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Lebanon Frees two Political Prisoners Repatriated from Syria
Lebanese authorities freed Tuesday two of the 54 political prisoners repatriated last week from Syria, bringing the total number of releases to 31, judicial sources said.
The two freed men, a Lebanese and a Palestinian, had been arrested by the Syrian authorities on charges of spying for Israel, the source said.
According to Lebanese law, the government is to re-evaluate the cases of all repatriated prisoners. If sentences are upheld, the prisoners will serve their remaining prison time in Lebanon.
Lebanon released a first group of 11 political prisoners last Friday, and 18 more over the weekend. These men had been arrested on charges of spying for Israel, attacking Syrian troops deployed in Lebanon, smuggling drugs and cigarettes as well as belonging to outlawed armed groups.
On December 11, 46 Lebanese and eight Palestinians who carry Lebanese travel documents were repatriated by Syria after heated criticism over the secret detention of Lebanese citizens.
Lebanese President Emile Lahoud said Friday the government would reopen the files on Lebanese who disappeared during the country's 1975-1990 civil war after many Lebanese continued to claim that lost family members were being held by Syria -- BEIRUT (AFP)
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'First Avenue:' Yarmouth plan would remake Route 1
YARMOUTH — With ambitious zoning changes on the horizon, the town could be going back in time for future development, restoring the Route 1 corridor to its historic roots.
At least that is the vision developed by town residents, officials and planners through a five-day planning session called Planapalooza, held late last month.
The new master plan, which includes a dramatic shift in zoning code, is pedestrian-focused and envisions the removal of two Route 1 overpasses, slowing down the highway into what would be called "First Avenue."
Town Planner Vanessa Farr said these changes are meant to respect the town's identity and "civilize" the Route 1 corridor.
"This plan is meant to extract local character from Yarmouth and to write that into the code to make sure that what we build looks and feels appropriate to Yarmouth," she said.
First Avenue would be a more bicycle- and pedestrian-friendly roadway. The plan would slow vehicle traffic and make storefronts more accessible by pushing parking lots to the back of the buildings, and create distinct bicycle lanes. This design is intended to allow pedestrians to have better access to the businesses and make the town easier to walk, Farr said.
The multi-day planning session, attended by more than 100 residents, was the public hearing for the zoning changes. The Town Council now has to approve the new administrative code and master plan for the Route 1 corridor, which should be written by the end of October, Farr said.
Sarah Witte, a Yarmouth resident and landscape architect, said she was impressed with how the consultants worked and believes the new code reflects a shift in planning design seen in communities across the country.
"Fifteen to 20 years ago, we started waking up to suburban sprawl," Witte said. "Maine was beginning to wake up and say we don't want to have our communities overwhelmed by sprawl development. We want to protect and preserve what's important to Maine."
She said this new code reflects that and has seen a shift in how people understand density.
"Density used to be a bad word," Witte said. "But now we've come to realize those types of communities are the ones people want to live in."
Another significant change to the town's zoning code coming out of the session is a code more focused on form of development and less focused on use, with buildings that are designed to respect the town's character in outside appearance, with less of a focus on the operation inside, Farr said.
"The difference in the proposed code is that it's just not use driven. Use is important, but development standards have become the most important," she said. "As long as they stay within the box, then it doesn't matter as much what happens inside the box."
With the new code, doctors offices, day cares, boutiques and cafes could all share the same area, as opposed to the current zoning code, which restricts certain types of use to specific areas.
In addition to the zoning changes, the review process will also be consolidated, Farr said.
"Instead of land owners having to go through Planning Board process for development, it's all administrative," she said. "Everything you will need to build will be found on one, 11-by-17 sheet of paper."
Town Council Chairman Steve Woods said revamping Route 1 is an important idea for the future of Yarmouth, but it comes with significant hurdles.
"It may take 10 or 20 years, but I think the first step is giving it a thoughtful look," he said. "There's a huge challenge between the theory of what could happen and the reality, which I fear has to do with economics."
Although the appearance of the town following the new zoning code could closely resemble Freeport's Main Street, Woods said he thinks the town will be able to maintain Yarmouth's character.
"No one wants Yarmouth to turn into Freeport," he said.
The planning session was stewarded by the Gardiner-based consulting firm Town Planning & Urban Design Collaborative. The total cost was $50,000 and included all design work and writing of zoning code, plus the cost of a new permitting process. The funding for the project is from the town's economic development fund.
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AMG has been around since 1967 – we bet you didn’t know that – and its success story is amazingly interesting, mostly due to the immediate success it had. The AMG project actually began as a side job for Hans-Werner Aufrecht and Erhard Melcher. The two gained notoriety by modifying the 300 SE’s engine into quite the racer, by installing direct fuel injection back in the mid-1960s.
In 1967, Aufrecht and Melcher left Benz-Daimler and started AMG in a small workshop in a barn. The real success came in the 1970s when AMG developed a 300 SEL 6.8 like no one had ever seen before. It was tuned up to 320 ponies at 4,750 rpm and 541 Nm (399 pound-feet) of torque at 3,500. This allowed the heavy 300 SEL to hit 100 km/h (62 mph) in just 6.5 seconds, and easily win its class at the 24-hour race in Spa Francorchamps and take a second place overall finish.
The history lesson that Mercedes-Benz gives us on the AMG brand is available online in its fullest and progresses through each decade and even gives us a look at what the future holds for AMG. It outlines the AMG E-Cell and talks about its racing future too, which continues to look rather promising.
So head on over to Mercedes-Benz’s site and have a look at the history of AMG. It’s a pretty easy read and is broken down into small, easy-to-understand sections. Happy B-day, AMG, we hope to see 45 more from you!
Carroll Shelby is and will always remain a legend in the automotive industry. He took skill, dedication, and a little bit of good luck to produce some of the most amazing muscle cars that will ever be produced, from the very first Shelby Mustang produced in 1965. What Shelby did to Ford’s new Mustang was transform it from a less-than-stellar pony car to a limited edition Shelby GT350 R
The Mustangs built for the 1965-1966 model years were powered by a K-Code 271 engine modified to produce 306 HP, but the GT350 was a car not built for comfort or ease of driving, so the right place for it was the race track. This decision lead Ford to Shelby for the development of the Shelby GT350 R for the SCCA races.
Shelby American only built 34 units of these GT350R models, even though the SCCA rules required a total of 100 units to be built and raced. However, during an SCCA race weekend, the GT 350R proved what an amazing car it was as it competed at the highest level.
Hit the jump to read more about the 1965 Shelby GT350 R. Full story
We pretty much just finished the Museum Secrets Part One video and Porsche has already graced us with part two of this awesome series. The Museum Secrets series is outlining the new storage facility for the Porsche Museum and also showing us a glimpse of some of the most awesome cars that pass through the museum.
Part One focused mainly on the storage facility and Porsche’s overall history, then showed us just one car, which was the first ever 911 Turbo. Part two, thankfully, focuses a lot more on the storage facilities contents – a ton of rare Porsches. The guys at Porsche outlined seven cars for us, some of which we never knew even existed.
The video’s pretty sweet and the cars are absolutely awesome, so check out the video. If you would like a quick peak at what’s in the video, click past the jump and you’ll see our quick summary on each car shown. Full story
About two weeks ago, rumors arose that Nissan would be offering just one generation for the GT-R, with no plans for a new model. However, today, the company has revealed a video that proves the contrary.
When talking about the race version of the GT-R, Chief GT-R engineer Kazutoshi Mizuno stated: "After the debut in 2007, this vehicle has been evolving year after year. By changing it to a racing specification to be implemented in the future, no matter what kind of super high performance feature or a new version is developed in the next five years, the durability and reliability in varying conditions can be verified in this race. I would like to make a promise that all this will be reflected in future GT-R."
That just proves that the newest rumors about the Nissan GTR aren’t something to toss out like yesterday’s garbage. Check out the video to see for yourself. Of course, in the process, you will also get a ton of information surrounding history of the GTR since its launch in 2007.
In the mid-1990s, Porsche unveiled the 911 GT1 - a race car specially developed for the GT1 class of sportscar racing. Despite being called a "911," the GT1 had very little in common with the 911: only the frontal chassis was shared with the 993 911, while almost every other element was borrowed from the Porsche 962, including the flat-six engine.
During its first appearance at the 1996 Le Mans, the GT1 walked away with a second and third overall finish, as well as first and second in class. Despite these finishes, Porsche still wanted more, so in 1997, they came up with the GT1 Evo - a model that featured aerodynamic tweaks to the bodywork and a revision of the suspension. These changes helped the GT1 score more victories, including a one-two finish at Le Mans in 1998, where it beat out teams from McLaren, Toyota, and Panoz.
Not willing to let the fun rest solely on the track, Porsche set out to make a street-legal version of the award-winning GT1, which is then dubbed the Porsche 911 GT1 Strassenversion. The model was limited to only 25 units and cost a cool $912,000.
Hit the jump to read more about the Porsche 911 GT1 Strassenversion. Full story
In the latest installment of our Car Infographics series, we have a very special image with all the information you could ever want about the Top Gear test track. This infographic takes an in depth at the fastest cars to have ever lapped the Lotus-designed test track, whose layout “is designed to push a car to its limit and really show the strengths and weaknesses of each car tested.”
Additionally, a number of awards help to conclude the informative infographic with the illustrious award of “Most Affordable Speed” going to the incredible Ariel Atom 2 which managed to lap the Top Gear test track in just 1:19.50 when it aired in Season 5, Episode 9.
Before you head over the jump to check out the infographic in detail, keep in mind that the initial illustration may take a bit of time to understand and may require flipping your computer screen upside down. It may even seem as if you’re trying to lick your shoulder when trying to read the upside down writing! Full story
The newest Ferrari in the Sherman Wolf estate that is up for auction at Pebble Beach on August 18th and 19th, 2012 is this 1985 Ferrari 288 GTO. The 288 GTO saw very limited production, as its models were only produced to allow homologation into FIA Group B Series. To get into this series, Ferrari had to build at least 200 models, but went a little further and created 272 examples.
FIA canceled the series, which resulted in the 288 GTO becoming a road car that was sold to the public. This 288 GTO example only has two previous owners, Wolf and Ronald Stern, and boasts just 6,000 miles. The body is coated in a bright red that looks like it just rolled off of the showroom floor, though there is no mention of a restoration.
Behind the driver sits a 2.8-liter V-8 engine that boasts a pair of IHI turbochargers and Weber-Mareli fuel injection. This engine pumps out 395 horsepower at 7,000 rpm and 366 pound-feet of torque at 3,800 rpm. From 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph), the 288 GTO takes only 4.8 seconds. Add on an additional 4.4 seconds and you are at 160 km/h (100 mph). It runs the 1/4-mile in just 12.7 seconds and has a top speed of 305 km/h (190 mph).
On the front and rear, you get independent double-wishbone suspensions with coil springs. In addition, you also get 225/50R16 high-performance tires on the front, 255/50R16 tires on the rear, and vented disc brakes all the way around.
Gooding & Company expects this Ferrari to pull in between $750,000 and $900,000 at auction.
Click past the jump to read the full press release.
The Ferrari California Spider alone is one of the most desirable Ferraris and sports cars in the world. This 250 GT LWB California Spider Competizione, which belonged to the late Sherman Wolf, is an even more desirable model, as it is one of nine examples that boast an all-alloy body and a long wheelbase. That rarity is something that will drive this car to between the $7 and $9 million mark.
This sample was actually the first Ferrari that the famed collector owned, and made its way to Wolf after first being owned by George Reed. Wolf also ran this Ferrari in the first ever Colorado Grand, just adding more to its storied history.
On the mechanical side, this 1960 Ferrari 250 GT LWB California Spider Competizione boasts full competition specifications. It has an outside plug motor that has TR heads resting on top of it, 4-wheel disc brakes, velocity stacks, and a ribbed gearbox to help keep it cool. The engine is a 2,953 cc V-12 with three Weber carbs mounted atop it and a 9.8-to-1 compression ratio. It punches out 280 horsepower at 7,000 rpm and 203 pound-feet of torque at 5,500 rpm.
The body is draped in a medium shade of red and was fully restored by Ferrari specialist, David Carte. The wheels are the factory-style wires and the headlights boast the full-racing covers to help add to the car’s aerodynamic look.
This 1960 Ferrari 250 GT LWB California Spider Competizione is being offered up at the Pebble Beach Auction on August 18th and 19th, 2012 by Gooding & Company. It is one of four Ferraris owned by the Wolf estate that are up for auction in Pebble Beach.
UPDATE 08/20/2012: The Ferrari 250 GT LWB California Spider Competizione has just set a record at Monterey for all-time high price. The classic, drop-top sports car was auctioned off for a whopping $11,275,000! Someone really wanted that car!
Click past the jump to read the full press release.
After we lost racing and general automotive legend, Carroll Shelby on May 10th, a squabble ensued over his remains. His estranged wife, Cleo, claimed that she had the rights to his remains and the documentation that his children had, which requested that he be cremated and his ashes split between his children and his burial plot in Texas, was forged.
According to reports, Shelby had filed for an annulment of the marriage, citing that his wife had lied about her background and even her name, just before he died. Unfortunately, the annulment was not awarded posthumously, so it appeared as if the only other way to settle the dispute was in court.
Fortunately, the two sides managed to keep the case out of court by coming to an agreement on Monday and Mr. Shelby’s body will be laid to rest in the way that he requested, except for one minor compromise. The minor compromise is the fact that his estranged wife gets part of his ashes.
We’re glad to hear that the issue is settled, though we would have preferred to see his wife completely cut out of it. The most important thing, however, is that the issue is done and this legend can now be laid to rest peacefully and his children can hold their heads high that their father was laid to rest in the way he requested, though his son Michael says that they are still not happy with the results.
About 15 months ago, Renault was neck-deep in an espionage case that involved three executives allegedly selling electric vehicle information to China and funneling money into illegal accounts. It later came out, following a French investigation into the firing of the three executives, that the executives were not involved in industrial espionage and that they were wrongfully terminated.
Renault found out exactly what crow tasted like, as they compensated the fired executives for lost salary and defamation, but apparently there was a little leftover crow, as 15 months after this all took place, the company’s COO, Patrick Pelata, has submitted his resignation. This isn’t the first time Paleta has submitted a resignation, as he entered one shortly after the case went sour, but Renault’s CEO, Carlos Ghosn, rejected the resignation. Renault accepted the resignation, but instead of outright losing Pelata, Renault placed him in an advisory role in the Nissan-Renault Alliance.
This time, however, the resignation will stick, as Renault has announced that effective August 16th, Paleta will step down from his post in the alliance. According to reports, there is no information on where Pelata will land, but we are certain he will find a new home, despite the false espionage case.
We’ll let you know where he ends up as soon as we find out.
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Selecting a World Bank President: The Resilience of a West-centric World
The unsurprising announcement that the Board of the World Bank had voted in favour of the American candidate, Jim Yong Kim, presents an opportune moment to reflect upon the soft power structures that shape global public policy in the early 21st century. It is necessary to draw a distinction between Mr Kim's substantive qualifications and the procedure by which he was selected.
Substantively, although lacking in either financial or diplomatic experience, Dr Kim is an interesting choice because of his lifelong dedication to improving the health of the very poor in the global South, as well as his training in medicine and PhD in anthropology. He has had extensive relevant experience on the ground, and in working with NGOs (he co-founded the widely admired Partners in Health) and in institutional settings (he directed the HIV/AIDs programme for the World Health Organisation) and has been president of Dartmouth University for the past three years, although hardly without controversy. It may be still wondered whether Dr Kim will understand sufficiently the economic dimensions of World Bank policy, and might have been more appropriately chosen to head an enhanced programme of the Bank on health and poverty. Overall, still, the substantive case for the appointment is relatively strong, although the two opposing candidates, both former finance ministers of developing countries, certainly had equally impressive substantive résumés.
The procedural criticisms of the appointment process are far more serious, and raise fundamental questions about the legitimacy of global institutions in the post-colonial period. It was not surprising that Dr Kim's two opponents, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigera and José Antonio Ocampo of Colombia, openly expressed their disgust with the process, complaining that the most qualified candidate had not been selected. Ms Okonjo-Iweala uttered a truism when she said that selecting the Bank president was not "open, transparent and merit-based". Mr Ocampo was more direct, saying, "[Y]ou know this thing is not really being decided on merit". On one level the vote was a foregone conclusion because Europe had bargained away their independence with respect to the Bank some months earlier so as to secure American support for Christine Lagarde's appointment as head of the IMF. In fact, there were feeble boasts made in Western circles that at least this time there were non-Western candidates for these positions.
Looked at more critically, given American responsibility for the global meltdown and recession going back to 2008 and the failed European efforts to solve the sovereign debt problems, and considering how well the leading emerging economies handled the crisis of the last several years, now would have been an ideal moment to acknowledge the globalisation of economic knowhow, and pick a non-Westerner to head the Bank. President Obama might even have restored some of his tarnished reputation as a visionary if he had gratuitously given up the informal prerogative enjoyed by the United States ever since the end of World War II, although those who preside over the erosion of imperial prerogatives are rarely appreciated at home for acknowledging changing realities, however compelling the case for change may be. It might not have been a political move in an election year, but at anytime would have not been appreciated by the likes of the Wall Street Journal.
The informal lock on Western domination of the Bretton Woods institutions continues without much challenge. It is reported that both China and India supported the selection of Dr Kim, apparently not wanting to alter expectations, and even Russia and Mexico voted for the American candidate. It seems that the geopolitical comfort level of the BRIC countries remains accommodationist in character, suggesting that decolonising the mind of the global South has a long way to go.
It would seem almost self-evident that the informal power/prestige sharing that might have appeared natural in 1945 should no longer govern behaviour more than 65 years later. As it is, despite broadening the G-8 to the G-20 with regard to some global economic issues, the governance of the world economy remains determinedly neoliberal and West-centric, and for this reason less than legitimate, especially when consideration is given to widening disparities of wealth and income within and between countries and the persistence of high levels of deep poverty and material deprivation.
The geopolitical passivity of the BRICs is not encouraging from the perspective either of the wellbeing of the peoples of the world or the prospects for global democracy. It is notable that such passivity is also evident in other policy domains: climate change, control of nuclear weaponry and even recourse to military intervention (the most that BRIC countries were able to do to express their opposition to the NATO intervention in Libya was to abstain when it came to the crucial March 2011 vote in the Security Council).
Undoubtedly, the most vivid institutional effort to achieve global reform that reflects the world we now live in rather than the one that existed at the end of World War II when most of the non-West was formally or informally under Western control, has been the struggle to broaden membership in the UN Security Council. It is scandalously anachronistic that the United Kingdom and France, at best secondary countries in the present global hierarchy, both hold permanent seats in the Security Council and enjoy a veto right, while countries such as Brazil, India, Nigeria, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Turkey compete for two-year terms that are shared with the other 189 members of the UN. It is not only a problem of representation for important states, but also the fact that there is no Muslim or Hindu majority state that is permanently represented. At least with the UN there is an excuse that the Charter prescribes that there must be total acquiescence in any change in the composition of the Security Council by all five of its permanent members, as well as two-thirds of the overall membership.
I suppose it is far too much to expect that France and the UK would accept a single rotating European permanent seat, and relinquish their dysfunctional separate membership on the Council. In the meantime, the UN System is largely frozen in time, and the world is deprived of a more legitimate global problem-solving capability that is desperately needed at this time.
It is important to move toward the achievement of global democracy for the sake of both global policymaking and the overall legitimacy of world order. To move away from violent geopolitics, acknowledging changes in the status of governments by reliance on soft power criteria leadership of international institutions has never been more useful. From this perspective the selection of Dr Kim, even if he lives up to his considerable potential for a turn toward global empathy, is one more lost opportunity.
Richard Falk is Albert G Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and Visiting Distinguished Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has authored and edited numerous publications spanning a period of five decades, most recently editing the volume International Law and the Third World: Reshaping Justice (Routledge, 2008).
He is currently serving his third year of a six-year term as a United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights.
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For some reason sitcoms still believe we need to be told when to laugh. To prove that the laugh track is completely useless and outdated, we took a funny show without one, put one in, and the results were surprising.
A laugh track actually made this funny scene in Arrested Development less funny. People with even a remote sense of humor can recognize a funny situation, and it really is an insult to intelligence to be encouraged and nudged by an artificial track to be told when to laugh. It serves as a crutch for shows that aren't funny enough on their own, as proven by YouTube videos where they take the laugh track out of sitcoms and you see just how boring (and creepy) the shows are.
So why didn't the laugh track die a (deservedly) swift death in the late 90s? Because no matter what there will be shows that aren't funny enough to stand on their own, with viewers that aren't smart enough to think on their own. (CBS and ABC, I'm looking in your direction!)
And just for reference, here's the original scene with no laugh track:
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Picturing the Past 21: Back to 'The Main'Posted Tuesday, August 11, 2009, at 10:25 AM
North Main Street in March 1959, looking south from the middle of its intersection with Madison and Elm Streets.
The crowd in the photo is gathered around a traffic accident, but there's a lot more going on here for today's viewer.
At far left is the traffic light, mounted on a short pole in the middle of the intersection, which a blog reader mentioned a while back. Looks like it has signs listing directions and mileage for other cities on the west and east sides.
Behind the traffic light is a small portion of the Firestone store which occupied the intersection for years; I'm thinking it was owned by Harry Alexander. Next is a neon sign advertising Bedford Court, which was actually located further out Madison Street (and which I think is still operating today as Bedford Motel). Miller's Restaurant occupies part of the building which later housed Western Auto into the 1980s or 1990s; looks like a Schlitz sign atop the main restaurant sign. Further down is a Pure service station.
Crossing North Main and moving from south to north, there's a "Used Cars" sign, then two buildings to the north is Segroves-Daniel-Gordon Realty & Auction, which appears to be in the recently-demolished building used earlier by Locke's Milk Bar and in more recent years by United Cities Gas and the Senior Citizens Center.
Next is Witt Motor Co. (see the Chrysler-Plymouth sign) and Glasscock Gulf.
I've split this photo into two portions to make each side larger and easier to see; look for photos 12 and 13 in the Picturing the Past photo gallery on this website.
Do you remember?
I received an e-mail last week from a blog reader who remembers growing up in Shelbyville in the middle 1950s and early 1960s - the exact period during which the above photo was made.
He remembers Gene Parks' furniture store (in the Holland Street building occupied today by a cab company) and adds:
"How about the sock hops at the old country club, in the basement near the bowling lanes? Or the LEMAC club at Central High? The Dixie Hotel, Mittwede Market, the original Dairy Queen on Madison St., Fly's Drug Store lunch counter, Swing's grocery located in an old trolley car, The drive in movie on Tullahoma highway, the original Pope's café, Or how about Race Horse Haynes, the teens' favorite policeman, Red Gibbs, a well respected highway patrolman killed in the line of duty? Rat Brantley, C. O. Jett, Ned Delk, Dr. Chambers, Miss Sarah Thomas and many others."
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David Melson is a copy editor and staff writer for the Times-Gazette.
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There is more breast exposed on the advertisements for Hollister clothing (and the promotional cards handed out for their sister-companies, A&F and Gilly Hicks) than the amount that a mother breastfeeding her child shows when nursing uncovered.
I mean, really. . .
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I find it insanely ironic that Hollister Co. staunchly declined to issue an apology to the nursing mom that one of their managers harassed – even after hundreds of moms staged a nationwide nurse-in to educate and encourage them to do so- when their own advertising displays breasts in a much more inappropriate way than when a mother nurses her child.
Many people make statements about breastfeeding in public being OK “if the mom is being discreet” or “if mom is using a cover” – but discussion about nursing with or without a cover is actually totally immaterial, ethically AND legally.
A mother has a biological and social responsibility to feed her child/children.
If a mother nurses her child, she is fulfilling this responsibility, utilizing the primary purpose of the female breast: lactation.
Law has been written to protect the human right of a child to nurse (and a mother to nurse her child) – in many states, a mother is entitled to breastfeed her child wherever she is authorized to be.
Laws say nothing about covering. . .
it’s not a mother’s ethical responsibility to cover. . .
nursing is normal. . .
. . . so where does this “It’s fine if you nurse in public, but make sure you cover up” idea COME from?
Sexualization of the Breast and Objectification of Women
The continual discussion of nursing in public comes down to one central issue: the fact that our culture sees the female breast as inherently and primarily sexual. The notion that feeding a child openly the way that God intends for us to feed children should be covered “out of respect” for others is one that has a firm base in the objectification of the female body and sexualization of the breast. It is a notion that I find to be incredibly disrespectful of women and of children.
No one would ask a bottle feeding mother to cover up- the only difference besides nutritional value and every other benefit is that nursing involves a woman’s breast. The issue is not with the woman, and it is not her responsibility to cover “out of respect” for others. The issue is with our culture and the fact that we have sexualized the breast to the point at which our culture places shame on women for doing what is best for their children and nursing them, covered or not.
Why It’s Hard for Our Culture
Our culture is socialized to view sexuality in television, movies, advertisements, and other media – sexuality and the objectification of men and women’s bodies is a cultural norm and a huge source of hypocrisy in our society. We walk past giant Victoria’s Secret posters in the mall without blinking an eye, but make negative, unsupportive, and sometimes just vulgar and inappropriate comments to nursing mothers because they are feeding their child from their breast. When we’re at the hair salon, we can discuss the need to go buy a push up bra so our cleavage will look good in our new shirt, but it’s taboo to talk about human milk.
The objection to nursing openly, without hiding the act of breastfeeding, is a societal issue, not an issue with the woman who breast feeds. We’re used to seeing breasts as sexual objects. It makes lots of people uncomfortable to see a woman nurse if they are uneducated or misinformed about lactation. But she does not ethically have any such responsibility to cover her nursling or her breast while nursing. Rather, our society has a responsibility to become educated about the PRIMARY function of the breast and correct the harmful stigma surrounding Breastfeeding, which begins with a disrespectful and patriarchal sexual view of the breast.
Covering: A Mother’s Choice, not a Mandate
When I participated in the Houston Galleria Hollister Nurse-In two weeks ago, I talked to quite a few women who said that they nursed their children and that nursing is good, but were adamant that a mother “has to use a cover.” One of the women tried vehemently to convince Aleta and I that a mother has a responsibility to cover in order to protect “children who might see.”
Obviously, Aleta and I were not convinced. We both have older children that see us nurse all the time, and we know that nursing is normal, and that it’s actually good for our public health for children TO see breastfeeding. But we had to allow the woman to leave the conversation without being able to gently convince her that this is so. So many people hold onto the belief that nursing should be covered, but since there is nothing wrong about nursing. . . there’s absolutely no reason to cover, unless it makes a mother feel more comfortable. Covering while nursing is a choice, not a mandate.
If a woman wants to cover because of her own comfort level, that is her choice. If a woman is comfortable nursing her child without a cover, that is also her choice, and should never be vilified nor shamed. A women ethically should not be expected to “cover up out of respect” Or “be discreet” Nursing is normal. That’s just the way it is!
How Educated are YOU about Nursing in Public?
Do you know your state’s breastfeeding law? If not, please take a moment to do your civic duty and find out!
What can YOU do to help normalize breastfeeding?
Can you think of some ways to help re-educate our culture on the true primary purpose of breasts?
How can YOU stand up for the rights of women and children?
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The economy's continuing struggles aren't just confounding ordinary Americans. They've also stumped the head of the Federal Reserve.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told reporters Wednesday that the central bank had been caught off guard by recent signs of deterioration in the economy. And he said the troubles could continue into next year.
"We don't have a precise read on why this slower pace of growth is persisting," Bernanke said. He said the weak housing market and problems in the banking system might be "more persistent than we thought."
It was the Fed chief's most explicit warning yet that the economy will face serious challenges next year. For several months, he had said the factors working against economic growth appeared to be "transitory."
The Fed cut its forecast for economic growth this year to a range of 2.7 percent to 2.9 percent from an April forecast of 3.1 percent to 3.3 percent. It also cut its forecast for next year to a range of 3.3 percent to 3.7 percent from an earlier 3.5 percent to 4.2 percent. The Fed also said unemployment would stay higher than it had expected earlier.
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In a policy statement issued at the end of a two-day meeting, the Fed blamed the worsening economic outlook in part on higher energy prices and the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, which slowed production of cars and other products.
But at a press conference afterward, the second of what the Fed says will be regular question-and-answer sessions with reporters, Bernanke conceded the economy's troubles are more puzzling and potentially more long-lasting than a pair of temporary shocks.
The Fed announcement, at 12:30 p.m., had little effect on the stock and bond markets. Bernanke began speaking at 2:15, and stocks started falling at about 2:30, when he acknowledged that some of the economy's problems could linger into next year. The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 80 points for the day.
The Fed's statement Wednesday stood in contrast to the Fed's more upbeat view when officials last met, eight weeks ago. At that time, the central bank said the job market was gradually improving.
Since then, the economic news has been gloomy. The government reported that the economy grew at an annual rate of only 1.8 percent in the first three months of the year. It isn't expected to grow much faster in the current quarter. The economy added 54,000 jobs in May, far fewer than in the previous two months. Consumer spending has weakened, too.
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The bad economic news is taking a political toll on President Barack Obama. For the first time this year, an Associated Press-GfK poll found that fewer than 50 percent of respondents believe Obama deserves re-election. Obama's overall approval rating fell to 52 percent in the new poll. It had risen as high as 60 percent after the U.S. raid last month in Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden.
The new Fed statement acknowledged a slowdown over the past two months. "They see the weakness," said Bruce McCain, chief investment strategist at Key Private Bank. "You can hear their concern about economic weakness despite their hope it is likely to be temporary."
The Fed stuck to its plan to bring an end this month to a program to help the economy by buying $600 billion in government bonds. The Fed also intends to keep short-term interest rates near zero "for an extended period," a phrase it has been using the past two years. Though the central bank noted that inflation has risen, it expects that to be temporary as well.
The Fed has kept rates at ultra-low levels since December 2008. Abandoning the promise to keep them there for an "extended period" would be viewed as a signal that the Fed is preparing to raise interest rates. Many private economists think it will be another full year before the economy has recovered enough for the Fed to do it.
Economists looking for clues to the Fed's next move didn't get much help Wednesday. "There's no obvious hint of tightening here," said Jim O'Sullivan, chief economist at MF Global. "There's no hint of new easing."
The bond-buying program has been controversial. Supporters say the bond purchases have kept interest rates low and encouraged spending. Low long-term rates make it easier to buy homes and cars and for companies to expand.
They also argue that those lower rates fueled a stock rally. Since Bernanke outlined plans for the program last August, the Standard & Poor's 500 index is up 24 percent. Lower rates made stocks more attractive to investors than bonds, whose yields were falling.
The average rate on a 30-year mortgage has stayed below 5 percent for all but two weeks this year and was 4.5 percent last week. But low rates haven't helped home sales much. They fell in May to the lowest level since November.
Critics, including some Fed officials, saw things differently. They warned that by pumping so much money into the economy, the Fed increased the risks of high inflation later.
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Sex and sexuality communicate a great deal:
affection, love, esteem, warmth, sharing, and bonding. These gifts are as much
the right of older adults as they are of those who are much younger.
Three aspects of sexuality are covered in this topic: the changes that
come with aging, suggestions on how to adjust to these changes, and information
sexually transmitted infections.
healthy adults, pleasure and interest in sex do not diminish with age. Age
alone is no reason to change the sexual practices that you have enjoyed
throughout your life. But you may have to make a few minor adjustments to
accommodate any physical limitations you may have or the effects of certain
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Emergency services at Poudre Valley Hospital and Medical Center of the Rockies
Our Emergency Services Departments are located at Poudre Valley Hospital and Medical Center of the Rockies. Both emergency rooms provide medical care for people with serious and minor illnesses and injuries.
In the emergency room, specially trained emergency medicine physicians and nurses provide care for patients 24 hours a day. Physicians in other specialties are on-call.
In the event of an emergency, call 911. If you have a non-life threatening condition and are not sure if you should go to the emergency room, please read our guide, "When should I go to the emergency room?"
When in doubt, call 911.
MCR and PVH both offer trauma care. Trauma Center of the Rockies at MCR is a Level II trauma center, which means it can care for some the most-severely injured patients. PVH is a Level III center. Both units are fully equipped to handle both severe and minor injuries and illnesses.
PVH's paramedics and emergency medical technicians operate our ambulance services [internal link] and provide on-the-scene medical care. For more information on our reserve EMTs, you can visit the EMT Reserves [link] site.
For information about emergency services at MCR and PVH, call 970.495.7000. If you have an emergency, call 911.
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Whenever someone says, “He was homeschooled.” I ask, “What are they doing now?” I need to know how homeschooled kids turn out.
Now, after asking this question about 100 times it’s clear to me that there’s no rule of thumb. The results vary widely because the types of people who homeschool vary widely. After all, what else do the far right wing and far left wing have in common besides being scared to send their kids to public school? And, famous child actors and famous chess champions have totally different types of minds, but what do they have in common? They both need to be homeschooled in order to do what they do best.
So the question, “What are they doing now?” yields useless results.
But then I realized that homeschooling is not about the end result. It’s about the process. Kids should learn what is meaningful and important for them to learn, in an environment that caters to them.
It’s scary. Sure. But it’s more scary to send them to a school that seeks outcome over process.
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- Special Sections
- Public Notices
I really enjoy hearing from our readers and it doesn’t matter how they communicate with me.
I try to read my emails on a daily basis. I attempt to return phone calls as quickly as possible, although I admit we’ve not had a voice mail system for long here at the News office, so sometimes I forget to check it.
I don’t even mind when people approach me at the grocery store or gas station and share their thoughts.
I also make every effort to reply to letters to the editor if they require a response.
My point in saying this is that I care about what the community cares about. I’m interested in what people think – be it good, bad or indifferent.
A newspaper should always have a page dedicated to the opinions of its staff and community.
The page that my column and the other staff of the paper appears on weekly is in the Grant County News called the Viewpoint Page. It’s always page 4. In some newspapers it is called the Editorial or Opinion page.
But no matter the name of the page, it’s purpose is to allow the free exchange of ideas.
Sometimes I write things on the page which make people mad. Sometimes I write things on the page, which make them laugh and sometimes I write things which make people cry.
However, the things that I write in this space, as well as anyone else on the newspaper staff that writes a column, are our opinions. They’re neither right nor wrong, but simply the way we see an issue or situation.
I received an email the other day that took me to task for expressing my personal opinion in this space called “Personally Speaking.” The letter writer said that as a trained reporter I should know better than to put my opinion in a piece that I had written.
I won’t disagree that a story, be it news, sports, education or business, should not contain the reporter or writer’s opinion, but a column is a totally different animal.
When people from the community share their opinion with the newspaper and asked that it be printed, we call this a letter to the editor or a guest column.
The only difference between the two is that a letter to the editor is limited to less than 200 words or less while a guest column can be more than that depending on the available space.
In the last few months, I’ve attempted to seek out other opinions from community members in order to have more diversity represented on the editorial page each week.
Pete Whaley, a republican, and Bill Adkins, a democrat, graciously write a point/counterpoint column every few months for us.
We’re looking for others in the community who would like to share their thoughts on community events, people, politics, schools, etc. If you’d like to know more about becoming a guest columnist or submitting a letter to the editor, then please email me at [email protected] or call me at 859-824-3343.
Gathering diverse thoughts on topics of interest is also why we publish the “What do you think Grant County?” question and photograph on a monthly basis. This feature is where we settle on a question and then go out and ask people from the county to answer it. We find those willing to be part of it at the park or in parking lots, pumping gas or often at an event. Our purpose is to share with our readers what others think.
Again, I enjoy when our readers take the time out of their busy schedules to communicate with us, in whatever manner they can. That means they care about the newspaper and the community and that is a good thing.
(Jamie Baker-Nantz is the editor for the Grant County News. She can be reached at [email protected].)
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This is a piece on suicide posts. But first this rather lengthy preamble: I am a great believer in the wisdom of the community. This is a variation of the “wisdom of the crowd,” which tends to yield better answers to certain questions than individual experts. Wikipedia is a stellar example of the wisdom of the crowd. The…
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A drug dog checking shipments at the International Mail Facility near O’Hare International Airport hit on packages Monday afternoon containing more than 30 pounds of opium-soaked materials valued at almost $500,000.
The 8-year-old canine, Shadow, a Belgian Malinois, alerted U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers to four different shipments from Laos destined for Wisconsin and Minnesota.
While border protection officers often run across drug shipments, they’re usually not of this magnitude, said Brian Bell, chief CBP officer.
“We see them regularly. We just don’t see them in these quantities,” Bell said. “And we don’t have (Shadow) hit on four different shipments all in a row like this.”
The first package, invoiced as Hmong dresses, actually contained 38 pieces of decorative cloth soaked in opium. The fabric weighed just over 15 pounds and is valued at more than $238,000.
Another package contained 10 pieces of fabric just under 5 pounds, valued at almost $77,000.
Two other packages labeled traditional medicines contained sticks and leaves soaked in opium and were valued at almost $98,000 and $77,000.
Opium is considered a traditional medicine within the Laotian community. The cloths, sticks and leaves would be boiled in water, leaving behind an opium paste that could then be smoked.
“It’s possible that this was going to somebody who wanted to use it for its traditional reasons, but it’s illegal in the United States, therefore, we’re responsible for preventing it from coming in,” Bell said.
The CBP’s investigative unit will continue looking into the packages’ final destinations.
In addition to drug canines, the CBP officers work alongside canines who sniff out illegal agricultural items that could hurt the economy, weapon canines who detect explosives and guns, and currency detection dogs that can sniff out large quantities of undeclared money.Copyright © 2013 Paddock Publications, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said western accusations about Iran’s recently disclosed nuclear facility will not affect the October 1 talks between Tehran and the six major global powers.
At a press conference in New York, Mr. Ahmadinejad stressed that there was nothing illegal about Iran’s second enrichment plant.
“According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) rules, countries must inform the Agency 6 months ahead of the gas injection in their uranium enrichment plants. We have done it 18 months ahead and this should be appreciated not condemned,” he said.
The Iranian President was critical of U.S. President Barack Obama who, along with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, French President Nicolas Sarkozy had slammed Iran on Friday for working on a second uranium enrichment facility near the Iranian city of Qom.
“[French President Nicolas] Sarkozy and [U.K. Prime Minister Gordon] Brown are not important for us and what they say does not matter but we think President Obama’s accusations are against what he said in his speech at the United Nations,” said Mr. Ahmadinejad.
The U.S. along with Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany will hold talks with Iran on October 1.
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Kashmir: The Story of Control
Kashmir’s Torture Trail, a documentary on Kashmir by the acclaimed BAFTA-winning film-maker Jezza Neumann, was recently aired on Channel 4 in the UK. The hard hitting documentary follows a human rights lawyer, probing how protestors were driven off the streets and peace imposed in one of the most heavily militarised places on earth. The documentary highlighted systematic human rights abuses in Kashmir. Uncovering a state-sanctioned torture program that has set India on a collision course with the international community, the film exposes and maps a network of government-run torture centres, through which, as the documentary says, as many as one in three Kashmiris have been hauled.
“We had the highest number of viewer comments in the week after transmission, our website also crashed with the high volume of hits,” says Neumann. “An MP has put a question to parliament on the Kashmir issue and Amnesty International are now featuring the film on their website and plan on doing screenings throughout India,” the director informs. The director says the response to the documentary has been pretty big. “The film is being distributed internationally and we hope that other countries will show this film and promote these issues,” he says.
In an exclusive interview with Majid Maqbool for GK Magazine, the multi-BAFTA winning director Jezza Neumann and producer Catie White talk about the challenges of filming undercover in the valley, reasons why Kashmir has remained one of the most under-reported conflicts on earth, and attempts by a section of mainstream Indian media to discredit the documentary.
What brought you to make a film about the use of torture to crush dissent in Kashmir? Was it something that emerged while you were researching for the documentary in the valley?
We entered Kashmir having seen the agitations in 2010, in which so many were hurt. But no one was explaining to the outside world why it was happening or why the crackdown that followed succeeded. It was an explosion, which was poorly probed by the global media. Once we began reporting, the more we spoke to people the more we un-raveled the story of control in Kashmir, how fear and threats keep the Valley locked down, especially the use of torture.
Your documentary is a strong indictment of what the state has been doing in Kashmir. It comes out at a time when the mainstream media makes repeated claims of “return of normalcy”, linking return of peace with the arrival of more tourists. (An Indian magazine even did a cover story titled, “Sorry, Kashmir is happy.”) Has this discourse been successful in keeping away the international media from probing deeper into the actions of Indian state in Kashmir?
What is normal about Kashmir? Yes, the militancy as its lowest ebb. Infiltration from Pakistan has dried up – although that can’t be counted on. Violence that is insurgency related is sporadic but basically non-existent. Tourism flourishes, and yet here we have a Valley, the most militarized place on earth, barring the North Korean parallel, where the law is held in abeyance, all those assigned to protect India’s security interests are gifted immunity. While the external threat has diminished, human rights abuses seem to have increased exponentially. There is nothing normal in Kashmir where rape, torture and murder go unpunished. And yet none of this is seen abroad. We glimpsed the 2010 upheavals. Then nothing. How do you report fear? How do you film it? How do you characterize desperation? These were significant challenges.
Kashmir has remained one of the most under-reported conflicts on earth. Why?
A terrible trade off has happened. The US has agreed to stay silent in return for wooing its new ally in South Asia, especially as Pakistan further destabilizes. Britain says nothing as our relationship with India is still precarious and over sensitized. Trade and the expansion of Indian soft power, the lure of its markets, has silenced everyone. Kashmir is also managed well by India inside and outside the country – where a lobby jumps on everything that is written about it. It is staggering that even when we were filming stone pelting and clashes with the police in the back alleys of Srinagar, or interviewing boys whose nails had been pulled, their legs rollered, tourists went on boat rides on Dal Lake completely unaware that these clashes were taking place. Shipped between Dal Lake and Gulmarg these tourists never pass through towns such as Baramulla or Sopore where people live in siege conditions. Sopore was an eye opener.
How difficult was it to film undercover in Kashmir? How did people open up about the torture stories?
It was extremely difficult filming. Towns were often cut off by road blocks. Even local cameramen were stopped from filming and one of them working for us was beaten. But ultimately people spoke to us as they felt crushed – they had nothing to lose. They also hoped that by speaking out the world would listen. We were constantly tailed, called, watched and challenged. This meant we contaminated other people we would have liked to interview but who did not dare. We had to film inside exclusively, diving in and out of people’s homes with all our kit so as to attract the least attention we could. Getting Kashmiris to open up took some work too. So many false dawns and promises that are never met. People feel resentful about the West too – rightly so. Getting people to stop still and talk proved harder than we thought it would be – but when we did, a torrent came out.
Given the skepticism about the portrayal of truth by the Indian filmmakers, can Kashmiri people expect better films, documentaries from western filmmakers?
West, East – these are not the underpinning factors in telling the truth. Distance and objectivity is. We are from another place and time and so can afford to take more risks perhaps. Perhaps also we have had the chance to travel more and experience more conflict and oppression close up. This exposure serves to help us cut through the news management of governments. But how many of us were making revealing films about Ireland, let’s say, which was on our doorstep. Too close. Too painful. Too difficult to decipher. Having said that, writing and reporting in Kashmir by Kashmiris is changing. You have a crop of novelists, illustrators, journalists, raconteurs and rap stars who are telling their own stories extremely well. Media is booming in the valley. Harud the film is coming soon. It looks wonderful!
Beyond spreading awareness about the conflict in Kashmir, can such films help bring the perpetrators to justice?
We want to start a conversation. Can economic expansion be the only gauge of the greatness of a nation? Those states that show production. What about India’s moral and human obligations? Hopefully we have highlighted the work of civil society in Kashmir where non political volunteers are trying to persuade residents they have rights and that they can be defended. India might take longer to catch on, and sign up, but I am sure it will happen. What we hope our film does is give a human face to the reports and the rhetoric – to make people watching feel life in Kashmir and understand those trying to document abuses. Obviously, we want change! Change in laws. Change in attitudes. Police reform. Rehabilitation for survivors. There are people who have been mutilated and never talked about how or why because they are grateful. They did not disappear. This is the warped logic we wanted to puncture.
What has been the response to the documentary after it was shown on Channel 4 in UK? Will the documentary travel further and be screened in other countries?
We had the highest number of viewer comments in the week after transmission, our website also crashed with the high volume of hits. An MP has put a question to parliament on the Kashmir issue and Amnesty International are now featuring the film on their website and plan on doing screenings throughout India so I'd say the response has been pretty big. The film is being distributed internationally and we hope that other countries will show this film and promote these issues.
What were the reactions of Indian media and intelligentsia after the documentary was shown in UK? Some reports in Indian media tried to discredit the documentary, accusing it of spreading propaganda against the Indian state. A report in the leading Indian daily TOI said, “The lacunae in the program, though, was that no neutral party, let alone authorities in J&K or at the Centre were given an opportunity to express their point of view. Strangely, the production team was in the Kashmir valley at the time of last year's stone-pelting incidents in which over 100 youths were killed. There are questions being asked whether they were tipped off by those who planned the demonstrations.” How do you view such reports about the documentary in the Indian media?
This was very deceitful. We were contacted by Times of India looking for comment. The journalist asked why we had sought out no one from the government to put their side. We gave the journalist this statement:
1. We interviewed people from the UN, HRW and Amnesty, as well as local rights bodies. Are these not neutral? All had spent many years pressing India for reform on issues relating to torture. But the torture bill has stalled and India has not ratified the convention. In turn India has declined since 1993 to allow the UN's rapporteur into the country. We also then used RTI laws to obtain State Human Rights documents to substantiate every case. The opinions in most cases were those of the SHRC. Is it not neutral? It is a government body. We also obtained data from the J&K government through RTI requests which became part of the commentary. Ultimately, having assembled an enormous legal file we presented our findings to the Indian government. It responded: we do not wish to comment. We were saddened and surprised by this. For your information, the JK Army was asked repeatedly to take part and on every occasion declined.
However, regardless, and of our own volition, we placed throughout the film caveats representing the Indian view, as gleaned from top officials the film crew talked to in Kashmir. We explained in the film India's security concerns, its continuing belief that uprising in Kashmir were manipulated by Pakistani groups, and that Pakistan has manipulated Kashmiri causes for its own ends, practicing terror too in India frequently.
However, having done this, what we were still left with is a chilling story, that while the insurgency is according to the India army at its lowest ebb ever, human rights abuses, particularly torture, continue to be rampant, with as many as one in six detained Kashmiris reporting grievous cases of torture. Our legal file was bulging with them and it makes for horrendous reading.
Not one word was used and instead the Times of India continued to claim we had given India no right of reply.
How did people receive you when you approached them to share their stories?
We were really lucky that during our time in Kashmir we got to see a lot of the state including snow in Gulmarg and the hills above Anantnag. Even the valleys before the LoC. It truly is beautiful and everywhere we went we were greeted with tea, plates of food, regardless of what people could afford.
In the absence of justice, for example, to the thousands of torture victims in Kashmir, will peace ever return in Kashmir?
This is undoubtedly the festering sore – apart from the whole question of Azadi that no one in government wants to talk about. Set aside freedom, and sovereignty and independence. Let’s not go there. Instead consider here is a place where there is no comeback, no oversight, no monitoring or accountability. It is a morality vacuum where any crime can be committed without the intervention of the criminal justice system – if you are a security force trooper or policeman. But if you are a citizen you can be preventatively arrested for two years. It is difficult to think of anywhere else in the world (apart from Russia) where such an in-balance has occurred. Once it was claimed that these measures were necessary to fight terror. But what now? No justice, no peace. That’s the old rubric. In Kashmir it is undoubtedly true.
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NATO states are using economic methods in an attempt to help Georgia reclaim South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Russia’s permanent representative to the alliance Dmitry Rogozin has said.
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It is just an other friendly gesture from good buddy (great-man) Barack Hussein Obama that President Medvedev and Mr Putin can appreciate. In America, there is a say: The whole Russian decision making system should seriously study those few words. Best Regards ! Jean-Claude Meslin
South Ossetia and Abkhazia are not Serbia and Yugoslavia. These two, now independent countries, do not need anybody else’s recognition or fear of America’s and Western economic embargo’s because Russia is just across their borders. Why should they give a shit what America is preaching?
Pretty clear what sort of love Georgia is currently offering...
Don't think they want any more of that.
At the end of the day these two autonomous regions have been getting by without Georgian control and I suspect they will get on fine in the future as separate countries in their own right.
We might have short memories, but I doubt they will... a country tries to bomb you into being part of them and then cuts of your oil and gas and electricity after another country comes to your aide... you tend to remember who did what and when.
Georgias claim to possession of the two republics is based on a decree by Joseph Stalin. I would be happy to ignore such a thing myself... and I suspect if Georgia wasn't an oil pipeline route that bypassed Russia and Iran to Caspian sea oil then the US wouldn't care so much either.
Would be a clever move for the S. Ossetians to take advantage of this situation and enrich themselves by having both parties bid for their love.
Whilst the USA might be helping Georgia re-arm, countries like Germany have provided only humanitarian aid e.g building houses. I seriously doubt that any amount of wealth displayed on the Georgian side is likely to encourage a reunion for those that Georgia tried to kill.
Russia could balance the situation by helping to build infrastructure (road, electricity lines, gas supply, telecommunication) that links Abkhazia and South Ossetia with Russia. Such measures would provide employment and improved lifestyle for those in the two states. Like someone else suggested, Russian could invest in Abkhazia to make it more interesting for tourism.
Russia could suggest that for national security reasons, work permits and visas for Georgians working in Russia might need to be reviewed if Georgia were to commence any process leading to NATO membership. There might also be a need to restrict transfers of money between Russia and Georgia for similar reasons.
Mr. Rogozin must have his reasons for not publicly acknowledging war USA and UK are waging against Russia using satraps and janissary, he and the rest of Russian leadership are well aware of this.
Oh come on. This spectacular agency of hegemonic power is NATO. Not the same NATO whose members are all ready deserting the battle in Afghanistan? Dutch gone, Canadians going whose next? Perhaps Brittan will prove its independence from the USA by legging it without permission. No it won't work. NATO will do less to aid the Georgian Napoleon than it has done in Afghanistan. It will do nothing at all if it means war with Russia. NATO countries will provide some economic aid. But like all other overseas aid in an economic crisis more will be promised than actually delivered. Perhaps if the Georgian elites have become suicidal something might change? But for the present all that comes out of Georgia is hot air.
What is the problem?
If the west wants to snub SO and Abkhazia then that is their loss.
An economically propped up Georgia is better than a collapsed Georgia.
The reality is that SO and Abkhazia will survive with only trade with Russia alone and it matters not whether any other countries on this planet recognise them or not.
This western trade embargo will continually remind both new countries who their friends really are... if they ever needed reminding.
When Saakashvili is gone there might be a chance of real dialog, because I doubt they will ever want to talk with the " bomber of Tskinvali ".
Georgia will learn its lessons the hard way as did Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan or Pakistan. When needed as puppets or open markets they are great but as soon as the honeymoon is over they are discarded off or simply enslaved. He who fights by the sword shall die by the sword so it goes! Russia must and should keep the multi-polar decision making direction of the world.
the us imperialist games around the globe will end with it's upcoming collapse.
NATO = American puppets. They will do anything to stab Russia in the back. Abkhazia should be developed as a place for tourists. Hotels, restaurants, stores should be built to attract tourists and make the area appealing and attractive.
The fact seems to remain, NATO servitude nations those that broke off from Soviet Union is used to its full extent, when Russia let NATO divide up former Yugoslavia they did a big mistake, they opened the wells for actions such as Georgias in 2008. Why S. Ossetia & Abkahazia never will be recognized by the NATO lobby is cause they has not acknowledged the aggression of Georgia in 2008 as they being the aggressor and not Russia. The main sentiment in west is that Russia where the big bad bear that almost overthrew Georgia and that they are to blame for this aggression. If NATO is to have the full support from the Russian Federation, they should be forced to recognize these two states and the EU should take away their sanctions against these states or they are playing dirty. NATO know they have ethnic clashes boiling in these two states if ever reunified with Georgia, this is exactly what they want, so they can place NATO forces in S. Ossetia & Abkhazia and expand their geopolitical bridgehead at spot. Until the west is forced to admit that Georgia was to be blamed for the war in 2008 publicly and loudly so the news where delivered not only to the Western leadership but to their populations as well then there can be something genuine made on this issue. Large parts of the western population thinks that Georgia was the victim here, they have of course been lead to believe so by their governments and foreign ministers. For an example Carl Bildt Swedens Minister for Foreign Affairs a known long term Bilderberger Group member did just a few weeks ago refer to the Russian aggression towards Georgia on prime time at Swedens biggest news broadcast Rapport. As long as Ministers for Foreign Affairs claims Russian guilt in this war there wont be any recognition of S. Ossetia or Abkhazia as their financial sanctions is not in the broader interest of European Geostrategic imperatives to do so.
Why Russia is not doing the same with S.Ossetia and Abkhazia? At the end, Russia is the only one those two countries can rely on for their survival and prosperity. Show Georgians that it is better to be with Russians than against them, if this is the case, of course. I assume, it should not be so hard to do considering the fact that Georgia has "the economy on steroids". Or, everything Russia can to -- just to complain and pointing fingers to the "bad" guys? By the way, if Russia is not helping those two, there is a big chance that they come back to Georgia -- willingly or forcefully. Which will be a big political and, possibly, economical blow for Russia...
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Japanese culture will be celebrated at a festival Saturday at Simi Valley High School.
Bonsai trees will be displayed by Harry Kobashigawa, president of the Japanese-American Community Center in West Los Angeles. Madame Fumi Akutagawa of Moorpark and her students will demonstrate ikebana , the art of arranging flowers.
Japanese dancing will be shown by master teacher Azuma Kikuse of Westlake Village, and Madame Kumiko Serizawa of Sepulveda will demonstrate Japanese doll making. Karate will be shown by Bruce Kanegai and his students, ranging from children to adults.
Kanegai organized the event in the hope of exposing local residents to Japanese culture.
"Not only am I proud of my own heritage, but I want people to be proud of their own," said Kanegai, a fourth-degree black belt who teaches art at Simi Valley High School. "By understanding the Japanese culture, you can better appreciate it."
The festival runs from 1 to 5 p.m. in the multipurpose room of Simi Valley High School, 5400 Cochran St. A $3 donation per person is requested.
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As a Marine, I learned that peace is predicated on compromise, not superior firepower or belligerence.
Today, witnessing U.S. troops withdraw from Iraqi cities, I find the right’s accusations of appeasement levied on President Obama about most issues in the Middle East incredibly ironic. Today’s withdrawal, perhaps the greatest success of the Bush administration, would not have occurred if we hadn’t learned to appease.
Today’s withdrawal, perhaps the greatest success of the Bush administration, would not have occurred if we hadn’t learned to appease.
When President Bush announced the "surge," on January 11, 2007, he was announcing much more than the deployment of 35,000 additional troops to Iraq. He also was adopting a set of successful tactics that had already been implemented successfully by a few industrious officers. It amounted to a radically different approach to how troops would be employed on the ground.
In 2004, I took little risk with the lives of my Marines. It was simply too dangerous. If a vehicle failed to stop as it crashed through our checkpoint, we used deadly force. If a military-aged male was in the vicinity after a roadside bomb detonated, he would be detained. I often wonder if some of our tactics created more insurgents than we were able to kill or capture.
In the violent summer months of 2004, we put the risk on the civilian population, but in 2007, as the surge began and General David Petraeus took over, the force began to accept more risk in order to protect the population. Troops moved out of large, fortified bases and lived in smaller outposts among the population. They patrolled more often on foot instead of in armored vehicles. At first, casualties went up, but then something remarkable happened: Coalition casualties plummeted.
FM 3-24, the U.S. Army and Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Manual, published on December 16, 2006, encapsulates a number of the paradoxes of counterinsurgency. It turns out, “The more you protect the force, the less secure you may be.” And “Sometimes the more force is used, the less effective it is.”
Perhaps former Bushies are so quick to criticize Obama because they never really bought into the change in tactics and strategy that reversed our fortunes in Iraq. Over time, it was our military, mainly junior officers and NCOs, who realized that the vast majority of people in Iraq were not our enemy—but that our tactics and emphasis on force were turning many of them into enemies. This, more than anything else, is the Achilles’ heel of the counterinsurgent.
Antagonizing and creating new enemies is much more dangerous than failing to kill one, which is why Obama’s limited response to the political unrest and demonstrations in Iran is commendable. Action or support from the United States would largely alienate the demonstrators from greater support from the population of Iran. As the counterinsurgency manual states, “Sometimes, doing nothing is the best reaction” especially when action would be counterproductive or foster greater resentment. Those critical of Obama’s initially tepid response would do better to explain what they hope to accomplish and how through more active support for the demonstrators in Iran.
In 2004, as a young Marine lieutenant, I gave a poster of George Washington crossing the Delaware River to a local tribal leader named Sheik Jabbar. I was 25 years old and he was a foot taller than me, regal, wise, and twice my age. As I handed him the poster, I explained that he had the opportunity to be his nation’s Thomas Jefferson. He graciously accepted the poster and then asked me if I meant he would write his country’s declaration of independence, be its ambassador to France, or serve as its president. He then listed the names of his family’s patriarchs going back 1,200 years. He wanted to be like his forefathers, not mine.
Last Friday, Obama clearly articulated that what is going on in Iran is not about us. It is about the Iranian people seeking justice for themselves. Obama understands, much better than I did, the folly in thinking otherwise. He also understands the incredible danger of taking action and siding with the protesters. Creating the illusion that the protesters are American pawns would alienate them and fracture their ranks. Sometimes doing nothing is the best reaction.
Over kabobs, chai tea, and the hookah, I learned a tremendous amount about Iraq’s history and local issues from Sheik Jabbar, and he would often complain to me about the local city council. Unelected bodies, the city councils had been appointed by the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority with the intent that they would become legislative bodies after elections were held. For Sheik Jabbar and most of the local people, they were an illegitimate and corrupt governing body that would siphon funds for local municipal projects for personal gain. I soon learned that the tribal councils were much more democratic and just than our appointed councils, but we treated them as an archaic remnant of Iraq’s past and alienated them. So they came to see us as occupiers, supported al Qaeda as liberators, and fought against us.
But in 2005, two years before the surge, along the Euphrates River Valley, Marine company commanders began working closely with tribal leaders, shifting their emphasis from promoting democracy to promoting the peace. Former enemies became close allies. Soon battalion commanders and regimental commanders were following the path laid out to them by junior officers. The generals followed. Soon even Bush was gripping and grinning with the tribal leaders of Iraq as Democrats in Congress cried appeasement and debated the merits of a bill deriding the Maliki government for offering asylum to former nationalist insurgents with American blood on their hands. Almost overnight, the most violent province in Iraq became one of the most peaceful. This willingness to appease fostered the peace that now enables us to withdraw our troops from Iraq’s cities.
I recently returned to Fallujah, this time as a journalist, and I was astonished at how different the city had become. Four years earlier, the city lay in ruin. It reeked of death and was littered with trash and human remains. As I accompanied one of the last Marine patrols through the city, I wondered where we would be and how long we would still be there if we had never learned to appease.
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Humor me for a few minutes here.
We’re pretty much required to wear shoes. You can’t go into most public buildings without them, it’s illegal to drive without them, and let’s face it – walking around barefoot is uncomfortable. So, shoes could easily be categorized as a “quality of life accessory item” in most circles.
I don’t know many people that only own one pair of shoes in their entire wardrobe. (Those people exist, sure. But, I think we can agree that they’re pretty rare.) There are shoes for different occasions. For certain weather conditions. To make us comfortable. To make us feel good about ourselves. To help us reach our goals. To protect our feet.
Why are there so many options? Because there’s a demand. Put simply, people want to fulfill their basic needs by their footwear.
That’s the simple answer, of course. But according to statistics from The National Shoe Retailers Association, casual and dress shoe sales for men and women make up over 45% of all purchases made. It’s no secret – we purchase shoes for fashion as well as utility.
Now apply that same thinking to eyewear. We wear glasses to correct our vision. To protect our eyes from harm. If you can’t see clearly, wearing vision correction of some sort (glasses or contact lenses) falls into the “quality of life accessory item” category as well.
There’s no shortage in choices for eyewear. You can get anything you want – color, size, shape, material, style, etc. So, why do eyewear customers traditionally only have one pair of glasses to wear?
Eyewear can change your entire look. It can accent an outfit. Eyewear can change how you feel about yourself and how others view you.
The next time you want a new pair of glasses (notice we said “want” – not “need”) – ask yourself, why NOT more than one pair? Your answer may surprise you.
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For the sake of your own edification, try an experiment I have been conducting for the past two months. Try it for a single day.
Drive the posted speed limit. I don't mean just on the highway. I mean everywhere - down neighbourhood streets, on major downtown arteries, through school and hospital zones. Especially try it during rush hour.
It isn't easy. I'm not even sure it's advisable. You will feel as if you were being pushed down a hallway against your will. A parade of cars will stack up behind you. Some will tailgate so closely as if to send you the message, via your rear-view mirror, "Hey, granny! Get a move on!" (Sometimes those tailgaters will be grannies.) Some drivers, angrily jerking their cars into the passing lane, will pull up beside you to get a look at the jackass ruining their day, then cast you a look of disgust before shooting off in an exclamatory burst of octane. The urge to speed up, if just to give into the peer pressure, will be overwhelming for you. After a day of this, you will come to the conclusion that you may be the only driver on the road observing the speed limit.
It may not be far from the truth. One 2005 Transport Canada study found that while most Canadians feel they speed less than drivers of other nations, and that their speeding was "benign" - by which I suppose they meant it was socially acceptable - 70 per cent of drivers admitted to speeding "occasionally." An even greater number - 80 per cent of those surveyed - admitted to speeding on highways, at an average speed of 12 km/h over the posted limit.
Most drivers, however, recognized that speeding was the most significant cause of accidents. More drivers than not also felt roads were becoming more dangerous.
But most drivers also felt that their level of speeding did not endanger anyone, despite numerous studies that show even a few kilometres over the speed limit increases the risk of an accident exponentially.
A majority of those surveyed - 52 per cent - also felt that all drivers should keep up with the flow of traffic regardless of the speed limit. If everyone was driving at 120 km/h, the feeling was, then it was safer that everyone travel at 120 km/h.
But according to a study done by the U.S.-based Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, it is speeding, not speed differences, that causes "significantly" more accidents. Nearly half of all accidents resulting in death, the IIHS found, were single-vehicle impacts where the comparative speeds of the vehicles involved played no role or a minor role.
In other words, most of the accepted wisdom about speeding was hooey.
But the common disregard for posted speed limits is puzzling for another, more current, reason.
Cost. Fuel prices are nearing $1.40 a litre in parts of Metro Vancouver. Motorists have done nothing but scream bloody murder about it.
One antidote to high gas costs: Slow down.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has found that speeding and quick acceleration can decrease fuel efficiency by as much as 33 per cent on the highway and five per cent in the city. For every eight km/h over the speed limit, the EPA estimated, a driver will pay another eights cents per litre.
To this, I can attest. I drive a Honda Fit, already a gas sipper, but by observing the speed limit, I have got, on average, another 75 kilometres per fill-up. Either the Fit is finally doing what it is supposed to, or I am. Would that I saw evidence that others were, too.
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What a difference a week makes! This week finds almost all of Oklahoma OUT of their Fire Bans. Only Cimarron County in extreme northwestern Oklahoma is still in a County Declared Fire Ban until Nov. 1.
The lifting of the Fire Ban coincided with the first significant cold snap and campers at Quartz Mountain Nature Park welcomed the opportunity to enjoy a campfire. The cooler nights and brisk mornings just seem to be made for campfires.
The cooler nights and shorter days signal that winter is on its steady march. The falling acorns are being eaten nearly as fast as they fall. Cardinals, blue jays, woodpeckers and wild turkeys all relish acorns- so to do the whitetail deer.
If you like to wildlife watch now is the time to come to Quartz Mountain Nature Park. Not only are the acorns falling, the tree leaves are also staring to fall. With less leaves it is much easier to see all the animals feasting on the fall bounty.
Many people like to watch the deer feed. With the change in weather the rut (mating season) will be under way. Please do NOT try to hand feed the deer at this time. The deer become unpredictable during the rut and some one could be hurt. If you have been feeding the deer and they have been coming quite close, now is the time to distance yourself.
Archery season for deer is also under way. Hunting is not allowed on park property. However, it is occurring on nearby private property. The hiking trails that are too close to private property are closed. This includes: Rock Creek Canyon and Sunrise Trails near the Lodge and Blackjack Pass Trail near the Cedar Valley trails complex. These trails will reopen for hiking after the hunting seasons close.
There are still plenty of hiking opportunities at Quartz Mountain. In the Main Park the New Horizon and Wichita Interpretive trails are open. In the Lodge area the Cave Trail, Twin Peaks Trail and Mountain Pass Trail are all open. While Cedar Valley trails complex has these trails open: Cedar Valley, Cedar Creek, Mesquite Forest and Baldy Point.
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Nation & energy - June 10
Click on the headline (link) for the full text.
Many more articles are available through the Energy Bulletin homepage
Choosing Iran's Next Leader (and what it means for natural gas)
Steve LeVine, The Oil and the Glory, Business Week
Does Mir Hossain Mousavi have a genuine chance to defeat Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Friday’s elections? Or is he simply the latest beneficiary of the predilection of reporters and pundits to make a wishful-embrace of electoral challengers in dictatorial nations?
At O&G, we are closely watching the first round of Iran’s presidential election because of the potential game-changing impact on natural gas politics in Europe: At once, a less populist leadership in Tehran could help lower the diplomatic temperature, thus opening the door to genuine talks with Washington, and possibly a deal that, among other benefits, ultimately unfetters the development of Iran’s sanctions-crippled natural gas fields.
A string of reports over the last 10 days or two weeks has built up much expectation around Mousavi, a 67-year-old ethnic Azeri intellectual who served as a revolution-enabling prime minister two decades ago.
In The New York Times today, Robert Worth describes a "screaming, honking bacchanal" at night in Tehran surrounding Mousavi's campaign, and a poll suggesting a 54%-39% edge over Ahmadinejad.
The key moment that has electrified observers is last Wednesday's televised debate between Ahmadinejad and Mousavi. Reports are drubbing Ahmadinejad for attacking Mousavi's wife, Zahra Rahnavard, who is campaigning for her husband and held a high-profile news conference at which she demanded an apology from Ahmadinejad. CNN reports that some have dubbed Rahnavard "Iran's Michelle Obama." At the Impudent Observer, Fred Stopsky wonders whether Rahnavard is "the secret weapon to unseat Ahmadinejad."
(8 June 2009)
Steve LeVine is an Energy Bulletin contributor.
Europe's pipeline politics
Vafa Fakhri, BBC Azeri Service
On the shores of the Baltic Sea, among the sea birds and sand dunes, a quiet energy revolution is taking place.
If all goes to plan, the island of Ruegen, off the coast of Northern Germany, will host the terminal for the massive new Nord Stream gas pipeline connecting Russia with the heart of Western Europe.
After years of unstable relations between Moscow and its former satellite states, Nord Stream is designed to circumvent regional politics by cutting out transit countries.
If it wins final approval, the 1200km (745 mile) pipeline will run under the Baltic Sea from the Russian port of Vyborg.
It could mark a significant change in Europe's energy security.
At present, 80% of Russian gas delivered to the EU has to cross Ukraine.
In the past three years, disputes between Russia and its neighbour over gas prices have led to occasional shutdowns of supplies to much of Europe for weeks, causing severe shortages for millions.
(7 June 2009)
Suggested by Larry Hughes.
Energy fuels new 'Great Game' in Europe
Richard Galpin, BBC
The giant Russian energy company, Gazprom, which controls the world's largest reserves of natural gas, has issued a stark warning to the European Union saying it must decide if it wants to continue receiving supplies of Russian gas.
Speaking in an interview for the BBC's Newsnight programme, Gazprom deputy chairman Alexander Medvedev warned that Europe was now at a crossroads.
"Only three countries can be suppliers of pipeline gas in the long-term - Russia, Iran and Qatar. So there is no other choice than to deal with these suppliers," he said.
"Europe should decide how to handle this situation… and if Europe doesn't need our gas, then we will find a way of selling it differently."
The threat comes as the EU scrambles to find alternative energy suppliers following the crisis in January, when Russia shut down the main pipeline into Europe for two weeks in a price dispute with the key transit country, Ukraine.
The EU currently relies on Russia for a quarter of its total gas supplies. Of the bloc's 27 member states, seven are almost totally dependent on Russian gas.
(9 June 2009)
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The mystery is over. Doctors now know what’s ailing Adam Foye
By the time my first child was two months old, I knew something was wrong. Amanda, who is 14 now, has low muscle tone and didn’t walk until she was almost 2 years old. Her arms have limited ability, and she has inflammatory …
Anne Wojcicki plans to sell whole-genome sequencing directly to consumers, no doctors needed
Sophisticated new DNA testing can tell parents whether their babies are at increased risk of cancer, dementia and other diseases that may not strike until adulthood
Time’s Bonnie Rochman explains how doctors are mapping out all the genes in a person’s body
Winning government approval would be the first step in increasing public confidence in personalized genetic testing
If you’re cursing Mom and Dad’s genes for making you too short (or too tall), you’d probably be justified.
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As atavistic as it may be in the age of the internet, I still believe in the value of the library, even though KRS-One once coined it "the place where lies are buried." While it is true that historical lies are often written by the victors and thus skewed, sometimes the victor who prevails and writes history is not the mighty. In the case of Mahatma Gandhi, history remembers a meek man, what some might have even generously called a frail and fragile man. Yet this man of small stature stands large in victory, because his words inspired a nation of people to usurp their British tyrants and enjoy freedom and liberty. Small wonder then that the duo of Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind and Vinnie Paz (a/k/a/ Ikon the Verbal Hologram), collectively known as Jedi Mind Tricks, would have "Visions of Gandhi." It matches well with their name, which invokes the well-known Star Wars phenomenon of mental acuity so sharp it gives a Jedi Master physical power over the weak willed. For this group, to envision Gandhi is to invoke his mental acuity. Their oppressors are commercial radio and pop music. They seek to liberate the minds of listeners while exercising mental control over beats (with Stoupe's stellar production) and rhymes (Vinnie Paz' lyricism).
To learn more about Gandhi though, please visit your local library and check out a good biography. "Visions of Gandhi" may draw inspiration from his intelligence and strong will, but this is in no way an album about Gandhi. It's worthwhile to note that Gandhi was a man who strongly believed in non-violent protest (an example which inspired Martin Luther King Jr.) while "Visions of Gandhi" is filled with often dark and violent imagery. In fact, "Rise of the Machines" featuring Ras Kass opens with a sample of Mike Tyson speaking, a man who may go down in history as the most savagely brutal pugilist to ever don boxing gloves. Contadictory? Yes. Then again, I consider myself a believer in Gandhi's philosphy of non-violence, while one of my favorite video games is Grand Theft Auto 3 and one of my favorite movies is Scarface. Perhaps it's necessary to draw a distinction between violence as entertainment and violence as a way of life, something which feeble minded politicians and talk show conservatives like Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh seem unable to do. Some psychologists and progressive thinkers have even argued that violence in entertainment is a healthy release of humanity's more primal urges - a vicarious experience which quells societally unacceptable rage in a decidedly non-lethal way. I can't debate the point psychologically with any authority since that's not my degree, but personally I've always found that when I'm in a bad mood listening to M.O.P. or Megadeth at high volume vents my frustration nicely.
"Visions of Gandhi" qualifies as just such an album. Stoupe has always had an uncanny knack for layering beats, samples, and rhymes into seething cauldrons of attitude. His songs tap directly into your cerebral cortex and unleash head-nodding, foot-tapping hip-hop exuberance. Vivid in their darkness and beautiful as the night sky, Vinnie Paz' lyrics are the stars which punctuate the blackness with bright light. His deliver is a loud roar, a cat that even DMX couldn't bark at. His imagery is harsh and relentless, using intelligence to both illuminate the dark and intimidate cowardly MC's who fear his shine. The lead single "Animal Rap" may be the penultimate expression of all these qualities in one bold statement. Even without the legendary Kool G. Rap lending guest vocals, this song would still blaze mixtapes coast to coast. Stoupe's rapid-fire beat and equally staccato selection of symphonic strings is the perfect backdrop for Paz to spit out his venom:
"Yo, bust a motherfuckin gat to this
Y'all believe lies like y'all was Catholics
I rap in Arabic, so my message is just immaculate
My rap elaborate, drink a forty and blaze a sack to it
My aim is accurate, take your brain and blow out the back of it
I'm surly, miserable cat that slap shorties
Looks kinda resemble that, of Fat Paulie
I don't even clap, young boy, he claps for me
Chain hang down to my dick, I'm that gaudy
I don't even fuck wit you cats, you rap poorly
I don't even buck at you cats, you that corny
What a whack army, we barkin at you
And Vinnie Paz hold the hammer like a carpenter do
You should understand that I ain't really fuckin around
And if you don't, you gonna find your body stuffed in the ground
We buckin' em down, cuz that's how wrong my life is
Y'all don't understand how fuckin strong my wife is
I'm from a time where every song was righteous
Before rap was just a swarm of white kids"
The Verbal Hologram is far from a man of peace. Neither are the guests on the album. The first full length song on the album, "Tibetan Black Magicians," features a rap pugilist as infamous as Mike Tyson, the "2nd Round Knock Out" king Canibus himself. For those who heard the stellar "Rip the Jacker" LP that Stoupe produced, 'Bis appearance here will come as no surprise, nor will how the rapper drops more "Hip Hop Quotables" than Ludacris:
"I grab mics, bust the raw, take flight, adjust the yaw
I break your bicuspids with your own jaw
Metaphors started menopause in your moms before you were born
Technically you don't even exist, God
A flick of the wrist, you'll be gone
Lost in limbo like pink shit camouflaged in a pig farm
I'm an enigma I rip bars, or burn your star with 5 points
plus the mic I ripped thus far
I stomp on ya forehead; peel the top of your fuckin face off
like an orange then eat the carnage
My God that sounds horrid
Eatin MC's is like eatin garbage, they make me vomit
Discombobulate prostates re-hydrate dry lakes
Wipe Ammonium Nitrates across the side of ya face
Anthropomorphalogically speakin, I'm out of ya league"
While most rappers would resign their right to rhyme following such a verse, Vinnie Paz steps up with equal authority:
"Every rapper better fear me, cause Vinnie Paz is a beast
And y'all steady screamin for war but want peace
You tryin to walk through the fog where sun leaks
You tryin to walk two dogs with one leash
You can't overstand the mathematics
How I rip bars, walk through walls, perform magic
Tibetan Black Magic, I'm a warlord
I'll stab you through your fuckin temple with a floorboard
I'm a born lord, I was baptised
To see the universal through a cat's eyes
Here come the black skies; it's all darkness
I breathe life into Jesus Christ's carcass!"
Stoupe's apt samples in the chorus perfect the package, with quips like "have you ever heard the sounds of bones splitting" and "I make MC's memories.. when I end you with the murderous medley." It's hard to even begin to describe the level of perfection this triumverate achieves, but you can't help but notice that every guest on "Visions of Gandhi" delivers an all-star performance when inspired by Stoupe's beats. From various members of Non-Phixion, to Percee P, to Tragedy Khadafi, they all shine like newly minted liberty dollars. If you accept as a given the rhymes are a glororious expression of both violence and ego on par with the aforementioned Scarface flick, the only place you'd be left to criticize the album is the beats - and here you'd fail as well. Stoupe has a seemingly endless bag of tricks. "Blood in Blood Out" opens with folksy guitar and fades gradually into an onomatopoeia instrument that bops along while Paz growls "You too commercial, you still a disgrace/you like to sit around with women watchin Will & Grace" and then ups the ante with "I'm the definition of toxic/anyone who ever got close to me got sick." Yowza! Then Stoupe does it again with a syrupy somber selection for "The Rage of Angels," and then Paz does it again over Stoupe's latin-influenced "Nada Cambia" where he compares himself to dictators like Mussolini and Khomeini. At some point it's just plain redundant to say they do it again, because at no point on the album do they NOT do it. Each song is it's own slice of perfection, whether it's whimsically ominous like "A Storm of Swords" or just plain creepy like "The Wolf," they all stir your soul and release your emotions as well as any therapist ever could.
"Visions of Gandhi" comes so close to hip-hop perfection, it could be a rare "perfect 10" for RapReviews.com. Could be, but isn't. Although I can enjoy the dark savagery of Vinnie Paz rhymes, it may be so far over-the-top to be a turn off for some. There's certainly no shortage of profanity to go with the brutality either, as it's "fuckin Vinnie Paz" on almost every rap he speaks. Stoupe's beats are clearly aimed at matching his lethal rhymes and flow, and if you aren't looking for hip-hop with that much edge then it just isn't meant for you. Like Mobb Deep's "The Infamous" though, the beauty of "Visions of Gandhi" is the unmitigated excellence with which is portrays images most people would rather turn their heads away from and not see. Like a crucifix in a cup of urine, it may be art, but it may also be disgusting. While it has non of the peace of Mahatma Gandhi, it may ultimately bring about more peace by venting the darkness in a true head's hip-hop loving heart. If you're fed up with things that are happy, flossy, shiny or glossy there's no better album than "Visions of Gandhi" to unleash your inner beast. It's intelligent hip-hop you can slam dance to, or as Prodigy once said "heavy metal for the black people," except you can substitute "rap" for "black."
Music Vibes: 9 of 10 Lyric Vibes: 9 of 10 TOTAL Vibes: 9 of 10
Originally posted: October 14, 2003
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PLANTATION, Fla. & SAN FRANCISCO--(Worldreader, a nonprofit organization that advances literacy in developing countries by providing e-books to children in need. DHL Express will support Worldreader’s mission of putting 1,000,000 Amazon KindlesTM loaded with some of the world’s best-loved books into the hands of young children in Uganda, Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania before the end of 2015.)--DHL Express, the world’s leading international express services provider, announces a new partnership with
“Digital books are the most innovative, efficient way to improve literacy in developing countries, so millions can improve their lives”
“Digital books are the most innovative, efficient way to improve literacy in developing countries, so millions can improve their lives,” said David Risher, CEO and co-founder of Worldreader. “Although the transportation infrastructure in many African countries that we serve can be challenging, we’re thrilled to now work closely with a company like DHL Express which has so much experience in this diverse region.”
DHL Express was the first international express company to operate in Africa and is the only carrier to have a dedicated air network in the continent. Through the partnership, DHL Express will deliver Worldreader’s educational products to African countries, enabling the nonprofit organization to purchase more e-readers and books for distribution to those in need.
“We admire the valuable work that is being done by Worldreader and are pleased to be playing a role in spreading literacy throughout the world,” said Ian Clough, CEO of DHL Express U.S. “As a company that operates globally, our team of international specialists has seen firsthand the impact that books and education can play in shaping the lives of children.”
DHL has long been committed to corporate responsibility programs. The company’s GoTeach program creates and improves educational opportunities for children and teens around the world by partnering with organizations such as the U.S.-based Teach For All network and the SOS Children Villages.
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For more information on Worldreader, please visit www.worldreader.org.
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A member of my family is a professor and thus paid to be an expert in all things relating to Ancient Greece, that strange little experiment in history which so influenced the later Romans that they copied much of it wholesale and thus set the standard for much of modern day Europe from Britain to Romania. And yet, as I’ve written about before, the idea of what democracy means in practice and spirit is a rough melange of New World concepts of equality hidden under the veneer of Roman institutions of senate and republic, having almost nothing to do with what was in ancient Athens a kind of job lottery involving a couple of thousand men.
Winston Churchill once said that democracy is the “worst form of government except all the others that have been tried from time to time.” I happen to disagree with his conclusion but whatever your own opinion on this social ritual we call democracy here in modern Romania, today is the day when the citizens go to the polls and act out their roles in this tale full of sound and fury.
It’s been a rather miserable and bombastic affair, this year, with verbal bombs hurled from all sides via the media and nary a single debate that I’m aware of between any of the candidates. One of the closest races in the country is here in U City between the USL (red and yellow) candidate and the PDL (orange team) former mayor, who left his post years ago to become the Prime Minister and then resigned in disgrace earlier this year.
A debate was scheduled and organized between these two old white men in suits, both former Communist lackeys, to be televised locally. One man claims that he got there on time but his opponent never showed because he went to a party at a disco instead. The other man claims that he arrived on time but his opponent fled “out the fire exit” upon learning of his arrival. The debate was never held and as far as anyone knows, the two men were never in the same building at the same time, much less the same room.
These elections are set up so that whomever receives the most votes wins the office with no run-off elections even when none of the candidates manages to receive a majority of the vote (50% + 1). That looks to be the case this time here in Cluj, meaning that the mayor will most likely be elected by a minority of the voters (themselves only a fraction of the population as some people do not vote and tens of thousands of students cannot vote here in Cluj because their official residency is elsewhere). And whomever this man is who “wins” has already shown that he is unable or unwilling to sit down with anyone outside of his own party and conduct himself in a civilized manner. And this is how the third most populous city in the country will be governed.
There’s an old truism in journalism that when a dog bites a man, this is not a story worth reporting but when a man bites a dog, this is a newsworthy event. This year’s “man bites dog” story is about an widow from Dolj, aged 72 and bitterly poor, who went to her local police after being given 50 lei cash in exchange for her vote. Although not stated in the article, I certainly would wager that many people reading that would judge her to be a fool for doing that.
The ossified remains of Roman statecraft plus the imported ideas from America that all people are fundamentally equal is an imported plant that does not put down deep roots here in this soil. It is not, I fear, a system that does well in either respect – it does not adequately reflect the needs and desires of the ordinary people nor does it function well on an administrative level. Social order in Romania is largely being held together today because it is still coasting on the coattails of Communism.
Whether it was praised or loathed, Communist here in Romania provided a unified voice, a single idea, a One Right Way to do everything. On matters of conscience and policy and rule-making and law enforcement, there was the One Right Way and no space or ability to contradict it.
And this unified sense of purpose and being gave all Romanians a chance to play the national sport, not in defiance of the Communist party but with its tacit acceptance, the game of You and Yours versus The State, in which every kind of trickery, influence peddling, loophole, paperwork shuffle or any other means to defraud, cheat, bribe or get slightly around, over or through was your birthright. The rules of the One Right Way were hung on the walls and framed with iron and anyone who dissented too far from the path was punished but the common man and woman were expected and allowed to bend and wiggle and have fun getting away with the “little” crimes that “hurt nobody”.
But that glue is beginning to weaken and fray and the bonds that held the population together are fraying at the ends. The clans are rising, whether the clan of the elite hierarchy of the Orthodox church, the clans of the criminal underworld, the clans of the “barons” or the clans of the political parties whose leaders hurl invectives and venomous barbs on a daily basis against their enemies but haven’t learned that the first rule of politics is that you act civilized and smile and sit down to meet with your mortal enemies when the occasion calls for it.
No. Politics and politicians in Romania are simply men and women in suits who are the public faces of the competing clans and warlords who hold all of the power over a feudal population that toils endlessly in the fields while their masters grow rich from doing nothing. And it is a strange and newsworthy event when a serf fails to gratefully take a crumb from her lord’s table.
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Welcome to the Be !nventive website, the only source of information and support for Coventry's new City of Invention - Be !nventive proposition.
Within its pages you will find everything you need to know about what the proposition means, where it has come from and how to use it in your own organisation.
Its success will depend on everyone getting involved. Look at the Be !nventive and YOU link to have your say and share with us your experiences of inventiveness in Coventry.
Wool was the main agent for prosperity in mediaeval England and Coventry showed its inventive streak early by inventing a blue dye that gave the language an expression - True as Coventry Blue - and helped make the city one of the wealthiest in England by the mid-1300s.
Engineering gave modern Coventry its high ranking in the patent applications list (6th) and two inventions in particular - the modern bicycle from JK Starley and Frank Whittle's jet engine - will stand the test of time and must count among the most important advances in the history of transportation.
Coventry's future is dependent on the city's inventiveness, and the chief focus for that has switched to its two universities. Advances now being made by university researchers, like the development of new anti-cancer drugs, offer exciting opportunities for Coventry to develop the industries of the future.
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An FSC© Primer
What is FSC?
FSC© is an acronymn for Forest Stewardship Council. This organization sets and maintains the FSC standards, but is not actually a certifying body. In Premier's case we are certified FSC by the Rainforest Alliance organization.
The FSC© does not issue certificates itself. The certification process is carried out by independent organizations called certification bodies. Before being able to certify according to FSC standards, certification bodies have to gain FSC accreditation. To do this, certifiers have to comply with an extensive set of rules.
FSC is the only global forest management certification system with an integrated accreditation program that systematically controls its certification bodies.
What does FSC represent?
FSC is about the controlled management of the source and use of wood products, and specifically, in our case, the source and use of paper as a wood product. FSC uses a 'chain of custody' program to ensure that all FSC partner vendors and manufacturers follow a strict set of guidelines in their utilization of wood products within their respective industries.
You can find a great summary of the FSC raison d'être here.
What does FSC represent for Premier?
As an FSC-certified vendor, Premier is annually audited for proper implementation of the FSC standards. We are required to seek FSC-approval for every job utilizing the FSC brand. We are able to add the FSC brand to all jobs that require the use of FSC-approved substrates. In addition, we are able to demonstrate our commitment to sound, responsible and reasonable environmental stewardship.
What does FSC represent for our clients?
As a client, you are able to produce work with knowingly-sound environmental practice. More and more people recognize the importance of environmental stewardship. More and more also recognize the branding of organizations whose mission it is to standardize environmentally-sound procedures. We are able to assist you in the use and implementation of FSC-certified substrates and the placement of approved FSC branding on your print products.
As always, if you have any questions regarding FSC or require assistance in accurate implementation of this standard, please contact us!
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30-Jun-2001 -- After leaving 38°N 103°W (our first confluence of the day) we worked our way back to the main road. On the way we drove over the John Martin Dam instead of below it. While driving over the dam we could easily see several badly sunburned fishermen in boats. Once on the main road we headed back the way we had come. Once in the town of Wiley we got back on 287, except this time we headed further south. In the town of Springfield we crossed route 160 which we would use to head further west to our third confluence of the day. Since we were still heading to our second confluence, we ignored both Springfield and the crossing of route 160, and continued south. Just outside of the town of Campo, we turned west on road M, which was a dirt road. We traveled 18 miles on road M to road 8. Once on road 8 we went south for another 15 miles or so. As we headed south we could see many mesas rising over the horizon. These mesas were a totally unexpected feature. Ben had always imagined Oklahoma to be a totally flat and boring state. We soon headed into the small twisty canyons that wove their way between the mesas. Unexpectedly, as we approached the confluence an old couple in a sedan waved us down. They wanted to know the way to town. Since the nearest town was over twenty miles away we really didn't have a good answer for them, but gave them directions to the nearest paved road. A mile past a surreal rock formation that resembled Needles in Utah, we reached the confluence. It was 1:00 PM. The confluence was only a few feet from the point where Oklahoma, New Mexico and Colorado met. Even though this was Ben's first time in Oklahoma, he didn't do his Freddy Benson
imitation ("Oklahoma!, Oklahoma!, Oklahoma!"). The confluence turned out to be only a few feet from the road. The road was easily inside the 100 meter accuracy required. We insisted on walking a few feet out into the field, just to get all those pretty zeros on the display. The field was thoroughly populated with large, spiny cactuses. We mostly avoided stepping on them, except for one that got stuck in Ben's ankle, that he had to kick off with his other foot. Onward to 37°N 104°W.
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The battle of Gotha went all the way to the wire with the Allies eventually taking their final objective on turn twenty four, the last turn of the game. Nicks' Austrians despite having been initially repulsed stormed forward to throw Andy's stubborn defenders out and leave Dom the French commander with little choice other than to issue an order for his troops to withdraw under the cover of darkness.
Neil's Russians storm the first village to be captured in the centre of the French line, the small wood to the right would remain in French hands for the remainder of the game.
The French position was based on a crescent of five villages which curved backwards towards the French side of the battlefield from their left. A reserve consisting of a division of Young Guard and a heavy cavalry division was positioned to the rear centre of the line where it could move to reinforce any threatened areas and another division of heavy cavalry was placed on the left though the ground there was possibly not best suited to their abilities.
Andy's French await the onslaught of Nick's massed Austrians supported by Russian Cuirassier
Though the French began the game with all of their troops on table the Allies had to wait for reinforcements to arrive based on a dice throw added to the current game turn. Fortunately for them Nick was able to bring his troops on relatively early as they had the longest way to go to engage the French right. A further Austrian division arrived on table to bolster the Allied right and this was able to put heavy pressure on Eric's thinly spread troops.
The reserve Young Guard division move out to shore up the French centre right. This was the only part of the original line which remained in French hands by the end of the game.
Almost inevitably the large numerical advantage enjoyed by Neil's Allied army eventually began to tell and despite localised victories the French were eventually pushed out of all but one of their defensive points. On the final turn Nick's Austrians finally ousted their opponents and the game ended in a victory for the Allies. This was useful for Neil as his army had it been defeated would have been out of supply and forced to retreat across country with the loss of most of its' guns and a large number of troops.
The final moments of the game, Nick's Allied troops prove too strong and numerous for Andy's French.
So another Allied victory and it was once again back to map movement. However with Dom's army which had been already weakened by the loss of a large part of one corp now suffering losses in another battle the French were relying on Eric's army in the north and Andy's army in the south. Unfortunately for the French, Andy had been forced to garrison Erfurt with one of his corps and when whilst trying to withdraw out of reach of Neils' troops Andys' remaining force bumped into Schwarzenburg commanded by Steve it was all over. It was decided that a fight between Steves' untouched army backed up by the Russian guard division and Andys' battered corps would have been to uneven and Eric graciously conceded defeat in the campaign.
Althought the campaign is over we will be starting another in the near future and will implement some further rule modifications a few of which we'll be trialling in a series of one off battles starting this week. I'll list the rule mods in my next update for anyone who's interested.
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updated 07:10 pm EDT, Wed March 21, 2012
Google has unspoken limit on daily streaming
Google is now known to have an unpublished limit on the volume of music listeners can stream from their Google Play Music accounts. The company has acknowledged that it does impose a daily limit on how many songs can be streamed by an individual using Google Play. Google, however, has declined to reveal the cap, but does claim that it has been set at a very high threshold so that most listeners will never encounter it.
The limit was discovered by a user who had stored all his songs on Google Music. At one point, while he was streaming and listening, he received a message telling him that his limit for streaming music "had been exceeded." He was advised to "try again later."
While it's unclear under what circumstances the limit was triggered, it's significant that any such limitation has been put in place by Google, which implies that listening is unlimited.
This limit is about streaming, and should not be confused with the 20,000 song maximum that Google does have for how many songs can be stored on Google Music. Reaching the limit doesn't lose content but could, but could leave customers without access for hours with no real warning. [via Droid-Life]
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98 Struggling Schools May End Up in Mich. Reform District
About 100 persistently low-achieving schools in Michigan could end up in a newly created statewide reform district if they don't show significant academic improvement in the next two years.
The Michigan Department of Education cited the 98 schools as low-performing based largely on reading and math test scores, with 66 located in Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties.
Detroit Public Schools had 38 schools on the list—schools that likely will end up in the Educational Achievement Authority, the statewide reform district that was created this summer and will...
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- Princeton Public School District, Princeton, NJ
- Director of School Support
- The Achievement Network, Multiple Locations
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With current financial crisis is dominating the news I decided to do a little research to see how this crisis impacts the video game industry. I will caveat this article with the fact that I'm not a financial expert and while I did take some financial and accounting classes at one of the better business schools in the country I'm by no means and expert and a lot of what I learned has been forgotten by a combination of adult beverages and violent collisions to the head from playing hockey.
To get a good grasp on how everything went down you should first start with this excellent article
at Kiplingers which provides the background of how the situation was created. The important part starts at point number 10, the freezing of the credit market. Companies use credit in order to pay for games to get created. Just look at Midway borrowing a ton
of money just to stay afloat and work on games. Without the ability to borrow money against future earnings many companies are going to be forced to get creative with their finances, look to get bought out, or close up shop.
This impacts indie developers the most as they will not be able to get the funds they need to get their game through the increasingly costly game development process. Some will be able to make it by financing things on their credit cards but most will find it tough to get the funds they need to get their games to market without assistance from a publisher.
A lack of available cash could also put the kibosh on merger and acquisition activity as a lot of companies will occasionally borrow money to finance the acquisition of another company. EA built up a large reserve of cash
to acquire Take Two but I'm guessing that kind of money would be hard to come by today.
The biggest impact though could be on the consumer side. While games have been fairly recession proof in the past the cascading effects of upcoming corporate closures and mergers will certainly have an impact on the amount of discretionary income people have to spend on games. It will be interesting to see when and if this begins impact the monthly NPD numbers.
I don't think this covers everything as there are a lot of different scenarios on how things could go do but I did want to illustrate how the financial crisis could impact the gaming industry in the months to come. The good news is that the big publishers have plenty of cash on hand to weather the storm but some of the smaller publishers are either going to get bought out or go dark in the coming months. It's certainly going to be interesting to see how things pan out. If I've missed something or left something out please leave a comment and we'll update the article accordingly.
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Hillary Clinton recommended her husband to be the new U.S. Ambassador to Libya and Bill Clinton has agreed to the post.
Many have wondered how former president Bill Clinton would be repaid for his support of Barack Obama during the last election. Hillary Clinton told her boss, President Obama, that her husband would be the perfect man for the Libyan job. President Obama agreed and Bill will be heading to Libya in January. Some inside the White House are already calling him – Benghazi Bill.
Bill has been popular in the Mideast, having been “active in shepherding the peace process.” There’s a statue of Bill Clinton that was recently erected at a golf course in Tripoli.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton responded to questions about her husband’s new job. ”I know Bill will do well in Libya. If anyone can bring peace to that region, it is Bill.”
“I think I may even run for President of Libya,” Bill reportedly told the Tripoli Times.
Bill Clinton originally wanted the British Ambassador job, but that is now is going to Anna Wintour.
Meanwhile, plenty of rumors are circulating about Bill Clinton’s wife as well. Hillary Clinton is stepping down from her post of Secretary of State, leading some to speculate about who will replace her. Insiders say that Jay-Z may be replacing her.
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FBI Finds Nixon Aides Sabotaged Democrats
By Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
FBI agents have established that the Watergate bugging incident stemmed from a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage conducted on behalf of President Nixon's re-election and directed by officials of the White House and the Committee for the Re-election of the President.
The activities, according to information in FBI and Department of Justice files, were aimed at all the major Democratic presidential contenders and -- since 1971 -- represented a basic strategy of the Nixon re-election effort.
During their Watergate investigation, federal agents established that hundreds of thousands of dollars in Nixon campaign contributions had been set aside to pay for an extensive undercover campaign aimed at discrediting individual Democratic presidential candidates and disrupting their campaigns.
"Intelligence work" is normal during a campaign and is said to be carried out by both political parties. But federal investigators said what they uncovered being done by the Nixon forces is unprecedented in scope and intensity.
They said it included:
Following members of Democratic candidates' families and assembling dossiers on their personal lives; forging letters and distributing them under the candidates' letterheads; leaking false and manufactured items to the press; throwing campaign schedules into disarray; seizing confidential campaign files; and investigating the lives of dozens of Democratic campaign workers.
In addition, investigators said the activities included planting provocateurs in the ranks of organizations expected to demonstrate at the Republican and Democratic conventions; and investigating potential donors to the Nixon campaign before their contributions were solicited.
Informed of the general contents of this article, The White House referred all comment to The Committee for the Re-election of the President. A spokesman there said, "The Post story is not only fiction but a collection of absurdities." Asked to discuss the specific points raised in the story, the spokesman, DeVan L. Shumway, refused on grounds that "the entire matter is in the hands of the authorities."
Law enforcement sources said that probably the best example of the sabotage was the fabrication by a White House aide -- of a celebrated letter to the editor alleging that Sen. Edmund S. Muskie (D-Maine) condoned a racial slur on Americans of French-Canadian descent as "Canucks."
The letter was published in the Manchester Union Leader Feb 24, less than two weeks before the New Hampshire primary. It in part triggered Muskie's politically damaging "crying speech" in front of the newspaper's office.
Washington Post staff writer Marilyn Berger reported that Ken W. Clawson, deputy director of White House communications, told her in a conversation on September 25th that, "I wrote the letter."
Interviewed again yesterday, Clawson denied that he had claimed authorship of the "Canuck" letter, saying the reporter must have misunderstood him. "I know nothing about it," Clawson said.
William Loeb, publisher of the Manchester paper, said yesterday that although the person who signed the letter -- a Paul Morrison of Deerfield Beach, Fla. -- has never been located, "I am convinced that it is authentic."
However, Loeb said he is investigating the possibility that the letter is a fabrication because of another letter he received about two weeks ago. The recent letter, Loeb said, maintains that another person was paid $1,000 to assist with the "Canuck" hoax.
B. J. McQuaid, Editor-in-Chief of the Union-Leader, said earlier this year that Clawson had been "useful" to the paper in connection with the "Canuck" letter. Though McQuaid did not elaborate, he too said that he believed the original letter was authentic.
Clawson, a former Washington Post reporter, said yesterday that he met McQuaid only briefly during the New Hampshire primary while lunching in the state with editors of the newspaper.
He denied that he provided any assistance with the letter. Clawson said the first time he heard of the "Canuck" letter was when "I saw it on television" following the Muskie speech.
Immediately following his "crying speech," Muskie's standing in the New Hampshire primary polls began to slip and he finished with only 48 percent of the Democratic primary vote -- far short of his expectations.
Three attorneys have told The Washington Post that, as early as mid-1971, they were asked to work as agents provocateurs on behalf of the Nixon campaign. They said they were asked to undermine the primary campaigns of Democratic candidates by a man who has been identified in FBI reports as an operative of the Nixon re-election organization.
All three lawyers, including one who is an assistant attorney general of Tennessee, said they turned down the offers, which purportedly included the promise of "big jobs" in Washington after President Nixon's re-election. They said the overtures were made by Donald H. Segretti, 31, a former Treasury Department lawyer who lives in Marina Del Ray, Calif.
Segretti denied making the offers and refused to answer a reporter's questions.
One federal investigative official said that Segretti played the role of "just a small fish in a big pond." According to FBI reports, at least 50 undercover Nixon operatives traveled throughout the country trying to disrupt and spy on Democratic campaigns.
Both at the White House and within the President's re-election committee, the intelligence-sabotage operation was commonly called the "offensive security" program of the Nixon forces, according to investigators.
Perhaps the most significant finding of the whole Watergate investigation, the investigators say, was that numerous specific acts of political sabotage and spying were all traced to this "offensive security," which was conceived and directed in the White House and by President Nixon's re-election committee.
The investigators said that a major purpose of the sub rosa activities was to create so much confusion, suspicion and dissension that the Democrats would be incapable of uniting after choosing a presidential nominee.
The FBI's investigation of the Watergate established that virtually all the acts against the Democrats were financed by a secret, fluctuating $350,000 -$700,000 campaign fund that was controlled by former Attorney General John N. Mitchell while he headed the Justice Department. Later, when he served as President Nixon's campaign manager, Mitchell shared control of the fund with others. The money was kept in a safe in the office of the President's chief fundraiser, former Secretary of Commerce Maurice Stans.
According to sources close to the Watergate investigation, much of the FBI's information is expected to be revealed at the trial of the seven men indicted on charges of conspiring to eavesdrop on Democratic headquarters at the Watergate.
"There is some very powerful information," said one federal official, "especially if it becomes known before Nov. 7."
A glimpse of the Nixon campaign's spying and disruptions are to be found in the activities of Segretti. According to investigators, Segretti's work was financed through middlemen by the $350,000-$700,000 fund.
Asked by The Washington Post to discuss Segretti, three FBI and Justice Department officials involved in the Watergate probe refused. At the mention of Segretti's name, each said -- in the words of one -- "That's part of the Watergate investigation." One of the officials, however, became angry at the mention of Segretti's name and characterized his activities as "indescribable."
Segretti, visited in his West Coast apartment last week by Washington Post special correspondent Robert Meyers, repeatedly answered questions by saying, "I don't know." "I don't have to answer that." And "No comment." After 15 minutes, he said: "This is material for a good novel, it's ridiculous," and chased the reporter outside when he attempted to take a picture.
According to the three attorneys interviewed by The Post, Segretti attempted to hire them in 1971 as undercover agents working on behalf of President Nixon's re-election. All three said they first met Segretti in 1968, when they served together in Vietnam as captains in the Army Judge Advocate General Corps.
One of the lawyers, Alex B. Shipley, a Democrat who is now assistant attorney general of Tennessee, said Segretti told him, "Money would be no problem, but the people we would be working for wanted results for the cash that would be spent."
Shipley, 30 added: "He (Segretti) also told me that we would be taken care of after Nixon's re-election, that I would get a good job in the government."
According to Shipley, Segretti said that the undercover work would require false identification papers under an assumed name; that Shipley recruit five more persons, preferably lawyers, for the job; that they would attempt to disrupt the schedules of Democratic candidates and obtain information from their campaign organizations; that Shipley would not reveal to Segretti the names of the men he would hire; and that Segretti could never reveal to Shipley specifically who was supplying the money for the operation.
Shipley recalled in a telephone interview: "I said, 'How in hell are we going to be taken care of if no one knows what we're doing?' and Segretti said: 'Nixon knows that something is being done. It's a typical deal.' Segretti said, 'Don't-tell-me-anything-and-I-won't-know.'"
Segretti's first approach, said Shipley, came on June 27, 1971. "He called me before then and told me he would be in Washington and he came to a dinner party at my apartment at South Four Towers (4600 S. Four Mile Run Drive, Arlington) the night before," said Shipley. "Nothing was said about it then. The next morning I met him for breakfast and drove him to the airport -- Dulles."
According to Shipley, he picked Segretti up that morning, a Sunday, at the Georgetown Inn, where -- hotel records show -- a Donald H. Segretti stayed in room 402 on June 25, and June 26,1971 (total bill $54.75, including $2.25 in telephone calls). In addition, travel records obtained by The Washington Post show that Segretti bought a Washington-San Francisco-Monterey (Calif.) airline ticket on June 27 (departure Dulles).
On the way to Dulles, said Shipley, Segretti "first mentioned the deal. He asked would I be interested because I was getting out of the Army. We were both setting out shortly...and didn't have anything lined up. He mentioned on the way to Dulles that we would do a little political espionage."
Shipley continued: "I said, 'What are you talking about?' He (Segretti) said: 'For instance, we'll go to a Kennedy rally and find an ardent Kennedy worker. Then you say that you're a Kennedy man too but you're working behind the scenes; you get them to help you. You send them to work for Muskie, stuffing envelopes or whatever, and you get them to pass you the information. They'll think that they are helping Kennedy against Muskie. But actually you're using the information for something else.
"It was very strange," Shipley recalled. "Three quarters of the way to the airport I said, 'Well, who will we be working for?' He said, 'Nixon' and I was really taken aback, because all the actions he had talked about would have taken place in the Democratic primaries. He (Segretti) said the main purpose was that the Democrats have an ability to get back together after a knockdown, drag-out campaign. What we want to do is wreak enough havoc so they can't."
Shipley said he told Segretti, "Well, it sounds interesting; let me think about it."
In addition to Shipley, Roger Lee Nixt of Dennison, Iowa, and Kenneth Griffiths of Atlanta, Ga., said they turned down similar offers from Segretti, with whom they served in Vietnam. Both declined to discuss the offers in detail, but they acknowledged that Segretti had told them they would be engaged in sub rosa activities -- similar to those described by Shipley -- to aid President Nixon's re-election.
Still another lawyer who served with Segretti in Vietnam, Peter Dixon of San Francisco, also said Segretti made him an offer. However, Dixon said he told Segretti, "No thanks," before any details of the job were revealed. I said, "Gee, I'm not interested in political matters, and I'm not a Republican anyway," said Dixon.
The most detailed account of Segretti's activities was given by Shipley, who said he wrote a memorandum to himself about the episode, "because it all seemed so strange."
At one point during the four-month period when Segretti was trying to recruit him, said Shipley, he approached a friend who worked for Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.) and was advised to try and "string him (Segretti) out to see what he's up to." Although "I don't like these type of shenanigans," Shipley said, he never subsequently contacted anyone else about the matter and said he has not been questioned by the FBI about Segretti.
During a meeting on July 25, said Shipley, Segretti "didn't go into much detail because it was mostly 'Are you with me or not?'" When he asked Segretti exactly what would be expected of him, in participating in clandestine activities, Shipley said he was told:
"'Enlist people, be imaginative' One thing he stressed was asking lawyers because he didn't want to do anything illegal. It wasn't represented as a strictly strong-arm operation. He stressed what fun we could have. As an example, he gave this situation:
"'When a rally is scheduled at 7 p.m. at a local coliseum by a particular candidate, you call up and represent to the manager that you're the field manager for this candidate and you have some information that some rowdies, some hippies or what-have-you are going to cause trouble. So you ask him to move the rally up to 9 o'clock -- thereby insuring that the place would be padlocked when the candidate showed up at 7.'"
Shipley said he was asked by Segretti to fly to Atlanta to enlist their Army colleague, Kenneth Griffiths, in the project, but that he never made the trip. However, when visiting Griffiths last Christmas, said Shipley, "Griffiths mentioned to me that Segretti had been in contact with him and that Griffith had expressed absolutely no interest at all."
The last time he heard from Segretti, said Shipley, was on Oct 23.1971, when "he called from California and asked me to check into Muskie's operation in Tennessee...I just never did anything about it"
"At one time during these conjectural discussions," Shipley continued, "Segretti said it might be good to get a false ID to travel under, that it would be harder for anyone to catch up with us. He mentioned he might use the pseudonym Bill Mooney for himself...
"Segretti said he wanted to cover the country," Shipley continued, "that he would be more or less the head coordinator for the country. But some of the things he proposed to do didn't seem that damaging, like getting a post office box in the name of the Massachusetts Safe Driving Committee and awarding a medal to Teddy Kennedy -- with announcements sent to the press."
"The one important thing that struck me was that he seemed to be well-financed," Shipley said. "He was always flying across the country. When he came to Washington in June he said he had an appointment at the Treasury Department and that the Treasury Department was picking up the tab on this -- his plane and hotel bill."
Segretti later told him, Shipley said that "it wasn't the Treasury Department that had paid the bill, it was the Nixon people. He said, 'Don't ask me any names.'"
(According to travel records, Segretti criss-crossed the country at least half of 1971. Stops included Miami, Houston, Manchester, N.H., Knoxville, Los Angeles, New York, Washington, Salt Lake City, Chicago, Portland, Ore., Albuquerque, Tucson, San Francisco, Monterey and several other California cities.)
(Federal investigators identified the following jurisdictions as the locations of the most concentrated Nixon undercover activity: Illinois, New York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, California, Texas, Florida, and Washington, D.C.)
Segretti told him one other major element about his covert work, said Shipley: "He intended to go into a law firm near Los Angeles by the name of Young and Segretti -- he said it was a cover, that he would be doing only political work."
According to the California Bar Association, Segretti's law office is at 14013 West Captain's Row, Marina Del Rey, California.
There in an apartment surrounded by comfortable furniture, piles of photograph records, tomato plants, a stereo receiver, a tape deck and a l0-speed bike, Segretti was found last week by Post special correspondent Myers.
Questioned whether he knew Alex Shipley, Roger Lee Nixt, Kenneth Griffiths, or Peter Dixon, Segretti asked, "Why?" Informed that they had said Segretti attempted to recruit them for undercover political work, he replied "I don't believe it." Then he declined to answer a series of questions except to say either, "I don't know," "No comment," or some similar response.
At one point, Segretti said: "This is all ridiculous and I don't know anything about this." At another point he said: "The Treasury Department never paid my way to Washington or anywhere else." Biographical details about Segretti, who stands about 5 feet 8 and weighs about 150 pounds, are minimal.
From Army colleagues and classmates at the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California in Berkeley, it is known that he was raised on the West Coast.
After receiving his law degree, he served as a Treasury Department attorney in Washington for less than a year, according to friends , and then entered the Army as an officer in the Army Judge Advocate General Corps.
A Treasury Department spokesman confirmed that Segretti, in 1966 and 1967, worked as an attorney in the office of the Comptroller of the Currency here.
About a year of Segretti's Army service, friends said, was spent in Vietnam, with American Division headquarters in Chulai and U.S. Army Vietnam headquarters at Longbinh.
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Can anyone tell me anything about the family of Robert and Harriet Flint Sandifer? He was born 10 May 1790 VA and died before 1870 in Oldham Co. KY. She was born abt 1808 VA and died after 1870. I think their first 6 children were born in Mercer Co. KY and their last 4 children (Milo, Joseph, Richard and Mary E.)were born in Oldham Co. KY. Would like to contact a descendant or researcher of this family.
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Newly passed amendments placing all six social security funds under the Ministry Labour and Employment and directing harmonisation of benefits calculations in a bid to improve the sector have been well received.
Under the previous set up each social security fund was formed under its own law, reported to a different authority and used different formula to calculate benefits for its members.
Members interviewed by The Guardian said the measures would go a long way in improving the way the funds served members and their sustainability.
“We are happy that there will be freedom for members to choose the fund they wanted to join,” said Hamad Said of Temeke, pointing out that it was also a wake-up call for funds offering members poor services.
Siegfrid Kalau of a firm in Dar’s IT sector said he hoped the Social Security Regulatory Authority would strictly ensure that members’ funds are invested wisely.
Before the amendments the Parastatal Pension Fund (PPF), Public Service Pension Fund (PSPF) and Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) reported to the ministry of Finance, while the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) was under the Ministry of Labour and Employment and the Local Authorities Pensions Fund (LAPF) came under the Prime Minister’s Office (Regional Administration).
The National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) reported to the ministry of Health and Social Welfare.
The amendments presented to the House by the Minister for Labour and Employment Gaudencia Kabaka Social Security Funds besides harmonising the benefits calculations formulae, also requires that it take into account the entire service period of a member, life span after retirement, the pension value compared to the avalanche of value for money and inflation, as well as service integration for members who had worked in different places.
Social Security Regulatory Authority act no.8 of year 2008, section 30 requires all employers to give new employees the opportunity to join a social security fund of their choice.
The amendments also open the door for competition in membership registration, with the criteria for all Social Security Funds being good service delivery and additional products from those stated by ILO Convention 102.
Minister Kabaka said the more than 150 amendments aimed to change Social Security Funds laws, Authority law, and Insurance law and include missing provisions to improve social security services, benefits, reduce operating costs, provide guidelines, including investment guidelines.
She said many members had complained of not benefiting from investments made by Social Security Funds.
She said the government through the Social Security Regulatory Authority aimed to ensure sustainability of the funds, protect interest of members, increase coverage and reduce the burden to the Government. The amendments empower Authority to set benefit calculation formulae, issue regulations, conduct actuarial valuation, conduct compliance and other function as stated in the SSRA act section 5 with exception of policy issues.
It was also the government vision that eventually every Tanzanian would become a member of social security funds.
She said the amendments also entailed changing names of some Funds to enable them to register members in the market both from formal and informal sectors. Currently only 3.5 percent of all Tanzanians are members of Social Security Funds and only 6.5 percent of the work force are members of schemes.
Number of board members both for the Authority and the Social Security Funds has been reviewed and clearly stated that it will range between 7-9 depending on the size of the Fund, also enabling good representation of employers, employees, governments and professionals.
Social Security Funds Investments will be guided by investment guidelines to be issued by Authority in collaboration with the central bank.
According to new changes any employer with foreign employees will have to remit all employees’ contributions to the Social Security Funds, regardless to their nationality as this will increase coverage, membership and size of the fund.
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WHITBY -- State Farm Insurance is encouraging residents of Whitby to attend a special event for the launch of a teen driver safety program called Celebrate My Drive. The company will be rallying communities across North America to promote teen driver safety by hosting more than 350 events simultaneously on Sept. 15. Car crashes are the number one killer of Canadian teens, and their first year on the road as a new driver is the most dangerous. While traditional scare tactics can be engaging for some, State Farm believes a supportive and positive approach to teen driver safety, in addition to education, awareness, legislation and enforcement is key to keeping teens safe on the road. Community members can show their support by voting for a local high school to win a $100,000 grant at www.celebratemydrive.com between Sept. 10 and Sept. 15. State Farm is offering more than a dozen $100,000 grants to high schools across Canada and the United States. The event will be held on Saturday, Sept. 15 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at All Saints Catholic Secondary School, 3001 Country Ln., Whitby. There will also be a barbecue, snacks and a visit from members of Durham Regional Police's traffic services branch.
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The following thoughts are ramblings, straight out of my hat, and I’ve probably completely missed the point. Maybe someone out there has more experience with this topic and can offer a few helpful pointers?
I’ve been wrestling with the concept of Negative Space. I’m told that it’s taught at most basic art classes, and it humbles me to realize I was never at such classes (after leaving school). What I remember from school is very little; I don’t think they threw about such terms as ‘negative space’! They just said “please draw this old boot.”
There is doubtless very little ‘negative space’ in any of my fractal wallpapers. Someone (without seeing my work) mentioned ‘negative space’ the same evening I’d finished an abstract with ornate detail and vibrant colours in every pixel of it. The irony wasn’t lost on me. Perhaps I should have a sign above my desk saying, ‘Negative space? Not around here.’
Nevertheless, I’ve been on a mission to work out what it is and what relevance it has to my own work, so I’ve been Googling… and the more I read, the more confused I get. People post ‘examples’ of negative space, and I think to myself “but that doesn’t fit with the descriptions I’ve read.” Sometimes the negative space in such an example is so overwhelming, so in focus, so much part of the picture that it becomes the main subject. Meanwhile the main subject is insignificant and not that interesting, a bit like a fly on flat yellow paint. Is that an example of negative space?
(Brings to mind the lost swimmer in a storm-tossed sea at the end of The Perfect Storm. At first it focuses on the swimmer, then it draws back and back and back, so you see more and more of the sea, and slowly realize how huge and black that ‘space’ is… the swimmer is just a dot; in fact, not visible any more. Where do you cross the boundary between the sea being the ‘negative space’ and the sea being the main subject? Perhaps the sea never was negative space).
I’m told it’s all right (though not obligatory) for a negative space to become more interesting than the positive space… but there has to be a good balance. What comprises a ‘good’ balance is left up in the air; possibly it depends on good composition and whatever you’re trying to do; trying to focus on.
OK, so I read somewhere that negative space, more traditionally, is a ‘non-distracting background’ that enhances the subject, and isn’t merely non-distracting.
I like that, but then you read about studies of objects such as chairs, where you draw the spaces in and around the chair, but not the chair itself. That goes beyond ‘background’… that, to me, is something else.
‘Negative space’ must be in most (or all) pictures, but is not necessarily good, in that you might have a photo of a child with a cluttered background. The clutter in general is as much ‘positive space’ as the child is, along with anything else that distracts or holds the attention… but that doesn’t mean there’s no negative space; just, probably, that it’s not a good example of it. The differentiations, then, are only in degrees of how well the negative space works, and how uncluttered and ‘clean’ the positive space is.
Maybe one person has a view of what negative space is, and uses the term to describe this, whereas someone else has a different use for it. I wonder if negative space isn’t just what it is… the area surrounding an object… whereas the relevance it has to art tend to shift. Perhaps asking people to draw the area around an object has helped them draw better or pay more attention to background and composition, but I wonder if defining negative space by the specific value you attach to it doesn’t confuse, rather than clarify.
I wonder if there aren’t more down-to-earth ways of expressing what an artist or photographer should be looking for and trying to do?
Mum told me just now that she remembered something from her own art classes — what she said was written down so it’s not half-remembered:
“When I was taught Art at school we were told that there was no such thing as an outline. There was only contrast between background and foreground — light and dark that made objects appear to us as having outlines — a trick of the mind. So a child draws a house [draws basic house] but that’s not how it works really.”
That fits in well with the concept of the background throwing the main subject into sharp relief in some cases, or ‘accentuating’ it, but I’m not sure how it fits in with the drawing studies of what are essentially outlines… the shapes of the background being observed through and around a chair, for example. I read somewhere that children are viewed as having an instinctive grasp of negative space when they are young, but adults seem to have lost the knack. What Mum was taught about the wrongness of childish houses flies in the face of that (or does it?) Perhaps it’s part and parcel of the same perceptions… or has nothing to do with it at all.
Probably at Mum’s school they talked about contrast and balance rather than ‘negative space’.
I brought up the subject of people drawing the space around rather than the actual object, and Mum frowned and said “I’m getting an arty headache. Maybe you should sit and stare at something till the background takes it over.”
An example of negative space I’ve seen mentioned on several sites is of Bugs Bunny running through a closed door, leaving only a Bugs Bunny shaped hole. Apparently the bunny-shaped space is the main subject, and the door is the negative space. (Though in other places I’ve seen photos of objects with designs cut in them, and the hole was described as being the negative space whereas the object with the hole in it was the positive space). A lot of people seem to find the Bugs Bunny example illuminating, but it just fogs me up even more. To me the door is the main subject… or rather, the door with a bunny-shaped hole in it is the main subject. Bugs Bunny has left the building, and isn’t the subject any more. The negative space, if any, would be anything else that was in the picture… carpet, wallpaper, lamps, table, anything you probably weren’t really looking at, but which sets the tone. Perhaps I haven’t ‘got’ it yet; perhaps my attention is on the wrong things, or I’ve conjured up the wrong picture in my imagination.
There are light moments in everything, however, and I smiled when I came across something by a blogger who said he tended to post about things he only had a certain amount of interest in, but stores away items of even greater interest because they needed to be explored in greater detail. And so they never get written up, or are eventually dealt with only sketchily. (Don’t I know the feeling?) He finished by claiming that readers should read the white space on his blog rather than the words themselves, as the real value lies in what isn’t there.
See A weblog in negative space…
This morning when I woke up, the song in my head was ‘The Space Between’ by Roxy Music. It’s still there.
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At the beginning of September, Finance Minister Halvorsen announced Norway’s divestment from the Israeli company Elbit due to “ethical concerns.” Elbit provides security systems for Israel’s wall in the West Bank and illegal settlements as well as unmanned aerial vehicles (commonly known as drones) and other technology for the Israeli military. According to many Middle East analysts and human rights groups, Othman played a pivotal role in Norway’s decision to disassociate from Elbit.
Norway’s severing of ties with Elbit is just one of the recent successes of the BDS campaign. The Africa-Israel Group, a company led by Israeli diamond mogul Lev Leviev which is involved construction of illegal Israeli settlements, has recently plummeted as investors have pulled out. While Africa-Israel’s recent decline has been due in large part to the global economic downturn, the attention of BDS activists has made associating with the company and its chairman politically unpalatable. Amongst those who have distanced themselves from Africa-Israel is the United Kingdom’s government. In March, the UK cancelled plans to move its Tel Aviv embassy into a building owned by the company.
The Israeli daily Haaretz reported on 6 September that Israel chose a subdued response to the news of Norway’s divestment from Elbit. But the continued detention of Othman seems to suggest that the Israeli government feels increasingly threatened by the BDS movement.
Arthur Nelsen, Middle East analyst and author of the forthcoming book In Your Eyes a Sandstorm, comments that “The Othman case indicates a fear of the BDS movement among Israel’s political and security elite, particularly when it has the ear of foreign governments.” Nelsen added that “Locking up nonviolent opponents suggests a stunning lack of confidence among Israel’s leaders in their ability to argue their case, still less win it. It bears all the hallmarks of an authoritarian campaign to silence nonviolent critics of the occupation.”
Othman’s imprisonment also highlights a government intent on punishing Palestinians who speak out in international forums. In a statement given to The Electronic Intifada, Addameer, a Palestinian prisoner support and human rights association, pointed to the July detention of Mohammed Srour as another example. Srour, 38, was detained at the Allenby Crossing on 21 July as he attempted to return to the occupied West Bank from Geneva, where he spoke before the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict. In Geneva, Srour testified to the shooting deaths of two protestors who sustained their fatal injuries at a West Bank demonstration when Israeli soldiers opened fire on the crowd. Srour was held for three days in an Israeli military prison. After posting bail, he was released without charges.
In 2008, Gaza journalist Mohammed Omer was detained and beaten by Shin Bet (Israel’s internal security agency known as the Shabak) upon his return from a speaking tour in Europe, where he had been awarded a prestigious journalism prize for his coverage of the Israeli blockade on Gaza.
Othman’s high-profile story has also brought international attention to the plight of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. There are currently 355 Palestinians being held in Israeli military prisons without trial, 29 of which have been held for as long as two to five years straight, according to a recent report by the Israeli non-governmental organizations HaMoked and B’Tselem. In almost all of these cases, the detainee is imprisoned on the basis of “privileged evidence” provided by Shabak. Neither the client nor the defense attorney has access to the evidence, thereby rendering them powerless to dispute Israel’s allegations.
Ironically, Israel’s attempts to silence Othman have only strengthened the voice of nonviolent resistance. Othman’s continued detention has gained sympathetic coverage from a variety of media outlets. In mid-October, a protest calling for Mohammed Othman’s immediate release was held in Manhattan, outside of the Madison Avenue jewelry store owned by Africa-Israel mogul Lev Leviev. The action, organized by the New York City based group Adalah-NY, brought publicity to both the BDS movement and Othman’s important place in it.
In a public statement, Adalah-NY’s Andrew Kadi commented, “Israel’s arrest of Mohammed Othman … simply affirms the need for a global movement of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS), similar to the movement against apartheid South Africa, to hold Israel accountable and to pressure Israel to respect Palestinian rights.”
Mya Guarnieri is a Tel Aviv-based journalist and writer and a regular contributor to The Jerusalem Post. Her work has also appeared in Outlook India —- India’s equivalent to and subsidiary of Newsweek —- as well as The National, The Forward, Maan News Agency, Common Ground News Service, Zeek, The Khaleej Times, Daily News Egypt and other international publications.
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Syracuse (WSYR-TV) - Adderall is a prescription drug used to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, but now more and more women in their 20s and 30s are turning to drug for relief.
Many of those women don’t have a prescription; they’re using the drug to cope with the demands of life.
Kelsey Barber once used Adderall and now she’s warning others about its dangerous and potentially deadly impact, after the experience wasn’t quite what she expected.
"It was like a roller coaster of I'm tired but I’m awake. It was hard to sleep and it would make it hard for the next day when I was tired but couldn't sleep,” Barber said.
Barber says she always felt anxious and could barely function, let alone make it through the day.
"You don't really have an appetite that's what makes you crash is the lack of eating and your blood sugar gets really low and you just feel like crap,” Barber said.
But hundreds of women like Barber are gravitating to the drug because it kills their appetite, helping them lose weight.
Others say it gives them just the boost they need to accomplish daily tasks.
“Even when prescribed appropriately sometimes it can cause problems as a stimulant, it can increase heart rate, increase blood pressure,” said Dr. Davidd Levy of the Family Medical Group.
The drug is used to help with focus and concentration, but can become addictive.
In eight years, Adderall prescription for women between ages 26 and 39 have gone up 750 percent.
“Can this be deadly? Absolutely, Adderall has the side effects besides just the inconvenient side effects like palpitations and high-blood pressure,” said Levy.
“For people that take it and they feel good and their grades are going up, their productive and losing weight, it could be very addictive and they can't function like a normal person without it,” Barber said. “It’s not good…you can’t live like that. I don’t recommend it.”
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I want to send 12.5e6 SPS I/Q data to several host over 1 Gbit ethernet. I tried to set dest IP to 10.0.0.255 to have a broadcast with no success. Seem UDP sink waits for open port on dest IP before start sending any data. Any ideas how multicast of the same data can be done?
on 2013-01-16 13:49
on 2013-01-18 18:57
My idea was to have 1 usrp sampling spectrum of 12.5 MHz and send the data to all PCs in the class room. Seem that is not possible on swiched LAN. What I made is to put 2 LAN adapters on every PC (except last one). First PC is connected to USRP on first adapter and on second it is connected to the next PC. Simple GRC flow grapht recives signal from USRP and sends it to 127.0.0.1 and IP of the next PC. Next PC recive signal from first one send data to 127.0.0.1 and to the IP of the next PC. Same again and again .... Seem it works with 1Gbit LAN adapters. :) I haven't saw any lost frames. Used PCs are with Intel i3 precessors. Hope it will be usefull for teachers with small buget :)
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Data Summary Shows the US Economy Is in Jeopardy, Part 1
An overview of all the factors at play leads to one inevitable conclusion.
The economy is at one of those crossroads where something is going to happen. Whether that will be a positive or a negative is often difficult to tell because at any time one of those “black swans” could land in our midst and change everything. Plans are fluid and and forecasting can be quixotic. That said, I believe we are at a critical point, and the US economy is heading for a fall.
To understand what “tomorrow” might be, we need to look at today and try to tie those threads together. Here is my analysis step by step, and you can decide if you agree with my conclusions.
I have been looking at a lot of data reports in terms of an overall view of the economy. I apologize for all of the charts and data, but they offer some insight into trends.
Both the Producer Price Index and the Consumer Price Index have shown modest price increases, but may be trending negative.
Producer Price Index:
On a 12-month basis, finished goods have gone up 5.9%, intermediate goods up 8.3%, and crude goods up 12.6%. However, the recent trend is down, as the above chart shows.
Consumer Price Index:
Consumer prices declined 0.1%, and core (less energy and food) went up 0.1%. On a year-over-year basis, prices have increased 3.5%, but that is down from 3.9% the prior month, mainly due to energy costs.
Industrial production as measured by shipments showed a 0.7% gain in October, and the 12-month index was up 3.9%.
The important factory sector output was up 0.5% in October and up 4.1% for the 12 months. The only negative here, and it is a significant one, is that new orders are flat, but may not be declining:
The more telling ISM Manufacturing Index shows some weakness:
The capital goods sector has been showing strong growth:
Business sales and inventories are also steady:
But note that these numbers are nominal, not adjusted for inflation.
Retail sales and food services were up 0.5% for October, and 7.2% year over year. Again, these numbers are not adjusted for inflation. They are steady but have been flat (±) since August 2010.
Wages and Earnings
Real wages continue to be weak. While real wages increased 0.3% in October, that was after a CPI adjustment ((earnings +0.2)+(CPI -0.1%)). On a year-over-year basis, real earnings are down 1.6%. “An unchanged average workweek combined with the decline in real average hourly earnings resulted in a 1.7 percent decrease in real average weekly earnings during the same period,” according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Bank credit conditions are still sluggish.
Consumer credit increased at an annual rate of 1.5% in the third quarter. Revolving credit decreased at an annual rate of 3.25%, while nonrevolving credit increased 3.75%. In September consumer credit increased at an annual rate of 3.5%. Revolving credit is credit card debt; nonrevolving debt is mostly auto loans and student loans. Generally, consumer credit has been rather flat except for auto loans, which have been up and down, but mostly up:
What has changed is that commercial and industrial loans have grown, especially at small domestic banks. Look at the Fed’s H.8 commercial bank commercial and industrial (C&I) loans in 2011 (note: I modified this chart to fit):
(Note that “Other consumer loans” are mostly auto loans. This consumer credit data is slightly different than the Fed’s G.19 data on consumer credit, above.)
What we see is that C&I loans took off starting in the first quarter of 2011. While the data for large domestic banks shows steady C&I loan growth since the fourth quarter of 2009, small domestic bank C&I lending shot up in the first quarter of 2011, from zero base to $20 billion:
Even more surprising is that average loan size for small banks increased from about $100,000 to almost $650,000. One might conclude from this that the credit freeze is over and small banks are lending and small to medium business enterprises (SMEs) are borrowing, thus indicating a recovery.
What is happening?
The main reason for this sudden increase in loan activity is competition. Ever since Dodd-Frank, banks have been scrambling to figure out how to make more money, as many credit card and other account fees were prohibited in an attempt to protect consumers. One way to offset that loss is to gain more business customers, and there has been a scramble by both large and small banks for SME customers.
Small banks have the most to gain or lose in this competition because SMEs are their territory. So they are pursuing customers. Many also believe that there is a window of opportunity with favorable spreads and thus the timing is critical to expand business before that window closes. The initial beneficiaries seem to be the banks in the $5 billion to $10 billion asset range, which are classified as small banks. Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, an investment bank specializing in services to the banking sector said:
[Damon DelMonte, an analyst with KBW Inc.'s Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Inc.] said banks reporting loan growth are taking a bigger slice of the pie, but the pie isn’t getting much bigger. “We’re not of the belief that the demand for new loans is really ramping up,” he said. “It seems like it’s more of a shifting of market share. Smaller banks are going to benefit at the expense of larger banks.“
This was also confirmed by the Fed’s October 2011 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices, where they reported increased competition, but that loan demand was weak:
I will explain the significance of this data further on.
On the international scene, imports were actually down slightly, which was seen as a positive by most analysts (I see it as a negative):
Exports have been a substantial driver of the economy ($2.117 trillion):
International Capital Flows
The Treasury International Capital Report shows us that money continues to flow into the US seeking refuge mainly in Treasuries:
Here is a summary of the above data:
2. Prices are starting to decline both at the producer and consumer level. Oil prices are likely to decline as worldwide economic activity slows. But, as we know, political shocks from producers can alter this forecast dramatically.
3. Retail sales, adjusted for price inflation, continue to be flat to declining.
4. Credit conditions are still tight at the consumer level, and business credit still suffers from lack of demand.
5. Exports have been a primary driver of the economy and have rebounded substantially post-crash as a result of a devalued dollar.
6. European economic problems have caused a significant influx of money into the US, and that has been parked in Treasuries.
Here is a summary of other data I feel is important and that I have recently discussed:
2. Real disposable income is falling.
3. Personal savings have fallen from a post-crash high of 5.8% in June 2010 to 3.6% as of September 2011 because consumers are using savings to fund consumption.
4. GDP is static rather than growing, and the latest third-quarter boost will likely not continue. It is likely that the third-quarter report will be revised downward.
5. Auto sales are related to pent-up demand and are not likely to be sustained.
6. The top 5% of earners account for 37% of all consumer spending, and it is they who are supporting consumer spending. I call this a “bifurcated economy.” There is no broad-based consumer spending rally.
7. Household debt ($13.9 trillion) is still historically very high and has not been substantially reduced.
8. U.S. sovereign debt is 100% of GDP ($15 trillion and growing).
9. All government spending (federal, state, and local) constitutes 45.6% of GDP.
10. The euro crisis will have a substantial impact on the rest of the world, including the US. That is difficult to predict, but we’ll know very soon. According to recent data, the world is heading into recession in almost all economies.
11. The federal government is currently running a $1.3 trillion annual deficit.
12. Unfunded liabilities for Social Security, Medicare, and prescription drug (Part D) are $116.4 trillion and growing. This does not include the pending problem with student loans (Sallie Mae) or obligations to government-sponsored enterprises.
13. The MF Global (MFGLQ.PK) problem is indicative of a declining economy. It is likely that in a growing economy, MF Global would have been able to ride out its crisis. In a declining economy, company weaknesses tend to be revealed, as with Lehman. That creates market uncertainty.
14. Oil prices have risen from $40 a barrel post-crash to $110 a barrel in April 2011, and presently are at $97 a barrel. Such oil price increases are associated with and often presage recessions.
15. Bank balance sheets are still weak because they do not book asset values at market, they seem to not properly book troubled loans, and they are encumbered by a substantial amount of malinvested assets that have not been liquidated.
16. 47 million Americans (15%) are on food stamps; 48.5% of the population lived in a household that received some type of government aid in the first quarter of 2010.
17. Americans are pessimistic about their future and the future of America, according to almost all recent polls.
18. An angry and disaffected population in America is potentially politically dangerous.
What is important when looking at the data is to spot trends rather than specific numbers. I have what I believe is a healthy skepticism about the reports from the multitude of federal agencies that I follow on a regular basis. They are often revised and probably understate the negatives. That is especially so with price inflation. Many of the reports are in nominal numbers rather than adjusted for official price inflation. If they are adjusted for inflation (chained), their baseline is a recent year. Many analysts put great emphasis on specific numbers, but quantifiable data is ephemeral and probably “gamed.” Look at the trend.
Reminder: This is part one of a two-part series. The second half will be published on Minyanville on Friday, November 25.
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Wyoming government doesn’t operate like the federal government. Wyoming officials like to know what they may be getting the state into before they decide to do it, but Department of Health and Human Services’ delayed answers and non-answers about a health exchange under the new federal health care law made making an informed decision difficult, according to U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo.
At a Senate Finance Committee Hearing today, Enzi asked the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Gary Cohen about the inadequate information regarding the health exchanges.
“My governor wrote on July 19 of 2012 trying to find out enough about the exchange that our Legislature could deal with the exchange,” Enzi said. “He got an answer, no he didn’t get an answer, he got a letter in January of this year.”
Enzi explained that because the Wyoming Legislature meets for a limited time each year, there was no chance for its members to thoroughly evaluate the pros and cons of running a state health insurance exchange.
Cohen is the Deputy Administrator and Director of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services which is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
“We do our best to answer the questions as quickly as we can,” Cohen said. “With respect to Wyoming, I have personally met and spoken with the insurance commissioner of Wyoming a number of times with respect to the exchange and the options available to Wyoming.”
Enzi said a number of key regulations necessary to establishing exchanges were just released after the presidential election in November. Wyoming has been joined by other states, insurers and other stakeholders in criticizing the Administration for the lack of clarity provided to date. Several significant regulations remain to be issued or finalized with less than 12 months to go until the statutory deadline.
Administration of health insurance exchanges will be paid for by user fees charged to insurance companies, which in turn pass costs on to their customers. Enzi is concerned the administrative costs could balloon to pay for this new bureaucracy, which would result in higher health insurance costs for consumers.
Enzi believes that ultimately, the confusion regarding the exchanges is the result of a massive, complex and ambiguous bill that one party forced through Congress.
To watch a short video from the “Health Insurance Exchanges: Progress Report” hearing, click here.
Video of the complete hearing is available at finance.senate.gov.
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Supermarkets offer a lot to pet lovers. There are aisles of food, snacks and toys. Many have pet clubs rewarding discounts for repeat purchases. Stores with pharmacies might also fill prescriptions for pet medications.
So why not pet insurance, then?
“Although sales growth slowed due to the recession, revenues (measured as gross written premiums) remained in the double digits in 2009 while delivering a 2005-2009 compound annual growth rate of 21%,” wrote researchers at Packaged Facts, a market research firm.
In the United States, pet insurance totaled $303 million in 2009, up 16% from $262 million in 2008, when sales rose 27%. The vast majority — 80% — of the 1 million pets insured in North America reside in the United States, the researchers concluded.
A number of food retailers have made pet policies available over the years, entering into partnerships with insurance companies and underwriters. Chains like Meijer, Kroger and Spartan Stores have advertised the service, primarily through their financial services arm. Plans can be customized, and in most cases mimic human coverage. Owners must pay an annual deductible to receive coverage for accident and illness, routine care, kennel and boarding — even burial.
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Here are some more images from Walt Disney's Woking Way home. Some are from the real estate agent who's listed the house for sale, while others come from the collection of my friend Mark Sonntag, the January 1940 edition of Better Homes and Gardens, and the Walt Disney Family Museum.
The first two images show the living room. The 1930s image shows the living room decked out with a Christmas tree. The modern day photo shows the beautiful floor to ceiling stained glass window, which I believe has a view of he swimming pool. This is the window the Christmas tree was placed in front of.
The stained glass window had some gorgeous detailed work. Walt Disney's daughter Diane Disney Miller recalled there was also an insert featuring an image of William Shakespeare.
The next image shows the back side of the house, where the pool would eventually be built. You an see the aforementioned stained glass window on the right side of the image. On the left side is the staircase where the color photo of Walt and Lillian was taken.
The following set of images show Walt Disney in the backyard before the swimming pool was built. In August 1942 Disney participated in a Los Angeles wartime scrap drive by donating two iron deer to the War Production Board's Conservation Division. The Snow White playhouse built for Diane and her sister Sharon is visible in the background.
In The Animated Man, A Life of Walt Disney, author Michael Barrier wrote, "Roy Disney marveled in 1968 at the audacity of the construction: 'He hung this swimming pool up on the corner of this darn thing. It's a granite hill and we were taking bets to see if it would stand. It's thirty-five years and it's still there.'"
As you can see in the second image, the swimming pool and the playhouse are still there to this very day.
On a clear day, this is the view Disney and his family enjoyed. According to the Better Homes and Gardens article, "When the air [is] clear...he has a 90-degree view. He can see the Pacific and even Santa Catalina Island, about 40 miles away. Below is spread that fascinating checkered panorama of Pasadena, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Beverley Hills...he can see his beloved studio, where inanimate pictures leap magically to life."
The next image shows the beautiful winding staircase that joins the two floors. Regarding the gorgeous painted ceiling, Michael Barrier wrote, "'Everybody gets mad at the rich for owning these big places,' [Walt Disney] told the Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper, 'but they forget how many jobs it creates . . . I built a house in Los Feliz during the Depression. Men used to line up there in the morning hoping to get work. I found a graduate of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and had him paint my whole ceiling.'"
The second image in this set shows Walt and Lillian posing on the right side at the base of the staircase. The shot was taken by famed photographer Clarence Sinclair Bull, who took several images of Walt and Lillian throughout the house during that shoot.
The next two images picture Walt and Lillian in the home library. The images were an almost identical pose.
The next two photos show the screening room. The family would often get together to watch first run movies like Gone With the Wind. Diane Disney Miller recalled, "That room was once the den and a guest bedroom. It was furnished differently . . . it had a couch. We saw all the great movies of the time, including Hop-a-long Cassidy and Roy Rogers films, as well as dailies from dad's current live-action films."
The final image shows Walt standing beside what looks like the fireplace visible in the first two images at the start of this post.
Hope you enjoyed this trip back in time!
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Reform's report on the fiscal cost of demographic change.
Reform's review and scorecard of the Coalition's public service reform programme
The first hundred days contains the agendas and transcripts of conferences on welfare, education, the deficit and public services and health held in the first 100 days of the Coalition Government. This report also contains an assessment of the new Government’s first 100 days.
Reform established the Commission on the Reform of Public Services in February 2002. It found that without reform of the public sector, higher spending will be wasted.
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Cook the Book: 'Vegetables, Revised'
James Peterson has been writing cookbooks for over two decades, and he's still going strong. His newly revised Vegetables hit bookshelves this spring with a fresh new look, brilliant color photographs (taken by Peterson himself), and an encyclopedic introduction covering basic techniques and tips for cooking just about any vegetable you'd encounter at a farm stand, Asian market, or grocery store. But this is no textbook—Peterson's writing is smart, humorous, and certainly opinionated. (See, for example, his note about cooking oils: "As for margarine, I have nothing nice to say.")
For cooks strapped for time, he offers quick-cooking, simple recipes complete with tips on how to make even a 20 minute dinner taste its best. For others who may want to try more intricate cooking, he gives detailed instruction on preparing a range of soups, stews, salads, and braises with proper French technique. Some of these latter recipes are a bit fussy, but their layers of flavor and careful composition make them worth the effort.
This week, we'll have a mini-lesson on vegetable cookery by taking a late-summer crop of vegetables and running them through five different techniques. We'll start out with simple preservation by making Pickled Chiles. Next, we'll build a summery baked Tomato and Herb Gratin and then it's time to break out the big guns with Spinach Gnocchi with Sage Butter and finally a no-holds-barred French-Style Vegetable Stew.
Win Vegetables Revised'
Thanks to the good folks at Ten Speed Press, we have five (5) copies of Vegetables, Revised to give away. All you need to do is tell us one vegetable you'd love to eat, but have never tried, here in the comments section.
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) today announced it has awarded four new grants through its prestigious Marshall A. Lichtman Specialized Center of Research (SCOR) research initiative, bringing the program's total funding to $260 million since its inception in 2000.
All Principal Investigators have long-time connections to LLS. They are Jerry M. Adams, Ph.D, The Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research; Jon C Aster, M.D., Ph.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.; Carl H. June, M.D., University of Pennsylvania; Jonathan Licht, M.D., Northwestern University.
The innovative SCOR program funds teams of researchers representing different disciplines and engaged in collaborative efforts to discover new approaches to treat patients with hematological malignancies. The teams will each receive $1.25 million a year for five years, for a total of $6.25 million each.
Dr. Adams and his colleagues in The Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia, have been investigating apoptosis, the natural process of cell death, for over two decades.Our bodies make billions of blood cells every day, and, to make room, billions of other blood cells must undergo apoptosis. If some cells fail to die when they should, they can develop into leukemia, lymphoma or multiple myeloma. The Melbourne team is studying how impaired apoptosis contributes to the development of blood cell cancers and renders the malignant cells more resistant to current therapies. Notably, to improve treatment, they are also studying new drugs, used either alone or in combination with other therapies, which directly engage the apoptotic machinery and flip the cell death switch.
Dr. Aster, Professor of Pathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc., in Boston,
is working on new therapies for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and related blood cancers. One team project is focused on drugs that inhibit bromodomain proteins, a group of proteins shown to maintain the growth and survival of ALL cells and other blood cancer cells. Another team member is working on drugs that inhibit a protein called DOT1L, shown to have a key role in some forms of acute leukemia that often occur in infants and are frequently fatal with current therapies. Another group is developing new drugs to treat tumors caused by the Notch signaling pathway, which Aster has previously shown is hyperactive in T-cell ALL. In the final project, Adolfo Ferrando, M.D., Ph.D., is identify drugs that overcome resistance to glucocorticoids, a mainstay of current blood cancer therapy that Ferrando has shown stop working when certain other pathways are activated in ALL cells.
"By working as a team, our SCOR aims to move new treatments emanating from each of our projects into the clinic during the next 5 years, thereby providing new hope for patients with blood cancers that are now incurable," Aster said.
Dr. June, a professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine and director of Translational Research at the University of Pennsylvania's Abramson Cancer Center, has demonstrated sustained success employing genetically engineered T cells as a novel targeted therapy for blood cancers. Over the last ten years, LLS has provided consistent support to Dr. June in the form of SCOR grant funding to support the development of his adoptive immunotherapy programs at Penn. Traditional therapy consisting of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (using a donor's cells) remains among the most successful treatments for acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) and acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), but long-term survival of adults is still less than 50 percent. A key objective of Dr. June's new SCOR project is to achieve or exceed the potent effects observed with traditional stem cell transplantation while eliminating the serious associated risk of graft versus host disease. In addition, standard drug regimens used in leukemia treatment, particularly for AML, are often not curative because they fail to eradicate the leukemia stem cells that are capable of perpetuating the disease after initial treatment has been completed. The team will perform basic and translational studies to develop new chimeric antigen receptors to kill the stem cells that occur in AML. In studies to be conducted at the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, clinical trials will test new forms of chimeric antigen receptor modified cells in both adult and pediatric blood cancers that are resistant to current therapies. Through multiple collaborations and synergies, these projects have much greater potential to accelerate the development of engineered T cells as novel therapies for ALL and AML.
Dr. Licht, professor and chief, Division of Hematology/Oncology at Northwestern University, along with a distinguished group of co-investigators at Rockefeller University, Weill Cornell Medical College, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the University of Michigan studies aberrant epigenetic regulation in leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma. The group studies chromatin, the combination of DNA and protein which contains genes and epigenetics, the chemical and physical changes in chromatin that control how genes are turned on and off. Recent evidence resulting from the human genome project showed that mutations in proteins that control the chemical structure of chromatin are common in blood cancer. Such mutations have a cascade effect leading to a radical upset of the normal control of genes and uncontrolled cell growth. Many of the proteins that affect chromatin are enzymes and may be targeted for therapy. Dr. Licht's SCOR group includes leukemia biologists, molecular biologists, structural biologists and chemists. Together they will discover how mutant epigenetic proteins cause blood cancers, develop animal models of these processes, solve the detailed atomic structure of the proteins and begin to develop therapies to reverse the abnormalities. Over the past five years the group published numerous joint papers on the underlying mechanism of leukemia in the highest quality scientific journals. They have analyzed clinical specimens to understand how epigenetic regulation may affect the prognosis of leukemia. Lastly the group in involved in the study of drugs that can reverse abnormal gene regulation in leukemia.
"This year's SCOR teams consist of investigators with illustrious careers, all of whom are undertaking cutting-edge research," said Richard Winneker, Ph.D., LLS senior vice president of research. "Their work is leading to a better understanding of the root causes of blood cancer and the development of new immunotherapies and novel drugs that can target the genetic abnormalities that lead to cancer. LLS is honored to be able to help advance their work and bring more therapies to patients in the near future."
About The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society ® (LLS)is the world's largest voluntary health agency dedicated to blood cancer. The LLS mission: Cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. LLS funds lifesaving blood cancer research around the world and provides free information and support services.
Founded in 1949 andheadquartered in White Plains, NY, LLS has chapters throughout the United States and Canada. To learn more, visit www.LLS.org or contact the Information Resource Center at (800) 955-4572, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET. www.lls.org.
Contact: Andrea Greif
SOURCE The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
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18.1.13Posted by Jeanne
I found this little fella sharing my shower this morning. Sweet, isn't he? Jemimah was keen to keep him for a few hours (we have a 'release at sunset' policy here), but he seemed a bit distressed - probably the dousing with hot water that he received before I noticed him didn't help his mood any - so she released him into the backyard and he quickly scuttled to safety under a pile of gumnuts.
Our little visitor was a marbled gecko, Christinus marmoratus, recognisable by its large finger and toe pads and flat body, often with orange coloured specks on the tail. They reach up to 70 mm snout to vent. Our little chap had lost his tail, which they do when under extreme stress as a survival mechanism, and is in the process of growing a new one, an activity that will take a few months.
The most cool bit about geckos is their foot pads and their ability to hang on almost any surface (except Teflon). This ability has been attributed to van der Waals forces between the surface and the spatulae, or microscopic projections, which cover the hair-like setae found on their footpads. Apparently the the attractive force of a gecko footpad is estimated at over 10000kgs per square centimetre. Wow.
Let David Attenborough tell you more.
Before our little gecko ran off we took a few photos so that Jemimah could paint him in her nature notebook, and then he was gone.
I must say, it was nice not to have him in my shower with me, even though he was terribly cute as well as being a miracle of nano molecular materials engineering.
(No, I don't really know that he was a male. I just chose a pronoun. Marbled geckos are really difficult to sex.)
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Filed under: Book of Mormon, Life Lessons, Living the Gospel
I took a weightlifting class my senior year of high school, and loved it! After just a few weeks of working the different machines I discovered new, fairly awesome muscles in places I didn’t think muscles existed.
When reading through the Book of Mormon, another testament of Jesus Christ, two particular things seem to happen again and again. As the righteous people in the land, known as the Nephites, follow the Lord’s commandments they are blessed. Their lands produce bountiful harvests, they become rich in gold and silver and many precious things, all as a blessing for doing what is right. At times they are living so righteously there are no poor among them.
Nephi, an ancient prophet whose emigration from Jerusalem to the Americas is recorded in the Book of Mormon, revered two particular Bible men: Moses and Isaiah.
I’d like to start off our study of Scripture Mastery verses by looking at the Book of Mormon. For those of you who haven’t heard of this book, or have heard a little and aren’t certain what it’s about, the Book of Mormon is an ancient record of the people who lived in the Americas back before, during, and about 400 years after the time of Christ. Those of us in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (nicknamed the Mormon Church) believe it to be another testament of Jesus Christ.
In most churches seminary is a college where students are trained to become a minister, rabbi, or member of the priesthood. For youth it can also be a church funded high school, called a ‘mini-seminary’, with the specific purpose of training young men to prepare to enter the adult seminary.
There is something truly beautiful about taking a portion of one’s day and spending it surrounded by others with the same purpose: to be taught about the gospel of Jesus Christ. It stands as a fortifier against the evils Satan constantly throws our way, and reminds us of the truly important things in this life.
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I was fortunate to be invited to speak at the recent
This presentation covers what I consider to be the four main areas of user experience, being:
- Choosing an audience. Startups (and small businesses in general) are notorious for wanting to avoid this step, claiming that their product/service is targeted at ‘everyone’ and that they don’t want to ‘restrict themselves’ by choosing a specific primary target market. Big mistake – design for everyone and you design for no one. Design well for the audience you’re most interested in and the rest will follow.Another common problem for starts ups is that they are actually designing for themselves (they are their own target audience) but lose focus by trying to design for ‘users’ without defining who those users are. If you are your own target audience, that’s fine. Admit it and go with it. Don’t lose focus.But probably the most common problem I come across is that while the start up makes efforts to be ‘user focussed’ it fails to admit that it’s *real* target audience, for the moment at least, is the investors who may give them more money if excited enough. What investors want to see and what early users of your service want are two very different things. If you are designing for investors, that is fine – admit it and go with it. You can re-focus on the real users of your service later.
- Understanding your audience: there are *lots* of ways to get to know your audience but obversational research (sitting down and watching and asking questions) is far and away the most effective in my experience. Yes, get your metrics in place, do your alpha release, watch your twitter stream, but DO find and observe potential users of your service, and do it regularly. Despite the rumours, it doesn’t have to be an expensive and time consuming exercise – in fact, you can do it yourself and you’ll probably learn more than you’ll know what to do with. There’s no excuse for not knowing exactly how users interact with your product, what works and doesn’t work and – most importantly – why.
- Applying your research in design: once you’ve done all the research, how do you make use of it in your design? One simple way is to make some ‘personas’ – basically some pretend users who are based on your research and who can sit around the table with your team and be ‘involved’ in the decision making. This is a MUCH better way of getting good user focussed decisions made than asking ‘what users like/do’ which is a totally nonsense question with no answer. Rather, you can ask ‘would Keith (our persona) like it if we added that service?’, ‘would Lillian (our persona) understand that sentence on the homepage?’, ‘what would Frances (our persona) most like us to do in this next development cycle?’. It might sound a little nuts but it really does work.
The other thing I really recommend is that you hire the best designer you can get your hands on as early as possible, but don’t ask them to ‘design your website’ or application or whatever. Rather ask them to design a visual styleguide that you can then give to a less ‘resource intensive’ team member to apply now and into the future. This is the best way to get great value from a good designer – you let them do the work they do best and you get a road map for the future that will protect the design integrity of your service. The styleguide will include a few key templates but also a bunch of information about the grids that should be use, how colour and typography should be applied and a whole host of other very useful information.
- Think big and small: Last but not least I encourage you to look at user experience from the micro and the macro level. Do wonder if that button is in the right place ask whether moving it might improve revenue, but don’t neglect to ask whether people understand the overall proposition of your service and if they’re even going to get to that button in the first place. User Experience is a layercake and it starts with your proposition – it is all too easy to get too close to your product and not realise how inpenetrable it is for newcomers. So, think big and small.
Where do I start?
Most of what us User Experience people do is not rocket science – it’s just education and a whole lot of experience and a passion for what we do, much of this you can do yourself and there is a lot of material in books and online that will get you off to a flying start. The two books I find myself recommending most often to my start up clients are
Another thing I find myself doing more and more often is teaching my clients to fish – that is, doing quick training sessions that give them the essential skill set they need to successfully do the four things I set out above, all by themselves.
If you’re interested in learning these skills (or having someone in your company know them!) and bringing User Experience into the centre of your company then perhaps you might be interested in a one day Hands On User Experience training course that I’ve designed. I’d be more than delighted to show you how I do what I do, and I guarantee you’ll see the benefits in many more places than just the usability of your website/application!
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Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is often seen in FM. I conducted a study years ago at the Ohio State University and published results that showed the majority of people with FM also had evidence of MVP on cardiac echo testing.
MVP is a condition where one of the heart valves, the mitral valve, bulges excessively during the heartbeat. Although it sounds scary, most doctors feel that MVP is usually a benign condition. It may contribute to atypical chest wall pain in some patients with FM, or it may be part of the dysfunctional autonomic nerves and contribute to rapid heart rate, palpitations, and shortness of breath in some.
We're not sure exactly why those with FM seem to have more MVP than the general population. Perhaps there is a genetic factor involved, or a dynamic change that results from the dysfunctional autonomic nerves. More research is needed in this area.
Chest pain in FM is usually not angina but people with FM can have other problems, too, including heart problems. If there is ever any questions about chest pain or new cardiac symptoms, a physician should be consulted at once.
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West Valley City » When the city incorporated in 1980, its police department started with 46 officers overseeing about 72,000 residents.
Today, the city's population is more than 117,500 -- a 62 percent increase. In 2009, the number of officers jumped to 189 -- a 311 percent increase, according to city data.
But the department's biggest expansion took place more than a decade ago, said Chief Thayle "Buzz" Nielsen. The recent hiring of nine new officers is the most the department has added at one time since 1990.
The entry-level cops will start patrolling city streets this summer, thanks to $1.7 million in federal stimulus money arriving during the next three years.
Residents' top concern is public safety, so the new officers are a great bonus for the department, officials said. "We're glad to have more resources," said City Manager Wayne Pyle.
Mayor Mike Winder said he hopes the department, especially with the new boost in officers, can continue its three-year crime-rate decrease. "We're keeping the bad boys on the run and this is helping us stay on their heels," he said.
The nine officers are in various stages of their six-to-nine-month hiring and training process, Nielsen said.
The federal funding pays for their salaries and benefits, but the city had to come up with roughly $380,000 for start-up costs, such as equipment and police cars, Nielsen said.
Nielsen, who became chief in 2002, has been an officer with the department since the beginning. July will mark the department's 30th anniversary.
Nielsen said he is excited to have the department up to full staff, which hasn't been the case in several years.
In the past decade, the number of officers has increased by 16 percent. The population has increased by 8 percent to 14 percent, depending on city estimates.
For most of those years, Nielsen said he's struggled to maintain 175 officers on staff, despite the city's financial issues.
"Demands and cases come along that you can't control," he said. "The leaner [the department is], the more stressful it becomes."
In 2002, officials said, an economic downturn began and the city eliminated positions and put a hiring freeze on officers. In 2006 and 2007, the department was able to hire back to full staff, and about 20 cops were hired each year, officials said.
This year, Nielsen said he hopes the department will be able to stay at 195 officers, which includes the new hires.
There are 1.5 cops per 1,000 residents in West Valley City. Nielsen said he would like to see the number increase to 2 officers per 1,000 residents, but he knows it won't happen anytime soon.
"We just got to do what we can until the economy turns around," he said.
West Valley City's police chief says his officers are getting into too many wrecks. He's taking steps to lower the number. › E3
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Monday, June 14, 2010
Coney Island (Part VI): Horace Bullard: You Can’t Dream Too Much
So ends my series on poor old Coney Island, with the second part of an unpublished 1987 Village Voice assignment on would-be savior, Horace Bullard. Mr. Bullard’s noble 20-year odyssey was slowly battered apart by a Brooklyn political machine resembling the Tower of Babel. Bullard’s Coney Island properties, understandably, ended up in serious tax arrears. After Mayor Giuliani took office in 1994, he apparently killed Bullard’s plans in favor of constructing the (minor league Mets-affiliate) Brooklyn Cyclones’ KeySpan Park. It’s suspected Giuliani ordered an early morning demolition on the crumbling Thunderbolt roller coaster, which Bullard wanted to restore. Half-Black, half-Puerto Rican, the Kansas Fried Chicken founder Bullard charged in court that Giuliani’s actions were motivated by racial bias.
The International Theme Park Service told Bullard he’d need a larger amusement area to make the whole thing profitable, to handle the projected crowds. And so, he’s currently looking at Drierofferman Park—150 unused Brooklyn acres a mile away for parking, an area conservationists don’t want used.
“By taking the parking a mile away, you won’t have cars all over the street. We’ll shuttle people. Parades can run down Surf Avenue. I also wanna get a Coney Island express train from Times Square.”
The most colorful chart on Mr. Bullard’s coffee table shows his current plans. They contain several unique attractions, recreating a few of Coney’s legendary rides. The parachute drop will be rebuilt. The Steeplechase wooden mechanical horse race ride, which once circled the Pavilion of Fun in a “steeple chase” (thus the name), is being recreated. Bullard hopes to revamp the old Thunderbolt, now rotting in its lot. He’ll build a mountain on Surf Avenue with waterfalls, a rapids and a runaway train. A castle at the top will contain a museum for Dodgers and Coney Island memorabilia.
Bullard also wants a Walk of Fame, setting plaques for Brooklyn’s famous sons and daughters who are willing to return for a dedication. “We were gonna include a memorial to George C. Tilyou (Steeplechase’s 19th century creator).” Unfortunately, the Tilyou estate is fighting to prevent usage of the demonic cartoon face that was Steeplechase’s trademark symbol. “After that much opposition, we figured not to bother with a memorial. Because Tilyou was a genius doesn’t mean his descendants are.”
Coney Island business and government figures express both strong support and lingering doubts. Sam Horowitz, the area’s councilman for 16 years, envisions Coney as having “great bookends.” The Aquarium, Cyclone and Astroland on one side, a giant new Steeplechase on the other. “If Bullard isn’t able to deliver,” says Horowitz, “that will be the last shot for Steeplechase returning. It all sounds terrific, but I’m disappointed with the delays. I’d hate to see Steeplechase just lay there with a few park benches. This is one of New York’s most valued properties, it’s the Brooklyn Riviera on the Atlantic Ocean.”
The Atlantic is a third bookend. When Fred Trump purchased Steeplechase after it closed in the ’60s, he wanted to erect deluxe housing. Councilman Horowitz owned the Tilyou Movie Theatre in 1965, across from Steeplechase. His neighborhood defeated Trump’s plans, and the city bought back the hallowed ground.
“Drierofferman Park,” worries Horowitz, “where Bullard wants parking, sits near a high-rise area. They might get up in arms about having thousands of cars come through their neighborhood. I’m in favor of filling in the Coney Island Creek for parking. It’s just polluted water, a one-time waterway for boats, goes right up to the Brooklyn Union Gas sight. This creek has no value whatsoever, and could fulfill the parking without infringing on residents.”
Brooklyn Parks Commissioner Julius Spiegel says an urban renewal is in store for Coney, regardless of whether a new amusement park emerges. “He’s got all the permits and licenses he needs from us. We’re very excited by his plans. All our eggs are in Bullard’s basket.”
Under current plans, the eroded beach, where mass bathing was invented in America, will be enlarged, marinas and promenades added. The boardwalk will likely be sealed up underneath. Despite its song-worthy appeal, Under the Boardwalk (Coney is where the song took place) is an underworld for citizens to defecate, sleep and escape with wallets after muggings.
Dennis Paperman, President of the Brighton Beach Board of Trade (Coney’s sister neighborhood), says, “The revitalization of Coney Island has been dumped on for the past 20 years. Things must be done now. Bullard’s intentions are honorable, but I was told he’ll need $162-million. To my understanding that kind of backing has not been given. We don’t want more speculation here. The project, to me, remains a dream.”
The New York City Public Development Corporation, however, says it read two “letters of interest” demonstrating Bullard had over a hundred-million cash behind him. “The project then reached a new plateau,” says Frank Marino. “Horace also had spent $6 million from his own pocket so far, which impressed us.” Marino says the project still must pass through ULURP (Uniform Land Use Review Procedure), a standard red-tape process. The parking is also an unresolved issue with Public Development. “We think this project, however, could start a Coney Island renaissance. The next six months will be critical to it happening or not.”
Max Rosey, who can recite the entire evolution of the hot dog, is public relations director for Nathan’s: “Bullard’s respected in the community and we wish him well. His plans are for the good of the people, and Nathan’s would love a major new amusement park here.”
Only slumlord landowner Hy Singer—Bullard’s “ca-ca” nemesis—refuses to comment on the whole affair. He is in litigation, does not want to be “tried by the press.” (He furthermore became overly suspicious as to whether this reporter was not some rival’s shill, and cancelled a meeting at Nathan’s—“You should be grateful I’m calling,” said Singer, “and not just standing you up.”)
Bullard recently toured Canada, Germany, the Great Adventures and Disneylands (“Boring.” He was only impressed by Epcot Center). Many of his rides will have to be European imports, except for the Coney Island recreations. And an eagle ride Bullard designed: “They make a looping platform called the Flying Carpet. I got hold of the manufacturer and said I want the same contraption built into an eagle. I want the head to turn in the direction he’s flying. When you’re walking on the midway, this eagle is swooping at ya.”
In the old days, operators used to say if riders knew how safe the rides were, they wouldn’t scream. “Today, you’re restricted with rides because of insurance,” explains Bullard. “You couldn’t have a ride like the Big Slide today, where people hung by ropes and slid down into sand. Somebody’d say they twisted their neck. You didn’t have the craze for lawsuits then. Today you’ve got to make every ride 100% safe, yet try and make it feel almost safe. When I go to these manufacturers, I tell them my rides have to be suicide-proof.”
Bullard gets misty-eyed, the park comes alive: “My ticket takers are gonna wear the RKO usher-type uniforms and bark, ‘Have your tickets ready!’ Everyone in this park is gonna be an actor. The guy sweeping is gonna be an actor. The workers are gonna have fun. The benches will look like animals. I have three sets of architects so far, and I don’t wanna get stuck with one guy’s placid Midwestern look. I gotta make sure the architects don’t lose that feeling. A smart operator goes around the world looking for strange things to bring into their park.”
He feels freak shows are passé, won’t put deformed folks on display, which the Coney Island of yore did. Snake charmers, sword swallowers or the Fattest Man in the World would be okay. “We’d use him to say this is why you shouldn’t overeat.” (Bradshaw’s Circus of World Curiosities is an old-timey sideshow currently working the Coney seashore.)
How about all those mom-and-pop spookhouses and sleazy little attractions that used to spice up the side streets?
“You’re gonna get all that back, between 15th Street and Astroland. We want that, to rent out stores as cheap as possible and create more carnival novelties. We want barkers all over, a requirement for each store, carny folks, off-Broadway actors.”
Will he reopen the theater in the Shore building for vaudeville?
“That will stay office space. There has to be a balance here between fantasy and business. You can’t dream too much. I mean, I’m doing enough dreaming.”
For further dreaming:
© 1987, 2010, Josh Alan Friedman
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UTCF - Umeå Transgene Core Facility
Image: Rahul Gaur
UTCF is a fully integrated functional genomics platform for the generation and analyses of genetically modified animals. We provide a range of transgenic services to researchers from Umeå University as well as to customers from other national and foreign universities. Since the start in 1990, UTCF has targeted more then 20 genes by the ES-cell technique and ~300 conventional transgenic mice strains have been generated including several Cre-transgenic lines.
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From: General Mills
Introduced in 1972
General Mills introduced Sir Grapefellow cereal in or about 1972. The cereal was described on the box as being, "Grape Flavored Oat Cereal Plus Sweet Grape Starbits - Vitamin Charged!". The "starbits" were star-shaped marshmallows pieces similar to those found in Lucky Charms cereal. According to many accounts, the fragrance of artificial grape was incredibly strong when a box of the cereal was first opened.
The cereal box mascot for Sir Grapefellow cereal was a World War One-style British fighter pilot named Sir Grapefellow. The box featured an image of the character flying a purple World War I plane with a bunch of grapes painted its tail.
Concurrent to the introduction of this cereal , General Mills introduced a berry-flavored cereal called Baron Von Redberry cereal, which featured a German fighter pilot in a red plane with what appeared to be raspberries painted on the tail.
The two cereals were usually promoted together showing the characters as good-natured enemies, with each proclaiming they represented the best cereal.
Text from the back of Sir Grapefellow Cereal Box:
"Tally-Ho! Hello Mothers. This is Sir Grapefellow with important nutritional information. We at General Mills realize all you mothers are naturally concerned with nutrition. Well, so are we. That is why we vitamin charged this new cereal with 8 of the essential vitamins and iron that you and your family should get in a good nutritious breakfast."
Among the cereal premiums offered with Sir Grapefellow were a cut-away "Grape New Propeller Plane" (printed on the back of the box), a send-away offer for a balsa wood biplane glider with a 3 foot wingspan, and - included in some boxes - "Sir Grapefellow's Air Car" - a small plastic car that was propelled by a balloon.
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What do you think of Sir Grapefellow?
Overall Average Rating = 4 (out of 5)
After Quisp this was my favorite cereal! I eat cereal dry, so it might have been a different experience for me?
Comment submitted: 3/23/2012 (#6931)
I didn't care for this cereal growing up. It gave me gas, seriously. The Redberry cereal was the better of the two.
Comment submitted: 10/18/2011 (#5518)
By Sugar Boy (Team Breakfast Member)
Ahh, the good ol' days. The only thing I cared about was the prize (balloon powered vehicle), and the cut-outs. What's amazing is the amount of money collectors pay for these cardboard boxes. Oi!
Comment submitted: 9/29/2011 (#5378)
By Joe Spliggins
What the **** were they thinking? Grape flavored milk! EWWWWW! I remember begging for a box of this (because of the biplane), choking down part of a bowl, and my mom eventually throwing it away after it went stale. BTW... Grapefellow and the Baron flew WW1 planes, not WW2.
Comment submitted: 2/15/2011 (#3933)
By yammy (Team Breakfast Member)
The pilot eye wear are goggles, not googles.
Note from Mr Breakfast: I fixed that spelling mistake. Thanks for pointing it out Yammy.
Comment submitted: 2/8/2010 (#1393)
By klize (Team Breakfast Member)
It's funny you should mention the aroma of grapes. My father used to complain about that all the time but I loved that cereal.
Comment submitted: 8/26/2009 (#408)
By DixieChick (Team Breakfast Member)
Grapefellow kicked VonRedFairy's (swear) in cereal sales if I'm not mistaken.
Comment submitted: 11/13/2007 (#4)
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While many college graduates are struggling to find jobs, alumni from certain schools are regularly pulling in six-figure salaries.
For the second year in a row, Princeton University's students have been pulling in the biggest paychecks, according to new data from salary research site PayScale.com. This year, Princeton graduates with at least 10 years of experience in their field of work are earning an average salary of $137,000.
Rounding out the top 10, are Harvey Mudd College, California Institute of Technology, the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, the United States Military Academy at West Point, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lehigh University, the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Babson College and Stanford University.
Graduates from these schools earned an average mid-career salary of $122,500 -- up 5 percent from last year. This year's increase follows three years of declines, according to PayScale.
The schools with the highest-paid graduates typically fall into one of two categories: They're either engineering schools, since engineering is the highest-paid major, or they're very prestigious, so companies tend to recruit these grads first -- and pay them handsomely -- when making hiring decisions.
"Not only do (the most prestigious schools like Stanford) offer high-paying majors as well, but there's a level of notoriety that allows people to move into jobs more easily and get higher-paying jobs, and there's also a strong alumni network that helps you get jobs," said Katie Bardaro, lead economist at PayScale.
Graduates earn the highest starting salaries at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where alumni with five years of experience or less make an average of $76,000. The United States Naval Academy at Annapolis and Massachusetts Institute of Technology follow, with average starting salaries of $72,200 and $68,400.
Among the 10 schools with the lowest-paid graduates, the average mid-career salary remained steady this year, at $44,490. The five schools with the lowest-paid graduates were The Art Institute of Pittsburgh (the online division), Benedict College in South Carolina, Mississippi Valley State University, University of the Cumberlands in Kentucky, and Bethel University in Tennessee.
Lower earning potential is common among schools that offer traditionally low-paying majors, like art, said Bardaro. These schools are also often located in areas with lower cost of living, and many don't carry the same level of prestige as the top schools on the list, so it can be hard for students to stick out in a big stack of resumes.
Majors with the biggest pay-offs: The highest-paying majors this year were petroleum engineering, with an average mid-career salary of $163,000, followed by aerospace engineering, which pays an average $118,000. Meanwhile, child and family studies majors can work for more than 10 years in their field and still only earn an average $37,700. Social work is the next lowest-paying major, with a mid-career salary or $45,300.
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NINGBO CITY, China, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Rescue workers in China said they've rescued a woman buried for 22 hours following a building collapse.
The building faltered around noon Sunday and the 24-year-old woman identified only by the surname Dong was pulled from the debris at 10:40 a.m. Monday, Xinhua news agency reported.
Another woman was pulled from the rubble around 4:50 p.m., but died of her injuries shortly thereafter at a local hospital in Ningbo City, which is located in the eastern Zhejiang province.
The building, which was built in 1989, housed 18 families in total. Residents in several neighboring buildings have also been evacuated. A full accounting of fatalities wasn't provided.
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Xtra – As Xtra previously reported, Richard filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission in 2005. He alleges discrimination based on sexual orientation by his former employer, the Treasury Board of Canada.
Richard, the Canadian government, the CHRC and the Attorney General are entangled in legal proceedings over whether Richard’s allegations of systemic homophobia — which was filed two decades after the events in question — should still be heard in court.
Daily Archives: May 4, 2010
Edmonton Journal – Dismayed and angry members of the transgendered community are preparing to launch a human rights complaint after the province delisted sex-change surgery from its funding coverage.
“It’s a matter of life and death,” said Jamie-Lynn Garvin, a 47-year-old who has been living as a woman for the last two years and was on a waiting list for a sex-change operation (although her funding hadn’t yet been approved).
ACC – Keep an open mind when determining which relationships are covered by family status protection. For example, the Ontario Human Rights Code defines family status as “the status of being in a parent and child relationship.” This definition however, has been liberally interpreted by both courts and tribunals to include most parent and child “type” relationships including non-biological parent and child relationships and non-biological gay and lesbian parents. The Ontario Human Rights Commission has also taken the position that family status protection extends to individuals providing eldercare to aging parents. Given the aging population, employers should prepare for family status accommodation requests from employees who are looking after older parents with special needs.
Health Zone – Aid experts alarmed by Canada’s new anti-abortion stand in foreign policy have received some raw political advice from a Conservative senator: “shut the f— up” or it could get worse.
“We’ve got five weeks or whatever left until G-8 starts. Shut the f— up on this issue,” Conservative Senator Nancy Ruth told a group of international-development advocates who gathered on Parliament Hill on Monday to sound the alarm about Canada’s hard-right stand against abortion in foreign aid.
Telegraph – “Banning corporal punishment is the model that the Council of Europe would like countries to follow. You can call it ’pressure’ if you like, but we are not about to shove anything down your throats. It is a matter of time and understanding, and we think that time will prove that we are on the right side of the debate on whether to ban corporal punishment of children.”
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Stockhausen Concerts and Courses- Kuerten 2011
Interpretation, Sound Projection Courses,
Lectures, Seminars and Discussions
on the works of
from August 6th to August 14th 2011
in Kuerten, Germany
Sometimes music vibrates beyond the clouds, and we can no longer hear its echo. Very rarely is it truly infinite; then it makes us forget the Earth. The great masters sense that they have one more thing to say, and that life is coming to an end . But their music stays behind with humanity as a legacy, and we must gratefully preserve this precious gem, and endeavour in the spirit of the musician to grow deeper and deeper into his works and let them worthily arise again. K. Stockhausen, August 20th 1948
For the 14th year, the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen will be the focal point of nine days of concerts, interpretation courses, seminars, lectures and discussions. Composers, interpreters, musicologists, sound projectionists and music lovers are cordially invited to attend the Stockhausen Concerts and Courses Kürten 2011.
Stockhausens motto for the 2011 courses is
LEARNING FOR ETERNITY
Instrumental, vocal and electronic works by Karlheinz Stockhausen will be performed in 10 concerts. The concerts are performed by the faculty of the master classes, many of whom worked with Stockhausen for many years. Also renowned guest musicians and ensembles will perform. In two concerts selected participants will perform compositions which were prepared during the master classes. All dress rehearsals are open to the participants of the courses.
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Posted 1 year ago on Jan. 1, 2012, 4:32 a.m. EST by aliens2012ownyourass
from New York, NY
This content is user submitted and not an official statement
The Occupy Wall Street phenomenon has become part of a broader international political movement. Protesters are helping to galvanize public attention on breaches to human rights and social injustices. But, protesters are not content with just providing a spectacle for TV and other media. Protesters internationally have sought to craft a manifesto so-to-speak of demands toward “fixing” identified grievances. It is therefore apparent that protesters are under some sort of impression that their protests will “force” the hands of governments to change in behalf of their publics. But, how much did this group listen to the plea of innocent civilians in Libya, to spare them the continuous bombing raids that have killed tens of thousands? Do protesters think that elites will become enlightened in the aftermath of protests, and that democracy is at the forefront on the minds of elites?
Alex Collier provides insight into the problems that humanity faces, that are inextricably associated with the “Occupy Wall Street Movement“. Mr. Collier’s insights suggest that the Occupy Wall Street Movement is doomed to fail, because the members have not appreciated the Non-Terrestrial dynamic to prevailing human rights problems and social injustices on Earth.
Mr. Collier suggests that the effort of Occupy Wall Street Movement will have not much more sustained success than any effort to get a dog to “meow“, and a cat to “bark’. Mr. Collier has elaborated that humans have a soul which naturally spiritually interconnects us with each other, and with nature. That soul makes us naturally empathetic and protective of each other. Therefore, if the protesters appreciated that axiom, they would also appreciate that Earth’s problem must lie in some kind of manipulation by a lower dimensional soul-less alien presence, which lacks empathy for humanity.
In the above video, Alex Collier identifies the Manipulative Extraterrestrial presence which has apparently infiltrated human decision making institutions as “holding us back”. Mr. Collier also had warned in the above video that humans needed to “wake up” by August 2001. Humans apparently did not, and we know what happened in September 2001: 9/11, which was apparently precipitated by what Dr. Michael Salla refers to as MIEC, of the “Military-Industrial Extraterrestrial Complex” of interests. Apparently, every month, week, and year, that we, as humans, fail to wake up to the reality that an apparent lower dimensional alien agenda, is taking our Mother Earth closer to a World War III New World Order scenario.
Mr. Collier has suggested that entities that Dr. John Lash refers to in his Pagan Gnostic investigative research as the “archons”, must leave Earth, before their presence attracts even more demonic alien entities. Mr. Collier further indicates that Ethical Extraterrestrials inherently embrace the freedom of all life forms to make their own choices; and that acting to “save humanity” from these entities would be destructive to human free will and counterproductive to the process of human evolutionary development.
Extraterrestrials that present themselves to be in a messianic saviour context, are inherently Manipulative, and seek to use religious doctrine or other belief systems to enslave and exploit humanity. The Pagan Gnostics have specifically linked Judaism, Christianity and Islam to regressive alien operatives which Dr. Lash’s has linked to continued oppression of humankind, such as that which the Occupy Wall Street Movement has sought to protest.
Alex Collier is a self-described contactee of Ethical Extraterrestrials. Mr. Collier suggests and describes an Extraterrestrial War that took place in a former time line of the 1930’s, that was supplanted in the popular consciousness by the time line of the 1930’s that has become official history. Mr. Collier describes Nazi scientists as having brought Manipulative Extraterrestrials into human time-space in the former 1930’s. They apparently then abducted “human specimens” from cosmic humans, and travelled back in time to selectively change human history, and then create a new 1930’s time line which would lead to the appearance that the Nazis “lost the war”. That scenario is further explored in previously published articles in The Canadian. Please read the articles at the bottom of this article for more detailed elaborations of Mr. Collier’s insights.
Based upon his insights, there are three ideological systems which Manipulative Extraterrestrials have designed to “guide” humans. These three ideological systems appear to be, organized religion, “Aryanism”, and capitalism. The insights of Alex Collier, and researchers which include David Icke suggest that we, as humans, may yet still be able to avoid the continued destruction of our very planet that we depend on for the affirmation of our quality-of-living. But, before we can effectively seek to achieve that goal, we must first be prepared to embark on a course of “shedding away” the importance of these three ideological systems from our psyche, as human beings.
The Occupy Wall Street Movement is preaching to the choir so-to-speak. Supporters of Occupy Wall Street do not have the power to make the changes that they seek to make. Elites on Earth, based upon Dr. Lash and also David Icke insights, are apparently the “humanized faces of aliens” that are pursuing a New World Order agenda. They apparently report to alien “overseers”, and not to Earthbound humans.
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Summer. Such an evocative word; a word about which countless poems and songs have been written. Say it to yourself a few times – what associations does it bring up? To me, summer will always mean the summers of my childhood. Days when you would awake to the sound of cicadas and could smell the heat outside before you'd even opened the curtains. Beach sand underfoot so hot that you either needed sandals or sprinted instantly for the waves. Endless games of Marco Polo in the swimming pool after school. Hot classrooms where the back of your legs stuck to the desk chairs if you didn't arrange your skirt carefully. The smell of barbecues and the sound of music carried on the night air from a neighbour's garden. Warm, still evenings filled with the sound of crickets and frogs. My mother carrying drinks out to us by the pool – if we were lucky, lemonade mixed with orange juice and a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Plates of ice cold watermelon slices for dessert. Limited overs night cricket matches when practically everyone you knew would be at the match, barbecuing meat on a Cadac gas barbecue. Driving to summer holiday houses and stopping along the roadside for a picnic of cold roast chicken, Granny Smith apples, Elite cheddar cheese, and Appletiser.
As soon as I moved to London, I discovered that although the memories I have just listed might resonate with me and with fellow South Africans, the English have a whole other list of things that they associate with summer. Wimbledon, Ascot and the Henley Royal Regatta. People departing en masse for cheap package holidays in Spain the day that schools break up for summer. The BBC Proms. English strawberries – and in fact, berries in general. Picnicking in the parks – or even just sunbathing in the nearest park during your lunch break. Hot, sweaty Tube journeys. Weddings every second weekend. Standing on the pavement outside pubs drinking beer in the sun. And usually also endless predictions from all sorts of "experts" on what sort of summer to expect. It seems that every year since 2003 when we had a SCORCHER of a summer, somebody predicts it will be a "barbecue summer" and the hottest since records began. And pretty much every year since 2003 they have been wrong. Because, you see, the most reliable characteristic of the English summer is its total unreliability.
Which makes it all the more ironic that the Engllish have named a pudding after this most unpredictable of English seasons. Summer pudding is one of those dishes that makes you dubious when you see the description on paper, but when you taste it you realise that it just works. It is made of sliced white bread, layered in a deep bowl with fruit and fruit juice, which is then left overnight to soak overnight before being turned out onto a plate. Like me, you might be saying "whoa – mushy white bread soaked in fruit juice? You have to be kidding…" But when I tried it recently, it was a surprising hit, both with me and Nick (who does not usually like dessert much). The beauty of it is that it isn't too sweet, and that it is low-fat and surpiringly healthy as deserts go (if you moderate your cream accompaniment!). And even if your summer (like this one) proves unreliable and disappointing weather-wise, this pudding is one part of an English summer that you really can rely on, every time
SUMMER PUDDING (serves 6-8)
850g mixed berries (I combined raspberries, redcurrants, blackberries and a couple of strawberries) – fresh is preferable but frozen works fine too
7-8 slices white bread
3 Tbsp white sugar
3 Tbsp water
Mint leaves and a few extra berries to garnish
cream to serve
Rinse the fruit, remove redcurrants from their stems if necessary, halve large strawberries. Place the fruit in a saucepan over low heat with the sugar and water (reduce the amount of sugar if you like your pudding tart) and bring to a gentle boil. Boil for about 3 minutes, or just until the currants start to purst and release their juice; then turn off the heat.
Slice the bread thickly – about 8mm thick slices. Cut the crusts off the bread and then cut a circle from one of the slices as big as the base of the 1 litre pudding basin you are using. Push this bread disc firmly into the bottom of the pudding basin.
Line the inside of the basin with the remaining pieces of bread, reserving one for the lid. Overlap the pieces of bread and push then together snugly to seal the pudding (I usually wet the overlapping edges to help the bread stick). Once the entire basin is lined, tip the fruit and its juice into the basin, filling it almost to its rim. Lay the remaining slice of bread on top, using offcuts and spare bits to fill in the gaps so that no fruit is showing.
Place the basin on a large plate to catch any escaping juice, then place a small plate on top of the basin snd weigh it down with a heavy weight (I find a tin of baked beans works well!) to put some pressure on the fruit and make the juice soak into the bread. Leave overnight in the fridge.
When you are ready to serve, remove the weight and carefully slide a palette knife around between the basin and the bread (NB – do not tear the bread!). Turn a plate (larger than the circumference of the basin) upside down and place it on top of the basin. Holding the plate and basin firmly in place, turn them quickly upside down and shake to dislodge the pudding – it should come out easily. Serve immediately with plenty of fresh cream.
And while you are here… please don't forget to send me your favourite braai or BBQ recipes by 23 September for Braai the Beloved Country, my annual event celebrating summery outdoor cooking. Click here to read the submission guidelines!
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This tip-filled guide will show you how to get the most out of Twitter Lists.
In this article, you’ll find:
- The Many Benefits of Twitter Lists
- How To Create Twitter Lists in 3 Steps
- How To Manage Twitter Lists: Editing and Deleting
- How To Manage Twitter Lists: Following
- 10 Twitter Lists Best Practices
- 10 Ideas of Twitter Lists to Create
- A Must-Use Twitter List Strategy for Professionals
- Your Twitter Lists Toolbox
- 10 Suggested Twitter Lists to Follow
- 10 Predictions for Twitter Lists
- One Very Cool Thing That Twitter Did With Lists
- More Reading About Twitter Lists
Lists organize who you’re following
Lists are a feature that allow you to easily categorize the people and accounts you’re following on Twitter. You decide what the theme of each List is or if there’s even a theme at all. Lists are a great way to split who you follow along the lines of work and play, by topic, or by relation to you.
Lists make Twitter Easier To Use
Twitter Lists reduce the clutter and make Twitter itself easier to use because you no longer need to read everyone’s tweets in one stream of information. Instead, you can divide that stream into separate streams that are easier to follow focused on topics that you gave them when you created those Lists.
Lists save you time
By making your Twitter Lists public, you’re sharing them with everyone else. If you create Lists that are valuable to other people, they will follow your Lists instead of wasting taking the time to create their own.
Lists make discovery faster
By making their Twitter Lists public, other people are signaling to you who’s worth following, particularly useful if you’re new to Twitter or looking to deepen your knowledge about a specific topic.
Lists can help build your personal brand
If you attract enough followers to your Lists, you’ll become known as a quality List builder, which will attract more followers to your Lists and Twitter profile, which will grow your reputation, and so on.
Another way Lists can help build your personal brand is if you create Lists that are related to the brand you’re building. For example, as a job search expert, I have already built a number of Lists related to job search.
The number and kind of people who add you to their Lists will also help build your personal brand by showing how those people see you, which is hopefully in sync with your brand.
Finally, just adding someone to a List of yours increases your chance of having them visit your profile to see who is Listing them.
Lists let you learn with privacy
You can keep your Twitter Lists private, hiding them even though you’re following people with them and they have no way of knowing. Plus, by keeping your Twitter Lists private, you can build them until you feel they’re ready for public display, or just keep them to yourself for every reason that you can imagine.
Now that you know how useful Twitter Lists are, let’s take a look at how to create them.
It only takes a few clicks to create a List.
Go to your Twitter profile page and you’ll notice a number of additions for using Lists:
- The Lists button on the right above your tweets
- The Lists box that appears in your sidebar
1) To create a List, click the Lists button. In the popup that appears, click New list:
- Note: Twitter currently lets you create up to 20 Lists, after which the New list link disappears.
2) In the Create a new list popup, choose a name for your List:
- Note: according to Twitter, “A list’s name must start with a letter and consist only of 80 or fewer letters, numbers, ‘-’, or ‘_’ characters.”
3) Keep your List private until you’re ready for people to know that you have (or haven’t) added them to your List. Then click the Create list button.
That’s it! You’ve just created your first Twitter List, which is initially empty and looks like this:
An empty List isn’t a very useful one so now you’ll add people to follow with your List. The easiest way to do that is by doing a Twitter User Search and then adding accounts from the search results. In this example, I searched on “job search”:
To add anyone, click on the Lists buttonand in the popup menu that appears, choose which of your Lists to add that person to. You can even add people to more than one List by clicking multiple List checkboxes.
Another way to add people to your Lists is directly from their Twitter profile.
Every time you see a user’s information on Twitter, there will be a Lists button for adding them to (or removing them from) your own Lists, and you can even add yourself to your own Lists via your Twitter profile:
Once you do add someone to your Lists (1), links to those Lists will appear at the top of that person’s Twitter profile (2).
Now that you’ve created a first List, a link to that List should appear in the Lists area in the sidebar of your Twitter profile. When you click that link to visit one of your Lists, the upper-righthand corner of the List’s page will have links to edit or delete the List:
(1) The Edit link lets you rename your List and modify its privacy settings. If you ever want to change the privacy setting, it will usually be to make a private List public like when a List you were building is now ready to be publicized. Know that if you make a public List private, that List will immediately lose all of its followers.
(2) The Delete link will let you do just that- delete a List that you created, something you might want to do as you get closer to the Twitter limit of 20 Lists (to create; you’re allowed to follow as many as you like). A popup will ask you to confirm the deletion before your List is gone forever.
The Lists box in the sidebar of your Twitter profile page has a link that says View all, and links to your Lists page:
Here you can see all the Lists following you (1), i.e. that other Twitter users have added you to, and the Lists you follow (2). A nice feature is how Twitter shows how many people are following and are followed by each List, numbers which you can use to judge whether it’s worth following that List yourself.
Don’t be surprised if the Lists you’re on are ones that you would also want to follow! If anything, depending on the strength of your personal brand, you might find yourself on multiple Lists that overlap each other with the same people over and over. In that case, choose just one List that best groups together all the people you want to follow for that topic.
To follow a List, click the link to it and then click the Follow this list button:
Now that you’re following that List, an Unfollow link will appear at the top of the page. To unfollow a List, just click that Unfollow link.
Room for improvement
Managing Twitter Lists is too hard right now. For example, if you decide to remove the majority of people from a List, it’s probably easier to delete the List and then recreate it only with the members you want. Also, there’s currently no way to stop following multiple Lists at once i.e. you need to visit each List’s page and click the Unfollow link, one by one.
Before you start creating any Twitter Lists, keep in mind these best practices:
This is a kind of mega-list that you should use to follow the people whose tweets you absolutely don’t want to miss. If you follow so many people on Twitter that your main Twitter stream is mostly filled with tweets you don’t care about, use your VIP List as your new default Twitter stream. To get an idea of who should be on your VIP List, see who you’ve mentioned (using the @) or direct-messaged recently.
Use discovery tools like Listorious to find Lists to follow
Especially before trying to create your own Lists. Saves time and you can guage if the existing List is better than what you had in mind.
Create Lists based on why you’re on Twitter
If you use Twitter for work purposes, create a few Lists to follow experts, colleagues, news and job openings. If you use Twitter for fun, you might create a few Lists to follow friends, family, hobby communities and news, etc.
Value Lists are lists that bring value to other people. If you can think of an original List idea that is valuable to others, especially if the others are people in your industry or community, don’t miss the opportunity to be first with that List. You might never even use the List yourself, that doesn’t matter since you’re trying to provide value.
You should also use Lists to warn people about Twitter accounts they should NOT follow. For example, I could create a Twitter List of spam accounts or of Twitter users that I felt were giving bad advice.
Don’t try to organize all the people you follow into Lists
This is just a recipe for a lot of pointless busywork since you gain and lose followers every single day. Instead, create Lists as you feel a need for them and gradually add people to your Lists as you interact with them on Twitter. Sometimes, it might even make sense to follow the same person on multiple Lists.
Don’t use up all your 20 Lists right away
You might want to create new Lists later without having to delete others. One way to save List slots is by following other people’s Lists instead, like the ones you can find on Listorious.
If the List is for you, give it a clear, meaningful name
It’s pretty clear what appears on a List of “Friends” or “My Favorite Bloggers”, don’t you think?
If the List is for other people, give it a catchy name
List names are the best way for your Lists to stand out in a crowd of Lists on similar topics. If List members appreciate the name of the List you put them on, other people will likely be attracted to that List too.
- Since Lists are tied to the people who created them, you can give your Lists any name you like, including the same name as someone else’s List but I would only recommend doing that if the List is for yourself. Otherwise, people might think you’re trying to compete with them.
Certain Lists are best kept Private
- Incomplete Value Lists, so as not to offend anyone that would otherwise expect to be on the List
- Shadow Lists i.e. Lists of people you are watching to see if they’re worth following
Now that you’re ready to get started, here are some ideas for Lists to create.
- Colleagues, bosses and ex-colleagues by team, department, or company
- Industry experts you admire, for work or hobby
- Job feeds relevant to your profession
- News sources you care about, separated by topic, industry or location
- Communities such as fans of your favorite sports teams or art, other players in a game or people rallying around a cause
- Favorite blogs to follow via Twitter instead of using an RSS Reader
- A Shadow List of competitors you want to follow without them knowing you’re following
- A Shadow List of people to follow later
Twitter actually allows you to create up to 20 Lists but that doesn’t mean you should. In fact, if you choose your Lists well, you’ll find that you only need a few to get a lot of things done.
So here’s how to choose your Lists well.
- 1 VIP List – check this first whenever you log onto Twitter.
- 1 List for work – colleagues, bosses/managers, company and industry news. Keep this open when on the job.
- 1 List for play – news, friends, family and other communities you care about. Use this during your free time or breaks.
- 1 Value List for personal branding purposes, something that other people will find truly useful. Update this when you feel it’s necessary and when people make good suggestions.
- 1 List for job search and/or career success. Check this at least once a day if you’re actively job searching, at least once a week otherwise because you never know when a better job opportunity will come along unless you’re watching regularly.
- 1 (private) Shadow List of people you’re considering following. Check this when you have time.
The VIP List and Shadow List are ones that only you can know who should be on them. However, if someone else has already created a List that matches the other types, follow theirs until you find something missing and then either suggest the additions or copy the List and make the additions yourself.
These tools will help you get the most out of Twitter Lists:
Official Twitter List Widget – a widget for blogs and other websites that displays tweets from a specific Lists.
Listorious – a directory of Twitter Lists with rankings so you can discover and find popular Lists to follow.
Twitter Lists 2 RSS – make an RSS feed for any Twitter List.
TweepML – lets you follow all members of a Twitter List in one shot.
MustExist’s List Tags – if Twitter Lists are a way to tag people, this tool lets you compare how people are tagging you. A must if you’re using Twitter for personal branding.
Listiti – “Get notified whenever your brand / product / company / … appears in Twitter Lists of your choice.”
Seesmic Desktop – the first Twitter desktop client that’s compatible with Twitter Lists, the software pulls in your Twitter Lists among its Userlists.
Tweetvisor – a web client for Twitter that is also Lists-compatible.
- Employers Recruiting
- Most Influential In Tech
- Art And Artists
- Best Music Tweets
- Top 50 Funny
Other bloggers’ Lists recommendations
- 10 Twitter Design Lists You Must Follow
- 8 Twitter Lists All Students Should Follow
- 15 Social Media Twitter Lists to Follow and Expand
- 10 Twitter Lists You Should Follow
- Five Must-follow Twitter Lists
- You will eventually be able to create as many Lists as you like, including Lists of Lists or Lists that were generated from parts of other Lists.
- It will soon be possible to follow a List via RSS.
- Twitter will make List management easier, including a way to hide specific Lists from polluting your Lists summary page.
- Twitter will let you ‘block’ List members so that you can filter only the members you want to follow of a given List. Not only that, but the the List creator will be able to see how many times each member has been blocked so that they can decide to remove the person from the List or not.
- Someone will create a way to check if a user is part of a specific List, such as a spam account List.
- Spammers will start faking Twitter ‘Listed’ numbers by using their spam accounts to create Lists following one another.
- Just like Twitter now recommends certain users you might want to follow, List recommendations will arrive too.
- Some Lists will become so popular that List creators will be able to sell/rent/lease spots on those Lists.
- Taking Twitter’s lead, organizations will begin creating Lists of employees. For example, many newspapers now encourage readers to email their journalists. Instead, the newspaper will now create a List of their journalists to make them more reachable via Twitter.
- Organizations will start using Lists as a way to thank people, such as a List of donors.
11. Someone will sue over having been left off a Twitter List or put on a Twitter Blacklist.
By suggesting you try out Lists by following the Twitter team first, Twitter made instant celebrities of their employees without spending a dime.
- Twitter Lists; Limitations, bugs, impact, and brilliance
- How To Make A Twitter List Powered Fan Page
- Twitter Introduces New Personal Branding Tool: Lists
- With Twitter Lists Come Great Responsibilities
- How Twitter Lists Work
- How to Get Started with Twitter Lists
If you liked this article, I’m sure you’ll appreciate my free ebook The Ultimate Twitter Job Search Guide.
Have you started using Twitter Lists? Post a link to your favorite List in the comments.
Coming Next: How To Use Twitter Lists for Job Search
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After studying biology at Cambridge (and receiving an undistinguished degree), he studied medicine at St. Bart’s during World War I, worked in pediatric hospitals, married Alice Taylor (in 1923; apparently a rather bad marriage), started a private pediatric practice, read and admired Freud, and, in 1923, began his analysis with James Strachey. His mother died in 1925. He became one of the first candidates in the British Psychoanalytic Institute in 1927, ended his Strachey analysis in 1933, graduated from the institute, got supervised by Melanie Klein, and at the same time analyzed her son. From 1936 to 1941, he had a second analysis, with the then rather Kleinian Joan Riviere. In 1941, he began working with Clare Britton, a social worker (and future analyst) working with children; about 1944 he apparently began an intimate relationship with her. In the late 1940s he had several heart attacks, his father died, and he separated from Alice (they had had no children together, although they had provided a home for two psychologically troubled foster children). Winnicott continued to write rather prolifically and wrote what is probably his most famous paper, on transitional phenomena (delivered, after delays, in 1951) (1). In December 1951, he married Clare, and this second marriage seems to have been largely successful and happy. From time to time several of his professional relationships—e.g., with Marion Milner, Melanie Klein, Masud Khan, and some severely ill patients—had what seem clearly to have been some burdensome problems with boundaries. Melanie Klein died in 1960. Winnicott went on writing energetically and creatively, traveled to America several times to give lectures, had increasing heart and lung problems and flu, and died Jan. 22, 1971.
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June 14, 2010
By GERALDINE FABRIKANT
OKLAHOMA CITY — At least one example of the printed word is in great demand even in the digital age: ancient Bibles.
With a goal of establishing a national Bible museum of great depth and size, the evangelical Christian family behind the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores has been spending heavily to amass a collection that has set dealers buzzing in the staid world of rare books.
Specialists estimate the family has bought illuminated, or decorated, manuscripts, Torahs, papyri and other works worth $20 million to $40 million from auction houses, dealers, private collectors and institutions, some of which may be selling because of financial pressure.
The man leading the effort is Steve Green, president of Hobby Lobby, a private company based here that is a favorite of scrapbook makers, do-it-yourselfers and home decorators. The company, founded by his father, David, in 1972, now numbers 439 stores and has generated a family fortune that Forbes magazine estimates at $2.5 billion.
With money to spare, the younger Mr. Green, 46, has found a passion to complement his vocation, and is working with specialists in deal-making and history who, using company money on behalf of the family, began buying with a flourish about six months ago.
“They have caught everyone’s attention because no one in recent memory has spent so much so quickly on Bibles,” said Dr. Eric White, curator of special collections at the Bridwell Library at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
Read the full story.
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Grandma's secret turkey recipe, mom's special cranberry dish, and Thanksgiving Day celebrations are a mixed bag of cherished, time-honored recipes and traditions. Although Thanksgiving is not exactly a Caribbean holiday, many people from the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico and The U.S. Virgin Islands, in addition to Americans with Caribbean roots, do celebrate with their own special menus for the occasion. I created the following menu to highlight the foods commonly served at Thanksgiving, but with an island flare. I hope you enjoy the recipes enough to start a new tradition of your own.
Roasting a turkey for Thanksgiving as if it were lechòn (suckling pig) has been a tradition in Puerto Rico since the island became an American commonwealth and adopted the holiday. Normally, the meat of choice for the holidays is roasted suckling pork. So it only makes sense to combine the tradition of the islands with an American tradition and serve turkey that tastes like roasted pork for Thanksgiving. This flavor intensive recipe will go over well with the most discriminating of tastes.
If you prefer to cook the traditional meat of choice for the holidays, here is a smaller version of a roasted pig. The recipe calls for roasting a shoulder picnic cut or butt roast. Leftovers make awesome cuban sandwiches.
Plantain Turkey Stuffing, also called Mofongo Stuffing, is an excellent alternative to the traditional breaded and meat stuffing associated with a thanksgiving turkey. This mouthwatering stuffing is made from plantains, bacon, garlic, and ajíces dulces (sweet chili peppers).
Cuban Fufu is similar to Mofongo Stuffing, but the recipe calls for ripe plantains. If you don't like green plantains, you can make this sweet plantain stuffing mashed with bacon and onion. This recipe makes a sweet yet savory turkey dressing or side dish.
Instead of mashed potatoes, try Puerto Rico's national dish. This recipe is a rice and pea dish seasoned with sofrito and diced ham.
Replace your biscuits, rolls or cornbread with this recipe. Surullitos are easy to make cornmeal cheese sticks that can be served warm as a side dish or as a snack.
Besitos de coco are a favorite treat in the Spanish speaking islands. They are a great substitute for cookies. Here is a simple basic recipe, which can be dressed up by adding nuts or dipping kisses in chocolate.
If your traditional fare includes custard, why not try something a little different this year. Here's a creamy custard dessert with a tropical twist. Not only will the taste "wow them" but the presentation is beautiful as well.
The About Guide to Desserts and Baking presents a tried and true recipe for the traditional rum cake.
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Inside the kingdom
Schwartz imagines the interior lives of Japan's royal family
For author John Burnham Schwartz, it was the bittersweet sense of what might have been, that first sparked his imagination and spurred him to write his new novel, The Commoner.
Set to be released later this month, the book is the story of Haruko, a fictional Empress of Japan who is the first non-aristocratic woman to marry into the Japanese monarchy. "Because she and the rest of the royal family will never get to speak for themselves in any fashion," says Schwartz, "it's the novelist's job to give voice to the voiceless, to get in there and imagine what it might be like to be in those circumstances."
Schwartz is the author of three previous novels, the critically lauded Claire Marvel, Bicycle Days and Reservation Road, which was adapted into a film released last fall. In The Commoner, certain characters bear a striking resemblance to today's real-life Japanese royal family, but Schwartz's empathetic imagin[ings] are all his own. They had to be, for the society portrayed is one of the most secretive monarchies in the world. Everything within is tightly controlled, and in the novel, when Haruko marries the Crown Prince, the accompanying rigidity and suspicion are such a cruel shock to her that she eventually suffers both a nervous breakdown and the loss of her voice. Says the author, "However bad it may seem in the novel, it's worse in real life."
Schwartz claims to have been haunted by the work. "I kept thinking about the story," he says. "There was this idea that you have a normal childhood of some kind. You have parents and you have friends and you have all of the things we go through. But then, at a certain age, you cross over and it's as though you enter into a world that is many things, but it's not life. . . . It doesn't even resemble life. Every single thing is controlled for you. You're not allowed to visit your parents. You're not allowed to make phone calls or write letters on the spur of the moment. Every single thing is monitored and every single thing has a protocol. It's as though you've been walking along and suddenly fallen down a well that's 5,000 feet deep. And for those at the bottom of the well," Schwartz says, "the past is their only connection to the real world. All you have of your own identity is what you brought with you: your memories, your feelings, whatever it is that made you who you were at the moment you crossed over."
In the novel, Haruko's own memories of life outside the monarchy are what help sustain her, and once she becomes Empress, they play a decided influence in the difficult decision she must make regarding her son, the Crown Prince, and Keiko, the woman he is desperate to marry. Schwartz's renderings of the royal family a group so completely and totally cut off from the world are not only believable but absorbing. The reader is drawn in, mesmerized by the grace and subtlety of his writing. Small truths appear on every page.
Speaking from his home in Brooklyn, where he lives with his wife and their son, Schwartz makes it clear that he takes the job of storyteller seriously. I tend to throw out 400 or 500 pages a novel, he says. This has been true for every book. Though he wishes he could find a more direct way, it's this time and care that make his work what it is.
His novels have been translated into more than 15 languages and he's written for such publications as The New York Times and The New Yorker. Recently, he tried his hand at screenwriting, translating his 1998 novel Reservation Road into a script that attracted acting heavyweights Joaquin Phoenix, Jennifer Connelly and Mark Ruffalo.
Filmmaking proved to be a learning experience for Schwartz. "It's a very, very different form of writing," he says. "I sort of enjoy it. It's a different part of the brain. It's not as much in any way about the language. It's about solving certain structural problems. I'm a novelist; if you're writing a novel, you're lucky if you solve three big problems a year."
Problems arising from writing in a voice so foreign from his own are never an issue in The Commoner. Schwartz conducted an immense amount of research, and once he began to write, he went through seven drafts before he felt the book was ready. Such dedicated efforts were rewarded, for The Commoner is a well nuanced and tightly executed dance between trying to make the things that are not said have as much resonance and tension as some of those things that are.
As Schwartz explains, "One of the things I had to develop from the start was a relationship with reticence. So many of the decisions I made in the book during the writing have to do with when to stop, when to let a certain silence be and when to go on. It's a balance, because you don't want the story itself to be reticent. It is this difference between seeking a dramatic reticence as opposed to a reticent drama."
In The Commoner, every character trait, every descriptive detail in every sentence, matters. Schwartz invokes the image of a Zen garden, something that is absolutely a part of Japanese culture. The whole point is that each thing carries more weight because the things around it have been stripped down. A moving portrait of women living the most interior of lives, The Commoner offers resolution tinged with a glimmer of hope. Schwartz says it's here that fiction and history radically depart. In this case, history seems not just cruel, but impoverished. For him, the answer to what should happen to his characters was clear. "That's part of the reward," he says. "You get to write a history that seems organically possible. It changes their horizons."
Lacey Galbraith is a freelance writer based in Nashville.
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The Berkshire Regional Transit Authority has earned a $2 million grant to replace aging buses and fare boxes, federal lawmakers announced Monday.
Rep. John Olver said the money is sorely needed for buses in the Berkshires.
"These grants will allow the BRTA ... to buy new buses and replace old vehicles that desperately need to be retired," Olver, D-Amherst, said in a statement. "These new vehicles will help people get where they need to go more efficiently."
The local transit authority provides bus service throughout Berkshire County, connecting towns and cities from Great Barrington to North Adams.
The $2 million for BRTA is part of the $28.6 million that Massachusetts will receive from the U.S. Department of Transportation to replace transit buses, complete station projects and improve connections between rail and bus services across the state.
The funding will be awarded to BRTA and four other transit systems in the state through the Federal Transit Administration's State of Good Repair Program.
The bulk of the money — $18.4 million — is going to Boston, where it will be used to replace old buses.
BRTA administrators weren't available for comment Monday, but in their grant application, they requested $1.4 million to replace vehicles they said are "beyond their useful lives."
The BRTA also received $600,000 to replace fare boxes in its buses as part of a statewide initiative.
With a fleet of more than 40 vehicles, the Berkshire Regional Transit Authority moves about 1,700 people a day, six days a week, for a total of more than 500,000 riders in fiscal 2010. That's up from 489,000 just three years earlier.
Surveys have shown that 60 percent of BRTA riders use the service because they have no other source of transportation.
"These investments will create jobs and help people who rely on public transportation day in and day out," said Sen. John Kerry said.
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Remains: Photographs by Frank Miller
January 18 – August 14, 2011
Roger W. Rogers Gallery
In his series “Remains”, Frank Miller finds beauty in ugliness and value in the worthless. The photographs record discarded consumer items found along the banks of the Willamette River in Salem’s Minto Brown Park, and are characterized by a startling contrast between the verdant landscape and the mundane items of trash that litter it. Far from presenting the discarded items as ugly and intrusive, Miller has photographed them with a sensitivity that borders on reverence. It is as if the act of photographing abandoned objects represents an effort to restore their value and dignity.
The photographs have a post-apocalyptic feeling. They give us a sense of what the world would be like if people simply disappeared from the face of the earth overnight. They are filled with a sense of absence and loss. The images present a littered and empty Garden of Eden, a skewed and dystopian paradise.
On one level Miller conducts what could be described as a visual archeology of consumerism, but on another level he invites the viewer to construct a narrative for each object that tacks its trajectory from being treasured and new to being worn and discarded. Miller reminds us that all things must end, and that endings are often intertwined with loss and sadness.
The objects Miller records with such care were at one point an intimate part of people’s lives: a private item of clothing, a cherished bible, a warm, familiar comforter, and the door of a once-beloved car. These formerly treasured objects, once used by people to define and express their individuality, are now poignantly abandoned and divorced from their original context.
Miller explains that the impetus for this series came from the experience of travelling to Cambodia on his honeymoon. He visited the meadow outside Phnom Penh where the Khmer Rouge conducted most of their executions, and was struck by the bits of clothing that protruded from the ground, which was saturated by the bones of the dead. Miller explains his experience as follows:”Wandering through all of this the horror of what had happened hit home when I found the fragments of a woman’s bright floral blouse coming out of the ground. I immediately had a mental image of this woman’s fingers moving over the clothing in a store, making the selection that she did, thinking that it made her feel happy, prettier-and then ultimately dying in it. That this bit of cloth was the only way I could know of her existence was at once sad and humiliating, and I felt useless in the face of history.”
Frank Miller is the Visual Assets Manager for Willamette University’s Office of Marketing Communications. He has worked at Willamette since 2002, providing photographs and video for various university communications. His personal work has been exhibited at the Portland Museum of Art, The Jordan Schnitzer Museum in Eugene, and the Bush Gallery in Salem. This is his first exhibition at Willamette.
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Neurosurgeon Adam Mamelak Brings Expertise In Pituitary Surgery, Epilepsy, Tumor Research
Neurosurgeon Adam N. Mamelak, M.D., has joined Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute to conduct brain tumor research, provide additional expertise in epilepsy and skull base surgery, and serve as co-director of the medical center’s Pituitary Center.
“He is a leader in the field of neurosurgery, epilepsy, pituitary tumors and brain tumors,” said Keith L. Black, M.D., director of the Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute and Cedars-Sinai’s Division of Neurosurgery. “His research interests and background contribute ideally to our investigations, and the quality of his clinical skills will be appreciated by the patients who come to us for care.”
Mamelak, who earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, has conducted research in a variety of neurological areas, including epilepsy and seizures, memory formation, and innovative techniques for imaging brain tumors.
He recently participated in a Phase I study of a synthetic version of a substance derived from scorpion venom in the treatment of malignant brain tumors called gliomas. The compound, TM-601, is not toxic to normal cells but it seeks out and binds to tumor cells. TM-601 acts as the guidance system to deliver a dose of radiation directly to its target, precisely killing tumor cells while minimizing damage to neighboring cells. The experimental treatment is now in a Phase II trial.
Among recent research efforts, Mamelak was a principle investigator in a study of genetically engineered T-cells designed to target glioma cells. He is also investigating the ability of the brain to differentiate novel from familiar information by recording the activity of individual brain cells in patients undergoing monitoring for seizure, and the utility of magnetoencephalography to identify seizures.
In 1999, Mamelak received the award for Best Translational Research by a Practicing Neurosurgeon from the National Brain Tumor Foundation through the American Association of Neurosurgeons (AANS) and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS). He also is the winner of the Young Investigator Award from the Research Foundation of the AANS and the Junior Investigator Award from the American Epilepsy Society.
Board-certified in neurological surgery, Mamelak is active in numerous professional organizations, including the American Epilepsy Society, the Society of Neuro-Oncology and the American College of Surgeons. He also serves on several committees and editorial boards.
Named among America’s Top Surgeons in 2003 and America’s Top Doctors for Cancer in 2005, Mamelak recently served as associate professor and section head of neurosurgery at City of Hope National Medical Center and neurosurgical director of the Epilepsy and Brain Mapping Program at Huntington Memorial Hospital.
After completing medical school, he served as chief resident in neurological surgery at the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center, where he also received fellowship training at the Epilepsy Research Laboratory. He completed a neuroscience research fellowship at the California Institute of Technology and Huntington Medical Research Institutes.
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The first of every year, we encourage you to look around, set some goals and live intentionally. As a family we meet together early in the year, devour some quality Chinese Food and set our goals for the year.
As part of the process, we look around and take inventory of what we see. Part of the process is our annual predictions column. We have some big predictions for 2012, but first let’s review the record of what we said in early 2011.
Last year we said, “Economic growth will remain sluggish at best. Housing prices have not yet hit bottom and will definitely continue falling. Foreclosures will continue unabated and this will pressure the banking system.”
I don’t think we were far off the mark. We continued with, “The Federal Reserve, under the leadership of Ben Bernanke, has run out of tools to boost the economy. Continued quantitative easing will increase inflation while barely budging the unemployment numbers. ”
Again we hit a bulls-eye. The Fed is out of ammunition. They risk serious inflation if they pump much more cash into the system. The only factor currently protecting us from inflation is the deflation in housing and real estate. All the money destroyed in the housing crisis is being restored by the Fed, but it isn’t circulating with us common folk because it is all being used to rescue insolvent banks and governments.
Our only real clunker of a prediction was, “Gasoline will trend upward to nearly $4.00 a gallon, and could even surpass it. Every additional gallon of oil pumped out of the ground is more costly than ever to produce. Rising gas prices will further drag the economy down.” They are up but not that much.
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I write about marketing, branding and business strategy.
The number of venture capital funds has declined precipitously – it’s down nearly 50% from its peak, says David Brophy, venture capital expert and Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business – and deals have been slow this year. Says Brophy, “Partners are pulling back because they don’t trust the future – nobody does at the moment – and venture capital is a big bet on the future.” So, with Facebook’s ill-fated IPO, does that mean another dot-com bubble is about to burst?
Brophy does see similarities to the hype of the 1990s. When it comes to social media, “we haven’t had what you might think of as ‘proof of concept’ or sustainability,” he says. “Can they sustain [the growth]? We have just enough clues saying maybe they can’t… When you look back at the dot-com bubble, some very good companies sustained themselves. If you can hang on to provide something useful, your company can take its place in the economy. But do we need 50,000 companies, each one trying to do a little piece? I don’t know that it will burst, but just like venture funds, the number went up, and now it’s coming down.”
In the 1990s, says Brophy, it was relatively easy to make money during the boom times of rising stock market valuations. Since 2000, however, “the only way to make money is by increasing cash flow and profitability of your portfolio companies, and that takes hard work and understanding the business.” The upshot? The only people who will be able to make money in a flat market are experts who bring unique operational skills – as well as money – to the table.
With venture capitalists forced to raise the bar, Brophy insists that entrepreneurs must follow suit. “I think we need smarter entrepreneurs,” he says. “The venture capitalist looks at 2000 business plans or opportunities in a year, and invests in five or six, or whatever the number might be. The entrepreneur may do it once in his or her life, and in general they’re dumb as a bag of hammers when it comes to the process. It’s a competitive country, and an economy in which competition is highly valued. If you’ve got the goods but don’t know the real value, stay tuned for someone to liberate that value from you. Entrepreneurs need to learn about the process so they’re not taken to the cleaners.”
Brophy also believes that universities – inspired by the example of MIT and Stanford – are poised to kick it up a notch when it comes to commercializing their research. “The average science or engineering professor fears a rush to commercialize – that there will be a race for Lamborghinis rather than a race to discover the cure for cancer,” he says. But commercialization isn’t a detour from the fundamental premise of universities, says Brophy – it’s actually a return to their roots. “It goes right back to the basis of these land-grant universities,” he says, “to build better plows, shovels, and picks and the tools of the day. Part of the mission of universities is still that – but now it’s not shovels and picks, it’s [silicon] chips.”
It’s harder for companies – and the VCs that back them – to thrive in today’s competitive environment. But that challenge may lead to sharper skills, better investments, and new innovation that benefits us all. What do you see on the horizon for venture capital in the next 1-2 years?
Dorie Clark is CEO of Clark Strategic Communications and the author of the forthcoming Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013). She is a strategy consultant who has worked with clients including Google, Yale University, and the Ford Foundation. Listen to her podcasts or follow her on Twitter.
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BALTIMORE — Fans watching NFL games on television have grown accustomed to the imaginary yellow line that runs across the field in accord with the first-down marker.
That first-down line could one day become part of the in-game experience at all 32 NFL stadiums.
Alan Amron, with financial backing from former NFL player and broadcaster Pat Summerall, has developed the First Down Laser System. Amron said the system projects a first-down line across the field that can be seen in the stadium and on TV.
The league is intrigued, but not completely sold on the idea — not yet anyway.
“The NFL is our prime customer at this point,” Amron said, “and if we can make something that they like, maybe the NCAA and Canadian Football League will follow suit.”
Amron first met with the NFL in 2003 and again in 2009. There may soon be future meetings.
“They give me different opinions and suggestions along the way,” Amron said. “We comply with them and come back. They tell me it took them years and years to implement replay and the overhead cam. The NFL right now has made it very clear to us that they didn’t want to eliminate the chains, but augmenting them wouldn’t be a bad idea.”
League spokesman Greg Aiello said, “We have not been convinced that it would work for us, but we are open to further discussion after the season.”
The laser system would be attached to the first-down markers on both sides and project a contrasting light green line across the field. The system would work in accord with the chain gang, but is designed to provide a more accurate focal point in terms of measurements. When a player hits the turf, by theory, it would become immediately apparent whether he made a first down.
“A misplaced ball on a first-down measurement can mean the difference between winning and losing a game,” Summerall said.
For fans at home, the first-down line is a visual aid that has become as much a part of the telecast as replay and out-of-town highlights. Amron got the idea for the laser after watching a game at home, then going to the stadium and having to do without the line across the field.
“Right away I realized it would be a great thing to be able to project it onto the field,” he said. “I filed patents on it within weeks.”
In recent years, the NFL has attempted to lure fans from home by making larger replay screens, displaying in-house photos of what the replay official is watching and showing clips from games around the league. Could a first-down line be the next addition?
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Highfield go top of the Heap
Published at 07:41, Wednesday, 13 February 2013
PUPILS at Prudhoe’s Highfield Middle School got their hands on gold medals from the Commonwealth Games.
Former international gymnast Craig Heap, a Commonwealth champion in both 1998 and 2002, visited the Tynedale school as part of the Sky Sports Living for Sport initiative.
The scheme uses famous names in the world of sports to visit children across the country to help them get into sport and develop new skills.
Heap spent the entire day at Highfield, working with three separate groups before taking the assembly for all pupils.
He worked with an active writing group for boys who use sport to improve their writing skills, before giving a questions and answers session with the sports leaders at the school.
A group of Year 5 girls were then inspired as the former Great Britain and England representative ran a gymnastics session.
Heap’s visit drove home to the pupils the school’s theme of pride for the year.
PE teacher June Lomax said: “It was a very inspirational visit and Craig showed the children his gold medals from Kuala Lumpar in 1998 and Manchester in 2002.
“He told them never to give up on their dreams and to be proud of what they are able to do, so that fitted in with our theme.
“Craig is very flexible and quite bendy, so it was great for the children to see a world class athlete in action.”
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iPod Nano as Second Screen Device (and eliminate iTunes Syncing) Concept
Apple's iPod Nano has all the features to be a great 2nd screen to the iPhone. iOS6 bluetooth allows for information sharing between iPhone and the Nano, the screen is large enough to show useful amount of information, and it has a touch screen to quickly go through information. The connection would also remove the need to manually sync the iPod Nano with iTunes on a computer.
Benefits of a 2nd Screen Device
The iPod Nano would act as a second screen to select iOS applications. While it might seem minor to take out an iPhone from the pocket, sometimes the iPhone is not always accessible. The iPhone could be in pocket while sitting, you may want directions while biking, or the iPhone may not be near while exercising.
:: The Nano displaying SMS and iMessage alerts
:: A scrolling list of appointments. The next appointment is at the top.
:: Apple Map directions. The list would be scrollable.
Connecting the Nano to the iPhone
The iPod Nano has bluetooth 4. As compared to previous versions of bluetooth, this version uses a fraction of battery power. Battery life can be days instead of hours. Bluetooth 4 also makes the pairing process much quicker. If an iPhone uses the Nano as a second screen, the accessible apps iOS square icon would show up on the Nano. This would visually separate the linked apps from the built in ones on the Nano. If the connection is severed, the apps would disappear.
Wearing the Nano
The previous Nano was watch sized, and perfect for the wrist in a traditional sense. However clay tests with the current nano show it also wristable (ps. my wrist is very skinny). It could also be worn on a lanyard, which Apple offered with the original iPod Shuffle.
No More iTunes Syncing - Controlling Music on iPhone
The bluetooth connection between the Nano and iPhone would also let the Nano control the music on the iPhone. This would remove the hassle of having to sync the Nano with a computer in order to get content on it. Via iCloud the iPhone would auto-sync music and podcasts between the user's iPhone, Macs, and other devices.
Why Current 2nd Screen Devices Fail
There is an attempt to take the current watch form and make it into a second screen.
:: While the Pebble watch is exciting, the screen isn't the quality we expect from our devices. Given the screen shape and quality, the translation of iOS notifications isn't of high quality.
:: The Cuckoo watch looks great. Only problem is the information has no value. Only indicating "You have an alarm, chat message, appointment, or call" provides no usable information.
Chances of the iPod Nano as a 2nd Screen
The current Nano is a curious device released by Apple. Typically Apple just doesn't include technology in their products as a spec check point, but fully think out the potential of the new technology. Then combined with software they showcase the tech with an exciting new use (airplay being one example). The Bluetooth in the iPod Nano is vastly underused, having second screen devices would also show an exciting new side to iOS.
by Jot Kali at wirus.com
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U.N.: Peacekeeper release agreed, but delayed
21 peacekeepers detained by Syrian rebels
Twenty-one U.N. peacekeepers detained by Syrian rebels this week could soon be released, representatives for the United Nations and a Syrian opposition group said Friday.
"All the parties" have agreed to a release of the 21 held since Wednesday, and the U.N. peacekeeping agency has dispatched a team to help collect them, U.N. spokeswoman Josephine Guerrero said.
But the effort was called off Friday due to darkness, and the team will try again on Saturday, Guerrero said.
Rebels had detained the peacekeepers, identified by the Philippine government as Filipino, in a Syrian village near the Golan Heights.
Syrian opposition coalition President Moaz al-Khatib said Thursday that the rebels took the peacekeepers for their own safety due to fighting there. The peacekeepers reportedly are unharmed.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based Syrian opposition group, said Friday that the peacekeepers are expected to be released between 10 a.m. and noon Saturday in Syria, citing one of its rebel contacts.
The release is contingent on a cease-fire between government forces and rebels around the village of Jamlah, where the peacekeepers are said to be held, the group said.
Government forces shelled the area Friday, according to the Syrian National Coalition, the principal Syrian opposition group.
The rebels will hold Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime responsible "for any harm that would happen to the U.N. employees," a statement from the coalition said.
Late Friday, a man who said he was one of the peacekeepers told the Arabic news network Al-Arabiya via Skype that he expects to be released Saturday.
"The reason for the delay is the shelling," he told Al-Arabiya. "We were about to be released this evening, but the shelling resumed. All 21 peacekeepers are safe and treated well."
CNN could not independently verify the authenticity of the interview.
Earlier this week, a video posted on the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights' YouTube website showed six of the peacekeepers sitting in a room. CNN couldn't immediately verify the authenticity of the video.
In it, one peacekeeper gives a statement to the camera:
"We are here safe in this place. We are here because while we are passing through position (unintelligible) to Jamlah, there were bombing and artillery fires. This is why we stopped and, civilian people tell us, for our safety, and distributed us in different places to keep us safe. And they give us good accommodation and give us food to eat and water to drink."
The rebels have said the peacekeepers entered the village near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, an area where peacekeepers should not be and where intense fighting has been raging for days between rebels and government forces.
The rebels initially said they suspected the peacekeepers were trying to aid their enemy -- the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
The United Nations said the peacekeepers were on a "regular supply mission."
Two other videos that rebels posted on YouTube present the rebels' point of view.
In one, a rebel insists that the peacekeepers will be held until al-Assad's forces withdraw from the village of al-Jamlah.
The other video shows rebels walking near several U.N. trucks. "This U.N. force entered Jamlah village to assist the regime ... and (the U.N. is) claiming that they are here just to stop the clashing," a rebel says.
Members of the U.N. Security Council condemned the detention of the peacekeepers.
The unrest in Syria began in March 2011, when al-Assad's government began a brutal crackdown on demonstrators calling for greater political freedoms.
The protest movement eventually devolved into an armed conflict, one that has devastated cities and towns around the country and spurred more than 720,000 Syrians to flee to neighboring nations, according to the U.N. refugee agency.
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Jim Hollis, Psychology
Jim HollisPsychology Faculty
As a graduate student in the humanities, studying literature, philosophy, and religion, Jim Hollis had bumped into the work of Carl Jung several times. "He had an academic appeal," Hollis remembers. He appreciated it at a scholarly level.
But then, at 35, Hollis had a midlife crisis, and found himself in a therapist's office trying to figure out what his life amounted to.
That was when the work of Carl Jung really mattered.
"The first passage of Dante's Inferno is ‘midway through life I found myself in a dark wood, having lost my way.' Well, that's where I was when I walked in the door to my first hour of analysis – and I think that happens to a lot of us," Hollis says. "And what I found was that Jungian analysis was the beginning of a deep journey through it."
Because, Jim realized, even if he did everything he was supposed to … even if he was successful in his field and lived up to the American dream and did everything his family expected; even if he took the drugs psychiatrists prescribed for his depression and said the affirmations they told him to say … even then, he was still going to be looking at his life asking "Who am I?" and "What have my choices meant?"
You can't drug those questions away. You can't work them away. You can't accept other people's answers: you can only answer them yourself, and that takes insight. That takes wisdom. That takes analysis.
Jungian psychology offered Jim everything he needed to get out of that dark wood – and he took it.
It gave him his life back, but it turned out that wasn't all. Jim's scholarly passions have always overlapped with his life's journey, and so he couldn't just be a recipient of Jungian therapy: he needed to study it, too. He found himself on a plane, flying to Zurich, studying to become a Jungian analyst … he found a new direction for his life's work.
Today Jim is one of the world's most renowned Jungian scholars. The search for meaning, he says, like the one he went through, is still one of the most profoundly human experiences – and every bit as relevant to the 21st century as the 20th.
"What we've discovered is that technology doesn't take away spiritual hunger," Hollis says. "Pharmaceuticals don't take away psychological needs. People still have them, and Jungian psychology focuses on those needs, not just on pathology: it's not just about fixing something that's wrong, it's about getting something important right."
In fact, while most people who come to Saybrook's Jungian Studies programs are interested in becoming clinical therapists, a substantial number aren't: often they just want to better understand the world and their place in it.
"Jungian psychology offers a deeper look at religion, at popular culture, at the currents of history," he says. "It offers a wider way of looking at the world than is offered by most modern psychologies because it's about more than symptom reduction. Each student is on a personal journey of discovery, and people tell me that what they really want to do, apart from professional advancement, is deepen their understanding of themselves."
He understands perfectly – that's what started him on his journey, too.
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The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission announced that it would keep two waterfowl hunting zones in the state through the 2010 hunting season. The decision came at the commission's regular meeting on July 6.
Robert Helm, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries waterfowl study leader informed the commission that the majority of hunters surveyed preferred that the state remain split into east and west zones. The survey provided hunters with three options: to have two zones with split seasons, to have three zones with no splits or to have a statewide season with three splits.
The survey, conducted by Louisiana State University, was sent to more than 6,000 Louisiana duck hunters; more than half responded. The current season structure was favored at 53 percent, three zones interested only 6 percent of responders and 41 percent preferred the statewide season.
An Internet poll collected hunter opinions through the LDWF Web site during May and June. Of the nearly 700 responses, the current season framework was preferred by 43 percent of those responding, with 6 percent voting for the three-zone option and 51 percent voting for the statewide season.
The commission's decision will now be forwarded to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which will provide choices for season dates based on the structure. The commission will decide the dates at their next regular meeting on Aug. 3.
For more information, contact Robert Helm at 225/765-2358 ([email protected]).
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ATTICA, NY (WKBW) - Several students at Attica Central School on East Main Street were made ill after a cloud of noxious smelling steam from the Hillcrest Industries fire floated onto school property.
The students had just gone outside for a mandatory fire drill when high winds blew the steam toward the school.
Superintendent of Attica Central Schools, Bryce Thompson, tells Eyewitness News that the fire drill was abruptly cancelled and people rushed back inside.
Several students became ill and some were taken home early by their parents.
According to the EPA, crews working to put out the fire at Hillcrest had just encountered a hot spot and sprayed it with water, but high winds quickly carried the steam cloud directly to the school grounds of Attica High School and Middle School.
Superintendent Thompson said health officials and the EPA assured him that the steam was not hazardous.
But to prevent a repeat of the problem, the school district has postponed Thursday night's J-V Football game against Notre Dame High School because winds remain to be strong.
"They can't predict when that steam pocket is going to come. And if they even tried to call us, it would be here by the time they get a hold of us," said the superintendent.
A fire in a 40-foot high pile of recycled glass, plastic, and other materials has been burning for months at Hillcrest.
The EPA is overseeing an effort to extinguish the fire and they report that crews have successfully put out the blaze in 60% of the pile, but it could still take several more days before the operation is complete.
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You probably have a mental picture of yourself that's been in place for years: "I'm the short brunette with the curly hair," for example. But at some point, what's actually on your head no longer matches the image you carry in your head. "Most people know that hair color changes, but not many realize that texture does too," says Heather Woolery-Lloyd, MD, a dermatologist in Miami.
"Recent research shows that individual fiber thickness, or diameter, actually increases in your early 30s before peaking and declining from the late 30s or early 40s and onward," says Pantene principal scientist Jeni Thomas, PhD. Density—the number of strands on your head--also changes. And then there's the wild card: curvature. "Studies suggest that fiber shape and curvature become more irregular with age," Dr. Thomas says. For example, a woman with uniform ringlets in her 30s may end up with half-wavy, half-kinky curls in her 60s.
To ensure your current styling strategies match the strands you have today, find your hair type and learn to make the most of it with the quiz and guide that follow.
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He plunged off toward the open door, and I heard him racing down the Assyrian Room.
“He had a short rope ladder fixed from the gutter!” he cried back at us. “Graham! Graham!” (the constable on duty in the hall)— “Get the front door open! Get . . . " His voice died away as he leapt down the stairs.
From the direction of Orpington Square came a horrid, choking scream. It rose hideously; it fell, rose again—and died.
The thief escaped. We saw the traces upon the ivy where he had hastened down. Bristol ascended by the same route, and found where the ladder-hooks had twice been attached to the gutterway. Constable Graham, who was first actually to leave the building, declared that he heard the whirr of a re-started motor lower down Great Orchard Street.
Bristol’s theory, later to be dreadfully substantiated, was that the thief had broken the glass and reached into the case with an arrangement similar to that employed for pruning trees, having a clutch at the end, worked with a cord.
“Hassan has been too clever for us!” said the inspector. “But— what in God’s name did that awful screaming mean?”
I had a theory, but I did not advance it then.
It was not until nearly dawn that my theory, and Bristol’s, regarding the clutch arrangement, both were confirmed. For close under the railings which abut on Orpington Square, in a pool of blood we found just such an instrument as Bristol had described.
And still clutching it was a pallid and ghastly shrunken hand that had been severed from above the wrist!
“Merciful God!” whispered the inspector—“look at the opal ring on the finger! Look at the bandage where he cut himself on the broken window-glass that first night, when Mr. Mostyn disturbed him. It wasn’t the Hashishin who stole the thing . . . . It’s Earl Dexter’s hand!”
No one spoke for a moment. Then—
“Which of them has—” began Mostyn huskily.
“The slipper of the Prophet?” interrupted Bristol. “I wonder if we shall ever know?”
A SHRIVELLED HAND
Around a large square table in a room at New Scotland Yard stood a group of men, all of whom looked more or less continuously at something that lay upon the polished deal. One of the party, none other than the Commissioner himself, had just finished speaking, and in silence now we stood about the gruesome object which had furnished him with the text of his very terse address.
I knew myself privileged in being admitted to such a conference at the C.I.D. headquarters and owed my admission partly to Inspector Bristol, and partly to the fact that under the will of the late Professor Deeping I was concerned in the uncanny business we were met to discuss.
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Budget negotiators want to delay 40 percent of state payments to districts.
Budget talks have produced few clues about how Minnesota's historic government shutdown will end, except for one: Schools likely will pay the price for yet another stalemate in St. Paul.
Every public proposal by the governor and GOP lawmakers since the run-up to the shutdown has used delayed school payments to drive down the state's $5 billion deficit -- at least temporarily. It is the same one-time accounting gimmick that has propped up the budget for the past two years, though state leaders have proposed expanding it.
"It's like hitting kids in places where the bruises don't show," said Charlie Kyte, executive director of the Minnesota Association of School Administrators.
The technique is labeled a "shift" in Capitol parlance, though some in the education arena prefer the less politically benign "hold back."
Under the plan, the state gives schools a slice of their annual aid payment and guarantees to pay the rest in the following year. That forces schools to raid cash reserves or borrow money to make up the shortfall, which will be erased when the state returns to normal funding.
Gov. Mark Dayton said this week that he was proposing it because "we're out of desirable options" to solve a budget morass that has pitted a Republican legislative majority that opposes taxes against a governor who wants to raise revenues.
Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch, R-Buffalo, said it is "safe to say nobody's really excited about it; no one likes it," but it remains on the table.
"The law says it has to be paid back, but the question is when?" asked Rep. Mindy Greiling of Falcon Heights, the DFL lead on the House Education Finance Committee. "In the next century?"
A $2 billion delay
Schools already receive 70 percent of their normal payments, with an unprecedented 30 percent delayed. Dayton and GOP lawmakers both have proposed lowering that to 60 percent, bringing the total shift to more than $2 billion.
"We're carrying the IOUs for the state of Minnesota, rather than the other way around," said John Thein, superintendent of the Roseville School District.
Roseville borrowed $5 million to cover the last shift and another $11 million this spring to cover shutdown costs and further shifts.
Beyond the impact on schools, financial analysts say it is unwise fiscal policy. Fitch Ratings cited the state's school shifts as a key factor in its downgrade of Minnesota's bond rating Thursday, noting that it leaves a larger deficit down the road.
"If that's your only way of figuring out the budget ... you're going to have another budget problem in two years," said Grace Keliher, a lobbyist with the Minnesota School Boards Association.
For many school districts, the shift does not translate into direct classroom cuts, because some have hefty reserves and can borrow at very low interest rates. But it does have other, more subtle effects.
"We're really not able to make good long-term decisions when we don't know what's going to happen from year to year," said Peggy Ingison, Minneapolis schools' chief financial officer. "As long as there's uncertainty, we're saying, 'We're not going to do this,' or 'We're not going to do that.'"
Minneapolis has had enough money on hand to cover the shift so far, but districts such as Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan borrowed for the first time to make up for the shortfall. Finance Director Jeff Solomon said it likely would need another $20 million loan to cover a 60 percent shift.
"It would increase our reliance and dependence on short-term cash flow borrowing," Solomon said.
The hardest hit, however, would be charter schools. While they make up a small chunk of education funding, charters do not have the state's guarantee to obtain low-interest rates or the cash reserves of large school districts.
"Increasing the shift payment on the charter schools is going to put some of them out of business," said Rep. Pat Garofalo, R-Farmington, chairman of the House Education Finance Committee. He said if there is an expanded school shift, which he believes Republicans will no longer support, he will fight to exempt charters.
Brian Sweeney, with Minneapolis-based Charter School Partners, agrees that "there are those that would not make it, I believe. They truly are on the bubble and this really pushes them over the edge."
Paul McGlynn, executive director of the Sobriety High charter school, already has cut hours for several of his 18 staff members. Expanding the shift would mean deeper cuts.
"It would force us to cut back staff where we've already cut back, so it definitely impacts the students and education," McGlynn said.
Staff writer Norman Draper contributed to this report. Eric Roper 651-222-1210 Twitter: @StribRoper
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I am inspired. I am motivated. I am feeling high after watching this documentary, even though it’s the fifth time I’ve seen it. When the publishers of Food Matters sent me a copy for review, I was elated because it had been on my to-do list for a long time. And, man, am I glad I saw it! I showed it to both my mom and husband and we all wholeheartedly agreed that this is a documentary we want to see a few times a year. It’s that good! Every time I see it, I hear something new. And for the stuff I’ve already heard, it just further ingrains it in my subconsciousness and I feel myself internalizing its details more and more. I walk away feeling strong, smart, and empowered about my lifestyle decisions, albeit a bit frustrated at times because not enough people know this information. That’s where YOU come in!
If you haven’t seen Food Matters yet… get to it! You can rent it on Netflix or purchase it here. Once it’s in your hot little hands – watch it multiple times! Then, be sure to share it with your family and friends. Here’s some of what you’ll learn:
- Heart disease and cancer are the top two killers in the United States annually. (That might not be breaking news to some people, but I get jolted every time I hear it.) Additionally, 39,000 people die due to unnecessary surgery and other errors in hospitals. But that’s not all! 80,000 people die due to other infections in hospitals and 106,000 people die due to adverse drug reactions.
- Less than 6% of graduating physicians in the USA receive any formal training in nutrition! Holy sh*t!! No wonder they almost never prescribe nutritional remedies to things that, er, are 100% curable with nutrition. It just pains me every time I hear this.
I pretty much hang on every line of Food Matters. I love the discussion of vitamins and the vital role they can play in helping fight illness at various quantities. It was fascinating to learn about therapeutic effects of niacin, and its history as a cure for depression with the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. It’s important to recognize that vitamins enable the body to heal, it’s not the vitamins doing the healing. The body is powerful when given the right tools and building blocks.
The documentary also covers eye-opening, scary information about drugs, their trials, studies, and regulatory approval process. You’re not going to hear drug companies telling you that “two handfuls of cashews can give you the same therapeutic equivalent of a prescription dose of Prozac.” No wonder I love Raw vegan cheesecake.
Food Matters also addresses the fact that cardiovascular disease is a lifestyle disease which can be reversed with… drumroll please… DIET, FOOD, NUTRIENTS, STRESS REDUCTION, EXERCISE. Again, this is not rocket science. It’s a simple formula that we can all apply. (Ehem! I hope my dad is reading my blog.) The scary aspect of it is the dependance on physicians who are viewed as omniscient, but who lack nutrition education, such as two physicians I heard last week on CNN and MSNBC about how heart disease “can’t be cured.” They don’t know!! Instead, they are knowledgeable only about drugs, and educated by the drug companies themselves. Something is very wrong with that picture. But, of course, this isn’t generally known to the public because:
- Most doctors are not trained to the know this information.
- There is no profit prescribing fruits and veggies. Drug companies have a duty to shareholders, and I get that. But, guess what? I have a duty to myself. So take that drug companies!
It was gripping learning about the amazing success of Gerson Therapy with some forms of cancer. Why aren’t more oncologists recommending this? My Nana died of malignant melanoma, where Gerson Therapy has been particularly effective. Why didn’t my Nana’s doctor tell her about this amazing vitamin-megadosing, nutritional option? Because they didn’t know about it!… Why not? Because they aren’t taught about it, and frankly, many physicians are not open to natural therapies, even though that’s how the body works. I wish I had known back then what I know now, because my grandmother would’ve been open to that form of therapy. I don’t want to come off too hard on doctors because I do recognize that there is a place for them and hospitals. They’re excellent in many aspects of medicine (acute illnesses, traumas, surgery, etc.) but they are systematically failing at helping us with many chronic diseases because they treat symptoms instead of underlying causes. The bottom line is, despite decades of research and new drugs, that the incidence of diseases like heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer’s, cancer, obesity, diabetes… they’re going up. It’s sadly laughable to look at the money spent on the “war on cancer” and its failure to reduce cancer rates or deaths. I just wish more professionals would talk about how a healthy plant-strong lifestyle is helpful at fighting cancer and preventing it. It’s worked for so many already, and for those of us who don’t have that diagnosis of cancer, let’s do everything we can to prevent it. Go Plants!
Food does matter. Our bodies are powerful if only we’ll give them a chance to be strong with healthy, organic plant-based foods. So, choose those! Stack the deck in your favor! Set yourself up to win! Strengthen your immune system nutritionally! Nourish yourself with vitamins, minerals, fiber, and phytonutrients! Watch Food Matters and get FIRED UP about this awesome lifestyle!
Here is a great song they featured in Food Matters. Check out the lyrics here and sing along as you listen.
Here is a trailer for Food Matters.
Have you seen Food Matters? What did you think?
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Oprah with Elvis the koala
Wednesday, 8 December 2010:
Hamilton Island’s chairman, Sandy Oatley comments:
“I am thrilled to welcome Ms. Winfrey, her team and the lucky audience members to Hamilton Island. We are delighted Ms. Winfrey decided to make this her first stop on their Australian itinerary where they will get to enjoy Queensland’s beautiful Whitsunday Islands and the Great Barrier Reef. We know everyone is as excited as we are to see the final show when it airs next year in January.”
Fast Facts about Elvis, our now famous koala:
Elvis is a toddler at 18months old. He is the youngest Koala in the Hamilton Island Wildlife Park (that’s out of the pouch). Elvis’ mum also lives in the koala enclosure and her name is Gretchen. She has a baby girl in her pouch called Blossom - so, Elvis has a new baby sister!
Koalas only eat eucalyptus leaves and this is also how they obtain their water. We harvest their food on Hamilton Island and have three naturally growing eucalyptus tree varieties - blue gum, iron bark and bloodwood.
Notes to editors:
Hamilton Island: is located off the Queensland coast within the Whitsunday Islands at the edge of the Great Barrier Reef. Here visitors can experience everything that is great about Australia – natural landscapes, calm turquoise waters, secluded beaches, beautiful weather, fascinating coral reefs, diverse flora and fauna. Hamilton Island also offers a wide range of accommodation options, bars, restaurants, pools and shops, not to mention over 60 activities and all within a short direct flight from Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane or Cairns. There are also great connections from other Australian cities. www.hamiltonisland.com.au
Image library: Hi-res images (including the image above) are available to download free of charge for editorial use. www.hamiltonisland.com.au/imagelibrary
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The Herald's John Roughan devotes his column this morning to what seems to be a common worry at the moment: the increasing inability of young people to own their own homes. And he has a few nasty truths to say about our current housing market:
It is very pleasant if you are a home owner with the mortgage paid and savings accumulating. You can safely put that money into another house and let tenants pay its mortgage.
If it turns out you have borrowed too much, or the rent does not quite cover all the expenses for any reason, you know you will be able to sell the place fairly readily at a capital gain.
The market is so good it keeps the value of rental houses rising at the same time as it maintains an ample supply of tenants who can't afford a mortgage.
Jordan sums up the problem nicely:
There is something wrong with a housing market that is structured to deliver endless capital gains to people who have capital, and deny the ownership of housing to the upcoming generation as the consequence.
This is not what most New Zealanders want. Being able to own your own home is supposed to be one of the basics of kiwi society - as is egalitarianism and the classless society. But both are under threat from the current housing market.
What can we do about it? Roughan suggests a capital gains tax on investment properties, while Jordan also stresses a need for more state houses and government "rent to buy" options. I'd like to see a capital gains tax - but as I've said before, I think this is one of those "third rail" issues and I'm not sure that its politically achievable. OTOH, I thought the same about doing something about student loans - but as more and more people got them, and more and more parents saw their children crippled by debt for life, the political ground shifted. Housing is a much broader issue than student loans - even in an age of mass tertiary education, only 40% of 18-24 years olds go to university or polytech, wheras the aspiration to home ownership is almost universal - so there's definite scope there then for a similar shift. The question then is which party will be first to recognise it...
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- Business Records
- Organizational Records
- Synagogue Records
- Unprocessed Collections
- Taylor Oral History Collection
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Alice L. Caplan. Papers, 1958-1983.
(documents relating to Alice Caplan's activities in Jewish community organizations)
Fiddlin' John Carson. Papers, 1925.
(sheet music, "Little Mary Phagan")
Helen Fine Cavalier (1908–1996). Papers,
(photocopies of newspaper articles and histories regarding the various community-wide activities of Helen Fine Cavalier)
Hugh M. Clark. Papers, 1943.
(currency from Terezin)
Matilda S. Clark Family. Papers, c. 1940–1992.
(biography of Matilda S. Clark and photocopies of newspaper articles)
Russel Clayton Family. Papers, 1910–1947.
(photocopies of newspaper articles relating to the deaths of Anna Benton, the grandmother of Mary Phagan and Fannie Phagan Coleman; and scanned copies of two postcards written by Mary Phagan to her cousin Myrtle Barmore, 1910–1913)
Tom Cobb. Papers,
(advertising and product records from Montag's, a stationery and school tablet manufactuer in Atlanta, Georgia)
Bernard Cohen (1915–1997). Papers, 1967–1994.
(material relating to scrap metal recycling and Central Metals a recycling company in Atlanta, Georgia)
Dewald S. Cohen (1883–1967). Papers, 1954.
(letter regarding AZA fraternity's contribution to the March of Dimes)
Gloria Cohen. Papers, c.2005.
(compilation of "The Columbus Jewish Merchants: On and Off Broadway," 1940–2005)
Jack Cohen Family. Papers, 1921–1956.
Content: Autograph book, invitations, certificate from the Mayfair Club of Atlanta, and military documents.
Significance: Primarily relating to the World War II military service of Jack Cohen.
Rabbi Joseph Cohen (1896–1985) Family. Papers, 1931–1988.
Rabbi Joseph Cohen instructing
a student about rituals for the
holiday of Sukkot, Congregation
Or VeShalom, Atlanta, 1959.
Size: 1.2 linear feet.
Content: Death, birth and marriage records of members of Congregation Or VeShalom, Atlanta, Georgia; records of the Atlanta Rabbinical Association, 1969-1978; personal correspondence, speeches, sermons, and general administrative files from Congregation Or VeShalom.
Significance: Rabbi Joseph I. Cohen was born in Constantinople (Istanbul) Turkey. Rabbi Cohen served in the Third Division of the Turkish Army in World War I, in the Gallipoli Peninsula Campaign and also in the Palestine Campaign, and was held as a prisoner of war in Damascus, Syria. He later worked for the British government in Jerusalem.
Rabbi Cohen received his training for the rabbinate in Turkey and accepted his first pulpit in Havana, Cuba in 1920, where he was spiritual leader of the Congregation Union Hebraic de Cuba. In 1934, Rabbi Cohen moved to Atlanta, Georgia, and was installed as Rabbi of Congregation Or VeShalom three days after his arrival. In addition to his rabbinical duties, he served as the teacher and principal of Or VeShalom's Hebrew school. Rabbi Cohen was also active at the Atlanta Bureau of Jewish Education, the Adult Institute of Jewish Studies, the Atlanta Jewish Federation, and was the first president of the Atlanta Rabbinical Association. Rabbi Cohen retired in 1969.
Julius Cohen Family. Papers, 1921–1980.
Bank not from the Cohen National Bank, Sandersville, Georgia,
established by Louis Cohen.
Louis Cohen (1849–1937) Family. Papers, 1875–1996.
Size: .6 linear feet.
Content: The collection consists of certificates from the Banking House of Louis Cohen, family genealogical materials, a scrapbook completed by Louis Cohen, the recipe book of Henrietta Happ, family bibles containing additional genealogical records, and correspondence from Cohen and Happ family members.
Significance: Louis Cohen was born in Germany in 1849 and immigrated with his parents to Georgia in 1852. Louis was raised in Americus, Georgia, and moved to Sandersville in 1877, where he established a general merchandise business. In 1887, along with Morris Happ, he established a banking house which later became the Banking House of Louis Cohen. Cohen later led the campaign for the construction of the Sandersville and Tennille railway, serving as its president. This three mile short line railroad is still in existence, providing freight service to Washington County, Georgia. Louis Cohen was elected mayor of Sandersville in 1887 and served several terms.
Natalie Cohen (1914– ). Papers, 1970–1977.
Nathan Cohen Family. Papers, 1924–1972.
Size: .4 linear feet.
Contents: Records from Cohen's of Alma Department Store and correspondence relating to the election of Nathan Cohen as Mayor of Alma, Georgia, 1961.
Significance: Nathan Cohen immigrated from Poland to the United States in 1913 and moved to South Georgia working as a peddler. In 1924 he opened Cohen's of Alma. He retired in 1957 and assumed numerous civic responsibilities throughout the community. He was elected Mayor of Alma in 1961 and later named Citizen of the Year by the Lions Club and Board of Trade.
Nathan Cohen Family. Papers, 1974.
(newspaper articles relating to Cohen’s department store in Alma, Georgia)
Norman (Buddy) Cohen Family. Papers, 1958–1999.
(newsletters of Temple B'nai Israel-Albany, Georgia, and photocopies of newspaper articles.
Pauline Saul Cohen Family. Papers, 1934–1939.
(Young Judaea membership card, 1934, raffle stubs from the Nordau Club and T-E-L Club, 1936 and undated and program from Strausseans dance, 1939)
Philip Cohen. Papers, 1943–1944.
(diary of Philip Cohen's service aboard the USS Savage during World War II)
Reuben Cohen Family. Papers, 1936–1986.
Size: .2 linear feet.
Content: The collection consists of a log and rosters from the Atlanta Radio Club and programs, invitations and awards relating to the Cohen's involvement in a wide variety of Jewish community organizations.
Significance: Reuben Cohen and his wife Lillian were active in a wide variety of activities in Atlanta. Reuben was a longtime member of the Atlanta Radio Club and Lillian was a preschool teacher at the Atlanta Jewish Community Center for over 30 years.
Aaron Cohn Family. Papers, 1941–1997
Size: .2 linear feet.
Content: The collection consists primarily of photocopies of newspaper articles relating to Judge Cohn's career and a transcript of an oral interview in which he recalls the liberation of Ebensee.
Significance: Aaron Cohn was born in Columbus, Georgia, in 1916. He graduated from Columbus High School in 1932 and The University of Georgia Law School in 1938. He practiced law in Columbus from 1938 until his enlistment in the United States Army in 1940. He participated in four major campaigns and helped to liberate the Ebensee concentration camp in 1945. Following his discharge he returned to Columbus and in 1965, he was appointed a judge of the Juvenile Court in Muscogee County.
Gail Cohn Family. Papers, 1886.
(original debate speech, for the affirmative side in support of women's suffrage, delivered at the Montefiore Literary Society, by Jacob Rothschild of Selma, Alabama)
Michael Coolik Family. Papers, c.1940–1995.
(newspaper clippings and a strip of stickers from Coolik's "The Stores Dependable”)
Moses B. Copeloff (1893-1963). Papers, 1924–1972.
(newspaper articles regarding the career of Dr. Copeloff and a newsletter and annual report from the Jewish Home)
Samuel S. Crasnow. Papers, 1931.
(programs from the dedication of the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation [The Temple])
Joseph Cuba (1909-1993) Family. Papers, 1922–1993
Size: 8 cubic feet
Content: Certificates, awards, correspondence, scrapbooks, memorabilia relating to various family members and to Ahavath Achim Congregation, The Bureau of Jewish Education, the Jewish Community Council, as well as to other organizations in which the family were participants.
Significance: Joseph Cuba was a native Atlantan who spent a major portion of his life in service to the Jewish community of this city. In 1932, he assumed the presidency of the Southern Young Judaea Society, and since that time he actively participated in the leadership of Ahavath Achim Congregation, the Jewish Progressive Club, B’nai B’rith Gate City Lodge #144, the Southeastern Region United Synagogue of America, the Jewish Technological Seminary, the Atlanta Bureau of Jewish Education, the Jewish Home, the Standard Club, the Atlanta Jewish Federation, Jewish War Veterans, and the Georgia State University Alumni Association. The papers not only reflect upon the varied interests of Joseph Cuba, but of his brother Max, who served as a city alderman and was a leader on the Atlanta-Fulton County Joint Planning Board for over 30 years. Of special interest are the documents relating to the integration of Leb’s Restaurant in 1964.
Max M. Cuba (1904-1973). Papers, 1932.
(photocopies of campaign material for city councilman)
Groundbreaking ceremony for the Congregation Ahavath Achim building on Peachtree Battle. L-r: Joe Cuba, Joe Zaglin, ?, Rabbi Harry Epstein
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So I know that is is suppose to be a blog about bees. And more importantly, a blog about my bee research. But, I do have to get this off my chest, so I thought why not let me readers know how I feel. This is regarding Gov. Sarah Palin’s Policy speech this past Friday. And you probably know what just erked me…the fruit fly research remark. Palins remark, “You’ve heard about some of these pet projects they really don’t make a whole lot of sense and sometimes these dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good. Things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not.” Really? Are you serious? Wow…that has been my response. Let see now, Thomas Hunt Morgan used fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) to identify chromosomes as the vectors of inheritance. In 1933 he won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for this work. Yup, completely useless. Of course there is that Drosophila-based research center at the University of North Carolina that focuses on autism. Yes people. That remark was made in the same speech outlining aid for special needs children, such as those with autism.
So, here are a few tid bits regarding why fruit flies are used as model organisms in science, particularly in genetics:
1. They are easily reared in the lab
2. They have short generation times, so you don’t have to wait years to study generations
3. They can be genetically manipulated, which makes it nice when trying to study specific diseases.
4. All animals, including fruit flies, share key molecules. So researchers can use these animals for understanding basic developmental functions such as nervous system development.
If Palin thinks that using fruit flies is useless to the public, researchers can go to Orphanges and begin using children for their research. Researchers can genetically manipulate them, breed them, study their physical appearance, breed the offspring, then grind some of them up to do some molecular biology experiments to study their genes. Would that be better?
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Welcome to California, the Golden State. This page features roads and highways throughout the state of California, including Interstate highways, U.S. highways, state routes, county routes, business routes, and local streets and highways.
This page is sorted by route number and designation (see our list of routes below). In addition to following modern highways (typically in a south to north or west to east direction), we have pages covering historic routes, such as old U.S. highways that were largely decommissioned in 1964. We typically refer to highways on this site as "Interstate xx, U.S. xx, or California xx" and omit terms such as "state route" or "highway" when referring to them."
We always have a backlog of pictures to add to this site, so if there's something you'd like to see that you don't see online yet (or if you'd like to help us prioritize what we add next), be sure to contact us.
Unless otherwise noted, all photographs taken by Alex Nitzman, Andy Field, Brent Ivy, Jake, Jeff Royston, or Kevin Trinkle. In addition, we extend our thanks to a variety of people who have contributed to this site or have joined us on our trips to tour the Golden State: Leland Bailey, Michael Ballard, Trevor Carrier, Russ Connelly, Casey Cooper, Justin Cozart, Daniel Faigin, Mark Furqueron, Martin Grahl, Steve Hanudel, Dominic Ielati, Cameron Kaiser, C.J. Moon, Scott Parker, Joe Rouse, Pete Sison, Jeff Waller, Joel Windmiller, Mark Yoshinaka, and many others for participating in taking trips with us and submitting photos from the state of California. A list of resources used to create this site are listed at the bottom of this page.
The California Roads and Highways page was formerly known as West Coast Roads until 2009. It is now directly part of the AARoads family of webpages.
If it were its own country, California would rank sixth among the world's richest nations based on the value of goods and services the state produces (as of 2000).
California decommissioned (eliminated) most of its U.S. routes starting in 1964: U.S. 40, U.S. 60, U.S. 66, U.S. 70, U.S. 80, U.S. 91, U.S. 99, U.S. 299, U.S. 399, and U.S. 466. Most of the decommissioned routes were no longer signed by no later than 1972. Other routes that were truncated or reduced in length include U.S. 6, U.S. 50, U.S. 101, and U.S. 395. Only U.S. 95, U.S. 97, and U.S. 199 were left alone after the actions of 1964.
California 49, the Gold Chain (Mother Lode) Highway, is so numbered because gold was discovered in the Sierra Nevada Mountain foothills in 1848, with a plethora of treasure seekers traversing the foothills in the Gold Rush of 1849.
Area: 163,695.57 square miles or 411,049 square kilometers, 3rd largest
Statehood: 31st state; admitted September 9, 1850
Total Interstate Mileage: 2,457.34 miles
Highest Point: Mount Whitney (west of Lone Pine partially in Sequoia National Park and Inyo National Forest in the Sierra Nevada) is 14,494 feet above sea level. This is the highest point in the 48 contiguous states.
Lowest Point: Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park sits at an elevation of -282 feet below sea level. This is the lowest point in the 48 contiguous states.
The Sierra Nevada and Cascade Range follow the spine of California south to north, while the Coast Range separates the Pacific Ocean from the Central Valley.
The San Gabriel Mountains north of the Los Angeles Basin run east-west, unlike the north-south alignment of the state's other mountain chains: Sierra Nevada, Coast Range, and Cascades.
The Central Valley (formed by the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers) is the chief agricultural area of the state, followed by the irrigated Imperial Valley in the southern desert.
We use quite a few resources to construct this page, and we try to keep it up to date (but that is not always the case!). We use mainly officialy sites, but many of the AARoads contributors also have sites of their own that have proven helpful in providing reference material for this site. To complete the AARoads California Roads and Highways pages, we have utilized a variety of resources including:
U.S. Census for population figures (mostly from the 2000 and 2010 data collection), geographical size, and demographic information
Automobile Association of America - for still more map research, especially current and vintage maps issued by the Automobile Club of Southern California (ACSC) and California State Automobile Association (CSAA)
California Historic U.S. Highways - this site, run by Casey Cooper, has a great deal of information about the old U.S. highways of California and offers scans of old pictures from vintage California Highways and Public Works (CHPW) magazines
California Highways - this very detailed page administered by Daniel Faigin offers the latest information on state highway legislative routings and details the historical changes made to the routes through the years (including old map scans and links to construction projects)
Floodgap Roadgap - this site, run by Cameron Kaiser, has very detailed information about several highways that run through the Golden State, especially U.S. 395 and U.S. 6 (I doubt anyone has put together as comprehensive a page on U.S. 395 as Cameron has done)
Official state, county, city, regional planning agency, and chamber of commerce webpages help us to obtain unique facts about each region, county, city, or area.
Wikipedia - if we can't find specific information anywhere else, the on-line encyclopedia may have additional information
Other resources include personal observations from hundreds of trips around the Golden State and newspaper articles that are individually cited mostly for ongoing construction projects and completion dates
We try to cite any other sources used on individual pages where we can. If you should find any errors on the page (and we know they're out there), please don't hesitate to contact us.
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Jason Zander is Corporate Vice President of Development for the Windows Azure team at Microsoft.
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In the next couple of posts, I’m going to dive into some of my favorite ALM features coming in Visual Studio 11. In this post, I’d like to first provide some framing on the larger context for the release, so you can see how these features fit in.
At each stage of the application lifecycle, it’s important to ensure that you’re accruing value to the customer. Any overhead or waste in the system detracts from this goal. By using the right development tools, you can create transparency between team members, reduce delivery cycle times, and accelerate the flow. With Visual Studio 11, we’re taking our Application Lifecycle Management solution to the next level by enabling stronger collaboration between functional teams and helping reduce waste at each stage of the product delivery. Let’s see what this means for each of the three stages below.
The project starts with defining the requirements. But communicating requirements from the customer to the engineering team is not always easy. How many times have you built exactly what was asked for, but not what was wanted? Your software has to connect all members of the project, using tools that they’re comfortable with. PowerPoint storyboarding is a natural solution for this. (More details coming in the next post.)
Setting out to start the project, there’s a lot of planning required and decisions to make. You need to decide what core customer problems you want to solve and in what priority (product backlog). You also need to check how this fits with your resources (capacity planning) and schedule the work (sprint planning). Finally you need to track progress against the plan and make adjustments as you go (managing tasks). Team Foundation Server 11 provides tools to help with all of these activities, and keep the project on track. I’ll show how this all works in an upcoming post.
The next phase of the cycle is building the software. During development, we want to make sure we eliminate drift and make the cycle faster. The longer the time between a feature request and the team delivering, the more likely disconnects become. Rather than wait a long time, when it becomes expensive to fix, we want to get feedback early and often. To help with this, Visual Studio 11 introduces a new feedback tool which allows the customer to collect video and audio of the feedback session as well as the action logs. This kind of rich feedback done in a timely way keeps everyone in sync.
In order to deliver high quality products, we need to assess and monitor along the way. Unit testing is a great way to ensure quality in the final product. (You can see my previous post on enhancements to unit testing in the Visual Studio 11 release.) Once the software has been finished by the development team, you need to do your quality assurance passes. For this, you can use the manual and coded testing features from VS 2010, as well as the new Exploratory Testing tools in Visual Studio 11 to help look for additional issues.
Now we get to the final stage of operating software and delivering its business value. This is where the relationship between the application development and the IT operations teams becomes critical. You need to be able to diagnose issues as they occur in production, and deploy new builds quickly to respond to customer needs. And again, each team needs to be able to work with tools they’re familiar and comfortable with.
In Visual Studio 11, we’ve taken a first step towards adding tools to operate software better. We’ve integrated Preemptive Analytics into the product, which provides production telemetry such as your top crash reports. We’ve also introduced the new management pack, which allows critical production issues detected by System Center to be immediately assigned to the development team with high quality diagnostic information via TFS and Visual Studio. This allows developers and operators to use familiar purpose built tools that still manage to talk to each other seamlessly.
I’ve included a video presentation below, where I talk about these concepts further. I recommend viewing to gain a deeper understanding of the themes discussed in this post, and our Microsoft vision for ALM.
The Visual Studio 11 ALM feature set marks an important step forward in enabling teams to work together more swiftly. However, we also know we’re on a journey. Continuous value delivery means the development cycle doesn’t end for us either. We’re going to be thinking of new features every day, shipping Ultimate Feature Packs, and delivering the same value to you that you deliver to your customers.
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WASHINGTON - The good news: employers are starting to hire again. The bad news: the new jobs are low-paying.
A study by the National Employment Law Project, a liberal research and advocacy group, finds that most of the jobs lost during the recession were middle-wage occupations, earning between $13 and $22 per hour. But those positions are slow to recover and 58 percent of new jobs pay between $7 and $14 per hour, reports The New York Times.
The fast-growing but low-paying positions are generally in retail sales and food service. In addition, even the low-paying jobs now see added competition from older, more experienced workers.
The New York Times reports middle-wage jobs are also disappearing due to positions moving overseas or technology replacing workers. Government jobs also experienced deep cuts to middle and high-wage positions.
WTOP's Jamie Forzato contributed to this report. Follow WTOP on Twitter.
(Copyright 2012 by WTOP. All Rights Reserved.)
Conn. zoo officials don't know how this baby came to be born.
A Canadian singer struggles with the American anthem.
An 800-pound alligator? That's not bad for a first hunting trip.
An NFL player relieves himself of his feelings toward the IRS.
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Here are Kelly’s recommendations for raising your energy level naturally and making weight loss easier:
• #1: Eat food that is full of qi, or natural life energy. That means whole foods like fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and organic meat. Avoid foods that are packaged, refined, and filled with artificial chemicals—especially artificial sweeteners and gimmicky “diet foods,” which often are low not only in calories but in nutrition. Emphasize quality as much as quantity (calories).
• #2: Don’t change dietary regimes too often, especially if your "digestive fire" is not very strong (meaning you feel sluggish, bloated, or gassy after eating). Pay attention to how you feel after meals to determine which foods support your well-being.
• #3: Eat slowly and mindfully. Set aside sufficient time to eat, and avoid distractions during meals such as computers and television. Taking time to really enjoy the flavors and sensations will help you feel satisfied without overeating, and it will support healthy digestion.
• #4: Live in accordance with your body’s natural rhythms. Eat a hearty breakfast. In TCM, 7 to 9 a.m. is the best time for digestion. Have a nutritious lunch and eat an early, light dinner. (The Chinese eat at 5 p.m.)
• #5: Go to bed by 10:30 p.m. to allow the liver and other organs to fully detoxify the body. The liver cleans the blood between 1 and 3 a.m., and you must already be in a deep sleep before 1 a.m. to get the full benefits. Sufficient rest is essential for healthy metabolism.
• #6: Engage in gentle qi-enhancing activities. Examples include chi gong (qi gong), t’ai qi (tai chi), restorative yoga, nature walks, gardening. Enjoy! This type of exercise is especially important for those tending toward burnout, to bring their energy back into balance.
• #7: Try acupuncture. Many people who try acupuncture find that ear needles work quickly to help reduce cravings and compulsive eating. After acupuncture, people notice that they’re naturally hungry at appropriate times of day, but not ravenously hungry. They are less stressed and less prone to engage in emotional eating.
To learn more, check out Feed Your Tiger: The Asian Diet Secret for Permanent Weight Loss and Vibrant Health by Letha Hadady (iUniverse, 2010).
Jeffrey Rossman, PhD, is a Rodale.com advisor and director of life management at Canyon Ranch in Lenox, MA, and author of The Mind-Body Mood Solution. His column, “Mind-Body-Mood Advisor,” appears weekly on Rodale.com.
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Genteel Grange-over-Sands is an excellent example of a prosperous, Edwardian seaside resort. Steeped in elegance and charm, this is the perfect place to indulge in a very English pastime - a leisurely stroll along the fine promenade, a walk in the Ornamental Gardens and afternoon tea in one of the many fine cafes.
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To enhance Grange for seaside worshippers, a mile-long promenade, stretching from Blawith Point to the Victorian railway station, was built in 1904. Next to it are the Ornamental Gardens with rare trees and plants. Waterfowl enjoy the artificial lakes.
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People often ask me why I am such a avid promoter of Black love, meaning why am I always saying that Black people need to couple with one another.
“Are you close minded?”
“Are you racist?”
“You are discriminating.”
Not even. In a world where Black people are alienated from themselves, and taught that they are not beautiful in the eyes of one another, it is important that we begin to combat the ways in which that wicked psychology manifest. Advocating Black love is not denouncing interracial couplings but instead acknowledging that which has been lost. Black self worth.
“Black love is Black wealth” – Nikki Giovanni
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Hard Choices: A Digital Comic
This just in! The Elks Drug Awareness Program has once again teamed with Marvel Entertainment to bring you the Hard Choices comic book, featuring Marvel Super Heroes and Elroy the Elk in a battle against underage drinking!
Hard Choices is designed to educate fourth- through eighth-graders about the perils of underage drinking. In March 2013, more than 600,000 comic books were sent to select elementary and middle schools in Elks communities across the nation.
Want see Elroy the Elk and his Superhero friends in Hard Choices? Look no further. The comic is available right here in digital format! Check it out!
It's Not Just Fun—It's Educational!
Teachers and parents, be sure to check out the Hard Choices teacher's guide. (PDF, 4MB) The Hard Choices teacher's guide contains fun, educational games for students to participate in.
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It is suggested that if a company website has a negative result directly below it, then up to 70% of web surfers will click on the negative result first rather than the company website.
Search Engine Reputation Management is a service where we provide online monitoring of a person, brand or business, targeting negative reviews and content and then pushing the negative content off the first page of the search engine results to decrease the visibility of the negative content.
Many companies take a proactive approach by hiring a Search Engine Reputation Management company to protect their brands and reputations from harmful content, posts and reviews. Other companies take a reactive approach, making attempts to put out the fires of the damage inflicted to a company as a result of inflammatory remarks on websites posted by consumers, and as some believe competitors as well.
Online Reputation Management consists of promotional Internet activity consisting of creating new content, staying involved in the social media sphere (blogs, forums, social networking), building social profiles and promoting existing positive content.
Our main focus is to ensure that any information about you as an individual, your business, your employees or your organization that is being made publicly available is accurate, up-to-date and authentic. And when we come across negative reviews or information, we help suppress these results by pushing them lower in the search engine results.
Reputation management is the Internet marketing version of public relations. We specialize in monitoring information posted about you or your company through various online websites, reviews websites and social media channels. Our focus is to ensure that all information posted about your business, employees and business practices contains accurate and up-to-date information.
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The Association of Local Government Archaeological Officers (ALGAO) was originally formed in 1996 (through merger of the Association of County Archaeological Officers and Council of District Archaeological Officers) to represent all archaeologists working for local authorities and national parks.
Until recent years membership was predominantly in England and Wales (with representatives from N Ireland and I of Man), local governmernt archaeologists in Scotland being represented by a separate organisation, the Association of Regional and Island Archaeologists (ARIA).
In June 2006 ALGAO formally merged with ARIA to become a fully UK-wide organisation, ALGAO:UK, with national organisations ALGAO:Cymru, ALGAO:Scotland and ALGAO:England, and, in England, a network of regional committees coincident with Government regions.
Member local authorities are represented by the senior professional archaeologist (employed directly within the authority or in some cases by independent joint services) whose primary responsibility is to advise that authority, principally through the planning process, on conservation and management of the archaeological resource within the boundaries of that authority, and who has been nominated by that authority to represent it. The Association's members include representatives of metropolitan authorities, shire counties, unitary authorities, London boroughs, national parks and historic cities, towns and boroughs across England, Wales and Scotland as well as representatives from Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man.
Aims and Objectives
The Association has four key objectives, to:
- Provide a strong voice for local authority historic environment services and promote these within local government to strengthen and develop their role within local government in delivering local, regional and national government policy.
- Ensure that local government historic environment services are included within policy (national, regional and local) for culture and education.
- Ensure that policy aims to improve the sustainable management of the historic environment.
- Promote development of high standards in the historic environment profession.
Detailed objectives are set out in individual Strategy and Implementation Plans for ALGAO:UK, ALGAO:Cymru, ALGAO:England and ALGAO:Scotland
The structure of the new Association enables operation at both UK-wide and national level in response to particular issues. The framework for this is set by the ALGAO:UK Strategy 2006-11.
The ALGAO:UK Executive Committee co-ordinates initiatives and addresses policy issues at a strategic level as well as providing member and financial services.
At national level implementation of the ALGAO:UK strategy often requires different approaches given the varying legislative, planning and policy frameworks, and the need to work in partnership with devolved government, and different national agencies and organisations. Three national associations, ALGAO:England, ALGAO:Scotland and ALGAO:Cymru, carry out the much of the Association's work, each guided by their own implementation strategy, and overseen by the UK Executive. Each of these Association has its own Strategy and Implementation Plan linked to that of ALGAO:UK.
Specialist subject committees address issues at strategic level, involving representatives from key partner organisations as well as the wider ALGAO membership. The work of the subject committees, especially the involvement of partner organisations and other local authority staff, has been key to the success of ALGAO in the past. As a forum for developing strategic policy and approaches there are benefits for many of the subject committees in operating at UK wide level, although it is recognised that aspects relating to implementation may need to be considered by the relevant national Associations. The present subject committees are: Planning and Legislation, Historic Environment Records, Countryside, Historic Buildings, Urban, Maritime, and European issues.
ALGAO:England retains its structure of regional committees, co-incident with the government regions, in order to facilitate liaison with other regional organisations.
Both subject and regional committees are guided by their own terms of reference but operate within the framework of the national constitutions and UK strategy.
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Behind every vote for a liberal candidate there is a sense of guilt: that we well-off Americans throughout our history have left behind the poor, the “disadvantaged,” the “underprivileged.” Our road to prosperity was somehow paved at the expense of the “less fortunate.” Had they not suffered, we few lucky ones would not be where we are. We owe something to “society.” Barely concealed in this guilt-mongering on the part of politicians and penance on the part of the American people is the issue of race, the issue that never goes away. Those poor kids in the inner city must be helped because we, somehow, put them there.
The New Deal, the Fair Deal, the Great Society, the War on Poverty, and every other progressive social program, while doing nothing to relieve the blight of the cities of America, did accomplish their hidden goal: to extend a helping hand to people who didn’t need it—and to make their children unable to live without it. The New Welfare State of the twenty-first century is not exclusively, and perhaps not even predominantly, black or urban. It is white. It is rural. It has taken over the small towns. It is creeping even into suburban neighborhoods. It may be living—in one form or another—next door to you.
Here is how it works. When my wife and I moved from Colorado to the Midwest, we were in need of a babysitter. My wife quite naturally relied upon a young woman fresh out of high school who worked in the child watch at the local Y where my wife works out every morning. After coming home one night from a dinner date, my wife (while I went to bed) spent a long time talking to this young woman. She had ambitions of opening up her own child care service of some kind and was looking into certification programs in that field. My wife applauded the girl’s (for that is what she is) plans and gave her one direct piece of advice: the secret to a happy life is not getting pregnant until you have a husband.
A few months later at the Y, the girl broke the news to my wife: “I’m pregnant.” There was no reference to or hint of the previous conversation about career goals. My wife asked whether the girl would be getting married soon. “No,” came the answer, without a blush. She was not sure whether she and her boyfriend would stay together.
“Well, how are you going to support the baby? You know, medical costs are high these days, and even with my husband’s insurance we still have a lot of expenses.”
“Oh, it’s no big deal. I’ll probably go on WIC.”
So that’s it. No shame. No sense of remorse. What is more important, no sense of real responsibility. By the time the baby came, the girl had indeed broken up with her boyfriend, who had found another girl. And the new mother was working on getting a new boyfriend—a fling which didn’t last.
Now the guilt-mongering progressive politician wants us to think about the baby and how unfortunate it is to be born without a father and in relatively poor circumstances, though the mother has a job. What the progressive politician does not want us to think about is the free will that brought a child into the world in a way that guaranteed that child would grow up in relative poverty—and therefore be in need of “assistance.”
But consider my wife’s relatively fortunate circumstances. She grew up in exactly that girl’s shoes. She came from a small town in the Midwest. Her folks were not rich. But: She studied hard. She got a scholarship to college. She got married. She worked and saved money. She waited to have children until her husband could afford to support her staying at home. She followed the steps of what used to be the not-so-hidden secret of a happy life. And now who will pay for the medical care of this woman’s child—and the formula, which is more expensive than what Nature provides? Who pays for the pre-K “learning center” in our town that this child will likely attend—that we are told is “so good” for kids—serving only “underprivileged” children while their mothers work full-time? The list of transfer payments could go on.
Every instance of “relief” this child receives will in a very real way compete with the things we can give our children. As so-called “middle-class” parents, we economize and make choices every day about the things we give to our children. There is no aid for our oldest son who is being home-schooled, though the tax base in our town suggests that we are paying far more than our “fair share” for the public schools that fail to teach children to read (and teenagers to be abstinent!). It is not only a question of justice. We feel for the child who will be brought up in modest circumstances, but more importantly, without a father. A little restraint on the part of these post-adolescents playing at being grow-ups would have meant opportunity and a true family for the child.
The purpose of the Old Welfare State was ostensibly helping the poor. The New Welfare State is in the business of making more poor to help. The Old Welfare State exhausted the cities long ago. The New Welfare State has moved out to the country. Go to any Wal-Mart in the small-town Midwest, and you will see the grandchildren of farmers buying meat and potatoes (but mostly in the form of potato chips) with food stamps. Men in their twenties sit idly in the public parks at two in the afternoon. (Hint: the men are not on vacation, and their preferred beverage is not the latest protein drink.) Girls regularly get pregnant in or just out of high school—rarely with the intent to marry. The word “qualify”—which used to signal moving up in the world—has taken on a whole new meaning. There is a race to the bottom to qualify for this or that state or federal handout. Yet all this is counted a victory for some. New mouths to feed grow the Nanny State. New mouths to feed translate to more votes for the Democrats. And hardly a Republican dares to question the change.
The New Welfare State makes plain the hidden reality of the Old Welfare State. So-called welfare is a matter of choice, not of necessity. It begins with the surrender of the old-fashioned idea of personal responsibility. And the face of the New Welfare State is the pregnant girl—or her heedless baby-daddy moving on to impregnate the next teenage girl—who looks just like you did a few years ago, albeit expecting, demanding a relief check that you are providing, unwilling to take your advice about responsible living, and with no inclination to offer so much as a thank-you.
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