 ton/acre. These results indicated that the Florida cultivars 'Winter Dawn' and 'Strawberry Festival' consistently were among the ones with the highest early and total marketable yield at all three experimental sites. The total yields of the California cultivar 'Camarosa' were comparable to those of 'Strawberry Festival' in all three locations. The advanced line '00-51' seems to be a promising strawberry germplasm due to its earliness and total yields, but further evaluations are needed. Peres, N.A., J.F. Price, W.M. Stall, C.K. Chandler, S.M. Olson, T.G. Taylor, S.A. Smith, and E.H. Simonne. 2006. Strawberry production in Florida, p. 375-382. In: S.O. Olson and E.H. Simonne (eds.). Vegetable production handbook for Florida, 2006-2007. Inst. Food Agr. Sci. Publ., Univ. of Florida, Gainesville.
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Strawberry Cultivar Evaluations in Florida: 2006-07 Season 4 Comparison of early and total marketable yield of strawberry cultivars in three locations in Florida, 2006-07. Balm Homestead Quincy Early yield Total yield Early yield Total yield Early yield Total yield ------------------------------------------------ton/acre-------------------------------------------Winter Dawn 6.4 b 34.4 a 1.5 bc 7.4 a 3.9 a 8.0 bc Carmine 6.2 b 24.8 b 1.8 ab 5.8 b 2.0 bc 5.6 de Albion 5.2 b 22.9 bc 1.0 d 3.6 c 1.1 d 4.4 e Strawberry Festival 5.4 b 21.6 bc 2.2 a 7.4 a 3.9 a 9.7 ab Camarosa 2.2 c 20.7 bcd 1.6 bc 6.2 ab 2.6 b 11.6 a Treasure 2.9 c 18.2 cd 1.2 cd 4.5 c 1.2 cd 5.3 e Camino Real 0.9 d 15.9 d 1.9 ab 6.0 b 2.3 b 7.4 cd 00-51 8.4 a 21.0 bc ------------zValues followed by the same letter within each fruit category do not differ at the 5% significance level.


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I am a closet atheist...and Director of Music at a United Methodist church!
If your views are like most of the thoughts expressed on A/N, that must be a very bizarre experience!
I am a closet atheist...and Director of Music at a United Methodist church! I haven't shared this with my wife yet, but I think I will soon. I've lost my nerve so many times. The biggest reason I haven't revealed my atheism is that it would have a significant negative impact on our family's finances. I owe it to my wife and kids to keep my church job for now, until I can figure something else out. Good to be here, though, for the opportunity to release some of the "internal pressure"!
Hey everyone! I'm a new member. I'm glad I found this place. Being an atheist is hard for me because no one knows. My family is pentecostal. I'm purposely keeping it secret until I'll have the ability to move out, in fear of how my family will react, no doubt extremely negatively. I fear most telling my dad (former pastor, bible college professor, as fundamentalist as they get). I DO want to tell him eventually, but like I said when I can move out, to avoid being forced to go to camps and conferences to get "converted back". I can fake it and "go through the motions" but it can be REALLY hard when it's stuff I secretly oppose (homophobia, street evangelism, etc.). I think I could recover from being ostracized, but not as a minor with no where to go. I'd love for anyone to message me with advice, if you wanna here more about my background, or just to chat! :)
I am completely in the closet except to my very Christian girlfriend (we're fine and plan to make it work). I want to come out but I doubt that I ever will. It would result in the complete loss of my family, my girlfriend's family, 90% of my friends, and the majority of my acquaintances would shun me. Depressing yes, but better than delusion. Luckily, I am an introvert so I think I would survive coming out. My girlfriend, however, probably wouldn't survive emotionally.
thanks Diane,
Mark I live in Iraq and as long as I 'm under cover nothing bad happens :), thanks
I am from Muslim background, I don't really know if I am completely undercover or partly , i have to wear scarf but everybody knows my lack of faith, I don't say that I'm non-believer to them but don't say the opposite either, always have troubles with my mom and my family they call me communist (they consider this as an insult) and Satanist.....
So far I consider myself agnostic....
I am happy that I found some place where I can speak my mind
I feel you. I've been atheist for about 2 years and I have to hide it from my family. My brother attempted to be an atheist when he was 13 (i'm older), and my family reacted by calling him a satanist. After that, i decided that if I were to ever become an atheist, I would have to hide it from my family. My boyfriend, all of my friends, and some classmates from my college know about my lack of faith, but my family knows nothing. They are mislead to believe I am a strong Christian, and they can't tell the difference.
I attend a Catholic College, but i don't let that deter my lack of faith. And I really wish you didn't have to hide in the closet. it should be something to be proud of, that you are smarter than theists are. not something to be ashamed of and scoffed at for. There are thousands of atheists, and the Catholic Church is losing ever more followers!!
Be strong, fellow nonbeliever, and hopefully this will console you :)
Hi, I was already a member but I had to delete and recreate my profile... so here I am again!
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Plaid is an emerging programming language with a number of new features that work together to provide a powerful foundation for software development: typestate, permissions, gradual typing, and concurrency by default.
Plaid includes native support for typestate, which captures the changing states an object can be in. Each typestate defines its own interface (methods signatures), representation (fields), and behavior (method signatures); calling a method on the object may result in a transition from one typestate to another. Typestate is thus a powerful facility for modeling many different kinds of stateful abstrations, including files, network and database connections, UI components, business processes, or interactions in simulated environments.
In order to help programmers manage typestate, Plaid includes a type system that tracks which typestate an object is in at any point. Because tracking typestate can be difficult in the presence of aliasing, Plaid includes permissions like "unique" that declare whether an object may be aliased or not, and what effect those aliases may have. Permissions express important invariants about the structure of the heap, in addition to helping the type system check typestate. Plaid's permission system also enables the compiler to detect what parts of the computation can be executed in parallel, leading to a concurrent-by-default programming model that leverages today's multicore systems.
To reduce the overhead of specifying both types and permissions in the code, Plaid uses convenient syntax and good defaults that make its type system quite lightweight, comparing well to Java in many cases. In addition, programmers can replace static checks with dynamic ones through the use of casts, and can mix statically and dynamically typed code through Plaid's gradual typing feature.
In this presentation, we will provide an overview of the Plaid programming language through a series of examples drawing from domains like I/O code, user interfaces, business process modeling, and simulated environments. We will demonstrate the open-source Plaid compiler, which is available at http://plaid-lang.googlecode.com/, and provide opportunities for attendees to try out the language themselves, either by downloading the compiler or using the web-based Plaid terminal at http://plaid.isri.cmu.edu:8080/plaidWeb/.
Attendees should come away with an understanding of the core new ideas in the Plaid language, including typestate, permissions, concurrency by default, and gradual types. They should also have an idea of how different problems can be effectively modeled with Plaid's constructs, and (for the adventurous) a taste of writing programs in Plaid. We hope some attendees will experiment with Plaid after the presentation, perhaps find it useful, and that Plaid's new ideas will in turn spur further innovation in other emerging programming languages.
Karl Naden is a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Jonathan Aldrich. Karl's research focuses on the design and development of the Plaid programming language. Karl holds a B.A. in math and history from Williams College. When he is not working, you might find him singing, running, cooking, or playing board games.
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Dr. Aldrich's research centers on programming languages and type systems that are deeply informed by software engineering considerations. His research contributions include verifying the correct implementation of an architectural design, modular formal reasoning about code, and API protocol specification and verification. For his work on software architecture, Aldrich received a 2006 NSF CAREER award and the 2007 Dahl-Nygaard Junior Prize, given annually for a significant technical contribution to object-oriented programming. Aldrich was one of 12 computer science researchers nationwide who were selected to the 2007 DARPA Computer Science Study Group. Aldrich's current work focuses on support for typestate-oriented programming and concurrency in the design of the Plaid language.


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Previous research in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology reported that up to 75% of children with milk allergy can tolerate heated milk.1 But if you are a parent of a child with cow's milk allergy, how can you tell if your child is one of the 25% who are likely to have a serious allergic reaction to any form of milk?
In one of many food allergy research presentations at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI), a study by Wang et al. sought to determine whether children with different degrees of cow's milk allergy differed in the way their immune systems recognized milk proteins. Forty-one people were recruited from a larger clinical study on the effects of ingesting heated milk proteins at the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.
Study results showed that Immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies from children who reacted to all forms of milk products (baked milk and unheated milk) bound to more epitopes than children who reacted only to unheated milk. In addition, the severity of the reaction directly correlated with the number of epitopes recognized by IgE antibodies from a child.
IgE antibodies can travel to a type of cell that releases chemicals and causes an allergic reaction. Each type of IgE has specific "radar" for each type of allergen, such as cow's milk. An epitope is a site on a particular molecule, such as a milk protein, that stimulates specific immune responses.
"With this blood test, we hope to be able to tell which cow's milk-allergic children will be able to tolerate milk in baked products without having to resort to oral food challenges," explained Hugh A. Sampson, MD, FAAAAI, one of the study authors. "It may also provide some insight into the severity of allergic reaction that a patient might experience."
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Shuttered electronics retailer Circuit City is set to make a comeback next month, at least online, CNBC reported.
Its website will relaunch Feb. 15, the company's CEO, Ronny Shmoel, said Monday at the Consumer Electronics Show. It will include several novel features, including search by photo and tech support via video chat, he said.
Down the line, Circuit City plans to gear up towards its own showrooms, according to consumer electronics website Twice.
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- Jose Martinez, OF, White Sox (High-A Winston-Salem): 2-for-4, HR (1), R, RBI. Former highly-ranked prospect is now interesting sleeper; finally goes deep, but three straight multi-hit games have him back over .400 at .403/.452/.571 in 19 overall.
- Dayan Viciedo, OF, White Sox (Triple-A Charlotte): 2-for-5, 2B, HR (3), 2 R, 2 RBI, K. Home runs in back-to-back games but still at just .243/.278/.419 in 19 games; playing exclusively in right field.
Martinez has a .453 BABIP. Last time (4/22) it was .479. Progress!


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Action from the CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship final between the United States (left) and El Salvador on May 12, 2013, in Nassau, Bahamas. (Photo courtesy of Beach Soccer Worldwide)
PAPEETE, Tahiti -- The 2013 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup kicked off Wednesday, but both CONCACAF teams – the United States and El Salvador – will begin their participation in the competition on Thursday.
The sides qualified for the FIFA event in Tahiti by advancing to May's CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship final, which the Americans won, 5-4.
The U.S., playing in its fourth Beach Soccer World Cup (previous appearances: 2005, 2006, 2007), was drawn into Group A with the host nation, United Arab Emirates and Spain.
The Americans have never advanced past the group stage, but this might be their strongest squad yet.
Nick Perera led the team in qualifying with 11 goals, including hat-tricks against Guatemala and host Bahamas. Defenders Anthony Chimienti, Brendon Taguinod and Lewie Valentine added three goals each as the U.S. outscored the opposition, 28-11.
Chimienti and Francis Farberoff were both on the 2007 squad.
The U.S. opens against Spain on Thursday, before taking on host Tahiti Saturday and the United Arab Emirates on September 23. All games will be played at Tahua To'ata.
El Salvador, which is competing in the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup for a fourth straight time, has been drawn into Group B with Netherlands, Solomon Islands and Argentina.
Led by tournament MVP Agustin Ruiz, El Salvador booked its ticket with a dramatic victory over Mexico on penalty kicks in the CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship semifinals. Franl Velasquez has 11 all-time World Cup goals.
In the 2011 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, El Salvador bounced back from an 11-2 loss to Portugal in the first game of the Group Stage to beat Oman and Argentina by identical 4-3 scores to advance to the knockout stage.
El Salvador defeated Italy, 6-5, in the quarterfinals before losing to eventual champion Russia, 7-3, in the semifinals.
El Salvador opens the 2013 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Thursday against Argentina before facing the Netherlands Saturday and closing out Group B against Solomon Islands.


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