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State of the Union: Explaining some of the key details
- Call for immigration changes follows overwhelming support for Obama from Hispanic voters
- Focus on guns the biggest State of the Union push on the issue since Clinton%27s in 2000
- Obama has backed away from proposals to raise Medicare eligibility age
During Tuesday's State of the Union address, President Obama raised several issues and initiatives that require a deeper explanation. Here are some of those passages.
Spending cuts
Statement: "In 2011, Congress passed a law saying that if both parties couldn't agree on a plan to reach our deficit goal, about a trillion dollars' worth of budget cuts would automatically go into effect this year. These sudden, harsh, arbitrary cuts would jeopardize our military readiness."
Context: Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has said the $500 billion in automatic budget cuts forced by the cuts, known as sequestration, on the Pentagon over the next decade would render the U.S. military a "second-rate power." The cuts will go into effect March 1 unless Congress and the White House can reach a deal.
The cuts will force the Pentagon to change the way it trains, defense analysts say. But it's unclear how that will affect the military's readiness to fight. It's unclear how perishable some skills are, and Congress could appropriate emergency funds quickly if hostilities break out.
The Pentagon estimates that sequestration would require $46 billion be slashed from its budget before the end of its budget year on Sept. 30. It is examining a variety of cost-saving measures, including 22 days of unpaid time off for its 800,000 civilian employees. It would also reduce training time for all troops not going to Afghanistan and South Korea. The Navy has already said it will not send the USS Harry S Truman strike group to the Persian Gulf and will cease operations in and around South America.
Jobs and economy
Statement: "U.S. businesses have added 6 million jobs, car sales are the highest in five years, and U.S. oil dependence is the lowest in 20 years."
Context: The United.States had 106.9 million private-sector jobs when the economy bottomed out in early 2010, and reached 113.0 million jobs in January 2013. U.S. private employers had 111 million workers when Obama took office. U.S. auto sales hit an annual rate of 15.48 million in November before slipping to 15.32 million in December. The last time they were that high was February 2008. The 4.2 billion barrels of crude oil and petroleum products imported from all nations last year is the lowest since 2000. The 1.7 billion barrels imported from OPEC is the lowest since 1997. The difference between those figures reflect a greater share of U.S. oil imports that come from Canada, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Rising U.S. energy independence has little to do with policy, according to a book-length report by Citigroup last year, among many other sources. Instead, it is due to the greater application of new technologies to extract more oil and gas from shale rock using technologies such as hydraulic fracking.
Statement: "Right now, leaders from the business, labor, law enforcement, and faith communities all agree that the time has come to pass comprehensive immigration reform. … In other words, we know what needs to be done. As we speak, bipartisan groups in both chambers are working diligently to draft a bill, and I applaud their efforts."
Context: Any kind of overhaul of the nation's immigration system has been stuck in the mud since 2007, when President George W. Bush failed to get a bipartisan bill through the Senate. Though it was torpedoed mostly by 37 Senate Republicans who thought the bill was left the borders too soft, 15 Democrats also voted to scuttle the plan under pressure from labor groups opposed to a "guest worker" provision.
Obama has given no more than a passing mention to immigration in previous addresses to Congress. He didn't even mention it in 2009, and gave the issue no more than a paragraph or so in 2010, 2011 and 2012. This year, it warranted five paragraphs.
What changed? The 2012 election. Republicans have warmed up to moving an immigration bill after exit polls showed Obama winning 71% of the Hispanic vote. And Obama tried to allay GOP concerns about "amnesty" by promising that a pathway to citizenship must include a "background check, paying taxes and a meaningful penalty, learning English, and going to the back of the line behind the folks trying to come here legally."
Cyber security
Statement: "Earlier today, I signed a new executive order that will strengthen our cyber defenses by increasing information sharing, and developing standards to protect our national security, our jobs, and our privacy. Now, Congress must act as well, by passing legislation to give our government a greater capacity to secure our networks and deter attacks. "
Context: Obama's executive order is an attempt to do something about the growing threat from cyber attacks. The order expands the government program that provides cyber threat information to industries, such as banking, energy, telecommunications and other "critical infrastructure."
The order "puts mechanisms in place to share information but does not make it mandatory," said Stephanie Sanok, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Lawmakers said legislation is required for a more comprehensive approach. The "biggest barriers to bolster our cyber defenses can be fixed only with legislation," House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers and ranking member Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger said in a statement. Previous legislative efforts have failed because of concerns they did not include enough privacy protection for individuals. Everyone agrees the threat -- from criminals, terrorists, hackers and hostile countries -- is growing. "It is touching everywhere from media to think tanks to individual accounts and this threat is growing," Sanok said.
Statement: "It has been two months since Newtown. I know this is not the first time this country has debated how to reduce gun violence. But this time is different. Overwhelming majorities of Americans – Americans who believe in the Second Amendment – have come together around commonsense reform, like background checks that will make it harder for criminals to get their hands on a gun."
Context: The last time a president even mentioned guns in a State of the Union Address was in 2000, when President Bill Clinton called on Congress to pass "commonsense gun safety legislation." Then, as now, Clinton was prodded by a tragic mass shooting -- the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. And Clinton, like Obama, called for background checks at gun shows and a ban on high-capacity magazines.
But Clinton went further, asking for child safety locks on all new handguns and mandatory state licensing for handgun owners. Much of his gun control agenda passed the Senate. But it failed in the House, and no major gun bill has passed since.
Obama is correct that polls show a majority of Americans favor background checks. A CBS News poll released Tuesday showed that even 90% of gun owners favor closing the so-called "gun-show loophole." But while narrow majorities of Americans also favor an assault weapons ban and limiting the size of magazines, majorities of gun owners oppose those key parts of Obama's gun control plan.
Statement: "Now, some in this Congress have proposed preventing only the defense cuts by making even bigger cuts to things like education and job training; Medicare and Social Security benefits.
"That idea is even worse. Yes, the biggest driver of our long-term debt is the rising cost of health care for an aging population. And those of us who care deeply about programs like Medicare must embrace the need for modest reforms – otherwise, our retirement programs will crowd out the investments we need for our children, and jeopardize the promise of a secure retirement for future generations."
Context: After previously stating that he would consider lowering the Medicare eligibility age, Obama has backed off that proposal. As more Baby Boomers hit retirement and Medicare age, those costs are, indeed, rising. But the 2010 health care law was meant to address some of those increases by providing better, coordinated care to cut duplicate tests and keep people out of the hospital, as well as by helping people have healthier lifestyles.
This comes after a Republican proposal from Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin to offer seniors a set amount of money they could use toward private insurance essentially failed during his vice presidential campaign. It also follows Republican attempts to keep the cuts the law offers, while gutting the rest of the law.
Earlier this week, White House press secretary Jay Carney said Obama was no longer open to raising the Medicare eligibility age, an idea that had been attacked by groups that feared doing so would raise premiums in all categories. By deleting the youngest, healthiest seniors from the Medicare pool, premiums would go up for the older and sicker seniors. In contrast, those younger, healthier seniors would be older and sicker than most Americans in the private insurance pool, so those premiums would also go up. But conservatives have argued that cutting those seniors from Medicare would lower the deficit.
Minimum wage
Statement: "The $9 an hour proposed minimum wage would bring the inflation-adjusted minimum back to where it was in 1981. About 15 million workers would get a raise under proposals to raise the minimum wage and index it for inflation. And the combination of a full-time, minimum wage job and the earned income tax credit is not sufficient now to lift a family of four above the poverty line."
Context: The minimum wage was $3.35 an hour in 1981. Some online inflation calculators contend that this works out to exactly $9 an hour now, though the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) says It's about $8.46 in 2012 dollars. By 2015, when the increase would be phased in, that would be $9 an hour or a few cents more, depending on the inflation assumption for 2013-2015. According to the BLS, in 2011, 1.7 million American workers earned exactly the prevailing federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. About 2.2 million had wages below the minimum.
Together, these 3.8 million workers with wages at or below the federal minimum made up 5.2% of all hourly paid workers. At 40 hours per week and 52 weeks per year, the minimum wage works out to $15,080 a year. The earned income tax credit for a family of four with that income is $5,230, according to 2012 IRS instructions. The federal poverty line for this year is $23,550, according to Families USA, a health care advocacy group.
Statement: "We must all do our part to make sure our God-given rights are protected here at home. That includes our most fundamental right as citizens: the right to vote. When any Americans – no matter where they live or what their party – are denied that right simply because they can't wait for five, six, seven hours just to cast their ballot, we are betraying our ideals."
Context: Obama's call to fix a broken election system started with an off-the-cuff remark in his re-election victory speech — "By the way, we have to fix that" — and escalated with a reference to Jeffersonian ideals in his inaugural address: "Our journey is not complete until no citizen is forced to wait for hours to exercise the right to vote."
With his State of the Union Address, he didn't provide much more detail about how he would fix long lines at polls. Instead, he said he would name a non-partisan commission — led by top lawyers for the campaigns of Obama and Republican Mitt Romney — "to improve the voting experience in America."
Health care savings
Statement: "On Medicare, I'm prepared to enact reforms that will achieve the same amount of health care savings by the beginning of the next decade as the reforms proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission. Already, the Affordable Care Act is helping to slow the growth of health care costs."
Context: Much of the Affordable Care Act -- the 2010 health care law -- has yet to be implemented, so it's hard to know how much of the expected savings will actually happen. However, the administration has already announced record-breaking Medicare fraud and abuse recoveries, bringing in almost $8 billion over the last three years. It has also brought in savings on prescription drugs but requiring discounts from drug manufacturers. The law is built on expected savings through coordinated care, quality incentives for providers and prevention programs, such as annual exams with no out-of-pocket expenses. Health care spending has slowed since 2011, but that may be more because of a slow economy than due to the law.
Statement: "In the Middle East, we will stand with citizens as they demand their universal rights, and support stable transitions to democracy. The process will be messy, and we cannot presume to dictate the course of change in countries like Egypt; but we can – and will – insist on respect for the fundamental rights of all people. We will keep the pressure on a Syrian regime that has murdered its own people, and support opposition leaders that respect the rights of every Syrian.
Context: The lack of a more muscular response to the civil war in Syria -- arming rebel groups trying to topple President Bashar Assad -- highlights the failure of Obama's policy in the Middle East, Sen. John McCain, the Arizona Republican and member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has charged. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told McCain that they supported a CIA plan to arm the rebels. Dempsey told USA TODAY this week that the plans were "conceptual" and hinged on a better understanding of what's happening in Syria than the United States has now. Rebels are receiving non-lethal aid. An estimated 60,000 civilians have died in the fighting there.
Housing market
Statement: "Today, our housing market is finally healing from the collapse of 2007. Home prices are rising at the fastest pace in six years, home purchases are up nearly 50 percent, and construction is expanding again. But even with mortgage rates near a 50-year low, too many families with solid credit who want to buy a home are being rejected. Too many families who have never missed a payment and want to refinance are being told no. That's holding our entire economy back, and we need to fix it."
Context: Obama's proposal to fix it is the same as he proposed in 2012: A program that would allow homeowners to refinance if they're current on their payments and have decent credit. Obama says his proposal would help homeowners save an average of $3,000 a year on mortgage payments.
So why hasn't Congress passed it? The cost is estimated to be $5 billion to $10 billion, and Obama has proposed a tax on banks to pay for it — a nonstarter in the Republican-controlled House.
Wind power
Statement: "Last year, wind energy added nearly half of all new power capacity in America. So let's generate even more."
Context: The actual figure is 42%, up from the 35% average over the last five years. Wind power still provides less than 3% of total U.S. electricity, in part because of technical limitations in transmitting electricity efficiently over long distances.
Medications and seniors
Statement: "The reforms I'm proposing go even further. We'll reduce taxpayer subsidies to prescription drug companies and ask more from the wealthiest seniors. We'll bring down costs by changing the way our government pays for Medicare, because our medical bills shouldn't be based on the number of tests ordered or days spent in the hospital – they should be based on the quality of care that our seniors receive. And I am open to additional reforms from both parties, so long as they don't violate the guarantee of a secure retirement. Our government shouldn't make promises we cannot keep – but we must keep the promises we've already made."
Context: There are several subsidies available to make sure pharmaceutical companies can continue to develop medications, such as those that come into play when brand-name drugs are about to lose their patents, meaning the companies will lose out to generic medications, or those to ensure research continues on antibiotics. But pharmaceutical profits continue to rise: According to company rankings at Forbes.com, top pharmaceutical company Pfizer was up 21% in profits in 2012 from 2010. Even after a series of lawsuits cut Johnson & Johnson's profits by 28%, they remained second on the list of profitable companies.
Wealthier seniors have already been asked to participate in higher-premium Medicare programs, and the health care law already attempts to end duplicate tests and to cut down hospital time.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:
ABC's "This Week" — Attorney General Eric Holder.
NBC's "Meet the Press" — Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif.
CBS' "Face the Nation" — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Maen Rashid Areikat, the Palestinian envoy in Washington; Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas; Reps. Loretta Sanchez, D-Calif., Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., and Lamar Smith, R-Texas.
CNN's "State of the Union" — Netanyahu; Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.; Reps. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., Donna Edwards, D-Md., Aaron Schock, R-Ill., and Beto O'Rourke, D-Texas; Chris Cabrera, Border Patrol agent in Texas.
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We recently encountered an intriguing 2005 article by Andrew Taslitz, "Willfully Blinded: On Date Rape and Self-Deception" (28 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 381-446) on SSRN. Here is the abstract.
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This article takes seriously the proposition that many men are telling the truth when they say that they honestly believed that a woman in a date rape case had consented when she in fact did not do so. The article argues, however, that the men are generally truthful at a conscious level, while being aware unconsciously that the truth is otherwise. Furthermore, the absence of conscious awareness is the result of self-deception. Drawing on research in philosophy and cognitive psychology, this article defines the various forms of self-deception and explains how they work in date rape cases. Date rape liability often involves a negligence analysis: Should the man have known of the woman's non-consent? Yet the penalties imposed for negligent date rape are often quite severe, more so than for most crimes of negligence. The article argues that self-deception is best understood as a form of negligent conduct but explains why it is morally far more reprehensible than other sorts of negligence. Next, the article responds to concerns about the morality of punishing men for unconscious thoughts and the problems posed for proving those thoughts and for free will. In particular, the article suggests a form of negligence liability in date rape cases that is meant to discourage male self-deception in sexual intercourse and that does not require proving what any individual male's unconscious state was in a particular case. The article further responds to arguments about the wisdom of such an approach given that it will unquestionably catch some non-self-deceiving males. The law's fear of imposing liability for unconscious desires is based upon a flawed conception of the nature of the conscious and unconscious minds that ignores the teachings of cognitive science. Those teachings establish that there are strategies for changing unconscious thoughts that motivate socially undesirable action even when we are not in the short run aware of the contents of our unconscious mind.
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You can download the article for free here.
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Photographic records made during the excavation of the Tomb of Tutankhamun, consisting of approximately 1400 black and white glass negatives. 10 albums of original prints made from these negatives for Carter, and original prints made for and kept with the object card index for the excavation.
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A strong fourth quarter lifted Mendon to a 40-32 over Climax-Scotts Tuesday night.
The Hornets, leading 30-27 outscored the Panthers 10-5 for the win.
"What a great win in front of a huge crowd for both teams," coach Leasa Griffith said. "Both teams played hard until the end. It came down to the defensive stands that we had in the fourth quarter."
Mendon led 16-13 after the first quarter on paced by a pair of threes by Jenna Griffith.
Climax-Scotts rallied in the second stanza to knot the game at 21 at the half.
Grace Leighton stepped up in the third quarter, scoring four of the Lady Hornets nine.
Mendon was led by Brooke Howard with 13 points and 14 rebounds.
Griffith ended the game with 11 points, four assists and two steals.
Leighton had seven points, four rebounds and two steals.
Alexis Russell had four points, four rebounds and two steals. Danielle Parsons added the points and Shelby Harrison scored two points and added six rebounds.
"I thought that the team really distributed the ball well tonight," Griffith said. "This was a big game for us with districts starting next week."
Destiny Froberg led Climax-Scotts with nine, followed by Janae Langs with seven.
Sturgis 40, White Pigeon 32
Sturgis trailed after the first quarter, but rallied to get a 42-30 non conference win Tuesday night.
The Lady Trojans led 18-14 at the break and took a nine point 31-22 lead into the final eight minutes.
Rachel Anderson led with a game high 17 points followed by Marissa Parker with nine.
Ariana George and Courtney Lovelace both had six, while Morgan Pueschel and Maddie Mercer both scored two.
Hailey Miller had 12 to lead the Lady Chiefs.
Bethany Hagner scored eight, Ashley Miller and Kayla Lapham both had four.
Rounding out the scoring was Allie Bailey with two.
Lapham had five rebounds, Riley Phelps had four boards, three steals and one block.
Bronson 52, Colon 24
Bronson's girl's basketball team beat Colon 52-24 on Monday night.
The Lady Vikings defense played well, hold Colon to single digits in all four quarters. Bronson led 12-5 after the first eight minutes of action and 21-11 at the break.
Bronson scored 14 in the third and 17 in the fourth, compared to eight and five for Colon, respectively.
Shaunta Adams led the Lady Magi with 17 points and six rebounds while Makayla Craun added four points and 16 rebounds.
Morgan Czajkowski added two points while Amber Luedecking had one point and five rebounds.
Leading Bronson was Skyler Sobeski with 15 points while Kassidy Bystry tossed in nine.
Kylei Ratkowski added six points and was 4-for-4 from the foul line while Sarah Morgan chipped in with five points. Adding four points each was Liz Baker, Kayla Roberts and Mallorie Bassage while Amberly Bercaw had three points and Kinslea Blouin had two points.


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ARLINGTON, Texas -- Johnny Manziel stretched out both of his arms and ran off the field as if he was flying.
With the Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback known as Johnny Football, Texas A&M certainly is soaring in the SEC.
Manziel tiptoed the sideline for a 23-yard touchdown on the first drive of the Cotton Bowl, the first of his four touchdowns as part of his bowl-record 516 total yards and the Aggies capped their first SEC season with a 41-13 win over 12th-ranked Oklahoma on Friday night.
"To come in and go against a Big 12 rival and do everything we wanted as a team, and send these seniors out with a win, we couldn't feel any better," Manziel said after his first game since becoming the first freshman to win the Heisman.
With first-year coach Kevin Sumlin and their young star quarterback, the Aggies (11-2) broke the SEC record with their 7,261 total yards this season (the first over 7,000 after 633 in Cowboys Stadium). They also averaged more than 40 points a game.
And they capped their debut season with an overwhelming victory in the only postseason game matching teams from those power conferences. It is the Aggies' first 11-win season since 1998, when they won their only Big 12 title.
The chants of "S-E-C!, S-E-C!" began after Manziel's 33-yard TD pass to Ryan Swope with 4 minutes left in the third quarter for a 34-13 lead. They got louder and longer after that.
"I think tonight was really indicative of this season," Sumlin said. "It's one of the teams I thought in the country that truly got better every week."
Texas A&M never trailed while winning its last six games. That included a win at SEC champion Alabama, which plays for the BCS national title Monday night.
Manziel set an FBS bowl record with his 229 yards rushing on 17 carries, and completed 22 of 34 passes for 287 yards.
"Johnny Manziel is everything he was billed to be, expected him to be," said Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops, who after the game shook the quarterback's hand and told him "good job."
SEC teams have won the last five Cotton Bowls, all against Big 12 teams, and nine out of 10. That included Texas A&M's loss to LSU only two years ago.
Oklahoma, led by quarterback Landry Jones in his 50th career start, had 401 total yards.
Jones completed 35 of 48 passes for 278 yards with a touchdown and an interception. He won 39 games and three bowls for the Sooners, in a career that started on the same field in the 2009 season opener when he replaced injured Heisman winner Sam Bradford in the first college game at Cowboys Stadium.
Texas A&M led by only a point at halftime, but scored on its first three drives of the second half -- on drives of 91 and 89 yards before Swope's score on a fourth-and-5 play.
Oklahoma (10-3), which like the Aggies entered the game with a five-game winning streak, went three-and-out on its first three drives after halftime.
"In the first half, we played together as a team, limited them, used the clock, scored. That's how you have to play them. In the second half it totally broke down offensively and defensively," Stoops said. "We had guys plenty of times in position to make a play. Couldn't make a play."
Already with a 24-yard gain on an earlier third down on their opening drive, the Aggies had third-and-9 when Manziel rolled to his left and took off. When he juked around a defender and got near the sideline, he tiptoed to stay in bounds and punctuated his score with a high-step over the pylon for a quick lead.
Officials reviewed the touchdown play, but it was clear by the replay shown on the huge video screen above the Cowboys Stadium field that Manziel stayed in bounds.
"There is too much talk about how you perform after the Heisman and about the layoff and all of that," said Manziel, who set an SEC record with 4,600 total yards in the regular season. "There wasn't anything holding us back. No rust, there was no nothing. We played as a unit. ... To go out and win 11 games and do what we've done, is impressive."
Manziel added a 5-yard TD on a bootleg play in the second quarter, and capped the scoring with a 34-yard pass to Uzoma Nwachukwu with 9 minutes left in the game.
The first TD run was Manziel's school-record 20th of the season. He became only the fourth FBS quarterback with 20 TDs rushing and 20 passing in the same season.
The other 20-20 quarterbacks were Auburn's Cam Newton and Florida's Tim Tebow, who like Manziel are Heisman winners from the SEC, and Nevada's Colin Kaepernick.
Oklahoma needed drives of 16 and 18 plays to get a pair of field goals by Michael Hunnicutt (23 and 24 yards). Jones threw a 6-yard TD pass to Justin Brown just before halftime to make it 14-13.
Jones set Cotton Bowl records when he had 23 completions and 30 attempts (for 175 yards) by halftime.
Ben Malena (7 yards) and Trey Williams (30 yards) had the TD runs to cap the long scoring drives in the third quarter for the Aggies.
Manziel was picked off in the second quarter after his bootleg move and a throw that hit Malcome Kennedy in the hands in the end zone and deflected into the air. Javon Harris grabbed the interception.
The Sooners then crossed midfield before Jones had a pass intercepted by Dustin Harris and returned to the Oklahoma 48.
That A&M drive started with a little trickery, Manziel holding the ball down in his left hand while faking a throw with his right hand. He then pitched to Kenric McNeal, who threw a 20-yard pass to Mike Evans. Two plays later, Manziel had his bootleg TD run.
Oklahoma was in the Cotton Bowl for only the second time. It was the first bowl matchup between the former Big 12 rivals, but the 17th consecutive season they have played each other.
The Sooners had won 11 of 13 since Bob Stoops became their coach. That included a 77-0 Oklahoma win in 2003 that was the most-lopsided loss in Texas A&M history.
Sumlin was the A&M offensive coordinator in 2002 when the Aggies upset the top-ranked Sooners. The next year, Sumlin was hired by Stoops as an assistant, and he stayed there five seasons before going to Houston as head coach and then the Aggies.
"Words can't describe how I feel," said Damontre Moore, A&M's leading tackler who has already said he will bypass his senior season for the NFL draft. "I'm just overwhelmed with excitement and joy, just to get such a big win, all the goals that we set for ourselves at the beginning of the season, to see them be accomplished."


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"I want to play hockey, like I did in middle school, but now that I'm in high school, the other guys have bulked up and I haven't. What can I do?"
"All of my friends have broad shoulders and look like they lift weights. No matter what I do, I just look scrawny. What can I do?"
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A lot of teens think that they're too skinny, and wonder if they should do something about it.
Some of the reasons people give for wanting to gain weight are:
I'm worried that there's something wrong with me. If you want to gain weight because you think you have a medical problem, talk to your doctor. Although certain health conditions can cause a person to be underweight, most of them have symptoms other than skinniness, like stomach pain or diarrhea. So it's likely that if some kind of medical problem is making you skinny, you probably wouldn't feel well.
I'm worried because all of my friends have filled out and I haven't. Many guys and girls are skinny until they start to go through puberty. The changes that come with puberty include weight gain and, in guys, broader shoulders and increased muscle mass.
Because everyone is on a different schedule, some of your friends may have started to fill out when they were as young as 8 (if they're girls) or 9 (if they're guys). But for some normal kids, puberty may not start until 12 or later for girls and 14 or later for guys. And whenever you start puberty, it may take 3 or 4 years for you to fully develop and gain all of the weight and muscle mass you will have as an adult.
Some people experience what's called delayed puberty. If you are one of these "late bloomers," you may find that some relatives of yours developed late, too. Most teens who have delayed puberty don't need to do anything; they'll eventually develop normally — and that includes gaining weight and muscle. If you are concerned about delayed puberty, though, talk to your doctor.
I've always wanted to play a certain sport; now I don't know if I can. Lots of people come to love a sport in grade school or middle school — and then find themselves on the bench later when their teammates develop faster. If you've always envisioned yourself playing football, it can be tough when your body doesn't seem to want to measure up. You may need to wait until your body goes through puberty before you can play football on the varsity squad.
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I just hate the way I look! Developing can be tough enough without the pressure to be perfect. Your body changes (or doesn't change), your friends' bodies change (or don't), and you all spend a lot of time noticing. It's easy to judge both yourself and others based on appearances. Sometimes, it can feel like life is some kind of beauty contest!
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If you're having trouble with your body image, talk about how you feel with someone you like and trust who's been through it — maybe a parent, doctor, counselor, coach, or teacher.
No matter what your reason is for wanting to gain weight, here's a simple fact: The majority of teens have no reason — medical or otherwise — to try to gain weight. An effort like this will at best simply not work and at worst increase your body fat, putting you at risk for health problems.
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Make nutrition your mission. Your friends who want to slim down are eating more salads and fruit. Here's a surprise: So should you. You can do more for your body by eating a variety of healthier foods instead of trying to pack on weight by forcing yourself to eat a lot of unhealthy high-fat, high-sugar foods. Chances are, trying to force-feed yourself won't help you gain weight anyway, and if you do, you'll mostly just be gaining excess body fat.
Eating a variety of healthy foods, making time for regular meals and snacks, and eating only until you are full will give your body its best chance to stay healthy as it gets the fuel and nutrients it needs.
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Eating well at this point in your life is important for many reasons. Good nutrition is a key part of normal growth and development. It's also wise to learn good eating habits now — they'll become second nature, which will help you stay healthy and fit without even thinking about it.
Keep on moving. Another way to keep your body healthy is to incorporate exercise into your routine. This can include walking to school, playing Frisbee with your friends, or helping out with some household chores. Or you might choose to work out at a gym or with a sports team.
A good rule of thumb for exercise amounts during the teen years: Try to get at least 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity every day.
Strength training, when done safely, is a healthy way to exercise, but it won't necessarily bulk you up. Guys especially get more muscular during puberty, but puberty is no guarantee that you'll turn into a cover model for Muscle & Fitness in a couple of years — some people just don't have the kind of body type for this to happen. Our genes play an important role in determining our body type. Adult bodies come in all different shapes and sizes, and some people stay lean their entire lives, no matter what they do.
If you've hit puberty, the right amount of strength training will help your muscles become stronger and have more endurance. And, once a boy has reached puberty, proper weight training can help him bulk up, if that's the goal. Girls can benefit from strength training, too, but they won't bulk up like boys.
Be sure to work with a certified trainer or other qualified adult who can show you how to do it without injuring yourself.
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The best way to get the fuel you need to build muscle is by eating well. Before you take any kind of supplement at all, even if it's just a vitamin pill, talk to your doctor.
Sleep your way to stunning. Sleep is an important component of normal growth and development. If you get enough, you'll have the energy to fuel your growth. Your body is at work while it sleeps — oxygen moves to the brain, growth hormones are released, and your bones keep on developing, even while you're resting.
Focus on feeling good. It can help to know that your body is likely to change in the months and years ahead. Few of us look like we did at 15 when we're 25. But it's also important to realize that feeling good about yourself can make you more attractive to others, too.
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She was born on Tuesday August 6th 1935, in Napoli, Italy,.
Irma Capece Minutolo needs a break during October 2022 - a 3 Personal Month in a 2 Personal Year. If possible, she should take some time off to recharge her batteries. Irma needs sunshine, relaxation, fun, and laughter with friends. The only career aspects that are favorably highlighted are those related to creativity, and inspiring and motivating those with whom she works. It is a good time for Capece Minutolo to express the thoughts and ideas that she has been thinking about for the past several months. Irma Capece Minutolo can make a favorable impression on superiors, even with ideas that are a little daring.
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An analysis by Consumer Reports found that a chemical used as "caramel coloring" in sodas might cause cancer. Consumer Reports said that 4-methylimidazole, aka 4-MeI, has been targeted by the World Health Organization and the state of California. Consumer Reports says that Pepsi One and Malta Goya have large amounts of the chemical, while other brands have "acceptable" amounts of it.
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The concept of Garib Rath started with the vision to provide air conditioned berths at a comparatively low price for the people who could not afford to travel in AC coaches. Garib-rath phrase translates to poor man's chariot in English. The fare in this train is almost two-thirds of regular third ac fare. Usually Garib Rath have Third AC (3A) class only excepting some 1-2 trains which also have Chair Car (CC) class. The compartments of these train coaches have 9 berths making an extra space for side middle berth which is not there in any other train in India. In case passengers want to have bedrolls they need to pay separately for it. Some garib-raths run as fast as rajdhani, but they have lesser priority for track clearance compared to them. These trains are painted green with a yellow colored strip along the window panes. 1 garib-rath train runs from Puri to Balugaon - GARIB RATH (22883).
Puri to Balugaon GARIB RATH (22883) departs from Puri station (PURI) at and arrives Balugaon station (BALU) at . This train has 2 stoppages. Puri to Balugaon garib-rath fare is Rs.305 in Third AC for this train.
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Disclaimer - Neither TiPb nor I take any responsibility for any problems/issues/bricking/etc. that may occur while using this software to modify your iPhone. Please be aware of what you are doing. This will NOT work with iPhone 3GS.
There has been a lot of buzz going on in the forums regarding jailbreaking the iPhone 3.0 software lately, and a lot of questions to go along with it!. Today we're going to take a deeper look at the exact steps you have to take to get your iPhone 3G with the 3.0 software, jailbroken on your Windows PC machine.
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First and foremost make sure your iPhone is updated to the 3.0 firmware. If you're not yet running 3.0, update via iTunes.
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Now double click on the redsn0w file you just download to open the redsn0w application. You will then be prompted to select the 3.0 IPSW file you downloaded. Do as instructed now. Once it is successfully identified press next to continue.
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Ohio Amish beard-cutting ringleader gets 15 years
CLEVELAND (AP) — Denying he ran an Amish cult, the 67-year-old ringleader of hair- and beard-cutting attacks on fellow members of his faith in Ohio was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison, while family members convicted of carrying out his orders got one to seven years.
The judge said the defendants had violated the constitutional rights protecting religious practice that had also benefited them as Amish. Authorities had prosecuted the attacks as a hate crime.
Before his sentencing, Samuel Mullet Sr. told the judge he had been accused of running a cult. Mullet, his ankles in chains and a white beard down to mid-chest, said that if his community is seen as a cult, "Then I'm going to take the punishment for everybody."
The 10 men and six women were convicted last year in five attacks in Ohio Amish communities in 2011. The government said the attacks were retaliation against Amish who had defied or denounced Mullet's authoritarian hold over the splinter group he started in 1995.
The case has opened a rare window to the lives of the insular Amish, who shun many facets of modern life and are deeply religious. Amish believe the Bible instructs women to let their hair grow long and men to grow beards once they marry. Cutting it would be shameful and offensive.
"The victims were terrorized and traumatized," U.S. District Judge Dan Aaron Polster said, noting that the same constitution that exempts them from jury service and permission to leave school at 14 was turned against the victims. "Each of you has received the benefits of that First Amendment."
With relatives of victims and his family sitting on opposite sides of the public gallery, Mullet said he has lived his life trying to help others.
"That's been my goal all my life," Mullet said to a hushed courtroom, with his fellow defendants and their attorneys sitting at four defense tables and filling the jury box.
"I'm not going to be here much longer," said Mullet, who didn't elaborate on any health issues.
The government had asked for a life sentence for Mullet, while the defense asked for two years or less.
Some defendants tearfully offered to take the brunt of the blame and punishment on behalf of Mullet or their spouses. Addressing the judge one by one, they said there would be no more beard-cutting attacks.
Freeman Burkholder, the 32-year-old husband of a Mullet niece and father of eight children, apologized to the judge.
"I won't do it again," he said.
Anna Miller, 33, married to a Mullet nephew and mother of six, also apologized, turning to relatives of victims as she said, "I'm sorry, it won't happen again." Like most of the women, she was sentenced to one year.
Federal prosecutor Bridget Brennan urged the judge to punish Mullet adequately.
"He is a danger to this community," she said. "He is capable of controlling 15 defendants."
Brennan repeated key testimony against Mullet and said he has remained the leader of his eastern Ohio community despite being locked up since his arrest in late 2011.
U.S. Attorney Steven Dettelbach, whose office directed the prosecution, said he was confident the law would withstand a constitutional challenge.
As for Mullet, "I think the sentence he got was harsh; I think it was appropriately harsh," Dettelbach said. "Mr. Mullet's conduct in court today reiterated yet again his utter failure to respect the rule of law and his utter lack of remorse."
The jury had sided with prosecutors' arguments that the defendants should be found guilty of a hate crime because religious differences brought about the attacks.
The judge said the defendants have two weeks to file appeals of their sentences or convictions. Defense attorneys have indicated such appeals are likely.
Rhonda Kotnik, attorney for Kathryn Miller, a 24-year-old mother of three who received a one-year sentence, said appeals would focus on whether the hate-crimes law is unconstitutionally broad and whether restraining the victims to cut their beards amounted to kidnapping.
"There are lots of issues," she said.
Nine of 10 men who were convicted have been locked up awaiting sentencing. The six women, who all have children, have been free on bond.


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Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy Genealogy
Guide to Reggio Emilia Province ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.
|Italy Wiki Topics
|Beginning Research
|Record Types
|Italy Background
|Cultural Groups
|Local Research Resources
Most of your genealogical research for Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, will be in two main record types: civil registration (registri dello stato civile) and church records (registri ecclesiastici). This article will teach you methods for locating and searching these two record groups.
History[edit | edit source]
Reggio Emilia Province (Wikipedia)
City of Reggio Emilia[edit | edit source]
Reggio became a free commune around the end of the 11th or the beginning of the 12th century but the 12th and 13th centuries, however, were also a period of violent internal struggles.
The arrival of the republican French troops was greeted with enthusiasm in the city but on 21 August 1796, the ducal garrison of 600 men was driven off, and the Senate claimed the rule of Reggio and its duchy. Reggio then went through a period of economic and population growth from 1873 to the destruction of the ancient walls. The city hosted the 13th National Congress of the Italian Socialist Party. On 26 July 1943, the fascist régime's fall was cheered with enthusiasm by the Reggiani.
Reggio Emilia (Wikipedia)
Municipalities in Reggio Emilia[edit | edit source]
Albinea, Bagnolo in Piano, Baiso, Bibbiano, Boretto, Brescello, Cadelbosco di Sopra, Campagnola Emilia, Campegine, Canossa, Carpineti, Casalgrande, Casina, Castellarano, Castelnovo di Sotto, Castelnovo ne' Monti, Cavriago, Correggio, Fabbrico, Gattatico, Gualtieri, Guastalla, Luzzara, Montecchio Emilia, Novellara, Poviglio, Quattro Castella, Reggio nell'Emilia, Reggiolo, Rio Saliceto, Rolo, Rubiera, San Martino in Rio, San Polo d'Enza, Sant'Ilario d'Enza, Scandiano, Toano, Ventasso, Vetto, Vezzano sul Crostolo, Viano, Villa Minozzo
Locating Town of Origin in Italy[edit | edit source]
In order to research your family in Italy, it is essential that you have identified the place where they came from. You must know the city, town, or parish that they came from. it will be difficult to identify the place of origin by going directly to Italy sources. Therefore, you will need to search in United States (or other country of arrival) sources first. See Italy Gathering Information to Locate Place of Origin to learn how to search for the Italian place of origin in United States records.
Civil Registration (registri dello stato civile)[edit | edit source]
- Civil registration records (registri dello stato civile) are government records of births, marriages, and deaths.
- Dates: In southern Italy, registering births, marriages, and deaths began in 1809 (1820 in Sicily). In central and northern Italy, civil registration began in 1866 (1871 in Veneto). After this date, virtually all individuals who lived in Italy were recorded.
- Contents: For detailed descriptions of the information you might find in each record, see Information recorded in civil registers.
- Language: The records were almost always kept in Italian, except for records kept during the rule of foreign powers such as France and Austria. In the northern regions, many records are in French and German. Some church records were transcribed into civil registration records in Latin. Don't worry; you will be able to search these foreign languages by learning just a few typical words such as those for mother, father, born, name, bride, groom, married, etc. More help with this is given later in this article.
- Accessing the records: Civil registration records were and are kept at the local registrar's office (anagrafe) in each town or city. A copy of each record is sent to the tribunale (district court).
- Determining the locality: You must determine the town where your ancestor lived before you can find the records. Your ancestor may have lived in a village that belonged to a nearby larger town. Large cities may have many civil registration districts. You may need to use maps, gazetteers, and other geographic references to identify the place where your ancestor lived and the civil registration office that served that place. See Italy Maps and Italy Gazetteers for information on how to find civil registration offices.
- State of the Family (Stato di famiglia): A civil record unique to Italy is the stato di famiglia, or state of the family certificate. The comune keeps a record of each family and updates each change, including births, marriages, deaths, and emigration. All individuals in a household are included. Some households include more than one family. Historical states of the family (stato di famiglia storico) are kept at the provincial archive (ufficio dello stato civile). These records document past generations of families. Not all areas have kept this record, but where they exist, they are a valuable research tool.
- To learn more about Italian Civil Registration, read Italy Civil Registration.
1. Microfilm or Digital Copies of Civil Registration Records in the FamilySearch Catalog[edit | edit source]
There are many microfilmed records available but not online yet. There are additional records which are digitized and listed in the FamilySearch Catalog. To find a record:
- a. Click on this link to see a list of records for Italy, Reggio nell'Emilia.
- b. Click on "Places within Italy, Reggio nell'Emilia" and a list of towns and cities will open.
- c. Click on the town or city you wish to search.
- d. Click on "Civil Registration" topic. Click on the blue links to specific record titles.
- e. Choose the correct event and time period for your ancestor.
- f. Some combination of these icons will appear at the far right of the microfilm listed for the record. . The magnifying glass indicates that the microfilm is indexed. Clicking on the magnifying glass will take you to the index. Clicking on the camera will take you to an online digital copy of the microfilm.
2. Writing for Civil Registration Certificates[edit | edit source]
If the records are not online or microfilmed, civil registration records in Italy can be obtained by writing to the local civil registry. This is also necessary for more recent records. Recent records are covered by privacy laws, so they are not released for microfilm or online. But relatives are allowed request them for genealogy. Civil officials will generally answer correspondence in Italian. Your request may be forwarded if the records have been sent to the tribunale or the provincia.
Address list for municipalities of Reggio Emilia
Format for address for local office: use this address as a guide, replacing the information in parentheses:
- Sindaco
- Comune di (name of the locality)
- (Street address, if known)
- (postal code) (city) (Province abbreviation:RE)
- Italy
- Sindaco
Address for provincial office:
- 27, Via Paolo Toschi
- 42121 Reggio Nell'Emilia (RE)
- Italy
After you have determined what office has jurisdiction over the records you need, write a brief request to the proper office. Write your request in Italian whenever possible. For writing your letter in Italian, use the translated questions and phrases in this Italy Letter Writing Guide. Send the following:
- Cashier's check or international money order (in local currency) for the search fee. See How To Send Return Postage and Money.
- Full name and the sex of the person sought.
- Names of the parents, if known.
- Approximate date and place of the event.
- Your relationship to the person.
- Reason for the request (family history or medical).
- Request for a complete extract of the record
If your request is unsuccessful, search for duplicate records that may have been filed in other archives or search in church registers.
Church Records (registri ecclesiastici)[edit | edit source]
- Church records (registri ecclesiastici) are vital records kept by priests and are often called parish registers or church books. They include records of christenings (baptisms), marriages, and deaths (burials). In addition, church records may include confirmations, first communions, and church census records. The Roman Catholic Church is traditionally recognized as the state church because most Italians are Roman Catholic. Nearly every person who lived in Italy was recorded in a church record during the last 200 to 300 years.
- Church records are crucial for research before the civil government started keeping vital records, which began about 1809 to 1820, and in some provinces, 1866 or 1871. After that, church records continued to be kept but often contain less information. It can be helpful to search both types of records, particularly if your ancestors' information seems to be missing from one or the other. Of course, in some cases you will find only church records online for a locality, which are therefore more accessible than writing for civil registration. However, they usually contain fewer details.
- To learn more about church records, see Italy Church Records.
1. Digital and Microfilm Church Records in the FamilySearch Catalog[edit | edit source]
To find a record:
- a. Click on this link to see a list of records for Italy, Reggio nell'Emilia.
- b. Click on "Places within Italy, Reggio nell'Emilia" and a list of towns and cities will open.
- c. Click on the town or city you wish to search.
- d. Click on "Church Records" topic. Click on the blue links to specific record titles.
- e. Choose the correct event and time period for your ancestor.
- f. Some combination of these icons will appear at the far right of the microfilm listed for the record. . Clicking on the magnifying glass will take you to the index. Clicking on the camera will take you to an online digital copy of the microfilm.
2. Writing to a Catholic Priest for Church Records[edit | edit source]
Baptism, marriage, and death records may be searched by contacting or visiting local parish or diocese archives in Italy. Italy has no single repository of church records. Write your request in Italian whenever possible. This method is not always reliable. Officials might or might not respond.
Write a brief request in Italian to the proper church using this address as guide replacing the information in parentheses:
- Reverendo Parroco
- (Street address, if known: consult The Catholic Directory)
- (Postal code) (City) (Province abbreviation:RE)
- Reverendo Parroco
Write your request in Italian whenever possible. For writing your letter in Italian, use the translated questions and phrases in this Italy Letter Writing Guide. When requesting information, send the following:
- Cashier's check or international money order (in local currency) for the search fee. See How To Send Return Postage and Money.
- Full name and the sex of the person sought.
- Names of the parents, if known.
- Approximate date and place of the event.
- Your relationship to the person.
- Reason for the request (family history or medical).
- Request for a complete extract of the record
Reading the Records[edit | edit source]
- You do not have to be fluent in Italian to read your documents. Genealogical records usually contain a limited vocabulary. Use this Italian Genealogical Word List to translate the important points in the document. If you find that the records are written in German, French, or Latin, click on that language link in this sentence.
- Online resources are available to help you learn to read these records:
Tips for Finding Your Ancestor in the Records[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration Tips[edit | edit source]
- In many areas during the earliest years of civil registration, records were indexed by the given names. Therefore, you must search every entry in the index to make sure you find every individual who had a certain surname.
- Eventually, however, indexes were alphabetized by surname. Women are always found in the indexes under their maiden names.
- Births were generally registered within a day or two of the child's birth, usually by the father of the family or by the attending midwife. Corrections to a birth record may have been added as a marginal note. In later records, marginal notes' are frequently found, providing marriage and death information.
- After 1809 Napoleonic law required that the marriage ceremony be performed first by a civil authority and then, if desired, by a church authority. At first, some people resisted this law and had their marriages performed by church authority only. Later when it became legally necessary for their children to be recognized as legitimate, a civil ceremony was performed. In rare cases, you may find a marriage record for a couple in their 50s who were actually married 30 years earlier. In most cases you may find marriages recorded in both civil and church records.
- Marriages were usually performed and recorded where the bride lived.
- Do not overlook the importance of death records. Death records are especially helpful because they may provide important information about a person's birth, spouse, and parents. Civil death records often exist for individuals for whom there are no birth or marriage records.
Church Record Tips[edit | edit source]
- Effective use of church records includes the following strategies:
- When you find an ancestor's birth or baptismal record, search for the births of siblings.
- Search for the parents' marriage record. Typically, the marriage took place one or two years before the oldest child was born.
- Search for the parent's birth records. On the average, people married in their early 20s, so subtact 25 or so years from the marriage date for a starting year to search for the parents' birth records.
- If you do not find earlier generations in the parish registers, search neighboring parishes.
- Search the death registers for all known family members.
- If the original church records that you need have been lost or destroyed or are illegible, you may be able to find a duplicate church record. Unfortunately it was not standard practice to keep duplicate records until the 1900s. But some dioceses started making duplicates as early as 1820. Duplicates, when they exist, are normally located at the curia vescovile (diocesan archives).
- In Italy, the parish priest was often required to collect taxes. He would sometimes record information about his parishioners and the tax in church censuses (stato delle anime or status animarum). If the censuses do exist for your parish, the registers list all family members living in a household and their ages or birth dates. Deceased children were not listed. Married children, if living in the same household, were recorded with the family but as a separate household. Familial relationships and addresses were also noted.


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"Life changes fast."
— The first sentence of The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion earned her reputation as one of the great American prose stylists partly through the memorable first sentences of her books and articles. She won the 2005 National Book Award for nonfiction for a memoir of death of her husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, that opens with three words: "Life changes fast."
Do opening lines have an importance that goes beyond their ability to make you keep reading? Didion dealt with the question in a Paris Review interview about the early nonfiction pieces that helped to make her famous:
Interviewer: You have said that once you have your first sentence you've got your piece. That's what Hemingway said. All he needed was his first sentence and he had his short story.
Didion: What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.
Interviewer: The first is the gesture, the second is the commitment.
Didion: Yes, and the last sentence in a piece is another adventure. It should open the piece up. It should make you go back and start reading from page one. That's how it should be, but it doesn't always work. I think of writing anything at all as a kind of high-wire act. The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.
Joan Didion in "The Art of Fiction, No. 71," an interview with Linda Kuehl in the Fall-Winter 1978 issue of the Paris Review. You can find the full text of that interview and another with Didion that appeared in the spring 2006 issue by searching for "Joan Didion" at www.parisreview.org. Didion's hardcover publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, has posted an excerpt from The Year of Magical Thinking at www.aaknopf.com, where you can read the pages that follow: "Life changes fast."
Cover art for the the Fall-Winter 1978 Paris Review shown here: Robert Moskowitz
© 2007 Janice Harayda. All rights reserved.


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Litecoin mining is a fun and easy way that you can help support the Funtoo Linux project. Litecoin is a virtual cryptographic currency that is generated using CPUs and video card GPU computational power, and can be converted into a traditional currency like US dollars.
How does Litecoin Relate to Funtoo?
Part of Funtoo is having fun, and part of having fun is being creative, and exploring new ideas and concepts, and not being limited by the expectations of others. These concepts include technology, but also include new community concepts and approaches for supporting a community. Distributed support via CPU and GPU power is certainly a novel way of supporting an open source project, and because of this it is a perfect fit for Funtoo. In many ways, the resource challenges faced by open source projects are more complex than the technical challenges, and deserve to be taken seriously. By exploring the use of Litecoin, we are exploring an innovative way to fund the project.
What are Funtoo Litecoin Funds Used For?
These funds will be used to pay the Development Lead of Funtoo, who assists me (Daniel Robbins) in ensuring that day-to-day often unglamorous work is completed in a responsive way for our users. The goal of this effort is for litecoin funds to pay the Development Lead so he can work on Funtoo Linux full-time.
Why is this important? Sometimes, I get busy at work and cannot be involved in Funtoo, and the Development Lead ensures that the Funtoo community stays afloat during these periods. The Dev Lead also assists with running the project when I'm available, so I can focus on development activities more deeply. This also helps to keep the project fun for me, so it is not an unreasonable burden.
Any surplus funds beyond this will be used to pay for our 10Gbit/sec hosting infrastructure and servers, which I currently pay for myself.
Litecoin Pools
Typically, Litecoins are mined by pools of computers, and funtoo is part of the following pooled litecoin mining efforts:
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There are lots of different ways to mine Litecoins. You can use any of our pools above. You can also use your CPU or your graphics card. To see what different types of hardware can do, see the Litecoin Mining Hardware Comparison page. Note that many of these systems are overclocked so make note of the CPU and memory frequencies listed here.
"Got Litecoins Already" Method
If you already have Litecoins that you want to donate to Funtoo Linux, you can send them to LgtcMbY5JYTQAGzdfJ9U83CPhspNkbJzym. Thanks!
Here's how to do it with litecoind:
root # litecoind sendtoaddress LgtcMbY5JYTQAGzdfJ9U83CPhspNkbJzym 50
Be sure to let Daniel know that you sent some coin so that you can receive proper respect :)
CPU Mining
Here's how to get started and convert your idle CPU power into a contribution to the Funtoo Linux project.
The "miner" is the program that performs the computation to generate litecoins. It receives blocks from a server, which it performs computations on. Miners are designed to run continually in the background, where they use up idle CPU only, and will not impact the speed of your system. A significant contribution to Funtoo Linux is only realized when miners are run continually for days and weeks -- so running a miner for an hour or so is typically not effective.
Installation using Portage
This method will use CFLAGS from /etc/portage/make.conf. Note that -O2 seems to work much better than -O3.
root # emerge pooler-cpuminer
Set up go.sh
Create the following go.sh script to start the miner:
#!/bin/bash threads=$(grep -c "^processor" /proc/cpuinfo) while true; do minerd --algo scrypt -s 45 --retry-pause 5 --threads $threads --url http://ltc.kattare.com:9332 --userpass funtoo.public:p done
Make it executable:
root # chmod +x go.sh
Run go.sh
Run go.sh to start the miner.
root # ./go.sh
The cpuminer will only use idle CPU and will not slow down your system. Modern systems will generate somewhere from 15 to 60 KHash/sec total, which will result in $10 to Funtoo Linux per month for a Core i7 system at current exchange rates, when run continually.
Keep those miners running and thanks for supporting Funtoo Linux!
GPU Mining
cgminer stopped supporting GPU/Scrypt mining in 3.8 series.
Some of the more hardcore individuals in the Funtoo community may want to use their graphics processor to mine litecoins. Modern graphics cards, particularly AMD (ATI) cards, can offer hashrates well above 100Khash/sec, even above 400Khash/sec for some cards. Daniel Robbins has a few Radeon HD 6950's that can generate in excess of 400Khash/sec each.
AMD (ATI) cards tend to work much better than NVIDIA for litecoin mining. Here's how to do GPU mining:
First, X will need to be installed, and you will need to ensure all your video cards are defined in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. For AMD cards, ati-drivers 13.1 appears to work well. Ensure that full hardware acceleration is working and that ati OpenGL and amd OpenCL are selected via eselect. (This is probably how things are set up if you simply emerged ati-drivers.)
Install cgminer
First, enable the scrypt USE variable (important!). Now, emerge cgminer:
root # USE="scrypt" emerge =net-misc/cgminer-3.7.2
Create cgminer script
Create a go.sh script that looks like this:
#!/bin/bash export GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=100 export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1 export DISPLAY=:0 cgminer \ -o http://newlc.ozco.in:9332/ -u funtoo.public -p p \ -o http://ltc.kattare.com:9332/ -u funtoo.public -p p \ --intensity 17 \ --scrypt \ --shaders 1536 --thread-concurrency 8000 -g 1 --worksize 256 \ --auto-fan --temp-target 80
This script will start cgminer to connect to newlc.ozco.in, but will automatically fall back to the kattare pool if ozco.in is down. Intensity ranges from 1-20, with higher settings generally offering better hashrates. But if you get too close to 20, you will notice a slow down in interactive performance when using the X server. ssh performance will be unaffected.
Be sure to properly set the number of shaders on your card -- 1536 is for an unlocked Radeon HD 6950. Consult SCRYPT-README (look for the --shaders description) to view the correct shaders to use for your card.
Start Mining
Now make it executable, make sure X is running, and start mining:
root # chmod +x go.sh root # ./go.sh
There are other cool things you can do with cgminer, such as overclocking your video card and ramping up the intensity to at or near 20 to dramatically increase hashrates. Happy mining, and if you are mining for Funtoo, thanks :)


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