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Fashion Pakistan Week – FPW4 kicks off in Karachi on 21st October in style. On Day 1 of the most influential Fashion Week, Ayesha Hassan presented a collection with a mix of Western & Eastern Attires. Here is the complete collection.
Celebrities like actors and actresses' venturing into entrepreneurial ventures is nothing new. Be it Hollywood celebs or superstars from our neighboring Bollywood – we have seen examples by the dozen where individuals have sought to secure their future earnings.
So why should a celeb in Pakistan be any different …? A celebrity is a "brand" in its own right, which is why they are branching out into these other domains.
And honestly speaking there is nothing wrong with the entire concept of securing one's future while all the pomp and glory is surrounding them. We have all seen cases like the Late Mehdi Hasan and Alamgir where in their hay day there was money coming in while the fame lasted, but in the later stages of their lives they have had to seek charity to survive!


The Nyungar area now known as Subiaco, in Western Australia has a long and rich history with stories from the Early settlers and Benedictine monks, through the first and second world wars, as the state's home of Australian Rules Football for over 100 years, as the birthplace of many and as a vibrant, green group of inner-city suburbs. It has contributed so much to the fabric of Perth and is home to many important landmarks.
Subiaco has also consistently led the way in modelling what a successful, diverse, higher density, inner-city commercial and residential area can be. It is and always has been such a special and proud place and has one of the highest densities in the State!
Now the State Government and the City of Subiaco are planning to double the population of the City through rezoning and high-rise development. This is simply unjustified and will permanently destroy the City's unique historical village feel, character and amenity - the very things that make Subiaco so appealing to everyone who lives, works or visits here.
Subiaco can achieve density targets without this destructive plan so don't let it happen! Help us Save Subi and protect this important and precious place for current and future generations. This is a fight for us all, because you can't replace history. Once it's gone, its gone.
Simply put, this new, modified plan still allows a doubling of the population and dwelling density that will result in highrise blocks apartments abutting single storey character filled homes and streets. This will irrevocably change Subiaco amenity and appeal, forever. Throughout the town centre there are so many areas that we are not being clearly told what heights developers can build to, when they ask for bonus storeys or 'discretions'! And as for public open space, already at unhealthy low levels in Subiaco, where is the commensurate increase in public open space for all this extra density?
Refer to the zoning table above to help clarify just what's being proposed - that's a whole lotta high-rise!
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR SUBMISSION IN BY TUESDAY 16TH APRIL!
Click on the image above to read the petition text. We've put this Legislative Council petition together to table in Parliament requesting rejection of the Planning Scheme, major review and modification of the Planning Strategy and a pause on the whole thing until the MRA's Masterplan for Subi East is released next year. Subi's future deserves much better planning than has been delivered by the Council and the State Government, and Save Subi is standing up to ensure it happens.


As evidenced by many families I know, there are plenty of circumstances where children flourish in single-parent households and in family arrangements that involve active and engaged parents who live apart. When I worked as a child welfare attorney, however, I saw first-hand that this was not always the case.
Weiner proposes concrete legal obligations that would arise automatically between parents upon the birth or adoption of a child, but her recommendations also provide all parents (and potential parents) with guidelines they can consider now, regardless of whether these proposals are enacted as law.
The duties she suggests present a clear and much needed road map to help parents navigate their role as caregivers to their joint children. Her proposals offer tangible guidance for all parents — regardless of relationship status — and can improve cooperation, cohesiveness and collaboration in parenting and family life. By agreeing to these types of terms, parents would set the tone for their relationship and acknowledge that they are supposed to have a supportive family relationship throughout their offspring's childhood.
Obligation to give aid. When a spouse is in danger, most states have laws that require their partner to provide assistance. Weiner proposes that the same should apply to parent-partners.
Extension of abuse laws. Weiner recommends extending traditional domestic violence laws to protect to parent-partners. For example, her proposal includes allowing psychological abuse to qualify as grounds for obtaining a protection order. Additionally, she recommends that protection orders allow victims to have non-abusive contact with the other parent if the victim wants to. These obligations would be subject to any court order that would keep the parents apart or allocate custody to one parent over the other.
Counseling at the end of romantic relationships. Recognizing that many parent-partnerships begin as romantic relationships, Weiner proposes that counseling should be required when the romantic attachment ends, if one parent wants it but the other parent doesn't. By encouraging such programs, Weiner "hopes that more parents would try programs that would help them reconcile or at least act like good friends at the end of the romantic relationship." Parent-partners can agree, before there are even signs that a relationship is deteriorating, that counseling is in their child's best interest, and therefore have a plan in place that recognizes this goal before the need arises.
Fair dealing when entering into contracts. Weiner proposes that parent-partners should be required to deal fairly with each other, in terms of creating contracts such as post-marital agreements, cohabitation agreements, etc. Under this plan, the parent-partner seeking enforcement of a contract would be required to demonstrate that both partners entered into the agreement fairly, without coercion and that it is fair.
Caring and sharing within the parent-partnership. Lastly, the obligations would recognize that one parent in a partnership often provides a substantial amount of the child and home care. Weiner suggests that parent-partners share equally in physical care responsibilities, and her proposal suggests that a parent who takes on a disproportionate share of this work should be entitled to compensation, to be enforced by the courts. Parent-partners could take steps to recognize the value of such contributions from the outset, perhaps by openly discussing this principle and incorporating it into daily life.
Weiner envisions that these core obligations will set a standard not only for how the law views co-parents, but also how co-parents view themselves. By acknowledging that the adults in a child's life are intertwined in important ways, society can send an important message about the role partnership plays in the cycle of raising children.
While Weiner's model specifically calls for system change through legal reform, children could benefit now if their parents adopted these principles — not because of a legal obligation, but because it is in the best interest of their children.
Stacey Steinberg is a legal skills professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Prior to teaching, she worked as a prosecutor and child welfare attorney. She is also a writer and photographer. Connect with Stacey on Twitter @sgsteinberg and on Facebook.


This autumn will be an exciting time for the arts in the Hudson Valley with a swath of new exhibitions opening over the next handful of weeks. The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, in particular, is home to a series of special events in conjunction with their new show, Artists as Innovators: Celebrating Three Decades of New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships.
Artists as Innovators opened on August 30 in the Alice and Horace Chandler and North Galleries. The public opening reception will be held on September 9, from 5-7pm, and the art works will remain on view through November 12. This exhibition showcases the NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship program, which has, over the past 30 years, supported more than 4,000 artists in various fields in the visual arts, performing arts, and literature. Fellows have often addressed controversial issues such as women's rights, sexual orientation, consumerism, globalization, and many more pressing topics. The long list of noteworthy NYSCA/NYFA Fellows include Barbara Kruger, Doug Aitkin and Shirin Neshat in the visual arts, Tony Kushner and Suzan-Lori Parks in theatre/literary arts, Spike Lee and Mira Nair in film, and Meredith Monk, Julie Taymor and Yvonne Rainer in the performing arts. Examples from this exhibition of what to expect are the work of Tony Oursler whose sculpture combines wood, digital print and video to explore the "Big Brother" world of biometrics in #ISO, 2015, and Ida Applebroog's disturbing depictions of ordinary people such as the grinning suitor with his bouquet of flowers in Winnie's Pooh, 1993.
Artists as Innovators looks back over the years through the lens of over 20 Fellows, all of whom went on to enjoy significant achievements in their artistic careers. Participating artists include Elia Alba, Ida Applebroog, Dawoud Bey, Sanford Biggers, Ross Bleckner, Wendell Castle, Tara Donovan, Chitra Ganesh, The Guerrilla Girls, Christian Marclay, Marilyn Minter, Lori Nix, Tony Oursler, Faith Ringgold, Martha Rosler, Dread Scott, Andres Serrano, Shinique Smith, Carmelita Tropicana, and Fred Wilson.
As part of the exhibition tour, SUNY partners will host complementary exhibitions and programs. After the opening on Saturday, September 9, the next event will be a reading by NYSCA/NYFA Literary Fellows on Saturday, September 16 at 2pm. Join Fellows Saïd Sayrafiezadeh (Playwriting/Screenwriting '96, '06, Fiction '10), Edwin Sanchez (Playwriting/Screenwriting '89, '00, '06), Luc Sante (Nonfiction Literature '14), and Akiko Busch (Nonfiction '11) for an afternoon of readings. The following Saturday, September 23, a panel discussion on the history of the NYFA Fellowship Program will be held at 2pm, featuring Artists as Innovators curators Judith K. Brodsky and David C. Terry, catalog essayist Paddy Johnson, and exhibiting artist Lori Nix (Photography '04, '10).
On September 30 at 2pm, exhibiting artist Carmelita Tropicana (Playwriting/Screenwriting '91) will be performing. Known for her irreverent humor, subversive fantasy and bilingual puns, she has been straddling the worlds of performance art and theatre in the New York art scene since the 1980s. Then, on Wednesday, October 4 from 12-3pm, Fellow Linda Montano (Conceptual/Performance Art '86) will perform as Bob Dylan in SUNY New Paltz's Student Union Building from 12-1pm, Sojourner Truth Library from 1-2pm, and Fine Arts Building Rotunda from 2-3pm.
Ida Applebroog, "Winnie's Pooh," 1993, image courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
Next, on Sunday, October 8 at 2pm, watch Lives of Performers, a film by Fellow and experimental choreographer Yvonne Rainer (Film '90, '95) at the Rosendale Theatre (408 Main Street, Rosendale), in conjunction with the theatre's "Dance Film Sundays." On Sunday, October 14 at 2pm, there will be a "Slide Slam"-style presentation by SUNY New Paltz faculty who have received NYSCA/NYFA Fellowships in Visual Art: Jamie Bennett (Crafts '90, '99, '11), Amy Cheng (Painting '90, '96), Kathy Goodell (Sculpture '93,'97), Carmen Lizardo (Photography '04), Emily Puthoff (Digital/Electronic Arts '11), and Nadia Sablin (Photography '13).
The next event falls on Saturday, October 21 at 2pm, when there will be a gallery talk, 'Embracing Upheaval,' with exhibiting artist Wendell Castle (Crafts '86). Castle will share anecdotes from his career and discuss the ways in which art, creativity, and critical thinking combine to influence an artist's approach to their work. Lastly an event that will be of particular interest to art practicioners, on Monday, October 23, from 5:30 to 7pm, attend an information session on the NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship application process, led by NYFA staff. The application for the 2017 – 2018 award cycle opens in Fall 2017 in the categories of Fiction, Folk/Tradition Arts, Interdisciplinary Arts, Painting, and Video/Film. The winners receive $7,000 cash awards with which to fund their vision or voice. More information about the Fellowship is available at https://www.nyfa.org.
The Dorsky is one of six museums on State University of New York campuses that are partnering with NYFA to present Artists as Innovators, which will travel throughout New York State until Spring 2020. The other museums are SUNY Cortland, Alfred University, SUNY Fredonia, SUNY Plattsburgh, Stony Brook University, and Westchester Community College – the precise schedule is on the Dorksy website.
Chiara Harrison Lambe was born in Ireland, raised in the Hudson Valley, and currently divides her time between Brooklyn, NY. and Berlin, Germany. She holds a degree in Art History from Bard College.
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'Magnum P.I.' Star Jay Hernandez Teases Intense Chemistry With New Character Juliet Higgins
Jim Halterman September 24, 2018, 11:00 am
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How do you reimagine an iconic drama like Magnum, P.I. when it's so closely associated with original star Tom Selleck? Lesson No. 1: Make the character your own, starting with the casting.
The action-packed reboot puts a fresh spin on charming Hawaii-based security expert/private investigator Thomas Magnum with its leading man, Jay Hernandez (Scandal), who brings his own swagger to the role — but much less facial hair. Notes the actor: "It was smart to not cast somebody who felt like a cheap replacement of Tom."
Behind the Scenes of the 'Magnum P.I.' Reboot With the Cast & Crew (PHOTOS)
The iconic, red Ferrari, choppers, and more!
Of course, Magnum's loyal besties, Rick (Zachary Knighton) and TC (Stephen Hill), are still there to help Magnum with his detective work. But Higgins, the punctilious majordomo who manages the estate of never-seen überwealthy novelist Robin Masters (Magnum is his live-in security guy), is now a woman.
Perdita Weeks as Juliet Higgins
Juliet Higgins (Perdita Weeks) is a formidable thorn in Magnum's side, but despite some undeniable chemistry, executive producer Peter Lenkov says to keep your romantic expectations in check… for the moment. "When you see them together, you're thinking, 'I hope it goes in that direction,'" he says. "But right now we're playing the conflict." Let the games begin!
Magnum P.I., Series Premiere, Monday, Sept. 24, 9/8c, CBS

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The Forest Games are upon us for the 3rd time this year. For the new folks, we use this as a time to benchmark our fitness progress. We will perform the same benchmarks every year at the same time of the year. We recognize the top 3 overall performances in each division for each gender. We break up the divisions by the duration of time you have been doing CrossFit.
We also recognize the 1st place of each gender by age for our Master's Division.
Those recognized will receive a Forest Games Winner Shirt.
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MBN's Maghreb Voices, a new platform for open and free discussions
Springfield, Va. — The Middle East Broadcasting Networks (MBN) launched the Maghreb Voices website to inform and engage with the people of the Maghreb region in North Africa. The website targets nearly 100 million people and focuses on issues that resonate with them, such as countering ISIS, the rights of women, human rights, corruption, human trafficking, slavery, minorities' rights and illegal immigration.
"Maghreb Voices will provide its audience an unmatched opportunity to participate in important discussions and share their ideas, issues and concerns openly and freely," stated Brian Conniff, President of MBN. MBN manages and oversees Maghreb Voices. "Maghreb Voices will meet the tremendous need for an uncensored interactive platform in this underserved part of the world."
The launch of Maghreb Voices comes after the success of Raise Your Voice-Iraq, which communicates with Iraqis about the future of their country. Engagement is the main feature of Maghreb Voices, using Community Managers to facilitate dialogue and interact with its audience. It goes to the streets of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Mauritania to interview ordinary citizens and get their views on important topics that matter to them. The website also covers the news of the Maghreb community in the United States, Netherlands, France and Spain.
Maghreb Voices also utilizes social media properties to facilitate the two-way conversation. It provides a 24/7 discussion forum for all voices on topics of concern through Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter and WhatsApp.
There are several unique sections to Maghreb Voices. One of them is dedicated to defectors' stories. This section includes interviews and firsthand accounts of people who joined and then left extremist groups such as ISIS after they became disillusioned. Another section of the website invites readers to ask any questions they have about the U.S., to be answered by the Maghreb Voices staff or outside experts (if needed). Audiences will also find video content, polls, question of the day, citizen journalist content and articles.
Maghreb Voices incorporates VOA's Learning English into its website, so that its audience will have access to their videos and English language tools. More information about Maghreb Voices can be found on its website and Facebook page.
About MBN
MBN is non-profit corporate media outlet financed by the U.S. government through a grant from U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), an independent federal agency. The USAGM serves as a firewall to protect the professional independence and integrity of the broadcasters.
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Impact of statin copayments on adherence and medical care utilization and expenditures
Gibson, T. B., Mark, T. L., Axelsen, K, Baser, O, Rublee, DA, McGuigan, KA, Gibson, T. B., & Gibson, T. B. (2006). Impact of statin copayments on adherence and medical care utilization and expenditures. Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, SP11-19.
To examine the effects of statin cost-sharing (ie, copayments, coinsurance) on adherence to statin medications and the impact of adherence on healthcare utilization and spending.
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Retrospective, observational study of statin users receiving health benefits or supplemental coverage from employer-sponsored health plans.
Medical and pharmacy claims were selected from the Medstat MarketScan database for patients who were continuously enrolled from 2000 through 2003. Two-stage residual inclusion models were estimated. The first stage modeled adherence to statins, which was derived from the medication possession ratio, and represented the percentage of days on therapy in an 18-month time frame, July 2001 through December 2002. In the second stage, generalized linear models were used to estimate 2003 utilization and expenditures. Separate estimates were produced for new statin users (n = 24 113) and continuing statin users (n = 93 253).
Lower statin copayments were associated with higher levels of statin adherence. In percentage terms, when holding all other variables at their mean value, a $10 increase in copayment resulted in a 1.8 percentage point reduction in the probability of adherence for new users and a 3 percentage point reduction in the probability of adherence for continuing users. For continuing users adherent to statins, total costs did not change, but fewer negative events (emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and coronary heart disease-related hospitalizations) occurred.
Policy makers and plan managers should consider interventions that improve adherence to statins, such as lower copayments.
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The Nursing Associate in Science (A.S.) degree program at Valencia College is a two-year program that prepares you to go directly into a specialized career in the nursing field. Due to the current shortage of skilled nurses, there are tremendous opportunities in nursing. Valencia's nationally-accredited program is one of the best for preparing men and women for nursing careers, by connecting students directly to situations nurses face today. The program offers classroom curriculum together with real life clinical experiences to help nurses build skills and confidence. Valencia's Nursing program is limited-access, meaning that admission to the college does not imply acceptance to the Nursing program. Students must apply and be accepted to the program. Upon completion of the program, you will be prepared to take the National Council Licensure Exam to become a registered nurse (RN).
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This program is designed for students who seek employment in the field of nursing and who may decide to continue to any Florida public university as a junior to complete a four-year bachelor's degree in nursing through a R.N. to B.S.N. (Bachelor of Science in Nursing) program. Courses for this program are offered during the daytime. A separate program exists for courses offered during evening & weekend hours.
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This program is designed for students who seek employment in the field of nursing and who may decide to continue to any Florida public university as a junior to complete a four-year bachelor's degree in nursing through a R.N. to B.S.N. (Bachelor of Science in Nursing) program. Courses for this program are offered during the evening & weekend hours. A separate program exists for courses offered during daytime hours.
Accelerated track in Nursing (ATN)
This option is designed for LPNs (Licensed Practical Nurses), Paramedics, Registered Invasive Cardiovascular Specialists (CVTs) and RRTs (Registered Respiratory Therapists) who want to earn an A.S. degree in Nursing.
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This option is designed for students who would like to earn an A.S. degree in Nursing, while also taking BSN courses offered by UCF. When complete, students earn their A.S. degree from Valencia and over half of their BSN credits at UCF.
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HCM CITY – Electronic goods shops and supermarkets in HCM City are offering big promotions on air conditioners, refrigerators and fans as the hot season approaches.
A survey conducted at a number of large electronics stores such as Nguyễn Kim and Thiên Hòa found that demand for air conditioners and fans had skyrocketed with the onset of summer.
Nguyễn Trọng Tuấn, a representative of Nguyễn Kim Electronic Appliance Centre, said the sales of air conditioners, refrigerators, fruit juicers and blenders had increased significantly compared to the same period last year.
Trần Nguyễn Anh Tú, sales clerk at Thiên Hòa Electronics Centre, said sales of fans and air conditioners had shot up by 50 per cent compared to earlier last month, and were 25 per cent higher than the same period last year.
Small electronic shops also report higher sales of cooling products. A shop owner on Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai Street in District 3 said sales of fans, air conditioners, fruit juicers and blenders at her shop had risen significantly.
Traders said that fans from companies KDK, Panasonic, Mitsubishi and Asia are priced from VNĐ300,000 (US$13.45) to VNĐ1 million for low-end products and up to VNĐ3 million for high-end products.
The most popular are 1-1.5 HP air conditioners from Toshiba, Daikin, LG, Panasonic and Reetech, with prices between VNĐ8 million and 12 million.


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Црвени Крст () — община в Сербии, входит в Нишавский округ.

Население общины составляет 34 062 человека (2007 год), плотность населения составляет 196 чел./км². Занимаемая площадь — 174 км², из них 74,3 % используется в промышленных целях.

Административный центр общины — город Црвени Крст. Община Црвени Крст состоит из 24 населённых пунктов, средняя площадь населённого пункта — 7,3 км².

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SFBAA & Air Charter Advisors to Host CPR Certification Day
DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla., March 15, 2016 - The South Florida Business Aviation Association (SFBAA) and Air Charter Advisors are hosting a CPR certification day for South Florida business aviation professionals on Thursday, April 7, 2016 in conjunction with World Health Day.
"When the SFBAA approached me about doing the event, I saw that World Health Day was coming up in just a few months," said Adam Steiger, president and founder of Air Charter Advisors. "It seemed like a great way to give back to the community and help people learn a potentially life-saving skill."
The SFBAA's CPR certification day will be held at Signature Flight Support located at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, 4050 Southwest 11th Terrace, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 7.
Reservations can be made of the SFBAA website here.
SFBAA to Award $27,000 in Scholarships and Charitable Donations
The South Florida Business Aviation Association will award a total of $27,000 in scholarship money and charitable donations at its general membership meeting on March 10, 2016.
The SFBAA will award general scholarships to two outstanding high school seniors who plan to further their education in the aviation field. The organization will also award a Dave Davis Memorial scholarship to a high school senior who has made an outstanding contribution of community service during his/her high school career. Additional donations will be given to Make-A-Wish Foundation, Angel Flight Southeast and Christian Air Services.
"The business aviation industry is essential to helping grow southeast Florida's economy," said Jeff Ramsden, SFBAA president. "We are honored to support these organizations and help local students pursue their education in aviation."
The SFBAA general membership meeting will be held at Jet Aviation, 1515 Perimeter Road, West Palm Beach, Fla., on Thursday, March 10 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Scholarship winners will be announced at the meeting and they will receive their checks that evening.
Twenty-eight high school students applied for the SFBAA's 2015 scholarships. Entries were reviewed and winners were selected by the organization's scholarship committee.
Applications for the 2016 SFBAA scholarships are currently being accepted; the submission deadline is August 1, 2016. Students can find eligibility criteria and apply online at sfbaa.org.The SFBAA has raised more than $200,000 for scholarships and charities in the past 12 years.
For the full press release, please click here
South Florida Business Aviation Association to Host Breakfast to Discuss Aircraft Operations to and from Cuba
DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla., Feb. 10, 2016 - The South Florida Business Aviation Association (SFBAA) is hosting a breakfast to discuss the new regulations for flying in and out of Cuba; the event will take place on Wednesday, February 17, 2016.
"These new regulations are important to our industry and to South Florida," said Jeff Ramsden, SFBAA president. "The SFBAA is committed to staying up to date with current industry practices and educating our membership and the business aviation industry as a whole."
The SFBAA breakfast will be held at the Jet Runway Cafe located at the Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, 5540 Northwest 21st Terrace, from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. on February 17. This is a free event.
The speakers are Charles Bishop of the Miami branch of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and Maria Otero from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office.
The speaker presentations will include information on the current OFAC program and recent change; categories of authorized travel to Cuba; importation and exportation of goods to and from Cuba; authorized airports; rule for travelers to and from Cuba; and rules related to providers of carriage by air between the United States and Cuba.
SFBAA Raises Nearly $40,000 for Charity
The South Florida Business Aviation Association (SFBAA) raised nearly $40,000 at its 12th annual golf tournament, the SFBAA Charity Golf Classic. The money will be awarded to multiple SFBAA scholarship recipients and several charities.
The 2015 SFBAA Charity Golf Classic hosted 180 golfers at PGA National Resort in Palm Beach Gardens on October 31, 2015.
The SFBAA will award general scholarships to two outstanding high school seniors from the south Florida area who plan to further their education in the aviation field. The organization will also award a Dave Davis Memorial Scholarship to a south Florida high school senior who has made an outstanding contribution of community service during his/her high school career.
The scholarships will be presented at the SFBAA general membership meeting on Thursday, March 10, 2016 at Jet Aviation in West Palm Beach.
Remaining proceeds raised at the golf tournament will be donated to Make-A-Wish Foundation, Angel Flight Southeast and Christian Air Services.
"The SFBAA scholarships play a vital role in the aviation careers of graduating high school seniors," said Jeff Ramsden, SFBAA president. "It is our privilege to contribute to their futures in addition to supporting other national charities."
Headline sponsors for the 2015 SFBAA Charity Golf Classic included Bombardier, Falcon, JSSI, Gulfstream, Textron, Flightdocs, Satcom Direct, Jet Effect and Florida Jet Sales.
For the complete press release, please click here
Upcoming Schedule of Events
Please find a tentative list of planned events for the 2016 calendar year below. As we firm up dates, locations and times we will add these to the "Events" section of the website.
February 17: Target Breakfast for Aircraft Operators
March 10: General Membership Meeting @ Jet Aviation (PBI)
Mid-April: Target Breakfast for Pilots
April 7: CPR Certification Class @ Signature (FLL)
Mid-May: Safety Day (Location TBD)
June: Target Breakfast TBD
August: Target Breakfast TBD
Late August/Early September: General Membership Meeting @ National Jets (FLL)
September: CPR Certification Class (PBI, BCT, or OPF)
Mid-November: Target Breakfast TBD
October 14: Annual Charity Golf Classic @ PGA National (Palm Beach Gardens)
December 15: Holiday Party
Last Thursday of Every Month: SFBAA Afterburner Social (various locations throughout South FL)
Please keep in mind this is a tentative list and dates are not firm until posted in the Events sections. If you have any suggestions or comments about this event list, please bring them to the Events Committe Chair, Elise Donald.
South Florida Business Aviation Association to Represent South Florida at State's First General Aviation Caucus
DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla., Oct. 12, 2015 - The South Florida Business Aviation Association (SFBAA) will represent South Florida at the state's first-ever General Aviation Caucus.
"The SFBAA proud to represent South Florida at the first General Aviation Caucus," said Jeff Ramsden, SFBAA president. "It's important that we do our part to help educate our legislators on the many benefits of business aviation to the state of Florida."
The Florida General Aviation Caucus will take place in Tallahassee on Thursday, October 22, 2015 from 11:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
General aviation represents a more than $7.7 billion dollar a year business for the state of Florida. The new General Aviation Caucus will create a forum in which this industry can promote the value of general aviation among Florida public officials.
The SFBAA, the Florida Aviation Business Association (FABA), the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), the Florida Airports Council (FAC) and others representing aviation in Florida will be attending the caucus.
South Florida Business Aviation Association Collecting Donations for Hurricane Victims
DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla., Oct. 8, 2015 - The South Florida Business Aviation Association (SFBAA) is collecting donations for the victims of Hurricane Joaquin.
"Both supplies and monetary donations are needed for our neighbors in the Bahamas that have been impacted by Hurricane Joaquin," said Jeff Ramsden, SFBAA president. "It is important to the SFBAA that we do our part to help our friends at Tropic Ocean Airways in their hurricane relief efforts."
Tropic Ocean Airways has been bringing relief items to the affected islands as soon as it was safe to fly there. To date, they have helped bring more than 30,000 pounds of supplies to the area.
For a complete list of items needed, instructions on how to donate and coverage of current relief efforts, visit Tropic Ocean's relief page at info.flytropic.com/relief.
Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport (FXE) announces the opening of a new U.S. Customs & Border Protection facility!
Start Date: Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 8:00 a.m.
Expanded hours: 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. (Local)
§ By land: 5301 East Perimeter Road, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33309
§ By air: Taxiway G7 (at the east end of Taxiway G)
Please see this flyer for more information.
FLL Runway Rubber Removal
FLL will be conducting rubber removal on Runway 10L/28R and Runway 10R/28L during the week of June 8th , 2015. Rubber removal will be conducted during the overnight hours.
Each runway will be closed, one at a time, for rubber removal, painting, other maintenance items. One runway will always remain open during the rubber removal process. The closure schedule is as follows:
Runway 10L/28R - Closure
June 8th, 9th, 10th, & 14th between the hours of 0001-0530.
Runway 10R/28L - Closure
June 11th, 12th , and 13th between the hours of 2230-0600.
If you have any questions or concerns feel free to contact John Pokryfke, Airside Operations Manager at FLL (954-359-1214).
FLL Runway News
Taxiway Lima and Taxiway Hotel at FLL are expected to open April 30th. Below is the new airport diagram that will be published in the April 30th edition of the FAA Airport Facility Directory. Please share this with your Pilots, Flight Operations Departments, and FBOs.
FLL Airport Diagram 4-30-15.pdf
The FLL Airport has also asked that we share this letter about the updated Volunteer User Program for Runway 10R/28L. Please see the pdf below.
Aircraft Operators Voluntary User Program Rwy 10R-28L-1.pdf


Emojwi was a sociaw appwication for iOS and Android. Usernames couwd contain onwy emoji and users couwd onwy communicate using emoji widin de app.
Tom Scott and Matt Gray were inspired to create de app after seeing de success of Yo and de rewease of emoji characters by de Unicode Consortium. During a tawk at Ewectromagnetic Fiewd Festivaw, de devewopers commented dat de app originated wargewy as a joke, but dat by de time of waunch 70,000 uniqwe usernames had been reserved. The app was waunched on 29 August 2014. After press coverage de devewopers began receiving offers for venture capitaw.
Due to de cost and effort of maintaining de appwication, de devewopers cwosed de app on 30 Juwy 2015.
^ Tweedie, Steven (29 August 2014). "You Can Now Try Out The Ridicuwous Emoji-Onwy Messaging App, Emojwi". Business Insider. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
^ a b Sowa, Katie (29 August 2014). "Emoji-onwy App Debuts, Nixes Words for Tiny Pictures". Mashabwe. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
^ Stampwer, Laura (1 Juwy 2014). "New, Totawwy Inevitabwe Sociaw Network Wiww Let Users Communicate Onwy Via Emoji". Time.com. Time. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
^ Gray, Sarah (2 Juwy 2014). "An emoji-onwy sociaw network: Ridicuwous ... or briwwiant?". Sawon. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
^ Sowon, Owivia (30 June 2014). "Emoji-onwy sociaw network Emojwi is de new Yo". wired.co.uk. Wired UK. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
^ a b Turk, Victoria (1 September 2014). "The Creators of Emojwi: 'Don't Buiwd an App'". Moderboard. Vice.
^ Scott, Tom; Gray, Matt (3 December 2015). "The End of Emojwi: The Post-Mortem - Youtube". Retrieved 2015-12-12.
^ @Emojwi (10 June 2015). "Emojwi is cwosing on 30f Juwy. For more info and to downwoad your owd messages, pwease visit emoj.wi ; dank you and goodbye!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
^ Scott, Tom; Gray, Matt (30 August 2014). "Emojwi: Behind de Scenes and Why You Shouwd Never Buiwd An App". YouTube.
^ "Emojwi on Twitter: "Our Android app is avaiwabwe! It shouwd work on most recent devices."". Twitter. 30 January 2015.
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Q: Does Java run anything for System.out.println(...) when there is no console? Does Java run any code for System.out.println(...) when I run the program in a console-less GUI? (where I don't redirect the program output to anywhere)
In fact I'd like to know if System.out.println(...) can affect the program performance when it is run by clicking the jar file.
Consider that I print thousands of lines per minute.

A: The way Java deals with calls, there probably will be significant impact if you println something that's not a simple string.
For example,
System.out.println("Iteration " + i);

creates a StringBuilder, converts an int and copies a bunch of characters before it can even decide that there is nothing behind System.out.

A: Let me put it this way.
If you were to execute you program from another program, then you would be able to read the stdout of your program, so yes, there is always something sent to stdout even if nothing is "listening"
From experience, we found there was an improvement in performance (under windows), if redirected the stdout and stderr thur a null stream (which consumed the streams), but we were dealing with a lot of output not just from our program but also the RMI server we were communicating with

A: you are writing to standard out, if there is no listener for that stream then no worries.

A: By looking here it looks like that multiple method calls are done inside println before any check on whether or not someone is listening the streaming.
THEN:
For this purpose I'd prefer to create a Debug class with a print method as I'm totally sure that it doesn't affect performance:
public class Debug {
    public static boolean debug = true;
    public static int debLev = 5;

    public static void print(String stringa){
        if(debug)
            System.out.println(stringa);
    }

    public static void print(String stringa, int level){
        if(debug && level >= debLev){
            System.out.println(stringa);
        }
    }
}

In this way you can disable printing and also you can filter debug printing by severity.

A: theoretically yes, It can affect performance since it is in fact a method call and method calls use minute amounts of processing power. However on a modern computer It will have no affect to general performance, In fact most modern programs/games use println's to debug their program even in real releases. I would leave them there if they are a necessity.

A: See the docs on Out here:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/System.html#out

Even if there isn't an listener on the out stream you're still going to have overhead from the calls.  Your performance effects will depend largely on the amount of this your doing.  If there is a listener, then you're going to see much higher performance impact.
TLDR:  The compiler isn't going to remove the system.out.println call, so you'll see some marginal performance hit.

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Continuing the momentum it has built throughout this year, Boeing Business Jets today announced it has received five additional airplane orders, increasing its total orders to 25. The announcement...
EVA Air Adds to MD-11 Freighter Fleet
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Super Hornet Enters Production
Production workers at Boeing in St. Louis prepare to install the first part in the forward fuselage and nose of the first production F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. The Super Hornet is the nation's...
F/A-18E/F Super Hornet Enters Production at Boeing
The nation's newest tactical fighter -- the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet -- moved one step closer to entering service with the U.S. Navy today. Boeing employees gathered in St. Louis to celebrate the...
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PrivatAir, a charter operator of executive jet airplanes, based in Geneva, Switzerland has ordered two Boeing Business Jets (BBJ) with options to purchase two additional airplanes. The orders are...
Super Hornet Production Begins on Schedule
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Boeing Schedules Launch of IRIDIUM Satellites for September 26
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British Pilots set a Speed Record for Around the World Helicopter Flight
Two British pilots flying a 16-year-old Boeing MD 500D helicopter have set a speed record for flying around the world, knocking four days off the previous record. The pair, Stephen Good and...
Boeing News Release
Boeing's current model 737s, Next-Generation 737s and record-breaking 777 have captured the top eight out-of-10 spots in Airfinance Journal's prestigious annual Investors' and Operators' poll. The...
Combined Chambers To Hear Report On Sea Launch Program
The combined Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, and Long Beach Chambers of Commerce will hear a report on the Sea Launch program on Wednesday, Sept. 24, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Long Beach Hilton, Two...
easyJet Orders 12 Boeing 737s
easyJet Airlines has ordered 12 Boeing 737-300s, Boeing Commercial Airplane Group confirmed today. Deliveries to the Luton, England-based airline begin in mid 1998 and continue through 1999. This...
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Second Production Representative Osprey Flown to U.S. Navy Test Center
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Boeing Australia To Relocate To Brisbane
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Bright Stars and Dark Clouds
Credit: Anglo-Australian Telescope photograph by David Malin
Copyright: Anglo-Australian Telescope Board
Explanation: Did you ever feel like a black cloud was following you around? Well don't feel bad - this even happened to the bright young stars of the open cluster NGC 6520. On the left are the cluster's bright blue stars. They formed only millions of years ago - much more recently than our ancient Sun which formed billions of years ago. On the right is an absorption nebula from which the stars might have formed. This nebula contains much opaque dust which blocks visible light from the many stars that would have been seen in the background. The study of open clusters is valuable for many reasons which include the understanding star formation and the calibration of the distance scale of our universe.
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Q: How to Display A Text / Message in Web Page Using ASP.NET In My web page In a portion i want to display a text/message and that text/message has to change after 15 seconds and it has to replaced with another text/message in the same portion. I Created this web application using ASP.NET.
In above Image I want to Display the Text/Message. How can i do ?
ASPX :

    <marquee behavior="scroll" scrollamount="3" direction="left" width="1000">ghdkj              * hchjsdgfhgflghl         * yuftwefrweirgeweko</marquee>

A: *

*Create UpdatePanel.

*Create a Label inside UpdatePanel.

A: JS

HTML

Here is a working Fiddle
If you want it for 15 second, just change the value from 1000 to 15000


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Q: How to select two SUMs from one table but one SUM must be made from only max. data I have this table
Room       Papers    Pens
1           30        30
3           10        10
4           15        15
4           35        25
3           25        5
2           15        45
2           5         15
4           7         8
4           11        9
4           12        11
1           8         8

I need to get SUM(Papers) for Rooms 2,4 which I know how to get (it will be together 100) but then I need also get in this query SUM(Pens) also for Rooms 2,4 BUT only for highest value for each Room. It will be for Room 2 value 45 and for Room 4 value 25 in this table and SUM must be 70.
I have used this code but ofcourse it is not working correct for Pens value...
SELECT SUM(Papers) AS Papers, SUM(DISTINCT Pens) AS Pens FROM MyTable
WHERE (Room = '2' OR Room = '4')

THX for help

A: You can do it with conditional aggregation:
SELECT
  SUM(Papers) AS Papers,
  SUM(
    CASE
      WHEN EXISTS (
        SELECT 1 FROM MyTable
        WHERE Room = m.Room AND Pens > m.Pens
      ) THEN 0
      ELSE Pens
    END
  ) AS Pens
  FROM MyTable m
WHERE (Room = '2' OR Room = '4')


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Walmart in the Global South
[Antonio Stecher avisa de este nuevo libro]
Walmart in the Global South. Workplace Culture, Labor Politics, and Supply Chains. Edited by Carolina Bank Muñoz, Bridget Kenny,and Antonio Stecher. University of Texas Press.
"As the largest private employer in the world, Walmart dominates media and academic debate about the global expansion of transnational retail corporations and the working conditions in retail operations and across the supply chain. Yet far from being a monolithic force conquering the world, Walmart must confront and adapt to diverse policies and practices pertaining to regulation, economy, history, union organization, preexisting labor cultures, and civil society in every country into which it enters. This transnational aspect of the Walmart story, including the diversity and flexibility of its strategies and practices outside the United States, is mostly unreported.
Walmart in the Global South presents empirical case studies of Walmart's labor practices and supply chain operations in a number of countries, including Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Nicaragua, Mexico, South Africa, and Thailand. It assesses the similarities and differences in Walmart's acceptance into varying national contexts, which reveals when and how state regulation and politics have served to redirect company practice and to what effect. Regulatory context, state politics, trade unions, local cultures, and global labor solidarity emerge as vectors with very different force around the world. The volume's contributors show how and why foreign workers have successfully, though not uniformly, driven changes in Walmart's corporate culture. This makes Walmart in the Global South a practical guide for organizations that promote social justice and engage in worker struggles, including unions, worker centers, and other nonprofit entities."
https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/bank-munoz-kenny-stecher-walmart-in-the-global-south
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Feb. 16 -- The Pakistani government, desperate to restore peace to a Taliban-infested valley once known as the "Switzerland of Pakistan," agreed Monday to enforce strict Islamic law in the surrounding district near the Afghan border, conceding to a long-standing demand by local Islamist leaders who in turn pledged to ask the fighters to lay down their arms.
In announcing the agreement, Pakistani officials asserted that the adoption of sharia law would bring swift and fair justice to the Swat Valley, where people have long complained of legal corruption and delays. They said the new system would have "nothing in common" with the draconian rule of the Taliban militia that ran Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, during which thieves' hands were amputated and adulterers were stoned to death.
"There was a vacuum . . . in the legal system. The people demanded this and they deserve it," said Amir Haider Khan Hoti, chief minister of the North-West Frontier Province. The new system will include an appeals process, something the Afghan Taliban justice system did not allow for.
Militant leaders in the scenic Swat Valley, in a gesture of good faith, said they would observe a 10-day cease-fire while the new system is implemented. The Pakistani army said it would suspend operations in the area, and there were anecdotal reports of celebratory gunfire and of crowds returning to once-deserted streets.
But Pakistani critics blasted the deal as a dangerous concession to extremist insurgents who have terrified inhabitants of the valley for months, sending thousands fleeing to safer areas. They have bombed girls' schools, beheaded policemen, whipped criminals in public squares and assassinated activists from the secular Awami National Party that governs the North-West Frontier Province.
The critics expressed fear that this victory might spur the insurgents to push harder for the imposition of Islamic law in other areas, taking advantage of a promise by the Pakistani army to pull back from the surrounding area if peace is restored.
The new special U.S. envoy to the region, Richard C. Holbrooke, underscored American concerns Monday when he said the insurgent takeover of Swat, once a popular tourist destination, had shown that "India, the U.S. and Pakistan all have a common threat now." In New Delhi, Holbrooke said he had spoken to people from Swat during his recent visit to Pakistan and found them "frankly quite terrified."
As Pakistani officials were defending their decision to negotiate with the insurgents, a U.S. missile attack by an unmanned aircraft on a suspected insurgent camp killed more than 30 people in the nearby tribal area of Kurram. The second such attack in three days, it came amid increasing protests by opposition groups that the government is sacrificing Pakistani lives and sovereignty to U.S. strategic interests.
President Asif Ali Zardari said Friday that there was "no alternative" but to use force against the insurgents, and his government is widely believed to accept the controversial drone attacks. Yet Zardari, after some initial hesitation and wording changes, also approved the new sharia plan for Malakand Agency, the large district in the North-West Frontier Province that includes Swat.
Pakistan's information minister, Sherry Rehman, rejected suggestions that the Malakand accord was a concession to the insurgents, saying it is "in no way a sign of the state's weakness." In a statement issued Monday night from Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, she said Zardari will implement sharia law "after the restoration of peace in the region."
Leaders of the Awami National Party here said they also supported the agreement even though their own views are more secular and they have been targeted by insurgent attacks. They said the government does not have sufficient force to defeat the Taliban and foreign fighters based in the autonomous tribal areas along the Afghan border. So, they said, it needs to negotiate with local militant groups in nearby areas such as Swat to isolate the renegade hard-liners in the tribal sanctuaries.
"I have agreed to put my personal hardships behind me for the sake of peace," said Wajid Ali Khan, a provincial official from Swat who said that he was put on a Taliban hit list and that his brother was assassinated because of his Awami affiliation. "We have addressed the core issue, which was Nizam-e-Adl [sharia law system], so now the fighting and other activities should stop."
But deals with Islamist groups in Pakistan have a history of failure, and this one has several weaknesses. It was not signed by any Swat insurgents but by an older insurgent leader, Sufi Mohammad, who must now persuade the younger and more firebrand fighters to disarm. Mohammad led an armed uprising in Swat in 1994 to bring in sharia rule, but it failed and he was imprisoned for several years, allowing his more radical son-in-law to take over the movement.
After a day-long meeting Monday that led to the announcement of a deal, one senior member of the local sharia movement named Mohammed Iqbal, wearing a long beard and large turban, said the group was satisfied and would soon set out to speak to the Swat fighters. "When sharia is implemented, there will be peace, not only in Malakand but all over the world," Iqbal said.


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Skye MSP hails new funding to help tourism pressure points
The constituency MSP for Skye has welcomed new funding which will help resolve tourism infrastructure pressures at some of the most popular hotspots on the island.
Earlier today (26 February) it was announced that the Fairy Pools and the Quirang, both considered to be iconic attractions, will receive funding that will go towards improving car parking provision before the peak summer tourist season.
The Quirang will receive £100,000 from the Scottish Government Rural Payments and Inspections Directorate, and the Fairy Pools £200,000 from LEADER.
A new car park will be created for the Quirang, 5km west of Staffin on the Trotternish peninsula, which will have 60 spaces and several additional places for small coaches and motorhomes.
Last summer vehicles were parked on verges and in some cases on croft land, as the roads struggled to cope with the high influx of visitors.
At the Fairy Pools, which receives well in excess of 100,000 visitors-a-year, there are plans to expand the existing 35-space car park to accommodate over 100 cars and approximately 20 mini-buses and campervans. Again, there were lengthy tailbacks and parking issues at the site last year.
The news was welcomed by Kate Forbes MSP, who last year hosted a successful visit to the island from Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for Tourism.
The Skye MSP also organised and led two well-attended tourism summits with local businesses, community groups and tourism organisations, which looked at tourism-related problems and potential solutions.
Speaking today (26 February), Kate Forbes MSP said: "This is a significant step forward for Skye.
"After many meetings and announcements, I am pleased that we are finally seeing tangible funding to improve parking at the Fairy Pools and the Quirang.
"I know that warm words and sympathy actually achieve nothing on the ground, but cold, hard cash will develop additional parking, improve the visitor experience and make it easier for locals.
"Last summer, local people raised their frustrations with me about the infrastructure on the island.
"I have worked hard to try and secure funding, support and plans for Skye's future, and the Rural Tourist Infrastructure Fund was the result of that effort.
"This was followed by the Cabinet Secretary's visit to Skye and the launch of the task force.
"We are finally seeing the results of the hard work by local community members, government officials and others who have been working behind the scenes to release funding to various sites in Skye which found the numbers of tourists particularly challenging.
"I am hopeful that this is not the last release of funding for tourist sites in Skye either, and I will continue to lobby on behalf of Skye locals to ensure there is additional funding to complete the Fairy Pools projects and to invest in other sites on Skye."
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Abortion update: the insantiy revisited
March 14, 2006 in Abortion
Since my initial three posts about abortion (Intro, "It's all about the sex," and "The woman thing") I found a number of breaking news items and links that only underscore the tendencies and philosophy of the radical religious fundamentalism that drives the issue.
In this week's New Yorker, Michael Specter has written an article about the Bush administration's hostility towards science. In this Q&A, Specter notes that Bush's religious views conflict with scientific findings. There's nothing really new or surprising in the interview, but it does bear reminding how hostile to science Bush is, especially when scientific findings cross religious belief. Here are a few nuggets:
The Administration simply doesn't seem to rely on the advice of scientists on a wide range of issues: climate change, pollution, and biomedical research, for example. Previous Administrations have taken science as an area that is above the political fray—this one does not seem to operate that way.
…the Administration—and many of its allies among conservatives and the religious right—places far more emphasis on abstinence than on teaching children other methods of birth control and protection against sexually transmitted diseases.
It's not so easy to disentangle the Administration and the Christian right. The President is an evangelical Christian and so are many people in his Administration.
In another note, many conservatives frame feminism in terms different than what it actually means (via Dictionary.com): "belief in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes." Feminism has come to mean different things to the right: a movement to undermine family, neuter men, and impose a rigid dictatorial thought on debate. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. Women simply want to be treated seriously and have as much control over their lives as men.
But now the biggest threat to women's rights is a belief on the extreme right that feminists seek to "degrade" women by allowing them sexual freedom. Sexual freedom is necessarily part of women's liberation because traditional female roles center on the sexual dichotomy of slut/mother. To break that dichotomy, women need to redefine sex as it relates to gender.
And that's exactly what radical conservatives dislike. Take Harvard professor Harvey Mansfield in a 2005 speech:
According to Mansfield, this change in traditional society has grown out of women's desire to achieve success in the workplace and at home. In his lecture, entitled, "Feminism and The Autonomy of Women", the professor identified this problem as one arising from "radical feminism" which sought to "lower women to the level of men" in terms of sexual behavior.
Regarding that behavior, Mansfield wondered if "hook ups," which he initially referred to as "polymorphous promiscuity" are good for women.
"By the age of 30, you see men," he cautioned, "who are used to getting free samples" and will not enter into loyal, reliable relationships. Citing evolutionary biology research, Mansfield said that "men are interested in quantity, and women are interested in quality."
"Women play the men's game, which they are bound to lose. Without modesty, there is no romance—it isn't so attractive or so erotic," said the professor.
Tracing the roots of "radical feminism" to the writings of the 20th-century French writer Simon De Beauvoir, Mansfield argued that the questions and confusion facing feminists arise from their attempt at achieving "autonomy" and asserting that "men and women have no distinct nature."
Of course, what's really happening is that self-reliant and sexually liberated women defy Mansfield's fantasies where women are passive vessels of a man's aggressive sexuality. Sexual women refuse to be the passive, controlled sexual objects of men. Mansfield underscored this in a recent interview with the New York Times Magazine:
We need roles. Roles give us mutual expectations of what is either correct or good behavior. Women are neater than men, they make nests, and all these other stereotypes are mostly true. Wives and mothers correct you; they hold you to a standard; they want to make you better.
This statement so startled the interviewer, Deborah Solomon, she replied, "I am beginning to wonder if you have ever spoken to a woman. Your ideas are so Victorian." Quite.
The final bit comes via the Missouri legislature, where conservative lawmakers are planning on "a wide range of social legislation designed to rein in sex and unshackle the Bible."
From new limits on sex education classes to penalties for living in sin, the proposed laws would remake Missouri's public life in myriad ways. They would sanction prayer in public schools, subsidize religious schools and allow the Bible to be taught in school.
One bill purports to help women make "the transition from work to home." Another wants the legislature to recognize "a Christian God" as the deity for most Missourians.
Rep. Cynthia Davis, an O'Fallon Republican and sponsor of several bills, said conservatives are tired of an overly permissive society in which high school students are taught how to use condoms.
Other bills would:
■ Deny alimony to ex-spouses who live with a boyfriend or girlfriend.
■ Ban all abortions.
■ Provide tax credits for contributions that help kids in lousy school districts to attend private schools.
■ Propose a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to pray in schools and on other public property.
■ Allow pharmacists, insurance companies, doctors and hospitals to deny treatment if the procedure or medication offends their moral values.
■ Propose a constitutional amendment to allow the Ten Commandments to be displayed on public property.
Missouri jackass does a much better job of trashing the bill than I ever could, but it's important to note that the punishments doled out by the bill affect women disproportionately. The bills seek to push women back into the home, re-establish their role as homemaker and mother, and punish them for engaging in sexual activity or divorce.
Cutting-edge Billings plan to end chronic homelessness
March 14, 2006 in Montana politics
I admit I was surprised to see a Bush appointee advocate a cutting-edge plan that would actually help the chronically homeless.
The solution Mangano has been recommending is giving the chronically homeless a place to live, and providing them with a full-time case manager who makes sure that clients are eating right, staying on medications, looking for work and so on.
Spending so much on the chronically homeless is actually cost-effective. Without a place to live and constant supervision, these homeless tend to rack up medical bills in excess of a million dollars over the course of a lifetime. While the plan doesn't rehability the homeless, giving them an apartment and personal case worker keeps the visits to the emergency room to a minimum.
Does this argument look familiar? It should. It was the same homeless plan advocated by Malcolm Gladwell in a February issue of The New Yorker, "Million-Dollar Murray." According to Gladwell:
Homelessness doesn't have a normal distribution, it turned out. It has a power-law distribution. "We found that eighty per cent of the homeless were in and out really quickly," [researcher Dennis Culhane] said. "In Philadelphia, the most common length of time that someone is homeless is one day. And the second most common length is two days. And they never come back. Anyone who ever has to stay in a shelter involuntarily knows that all you think about is how to make sure you never come back."
The next ten per cent were what Culhane calls episodic users. They would come for three weeks at a time, and return periodically, particularly in the winter. They were quite young, and they were often heavy drug users.
It was the last ten per cent—the group at the farthest edge of the curve—that interested Culhane the most. They were the chronically homeless, who lived in the shelters, sometimes for years at a time. They were older. Many were mentally ill or physically disabled, and when we think about homelessness as a social problem—the people sleeping on the sidewalk, aggressively panhandling, lying drunk in doorways, huddled on subway grates and under bridges—it's this group that we have in mind. In the early nineteen-nineties, Culhane's database suggested that New York City had a quarter of a million people who were homeless at some point in the previous half decade —which was a surprisingly high number. But only about twenty-five hundred were chronically homeless.
Furthermore, Culhane tracked these 2,500 chronically homeless and discovered they cost the city of New York $62 million a year to shelter. In Boston, a group tracked the medical expenses of 119 chronically homeless.
In the course of five years, thirty-three people died and seven more were sent to nursing homes, and the group still accounted for 18,834 emergency-room visits—at a minimum cost of a thousand dollars a visit.
In pilot programs, cities gave these chronically homeless an apartment and case worker. There were problems. (One Denver man invited his friends home to regularly trash his apartment.) But the biggest problem with the program is its guiding priciple: unlike current homeless care, "power-law" homeless policy creates dependency on the system. And not only that, it's not fair.
There isn't enough money to go around, and to try to help everyone a little bit—to observe the principle of universality—isn't as cost-effective as helping a few people a lot. Being fair, in this case, means providing shelters and soup kitchens, and shelters and soup kitchens don't solve the problem of homelessness. Our usual moral intuitions are little use, then, when it comes to a few hard cases. Power-law problems leave us with an unpleasant choice. We can be true to our principles or we can fix the problem. We cannot do both.
Ultimately the plan may never work. Not because it's not based on sound policy, but because both ends of the political spectrum find it distasteful:
Power-law solutions have little appeal to the right, because they involve special treatment for people who do not deserve special treatment; and they have little appeal to the left, because their emphasis on efficiency over fairness suggests the cold number-crunching of Chicago-school cost-benefit analysis.
In the end I agree with Gladwell that this may be a chance to end homelessness as we know it. While I agree that it doesn't solve poverty, the homeless families living out of cars, the too-low wages for working-class people, it will solve up a problem and free monies for other programs.
Uh oh. Looks like the UAE and other Middle Eastern governments have us over a barrel. And I don't mean oil.
The pitch that will change baseball, the mysterious "gyroball".
I'm not the only one who thinks Democrats are missing an opportunity by remaining silent on abortion.
Missouri Jackass on the "See what happens when you elect radical conservatives?" bill.
Feingold: Senate Democrats "cowering." Right as rain, Russ.
Annie Proulx on the Oscars. She wasn't too happy to see Crash win…
Washington Republican becomes Democrat: "I realize the far right has complete control of my party…"
A conservative Pennsylvanian pens a racist editorial – Jesus' General responds.


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"Something really disastrous happening in the Gulf": Research proves BP's dispersant made things much, much worse
In Main, Ocean Life, Research, Response
There's an old saying in legal circles that the cover-up is always much worse than the initial crime. It's hard to say if that is exactly true with the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 — after all, the initial explosion killed 11 workers and caused roughly 5 million barrels of oil to spew into the rich marine environment. But the core of the ensuing cover-up carried out by BP with the blessing of the federal government — the massive, unprecedented spraying of a toxic chemical called Corexit in the hope that pushing the oil out of sight would also put it out of mind — was a catastrophe in and of itself.
Never before had so much dispersant — some 1.8 million gallons — been deployed, and never was so much sprayed at the bottom of the sea floor, where its impact has never been studied. Immediately, clean-up and recovery workers blamed the dispersant for an array of illnesses, while researchers speculated that so much Corexit in the food chain could have major impact on marine life — and the seafood that you eat.
Recently, scientists in Alabama came up with a new protocol for studying how the dispersant deployed after the BP spill may have affected the food chain in the Gulf. They pumped water from the area near Mobile into 53-gallon drums, them compared the results between control barrels and barrels with dispersant in roughly the proportions sprayed in 2010. Their findings are disturbing.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A study on possible effects of the 2010 BP oil spill indicates dispersants may have killed plankton — some of the ocean's tiniest plants and creatures — and disrupted the food chain in the Gulf of Mexico, one of the nation's richest seafood grounds.
Here's what they discovered:
The researchers found that, within days, the numbers of plant-like phytoplankton and ciliates — plankton that use hairlike cilia to move — increased under an oil slick. But they dropped significantly in the drums with dispersant or dispersed oil, while the numbers of bacteria increased. The study was published Tuesday in PLoS ONE, one of the peer-reviewed journals in the online Public Library of Science.
"In those tanks, all of the energy seems to get trapped in the bacterial side. There were lots of bacteria left but no bigger things. It's like the middle part of the food web is taken away," said lead researcher Alice Ortmann of the University of South Alabama and Dauphin Island Sea Lab.
Microbes are too small for fish to eat. Ciliates, on the other hand, "graze" on microbes. Phytoplankton and cilates both get eaten by larger zooplankton, which are fodder for tiny crustaceans that, in turn, get eaten by small fish.
Brian Crother, a biology professor at Southeastern Louisiana University, called the findings scary, though limited because the experiments spanned only five days. "If these guys are on the money, they have pointed to something really disastrous happening in the Gulf," he said.
The significance of their research can't be understated. This damage to the plankton could harm the food chain in ways that won't show up for years. Indeed, the researchers noted that some fish species fared well in 2010, immediately after the spill, but this research suggests that the worst may be yet to come. Experts quoted in the article noted that the herring population in Alaska's Prince William Sound, which had been flourishing in the late 1980s before the massive Exxon Valdez tanker spill, collapsed not right after the accident but four years later.
Remember, it's only been two years since BP's fiasco in the Gulf. That's turned out to be plenty of time for BP to spending millions of dollars on ads telling tourists to come back to the Gulf and to serve as a "sustainability partner" of the 2012 Olympics in London. But that's the fairy tale world of hype.
In the reality-based world of science, the worst is yet to come.
To read a report on the scientific experiments with the dispersants used in the Gulf, please read: http://www.chron.com/news/article/Study-Dispersants-may-have-hurt-Gulf-food-chain-3751059.php
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