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If you’ve been anywhere near the internet, a television or a radio today, you will undoubtedly have heard about the topless pictures of Kate Middleton, The Duchess of Cambridge, being published by the French edition of the magazine Closer. A royal spokesman described the actions as a “grotesque and unjustifiable invasion of privacy”. Here at SocialSafe, we couldn’t agree more.
We all have a right to privacy. At SocialSafe we believe that any direct invasion of privacy, whether through physical means such as a long-range camera lens looking into a private property, or viewing someone’s personal online information through digital espionage is a deplorable act.
This ethic of privacy runs through all we do at SocialSafe which is why we don’t have access to your social data in the service we provide – you download your own data which is kept private to you and you alone.
Social networks are good for sharing information, but we choose what to share and with whom. The act of firstly taking private pictures and then sharing them with the world is a gross intrusion of privacy and should be deplored by everyone.
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I came across an interesting quote from Oswald Chambers this past week. In his classic devotional book, My Utmost for His Highest, he wrote: “Nature to a saint is sacramental. If we are children of God, we have a tremendous treasure in Nature. In every wind that blows, in every night and day of the year, in every sign of the sky, in every blossoming and in every withering of the earth, there is a real coming of God to us if we will simply use our starved imagination to realize it.” What I found interesting about this passage is not Chamber’s recognition that nature is sacramental or that God comes to us through His Creation but that what often hinders us from experiencing this is our lack of imagination.
I have to admit that early in my life I did not consider imagination to be very important. I felt I should focus on what is “real” or “factual.” For this reason I even refused to read anything that was considered fiction. I really don’t know what led me in that direction but eventually I learned that the imagination is very important, even in the spiritual realm. In his Spiritual Exercises St. Ignatius encourages people to use their imagination in visualizations of biblical stories to grasp better their meaning. C. S. Lewis, one of my favorite Christian writers, once said “Reason is the natural order of truth, but imagination is the organ of meaning.” Today I cannot deny or minimize the value of imagination in many areas of life.
If you and I are going to experience God in nature then we must learn to exercise our imagination or, to follow up on what Chambers said, feed it. If we starve our imagination we won’t recognize God’s Spirit in the wind that blows across our face. We won’t see signs of God’s faithfulness in the changing of the seasons or even the passing of one day to the next. Without the use of our imagination we might miss the expressions of divine love that can be found in the birds at our feeders, the flowers along the side of the road, or the gentle cascades of a stream.
Mark Twain, who certainly had a way with words, once said, “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” When it comes to seeing God in Creation that is unquestionably true so go feed your imagination; do whatever it takes to get your imagination in focus. So much depends upon it. It really does.
(I took the abstract water reflection at Jenny Wiley State Park in Kentucky. The middle image shows a pattern formed by lichen on a granite stone in Acadia National Park. The bottom image shows a magnolia blossom in my yard.)
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Last night, 400 stranded tourists were airlifted from the mountain. But it was estimated that there were still around 3,500 people at the Lukla airport who are waiting to be taken to the Nepalese capital Kathmandu.
Mahendra Singh Thapa, president of Trekking Agents Association of Nepal (TAAN), said, "Although we don´t have actual figure, there are still 3,500 people stranded at Lukla including more than 2,000 tourists."
Tenzing-Hillary Airport airport, located 9,000ft above sea level, usually transports around 500 people per day to and from the capital, mostly trekkers heading for Everest Base Camp.
It was built in the 1950s by the late Sir Edmund Hillary, who with the sherpa Tenzing Norgay were the first mountaineer to reach the summit of Everest in a British expedition in 1953. Delays due to bad weather are frequent in the small Sherpa village, dotted with trekking lodges, in the high trekking seasons in the spring and autumn.
However, the delays usually only inconvenience a handful of trekkers for a day or two in both Lukla and Kathmandu. The current numbers are unprecedented and have been caused by a spell of thick fog, leading to poor visibility, that has lingered in the region since Oct 31.
While around 500 people have managed to charter helicopters from nearby villages and some have opted for the five-day trek to Jiri - the nearest roadhead - more two thousand remain stuck in the small Himalayan hamlet.
Conditions in the village are said to be overcrowded and expensive, with trekkers having to shelter in tents on the airstrip and sleep in the dining rooms of lodges. There were also concerns that food supplies could run low if, as expected, it takes several days to get the trekkers back to Kathmandu.
The Nepalese Army has been deployed to try to help with it's limited fleet of MI-16 helicopters - one is thought to be operational and can only carry 16 passengers - though poor visibility has also hampered these efforts.
The airport and the perilous route over the Himalayas to Kathmandu has been the scene of several fatal accidents involving small two-engined aircraft, which have often crashed in poor visibility with the loss of over 50 lives since 2008.
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Runner without country to compete at Olympics
LONDON -- Guor Marial ran for his life to escape a Sudanese child labor camp. Now he will get to run at the Olympics.
Marial's heartwarming rise from a fearful kid who hid in a cave, fled his war-torn homeland and finally arrived in the United States as a refugee took another incredible turn Saturday.
Despite having no passport and officially no country -- and at one time very little hope -- the 28-year-old marathoner was cleared by the IOC to compete at the London Games under the Olympic flag.
"The voice of South Sudan has been heard," Marial told The Associated Press from his home in Flagtaff, Ariz. "The South Sudan has finally got a spot in the world community. Even though I will not carry their flag in this Olympic Games, the country itself is there.
"The dream has come true. The hope of South Sudan is alive."
Marial -- who was born in what is now South Sudan, a newly independent African country that doesn't yet have a national Olympic body -- was one of four competitors let in at the London Games as independent athletes. Three others from Netherlands Antilles also were allowed to take part under the Olympic flag, but the case of Marial was the first of its kind at the Olympics, IOC spokesman Mark Adams said.
"He's actually running times I'm told wouldn't get him a medal but could get him in the top 10 to 20," Adams said. "He's come from out of nowhere. He's done two times, one of 2:14 and one of 2:12. Amazing."
Marial posted the Olympic qualifying time in his first ever marathon last year after being a cross-country runner at Iowa State University. He will get a chance to test himself against the best in the world in the Olympic marathon on Aug. 12, the last day of the games.
But Marial has less than a week to get to London so he can march at the opening ceremony at the Olympic Stadium and be part of the first day.
"I think they (his entourage and backers in the U.S.) will move heaven and earth for him to get here for the ceremony," Adams said.
The IOC's executive board gave Marial a chance after he didn't qualify for Sudan, South Sudan or the United States under its rules. He's a permanent resident of the U.S. after arriving as a refugee when he was a kid, but doesn't yet have American citizenship.
He was ready to head out to train when he heard he could go to the Olympics.
"I was getting ready to go for a run," Marial said. "Wow. This is so exciting. It's hard to describe. I'm speechless. The body temperature is up. I have to train like an Olympian now."
He told AP he didn't want to represent Sudan because he lost 28 family members to violence or disease during the civil unrest that left the country devastated and eventually led to the south splitting from Sudan last year.
Marial said he'd ask his father -- who still lives in South Sudan -- to travel to the nearest city to watch him on TV if he got to compete at the Olympics.
Two decades ago, Marial escaped from the labor camp in Sudan when he was 8, running away under darkness with another child about a week after he was kidnapped by gunmen and forced to work.
The pair hid in a cave until dawn, he said, and then followed the path of the sun. Marial lived in Egypt before eventually reaching the United States.
"I used to hate running. I was running back home to save my life," he told the AP in an interview Friday.
But he was good at it, grew to like it, and now loves it.
At 16, Marial joined the Concord High School track team in New Hampshire after encouragement from a gym teacher who saw he never got winded during any sports activities.
"I think there's something that can make you tired," he said the teacher told him.
He earned an athletic scholarship to Iowa State, becoming an All-American in cross-country in his junior year.
Marial qualified, amazingly, for the Olympics in his first 26.2-mile event, running 2 hours, 14 minutes, 32 seconds at the 2011 Twin Cities marathon -- inside the Olympic qualifying time. He has since run faster.
But despite obvious natural ability, he still needed help to go to the Olympics. On Friday, a U.S. senator from New Hampshire lent support to his bid.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen sent a letter to the International Olympic Committee appealing for Marial to compete under the Olympic flag.
"When you hear about his amazing personal story, what he has overcome, you just feel like the Olympic committee ought to look at his situation and figure out a way to accommodate him," Shaheen said.
They did, and Marial can now run at the Olympics in London -- and run as fast as he can for the right reasons.
Associated Press writer Bridget Murphy in Boston contributed to this report.
Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press
This story is from ESPN.com's automated news wire. Wire index
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A digest of important news from sources selected by our local editors. Delivered weekday mornings.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and key legislators from both parties have agreed on the look of a public authority aimed at supplying cheaper health care to businesses.
The Legislature is expected to approve the bill sometime Thursday afternoon or evening. Legislators must approve the bill to keep New York eligible for millions of federal aid to set up the health insurance exchange.
The exchange is a marquee aspect of the federal health care overhaul from last year, which also includes tax credits for small companies. The exchange must, by law, be up and running by the end of 2013.
Ideally, the exchange would shrink premiums by sparking competition among insurers and allowing small firms to team up for greater bargaining power. Premiums rose by a double-digit percentage this year for most companies, a common occurrence.
The legislation does not answer a range of weighty policy questions surrounding the exchange.
Instead, it creates the system (via a new public authority) and lays out how its nine board members will be appointed and what powers they have.
“If I’m a small business, this bill represents the right, measured approach. They did no harm,” said Maggie Moree, director of federal affairs for The Business Council of New York State Inc.
By April 2012, the exchange board must make a range of recommendations to the Legislature and Cuomo on issues such as:
• what benefits insurers must provide
• how to define what small businesses are eligible, and whether to eventually allow large companies in
• how to fund the exchange after federal aid runs out
• which chambers and business groups can enroll in the exchange to help provide health care for their members
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Washington apple crop keeps growing
Updated: Thursday, January 10, 2013 12:31 PM
Number up 18.6 percent from August forecast
By DAN WHEAT
WENATCHEE, Wash. -- The Washington state apple crop is now estimated at a record-shattering 129.7 million, fresh-packed, 40-pound boxes.
That's an increase of 20.4 million boxes and 18.6 percent from the industry's prior record of 109.3 million boxes in 2010.
"I couldn't believe it when I saw that number," said Todd Fryhover, president of the Washington Apple Commission in Wenatchee.
Like many in the industry, he figured the 121.5-million-box Nov. 1 storage report number would increase by maybe 4 million boxes but not by 8.2 million.
The Dec. 1 storage report, released Dec. 6, by the Wenatchee Valley Traffic Association and the Yakima Valley Growers-Shippers Association is a count of the 2012 apple crop shipped so far, what remains in storage and estimates the rate of fresh packout versus cullage for juicing and other processing for the next 11 months.
The new number is up 21 million boxes or 18.6 percent from the Aug. 1 crop forecast of 108.7 million boxes.
"I never would have projected that," said a surprised Dan Kelly, assistant manager of Washington Growers Clearing House Association. It's very likely the number will top 130 million boxes in coming months, he said.
Adding a normal 18 percent processor volume, the total crop is about 150 million boxes, he said. The true number is probably more than that because more fruit went directly from orchards to processors this year and missed the associations' counts, Fryhover said.
"This should give us all a shot in the arm of what could be our future," Fryhover said. "There will be more fruit because of rejuvenation of old orchards with higher density plantings and vertically integrated companies aggressively planting more in recent years."
While the crop generally is larger this year because of those factors, the jump in the last month was caused by growers picking everything they could into mid-November with strong fresh and processing prices because of short apple crops in the Midwest, East Coast, Canada, Mexico and Europe, Fryhover said.
Good weather allowed more picking days, enabling more fruit to be harvested even with a shortage of pickers, Kelly said. Fruit passed over early was picked later, allowing it to grow larger, which also contributed to a larger crop, he said.
Most of the increase since November has been in Red Delicious and Granny Smith, Kelly said.
The last quantum leap was 25 million boxes between the 2003 and 2004 crops. Between 2004 and 2011, crops stayed in the 100 million to 109-million-box range.
Kelly and Fryhover are optimistic shipper-marketers will be able to sustain sales and good prices because of the light crops elsewhere.
Weekly sales have been running 2.8 million to 3 million boxes when 2.2 million to 2.5 million is more typical this time of year, Kelly said.
"I calculate we need to move about 400,000 more boxes per week on average over the year to sell it all," he said. "We need to keep the same pace or maybe step it up a little through spring."
Sales always slow in summer because of the availability of other fresher fruit.
A total of 12.4 million boxes were sold in November, a record for that month beating 11.2 million in 2010, Kelly said.
As of Dec. 1, there were 98.1 million boxes in storage compared with 83.5 million at the same time a year ago and 84 million in 2010, he said.
The average season-to-date price of all varieties, as of Dec. 1, was $27.55 versus $23.81 a year ago and $20.61 two years ago, Kelly said. Red Delicious, the most voluminous variety, wholesales for $22.73 compared with $19.22 a year ago and $16.29 two years ago.
Traditionally prices drop as early, higher-priced Honeycrisp and Gala thin in volume, but the drop this year should not be significant, Kelly said.
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Library staff picks for summer reading at its best
Like some lazy summer library staff reading recommendations? Spend August under a tree with a glass of lemonade and a good book!
Barb — Killing Lincoln by Bill O’Reilly was both history and mystery. Written in the form of a novel, the historical facts were given in a way that the book moved along depicting the events that happened in the time just before President Lincoln was shot. It also carries the reader along on the hunt for John Wilkes Booth.
Knitting mystery series, by Maggie Sefton, (10 books as of this summer), takes place in Ft. Connor, Colo., and involves a group of friends that meet at the yarn shop, Lambspun. A light read for summer for those who enjoy knitting; there is also a knitting pattern in each book.
Kurt — For light summer reading let me recommend J. Maarten Troost’s Sex Lives of Cannibals. The author describes the two years he and his wife spent on the tiny Pacific island of Tarawa, especially the times when Western culture crossed paths with island life. He’s funny! Expecting a tropical paradise, he and his wife go down to the beach to watch the sunset only to realize that the locals use it as their latrine: “like negotiating a mine field.” He’s also thoughtful, his chapters alternating between his own dealings with island life and the history and problems of the island nation of Kiribati and its people. A very entertaining book.
I would also like you to consider any book in our collection by Craig Childs. Childs could be called a regional writer, covering the deserts of the Four Corners. He is also an adventurer, amateur archaeologist, amateur biologist and philosopher. His writing is a wonderful blend of personal description of his surroundings — when he is running down a slot canyon ahead of a flash flood or staring down a mountain lion at a waterhole, he puts you there with him. I especially enjoyed Finders Keepers: A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession, where Childs asks the question: To whom does the past belong? Concerning finding artifacts in the wild, Childs writes, “If anyone tells you there is only one answer to the conundrum of archaeology, he is trying to sell you something. At this point, considering all that has been removed, it is worth leaving the last pieces where they lie.”
Joanie — Work Song by Ivan Doig is set in Butte, Montana in the early 1900’s. Anaconda ran the booming mining town. The main character of this novel worked at the library (no wonder I liked it!) and was involved with people from the Union. Throw in a romance developing at a snail’s pace, some rough and tumble Welsh miners, some Chicago thugs and one of the very best American writers of our time, and you have fascinating historical fiction.
Yolanda — Books by Luis Alberto Urrea: Into The Beautiful North is a fictional and affectionate, humorous look at the idea of “Unailtes” (USA) among northern Mexicans. A group of young Mexicans are given the task of going to America to bring back what their diminishing town needs. Through their story, the author presents realities most of us have heard about, but will never have to experience. The non-fiction work by Urrea is Across the Wire. A moving account of the author’s work across the border in Tijuana, the book presents some uncomfortable realities. Urrea serves with an American church and works in the communities living in the dumps. The author’s family and personal history add to the reader’s understanding of hard-to-imagine situations.
Margaret — Set in freezing, cold Lake Superior’s Upper Peninsula, Steve Hamilton is my newest find in the mystery field. Alex McKnight is a man just trying to get his life back in order. He has found the great small town of Paradise and lives in the woods where the winters reign supreme. Hamilton has some great reoccurring characters that you enjoy meeting, and the Glasgow Inn gets my vote as the place I’d like most to sit back while a blizzard fueled by the Great Lakes brews outside. McKnight’s adventures showcase the hardy individuals who populate the U.S./Canadian border and an interesting crew they are!
Historical fiction is a particular favorite of mine and C.J. Sansom has written a series of historical thrillers set during the Tudor reign of the dissolute Henry VIII. Matthew Shardlake is the humpbacked lawyer navigating the treacherous waters of the Protestant Reformation during the 1500’s. The monasteries were being shut down, their hospitals closed and alms-giving stopped, leaving many people homeless, starving and sick. Taking the wrong side, either politically or religiously, could result in heinous death. In this brew of uncertainly, Matthew finds his way through a fascinating era in English history.
Lavon — I do not listen to many books on CD except when traveling, and the best I have ever listened to is Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. It is the biography of Louis Zamperini, an American runner in the 1938 Berlin Olympics. Some time later he went into the military, and was serving during World War II when he crashed in the Pacific. This is his story of survival at sea in a small raft and as a P.O.W. in a brutal Japanese camp. It really is a story of tragedy and triumph over extreme circumstances. It was a fascinating book, and I think I gained some new insight about the Second World War and the brave Americans who fought in the Pacific during that time.
Scorpions for Breakfast by Arizona’s Governor Jan Brewer was a very enlightening book as to the plight that state has had to face. Most of us have heard of Brian Terry, the border patrol officer that was killed, and Robert Krentz, an Arizona rancher killed on his property along the border, but most of us have no idea what other types of problems Arizona residents have had because of a poorly protected border. She brings to light many of the situations that people outside of Arizona may have never heard about, and she does it with humor and frankness that I found very refreshing in our very “politically correct” society!
Susie — One of my favorite reads this year takes place in Hitler’s Germany. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and An American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson, reads like a political thriller and tells the story of the first years of Hitler’s reign through the eyes of William E. Dodd, America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s regime and his daughter, Martha.
Sally Jo — My sister and I trade book recommendations and one of her latest suggestions was a winner. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern is an incredibly imaginative adventure centered around two young illusionists and a magical circus. The narrative of this adult fairy tale is so visually inspiring, you will not want to put it down, even after the last page!
Kathy — The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is narrated by Death and reveals the story of how the Nazi devastation greatly effected the German people who loved their country but did not love the politics of hate and destruction. Nine year old Liesel Meminger is the book thief, a foster daughter of a gentle man and a stern mother. She has befriended the mayor’s wife from whom she steals most of her books and has a warm relationship with a Jewish refugee hidden in their basement who becomes her mentor. Then there’s Rudy, her contemporary and her partner in crime. I’ll say no more!
The Fault In Our Stars by John Green is a love story that will stay with you for a long time. Hazel and Augustus meet at a cancer support group for kids only. They talk like kids, and act like kids even though they carry this heavy burden of the knowledge that their lives will be cut short. There is no time for games and dishonesty. But there is time for shocking honesty! It’s a fast read and very enjoyable, and even though it may sound totally depressing, it isn’t. I loved it so much, I read it a second time.
Laura — 33 Men: Inside the Miraculous Survival and Dramatic Rescue of the Chilean Miners by Jonathan Franklin, was a fascinating read about the miners in Chile who became trapped in a mining accident about two years ago. They survived underground for 69 days. The author gained access to the scene and the key players (rescuers, volunteers, politicians and family members) as this drama unfolded on the world stage. Mainly it’s a testament to the miner’s resilience and their mental toughness. If this doesn’t give you claustrophobia, nothing will.
Love in the Time of Cholera by the Nobel prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez is my next pick. This is a funky novel about missed opportunities, familial loyalty and unrequited love. You almost ache for the main character, Florentino Ariza, as he pines away for his lost lady love, Fermina Daza. Fermina’s father forbade the two to court and she eventually married a doctor who offered her security. As Fermina begins raising a family, Florentino begins a life of loneliness, waiting, and meaningless romantic liaisons. In old age, after fifty-one years, nine months, and four days, Florentino and Fermina reunite after Fermina’s husband dies. Irony is evidenced in the book’s title. Dr. Urbino pledged to practice modern medicine and help eradicate cholera. When Florentino and Fermina reunite they are on a river boat. Fermina is afraid to dock because of small town mores. Florentino has the captain raise the yellow flag of cholera. Nobody will allow the boat to dock and Florentino and Fermina are left in a world of their own making.
Joanie Howland is director of the Cortez Public Library, 202 N. Park St. She can be reached at 565-8117.
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A Margaret Thatcher who continues to survive long after her departure from “Number 10” Downing Street just might be a fable that parallels one of Aesop’s.
The mercurial British prime minister is alleged to have several different faces — like the faces of Eve — and she could switch personalities with lightning speed and for whatever an occasion demanded.
One second she could be Medusa and the next she could be Joan of Arc.
One evening she treated her entire cabinet to dinner at London’s famous roast beef restaurant — Simpson’s in the Strand.
A waiter wheeled his trolley cart to her side and carved her a generous slab of the rarest hip of beef.
The waiter paused for a few seconds before asking: “And what about the vegetables, prime minister?”
Her instant reply was: “They will have the same.”
The Iron Maiden was tough. She ran a tight ship. Members of the British Conservative Party treated their leaders very shabbily. Just look back at the way they thanked Winston Churchill in the first general election after the Second World War.
The nation ditched Churchill in favour of Clement Attlee and his Labour administration.
Defeat was not something foreign to Churchill. He suffered many setbacks getting into power, but being turfed out, after almost single-handedly piloting a ship away from the shoals of Nazi subjugation, was a stinging rebuke by British voters.
The price of survival is eternal vigilance.
I have more than a passing knowledge of how eternal vigilance quickly became caucus liaison.
Before the wheels of our dedicated Boeing flying office touched down on the tarmac in Ottawa, Brian Mulroney announced my appointment as his executive assistant in charge of caucus liaison.
Together, we walked though the suite of offices assigned to the freshly minted member of Parliament and leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition.
“Pick out your office, J.P.,” he said to me.
At that stage, Mulroney began calling me at least three times every day — early morning, mid-afternoon and every evening. A press gallery type wrote that I was “Mulroney’s eyes and ears on the Hill.” So, I deliberately chose the office farthest away from Mulroney’s office.
Mulroney dropped in for a visit and told me to pack up my things and move into the office next door to his. A spring-loaded trick door concealed in the walnut panelling connected the two offices.
Mulroney planned to tell his caucus I was his main man, and if they wanted to see the leader, “just drop into Pat’s office and he’ll set it up for you.” Those key words told me to “handle him or her.”
When Mulroney was sworn in as prime minister, I was up against 211 MPs, and roughly 50 were either cabinet ministers or parliamentary assistants.
People asked me what I did and my stock reply was: “If every one of those MPs wants to see the PM for 15 minutes a week, it would pin the PM down for 52 hours.”
So, if I saw there was a real need, I could shoot the MP into the PM’s office almost immediately. Otherwise, nice try fella.
The former Liberal cabinet minister Bryce Mackasey tried constantly to pull a Tom Swifty, but I didn’t fall off the turnip truck from Glace Bay.
Mackasey would sidle up to me and say: “Brian wants to see me and he said to ask you to set it up.”
Bingo, Mackasey had uttered the magic words.
Our tactics evolved into a troika of sorts. Mulroney held the reins. Caucus chairman Gerry St. Germain wore a velvet glove over his mailed fist. And yours truly decided if the problem was genuine. Flying by the seat of your pants worked well.
Now and then, one of Mulroney’s old cronies upset the apple cart by turning up unannounced. Montreal tycoon Paul Desmarais, future Senate speaker Guy Charbonneau, and pals such as Roy McMurtry, Peter C. Newman and developer Robert Campeau had unlimited access, but never abused it.
In the years I was there, I only saw Karlheinz Schreiber once, and he was with Max Strauss, the young son of Bavarian politician Franz Josef Strauss. Strauss was paying a 10-minute courtesy call with no press gallery notice or photo-op.
Glace Bay-born Pat MacAdam has been a fly on the wall in national politics for half a century. He served as a spear carrier for prime ministers John Diefenbaker and Brian Mulroney, and as press officer at Canada’s High Commission in London. He’s in Ottawa (Bytown) now and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Sarah Rich, editor of Dwell: At Home in the Modern World magazine, will give a talk on innovative and sustainable inventions in design, architecture, art, food and urbanism. Sponsored by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities and The Cleveland Institute of Art, this free, public talk begins at 6 p.m., Thursday, Nov.19, in The Cleveland Institute of Art's Aitken Auditorium (Gund Building, 11141 East Blvd.). Reception will follow in the lobby outside the gallery.
Before joining Dwell, Rich was managing editor of Worldchanging, a sustainable solutions site covering tools, models and ideas for building a better future. She co-authored the bestselling book, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century. This 600-page compendium to the blog contains innovative solutions, ideas and inventions to enhance costumer consciousness, promote effective philanthropy and create a new vision for a sustainable, “bright, green, free and tough” future.
Rich was also the managing editor of the green design and architecture site, Inhabitat.com. In addition, she launched and edited the Slow Food Nation blog leading up to the inaugural 2008 event in San Francisco. Rich then co-founded the site that emerged from that event, CivilEats.com, which promotes sustainable agriculture and fosters dialogue among leaders, citizens, and chefs about the American food system. Her articles have appeared in BusinessWeek, ReadyMade, Creative Review, and Urban Design Review among many others.
Now at Dwell, Sarah is on the look out for new and sustainable visions for trade and technology, architectural and interior design, urban living, and clothing. Dwell also has a special section on food tips, food services and the very best, sustainable kitchen gadgets. This award-winning, beautifully designed national publication gives an inspiring look at the creative ways in which design can intersect with environmental sustainability and social responsibility.
This event is held in conjunction with the exhibition 17 Swedish Designers at CIA's Reinberger Galleries and is part of the Baker-Nord Center's programs on the Center's annual theme, Cultures of Green: Nature and Environment. The exhibition, which features 17 female Swedish design professionals, opens on November 6th and runs through December 19.
For more information, visit: http://www.case.edu/humanities and http://www.cia.edu/about/pressroom.php?sub=current&news_id=195. Registration for the event is not required but recommended due to limited seating.
Case Western Reserve University is committed to the free exchange of ideas, reasoned debate and intellectual dialogue. Speakers and scholars with a diversity of opinions and perspectives are invited to the campus to provide the community with important points of view, some of which may be deemed controversial. The views and opinions of those invited to speak on the campus do not necessarily reflect the views of the university administration or any other segment of the university community.
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Earthforce's rank and insignia draws from a number of predecessor militaries in several member states from across the Earth Alliance, without being directly based on any single one in particular. The in fact combine the structures from traditionally separate services - army, navy and air force - into a single cohesive command structure.
The Earthforce uniforms a color coded according to the branch of the service: blue for fleet, grey for security, and brown for marines. The rank insignia is usually displayed on the shoulder epaulets, with the exception of non-comm EF Marine Corps BDUs on which the rank insignia is displayed on the upper sleeve. Stat bars are worn by Earthforce officers and enlisted on the left breast, directly underneath the stylised Earth Alliance Badge and denote the wearer's branch of the service. Flag officers wear an irregular star over their stat bar; also, while most Generals are by definition in command positions, not all of them wear the gold command bar.
The division badge is worn on the upper left shoulder and denotes the wearer's speciality. The exception being the Marine Command patch which is worn on both shoulders of an officer in Marine BDUs. Pilots wear their division patch on the right breast, as the left shoulder is reserved for their squadron patch. The flight wings patch is worn on the upper right shoulder of the standard duty uniform, or incorporated into the upper left breast name patch on the flight suit. The patch itself denotes that an officer is a qualified pilot and the extent of their qualification.
Commissioned Officer Ranks and InsigniaEdit
|Joint Chief of Staff||Part of a group comprising the Chiefs of service of each major branch of Earthforce.|
|Admiral||High ranking career military officers, of equal standing to Generals. Admirals serve as commanders of large strategic fleets and are not often seen by front line personnel.|
|General||High ranking career military officers, of equal standing to Admirals. Generals serve as commanders of tactical fleets or infantry divisions.|
|Vice Admiral||High ranking career military officers, of equal standing to Lieutenant Generals. Sometimes found in command of Earthforce destroyers with a Commander serving as XO.|
|Lieutenant General||High ranking career military officers, usually serving as a General's second in command.|
|Colonel||High ranking career military officers, usually in command of bases or military installations.|
|Lieutenant Colonel||High ranking career military officers.|
|Captain||Career military officers, usually in command of single capital ships, bases or military installations.|
|Commander||Career military officers, usually Executive Officers on single capital ships, or in command of small bases, military installations or EA colony governors.|
|Lieutenant Commander||Career military officers, usually Executive Officers on single capital ships, small bases or military installations.|
|Major||Career military officers, usually in support roles or as adjutants to higher ranking officers, usually Generals.|
|Lieutenant||Junior officers, usually in support roles, as seconds to mid-level or Executive Officers, or as senior pilots/squadron leaders.|
|Lieutenant Junior Grade||Junior officers, usually in support roles or as seconds to mid-level or Executive Officers.|
|Ensign||Junior officers, usually in support roles or bridge officers on Starships. Sometimes leading a Marine squad or EVA team.|
Non-Commissioned Ranks and InsigniaEdit
|Flag Officer||Command||Executive Officer||Executive Officer|
(Telepath - Circa 2267)
|Master Pilot||Senior Pilot||Junior Pilot||Pilot|
|Earthforce Science team|
- This article includes only those ranks seen or mentioned on the show or from other canon sources, as such there are some gaps where other ranks might logically be.
- Some ranks, such as CWO and LtJG don't appear to have any specific insignia at all, while some ranks have seemingly identical insignia to one another. For example, there doesn't appear to be any noticeable difference between the insignia for LtCmd and Lt. While the addition of a stat bar can help identify an officer's status, it is not directly linked to rank.
- Though no characters with the rank of Admiral were ever named or depicted, the existence of the rank was mentioned twice, in ("And the Sky Full of Stars") and ("Points of Departure"). In addition, though the footage has never been released, Wayne Alexander portrayed Admiral Hudgins in the cancelled video game Into the Fire. Interestingly, his insignia appears to been identical to a that of a JCoS.
Behind the ScenesEdit
Prior to Babylon 5 entering full production, a very different set of EF rank insignia and significantly different uniform was used in the feature length pilot ("The Gathering"). Rather than being an alternate set that fell out of use and superseded by the more familiar insignias used throughout the series, later productions that included flashbacks to events prior to 2257 showing second set of insignias and uniforms in use as early as the Earth-Minbari War, effectively retconned the originals out of continuity (just like Delenn's original make-up design and bar tending gorillas.)
What appears to be at least one iteration of an original defunct scheme was described in the Babylon 5 Security Manual, though the descriptions don't exactly match what was seen in ("The Gathering"), further confusing matters. Curiously it lists two separate Insignias for Captains in what a appears to be a delineation between fleet and marine ranks while few insignias (JCoS, Colonel & Major) appear to have been retained in the "new" scheme: -
|General (Joint Chiefs)||Five "stars" in a circle|
|General||Polygon, one bronze bar, two stylised stars|
|Major||Three diamond shapes|
|Captain||Two diamond shapes|
|Lieutenant||One diamond shape|
|Chief Warrant Officer||One diamond shape with oblique black stripe areas|
|Admiral||Polygon and three bronze stars|
|Captain||Polygon and two bronze stars|
|Commander||Polygon and one bronze star|
|Lt. Commander||Polygon and one silver bar|
Another curiosity appears in the memos printed in the first volume of the Babylon 5 Scripts. It appears as if the stat bars were at one early stage conceived as being specific indicators of rank and also indicates some ranks that were never used: -
Unidentified Rank InsigniasEdit
- ↑ The Official Babylon 5 Magazine: Issue 17, p.58
- ↑ General Stephen Franklin is seen in Sleeping in Light wearing the brass star over his usual red medical stat bar.
- ↑ Earthforce Officer in "Endgame" wore patches on both shoulders
- ↑ Ensign Gideon has the patch on left shoulder in "The Path of Sorrows"
- ↑ The Path of Sorrows
- ↑ gallery on Wayne Alexander's Official Website
- ↑ autographed photos on Wayne Alexander's Official Website
- ↑ Babylon 5 Security Manual - (p.50)
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Karen, Your story of hitting a genealogical brick wall is not uncommon. For example, the United States federal census records for 1890 were all but lost in a fire in the 1920's. This has caused me great problems trying to trace my grandfather's family through Chicago and back to Sweden.
I have heard about the Belfast fire as well. How far have you traced Erskine back in the United States? Have you found the immigration records/ships records? Those records probably exist here in the US and with those records you can begin tracing Erskine back into Ireland and you might then be able to trace Erskine from Ireland back to Scotland. It is impossible to work the other way unless you have some ancient family documents. Don't give up. There are many ways to get around the lost Belfast records to research your Erskine line back to Ireland and hopefully Scotland.
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As an unapologetic, unwavering supporter of Los Angeles’ public transit system, willing to defend Metro like it’s my kid sister, I try my hardest to use my journalistic influence to lure car-strapped Angelenos onto buses and trains. But on November 15, as Metro’s Gold Line Eastside extension rolled out of downtown’s Union Station and into East Los Angeles, heralded by 50,000 fans, thousands of blog posts, and at least a hundred mariachis, I felt for once that the city’s enthusiasm seemed to match— and possibly exceed—my zealotry.
The latest segment in LA’s nascent Metro system is the shortest (six miles) and expects the lowest ridership (only 13,000 a day, compared to over 100,000 on the Red Line), but it’s clearly the most important thing to happen to the city’s transit system thus far. Where Los Angeles transit discussions have mostly revolved around NIMBYs howling about the possibility that lower-income populations would overrun their neighborhoods, the Gold Line flips the paradigm. If public transit is urban democracy, the great leveler, then these eight shiny stations parading east into a traditional Mexican community seem to grant instant permission to curious Westsiders who want to explore its streets.
I rode with the line’s lead architect Frank Villalobos on a preview a week before the opening. Pointing out various burrito and taco restaurants to the passengers on board, he agreed that neighborhood exposure was the single most important factor of the line. “People will not think of East Los Angeles as the violent, scary place they’ve heard about,” he said proudly. “They will see it’s a nice place.”
If his commentary was personal, verging on emotional, it was well founded. His firm Barrio Planners, which is located in East LA, is uniquely intertwined with the project. They not only served as lead architects with AECOM, but also performed some of the earliest community outreach to bring a subway to the area two decades ago, and designed Boyle Heights’ Mariachi Plaza, which the line passes beneath, as well as several of the transit-oriented development projects along the way. Barrio also selected a roster of designers who paired with artists to work together on each station, choosing a theme that nods to each neighborhood.
East LA was denied its proposed extension of the Red Line subway, which runs from downtown to North Hollywood, thanks to anti-subway sentiment in the 1990s perpetuated by city legislators. A prompt by then-Mayor Richard Reardon briefly resurrected the idea as a busway.
But when it was determined that a busway over LA’s historic bridges and narrow streets would require as much infrastructural development as a light rail line, the planners invented an alternative: a light rail-subway hybrid capable of traveling on former right-of-ways from streetcars, and below-grade or underground when required. The challenge then became to sell what was considered to be a “second-best” alternative for the marginalized community, said Metro planner James Rojas. “We had to convince the community that light rail was just as good,” he said.
A ride on the Gold Line is one of the most dramatic routes in the city. New, silver bullet-like trains head south out of Union Station over a newly-constructed S-bridge built above the 101 freeway, with sweeping views of downtown. After stopping in Little Tokyo, the train snakes over the LA River on the 1st Street Bridge into Boyle Heights, where it makes one stop before slipping underground to two of the best stations: Mariachi Plaza and Soto (both designed by Barrio).
Mariachi Plaza is successful because the space itself was designed as a subway station when Barrio created the plaza in 1993 (a renovation was completed last year). The ascents from both underground stations are crowned with elements from traditional Mexican dress: for Mariachi Plaza, colors evoking the bright embroidery worn by mariachi and canopy cables strung like violine, their instrument. At Soto, the twirling, multi-colored layers allude to the skirts of female dancers, while canopies are copper to resemble ornamental combs.
Resurfacing again, the train stops at one of the six above-ground stations, which all loosely follow the same basic structure, using steel-framed, tensile Teflon canopies that peak and dip in different ways. The only above-ground station that bucks that trend is the exuberant East LA Civic Center. Here, the canopies explode into bright orange California poppies, a collaboration between Villalobos and artist Clement Hanami.
While the whimsical stations are said to nod to the neighborhoods, my fear while riding the Gold Line was that in the bid to make them representative of the local residents, so over-the-top ethnic, they’ve become stereotypical. The East LA stations do not need to be flashy. These are the city’s most transit-dependent neighborhoods, and they don’t need great design to encourage resident users. Instead, the stations have become—however misguided, in some cases—civic pride translated into the built environment: new, tourist-friendly landmarks for a community on the brink of reinventing itself that say, “Come see us now!”
Perhaps this is how we need to see our quickly expanding rail lines: as the city’s new cultural corridors, convincing more than the transit-dependent to ride them. Perhaps a fluorescent orange steel poppy, or a tensile Teflon canopy that looks like the snow-capped peaks of the San Gabriel Mountains, are just the touches needed to entice more people to explore, embrace, and understand this under-appreciated part of LA.
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Sorry, I don't mean to fill up the entire forum, but as I said in my other post, I have an exam and I need all the help I can get. I figured if anyone can answer these for me while I study, bonus! Here's a few questions I could use the answers for.
I put them as pictures because they're much more clear that way than if I tried to type them.
Again, thank you to whoever is willing to help!
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If you listen to the tech set, you might think that real-time is one of
the most important areas search engines should be focusing on. The
search engines themselves do too.
Google, Bing and Yahoo have all done deals with Twitter to acquire real-time data. But what do consumers think? According to digital marketing agency OneUpWeb, real-time is real disappointing.
The agency conducted a 44-person eye-tracking study to find out what users think of Google's real-time results, which are now included in many of Google's SERPs. The result: only 55% of the participants were able to "easily find" the real-time results. And once found, they generally didn't like what they saw. Only 25.9% of the participants classified as "consumers" liked the real-time results while 47% of participants classified as "information foragers" liked them. All told, a majority of the participants either didn't like or were indifferent to the real-time results.
Two findings of note:
- Nearly three quarters of study participants had never heard of 'real-time' prior to the study.
- The vast majority of study participants clicked on the first link that interested them, evidencing the fact that relevance is key no matter where a result is sourced from.
Obviously, the market is still young and it would be premature to write off real-time search. That said, OneUpWeb's study does call into question some of the hype that has been built up around it. Clearly, consumers are still largely unfamiliar with real-time search and right now, they're not being given a lot of reason to get interested. That's likely due to the fact that the real-time results are arguably far less relevant than traditional results (on average). Additionally, SERP clutter probably doesn't help either.
The implications of all this for SEOs, of course, are obvious: real-time results may provide an additional opportunity to get into the SERPs, but it doesn't mean that clicks will follow. It will be interesting to see if and how Google and other search engines try to improve real-time results. It appears they'll need to if they want to see the real-time data they're paying for turn into real ROI.
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Insurer’s Pullback Raises Worries About NC Beach Plan
The recent decision by State Farm Insurance to drop 1,650 coastal insurance policies on North Carolina’s Barrier Islands has reignited a familiar debate. With the cost of insuring high-risk coastal homes rising and many insurers leaving the market, will the state’s Beach Fund be able to hold up in the event of a major hurricane?
State Farm’s pullback came despite efforts by the state government in recent months to improve North Carolina’s property and casualty insurance market.
“In 2009 the [North Carolina Department of Insurance] heard from many industry groups and companies that were concerned about the potential assessment exposure they faced should the Beach Plan face major claims payouts associated with a large storm,” said Kristin Milam, public information director for the North Carolina Department of Insurance.
“House Bill 1305 addressed their uncertainty and changed the assessment structure for companies and policyholders,” she added. “The bill capped insurance companies’ assessments at $1 billion annually.”
Milam says the recent reforms under House Bill 1305 should go a long way toward shoring up the state’s beach plan without overburdening the private market with assessments for higher premiums in the event of a major storm.
She said the legislation “was a consensus bill that provided the industry the certainty they needed to plan for potential Beach Plan assessments and the Beach Plan the authority to retain its surplus, which will go a long way in allowing the agency to stand on its own feet should a storm or series of storms hit North Carolina’s coast.”
Eli Lehrer, director of the Center on Risk, Regulation, and Markets at The Heartland Institute, argues the state needs to do more. In a report for the North Carolina-based John Locke Foundation, Lehrer makes two recommendations for the North Carolina Beach Fund.
“First, individuals, insurers, and the government should do more to secure properties against storms. South Carolina, Louisiana, and, until recently, Florida have all made major efforts to help people of modest means strengthen their homes. . . . The state, likewise, should step up efforts to discourage development in coastal wetlands—which provide a vital buffer against storm surges—and end any subsidies that encourage development in storm-prone areas.”
Lehrer also advocates scaling back the state’s Beach Plan.
“Virginia faces more hurricane risk than North Carolina by just about every measure but has only a few hundred coastal homes in its equivalent of the Beach Plan,” wrote Lehrer. “Even if a storm as big as Hurricane Katrina hit Virginia, taxpayers wouldn't owe a penny for a repair of private homes. North Carolina should strive for a similar system.”
According to Russ Dubisky, spokesman for State Farm Insurance Company of North Carolina, the company decided to drop the Barrier Island policies in January because of the high risk they posed, risk that was often passed on to safer homes inland.
“In order to preserve the financial strength that allows us to fulfill our obligations to policyholders, we made the difficult decision to manage our exposure in these catastrophe-prone areas,” Dubisky told Cape Fear Business News.
State business groups have criticized State Farm’s decision to reduce its Barrier Islands business, arguing the company’s withdrawal makes the state’s Beach Plan the only realistic alternative.
"This recent action by State Farm is a step in the wrong direction and undermines the progress made during the last session. Now these 1,600 policyholders have been put into a situation where the only probable option is the Beach Plan/Coastal Property Insurance Pool,” said Donna Girardot, CEO of the Business Alliance for a Sound Economy (BASE), in a press statement.
Some property owners can expect to see significant increases in their insurance premiums, she said, because they probably will have to get coverage through non-admitted carriers such as Lloyd's of London. Non-admitted insurers are not licensed or regulated in states where they write business. They usually provide coverage that cannot be obtained through licensed carriers.
Mathew Glans (firstname.lastname@example.org) is a legislative specialist in financial services at The Heartland Institute.
“North Carolina’s Beach Plan: Who Pays for Coastal Property Insurance”: http://www.johnlocke.org/policy_reports/display_story.html?id=191
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What Non-Antibiotic Solutions Are There for Yeast Infections?
I recently became pregnant and, shortly thereafter, I came down with a vaginal yeast infection. My doctor's only suggestion is to take antibiotics, but I would prefer something that won’t disrupt the normal bacteria in my bowel, and I don't want to do anything that might adversely affect the baby. Do you know of any safe alternatives?
Application of yogurt vaginally can be very effective for resolving yeast infections because it helps restore a normal pH and re-establish the proper bacterial flora. (Tampons soaked in a 5 percent acetic acid solution will help normalize the pH, but do nothing to re-establish the bacteria.)
In Israel, 84 patients with problems similar to yours participated in a clinical study. Of those, 32 used yogurt, 32 used acetic acid soaked tampons, and 20 were given no treatment.
Those who were using yogurt to treat their yeast infections used a syringe to deposit 10–15 mL of commercial yogurt directly into the vagina twice daily for seven days, and then repeated the process one week later. (The syringe was inserted 4–6 cm into the vagina.) Those in the acetic acid group inserted a tampon soaked with 10–15 milliliters of 5 percent acetic acid into the vagina.
When the patients were re-evaluated after one month, those in the yogurt group by far had the best response, with most having their yeast infections completely resolved.
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Friday, May 24, 2013
PORTLAND — Mercy Hospital had an unusual visitor early Friday: a young gray seal that managed to negotiate the Fore River Parkway and climb the hill to the hospital's main entrance.
The young gray seal that was found on the doorstep of Mercy Hospital in Portland early Friday morning.
Photos courtesy of Kevin Freeman
A gray seal makes its way back to the Fore River after showing up on the doorstep of Mercy Hospital in Portland on Friday.
The seal was discovered about 4 a.m. by a crew with Seabreeze Property Service, which maintains the hospital grounds and was there to clear snow.
"When I first saw it, it looked like somebody snuggled up in a blanket, wiggling around," said Mike Therrien of Buxton, who works with the company.
Therrien said the seal, almost 3 feet long, appeared to be bleeding slightly from the mouth. That may have been because the seal was eating snow and ice, the workers were told later.
When the female, only a few months old, started working her way farther inland, Therrien and three other workers blocked its path.
"We sort of guided it back down the hill," across the street and into the Fore River, he said. "It lunged a few times at my shovel."
The seal seemed to resist the bare pavement, but when the workers used shovels to put snow in front of it, the seal quickly slid over it, he said.
It appeared oblivious to the dangers of the road and "really didn't seem too interested to be back in the water," Therrien said.
But once it was in the river, the seal swam off, he said. It all happened within about 25 minutes.
When they discovered the seal, the workers notified hospital security, which called Portland police, who then notified Marine Mammals of Maine.
The organization's executive director, Lynda Doughty, started to come in from Phippsburg, but by the time she got to Yarmouth, the seal was back in the water.
Doughty said it's not unusual for seals to pull themselves out of the water to rest or regulate their temperature. They need to be in the water only to feed, and sometimes they need a break, she said.
Marine-mammal groups say people who discover seals should generally leave them alone.
If a seal appears injured or sick, a person should notify one of the organizations that responds to distressed seals.
In southern Maine, Marine Mammals of Maine can be contacted at (800) 532-9551.
"This time of year, the species that we deal with tend to be a little wayward. Sometimes they just get a little off track," Doughty said.
Gray seals are born in the period from January to March and stay with their mothers for three weeks, she said.
"The species we see this time of year are a little hardier than the harbor seals born in early summer," she said. "They have more of an attitude. They're well suited to the conditions we see this time of year.
"We just responded to a young gray seal this week on the back porch of somebody's cottage in Cape Elizabeth," Doughty said.
The male seal was taken to the University of New England's Marine Animal Rehabilitation Center in Biddeford, according to the group's Facebook page.
Doughty said marine-mammal responders like to get an assessment of a seal and its condition before deciding what to do with it, in case it needs rehabilitation.
"Most people are well meaning in trying to help the animal," she said, but it's usually best to leave it where it is.
She said it's unlikely that she would have left the seal at the hospital entrance, and if it was healthy she would have helped it back to the water.
David Hench can be contacted at 791-6327 or at
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The chance discovery of a private journal leads 17-year-old Parker Frost on a journey in which she finds out as much about herself as about the mystery she is trying to solve.
Parker is a serious, hardworking high school senior whose goal up till now has been to fulfill her ambitious divorced mother’s dream of a scholarship to Stanford. Reading the journal written 10 years earlier by a girl who supposedly perished with her boyfriend in a grisly accident, Parker finds clues in a painting that suggest that Julianna may still be alive. Some detective work leads Parker to the Kismet cafe, where Josh, aka Orion, works, the man Parker now believes to have been Julianna’s true lover 10 years ago. Encouraged by her best friend and her longtime crush, Parker agrees to ditch school and try to find Julianna. A drive to the small hippie town of Harmony turns up the art gallery where the woman Parker believes is Julianna lives under the ironic name of Hope. Although her romantic plans fall apart, Parker learns an important life lesson. In her final dramatic career move, she takes the “road less traveled,” mirroring the words of her namesake and favorite poet. Parker tells her story in the now-omnipresent present tense, unfolding it at a leisurely pace consistent with its theme of self-discovery.
A satisfying counterpoint to conventional romantic teen fiction. (Fiction. 12-17)
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Dáil Éireann - Volume 504 - 05 May, 1999
Written Answers. - Health and Safety Regulations.
Mr. Ring Mr. Ring
100. Mr. Ring asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a full-time Health and Safety officer has been appointed to the Mayo County Council area; if not, if a full-time appointment will be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11637/99]
Mr. T. Kitt Mr. T. Kitt
Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Mr. T. Kitt): The Health and Safety Authority is the State body with responsibility for the day-to-day enforcement of occupational health and safety. The authority was established under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act, 1989.
Section 33 of this Act provides for the authorisation of persons to be inspectors for the purposes of the enforcement of the relevant statutory provisions of the Act. The headquarters of the authority is based in Dublin and the authority has seven regional offices. The western region of the country is served by four offices of the authority which are located in Galway, Sligo, Athlone and Limerick. There is a total of 11 health and safety inspectors working out of these offices and the breakdown is as follows: Galway – five inspectors; Sligo – three inspectors; Limerick – two inspectors; Athlone – one inspector.
While there is no specific health and safety inspector assigned to the Mayo County Council area, that area is served by the appropriate regional office of the authority which, in this case, is the office based in Galway.
I should also point out that the recruitment and appointment of inspectors is a day-to-day matter for the Health and Safety Authority.
Dáil Éireann 504 Written Answers. Health and Safety Regulations.
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Apple recently announced that they would offer a new way of delivering textbooks to the iPad
Watch the video on video textbooks from the link above, it is quite exciting for the elearning and school systems as kids today are having trouble staying up to date and engaged in the classroom. It also opens up a brand new marketplace for selling learning content as apple is offering a free creation platform to make your own textbooks and sell them in apple's textbook store.
Coming from a technology and education background I couldn't be more excited to see this evolution happen. I always envisioned this may be possible with the iPad but to see it in action it's truly stunnning. I also encrouage you to watch the video episode below of iPad today talking about the subject as well.
Another interesting point is that iTunes U is also now an app where you can download lectures from the most prestigius universities in the world. Having access to the most brilliant minds and their teachings for free? You have got to be kidding right? NO! Go to the iTunes app store and look up iTunes U. Absolutley amazing, now they get downloaded to you iPad.
Do you have knowlege in something interesting? If you own a Mac and have extra time, download iBooks Autor and create your own textbook. The information and knowlege revolution is upon us. As the iPad is more integrated in our lifestyle, I can see more and more how this will help connect our world together with the best knowedge our society has to offer.
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Published: 12:00 GMT Standard Time - Wednesday 25 January 2012
Opposition mounts to growing use of sharia law in Britain
Country/Region: Europe, United Kingdom
Opposition is mounting to the growing use of Islamic law to settle civil disputes in Britain as a Muslim campaigner backs a bill that aims to stop sharia councils from falsely claiming legal status England and Wales.
A report by the BBC’s Asian network last week highlighted the increasing use of sharia by thousands of Muslims to settle disputes each year. An estimated 85 sharia councils now operate in Britain, and several bodies, such as the Islamic Sharia Council, have reported a large increase in their case-load.
Sheikh al-Haddad said:
Our cases have easily more than tripled over the past three to five years. On average, every month we can deal with anything from 200 to 300 cases. A few years ago it was just a small fraction of that. Muslims are becoming more aligned with their faith and more aware of what we are offering them.
As demand for the use of sharia law increases, opposition to it is also growing. Campaigners are concerned that women are being denied justice in sharia courts. Under Islamic law, a woman’s testimony is worth only half that of a man’s, she receives only half the compensation a man would for the same injury, she can inherit only half what her brothers would, and it is far more difficult for her to divorce her husband than for him to divorce her. Non-Muslims are also discriminated against under Islamic law.
The Christian and humanitarian campaigner Baroness Cox introduced a bill to the House of Lords last year that seeks to create a new offence – punishable by up to five years in prison – of falsely claiming legal jurisdiction over criminal or family law.
The Arbitration and Mediation Services (Equality) Bill, which has the backing of the National Secular Society and Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, last week also gained the support of Tehmina Kazi, director of British Muslims for Secular Democracy. She is concerned that Muslim women are not aware of alternatives to sharia law.
Ms Kazi said:
They don’t have any legal power and are completely informal so very hard to regulate… We want to educate women so they know what their rights are.
Another advocate for Muslim women’s rights is also backing the bill. Cassandra Balchin, co-founder and chair of the Muslim Women’s Network-UK, said that the bill, if made law, would probably increase pressure on sharia councils to make clear to their clients before they initiate mediation that their decisions have no legal weight.
The Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation is campaigning for sharia councils to be completely banned.
Sharia councils have been operating in Britain since 1982, effectively creating a parallel legal system by which Muslims can resolve disputes. They deal with family, financial and commercial matters in accordance with sharia principles; 95 per cent of their cases relate to divorce.
Although they have no legal powers and cannot impose their rulings, in practice they function as courts and carry the same authority within the Muslim community as a legally binding process of arbitration. And in 2008 the British government acknowledged that it had for some time accepted the role of sharia tribunals in arbitration, in certain limited fields.
Opponents are concerned that the acceptance of certain aspects of Islamic civil law in Britain could be the start of a slippery slope into full-blown sharia. In a report, Sharia Law in Britain: A Threat to One Law for All and Equal Rights, published in June 2010, human rights campaign group One Law For All argued:
Despite all efforts to package Sharia’s civil code as mundane, its imposition represents a concerted attempt by Islamists to gain further influence in Britain. By undermining British legal principles of equality before the law, the universal concept of one law for all and the protection of the rights of women and children, these courts help to increase discrimination, intimidation and threats against the most vulnerable. They also deny people their rights and leave countless human beings at the mercy of Islamists. 1
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As part of the Hiring Reform Initiative and to address the federal government’s competitive disadvantage compared to other sectors in recruiting and hiring students and recent graduates, President Obama signed Executive Order 13562, entitled "Recruiting and Hiring Students and Recent Graduates," on December 27, 2010. This Executive Order established the Pathways Programs and directed the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to implement the programs throughout the federal government. The federal regulation for the Pathways Programs became effective July 10, 2012, 60 days after publication in the Federal Register. The regulation provides a 180-day transition period following the effective date of the final rule. The 180-day transition period will end on January 6, 2013. The transition period provides federal agencies time to convert their current Student Temporary Employment Program (STEP), Student Career Experience Program (SCEP), and Presidential Management Intern (PMI) employees into the corresponding Pathways Programs under the provisions of their existing appointment. The Department of Justice is in the process of finalizing policies and procedures; and completing its memorandum of understanding with OPM to fully implement the Pathways Programs throughout the Department. ENRD is in the process of creating its memorandum of understanding with the Department to fully implement the Programs and has already initiated the first stages of hiring students under the Pathways Internship Program as authorized by the new regulation. Note: The Recent Graduates Program will become available to ENRD applicants after the Department of Justice’s memorandum of understanding with OPM as been approved by OPM.
Likely Recruitment Base
OPM has emphasized the Pathways Programs are designed to reach not only the current college-age generation but also, to include a diverse range, anyone who has returned to school, e.g. recent veterans using the new GI bill, mothers returning to school after raising children, people with disabilities, employees who went to night school, and long-term unemployed workers who sought a new trade or degree.
External and Internal Oversight of DOJ Pathways Programs
OPM, responsible for oversight, will monitor federal agency to ensure compliance with the regulations governing the Pathways Programs, in particular, veterans receive priority consideration. Agencies are required to report to OPM on the implementation of their student and recent graduate programs. The Department’s Justice Management Division, Human Resources Staff will also include the Pathways Programs as part of its audit review of human resources offices in the Department.
ENRD’s Commitment to the Pathways Programs
The goal of the Pathways Programs for a new generation of employees is to improve recruiting efforts, offer clear paths to federal internships for students from high school through post-graduate school and to careers for recent graduates, and to provide meaningful training and career development opportunities for individuals who are at the beginning of their federal service. As a federal leader recognized by our employees who ranked ENRD the #1 Agency Subcomponent for the last four consecutive years in the “Best Place to Work in the Federal Government” survey, ENRD is committed to capitalizing on this opportunity for our current and future students and graduates by utilizing these three programs to attract talent, educate and engage employees, and fill key competency gaps. The ENRD is committed to attracting, developing, and retaining a top-quality diverse workforce.
Pathways for Students and Recent Graduates
The Pathways Programs include three programs – (1) current students, (2) recent graduates and (3) Presidential Management Fellows. Instead of Schedule A or B appointments, participants will now be appointed under a new Schedule D within the excepted service, and each program will honor veterans' preference. Excepted service positions are designed to streamline the hiring process and have different evaluation criteria from the competitive service, in which applicants compete for jobs under the merit system. The Pathways Programs consist of three excepted-service programs (two new and one modified):
1. Internship Program is new for current students; and replaces the Student Temporary Employment Program (STEP) and the Student Career Experience Program (SCEP). The Internship Program is designed to provide students enrolled in a wide variety of educational institutions, including vocational and technical schools, high school, and undergraduate to graduate college and university levels, with opportunities to work in federal agencies; explore federal careers while still in school; while getting paid for the work performed. Students who successfully complete the program may be eligible for conversion to a permanent job in the federal civil service. For successful interns to be converted into the federal civil service they have to complete 640 hours on the job. Interns demonstrating exceptional performance or academic excellence can receive up to 320 credit hours under the program toward the 640-hour requirement. Interns cannot be converted to the Recent Graduates Program.
Internship Program: Fact Sheet
2. Recent Graduates Program is new for people who have recently graduated from post-high schools or other qualifying educational institutions or programs and places them in a one-year career development program with additional time for mandatory training that must be completed before the job start date. To be eligible, applicants must apply within two years of degree or certificate completion, except for veterans (as defined in 5 U.S.C. 2108). Veterans, who are precluded from doing so due to their military service obligation, will have up to 6 years after degree or certificate completion to apply under this Program. Those who graduated after the date of the executive order -- December 27, 2010 -- will have a full two years from July 10, 2012, to apply. The Graduates Program was developed to replace the now-defunct Federal Career Intern Program (FCIP), which some agencies used to circumvent the traditional federal hiring process. Under FCIP, agencies could appoint individuals to two-year internships, after which they were eligible for permanent positions. In November 2010, the Merit Systems Protection Board ruled that FCIP violated federal veterans' preference laws. Recent Graduates may have a two-year/vocational degree up through Masters/Ph.D. Requirements include all Recent Graduates participants must have a mentor, 40 hours of training, an Individual Development Plan (IDP). The Program encourages the conversion of Recent Graduates to permanent positions after two years.
Recent Graduates Program: Fact Sheet
3. Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) Program is the former Presidential Management Intern Program. The enhanced and renamed PMF Program offers a prestigious two-year paid detail in the federal government working on various assignments at different agencies. The PMF Program is for individuals who obtained an advanced degree (e.g., graduate or professional degree) within the preceding two years. This OPM-run program is designed to provide highly educated candidates to managers for further development. OPM thru its updated regulations has enhanced its candidate assessment tools to ensure it picks top fellows and has increased training and orientation for this group. The updated regulation include expansion of the eligibility window for applicants, making it more "student friendly" by aligning it with academic calendars and allowing those who have received a qualifying advanced degree within the preceding 2 years to participate; created greater flexibility for managers to use alternate forms of training to meet the 80 hour requirement; and also gives managers additional flexibility for conversion.
Presidential Management Fellows Program: Fact Sheet
These are streamlined developmental programs tailored to promote employment opportunities for students and recent graduates in the federal workforce. Additional specific information regarding the Pathways Programs can be found on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) website here.
The regulation for the Pathways Programs require job notifications to be posted on USAJOBS.gov.
Current Career Fields
All career fields of federal job series will be eligible for the Pathways Programs. Individuals selected for the Pathways Recent Graduates Program may be appointed to positions up to the GS-9 level (or equivalent) and placed in a 2-year career development program, though certain career fields in science and technology may be eligible for appointment to the GS-11 or 12 level (or equivalent).
The regulation for the Pathways Programs require public notification for job openings; and job recruitment fairs may also be posted. Please visit this page for additional information on future jobs and job recruitment fairs under the Pathways Program.
For More Information
Contact Cynthia Barnes in ENRD’s Office of Human Resources.
Student Volunteer Service
This program offers unpaid training opportunities to students in high school and college. These opportunities provide work experience related to a student’s academic program. The program allows students to explore options as well as develop personal and professional skills. Their sponsoring academic institution determines how much academic credit the student will earn. In addition, the student gains work experience which will enhance their ability to obtain paying jobs in the future. Student volunteers must be in accordance with appropriate federal, state, and local laws covering the employment of minors. The minimum age is normally 18 years; however, when all of the conditions for voluntary service are met, the minimum age is 16 years. Any employment certificates or work permits required by state or local authority must be obtained. Students must be in good standing academically and eligible to continue as an enrolled student in their educational institutions. For consideration, use this form to submit to Cynthia Barnes or contact her at (202) 353-2462.
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Jaipur, March 27: The body of a newborn girl was found in a dustbin here Tuesday, bringing to the fore the plight of the girl child in a state that suffers from a skewed sex ratio.
Police found the body wrapped in a piece of cloth in Shashtri Nagar area
“We got a call from a resident. dogs were dragging it out from the bin. It seems the body was dumped at least three days ago,” a police official told IANS.
Rajasthan has been in the news due to increasing cases of female foeticide and infanticide.
Poverty, ignorance about family planning and high dowry have been reported as the possible causes for this crime.
According to Census 2011, Rajasthan has 883 girls in the age of 0-6 for every 1,000 boys. The child sex ratio in 2001 was 909.
Alarmed over the skewed sex ratio, the state government recently announced steps to curb pre-natal sex determination tests at ultrasound clinics.
The steps include increasing the number of health department inspection teams and equipping them with devices like hidden cameras and voice recorders.
The government has also announced Rs.1 lakh money to a person who complains about errant ultrasound clinics.
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Hawaii getting used to strict smoking ban
Hawaii, known for its fresh ocean air and pristine beauty, has implemented one of the nation’s strictest no-smoking laws.
State officials say the new law will protect people from secondhand smoke, but some fear it may deter cigarette-puffing tourists from coming to the islands, especially high-spending visitors from Japan.
The Smoke-Free Hawaii Law went into effect Nov. 16, banning smoking in all public places such as restaurants, bowling alleys, and malls, as well as airports.
Many of the islands already had county laws limiting smoking, but lighting up now in partially enclosed areas, bars and less than 20 feet from doorways and windows is illegal.
State officials say comprehensive no-smoking laws in 13 other states and hundreds of cities have helped Americans get used to similar policies.
But some worry international visitors, especially from Japan, the largest group of foreign tourists to Hawaii, won’t immediately adjust or understand the new policies that could result in fines.
Hawaii is selling the law as a clean environment policy, not as a smoking ban, said Marsha Wienert, the state’s tourism liaison. The new rules aren’t needed to protect employees and customers from secondhand smoke.
The outdoor International Marketplace in Waikiki, featuring more than 100 souvenir stands, already posted “no smoking” signs, along with many beachside bars and outdoor hotel sitting areas. Honolulu International Airport has eliminated a designated area in the airport and will now direct all smokers to a few uncovered areas away from the building.
With the ban, Hawaii hotels can only designate 20 percent of their rooms to smokers, but a few chains, including Marriott and Westin, have already eliminated smoking rooms nationwide.
- Japan Tobacco International opens smoking lounges in Frankfurt airport
- JTI’s smoking lounge innovation
- Aberdeen airport opens pre-flight smoking zone
- Are Hookah Bars Illegal?
- Delaware cities: Smoking still legal on Rehoboth Beach
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In 2001's notorious weed anthem "Because I Got High," Afroman recalled, "I was gonna go to class, before I got high/ I coulda cheated and I coulda passed, but I got high/ I'm taking it next semester and I know why (Why man?)/ 'Cause I got high, because I got high, because I got high."
If this becomes a problem for students at a new trade school in California, however, chances are their professors will cut them some slack. Class is now in session at Oaksterdam University, a downtown Oakland institute that offers a full cannabis curriculum.
For about $75 a pop, Oaksterdam (a play on weed-friendly city Amsterdam) hosts two to three-hour courses in cooking and baking with cannabis, the political and legal history of the drug, "cannabusiness" and a hands-on course in pot cultivation, among others.
But prospective students with impure intentions need not apply. "Most people are really intimidated when they first get here," the university's chancellor, Danielle Schumacher, told MTV News. "They don't realize how serious this is until they start taking classes."
Oaksterdam University, which opened last November in response to a budding medical-marijuana industry in the area, is meant to prepare students for future work in dispensaries — stores that patients can go to with a doctor's note to get cannabis (there are about 400 in California). Others take classes in hopes of opening their own dispensaries, or to learn how to grow and sell weed commercially.
Many students like Ilia Gvozdenovic also study there to get more into pro-cannabis activism. Gvozdenovic, who jokingly calls the classes "way cool," told MTV News he was "shocked and amazed" at how advanced and accepted the cannabis industry is within the Oakland community. "My ultimate goal is to see acceptance of medical marijuana by the federal government in all states," he added.
But this might take a while. Although a majority of Californians passed a proposition in 1996 to legalize medical marijuana, the federal government has not yet acknowledged it. In 2004, Oakland residents also passed Measure Z, which says that the city of Oakland should regulate and tax cannabis for medical and private use. It also says that implementing cannabis laws should be the lowest priority for police officers. According to OaksterdamInfo.com, however, "since legal weed use is not recognized on a federal level, federal agencies such as the DEA [Drug Enforcement Administration] continue to confiscate weed and shut down dispensaries."
While he could not comment on whether or not any action will be taken against the school, Michael Chapman, an assistant agent in charge with the DEA's San Francisco office, told MTV News that "[Oaksterdam University] is a concern because of the message it's sending to the community."
But Schumacher says that the message that Oaksterdam is sending is just fine. "Our school and the dispensaries have been helping to keep the streets of downtown Oakland clean," she argued. "The dispensaries have security teams and staff that want to improve the neighborhood. The weed shops and university have also been bringing lots of people to the area."
While Schumacher does admit that some people may come to the university for the wrong reasons (i.e. to learn how to grow marijuana to sell illegally), she says that they are surprised to learn how much more money they can make (about $50,000 to $100,000 per year) and what protection they will have if they sell it legally.
"Most people who come to Oaksterdam University have good intentions," Schumacher said. "And I'm sure anyone who doesn't will change their mind."
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Government hiding climate talks: OppositionPUBLISHED: 23 Nov 2010 12:48:23 | UPDATED: 23 Nov 2010 12:48:23PRINT EDITION: 23 Nov 2010
The federal Opposition has accused the government of gagging its new multi-party climate change committee.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard set up the committee as part of an agreement with the Australian Greens and independents to form a minority government.
Its main task is to come up with ways to put a price on carbon, with a report due to come out next year.
Members of the committee - which includes the Prime Minister, independents Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott, Treasurer Wayne Swan, Climate Change Minister Greg Combet and Greens deputy leader Christine Milne - have signed confidentiality deeds.
The Opposition has turned down an offer to nominate two of its MPs to join the committee. Opposition environment spokesman Greg Hunt said the move to have committee members sign confidentiality agreements followed “a growing pattern of secrecy”.
“This is pretty convenient for the government - they can use the cabinet blanket to gag anything and everything they choose to hide.
“There is a growing pattern of secrecy by this lot. We’ve seen it with the NBN business case and the home insulation program safety inspection figures.”
Four outsiders - Ross Garnaut, who helped design the emissions trading scheme for the Rudd government, climate expert Will Steffen, energy expert Rod Sims, and social policy expert Patricia Faulkner - are also on the committee.
The minutes of the first meeting of the committee, released on its website, said “confidentiality deeds” had been discussed and “members agreed to finalise these in advance of the distribution of papers for the second meeting of the committee”.
Members signed the deeds before the second meeting was held on November 10.
Ms Gillard and Mr Combet declined to comment, referring inquiries to the committee’s website which confirmed the deeds were required because the committee examined confidential cabinet papers and commercial-in-confidence documents.
The committee members have also been briefed on the “importance of maintaining the confidentiality of cabinet material”, the minutes showed.
A spokesman for Senator Milne said it was standard procedure to sign such deeds, as it was a sub-committee of cabinet.
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President Obama and Mitt Romney after their second debate, at Hofstra University… (Michael Reynolds / Getty…)
As President Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, prepare for tonight’s final presidential debate, polls nationally and in battleground states show the men in a dead heat.
Since the weekend, nine major polling organizations have released national surveys. One, Gallup, shows Romney holding a six-point lead among likely voters. Another, by Investors Business Daily and the TIPP polling organization, shows Obama up by four points. The others are arrayed between those two, with the latest NBC/Wall St. Journal poll showing the race tied at 47% apiece.
Similar results indicating an extremely close race have come from key states. In Ohio, to cite the state that is probably most critical to the outcome, a CBS/Quinnipiac University poll released Monday found Obama with a 50%-45% lead, down from a 10-point margin last month. Other polls done by automated polling rather than live interviews showed the race tighter.
Elsewhere, Romney appears to be narrowly ahead in the Southern battleground states of Florida and North Carolina. Obama appears to have a small lead in Nevada and Wisconsin. Colorado and Virginia appear to be true tossups. Iowa and New Hampshire have to be considered tossups as well since there have been fewer polls in those states than in some of the larger battlegrounds.
INTERACTIVE: Battleground states map
As we’ve said before, each polling firm uses a slightly different methodology, and since there is no single right way to do a poll, the best thing is to look at an average of several surveys and not focus too intently on any one. Currently, the averages show an extremely close race. The poll-tracking model maintained by Stanford University political science professor Simon Jackman for the Huffington Post, for example, shows the two virtually tied, with Obama at 47.2% and Romney at 47%.
For those who want to go beyond the averages and try to delve into the conflicting numbers, here are three keys:
Cellphones make a big difference. Some polling firms call cellphones and others don’t.
Calling cellphones adds a lot to the cost of a poll. Moreover, automated polls, which are much cheaper than live interviews, by law cannot call cellphones.
Not calling cellphones introduces a potential source of error since people who have no land line differ from the rest of the population. Cell-only voters tend to be younger, are more likely to be members of minority groups and are somewhat more Democratic.
Firms that don’t call cellphones try to weight their samples to account for those differences, but getting that right is tricky. Even firms that do call cellphones differ on what percentage of calls they make to mobile versus land lines, introducing another potential variance among polls.
In recent polls, Obama has tended to do better in surveys that do call cellphones. That’s particularly important when looking at state-level polls, since those are the ones most likely to be done on the cheap.
Republicans appear to have an edge on enthusiasm, but the size of the gap matters a lot.
That same Gallup poll which shows Romney ahead 51%-45% among likely voters shows a much closer Romney margin, 48%-47%, among all registered voters.
The numbers differ among polls, but virtually all show Obama doing several points better among registered voters as a whole than among those considered most likely to turn out.
That’s not surprising, and it reflects a reality — not all registered voters actually vote, and Republicans do better among actual voters because their supporters tend to be older and more certain to turn out.
This time around, that usual GOP edge has increased a bit, at least since the first presidential debate, by Republican voters’ enthusiasm about the race. That matters when pollsters try to figure out who is a “likely voter,” because the questions that some firms, including Gallup, use to decide who is likely to vote use enthusiasm as one factor.
The Obama campaign’s much-vaunted field operation is designed to erase as much of that GOP edge as possible by locating Democratic voters and making sure they cast ballots. If the turnout operation works as well as Obama aides hope, the actual voter population will be more Democratic than some of the polls of likely voters would indicate.
Republicans have their own voter-turnout operations too, of course. In 2008, the Democratic turnout operation outperformed the Republicans. This time around, the GOP hopes to neutralize that Democratic advantage.
PHOTOS: Memorable presidential debate moments
In some states, polling in Spanish as well as English could matter.
One of the most important factors in this year’s election will be the Latino vote — both how big it is and how heavily it goes for Obama.
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A famous composite canard homebuilt aircraft
design from Burt Rutan
fame). Sometimes called a tail-first sports car
. It has spawned a raft of descendants and imitators, including the Berkut
, and many others. Despite being available in plan form only, it is outrageously popular due to its sporty lines, relatively easy composite contruction, low cost, and performance.
One of the more unusual features of the Long-EZE is the fact that without a pilot in the cockpit it will not sit on its gear -- it will topple backwards. Therefore, to park, the nose wheel must be retracted, giving Long-EZEs (and many of their descendents, such as the Berkut) a distinctive nose-down parking posture.
Wingspan is 26' , power is typically from a Lycoming or Continental horizontally-opposed engine, in the 115 to 200 hp range.
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January 30, 2013
Stories this photo appears in:
Burke-based settlement hot on heels of anti-fraud land title certification.
Two grandmothers, Myrna Keplinger and Betty Reed, decided in 2000 that it would be nice to have an office space of their own. So they opened a realty and settlement office in the Mark Center in Alexandria and the two retired friends happily averaged 40 closings per month. Thirteen years and countless closings later, The Settlement Group grew to become the ninth largest settlement group in the region, with six offices in Northern Virginia, including locations in Burke, Franconia and McLean. As for Keplinger—she had undergone as much professional growth as had her business. She is now treasurer for the Virginia Land Title Association, on the American Land Title Association board of directors and an active member of its communications committee.
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The Portland Farmers' Market is a year-round market featuring fresh, delicious, locally grown foods including vegetables, fruits, herbs, beef, pork, chicken, duck, goat, lamb, milk, cider, cheese, yogurt, eggs, kefir, honey, grains, jams, and fermented foods such as sauerkraut, kimchi, and tempeh. You'll also find beautiful plants, flowers, and fiber, and so much more! We offer farm products exclusively and you can trust that EVERYTHING at our market was grown and produced in the great state of Maine! Our market has been in existence since 1768 and we are proud to continue to offer the Portland Community a place to come together and enjoy the bounty of Maine's harvest!
You can enjoy the market and support local farmers year-round at the Portland Farmers' Market!
on Saturdays (starting on April 27th) at Deering Oaks Park in Portland from 7:00am-12:00pm, or
on Wednesdays in Monument Square in Portland from 7:00am to 2:00pm. (A few farmers sell their offerings all winter long at Monument Square!)
on Saturdays (from early December to late April) at the Maine Irish Heritage Center from 9:00am to 1:00pm.
on Wednesdays at Monument Square, a few farmers continue to sell their offerings all winter long!
We are so grateful for all of our customers who help us make the Portland Farmers' Market such a strong part of our wonderful community! Your patronage supports many Maine farms, and contributes to our local economy.
Travel & Leisure magazine has listed our market as one of the top 10 markets in the country! You can read the article here. What a wonderful recognition to receive and congratulations to all of our Farmers and Customers for making our market what it is today!
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A pocket sized cross fader for mixing two stereo sources into a master output. Sure, your music player has a random shuffle, but you know how a bad song can kill a vibe. You want control of the next song, when it comes on, how long it fades across, and how to juggle the music selection like a real DJ.
About the size of a deck of cards, 2.5" x 4", about 1/2" tall, and weighs under 3 ounces!
Bedroom (or aspiring) DJ's, geek gear fanatics, households with multiple music players all in rotation, podcasters, party makers, everyone who ever though they could rock the party!
We wanted to make the xFader very compact, pocket-sized, and not require any additional cords (as we know how those get misplaced). Therefore, we incorporated the two standard headphone inputs right into the unit. Assuming your speakers have a headphone input as well, you'll only need some music players!
Nearly anything! Cassette players, CD players, MP3 Players, advanced cell phones, hand-held video players, video games. Anything you can use to play music with a built-in headphone jack.
Same place it's always been, on your hand held music player. You may need to ride source volume knobs when mixing two sources with unequal output, such as classical music and heavy metal. Of course, anyone mixing those two types of music may not ready to DJ for a crowd.
Yes, it does, but you'll hardly notice. Audio routed through the xFader will be lower then if routed directly into an amplifier. Turn up the volume on the amp slightly to compensate.
The xFader will route the opposite source input to the output, with no ability to crossfade. This is a feature, so that there is always an audio signal. Quick unplugging can also give you a cut or transform effect. Depending on your dexterity, you can use this to add to your mix.
The xFader is a passive circuit, and not the source of the problem, merely a conduit. Audio glitches can be sourced to your music player or source material.
Assuming the reception hall already has speakers and an amplifier, sure could. (Don't forget to bring the "Electric Slide"!)
Not feeling Pink is the new Red anymore? Download a new skin and print and apply at home, buy a skin pack, or even draw on or paint the old one, the xFader is ready for future fashions and colors. We know that black is the new green, orange is the new black, and red is still hot, but your color wheel may vary.
Begin by selecting a color by clicking on any color, so you can read the page. Then actually change the color name in the form field to "black". Know your HTML color down to the letter? We can try to match "1E82F5" for you. Final printed color may not match this computer screen exactly or even closely.
You'll have to register your product in order to receive any warrantee service. If they fail due to our negligence within the first 90 days, we'll fix it. You ship the defective unit to us, and we'll send you a new xFader. Contact technical support, and we'll talk. Failure is limited to function and not form. Replacing a defective lead is valid, Torn skins are considered a user-replaceable part and not subject to service.
There are parts in the xFader that will wear out some day. They are rated for a lifetime of service, but not forever. Eventually, dirt and other pollution will get into the sensitive electric contacts inside the xFader's circuitry and create gaps and scratches in the sound as you use the xFader. This is expected and is unfortuantly unavoidable.
Make no mistake, each xFader is lovingly hand-assembled, signed by the artist, and tested right here at Under Design in Philadelphia. Some of the source electronics in the xFader are manufactured in China. We always strive to get high-quality components that exceed our technical specs, and might change a component during production if we like it.
In a world of mass-production and a million options, we offer a simple one-of-a-kind product personalized for each customer. Each xFader is like a artist print, each similar overall, but each unique in subtle hand-worked details. Each is also numbered and can be considered extremely rare and unique with smart owners as collectors!
Contact us at Under Design We'll do what we can to help you out. Need it quickly? Special color? Special design? No problem.
Marc Sirinsky (Owner of xFader #143) reports:
when the slider is all the way to one side, the opposite input can still be heard..faintly but still audibly....shouldn't it be totally silent with any input from the opposite side when the slider is fully to the opposite side.
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I bet the Australians never thought to see an outright ban.
Or the descendents of the people who wrote and fought for the Magna Charta.
I don't know why not, Australia was an English colony and England had no history of the right to keep and bear arms by the common English subject. That right was restricted to the nobility.
“Right is still right, even if nobody is doing it. And wrong is still wrong, even if everybody is doing it.”—Texas Ranger saying.
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11/03/2012 - I'd been looking forward to visiting this well for a long time. No antiquity but anything connected to fairies is good with me. Parked at Traquair village hall (NT 3308 3458) and climbed Minch Moor via the Southern Upland Way. The well is very near the top. Many coin offerings there. Lovely view. It didn't disappoint.
Just over one hour of climbing up the Red Bull XC you reach the summit of Minch Moor at 567 metres. The beautiful climb up on singletrack gives way to an eye watering swooping bermy descent down to the Southern Upland Way, where, just over the other side of the Minch, the Cheese Well gurgles away. The sun has yet to reach this part of the hill and it's still frosty and very nippy. This is a fairly lonely and isolated spot, but the stunning scenery all around and the atmosphere here gives this place a, well, just one of those feelings- it's very hard to describe. There are two natural springs here- the flowing and gurgling one and a small pool which trickles. A small path from the SUW leads to the springs and two stones- one shaped like an old grave stone which is inscribed with "Cheese Well". The other is kite shaped with a fab thistle carved into it with "Cheese Well"and "1965". The sound of the water is mesmerising. I have no cheese for the wee folk, so I leave them a fizzy cola bottle instead hoping for a safe passage across their moor!
Tradition has it that travellers crossing the Minch Moor should leave pieces of food (cheese prefered!) for the little people to ensure a safe passage across the moor (which can be a bloody cold and bleak place at times so get yer sandwiches out for the wee folk!!)
An entry from Ancient Stones, an online database that covers most of the standing stones, stone circles and other stones found in South East Scotland. Each entry includes details, directions, photograph, folklore, parking and field notes on each location.
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Twice in four years, New Hampshire lawmakers passed bills to legalize medicinal use of marijuana only to be blocked by the governor's vetoes, but the state could become the 19th to pass such a law this year with the new governor's blessing.
Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan voted as a state senator four years ago to override one of the vetoes. Spokesman Marc Goldberg says Hassan has not changed her support on tightly controlled, medicinal use of marijuana.
That has given new hope to people like 27-year-old Clayton Holton of Rochester. He suffers from a rare form of muscular dystrophy that causes wasting syndrome and complete muscle loss. Holton weighs only 66 pounds and uses marijuana to simulate his appetite.
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|<< Genesis 27 >>|
Darby Bible Translation
1And it came to pass when Isaac had become old, and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, that he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, My son! And he said to him, Here am I.
2And he said, Behold now, I am become old; I know not the day of my death.
3And now, I pray thee, take thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field and hunt me venison,
4and prepare me a savoury dish such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, in order that my soul may bless thee before I die.
5And Rebecca heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt venison, to bring it.
6And Rebecca spoke to Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak to Esau thy brother, saying,
7Bring me venison, and prepare me a savoury dish, that I may eat, and bless thee before Jehovah, before my death.
8And now, my son, hearken to my voice in that which I command thee.
9Go, I pray thee, to the flock, and fetch me thence two good kids of the goats. And I will make of them a savoury dish for thy father, such as he loves.
10And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, in order that he may bless thee before his death.
11And Jacob said to Rebecca his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
12My father perhaps will feel me, and I shall be in his sight as one who mocks him, and I shall bring a curse on me, and not a blessing.
13And his mother said to him, On me be thy curse, my son! Only hearken to my voice, and go, fetch them.
14And he went, and fetched and brought them to his mother. And his mother prepared a savoury dish such as his father loved.
15And Rebecca took the clothes of her elder son Esau, the costly ones which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son;
16and she put the skins of the kids of the goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck;
17and she gave the savoury dishes and the bread that she had prepared into the hand of her son Jacob.
18And he came to his father, and said, My father! And he said, Here am I: who art thou, my son?
Isaac Blesses Jacob
19And Jacob said to his father, I am Esau, thy firstborn. I have done according as thou didst say to me. Arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, in order that thy soul may bless me.
20And Isaac said to his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because Jehovah thy God put it in my way.
21And Isaac said to Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be really my son Esau or not.
22And Jacob drew near to Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
23And he did not discern him, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands; and he blessed him.
24And he said, Art thou really my son Esau? And he said, It is I.
25And he said, Bring it near to me, that I may eat of my son's venison, in order that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.
26And his father Isaac said to him, Come near, now, and kiss me, my son.
27And he came near, and kissed him. And he smelt the smell of his clothes, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Jehovah hath blessed.
28And God give thee of the dew of heaven, And of the fatness of the earth, And plenty of corn and new wine.
29Let peoples serve thee, And races bow down to thee. Be lord over thy brethren, And let thy mother's sons bow down to thee. Cursed be they that curse thee, And blessed be they that bless thee.
The Stolen Blessing
30And it came to pass when Isaac had ended blessing Jacob, and when Jacob was only just gone out from Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came from his hunting.
31And he also had prepared savoury dishes, and he brought them in to his father, and said to his father, Let my father arise and eat of his son's venison, in order that thy soul may bless me.
32And Isaac his father said to him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn, Esau.
33Then Isaac trembled with exceeding great trembling, and said, Who was he, then, that hunted venison and brought it to me? And I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him; also blessed he shall be.
34When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said to his father, Bless me me also, my father!
35And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and has taken away thy blessing.
36And he said, Is it not therefore he was named Jacob, for he has supplanted me now twice? He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?
37And Isaac answered and said to Esau, Behold, I have made him lord over thee, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants, and with corn and new wine have I supplied him and what can I do now for thee, my son?
38And Esau said to his father, Hast thou then but one blessing, my father? bless me me also, my father! And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.
39And Isaac his father answered and said to him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be of the fatness of the earth, And of the dew of heaven from above;
40And by thy sword shalt thou live; And thou shalt serve thy brother; And it shall come to pass when thou rovest about, That thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
41And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand, and I will slay my brother Jacob.
42And the words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebecca. And she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, comforts himself that he will kill thee.
43And now, my son, hearken to my voice, and arise, flee to Laban my brother, to Haran;
44and abide with him some days, until thy brother's fury turn away —
45until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget what thou hast done to him; then I will send and fetch thee thence. Why should I be bereaved even of you both in one day?
46And Rebecca said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good should my life do me?
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It's All Politics
Mon September 24, 2012
Romney Thwacks Obama For Calling Libya And Other Hotspots 'Bumps'
Originally published on Mon September 24, 2012 5:00 pm
It's taken as a given that American voters in 2012 aren't as concerned about foreign policy as they are the domestic economy.
It's also accepted as true that on matters of foreign policy, President Obama has an advantage over his Republican challenger, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who lacks significant firsthand foreign policy experience.
But Romney has made it a point lately to show that he's not ceding foreign policy and national security to Obama.
The latest example came Monday when Romney went after Obama for a turn of phrase the president used in his 60 Minutes interview. During the interview, Obama described as "bumps in the road" the unrest in the Arab world in the aftermath of the Arab Spring that removed strongmen from power.
During interviews and on the stump, Romney said Obama's use of the idiom demonstrated the president didn't understand the magnitude of the developments in North Africa and the Middle East.
Romney criticized the president from the stump as he campaigned in Pueblo, Colo., on Monday. In an interview with NBC News' Peter Alexander, Romney said:
"The president characterized as bumps in the road — the developments of the Middle East, we just had an ambassador assassinated. Egypt has elected a Muslim Brotherhood or person as president. Iran is on the cusp of having nuclear capability. We have Tumult in Syria and also Pakistan and I don't consider these bumps in the road. ..."
Alexander followed up by asking Romney if he really believed the president was minimizing the deaths of the four Americans in Benghazi.
ALEXANDER: "Governor, in your heart of hearts do you genuinely believe that President Obama, when he referred to bumps in the road and was not deeply — perhaps a better way to put it, is do you genuinely believe in your heart of hearts that President Obama wasn't deeply saddened by the loss of four American lives in Libya — that he was speaking more widely about policy in that region not about the loss of lives that took place there at the consulate and embassy."
ROMNEY: "When the president was speaking about bumps in the road he was talking about the developments in the Middle East and that includes an assassination, it includes a Muslim Brotherhood individual becoming president of Egypt, it includes Syria being in tumult, it includes Iran being on the cusp of having nuclear capability, it includes Pakistan being in commotion. There are extraordinary events going on in the Middle East and considering those events either one of them or all of them collectively as bumps in the road shows a person who has a very different perspective about world affairs and the perspective I have."
Romney is clearly sharpening his attacks as he readies for the presidential debates next month; one of the three meetings between the two candidates will focus entirely on foreign policy and national security.
But even as Romney pounced on the president for his choice of words about issues occurring on the other side of the globe, the Obama campaign sought to remind voters of Romney's comments at a Boca Raton, Fla., fundraiser about the "47 percent."
It so happens that at that fundraiser, Romney also said he would "work to find a way to take advantage of the opportunity" if a foreign crisis presented itself before the election.
An Obama campaign spokeswoman, Lis Smith, said in a statement:
"Today, we saw what Mitt Romney meant when he told a closed door group of high-dollar donors that he would 'take advantage of the opportunity' to politicize an international crisis to help his campaign. He's purposely misinterpreting the President's words and making reckless statements about the death of four Americans in Libya, apparently for the sole purpose of his own political gain. Using this incident to launch political attacks should be beneath someone seeking to be our nation's Commander-in-Chief."
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Volunteering while on vacation
"It was one of the highlights of my life," said Karren Jeske, who volunteered twice at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore on Lake Superior, WI for the United States National Park
Jeske trained for about a week on the mainland and helped out at the lighthouse from May to October. The work schedule consisted of 10 days on and four days off with tasks
including greeting visitors, painting picnic tables, keeping the house clean, and providing on-site vandalism protection.
The lighthouse was primitive,
located on a remote island without running water or electricity. Jeske would take solar showers, which involved heating up a bag of water with the sun. "It was very bare
bones, very basic," she said. Regardless, Jeske said she would do it again "in a heartbeat."
For a more civilized vacation, try a lighthouse such as Big Sable in Ludington, Michigan, in which volunteers stay on site for two weeks with necessary utilities.
"We have all the creature comforts of home," said Ceil Heller, president of Sable Point Lighthouse Keepers Association. "Our keepers live in pretty good comfort."
Those seeking volunteer opportunities must be members of the association, which costs $25, and then complete the appropriate paperwork. In addition to Big Sable, volunteers can
stay for a week at the nearby Little Sable or Northbreak lighthouses. Volunteers at Little Sable stay at the Silver Lake State Park ranger house, and Northbreak lighthouse keepers stay at the City
of Ludington beach.
Paid in sunsets...
The three lighthouses average about 200 to 300 visitors per day in the summer, so volunteer keepers rarely have a dull moment in their 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. schedule. Tasks include
cleaning sand off the stairs, giving tours of the lighthouse and working in the gift shop.
"It is sometimes a challenge
because there's a lot of work involved," Heller said, "[but most of our volunteers] have walked away saying that it was a great experience to them."
Janet Gelf and her husband have volunteered at Big Sable for six years. When you love lighthouses the way Gelf and her husband do, she said it doesn't really seem like work.
"When I tell people we are going on a two-week work vacation, they think I'm nuts," she said. "But this really isn't work."
John Preheim echoes Gelf's sentiment, as he and his wife have volunteered at Big Sable for four years.
"We always say the sunsets here are our paychecks," he said. "It's those kind of things that keep you coming back."
More information on volunteering and on the Sable Point Lighthouse Keepers Association is available by visiting www.splka.org or calling (231) 845-7343.
For more on adventure travel on SheKnows:
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10 Most romantic destinations
Top 10 architectural wonders of the world
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Mustafa K Anuar had this strange dream the other night. It was of a Malaysia where everything was just the opposite of the current state of affairs in Bolehland.
From what we see in PKR and Gerakan today, there is one thing we can learn: never rely totally on politicians to see through our aspirations for a more socially just Malaysia, says Anil Netto.
As long as the BN government does not take stern action to stem the assaults on national unity, it will remain accused of indifference and of destroying that unity, writes P Ramakrishnan.
All of us are already or in a matter of time going to be hit with a new household bill – neighbourhood security, warns Rani Rasiah.
It is high time that the government thinks ‘out-of–the box’ and explores the notion that Orang Asli progress lies in empowering Orang Asli over their customary lands, says Yogeswaran Subramaniam.
Never assume that Orang Asli are not deserving of their customary lands, says Yogeswaran Subramaniam. Law, human rights, justice and morality demand that we give Orang Asli due respect and recognition of their customary lands.
Can discerning Malaysian citizens be blamed for wondering whether there is any substantive difference between Pastor Terry Jones’s warped sense of religious duty and similar misguided views shared by others on our own shores, asks Yeoh Seng Guan.
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AMD's Phenom Unveiled: A Somber Farewell to K8by Anand Lal Shimpi on November 19, 2007 1:25 AM EST
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It's surreal isn't it? Is this how you pictured it? With forty-three days left in the year, AMD is finally letting us publish benchmarks of its long awaited Phenom microprocessor. The successor to K8, AMD's most successful micro-architecture to date, and the cornerstone of AMD's desktop microprocessor business for 2008: Phenom is here.
But shouldn't there be fireworks? Where's the catchy title? The Star Wars references were bound to continue right? Why were there no benchmarks before today, why are the next several pages going to be such a surprise?
AMD had been doing such a great job of opening the kimono as its employees liked to say, giving us a great amount of detail on Barcelona, Phenom and even the company's plans for 2008 - 2009. The closer we got to Phenom's official launch however, the quieter AMD got.
We were beginning to worry, and for a while there it seemed like Phenom wouldn't even come out this year. At the last minute, plans solidified, and we received our first Socket-AM2+ motherboard, with our first official Phenom sample. What a beautiful sight it was:
These chips are launching today, with availability promised by the end of the week. Phenom today is going to be all quad-core only, you'll see dual and triple-core parts in 2008 but for now this is what we get.
The architecture remains mostly unchanged from what we've reported on in the past. This is an evolutionary upgrade to K8 and we've already dedicated many pages to explaining exactly what's new. If you need a refresher, we suggest heading back to our older articles on the topic.
The Long Road to Phenom
Ever wonder why we didn't have an early look at Phenom like we did for every Core 2 processor before the embargo lifted? Not only are CPUs scarce, but AMD itself didn't really know what would be launching until the last moment.
At first Phenom was going to launch at either 2.8GHz or 2.6GHz; then we got word that it would be either 2.6GHz or 2.4GHz. A week ago the story was 2.4GHz and lower, then a few days ago we got the final launch frequencies: 2.2GHz and 2.3GHz.
Then there's the pricing; at 2.2GHz the Phenom 9500 will set you back $251, and at 2.3GHz you'd have to part with $283 (that extra 100MHz is pricey but tastes oh so good).
The problem is, and I hate to ruin the surprise here, Phenom isn't faster than Intel's Core 2 Quad clock for clock. In other words, a 2.3GHz Phenom 9600 will set you back at least $283 and it's slower than a 2.4Ghz Core 2 Quad Q6600, which will only cost you $269. And you were wondering why this review wasn't called The Return of the Jedi.
AMD couldn't simply get enough quantities of the Phenom at 2.4GHz to have a sizable launch this year (not to mention a late discovery of a TLB error in the chips), and the company was committed to delivering Phenom before the holiday buying season as these are tough times and simply waiting to introduce its first quad-core desktop parts was just not an option. Rather than paper launch a 2.4GHz part, AMD chose to go with more modest frequencies, promising faster, more competitive chips in Q1 2008. It's not the best PR story in the world, but it's the honest truth.
Two more quad-core Phenoms will come out in Q1: the 9900 and 9700, clocked at 2.6GHz and 2.4GHz respectively. The Phenom 9900 will be priced below $350 while the 9700 will be a sub-$300 part. As you can probably guess, the introduction of those two will push down the pricing of the 9600 and 9500, which will help Phenom be a bit more competitive.
It's worth mentioning that in the 11th hour AMD decided to introduce a multiplier-unlocked version of the Phenom 9600 sometime this year that will be priced at the same $283 mark. Whether or not it's called a Black Edition is yet to be determined.
Intel Responds with...really?
Surely Intel wouldn't allow AMD to simply come within the range of being competitive this late in the year. I honestly expected Intel to combat today's launch with something, something serious, something sinister. And indeed it did.
But instead of sampling a Core 2 Quad Q9450, the upcoming Penryn replacement to the Q6600, and instead of even further dropping prices to completely ruin the Phenom launch party Intel responded in a way that actually doesn't make much sense: by sampling a $1000+ Extreme CPU, the Core 2 Extreme QX9770 (click here for our review).
The QX9770, 1600MHz FSB and 3.2GHz, just salting the wounds
Running at 3.2GHz with a 1600MHz FSB (up from 3.0GHz/1333MHz of its recently released predecessor, the QX9650), the QX9770 isn't schedule for release until next year and we do know that it'll carry a price tag of over $1000. The timing of Intel's launch is obviously to disrupt AMD's Phenom thunder, but the most important part of Intel sampling QX9770s has nothing to do with the chips themselves, but rather the act.
Almost as soon as we had Phenom samples, Intel made the decision to sample a CPU requiring a FSB that wasn't officially supported by any chipset at the time. No, 1600MHz FSB support won't come until next year with the X48 chipset, but it didn't matter to Intel; we were getting chips now.
Take a moment to understand the gravity of what I just said; Intel, the company that would hardly acknowledge overclocking, was now sampling a CPU that required overclocking to run at stock speeds. Even more telling is that Intel got the approval of upper management to sample these unreleased processors, requiring an unreleased chipset, in a matter of weeks. This is Intel we're talking about here, the larger of the two companies, the Titanic, performing maneuvers with the urgency of a speed boat.
It's scary enough for AMD that Intel has the faster processor, but these days Intel is also the more agile company.
First Tunisia, then Tahoe?
As a slightly off-topic but important sidenote, I thought it would be appropriate to let everyone know how AMD wanted this review to happen, and how certain folks within AMD were champions for the right cause and made it actually happen.
AMD knew it wouldn't be able to trounce Core 2 with Phenom, especially not at 2.3GHz, so it wanted to control the benchmarking that was done on Phenom. For the first time in as far as I can remember, AMD wanted all benchmarking on Phenom to be done at a location in Tahoe, of course on AMD's dime. AMD would fly us out there, we would spend a couple of days with a pre-configured system and we'd head home to write our stories.
Now I championed for this sort of early-access to Phenom months ago. I've visited AMD alone three times this year primarily to talk about Phenom, and each time I left without being able to report so much as a single benchmark to you all (everyone remembers those articles right?). I tried and tried to get AMD to part with some early Phenom data, because they were losing the confidence of their fan base and that's a sad thing to see for a company that really took care of this community when we needed it most.
After Tahoe AMD would eventually sample Phenom parts so we could test in our own labs, but there was no word on exactly when that would be. Chances are you would've seen a handful of numbers here today if we had gone to Tahoe with a full review of the chip hitting sometime in December.
Needless to say, I wasn't happy. I refused to go to Tahoe.
Don't get me wrong, a free trip to Tahoe is a wonderful thing, but Phenom deserved better. It deserved dedicated testing, it deserved a thorough review, not a quick glance over a couple of days. And I had a feeling that you all would agree. The time for AMD-sanctioned testing expired months ago, if Phenom was launching this week, we were going to have a proper review of it.
These days, AMD seems to be learning a little too much from the ATI way of doing things. If AMD had its way, today's Phenom review would have been done from beautful Lake Tahoe, on a system that AMD built, running at a frequency that isn't launching. Now there's nothing wrong with allowing us to preview Phenom under closed conditions, after all, Intel does it, but that's simply not acceptable for a review of a product that's four days away from being in stores. You all want to see a thorough review of Phenom, not some half-assed preview, definitely not after waiting this long for it.
An AMD rep, familiar with the Tahoe trip, asked me, somewhat surprised, "what, Intel doesn't work like this?".
Sorry to say, Intel doesn't. Today Intel let us preview the Core 2 Extreme QX9770 processor, do you want to know how they did it? The FedEx guy dropped off a chip. No flights to Tahoe, no hotel rooms, no expenses at all. Don't get me wrong, I felt like an idiot turning down a free trip to Tahoe, but it was for AMD's own good. We've all seen the financials, these aren't times to be wasting money on silly trips around the country, it costs less than $30 to ship a CPU and that's all we need.
I get the point of Tahoe, it's to control the benchmarking, making sure we wouldn't be comparing a 2.4GHz Phenom to a 3.0GHz Penryn, but honestly folks - would we really do that to begin with? And I get the idea to wine and dine the press, with hopes of more pleasant reviews with better relationships - but this isn't a product to toy with. We're here to do our jobs and that is to review the product that will carry AMD for the next twelve months, and honestly we can't do that from some lodge somewhere away from our testbeds.
This isn't the first time AMD has heard of this from me, and there are many within AMD who feel the same way. The reason you're finding this rant in here today is because I am concerned for the future of the company. Competition is a good thing, we need to keep it around, but AMD needs to learn from its competitors. Intel and NVIDIA don't try things like this, business is always first with them, frivolous pleasures come next.
To AMD: if you want to be Intel, start acting like it.
Socket-AM2+, Not So Positive?
When AMD first started talking about Phenom it boasted backwards compatibility with current Socket-AM2 motherboards, as well as a new Socket-AM2+ platform that would enable higher performance and better power management.
We are currently looking into Socket-AM2 motherboard compatibility, but not all vendors have Phenom-ready code for their motherboards as of today. While Phenom should work in virtually all Socket-AM2 motherboards, it's tough to say which will work by the time you can actually buy these things.
AMD's Spider platform, well, minus the graphics card - the 8800 GTX is still our testbed GPU of choice.
Socket-AM2+ motherboards, most of which are based on AMD's new 790FX chipset, were supposed to bring a tangible performance increase when paired with a Phenom processor. Phenom's L3 cache and North Bridge work on the same power plane, one separate from the rest of the CPU. Socket-AM2+ enables the use of two separate voltages, one for the L3 cache/NB and one for the rest of the CPU, whereas Socket-AM2 motherboards run the entire chip at the same voltage. The original plan was for Socket-AM2+ motherboards to run the L3 cache/NB at a higher frequency than the rest of the chip, unfortunately it looks like AMD wasn't able to make that happen.
Socket-AM2+ in action
Currently, the L3 cache/NB on these chips runs at a fixed frequency that's actually lower than the rest of the CPU frequency: 2.0GHz. We tested Phenoms running from 2.2GHz all the way up to 2.6GHz, and in all cases the L3 cache and North Bridge ran at 2.0GHz. We're not sure if this will ever get fixed, but it's somewhat disappointing as it was supposed to be a major reason for upgrading to Socket-AM2+ (but it's good news for current AM2 owners).
Right now it looks like the only benefit to Socket-AM2+ is support for DDR2-1066, which we've been having problems with internally already. If you've got a good Socket-AM2 motherboard, you may not need to upgrade to get the most out of Phenom.
Given the launch frequencies, you can expect that Phenom isn't a tremendously overclockable chip.
While we were able to run our 2.4GHz chip at 3.0GHz, we couldn't get it stable. Even 2.8GHz wasn't entirely stable, but 2.6GHz was attainable for benchmarks.
AMD's OverDrive Utility, note that it reads the memory controller as single channel because Phenom actually has two independent 64-bit memory controllers instead of a single 128-bit one. Current BIOSes and the AMD utility incorrectly report this as being single-channel.
All of our overclocking was done using AMD's nifty new OverDrive utility, which is a Windows utility that can control virtually every single BIOS option from within your OS. You can overclock individual cores, change memory timings, voltages and most importantly: it all works.
The application is a little slow to respond when making changes and it would be nice if there was a hotkey to bypass the application loading its last settings, but it's truly a beauty to work with and one of the best aspects of today's launch.
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AMD Phenom 9700 (2.4GHz)
AMD Phenom 9600 (2.3GHz)
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Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 (2.66GHz/1333MHz)
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700 (2.66GHz/1066MHz)
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General Application Performance
Right off the bat the numbers aren't looking good for AMD. The Phenom 9600 is priced closest to the Core 2 Quad Q6600, but unfortunately for AMD the Q6600 outperforms it by a healthy 10%. AMD needs a 2.6GHz Phenom to equal the performance of the Q6600, but the 9900 won't be out until next year, when it'll have to face the Penryn based Q9450 and Q9300.
2D Image Manipulation Performance
Once again we broke out the Retouch Artists Photoshop CS3 benchmark, timing a handful of image manipulation operations in CS3:
The Core 2 Quad Q6600 is around 6% faster than the Phenom 9900, 10% faster than the Phenom 9700, and almost 16% faster than the Phenom 9600 which is its closest price competitor throughout the rest of 2007.
Media Encoding Performance
We'll start with our DivX test; this is the same benchmark we've been running for years, we've simply updated to DivX 6.7. The codec was set to Unconstrained quality, with the quality/performance slider at 5 and enhanced multi-threading enabled. The rest of the codec settings remained at their defaults.
Despite the move to four cores and the improvements to the K8 architecture, the Phenom, even at 2.4GHz, is slower than the Core 2 Quad Q6600. Clock for clock, Intel has a 24% performance advantage here.
AMD did make some progress however, if we look back at some of our older numbers the gap at 3.0GHz between dual-core chips was almost 38%.
The situation gets even more bleak once you take into account that the Phenom 9700 will most likely ship when Intel's Q9450 is also available which extends Intel's lead to over 30%.
AMD has always been much more competitive at encoding using Microsoft's Windows Media Video codec:
Windows Media Encoder performance is virtually identical between the Phenom and Core 2 Quad at the same clock speed. However, once you take price into account, Intel starts to pull ahead; the Q6600 is priced competitively with the Phenom 9600 and manages a 7% performance advantage over the 9600. It's not much, but the Q6600 is also cheaper.
Our final encoding test is an increasingly popular format: x264. We encode the same .avi file from our WME test but this time using the x264 codec and AutoMKV. We didn't encode audio and left all program settings at its defaults, the only thing we changed was we asked that the final file size be 100MB (down from 500MB).
Much like our WME results, clock for clock AMD's Phenom actually equals the performance of the Core 2 Quad. Take price into account and Intel is still the right buy; it's tough to say what will happen when the Phenom 9700 and 9900 eventually launch because they may be competing against Penryn at that time, which in this case would be the Q9450, a more formidable opponent.
3D Rendering Performance
We'll start off our look at 3D rendering performance with the latest version of Cinebench, we ran the single and multi-threaded benchmarks and reported the scores below:
Single threaded performance goes to Intel, highlighting a theme you've probably already noticed thus far: Core 2 is far more efficient per clock than Phenom. AMD would need to be at around 2.8 - 2.9GHz to equal the performance of the Core 2 at 2.4GHz in this particular benchmark, even the Phenom 9900 can't cut it.
Looking at the multi-threaded results we see that AMD does gain some ground, but the standings remain unchanged: Intel can't be beat. We can actually answer one more question using the Cinebench results, and that is whether or not AMD's "true" quad-core (as in four cores on a single die) actually has a tangible performance advantage to Intel's quad-core (two dual-core die on a single package).
If we look at the improvement these chips get from running the multi-threaded benchmark, all of the Phenom cores go up in performance by around 3.79x, while all the Intel processors improve by around 3.53x. There's a definite scaling advantage (~7%), but it's not enough to overcome the inherent architectural advantages of the Core 2 processors.
As always we have our 3dsmax 9 test, using SPECapc's 3dsmax 8 benchmark files. The numbers we're reporting below are strictly the CPU rendering composite scores:
Here the Phenom 9900 is basically as fast as the Core 2 Q6600, unfortunately for AMD the 9900 doesn't launch until next year and it will launch at a price greater than the Q6600. AMD needs help cutting prices fast if it expects Phenom to remain competitive in the eyes of everyone who doesn't own a Socket-AM2 motherboard.
We see a similar story in our Lightwave benchmarks, the Phenom 9900 at best can equal the performance of the Q6600 but at worst it looks like AMD needs another 200 - 300MHz to catch up to Intel's cheapest quad-core:
The POV-Ray benchmark is quite possibly the least kind to AMD out of the group:
Intel's Q6600 is 20% faster than AMD's fastest Phenom due out in Q1, it's 30% faster than Phenom at the same clock speed, and 35% faster at the most competitive price point.
To highlight CPU performance differences, all of our 3D gaming benchmarks were run at 1024 x 768, so keep in mind that real world gameplay will most likely be at more GPU bound resolutions with CPU differences mattering less. That being said, this is a CPU review, so we do want to know which of these chips runs game-code the best.
It turns out that gaming performance is really a mixed bag; there are a couple of benchmarks where AMD really falls behind (e.g. Half Life 2 and Unreal Tournament 3), while in other tests AMD is actually quite competitive (Oblivion & Crysis).
While Phenom suffers greatly in video encoding and 3D rendering tests, there is hope for it as the 9700 can actually compete clock-for-clock with Core 2 in some games. If all you do is game on your machine, with the right video cards you'd be hard pressed to notice the difference between a Phenom and a Core 2 system - that being said, if you're looking at quad-core, chances are that you're doing something else with your system other than game.
At idle, the Phenom's power consumption is competitive with Intel's quad-core, but under load Intel takes the cake. Power consumption will only get better for Intel with Penryn, without a doubt we'll see improvements to Phenom's power consumption as yields improve and production increases just as we did with K8.
If you were looking for a changing of the guard today it's just not going to happen. Phenom is, clock for clock, slower than Core 2 and the chips aren't yet yielding well enough to boost clock speeds above what Intel is capable of. While AMD just introduced its first 2.2GHz and 2.3GHz quad-core CPUs today, Intel previewed its first 3.2GHz quad-core chips. We were expecting Intel to retain the high end performance crown, but also expected AMD to chip away at the lower end of the quad-core market - today's launch confirms that Intel is still the king of the quad-core market.
As we've seen from our mainstream CPU comparisons however, all of this could change with some clever pricing - something AMD seems to have forgone with its Phenom launch.
Phenom manages to fill a major gap in AMD's desktop CPU product lineup: the company can now offer quad-core CPUs. And with the needed updates to the K8 architecture AMD is now competitive in some areas that it sorely needed improving in. Windows Media and x264 encoding are both strong points of the Phenom architecture, making it on par with Intel's quad-core offerings. The same can be said about some games, but at the same time Intel really pulls ahead in our DivX and other game tests.
Inevitably some of these Phenoms will sell, even though Intel is currently faster and offers better overall price-performance (does anyone else feel weird reading that?). Honestly the only reason we can see to purchase a Phenom is if you currently own a Socket-AM2 motherboard; you may not get the same performance as a Core 2 Quad, but it won't cost as much since you should be able to just drop in a Phenom if you have BIOS support.
If you ask AMD, this is platform story; after all, who wouldn't want to combine a Phenom with the 790FX chipset and a pair of Radeon 3850 graphics cards. The problem is that you can pair up 3850s on an Intel chipset just as easily, leaving the biggest benefit to 790FX the ability to run 3 or 4 3850s, which we're not even sure is a good idea yet. There are some auto-overclocking features, but talking about Phenom's overclocking isn't really accenting one of its strong points. The platform sell is a great one to an OEM, but it's simply not compelling enough to the end user - if Phenom were more attractive, things would be different.
To make the CPU more attractive AMD desperately needs to drop the price, and from what we've heard, that will happen in Q1. From what we've seen, AMD needs to be at least 200MHz ahead of Intel in order to remain competitive - that means bringing out a Phenom 9900 that's cheaper than the Q6600, at least. If AMD can do that, it's quite possible that in early 2008 we'll have the first sub-$200 quad-core part as the 9500 drops in price.
Oh and just in case AMD is listening: the Phenom 9600 has no business being here, the extra 100MHz only clutters up the product line. Once the 9700 and 9900 are out let's try and stick to 200MHz increments shall we?
Here's what really frightens us: the way AMD has priced Phenom leaves Intel with a great opportunity to increase prices with Penryn without losing the leadership position. Intel could very well introduce the Core 2 Quad Q9300 (2.33GHz) at $269 and still remain quite competitive with Phenom, moving the Q9450 into more expensive waters. Intel has't announced what it's doing with Penryn pricing in Q1, but our fear is that a weak showing from Phenom could result in an upward trend in processor prices. And this is exactly why we needed AMD to be more competitive with Phenom.
It's tough to believe that what we're looking at here is a farewell to the K8. When AMD first released the Athlon 64, its performance was absolutely mind blowing. It kept us from recommending Intel processors for at least 3 years; Phenom's arrival, however, is far more somber. Phenom has a difficult job to do, it needs to keep AMD afloat for the next year. Phenom is much like the solemn relative, visiting during a time of great sorrow within the family; let's hope for AMD's sake that it can lift spirits in the New Year.
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Nokia: pro-software patents, pro-DRM, allergic to Ogg, GPL, but supportive of ODF.
FOR a variety of reasons that mainly involve software patents, Nokia was mentioned on several occasions this month [1, 2]. Nokia is lobbying for software patents in Europe, which makes it part of the problem, as opposed to a potential resolution. It is a damn shame really because Nokia has been trying to befriend developers with GNU/Linux platforms like Maemo, but at the same time it’s throwing some FUD at the GPL. That FUD has already spread from ZDNet to other ‘sister’ sites like CNET whilst the press hails Symbian for becoming an “open source” player in a large number of places. It bodes rather oddly although the EPL, which Symbian has chosen, is considered open source.
It was only yesterday that Groklaw grokked: “Watch out for Nokia. Microsoft suddenly likes the Eclipse Foundation too. Here’s the very smooth Sam Ramji on the subject. “It’s all about the developer,” he says. Well, not if you’re an end user. End users benefit from the GPL and we know it. There’s a project regarding Eclipse tools for Silverlight now. Just what you were hoping for. Not. It was probably predictable when Ward Cunningham left Microsoft to join Eclipse years ago.”
Note the following take on this appointment of a Microsoft man inside Eclipse. A term is coined there and further discussed in the comments. That term is “mono-sourced.”
Eclipse the tools framework is in great shape but Eclipse the exemplary IDE that competes with mono-sourced offerings from NetBeans and Visual Studio is showing signs of growing pains. Eclipse is trying to build a large system without a Linux-style benevolent dictator, in fact with dozens of corporate interests large and small that don’t necessarily share the same vision. The result has been that offerings such as Web Tools and Profiling have not been as well integrated as the base Java development environment.
Further, writes Groklaw: “I believe it’s all part of Microsoft’s hatred for the GPL, its determination to kill it off and make everyone use BSD-like licenses instead (so it can proprietize whatever it pleases), and its determination to redefine Open Source to mean visible code that Microsoft controls through patents instead of copyright. If you are stupid, you’ll help them. Thanks for nothing, Nokia. Licenses matter, as this latest shift should tell you in clear strokes.”
That possibility has been somewhat easy(ier) to suspect since around June when Nokia went a little offensive. The same goes for Microsoft, which seems to have 'polluted' Nokia with some of its own employees, who now attack Ogg and lobby for DRM.
On the other hand, Nokia (or Qt/Trolltech) has been a friend of OpenDocument format. this new article shines some more light on it.
Nokia Joins Open-Source Trend for Mobile Platforms
The development of a mobile OpenOffice platform for wireless devices is also in the works. Earlier this year, java.net opened a new project that aims to build a new set of tools for creating and updating OpenDocument format (ODF) documents in mobile devices. Though still in the early development stage, the new Java SE and Java ME platform tools eventually should enable mobile devices to interact with the ODF-compatible OpenOffice.org productivity suite.
As a timely note, another lesser-known office suite which supports ODF is AbiWord. OStatic wrote about it the other day.
Word processor. Let’s start with AbiWord, my favorite open source word processor. It came out in a great new version earlier this year, and is not only totally compatible with Microsoft Word, but it even sports an interface very similar to Word’s. It’s clean, with straightforward menus and toolbars, and as you exchange files back-and-forth with Word users, you won’t run into problems such as incorrectly formatted tables. AbiWord also supports Open Document Format (ODF), for completely open document sharing.
“Compatibility with DRM. We understand that this could be a sore point in W3C, but from our viewpoint, any DRM-incompatible video related mechanism is a non-starter with the content industry (Hollywood).”
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Surgeon General Warns Against Unnatural Clothes
WASHINGTON (CAP) - A new report from the Office of the Surgeon General is warning parents and children against certain combinations of clothing that are "unnatural" and "anomalous to tolerable attire."
The results of donning such outfits are symptomatic of a generational shift toward apathy in one's appearance that feeds the selfish mindset of the millennial, the report says.
"Jeggings, pajama jeans - these amalgams of apparel pose a danger to impressionable youth who will grow to think it is society's job to hand them greater and greater levels of comfort," said Surgeon General Regina Benjamin. "Gen X, Gen Y, meet Gen W - Generation Wuss.
"The hoodie footie? Really?" Benjamin added. "When did pajamas stop being comfortable the way they were? I must have missed that memo."
The report also cited alarming statistics showing diminishing numbers of children who dress uncomfortably for school in established clothing versus those who toss classic fashion aside for the complacency of sweats and similar raiment.
"You can't appreciate the comfort inherent in a regular pair of underwear until you've gone commando in a pair of dungarees," said CAP News fashion editor Chip Wyatt. "Does anybody call them dungarees anymore?"
Wyatt noted that while the surgeon general's report was "fairly spot on," it failed to recognize the true downfall of a modernistic society - the concept of meggings, or leggings for men. "I'm pretty sure that's what did Rome in," he pointed out.
The report will be published in this month's issue of Nylon alongside a full page ad for Kymaro Curve Control Jeans, complete with Photoshopped overweight women who appear to have lost 25 pounds just by donning the specially-designed pants.
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This public house in Kiveton reputedy has a haunted cellar, occupied by a whistling ghost by the name of Jasper. Shortly after its construction in 1960, on an area which is rich in history and was once supposedly the site of a religious establishment, three policemen were called in to spend the night in the cellar after being alerted about strange happenings which had no logical explanation. Despite the policemen hearing nothing on their vigil (much to their relief), several landlords since have reported a mysterious presence which often whistles to them while they are alone in the cellar, and unearthly footsteps which occur when the area is supposedly empty. The ghost of Jasper is reputed to be that of a monk who once lived in a house now buried beneath the foundations of The Saxon. Whatever his identity, he seems to take pleasure in whistling for attention, although he never reveals himself! Fife | Aberdeen | Aberdeen | Boxley | Chesterfield | Connemara | Cornwall | Hampshire | Lanark | Lancashire | Lincoln | Lowestoft | lreland | Room 3 | Royal Hotel | Scotland | Scotland |
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About UFE | Annual Report | Programs
Board of Directors | Staff Bios | Jobs & Internships at UFE
United For a Fair Economy Staff
Chuck Collins is the co-founder and Associate Director of United for a Fair Economy (UFE). Founded in 1995, UFE is a national non-partisan organization that draws attention to the dangerous consequences of growing income and wealth inequality in the US and inspires action to reduce economic inequality.
Journalist John Nichols said "United for Fair Economy is the single most effective group in the country when it comes to publicizing issues of economic injustice, income disparity, the racial underpinnings of the gap between rich and poor, and . . . the yawning chasm between the salaries of corporate CEOs and those of working Americans." UFE's programs and strategies include: popular economics education, legislative campaigns, research and media work and creative direct action organizing.
In 1997, he co-founded Responsible Wealth, a project of United for a Fair Economy, to bring together business leaders and investors to publicly speak out against economic policies and corporate practices that worsen economic inequality. Recently, he coordinated the Call to Preserve the Estate Tax, signed by over 1100 prominent Americans including Bill Gates, Sr., George Soros and others.
In 1999, Fast Company magazine recognized Collins "one of 17 leaders, doers, and change makers." In 2001, Boston Magazine named Collins in its annual list of the hundred most influential people in Boston.
He is author of numerous books and articles on economic inequality, housing policy and social change funding. His latest book, co-authored with William Gates, Sr., is Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes (Beacon Press, 2003).
Other books include: Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity. (The New Press, 2000); Shifting Fortunes: The Perils of the American Wealth Gap (1999) and co-author of Robin Hood Was Right: A Guide To Giving Your Money for Social Change (WW Norton, 2000).
Collins's articles have been published in The Nation, Sojourners, Tikkun, Boston Globe, Washington Post, The American Prospect and other national journals. He is on the Editorial Board of Dollars and Sense Magazine.
Chuck holds a B.A. in History & Economics from Hampshire College (1984) and an M.B.A. in Community Economic Development from New Hampshire College (1987).
617-423-2148 ext. 11 | ccollins@FairEconomy.org
Jane leads the work of the development team and coordinates outreach to, and communications with, UFEs supporters. She works with program staff to develop mutually rewarding relationships with individual and institutional contributors.
Before joining UFE, Jane worked for twenty years with the non-profit sector in developing countries. She was co-founder and Executive Director of a research and education non-profit that became an internationally recognized pioneer in generating theory and organization development practice to strengthen the non-profit (civil society) sector in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Jane remains involved internationally through her service on the boards of two international non-profit organizations, Action Aid USA and Plan International.
Jane holds an M.B.A. from Case Western Reserve University (1979) and an M.S.N. (Nursing) from Yale University (1969).
617-423-2148 ext. 27 | jcovey@FairEconomy.org
Attieno Davis, the mother of two adult daughters, has been actively engaged in the movement for social change for 30-plus years. She credits Muhammad Alis refusal to answer the draft as the "AHA!" moment, motivating her. After attending Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH, Attieno lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she worked in the domestic violence and womens arenas before coming to Boston, where she has been part of a community health movement bringing together health access, housing and environmental justice. She credits her work, and the opportunities it has provided her, with reaffirming her belief that people make the difference.
617-423-2148 ext. 15 | adavis@FairEconomy.org
Lee organizes individuals and organizations to reform the estate tax, which is the most progressive tax in the U.S. She develops actions to support the estate tax. Lee identifies and builds connections with key partner organizations, activists, and spokespeople.
Lee has more than 20 years of experience in organizing. In the 1980s, Lee worked as Southern Africa Coordinator for Boston Mobilization for Survival, winning passage of anti-apartheid state pension divestment and purchasing legislation. In the early 1990s, Lee worked for the Womens Statewide Legislative Network, which won passage of state legislation to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace. Lee then worked as Director of Community Organizing for the Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation, where she organized tenants on housing legislation and funding, and coordinated a participatory economic development planning process.
Lee is active in the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization and in the Area 4 Coalition in her Cambridge neighborhood. She was raised in Gainesville, Florida.
Lee graduated from Yale University in 1978 with a degree in Political Science.
617-423-2148 ext. 33 | lfarris@FairEconomy.org
617-423-2148 ext. 25 | jfrancis@FairEconomy.org
Karl oversees UFE's books and makes sure we pay our bills on time.
Before joining UFE, Karl had previously worked as a bookkeeper with a restaurant management company in Boston, and was on the board of the Harvest Co-operative Market in Cambridge.
Karl holds degrees in Mathematics and Economics from Boston University (1991 and 1993).
617-423-2148 ext. 16 | kgossot@FairEconomy.org
Chris researches and helps develop UFE's publications and educational workshops. He also edits the UFE and RW websites.
A former education coordinator for UFE, Chris previously worked as a VISTA community organizer in Minneapolis. He was also an editor for Simon & Schuster Education Group and a research assistant at the Taubman Institute for Public Policy at Brown University.
Chris was born in Kansas and grew up there and in Nebraska, Texas, and Iowa. He is one of several family partners in his uncle's wheat farm in northwestern Kansas.
Chris is a 1991 graduate of Brown University with a degree in Public Policy.
617-423-2148 ext. 18 | chartman@FairEconomy.org
Honey provides general support to the development team, including coordinating direct mail appeals and processing gifts. She brings to UFE over five years of fundraising experience from a largely educational base. Honey holds a B.A. in English Literature from Santa Clara University in California
617-423-2148 ext. 23 | hhodge@FairEconomy.org
Originally from El Salvador, Jeannette came to the US in 1989. She has spent her life working for justice and social change. By developing confidence and leadership skills in others, she has increased the number of activists in the struggle for social change, and has empowered women, immigrants and others facing injustice to participate in the decision-making process around issues that affect their lives.
Jeannette's first organizing job in United States was with the Latino Parents Association. She then went on to spend four years at the Coalition for Basic Human Needs (CBHN), organizing low-income women to fight for their rights. Then, Jeannette went to work for the Women's Institute for Leadership Development (WILD) as the Program Director / Trainer / Organizer. Following that, she worked as a Union Organizer for Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 254, organizing immigrant workers like herself to find their voice as members of the labor movement.
Jeannette is an Advisory Board Member of the Center to Support Immigrant Organizing (CSIO). She is also a volunteer with the Personnel Committee of the Haymarket People's Fund.
Jeannette is the mother of nine children, four of whom still live in El Salvador.
617-423-2148 ext. 32 | jhuezo@FairEconomy.org
Christina helps make connections to media and shape messages that bring UFEs key education and research in the area of taxation to as wide an audience as possible.
She has worked in communications since 1990, most recently in Robert Reichs political campaign and before that in the technology industry. In 2003 she served as director of a workforce development program in Chelsea for IBA/STRIVE.
Christina studied languages and history at Harvard University and holds an M.A. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
617-423-2148 ext. 19 | ckasica@FairEconomy.org
A Chartered Financial Analyst, Scott previously was an investment officer at United States Trust Company and a vice president at Franklin Research and Development.
Scott holds an A.B. in Religion from Duke University (1982).
617-423-2148 ext. 20 | sklinger@FairEconomy.org
Karen works with progressive tax coalitions in three partner states (Washington, Massachusetts, and Virginia) to develop the curriculum of and train trainers in a workshop that explains the states fiscal crisis and mobilizes people to advocate for progressive tax reform as a solution to the crisis.
She previously worked as a public housing community organizer in Pittsburg, CA and as a legislative assistant for Congresswoman Olympia Snowe.
Karen holds a B.A. in Organizational Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania (1989) and an M.A. in Public Health from the University of California (1995).
617-423-2148 ext. 22 | kkraut@FairEconomy.org
Mike is the person on the UFE staff to ask about the RW Tax Fairness Pledge and most membership-related questions (for RW only).
Prior to joining UFE in 1996, Mike was AIDS Housing Project Director for the City of Boston Department of Neighborhood Development and a Housing Specialist for the law firm of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C. He is a member of the Social Venture Network.
Mike graduated from Dartmouth College with a B.A. in Urban Studies and Public Policy in 1986. He also holds an M.A. in Community Economic Development from New Hampshire College (1991).
617-423-2148 ext. 12 | mlapham@FairEconomy.org
Betsy links journalists with UFE resources in order to raise the profile of economic inequality in the mass media.
Before coming to UFE, Betsy directed two organizations, the Massachusetts Human Services Coalition and the Anti-Displacement Project. She has also worked as a program coordinator at Women For Economic Justice
Her publications include Shifting Fortunes: The Perils Of The American Wealth Gap (United For A Fair Economy: 1999) and Mass Billions: The Changing Role Of Federal Support for Human Services in Massachusetts (Massachusetts Human Services Coalition, 1996).
Betsy holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Sociology from Boston College (1986).
617-423-2148 ext. 13 | bleondar-wright@FairEconomy.org
Meizhu is committed to being a life long "troublemaker!"
She was a Boston City Hospital kitchen worker for 20 years, rising with the rank and file to become President of AFSCME Local 1489. The local earned a reputation for militance, tackling tough issues like maintaining affirmative action gains during lay-offs and returning Haiti's President Aristide to power. In 1993 Lui became an organizer for Health Care For All, building a multi-ethnic coalition which challenged Bostons health system to stop focusing solely on treating the diseases of the well-insured. They demanded culturally appropriate systems for safeguarding the health of the public.
Meizhu is a long-time member of Freedom Road Socialist Organization, a national organization well known in the Boston area for its participation in struggles for fundamental social change, against racism in all its aspects, and for a strong left.
She is a Trustee of the Hyams Foundation, and a member of Asian American Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP). Her work has been honored by a variety of organizations, such as the YWCA, the Commonwealth Coalition, Rosies Place (for homeless women), the Randolph-Rustin Award for the Education of African American Workers from the Labor Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, the Immigrant Workers Resource Center, Mass Senior Action Council, and the Boston Womens Fund.
617-423-2148 ext. 21 | mlui@FairEconomy.org
Gloribell Mota is the Bilingual Education Specialist for the Tax Team, specifically working on the issue of State Budget Crises.
Prior to coming to UFE, she worked as an employment advocate and director for the Mary Ellen McCormack Task Force (MEMTF), a South Boston public housing development, for over three years. She helped integrate and increase communications between long-time white residents and newcomers among the Latino, Asian, and African American residents.
Through much of her work and personal experience, she came to grasp and understand the struggle, barriers, and concerns of the Latino community. Her parents immigrated from El Salvador and the Dominican Republic, she lives in a community where resistance and acceptance of the new wave of immigrants is being battled and has worked with many families and individuals trying to raise their children, find decent employment, and make a change in their communities.
She is very active in her community of East Boston by participating and being recently elected for the Neighborhood of Affordable Housing (NOAH) Board of Directors. Active in their Community Organizing project, Gloribell continues to become an active member in many events that will educate, inform, and mobilize the residents. Additionally, she volunteers as a host and producer on La Voz del Pueblo a radio program on 1600 AM. Its a Spanish talk program aiming to serve as a forum for Latinos to express, comment, and exchange information on the issues affecting the communities.
Gloribell holds a Bachelor Degree from Emerson College in Visual Media Production and an Associate Degree in Communications from Bunker Hill Community College.
617-423-2148 ext. 14 | gmota@FairEconomy.org
Dedrick Muhammad is the coordinator of one of UFE's newest programs, the Racial Wealth Gap Project. Dedrick has a strong history in dealing with issues of race and social justice. He has worked in various Mutlicultural Centers at different colleges in the country and recently worked for Rev. Al Sharpton as the National Field Director for the National Action Network.
617-423-2148 ext. 17 | dmuhammad@FairEconomy.org
Mike coordinates the global economy education and organizing programs at United for a Fair Economy. Mike was development coordinator and national progam director at the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) and has worked as a graphic designer for various organizations. He holds a B.A. from Harvard College (1970).
617-423-2148 ext. 24 | mprokosch@FairEconomy.org
Steve has more than 30 years of experience as a community organizer in the Bronx, in Boston, and in Lowell, MA. He has studied popular education and led numerous training of trainers workshops for organizers, community educators, and social justice activists. He was an adjunct professor of Community Organizing and Social Change at the Boston University School of Social Work from 1991 to 1998. Before coming to UFE in October 1998, Steve directed the Management and Community Development Institute at the Lincoln Filene Center for Citizen Participation at Tufts University.
617-423-2148 ext. 10 | sschnapp@FairEconomy.org
617-423-2148 ext. 26 | cstrong@FairEconomy.org
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By RONALYN V. OLEA
MANILA — In just 16 days, six individuals became new victims of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines.
Sadly, this is the news that greeted Filipino human rights defenders who just arrived in the country from attending the 14th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), which was held from May 31 to June 18 in Geneva, Switzerland. Six Filipino human rights advocates, including Karapatan chair Marie Hilao-Enriquez, took part in the delegation as the Ecumenical Voice for Peace and Human Rights in the Philippines.
“It is alarming and deplorable that in the so-called peaceful transition from Arroyo to Aquino administration, the killings of activists and human rights defenders continue to be committed with brazen impunity,” said Marie Hilao-Enriquez upon their return.
“We were gone in the country for just 16 days and within that period, six people were summarily killed,” Enriquez lamented, saying the Filipino people have no respite from the killings and rights violations.
On June 1, farmers Julito Etang and Borromeo Cabilis were abducted by armed men believed to be members of the military in Mobo, Masbate. The two were found dead two days later, their hands tied, their mouths swathed in packaging tape.
On June 2, labor leader Edward Panganiban was shot dead on his way to work aboard his motorcycle, by men in bonnets and helmets who had been tailing him. Panganiban was secretary of Takata Philippines Corporation’s workers union in Laguna.
On June 14, in Negros Occidental, human rights worker Benjamin Bayles was waiting for a ride in Sitio Antolo, Bgy. Suay, Himamaylan when he was shot at by two men wearing helmets on board a black motorcycle. The men stopped near Bayles, one walked towards the victim and shot him several times. The driver also approached Bayles and shot at him too. Bystanders took Bayles to the hospital but he was pronounced dead-on-arrival.
The local police at first reported that they were able to arrest the gunmen who were identified as Roger M. Bahon and Ronnie L. Caurino who confessed to being “organic” members of the 61st Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army. But the police retracted their statement the following day and said the suspects are not connected with the military.
Bayles was a constant companion during fact-finding missions of Karapatan-Negros secretary general Fred Caña, who is also under surveillance.
On the same day, in Manay, Davao Oriental, radio journalist Desiderio Camangyan was was shot and killed while hosting a singing contest. The next day, another radio broadcaster, Joselito Agustin, was killed in Bacarra, Ilocos Norte while riding his motorcycle on his way home.
Monitor the Aquino Government
Fr. Rex Reyes, Jr., general secretary of the National Council of Churches in the Philippines and head of the Ecumenical Voice, said they called on the UN HRC to continue monitoring the human rights situation in the Philippines. The Philippines is a member of the UN HRC.
“We urged the Council to help us in challenging Noynoy Aquino to fulfill his promise that he would make Gloria Macapagal Arroyo accountable and give justice to all victims of human rights violations,” Reyes said.
Reyes delivered an oral intervention about the effects of Oplan Bantay Laya (OBL) as an anti-insurgency policy of the Arroyo government.
Karapatan said Arroyo must be held accountable for the human rights violations in her nine years as commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. “She, under the doctrine of command responsibility, as well as the perpetrators of these violations, must be prosecuted and punished; only through this can impunity be ended and justice be initially rendered to victims,” Enriquez said.
Arroyo’s counterinsurgency program Oplan Bantay Laya is the most brutal and bloodiest program ever unleashed by a Philippine president, Enriquez told the community of nations. “The distinction between armed combatants and civilian dissenters had been removed,” Enriquez added.
The Karapatan leader called on Aquino not to implement any similar counterinsurgency campaign and instead address the root causes of the insurgency.
Professor Philip Alston, Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, said at a side event on June 2 that “The President-elect will likely be reminded that he is heavily dependent on the Armed Forces of the Philippines, not to cause problems and that any prosecution will alienate the military.”
Alston visited the country in February 2007 to investigate the killings. In his report, he identified the counterinsurgency program as the culprit behind the killings.
Morong 43, Ampatuan Massacre
“The Morong 43 and Ampatuan massacre cases are a litmus test for Noynoy,” said Roneo Clamor, husband of one of the 43 detainees, Dr. Merry Mia-Clamor, and member of the Ecumenical Voice.
Clamor delivered a two-minute oral intervention at the UN HRC’s 14th session. He spoke of the violations committed against the 43 health workers.
Arrested on February 6 in Morong, Rizal, the 43 health workers now known as “Morong 43” were charged with illegal possession of firearms and explosives and branded as members of the New People’s Army (NPA)
All constitutional rights of the Morong 43 were violated, said Clamor. “They were detained at a military camp which is also a violation. They suffered physical and psychological torture. In the Anti-Torture Law, blindfolds and handcuffing are physical forms of torture,” Clamor said.
But Hendrick Garcia, Philippine vice consul to the United Nations in Geneva, defended the human rights violations of the 43 by saying there was a search warrant for illegal possession of firearms and that the police and military had supporting documents.
“Those arrested were in possession of firearms…As members of the NPA, several were found to have been involved in ambush on police personnel, several had outstanding warrant of arrest for murder,” Garcia told the UN HRC.
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Sharks! Several Great Whites Spotted Off Atlantic And Pacific Beaches
Originally published on Tue July 3, 2012 7:20 am
We've still got more than a month to go to Discovery Channel's 'Shark Week', but why wait? Great white sharks have been seen off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Over the past few days, shark "spotters" reported great white sharks close to the town of Chatham, according to Cape Cod Shark Hunters. One shark was close to Chatham harbor but didn't swim inside.
Swimmers are being advised to be cautious. In 2010 and 2011, Chatham closed its beaches because sharks had gotten within 100 yards of the shore, says WPRI.
It's eerie when thinking of Peter Benchley's gripping drama, "Jaws", which is about a killer great white shark off Long Island, New York (although the film was shot in Massachusetts) around the Fourth of July.
But why should Massachusetts have all the excitement? A great white shark was seen yesterday off La Jolla, Calif, just north of San Diego, and this one was a lot closer to land.
KGTV reports a lifeguard and several other people glimpsed the shark about 50 yards off the beach, just past the surfline. La Jolla closed its beach to swimmers until officials could check the water. The beach was reopened this morning.
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In September 2012, Alma and Mike developed illustrations of boys, girls, and animals, and set them up to mix and match. Sections of the illustrations are meant to be cut out into 2-inch or 1.5-inch squares and adhered to wooden blocks or tiles, although how they are used an assembled is up to the user!
The PDF is set up with instructions, as well as artwork that is already formatted to 2-inches and 1.5-inches. Sets are available for $5 each or $12 for all three sets in the Ollibird Store.
See our blog post for more details about how this project works!
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I was in a board meeting the other day for a non-profit organization struggling to engage its constituents. Along with the staff, we were trying to find ways to keep people involved and motivated over time. So much work goes into programs and communications – but sometimes people still fail to listen and engage.Rather than focus on the reasons for the struggle, we decided to discuss the examples of success. Why were some programs especially successful?
One early discovery was that the programs organically conceived by participants, rather than staff, seemed to have a higher success rate. In addition, the programs with especially large programming committees (i.e. number of people leading the event) were also quite successful.It was at this point that a fellow board member chimed in with the concept of the “IKEA effect.” When people buy furniture at IKEA, they are forced to assemble it themselves. As a result, people report a high degree of satisfaction with their IKEA furniture – largely because of the greater sense of ownership from the labor required to assemble the furniture.
For those of us that cook, we know that the meal always tastes better after the labor of making it. This do-it-yourself-to-love-it-more phenomenon presents an invaluable opportunity for leaders of teams – and brands. When you can set up projects for others – or even a product – with a dose of assembly required, you are likely to garner a higher level of commitment.
Of course, by having their customers assemble their own furniture, IKEA runs the risk of poor execution and improper assemblies that reflect poorly on their brand. Similarly, we must accept the risk of deviations from our expectations as a reasonable cost for empowering our teams and our customers. In many cases, the benefits of do-it-yourself are likely to outweigh the costs.
As leaders, we must challenge ourselves to let others create what we have in mind, if only to accomplish the ultimate goal of engaging others.
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Electoral College Simulator Still Predicts Mitt Romney Victory
The two University of Colorado professors who, with much fanfare, picked Mitt Romney to win the presidency recently reaffirmed their prediction that the GOP standard bearer will take the oath of office in January 2013. Their forecast even contains a slightly higher margin of victory for the Romney/Ryan ticket than their original August prediction.
Professors Kenneth Bickers and Michael Berry announced their updated forecast based on more recent economic data even before Mitt Romney began his post-debate surge. As a result, they continue to maintain that economic conditions favor the former Massachusetts governor and businessman. A University of Colorado press release provides further details on the October projection:
“According to their updated analysis, Romney is projected to receive 330 of the total 538 Electoral College votes. President Barack Obama is expected to receive 208 votes — down five votes from their initial prediction — and short of the 270 needed to win.”
Their Electoral College simulator has picked every winner since 1980. The model uses state-by-state economic data including unemployment rates and changes in personal income in the run-up to the election.
The professors do give themselves some wiggle room, however, in case their presidential prediction falls flat:
“As scholars and pundits well know, each election has unique elements that could lead one or more states to behave in ways in a particular election that the model is unable to correctly predict.”
Tonight’s second presidential debate at Hofstra University on Long Island, along with other events in the remaining days before the November 6 election, could obviously have a bearing on the outcome, too.
Added: Prof. Berry said today that Gov. Romney “has a 77 percent likelihood of winning the popular vote.”
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We all agree that pets cheer us up when we're feeling sad, but can they also tell when we're ill?!
Beamish, this Rottweiler, did just that when his increased attention to a mole convinced Chris Tuffrey to get it checked out. The pooch kept nuzzling, licking, and trying to lift his owner's arm and it turns out the mole was a melanoma . . . and needed to be removed.
There have been other cases and claims in which animals have reacted differently around illness and evidence that they can detect cancer, predict epileptic seizures, and more. What do you think – would unusual behavior from your dog cause you to visit a doc?
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Protesters run for cover during a demonstration in front of the US Embassy in Tunis on September 14, 2012.
Tunisia has banned demonstrations near French Embassy in protest to recent publication of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) cartoons by a French magazine.
Tunisian Interior Ministry has banned demonstrations on Habib Bourguiba Avenue, on which the French Embassy is located, on Friday.
"The Interior Ministry, using its powers under the state of emergency and in order to maintain public order, announces that it is outlawing any form of demonstration anywhere in Tunisian territory on Friday," the Tunisian Interior Ministry also announced in a statement on Thursday.
"The ministry notes that it has received information suggesting the protests would be exploited for the purpose of committing acts of violence and causing unrest," it added.
On September 19, French weekly Charlie Hebdo
published cartoons of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) amid widespread outrage over a US-made film that insults Islam’s holiest figure, and has sparked days of protests in the Arab world, Africa, Asia and some Western countries.
This comes a week after Tunisian demonstrators protesting the production of the anti-Islamic movie in the US broke into the American Embassy in the capital Tunis. The protesters pulled down the US flag, hoisting the Islamic flag in its place.
Officials in Paris fear that the focus of furious anti-West sentiments could now shift to France and its diplomatic missions overseas following the publication of the blasphemous cartoons.
The French Foreign Ministry has ordered embassies, consulates, cultural centers and international French schools in around 20 Muslim to close on Friday for fear of mass protests.
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You're going to die. I'm going to die. Everyone around us is going to die.
The reality of death is, of course, both obvious and daunting for most of us. With the recent tragic events in Japan, and some very serious health news I received from someone close to me, I've been thinking about life and death a lot this past week. I was on a run a few days ago and thought to myself, "I wonder what it's like to know you're going to die?" Then I thought, "Wait a minute, we're all going to die -- we just don't act like it."
As simple as this thought was, it was profound for me. I don't live my life all that consciously aware of my own death. My own fears about death (mine and others) often force me to avoid thinking about it all together. I do catch myself worrying about dying -- sometimes more often than I'd like to admit, especially with our girls being as young as they are (Samantha's five, and Rosie's two and a half).
I also don't talk about death that much because it seems like such a morbid topic, a real "downer." I worry that it's too intense to address, or, superstitiously, that if I focus on death, I will somehow attract it to me or those around me.
As a culture, we don't really like to talk about death, or deal with it in a meaningful way, since it can be quite scary and is the exact opposite of so much of what we obsess about (youth, productivity, vitality, results, beauty, improvement, the future, etc.).
But what if we embraced death, talked about it more and shared our own vulnerable thoughts, feelings and questions about it? While for some of us this may seem uncomfortable, undesirable or even a little weird, think how liberating it would be if we're willing to face the reality of death directly.
Steve Jobs gave a powerful commencement speech at Stanford in 2005 entitled, "How to Live Before You Die." In that speech, he said, "Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."
Contemplating death in a conscious way doesn't have to freak us out. Knowing that our human experience is limited, and that at some mysterious point in the future our physical body will die, is both sobering and liberating.
The reason I've always appreciated memorial services (even when I've been in deep pain and grief over the death of someone close to me) is because there is a powerful consciousness which often surrounds death. When someone passes away, we often feel a certain amount of permission to get real in a vulnerable way and to focus on what's most important (not the ego-based fear, comparison and self criticism that often runs our life).
What if we tapped into this empowering awareness all the time, not just because someone close to us dies or because we have our own near-death experience, but because we choose to affirm life and appreciate the blessing, gift and opportunity that it is?
Here are some things we can think about, focus on and do on a regular basis that will allow us to live like we're going to die, in a positive way:
Death can be difficult and scary for many of us to confront. There is a lot of fear, resistance, and "taboo" surrounding it in our culture and for us personally. However, when we remember that death is both natural and inevitable, we're reminded that everyone's life (whether it lasts for a few days or a hundred years) is short, precious and miraculous. This awareness can fundamentally and positively alter the way we think, feel and relate to ourselves, others and life itself. Living as if we're going to die (and remembering that it's guaranteed) is one of the best things we can do for ourselves and those around us.
Mike Robbins is a sought-after motivational keynote speaker, coach and the bestselling author of "Focus on the Good Stuff" (Wiley) and "Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken" (Wiley). For more information, visit www.Mike-Robbins.com.
Follow Mike Robbins on Twitter: www.twitter.com/mikedrobbins
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Resilience. It’s not just the title of Alonzo Mourning’s stirring memoir; it’s the stuff he’s made of. Whether petitioning himself into foster care as an eleven-year-old, tirelessly studying his way onto the dean’s list at Georgetown University, making it as an all-star center in the NBA, or returning to peak form after organ-transplant surgery, Mourning has shown enormous inner strength. His faith, his determination, and his courage are what have driven and sustained him throughout his extraordinary life.
In 2000, Mourning was on top of the world: He had a fat new contract, an Olympic gold medal, and a second beautiful child–all that and the fame and wealth he had earned playing the game he loved. But in September of that year, he was diagnosed with a rare and fatal kidney disease. Over the next couple of years, as his health faltered, he retired, unretired, and retired again–and sought to make sense of the rest of his life.
Finally in 2003, after a frantic search for a donor match, Mourning had a new kidney and a new outlook. He vowed to make this second chance count by dedicating his life to others. He resolved that he would consider the disease a blessing, a revelation of God’s plan for him.
Although he battled his way back to the NBA, winning a championship with the Miami Heat in 2006, Mourning believed that the most important and fulfilling part of his life still lay ahead. Basketball, it turned out, was just the vehicle that would allow him to devote his talents and energies to a greater cause.
Alonzo Mourning’s return to basketball glory, already familiar to sports fans and non-sports fans alike, has inspired millions of patients suffering from kidney disease and living with dialysis, as well as organ donors around the world. By sharing his experiences of the physical, emotional, and spiritual roller coaster of illness and recovery, Mourning hopes to deliver a message of faith and fire, hurdles and hope, trust and triumph. Resilience is a story about the meaningful everyday lessons that he longs to share and about the things that truly matter in life.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Pump at work? Store milk + car keys in the refrigerator so you won't leave it behind.
When I was breastfeeding my sons, I would pump milk at work. I always worried I would accidentally leave the milk in the refrigerator there, and then we'd have to thaw frozen milk at home for his next day's feeding. I began keeping my car keys with the milk in the fridge, so I could not leave work without my milk!
This is a variation on a basic trick for reminding anything: attatch the thing you're worried about forgetting to something you can't forget. At the very least, put it in the same place. For example:
- Tie poop bags to the dog leash
- Store your purse near your cell phone charger
- Put your vitamins in front of the coffee maker
What two things do you associate so you'll remember both?
If you pump at work, how do you remember to bring your milk home?
Related: Hacks for moms who use breast pumps
And: You won't forget items stored in a friend's fridge if you toss your keys in as well (Same hack, different location)
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Patrick was found dumped in the garbage at a Newark Housing complex by an employee. The Associated Humane Societies was called and they found a skeleton of a dog in a garbage bag. The dog who they later named “Patrick” was immediately rushed to Garden State Veterinary Specialists trauma unit. No one believed that this dog who weighed no more than 20 lbs., but should have been closer to 50 lbs. or more, would survive. After a blood transfusion, medical treatment and the doting attention of doctors and veterinary technicians, Patrick showed his determination to survive and has continued to beat the odds. Although Patrick has a long road to recovery, there is every indication that he will eventually be a happy and healthy dog. Garden State Veterinary Specialists has had a long standing relationship with the Associated Humane Societies to provide care to the animals that they rescue.
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When we read about the death of William Lawlis Pace, we were intrigued by his story. He was a Guinness World Record holder… and his was a very unusual distinction. Pace lived with a bullet in his head for 94 years and six months – longer than anyone else in history.
When Pace was accidentally shot by his brother as a young boy, he probably never thought the injury would bring him fame. He was likely just glad to emerge alive – though with ordnance in his skull, thanks to the bullet's tricky landing place, which made surgeons unable to operate. But alive he was, and so he stayed for almost a century more, dying this week at an impressive 103 years old.
Some Guinness notables seek out their records, and others, like Pace, have records thrust upon them. Pace's remarkable story made us wonder what other Guinness World Record holders could be found in our obituary database. Here are a few that caught our eyes:
Abie Abraham earned a Guinness World Record for tree sitting in Alameda Park, though his obituary doesn't specify just how long he sat in that tree.
Kathleen Armold satisfied a lot of empty stomachs when she set the record for the World's Largest Take Out Order as documented by the Guinness Book of World Records and the Wall Street Journal by ordering 9,999 White Castle hamburgers and one cheeseburger as part of a town celebration.
Jackson Bailey held the record for the world's largest religious painting, a panorama spanning three football fields called "The Life of Christ." "I didn't set out to make it the biggest painting," Mr. Bailey explained. "I just needed the space to tell the story."
Richard "Grizzly" Brown, with a career as a weightlifter and strongman, held a place in the Guinness World Book of Records for the largest biceps, over 25 inches (cold, not pumped).
Gilbert Daughtridge held a delicious world record: he grew the world's largest cantaloupe.
Louis Feola, like William Pace, didn't plan for his Guinness World Record. He was born that way: he was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the only human being born without an appendix.
Larry Harr knew how to have a record-breaking good time: he held the Guinness World Record for the Longest Continuous Karaoke Party.
Joseph Lazarow wasn't just a record holder; the way he set his record was particularly spectacular. He set a new world handshaking record in 1977 on a crowded boardwalk… and he dethroned the previous record holder, President Theodore Roosevelt.
Martha Richard had to suffer for her record, much like William Pace: she was noted in the Guinness Book of World Records as the only one to be bitten by a tropical butterfly.
Walter Stiglitz, owner of a tattoo parlor, had a record-setting 5,555 tattoos.
Written by Linnea Crowther
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Leading the High Energy Culture March 5, 2012Posted by McGraw-Hill Education (Asia) in Leadership.
Tags: bureaucracy, business performance, Business Strategy, competitive advantage, Corporate Culture, Culture, efficiency, efficient, evaluation, goal, groupthink, human resources, Leadership, loyalty, manage, management, manager, method, mission, morale, Motivation, objective, organizational culture, performance, procedure, process, production, protocol, recruiting, retention, technique, Values, vision
Leaders and managers today are experiencing an “energy crisis” resulting from the failure to engage and inspire their people. Yet, a handful of leaders have found an endless supply of energy to fuel their organizations. They’re the ones who attract the top talent, the most loyal customers, and the public’s imagination. They’re leaders like Zappos’s Tony Hsieh and the late Steve Jobs, who’ve built cultures energized at every level to innovate, grow, and succeed. Leading the High-Energy Culture: What the Best CEOs Do to Create an Atmosphere Where Employees Flourish is the handbook to powering this kind of workplace with the energy that your workforce already possesses.
A change this big starts at the top. David Casullo, a leadership authority and strategic consultant to businesses large and small, explains the steps for establishing an authentic leadership presence based on your powerful personal truths. Then he shares the secrets for how to communicate your vision in order to create a sense of purpose throughout your organization and beyond, thereby spreading excitement to consumers, investors, and the media. Using his own experience, research, and demonstrated results from the leadership development program that he developed while helping transform Raymour & Flanigan from a small regional company to a billion-dollar furniture retail giant, Casullo outlines the specific steps that let you discover and unlock the latent energy in your team.
Casullo organizes these practices into 10 simple principles, each illustrated and reinforced with firsthand client interviews; real-world examples from businesses such as Ford, FedEx, and GE; and thought-provoking interactive exercises. These principles illuminate the path to creating real employee engagement by giving you an actionable model to:
- Learn what matters to your organization and its people, and align your leadership strategy with these truths
- Communicate clearly, with purpose and passion, to create a resonant message
- Find the leaders in your workforce who give your organization a competitive advantage
Leading the High-Energy Culture uses methods proven to generate results. Beyond the bottom line, however, it will reignite your own commitment and passion by giving you a fresh perspective on how to become an energized leader of a charged-up organization.
Praise for Leading the High-Energy Culture
“If you’re looking for a step-by-step guide on how to become a high-energy leader, you’ve found it here!”
–Tom Croston, Vice President/General Manager of Corporate Shared Services, Gap, Inc.
“Whether its business, sports, or even parenting, successful leaders share one thing in common–high energy! David is right; it can be developed. I find it unique for someone to identify the truly key elements of leadership. David has done this in a way that fosters success in these endeavors as well as those of family, church, and community.”
–Pat Williams, Senior Vice President, Orlando Magic, and author of Leadership Excellence
“Jack Welch identified ‘energy’ as one of the critical characteristics he looked for in effective leaders but never talked about how they develop it. David Casullo’s book provides the road map for how to harness your own energy while energizing those around you. Every leader can increase their effectiveness by implementing the ideas he presents.”
–Patrick M. Wright, William J. Conaty GE Professor of Strategic Human Resources in the ILR School (Industrial and Labor Relations), Cornell University
“A clear path to creating an organizational culture where leaders are the constant source of energy that feeds a competitive advantage.”
–Matt Holt, Vice President Human Resources, Dot Foods, Inc.
“This exciting book is insightful and timely, and my enthusiasm for its message is ringing and sincere. [It's] a must-read for all those who are serious about leading companies to successful outcomes.”
–Robert A. Gough, Jr., Ph.D., President and CEO, G-enovation
About the Author
David Casullo (Boston, MA) experience as a successful business leader and entrepreneur has won him credibility with executive leaders both in C-suites as well as among emerging leaders in key roles inside numerous organizations. Currently President of Bates Communications, a strategic consulting firm specializing in leadership development and communication skills, he previously served as a Senior Vice President for Raymour & Flanigan, now a mega-retailer headquartered in Liverpool, New York. His ten years of leadership there grew Raymour & Flanigan from a modest one-store outlet in upstate New York to a billion-dollar giant. R&F is now the largest furniture retailer operating in the Northeast and among the fastest growing (still!) in the entire country. With nearly 100 retail outlets in seven Northeast states, and 4,300 high-energy associates employed company-wide, Raymour & Flanigan leads the pack. In his role at Bates Communications, he consults privately with C-Suite Clients at companies that include J&J, Taytheon, Dow Chemical, Dunkin Brands, Macy’s, Merck, and more.
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Breaking Away March 7, 2011Posted by McGraw-Hill Education (Asia) in Management & Organization.
Tags: Black Swan, Blue Ocean Strategy, brand extension, brands, breakthrough, Business, Christensen, corporations, Disruptive Innovation, Good to Great, Innovator's Guide to Growth, Jim Collins, Leadership, management, Organization, products, recruiting, service, service innovation, The Future of Management
How Great Leaders Create Innovation that Drives Sustainable Growth–and Why Others Fail
Authors: Jane Stevenson, Bilal Kaafarani
ISBN: 9780071753944 / 007175394X
©2011 | 1st Edition | 304 pages | Hardback
Pub Date: FEB-11
Price: US$ 30.00
Based on a research study and analysis of successful companies around the world, a blueprint for leaders on how to embed innovation into every facet of their business – the only clear path to achieve growth and drive shareholder value.
While bestselling books such as Gary Hamel’s The Future of Management focus on a piece of the innovation and leadership puzzle, Breaking Away is one of the first books to bridge the gap between leadership and innovation, providing a framework for understanding innovation, leading innovation, and activating it for sustainable growth. Good to Great provided a framework of management that did not exist previously, and now Breaking Away does the same for innovation leadership – creating a blueprint and mechanism to talk about and distinguish between different levels of innovation and their impact on companies.
Breaking Away reveals what it takes to create breakthrough innovations and the leaders who champion them – the combination that must be found in order to achieve sustainable growth and drive shareholder value. All organizations are looking to develop and embed innovation and this book provides a framework that leaders can use to ensure success. The big payoff is that innovation is only REAL when it is commercially successful, and that means the innovation must be: efficient to produce, available and desired, and profitable for the company. This can only happen consistently by creating a nurturing environment that opens the door to a wealth of ideas. By activating your workforce with ownership and clear priorities, leaders can engage the marketplace and bring it all home.
The book is chock full of case studies and original interviews from leading global companies – Burberry, Mastercard, Adobe, Nestle, GE, HP, Nintendo, Kraft to name a few. You’ll hear how Ford beat Toyota to the hybrid and why everyone thinks the Japanese company got there first. You’ll take an inside look at the GE Innovation Center and share their excitement over research that could change the face of cancer treatment. You will even walk in the shoes of a self-professed snackaholic who grew Lesser Evil Snacks 697% in less than five years and is currently revolutionizing the balance bar company. Their stories will entertain, teach, and make you think.
Innovation Leaders Praise Breaking Away
“Finally, innovation in a framework that is clear, insightful and easy to put into practice. This is a must read.”
—Angela Ahrendts, Chief Executive Officer, Burberry
“Breaking Away has a clear and important message: that innovation—the dogged pursuit of new solutions to old problems—is often the defining feature of a successful endeavor, be it a research project, a corporation or a society.”
—Dean Kamen, CEO, DEKA, inventor of the heart stent, the Segway, and many other transformational innovations
“Using case studies and real examples, Jane Stevenson and Bilal Kaafarani uncover the missing ingredient in innovation—getting the most from your people. This book shows you how companies can excel.”
—Joel Kurtzman, Milken Institute and Wharton’s SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management
“Innovation requires top leadership with courage and passion to win. With its four levels of innovation. Breaking Away provides a great road map for success. A must read for any executive.”
—Denise Morrison, Board Member, COO and CEO Elect, The Campbell Soup Company
“A fabulous read! Breaking Away artfully defines innovation and clarifies the critical role leadership plays in nurturing the right culture for innovation and growth.”
—Marco Jesi, Chairman of the Board, Limoni Profumerie S.P.A.
“At last, a book that captures the critical role leadership plays in enabling a culture where innovation is stimulated, valued, supported and celebrated. The authors have gone deep to understand what the best CEO’s do to develop continuous innovation as a competitive edge. Breaking Away gives us a clear framework to make that happen in every organization.”
—Cynthia McCague, Board of Directors, Monster.com and former SVP Human Resources, The Coca-Cola Company
”Stevenson and Kaafarani ‘break away’ from traditional thinking to converge on a powerful thesis that will forever change how we view innovation.”
—Judith Glaser, CEO Benchmark Communications, Inc, and the bestselling author of Creating We and DNA of Leadership
“A how-to guide on inspiring a culture of innovation in your workplace.”
—CIO Insight’s Best Business Books for 2011
About the Authors
Jane Edison Stevenson, (Atlanta, GA), is a Vice Chairman, Board & CEO Services in Korn/Ferry International’s Atlanta office. She is an industry expert on recruiting leaders of growth and innovation. A pioneer in the field, Jane was responsible for bringing in many of the first Chief Innovation Officers and CEO’s who focused on growth through innovation. Evangelical in her belief that sustainable growth is this generation’s business imperative, Jane is a marquee brand in her industry and was acknowledged by Business Weeks’ “100 Most Influential Search Consultants in the World” for the past two years. Jane is known for her strong global relationships in Fortune 500 C-suites and among board of directors. She is an accomplished public speaker and is frequently consulted by Business Week, Fortune, Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal to discuss trends and issues relating to innovation and general management. As an innovative leader in her own right, Jane is the architect of a number of ground breaking product offerings for boards and top executives, including Korn/Ferry’s C-Suite Succession offering. Jane joined Korn/Ferry from Heidrick & Struggles, here she served on the management committee for many years and founded and led the firm’s venture capital and global marketing, sales and strategy officers practices. She was a founding member and is currently on the board of the Jack & Jill Late Stage Cancer Foundation.
Bilal Kaafarani (Atlanta, GA) has held positions as global innovation executive from P&G, Kraft, and FritoLay, and is currently an officer of The Coca-Cola Company. Bilal has experienced what is written about in Breaking Away first hand. After his arrival, Coca-Cola was listed in BusinessWeek’s 2009 Top 25 Companies for Innovation for the first time in its history. Bilal was also honored by BusinessWeek as one of the world’s Top 25 Masters of Innovation. He has had the unique opportunity to work with some of the best brands in the world, and to experience the benefits and liabilities of many leadership styles and environments. Innovation platforms developed under Bilal’s leadership include: Coca-Cola’s groundbreaking Freestyle fountain drink equipment, Glaceau’s international expansion of Vitamin Water, Minute Maid Supermilky Pulpy, Simply Orange’s new range of juice product offerings, Frito Lay’s transition from highly saturated fats (palmoline) to high oleic oils (sunflower) for Lays, Cheetos, Doritos, and Ruffles; the development of Sensations, Artesana and Sun Chips, as well as Marketplace Innovations on brands such as Kraft Natural Cheese, Jell-O, TANG, Philadelphia Cream Cheese, Toblerone, Milka and Altoids, and the acclaimed Category Innovation platform that resulted in a wide range of highly successful fat free products under the label of “Kraft Free”. Bilal was inducted into the “Hall of Fame” for Wayne State University’s College of Engineering in 2008. In addition to his academic achievements, he holds patents for a number of breakthrough food sector technologies.
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Difference in school opportunity 'alarming'
Hopeful: David Gonski. Photo: Rob Homer
The difference in educational opportunities between the haves and have-nots is ''alarming'', according to the businessman who reviewed school funding for the federal government.
In rare public comments over education reform progress, David Gonski says he sincerely hopes something comes out of his 18-month review, handed to the government in late 2011.
The plea comes amid doubts over whether the proposed school funding reform will be achieved amid brawling between state and federal governments before the showdown at the Council of Australian Governments meeting next month.
In an interview with CPA Australia to be aired on the Nine Network on Saturday, Mr Gonski said an extra $6 billion in funding each year was not a lot of money considering $1 billion was currently spent on schools each week.
He said he was waiting to see whether the proposed changes, involving base funding for each student plus loadings recognising disadvantage, would be achieved.
''It's very interesting that not many have said we've got it wrong [with the review] … I'm just hopeful that it will go further.''
Mr Gonski said he and the review panel visited 80 schools and saw vividly the difference in educational opportunities between those who were advantaged and disadvantaged.
''When I went out to have a look at so many of the schools, what upset me was not everybody got the same opportunities, and that's why we embraced very early on in my review the concept that where you're born, what's available to you, the monies available to you should not designate what education you're going to get, and I think that that was a very good mantra - it's something that we announced very early on in our review.''
His comments came as analysis of data from the My School website showed a concentration of high-performing schools in Melbourne's south-eastern suburbs. But Cowes Primary School on Phillip Island was a particularly strong performer. In numeracy at grades three and five, it scored above or substantially above the national average, according to its results from NAPLAN tests. It also outperformed statistically similar schools.
Principal Sue Becker said there were no short cuts to achieving high standards in teaching and learning.
''I always push the point that a school is only as good as the teachers in front of the class,'' she said. ''There's no trick, just bloody good teaching and hard work.''
Ms Becker said teachers were determined to lift students' performance regardless of their financial backgrounds. ''You can't use it as an excuse.''
In Melbourne's outer north, Craigieburn South Primary School was a top performer in grades three and five. Its results were substantially above average in spelling, grammar and punctuation and numeracy.
Principal Stella Garreffa said the school had been on a 10-year ''journey'' to improve its results. ''The results at this school used to be quite low. We saw that was a problem,'' she said.
The school has since introduced good-quality uniforms, hung students' best work in corridors, and focused on building relationships with the surrounding community and parents. It also employs 15 parents as classroom aids who help students with their reading and maths.
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Giving to Arts and Culture Rose to $13 Billion in 2011
Donations to the arts in the U.S. rose about 4.1 percent in 2011, to $13.1 billion, according to a report released today by the Giving USA Foundation.
Such gifts fell 2.9 percent in 2009, the year following the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., and then rose about 5.7 percent in 2010. Arts and culture organizations received 4 percent of U.S. charitable donations last year.
“We’re seeing giving to the arts recover and mega-gifts return,” said Una Osili, director of research at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, which compiled the data for the Giving USA study. “Gifts to the arts are basically responding to trends in the economy.”
Total charitable gifts rose to $298.4 billion in 2011 from about $286.9 billion the year before. International-affairs organizations had the sharpest growth, a 7.6 percent increase to $22.7 billion.
Gifts to religious organizations, which receive the largest portion of charitable gifts at 32 percent, had a 1.7 percent decline in donations to $95.9 billion. A decrease in church attendance is partly responsible, Osili said.
Health-related nonprofits rose 2.7 percent to $24.8 billion in 2011; human services had a 2.5 percent increase to $35.4 billion; and education went up 4 percent to $38.9 billion. Gifts to environmental and animal organizations, which receive 3 percent of donations, rose 4.6 percent.
The Center on Philanthropy’s executive director, Patrick Rooney, said in a statement that giving in the U.S. has had its second-slowest recovery “following any recession since 1971.”
“Giving is going up modestly along with a modest economic recovery, but it’s going to take some time to recover,” Osili said. “If giving continues at this rate, it may take a decade before we recover and return to 2007 pre-recession levels of giving.”
While some nonprofits saw individuals’ gifts improve, corporate donations declined 0.1 percent to $14.6 billion.
At the Los Angeles Philharmonic, some corporate sponsors have reduced their donations, board chairman David Bohnett said in a phone interview. Ticket sales cover 60 percent of its budget with the rest coming from companies, individuals and foundations.
“There’s no more normal in terms of corporate philanthropy,” Bohnett said. “It remains very depressed.”
The Center on Philanthropy’s estimates are based on data compiled from tax filings to the Internal Revenue Service and information from other organizations such as the Foundation Center, the Council for Aid to Education and the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Muse highlights include Mark Beech on music.
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Next week, October 18-20, the Society for Christian Psychology is having their annual conference at Regent University in Norfolk, Virginia. The theme is Towards a Christian Positive Psychology.
Presenters include psychologists David Myers, Eric Johnson, Julie Exline and Charles Hackney. Philosophers and theologians include Ellen Charry, James Spiegel and Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung.
The full schedule can be found here.
Chuck’s presentation is on October 20th and his paper is entitled, “Imperfectable: The Importance of Fallenness in a Christian Positive Psychology.”
Sounds like a great conference!
Being married to a psychologist, I always get excited when I find areas where theology and psychology intersect. One of Chuck’s areas of expertise is Terror Management Theory, established in 1989 in an article by Abram Rosenblatt, Jeff Greenberg, Sheldon Solomon, Tom Pyszczynski, and Deborah Lyon published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Terror Management Theory (TMT) is a theory of motivation with strong existential roots. TMT describes humans as unique in our ability to think about the future, which gives us the tremendous advantage of being able to plan and anticipate. But this advanced cognitive ability has a downside. Thinking about the future makes us aware of our mortality, which causes intense anxiety. We buffer ourselves against this anxiety (“managing” our “terror”) by holding to a shared cultural worldview that provides us with an explanation for why our brief lives have meaning, what life is all about, how we should live it; and ultimately provides a promise of some form of immortality. The promised immortality can be literal (heaven, resurrection) or symbolic (creating long-lasting works of art, having a positive impact on society, raising children who outlive you, etc). By pursuing a meaningful life, we are pursuing immortality, and our existential anxiety is overcome.
It’s interesting to see where TMT appears in theology, especially when it’s old theology that dates well before the psychologists put a name to it. (Ecclesiastes comes to mind, in which the author rejects symbolic forms of immortality in favour of the literal immortality associated with one’s relation to God). In On the Incarnation, Athanasius has an extended discussion of the effects of the Resurrection on the lives of Christian believers. Based largely on an examination of 1Corinthians 15, Athanasius argues that before Christ came, died and was resurrected, even the holiest of men feared death. But because of Christ’s resurrection, death has been defeated, and Christians are promised resurrection like Christ. As such Christians no longer fear death, but instead embrace it.
Athanasius points to the martyrs as examples of this. They are the ones who “prefer to die rather than to deny their faith in Christ.” He argues that before these martyrs knew Christ they did fear death, and having encountered the risen Saviour, do so no longer. In fact, now men, women and even children mock death. Athanasius even uses the martyrs’ willingness to die as evidence for the reality of the Resurrection of Christ. Everyone is afraid of death, but not these Christians. The change is because of the power of the Resurrection.
If you see with your own eyes men and women and children, even, thus welcoming death for the sake of Christ’s religion, how can you be so utterly silly and incredulous and maimed in your mind as not to realise that Christ, to Whom these all bear witness, Himself gives victory to each, making death completely powerless for those who hold His faith and bear the sign of the cross? No one in his senses doubts that a snake is dead when he sees it trampled underfoot, especially when he knows how savage it used to be; nor, if he sees boys making fun of a lion, does he doubt that the brute is either dead or completely bereft of strength. These things can be seen with our own eyes, and it is the same with the conquest of death. Doubt no longer, then, when you see death mocked and scorned by those who believe in Christ, that by Christ death was destroyed, and the corruption that goes with it resolved and brought to end. (pg. 59-60)
Of course, we might wonder if the accounts and testimonies of the martyrs of the early Church are exaggerated so that confidence is highlighted and any fears, doubts or even public recantations are minimized, but the modern psychology of TMT does suggest that religion is indeed a powerful buffer that minimizes death anxiety.
That being said, TMT is powerless to support Athanasius’ argument that the ability to face death proves the truth of Jesus’ Resurrection. One of the best books on TMT is In the Wake of 9/11: The Psychology of Terror, in which the September 11th attacks are analyzed using TMT research and principles. The ability of the terrorists to willingly sacrifice themselves in suicide attacks points to the power of religious worldviews to overcome death anxiety. Similar willingness to die can be seen in the practice of self-immolation, which is becoming increasingly-common in Asia. In 2001-2002, for example, over 3,000 Indians burned themselves to death, many in protest of government policies perceived to be anti-Hindu. Self-immolation is also a common form of protest among Tibettan Buddhists. Willingness to die does not prove that Islam or Hinduism or Buddhism is true, only that, as TMT predicts, these religious worldviews have the power to overcome the fear of death. The ability to buffer against death is not unique to the Christian worldview; rather, if TMT is correct, it is a function of all worldviews.
Do you fear death? Has the proclamation of the Resurrection changed how you see death? Have you found that your Christian worldview buffers against death anxiety?
This post is by Dr. Charles Hackney. Enjoy!
In response to John Piper’s recent comments about God as a supremely masculine figure, Rachel Held Evans asked for “the guys” to provide some possible responses focusing on women in the Church or feminine images of God in the Bible.
I have commented before on my semi-sorta-quasi-egalmentarian stance on gender differences, informed by my training as a social/personality psychologist. My approach here will continue in that vein, focusing on personality and social psychological research into masculinity and femininity.* (One major approach that I will avoid here is Jungian depth psychology. Although Jung had plenty to say about the psychology of maleness and femaleness, I am not well versed enough in Jungian thought to speak with any kind of competence in that area.)
1. God Speaks From His Heart
Many studies have examined gender differences in communication, both verbal and nonverbal. Women tend to outperform men on tests of verbal creativity and fluency. Women tend toward greater emotional expressivity (with the exception of expressing anger, at which men tend to excell), more accurate perception of others’ emotions, and better performance at nonverbally expressing emotion. Compared to men, women’s overall approaches to communication tends to be about the establishment and strengthening of relational bonds. Men’s approaches to communication tend to be more instrumental: communication is about conveying information from my brain to your brain, preferably with an eye toward completing tasks.
So how does God communicate? While we do see God conveying information, in parts of scripture God is pouring out his heart. He grieves over the sins of the people, going so far as to ‘regret’ his previous actions of love and hospitality to them. We see God establishing relational bonds over and over again in God’s initiation of covenants with Israel – “I will be your God and you will be my people”. All of this is done because, as Trinity, God is relational.
2. God’s Moral Reasoning
The most well-known researcher in the area of moral psychology is Lawrence Kohlberg. He examined the thought processes behind people’s moral decisions, developing a theory in which people are seen to grow from more primitive forms of morality to higher and more sophisticated forms. The highest form of morality in Kohlberg’s theory is reasoning in terms of abstract principles of justice. His research revealed a curious gender difference; women typically scored lower in moral reasoning than men did. Kohlberg interpreted this as society retarding women’s moral development. This interpretation (and his basic theory) was challenged by the research of Carol Gilligan, who found that women were not less sophisticated or advanced in their moral thinking, but tended to approach moral decisions from a perspective that has been called “the ethic of care,” with a greater emphasis on compassion and relationships.
So how does God reason about morality? It is commonplace in theology to describe God’s character as both just and loving. Yes, the Bible is filled with exhortations to justice, praise for just actions, condemnation of unjust actions, and praise of God’s justice. But God also employs love, compassion, care, and other such “feminine” forms of morality as important moral principles. He exhorts us to love our neighbours, care for the widows and orphans, and show compassion, for He has shown us compassion.
3. When God “Roleplays”
Much of the literature on psychological gender differences has been summarized in terms of “agency” and “communion.” Agentic characteristics involve forceful action, assertiveness, competition, dominance and mastery. Communal characteristics involve friendliness, unselfishness, emotional expressiveness, and unity with others.
One interesting take on these themes in the personality literature comes from the mind of Dan McAdams. McAdams’ approach to personality is narrative in structure. Your life story (as you see it) is what shapes your self-concept, influences how you respond in different situations, and guides how you go about selecting and pursuing your life goals. So, is your life story an epic tale of struggle to overcome the odds? Is it a sad story of loss and pain? Is it a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing? In addition, what is your role in the drama? Loveable loser? No-account boozer? Honkeytonk hero? In his study of the stories that people live by, and the character types in which they cast themselves, McAdams found the themes of agency and communion in people’s life-story-characters. Some roles were high on agency and low on communion (e.g., The Warrior), some were high on communion and low on agency (e.g., The Caregiver), some had high levels of both (e.g.. The Teacher), and some had low levels of both (e.g., The Survivor). Men were more likely to see themselves in agentic terms, while women were more likely to see themselves in communal terms. The four most common highly-communal roles McAdams found were The Lover, The Caregiver, The Friend, and The Ritualist.
Let’s see if God fits these “feminine” communal character types.
The Lover is a character who seeks intimacy with others, who delights in relationships. Romantic themes are prominent in this person’s life. Examples of God as The Lover include the extended portrayal of God in Hosea 1-3 as a betrayed husband seeking to redeem his wife and renew their intimacy.
The Caregiver sacrifices herself for the sake of others. This person is often found acting in a parental role. Examples of God as The Caregiver include Psalm 61:3, Psalm 103:13, and Matthew 23:37.
The Friend, rather than showing the passion of The Lover, is loyal, cooperative, and steadfast. This is the kind of person who is always there for you, whether you need a sympathetic ear or a strong pair of arms to help you move. Examples of God as The Friend include Nahum 1:7 and John 15:15.
The Ritualist believes strongly in tradition, family, home, and community. Examples of God as The Ritualist include Exodus 20:12 and Proverbs 1:8-9.
Here are just three approaches to psychological gender differences, and three ways in which God displays traditionally-feminine characteristics. This does not mean that we should uplift feminine characteristics over the masculine, or vice versa. Rather, Amanda’s quote of Miroslav Volf serves as a good conclusion:
“We uses masculine or feminine metaphors for God not because God is male or/and female, but because God is ‘personal’…Whether we use masculine or feminine metaphors for God, God models our common humanity, not our gender specificity…Men and women share maleness and femaleness not with God but with animals. They image God in their common humanity…” Volf, Exclusion and Embrace, 170-173
*Contact me if you want references to specific studies.
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@RickWarren tweeted this on Thursday:
Happiness is a choice. You are as happy as you choose to be.
I read that, and my inner Eeyore cringed.
A Psychological Perspective:
Is it true? Considering there is an entire field of psychology, called positive psychology, that looks at happiness, I thought I would ask my resident expert for his opinion. Here’s what Chuck has to say…
As is so often the case, this is… partly… true. Your level of happiness is influenced by a wide range of factors, some of which are under your control, while others are not. Researchers such as Martin Seligman, David Myers, and Ed Diener have studied happiness extensively, and here is a summary of their findings:
Happiness variables that ARE subject to your choice:
1. Marriage. On average, married people are happier than unmarried people. The “choose”-iness of this is limited, however. I could choose to be married all I want, but unless someone else chooses to marry me, I’m out of luck.
2. Friends. Happy people spend a lot of time socializing with their friends. (This might be a large group or a small group, depending on whether you are an extravert or an introvert.)
3. Religion. There is strong and consistent evidence that the more religious you are, the happier you will tend to be. In the words of Cab Calloway, “You get wise. You get to church.”
4. Thought patterns. Seligman’s research on cognition and depression shows that, when bad things happen, unhappy people tend to explain them as resulting from “internal” (my fault), “stable” (can’t change it), and “global” (this impacts my entire self-concept) causes. A classic example would be getting a bad grade on an exam in school, and concluding that “I’m just stupid.” Albert Ellis’ approach to cognitive therapy focuses on people messing themselves up by holding irrational beliefs (“I MUST win my mother’s approval” “Everybody HAS to like me” “I’m NEVER wrong”). It takes effort, but it is possible to gain control over these thoughts and steer them in healthier directions (“It would be nice if everyone liked me, but not really necessary”).
Happiness variables that are NOT subject to your choice:
1. Genetics. If we were to ask you to rate your level of happiness on a scale from one to ten, roughly fifty percent of the variability on your answer would be due to your DNA.
2. Money. This is somewhat subject to your choice, but only somewhat. If your income is above a minimum threshold, then the relationships drops off, but below that threshold, money and happiness are strongly related, and telling someone “Well just choose to have a better-paying job” is hardly useful. So, money might not be able to make you happy, but being broke can certainly make you unhappy.
While we have a certain amount of freedom to choose our level of happiness, that freedom is constrained by numerous factors. Overemphasizing the role of choice in happiness leads to what psychologist Barbara Held calls the “tyranny of the positive attitude,” the notion that those who are insufficiently happy should be blamed for their condition. An example of this is Dennis Prager’s facepalm-worthy claim that happiness is a moral obligation (being unhappy, according to Prager, puts you in the same moral category as terrorists and war criminals).
A Theological Perspective:
Is it true? My initial thoughts on happiness…
Scripture talks about joy, peace, love and other fruits of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23). But what is the relationship between joy and peace, and happiness?
Jurgen Moltmann, in writing about being born again, looks at two outcomes: joy and peace.
Joy is that what happens “when the Spirit of the resurrection is experienced, a person breathes freely again, and gets up out of the defeats and anxieties of his or her life…We beign to love life with the love of God which we experience in the Spirit. It far outdoes the disappointments and hurts which reduce our love for life and weigh us down.” (pg. 31)
Peace is, according to Moltmann, a “coming to rest…It also means arriving at consonance and concord with God and ourselves. People of peace radiate a quiet assurance.” (pg. 31)
And yet, Moltmann is quick to point out that this does not mean that Christians are always happy or cheerful. Indeed, he points out that Jesus was not always happy. We are “saved none of the torments of soul…The Spirit leads [us] into the wilderness just as it led Jesus too. By this I don’t mean the external lonelinesses. I mean the soul’s dark and desert hours.” (pg. 32). Moltmann points to what John of the Cross called the dark night of the soul, “when God-forsakenness drives a soul into cold despair, and we can only go on clinging to faith in God in companionship with the assailed Christ between Gethsemane and Golgotha.” (pg. 32)
Looking at this, joy and peace, and the emotions that come from experiencing the Spirit, seem to point to the cause being something outside ourselves. It is because of the Spirit, and because of the Resurrection of Jesus that I experience joy. It is because of God’s presence that I experience peace.
Happiness is the by-product of experiencing the work of the Spirit in our lives. Happiness flows out of the joy, peace, love, etc., and is not the cause of these fruits. The Spirit is the cause of the fruits, and happiness, being the by-product, is not rooted in our ‘choosing’ to be happy.
While positive experiences of the Spirit are good, and are to be sought after, our faith is not founded on them. If I am unhappy, it should not mean my faith dissolves and disappears. As Moltmann says, “The firm lodestone of faith is not provided by the inner experiences of the Spirit…but by community with Christ, in the living and dying and rising again with him.” (pg 32).
Chuck’s first book Martial Virtues was published in 2010. The book, looking at character development and martial arts, combined two of Chuck’s passions: psychology and martial arts. Shortly after it was published in English, we got word that a publisher in Italy had purchased the rights to have it translated and published in Italian. A few months later, a publisher in France did the same.
Today, we got the 2010 royalty statement. We really weren’t sure what to expect. But, we were shocked when we read that in 2010 (January-December), 1,414 (English) copies of Martial Virtues were sold! That’s an average of 4 copies a day.
Okay, for some 1,414 is not a big number. But to us, it is huge. For a small book on a fairly niche topic, and for a first-time author to boot, 1,414 is amazing. Add to it, Chuck has gotten some fan letters from people who have read his book from all around the world (including an inmate on death row in San Quentin!), which means his parents weren’t the ones who bought up 1,414 copies!
So tonight we went out to celebrate. We celebrated in style by driving all the way to Regina to get Arby’s (what exciting lives we lead). Chuck’s got several projects on the go, but he is hoping to finish up a second book on Martial Arts, this one looking at Christians and Martial Arts.
To all of you who are part of that magic number 1,414, thank you.
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Get Involved in Picture a Museum Day at BMAG on March 17
14th March 2011
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery is participating in Picture a Museum Day on Thursday March 17th.
Picture a Museum Day is a one day global event which aims to give behind the scenes access to the world's museums. The public are invited to join in by taking photographs in BMAG on that day and putting them on Flickr so that other people can see and enjoy them.
We would love our visitors to partcipate - all we ask is that you read our photography conditions and print out a 'Picture a Museum March 17' logo for the day to bring to the museum, or that you read the conditions at a reception desk and pick up your logo there. The 'Picture a Museum March 17' logo is to let museum staff know that you are participating in the day.
Read the conditions and print out your logo.
Join the Flickr group and add your images
If you use twitter please tweet about your photos and your day using the hashtag #museumpics
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery staff will also be taking some photographs on the day - so look out for some behind the scenes shots on Flickr.
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Etihad Airways (also known as مانشستر سيتي, Manchester citeh and occasionally referred to as Manchester City) is the name of an offshore oil rig in the Red Sea, which is also vaguely known for its relation to premier league football. It is famous for three things: It is widely accepted as being the best football team in the world, it is far richer than can possibly be good for anyone, and they wear nice blue uniforms.
Manchester City was formed at a church, by over friendly priests, and quickly rose, due to the presence of men in short shorts. From that point up until 1968 and the installation of CCTV, they won everything every season, in the nothern icelandic conference. In 1968, however, in the glory days of players such as Colin Bell End, Sir Alex "Wrigley's Extra" Ferguson, who has always managed Manchester Red Sox Ltd. ever since the dawn of time, decided it would be a good idea to influence referees by giving them chewing gum in exchange for sending everyone on the opposing team off every time one of his players fell over. this is why, despite being the best team in the world, Manchester City didn't win the league for 44 years since then. In the years leading up to their takeover by stupidly rich Arabs, Manchester City were a good, honest football club with traditional values that either got promoted or relegated every season in order to be more exciting and so get more fans. They soon realised that this didn't work, and that the best way to get more fans was to win things and get glory supporters, and the easiest way to do this was to be phenomenally rich, so they got taken over by Arabs and immediately began to win things again, like the 2011-12 Premier League.
Owned by rich screbbers in their 50's. This club is destined for the Blue Square Premier and it won't be long before they're scraping the bottom of that barrel. Should never have gotten rid of Shaun Bollock.
Manchester City continued their successful Champions League history in 2012 after winning 0 times in 6 matches.
Manchester City fans have little or no teeth from chewing on bitterness for the last one hundred years. Manchester City fans can often be seen on ITV's Jeremy Kyle show. However there was a time when City fans supported Chelsea but due to their glory hunting ego's they opted to support City. It is unknown where these creatures came from, one thing we do know is City fans which come from the same family inter-breed with one another.
edit Notable Players (Past and Present)
Manchester City has had several notable players in its history, most of whom still play for them. Here is a list of them:
edit Colin Bell End
Colin Bell End played for Manchester City in their glory days. He has a stand named after him in their stadium called the Colin Bell End.
Trout-Man was just an ordinary goalkeeper, but then he broke his neck diving at the feet of a radioactive Birmingham City player in the FA Cup Final, giving him all the powers of a trout. By day he is just an ordinary goalkeeper but every night he puts on his trout suit and becomes TROUT-MAN. He uses his powers to fight crime and to defend the innocent citizens of Manchester from his arch-nemesis Dr. Mackerel.
edit David Silva
David Silva is the second best football player in the world. He scores on average 43,984,729,847,924,792,879,417,931 gazillion goals per match and is so good that he can play on his own and still be the best team in the world by a long way. The best player in the world is Jamie Ecclescake, who plays for KFC Spartak Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, who recently won promotion to the Anglesey Superliga, the twelfth tier of the Anglesey Junior football league.
edit Mario Balotelli
Born on the 43rd of February 1911 in Naples, Italy; named after his parent's idol: Super Mario. Balotelli as a teen fought in the World War 2-Dance Off, which was widely criticised as a waste of time, but quite clearly was a great day out for the whole family. Balotelli shined here beating all 10 of his opponents with his signiture mood; the horny nurse-camel. He learnt his trade as a footballer from his dearest british friend Danny Kingsley; who taught him all about how to a be a top class diving, fighting, abusive killing machine. He now roams the streets of Mans-chest-err with his 10 inch turbid swinging alow singing christmas songs until the merry dawn. So if you see him don't hesitate to stop and say forza mario and tickle his monstorous below.
Manchester City play at the Emtpyhad Stadium. It is the biggest football stadium in the world. Manchester City used to play at Maine Road, until it got stolen, like everything else in Moss Side.
edit Club traditions
Manchester City has a wide range of traditions, including the following:
- The Poznan
The Poznan is a way Manchester City's fans attempt to display their identity as City fans. It doesn't work, because they ripped it off Lech Poznan and it means they don't actually get to see any football because they have their backs to the pitch.
- The national anthem
Since their takeover by Arabs, Manchester City's fans have sung the national anthem of the United Arab Emirates before every match whilst an enormous picture of Sheik Mansour is lowered into the stadium from a helicopter.
- The "Empty Seat" celebration
A notorious Manchester City tradition is the "Empty Seat" celebration, where fans dress up as blue seats, mimicking an empty stadium. In their most recent game, a 3-0 victory over Stoke City, over 3 million fans were dressed in their blue-seat costumes, beating Arsenal F.C's record of 2.9 million empty red-seat costumes worn during a match. The celebration is often accompanied with absolute silence.
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Ed Husain, British Muslim who was a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir when he was a college student in East London offers his take on the men in the Operation Crevice plot. From the London Telegraph:
I know how these young men are inspired to wreak death and destruction because I have first-hand experience of being in one such cell. I have since seen the error of my ways.
I was part of the secret cell structure of Hizb ut-Tahrir, an extremist organisation banned in most Muslim countries and rejected by most mosques in Britain. Yet the group had a free rein on university and college campuses, where it advocated that British Muslims were a community whose allegiance lay not with Queen and country, but to a coming caliph in the Middle East.
This caliph would instruct us to act as agents of the caliphate in Britain, and open a "home front" by assisting the expansionist state. We believed that all Arab governments were not sufficiently "Islamic" and were liable to removal; entire populations would submit to the army of the caliph, or face extinction.
...All this can easily be dismissed as extremist claptrap. But the mindset and ideology that spouts this worldview - Islamism - is entrenched in certain sections of the Muslim community in Britain.
...To argue that dialogue will win over extremist Islamists is a myth; theirs is a mindset that is not receptive to alternative views, and does not recognise the sacred nature of all human life.
What to do? Husain says organizations like Hizb ut-Tahrir have to be banned:
...As long as it remains legal for extremists in Britain to plan and finance Islamist attempts to mobilise the Muslim masses in the Middle East, and prepare an army for "jihad as foreign policy", there will always be a segment of this movement that will take jihad to its logical conclusion and act immediately, without leadership.
The rhetoric of jihad introduced by Hizb ut-Tahrir in my days was the preamble to 7/7 and several other attempted attacks. By proscribing Hizb ut-Tahrir, we would send a strong message to extremists that Britain will not tolerate intolerance. Yes, we are a free country with a proud tradition of liberty, but it has always had limits.
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By John F. Harris
Eleven days and six nations after leaving Washington, Clinton headed back home tonight, and he and his senior aides hoped that those words about resiliency and the future also apply to his own presidency.
A combination of a good trip and the dismissal of the Paula Jones sexual harassment case have opened a window for a White House team which, by the admission of its own members, was badly in need of air. "This was great, this was great," Clinton kept repeating to members of his traveling delegation this evening as they headed for home.
Some senior aides, both with Clinton and back in Washington, shared this buoyancy, predicting a new phase in his presidency. The resolution of the Jones suit and the heightened prestige created by the Africa trip, they said, will allow Clinton to press an agenda without virtually all his actions being viewed through a lens of scandal.
Others were far more sour, predicting that any respite from controversy will be short-lived and confessing deep anger at Republicans and the news media over their handling of Jones's allegations. Those resentments are shared, some advisers say, by the president and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Even before the ruling in the Jones case Wednesday, Africa had plainly provided refuge for Clinton. Perhaps for the first time, in the view of some senior aides, Clinton was enjoying a second term that even roughly approximated the one he had once imagined -- in sharp contrast to the long trail of allegations over campaign finance, sexual misconduct and obstruction of justice that for the most part have been the reality.
For the bookends of the trip, at the first stop in Ghana and here in Senegal, there were vast crowds waiting for Clinton -- a tonic for a politician who thrives as much as any on public approval.
Along the way -- in Uganda, Rwanda and South Africa -- Clinton played the moralist, talking about the need for America to confess its errors in Africa and delivering sermon-like speeches about replacing racial and ethnic hatred with tolerance.
Clinton touched on some of these themes again today, but he replaced the more remorseful tones of earlier in the trip with a celebratory message. While decrying the slave trade, in which millions of Africans were forcibly sent across the Atlantic from ports like Goree Island and elsewhere, Clinton led a round of applause for the African Americans who joined him on his delegation.
"America's struggle to overcome slavery and its legacy forms one of the most difficult chapters of our history," Clinton told a crowd of several hundred Americans and Senegalese. "Yet it is also one of the most heroic -- a triumph of courage, persistence and dignity. The long journey of African Americans proves that the spirit can never be enslaved. And that long journey is today embodied by the children of Africa who now lead America in all phases of our common life."
While Clinton spent his Africa trip preaching tolerance and contrition, those words hardly describe the mood of many on his own team as he returns to Washington. Venting his anger at the Jones lawsuit, which has shadowed Clinton for four of his five years as president, White House counselor Douglas Sosnik said: "It's been so much time, involving so many people, about so much nothing. It's all about people trying to use the judicial system to overturn an election they lost in the political system."
But another senior aide, Paul Begala, said that the capital may now be a less hostile environment for Clinton. With the Jones case thrown out, at least pending an appeal by her lawyers of Judge Susan Webber Wright's decision, Begala said, "Finally, Washington may go to where America has been for a long time."
Both President Clinton and Hillary Clinton addressed the Jones case briefly in Senegal today. "Well, obviously I'm pleased by the decision, and I think the judge's opinion speaks for itself," Clinton said. Asked if the Jones case had weakened the presidency, Clinton demurred: "Others should evaluate that question, but I need to keep working on the people's business, and that's what I intend to do."
Hillary Clinton addressed the controversy in a brief radio interview following an appearance this morning in Dakar, Senegal's capital, with a group of village women who have rallied to stop the practice of female genital mutilation. "Both Bill and I have felt throughout this whole thing that it would turn out fine, either at a trial or more appropriately as the judge ruled based on the fact that there was no evidence to support these groundless claims," she told the American Urban Radio Network, a news organization aimed at a predominantly black audience. "We haven't let any of this other stuff divert us, which is really one of the goals of the people behind all this: to try to divert the president's energy and discourage people. It hasn't worked and it will never work, because we know what the truth is and we know what we're trying to accomplish for the country."
"It's poetic justice" that the Jones case should be thrown out even as Clinton is returning from a successful trip to Africa, said Jesse L. Jackson, the administration's special envoy for democratization in Africa. "It's a convergence that could only be planned by God."
Clinton came to Goree Island at the urging of Hillary Clinton, who came here a year ago on an Africa tour with daughter Chelsea. Deeply moved, she said she told her husband that it was a sight he had to see. Heeding the advice, Clinton this afternoon joined a parade of personages as diverse as Pope John Paul II, singers Stevie Wonder and Harry Belafonte, South African President Nelson Mandela and Virginia's L. Douglas Wilder, the nation's first black elected governor, who have made the pilgrimage to this small island a few miles off the coast from Dakar. Like the others, Clinton visited the House of Slaves, which features dungeon-like cells of pale red stucco and a long covered walkway that leads out to the sea. The curator of the house said it was down this corridor that Africans were herded onto slave ships to be taken to the Americas.
For all its evocative power, Goree Island lately has been a source of considerable academic controversy. Le Monde, a French newspaper, outraged Senegalese authorities a year ago with a long article disputing Goree Island's reputation as a place where millions of Africans left for the Americas.
This debunking has been supported by Johns Hopkins University historian Philip Curtin, who has written that Goree Island "is a picturesque place" but was "marginal to the slave trade" compared with other ports on Africa's western coast. Curtin also questioned whether the House of Slaves really was a holding corral for slaves.
White House National Security Adviser Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger, the senior staff member in charge of planning Clinton's Africa tour, said he was aware of the dispute -- and indifferent to it. "Whether it was the most important or just one slave point," Berger said, "I don't think it matters. I think it's an important thing to see. "
As planned by White House stage managers, the stop at Goree Island was designed to symbolize the historical bridge between Africa and America -- a link with a shameful past but, in Clinton's view, a bountiful future based on cultural and economic trade.
But the domestic politics of the visit proved challenging for the White House, when the Goree Island stop became entangled with the question of whether the United States government should formally apologize for slavery. Clinton has steadfastly steered clear of a formal apology.
Earlier this trip, during impromptu remarks in Uganda, he said Americans must acknowledge moral lapses in Africa, including the fact that "European Americans received the fruits of the slave trade, and we were wrong in that." Today, however, he offered nothing approaching an apology, later telling reporters, "Most of my African American friends and advisers don't believe we should get into what was essentially a press story about whether there should be an apology for slavery in America."
© Copyright 1998 The Washington Post Company
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Think your roads are rough? Check out this massive sinkhole in Ohio11/30/2012
Ohio is caving in, so if you're in the Buckeye State, run! A massive sinkhole the size of four football fields appeared outside the city of Dover on Wednesday, wolfing down a hay field and a stretch of State Route 516 and endangering several homes. The highway will be out of commission until well into 2013, and the Newton Asphalt Company is getting a lot of dirty looks (the company spent years dredging for sand in an adjacent lake). Ohio had been quiet since Election Day, when it captivated Americans as the key swing state. However, it appears the state needed only three weeks to replace the departed GOP with another giant collapse. [Source]
Click to see more on msnNOW.com, updated 24 hours a day.
Have you ever seen a sinkhole in person?
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News from BGSU's Fraternity and Sorority Community
On November 21, 600 women from BGSU's Panhellenic Council came together for a day-long event entitled Defining Your Panhellenic Experience. This event explored their commitment and experiences concerning membership registered sororities. The women attended two break-out sessions which focused on the struggles they encounter as sorority women, both inside and outside of the community. The sessions also afforded the women time to brainstorm strategies for confronting these issues in their daily lives.
Afterwards, the women listened to a keynote presentation by the Chairwoman of the National Panhellenic Conference, Eve Woods Riley. Eve discussed the importance of living in congruence with the Panhellenic Creed and how one’s actions reflect others. The women then returned to their chapters and discussed ideas for making a difference in their experiences and developed solutions to ensure the continued success of the BGSU fraternity and sorority community.
Defining Your Panhellenic Experience was successful because of the hard work and dedication by the 2010 Panhellenic Council Executive Board, graduate and professional staff advisors, and participants. In February 2011, a number of sorority women will attend the Association for Fraternal Leadership and Values Conference (the event where the vision for this program emerged in 2010) and will return with more ideas that propel the community forward.
Visit the Fraternity and Sorority Life webpage for more information about BGSU's Greek community.
Important Dates :
- December 10: Centennial Celebration Concert, 7pm, BTSU
- December 13-17: Exam Week
- December 17-18: Commencement
- January 10: Spring Semester begins
- January 17: MLK Day of Service
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Spain Gets Frobbed-Off by the EU Commission
FROB, for those of you who are wondering, stands for “Fund for Orderly Bank Restructuring” and is an entity created by the Spanish government in June last year, in order to facilitate (in particular) the restructuring of Spain’s hard hit Savings Banks (Cajas). There is just one problem: as of the present time – and over seven months later – the FROB still is waiting to receive approval from the European Commission.
“The essence of the FROB in fostering the reorganisation of the sector in an orderly manner and in the most financially efficient way, as well as the key role of the Bank of Spain in most of the phases of the restructuring and integration processes, are positive.” says Carmen Munoz, Senior Director, Fitch’s Financial Institutions group. “Fitch will assess the rating impact, if any, on a case-by-case basis with respect to financial institutions.”
“While the number of financial institutions that could receive support from the plan remains uncertain, Fitch believes that the orderly consolidation process reduces the risk of multi-notch downgrades for financial institutions that act as counterparties in securitizations,” says Rui J. Pereira, Managing Director, Fitch’s Structured Finance group. “At present, FROB will have a neutral affect on outstanding Spanish structured finance ratings and any later developments will be analyzed on a case-by case basis.”
The FROB came into existence, or was officially born, on 28 June 2009. At the present point in time it is not clear when it will be able to get to work. Having denied for so long that the banking system was having any major problems, it may well be that the country’s banking system have missed out on the near free lunch that was offered to everyone else (Monsieur Trichet recently said there would be no second opportunity for the banks), and so the first tentative efforts to clean up the mess are now hitting straight up against the EUs unfair competition regulations.
Initially furbished with 9 billion euros in capital, the Fund was also empowered to issue up to 27 billion euros in third party debt during the remainder of 2009, and a further quanity from 1 January 2010, up to a grand total of 90 billion euros.
Fitch actually assigned a AAA rating to FROB’s first bond issue, on the basis of the fact that it was backed by the Kingdom of Spain, which also currently enjoys an AAA rating (from Fitch at least, if no longer from Standard and Poor’s). As Fitch point out, “the ‘AAA’ rating reflects the explicit, irrevocable and unconditional guarantee provided by the Kingdom of Spain, the Bank of Spain will act as paying agent, under a Spanish Treasury arrangement, and bond issues are zero risk weighted and ECB repo-eligible”. (well, you can read a bit more about Fitch’s assessment of FROB here).
The key point to notice about FROB is, I feel, that while debt issued is guaranteed by the government, it does not form part of gross Spanish government debt for Eurostat audit purposes. You could call its debt, if you want, a form off-balance-sheet debt, and the FROB could be thought of as some kind of Spanish Sovereign SIV. Indeed, the condition that the bonds are repo-eligible suggests that the Spanish banks can simply earn carry from the spread by taking them over to the ECB as collateral for loans. As we know, Spain’s banks have been making considerable us of ECB funding in recent months – although it is not clear what happens as the ECB longer term enhanced liquidity programme is wound down.
Indeed, the Irish government in their October 2009 letter to Eurostat explicitly describe Ireland’s bad bank NAMA as an SPV, and interestingly enough the EU Commission in their November 2009 Forecast for Ireland say the following:
“In line with the 19 October 2009 preliminary view of Eurostat, the bonds (around 30% of GDP) expected to be issued by the Special Purpose Vehicle associated to the NAMA to finance the purchase of loan books from certain financial institutions are not recorded as government debt, while the majority of those bonds are guaranteed by the Irish State.”
So clearly, financing the removal of toxic assets from Spain’s banks and cajas in this way has one big advantage – it doesn’t add to sovereign debt on a one for one basis – but it has the peculiar disadvantage that no one really knows what happens if the people receiving the aid cannot pay up eventually. That is, if the issue to hand is a solvency and not a liquidity one. Well, it is known what would happen in the sense that Spain’s government would have to assume its responsibilities, but the unwinding would evidently be messy.
So what is the delay? Well basically, when this whole structure was set up the Bank of Spain didn’t seem to be fully aware that the EU Competition rules put a limit on direct aid to banks and cajas at 2 percent of their risk capital. Aid above this level would violate the EU unfair competition regulations.
The FROB is mainly directed at Spain’s Cajas, since the 45 largely unlisted savings banks have been hit badly by the slump in the country’s property sector after a decade-long boom and have some of the highest non-performing loan ratios in the financial sector.
Now it appears that the needs of the first three Caixas (the Catalan version of Caja) seeking to restructure under the FROB (Manresa, Tarragona and Catalunya) may well go beyond the 1.315 billion euros currently available under the regulations. And they may therefore need additional aid from the Spanish government under another heading. And it is just how to go about effecting this support that seems to be the sticking point in the negotiations – negotiations which have now dragged out over several months, depsite the fact that the situation needs somewhat urgent resolution.
Help does however now seem to be at hand. The three savings banks in question agreed last week to postpone plans to merge until the European Union’s executive Commission had ratified the FROB restructuring plan, and the European Commission said on Monday it was confident of issuing a positive decision on Spanish government scheme. The Commission, which has the responsibility for ensuring that state aid does not skew competition across the 27-country EU, is in “constructive discussions” with the Spanish authorities over the plan, according to Commission spokesman Jonathan Todd. And just in case the discussions need that little bit extra gusto, the Spanish Economy Commission Joaquin Almunia will shortly be taking over as Competition Commissioner in the forthcoming reshufle.
According to Jonathan Todd “The Spanish authorities have to clarify what their intentions are”. Honourable I hope!. Todd also stated that while there was no fundamental problem, the Commission had to ensure that the scheme complied with EU state aid rules. In particular the sticking points seem to revolve around the interest rate the Cajas will have to pay to the FROB, and whether or not any additional bailouts from the Spanish government will need to go to Brussels on a case by case basis. Whoever was it who said, sometimes trying to make things easy you end up making them more difficult.
“The Commission is confident that we will be able to come to a positive outcome on the regime.”
Housing Stats Under The Spotlight
Moving on to other matters, a great deal of attention has been showered of late on the perceived weaknesses of the Greek statistical agency. But Greece is far from being the only example of a European country were the process of statistics gathering is rather unsatisfactory. Enrico Giovannini, chairman of the Italy’s national statistics institute, also recently argued that national statistic agencies should have the same autonomy as central banks to avoid attempts by government to influence economic data.
Well, Spanish Property Insight blogger Mark Stucklin just drew attention to another example of a practice which is far from perfect – the Spanish housing ministry’s property prices statistics.
Mark draws our attention to the fact that the Economist, in their latest house affordability survey, find that Spanish house prices are “still 55% above their fair value despite Spain’s property market crash”. Indeed using its “fair-value measure” methodology for property “based on the ratio of house prices to rents” the Economist find that Spain’s property is the most overvalued among the countries surveyed -overvalued by 55%, followed by Hong Kong (+53%), Australia (+50%), France (+40%), Sweden (+35%), Ireland (+30%), and Britain (+29%).
Not so says Mark:
The problem with this method is it’s based on official housing market price statistics, which in Spain’s case are detached from reality. As I explain in my last article Spanish property prices down just 6pc in 2009 says Government, everyone in Spain knows that the Ministry of Housing’s figures are baloney. There are no reliable figures for the Spanish property market, but I guess that prices are probably down by more than 10% on average last year, and by 30% or more since the peak. If The Economist used real transaction price figures it would find that Spanish housing prices are much closer to fair value than they think.
and as Mark also points out:
Given how damaging it is for Spain to have international creditors read in a prestigious magazine like The Economist that Spanish property prices are the most overvalued in the world, you would think the Ministry of Housing would be racing to make its figures more accurate. That one step alone would do more good than all the ineffective initiatives produced by the Ministry of Housing in the last decade.
You would think Spain’s Housing Ministry would eventually recognise this, wouldn’t you? We live in hope. In the meantime EU Finance ministers agreed this week to seek powers for the EU’s statistics division to audit official financial information from member states. An earlier – 2005 – Commission proposal would have given just this “audit capacity” to Eurostat, but it was rejected by the EU governments. The failure to take this decision then is something which is bitterly regreted by many of those involved.
“We asked for these audit capacities in some cases, not every day, not every time, not under every condition, but under several conditions that will justify this kind of audit capacity,” Mr Almunia told reporters in Brussels. “We didn’t get it. We intend to repeat the same proposal now with the new evidence about the need for having this capacity.”
Spanish economy minister Elena Salgado, who chaired the Finance Ministers meeting, in subsequent questions with journalists dismissed a suggestion that Greece would default on its debt. “I think Greece is going to do all that is necessary so we’re not worried about that,” she reportedly told journalists. I only wish I could bring myself to think that M. Salgado was going to do all that was necessary to bring down Spain’s deficit by taking the economy back to job creation and growth. Unlike her, I am worried about that, and remain unconvinced by all her statements to the contrary.
Originally published at Global Economy Matters and reproduced here with the author’s permission.
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Torvalds wins Economic Innovation Award
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Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, is being honoured at The Economist's Third Annual Innovations Awards.
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Torvalds wrote the original code for Linux while he was a student at the University of Helsinki. More importantly he published the code on the internet and invited other programmers to improve it and send him their improvements - the basis of open source software development.
He recently described his role within Linux as similar to a shepherd, but herding cats rather than sheep.
Torvalds won the Takeda Award in 2001 and was named one of the most influential people in the world by Time Magazine in 2004. He currently works for the Open Source Development Labs promoting the wider use of open source software.
Other winners include the creator of Toyota's hybrid car - the Prius, Muhammed Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank which makes small loans to Bangladeshi women and Vic Hayes, former chair of IEEE 802.11 Standards Working Group for Wireless LANs. ®
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91 U.S. 526
23 L.Ed. 416
EVANSVILLE AND CRAWFORDSVILLE R.R. CO.
October Term, 1875
ERROR to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Indiana.
This was an action brought by the plaintiff in error against the defendant to recover the amount of a judgment rendered by the Supreme Court of the State of New York in favor of the plaintiff's testator against the defendant corporation.
The defendant pleaded in bar a judgment in its favor on demurrer to the declaration, in a suit brought on the same cause of action in the Knox Circuit Court of Indiana.
A demurrer to this plea was overruled: whereupon the plaintiff below replied, alleging material differences between the facts stated in the declaration in this case and those stated in the declaration in the case in the Knox Circuit Court, claiming that the judgment on demurrer to the declaration in the Knox Circuit Court was not a judgment on the merits. To this replication a demurrer was sustained, and the plaintiff below excepted.
The merits of the case are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
The case was argued by Mr. C. Tracy for the plaintiff in error, and by Mr. Asa Iglehart for the defendant in error.
MR. JUSTICE CLIFFORD delivered the opinion of the court.
Special pleading is still allowed in certain jurisdictions; and, if the plaintiff and defendant in such a forum elect to submit their controversy in that form of pleading, the losing party must be content to abide the consequences of his own election.
Due service of process compels the defendant to appear, or to submit to a default; but, if he appears, he may, in most jurisdictions, elect to plead or demur, subject to the condition, that, if he pleads to the declaration, the plaintiff may reply to his plea, or demur; and the rule is, in case of a demurrer by the defendant to the declaration, or of a demurrer by the plaintiff to the plea of the defendant, if the other party joins in demurrer, it becomes the duty of the court to determine the question presented for decision; and if it involves the merits of the controversy, and is determined in favor of the party demurring, and the other party for any cause does not amend, the judgment is in chief; and it is settled law that such a judgment of the Circuit Court, if the sum or value in controversy is sufficient, may be removed into this court for re-examination by writ of error, under the twenty-second section of the Judiciary Act. Suydam v. Williamson, 20 How. 436; Gorman v. Lenox, 15 Pet. 115.
Pleadings which were subsequently abandoned will be passed over without notice, except to say that the suit was commenced by the testator in his lifetime. Briefly described, the suit referred to was an action of debt to recover the amount of a judgment which the testator of the plaintiff, as he alleged, recovered on the 3d of August, 1860, against the defendant corporation, in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, by virtue of a certain suit therein pending, in which, as the decedent alleged, the court there had jurisdiction of the parties and of the subject-matter of the action; and he also alleged that the judgment still remains in full force, and not in any wise vacated, reversed, or satisfied. Defensive averments, of a special character, are also contained in the declaration; to which it will presently become necessary to refer in some detail, in order to determine the principal question presented for decision. Suffice it to remark in this connection, that the testator of the plaintiff alleged in conclusion, that, by virtue of the several allegations contained in the declaration, an action had accrued to him to demand and have of and from the defendant corporation the sum therein mentioned, with interest from the date of the judgment.
Service was made, and the corporation defendants, in the suit before the court, appeared and pleaded in bar of the action a former judgment in their favor, rendered in the County Circuit Court of the State of Indiana for the same cause of action, as more fully set forth in the record; from which it appears that the testator of the present plaintiff, then in full life, impleaded the corporation defendants in an action of debt founded on the same judgment as that set up in the present suit, and alleged that he, the plaintiff, instituted his action in that case, in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, against the Evansville and Illinois Railroad Company, a corporation created by the laws of the State of Indiana; that the said corporation defendants appeared in the suit by attorney; that such proceedings therein were had, that he, on the 3d of August, 1860, recovered judgment against the said corporation defendants for the sum therein mentioned, being for the same amount, debt and cost, as that specified in the judgment set up in the declaration of the case before the court; that the declaration in that case, as in the present case, alleged that the court which rendered the judgment was a court competent to try and determine the matter in controversy; and that the judgment remains in full force, unreversed, and not paid.
Superadded to that, the defendants in the present suit allege, in their plea in bar, that the plaintiff averred in the former suit that the said Evansville and Illinois Railroad Company, by virtue of a law of the State of Indiana, consolidated their organization and charter with the organization and charter of the Wabash Railroad Company; that the two companies then and there and thereby became one company, by the corporate name of the Evansville and Crawfordsville Railroad Company; that the consolidated company then and there by that name took possession of all the rights, credits, effects, and property of the two separate companies, and used and converted the same, under their new corporate name, to their own use, and then and there and thereby became and were liable to pay all the debts and liabilities of the first-named railroad company, of which the claim of the plaintiff in that suit is one; that the plaintiff also averred that the consolidated company from that date directed and managed the defence wherein the said judgment was rendered, and that the act of consolidation and the aforesaid change of the corporate name of the company were approved by an act of the legislature of the State; that the consolidated company became and is liable to pay the judgment, interest, and cost; that a copy of the judgment and proceedings mentioned in the declaration in that suit, as also copies of all the acts of the legislature therein referred to, were duly filed with said complaint as exhibits thereto; that the corporation defendants appeared to the action, and demurred to the complaint; and that the court sustained the demurrer, and gave the plaintiff leave to amend.
But the record shows that the plaintiff in that case declined to amend his declaration, and that the court rendered judgment for the defendants. An appeal was prayed by the plaintiff; but it does not appear that the appeal, if it was allowed, was ever prosecuted; and the present defendants aver, in their plea in bar, that the matters and things set forth in the declaration in that case are the same matters and things as those set forth in the declaration in the present suit; that the plaintiff impleaded the defendants in that suit, in a court of competent jurisdiction, upon the same cause of action, disclosing the same ground of claim, and alleging the same facts to sustain the same, as are described and alleged in the present declaration; that the court had jurisdiction of the parties and of the subject-matter, and rendered a final judgment upon the merits in favor of the defendants and against the plaintiff, and that the judgment remains unreversed and in full force.
Plaintiff demurred to the plea; and the defendants joined in the demurrer, and the cause was continued. During the vacation, the original plaintiff deceased; and it was ordered that the cause be revived in the name of the executrix of his last will and testament. Both parties subsequently appeared and were heard; and the court, consisting of the circuit and dist ict judges, overruled the demurrer to the plea in bar, and decided that the plea is a good bar to the action.
Instead of amending the declaration pursuant to the leave granted, the plaintiff filed a replication to the plea in bar, to the effect following,—that the decision of the County Circuit Court of the State was not a decision and judgment on the merits of the case, but, on the contrary thereof, the judgment of that court only decided that the complaint or declaration did not state facts sufficient to sustain the action, in this, that, according to the allegations of the complaint, the original Evansville and Illinois Railroad Company, on the taking place of the alleged consolidation as set forth in the complaint, ceased to exist as a separate corporation; and that the complaint did not state any matters of fact showing a revivor of the suit against the consolidated company, or any facts which rendered such a revivor unnecessary; that the following allegations contained in the declaration in this case, and which were not contained in the complaint in the prior case, fully supply all the facts, for the want of which the demurrer was so sustained by the judge of the County Circuit Court, and in the defence of which he, the said judge, held that the suit had abated by the consolidation.
Matters omitted in the former declaration and supplied in the present, as alleged in the replication of the plaintiff, are the following: (1.) That the two companies, on the 18th of November, 1852, by virtue of the act to incorporate the Wabash Railroad Company, consolidated their charters, and united into one company under the name and style of the Evansville and Illinois Railroad Company; and that the consolidated company, under that name, continued to appear to and defend the said action in the said Supreme Court. (2.) That the legislature of the State of Indiana subsequently enacted that the corporate name of the consolidated company should be changed, and that the same should be called and known by the name of the Evansville and Crawfordsville Railroad Company, by which name the defendants have ever since been and now are known and called. (3.) That the act of the legislature changing the name of the consolidated company was subsequently duly and fully accepted by the directors of the company, and that the company became and was liable for all acts done by the two companies and each of them. (4.) That the consolidated company appeared and defended the said action in the Supreme Court of the State of New York by the name of the Evansville and Illinois Railroad Company, and continued to defend the same until final judgment was rendered in the case. (5.) That it did not, in any manner, appear in the former suit that the act of the legislature changing the name of the consolidated company ever went into force by its acceptance, or that the consolidated company had thereby, and by the acceptance of said act, become liable for all acts done by the said two companies before the consolidation, as is provided in the second section of said legislative act. Wherefore the plaintiff says that the decision in that case was not in any manner a decision upon its merits, nor in any manner a bar to this action.
Responsive to the replication, the defendants filed a special demurrer, and showed the following causes: (1.) That the reply is insufficient in law to enable the plaintiff to have and maintain her action. (2.) That the reply does not state facts sufficient to constitute a defence to the defendants' plea. (3.) That the reply does not state facts sufficient to constitute a good reply, nor to avoid the defendants' plea.
Hearing was had; and the court sustained the demurrer to the replication, and rendered judgment for the defendants; and the plaintiff sued out the present writ of error.
Questions of great importance are presented in the pleadings, all of which arise, in the first instance, from the demurrer of the defendants to the replication of the plaintiff. Leave to plead over by the plaintiff, after the testator's demurrer to the defendants' plea in bar, is not shown in the record; but, inasmuch as the replication of the plaintiff to the plea was filed without objection, the better opinion is that it is too late to object the replication was filed without leave.
Technical estoppels, it is conceded, must be pleaded with great strictness; but when a former judgment is set up in bar of a pending action, or as having determined the entire merits of the controversy involved in the second suit, it is not required to be pleaded with any greater strictness than any other plea in bar, or any plea in avoidance of the Matters alleged in the antecedent pleading. Reasonable certainty is all that is required in such a case, whether the test is applied to the declaration, plea, or replication, as the party whose pleading is drawn in question cannot anticipate what the response will be when he frames his pleading.
Cases undoubtedly arise where the record of the former suit does not show the precise point which was decided in the former suit, or does not show it with sufficient precision, and also where the party relying on the former recovery had no opportunity to plead it; but it is not necessary to consider those topics, as no such question are presented in this case for decision. Aside from all such questions, and independent even of the form of the plea in bar, the plaintiff makes several objections to the theory of the defendants, that the former judgment set up in the plea is a conclusive answer to the cause of action alleged in the declaration.
First, They contend that a judgment on demurrer is not a bar to a subsequent action between the same parties for the same cause of action, unless the record of the former action shows that the demurrer extended to all the disputed facts involved in the second suit, nor unless the subsequent suit presents the same questions as those determined in the former suit.
Secondly, They also deny that a former judgment is, in any case, conclusive of any matter or thing involved in a subsequent controversy, even between the same parties for the same cause of action, except as to the precise point or points actually litigated and determined in the antecedent litigation.
Thirdly, They contend that the declaration in the former suit did not state facts sufficient to sustain the alleged cause of action, and that the present declaration fully supplies all the defects and deficiencies which existed in the said former declaration.
1. Much discussion of the first proposition is unnecessary, as it is clear that the parties in the present suit are the same as the parties in the former suit; and it cannot be successfully denied that the cause of action in the pending suit is identical with that which was in issue between the same parties in the suit decided in the county circuit court. Where the parties and the cause of action are the same, the prima facie presumption is that the questions presented for decision were the same, unless it appears that the merits of the controversy were not involved in the issue; the rule in such a case being, that where every objection urged in the second suit was open to the party, within the legitimate scope of the pleadings, in the first suit, and might have been presented in that trial, the matter must be considered as having passed in rem judicatam, and the former judgment in such a case is conclusive between the parties. Outram v. Morewood, 3 East, 358; Greathead v. Bromley, 7 Term, 452.
2. Except in special cases, the plea of res judicata applies not only to points upon which the court was actually required to form an opinion and pronounce judgment, but to every point which properly belonged to the subject of the allegation, and which the parties, exercising reasonable diligence, might have brought forward at the time. 2 Taylor's Ev., sect. 1513; Henderson v. Henderson, 3 Hare, 115; Stafford v. Clark, 2 Bing. 382; Miller v. Covert, 1 Wend. 487; Bagot v. Williams, 3 B. & C. 241; Roberts v. Heine, 27 Ala. 678.
Decided cases may be found in which it is questioned whether a former judgment can be a bar to a subsequent action, even for the same cause, if it appears that the first judgment was rendered on demurrer: but it is settled law, that it makes no difference in principle whether the facts upon which the court proceeded were proved by competent evidence, or whether they were admitted by the parties; and that the admission, even if by way of demurrer to a pleading in which the facts are alleged, in just as available to the opposite party as if the admission was made ore tenus before a jury. Bouchard v. Dias, 3 Den. 244; Perkins v. Moore, 16 Ala. 17; Robinson v. Howard, 5 Cal. 428; Aurora City v. West, 7 Wall. 99; Goodrich v. The City, 5 id 573; Beloit v. Morgan, 7 id. 107.
From these suggestions and authorities two propositions may be deduced, each of which has more or less application to certain views of the case before the court: (1.) That a judgment rendered upon demurrer to the declaration or to a material pleading, setting forth the facts, is equally conclusive of the matters confessed by the demurrer as a verdict finding the same facts would be, since the matters in contorversy are established in the former case, as well as in the latter, by matter of record; and the rule is, that facts thus established can never after be contested between the same parties or those in privity with them. (2.) That if judgment is rendered for the defendant on demurrer to the declaration, or to a material pleading in chief, the plaintiff can never after maintain against the same defendant, or his privies, any similar or concurrent action for the same cause upon the same grounds as were disclosed in the first declaration; for the reason that the judgment upon such a demurrer determines the merits of the cause, and a final judgment deciding the right must put an end to the dispute, else the litigation would be endless. Rex v. Kingston, 20 State Trials, 588; Hutchin v. Compbell, 2 W. Bl. 831; Clearwater v. Meredith, 1 Wall. 43; Gould on Plead., sect. 42; Ricardo v. Garcias, 12 Cl. & Fin. 400.
Support to those propositions is found everywhere; but it is equally well settled, that, if the plaintiff fails on demurrer in his first action from the omission of an essential allegation in his declaration which is fully supplied in the second suit, the judgment in the first suit is no bar to the second, although the respective actions were instituted to enforce he same right; for the reason that the merits of the cause, as disclosed in the second declaration, were not heard and decided in the first action. Aurora City v. West, 7 Wall. 90; Gilman v. Rives, 10 Pet. 298; Richardson v. Barton, 24 How. 188.
Viewed in the light of that suggestion, it becomes necessary to examine the third proposition submitted by the plaintiff; which is, that the demurrer to the declaration in the former suit was sustained because the declaration was materially defective, and that the present declaration fully supplies all such imperfections and defects.
Different forms of expression, it may be conceded, are used, in several instances, in the declaration in the last suit, from those employed in the complaint exhibited in the former suit; but the substance and legal effect of the two pleadings, in the judgment of the court, are the same in all material respects. Even without any explanation, it is so apparent that the first and second alleged differences in the two pleadings are unsubstantial, that the objections may be passed over without further remark. Nor is there any substantial merit in the third suggestion in that regard, when the same is properly understood.
3. It is to the effect that the legislative act changing the name of the consolidated companies was accepted by the directors: but the complaint in the former suit alleged that the consolidated companies adopted the name of the Evansville and Crawfordsville Railroad Company, and that they took possession of all the rights, credits, and property of the two companies, and used and converted the same to their own use, in said corporate name; and that said company then and there and thereby became and were liable to pay all the debts and liabilities of the consolidated company, of which the claim of the plaintiff is one.
4. All that need be said in response to the fourth alleged difference is, that the plaintiff averred in the former suit that the defendants, from the consolidation to the rendition of the judgment, by their attorney, directed and managed the original suit wherein the judgment in question was rendered.
5. Finally, the complaint is that it did not appear in the record of the former suit that the act of the legislature changing the name of the consolidated company ever went into force by the acceptance of the same, or that the consolidated company ever bacame liable for the acts of the two companies done by those companies before the consolidation took place.
Sufficient has already been remarked to show that there is no merit in that objection, for the reason that it appears in the former complaint that the two companies, by virtue of the legislative act, became consolidated, and that the name assumed by the consolidated company was changed by an act of the legislature; that the consolidated company, by the new corporate name, took possession of all rights, credits, effects, and property of the original consolidated company, and that they, under that corporate name, became liable to pay all the debts and liabilities of the prior consolidated company; and they subsequently, by their attorney, directed and managed the defence in the suit wherein the said judgment was rendered.
Tested by these considerations, it is clear that the proposition that the defects, if any, in the declaration in the former suit were supplied by new allegations in the present suit, is not supported by a comparison of the two pleadings. Should it be suggested that the demurrer admits the proposition, the answer to the suggestion is, that the demurrer admits only the facts which are well pleaded; that it does not admit the accuracy of an alleged construction of an instrument when the instrument is set forth in the record, if the alleged construction is not supported by the terms of the instrument. Ford v. Peering, 1 Ves. Jr. 78; Lea v. Robeson, 12 Gray, 280; Redmond v. Dickerson, 1 Stockt. 507; Green v. Dodge, 1 Ham. 80.
Mere averments of a legal conclusion are not admitted by a demurrer unless the facts and circumstances set forth are sufficient to sustain the allegation. Nesbitt v. Berridge, 8 Law Times, N. S. 76; Murray v. Clarendon, Law Rep. 9 Eq. 11; Story's Eq. Plead. 254 b; Ellis v. Coleman, 25 Beav. 662; Dillon v. Barnard, 21 Wall. 430.
Examined in the light of these authorities, it is clear that the construction of the declaration in the former suit, as well as in the present, is still open, and that there is no error in the record.
MR. JUSTICE BRADLEY dissented.
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Four Tips for Keeping Indoor-Outdoor Cats Safe
Although many cat caretakers keep their charges indoors, some believe it’s crucial to their feline friends’ health and well-being to let them spend time outside. But an outdoor life can be dangerous for cats, and outdoor cats can be dangerous to songbirds or other prey species. So what’s a kitty parent to do? Here are some options that will help your cat stay safer and enjoy the outdoors.
1. Cat fence extender
A couple of companies make a kit you can install on an existing 5- or 6-foot fence that will make it impossible for a cat to climb over and roam outside your yard. Typically these consist of spring-loaded arms that support a high-strength mesh, which extends over your yard in a way that makes it impossible for a cat to climb out. A fence extender kit isn’t cheap (one company lists its product for $329), but it could be a good choice if you can afford it. For a more economical option, Alley Cat Allies has instructions on how to build a one yourself.
2. Outdoor enclosure
Many companies sell special outdoor cages and gazebos made for cats. These products range widely in size and price. Some are huge custom-made enclosures built from redwood and metal mesh that could cost hundreds, or perhaps even thousands, of dollars. There are also less-expensive build-it-yourself kits in which the vendor provides the parts and you provide the labor. If you have more carpentry skills than money, you can buy plans for outdoor enclosures from Just4Cats for about $25 and buy the materials yourself.
Celebrity cat behaviorist Jackson Galaxy recommends that cat caretakers who have limited space and felines with personality issues build their feline friends a “catio” to extend territory and provide extra entertainment. A web search will reveal several sites with designs and building instructions; Catio Designs is among the best known of these.
4. Leash and harness
If you don’t want to build an enclosure, or your landlord or homeowners' association won’t give you permission, give your kitty a safe taste of the outdoors by teaching him how to walk in a harness and leash. Some cats take to the harness and leash right away, while others need more time. To learn how to get your cat used to a harness and leash, check out these instructions or watch this video.
No matter how you choose to give your cat his outdoor time, make sure his vaccinations are up to date and that you’re using good-quality flea and heartworm prevention.
Have you built a special place for your cat to enjoy the outdoors? Do you take him for walks on a leash or in a stroller? Please tell us about your outdoor-but-safe kitty experiences in the comments.
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Despite having Metastatic Breast Cancer we as a community do not feel represented by the general Breast Cancer organizations. It is though they don't want to bring the "true" statistics to light and if we are around they would have to explain the truth about our disorder eg roughly 30% of early stage breast cancer patients will progress to Metastatic(stage IV) cancer and 8-10% start with MBC that means the approx 40% will have MBC AND that is a VERY different picture to the PINK story that says BC has a 90% cure rate. Metavivor advocates that 30% of funds should go towards MBC research. this is the stage where people die!!! Stop the metastasis= stop the deaths!! NO BODY DIES from EARLY STAGE BREAST CANCER!!!
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November 16 marks the 22nd anniversary of the 6 Jesuits and two women martyrs at the UCA in El Salvador. Remembering these men and women - who would certainly have been a powerful force in the 99% - over 1,000 students and teachers from Jesuit high schools and colleges came together in Washington DC last weekend for the Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice .
Three of us from NETWORK – Lobbyist Marge Clark, BVM, Education Coordinator Shannon Hughes, and myself (Field Coordinator Jean Sammon) – were happy to be a part of it. We were all re-energized by the young leaders from around the country who engaged with us in breakout sessions and at our display table.
I facilitated a Mind the Gap! workshop on Saturday night that was filled to capacity, and Shannon facilitated a second Mind the Gap! session on Sunday. The students were very aware of the wealth gap in the U.S. (and the global wealth gap) and came with questions about whether capitalism makes this gap inevitable. We talked a lot about the reasons that wealth disparity has grown so much in the past 30 years, which was a lifetime for most of the workshop participants. We saw that it doesn’t have to continue this way. Together, we identified policies that affect the wealth gap, such as tax rates, minimum wage, labor rights, and campaign financing. And we convinced ourselves that we have the power to change these policies, if we are dedicated to educating, organizing and advocacy.
Marge worked with the 70 participants from Oregon and Washington, in preparing for their Hill visit the next day. They were clear on the basics of a visit and had great ideas about how to persuade legislators to support the DREAM Act and to support students who had lived in the U.S. virtually all of their lives. They were excited to talk about the School of the Americas, and funneling of our tax dollars to that – when it could be going to support work-study programs for students struggling to stay in school. They were prepared for a vibrant day on the Hill.
The Teach-In closed Sunday night with Mass. After such rich conversations and time spent envisioning an economy that works for all of us, it seemed ironic to hear the gospel proclaim, “For to all those who have, more will be given . . . but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away.” Our presider, Fr. Don MacMillan, asked that we consider the behavior displayed and consequences received by each individual in the story, but wondered aloud what might have happened to each servant if they had invested and grown together.
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Giving up is easy. Life isn’t.
But you’re smart. You’re hard working. Your friends, spouse and kids respect you. And everything you have, you achieved because you’re a determined, bright and confident person.
You knew that, though, and it’s still not any easier to cope with what you’re up against. Maybe you lost your job, someone close to you fell ill, or it’s just one of those weeks—or months—when the little things keep piling up until the proverbial camel’s back is dangerously close to snapping.
If telling yourself that this, too, shall pass isn’t enough to shake the negativity, you need to take some action. Here’s how.
Take care of yourself
Not even Michael Phelps can tread water forever, and trying to keep your head above the surface while life keeps tossing waves at you can get you feeling like a pretty terrible swimmer.
In fact, it can convince you you’re just a downright terrible person.
When things get hard, you get depressed. That’s natural. And when you’re depressed, it’s a lot more difficult to find the motivation to do even the simplest things like cook a healthy meal, style your hair, or change into something that can’t double as pajamas.
But do them anyway- walk, run, exercise, go for a bike ride, lose weight if you need to, get out there and experience life.
Nutritional expert Isabel De Los Rios has countless stories of mothers who felt like the world was crashing down on them, only to turn it all around through putting themselves (and their health) first.
Eat. Get some sleep. Take pride in your appearance. Maybe it sounds like added stress, but it’s the physical and emotional boost you need to stay afloat through this. So first and foremost, take care of yourself!
Count your blessings
Literally. Make a list of everything good in your life—the big stuff, the little stuff, the silly stuff. If it makes you happy, put it on your list. Your kids, spouse and home are probably no-brainers. Your dog? Cat? Iguana? Throw him on there, too.
And don’t forget your grandma’s amazing stuffed shell recipe; your wedding photos; the way your daughter’s head smelled when she was six months old.
Anything that has brought you joy, anything that you’re grateful for, put it down on paper. Don’t be afraid to get crafty and glue some photos or trinkets on there, too. Then, hang it somewhere—like the fridge, or your office—so you can glance at it now and then and remind yourself that life is wonderful no matter how awful it may be right now.
The worst thing to do to yourself when you’re overwhelmed is add weight to an already unbearable pile. Most of us think that staying busy is the best way to distract from whatever obstacle we’re up against, but knowing when to hang up your cape and let someone else fight the battles is a really crucial skill to overcoming adversity.
If you don’t power yourself back up with ten minutes of deep breathing a day, you’ll lose your mind. No matter what you’re facing, there’s always time to give your mind and body a few minutes of peace. So take a walk, a bath, a nap or a job. Whatever you do, just turn your mind off.
Take out the trash
On the opposite side of that same coin, find a constructive way to handle all your negative energy. Maybe your finances are a puzzle you can’t seem to solve, or your marriage is in a rut. Or maybe your son just brought home a bad report card. Whatever’s filling you with angst, find a useful way to drain it.
My suggestion? Clean out your closet. Or your garage. Your basement, storage shed, or under the guest room bed. Wherever unwanted crap piles up in your home, attack it.
This constructive use of excess energy will keep your mind off whatever issue happens to be monopolizing your mental energy, allowing you to revisit it later on with a fresh set of eyes.
Plus, getting rid of some of the crap in your life is always uplifting.
Invoke some altruism
Whether you offer to babysit the neighbor’s kids while they’re at a movie, or offer up your time at a soup kitchen, find a way to help other people out with absolutely no gain for yourself.
Look, when things feel too big to manage, a new perspective can shrink them back down to size. If you feel like you can’t fix whatever’s beating you down, fix something else. Reminding yourself that you’re a competent, compassionate person might be the jumpstart you need to get out of whatever rut you’re broken down in.
One bonus tip?
Look in the mirror and smile.
Guest post by Hannah, a sufferer of Crohn’s disease, who has been through many challenges life can dish out. However, she never let it deter her from her dreams of helping herself and helping others. From the days she was in a hospital, severely thin and sick, to the healthy version of what she is today, she is living her dream of sharing the message of health, fitness, and healthy eating through her writing. From her writing for http://naturalweightlosstruth.com, to her reviews for The Truth About Abs Program, she’s always finding ways to help more people live the life their meant to.
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Regular checks of your pasture and surrounding fence should be integrated into your barn chores.
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Where your horses are concerned, it’s better to be safe than sorry. The very qualities that attract us to horses—size and strength, intelligence, playfulness, curiosity—are what necessitate a secure turnout environment. So, without fail, regular checks of your pasture and surrounding fence should be integrated into your barn chores. After all, most pasture hazards are like weeds—you can get rid of them, but that doesn’t mean they won’t come back. Here are the top 10:
1. Gates Left Open
An open gate is a horse-magnet. Never make the mistake of leaving the gate unlatched “for a moment” while you do something nearby. Don’t ride through an open gate to the barn and assume you’ll remember to shut the gate. You’ll either be chasing excited horses down the road or tearfully explaining to your friends and family what happened to cause a tragic accident.
2. Electric Fence Failure
All horse fencing should be inspected periodically; however, electric fence requires extra attention. It is a sound and inexpensive alternative to wood, PVC and non-electrified high tensile, but it easily shorts out and loses voltage. Any number of occurrences can cause an electric fence failure: fallen tree limbs, rusty wire connections that either sap the voltage or break, wet grass and weeds, or broken insulators that allow wire to come into contact with fence.
A continuous snapping noise often alerts you to a problem with your electric fence, yet voltage drainage can be silent and go undetected for quite a while if you fail to check your system. You can buy inexpensive, hand-held voltage testers for manual checks, or make this as easy as a glance with a voltage tester that permanently hangs on your electric fence.3. Loose or Broken Boards
Many horse owners choose to install board fence rather than lower-maintenance options because of wood’s beauty, sturdiness and long history of association with fine horse farms. Unfortunately, weather wreaks havoc on wood, causing dryness and splitting, leading to popped nails and loose boards. Even without the damaging effects of weather, horses love to chew, lean on, scratch their butts against, stick their heads through and push each other into fencing, all of which results in weakened boards. Broken wood is the cause of most fence-related puncture wound injuries. Paint the wood fence to protect it from the drying effects of weather and anchor the nails to posts. Periodically walk your fence line to assess damage; carry a hammer and a few nails to avoid a trip back to the barn because invariably the section that needs repair will be in the farthest corner of your field.
4. Protrusions—Tree Limbs, Sharp Edges
Own horses long enough and you will someday be scratching your head about an injury to one of them that just seems impossible. It is a horse truism—if there’s something in the pasture your horses should stay away from, they will find that spot like a heat-seeking missile. One summer evening, my Appaloosa gelding calmly sauntered into the barn with a bloody 2-inch square flap of skin hanging over his eye. An after-hours vet call, four tranquilizers, 24 stitches and $250 later, I never did find out how he sliced open his forehead. Even so, that injury became the catalyst to reinspect and “horseproof” my pastures.
5. Toxic Plants
The easiest way to find out what toxic plants you should be looking for in your pasture is to contact your agricultural extension agent and ask about which ones thrive in your region. You can then either search the Internet to identify those plants (there are scads of websites devoted to this subject), or buy a book such as the Horse Owners Field Guide to Toxic Plants by Sandra Burger (Breakthrough, 1996).
Toxic plants and deadly pasture inhabitants are like serial killers—they often appear harmless. Investigators were stumped a few years ago when an inordinate number of Kentucky foals died mysteriously. Turns out, the culprits were tent caterpillars that eliminated a form of cyanide after eating cherry tree leaves. Other “killer bugs” are blister beetles that infest hay. And, pregnant mare owners should be aware of fescue toxicosis that causes the placenta to separate prematurely.
6. Objects Working Up from the Ground
|Louann Chaudier is a freelance writer and horse owner based in Wisconsin.|
Before I owned a farm, I never understood why farmers have to “pick rock” more than once. I was incredulous that items in the ground could rise to the surface without anyone digging for them. Well, now I know. It isn’t so much that items work their way up, as the elements, and our horses, work the soil down. If there’s something sharp, it may very well end up under your horse’s hoof. Unfortunately, our horses’ eyes are far away from their feet, and when they are busy running and playing, they aren’t particularly careful about where they put those hooves. Again, check your pasture periodically for anything potentially dangerous underfoot.
7. Wrong Kind of Fence
In order for your horses to be safe in their pasture, the fence needs to accommodate the specific types of horses you own. If you own a stallion, for example, he should not be pastured near a field of mares without a sturdy fence that’s tall enough to discourage him from jumping or running through it. Aside from the considerable hazards of your stallion running loose, none of your neighbors will welcome an unplanned foal either.
Mares with foals require special consideration, too. If the bottom rail of your fence is high enough for a foal to roll under, one day you may find him outside the pasture while his frantic mother paces and calls from the other side. This is another disaster in the making. You thought enough of your mare to want a foal from her, so why tempt fate? Pasture the mare and foal within a fence designed to keep them safely together such as “horseproof” no-climb wire mesh.
If you buy a farm that has unsuitable fence for horses, you must replace it. The money you spend for one vet bill caused by a horrific injury will go a long way toward paying for safe fencing. If you are new to horse-farm ownership and not sure what’s best for your particular circumstances, contact major fence manufacturers or dealers, or do your own research via magazine articles, books and the Internet. Fence manufacturers will be glad to provide information to help you make an informed choice based upon your type of operation and budget.
8. Incompatible Horses Pastured Together
Horses are similar to people in that they sometimes just don’t like their close neighbors, but unlike us they can’t simply avoid them. The conflicts created by equine personality clashes can be quite severe, so it’s never advisable to introduce a new horse to your herd by opening the pasture gate and assuming they will “sort it out.” In fact, you should initiate a gradual process to get them acquainted whereby they can’t hurt each other.
Horses can be brutal, like schoolchildren. Some will never accept a particular individual, and, if allowed, may run the poor horse ragged or right through a fence. You need to be aware that these skirmishes can crop up any time there’s a new member in the pasture whose place has yet to be established in the herd.
Age can cause a change in compatibility, too. Herd hierarchy often changes when illness or age affect a horse’s ability to maintain his position. Inevitably, there will be a horse that wants to take his place.
9. Shared Fence Lines
Even though most of us want to use every spare foot of land for pasture, it’s not advisable to share fence lines between pastures of horses that are likely to play or fight over the top. This is a judgment call: If you have adjoining pastures of geriatrics, you probably don’t need to worry; however, if you have yearling colts on one side and 2-year-olds on the other, you’d be better off with an aisle between fields. Stallions shouldn’t be able to interact over the fence, either.
Even with adjoining fields of compatible horses, it’s wise to adopt injury-preventive measures such as putting caps on t-posts, stringing electric wire or tape along the top rail, or “flagging” fence to define boundaries for new horses.
10. Gopher/Animal Holes
Many old westerns feature cowboys atop galloping horses that take spectacular tumbles after inadvertently stepping into an animal burrow. That may seem an unlikely occurrence for more urban settings; however, if you look closely, animal burrows are everywhere. On my own Wisconsin farm I have a surplus of gophers, groundhogs and chipmunks that think my pasture makes a great subdivision. Some of the holes are too small for a hoof; others are big enough to accommodate an NFL football. Holes in the pasture should be identified and filled in each spring, before they become invisible by summer grass and weeds. Similarly, if you’ve picked rock out of your pasture and left sizeable hollows in the ground, these should be filled. Check for old post-holes as well.
Eliminating pasture hazards is essential to the well-being of our horses and, for those of us who ride in our pastures, our own personal safety. The time we spend checking our pastures and fences is minimal compared to the hours we’d incur nursing an injured horse.
Read more on pasture management >>
* This article first appeared in the March 2005 issue of Horse Illustrated.
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Broadband in Pioneer Square
Workers lay fiber conduit under First Avenue
In 2011 Pioneer Square was rapidly becoming a hub for Seattle's software startup industry, but many businesses were still being held back by a lack of access to high-speed broadband. To address the issue, in May of 2011 the City laid fiber conduit under four blocks of First Avenue during an unrelated construction project and then put out a Request for Proposals (RFP) for internet service providers to use that conduit to provide fiber optic-based broadband to customers in Pioneer Square. Comcast ultimately submitted a proposal and used the new conduit to provide faster broadband access to more than 50 new customers in the neighborhood.
You can read the Mayor's blog post from May of 2011, which includes a video of the full press conference, here.
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An "Old Fashioned Ice Cutting Work Party" was recently held near Canton with over 20 people in attendance. Melinda Ely pries the blocks off of the row that James Graves and Bruce Kilgore are sawing through. The blocks were then loaded on to a steel-wheel horse-drawn wagon with a team of Belgian horses, led by local Amish brothers and belonging to Sow's Ear Farm (the Douglass Family). The ice-house up at the farm was loaded with 250-300 of these outsized ice blocks. This was the first in the 2012 series of Rural Skills Workshops sponsored by the Sustainable Living Project. To visit the Facebook page and see more photos, click here.
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Maria Miller’s claim that it’s the Conservative Party that’s stood up for woman would be laughable if it weren’t for the bleak situation her government’s created. Time and again, women are being hit hardest by this out of touch Tory-led government.
It is women who are bearing the brunt of the government’s austerity policies. Women who are struggling to make ends meet as cuts begin to bite. And women who are picking up more and more of the pieces.
Last month’s autumn statement saw women hit four times as hard as men by cuts to benefits and tax credits. Lone parents, the vast majority of whom are women, were hit hardest of all. All in all, women are paying three times as much as men to pay down the deficit – £12.1 billion of the £16 billion to be raised by 2014/15.
New mums will be £1300 worse off, thanks to the loss of the health in pregnancy grant, the higher rate of child tax credit for babies under 1 year old, restrictions on the Sure Start maternity grant, and the “mummy tax”, which will cost new mums £180 by 2015.
And while Miller claims proudly that women will benefit from the increase in the personal tax allowance, she neglects to mention that this measure benefits more men than it does women. What’s more, many of the women who do benefit will see those gains more than wiped out by the loss of tax credits and other benefits.
As for unemployment, this has risen much faster among women than men since the general election. A shocking 89% of the rise in long-term unemployment is among women, with older women hit particularly hard. They’ve seen a 20% increase in unemployment since May 2010, compared to less than 1% for everyone else.
Meanwhile the government’s Work Programme – which isn’t even working to get people into jobs as effectively as doing nothing at all would have done – has performed especially poorly for lone parents.
But it’s not just economically that the government is failing women. Women’s safety has been compromised by a series of cuts and poor decisions.
A 31% cut in funding for refuges and specialist advice is threatening the safety of women fleeing or at risk of domestic and sexual violence. Services for vulnerable women are at risk.
Public transport staff are being cut – so women feel less safe travelling alone, or waiting at lonely stations.
Even the street lights are being switched off to save money, leaving women feeling more unsafe when walking home at night.
Perhaps though it’s no wonder women are served so poorly by the ConDem government – there are so few women members of it. Just 4 out of 25 members of David Cameron’s cabinet are women. After his last reshuffle , we were left with even fewer women members than before. 5 of the government’s ministerial teams have no women members at all.
So it’s risible for Miller to defend the government’s record on promoting women. Her suggestion that Labour women shadow cabinet members are there as “window dressing”, meanwhile, is a crass and frankly indefensible insult to the talent and ability of Labour’s senior women. Perhaps instead Miller should reflect on the fact that there are more Labour women MPs than all the other parties put together. The Conservatives could learn a lot by looking at our example.
But in the end, we have to ask: do the Conservatives really care about any this? Just over 12 months ago, a leaked number 10 memo admitted the government had a problem with women. A year on, and they’ve apparently learned nothing. At a Downing Street press conference earlier this week, Cameron and Clegg presented their midterm review of the government’s “achievements”. Tellingly, not a single woman journalist present was invited to ask a question . The reality was plain to see: there’s a blindspot when it comes to women.
Kate Green is the Labour MP for Stretford and Urmston
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Ford has transformed a nearly 60-year-old assembly plant into the new home of the redesigned Escape, its entry in the ultra-competitive small SUV category. And its bolstered the workforce to make the vehicle.
Ford Motor Co. invested $600 million to revamp its Louisville Assembly Plant, which features a new body, paint and trim assembly lines. The plant produced Ford Explorers from the early 1990s until late 2010.
On Wednesday, the plant celebrated the launch of the new Escape, which goes on sale this month.
The plants hourly workforce will swell to about 4,200 once a third shift is added this fall, the company said. As a spinoff, suppliers are adding more than 900 jobs in support of Escape production, Ford said.
Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer called it a generational type of investment by the automaker.
Its a wonderful shot in the arm for our economy, he said.
Many of the jobs were filled by incumbent Ford workers in Louisville or from places where factories closed or downsized.
But some 18,000 applicants scrambled for about 1,800 new jobs at the plant; those jobs have since been filled.
Once the third shift cranks up, the Louisville plant will rank among the largest workforces at Fords domestic assembly plants.
The plants wage scale ranges from nearly $16 anhour for new hires to about $28 an hour for the most skilled workers.
That work force had shrunk to about 1,100 when the last Explorers rolled off the assembly line at the Louisville plant in late 2010. Production of that midsize SUV has shifted to a Chicago plant.
Some employees thought they had pulled their last shifts at the Louisville plant when it was idled.
When we went down, there were a lot of people who didnt believe wed ever retool, said Steven M. Stone, the UAW chairman for the Louisville Assembly Plant.
Now, the remodeled plant is touted as the most flexible in Fords domestic assembly chain, capable of producing up to six different models at the same time. It can build small, medium or large vehicles, but Ford officials havent discussed any other models for the plant.
Were putting that flexibility in for a reason, to take advantage of it in the future, said Jim Tetreault, Fords vice president of North America Manufacturing.
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When you get close to menopause, there are changes that happen and most of them are not pleasant. One of the worst symptoms for most women is the hot flashes that can turn a 50 degree evening into a few moments in the Sahara Desert.
There are ways to deal with hot flashes. Some will work for you and others won’t. Try various things until you find something that works – and enjoy the savings on your heating bill this winter.
Drink It Up
Water, that is. Keeping your body hydrated is important for health as well as cutting down on the number and severity of hot flashes.
Wearing layers of clothing is the only way to go. If you put short sleeved shirt on under a jacket or sweater you can start removing clothing as soon as you feel that tingly heat. Gauzy, loose fitting clothing made from materials that breathe are also helpful during your own personal heat wave.
Keep It Cool
If you are in control of the thermostat, keep it as cool as possible during this season of your life. Get a fan to put on your desk at work and aim it at your face when you feel the flush start up. Keep layers of covers on your bed, each in a different weight so you can control the amount of warmth you get.
This may sound ridiculous but I sleep with one leg on the top of the covers because it keeps me from getting overheated. It’s all about finding what works, right?
Spice It Down
Spicy foods are more likely to bring on a hot flash than foods that aren’t spicy. So can caffeine and alcohol. Keep a record of what you eat and your hot flashes and see if you can find what may be triggering you.
Speaking of Eating
Being overweight will increase the tendency to have hot flashes and can make them even more severe. Talk to your health care provider about your best weight and tips for getting there.
Breathe, Breathe, Breathe
Learning to slow down and deepen your breathing can help you through a hot flash. Breathe in deeply through your nose, allowing your ribcage to expand fully. Let your breath out slowly through your mouth with a whooshing sound. You should feel your body relax and your heat index drop dramatically.
If you happen to be in public and someone stares just lean over and whisper, “I’m a ninja.â€
Don’t Be Afraid to Medicate
When your menopause symptoms begin to create problems and affect your quality of life then it is time to consider prescription medications. There are a variety of hormone replacement therapies that help reduce hot flashes. Make an appointment to talk with your doctor about your concerns and possible treatment.
Going through menopause is as big of a change in your life and adjustment as it was when you first started to have periods. It probably took you a while to adjust back then, and you can expect it to take a while for you to adjust now.
Accept that it is happening, learn all you can about how to deal with symptoms, and try different ways to relieve those symptoms. It’s a season that will pass – eventually.
photo credit: Enfad
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From fresh picked produce to delicious homemade treats, from herbs and preserves to local meats and much more, you can find the freshest local products from your favorite hometown farmers at the Clinton County Farmers Market.
The Clinton County Farmers’ Market has been in existence since 2000 and is run under the supervision of Tony Nye of the Clinton County OSU Extension Office. A Market Board of Directors was created in 2010 to assist with the weekly management of the Market and the overall growth and sustainability of the Farmers’ Market. The Board of Directors is made up of ten business owners, community leaders, and Master Gardeners who share a passion for supporting local farmers and the Market.
In addition to the Board of Directors, Grow Food, Grow Hope has assisted with several new developments at the Farmers’ Market. These developments include: the creation of the Winter Farmers’ Market, a Market Sponsorship program, an increase in special events and activities at the weekly markets, and the introduction of an EBT (Electronic Benefits Transfer) program for the 2011 summer season that will allow the Market to take food assistance benefits.
The Summer Market is held in the Mural Parking Lot at 81 W. Main Street, Wilmington, Ohio on Wednesdays from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon. The summer season runs from June to October.
The Winter Market is housed in a covered greenhouse at Swindler and Son’s Florists, 321 W. Locust St., Wilmington, Ohio, and runs between November and May. The Market is held from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm and meets on the first and third Saturday of the month during November to May, and on the second and fourth Saturday in January.
For more information on the Market, please visit the Clinton County Farmers' Market website or contact Dessie Buchanan at email@example.com
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Support for Older People
Eligibility criteria - what is it?
Eligibility is about working out who we can support with services. It is based on a national framework called Fair Access to Care Services (FACS) which helps Councils to make sure that the way in which they support people is fair, open and consistent.
What are the criteria?
There are four bands which measure the seriousness of the risk to someone's independence and well-being or other consequences if their needs are not addressed. These are:
How do we apply the criteria in Coventry?
We can provide services to people whose needs are within the critical and substantial bands. This is worked out by using a FACS assessment tool and it takes place at the end of an assessment. Your case manager will be able to explain what this will mean in your individual circumstances.
Even if your needs do not meet the critical and substantial eligibility bands we will still be able to give you advice and information or put you in touch with someone else that can better help with your situation.
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Now more than ever, cutting costs is becoming a way of life. I know my drive up to the Napa Valley a few weekends ago cost me a bundle in gas – even though my car is pretty gas friendly – which in turn had me cutting corners the rest of the week to make up for the price of filling the tank. Of course, when it comes to North, I'll spare no expense if he needs something, however these days you may not find me adding a doggie perfume into my virtual shopping cart just for the heck of it. We can all use a crash course in how to cut back our living costs, whether it be due to the economy, because we want to save up for a rainy day, or maybe you're a closet penny pincher who loves finding great deals. Whatever the reason, I have a few simple tips that you can incorporate easily into your daily routine that can help you save some cash on pet costs.
Find out what they are when you read more.
- Keep a list of things that your pet needs in order from highest priority to lowest. This way, you can keep focused and not get distracted by those bling'd out Flexi's (that you could totally DIY and save some money in the process) while you should be focusing on getting him a new bed.
- Keep an eye out for my Online Sale Alerts, and search around for your own. Sites like RetailMeNot and CurrentCodes keep you on top of sales so you can get what you want for less.
- Check your local dollar stores for pet toys. There's usually one close to major grocery stores, so next time you're out shopping, make a point to stop in and check it out. Keep in mind that not all cheap toys are cheaply made. If you're on the lookout, you can often get some pretty durable toys at those dollar stores that carry goods from bigger box stores. You just might find some diamonds in the "ruff"!
- It goes without saying, but be proactive about your pet's health. Get all necessary vaccinations and check ups on time to prevent problems (and higher expenses) down the road.
- Do as much grooming on your own as possible. Taking your pet in for a nail clipping is much more cost effective than taking her in for the works!
Do you have your own money saving tips? Leave them in the comments below!
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And today, I thought I would share with you a small and mundane element from the everyday French office life. A food-related element, that goes without saying.
In France, the set of laws that governs the work environment, le code du travail, forbids you to eat in the rooms where you work (ahem -- no, I don't know how those crumbs got into my keyboard, did they maybe chip off from the ceiling?). But if enough employees wish to eat in their workplace, the employer must provide a way for them to do so under safe and healthy conditions. He can either furnish a room with chairs, tables, a fridge and a microwave, or he can give them access to a cafeteria (usually operated by large catering companies), or he can give them lunch vouchers to use in nearby restaurants.
Such vouchers are called chèques-repas, chèques-déjeuner or titres-restaurant, but are most often referred to as tickets resto. You get a little checkbook at the beginning of the month, with one voucher for each day that you will work. Their value is co-financed by you and your employer, usually on a 50/50 basis, which means that if your ticket resto has a 6€ face value, it costs you 3€ (deducted from your paycheck) while your boss pays for the other 3€. The incentive is that the whole thing is tax-deductible for the employer as for the employee. Of course, the higher the face value of your tickets restos, the bigger the perk, and it's one of many ways to judge how well a company treats its employees.
Most restaurants in France will display a little sticker on their door to indicate that they accept those vouchers, provided they are open for lunch and are interested in catering to the office crowd. If you're not sure you can just go ahead and ask -- "Vous prenez les tickets resto?" -- but be warned that some mid- or upscale restaurants will look at you with contempt and scoff: "On n'est pas chez Flunch"*, as I was once told at a restaurant where they thought good food could make up for obnoxious service.
* Flunch is a French chain of cafeterias, often found in malls.
The use of tickets resto is restricted by a thousand and one rules. They are only valid for the current year (the 2005 vouchers will expire in January of 2006). Restaurant owners are legally forbidden to give you any change on them, even if what you buy is less than the face value of your ticket resto -- this to prevent said tickets resto from becoming a currency of their own -- but they will sometimes give back up to one euro, or give you a credit for next time. Theoretically you should only use one voucher per meal, but that rule is hardly ever respected by restaurants and I have occasionally used eight or ten at a time: since I sometimes bring my own lunch into the office, my vouchers tend to pile up and when the expiration date draws near I find myself frantically trying to use them up -- or trade them with my coworkers, who spend them more regulary.
A generous use for your tickets resto, if you're so inclined, is to give one every once in a while to the homeless people who make their way from car to car on the metro, explaining the dire straits they find themselves in and asking for "une pièce de monnaie, une cigarette ou un ticket restaurant" -- a bit of change, a cigarette or a restaurant voucher. A tax-deductible gesture that's always much appreciated by the recipient.
Chocolate & Zucchini [http://chocolateandzucchini.com]
All writing and photography on Chocolate & Zucchini is Copyright Clotilde Dusoulier © 2003-2010 unless indicated otherwise. All rights reserved.
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White House's cyber plan is weak on enforcement
Can businesses be relied on to do the job on their own?
Cybersecurity legislation recently proposed by the Obama Administration is hardly revolutionary. Its main purpose is to bolster the security of the nation’s information infrastructure by more clearly defining roles and responsibilities both in government and the private sector.
This is fine, as far as it goes, but the proposal stops short of ensuring the security of privately owned critical infrastructure. The Homeland Security Department would be given limited regulatory authority over core critical infrastructure (“really critical” critical infrastructure), but the enforcement sections are long on carrot and short on stick.
In letters to the leaders of the House and Senate, Jacob J. Lew, director of the Office of Management and Budget, outlined what the proposed legislation would do.
White House cyber plan would expand role of DHS, private sector
Under cybersecurity plan, agencies would answer to DHS
“The Administration's proposal would protect individuals by requiring businesses to notify consumers if personal information is compromised and clarifies penalties for computer crimes, including mandatory minimums for critical infrastructure intrusions,” the letter says. “The proposal would improve critical infrastructure protection by bolstering public-private partnerships with improved authority for the federal government to provide voluntary assistance to companies and increase information sharing. It also would protect federal government networks by formalizing management roles, improving recruitment of cybersecurity professionals, and safeguarding the nation's access to cost-effective data storage solutions.”
What is just as significant is what the proposal does not do. It does not mention the cybersecurity coordinator, appointed in 2009 as the first item in the near-term recommendations from the Cyberspace Policy Review. By leaving this out of legislation, the position, now filled by Howard A. Schmidt, remains outside congressional oversight.
It also does not mention presidential authority to take action during a cyber emergency, the controversial “kill switch” provision included in a bill now pending in the Senate. The president already has plenty of emergency authority under existing telecommunications law, White House officials have said.
Finally, it gives DHS responsibility for ensuring that operators of covered critical infrastructure maintain adequate cybersecurity plans in line with industry consensus best practices and standards, but it does not say how this is to be enforced.
The plans would be vetted by accredited third-party auditors and approved by DHS. If DHS does not approve, it has a set of tiered options: Enter into discussions with the owner or operator; issue a public statement after discussions; and finally, “take such other action as may be determined appropriate.”
Except that DHS shall not, “issue a shutdown order, require use of a particular measure or impose fines, civil penalties, or monetary liabilities on the owner or operator of the covered critical infrastructure as a result of such review."
It probably is a good idea not to have DHS issue shutdown orders or to require that specific technology be used in a security plan. But with civil penalties, fines and monetary liabilities also off the table it is hard to see what leverage the department has beyond cajoling and issuing public statements.
This framework is a reflection that “we don’t believe government has all the answers here,” a DHS official said.
Industry officials point out that private sector companies have a vested interest in maintaining adequate security and that regulation should be kept at a minimum. But companies have always had that interest, and to date it has not translated into adequate security. Epsilon and Sony had vested interests in securing their infrastructures, yet both have suffered embarrassing and damaging breaches. Relying on a company to look after its own best interests is not an adequate policy for protecting the public’s interest.
Administration officials have said that the proposed legislation is not a finished product, but a starting point for discussions with Congress and the private sector. Should this ever mature into an actual bill, it should contain stronger provisions for enforcing critical infrastructure security.
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Evolving in Reverse…
Posted by alex in evolution, science at 2:12 pm | Permanent Link
Dysgenics a Reality
Reverse human evolution plausible, testable, U.S. biologist says
A much-derided theory that five people who walk on all fours are products of “backward evolution� is plausible, and testable, said a U.S. biologist who weighed in on the controversy last week.
The debate erupted last month after a Turkish scientist proposed that the five siblings in Turkey, who also speak what he called a primitive language, had undergone backward evolution. The claim met with skepticism, even jeers, from some fellow scientists. But Keith Crandall of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, said the idea is nothing extraordinary, calling it a “nice and testable hypothesis.�
Reverse evolution occurs when an organism returns to the genetic state of its ancestors, said Crandall, who wrote a paper on the topic in the Oct. 2003 issue of the research journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution. In that work, he wrote that reverse evolution is documented in various organisms, such as fish that lose their eyes after living in dark caves for generations.
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Barnes & Noble (NYSE:BKS) is the largest bookseller in terms of sales revenue in the United States.The company operates 1300+ stores and an online retailer Barnes & Noble.com. Its core business model relies on building local bookstores with comprehensive selection, attractive discounts and membership discount programs, and a community-gathering-place environment (e.g., the inclusion of a Starbucks cafe in each Barnes & Noble store).
Barnes & Noble has been suffering from diminishing margins as sales in the company's retail store struggle. Declining operating margins were mainly caused by higher discounts offered to compete with lower-priced online booksellers, one of the main negative pressures the print industry is facing right now due to a number of negative industry trends. To mitigate the company's slower retail book sales, Barnes & Noble has put a large amount of resources into the developing eBook market. As the demand for portable and low-cost books increases, the market for eBooks and eReaders will grow as well. Barnes & Noble's Nook offers wireless connectivity and access to millions of books. The company does face intense competition in the relatively young market, primarily from Amazon's Kindle 3, which has many of the same features as the Nook. The two companies have been engaged in price wars over the eReaders, something that is risky for Barnes & Noble. The two competitors also face competition from non-exclusive eReaders such as Apple's iPad.
Although the company does not give specific breakdowns of its business segments, it sells products in these general categories:
The electronic book (eBook) revolution has arrived. Electronic readers (eReaders) offer portability and storage, language attributes, low cost for book purchases, access to millions of free books, and a smaller carbon footprint compared to print books among other benefits. As a result, eBook demand has skyrocketed, with revenue in the industry reaching $398 million in 2009 and expected sales to be $2.5 billion by 2013.
Much of the slowdown in the sales revenue of the print retailers may be attributed to the increasing popularity and convenience of online retailers, especially Amazon.com. In fact, Barnes & Nobles expects the physical book market to decrease from $21 billion to $19 billion by 2013. Many online retailers are also a part of the CD and DVD retail segment, where Barnes & Noble has limited its exposure so as not to suffer from lagging sales of CDs due to digital media devices (mp3s), another edge for online retailers. To compete in the e-commerce sphere, Barnes & Noble established its own online retailing website.
The retail book market is slow to change and is at this point closed off from new superstore entrants. Barnes & Nobles looks to use its strong position as the leading U.S. bookseller to capitalize on its contracts with Starbucks for in-store cafes to maintain and grow its market share. Barnes & Nobles competes on two fronts, with other physical retailers and with internet booksellers.
Barnes & Noble competes with other companies who share its model of having massive book superstores with thousands of titles.
Amazon.com is the largest online competition for Barnes & Noble. Formerly partnered with Borders, Amazon offers the convenience of never having to leave your home to buy a book. Additionally, without some of the overhead inherent for B&M stores, Amazon.com can offer low prices or free shipping, leading to further price competition. Amazon also competes with Barnes & Noble's Nook in the eReader market with the Kindle 3.
Wal-Mart and Target are the main retail megastores, which sell everything from books to clothes to groceries. Despite not being a core sales segment of their business, these larger stores have had an impact on the sale of books by making best sellers more widely available. This puts pressure on traditional book retailers like Barnes & Noble to cut prices on bestsellers to retain store traffic, leading to diminished margins.
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Congressman proposes bill to make ESRB ratings legally binding
Rep. Jim Matheson wants US system to mirror Europe's
A U.S. congressman has proposed a bill which will ratify the country's ESRB ratings system into law, making age ratings compulsory on boxes and the sale of adult games to minors illegal.
Representative Jim Matheson has tabled H.R. 287 partly in response to the recent public shooting tragedies in America, which has reignited debates on gun ownership and regulation as well as prompting President Obama to call for research into the effects of violent gaming on young minds.
The bill, listed as inteding "to require ratings label on video games and to prohibit the sales and rentals of adult-rated video games to minors," is in its earliest stages, having been referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce after its proposal.
Should the bill pass, the US will likely introduce a similar system to that of the legally enforced, Europe-wide PEGI system, which took over from the BBFC's rating system last year, becoming law in July. Australia also passed ratings laws last year, finally introducing a "R18 rating to allow the sale of mature games.
For a more in depth assessment of the impact of the PEGI ruling, and the thinking behind it, hear UKIE CEO and consultant Andy Robertson discussing the move in the GamesIndustry International podcast from July, 2012.
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|Fidel Castro said people still refered to him "affectionately" by his former titles.
Fidel Castro has finally confirmed his resignation as head of Cuba''s Communist Party, five years after quitting the post.
Castro, 84, retreated from public life and ceded most of his duties to his brother, Raul Castro, when he underwent emergency intestinal surgery in 2006.
He officially handed the country''s presidency to his brother, Raul Castro, in February 2008, having led the Caribbean nation since the 1959 revolution that brought him to power.
The Communist Party is due to hold its first congress since 1997 next month, prompting speculation that a new leader, assumed by many to be Raul Castro, would be formally chosen. A new central committee for Cuba''s only legal political party is also expected to be elected.
In a column published in the state-run media on Tuesday, Fidel Castro said he had already given up all of his official positions, although he said people continued to refer to him "affectionately" by his former titles.
"I resigned without hesitation all my state and political positions, even that of First Secretary of the Party, when I got sick and I never tried to exercise them after the proclamation of July 31, 2006," a reference to the statement in which he ceded power to his brother.
Castro is widely believed to have continued playing a behind-the-scenes role during his illness and made his first public appearance in four years last July.
His announcement prompted surprise among some Cubans.
"It''s incredible. Nobody can believe it," said Magaly Delgado, a 72-year-old Havana retiree, told the Associated Press news agency. "I always thought he was still in charge. ... He never said he had resigned."
Meanwhile, the Roman Catholic Church said on Tuesday that the Cuban government would release two political dissidents held since 2003.
Activists Felix Navarro and Jose Daniel Ferrer are the last of 75 prominent intellectuals, opposition leaders and activists whose imprisonment on charges including treason had attacked criticism from Amnesty International and human rights activists.
Cuba has been releasing the prisoners gradually under a July agreement reached between Raul Castro and Jaime Ortega.
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SALISBURY, Md. - Remember that old saying, "an apple a day keeps the doctor away"? The latest medical research is touting a different fruit - grapes - the key ingredient to wine. And it seems Americans are taking note.
According to new research, the United States is now the number one consumer of wine in the world. Meanwhile, Americans are drinking less beer: nearly 11 percent less since the start of the recession.
But it is a different story when it comes to wine. Last year, Americans guzzled a record 3.7 billion bottles of wine.
Some Delmarva businesses said they have definitely noticed the boom on the peninsula.
Whenever Jeff Trivits and his crew stock up for diners at Sobo's Wine and Beerstro in Salisbury, they want to make sure their shelves are full. There is a good reason why.
"Wine sales here locally have definitely increased," Trivits explained.
In fact, Sobo's saw an 11 percent increase in wine sales from 2010 to 2011; a statistic shedding light on a nationwide trend.
"When Sobo's was opened, I don't think there was that strong of a wine base in this area. The opening of a lot of local wineries have given the locals more understanding of wine, more appreciation of wine," Trivits said.
Down the street, Vinny Bellia, owner of Vinny's La Roma, said the same thing. He is selling more bottles of wine than in past years and he thinks he might know why.
"Doctors and everyone keep saying it's good for your health, it lowers your cholesterol. And personally, I like wine with my dinner more than beer, cause it blows you up."
Local wine lovers agree.
"I love the way it complements my food. I'm not really into hard liquor or beers and it's a relaxing, soothing drink that also has a lot of health benefits as a woman," said Katie Pusey of Seaford.
And some say there may be other reasons we are pouring more glasses.
"Because of the way the economy is in this country today and people are under so much stress that I think it kind of helps you relax and maybe it's not as harmful as something stronger," noted Salisbury resident Jane Youngk.
Saturday, May 18 2013 10:19 AM EDT2013-05-18 14:19:20 GMT
DELMAR, Del-This week WBOC has been following the discussion about adding two more casinos in Delaware; one of them being in Sussex County. A house committee in the First State put a plan for two moreMore
This week WBOC has been following the discussion about adding two more casinos in Delaware; one of them being in Sussex County. A House committee in the First State put a plan for two more casinos temporarily on hold.More
Two Ocean City brother, Samir and Basel Ramadan, are behind bars. Federal officals say the two are ringleaders of a cigarette smuggling ring that netted millions. Police have arrested 15 people in this case - and now they're trying to find out where is all the money. As WBOC's LeAnne Matach reports, neighbors of the two brother say they are shocked that something like this was happening in their community.More
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How a young mother advocated for her son, getting him bilateral implants and Auditory-Verbal Therapy, and raised awareness in a health care system focused on containing costs.
Matthieu’s international journey from a position of little hope to reaching the sky
Newborn hearing screening didn’t exist in France in 2007, so my son Matthieu’s hearing loss was not diagnosed at birth. Because he was my second child I had doubts on his hearing abilities very soon, and Matthieu was diagnosed with a bilateral hearing loss at 5 months. He received his hearing aids right away and he started all the tests in case he would need a cochlear implant.
I started to search for information on the Internet, and to ask questions of the doctors. Everything that I found in French depressed me. I was on the verge of accepting that Matthieu would never be able to speak properly, and that he would have to go in a deaf institute far from home. The doctors told me not to expect too much of the cochlear implant. There was just one French forum where I could share my feelings with parents. And even though they answered my questions, they all told me that Matthieu would have to sign or to use cued speech, and that made me uncomfortable. I didn’t want to place any limitations on my child. I felt that he would have to learn to listen and speak to reach his true potential.
Then I looked at websites in English. There were SO many! There were blogs by parents, speech therapy websites, and more. I read everything eagerly. But what struck me was the websites created by the manufacturers. In French or in English the information was not the same AT ALL! They all talked about the products, deafness, there were testimonies. But, Cochlear, Advanced Bionics and MED-EL all had Auditory Verbal Therapy (AVT) pages on their American websites, while they were not available on the French versions.
Cochlear Americas had a whole page about bilateral implants with studies. A lot of parents were talking about their children “being bilateral” and the way it changed their hearing abilities. Most of all, I could see videos where I could hear them, and they were outstanding! Thanks to those parents and to the professional websites I knew exactly what I wanted for Matthieu: simultaneous bilateral implant surgery and Auditory Verbal Therapy!
The closest implant center didn’t want to do a simultaneous bilateral surgery, probably because it was considered too costly, so I looked for another one. Fortunately, another nearby center in Tours was starting a study on bilateral implants and they accepted Matthieu.
In the meantime, I read all I could about Auditory Verbal Therapy, I ordered books (all in English, nothing was in French), and I spent hours at night on the Internet trying to find tips to teach my son to hear and speak. I was still trying to find a professional in France ready to try AVT. I called French speech therapists, schools, and CI centers. No one seemed to know about AVT, but the saddest was that no one seemed interested in learning what it was. I realized that if AVT was what I wanted, then I would have to do it myself!
Looking back, it was such a challenging time. I stopped working to look after Matthieu, but I also had to take care of my older (hearing) daughter. Since she hadn’t started school yet, I decided to practice AVT with both of them. At night I read books and prepared the activities. During the day we practiced what I had learned. My husband used to tell me “you think AVT, dream AVT, live AVT”
At 7 months, Matthieu offered me the most wonderful gift: as I was in the kitchen, I heard him call “Maman” from his bed. When he saw me, he took a deep breath and said MAMAN with a huge smile. He never stopped calling me since then. At this moment I KNEW that I had made the right choice.
At 8 months Matthieu lost his residual hearing and it became obvious that only a cochlear implant could help him. He was finally bilaterally implanted with 2 Cochlear devices at 14 months in October by the surgeon in Tours (1½ hours away from home). We waited two weeks for activation. Matthieu couldn’t hear a thing, but he was not silent at all. In the meantime, I kept reading blogs and books.
One day before activation I found a professional website dedicated to AVT. Therapists posted tips, studies, and exercises. And, at the bottom of one page, there was a name, and an e-mail address. I immediately decided to e-mail this AV Therapist and ask for help, because I knew that once Matthieu could hear he would need much more than what I had done so far. And I needed a professional to help me.
Why her and not one of her colleagues? Why did I decide to ask for her help at just that moment? Three and a half years later I still don’t know. I explained I was French, and that I needed help to educate my son. Could she please answer a few questions? Give me some tips? The answer came a few hours later: “I am so excited, we can try AV sessions on Skype !” One answer and Matthieu’s life was changed forever!
Matthieu was activated the next day, but our challenges were not over yet. That’s exactly when I started to encounter some resistance, because after the first appointment I met the therapist on Skype for the first time. She explained to me what I needed to ask the audiologist: 20dB on all frequencies within 3-4 weeks. Matthieu was 14 months old and had to catch up quickly. When I said that to the audi, he just stared at me, and calmly said: “20dB? That is unnecessary! Look, 20 dB is a quiet room, Matthieu doesn’t need to hear that. But, we can try to reach 35dB in 10 months.” That left me speechless!
I decided to try another CI center. I called 8 others. All the audiologists gave me the same answer: “Oh sure we could work with your son, but we don’t want to interfere with other professionals and you know 35dB with a Freedom is the best we can do, So you’d better stay where you are.” But at each MAPping session there were disagreements about the goals. I remember telling the audi that Matthieu was not scared when I shouted, and that he didn’t hear the low frequencies with the six Ling sounds, so maybe he was not hearing properly. He answered “why do you want to scare him? And you should stop testing him like that. Your son is deaf, and a cochlear implant will not change that.”
I kept searching for information on the Internet, and I sent an e-mail to a cochlear implant center in London. I wanted to know if they would be willing to program my son’s processors. They gave me an appointment for a whole week-long session in February: 3 months post activation. When the English audiologist saw Matthieu’s MAPs, she just said “hmm, they are unusual.” After one week in London, Matthieu’s hearing was so different. He could hear everything, and he started to babble more and more. When the French CI center discovered that we had gone to London, they decided not to treat Matthieu anymore. Matthieu started talking 6 months post London MAPping, so we kept going to London every 6 months.
In 2010, almost 2 years after surgery, we flew to Utah for a 6-week auditory verbal summer session, but also for MAPping sessions. When we came back, my little boy couldn’t stop talking both in French and English. The American audiologist made real performing MAPs. Matthieu could hear everything, even from a different room!
In September 2010 our American Skype AVT therapist dismissed my son. After 2 years, he was AV graduated. 2 years when all the French speech therapists told me they would see Matthieu at least until high school. Due to the European financial crisis, the center in London couldn’t keep programming Matthieu’s implants, so we had to find another center willing to follow what had been done in Utah. It’s finally in Barcelona, Spain, that we have found the right place. I tried to contact some other French audiologists, but, we found it was difficult for the French audiologists to accept that we were having the mapping done abroad, and I came to understand that we had found our way onto a “blacklist” – in France the medical community is very small. I knew that a good MAP was essential to Matthieu’s success, so we did what was necessary in order to help him hear his best, even if we had to make financial sacrifices and burn some bridges to get there.
We now go to Spain once a year, and Matthieu participates fully in his sessions. He has more than the vocabulary needed to explain what he hears. He is mainstreamed, and he wants to play piano or trumpet. He is on the way to advocate for himself, and my job as a “speech therapist” is over. I am just a mom concerned with her children’s well-being.
I was once told by a wonderful mother that “the sky is the limit” for our implanted children. But in France in 2012, Auditory Verbal Therapy is still not an option for parents, bilateral cochlear implant surgery is not commonly available, MAPping a cochlear implant in France is a fight, and most audiologists don’t seem to focus on getting the best performance. We still have a long way to go.
Matthieu recently told me that he’d like to build a staircase to climb to the moon to talk to it. I believe he can do it, because thanks to those wonderful people abroad, he has already reached the sky.
While Caroline Pisanne stated that her job was over, of course she continues to advocate for Matthieu. Now that Matthieu is mainstreamed, Caroline is working with the school system to provide Sound Field Systems in the classroom. Read about it here!
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UN: Israel's expulsion of human rights envoy is 'dangerous'
Richard Falk, who compared Israel to Nazis, was appointed by UN to assess situation in Palestinian territories.
Israel's decision to expel a U.S. expert on human rights was a "dangerous" move that contravened mandates given to rights advocates working for the United Nations, the UN General Assembly president said Monday.
Richard Falk was detained at Jerusalem's airport on Sunday and then deported back to the United States. Falk's mandate, given by the 192-nation assembly, is to assess the situation in Palestinian territories.
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said on Monday that Falk was "unwelcome in Israel."
A Foreign Ministry statement said Falk's visit was uncoordinated and was conducted without the state's authorization and he was therefore turned around.
Israel has long complained about the mandate Falk took over earlier this year, saying it is biased in favor of the Palestinians and prevents the expert from making any comments about human rights abuses committed against Israelis.
He had also personally infuriated Israelis when he compared Israeli actions in the Palestinian territories with those of the Nazis during World War II.
A Foreign Ministry statement explained the decision, saying "in the case of Prof. Falk, beyond the imbalance inherent in his mandate, the bias is further exacerbated by the highly politicized views of the Rapporteur himself, in legitimizing Hamas terrorism and drawing shameful comparisons to the Holocaust. In light of his vehement publications in the past, it is hard to square his appointment with the requirements of the Council's own internal procedures which call for the appointment of mandate holders who are impartial, objective and possess the quality of personal integrity."
Assembly president Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, who has also criticized Israel in the past, said the Israeli government took a "dangerous decision ... to rebuff UN mandates and UN-appointed mandate holders."
"This again is not conducive to the good climate that the president of the General Assembly is trying to promote," he said in a statement.
Falk, a law professor at New York University, is the UN special rapporteur for human rights in the Palestinian territories.
Miguel d'Escoto said Falk was investigating "human rights violations that affected the protected civilian population of Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Most urgently he intended to investigate the rising humanitarian crisis in Gaza Strip resulting from siege of Gaza's 1.5 million population imposed by the occupying power."
Israel earlier this month had lodged a rare protest against Miguel d'Escoto, who criticized the international community for failing to help Palestinians establish an independent state after 60 years on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
He denied on Monday stories that accused him of preventing the Israeli ambassador to the UN to address the assembly on the 60th anniversary last week, calling those reports "slander" and a "malicious lie."
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Report for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport
To view our report to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport please go to our downloads page.
Legacy10 is an independent campaign, launched in November 2011, to encourage charitable giving in the United Kingdom.
The campaign aims to take advantage of the change in inheritance tax rules to increase the number of people leaving money to charitable causes in their will. From April this year, anyone leaving 10% of their taxable estate to charity will qualify for a reduced rate of inheritance tax. Although Legacy10 is a registered charity, we will not collect or distribute funds directly.
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Family fun can be educational, too! -Stacy
One of the items on my summer to do list, right up there with speech therapy appointments and dental visits and camping in our own backyard, is teaching my children to swim.
This is our first summer having any sort of access to a swimming pool, and I do not intend to waste any time! I want my kids to get comfortable in the water as soon as possible. On our most recent trip to the pool, we brought a few Melissa & Doug pool toys along to enhance our playtime.
I was pleasantly surprised by how much the Jolly Jellyfish Sinker toys aided me in teaching the basic techniques of swimming. Also, they were so cute that all three of my children, ages 3-6, wanted to play with them.
We took turns watching them get caught in currents from the pool jets on the stairs. We scooped them up with a Taffy Sea Turtle Net (not pictured here), and when the kids were ready to play, we took turns diving for jellyfish!
This was a fantastic introduction to swimming for my six-year-old. While searching for these cute characters he was also practicing bobbing his head under water, holding his breath, chasing an object and retrieving items from under water–four lessons most swim instructors focus on for beginner swimmers, and here we were practicing these skills without him even knowing it.
A few more days with Pinky, Blinky, Inky and Clyde (bonus points if you can tell me who we named them after) and he’ll be swimming in no time.
Here are a few other swimming toys I’m considering adding to my arsenal:
So tell me, what worked for you? How did you teach your children to swim?
Stacy Teet is the military mom–turned-supermom behind KidsStuffWorld. Her writing is chock-full of tips for enjoying parenthood, saving money, entertaining your kids and making your family’s life a bit simpler. Check out her website, KidsStuffWorld.com, or follow her on Pinterest, Twitter or the KSW Facebook page.
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Each year at Mfuwe Lodge we have some very special guests that come to visit - "Wonky Tusk", as she has become affectionately known, and her family have been regular guests at the lodge for a number of years, visiting every October and November to feast on the fallen fruits from the large “Wild Mango” (Cordyla africana) tree in the lodge grounds. The fact that a large safari lodge is built around this delicious food store is of no concern to her…after all, why walk the extra few metres to go around, when there are some nice steps and a tiled reception lobby to saunter through each day? In October 2009 a new arrival to the herd - Lord Wellington - was born on the Lodge grounds and at 2 days old was introduced to the reception and the steps - now he is an expert at clambering up and through reception area. Wonky Tusk's family’s annual dining habits have been the focus of many a photograph, video, newsworthy article, and even a children’s book.
"In November the resident elephant families near Mfuwe Lodge are on the search for succulent wild mango fruits. One particular family, led by a wily old matriarch, (Wonky Tusk), takes the most direct route to the mango trees, solemnly walking through reception at Mfuwe to the delight of the guests. What an amazing sight this is. Watching this elephant spectacle each day certainly lived up to all the hype." BBC Big Cat Diary's Jonathan Scott, Wanderlust Magazine, 2009
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Panama City - This week's Golden Apple award winner teaches 8th grade language arts at North Bay Haven Charter Academy in Panama City. Brenda Fondren was nominated by a student who says her energy and enthusiasm is a great way to jump start the day.
For these North Bay Haven 8th graders, first hour with Mrs.Fondren is never dull. "She is bright in the morning, she comes to work energized," said 8th grader Shawna Schaefer who nominated Mrs. Fondren. Mrs. Fondren uses the latest technology to teach language arts in a way that resonates with students. "Mrs. Fondren is a teacher who knows pushes herself to learn new things for the benefit of her students and it shows in her classroom. She is implementing strategies that are new to her and just right for the kids she teaches. It makes all the difference," said North Bay Haven Principal Meredith Higgins.
"I do not like to do the same thing over and over again. I'm constantly looking for new ways to engage my children, sometimes that is through technology, sometimes that is through a book or a lesson. We try to be innovative and creative and find unique ways to meet their needs so they can learn," said Mrs. Fondren.
Students say it's working. "Everything we do in class seems so fun," said 8th grader Timothy Jansen. For Mrs. Fondren, the goal is create lifelong learners. "Reading and writing we'll use throughout our life so I want them to take that beyond the classroom. They are all about to go to high school, it's very important that they know how to communicate with people. But also that they enjoy the world around them through reading and writing," said Mrs. Fondren.
Congratulations to Mrs. Fondren, this week's Golden Apple award winning teacher. "She is an awesome teacher," said Shawna.
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Diving Olympian Micki King's redemption
The story of Micki King, who won a gold medal in diving in 1972 in Munich after breaking her arm at the 1968 Olympics, captivated many sports fans. Johnny Carson invited her to appear on his late-night television show. In front of cameras Carson took a diving lesson from King's coach Dick Kimball, the longtime U-M diving coach.
Her story opens in the 1950s on Oakland County's Cass Lake in Michigan. King and her family loved to spend summers there, and she loved to swim. Back in Pontiac, her parents signed her up to swim at the local YMCA — women were allowed to swim on two days each week — and King couldn't wait.
"When I walked in there was this total consuming odor of chlorine, the place was antiseptic, I could see to the bottom of the pool. My first emotion is it's boring — it's square and clean and smells funny. That's what really drove me to diving board on the end of the pool, I thought that was fun."
|Micki King won a gold medal in diving at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. (Photo courtesy Bentley Historical Library)|
King and her friends made up dives. "It wasn't until I was 15 that one of the lifeguards introduced us to some of the formalities of diving," she says.
In high school, King began competing and winning amateur competitions. Her mother encouraged her to attend U-M because of diving coach Kimball. The university didn't have a women's diving team, but Kimball worked with women students in the Ann Arbor Swim Club, who competed in AAU matches. "My folks realized this was the key to me getting better," she recalls.
"From that first day he started telling me things I never heard before, like where to put your hands when you swing for your somersault. He was an expert," she says.
King graduated from U-M in 1966. She pursued a career in the U.S. Air Force, which allowed her to train in Ann Arbor with Kimball for the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.
At those Olympics, she was leading the women's diving competition when she prepared for her next-to-last dive.
"I just was tentative on it. I knew the minute I started walking on the board I was too cautious," King says. "I realized that I was leaning back on my takeoff. That was going to put me close to the board. My dive was going to be subpar.
"To make it be a judgeable dive I had to put my arms up to slow my rotation down and extend," she says. "I hit the board with my left arm."
King says the irony is that this dive looked successful, and that only two of the seven judges spotted that she had hit the board. As she climbed from the pool, she was in pain and felt faint. Trainers iced the forearm and gave her smelling salts.
She wasn't discouraged. "I said, 'Let's just hit this (final) dive and we'll deal with the arm later. It was my signature dive so I was ready for it and eager for it, I knew this would win it for me," she recalls.
But when she went to wrap her arms into a twist action, she wasn't prepared for the pain and lost her concentration. "I landed the dive badly and I knew it. I have to climb out of the pool knowing I blew it," King says. "Within 10 minutes they're awarding the gold medal to someone else." She learned the next day that her arm was broken.
The following summer, King was an Air Force lieutenant stationed in Los Angeles. She went to Long Beach to watch a national swimming-diving competition, and watched competitors she had defeated in past meets.
"Living with that mistake that cost me that medal was hard," she says.
Kimball said he'd coach her again if she wanted to make a comeback. She did, training on her off-duty time, and returning to Ann Arbor to train with Kimball in the months leading up to the 1972 Olympics. She performed well and made it to the finals, but wasn't in the lead as she was four years before.
"Coach Kimball said something I never heard him say before. He said, 'If you're behind a couple two-three points going into the last three dives, that's OK.' He had never given me permission to be behind."
She says Kimball then pointed over her shoulder to the two teenagers from Sweden who were leading the competition, being interviewed on television. As they faced the questions, King chose to take a break and get something to eat.
Her first dive went well. For her second dive — in contrast to 1968 — King chose an easier reverse one-and-a-half tuck dive, which offered fewer points but was more likely to be successful. "I could have done it blindfolded," she says.
Breaking the water after her final dive, King knew she had won the gold.
"I touched my arm on the bottom of the pool and said, 'Yes! Yes!,' then I popped up out of the water and looked over at Coach Kimball with his arms up in the air. My emotion was, 'Wow, my dream has come true.'"
Now a retired Air Force captain in Lexington, Ky., King says she couldn't have achieved her Olympic dream without U-M — which didn't have a women's program when she was a student — and Kimball.
"Michigan today is one of the few schools that fully complies with federal law (Title IX). Michigan has come full circle and I'm proud of that," she says.
The cast in which King's broken arm was set now is enshrined in the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
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Angelos Damaskos: a recipe for $2,000 gold
by Angelo Damaskos on Feb 18, 2013 at 13:15
Investors have recently been disappointed by the gold miners’ inability to control costs.
With miners’ profitability naturally at risk if there is a decline in the gold price, the sector has experienced a sell-off. The response of mining management teams across the industry is to prioritise cost-control.
An effective and immediate way of reducing costs is called ‘high-grading’; essentially all mining teams are now focusing on the highest-grade, most profitable operations at the expense of production volume.
Marginal deposits are scrapped from the business plan and unprofitable operations are shut-down. This strategy will increase miners’ profits and also inevitably cause a significant decline in global production.
Consensus among generalist investors is that gold reached a near-term peak in 2011 when it spiked at $1927/oz and is now in decline. This is based on apparent stability in the eurozone and confidence that the debate on the US fiscal cliff and sequestration will be resolved in a satisfactory manner.
However, it is likely that macro events will disappoint and impact the market negatively, dragging the European or US economies back into recession and forcing central banks to intervene in new, radical ways. Such developments would spook the market, encouraging investors to turn to gold as the ultimate safe-haven.
According to the latest figures from the World Gold Council, demand for gold is at an all time high and should economic events take a disappointing turn causing a flight back to gold, demand levels could exceed supply. The increased demand could coincide with supply of the metal falling as a result of miners’ newly implemented cost control strategies, hence creating a global supply crunch.
This scenario is a recipe for the gold price to reach highs, potentially of as much as $2,000/oz.
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Aberdeen Live supplement: Fundamentals point to ongoing flows and solid returns from EMD
After a record year for inflows and market-leading performance in 2012, emerging market debt has taken a large step towards the mainstream. Our recent debate covers the outlook for the asset class this year and where opportunities can be found.
On the road
by James Phillipps on May 20, 2013 at 10:29
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We are often asked, “How did it happen that all these letters were saved for so many years?” The following is a quote from a letter dated December 22, 1898. It was written by Jennie Wylie of Philadelphia following the death of her father and step-mother a few months earlier, to her cousin Louisa Wylie Boisen, who was living in Wylie House.
“While Father and Uncle lived we heard of you all constantly and as we are busy people our writing seemed unnecessary. What lovely brothers they were! I have been trying to sort out and destroy the great accumulation of letters that Father left. You know he was like the rest of the family and never destroyed anything and now there are piles of letters to go over-a task I dearly love if I only had more time. I have found such quantities of your father’s letters and find them so charming that I can’t bear to destroy them. I have kept more of them than of any others. They are so whimsical, so witty and also so sweet and affectionate, that if they are to be destroyed it must be by someone else. I guess I have the family failing too, when letters are concerned. Lou laughs at me because I save Susie’s letters about Theo.”
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The key to the Capital Region's nanotech success?
The nanotech world in the Capital Region is spinning after the President commends its growth. It’s not just because he says what's happening in Albany needs to happen across the country, but because it naturally continues to press ahead as its way of doing business. Innae Park reports.
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ALBANY, N.Y. – “It’s pretty awesome and I don't think people around here really recognize what's going on here.”
Those words came from Warren Montgomery, the Assistant Vice President of Advanced Technology and Business Development at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at the University at Albany. However, after this week’s visit from President Barack Obama, more people, in both the area and across the country, are expected to be aware of CNSE and the nanotechnology work being done in the Capital Region.
Those who led the President down the halls of the institution say it is clear that the tour is just a sign of the things to come.
“This concept that is being developed here really has been ushered in by New York and it's pretty impressive. And it can probably be taken to the next level, which is national,” said Montgomery.
So what is this model that has brought experts in nanotechnology from all over to New York’s capital?
Christopher Borst, the Assistant Vice President for Module Engineering, says it’s about collaboration.
“We can have multiple partners working here together, sometimes competitors, all here for the unified purpose for doing development on this type of technology,” Borst said.
Borst said the President seemed to be most impressed with those relationships during his visit.
Montgomery explained, “Probably 20 years ago, we used to have giant companies like IBM that would do all the early development themselves and pay it all. Now, people are pooling their money on pre-competitive technology because it's too expensive to do it independently.”
With companies like GlobalFoundries, IBM, Intel and Samsung joining CNSE to form the Global 450 Consortium, it is a movement that the president desires to see elsewhere, even in different sectors.
“There are other areas of technology that could leverage from this model,” said Montgomery.
In the meantime, the local nanotech movement isn't stopping.
“Just keep moving things forward at that rapid pace,” Borst said.
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