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Sweetd'Buster was een Nederlandse popgroep die optrad tussen 1975 en 1981.

De groep werd in 1975 opgericht door saxofonist Bertus Borgers. Borgers had dat jaar een tournee door de Verenigde Staten gemaakt met de Golden Earring. Na terugkeer in Nederland kreeg hij een platencontract aangeboden naar aanleiding van een demo die hij in 1974 met leden van de Earring en The Paay Sisters had gemaakt. Voor zijn nieuwe band trok hij Herman Deinum (bas) en Hans la Faille (drums), beiden uit Cuby and the Blizzards, en Robert Jan Stips (toetsen en zang) aan. Stips had toen al een succesvolle carrière als frontman van Supersister en toetsenist bij de Golden Earring achter de rug. Aan deze all-star bezetting werd gitarist Paul Smeenk toegevoegd. Ook percussionist Broer Bogaart maakte korte tijd deel uit van de band, maar stapte al snel op om een eigen band op te richten.

In 1976 verscheen de debuutelpee Sweetd'Buster, wat tevens de naam van de band is geworden. Hoewel de plaatverkoop tegenviel, groeide de band snel uit tot een populaire live-act, mede dankzij de reputatie als supergroep. In 1978 verscheen de tweede elpee Friction, die in tegenstelling tot het debuut, wel goed verkocht. Borgers bouwde ondertussen naamsbekendheid op met zijn betrokkenheid bij de elpees Sphritsz en Cha Cha van Herman Brood. Broods hit Still Believe is een compositie van Borgers en Smeenk die in de originele uitvoering te horen is op Friction.

Na de succesvolle derde elpee Gigs, een live-album opgenomen in Zwolle, Arnhem en Tilburg en gemixt in Los Angeles, verlieten Stips en Lafaille de band. Hierna maakten Rinze Posthuma (toetsen) en Jan Pijnenburg (drums, ex-Lucifer) korte tijd deel uit van de groep.
Met toetsenist Jons Pistoor (ex-Bruno Basta) en drummer Pierre van der Linden (eerder actief in Brainbox, Focus en Flavium) nam de band in de Verenigde Staten het vierde album Shot Into The Blue op. De mix was echter zo slecht, dat de plaat later in een nieuwe mix opnieuw werd uitgebracht. Hierop werd een van de drumpartijen opnieuw ingespeeld door Leon Klaasse, die ook live Pierre van der Linden opvolgde. Als gevolg van de tegenvallende verkoop van het album, meningsverschillen met de platenmaatschappij en een afnemend aantal optredens werd de band in 1980 opgeheven.

Begin 2006 verscheen in de serie Collections van Sony-BMG een verzamel-cd met daarop hoogtepunten uit het Sweetd'Buster-repertoire.

In 2020 verscheen in de serie 'The Golden Years of Dutch Pop Music' van Universal een dubbel-CD met de titel 'Bertus Borgers & Sweetd'Buster', met 'A&B-sides and more', ofwel het beste studio- en livewerk.

Albums

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|align="left"|Sweetd'Buster||januari 1976||-||-||-||
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|align="left"|Friction||januari 1978||-||-||-||
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|align="left"|Gigs||februari 1979 / juli 1988||-||-||-||-|Live album
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|align="left"|Shot Into The Blue||oktober 1979||-||-||-||-|
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|align="left"|Magic Moments||juli 1992||-||-||-||Verzamelalbum
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|align="left"|Collections||januari 2006||-||-||-||Verzamelalbum
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|align="left"|Bertus Borgers & Sweetd'Buster - A&B Sides And More||5 juni 2020||-||-||-||Verzamelalbum
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Externe link
 "Sweet d'Buster Back On Stage" website

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Q: Problem with two kernels installed and '@fedora' entries in 'yum list'? FC11 beta upgraded to FC12. When I do yum list I see listing on the far right column as follows: 'fedora' 'installed' and '@fedora'. Previously I never had '@fedora' and only seemed to appear when I upgraded from FC11->FC12.
Also when i look at the kernels installed I have
kernel-PAE 2.6.30-0.97.rc.fc12 installed
kernel-PAE 2.6.31.5-127.fc12 @fedora

Why do I have two entries?

A: kernels are in the "installonly" configuration, which means instead of doing an update (install new, then remove old) yum tells rpm to just install the new versions. This means you can install a new kernel, reboot to try it out but if it fails just reboot back to the old one.
Note that you may also want to look in "man yum.conf" and read about the installonly_limit, and the recent yumdb entries which affect removal of old installonly packages.
The @fedora part is documented in the yum man page, see the section titled "LIST OPTIONS". It is telling you what repository the kernel was installed from.

A: You can try out this:
# yum clean all
# yum update -y

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CSC Archives > 1999–2000 Album > College Council
Strong College Council, 1999–2000
The Strong College Council is the student organizing body of Strong College. All Strong College students may participate in the work of the Council simply by attending its weekly meetings—nothing more is required. Attendance at Council meetings is a great way to make friends and meet new people, and to contribute to the life of Strong College. For students who want to participate in a more formal and sustained way, the Council has a number of elected and appointed officers, and these positions are open to all junior members of the College. Students aspiring to one of these positions should be sure to attend Council meetings regularly and participate in Council discussions.
College Council Structure
The President of the Council is elected each April by the whole junior membership of the College. This is one of the most important positions of trust and responsibility in Strong College. The President coordinates all the activities of the Council and presides over its meetings. The President takes office each spring in a gavel-passing ceremony held at the College Tea.
One of the College's resident staff members serves each year as Secretary to the Council and takes the minutes of each meeting. The Senior Tutor typically attends Council meetings as well, representing the Fellows of the College.
The Council does much of its work through a series of committees, and every student in the College may participate in this work. Most committees have two chairs who are selected at a Council meeting in the spring to serve for the year ahead, and they recruit other students to help with that committee's work. While the mechanism does exist to formally vote on these committee chairmanships, the Council tries to operate by consensus and attempts to find a useful place for every student who wishes to participate. New committees may also be formed by the Council from time to time as needs and interests dictate.
The Welcoming Committee — The Welcoming Committee, headed by two Co-Chairs, is perhaps the most important of all Council committees beacuse it helps to recruit new Strong College members each year and to make them feel at home when they arrive. The Co-Chairs and their Welcomers, who work closely with the Senior Tutor, give tours of Strong College throughout the year, contact new students ("fledglings") during the summer, and organize social events at the beginning of the fall term.
The Propaganda Committee — The Propaganda Committee, headed by a Minister of Propaganda and a Propaganda Minister, is responsible for advertising all manner of College Council events throughout the College.
The Entertainments Committee — The Entertainments Committee, headed by a Chair, is responsible for organizing a number of the College's major social events throughout the year, including the Croquet Tournament, the Halloween Party, the Valentine's Party, and the Buffalo Creek Regatta.
The Garden Weasels — The Garden Weasels, led by a Head Weasel, works to develop the College grounds. The Weasels have cleared a path through the woods behind the College and have begun to plant the historic rose garden for the College. They also maintain the indoor plants and keep the bird feeders supplied during the winter.
The Birthday Card Sharks — The Birthday Card Sharks, led by a Head Shark, makes birthdays cards each week for Strong College members with upcoming birthdays. This is an excellent committee for new students who are eager to meet people and make friends, as there is always something to do each week.
The Expeditionary Committee — Under the direction of two chairs known as "Lewis" and "Clark," the Expeditionary Committee plans Strong College outings to places near and far. Past trips have gone to Myrtle Beach, and Charleston, South Carolina.
The College Council also administers two of the most popular features of Strong College life:
The Blue Lemur Coffee Bar — Headed by two Despots and any number of Despots-in-Training, the Blue Lemur is typically open one evening each week from 9:00 p.m. to midnight, and features free coffee, games, conversation, and dim lighting.
The Lemurodeon — Headed by one or more Managers, the Lemurodeon is CSC's weekly movie night and features free movies for all Strong College members.
The headquarters of the College Council is the Committee Room (Moore-Strong 230) where the weekly Council meetings take place, along with the weekly Blue Lemur Coffee Bar and the Lemurodeon. Council officers have keys to the Committee Room, which is locked when not in use. The Committee Room houses a wide range of Strong College memorabilia as well.

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On January 1, 2016, CLIA equivalent quality control (EQC) options will no longer be allowed. As of that date, labs must revert to the traditional CLIA quality control (QC) requirements or have in place individualized quality control plans (IQCP's) for these lab tests. Labs will be allowed to revert to traditional QC (2 levels of controls with each day or run) for those tests that they previously used EQC but all EQC must be discontinued January 1st.
However labs that want to take advantage of the electronic or integrated controls, preparing IQCPs will be the only allowable alternative to traditional QC. The IQCP is a documented compilation of actions that controls the quality of a test from the time it is ordered, until the results are reported. The plan is customized for each lab's specific scope of operations and considers factors such as environment, patient population, test method, clinical use, and personnel competency. An IQCP is required to have 3 parts: a risk assessment, a QC plan, and a quality assessment. Some examples of tests that may require an IQCP plan include: amnisure, mycoplasma, serum pregnancy test (urine is waived), HIV, triage meter, I- Stat (depends on specimen type), Siemens Stratus, fetal fibronectin etc. Generally whole blood specimen may be used for waived testing. If the specimen is spun down to separate the serum, it becomes a moderate complexity test.
It is not required to use special charts or diagrams to develop your risk identification for your tests but it may be helpful. CLIA also requires that the IQCP include the entire testing process, from ordering through reporting (preanalytical, analytical and post analytical). CLIA requires that a risk assessment consider 5 testing components: patient sample, testing personnel, reagents, environment and testing system. There is a great deal of information on the CMS/CDC and CLIA website found by simply googling IQCP.


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José Iturmendi Morales (Madrid, 1947) es un jurista español.

Biografía
En 1968 se diploma en la Escuela Oficial de Periodismo y dos años más tarde se licencia en Derecho por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Ese mismo 1970 y durante ocho años impartió clase en la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad del País Vasco como Profesor agregado y en el Curso 1978-1979 en la Universidad de Extremadura.

En 1979 consigue la Cátedra de Filosofía del Derecho en la Facultad de Derecho de la UCM, y ocho años después accede al cargo de Decano. Se ha mantenido en ese puesto hasta 2008.

En 2011 concurrió a las elecciones para rector de la Universidad Complutense, que finalmente ganó José Carrillo.

Es Doctor Honoris Causa por la Universidad Latinoamericana de Ciencia y Tecnología de San José (Costa Rica).

Referencias
 Conociendo a… José Iturmendi, candidato a rector de la Complutense
Iturmendi, aupado por los alumnos de Derecho. El País, 13 de abril de 2011

Catedráticos de Derecho de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Alumnos de Derecho de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Juristas de Madrid
Profesores de la Universidad de Extremadura
Profesores de la Universidad del País Vasco
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Newsletter – Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th September 2017 – Week 3
Posted on September 8, 2017 by Rigmor Berthier
THE SCC RUGBY ACADEMY IS EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THAT FORMER ENGLAND 7s PLAYER, JOHN BRAKE, HAS JOINED THE COACHING TEAM
We are delighted to announce that John Brake has joined our rugby coaching team following his move to Singapore from the UK. John recently retired from playing professional rugby after a very successful ten-year career with England 7s and Northampton Saints and immediately turned his attention to coaching which he will now continue with the SCC Rugby Academy.
John joins a well-established and experienced group of Academy coaches – we are already fortunate to have several other ex-professional, first-grade and international players in our coaching ranks which we will feature on our website and newsletters in future weeks – who together with the familiar faces of Su Amran and Bryan Lim completes the line-up for our head coaching team.
John has already helped run the first Saturday training sessions this term – please do look out for him on a Saturday morning and say hello/feel free to share thoughts, ideas and suggestions. John will also head up the Thursday night coaching sessions at the SSC Dempsey training ground for the U11 to U17 squads.
John is also a qualified personal trainer and works for UFIT, Singapore's largest independent fitness community, and John's arrival at the SCC Rugby Academy heralds a new partnership between the Academy and UFIT. Through this association we aim to build a mutually beneficial relationship that we hope will bring a wealth of resources, offers and opportunities. We will shortly be sending out information about Academy boot camps that UFIT will be organizing, and they are also offering a special discount to parents of Academy players on Personal Training sessions – the first 5 Personal Training sessions for $399 (usually $600).
John, together with Su, Bryan and the other Academy senior coaches, will work across all age groups giving Academy boys and girls the best possible rugby training experience possible, drawing upon a wealth of experience from their own rugby and coaching careers and providing vision and leadership for the long-term goals of the Academy.
John says, "It's been a great couple of weeks – I've had a very warm welcome from everyone and am impressed by the enthusiasm of the coaches and players, and the huge presence of family and friends at the Saturday training. There's such a great community feel at Dempsey.
The standards of playing have exceeded my expectations and I'm looking to forward to pushing on and being competitive across all age groups and to doing what I can to help further build the reputation of the club. I'm also looking forward to supporting coaches alongside Su and Bryan, and helping support individual player development as well as coach development.
I look forward to adding some new fresh outlooks, and certain values that can cross over from professional into an amateur game – and to keep creating an environment that is enjoyable so players want to be there.
What I've found really refreshing is that kids want to be here and they are so receptive to learning as opposed to being forced to be there. And also they're conditioned very well for the weather. When I came here for a tournament on a previous trip we had to play in air-con as we couldn't handle the heat. But two weeks in and I'm now used to it!
I really love being here – there are so many exciting opportunities and everything is new and refreshing. I'm making lots of friends and I'm looking forward to making a great contribution to kids rugby here!"
If you would like to read a little more about John, his full bio can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brake
The on-line store is based in Australia, so shipments will be sent to the Academy and available for pick up at Dempsey at training on Saturday mornings (for rugby), and Sunday mornings (for touch).
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Pediatric Infectious Disease/Pediatric Infection Control
Faculty/Clinical Faculty | Rush University Medical Center – Chicago | Pediatrics
The Department of Pediatrics, Section of Infectious Disease at Rush University Medical Center, located in downtown Chicago, is seeking a Pediatric Infectious Diseases physician to join our full-time clinical faculty as Assistant or Associate Professor of Pediatric Infectious Disease and Medical Director of Pediatric Infection Control and Prevention.
Rush University Medical Center (RUMC) is a nationally recognized clinical and academic institution. The facility's 57-bed Level III neonatal intensive care unit, featuring single rooms to promote privacy and safety, provides the highest level of collaborative care to its patients. The Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Rush treats children facing a wide range of infectious conditions. Rush Faculty Physicians also provide care to children with perinatal HIV exposure and perinatally-acquired HIV infection, as part of the Rush/Cook County Center for Research and Education in Infectious Diseases (CORE Center). This recruitment is part of a key strategic growth initiative within the Department of Pediatrics.
Qualified candidates must have completed an approved Pediatric Infectious Diseases fellowship program and be Board Certified/Board Eligible. Candidates will be eligible for a faculty appointment at the Assistant Professor or Associate Professor level, commensurate with their experience. Candidates should possess a strong commitment to clinical care, education, and research. The ideal candidate will be an actively involved clinical educator in the teaching program for medical students, Pediatrics, and combined Medicine-Pediatrics residents, and will provide medical leadership as Medical Director of Pediatric Infection Control and Prevention. The Medical Director will partner with the System Directors of Infection Prevention and Control on pandemic preparedness, the elimination of healthcare-associated infections, diagnostic stewardship, and enhancing prevention practices, safety, and quality throughout the system. Clinical responsibilities include inpatient and outpatient care at Rush and outpatient care at Stroger Cook County Hospital CORE Center, which is located one block away.
Rush University System for Health is an academic health system whose mission is to improve the health of the individuals and the diverse communities it serves through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships. Rush includes Rush University Medical Center, Rush University, Rush Copley Medical Center and Rush Oak Park Hospital, as well as numerous outpatient care facilities. Rush University, with more than 2,500 students, is a health sciences university that comprises Rush Medical College, the College of Nursing, the College of Health Sciences and the Graduate College. Rush University Medical Center is an elite medical community recognized for excellence in patient care, medical discovery and clinical expertise. Our continued pursuits have earned Rush University Medical Center the distinction of being on U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals Honor Roll for 2021-2022. This places the Medical Center among the top 20 of the 3,000 hospitals evaluated. U.S. News & World Report has also recognized nine Rush programs among the nation's best, including top 10 national rankings for neurology and neurosurgery and orthopedics. These accolades, along with many others that include a decade of Magnet® designation, reflect the collective efforts and commitment to excellence demonstrated by our physicians, advanced practitioners, nurses and medical staff. Rush University Medical Center has received Vizient's Quality Leadership Award, ranking first among 99 academic medical centers across the country. All three Rush University System for Health hospitals have earned the LGBTQ Healthcare Equality Leader designation in the Healthcare Equality Index.
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Interview with Charles Murray
April 2004 -- Editor's Note: Charles Murray is the W.H. Brady Scholar in Culture and Freedom at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. He is the author of eight books, including Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 (HarperCollins, 2003).
Kelly: Let's begin by talking a little about the method and procedure of Human Accomplishment. You employ a method, which you explain very clearly, of measuring accomplishment through the statistical combination and analysis of the judgments of experts in the twelve fields you cover.
Murray: It is a cousin to citation analysis, where you count the number of times a given work is cited in professional journals. But in the case of historical analyses going back beyond the last century, citation analysis isn't available because we just didn't have that kind of journal. But you can do a similar thing by combining major histories, biographical dictionaries, and encyclopedic sources of various kinds. What you are assuming in this case is that, whereas historians did not go into their project saying "I am going to give 5.5 pages to Beethoven and 3.75 pages to Debussy," they do have to take different amounts of space to describe the work of individual people. The driving force behind those different amounts of space is sometimes merely their historical importance, which technically could be independent of their excellence. The other reason that they have to take a lot of space is simply to describe the meaning and nature of this work; and the better the work, by and large, the more space you have to spend describing it.
Kelley: Would it be fair to say that there is a rough analogy here with a market, where a stable order emerges spontaneously from the judgments of millions of individuals? Here you are taking a large constellation of individual judgments and tracking a kind of order that emerges from them.
Murray: That's right, and one can test the degree to which order actually does exist. You can look at the statistical reliability of what you are coming up with. And these indexes [ranking the individual achievers on a scale from 1 to 100], drawn from many sources, have a statistical reliability well in excess of .9 in most cases, which by standards of the social sciences is phenomenal. The next question to ask is: Do these results have what we call "face validity"? Which is to say: Are the people who come up near the top the people who, from a qualitative sense, deserve their places? And I would argue that you look at those rankings and they're very face-valid. This doesn't mean they are perfect, and one of the points that I make explicitly when I introduce these indexes is these are fun but don't get too excited about them.
REPUTATION AND TRUTH
Kelley: Before we move on to some of the specific results you found, I want to ask a foundational question and clarify a couple of things. You are relying on judgments of experts to measure the eminence of people in each domain, but the point of doing so is that eminence in turn reflects an objective standard of merit.
Murray: That's right.
Kelley: So this is an indirect way of getting at something in the world. It is not ultimately about the judgments of experts.
Murray: Yes. I use David Hume's essay, "Of the Standard of Taste," as my point of departure for explaining why we can infer excellence. Hume makes a very useful distinction between what he calls sentiment and what he calls judgment. Sentiment is that thing which leads us to like a particular piece of music enormously, for reasons that may or may not have anything to do with its merit. We may remember a song fondly because we were in the backseat of a car in eleventh grade with our girlfriend and we think back to that song with great nostalgia. Amateurs in a field mostly have sentiment. They like certain pieces of work and don't like other pieces, based on intuitive, unsystematic criteria. For those people who know a great deal about a field, judgment comes into it along with sentiment, so that you have all sorts of examples of experts in a field who will rate something highly that is not to their personal taste. I happen to enjoy wine. Well, wine critics routinely rate one wine higher than another, even if they don't happen to love it as much, because the wine they are rating higher is a better realization of its type. You can go to dog shows, or you can look at the appreciation of paintings, and find the same phenomenon, where there is a body of standards that are generally accepted by experts in that field and they apply those standards with some degree of disinterest, relative to their sentiment. Hume makes another good point here: Any given expert can be wrong on any given issue, whether it is because of his sentiments or because of a bout of dyspepsia the night before. But when you take many experts, and you see that Homer's Iliad and Odyssey endure across the centuries regardless of changing fashions, then you are probably dealing with something that is excellent in an objective sense.
Kelley: As I remember, Hume was speaking here specifically of art and aesthetic judgment. How does that same point apply to science and invention?
Murray: Well, there is an interesting contrast between the unit of analysis in science and the unit of analysis in the arts that I discovered only as I was going into the book. If you are talking about the arts, the best unit of analysis—the one that yields the most reliable measures—is the artist, because a given artist will manifest his genius in a variety of works; whereas in the sciences, the unit of analysis is the event (the particular discovery), because quite often the nature of a scientific accomplishment does not represent genius. It does not represent a sustained effort. It can very easily represent a stroke of luck.
Alexander Fleming is the prime example: He left his petri dish out and penicillin grew in it. He deserves credit for recognizing that something weird was going on, but he never did isolate penicillin himself; that was left to other people. He was basically very, very lucky—he was in the right place at the right time—and that has happened often, with a number of important scientific events. So, from an analytic perspective, it is possible to identify the most important scientific event using the same methodology that I apply. But the categorization of scientists, the people, is in some ways less reliable because of the element of luck; whereas in the arts, generally speaking, the body of work that someone has produced is the most reliable indicator of his excellence.
Kelley: In the case of scientific work, truth is one of the obvious standards for assessing excellence. In the section of the book where you talk about the issue of objectivity, you endorse William James's pragmatic definition of truth. True ideas, James says in the passage you quote, "are those we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, verify." I want to clarify something here. Your reference to James and pragmatism will surprise some readers, because James is usually interpreted here as saying the truth is nothing more than the passing of our test of inquiry, our methods of inquiry—that there is literally nothing more than that to the idea of agreement with reality. So, truth is a relationship among our ideas, rather than between our ideas and reality.
Murray: I use James for a quite specific reason. I had a choice of either defending at great length the idea that an objective truth exists, apart from our appreciation of it, and using a much more workaday, pragmatic definition. I chose the latter, because it seemed to me that this book was not the place for an extended disquisition on the nature of truth. So I say, "Look, we can go on about this for a long time; the fact is we all live every day as if we are in possession of truth." I have a sentence in the book to the effect that when the pilot pulls back the stick as the plane is going down the runway, if he is not in possession of the truth, what shall we call it? And that is a pragmatic definition that I think is appropriate to this context. I'm happy, by the way, with the idea of objective truth—I am a devoted advocate for the existence of objective truth.
Kelley: Well, from everything else in the book I would have thought so. It's just that James and the other pragmatists have been picked up by many postmoderns as their guys.
Murray: The problem with the postmodernists is that they often don't do justice to the original presenters of those arguments. That is true not just of James. It is also true of a lot of the people who originally were talking about excellence in the arts and were giving rise to ideas which the postmodernists have since taken over. But those early writers—I am thinking of people such as John Dewey and I.A. Richards—were often quite nuanced in their treatment of these issues and were not throwing the baby out with the bath water. They were not saying there is no such thing as beauty and we can dispense with that concept altogether. But, subsequently, their arguments were radically simplified and in fact made cartoons of.
THINKING ABOUT THE SURPRISES
Kelley: I want to ask you about some of the results that surprised me, particularly in the philosophy rankings because that is a field that I know better than the other areas. In philosophy you rank the Chinese, the Indian, and the Western thinkers separately. In the Western case, Aristotle, Plato, and Kant come out at the top of the list—no surprises there. But the Western grouping includes Islamic and Jewish philosophers of the Near East along with the Europeans, and I have a question here about the face validity of your results. It's a question that also relates to the general concern about Eurocentrism that you address in the book. The highest-ranked Islamic philosopher was Avicenna [a Persian thinker of the early eleventh century]. Most scholars would agree that he is among the greatest—perhaps the greatest—philosopher in the Islamic tradition. But he was pretty far down the list, behind European philosophers like Gottfried Liebnitz and Bishop Berkeley, whom I would have considered much lower in stature than Avicenna. So I wondered: Were you confident that your sources were adequate to both domains, equally knowledgeable and fair-minded about European and Islamic?
Murray: Well, the answer regarding the sources is yes, but I am also not competent to say much about Avicenna. My impression is that an awful lot of Avicenna's work was derivative, that in fact he was an Aristotelian of sorts. Is that a fair statement?
Kelley: Yes, he wrote commentaries on Aristotle, as many of the other thinkers in that period did, but I believe that he was quite original in his effort to combine and reconcile an essentially Greek perspective with a monotheistic one, as Thomas Aquinas would try to do centuries later. And some scholars attribute to him ideas that then became core to the Christian thinkers a couple hundred years later.
Murray: Maybe he should have been higher, but the rankings are useful to give you a peg to hang your disagreement on, to ask: Why is this? I have been fascinated by the way these disagreements have come up and the dialogues have played out. I will say that I was very unhappy myself about Rousseau being as high as he was.
Kelley: Well, I was too.
Murray: On the other hand, I was talking to a French literature professor and saying how unhappy I was about Rousseau, and he stated that I was probably underestimating Rousseau's literary qualities, that they were better than I thought. Similarly, Wagner's fourth place in the music index seemed to me awfully high, but I have talked to professional musicians and they say fourth place is pretty accurate. So, it is interesting the extent to which sometimes this mechanical process came up with results that I didn't agree with, based on my own knowledge. But as I talked with people who are experts in the field, they would tell me why this guy was so hot and the rankings are valid.
GREATNESS AND INFLUENCE
Kelley: Another issue raised by your findings is the distinction between a thinker's philosophic merit—in terms of depth, originality, and all the other standards that we prize in philosophy—and the thinker's historical impact and influence. For example, I would say that Bishop Berkeley, to use that example again, was a very shrewd philosopher but really didn't have a lot of impact.
Murray: And who is lower on the list that you think should be above him?
Kelley: I could mention Avicenna again. There's also William of Ockham, who was a key figure in the transition from the humanist Christianity of Aquinas to the more scientific, completely secular approach that led to Galileo and the birth of modern science. We could argue back and forth about particular examples like this. But my question is a general one: Did you find a principled way of teasing apart what I am calling the intrinsic merit of the accomplishment versus its historical impact?
Murray: I was worried about precisely the problem that you are talking about—people who were important in some way, but not because of their intrinsic merit. But it turned out to be much less of a problem than I expected. Literature is a partial exception, but in music and the visual arts, technical excellence and importance in the history of the field seem to be closely conjoined. Bach and Beethoven were really, really good as composers; they were also really, really important. Maybe Schoenberg would be a case of somebody who is more important in terms of the history of music than he will be as a composer whose music endures. But there are not too many cases like that.
MOTIVATING EXCELLENCE
Kelley: In the final section of the book, you deal with four cultural factors that you think foster individual accomplishment: the belief that life has purpose, the belief that individuals can act autonomously, the presence of organizing structures for creative work, and the belief in what you call the transcendental goods—the ideals of truth, beauty, and the good…
Murray: With the transcendental goods being the one that I said, "Hmm, I wonder what my Objectivist friends will have to say about that."
Kelley: Well, actually, you took the term from Aristotle, according to a note in the book. In his sense, "transcendental" simply means that a concept applies across all categories. These are terms that apply in any domain…
Kelley: …and so they are perfectly this-worldly, so to speak. They have no otherworldly implications.
Murray: They refer to something transcendental in the sense of beyond the day-to-day reality we see. So they could be ideals of beauty, for example, which are perfectly consistent with a non-religious view of the world.
Kelley: It's just that these ideals have some basis in reality, that they are not subjective constructs—or tools for a hegemonic class to exploit a victim class.
Murray: That is right.
Kelley: First, a methodological point: In this part of the book I took it that here you are basing your conclusions, not on the statistical analysis of the judgments of other experts—as in compiling the indexes of individual achievers—but rather on your own judgment here as a scholar, as an expert yourself about intellectual and cultural history.
Murray: That's right. I have a set of chapters earlier which use statistical analyses, deeply grounded in the data, to talk about the role of economics, political systems, and so forth in affecting the scale of accomplishment. But as you suggest, in these last chapters I am saying, "OK, I have lived with these data now for a number of years; this is my own best judgment about these other cultural factors." I think they can be subjected to systematic and quantitative analysis, but I didn't want to try to take that step in this book. I wanted to put these out more in the form of hypotheses that need to be explored.
Kelley: Well, you just answered one of my questions—whether you thought there was a systematic, statistical way of disconfirming or confirming your hypotheses.
Murray: I think the hypotheses I present should be subjected to rigorous tests, and I think they can be. They are not in this book.
Kelley: In the next step of your analysis, you look at different cultures at different points in time and assess how well they do or don't supply these four cultural factors—and why they do or do not. The field of philosophy has a special importance here because you appeal to philosophical ideas, and to historical philosophers, when you talk about why certain cultures, like Europe, have fostered so much achievement. And of course, the key thing we need to talk about is the role that you attribute to Christianity in the West.
Murray: Yes, this is another thing that I didn't expect to come up with when I started.
Kelley: Was that a surprise?
Murray: Well, Michael Novak told me I would come up with it, but at the time he said that to me, I quietly thought to myself that the Greeks had done pretty well without Christianity. I didn't think that Christianity, per se, was going to be that important. But I eventually became convinced of the importance of Thomas Aquinas in combining Aristotelian thought with the Christian message and creating an extremely powerful creative impulse. To put it very quickly: What Aquinas did was to say that creating beauty is pleasing to God, that discovering the workings of his universe is pleasing to God and glorifies God, and that by doing these things you are fulfilling your role as a Christian. When you combine that with rediscovery of the Greek legacy at about that same time, you just got a huge explosion of creativity. And the Roman Catholic Church, I think, deserves a lot of credit for that. It backslid later, became much more conservative, but for the Renaissance it was a big deal.
Kelley: That is certainly a reading of the historical narrative that is plausible and has some basis in the historical facts you mention. But there is another reading, one I consider more plausible, which is that Aquinas did attempt to integrate Christianity with the secular, rational worldview that Aristotle provided, as you said; but that the effect was to create breathing room for reason, and a secular outlook, and a love of this world—breathing space so that they could shake free from religion, which is what we see gradually happening over a slow process through the Renaissance and the Enlightenment.
Murray: That is a fascinating issue.
Kelley: It's a historical question, and it ought to be answered objectively by historical evidence. But I know that my interpretation makes more sense to me because of my Objectivist standpoint on the philosophical issues involved. I don't see how reason and faith can be combined in any coherent way; and I don't see how you can combine this-worldly and other-worldly perspectives on your life. So I am predisposed to think that trying to combine these things will not give you a stable culture.
Murray: Let's face it—we all bring to our readings of it a variety of predispositions that it's very hard to escape from, and so I should lay on the table my own predisposition. For some time, independently of this book, I have found empiricism and reason, not to be contradictory, but to be different. One of the things about empiricism and looking at the world as you find it is that a lot of times it forces you to go back and look again at the reasons that you have for believing things. I have a very strong sense of the limitations of reason in understanding a variety of phenomena. By "reason" here I am partially referring to strict logic, but I am also referring to my own sense that the world is not only stranger than we know but stranger than we can imagine. This is not an appeal to know-nothingism, it is not an appeal to mysticism. It is an appeal to openness. So, I am open to the idea of religiosity as not just an empirically useful or un-useful factor in history but as something which may be trying to get at truths that are out there, truths that we do not yet understand. The Enlightenment went overboard—that is what I am trying to say. Their faith in reason became almost religious, and I think it ultimately proved inadequate.
Charles Murray is the W.H. Brady Scholar in Culture and Freedom at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. He is the author of eight books, including Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 (HarperCollins, 2003).
This article was originally published in the April 2004 issue of Navigator magazine, The Atlas Society precursor to The New Individualist.
David Kelley is the founder of The Atlas Society. A professional philosopher, teacher, and best-selling author, he has been a leading proponent of Objectivism for more than 25 years.
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HOLIDAY SPIRIT: Rebecca Charles with her kids Alex, 7, Ashlynn, 3, and Tyler, 6.
A GLADSTONE local is getting into the spirit of Easter by giving gifts to children in need.
Last year Rebecca Charles had the idea to make Easter chocolate hampers to give to underprivileged children.
She is doing it again with help from her own kids, Alex, 7, Tyler, 6, and Ashlynn, 3.
"They each picked something to go in the baskets," Ms Charles said.
She said it was sad to see how many local children went without.
"(There is) young kids I see that don't have a lot at times of year like Easter, Christmas and birthdays ... and charities in town are not there to help for times of year like this," Ms Charles said.
Ms Charles said she used Facebook and people's suggestions to find individuals caring for children she could give the hampers to.
She said she was overwhelmed and surprised by the online response.
"I just wanted to help where I could," Ms Charles said.
"The first person to receive one was really grateful for our generous offer as they said times had been tough for them.
Ms Charles encouraged everyone to take more opportunities in life to be generous to those in need.
"There should be more people giving," she said.


The programming team are working real hard to get the patch out. If you are in our Discord server and/or on the testing branch on Steam you will have been seeing new builds going up over the last week or so as they iron out the remaining bugs. We're currently testing for performance issues, so if you'd like to help us, follow these directions and leave us feedback on our Discord.
For the dev log this week, Jake and I will be showing off some of the art-side of preparation for the new playable Triceratops, with a helping of Xico in-between! A Xico sandwich, if you will.
Over the past few weeks I've been working on the remaining locomotions for the trike ontogeny. The hatchling has been getting the brunt of my attention in particular. Look at how this hideous little turd moves. Look at it.
These require some special consideration for how the animal will play. The speeds on all the locomotions need to be exaggerated a little just to make Triceratops viable. It's quite vulnerable and slow as a hatchling. Thankfully an explosive growth rate and good camouflage will help mend this, but making it move at a reasonable pace will also help avoid the frustration of not getting from point A to B quick enough.
These locomotions are just about the last thing that needs to be done on the art side for the new playable. Then it is in the hands of the programming team to put it all together. I'm hoping to wrap up my end of the deal by the next dev log. Maybe there will be something new to showcase by then.
January was a tough month for my sanity. I spent the majority of its time going through our current 3563 sound files and converting them to a smaller, friendlier size without changing their resolution (meaning the sound quality will remain the same). After this was done, I did some extra small changes to the size of certain sounds, based on the community's suggestions. These changes will help us in the future to have a better sense of the sound's localization in the environment, especially when I start messing around with binaural plug-ins and other nifty software pieces.
This month I'm also following some of the community's suggestions. A common occurrence was that the hunting music was confusing the players as to what it was supposed to represent, so alongside with Henry we came up with a method that should be clearer to y'all. Also, some of you were too spooped with nighttime music and thought the transition between the placid daytime exploration music and the horror-filled night music was too jarring. I came up with 4 new small pieces that should play around dusk to prepare you for the horrors to come. It's a mix of the dreamy aesthetic of daytime music with creepy undertones to prepare you for night's struggles. Here's two snippets for y'all!
As Jake has been working on the locomotion sets for the Triceratops growth-stages, I have been working on the stationary animations. All of those were knocked out for the juvenile before the last devlog, so I've been on the hatchling and sub-adult ever since then. Basically all of this has been done now, so I thought I'd reveal some of these today.
I decided to use some animations you wouldn't have already seen on the adult Triceratops, as they haven't been implemented in the game just yet, but will come with the trike as a playable character. First of these is my favourite of the idle variants. You'll notice your player Dakotaraptor will play these when you stand still, and Triceratops will be no different. The AI will eventually do these as well, they just don't right now. This is only an aesthetic addition that doesn't really add to gameplay, but I like how this one looks so wanted to show it off.
I also think the subadult model looks really cool, maybe cooler than the adult.
The second animation I will show is a social display. Triceratops is planned to have a much deeper social gameplay system than Dakotaraptor, so this will have a much greater impact on your play. You'll hear more about this at a later date. There is good evidence surfacing that the structures on the heads of ornithischian dinosaurs evolved for the purpose of sexual selection.
For this reason, we wanted our Triceratops to heavily utilise its horns and frill in social display. Here you can see our young boy doing so. Look how fit he is, ladies. Those are some major horns.
To end it off, I really wanted to show the cutest of the juvenile animations, because it is my favourite in the whole game right now. Look at this little puppy!


Visitors to Titletown are invited to break out their superhero costumes, rock their neon, dig out their scrunchies and represent their favorite athletes with Tuesday Theme Nights, beginning Tuesday, Feb. 5.
Ice skaters, tube riders at Ariens Hill and guests at the park who dress up according to the theme each Tuesday from 4 to 8 p.m. will receive complimentary hot chocolate at 46 Below and special giveaways, while supplies last.
Tuesday, Feb. 5: Superhero Night – Hot chocolate and Titletown masks and drawstring cinch bag capes will be provided to guests dressed up like their favorite superhero.
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Tuesday, Feb. 19: '90s Night – Hot chocolate and '90s slap bracelets will be provided to those rocking rad fashion trends from the '90s.
Tuesday, Feb. 26: Jersey Night – Hot chocolate and fun giveaways will be provided to those gearing up in their favorite sports jerseys, in celebration of the start of the NFL Scouting Combine.
Details about each theme night are listed on the calendar at titletown.com/events/calendar.


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Q: PurgeCSS and Tailwind CSS, how to preserve responsive classes using the Command Line Interface? I have the "full" 3.9 MB Tailwind CSS file and successfully applied PurgeCSS to reduce it to 9 kB. But it also purged all responsive classes like md:px-6, they don't show up in my purged version.
Note: this question is for using the command line interface (CLI)
This is what I did:
purgecss --css ~/Desktop/Projects/Flask/Project1/build/static/css/main.css --content ~/Desktop/Projects/Flask//Project1/build/**/*.html --output ~/Desktop/Projects/Flask/Project2/static/css/main.css
I chose to create the output file in a different folder (Project2) so that I could check on the input vs output.
One thing I tried is to add  --safelist [/md/], but didn't help. In fact the safelist didn't seem to be used at all...
(I use CLI since it is part of a bigger Python Flask project)

A: PurgeCSS relies on extractors to get the list of selectors used in a file. It provides a default extractor that is working fine with a wide variety of file types, but it can be limited and does not fit every CSS framework out there.
The default extractor considers every word of a file as a selector but it doesn't consider special characters like the colon (:) which is heavily used in Tailwind CSS.
So, by default, PurgeCSS removes responsive (md:px-6), hover (hover:bg-gray-500), etc. classes. To avoid this, Tailwind has its own extractor. You could use this (or your very own) extractor but the PurgeCSS CLI has limited options and it's missing a defaultExtractor option.
Luckily, it accepts a config file option, so if you create your own purgecss.config.js file and add a default extractor in there, it will preserve these classes too. You can also add your other options to this file.
I used to use this extractor which will work with Tailwind's class names (e.g. bg-red-500, dark:bg-red-500, px-2.5, .max-w-[800px], bg-[#FFFFFF])
(content) => content.match(/[\w\-:.\/\[#%\]]+(?<!:)/g) || []

Your config file will look like this:
// purgecss.config.js
module.exports = {
  content: ['build/**/*.html'],
  css: ['build/static/css/main.css'],
  defaultExtractor: (content) => content.match(/[\w-/:]+(?<!:)/g) || [],
  output: 'static/css/main.css',
};

And you can use the following command to run PurgeCSS with the above config:
purgecss --config ./purgecss.config.js


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Southern Indiana sheriff's deputy fatally shoots armed man
SPRINGVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Southern Indiana police say a sheriff's deputy fatally shot a man who had refused to disarm after he reportedly fired gunshots.
The Lawrence County Sheriff's Office says 62-year-old Mike Parsley of Springville was pronounced dead at the scene of Saturday night's shooting.
Police say body camera and dashboard camera footage will be turned over to Indiana State Police for their investigation into the shooting.
The (Bedford) Times-Mail reports that two deputies were called to the scene in the village of Springville about 65 miles (104 kilometers) southwest of Indianapolis after a 911 caller said Parsley was armed, screaming profanities and had fired gunshots.
Police say one of the deputies shot Parsley after he reached for a gun, started walking toward the officers, raised the weapon and ignored orders to disarm.
Information from: The Times-Mail, http://www.tmnews.com


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Nausea and vomiting are both common in pregnancy. Sometimes it can progress to hyperemesis.
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The pathophysiology is poorly understood.
A possible direct relationship between severity of hyperemesis, degree of biochemical hyperthyroidism, and the level of human chorionic gonadotropin (hcG) has been postulated.
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It resolves by 18 weeks of pregnancy without sequelae and no treatment is required.
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How many litter boxes per cat do you need? It's a common question, and, even if there's no one single 'all purpose' answer, we'll start with one right instantly.
What Litter Box Size Does Your Cat Need?
While determining litter box size depends on many things, there actually is one method that helps to determine the necessary size of the litter box you should get for your cat.
Main feature of sifting litter boxes is their sifting pan, which has holes in the bottom of it, which makes it easier separating dirty litter from the clean one. In this article, we are going to discuss few of the advantages and disadvantages of sifting cat litter boxes.
Have you ever thought if your litter box is desirable enough for your cat? If your cat had problems with house soiling, then it's likely you did. But it's not always necessary to have litter box issues to consider how can you improve and make this location more desirable in the eyes of your cat.


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Progressive Secretary, Web site review by Erica Sagrans, Progressivesecretary.org
Even if the recent election made you want to hide under the covers and never leave the house, Web sites such as ProgressiveSecretary.org provide one way to make your voice heard right from your computer. Covering a range of progressive issues - from militarization and globalization to women's rights and the environment, Progressive Secretary composes letters to politicians that get sent to the Web site's members to look over, and then, if they choose to do so, e-mail the letter to their political representatives. While Progressive Secretary notes that sometimes e-mail can be less effective than snail mail or phone calls, it argues that when the letters are written the right way and sent in large quantities, e-mail can become a voice that gets truly heard.
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• E The People aims to create citizen-centric public spaces on the Internet, facilitating online conversations, letters to government, and e-mail petitions.
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Mission grapes are small in size and are round to slightly oval in shape, growing in loose clusters. The skin is dark purple, blue, to almost black, and there is a bloom or powdery film that protects and covers the grapes from moisture loss. The flesh is soft, gelatinous-like, and translucent. Mission grapes are high in sugar but have very little acidity and are very sweet with a floral aroma.
Mission grapes are available in the late fall months.
Mission grapes are a very old variety of Vitis vinifera, first brought to the New World by Spanish missionaries. The grapes grow on very hardy, drought-resistant vines that can reach tremendous lengths and can live for over one hundred years. Today, Mission grapes are mostly a forgotten grape, but it has great historical significance to the wine industry in California. Mission grapes are the oldest cultivated vinifera species in the United States. They were named for their association with the Catholic missions and the clergy, who used the black grape to make sacrament wine at missions in Mexico in the 16th century. The grapes are known as Criolla Chica in Argentina, Pais in Chile, and Palomino Negro in the Canary Islands.
Mission grapes are rich in vitamins B2, K, and minerals like copper. They are also high in antioxidants and have anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial properties.
Mission grapes are best suited for both raw and cooked applications such as baking. They have primarily been used for juicing as they are slightly sweet with no acidity. Mission grape juice can be added to other juices that are more acidic like lemon or orange and can be combined with brandy to make 'angelica,' which was once a favorite drink of the fathers at the missions in Mexico and California. Mission grapes have also been used to make sacramental wine. In addition to juicing, Mission grapes can be used in baked goods or other desserts such as ice cream and sorbets and pair well with tart fruits. They will keep up to five days when stored in the refrigerator.
Mission grapes were originally planted in the United States in what was known as "Alta California," by Franciscan missionary, Junipero Serra to meet the demand for sacramental wine. Spanish ships used to bring the grapes from Mexico to San Diego, but Serra requested that the ships bring a vine cutting in the mid-1700s and insisted that each missionary plant their own grapes to make wine versus paying to have it transported from Mexico. Mission grapes made their way to the missions throughout California and were the first grapes cultivated for wine in what is now America's Wine Country. Today, Mission San Gabriel still has an ancient Mission grapevine that shades most of the mission's grounds.
Mission grapes are native to Spain, but the grape is rare in Spain today as the disease phylloxera wiped out much of the country's vineyards in the 19th century. It is said that Mission grapes were brought to Mexico as common black grapes by Hernan Cortes when he arrived in what is now Mexico in 1520. The grapes were planted at missions for use as sacramental wine for Mass, and the grape made its way south to Chile with the conquistadors and missionaries, where it was first recorded in 1554, and then to Peru, Argentina, and California. The mission grape vines that exist today are wild or grown by select growers, like Gypsy Canyon winery in Santa Barbara, and they use the grapes to make Angelica. Today, Mission grapes are still grown in Chile, Argentina, and in very limited acreage in Southern California.


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The difficulties of operating in the hostile environment of the United States have not deterred Pokerstars from continuing its promotional activities in the more enlightened climate just to the north.
PokerStars.net, the promotional wing of the world's biggest online poker operator, announced in Toronto, Canada this week that it has renewed its sponsorship agreement with Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment Ltd. (MLSE) as a sponsor of the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey club.
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Emergency Crews Respond To Explosion At Carter County Business - KTEN.com - Texoma news, weather and sports
Emergency Crews Respond To Explosion At Carter County Business
Monday, January 11, 2010 11:18 PM EST
CARTER CO., OK - Emergency crews are still at the scene of an explosion at a Carter County business.
Authorities say the LW Environmental Services building on Highway 76, just outside Wilson exploded just after 7 p.m. Monday. The explosion occurred after the business closed for the night, so no one was in the building at the time. Several area fire departments were called out to the fire and worked together to get it under control.
Employees of LW say their company keeps propane tanks in their office building, and it's believed those contributed to the blast.
The owner told Carter County authorities he believed a hot oil truck with a propane tank may have been the source of the explosion, saying the the truck may have become too hot or a propane tank might have had a leak.
The building is a total loss and fire fighters were still on scene late Monday night to make sure there were no more hot spots. Several roads were blocked, but no evacuations were reported.
According to the companies website, LW Environmental Services formed in 1993 and specializes in "emergency response to environmental threats such as hazardous spill and responsible maintenance for the oil and gas industry."
Stay with KTEN News for the latest developments.
Meredith Saldana, KTEN News
Police: Mom from Oklahoma killed her 3 kids in Phoenix
Police found three children dead at a home in Phoenix on January 20, 2020. (@phoenixpolice/Twitter)
The woman, a 22-year-old who recently moved to Phoenix, will be held on three counts of first-degree murder.


Place Of Martyrdom : Village Heron Khurd Brief Of Incident : Ct. Khushi Ram, 1003/SGR . He was born on 15.02.1963 and joined service on 03.10.1986. He was on 10 days casual leaveat his village Harion during the leave Killed by terrorist. On 01.02.1991. In case FIR No. 8 dt. 01.02.1991 u/s 302/34 IPC, 25/54/59 Arms Act. PS Samrala distt. Ludhiana.


Cultural homogenization has accompanied many of the most destructive processes of mass displacement during the Twentieth century. Its goal has been to make polity and citizens ethnically and culturally 'congruent'. This article questions the explanatory power of traditional accounts linking cultural homogenization with industrialization during statebuilding processes and the emergence of nationalism. It suggests that further attention must be paid to the role of the military as an essential institution in both of these processes. Finally, the 'egalitarian' rhetoric and legitimizing rationale underpinning both militarization and cultural homogenization is assessed as a most powerful nationalist tool for imposing new hierarchical structures.


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It's always really encouraging to receive correspondence from people who support the Lib Dem message and want to let us know they're behind us. Every now and again though, I receive an email or letter which is really inspiring, and makes me feel even prouder than I do normally to represent Manchester Withington for the Liberal Democrats.
We received one such email the other day, from a woman named Betty King, who's the former National Treasurer for the National Women's Caucus for the U.S Democrats. She'd seen coverage of the Lib Dem poll surge following Nick Clegg's strong performance in the TV debates, and wrote to offer us her support.
Today's newspapers in the U.S are full of stories about the Lib Dems' surge in recent polling. I hope your campaign is going well. Don't bother answering this. I know how hectic the last weeks of any campaign are. I just wanted to let you know that I'm rooting for you!
Betty is the former Deputy Chief of Staff for the Mayor and Director of the Mayor's Office of the Ombudsman for the Government of the District of Columbia, and a well-known activist, author and broadcaster. We feel honoured to receive her kind words of support!


Our circle of friends is often a safe place to feel included and accepted. We can laugh. We can cry. We can roll our eyes with our friends. What happens when our friendly conversations turn into body bashing–or what I call negative body talk? Ever heard (or made) comments like: "I hate how my thighs touch!" "OMG, I can't believe how many calories I just ate." "Boy, she sure gained weight over the summer." Negative body talk can effect how we feel about ourselves, how we feel about our bodies. If that isn't enough, these conversations can lead to comparison and competition with our friends! Not fun. Negative body talk happens a lot when you're a teenager. As a teen, your body is going through a lot of changes. It can sometimes feel uncomfortable to be in your own skin. And to make matters worse, friends' bodies are changing at different rates!
Sometimes we might find ourselves getting caught up in negative body talk just to fit in the group. Other times we talk negatively about our bodies at home with our mothers and sisters. Let's look at some ways we can be empowered and enjoy supportive and healthy body conversations rather than insulting and competitive ones that zap our zest.


ONCE the hotspot of Pakistan's tourism, Swat is fast emerging as a stronghold of the Talibanisation that has swept most of the southern districts of the NWFP and some northern districts as well. The war in Waziristan has been the focus of national attention, and rightly so given the implications of the rise of militancy in the tribal areas for the territorial integrity of the country. But the happenings in Swat also have profound relevance for Pakistan's society. Here the issue is not one of a military confrontation with the army. It is the Islamists' self-acquired right to impose — even by using force — their own brand of morality on the civilian population. Since the beginning of July, there have been 53 incidents of bomb explosions, including three suicide bombings, claiming a total of 48 lives. That is not all. There has been an assassination attempt on an ANP leader and officials in the administration and their families have come under attack and many of them have now reportedly shifted to Islamabad.
A lot of the violence is directed against women, girls' schools, NGOs and CD shops. With their misguided beliefs of restricting women and banning all entertainment, the militants are now on the war path. How this is affecting the lives of common people is shocking. Media reports suggest that worried parents have pulled out their children from schools in large numbers. Health care is being affected with Maulana Fazlullah conducting an anti-polio campaign on his illegally operated FM radio. The state's writ appears to be weakening in this area. Police have withdrawn from checkpoints in some of the worst-affected tehsils of Swat, which are now being policed by militants. Fazlullah sent hundreds of his armed comrades to rescue two abducted women from the upscale Kanju Town in Swat and 'bring to justice' their alleged abductors who were paraded before a multitude of people as they await their fate to be decided by a self-appointed 'Islamic court'.
Unfortunately, all this is happening, not in any remote corner of the tribal badlands of Pakistan but in a settled district of the NWFP. There seems to be total paralysis and inaction with the state security apparatus going through one of its worst patches and the administrative system in a state of collapse. The problem has been further compounded by a lack of an actionable strategy. The government has left it to the local police to handle the law and order situation while the troops that were sent in have not checked the militants who are also operating in other areas using Swat as their base. The intelligence agencies apparently have sufficient information on the militants' operations but have failed to take action because the government is still not clear about its strategy. Already a section of the population shocked by the assassination attempt on Afzal Khan Lala has begun to react by rejecting the police ban on the carrying of weapons since its faith in the government's ability to provide security has already been eroded. Is Swat heading for a civil war?
THE MMA has made a laughing stock of itself. Not that the opposition's other components are any better: the PML-N-led All Parties Democratic Movement never clicked. The ARD is dead. As for the PPP, one does not know where it stands after the expediency it has of late demonstrated. But the MMA — an alliance within an alliance — has self-destructed itself effectively. Going by their lofty Islamic rhetoric, one had expected the MMA leaders to practise politics based on principles. Instead, they have outdone those whom they hate most, the so-called secular-minded politicians. The resignation issue alone demonstrates how a political party or alliance should not behave. The differences between the JUI-F and the JI came to the fore on the question of quitting the assemblies to pre-empt President Pervez Musharraf's re-election. But every declaration made to the people or the press by the MMA high command, promising to quit the assemblies, was followed by a denial, especially by Maulana Fazlur Rehman. Perhaps to present the MMA leadership with a fait accompli, Qazi Hussain Ahmed resigned his National Assembly seat, but the decision had little impact on the MMA, much less on the national political scene.
Nothing, however, demonstrated greater disunity and lack of a well-planned strategy than the question of the NWFP Assembly's dissolution. The MMA announced its move to resign and call for a dissolution of the assembly well in advance, giving ample time to the provincial opposition to move a no-confidence motion to pre-empt the dissolution. With the JI members leaving the legislature but the JUI-F legislators continuing to sit there, NWFP's politics has taken a weird turn. Now the scene looks crazier still with the JI speaker having resigned, following allegations by the Fazlur Rehman camp that the speaker could have managed, if he wanted, to reject or at least delay the tabling of the no-confidence move. The situation is now in flux. In spite of the JI's absence, Chief Minister Akram Durrani still enjoys a thin majority. The dissolution of the assembly has now become irrelevant to its original aim, namely, denying President Musharraf an electoral college. The MMA is in a mess because it is motivated by strong negative impulses. It would have stayed together if it had a positive agenda, like working for the welfare of the NWFP's people, most of whom live a life of poverty and deprivation.
CAN people be blamed for relieving themselves in open spaces in the absence of public toilets? Unfortunately city administrations and planners have failed to provide public toilets, or ensure that the system of sewerage and drainage is up to the mark. This explains the level of filth everywhere. Take an example from Karachi, where a paid toilet facility at Civil Hospital is frequented more than the ones in the hospital because it is relatively clean. This proves that people will pay for hygiene and convenience. So why hasn't this simple logic been applied on a mass level? The Citizens-Police Liaison Committee, in partnership with the city government, started some paid toilet facilities in Karachi in 2000 but only built 31 out of 38 because of apathy on the part of the local government. The administration has to cooperate with the building of public toilets because it needs to sign off on issues like land, water, electricity, etc. Yet it seems the issue is at the bottom of their list of priorities. This is reflective of the low priority given to issues like sanitation which are as vital (if not more) to a country's progress as the construction of roads and bypasses. More funds need to be spent on teaching people how to build makeshift toilets and about personal hygiene as this will reduce many health and environmental problems.
An international survey in 2005 estimated that approximately 45 per cent of Pakistani households do not have access to toilets. What's worse is that only 51 per cent of houses are connected to some form of drainage. That speaks volumes of the level of sanitation in the country. This needs to change, starting with the revamping of cities' drainage systems. In the meantime, public toilets must be built and well maintained.
THE National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) appears to have run into a storm of protest and derision from the press and civil society. The criticism primarily is that it will permit politicians to launder money that they could not account for.
It has, therefore, been labelled with various epithets like daylight robbery and an abdication of principles on the part of both Musharraf and the Pakistan People's Party. This is so despite people having called for national reconciliation for the past few years.
It strikes me that in any system of justice such a law would be curious. The reason would be that people would ask, why not resolve the issues through the established judicial system.
The root of the problem is that we do not have a judicial system that can be trusted by anyone in this country. Traditionally, apart from a few individual exceptions, this whole system has been carrying out the dictates of the military in Pakistan. If a civil servant, a judge or a police officer dared to defy the military, they paid a heavy price. The list is surprisingly long.
Does anybody remember Justice Safdar Shah who as a sitting judge of the Supreme Court had to escape to London just because he disagreed with the then military regime? His analysis that Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had not murdered Nawab Kasuri was legally clear and correct.
Almost 30 years later, instead of Safdar Shah's commemorative statue standing outside the Supreme Court it is the Sharifuddin Pirzada protégés who still wield influence within the hallowed portals of the building.
Many of these gentlemen actually owe their elevation to a system which has heavily been influenced by individuals like Justice Anwarul Haq and Justice Nasim Hasan Shah.
I have nothing against those two gentlemen but they practically admitted judicial murder by calling Bhutto's execution a political decision. In short, the current judicial system comprises personnel tainted by Provisional Constitutional Orders that dignified military rule. This was a factor that the PPP could not reverse in its short tenures and which Nawaz Sharif as heir to Zia quite enjoyed.
If anyone believes that things have changed they should remember that the current top law officer of the country, the attorney-general, is famous not for his legal analysis but for the engaging conversations he held over the telephone and which found their way to the Internet.
As a sitting judge these conversations with Mr Khalid Anwar, the law minister at the time, were remarkable for their frank appraisal of what awaited the PPP leadership in cases before him.People who, therefore, argue that the cases should be allowed to go to court are either simplistic or basing their analysis on two false assumptions: a) that the cases against the PPP leadership are all proven even before they are heard; b) that the courts will decide these cases fairly.
As far as the second assumption is concerned when we talk about the judicial system it does not refer to judges alone. Actually, it means the criminal administration system which includes the investigating agency (e.g. police, NAB), the prosecution and the judiciary.
The judges cannot do much if the evidence before them is fixed, forged or concocted which can easily be done when the state is not neutral. The investigating agencies in Pakistan are, therefore, replete with police officers who have emulated our judges in 'pragmatism'. The hijacking case against Nawaz Sharif was a particularly brilliant example of incisive investigation.
There were, of course, a minority of police officers who, like judges, stood up and objected to unfair investigations. They have been made horrible examples of and their peers do not even whisper their names for fear that their conscience may be impacted. These were the easiest prey. Unlike politicians they do not have a party, lawyers or independent incomes behind them.
The press hates the police and the effort to dissect an individual's role behind the uniform requires too much hard work and investigative journalism. These police officers will die unsung. However, the impact of the military's manipulation is visible.
At a national level, one either gets police officers who in situations like May 12 in Karachi avoid confronting killers or act in reverse in Islamabad where they bully the press and the lawyers. Little surprise then that the PPP, which has been at the receiving end of this 'justice system' for the past 30 years, wants another way.
So what happens if you have a criminal administration system which your country's largest political party regards as untrustworthy and unworkable?
In South Africa, Nelson Mandela as the leader of the country's largest political party, the African National Congress, faced the same problem about which he was aware.
In the absence of agreed rules of the game during the anti-Apartheid struggle, both parties had taken measures unpalatable in a civilised framework. These were crimes with a purpose which had overridden ordinary law.
The courts dominated by the Apartheid regime's judges would interpret them according to the system they knew — a system that would have Nelson Mandela described as a terrorist. A system of reconciliation under a truth and reconciliation commission was worked out where crimes committed by both sides were identified and the state declared amnesty for the majority of them. The ANC was then given effective power and it has governed reasonably well for a revolutionary party since.
Unfortunately, despite this ordinance, reconciliation between the PPP and the military does not appear to have occurred. The reason is that although very much like the Apartheid regime in South Africa, the military has now come under tremendous international and local pressure to clean up its act, but unlike the Apartheid regime in South Africa it has never really decided to give up or share power.
Shorn of its traditional right-wing allies whose patronage structures are under international investigation the military believes it can use the PPP as its new front.
The NRO appears to have been negotiated by it with this intent. Clearly, the military's friends have produced a badly drafted law without sincerity of political purpose. The constitutional protection and wide ambit that should have blanketed this law is missing. It is very likely to be struck down by the judiciary influenced by the military.
The military still appears to believe that if the ordinance fails it is home and free. This is short-term thinking. The long-term consequences are unnerving. If PPP does not have the opportunity to articulate and then implement a radical programme of social reform because of being stitched up with cases and allegations there will be no good governance.
The people of Pakistan will have no option but to look at the right-wing alternatives. These alternatives have neither the will nor the political vision to implement much-needed reform.The military must buy into the spirit of the ordinance and let the PPP, if successful at the ballot, implement a programme of reform like it did in the 1970s. If the PPP fails, then one can only hope that the dynamic of the failure will create political parties which can rise to the challenge. People may be dubious but this is the only political option for the moment.
GORDON Brown has come to the right decision, but apparently for the wrong reasons. Now is not the time for a general election. … There may be great issues that could be put to the people…but the prime minister proposes no big changes in government policy.
Indeed, the mood of the country since June 27 has been one of slightly surprised satisfaction at the way Mr Brown assumed his responsibilities. … In the past two weeks, Mr Brown has put all this at risk…Mr Brown's advisers told journalists that the prime minister was studying opinion polls as he considered whether to call an election. They confirmed that the deciding factor would be party-political advantage.
NO one can miss it: Nicolas Sarkozy is omnipresent in the media and especially on television screens. … The president is in the news because the opposition is asleep.But there's no doubt, this is beginning to weigh heavily on the public debate. This is the essence of a protest addressed recently by the Socialist Party to the president of the Audiovisual Superior Council, an institution mandated to ensure the "respect for political pluralism" on radio and television. "It is a question of democracy," the Socialist Party complained. The protest is justified: the rule that TV stations must ensure a balance between members of the government, representatives of the majority in power and those in the opposition loses its meaning if the head of state is constantly in the news.


You say you want to get together- but you lack the required basic communication skills!
Sometimes small business owners just amaze me. Your business is obviously small,l and I want to hear or see more .......but you are so DISORGANIZED that you just lose my information or trust your mind to remember to contact me. Your desk looks like a fan just blew all the papers around in a pile. You don't sit at the of end of a busy day and PLAN what you need to do and when to do it. Your business will fail...it's just a matter of time. Communicate something to me- I am your interested prospect ...I will only wait so long!
Don't Post to Social Media Sites JUST TO POST!
A pet pieve of mine is people who post to social media sites just to post! They figure (I thing wrongly) that the more that they post, the more that they get their name out there to their connections and friends, and the more likely their business will get more business. I THINK NOT! For me, Excessive posting without providing any real benefit to your connections and friends does just the opposite - YOU LOSE CREDIBILITY AND I JUST SKIP OVER YOUR POSTS LIKE ROTTEN FISH! You are simply wasting my time and I hate that more than anything in trying to build my business......PLEASE - JUST GIVE ME SOME VALUABLE STUFF TO READ PERIOD!
Keep your word when posting in the new World of Social Media!
In order to keep your company's credability intact it is important to remember what you say when you post something online.....Use your calendar to remind you of promises that you make to any sales prospects as well as suppliers. It is no different from the Pre-Internet days when you used an old-fashioned calendar to remind you to get back to someone. A promise to a sales prospect or supplier is one you need to keep at all costs.
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The Jersey Shore Boardwalk Businesses are BOOMING!
Everybody has to eat & they do a lot of eating on the boardwalk. The cash registers are buzzing as people seek some kind of relief from the horrors of the world and the nightly TV news headlines. The Dow is over 17k and stock and 401k's are still rocketing up giving consumers hope and cause for celebration. When will it all end? Probably someday soon...but who cares? Just enjoy the ride!