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We meet for lunch on campus at the upmarket Darlington Centre restaurant, a popular haunt for academics and their visitors. It's a few steps from his sunny white office where empty shelves await the shipment of his possessions from Stockholm. Part of the spring in his step is the excitement at having ''really lucked out'' on rental of a harbourside house at Greenwich.
He is also fresh from the triumph of having the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, speak at the launch of his centre's partner institute, the Perth USAsia centre at the University of Western Australia.
So what is she like? ''A very impressive woman with great skills, not only as a diplomat but as a politician.''
''She has excellent personal skills, I would say. She has a sense of humour, yet also was able to deliver her thinking and her point very convincingly.''
It is quickly clear that sharp, nuanced analysis with a ear for humour and the human is characteristic of this personable man. He chooses orecchiette pasta with broccoli florettes, peas, flaked almonds and Persian fetta. I go for sugar cured trout with shaved fennel and blood orange salad.
But back to Clinton. Getting her into the room while simultaneously winding up his former life as director of the prestigious Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and moving his household to Sydney must have demanded all the the skills of diplomacy, networking and organisation, which presumably won him the job in the first place.
The challenge was to ''make sure we are wiring it all up in a way that all the stakeholders see this is worth her time, and don't see a lot of risk, and see the value''. That meant calls to ambassadors on both sides of the Pacific, as well as to ''people in Washington that you know would be interested and supportive, and at some point would have the opportunity to say the right words at the right time''.
The atmospherics for the launch, timed to coincide with the annual AUSMIN ministerial meeting between the two countries, were just right too. The Obama administration is rebalancing foreign policy from the Middle East to the region (the ''East Asia pivot'') while China plays an ever-stronger role in world affairs. Australia is keen to play the role of ''middle power''.
''To be honest I think we were pushing on an open door,'' Gill says.
My salmon sparkles with a crunchy salad and a refreshingly citrus finish. His pasta looks a bit on the bland side, and tastes so too, apparently. He is politely reluctant to pass judgment but admits, when pressed, he is ''inclined to more spicy'' dishes. It starts us riffing on the joys of spicy Chinese food from Sichuan and Hunan provinces. He and his wife, Sarah, who comes up in our conversation almost as often as the US studies centre, have been ''awestruck'' by the enormous diversity and quality of Asian cuisine in Sydney. They are looking forward to cooking up complicated Asian recipes for guests.
Gill speaks somewhat to one side of his mouth with a twinkle in his eye, as if there's a wise guy ready to burst out from behind his neatly groomed decorum. Somehow it does not surprise later to learn that he sings and plays the harmonica in a rhythm and blues band.
Australia is the fourth continent they have lived on, and among 60 countries he has visited. They started as newlyweds in 1986 in the northern port city of Dalian where he taught English to university students, and you had to get to the markets early or eat cabbage and potatoes for the week.
Living in Australia fulfils a long-held ambition. Sarah, a research virologist, lived here as a girl when her father worked for the CSIRO, and retains strong personal links. So when a job that was right for her came up — as deputy director of the Westmead Millennium Institute — they grabbed the chance. For Gill, it was an opportunity ''to come and live in the Asia-Pacific again, to be part of this region and watch from this perch the rise of China, what it means for US foreign policy in the region and what it means for US-Australia relations''.
He is a long way from tramping the forests of his native Michigan, which, as a boy from the Detroit suburbs, he thought he might always do. But a choir trip to Europe opened his eyes and mind to the great world. ''From there, I did everything I could to get into a kind of career that would be international, allow me to travel and live abroad.''
His liberal-minded parents — father a small businessman in public relations, mother a homemaker and later an educational registrar — were ''very much advocates of education and having broad and ambitious horizons, so there was nothing standing in my way''.
The China path was set in 1980 with a university internship at a small publishing company where he helped write a book on how to do business with China. The US-China relationship had only just been ''normalised'' and great excitement surrounded the growing interaction between the two countries. ''On my return to university, it was all I really wanted to do, to find out more about this country [China]''. He became fluent in Mandarin as well as French and eventually wrote a doctorate on Chinese arms exports.
In four years under the founding chief executive, Geoff Garrett, the US Studies Centre has attracted nearly 100 people to its employ (many of them part-time), students in droves (about 1300 at last count) and an array of stellar speakers to its events, as well as formidable clout. Its board is weighted with AOs and AMs, including two former Australian ambassadors to the US (Michael Thawley and Dennis Richardson, who is also secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade), and captains of industry such as Kevin McCann, the chairman of Origin Energy and Macquarie Group.
The Australian ambassador to the US, Kim Beazley, is on its advisory council, along with former prime ministers John Howard and Bob Hawke, the Ten Network chairman, Lachlan Murdoch, and several heads of American multinationals in Australia.
The new CEO sees his job not as an ''apologist for the US'' but as ''helping remind Australians and Americans just how broad and just how extensive our relationship is''.
''Few Australians realise that the US is by far, by far the biggest investor in Australia,'' Gill says. The popular focus tends to be on the defence and security relationship — the ''Alliance''. But ''while those are issues near and dear to my heart'', he says he is fascinated by the expanse of the relationship across issues ranging from politics, trade, investment, resources and energy to environment, science, agriculture, technology, innovation, and even culture.
Gill is keen to build the centre's advisory work and consequent policy influence. It has $2 million in federal funding for a three-year project on the future of Australia-US relations, with matching support from corporate partners including Dow Chemical, GE, Morgan Stanley, News Corporation, Pratt Industries and Raytheon, many of which are represented on its board.
A project on higher education is in sight, as is a comparative assessment of the role of private philanthropy in the US and Australia. ''We will probably want to do more work in the area of the US-China-Australia triangle'', Gill adds.
His advisory credentials are well established. During his five years at the helm of the highly specialised security and arms proliferation research centre SIPRI in Stockholm, the budget and staff almost doubled, even though it was in financial crisis when he arrived. He is also proud of establishing a program that still runs at the Monterey Institute in California teaching new Chinese foreign ministry recruits on arms control and non-proliferation. ''That program, I think, has made a pretty positive impact'', he says. ''Some of those officials look at those issues in a way that I would say is somewhat more consistent and convergent with the international community than it was previously.''
Over coffee, we talk music. His love of gospel and blues stems from a formative experience of his 1960s youth when Detroit was riven by race riots. His mother's response was to give up their white suburban Methodist church and join an all-black church in a poor area.
Gill has been playing with the same rhythm and blues band since 1985. Seven of them met in Virginia when he was at graduate school. They still play a gig somewhere in the US every year, never missing a reunion, and he would like music and the arts to feature more prominently in the US Studies Centre.
As for Bill Gates, Bates Gill has met him. The Microsoft multibillionaire partly funded some research Gill did on HIV-AIDS in China. They did not talk about the dyslexic coincidence of their names. Gates ''didn't seem to notice,'' Gill says. Anyway, he points out, he was Bates Gill before anyone had heard of Bill Gates. That twinkle again.
On our way out, his name rings across the restaurant. ''Bates!'' A colleague wants him to meet someone. Here and now, everyone wants to know Bates Gill.
This article was originally published by The Sydney Morning Herald
Dr Bates Gill
Professor of Asia-Pacific Strategic Studies, Australian National University
Bates Gill was CEO of the US Studies Centre from 2012-2015. He is Professor of Asia-Pacific Strategic Studies with the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University. Previously, he was Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), an independent think tank recognised as one of the world's top ten research institutes in international affairs.
Professor Geoffrey Garrett
Dean, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Geoffrey Garrett was the founding CEO of the US Studies Centre. Garrett is Dean, Reliance Professor of Management and Private Enterprise, and Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, he has been the Dean of the Business Schools at both the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales.


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Vanderlei Fernandes Silva (conocido como Derlei) (São Bernardo do Campo, Brasil, 14 de julio de 1975) es un exfutbolista brasileño, aunque nacionalizado portugués. Desde el 2010 está retirado y su último club fue Madureira Esporte Club de Brasil.

Biografía

Vanderlei Fernandes Silva, más conocido como Derlei, nació en Brasil aunque también tiene nacionalidad portuguesa.

Jugó en varios equipos de su país natal (América FC (RN), Guarani FC y Madureira) antes de marcharse a Portugal a jugar con el União Desportiva de Leiria.

Con este equipo debutó en la Primera División de Portugal. En este club permaneció tres temporadas disputando muchos encuentros (91) en los que anotó 42 goles.

En 2002 ficha por el Fútbol Club Oporto. Fue una de las apuestas de José Mourinho y Derlei no defraudó, ya que se convirtió en uno de los mejores goleadores del equipo. Marcó dos goles en la final de la Copa de la UEFA 2002-03 (FC Oporto 3-2 Celtic de Glasgow). En total con este equipo ganó dos Ligas, una Copa, dos Supercopas de Portugal, una Copa de la UEFA, una Liga de Campeones de la UEFA y una Copa Intercontinental.

En invierno de 2005 Derlei se marcha del club debido a problemas disciplinarios, ya que se retrasó en la vuelta de las vacaciones de invierno sin explicación. Fue vendido al FC Dinamo Moscú por 7 millones de euros. En su época en Rusia se convirtió en uno de los mejores delanteros de la Liga Premier de Rusia.

Regresa a Portugal dos años después para jugar la última parte de la temporada 2006-07 con el Benfica en calidad de cedido. Debutó con este equipo en liga el 2 de febrero en un partido contra el Boavista FC (0-0).

En 2007 ficha por su actual club, el Sporting de Lisboa. Esa misma temporada se lesiona de gravedad, lo que le impide jugar gran parte de la temporada. Sin embargo su equipo se proclama campeón de la Copa de Portugal.

En verano de 2008 gana la Supercopa de Portugal.

Clubes

Títulos

Torneos nacionales

 1 Campeonato Potiguar con América Futebol Clube (RN) : 1996
 2 Primeira Liga con F.C. Porto : 2002-03 y 2003-04
 2 Copa de Portugal : 2002-03 con F.C. Porto , 2007-08 con Sporting de Lisboa
 4 Supercopa de Portugal : 2003 y 2004 con F.C. Porto , 2007 y 2008 con Sporting de Lisboa

Torneos internacionales

 1 Copa de la UEFA con F.C. Porto : 2002-03
 1 Liga de Campeones de la UEFA con F.C. Porto : 2003-04
 1 Copa Intercontinental con F.C. Porto : 2004

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Ficha de Derlei (www.zerozero.eu) (en inglés)

Futbolistas de Brasil
Futbolistas nacionalizados en Portugal
Futbolistas del Sporting de Lisboa
Futbolistas del Sport Lisboa e Benfica
Futbolistas del FC Dinamo Moscú
Futbolistas del Fútbol Club Oporto
Futbolistas de la União Desportiva de Leiria
Futbolistas del Guarani Futebol Clube
Futbolistas del América Futebol Clube (RN)
Nacidos en São Bernardo do Campo

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The main character of a whole line of potters which started in 1707 with Pierre MASSIER. He stood as one of the main actors of iridescent ceramics, with metallic shimmers, also called "lustre". A technique which probably originated in Irak in the 19th century B.C. As young as 12 he carefully watched the work of one of his father�s employees named GANDOLFI GAETANO, who initiated the MASSIERS in the technique of enameled earthenware and whom he viewed as his master. He started his research on metallic lustre around 1886-1887 and his work was rewarded by a gold medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1889. In 1898 he presented fifteen pieces with metallic lustre at the Salon of the Society of French Artists. Very soon he called in famous fellow-workers among which Alexandre MUNROE (1825-1871) in 1860, OPTAT MILLET (1838-1914) in 1876 or Lucien LEVY-DHURMER (1865-1953) in 1885. Their themes were numerous and, far from a small work-shop, in 1897 his factory employed 65 workers. Clément MASSIER�s most famous iridescent pottery perfectly embodies the fascination and magic of fire.


The Original Sporn Halter is a no-pull harness that has been around since 1992. It consists of a collar with an unusual number of D-rings, and a cord with clips on either end and a ring and spring toggle in the middle. The cord is run through a pair of fleecy sleeves to prevent it from rubbing on the dog. The Original Sporn Halter is currently available in three different colors and four sizes to fit dogs with necks 9-33"around.
Before there was the Simple Control Harness, before there was the Non-Pull Mesh Harness, there was the Original Sporn Halter. It was invented in 1992 and I'm sure I was using one shortly after the product was released. I used to walk Sid the Weimeraner from down the street on a Sporn Halter, I guess my neighbors were early adopters.
Like every piece of dog gear, there's some good things and some bad things about this one. For some users, it is nothing short of a miracle. Back in 1992, it allowed my tiny prepubescent self to walk an enormous dog with ease. Sid the Weimeraner had major skin issues, but the harness never rubbed him raw, and back then the cords didn't even have those sherpa sleeves on them.
On the flip side, this is a somewhat complicated piece of gear to put on, more so because it can come apart unlike similar products by the same company. The collar has two metal D-rings on the front and two on the back. Each side of the forked cord piece is run through a back ring, under the dog's front leg, and attached to the front ring on the same side. The plastic toggle at the center of the cord is then used to pull both sides snug. The leash is attached to the center ring above the toggle, so that the restraint cords are pulled tight when the dog pulls.
I have for many years considered the Sporn Halter to be an aversive tool. Clearly pulling a thin cord into a dog's armpit must be painful, right? The primary reason I keep these in my toolbox is because they just don't seem to bother the dogs much.
In my review of the Yuppy Puppy (now YUP!) Anti-Pull Harness, I said I was sure a dog charging to the end of their leash with a full head of steam would feel actual pain when they hit this harness. During our photo shoot, I actually got to see this happen. Annie the Escapologist saw another dog across the park and went flying to the end of a 6' leash in an Original Sporn Halter...and didn't even notice. The harness made her front legs sort of spread out to either side, airplane style, but she quickly figured out how to engage her back end and keep pulling with her front completely off the ground.
I have now revised my opinion of string harnesses as aversive tools. Clearly they don't cause nearly the amount of discomfort imagined, given how well they work. It seems they make the action of pulling on the leash inconvenient or awkward, rather than outright painful.
Pros: Light for dogs that abhor heavy harnesses. Instantly effective on many dogs. Does not require the dog's feet to be lifted, or anything to be pulled over their head.
Cons: Some dogs just don't find it that annoying. The cords on this design can rub the dog's armpits raw, the Sporn Non-Pull Mesh Harness places them a bit further back. Can be a bit complicated to put on for the spatially-challenged (or maybe looking at a mass of straps and cords and being able to immediately identify what it is and how it goes on is my superpower...). Is definitely not escape-proof, short-legged dogs and those that can back out of their collars may have an extra edge when it comes to popping out of it.
Bottom Line: Annie the Escape Artist is a fantastic product tester for no-pull products as well as supposedly escape-proof gear. I had regarded this harness as difficult to escape until she tried to back out of it. Apparently, for some dogs, it's as easy to pop out of as a flat collar. Annie is a great example of how we learn more from difficult dogs than we do from the easy, well-behaved ones.


TE Archive - Ditto - Whole Lotta Gigging!
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LOCAL three-piece SCRIBBLE will have their work cut out for them this long weekend with a swag of gigs at local clubs and pubs.
But you have to expect that when you have two bands going simultaneously.
The trio of ANDREW JONES, BEN PETTETT and CHRIS KING have been doing the local club circuit for the past two years.
The band plays a slick and professional set of sequenced classics ranging from the Rolling Stones and the Doors through to 90s hits by Chumbawamba and Matchbox 20.
Earlier this year the band added drummer DAVID PEARSON to create DITTO, while still keeping up their busy schedule of Scribble shows.
Ditto will be playing at the JOLLY ROGER on Thursday and THE BREWERY on Friday.
The boys will then drop back into Scribble mode for shows at the SOUTHS LEAGUES CLUB early on Saturday, then CLUB PHOENIX for the late shift from 1am to 4am.
They'll have a bit of a sleep in on the Sunday before heading up to the SHOAL BAY COUNTRY CLUB for a gig that evening.
Who said musicians got their money for nothing?
But hard work is nothing new for the members of Scribble.
Guitarist Andrew Jones played with a number of bands and performed as a soloist before joining popular Newcastle band SOULED OUT as lead vocalist. During his seven-year stint with the band Souled Out enjoyed a strong reputation for consistent quality performances and supported several major acts including PHIL EMMANUEL and MARCIA HINES.
Multitalented lead guitarist Ben Pettett said he was roped into music by his mother at an early age.
He studied piano for 12 years and guitar for seven, as well as spending many years playing tuba, drums and percussion in brass bands and theatre productions.
Keyboardist Chris King is a classically trained pianist who has been playing for more than 16 years.
Chris also has a flair for the theatrical having been the musical director for local productions of Godspell, West Side Story and Blood Brothers.
With that sort of experience its easy to see why Scribble have become such a popular feature on the local club scene.


Truck 22 and Tanker 23 dispatched to 118 East Wiconisco Street in Porter Township in the village of Muir for a garage fire. Truck 22 responded with 6 and Engine 22 added on with 4 and Utility 22 with 1. Tanker 23 responded with 2. On arrival, command assigned the Truck side A and they went to work. The Engine and Utility staged behind Rescue 647 and sent manpower forward to a 1 1/2 story 15 and 15 wood frame garage with heavy smoke pushing from the front and fire venting to the rear. Crews performed ventilation and assisted with suppression and were assisted by Truck 58-25 on their arrival. Crews worked with Schuylkill 650, 647, and 810 and achieved a knockdown, and then went into salvage and overhaul mode. Crews continued until released by Command 650.


We have started the programme at Tesco Extra in Bournemouth, the staff within the store are supportive of the programme and have enabled the students to gain work experience in a variety of departments.
Understand the importance of good customer service in the retail sector.
Learn how to manage and display clothing stock, security of garments.
Experience how to store, present and manage stock.
Learn about the importance of the internet in modern retailing and to collect internet shopping for customers.
Help care for the workforce in the staff canteen – cooking meals, cleaning tables and stocking vending machines.
Get shop floor experience and learn about the importance of stock rotation and presentation within the food departments: Dairy, Fruit and Vegetables, Non-perishable Goods.


The Victoria Course is one of the newest courses to be opened in the Algarve. The holes have been laid out over virtually flat terrain which has been then reconstructed to provide an undulating surface. A series of waterfalls into lakes create visual attraction to players beside providing an agreeable background sound. It is at present the longest 18 holes golf course in Portugal. Each hole has been designed to give the player a choice of five tees to play off so as to make it suitable for golfers of all handicap levels.
Via Infante (A22) - Take Boliqueime Exit-11 and head south until you reach the first roundabout with traffic lights. Turn east onto the Road EN 125 to Vilamoura and continue for about 4 kms until next traffic lights. Here you bear to the right into Vilamoura and continue until the third roundabout. Turn right and when you reach the second roundabout turn to the left. Continue south for about 500 metres and the entrance to the Club House is on the right side of this road.


I recently purchased the dress from Saks Off 5th at the new Paragon Outlets in Livermore. My watch is also from an outlet store there too. I wore the dress within 2 weeks after buying it and feel so proud of myself. I thought today was going to be my last day of work at the office, then out of nowhere, I get another extension to my contract. Woo-hoo! I will have a job for the holidays and time to job hunt just in case.
Thanks for reading, and hope you have a happy weekend-I know I will!


I want to soar and jump and fly!
Walk with me, Talk with me, Dance with me so happily!
The Earth, the Heavens and we are one.
Many more traditional verses for blessings, nature walks, transition times and more are included in the Waldorf Earthschooling Lesson Plans.


This pony foal just 12 hours old out for a walk with his mom decided jumping really is what he's bred to do and he seems to enjoy himself so much during the video. Happy, the foal, really cannot have enough of jumping and goes around all time play jumping.
He seems to have a lot of fun and this is exactly what makes the video cute and the foal adorable. The tuck on that foal is very rare making him look even more beautiful than he is. For those that see jumping at this age a terrible mistake done by the owners, if the foal were in the wild it would still jump and would be no one to stop him there.
The foal is just having a good time on his own and this gorgeous little guy will surely make a great horse in the future. Watch this video and enjoy it!


Recently I participated on a panel on the future of the profession for the National Conference of Bar Presidents and walked away thoroughly convinced the profession is doomed.
If someone asked for permission to go to the bathroom, a bar would form a task force (or commission) to fully examine whether going to the bathroom was a good idea and to highlight all of the pitfalls around bathrooms. After 18 months they would issue a report stating that going to the bathroom is generally a good thing and should be promoted to those who need to go, but only if all of the potential negative impacts have been understood, limited and communicated to those considering bathroom breaks. The report would not actually authorize the request to use the bathroom. It would be left to the Bar Board to actually enact a rule permitting said activity. The Board rarely follows up as they are busy forming the next task force and would not want to take any heat for authorizing such a dramatic change.
In the meantime, the guy who made the original request either went, or died.
The presentation panel actually offered a real-life example, that broke this mold – at least in some fashion. The panel participant from Washington, discussed how they are implementing Limited Licensure Legal Technicians (LLLT). That effort began in 2001, culminating in the first licensees coming online this Spring. But in this circumstance, the Supreme Court actually pushed this through, against the wishes of the bar. The result was one small change to the market that took 14 years to implement.
After the presentation a number of attendees from state bars sat down to chat with me about all of this. A universal theme was that whatever they might do to disrupt the market and drive innovation will be met with strong resistance by the bar membership. As I see it, bar associations have little to gain by pushing on this issue, even though they have a lot to lose by doing nothing. Their members will not abide any efforts short of turning the clock back. I gave numerous suggestions for how a bar might drive change to the group. All were met with exacerbation and a recognition that any efforts will be met with broad and strong resistance.
For a long time I have held out hope that the legal profession would step up and address the needs of the market: for both lawyers and clients. After this experience, I have come to the hard conclusion: That is not going to happen. As smart as lawyers are, their training and experience have made them a reactive and dogmatic group. In their minds, the way they have been doing it is the only way to keep doing it. Anything else is a threat to the profession and their practice specifically.
This all saddens me. Lawyers hold a sacred duty to the rule of law. Their inability to act means the rule of law will be handed off to someone else – someone without that obligation. As a society we will all be worse off.
If the medical profession is any indicator, we should fully expect insurance companies and or perhaps banks to become our future legal service providers.


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Hey just getting this out there. Is it odd that I (as a female) find the male voice more pleasing to the ear than the female voice? It just seems that male voices have so much more texture, depth and uniqueness, while female voices tend to sound more generic. Don't get me wrong, there are some great divas out there (Ann Wilson, Eva Cassidy, Stevie Nicks are my faves), but male voices like Chris Cornell, Geoff Tate, Chris Stapleton, Matt Bellamy, James Hetfield (to name a few) are what inspire me. Any other fellow divas feel the same?
i guess it´s a matter of taste, I too find more pleasant to listen to male singers! but right now Demi Lovato is my favorite female singer!she´s got it, did you listen to her singing the national anthem? I got goosebumps!
Im a female contralto I can get a bit axle Rose like, However; I'm way close to Bret Michaels of Poison. I get uncomfortable singing in my range (Current) incase people who listen and can't see think I'm a guy ha! but, I like Poison, eventhough they are a party band they are awesome!


He's a player who's happy to quietly go about his business while others take all the plaudits but make no mistake, David Buchanan has played a vital role in Cobblers' success this season.
Far from the most flashy of players, the gritty left-back is the only Northampton man to feature in every game this term, even accounting for all the cup competitions, having joined the club from Preston North End last summer.
While manager Chris Wilder rotates his squad during this busy period, the one position he never has to worry about is the left-back slot thanks to Buchanan's consistency and impressive fitness.
The 29-year-old is equally effective in both attack and defence, providing several assists at one end while keeping the opposition out at the other, although his maiden Cobblers goal remains elusive.
That's no concern to the man himself, however, as long as he's contributing to Northampton's success.
"It'd be nice to get a goal but in my position I get paid to keep clean sheets and if I can get a few assists as I've done this season, then that's part of my job," said Buchanan.
"From the first interview I did when I first signed for this club, I've said that I want to help us get the best defence in the league and if we can keep the most clean sheets come the end of the season, that'll be my job done and if we can get promotion, that'll be a fantastic achievement.
An indication of just how highly Wilder and co rate Buchanan is evident in the fact he has been made captain in the absence of club skipper Marc Richards.
It's a role which he relishes, adding: "Of course I enjoy it and it's always a proud moment to be made captain of your club.
Despite now holding a seismic 19-point lead over fourth-placed Accrington Stanley, Buchanan insists he and his team-mates are not thinking about the possibility of promotion, instead focusing on one game at a time.
He added: "We're not talking about promotion, we're talking about getting as many points as possible from the remaining games.
"There are 12 games to go and we'll be fighting for three points in every single one of those and at the end of the season, whether we get promotion or win the title, it'll be a fantastic achievement for this football club if we manage it.
Buchanan produced another solid display during Tuesday's thrilling 1-1 draw against AFC Wimbledon as John-Joe O'Toole's first-half opener was cancelled out by a fine finish from Lyle Taylor on the hour-mark.
Despite further chances in an open, end-to-end second half, there was to be no winning goal as the Cobblers were held to their second successive draw after 10 straight wins.
"On reflection I think we deserved to win the game," added Buchanan. "But let's give them a bit of credit because they're a good side themselves who are in good form and they came here and pressed us and the front two are quick, strong lads.
"We always like to win at Sixfields but it was two form teams in the league going at each other and it was an entertaining game for the fans.
Tuesday's clash was Northampton's sixth game in 17 days but ahead of a long trip up north to Carlisle United on Saturday, Buchanan played down any fears of fatigue setting in.
"We're a fit bunch whoever plays," he continued. "The team is as strong as ever and we'll be ready come the next game because the lads do it right on and off the pitch and that's one reason why we're top of the league.
"Carlisle are another team in form and I thought they were one of the better teams when they came here. They really took the game to us and have experienced players in the side and like to get the ball down and play football.


Concentrating on your core this year? You're not alone. Toning this area of the body is a common fitness resolution, and the good news is that it doesn't have to be boring (endless crunches, be gone!) and also can actually be accomplished pretty quickly. So whether you're just looking to set an overall fitness goal for 2015 or you're prepping for a beach vacation (lucky you!), there are lots of ways to incorporate safe and inspiring exercise, as well as easy diet tips, into your life right now. We caught up with Anna Kaiser, celebrity trainer and the founder of AKT In Motion, to get the scoop on how to tone those abs quickly and effectively.
Kaiser—who works out with super toned celebs like Sarah Jessica Parker and Kelly Ripa—says one of the biggest mistakes people make when they're trying to quickly tone their abs is going crazy with the crunches—an exercise that might end up hurting your back or neck. "We have to change the general mentality of an 'effective ab workout' from spot training to a full body burn for the best results. A series of jump squats will do more for your ab definition than 1000 crunches," she explains. Instead, you might want to up your cardio, but don't necessarily go running to your nearest spin class for ab salvation. Kaiser says High Intensity Interval Training is a better option, which includes plyometrics. "Try HIIT or interval cardio classes that require you to engage and challenge your core muscles during cardio portions," she says.
Looking for an addition to your crunch-less, fast-abs, workout routine? Try a plank. It's hard not to break a sweat when you're in this key position, as you're engaging your core while holding your body-weight up in a strong, stable position. "There is absolutely no way you can perform a plank without recruiting your abdominal muscles," explains Kaiser. To make sure this position doesn't get stale or boring, Kaiser explains you can mix it up by modifying them with variations like the side-plank or planks with alternating tap outs.
Don't go into the gym with the mindset that you're only going to pay attention to your abs, as Kaiser says it's not possible to spot-train just one area. "It's about shedding inches overall," she says. Look for routines that work out your entire body. "The more you challenge your body overall, the faster you'll see your definition improve," she says.
Believe it or not, Kaiser says what you eat is even more important than your workout regimen. If that's not a reason to shape up your meal plan, we don't know what is. She suggests cutting sugar, focusing on natural foods, veggies, foods with lots of protein and fiber, as well as drinking more water.
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Der Plackweg ist ein alter Handelsweg, der im Naturpark Arnsberger Wald über den bis 581 m hohen Kamm der Plackweghöhe nördlich der Ruhr bei Meschede verläuft. Über die Trasse führt heute eine gleichnamige Hauptwanderstrecke des Sauerländischen Gebirgsvereins (SGV). Der Plackweg ist auch mit dem Fahrrad befahrbar und zwischen dem Warsteiner Kopf und Esshoff Bestandteil des landesweiten Radverkehrsnetzes NRW.

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Der Name soll sich von "Plaggen", mit denen der teilweise vermoorte Weg ausgelegt war, herleiten. Nach einer anderen Deutung liegt dem Namen das Wort "placken" = "sich anstrengen" zugrunde.

Plackweg als historischer Handelsweg
Der Anfang des Plackwegs führte vom ehemaligen Kloster Himmelpforten über die Kammlinie des Arnsberger Waldes auf der Wasserscheide zwischen Möhne und Ruhr (Lattenberg, Enster Knick, Stimmstamm, Warsteiner Kopf ()) bis nach Brilon-Esshoff.

Am Warsteiner Kopf kreuzte der Plackweg den Kriegerweg, einen mittelalterlichen Handelsfernweg, der von Siegen nach Paderborn führte. Im Arnsberger Wald sind die Spuren der Gespanne noch heute in den bis zu drei Meter tiefen Hohlwegen zu erkennen.

Ein älterer Zweig des Plackwegs zweigte 300 m westlich vom Hauptgipfel des Kammes () nach Kallenhardt, einem Ortsteil von Rüthen, ab. An diesem "alten Plackweg" wurde am 7. Juni 2008 der Lörmecke-Turm eröffnet.

Der Autor Wilhelm Leise vermutet die Varusschlacht in dem Gebiet um den Plackweg – im Zuge vieler Theorien und Spekulationen zum Ort der Varusschlacht.

Plackweg als SGV-Hauptwanderstrecke
Als Plackweg wird zudem ein rund 144 km langer Wanderweg des Sauerländischen Gebirgsvereins bezeichnet. Er führt von Hagen-Delstern über Schloss Hohenlimburg, Wiblingwerde, Altena, das Hönnetal, Schloss Herdringen, Arnsberg, Lattenberg, Hirschberg, den Stimmstamm, Esshof, Brilon und Messinghausen nach Helminghausen an der Diemeltalsperre.

Der Wanderweg fällt in die Kategorie der Hauptwanderstrecken des SGV und besitzt wie auch alle anderen Hauptwanderstrecken als Wegzeichen das weiße Andreaskreuz "X", an Kreuzungspunkten um die Ziffer "1" erweitert.

Sperrung zur Deponieabfuhr
Ab Ende 2019 soll der Abbau der abrutschgefährdeten Schlackedeponie der ehemaligen Westfälische Zellstoff AG am Lattenberg beginnen. Der Abtransport soll per Lastwagen über den Plackweg bis zum Stimmstamm und ab dort weiter über die L856 erfolgen. Während des Abtransports soll der Plackweg für Wanderer und Radfahrer auf Mescheder Stadtgebiet gesperrt werden. Der Abbau von 250.000 m³ Zellstoffresten soll sich bis 2024 hinziehen.

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Fernwanderweg
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"But I think China meddled too".
Asked by a CBS News' 60 Minutes host, why he never harshly commented on Putin's actions, Trump said: "I think I'm very tough with him personally".
Stahl then asked, "Do you agree that Vladimir Putin is involved in assassinations?"
When asked if he was ready to negotiate, Trump responded, "I have a great chemistry. with President Xi (Jinping) of China". You know what he sent?
In the wide-ranging interview, the ambassador addressed a number of flash points between the countries, including the recent near collision of a US naval destroyer with a Chinese ship in the South China Sea, where Beijing has militarized two contested man-made islands. Eighty-one percent of registered Democrats say they are "absolutely certain to vote" in November, compared with 63 percent in 2014.
Asked after his Putin comments whether he thought Moscow meddled in the 2016 presidential election, Trump said he didn't think it was just Russian Federation. 'I don't know.' What neighborhood was it?
Cui also raised Vice President Mike Pence's accusations that China has launched a strategy to intervene in USA domestic affairs. "I want them to open their markets like. our markets are open".
When pressed over his embrace of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Trump said he knew about Kim's human rights violations, but that his efforts have resulted in fewer threats to the United States.
"Sure. I know all these things. Probably I mean, I don't ...,".
"I get along with him really well", Trump said of Kim.
"Look, let it be whatever it is". Look at the awful threats that were made. Both presidents said after the summit that a big step forward had been taken.
"Honestly, I've been talking to ambassadors of other countries in Washington, D.C., and this is also part of their problem", Tiankai told the network.
Trump also said that "showing toughness" in dealing with Vladimir Putin. "The US president didn't make any direct accusations", Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Relations between Moscow and the West have deteriorated to a post-Cold War low over issues including Russia's seizure of Crimea in March 2014, its role in wars in Syria and eastern Ukraine, its alleged election meddling in the United States and Europe, and the poisoning of a Russian double agent and his daughter in Britain in March.
Activision and Treyarch have shared the second trailer for the " Blood of the Dead " campaign in Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII. Additional to that, the Zombies mode and the first ever Call of Duty battle royale more, 'Blackout , ' is up for the grabs.
The group included a leading forensic expert, as well as Saudi intelligence officers and Royal Guards. Saudi officials didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on the consulate inspection.
And the new investors immediately set a goal of guiding the club to the upper echelons of European football. I'm not even a professional footballer .
He said that if he won, he would spend the money paying off debts, putting his kids to school and going on vacation. Mega Millions announced Friday night that the winning numbers are 4, 24, 46, 61, 70 and the Mega Ball 7.
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Blackburn seemed unfazed by Swift's comments and even called the "Delicate" singer a "talented, young woman". In Tennessee, voter registration for October has already outstripped September registration figures.
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the EU and Iran agreed on a 9-point economic plan to protect the nuclear agreement on Wednesday.
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif underlined that he had held constructive meetings with his European Union counterparts to save the nuclear agreement after the US pullout.
The Iranian foreign minister made the remarks following a meeting with his French, British and German counterparts as well as EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini in Brussels on Tuesday.
It's also going to have an effect of ostracizing us from the other allies. And it could pivot more of the – in this case – Russia as being the adult in the room when it comes to dealing with Iran and other international issues – especially in the Middle East.


This week, Montrose's SKYDIVE Art Space leaves it all on the floor; Lisa Qualls explores tribal adornment at Koelsch Gallery; The CAMH gets sculptural with radio; Aerosol Warfare hosts a kick-off party for the Graffiti Gala; and Redbud Gallery's got 'em/smokes 'em. Our picks for looking, leering and drinking this week.
Floor Show A one-night-only event featuring live music, performance and visual art--all on the floor. Works by Genevieve Buentello, John Bruce Berry, Rosane Volchan O'Conor, Sasha Dela, Greg Donner, Jonathan Leach, Kristy Peet, Brian Piana, Ariane Roesch and more. Friday, October 1, 2010, 7-10 p.m., SKYDIVE Art Space, 3400 Montrose, Suite 907.


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The Surgical Institute of Reading is seeking physicians for rarely available hospitalist opportunity to staff a 12-bed, post-elective surgery inpatient unit at an award winning surgical center with 1099 status!
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The Surgical Institute of Reading is a physician-owned hospital that provides a full range of services for patients, including general surgery, pain management, spinal surgery, and plastic surgery. SIR also offers additional areas of specialization such as gynecology and podiatry. This family-centered, patient-focused approach helps to promote long term health and well-being, resulting in a high degree of patient satisfaction.
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Wyomissing is located in southeastern Pennsylvania as part of Berks County, which is located near the city of Reading, PA. Reading is known for its cultural institutions including the Reading Symphony Orchestra & Youth Orchestra, The GoggleWorks Art Gallery, The Reading Public Museum, and the Historical Society of Berks County. Reading, PA is also known for its agricultural success and its industrial heritage, as well as its six institutions of higher education. The Greater Reading area can offer the boisterous atmosphere of the city, as well as quiet country living where festivals, farmers markets, wildlife, shopping, wineries, and Pennsylvania Dutch heritage surround you
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The 1974 Scottish League Cup final was played on 26 October 1974 and was the final of the 29th Scottish League Cup competition. It was contested by Hibernian and Celtic. Celtic won the match 6–3, with John "Dixie" Deans and Joe Harper scoring hat-tricks for each side. Jimmy Johnstone, Steve Murray and Paul Wilson scored Celtic's other goals.

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Media coverage
In Scotland highlights of the final were shown on BBC One Scotland on their Sportsreel programme in the evening and also on STV and Grampian Television on the former's Scotsport programme the following day.

See also
Other League Cup finals played between the same clubs:
 1969 Scottish League Cup final (April)
 1972 Scottish League Cup final
 2021 Scottish League Cup final (December)

References

External links
 Soccerbase

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This series consists of those volumes that are primarily related to the documentation of ship arrivals and clearances. Along with the ship names and the date of sail, these volumes also often include the name of the ship's captain, the port sailing from or to, and occasionally, information on the ship's cargo and the owner. The most complete set of records in terms of chronological coverage are contained in the two subgroup volumes entitled "Arrivals" and "Clearances." Both of these subgroups host nearly complete chronological coverage from 1875 to 1967. This group also contains an extensive run of indexes that provide an alphabetical guide according to ship name, running from 1921 to 1955, with only the few years missing that are listed.


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OpinionPakistan
Cursed by the Bhuttos
Peter Preston
The whole subcontinent is in thrall to dynasties, but it's Pakistan's that really takes the biscuit
Sun 15 Aug 2010 17.00 EDT
Why is a country with disaster on its hands stuck with a disaster of a leader, too? It seems almost absurd to take Pakistan's 20 million uprooted by flood and measure their plight against the political skills of President Asif Ali Zardari. Can one man's ineptitude make so much of a difference? And yet – in response to profound crisis, in winning more than 20% of the aid the UN says it needs – Zardari has found a defining moment and come up short again.
How on earth did he tramp round Britain, trading terrorism talk with David Cameron, making party speeches in Birmingham, when the depth of the tragedy was already clear? Why on earth is he jetting off to Moscow this week? Leadership is a matter of mood and symbolism as well as constitutional authority, but Zardari just hasn't got it.
Alas, there's more here to lament than simple frailty. There's a thesis of power that holds the whole subcontinent in thrall. D is democracy, to be sure, but D is also for dynasties (and their right to go on governing). Who is prime minister of Bangladesh? Why, the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who founded the country four decades ago. And leader of the opposition? Why, the widow of President Zia Rahman, murdered three decades ago. Who is president of India's ruling Congress party? Why, Sonia Gandhi, the widow of Rajiv Gandhi – another assassinated leader, dragooned into taking the helm after his mother, Indira, was shot by her guards. Indira, of course, was Nehru's daughter.
Forget Sri Lanka and the Bandaranaikes: the Bhuttos of Pakistan take the dynastic biscuit. Here's Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who I first knew as the dictator Ayub's foreign minister, and then as elected prime minister. Another military dictator, the appalling Zia, hangs him and ensures the martyrdom of the memory. Benazir Bhutto, his daughter, is prime minister twice amid more bouts of military rule and too many charges of corruption. She returns from exile in 2007 and is swiftly, too swiftly, killed.
With her brothers dead (poisoned in Nice, gunned down by police in Karachi) there is a distinct shortage of Bhuttos to carry the name, and their Pakistan Peoples party, forward. Bilawal, Benazir's son, is only 18 and going to Oxford, so it's back to Asif Zardari, who's spent over a decade in and out of prison for corruption. He was Benazir's husband in an arranged marriage. And now it's arranged that he be president.
Zardari was in Birmingham to highlight Bilawal's availability for political service. We haven't even begun to shake off the dynasts yet. But as the man they used to call Mr Ten Per Cent quails before a raging flood, maybe there's a chance to pause and reflect. Sometimes, in history, blood lines come up trumps. But usually, from the Kennedys to the Bushes, two generations at most kill warm expectation. You're highly unlikely to find the next great leader in a nursery or a marriage procession.
And here is one tragedy among many more for Pakistan. Its civil society is weak, no match for an overweening army, because its political leaders grow from such withered roots. Its reverence for democracy is rooted in cults of personality, not ideas. When there's a test of inspiration, of the ability to transform a national tragedy into a triumph of national resilience, then the test seems barely realised, let alone failed.
Too much blame for Zardari? Perhaps. He can't pull many more levers in Islamabad than Brum. But when it's all over, with only more memories of suffering left, then wonder what might have been if this wasn't the end of the line.
Asif Ali Zardari


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PERSPECTIVES ON LISTENING, BIOSPHERE SOUNDSCAPES INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP AND SYMPOSIUM, BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA
In December 2017, Biosphere Soundscapes and the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre are hosting "Perspectives on Listening" an international symposium and workshop bringing together an interdisciplinary group of researchers to explore the role of sound in our environment.
Biosphere Soundscapes is an interdisciplinary research project investigating the creative and scientific possibilities of acoustic ecology through environmental field recording, biodiversity monitoring and a diversity of creative projects spanning four continents. The project works in partnership with multiple organisations to develop and deliver socially embedded acoustic ecology research in collaboration with the communities of UNESCO biosphere reserves across the world. Biosphere Soundscapes is part of an exciting portfolio of interdisciplinary collaborations across creative arts and environmental sciences emerging at Griffith University.
Perspectives on Listening will introduce the interdisciplinary possibilities of acoustic ecology and ecoacoustics and highlight the value of listening in changing environments. The three-day program features keynotes from Steven Feld (USA) and Monica Gagliano (AU) in addition to panels, research presentations, live performances, immersive installations, sound walks and field trips across the rainforests of the Sunshine Coast and aquatic ecosystems in Noosa Biosphere Reserve.
Steven Feld is a leading American ethnomusicologist, anthropologist, and linguist who will present the 25th anniversary edition of 'Voices of the Rainforest' – his composition of a day in the life of the Bosavi rainforest and Kaluli people in Papua New Guinea. The work has touched audiences concerned with ecological integrity, interspecies art, and cultural survival, and remains in popular circulation through Smithsonian Folkways.
Monica Gagliano will speak about plant bioacoustics – a new field she has pioneered by demonstrating for the first time that plants emit their own 'voices' as well as detect and respond to the sounds surrounding them. Dr Gagliano is a Research Associate Professor in Evolutionary Ecology at the University of Western Australia and her research is radically transforming our perception of plants and more generally, nature.
The event is endorsed by the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) and will feature virtual contributions from across the world supported by Arts Front, including artists developing new technologies for live streaming audio in remote locations, scientists pioneering new research in freshwater ecoacoustics and artists from Vanuatu speaking about indigenous perspectives on listening and climate change.
The creative program includes an immersive listening room and the Queensland premiere of Dr Leah Barclay's new spatial sound installation "Migration Patterns: Saltwater" which features marine hydrophone recordings from the Great Sandy Biosphere Reserve. Perspectives on Listening concludes with sonic explorations through subtropical rainforests on the Sunshine Coast and a closing ceremony in the Noosa Biosphere Reserve.
This is an intimate event with limited capacity, registration for the three days is $120 ($85 for students). Biosphere Soundscapes and the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre are also encouraging virtual registration and are working towards measuring and minimising the carbon impact of this event as part of an initiative to encourage environmentally sustainable research practices. The virtual registration ($40) is open for delegates anywhere in the world and will enable participation from community collaborators in remote locations across Mexico, India, Indonesia and Vanuatu.
'Perspectives on Listening' is a dynamic participatory event encouraging dialogue and collaborations that continue to promote Queensland as a global focal point for acoustic ecology. The outcomes from this symposium will inform the development of Biosphere Soundscapes programs in 2018 and build momentum towards the International Ecoacoustics Congress, hosted in Brisbane in June 2018.
Explore the program and register here.
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Every year, System1 Research tests all the national Super Bowl ad buys live on game night, measuring the emotional response to every single ad. Before Super Bowl LII, pundits predicted humor would be the big winner, uniting the nation's viewers. Bianca Pryor and John Bishop analyze the night's winners. See the top 10 Super Bowl ads of 2018 at https://www.feelmore50.com/ads-by-event/super-bowl-2018.


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Kathy Valdes, a George Washington High School alumni, opposed the removal of a historic mural at the school. (Laura Waxmann/S.F. Examiner)
Emotions run high at hearing on plan to remove or cover historic New Deal mural
Controversial Washington High School fresco depicts slaves, dead Native American
Laura Waxmann
A proposal to cover up or remove a controversial mural at George Washington High School that depicts slaves and explorers towering over an apparently dead native American prompted a fiery public debate Tuesday.
Ahead of a vote by the San Francisco school board scheduled for next week, a working group presented school district leaders with three options for the "Life of George Washington" mural: cover it with either textile or two panels, or paint over it.
Each option would cost the San Francisco Unified School District between $300,000 and $800,000, according to district staff.
But the proposals drew an intense emotional response on both sides at the public hearing. Those advocating to keep the 13-panel fresco by New Deal era artist Victor Arnautoff visible to the high school's community — a group that included alumni and advocates for the arts — said the effort amounts to censorship and likened the mural's removal to "erasing history."
"Shielding Native American and African American youth from harm" by "defacing this mural has nothing to do with the fight to eradicate racial oppression," said supporter Andrea Morell.
Lope Yap Jr., vice president of George Washington High School's Alumni Association, said that as a member of the working group, he was the only person to vote against covering the mural. Yap said he thought the process was "slanted from the start" and called on the school board to hold off on making a final decision.
"Those who question Arnautoff's work will hopefully appreciate his artistic value. He was an ally," said Yap.
"This is history. We should learn from history, not cover it up," said an alumni of the high school. Others argued that Arnautoff "told the truth" about Washington's legacy, including unsavory details such as his being a slave owner.
But those fighting to take the mural down — a noticeably more diverse group that included students and teachers at the Richmond District high school as well as native and African American elders — disagreed.
They argued that the mural traumatizes black and brown youth, and that it has no place in a school setting. Many urged the board to usher in a new chapter in history, one in which the voices of the oppressed are validated.
"Our people are still here. No one has the right to tell us as native people or our young people who walk those halls everyday how they feel. You're not in those shoes — you don't feel what they feel unless you are living it," said Paloma Flores, SFUSD's Native American education program coordinator.
The conflict reflects a larger debate about preservation of historic monuments, including those commemorating the Civil War, and has made national headlines.
Last March, the school board voted against a nomination to make George Washington High School a historic landmark; such a designation would make covering the mural more difficult.
Efforts to remove the mural were renewed late last year after advocates called for an overhaul of the district's history curriculum and textbooks to reflect the achievements of Native American communities and to give a more accurate picture of history.
Earlier this year, the school board convened a working group to assess the process of removing the mural, including legal implications.
But speakers at Tuesday's hearing said that controversy over the mural dates back to the 1970s.
"In 1975, there were a couple of native students that attended [the high school] and …they attempted to have this mural taken down then and at the time were shut down. This is nothing new," said Ohlone Tribal Chair Dee De Manzanares Ybarra.
Not all school board members spoke at the hearing, but some appeared to favor covering up the mural.
Commissioner Gabriela Lopez pointed out that "the majority of people" arguing to keep the mural "are not representative of the people who are affected."
"Protecting property over people is white supremacy culture, bottom line," she said.
Board President Stevon Cook described taking a tour of a plantation in New Orleans in 2015, during which he learned that most plantation builders were enslaved master architects. Their stories aren't told in murals, he said.
"I think my biggest issue about this discussion is [that] when I ran for school board this wasn't the type of change I wanted to make," said Cook, adding that the decision to remove the mural was an "easy" one for him. "The type of change I want to make is ensuring that more young people have their lives transformed as a result of this district."
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Supporters of the proposal to remove the murals said they retraumatize black and brown youth and have no place in a school setting. (Laura Waxmann/S.F. Examiner)
(Laura Waxmann/S.F. Examiner)
SF becomes first U.S. city to ban sale of e-cigarettes
Second homicide victim found off same road in San Mateo County


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Q: How to use two column values of a dataframe to select a value from another dataframe in R? I hope you are doing well.
This is the dataset I'm using

I want to calculate the change of the BMI of the users of the App. I got the Id's, the first date of record and the last with the following code
BMI_results <- weight_log %>%
    group_by(Id) %>%
    summarize(date_min = min(Date), date_max = max(Date))

BMI_results

The next part is to use that data to get the corresponding BMI of that dates and then substract those numbers. This is the part where I'm stuck. Please help.
# The following code is wrong, just for illustration:

BMI_results <- weight_log %>%
    group_by(Id) %>%
    summarize(date_min = min(Date), date_max = max(Date)) %>%
    mutate(
            first_BMI = filter(weight_log$BMI,
                               Id == Id & date_min == Date),
            last_BMI = filter(weight_log$BMI,
                              Id == Id & date_max == Date),
            difference = first_BMI-last_BMI
          )

I was expecting to get the values of each BMI, the first and last recorded, and then substract them.

A: Try something like
BMI_results <- weight_log %>%
    group_by(Id) %>%
    arrange(Date) %>%
    summarize(diff=first(BMI)-last(BMI))

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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – Simulating chemistry experiments to give students better access to science education, and helping visually impaired people navigate inside buildings are among the apps designed by eight winning Verizon Innovative App Challenge teams of middle and high school students that will be unveiled Sunday (June 29) at the 2014 national Technology Student Association conference.
The Verizon Innovative App Challenge is a national competition created by the Verizon Foundation in partnership with the TSA to encourage students to use technology to help solve local social issues. Since the contest's inception in 2012, nearly 2,300 student teams from across the U.S. have entered. Teams submitted more than 1,200 app concepts, and apps created through the contest have been downloaded more than 14,000 times.
"Verizon applauds the winning teams and all the students who entered the App Challenge," said Justina Nixon-Saintil, director of education programs for the Verizon Foundation. "In the words of President Obama, who recognized one of our winning teams at this year's White House Science Fair, these kids not only have big brains; they have big hearts. I think his words are equally descriptive of all the App Challenge winning teams.
The conference will be held in National Harbor, near Washington, D.C.
Helena High School, Helena, Montana – Exact 3D Extract, which uses mobile technology to create models for 3D printing.
Open Window School, Bellevue, Washington – HikeAbout, which offers maps for hiking trails and safety information for hikers.
Bartlett High School, Bartlett, Illinois – FITTASTICK!, which tracks food intake and exercise, and encourages fitness and weight loss through social networking.
Cheney Middle School, West Fargo, North Dakota – Snap Docs, which converts hard copy text to editable documents, using mobile technology.
North Hills Preparatory, Irving, Texas – Leave No Trace, which encourages reduction of energy consumption by displaying information about energy usage.
Resaca Middle School, Los Fresnos, Texas – Hello Navi, which assists blind or visually-impaired people in navigating inside buildings.
Westford Academy, Westford, Massachusetts – Tactillium, which delivers science education through a mobile device chemistry simulator.
Jefferson Township Middle School, Oak Ridge, New Jersey – Super Science Girl, which inspires interest in STEM-related activities to encourage young girls to pursue science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers.
Since being named Best in Nation winners on Feb. 26, the students have been working with instructors at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Mobile Learning @ The Media Lab, who have provided onsite and virtual training on coding using the MIT App Inventor to bring the students' apps to life. In addition, each Best in Nation team won a $20,000 grant for its school from the Verizon Foundation; a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet for each team member, courtesy of Samsung Telecommunications America; and a trip to the 2014 national TSA conference, courtesy of Verizon.
The winning app designs were selected by a panel of STEM and industry experts from MIT Media Lab, Samsung Mobile, the New York Hall of Science, the National Academy Foundation, National Geographic, the International Reading Association, National Center for Family Literacy, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, VGo Communications, Cisco Systems and the American Association of the Advancement of Science. Entries were judged based on their clear identification of a need or problem in a school or community, originality, creativity, the viability of the concept, and the applicability of STEM principles and practices.
The teams that did not advance further in the competition were given access to a self-guided app-development course developed by the MIT Media Lab's App Inventor team. The course taught the teams how to take their apps from concept to completed, user-tested apps, under the direction of each team's faculty adviser.
The third Verizon Innovative App Challenge opens Aug. 4 and runs through Nov. 24. The Verizon Foundation is focused on improving teaching and learning, particularly in underserved communities, through the use of mobile technologies to support STEM education.
The Technology Student Association is a national organization devoted exclusively to the needs of students engaged in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Open to young people enrolled in or who have completed technology education courses, TSA's membership includes more than 200,000 middle and high school students in 2,000 schools spanning 48 states. TSA partners with universities and other organizations to promote a variety of STEM competitions and opportunities for students and teachers. TSA is supported by educators, parents and business leaders who believe in the need or a technologically literate society. From engineers to business managers, our alumni credit TSA with a positive influence in their lives. Visit the Technology Student Association website (embed URL) http://www.tsaweb.org for more information.
The Verizon Foundation is focused on accelerating social change by using the company's innovative technology to help solve pressing problems in education, healthcare and energy management. Since 2000, the Verizon Foundation has invested more than half a billion dollars to improve the communities where Verizon employees work and live. Verizon's employees are generous with their donations and their time, having logged more than 6.8 million hours of service to make a positive difference in their communities. For more information about Verizon's philanthropic work, visit our responsibility page; or for regular updates, visit the Foundation on Facebook (www.facebook.com/verizonfoundation) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/verizongiving).


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Higher Education in the Age of Trump
How to Stop Complaining and Start Fixing America's Higher Education Crisis
NAS President Peter Wood surveys higher education's prob...
The Freedom to Learn Amendments (Preliminary Draft)
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In the Fall 2017 issue of Academic Questions, contributors seek to understand the influence that President Donald Trump will have on higher education in the United States and whether his election will halt the rise of political correctness.
Both William B. Allen ("Qui Custodiet Custodies?") and Herbert I. London ("President Trump and American Universities") ask whether Trump's election will lead to more intellectual diversity in higher education. In "A Strategy to Remedy Political Correctness," George Dent proposes solutions for taking on political correctness.
In the final entry on higher education in the age of President Trump, Richard Vedder urges the federal government to reduce its footprint in higher education..
This issue also features two articles addressing attacks on the idea of free speech, not just at home but also abroad. In "Amending the First Amendment," Paul Rahe discusses the anti-free speech culture on many college campuses. And in "Transatlantic Tremors: Illiberal Assaults on the Academy in America and England," Matthew Stewart discusses the rise of political correctness in the United Kingdom.
The issue also features essays by Daniel Bonevac on how Heidegger fell into Nazism, and Philip Williams on why we should learn math for its own sake. Rachelle Peterson shows how campus Confucius Institutes teach Chinese government-approved courses. Duke Pesta notes that peer-reviewed studies are not as objective as they appear.
Finally, we also have two book reviews: Isaac N. Cohen and Amy L. Wax discuss The Campus Rape Frenzy: The Attack on Due Process at America's Universities, and David Randall reviews several books on the Russian Revolution.
NAS members will receive printed copies of this issue in the mail. (NAS members, click here for instructions on how to get full online access to all AQ articles.)
Two of this issue's articles (Paul Rahe's "Amending the First Amendment" and Richard Vedder's "Doing More with Less") are available for free through our website.
Qui Custodiet Custodies?
William B. Allen, emeritus, Michigan State University
In the first entry of this issue's special section, "Higher Education in the Age of Trump: First in a Series," William B. Allen recalls the challenge Ronald Reagan presented in his 1966 landslide election as California governor—"to summon Americans to save themselves"—which helped reignite interest in America's foundations, including among academics, a growing portion of whom have rushed instead to embrace political correctness. Williams states that President Trump has made a similar challenge today that "calls on faculty [and students] to rise and stand for what they are worth."
A Strategy to Remedy Political Correctness
George W. Dent Jr., Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Characterizing political correctness as "a set of attitudes and policies" that "restrict free speech, academic freedom, and due process; shrink or eliminate the traditional core curriculum and infuse it…with leftist political propaganda; and staff faculties almost exclusively from the left," George Dent asserts that this has "ideologically cleansed" our universities of conservative academics and decimated its population of moderates. He proposes a strategy to kindle a conversation that will muster real reform.
President Trump and American Universities
Herbert I. London, London Center for Policy Research
Will the ever-contentious and unorthodox Donald Trump serve as a catalyst for change in America's PC-riddled higher education system? "It is doubtful," Herbert London responds. Nevertheless, in reflecting on his many decades of experience as professor and dean, London considers how the president could effectively combat the current academic orthodoxy.
Richard Vedder, Center for College Affordability and Productivity
In the final entry of our special section, Richard Vedder lists the "big" problems higher education faces today—(1) excessive and rising costs, (2) questionable, worsening learning outcomes, (3) debt-strapped graduates with mediocre jobs, and (4) the forsaking by colleges of "their pivotal role as intellectual oases" of free inquiry. He then breaks down the challenge of addressing these problems to its core: "History suggests that progress will be mainly made not by increasing federal regulation or influence, but by reducing it."
Amending the First Amendment
Paul A. Rahe, Hillsdale College
Americans have always believed that our constitutional right to freedom of speech should remain sacrosanct—until now. In describing what has changed in our thinking and behavior, Paul Rahe looks at America's colleges and universities, "where we often see in embryo" what will appear in society, in this case "a shutting down of controversial discourse" whenever it doesn't forward "the project favored by those who want to put an end to academic freedom." Rahe's article is adapted from his keynote address at "Securing Liberty: Rebuilding American Education in an Era of Illiberal Learning," the National Association of Scholars's thirtieth anniversary conference, held in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in January 2017.
Heidegger's Wrong Turn
Daniel Bonevac, University of Texas at Austin
Daniel Bonevac presents a sequel to "Heidegger's Map," his Summer 2014 "Verdicts" essay examining the perceptive yet highly controversial themes of Heidegger's 1927 work, Being and Time. In his current piece, Bonevac describes how Heidegger's thinking on these themes took a turn that led him away from objectivity and headlong into National Socialism—thinking that has also "inspire[ed] some of the most problematic trends in postmodern thought."
Mathematics for Its Own Sake
Phillip Williams, The King's College
Why should we study math? Philip Williams believes that the "hard logical standards" of mathematics cultivate a keen awareness of "common logical fallacies," "incomplete arguments and…circular reasoning," and the "subtle yet essential places where a plausible-sounding argument fails." This trains us "to seek out what has not yet been established" and to develop "a healthy skepticism about what can easily be deduced from what is already known"—skills of perpetual value to academics, but especially useful in today's cloudy cultural climate.
Confucius Institutes on Campus: A New Threat to Academic Freedom
Rachelle Peterson, National Association of Scholars
Since 2004, the Chinese government has invested millions in teaching foreign students "its preferred version of Chinese culture" via the Hanban, an agency that operates Confucius Institutes at 103 American colleges and universities and Confucius Classrooms at 501 American K–12 schools (and hundreds more institutes and classrooms worldwide). The National Association of Scholars has conducted a case study of these secretive programs, newly released as Outsourced to China: Confucius Institutes and Soft Power in American Higher Education. Study author Rachelle Peterson, NAS director of research projects, summarizes the troubling findings: that the Hanban's Confucius Institutes "jeopardize the academic freedom of American professors and threaten the autonomy of our colleges and universities."
"Deeper Reasons": The Politicization of Academic Publishing
Duke Pesta, University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh
Duke Pesta compares his experiences teaching English in a politicized environment to that of Judith Curry, a Georgia Institute of Technology Earth and atmospheric sciences professor who ran afoul of the climate change establishment "for daring to argue for greater accommodation for scientists and scientific research skeptical of consensus positions," and resigned, disenchanted, in January 2017. Pesta describes his thirteen-plus-year odyssey to publish a book on how the study of literature, specifically Shakespeare, has been "jeopardized by an ahistorical application of progressive politics." Peer review is "anything but blind," Pesta concludes; editors publish works that endorse their ideological biases, and he discovered that this was the nature of the peer evaluations his book received that "illuminated the problem of unscholarly bias."
Transatlantic Tremors: Illiberal Assaults on the Academy in America and England
Matthew Stewart, Boston University
Many of the changes and problems plaguing American campuses are occurring with "comparable intensity" in the UK. Matthew Stewart reviews "I Find That Offensive!" by Claire Fox; Unsafe Space: The Crisis of Free Speech on Campus, edited by Tom Slater; and What's Happened to the University? A Sociological Exploration of Its Infantilisation, by Frank Furedi, and maintains that the "headline-grabbing insurrections and open flouting of rules and conventions of decorum" they describe, while damaging and demoralizing, do not reflect the beliefs of many on campus and among the general public who reject the progressive agenda. Stewart emphasizes that Fox, Slater, and Furedi encourage those in charge and those who teach "to take a stand" for academic freedom and against "illiberal bullying and political coercion."
Presumed Innocent No More
Isaac N. Cohen
Amy L. Wax, University of Pennsylvania
Mother and son Amy Wax and Isaac Cohen again team up to write for AQ, here reviewing KC Johnson and Stuart Taylor Jr.'s The Campus Rape Frenzy: The Attack on Due Process at America's Universities, Cohen from the perspective of recent college graduate, Wax from that of law professor. Analyzing governmental policies, campus procedures, national statistics, and individual cases involving claims of sexual assault, which Taylor and Johnson catalog in "riveting," exhaustive detail, Cohen and Wax argue that it all adds up to "a comprehensive assault," on America's "civil liberties and principles of fundamental fairness."
October's Sumerki
David Randall, National Association of Scholars
In his review essay of The Russian Revolution: A New History, by Sean McMeekin; Lenin on the Train, by Catherine Merridale; and October: The Story of the Russian Revolution, by China Miéville, David Randall observes that there seems to be a popular history "for every political persuasion" of the 1917 revolution that, one hundred years later, offers various lessons "depending on which light you see in its distant image."
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Environmental witch hunt
Out of consideration for my readers, I try not to ring changes on the same topics too often, especially in rapid succession. But today I have to write again about climate change, even though it was the topic of yesterday's post, because of a completely different idiotic thing that one of our elected officials is doing.
In this case, it's a Skeptophilia frequent flier Representative Lamar Smith of Texas. Smith's virulently anti-science stance has been the topic of more than one post here, so it should come as no particular surprise that he's at it again. This time, it's an expansion of his witch hunt against people at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to locate and censure any employee who even mentions anthropogenic climate change.
Last year, Smith issued a subpoena for any internal documents that contained the words "global temperature," "climate study," "hiatus," and "haitus." He presumably included the last one not only to catch accidental misspellings, but to catch people who deliberately misspelled words so as to avoid getting caught in his word search, a technique often used by people on social media to avoid obscenity filters, as in the phrase "Lamar Smith is kind of a dcik." But this week, Smith apparently decided that he wasn't snaring enough malefactors, because he expanded his search parameters, as follows:
In addition to the search terms originally selected by NOAA, please include the following additional terms: "Karl," "buoy," "night marine air temperature," "temperature," "climate," "change," "Paris," "U.N.," "United Nations," "clean power plan," "regulations," "Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)," "President," "Obama," "White House," and "Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)." In order to capture all documents responsive to the Committee's subpoena, please provide any documents responsive to these additional search terms from custodians that have previously been searched.
So you're going to take an agency that studies weather and climate, and subpoena every document that mentions "temperature" and "climate?" Seems like Lamar is going to go from not catching enough evil climate change documents to catching everything. I'd love to see what happens when his subpoena results in the capture of 139,452 documents, all of which his committee then has to go through.
("Karl," by the way, is a search parameter because Thomas Karl is one of the scientists whose climate research Smith and his cronies are targeting.)
How, precisely, can this be labeled as anything but harassment? This smacks of Joseph McCarthy's sifting through people's correspondence looking for any hint of communism lurking therein. Worse, actually; because communism isn't fact, it's an ideology, and there was justification for considering what the Soviets were doing as dangerous. Here, we're talking about science, for cryin' in the sink. And as I mentioned yesterday, nature doesn't really give a flying fuck what your political stance is. You can't spin data.
What Smith et al. are doing amounts to suppressing hard evidence, akin to the spokespeople for Big Tobacco covering up evidence of the connection between smoking and lung cancer, which they did successfully for decades. People like this have no respect for the truth; they only care about furthering their own agenda, whatever the cost.
Representative Lamar Smith of Texas [image courtesy of the Wikimedia Commons]
What is most appalling is that in both the House and the Senate, the committees that oversee scientific research and the environment are run by anti-science ideologues of the worst sort -- not only Smith, but people like Dana Rohrabacher (who once called climate change "liberal claptrap") and James Inhofe (who brought a snowball onto the floor of the Senate to prove that the world isn't warming up).
So their solution to having scientific findings that fly in the face of the way they'd like the world to work is to persecute the scientists. Unfortunately, this approach doesn't work. As we've established all too often, the universe doesn't care if you're happy or not. Put a different way, we have the trenchant quote from Neil deGrasse Tyson: "The nice thing about science is that it works whether you believe in it or not."
Labels: anthropogenic climate change, climate change, global warming, Lamar Smith, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, Thomas Karl, witch hunt
A win for anti-woo
The cult of ignorance -- and "do-it-yourself braces"
Misplaced nostalgia
Lying for Jesus
The bunny trail
The Texas flood fossils
A jewel of a scam
The enemy of my enemy is... um... wait.
Prayer for pay
Voting for the voice of god
Starve a cold
Too high a price
Miracles for sale
Don't drink the water
The paws that refresh us
Milk of human kindness
Outnumbered by the extremes
We've got your number
Anti-smirk spells
Rings, Rome, and relics
A fight over decals
Ignoring Vesuvius
The origins of moral outrage


In this episode, I chat with Mason Woodruff. Mason is a trainer in Arkansas and a coach on Fitocracy. He has completed a 600 pound plus deadlift as well as squatted over 500 pounds. He also appeared on the Super Bowl Sunday Fun TIme show but is back for his own 1 on 1 episode now.