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Royal or Republic?
I think the whole reason why Australia hasn’t become a republic yet is because there is no real ‘alternative’ to a constitional monarchy. I think there is a lot of good things that the monarchy can do, and a lot of bad things. And yet, a lot of people are sitting down saying “oh well, we’ll just have to wait for someone to think up a model”. Because we all have to think about this model.
That said, we need to acknowledge that the English Royals, especially since Princess Diana, are tremondous public servants. Yes there is that notion that the monarchy is there to rule over the people, but in fact they serve their country. They can ultimately make a difference. But we need to seperate the show-business monarchy to the politcal monarchy. I think we need to look at Sweden monarchy’s. King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia are the head of Sweden, however politically they have no power. It’s all show-business. And yet, they are extremely popular.
Currently we are a democracy and democracy is about the sharing of ideas, making sure that every voice gets heard. And that includes the indigenous voices. I think that before we even think about becoming a republic, or staying as a constitutional monarchy, we need to sort our own issues. We need to remove racism from our constitution. We need to include the wonderful history and culture that indigenous Australia has. We need to make sure that they are included, us Australians don’t believe in a fair go for nothing. That issue needs to be sorted out before we even start on planning on becoming a republic or not.
So all in all, there are different ways in resolving this issue.
Ever wondered what $2 a day feels like?
Over the following few weeks, I will be posting posts about Live Below the Line. Live Below the Line (LBL) is a fundraising campaign run by The Oaktree Foundation and The Global Poverty Project to raise awareness that 1.4 billion people live on the Interational Recognized Extreme Poverty Line of US$1.25. That’S US$1.25 for food, drinks, clothing, insurance - everything that they need to survive.
This is an important issue, I believe, that needs to put into awareness, especially in a time where Australia’s aid budget might be cut. There are a lot of people doing this campaign, which is in its second year. So I shall be profiling some of this people, as well as explaining what is Live Below the Line, and the extent which it can help.
So one of the many celebrities endorsing this campaign is Hugh Jackman. This is his statement of support:
I shall be doing this during university, so it will be a massive challenge, especially since I have discovered I quite like a cup of coffee, either at 2pm or at 10am. Basically, this means I won’t be able to have a decent cup of coffee during these five days. I will see if i can scrap instant coffee since water is free.
I have also set up challenges, since I am aiming for $1000.
From $200, I will only walk or cycle to university, or anywhere.
From $400, I will only take cold showers.
From $600, I will get two dreadlocks in my hair.
From $1000, I will get a tattoo.
So do you feel the urge to make me get a tattoo? Donate, either anon, your real name, or a funny name, here is the link that you need to click on in order to donate money to www.livebelowtheline.org.au/sophstomorrowLBL
Drop by and read artofjournalism, as I will be profiling people doing LBL, as well as my experiences doing LBL. In doing so, I do hope you who are reading this but not doing LBL can understand that even though it will be really tough for me, living on $2 a day for everything is a reality for 1.4 billion people.
What makes it interesting that the residents actually do want to put these fences up for the safety of their own children.
So for those who are insistent in believing that all Aborigines are drunkards and dont want to change that, think again.
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VENICE.- The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement for the 12th International Architecture Exhibition (Venice, Giardini and Arsenale, 29th August 21st November, 2010) has been awarded to the Dutch architect, Rem Koolhaas. The decision was taken by the Board of the Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta, upon the proposal of the Director of the 12th Exhibition, Kazuyo Sejima.
Rem Koolhaas has expanded the possibilities of architecture. He has focused on the exchanges between people in space. He creates buildings that bring people together and in this way forms ambitious goals for architecture. His influence on the world has come well beyond architecture. People from very diverse fields feel a great freedom from his work.
Mentioned in Time in 2008 as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, in 1975 Rem Koolhaas together with Elia and Zoe Zenghelis and Madelon Vriesendorp founded OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture). The most important works by Koolhaas and OMA include the Netherlands Dance Theatre at The Hague, the Nexus Housing at Fukuoka in Japan, the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, the Grand Palais of Euralille and Lille, the Villa dallAva, the Très Grande Bibliothèque and the Seattle Public Library. Together with Koolhaass reflections on contemporary society, these buildings appear in his book, S,M,L,XL (1995), written as though it were a novel about architecture. In 1978, he wrote Delirious New York: a retroactive manifesto for Manhattan, which has become a classic of contemporary architectural theory. In 2000, he won the Pritzker Prize.
The Board has also decided to award a special commemorative Golden Lion in memory of the Japanese architect, Kazuo Shinohara, who died in 2006 and who had a broad influence on the Japanese architectural scene, giving rise to the so-called school of Shinohara, the inspiration for the works of Toyo Ito, Kazunari Sakamoto and Itsuko Hasegawa.
Shinohara was a person who thought directly about the symbolism inherent in space and how that symbolism relates to individuals. In one way, he thought about how that symbolism was formed in the context of Japanese tradition but in another, he was concerned with more abstract geometries and the randomness of the city. With this research, he created very special and very sensitive houses that helped him form a thesis critical of modern architecture. People in Japan and around the world have been fascinated by him. Im proposing to honor him here because he thought about the power of space on a very personal level.
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The Meaning of Dreams
A man went to see a psychiatrist.
'You have to help me,' he began. 'Last night, I had a terrible dream.'
The psychiatrist sighed. 'In my experience, dreams are mostly nonsense. They
generally don't offer reliable indications of a mental state.'
'Didn't Freud write a book on the interpretation of dreams?' the man asked
The psychiatrist nodded. 'Yes, but firstly, I'm not a Freudian. Practically no
respectable practitioner would claim to be a Freudian these days. Secondly, even
Freud conceded later in his life that not every dream is the manifestation of a
suppressed libido. A cigar in a dream may only be a dream cigar. No phallic
significance at all.'
The patient looked unconvinced. 'My dream meant something,' he said stubbornly.
'I don't care about other people's dreams '
'I had a strange dream once,' the psychiatrist continued. 'I was growing grass
in place of hair all over my body. Thick tufts of grass. I tried to shave off
the grass but the cut stalks began to ooze sap.'
'Listen,' the man cut in. 'Are we going to spend my time and money chatting
about you or are you going to listen and, hopefully, advise me?'
'Go on,' the psychiatrist said coldly. 'Tell me your disturbing dream.'
If the man detected a slight note of sarcasm in the doctor's tone, he chose to
He began, 'In my dream I was on board a cruise ship. I was there with my wife.
In case you're wondering, I've never been on a cruise and don't intend to go on
'We were cruising around the top end of Australia - Arnhem Land - somewhere like
that. It was a beautiful boat, quite large, very clean, full of passengers,
great service. Everyone was having fun.
'In my dream, I woke up one morning and my wife wasn't there in the cabin. I
thought she must have risen early to stroll on deck. I'm a deep sleeper. After a
while when she didn't return, I dressed and went to join her.
'The ship seemed very quiet. The engines were running hard, but their sound was
muffled. There were no sounds of adults or children playing. There was no sound
of crockery or cutlery laid for breakfast. In fact, the breakfast room was
deserted and the tables bare. I had left my watch in the cabin, so I didn't know
the time. It was clearly morning, but it must have been very early as I didn't
see anyone, including staff, all the way from my cabin to the Promenade Deck.
'When I reached the deck, I was surprised to see how fast the ship was
traveling. There was a faint smudge of land on the horizon. even as I watched,
it became far clearer and much closer. The land leapt toward me.
'Then something, perhaps a cry faintly heard over the heavy thud of the engines,
caused me to turn and look back.
'There in the foaming wake were people - a large crowd of passengers and crew.
Some were floating while others floundered and sank beneath the churning water.
To my horror, I saw my wife frantically waving for help. I saw her face shrink
as the boat hurtled away.
'I turned and ran down the deck. I climbed a ladder toward the deckhouse,
shouting for help. The Captain had to stop the boat, and turn back to pick up
the survivors. There may be still time to save my wife.
'When I reached the door of the Deckhouse, I found it locked. None responded to
my frantic knocking. A fire extinguisher was mounted near the door. I wrenched
it off the wall and swung it down on the handle, smashing open the door.
'I rushed in to the Control Room to find it empty. I desperately seized the
wheel, but the ship held its course. I could now see the brilliant white foam
boiling where a coral reef broke the surface of the sea. I turned on or off
switches - there were banks of them - but nothing worked. Then, there was a
terrible jolt and the ship shook like a wounded animal. I heard the screech of
metal being pierced then peeled open. Then the engines stalled. In the sudden,
shocking silence, I heard tons of water gushing into the hold.'
'And then?' the psychiatrist prompted as his patient fell silent.
'Then I woke.'
The next day, the man again visited the psychiatrist.
'Last night, I had another disturbing dream. I know that you said I shouldn't
worry, but it must mean something to keep having these dreams.'
'Go on', the psychiatrist said resignedly.
'This time I was on a plane. It was an international flight. I was returning
home. My wife was back in Australia. I was seated in Economy and had fallen
asleep, despite the daylight and the noise of the passengers.
'When I woke, it was still light but there was a deep silence in the plane. All
I could hear was the aircraft engine and some distant piped music.'
'Did you recognize the music?' the psychiatrist enquired.
'Yes, you hear it all the time on planes. Frank Sinatra singing "Come Fly with
Me". Does that mean something?'
The psychiatrist shrugged, 'Perhaps. Continue.'
'Where was I? Oh yes, it was very quiet. No babies howling. No inane
announcements from the Captain or Chief Steward. The television sets had frozen
on the face of a newsreader who appeared to be choking. His flesh had turned a
horrible mauve colour and his right hand was clutching his throat.
'All the seats were empty. I mean there was all the dunnage of a long haul
flight - blankets, pillows, strewn newspapers, paperback novels, children's
games, half eaten meals, but no people - passengers or Flight Attendants.
'When I stood up, I was seized by the terrible knowledge that I was in an
endless time loop. I walked quickly up the aisle toward the cockpit. As I
reached the cockpit door, the plane hit an air pocket and lurched. For a moment,
I could see the ground and I noticed something that caused me to look more
closely. I saw parachutes, scores of parachutes below me as the passengers and
crew drifted down. Except, not all of them drifted. Some parachutes hadn't
opened and I could see on the ground pools of blood and flesh where some of
these people had already crashed to earth.
'Then the plane righted itself and I wrenched open the cockpit door. As I
feared, the seats of both pilot and co-pilot were empty. Beyond me, I saw a
mountain looming in the windscreen. Again, I struggled with the controls and
again it made no difference.
'Then,' the man concluded, I woke up.'
On the third day, the man went to see the same psychiatrist.
'Another disturbing dream?' the doctor prompted.
'I can't stand it,' the man wept. 'I dreamt that I had a series of disturbing
dreams. I kept going to a psychiatrist who knew what was wrong, but he kept
sending me home untreated where I would have more dreams.'
The psychiatrist smiled and leant closer to the man.
'What makes you think that this isn't a dream?' he asked.
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- LITTLE ROCK, Ark.
- Wild rumors have swirled through Arkansas for the past 12 years about
the mysterious deaths of two teenagers, 17-year-old Kevin Ives and 16-year-old
Don Henry, on the railroad tracks in rural Saline County in 1987.
- Initially, the boys' deaths were said to be due to a
marijuana-induced sleep. Later, a grand jury overturned that finding, and
out-of-state pathologists determined that the deaths were in fact homicides.
- At that point, controversial film producer Patrick Matrisciana
entered the scene. Matrisciana, from Hemet, Calif., is best-known for his
1994 conspiratorial "documentary" <news/1998/03/cov_11news.html"The
Clinton Chronicles," a mail-order film that's an underground bestseller
on the <news/special/clinton/whitewater.htmlClinton-hating extreme right.
- Matrisciana's resulting 1996 film on the railroad mystery,
"Obstruction of Justice: The Mena Connection," alleged that the
teenagers were killed after they accidentally witnessed a clandestine drug
deal in which top state officials were involved.
- The film asserted that the boys' bodies were laid on
the tracks so a train would run over them and destroy evidence. It further
alleged that two veteran sheriff's deputies, Jay Campbell and Kirk Lane,
were the boys' murderers, and that the crimes were covered up with the
help of state and federal prosecutors and -- naturally -- then-Gov. Bill
- But last week, an Arkansas jury ruled that Matrisciana's
film had demonstrated "reckless disregard for the truth" and
had libeled deputies Campbell and Lane. The jury awarded the two sheriff's
officers nearly $600,000 in damages.
- In so doing, the jury rejected Matrisciana's contention
throughout the trial that he could not be held responsible for any libel
because he gave full editorial control over the film to Linda Ives, the
mother of one of the boys, and Jean Duffy, a former Saline County deputy
- The unsolved mystery of the train deaths has attracted
national media interest over the years, including the editorial page of
the Wall Street Journal. In 1996, the Journal's Micah Morrison wrote "The
Lonely Crusade of Linda Ives," an article flowing with conspiracy
- "It adds some credibility to a story when something
as widely known as the Wall Street Journal prints the story," noted
Jay Campbell, one of the deputies vindicated by the libel ruling.
- The conservative Arkansas Democrat-Gazette heavily criticized
the Journal at the time for its inability to decipher fiction from truth.
"There is apparently no old story, discredited piece of gossip or
wild rumor that the Journal won't take seriously so long as its subject
is Arkansas," the paper editorialized.
- (The Journal's Morrison did not return calls for this
- Meanwhile, the recent libel trial brought out some new
evidence about who may have been behind the boys' deaths, including indications
that they may indeed have been killed for witnessing a drug deal of some
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If you are trying to sell or let your property, first impressions count. With so many properties on the market at the moment it isn’t enough just to make sure that the bins are hidden from the front of your property on a viewing day, or the fallen leaves and wind blown litter are swept up. It may be time to invest a little on the potential ‘first sight’ falling in love with thing, and design a simple, welcoming front garden.
Keep the front garden in keeping with the property. For small urban front gardens, consider removing that tiny, useless piece of lawn that is always overgrown. There is nothing worse than the prospect of lugging the lawn mower, possibly though the house, on a Sunday morning for potential buyers or tenants.
Planning permission may have to be sought to pave the car standing area, but you could use a decorative aggregate. There is some fantastic gravel on the market now from Quartz to duck egg blue Japanese pebbles. These could be laid on a porous membrane with planting through it. You would probably need to contain the gravel by means of an edge; this could be a brick to blend with the house or, if a modern property, a stainless steel strip. Always make sure that there is a good strip of paving before the entrance to the house as small gravel will hitch a ride on shoes with tread and let go, once in the house.
Instead of planting the front garden, how about pots? An ideal alternative as they can move with you to your new home! Terracotta is the obvious choice, and widely available in garden centres, but there are now slate, terrazzo and polished marble, stainless steel and resin containers in all shapes, sizes and colours available through good garden design practices and over the net. There are anti-theft systems so they stay put, but if big enough, once filled with soil, no one will move those babies!
If you do decide to plant the garden, use low maintenance plants such as ferns for shady damp areas, lavenders, Cistus and small grasses for sunny sites, an architectural feature plant for the modern property may be all that is required. Keep the colour palette limited and use cool colours like blues, whites, creams and purple shades. Try to find fragrant plants too, bit like baking bread or peculating coffee in the house before a visit, it’s comforting and welcoming. Don’t be tempted to ‘overdo’ the planting; prospective purchasers may not be into gardening and won’t relish the thought that they will have to tend the garden and potentially fail!
Make sure you weed and tidy the area regularly; people often look at the property from the outside perhaps more than once, before they book a viewing. If possible, paint your front door and window frames too, clean the window sills and remove old cob webs that have gathered in corners as this adds to the uncluttered, clean impression of how they will find the inside of your home, (bit like hiding all children’s toys in the shed before a viewing).
Wheelie bins are a pain and unsightly, but everyone has them so think of an original and attractive way to make a screen, not just a bit of fencing. Depending on your budget it could range from a glass brick wall to a curve of planed timber poles or a ‘hit and miss’ screen. Whatever you choose there are plenty of fantastic colours available to stain it to blend into the surroundings.
Pathways ALWAYS need to take the shortest and easiest route to the front door and be wide enough to enable you to walk with bags of shopping, buggies, children and/or dogs! So think, as you park on your drive, exactly what route you will take to the front door because that’s the one that needs paving!!
Interview for the Independent newspaper 2008
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Now that Secretary of Commerce John Bryson has taken medical leave after a seizure apparently caused him to hit two cars in California, medical experts are scratching their heads about how a seizure could have caused the chain of events that led to the accidents, Bryson's hospitalization and his eventual leave of absence.
"There are several different types of seizures," Dr. Robert Fisher, professor of neurology and the director of the Stanford Epilepsy Center in California, said. "The one called complex partial allows a person to operate in a dream-like state over a period of seconds to minutes. She or he could operate a car, but judgment, reflexes and thinking would be impaired for several minutes.
"If [the accident] was due to a seizure, it is possible either for it to have been a cluster of a few seizures, or one seizure with a long aftermath of confusion, called 'postictal.'"
Bryson was found unconscious at his car steering wheel Saturday and cited by police for leaving the scene of an accident after he rear-ended a Buick that had stopped and was waiting for a train to pass.
After the initial accident, Bryson got out of his car, spoke to the three males in the Buick, "then left the scene, hitting the same car as he left the scene," according to police. Five minutes later Bryson allegedly hit a second vehicle containing a man and woman. He was not charged and passed a blood-alcohol test Saturday night.
A statement from the Commerce Department released early Monday suggested that Bryson had some sort of seizure. Such a claim raises many questions about what exactly happened to the secretary in Los Angeles on Saturday night, and whether or not he was in the right state of mind to make the decision to continue driving.
Seizures are a neurological disorder that cause a temporary disturbance of behavior or consciousness. They affect the non-dominant side of the brain -- the right side in most people. During a seizure, experts say, the sufferer might be able to speak full sentences.
Dr. Fisher said that if a person is driving when he or she has an epileptic seizure, it can cause a driver to crash, and possibly drive off in a confused state. It's entirely possible that the person having the seizure might have little to no recollection of the incident, he said.
Dr. Richard Kim, Director of the Hoag Epilepsy Center in Newport Beach, Calif., is skeptical that the chain of events involving Bryson's accidents where caused by one or more seizures.
Kim also says that Bryson could have had a complex partial seizure. In such cases, he said, the person having the seizure appears to be staring or fumbling, and loses awareness of his or her surroundings. Kim says that he has seen this happen to people while driving, and they typically lose control of their vehicle.
"After the seizure, he could have recovered quickly enough to walk out of the car and speak coherently," Kim said. "However, at that time he would have known that he had had a seizure, and would not -- or should not -- have resumed driving. It is possible that he had a second seizure again while driving, and that caused the second accident. It would have been highly irresponsible for him to resume driving, however."
Kim adds that if the complex partial seizure had been continuing, Bryson would not have been able to get out of the car and speak to the three men in the first car he struck, so it is impossible that he was having a seizure the entire time.
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|A WorldGolf.com reader says Tiger Woods has turned his back on human rights abuses in Dubai in order to earn big bucks. (Courtesy PGA of America)|
In response to William K. Wolfrum's blog post "Tiger Woods design deal with Dubai: Nothing unique about taking loads of money to look the other way," I live in Dubai, and agree with the sentiments about Tiger being blinded with "Big Bucks" to look the other way.
Most foreign workers here are paid $3 per day; (yep three U.S. dollars) to work 10 hours in temperatures of [100 degrees and more], then housed 20 per room with a single toilet between 40 workers. They are conned into paying $4,000 to get the job with promises of a decent wage and when they arrive in Dubai they are enslaved - worse than slavery actually - slave owners look after their slaves, the contractors don't care about their workers.
Tiger talks about charities etc etc; but his great great grandfather Doss Douglas must be turning in his grave knowing that his descendent is on the side of the slave matters; who are building a golfing community around his golf course selling villas for $10 million-plus whilst paying the laborers less than $3 per day, and then paying them at least six months late.
No this is not a bad dream; actually it is a bad dream come true for over a million virtual slaves working to build Dubai and the fortunes of their slave masters, of which Tiger Woods is must now be considered one, turning a blind eye is no excuse for human degradation and abuse.
May 2, 2008
Any opinions expressed above are those of the writer and do not necessarily represent the views of the management.
"It is a little far fetched that Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada only have a couple of Top 100 courses in the Golf Magazine list. I have played both We-Ko-Pa Golf Club courses in Scottsdale many times, and let me tell you, it compares with almost any of the Top 100 except the obvious few (Augusta National, Pine Valley, etc)."
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Despite a 911 operator's urgent pleas, a staffer with CPR training at an elderly living facility refused to perform the procedure on a resident who had stopped breathing.
The reason for the refusal? Glenwood Gardens in Bakersfield, California, has a policy against its employees providing medical care.
Lorraine Bayless, 87, died.
Shocking? Does this all sound just plain wrong?
Well, medical professionals, lawyers and those who work in the world of elderly independent living say it's much more complicated. While all states have so-called Good Samaritan laws aimed at protecting people against legal liability if they jump in to perform CPR on someone who needs it, few people know about the laws.
And Good Samaritan laws have been fiercely challenged in courts across the country, leaving the average person unclear about just how protected they may be.
"In America where there's a lawyer behind every defibrillator, there's worry that some people have 'Am I going to get sued?'" said Arthur Caplan, a medical ethicist at New York University.
Last week, shortly after Bayless' death, the family said they were satisfied with the care she received, according to KGET.
"I never said I was fine with that," daughter Pamela Bayless told CNN Monday before hanging up the phone. "That was completely taken out of context, and I have no further comment."
From a "medical ethics point of view, I think if you call 911, and 911 says, 'start CPR,' you have to do it," Caplan said. "You are under an obligation to do it. You've started that process and you must follow through.
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By Brendan O'Brien
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Wisconsin's Republican Governor Scott Walker and his challenger Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett drew sharp ideological differences on Friday during the first of two debates before a special election to recall the governor on June 5.
Walker faces a special election after he angered Democrats and labor unions by pushing through the state legislature a law that strips public sector labor unions of much of their power. Walker would become the third governor in United States history to be recalled if he loses.
During the one-hour debate in Milwaukee, Walker touted his efforts to balance the state's budget by curbing the power of public sector labor unions, while Barrett painted the first-term governor as untrustworthy.
"This election is not a rematch or do-over because we can't do over the decisions of Scott Walker to start a political civil war," Barrett said.
The two candidates are familiar foes, with Walker defeating Barrett by five points in the 2010 gubernatorial race. A recent poll conducted by St. Norbert College and Wisconsin Public Radio showed Barrett trailing Walker by a similar margin, 50-45 percent.
The polls continue to show an extremely small number of undecided voters. As a result, both candidates need to motivate their supporters to turn out to vote.
"What Barrett did tonight for himself is he came out very assertive," said Tim Dale, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
"Walker also did what he needed to do ... appear strong and almost non-responsive to Barrett," he added.
Walker's changes to organized labor last year forced state and local government workers like teachers to pay a portion of the cost of health insurance and pensions, capped wage increases and required unions to be recertified every year. Walker said the reforms were needed to close a budget gap, while Democrats and unions said they were an effort at "union busting."
Walker said during the debate that the state now has a $154 million surplus and has experienced more than $1 billion in savings due to his reforms.
"We balanced (the) budget without raising taxes, without massive layoffs and cuts in programs," Walker said. "The good news is that our reforms are working and that is why our opponents don't talk about them anymore."
The candidates also debated over Walker's record in creating jobs. The Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that Wisconsin had lost more jobs than any other state between March of 2011 and March of 2012. But earlier this month, Walker aides released the state's Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages data, which suggests an increase of 23,321 jobs in the state between December 2010 to December 2011.
"Those numbers have never been verified and he knows they have never been verified," Barrett said. "It's clear what's going on, he can't defend his record on jobs."
Barrett also criticized Walker over an investigation into corruption during the governor's time as Milwaukee County Executive. The probe has resulted in criminal charges against five former aides and close political associates.
Walker blasted Barrett's record as Milwaukee mayor for the last eight years. The city has become one of the poorest in the nation with an unemployment rate of 28 percent, Walker said.
"We don't want Wisconsin to become Milwaukee," Walker said.
The two candidates will square off again for another debate Thursday.
(Editing by Greg McCune and Lisa Shumaker)
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Ubisoft was forced to recall Collector's Edition copies of PC game Silent Hunter 5: Battle Of The Atlantic in Germany due to "World War II symbols" that were not edited out in accordance with German law.
The publisher failed to properly remove a portion of Silent Hunter 5's World War II symbols, presumably Nazi symbols such as swastika flags, in the game's Collector's Edition, according to a report from German website ComputerBase translated by Blues News.
Both the standard release and Collector's Edition (which includes special packaging, an official guide, a physical map of the Battle of the Atlantic, the game's soundtrack, and unique submarines/enemy skins) shipped in Europe and North America last week. Ubisoft did not recall Silent Hunter 5's standard edition, indicating that release didn't suffer the same issue.
German criminal law prohibits the distribution of video games with Nazi references such as flags, uniforms, insignia, and even forms of greeting used outside of a genuine historical context. Germany banned the sale of id Software's Wolfenstein 3D for this reason in 1994, confiscating copies of the PC and Atari Jaguar editions.
Activision Blizzard, which published a follow-up to Wolfenstein 3D, also recalled its game in Germany last September after discovering Nazi symbols that were not removed from the game during its localization process despite specific efforts to identify and replace the icons.
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Our Larsen truss project near Mount Robson, BC
Jin wanted a picture of the big mountain neighbouring our small project. At nearly 4000m, it is not the highest peak in Canada but its intimidating south face rises nearly 3000m off the valley floor.
For any climbers out there, the dark triangle below and left of the main summit, the 'wishbone arrete,' is the classic route. I had to use a picture from the fall because the peak rarely reveals itself in the winter months. It is so much higher than its neighbours, it seems to have its own weather system...
If any of you are on the Twitter, you can follow our trials and tribulations as we try to get our house R-2000 certified whilst operating on a verrry limited budget,... @erikolofssoninc
Posted Tue, 03/19/2013 - 14:02
Edited Tue, 03/19/2013 - 14:39
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"There is no coming to consciousness without pain" – Carl Jung
This article is about pain, its healing, and its transformative importance for men, particularly men in Western, secular culture. It's not to say that this topic isn't important for woman or that the challenges I outline don't translate to woman, but I'm exploring this from a male perspective to attempt to isolate some key hindrances to - and opportunities for - men's transformation. Specifically I'm speaking here of the deep psychosomatic and at times existential pain that comes in moments of personal crisis, loss, identity dismantling, and emotional breakdown – the pain experience that can open us to profound new ways of seeing and being in the world as men.
Since my earliest memories as a child, I remember stuffing emotional pain and hurt out of my awareness – either simply unconsciously as a pattern already set in my individual psyche and the male condition or by external influence from parents, family, father figures, and the pain avoidant Western culture at large. Throughout my childhood and adolescence, I vividly remember the all to common lines, "suck it up!" and "don't be a cry baby!", "boys don't cry", among many others. As a child I swallowed up and began to emulate many of the masculine personifications in television, movies, and play. You know them: Rocky Balboa, The Terminator, Hee Man, Gi Joe, and all other things masculine. At a very young age I learned how (or at least tried my darned best) to be strong, tough, and stoic. I don't mean to say there's anything wrong with these qualities, it's just that my environment and the culture around me provided very little encouragement to experience other essential qualities to healthy development such as vulnerability, openness, and emotional awareness. I know I'm not the only one here. After recently going through a life crisis with probably the most significant emotional pain of my own life I realized that I was very unfamiliar with pain, what do with it, and how to process it in general. After talking with other men during this experience I began to realize that this is a general immaturity among us. Several men I talked to in fact advised me to "just keep busy and keep your mind off it". I began to realize that in our secular, pain-avoidant culture men simply don't have an understanding of the importance of pain nor wisdom or contexts for making meaning out of pain and using it as a catalyst for their emotional and spiritual development.
A Pain Avoidant Culture
Our Western, secular society doesn't acknowledge or talk about the importance of experiencing pain as a means to further opening one's heart and mind towards further development. In fact, we are more pain-avoidant than we know. Pain is considered to be unnatural and is avoided at all costs. And we avoid and numb pain in a whole lot of ways, including repression, distraction through self-medication, entertainment, sex, consumerism, and through medical and psychological treatment. And this pain avoidance is deeply embedded in our institutions, particularly medicine. Consider these facts: antidepressants are the most prescribed drug in the United States and use of psychotropics has tripled between 1998-1994 and 1999-2000 (CNN Health, July 09, 2007); preschoolers are the fastest-growing market for antidepressants – at least four percent of preschoolers (over one million children) have been diagnosed as clinically depressed (Depression Facts and Stats, Murray & Fortinberry, 2005); depression is Canada's fastest-rising diagnoses; and although twice as many women as men are diagnosed with depression, most psychologists agree that is because men are less likely to seek help out of fear and depression in men often manifests itself as a substance abuse problem. The fact is most men (and many women too) have a tremendous amount of unresolved pain and we don't know what to do with it. In our secular culture we don't have a way of making meaning out of pain and suffering. In my good friend Olen's words, "we don't see pain as a corridor out of which new maturing can happen", we see it as an obstacle to get out of the way so we can get on with our lives.
So what if we have unresolved pain, right? We've all been bruised, everyone's got their scars, so what's the point in experiencing it or 're'-experiencing it? Do we really want to encourage men to embrace pain? Isn't it one of the strengths of the masculine that he can rise above pain and "hold the ship steady amidst the storm"? Well, I think the answer to these questions lies in what happens to unresolved individual and collective pain. And what happens is that unresolved pain gets disowned (individually and collectively) and gets used up as energy in our shadows as anger, rage, hatred, and resentment and it gets projected onto our partners, family, friends, co-workers and the world at large.
In the words of Father Richard Rohr, "if you do not transform you pain, you will transmit it". Rohr, has dedicated much of his life to men's spirituality and understanding the challenges of the male condition today. In a talk called "Men and Grief", he gives a passionate and compelling speech to a congregation about the importance of men, particularly Western men, to learn how to deal with pain and grief as a means of healing and transformation. He said one thing in this talk that struck me to the core: "the way you can tell the grieving and weeping is over, is when you no longer have the need to blame anybody... including yourself". I remember when I heard that, I thought, "shit, I have a lot of work to do!" In his book The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine, spiritual teacher Matthew Fox describes the path of transformation through pain so eloquently here:
This way goes into the darkness, the wounds, the pain, and also the silence and solitude of existence to find what we have to learn there. It is a way of letting go and letting be, of emptying and being emptied, of moving beyond judgment and beyond control, of sinking and learning to breathe, to sit, to be still, to calm the raging monkey brain, to dwell in silence, to taste nothingness without flinching, and ultimately to focus. It is the way of grieving. Without grief we cannot move to the next stage, which is one of giving birth. This, all spiritual warriors need to undergo many times and in many places and on many occasions and under diverse circumstances.
So how do you transform pain? According to Rohr in his new book, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, you do this by "turning wounds into sacred wounds, that heal others." This does not mean becoming wound 'identified'. Rather it means being with your pain, owning it, even loving it for where it takes you in your being, and then offering the state of being you've been graced with to others.
The crack in your being that pain inflicts is a sacred gift where openness, love, compassion, vulnerability and new inner wisdom can emerge and connect with the world. Most would agree that these qualities are seriously lacking in the male condition as a whole. Carl Jung once said that so much unnecessary suffering comes into the world because people will not accept the legitimate suffering that comes from being human. It's hard to say how much of the violence, corruption, and harmful narcissistic behavior in the world today relates to the retarded development of these abovementioned qualities in men. I had a client recently (I work as a life and career coach) who had been going through a mid-life crisis and began to see through his own cracks; he said to me, "you know, I don't think I ever even knew what compassion was before this happened". In my professional experience, there are many, many men in the world like this. Granted, this is changing and a minority of men are now embodying, even championing qualities such as empathy, compassion, and an integration of heart and head, but we have a long way to go.
Through my own recent experience with pain I found that, by allowing the pain to be and to work on me, over time, the initial physical and emotion intensity and psychological disorientation of my grieving gave way for something new. I began to see and experience and understand the gifts that the pain was bestowing upon me: a profound openness and intimacy to my essential being, heart-connection, and vulnerability. As I kept this space open and allowed these qualities to be (in fact, I didn't often have a choice) I was able to connect with others in deeper and more meaningful ways than I had previously. I noticed how the qualities I mentioned above became magnified and took on new meaning. My experience of compassion and empathy, in particular, were heightened as I was able to understand and feel in all of my being, not just my head, the suffering of those around me, my clients, community, and the world. I was tuned in a different way. I was also able to see in this state how disembodied I was from these qualities prior to this experience – unfortunately, that's how it works sometimes. I realized that part of my own healing needed to involve sharing what I was experiencing with others. That intuition was verified in my experience as several people noticed and thanked me for this new degree of openness. I even started a local men's group where men could come and learn about different perspectives on pain and it's importance in their emotional and spiritual growth (I'm still waiting for attendees, lol). Indeed, what had happened is that I allowed my wounds to become 'sacred wounds'. Now the work is to continue to honor these gifts that my pain opened me to and to cultivate a space for them to be.
My culture has always taught me to transcend pain. Not to descend with pain as a means for my transformation. I was never taught about pain, given a context to fully experience it, process it, and transform it, which is a necessary step in real transformation. So, as a young adult I sought my own answers through reading and exploring different spiritual traditions and connecting with friends and mentors that had more experience than I did in this area. Unfortunately, most men in our culture today don't have the knowledge, resources, or experience to know how important the pain process is for their transformation. In our evolution as men and as a culture, we need to learn how to be with pain, to own it, and let it crack us wide open before we transcend it. And we need contexts that support men in transforming their pain so that we no longer inflict unnecessary suffering on ourselves and the world.
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So I imagine it doesn’t make any difference for the civilian legal system if John Doe is suspected of a single cruel murder or Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is suspected of organizing the murder of thousands of people. If this is true — and it must be true — I imagine what would have happened if John Doe had been held six years at a military detention camp without the normal rights given to him by the system, had been waterboarded 183 times (a form of torture, according to the president), and accordingly confessed without having had the chance to use his Miranda rights, which never had been read to him.
In order to protect the purity and autonomy of the American legal system, shouldn’t this case against the suspected terrorists be tossed out by the judge? If I were to be the judge at the criminal case against KSM, I would not have another choice, I imagine.
I would have no choice but to toss out this case since the rights of the suspects have been seriously, chronically, and fundamentally violated by the U.S. government. If the road to a civilian court is taken by President Obama (Attorney General Eric Holder is only the messenger), he is taking the same risks as Ms. Verdonk. Formally, the president has the legitimacy to bring KSM to a civilian court, but at the same time he is shooting his own foot — only by compromising the system can KSM be sentenced. In a civilian court, I imagine, the denial of the essential and fundamental rights of the suspect — innocent until proven guilty, a speedy trial, access to a lawyer, the right to remain silent, the right not to be tortured — can only lead to dismissal.
And if a simple visitor from Holland can figure this out, the attorney general and the president can figure this out too.
Which brings me to another question: If they know what I know, why did they do it? Is it really only to demonize Bush — the prosecution has to share all kinds of sensitive information with the suspects — and to project the misery of the present economic situation and the dangerous stagnation in Afghanistan on the previous administration?
In the congressional hearing, Holder pretended that he was explaining the decision to bring KSM to New York, but he simply stated that it was the right thing to do after all kinds of deliberations. Holder wasn’t able to come up with just a single argument. Rita Verdonk was fighting for the leadership position of her party, and she had thought isolating Ayaan would strengthen her chances. Why is President Obama risking legal disaster? To pay tribute to his extreme left-wing followers? To impress the rest of the world (most non-Americans think the American judicial system is a joke, and the upcoming KSM show is only making it worse)? Is he trying to create chaos? Why?
There must be smart readers who can help me out — I am flabbergasted by all of this.
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LOS ANGELES — A Superior Court jury Friday awarded a record $28 billion in punitive damages to a former smoker who sued Philip Morris Inc. for fraud and negligence.
The 12-member jury made the award to Betty Bullock, 64, of Newport Beach, who started smoking when she was 17 and was diagnosed last year with lung cancer that has since spread to her liver.
Last month, the same jury awarded Bullock $750,000 in economic damages and $100,000 for pain and suffering.
Before Friday’s verdict, the largest jury award to an individual against a tobacco company was $3 billion, won in June 2001 against Philip Morris U.S.A. by Richard Boeken, a former heroin addict with cancer who died in January of 2002.
That $3 billion was later reduced by a Superior Court judge to $100 million.
Both awards were won by Michael Piuze, a maverick Los Angeles attorney who had never before tried a tobacco case before Boeken’s.
During Bullock’s trial, Philip Morris did not try to defend its past actions. Instead, the company turned the spotlight on Bullock and her decision to smoke. The strategy was a major shift from previous defense efforts.
“If she had stopped smoking ... even in the 1980s, she would not have lung cancer today,” Peter Bleakley, the attorney representing Philip Morris, told jurors at the start of the trial in August.
Piuze argued that Philip Morris concealed the dangers of cigarettes with a widespread disinformation campaign that began in the 1950s.
“We will show what I believe is the largest fraud scheme ever perpetrated by corporations anywhere,” Piuze said in his opening presentation.
Piuze used photographs of Bullock, cigarette ads from her teenage years and internal tobacco industry documents to lay out his contention that Philip Morris concealed the dangers of cigarettes with a widespread disinformation campaign that began in the 1950s.
The defense denied such a campaign ever existed.
“At this point, it’s really open season on the industry,” Daynard said. “Juries all around the country are sending a message that this conduct was not only totally inexcusable but that it was so outrageous there is no amount of money that would be enough to punish the people who perpetrated it,” said Richard Daynard, a law professor at Northeastern University in Boston and chairman of the Tobacco Products Liability Project.
The Bullock case has drawn added interest because it follows a state Supreme Court ruling that grants cigarette makers a new window of immunity. The Aug. 5 decision said most statements and acts by the tobacco companies between 1988 and 1998 cannot be used as evidence against them because of a state law, which was later repealed.
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by to-day's mail will show positions. Made reconnaissance as far as Meadow Bridge this morning. Found the enemy quiet, but in force. Some firing and skirmishing near here to-day; amounts to nothing. Weather now good. Roads and ground rapidly drying.
GEO. B. McCLELLAN,
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June 12, 1862. (Received June 13-1 p.m.)
Honorable E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of War:
In your telegrams respecting re-enforcements you inform me that General McDowell, with the residue of his command, will proceed overland to join me before Richmond. I beg leave to suggest that the destruction of the railroad bridges by flood and fire cannot probably be remedied under four weeks; that an attempt to employ wagon transportation must involve great delay and may be found very difficult of accomplishment. An extension of my right wing to meet him may involve serious hazard to my flank and my line of communications, and may not suffice to rescue from any peril in which a strong movement of the enemy may involve him. I would advise that his forces be sent by water. Even a portion thus sent would, by reason of greater expedition and security and less complications of my movements, probably be more serviceable in the operations before Richmond. The road throughout the region between the Rappahannock and the James cannot be relied upon and may become execrable even should they be in their best condition. The junction of his force with the extension of my right flank cannot be made without derangement of my plans, and if my recent experience in moving troops be indicative of the difficulties incident to McDowell's march, the exigencies of my present position will not admit of the delay.
I have ordered back all the transports used in bringing McCall's division, that they may be ready for service if you deem it best to employ water transportation. I have to-day moved my headquarters across the Chickahominy to a central position, so that I can readily reach any point of attack or advance. The enemy are massing their troops near our front, throwing up earthworks on all the approaches to Richmond, and giving every indication of fight.
GEO. B. McCLELLAN,
HEADQUARTERS THIRD DIVISION, THIRD CORPS, June 12, 1862.
Assistant Adjutant-General, Third Corps:
SIR: In answer to all queries as to my position, I have this moment returned from a thorough examination of the same. I can assure the general that it is complete, easily defended with my two brigades, and fulfills all his desires.
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Moody's Downgrades Six European Nations
Moody's Ratings Service on Monday downgraded its ratings for the sovereign debt of six European nations over concerns about their exposure to the continent's ongoing debt crisis. Moody's also adjusted their outlook on three other euro area nations, indicating they could be in line for a downgrade in the next few months. The six countries already downgraded were Italy, Malta, Slovakia, Portugal, Slovenia, and Spain, while Austria, France and the UK had the outlook of their AAA ratings changed to negative.
Italy's credit rating was lowered to A2, Spain's was lowered to A1, and Portugal's was dropped to Ba2, with Moody's taking a negative outlook on all three. Moody's is the last of the three major ratings firms to downgrade most major European economies, after similar moves were made by Standard & Poor's and Fitch last year. The entire global financial community, meanwhile, is keeping a close eye on the developing situation in Greece, which needs further bailout assistance to prevent a default next month.
Greece's Parliament on Monday approved a package of austerity measures required by European officials and the IMF as stipulations for further bailout assistance. On the line is a 130 billion euro bailout package, without which Greece will be unable to pay a 14.5 billion bond redemption scheduled for next month, constituting a default by the debt-riddled nation. Of course, EU officials were not satisfied with the reforms approved Monday, and stipulated that Greece would have to identify another 325 million euros in spending cuts to get more aid.
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I remember attending a BOC meeting where a resident complained about trash on her neighborhood streets. After inquiring as to how the county would fix the problem, a commissioner then asked what SHE was doing to keep her neighborhood clean.
I, along with that resident, were initially taken aback by this response. But in retrospect, that commissioner made a good point. We as residents must get more involved with keeping our neighborhoods clean because unfortunately, the county can’t do it all.
Local businesses need be held responsible as well. While Clayton has its fair share of unmaintained, vacant properties, there are existing businesses that neglect their property, and it shows. For example, neither Tara Boulevard or SH 85 present welcoming sights to see upon entry into this county for various reasons.
Another eyesore is the overgrown grass in the medians and graffiti on buildings throughout Clayton. These are issues that the Georgia State Department of Transportation can address, specifically District Engineer Bryant Poole who deals with Clayton’s thoroughfares (firstname.lastname@example.org; we are District 7). Perhaps if enough residents voice their opinion, we will begin to see improvements.
I recently spoke with some residents who expressed a desire to start a countywide initiative in spring 2010 to help beautify Clayton. The purpose is twofold: getting Clayton cleaned-up while generating some positive publicity for the county. Residents would be asked to help clean and maintain public areas that have been neglected, and hopefully businesses will participate as well.
Of course it will take more than a few hours work to keep our streets and neighborhoods clean and/or transform Clayton’s image, but it could be a start. Is this something you would be willing to participate in? Or how about installing gardens on vacant lots and medians similar to what DeKalb is considering?
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I am guessing that at some point in your childhood a lot of you spent time dreaming of being in a circus. I know I did. And why not? Clowns spend their time making people laugh, acrobats making people gasp and lion tamers, well, they must get all the girls with their bravery, right? In fact, it was only recently that I considered that perhaps being in the circus is a lot harder work than it first seems.
In the book “Being Brilliant”(link to Amazon), Andy Cope tells the story of a disillusioned circus master whose circus is fast travelling ‘down the pan’. The circus master is encouraged to stop and think when an unlikely mentor comes forward from within his circus team. Could it be that it is everybody else’s fault that his circus is rapidly deteriorating? Could it be that the clown, the trapeze artists, unicyclists and the lion tamer are all to blame? Or could it just be that the circus master is a poor leader and is driving them to their poor performances and behaviour?
I’m sure you have guessed that it is the latter that is contributing to the downfall of the circus. The circus master is a mood-sapper, draining the energy, ideas and creativity out of the whole circus team. This, I am sure is a metaphor for many bosses out there in the workplace today, who quite simply can’t understand why their teams are performing so badly.
This story is packed full of lessons to help you become your brilliant best, through following the circus masters recognition and correction of his erroneous ways. There are also many leadership lessons that can help you be more aware of your own behaviour and how it impacts on your team. One of the neatest things I learned when reading the book is that you should choose five words that typify you when you are at your best, when everything goes right and bullets could bounce off you. Then when you are feeling below-par you can think of these words and recall the feelings to help bring you back to your best. After giving this some consideration I have settled on the following five words which summarise how I feel when I am at my best:
Energetic – Confident – Focused – Enthusiastic – Fun
What five words typify you at your brilliant best? I would love to hear your ideas.
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It's only August 23rd, and yet the light is beginning markedly to wane. Tonight the sun was setting even as Church let out. It brings the thought of the long hours of winter darkness that await the Church in the northern hemisphere. How utterly blessed we are to look forward to celebrating in the midst of that darkness the joyous light of All Saints, the Feasts of St. Andrew and St. Thomas, and above all the Nativity of our Lord. Truly, into the darkness a great Light has shone!
The older I become, the more aware I am of the reality and depth of the darkness - and that is far from an external phenomenon - and the less I welcome it, save that it makes such a stunning foil to the Light that shines from our Savior:
From the manger new born light
Shines in glory through the night.
Darkness there no more resides;
In this light faith now abides. - LSB 332:7
(St. Ambrose through Blessed Martin Luther)
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Lyra explained how Osborn would abuse his power to harvest genetic material of registered super humans and sell them to the public through a corporation he heads. The resulting mass proliferation of super powers would destroy the world within a century of their introduction. Lyra came to the realization that the pointless war in her time wasn't worth saving, and she abandoned her mission with the intention of staying in the past. Boudicca, despite the apparent treason by Lyra, chose to remain by her master's side. Unfortunately, Osborn's Avengers had been given orders to recapture them. Lyra relished the thought of combat and triggered her Autotrance, making her capable of easily defeating Ares, Wolverine, Hawkeye and Venom, before Ms. Marvel overloaded her with gamma rays. The Avengers regrouped for a second attack, but the arrival of She-Hulk gave them enough pause for A.R.M.O.R. to teleport both women to safety.
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"Thanks to medicine, schedules, and caring teachers, my 6-year-old is doing well at school and is making friends," one reader tells us. "But I'm concerned about her dad's parenting style (we're divorced), which seems harsh for a young child."
by Michele Novotni, Ph.D.
It sounds like you've worked hard to get a handle on managing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD). For whatever reason, Dad isn't on board. His resistance may be due to a lack of information, disagreement with the approach, or a need to be in control. If he needs more information about ADD/ADHD, sharing what you've learned, and passing along books and articles, may change your ex's attitude. You might consult a third party, perhaps a psychologist, to help you come to an agreed-upon approach.
If all else fails, you can work with your daughter, directly before visits. Set up a behavior management chart (with rewards when she gets back to your house), or coach her for situations she may encounter while at her dad’s. Be sure that she's being given her medication while she is with him.
Michele Novotni, Ph.D., is the former president and CEO of the national Attention Deficit Disorder Association (ADDA), a best-selling author, a psychologist, a coach, a parent of a young adult with ADD/ADHD, an ADDitude magazine writer, and a contributor to ADDitude's new ADHD Experts Blog.
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Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (IEI)
Capital and people have moved to urban areas in countries with emerging economies in dramatic numbers. Bottom-up successes are challenging top-down approaches to running companies. Information technology has created a truly interconnected global economy. It has also slashed costs for starting new ventures.
These aren’t signs of the times. They represent a new and permanent reality that demands innovative management skills. They indicate that entrepreneurial instincts are essential for recognizing and creating economic opportunity — for leaders of corporations just as much as for leaders of start-ups.
Core Goals and Activities
Central European University’s Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is devoted to the study and practice of contemporary business under this new paradigm. We are particularly focused on economic activities that occur across nations, involve emerging markets, and are conscious of their impact on society and the environment.
We aim to be a regional hub for exchanging ideas about innovation and entrepreneurship. We also want to spur economic development in Hungary and the Central and Eastern European region.
- CEU InnovationsLab Where start-ups come to grow.
- Roundtable Lecture Series Top thinkers and practitioners lead this regular forum about issues facing entrepreneurs and management leaders.
In the Pipeline
Curriculum development, executive education, research, collaborative projects with partner organizations, conferences, seminars, workshops, business plan competitions.
The Right Place at the Right Time
The Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation began in November 2011 with an initial $7.55-million grant from philanthropist George Soros. Soros cofounded Central European Business School in 1988. CEU Business School’s early years were a time of historic transition in Hungary’s political and economic history. The move from state-controlled to free markets echoes the changes happening today in countries such as China and India, and those that continue to happen in Central and Eastern Europe. It is fitting that our start as an Institute began during another unprecedented shift in the world’s economic timeline.
Faculty & Research
- Faculty & Research
- Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- CEU InnovationsLab
- Center for Business and Society (CBS)
- Center for Integrity in Business and Government (CIBG)
- Initiative for Regulatory Innovation (IRI)
- Faculty Profiles
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- Job Openings
23 May 2013, 18:00Mirjam Simpson-Logonder
25 May 2013, 12:00Miao Tan
26 May 2013, 13:00Miao Tan
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BERGER: Appreciation of past wines
Published: Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at 3:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, January 1, 2013 at 11:34 a.m.
Decades ago, the charming British wine expert Harry Waugh, former director of the famed Chateau Latour French wine estate, was asked, “When was the last time you mistook a Bordeaux for a Burgundy?”
Replied the inimitable Waugh, with a trace of self-deprecatory humor, “Not since lunch.”
Waugh was proud of the response. I met the man several times and he reveled in the fact that, even then in the 1960s when most wines were distinctively more different from one another than they subsequently became, it was only human nature to be fallible.
And part of this was the fault not of the taster, but of the wine.
Think of the Waugh remark carefully: It says much for pinning the blame not on the potential identifier, but on the producer — which says more about the wine than it does about Waugh.
I suspect that what Waugh really was saying was that when a great taster mistakes a Bordeaux for a Burgundy, it really means that the wine in question is a horrid example of what it is supposed to be!
An example: Waugh and dozens of other great tasters of the 1960s knew that a St. Julien differed from a St. Estèphe in distinctive ways (aromas, textures, tannin levels), and that it wasn't terribly difficult to guess that a wine was from one of the Bordeaux districts as long as it was true to type.
If a St. Estèphe tasted like a St. Julien, it was a bad St. Estèphe! And vice versa.
Today the world has changed. In the eyes of some wine evaluators, a St. Estèphe that smells and tastes like a St. Estèphe is a poor wine because it is not plump, ripe, generous, soft and delicious.
The numerical rating concept that's been with us since the 1980s is a linear scale. It was created to compare wines to one another, but has left us with nowhere to place the great wines of the past that diverge from the obvious, simplistic and tasty.
Indeed, a distinctive character no longer is a plus for many wines; it's a minus. Look at Sancerre, Chinon, traditionally made Chianti, and other wines that once were at their best when they had high acidity. Many have been compromised to appeal to the scorers who desire an easy-to-drink style of wine. And those that adhere to the traditional style are often demeaned by those who don't understand them.
For reasons such as this, we now see a lot of syrah that lacks any regional character, many cabernets that do not smell or taste like cabernet, and chardonnays that have become a parody of what it once was.
The times they have a-changed. Purists with good memories write me they are sad that so many wines have been commoditized. Yet some wines are unchanged. And so we have our wine of the week.
Wine of the Week: 2010 Les Freres Couillaud Chateau de la Ragoutiere Muscadet Sevre et Maine, Sur Lie ($15) — Here is a dry white wine that will appeal to purists: minerally to the point of austerity, but the flavors are classic western Loire Valley with citrus and bay leaf notes, and a crisp finish that will enhance simple seafood dishes. Not really for sipping alone, but some older purists love to challenge their palate with the wine's acidity!
Dan Berger lives in Sonoma County, where he publishes “Vintage Experiences,” a weekly wine newsletter. Write to him at email@example.com.
All rights reserved. This copyrighted material may not be re-published without permission. Links are encouraged.
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Mischievous Italian art group IOCOSE crashed Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds exhibition in London this weekend. Dressed all nice and armed with a bag of sunflower seeds and slingshots, the four artists shot a few real seeds into Ai Weiwei’s immaculate carpet-pile of hand-painted porcelain seeds. See the video of the museum intervention below. Update: Ai Weiwei Tweeted IOCOSE with “good work.”
it took a while before the security noticed iocose’s unruly behaviour. when asked to leave their own exhibition, the four iocoses expressed disappointment and were joined by a group of tourists who were honestly appreciating the unexpected opening. despite this, iocose would like to complain for the lack of promptness by the security. now that iocose’s work is on exhibition the group would like to demand major awareness on its preservation.
The bag of real seeds cost a buck and a half. A bag of Ai Weiwei’s seeds might fetch more than $190,000 at Sotheby’s, but they should probably check those seeds first.
Read how IOCOSE killed Madonna here.
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Problem:I need a new wireless router for my home. Which one should I buy? What do you recommend?
If you are using an old router or have just moved to a new house and need a new wireless router to use with your Internet connection, read on.
From personal experience, we recommend using Linksys WRT54G, Linksys WRT54G2 or Buffalo routers.
NOTE: While Netgear may be good, their customer support has not been great. Netgear has in the past refused to replace or refund routers that got bricked (became useless) after upgrading to the official firmware on Netgear's website.
D-Link routers are decent, but they have a short range and regular dropped Internet signals.
Belkin routers have a weak signal and we won't recommend them.
If you have had good or bad experience with any of the above mentioned routers, please feel free to comment. Thank you.
Tips for getting stronger router signals:
- Raise the router as high as possible to increase the effective broadcast range. The best position would be near the center of your house or apartment for wider coverage.
- If you live in a 3 storeyed house or higher, you may want to invest in a wireless access point, repeater or create a bridged connection with another similar router. You may also replace the antenna with a larger one.
- Keep router away from any metal including shelves, microwaves, cordless phones, microwave ovens and objects which operate on the same 2.4-Ghz frequency. Also keep it as far as possible from your neighbour's wifi router.
- Routers broadcast on a series of channels, between one and eleven. Change to a channel that will allow your router a clear signal between other wireless networks. The default is usually 6.
- If your router suddenly starts behaving slow, see if your phone or any device is near the router, and take them away.
- To increase router signal, change the Xmit power of your router (the default is usually 28mW in Linksys routers. You can boost this number to up to 200mW, but recommended is 50mW. Any higher will risk your router from burning out.
- You can also boost router signal strength by making a parabolic antenna using tinfoil. [More on this soon...]
If you need to buy a router online, you may click on any of the router links on the right side.
DISCLAIMER: Anything you buy is at your own risk. PinoyList.net only recommends the routers, it is not liable for any damage that is caused by the router manufacturing or you.
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Letter of Intent Signing Ceremony - UNODC with Angel Foundation
UNODC Regional Office for South Asia, under the UN.GIFT initiative, has been working towards building and strengthening Public-Private Partnership to combat human trafficking by promoting womens' empowerment and gender equality. To further this objective, a Letter of Intent was signed between Angel Foundation and UNODC ROSA, at UNODC office. The document was signed by Ms. Angeli Kapoor Puri, Founder of Angel Foundation and Ms. Ashita Mittal, Officer-in-Charge, UNODC ROSA, UN.GIFT.
Speaking on the occasion, Ms. Puri, said, "For a woman to live life with dignity, economic empowerment is very crucial, especially to come out of domestic violence and to protest against other crimes, such as female foeticide and human trafficking. We are very happy to partner with UNODC for their campaign-Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking and are confident that we will be able to better address the issue of women empowerment together."
In her remarks, Ms. Mittal informed that UNODC ROSA office, under the UN.GIFT initiated Public-Private Partnership, has been working with corporates, to strengthen the involvement and role of business coalitions against trafficking. "We are hopeful that corporates will join us in the fight against human trafficking, the worst form of human rights violation, and in the creation of livelihood opportunities for survivors and at risk population," shared Ms. Mittal.
The partnership with Angel Foundation will lead to the establishment of Women's Resource Centers at the village level. The Center will impart social and economic skills to women and young people, at risk of being trafficked and those vulnerable to family violence, drug abuse and HIV/AIDS.
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When I was a preteen (maybe about that age)
my parents sent me off to a Presbyterian church camp, Camp Michaux,
somewhere in mid-Pennsylvania. Part of our weekly stay was one of those
mile-long "hikes" for our health after which the staff fed us hotdogs
for our ill health.
I remember the "cabins" were
no-longer-used World War II barracks built to house enemy prisoners of
war. That's one of the two things I remember about the
The other was on one of those "hikes." As I was
walking along, behind other kids but basically alone because I've never
gone for group activities, something big leaped out of the bushes to my
|What's up? this wild gobbler asked, as I snapped the digital shutter. Milt Gross photo.|
And flew away.
preteen mind realized I had just seen a wild
Now Dolores, the
kitties, and I see a dozen or 20 of them in our yard nearly every day.
Sometimes we see them running, apparently for their lives. We keep
wondering why they don't trip on those long legs and break those long
But despite running and not tripping and all,
these on our yard are not nearly as startling as that first one in
Of course, there was the big male who
challenged me one afternoon for the right to occupy our dooryard. I'd
been putting sunflower seed down for the squirrels, birds, raccoons who
showed up at night, and whoever else might be interested. Big Bird may
have thought I'd be startled.
I had a plastic feed
dish about a foot in diameter in my hand, when the big bird stopped,
fluffed his feathers to scare me, and took a step or to toward
"If you want to fight," said I in defense of my
right to occupy our dooryard, "take on this feed
I held it up for him to
He grumbled, turned, and disappeared into the
woods below the yard.
Nowhere near as dangerous or
frightening as geese I used to encounter when I worked on a farm, as a
teenager. Then my defense was to run into the barn and scramble up a
pile of hay bales.
In Maine, I first learned about
wild turkeys in the mid-1980s while I was a reporter attending a
Norway-Paris Fish and Game Club supper. A Maine Department of Inland
Fish and Wildlife warden spoke that night and clued us into these
strange big birds. They were in southern Maine, he said, but would never
be as far north as South Paris or Norway. The reason, he explained, was
that Maine's climate was too cold for them.
understand two things. Either these turkeys are as dumb as you can get
and haven't figured out that they shouldn't be gathering in fields and
woods in our neck of the Maine woods because our climate is too cold for
them. Or our climate is getting warmer.
I'm not sure
which of the two things is true.
I do know they are a
sporting bird. That doesn't mean they hang out in our yard for sport but
that hunters are allowed to shoot them.
an article from the Sun Sentinel, which I assume is a Florida newspaper
but which appeared in the Bangor Daily News sport section, an
89-year-old Florida hunter, who has seen a charging cape buffalo in some
strange land far away from Maine and flew 35 bomber missions in World
War II, is an avid turkey hunter.
excite him more than hearing the gobble of a wild turkey as he comes in
to your calls," the article stated.
Being a retired
"investigative" (or some kind of) reporter, I'm always interested in
research. So about those turkeys, I've learned from various
1. "The Wild Turkey is North America's
largest upland game bird. Average adult hens weigh between 8 - 12 lb.
and adult toms between 10 - 20 lb., but a large tom can weigh in excess
of 25 lb. Toms sport which are bristle-like feathers that protrude from
the chest and can grow to a length of more than 12 inches on older toms.
Beards may be present on about 10% of the hens; however, they are
thinner and shorter than those of adult males. Heads of gobblers (adult
toms) are generally bare and blue with a hint of pink and red, but
colors can change with the mood of the tom. During mating season , the
gobbler's crown swells and turns white and its wattles become large and
bright red. Heads of hens are somewhat feathered with smaller, darker
feathers extending up from the back of the neck. Legs of toms are longer
than the hens and are equipped with
"Footprints of toms can exceed 6 inches,
whereas hen's footprints rarely exceed 4+ inches. The breast feathers of
hens are buff or brown tipped; the tom's are tipped with a sharp band
of black. Wild Turkey's plumage is more iridescent than domestic
turkeys, and their tail feathers are tipped with brown rather than the
white found on tame birds. Wild Turkeys have keen eyesight, acute
hearing, and are agile fliers, although they often walk or run from
2. "Turkeys can fly up to 60 miles per hour
and a distance of 1 mile. First year birds have dark legs? Game farm
strains of wild turkeys do not survive or reproduce well in the wild,
and they introduce inferior breeding stock into natural populations?" (I
know this is more than one fact, but I'm not good enough in math to
number all the website-learned facts individually.)
"Habitat. Eastern Wild Turkeys generally require large tracts of mature
hardwoods (especially nut producing species such as oak and beech)
interspersed with stands of mature pine. They also require grassy
openings and hay and pasture lands for raising their
Food habits. Turkeys feed on a wide variety of
animal and plant materials such as insects, greens, fruits, berries,
seeds, grains, and nuts. During winter, turkeys feed on bayberry fruits,
sensitive fern spore heads, burdock seeds and other vegetation around
spring-fed brooks and on bare edges of fields. In Maine, turkeys also
depend on dairy farms for food to survive winter. Dairy farms provide
silage corn and manure containing undigested corn that is either spread
on fields or stockpiled for future
Reproduction. Wild Turkeys in Maine breed
during April and May. Dominant toms do most of the breeding. Through
elaborate strutting and gobbling, they try to attract and mate with as
many hens as they can, which may be as many as 12 or more. After
breeding, hens confine themselves to nesting. They construct nests in
shallow depressions on the ground at the base of a tree or stump, under a
tangle of brush, or in dense herbaceous cover. One egg is laid each day
for up to ten to twelve days. Eggs are incubated by the hen from 26 to
28 days before hatching. If left unguarded, eggs are vulnerable to
predators such as crows, skunks, raccoons, and red squirrels, and
incubating hens can fall prey to dogs, coyotes, foxes, raccoons,
bobcats, fisher, and great horned owls. Poults usually leave the nest
the day they are hatched. Hens and their broods frequent field edges and
forest openings in search of insects, which provide protein poults need
for rapid growth during their early development. After 5-6 weeks of
age, young turkeys begin roosting in trees, thus greatly reducing their
vulnerability to predators.
Longevity. Mortality is
greatest and most variable in the early stages of life. Once Wild
Turkeys reach adulthood, they may live as long as 10
Movements. Hens and their poults join other
poults and hens to form flocks of 6 - 25 birds (occasionally up to 50
birds) during late summer, fall, and winter. Adult toms generally remain
loners, but small groups of 2 to 5 toms of mixed ages are commonly seen
throughout the year except breeding season. Feeding turkeys can cover
several miles in a day.
Population and distribution
trends. Historically, wild turkeys existed in significant numbers in
York and Cumberland Counties, and perhaps in lower numbers eastward to
Hancock County. From the time of settlement until 1880, agricultural
practices intensified until farmland comprised about 90% of York and
Cumberland counties. The reduction in forest land and unrestricted
hunting are believed to be the two most important factors leading to the
extirpation of native wild turkeys in Maine in the early 1800s. Since
1880, many farms have been abandoned and the land has reverted back to
forest. By 1970, only 15% of York and Cumberland Counties remained
farmland. This reversion of thousands of acres of farmland to wooded
habitat greatly enhanced prospects for reestablishing turkeys into their
former range." (Boy, these are a fair number of facts and, also, boy, I
wonder what "extirpation" means.)
4. Turkeys were
introduced into southern Maine in 1978 and Waldo County in 1984 -- guess
our DIFW speaker-biologist didn't know about Waldo County and forgot to
tell us they were brought once more into the Pine Tree State by
biologists. Being a semi-believer in evolution within a species, I just
assumed they evolved from big chicken hens or turkeys that escaped from
farms. Also, I learned from a website that their numbers diminished in
places where farms were turned into other uses, because, I guess wild
turkeys also may have evolved from farmers.
|These "wild" turkeys appear daily, sometimes twice daily, in our dooryard or backyard. They come so frequently, our kitties will perch on a raised garden rail or porch rail and calmly watch or ignore them. The turkeys ignore the kitties. Sometimes when I drive into our driveway, a dozen or 15 of them will scatter and disappear in the woods. This group was very hungry and, as you can see, weren't concentrating on smiling at the camera for their picture. Milt Gross photo.|
Maine, you can hunt wild turkeys this spring from April 30 through June
2. In the fall, you can hunt them with bows and arrows from October 6
through October 20 in some wildlife districts and in some others from
September 27 through October 26. In some districts, you can hunt them
with bows and arrows and shotguns (I hope not at the same time) October.
You need an archery license, if you're using a
bow and arrow, a hunting license, and a wild turkey license that you
pay DIFW $20 to obtain and put into your wallet.
learned #5 from among lots of other words on the Maine DIFW website. To
actually hunt them, you'll be wise to go to the DIFW site and read those
other words as well as the paragraphs from which I learned about
There is one other rule of which I'm certain.
Don't hunt them in our dooryard or one of our kitties will get
As you who read this column at least sometimes
already know, I'm not really good at writing turkey, so I'll stop
No wild turkey was injured in the writing of
Milt Gross can be reached for corrections, harassment, or other purposes at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Milton M. Gross Copyright 2012
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SOURCE College Foundation of North Carolina
RALEIGH, N.C., Feb. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Governor Pat McCrory has proclaimed February 18-23, 2013 as Financial Aid Awareness Week in North Carolina. The proclamation urges N.C. students and families to learn more about the process of applying for financial assistance for college. The week culminates with FAFSA Day on Saturday, February 23rd.
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is used to determine eligibility for most financial aid programs to assist in the cost of higher education.
On FAFSA Day, college financial aid officers and specialists will be available at more than 300 locations across North Carolina to help high school seniors and families complete and submit their Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Most FAFSA Day sites will be open between 9:00 a.m. until noon on February 23rd to offer free assistance. Registration is encouraged. To find locations and times and to register for FAFSA Day, go to CFNC.org/fafsaday or call toll-free 1-866-866-CFNC (2362).
Another option for students and parents with a few questions on completing the FAFSA is the FAFSA Phone-In offered every Tuesday night in February. Financial aid specialists will be available to answer specific FAFSA questions on the toll-free number, 1-866-866-CFNC (2362), between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m.
According to the Governor's proclamation, more than 350,000 students in N.C. have applied for financial aid to help pay for college costs and many of our state's leaders, including former governors, judges, civic leaders, educators and other professionals were financial aid recipients. The proclamation points out that those who have benefited from financial aid over the years are now repaying the state through their talents, services and increased tax revenues.
Financial Aid Awareness Week is sponsored by the N.C. Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. The Association also joins College Foundation of North Carolina (CFNC) and the State Employees' Credit Union to make FAFSA Day available.
College Foundation of North Carolina (CFNC) is a free service of the State of North Carolina that helps students plan, apply, and pay for college. CFNC is a partnership of Pathways (the N.C. Department of Public Instruction, N.C. Community Colleges, N.C. Independent Colleges and Universities, and The University of North Carolina), the N.C. State Education Assistance Authority, and College Foundation, Inc.
CFNC offers resources toll-free at 1-866-866-CFNC and at CFNC.org.
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This volume, dedicated to Martin Fishbein, the premier social psychologist in the area of attitude and attitude change, focuses on his work as the codeveloper of reasoned action theory—an approach to behavioral prediction and change that has been used in thousands of research studies. After Fishbein’s death, the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania established a memorial lecture series in his honor. This volume consists of papers derived from those lectures. These articles attest to the general applicability of the theory and the heterogeneous contexts in which the theory can be productively applied. Together, they compose the most up-to-date treatment of the quantitative analysis of reasoned action theory currently available, and they show that there is considerable justification for comparing the reasoned action approach to other well-known scientific theories.
To download individual articles or to purchase the entire volume, please visit The ANNALS home at Sage Journal Online.
This volume highlights cutting-edge research by notable and highly visible scholars working in the area of gender, race and management. Their diversity in both theoretical orientation and methodological approach gives the volume a decidedly interdisciplinary flavor, making it of wide appeal to both academics and policy makers. Contributors come from the social sciences, psychology, top business and management schools, labor and employment relations programs, and schools of public affairs. As such, the contributors bring diverse perspectives and data to bear on key issues, and offer an array of insights into the policy implications of their findings. These unique features combine to inspire new directions for future empirical research in this important area.
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>Today is Autistics Speaking Day. It was created as a reaction to an Australian group’s “Communication Shutdown” in which they were requesting that people ‘shut down’ their facebooks to understand what it is like to be autistic. There are plenty of reasons why this is ridiculous, and plenty of other terrific bloggers have covered it better than I ever could.
But I’m going to add my own voice to the mix, because no autistic person should go silent when they feel the need to communicate their views.
Today, I did an interview for the local TV news station, to talk about a project that my local autism club, of which I am the spokesperson, was doing to bring about discussion on autism. On Wednesday, this piece will be continued, and on Saturday, it will culminate in us showing Temple Grandin, the HBO film, and having a discussion about autism afterwards.
Not one of the autistic members of the club has been silent while we’ve been planning this out. We’ve collaborated, created posters, pitched ideas off each other, discussed the possibility of Closed Captioning in the theatre, and put all of our heads together to create a project we are proud of.
All of this hard work would not have been possible had it not been for the assistance of the internet. We emailed, we designed PDF files of our fliers, and the reporter caught my attention via facebook messaging. It was actually via the internet that I discovered this club.
So, I have to ask: From my personal experience, how does it make sense to bring awareness to autism by shunning the very thing that opened up many an autistic person to new possibilities and friendships? It makes little to no sense in my brain.
And that is all I have to say on the matter.
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[e2e] Protocols breaking the end-to-end argument
jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Sun Oct 25 08:44:14 PDT 2009
> From: Richard Bennett <richard at bennett.com>
> On the subject of BBN's standing in the early Internet community, I'll
> simply note that the term "Big Bad Neighbor" was a common usage that I
> did not coin myself, and Steve Crocker's comments in RFC 1 had a
> well-understood subtext.
I think you're confusing the "early Internet community" with the 'early
The view of the various divisions at BBN (since at one point the Internet work
was being done in a different division of BBN from that responsible for the
ARPANet) by other workers in the early Internet community was a complex, and
hence lengthy, one - and also off-scope for this list (may I suggest the
'Internet-history' list if you really want to explore the topic).
It seems to me that the 'end-end design ideas' have gotten mixed up in what
is, at the bottom, a fight over how to divide up the economic pie of
This is not an unknown occurrence - scientific work on things like the size
of the Artic ice-sheet, and discovery of new fossil species, has equally
become wound up in disputes which are far larger.
I don't have any pithy response to that, and any longer comment would also be
off-topic, so I will simply make the observation and leave it there.
More information about the end2end-interest
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Though being born and raised in Berlin, the typical courtyards came to my attention quite late. Part of a major urban development plan, that dates back to the late 20th century, those courtyards were once conceived to ensure heterogenous, thus vivid social compositions. Believe it or not. Though we proceed to call them somewhat falsely “backyards” (see, we’re prisoners of our past) for this little series, we still strive to endeavour new specimens that leave us both surprised and excited.
The first backyard of this third part of the series is situated in Kreuzberg, not far away from the gallery district around Kochstraße. It belongs to a youth club that provides the kids with a wide space to legally practice their graffiti skills. My last visit wasn’t long ago, however, the walls completely changed over the weeks, since kids, youth and grown ups frequently overpaint older pieces. The paint already splattered of from the walls, revealing older pieces or even the paint-weary and brittle wall. Thick chunks of myriads of layers of paint covered the ground, spray bottle caps, disposable gloves and other equipment lay there scattered as well. Luckily, nobody was there when I took the photos; leaving the backyard a peculiar notion of rest, since tomorrow the sprayers would come back and once again, start it all over.
Finding the next backyard near Moritzplatz, however, was owed to good luck. Passing by construction workers who carried heavy material inside, curiosity got the better of me. I sneaked a peek just to find a narrow courtyard that was crammed with all sorts of construction material. A crane and some scaffolds, that was all this courtyard could bear. However, the sight of this neatly tucked away construction site was surprising, since it seemed that the residents daily routine wasn’t affected at all. People would simply find their way around the obstacles.
In any case, I was in a hurry. The third courtyard was situated in Schöneberg, close to the street-walkers’ district of Potsdamer Straße. While desperately looking for a certain gallery, I found this near-to abandoned building that appeared to once was a small shopping arcade. The front shops were vacant and so were all the other windows facing the courtyard. Only the backmost spaces still accommodated business, however, only cab hotline companies.
I wondered which shops once sold their goods there: fashion? Grocery? Children’s toys? No hints could be found. Today, the windows advertise cheap renting space. The courtyard served as a compound for said gallery to store some big art crates. The place was virtually abandoned. I wondered how many punters would seek the seclusion of this courtyard. The upper floors were still inhabited: which stories could the residents tell? I would rather not ask, this place was creepy and so I left, the building and the district. Some young whores looking the worse for wear eyed me on my hasty leaving. Boy, I was happy to reach the subway station.
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All six proposals — one veto referendum and five constitutional amendments — failed to make it in the Michigan election on Nov. 6:
• Proposal 1, the veto referendum, was to expand emergency managers’ powers and the ability of the governor to appoint emergency managers for a municipality or school district.
The Detroit Free Press noted that Gov. Rick Snyder told WWJ-AM that this will make it difficult for financially troubled communities to succeed.
• Proposal 2 would have made collective bargaining through labor unions a right for public and private workers.
Michigan Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Rich Studley said in a statement to The Detroit News: ”Michigan union bosses were more interested in attacking job providers and the state’s reinvention effort than in representing their members best interest, and today at the ballot box union members themselves stood up to their bosses and overwhelmingly rejected their divisive approach.”
• Proposal 3, the renewable energy measure, was to mandate that 25 percent of the state’s electricity come from renewable sources by 2025.
Steve Transeth, the former head of the Michigan Public Service Commission who has worked to defeat the ballot measure, told The Detroit News: ”As we’ve said all along, it’s very important we move forward with clean energy and a clean environment. But this proposal was just not the way to go about it.”
• Proposal 4 would have given in-home health care providers collective bargaining rights with the Michigan Quality Home Care Council (a new council within Michigan Department of Community Health).
• Proposal 5 would have required any increase in state taxes to be approved by a two-thirds majority in the Legislature, or a statewide vote.
• Proposal 6 called for voters to approve any new international bridge or tunnel via statewide referendum, as well as a referendum in any municipality in which the new bridge would be located.
Mickey Blashfield, director of Ambassador Bridge owner Manuel “Matty” Moroun’s ballot committee, hinted to Crain’s Detroit Business of litigation to come: “If the governmental proposal doesn’t collapse from the weight of legal and congressional scrutiny, the [New International Trade Crossing] will never be built over unstable salt mine foundations, where land speculators are lining up to get rich on the government’s tab.
Meanwhile, Sara Wurfel, Gov. Rick Snyder’s press secretary, said: “It’s full steam ahead. Voters were rightfully wary of special interest attempts to mess with their constitution.”
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MBA Students Expect Low Accounting Pay
MBA students expect the lowest pay from the auditing, accounting and tax sector, according to a survey by Fortune magazine.
Five thousand MBA students said expect to be paid a base salary of $63,695 one year after graduation in the combined category of "auditing/accounting/taxation." After five years, the same students expect to earn $111,135.
The accounting sector received the lowest expectations of the 47 sectors surveyed. The next lowest expectation was academic research, at $77,859 one year after graduation and $132,282 after five years. The highest pay expected one year after graduation is in venture capital, at $107,919. After five years of graduation, the highest pay expected is in metals at $346,566.
Voice of the Editor
What makes a company a great place to work? Experience, a ConnectEDU company, uses criteria that include benefits, career advancement opportunities, culture, and work/life balance to form its annual list of the Best Places to Work for Recent Grads. BDO USA and Ernst & Young both made the Top 25 list. Read what makes these firms stand out and find out what can be done at your firm to entice college grads.
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Sometimes I am truly dumbfounded by the things people allow to fly out of their mouths and what they will post on the internet, from the incredibly obtuse to the blatantly ignorant. This, falls somewhere in the middle…I guess.
A friend posted this picture of Mrs. Ernestine Shepherd on his Facebook page. “Ernie”, as she is called by those who know her, is a 75 year old female body builder who looks FANTASTIC! Given her slim frame, she is not bulky, masculine looking, nor hard like the majority of her female counterparts in the sport. She is, however, toned, well defined, and above all else, an inspiration to every African American woman whose goal is to get in shape.
According to the CDC, 51% of non-Hispanic Black women, age 20 years or older are obese. Non-Hispanic Black females aged 2-19 – 24% are obese. These statistics are both staggering and frightening. [Source]
Over half of my sisters are obese and run the increased risk of the following health conditions:
- Coronary heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure
- Type 2 diabetes
- Cancers, such as endometrial, breast, and colon cancer
- High total cholesterol or high levels of triglycerides
- Liver and gallbladder disease
- Sleep apnea and respiratory problems
- Degeneration of cartilage and underlying bone within a joint (osteoarthritis)
- Reproductive health complications such as infertility
- Mental health conditions
So when you say “I would rather stay fat than to look like that.” what I interpret that to mean is:
- I would rather have high blood pressure and suffer a stroke…
- I would rather have Type 2 diabetes, rely on insulin, and end up blind and in renal failure…
- I would rather have cancer…
…than to be physically fit and healthy.
And that…is just profoundly sad.
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Django at 100
Call it Django or Gypsy jazz, Hot Club, swing or Manouche (another name for gypsy), it's a style that hits you immediatelyblazing, hard-picked runs played on a hyper-resonant, flat-top guitar (sound-holes are oval or D-shaped, never round), its intense momentum propelled by bass and rhythm guitar(s), often in tandem with violin, clarinet or accordion and working through standards and rhythms that belonged to the Swing Era. It may have been the first jazz style to develop fully outside the United States, but it's also the most vibrant style of early jazz practiced today, heard more widely and received more enthusiastically than either New Orleans traditional or other forms of swing.
For guitarist Joshua Assad, "This music has an uncanny ability to perk the ears of the harshest critics. It's infectious, spontaneous, approachable, unassuming and fascinating. The musical spectrum today seems to leave us either hungering for more than the obvious hook or, on the other hand, a style that's enjoyable without a PhD in harmony. Gypsy jazz is familiar and palatable and it seems to serve our hearts and tradition, while feeding the hunger for exploration and virtuosity."
No one conveys the sheer excitement of this music like Pat Philips, who has been producing the Django Reinhardt New York Festival for the past decade, presenting the greatest musicians in the Manouche tradition: "For the first year of our festival, Jimmy Rosenberg and another great, Bireli Lagrene, came and also Django's son, Babik Reinhardt...and you couldn't get into Birdland. The lines were all the way to Eighth Avenue.
"I believe this music is very exciting, romantic, virtuosic, hip, cutting edge. It will never go out of style. It's real, grown out of a gypsy culture, a lifestyle where kids at 3 are holding guitars bigger than themselves and imitating the elders."
Jan. 23rd marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Django Reinhardt, aquifer and fountainhead of this music. He's one of the unlikeliest giants of jazz, with a similarly unlikely influence. Born in Belgium in 1910 into a Gypsy family that would give up its travels for the outskirts of Paris during the First World War, Reinhardt had been a banjo-playing prodigy when, at 18, his caravan was engulfed in flames: Reinhardt had severe burns to a leg and to his left hand. Recuperating, he happened to pick up a Louis Armstrong recording in a market and concentrated on both regaining his facility and learning to play jazz, eventually developing a virtuoso technique with limited use of the third and fourth fingers on his left hand.
In 1934, he and violinist Stéphane Grappelli formed the band that would take them to fame: The Quintet of the Hot Club of France, an unlikely combination of three guitars, violin and bass. For bassist Brian Torff, Music Director of the New York Festival, the instrumentation is a key to the music: "The way acoustic string instruments blend together has great appeal to a jazz and non-jazz audience. I saw this with Grappelli when we toured together. He drew not just jazz fans, but folk, bluegrass, and Grateful Dean fans. If the same music were played with drums and piano, it wouldn't have the same attraction."
The Quintet proved you didn't need drums and horns to play jazz, but more than that, it demonstrated that someone born outside America could emerge as a major force in the new idiom. Within a few years Reinhardt would cement his position as the first European to become a major figure in jazz. The routes of Reinhardt's influence have been many and different. While he and Grappelli clearly learned from the violin/guitar team of Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang, Reinhardt's advanced harmonic sense would affect guitarists as different, and influential in their own right, as Charlie Christian and Les Paul. The string-band sound of the Hot Club played a role in the rise of the country/jazz hybrid called Western Swing, and you can still hear the influence today in the guitar playing of Willie Nelson and the Hot Club of Cow Town, a band that originated in the East Village and moved to Austin, Texas.
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GLOBAL: AIDS activists laud lifting of US HIV travel ban
Posted by African Press International on November 12, 2009
|The ban has been in place for over two decades|
NAIROBI, – A 22-year-old ban on people infected with HIV entering the US was officially lifted on 2 November, with the new rules taking effect in 60 days. AIDS activists have hailed the move as a major coup in the fight against stigma.
“This comes as very good news for us,” Michael Angaga, regional coordinator for the Network of African People Living with HIV/AIDS (NAP+), told IRIN/PlusNews.
“For so long HIV-positive people have felt isolated by one of the greatest nations in the world, which should be spearheading human rights.” Angaga said he looked forward to seeing the new rules rapidly implemented in US embassies around the world.
In 1987 HIV was added to the list of communicable diseases that could prevent infected immigrants, students and tourists from obtaining visas to enter the US without special permission. President Barack Obama’s announcement on 30 October marked the end of a process started in 2008 by then US President George W. Bush, who signed a law repealing these restrictions.
“We lead the world when it comes to helping stem the AIDS pandemic, yet we are one of only a dozen countries that still bar people from HIV from entering our own country. If we want to be the global leader in combating HIV/AIDS, we need to act like it,” Obama was reported as saying.
Samuel Kibanga, national coordinator of the National Forum of People living with HIV/AIDS Networks in Uganda, commented: “This shows that America can now see the reality that people living with HIV are just like any other people, deserving of the right to free movement – the travel ban was discrimination of the highest calibre.”
The UNAIDS International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights state that any restriction on liberty of movement or choice of residence based on suspected or real HIV status alone, including HIV screening of international travellers, is discriminatory.
Governments usually give two main reasons for imposing travel restrictions on HIV-positive people: to help control the spread of HIV, and save host countries the cost of HIV-related treatment, but Kibanga said these regulations merely drove the problem of HIV underground.
“People fear to reveal their status when travelling. It is better to be with someone who feels free to be open about their status than one who is hiding it,” he said. “That way we can all fight AIDS as partners.”
A June 2009 report by watchdog organization Human Rights Watch, found that immigration laws and stringent requirements for accessing free health care often created insurmountable barriers to treatment and care for migrants living with HIV.
Kibanga said he hoped the US’s move would serve as an example to other nations. According to UNAIDS, 59 countries impose some form of travel restrictions on people living with HIV.
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In this day and age, it doesn't suffice to just tell
your friends of your gaming adventures, you want to show them. Because, let’s be honest, talk is cheap. From that long-range sticky we pulled off in Halo 4 to the spectacular dunk that won the NBA championship in NBA 2K13, it means that much more when people can witness the feat. Traditionally speaking, the hardware required to capture such footage in all of its HD glory has been on the expensive side. That is changing though as more affordable options are starting to become available.
Over the past couple of weeks, I have put to test one of the newer, affordable HD capture options in the form of Diamond’s GC1000 1080 HD Game Capture. While the price was right, I had my concerns if this new wave of affordable capture devices would offer comparable results to those I saw others posting online. I wanted similar results at a fraction of the cost. Turns out, that is exactly what I got. Perhaps even a little more.
The GC1000 allows gamers and media enthusiasts alike to capture video from a variety of sources, including the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii and WiiU, as well as VHS and DVD players. Consoles and players can be connected to the small set top box through HDMI, component, or S-Video connections, and captured at a resolution of up to 1080i (including 720p and using H.264 hardware compression). The GC1000 itself doesn’t capture and store the imagery, so it must be connected to either a laptop computer or desktop PC via USB 2.0, with some decent hard drive space. Thanks to the use of what they call “loopthrough” video inputs, there is absolutely zero lag on your television during usage; your video feed is actually split, sending the playable feed to your television with no lag and a recordable feed to your computer, which has roughly a two-second delay.
You should note that Diamond does conform to the industry standard HDCP requirements with this device. This really only effects those connecting the device to a PlayStation 3 via HDMI; footage cannot be captured using this connection due to the copyright protection that the platform utilizes. Your Xbox 360 and other systems will work fine using an HDMI connection, however the only way that you are going to get HD imagery off the PS3 is by using a component connection.
Setup is very easy, especially after your initial use. I highly recommend following the setup guide exactly, as failure to do so will likely leave you in the dark (I know: I spent a while there myself). The device is finicky about the “order of operations” during the initial installation, and if you do not connect the device prior to installing the drivers, you will not have any success. Once you have completed the initial setup and installation of the included capture software (Diamond Video Capture) on your PC, the device becomes simply plug-and-play in the future.
While the physical connection process is easy, it also brings up my first concern with the device: you cannot leave it connected to your console when you aren’t capturing footage. Because of the Loopthrough video connection, the video stream isn’t passed to your television unless the GC1000 device is connected and powered by your PC. Therefore, unless you want to have a computer connected at all times, you are going to need to unhook everything for casual play sessions. Thankfully, the limited connections make it easy to set up quickly, but it's a chore to constantly hook and unhook it depending on the purpose of your play session.
Once you are up and running, you can capture either video or still images (screenshots) at will using the included Diamond Video Capture software. The device doesn’t "officially" support other capture software, so this is intended to be your primary software for capture-sessions. Video can be captured in a couple of different quality options but you will likely want the highest (which is why you bought an HDMI capture device in the first place) though the format used is “TS,” which is supported by many video-editing suites included Windows Live Movie Maker and the included Roxio Power Director.
Screenshots, however, offer you a couple of different options. You can choose between a variety of formats, including JPEG, PNG, and BMP, and have the option to capture single frames or a sequence of shots. The single frame option gave the best quality images as capturing multiple shots usually led to blurry images. The quality of the capture, regardless of the format, is every bit of what I had hoped to get out of an HD capture device. Both the images (in single frame mode) and the video were crisp and vibrant, mimicking exactly what I witnessed on my high definition television. All of the imagery and video footage that is shown throughout the course of this review was captured using the device.
The capture process brings up the Achilles' heel of this otherwise great product: the software interface. The only option you have to capture footage is to initiate either the video or still buttons at the bottom of the capture window on your PC; there is no option to remap the capture triggers to a specific button on your keyboard or mouse. As a result, you are constantly trying to ensure that you mouse cursor is in just the right spot so that you can quickly initiate the capture when it comes to screenshots. Videos are a little easier since you can start their capture ahead of time. Things would work so much better if you could simply make the spacebar the default button to trigger a capture, but the option to do so just isn't there.
Once you capture footage, the fun really begins. The capture program itself offers direct upload options for both Facebook and YouTube, but gamer-videographers don’t want to share simple, raw video. If you want to turn your footage into the cinematic work of art that it is intended to be, you are going to have to put in a little legwork in the editing room. You can use the free Windows Live Movie Maker if you wish to edit and share simple creations; it is a good starting point for those with little video editing experience who want to get a handle on how things work. However, those looking to truly take their creations to the next level, but aren’t willing to drop a pretty penny on something such as Adobe Premier, are in luck. Diamond includes a very robust video editing suite in the form of Roxio’s Power Director.
Granted, the version included is a few editions old (8.x is included). The Power Director software is easy to learn, simple to use, and is backed by a huge community online that will provide you with additional tools and assets at no additional cost. This program lets you do picture-in-picture, audio and image overlays, animated overlays, and a ton of other stuff. A perfect example of what can be done is our own video review
of Halo 4, which was created entirely using the Power Director software. There are a ton of encoding and output options which will allow you to output your completed videos in nearly every format you could imagine. This has quickly become my go-to program for video editing -- and it came with the GC1000.
It doesn’t take a lot of muscle to run the GC1000 either. The system requirements for your PC are very low, requiring nothing more than a single core Pentium IV 1.6GHz machine with 256MB of RAM. I use it in conjunction with my personal laptop which is a Lenovo G575 (AMD Dual Core 1.6GHz, 3GB RAM). On this setup, the actual capture process only used up about 25 - 30% of my system resources and never really bogged down my system; this is a very cheap laptop, too, so I was happy to see it handle the process with such ease. You will want to make sure that you have a decent amount of spare hard drive space for video capture however, as full HD footage clocks in at about 100MB per 60 seconds of footage.
In the end, despite the interface concerns and finicky setup, I couldn’t have hoped for better results from the GC1000. The device captures beautiful images and video from all of my systems and it doesn’t cost an arm and a leg. I have tested out other capture devices over the past couple of years, and nearly every one that I have ever come into contact with has had an issue with lag on the gameplay screen. That isn’t the case with the GC1000. I had absolutely no issues at all playing twitch/fast-paced titles such as Halo 4 multiplayer and rhythm games. This thing works like a charm. Thanks to the capabilities of this device, I have a feeling that I will be sharing a lot more of my gaming adventures with the world.
* The product in this article was sent to us by the developer/company for review.
The GC1000 may be a little tricky on the interface side of things, but I can’t argue with the results. The screenshots and the videos captured are every bit of what I hoped for and the price is extremely reasonable compared to the competition. This is definitely a quality, affordable solution for those looking to share their gaming adventures with the world.
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Eats and Drinks
Published: November 14, 2012
En Papillote (awn pah pee yote) is a fun-to-pronounce and really very easy technique that makes for—well, calling it dramatic might be a stretch, but it’s at least a pretty and even impressive presentation. “En papillote” translates to “in parchment,“ and the technique consists of using parchment paper to create a sealed cooking environment. This keeps water vapor, nutrients, and volatile flavor compounds from escaping into the air or whatever cooking medium you might be using (e.g., water, when boiling something). Thus, you get more moist and perhaps more nutritious food. But most importantly, you get the nice effect of a little poof of nommy-smelling steam to the face when you break the seal, which is, of course, the “voila” moment that is the main draw of cooking en papillote, the secondary draw being the simple novelty of cutting into a package to access your meal.
Disposable, custom-fitted single-serving cooking vessels are utilized all over the world. The most common one is probably the banana leaf, which is used for tamales in Central and South America, or for steaming seafood and rice in Southeast Asia, Polynesia, and India. En papillote and leaf-wrapping are distinguished from other types of self-contained cooking—like strombolis or Hot Pockets—in that the containers are inedible and very durable, which enables them to pull double-duty as a serving vessel. Another such example is camping standby of cooking a whole meal in aluminum foil. A more modern alternative is the plastic cooking bag. I know it seems counterintuitive and even dangerous to put a plastic bag in a hot oven, but it works pretty well.
The only special equipment you need is, of course, parchment paper. Parchment paper in the context of cooking is paper that’s been chemically processed to withstand high temperatures and coated to make it somewhat non-stick. That second part also makes it highly water-resistant. The traditional enclosing method is to cut two sheets of paper into a half-heart shapes, place the food in the middle of one (shiny side up), top with the other (shiny side down), and fold the edges over in 1-2 inch increments. But I’ve had just as much success with less painstaking (but admittedly less attractive) folding methods—my go-to is what I call the “double lunchbag,” which involves two sheets folded on top.
The big drawback of en papillote is that, once it’s sealed, you can’t manipulate its contents again until serving time. Thus, all the ingredients need to have similar cooking times, so something delicate like fish is best, paired with green vegetables and flavoring agents like lemon or herbs, and not anything starchy, like grains or potatoes, since they take longer to cook. On the other hand, proteins that take longer to cook can be paired with root vegetables and starches. My favorite camping meal is lamb cubes, potatoes, carrots, and mushrooms. I’ve made this properly en papillote at home and it’s very good. Another shortcoming of this technique is the lack of browning, which is due to the high humidity in the cooking environment. The food is basically steaming inside the paper, after all.
I have found, however, that if the paper is lubed well with oil or butter and placed in direct contact with the protein—and no liquid is added to the package—and if the oven temperature is high enough and the en papillote is cooked long enough, browning does indeed occur. I experimented by roasting a whole chicken en papillote at a high temperature. The parchment paper box indicated that the max temp was 425 F, but I figured they were lowballing and cooked at 450 F with no problem. Although overall the bird remained pretty wan, the wings and legs had a healthy burnish. I only cooked it for an hour since, high humidity or not, it’s still possible to overcook. But I surmise that more time will result in more brown, meaning the fabled “brown paper-bag turkey” (which was apparently a thing in the ’50s) might actually work. That method calls for a turkey to be cooked in a buttered brown paper grocery bag at 500 F for the first hour, 400 F the second, and 300 F for a third. I don’t know if I’d use an actual paper grocery bag since a) they’re not designed to be food-grade and b) who knows how they were stored back in the bowels of the supermarket—on a dirty floor, for instance. No thanks. Instead, I’d opt for wrapping the turkey mummy-style in parchment to achieve the elusive combo of moist and well-browned.
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Proclaiming herself ''the candidate of the people of America,'' Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, congresswoman Shirley Chisholm became the first African American, and the first woman, to mount a full-fledged campaign for the presidency. Neither ''the people'' nor her congressional colleagues were particularly supportive: One shot shows Chisholm at the edge of the otherwise all-male Congressional Black Caucus, while in another, fellow congresswoman Bella Abzug plants her index finger squarely in Chisholm's sternum For Democrats, the spectacle of candidates clambering over one another while a wartime president wins reelection may be painfully familiar, but Shola Lynch's chipper documentary is an unadulterated valentine to her late subject, decorated with colorful graphics and a funky score. Chisholm's trailblazing determination is inspiring ''If you can't endorse me, get out of my way,'' she says with a steely lisp but Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed is ultimately vague about what she actually stood for. The film proves that anyone can run, but it doesn't address the thornier issue of whether it's worth jeopardizing real victories to win symbolic ones. EXTRAS None.
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Pedro Pans Descend on Miami for 50th Anniversary, but Program Still Mysterious
|Operation Pedro Pan: Something to Celebrate?|
As part of a 50th anniversary weekend, Pedro Pan veterans and their families will tour today three camps around Miami where they were briefly housed before relocating to foster homes and orphanages around the U.S. and in Puerto Rico.
"It was a very traumatic experience for all of us," says Carmen Romanach, who was a child relocated during the operation. "The bond is very special. When you see us together we are like kids again."
"We went through the same experience together, so we feel like brothers and sisters," says Romanach, who is also a director of the Operation Pedro Pan Group organizing the tour. "It's part of the history of the United States and Cuba."
At least 14,000 children left Cuba via Operation Pedro Pan from 1960 to 1962, as Fidel Castro consolidated power following the Revolution. The program was run by the Catholic Church and was the brainchild of Monsignor Bryan O. Walsh, then the head of Catholic Charities in Miami.
But much mystery and controversy still surrounds the operation. María de los Angeles Torres, who has written a book on both the program and her own experience as a Pedro Pan child, says the story behind Operation Pedro Pan is much more complicated than most admit.
First, many more than 14,000 children may have been relocated, she says, and a great number of them were never reunited with their parents, as originally intended.
Second, at least 80 of those children have since claimed that they were victims of sexual abuse by priests in the United States.
That reality makes the program's anniversary a bit more difficult to celebrate, she says.
Torres also says her experience, and that of the thousands of other kids who passed through the program, holds a lesson for groups currently trying to help children in other parts of the world, especially Haiti.
"Sometimes, good-hearted people end up doing things that inadvertantly hurt the children they are trying to help," she says.
The Operation Pedro Pan Group tour starts today at 8:30 a.m. at the Miami Beach Resort and Spa at 4833 Collins Ave. The group will then visit three old camp sites (Kendall, Matecumbe, and Florida City) before an afternoon visit to the Operation Pedro Pan monument in Little Havana. Tickets are sold out.
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More African-American women unlocking potential of hair untreated by chemicals
|LaToya Rivers, owner of Espresso Culture, wearing Sister Girl earrings and sporting Sister coils, gives Suzetta Parks (not pictured) a coil-out style, January 2, 2013, in Kansas City, Missouri. (Allison Long/Kansas City Star/MCT)|
Five years ago, Kansas City, Mo., jazz singer Bukeka Shoals woke up one morning and decided she was through with chemical relaxers.
"I was tired of wearing my hair a certain way to feel acceptable," says Shoals, who now wears her hair in a fluffed-out curly 'do with slanted bangs framing her face.
For Shoals, embracing her African-American hair the way God made it was part of a midlife transformation to express her true self in every way, to get back to a cultural identity she had chosen as a young girl but then drifted away from.
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The fourth installment of Curator's Corner look into the National Firearms Museum's
new Theodore Roosevelt collection (set to debut in June) stays within the realm of firearms. To be more specific, his 1894 Winchester lever-action rifle.
The President's rifle comes with the usual Roosevelt bells and whistles — the crescent buttplate, no raised check piece, as well as a little something extra; a threaded barrel. Yes, you guessed it, Roosevelt's '94 Winchester comes with it's very own suppressor.
This was the rifle that Roosevelt used to clear the estate of varmints. While this might generate a shrug on your end, please note that the estate was on the North Shore of Long Island. There's little doubt that his neighbors (the Duponts, the Tiffanys, etc...) failed to appreciate the crack of gunfire on a weekday afternoon. So, in consideration of the neighbor's piece of mind, Teddy took care of the problem as quietly as possible.
The 1894 Winchester lever-action, designed by John Browning, was the first commercial repeater created for smokeless powder. Primarily chambered for the .30-30 Winchester cartridge, there were more than 7,000,000 of the rifles manufactured throughout the years.
For more on Roosevelt's Winchester, tune in tonight as National Firearms Museum Senior Curator Phil Schreier joins John Popp at 10:40 eastern time on NRANews.com and Sirius/XM's Patriot Channel.
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On 02/05/2010 06:41 PM, Jan Moringen wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 20:24 -0500, Eric M. Ludlam wrote:
>> On 02/04/2010 07:50 PM, Jan Moringen wrote:
>>>> I also know that there is very poor testing of python parsing in
>>>> still. (ie - only very basic parsing.) If you happen to be using
>>>> python parser with smart completion, srecode, cogre, or any other
>>>> features, adding tests there would be a huge win while developing
>>>> changes as the one you propose below.
>>> I will to commit the changes together with proper tests. Thanks for
>> There are a lot of test harnesses around for different things. I
>> don't know what bits of the python parser are working for you, so if you
>> need a suggestion of which harness to use, let me know.
> Apart from minor problems (which I have partly fixed in my CEDET copy),
> the parser works quite well.
> Since the enhancements are on the grammar level, I would like to do unit
> tests on the tag level. Is there a framework for that?
The semantic-utest.el file has the basics to a python parsing unit test.
As you can see, that, and many others, are all very basic.
For C++, must of the parsing is tested as part of the smart completion
tests, where those can't pass unless the parser works well. At the same
time, the C test also is a bit more advanced, in that it has some minor
edits testing the incremental parser, though it didn't go very far.
Anyway, there is basic infrastructure there to extend for Python for the
parsing of constructs, even though the entirety of the test should be
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011 -- Week of Proper 26, Year One
Today's Readings for the Daily Office (Book of Common Prayer, p. 1000)
Morning Prayer: Psalms 111, 112; 2 Esdras 2:42-47; Hebrews 11:32 - 12:2
Evening Prayer: Psalms 148, 150; Wisdom 5:1-5, 14-16; Revelation 21:1-4, 22 - 21:5
And one was a doctor, and one was a queen,
and one was a shepherdess on the green:
they were all of them saints of God, and I mean,
God helping, to be one too.
I can remember singing this hymn as a child and thinking enthusiastically with the naivete of childhood, "Yes! I could be one too." Something deep inside me wanted to be good and noble, like the ones we read about in the heroes' biographies. Something like that urge still surges inside of me today. I want to live a real and authentic life, and to be open to whatever God may draw me toward that might help God's work in the world. As I live my sixtieth year, I certainly know a lot of my limits and many of my abiding faults, but I can claim some of my gifts as well. I also know, now that I am a grownup, and having read some of the more adult biographies, that many of those heroes I thought to model myself by also had some significant limits and faults.
To be a saint doesn't seem quite as exotic as it used to. It seems more about being who I am. It seems more about trusting God in each present moment, and detaching myself from those habits and distractions that always seem to draw me away from simply being.
Toward the end of Graham Greene's novel The Power and the Glory the Whisky Priest sits in his prison cell, the gallows that will hang him on the morrow outside his window. His has been an ambiguous life. With some courage he stayed behind to provide the sacrament to the people after the army arrived. Yet he had fathered an illegitimate child and drowned much of his fear in liquor.
Approaching his end, "He felt only an immense disappointment because he had to go to God empty-handed, with nothing done at all. It seemed to him at that moment that it would have been quite easy to have been a saint. It would only have needed a little self-restraint and a little courage. He felt like someone who has missed happiness by seconds at an appointed place. He knew now that there was only one thing that counted -- to be a saint."
A little self-restraint and a little courage. Moment by moment. Trusting. I can do that.
Usually is takes a little bit of tenderness though. Tenderness toward God. Tenderness toward the other. Especially tenderness toward myself. When I think kindly of myself, I tend to relax enough to act more kindly toward others. If I live in an atmosphere of acceptance, something good seems to grow in me. The acceptance takes a bit of trust however. Acceptance of the present moment -- after all, it is the only moment I have, regardless of its particular shape. Acceptance of myself, for God has accepted me in God's immense grace. If God has accepted me, I can relax and accept myself. It is all love. And life is good. Hard, but good.
Relax. Be. A little self-restraint and a little courage is all it takes.
They lived not only in ages past, there are hundreds of thousands still,
the world is bright with the joyous saints who love to do Jesus' will.
You can meet them in school, or in lanes, or at sea,
in church, or in trains, or in shops or at tea,
for the saints of God are just folk like me, and I mean to be one too.
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012
New Larceny Bourbon Is A Mystery Times Two.
These are the labels for a new bourbon from Heaven Hill. The story they tell is true. It was revealed in a book published in 1999. It is about John E. Fitzgerald, the man after whom the Old Fitzgerald brand was named.
The Old Fitzgerald brand was created by Charles Herbst, a pre-Prohibition wine and spirits wholesaler, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was made at a distillery Herbst owned near Frankfort, Kentucky, called Old Judge (now long gone).
When Herbst created the brand he made up a story to go with it, that Fitzgerald was a distiller in Frankfort who, starting in 1870, made a fine bourbon whiskey that he sold only to railroads, steamship lines, and private clubs.
It was all fiction, but Fitzgerald was a real person, a U.S. Treasury agent. Treasury agents in those days, and up until the early 1980s, controlled access to all whiskey warehouses, the better to ensure that all taxes were paid and all whiskey was made to government standards. This made the local 'government man' very powerful and there was little a distiller or distillery owner like Herbst could do if the agent assigned to his distillery helped himself to a taste now and then.
Fitzgerald had a reputation among the Herbst folks for being a particularly good judge of whiskey. The barrels that received most of his attention almost always turned out to be exemplary, and it became an inside joke to refer to a particularly good barrel of bourbon as 'a Fitzgerald.' The joke was immortalized when they chose John E. Fitzgerald as the fictional producer of a brand they called Old Fitzgerald.
No one knew the true story until author Sally Van Winkle Campbell and her historian consultant, Sam Thomas, uncovered it. Campbell is the granddaughter of Julian 'Pappy' Van Winkle, who acquired the Old Fitzgerald brand from Herbst during Prohibition.
The label above was discovered through a different kind of sleuthing. It didn't come from Heaven Hill, which owns the Fitzgerald brand today. Instead it was discovered by a COLA troller. COLA stands for "Certificate of Label Approval." All alcoholic beverage labels have to be submitted to the Treasury Department's Alcohol Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) for approval, and when approved they become matters of public record and are posted on the TTB's web site.
COLA Trollers are enthusiasts who search the TTB web site for clues about new products. Label approval doesn't necessarily mean a product is imminent, or that it will be released at all, but they can be tantalizing, as this one is.
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Archaeological Research in the Three Gorges, & the Study of the Ancient Ba Culture
Zheng Ruokui. Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing
Wednesday, December 08, 2004
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Mr. Zheng has conducted archaeological research in many parts of China for over thirty years. Most recently, he has been field director of his institute's excavations in the region soon to be submerged as a result of the Three Gorges Dam. The surveys and excavations in the Three Gorges area, ongoing since 1994, constitute one of the most extensive salvage operations in the history of the archaeological discipline. The Institute of Archaeology, CASS, has contributed to this effort by doing extensive research on prehistoric (Neolithic and Bronze Age) sites in the fertile and picturesque valley of the Daning river in Wushan county, Chongqing municipality. This work has shed important new light on the history of the ancient Ba people, known from historical record to have inhabited this area during ancient times.
Mr. Zheng will speak in Chinese; translation will be provided.
For more information please contact
Sponsor(s): Center for Chinese Studies
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Linked by David Adams on Mon 20th Jul 2009 23:13 UTC
If you haven't been to our OS Resources page lately, you haven't missed much action, because like many online resource pages, a lot of effort went into it long ago when it was launched, but it's been lacking attention since, with only occasional updates. Alas, thus is the sorrow of Web 1.0. We'd like to drag OS Resources into the participatory web, and let the OSNews community help keep it up to date. Wiki seems like an obvious solution. So I'd like to ask, dear readers, is there a Wiki system that you think would be especially good for a small-but-growing OS Resource guide? There's Mediawiki, of course, but it seems a bit heavyweight and user-unfriendly for something small and simple. I've had good experience with Mindtouch Deki, but thought I should examine other options before picking it. So what do you think? Is Wiki the way to go, if so, which one? And what would you like to see in our new OS Resources?
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The Green Yatra campaign cleverly addresses the threat of global warming on animals as well as the part humans play in hastening this dramatic climate change while concentrating on the passivity of many people when it comes to making an important difference in the world. The print ads may focus on a strong message, "A small negligence can bring about a bigger loss," but it is the idea of supporting environmental causes by simply wearing a cheap t-shirt that will make most of the impact.
Conceived and executed by Makani Creatives, an ad agency based in Mumbai, India, the Green Yatra campaign encourages people to "turn off the heat" and help the animals they claim to love in a real way. This is emphasized by the iron burns on the t-shirts.
Iron-Burned Animal Tee Ads
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Pressing Reset Button on Freddie and Fannie
The New York Timesleads with word that the Obama administration will announce a new plan to reform the detention system for immigration violators. Detention centers have often been criticized for mistreating detainees and, most poignantly, failing to provide them with proper medical care while often allowing them to linger behind bars for months or years. The Washington Postleads with word that the White House is considering pressing the reset button on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to free the two mortgage giants of hundreds of billions of dollars in troubled loans. Nothing has been decided yet, but this is one of the proposals that the administration will be considering as it decides what to do with the companies that were effectively nationalized in September and have since been given $85 billion in direct federal aid.
The Wall Street Journalleads its world-wide newsbox with, and the Los Angeles Timesdevotes its top nonlocal spot to, the two American journalists who returned to California yesterday after being detained in North Korea since March. The LAT focuses its front-page piece on how former President Bill Clinton's image has been reinvigorated as a result of the successful diplomatic mission. USA Todayleads with a University of Utah analysis that predicts the percentage of households that own homes will drop to around 63.5 percent by 2020, a rate not seen since 1985. Home ownership reached a peak of almost 70 percent in 2004 and 2005, but has since dropped to 67.4 percent.
Overhauling the detention system for immigration violators could take years, but those in charge describe it as an ongoing effort to provide a more suitable environment for the noncriminals facing deportation. The Obama administration wants to consolidate the system that currently has contracts with more than 350 local jails and private prisons, possibly into government-run centers. Oversight will also be increased to try to avoid some of the bad press the system has received, and families will no longer be sent to a former state prison near Austin that has come under particular criticism.
The plan currently under consideration to remake Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac sounds quite familiar. The troubled loans—or toxic assets—held by the mortgage giants would go into government-backed financial institutions, or "bad banks," and allow Fannie and Freddie to get a fresh start. Then the government could decide to join the two firms into one government agency that perhaps would step away from the mortgage finance market. Or maybe they will maintain the same structure. Nothing has been decided yet, but it seems clear the Obama administration wants to make sure the private-public hybrid nature of the companies isn't causing them to take on unnecessary risk that could, once again, threaten the financial system.
Now that Euna Lee and Laura Ling are back on American soil, it's becoming more evident that there's still a lot that isn't known about the circumstances surrounding their arrest. Did they actually cross the border into North Korea? Did they realize how dangerous it was? How did the cameraman escape? But everyone made clear that yesterday was not the time for those types of questions as the two journalists were just happy to be home after 140 days in captivity. The welcome-home scene was emotional, and even though Ling did say a few words of thanks, the families made it clear the two journalists aren't ready to talk about their ordeal quite yet.
During her public statement in the airport hangar, Ling described how surprised she was to see the former president in North Korea. "We were shocked, but we knew instantly in our hearts that the nightmare of our lives was coming to an end." That was undoubtedly the high point for Clinton, a former member of his administration tells the LAT. "Talk about affirmation," the former administration official said. "This is the love he needs." Clinton barely spent 24 hours in North Korea, but "it redefined—and in some cases, reinvigorated—several relationships at the heart of American politics," notes the LAT. While this was clearly a victory for the Obama administration, it also helped Clinton rehabilitate his image, which had been badly damaged during last year's bruising primary battle. He may not have had to do much in Pyongyang beyond sticking to the script, but by all accounts his first real job in the Obama administration was a huge success.
At the same time, Clinton's mission to North Korea was also a stark reminder of the former president's ability to overshadow his wife, as well as his vast rolodex of financial and political contacts, which have raised uncomfortable ethical questions in the past. As the Post details in a front-page piece, Clinton asked wealthy business contacts to help carry out the mission and got wealthy Hollywood producer Steve Bing to foot the bill for the plane that took him and his entourage to North Korea.
The WSJ and NYT both devote separate stories to looking at how Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore were reunited yesterday. The two men had a bitter falling out after serving together for eight years, but they hugged yesterday after Clinton got off the plane. Both papers describe the encounter in detail, but the WSJ certainly takes the cake by describing it so meticulously that it almost sounds sexual. It first looked like they were "destined for a routine handshake" and Gore apparently hesitated at first when Clinton pulled him "into a bear hug." The embrace lasted a full five seconds, and included six pats on the back—two from Gore and four from Clinton—as well as "two right-handed strokes," courtesy of the former president.
The administration continued to emphasize that Clinton's trip was a private one and didn't change anything about U.S. policy toward North Korea. But others aren't so sure. USAT talks to several analysts who think this could mark the beginning of a better relationship between the two countries. "It's almost like when China invited our ping-pong team to Beijing," said one. In a front-page piece, the NYT takes a look at how administration officials are trying to determine whether Clinton's trip has opened up new opportunities for nuclear talks. And despite the this-changes-nothing insistence, analysts say North Korea is clearly going to expect at least some form of payback for this, and the United States response to that expectation could set the tone for future relations between the two countries.
The WSJ has the most details about what was discussed in Clinton's meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, and, as expected, it seems clear that the fate of the journalists wasn't the only topic. Clinton apparently talked to Kim about ending his nuclear program and said he could reap ample rewards if he released South Korean and Japanese nationals who have been kidnapped. Many think Kim saw the meeting with Clinton as the first step into direct negotiations with the United States. But one South Korean official takes it even further and says Kim's ultimate goal is to have some sort of summit with Obama.
The WP fronts word that the bipartisan group of senators from the finance committee is making progress on health care negotiations. The senators will brief Obama on the progress of their talks. So far, the bill that would emerge from these discussions would come under $1 trillion, nix the government insurance option, tax generous health care benefits, and expand Medicaid, among other measures. It's still not clear whether they'll be able to reach a deal by the Sept. 15 deadline that the committee's chairman has set. But even if they don't, the Post says Democrats are already analyzing the compromises that have been made to see how they can unite members of their party behind certain measures that could win a few Republican votes.
The NYT takes a look at how it became crystal clear yesterday that the White House made a deal with the drug industry even as it has been insisting that lawmakers were writing legislation from scratch. After House lawmakers suggested they could extract more cost savings from drug companies, the administration was forced to come out and say that it had previously agreed it wouldn't ask the industry for more than $80 billion in savings in exchange for their support. It was an embarrassing admission that angered some Democratic lawmakers, particularly considering it came from an administration that has made a big deal of shunning lobbyists. But if the White House had failed to acknowledge the deal, it could have angered a powerful ally that is spending millions on an advertising campaign to support reforming the system.
Paula Abdul's decision to leave American Idol leads the LAT's Mary McNamara to ask, "What is a reliable train wreck actually worth?" Abdul first joined the show because of her singing career, "but what she actually brought to the show was, well, insanity." She tried to portray herself as the nice one, "but the role that worked best for her was the ditsy, possibly drunken sidekick." American Idol has been the vanguard in reality programming, and "Paula provided the first taste of what the citizenry now gorges itself on: live-action breakdowns." But apparently it was decided that her "reliable unreliability" wasn't worth "as much as the milquetoast stoicism of Ryan Seacrest."
Daniel Politi has been contributing to Slate since 2004 and wrote the "Today's Papers" column from 2006 to 2009. You can follow him on Twitter @dpoliti.
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On its own, Bill Morrison's film-collage The Great Flood has the makings of a powerful silent movie. The filmmaker took archival black-and-white photos and newsreel of one of the worst floods America has ever known—the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927—and stiched them together into a story of destruction and displaced sharecroppers. Rains deluged the Mississippi River and its tributaries for over a year, and by the spring of 1927, the river had breached the levees in 145 different spots, from "Cairo to New Orleans," as the film notes. Roughly 27,000 square miles became swamps, ponds, lakes—with water to the tops of general stores and dogs perched on rooves. The images drum up not-too-distant memories of Hurricane Katrina, made that much more emotional with the help of live score.
Accompanying the stark imagery is a jazz suite composed by Seattle-based guitarist Bill Frisell—a mix of "howling blues chords, Thelonious Monk hooks, country-swing and Old Man River quotes" that's a fine concert in its own right, wrote The Guardian in its review during the 2012 London Jazz Festival. The soundtrack conjures the "great migration" of the Delta Blues up north, with plaintive trumpet following the refugees as they board trains with whatever worldly possessions remained. Frisell will perform the score at the Moore this weekend with his quartet—Tony Scherr, Kenny Wollesen, and Ron Miles—and we have a pair of last-minute tickets to give away to the film-concert event.
To enter to win, email SeattleMetTix@gmail.com with “Flood” as the subject, and a reason why you want to see the show, by Friday, March 1, at 10am. The winner will be notified by email shortly after the deadline.
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Written by Ingrid Carlqvist
In our series on RSN covering the Brussels Process,Ingrid Carlqvist's speech is about Sweden.
Ingrid Carlqvist was born in Stockholm. After graduating from Gothenburg University (journalism) in 1981, she worked as a reporter for Nordvastra Skanes Tidningar in Helsingborg. In 1987 she moved on to Kvallsposten in Malmö where she stayed for twelve years, first as a reporter and then as a news editor. She was the first woman ever in the editorial management for Kvallsposten.
In 1999 she began free-lancing for different newspapers and magazines, constructed an award-winning board game and worked as an information officer for a theatre company. In 2006 she became a news editor for Aftonbladet in Malmö, and in 2008 editor-in-chief of the magazine Villaliv.
In 2005 she wrote her first book, and since then has written several biographies and one detective story. Last year she founded the Free Press Society in Sweden and became its President.
Ladies and gentlemen. My name is Ingrid Carlqvist and I was born in Sweden in 1960, when the Social Democrats were gonna rule forever and ever and our country was the nicest and safest and most progressed in the world. Now I live in Absurdistan – a country that has the highest figure of reported rapes in the world, hundreds of so called “exclusion areas” where people live outside the Swedish society and with newspapers that hide all these horrible facts to the people.
I feel just like Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz – a tornado came and blew me miles and miles away from home and dumped me in a country I don’t know.
“Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Sweden anymore.”
Like Dorothy I’m searching for a way to find my home, but on my path I only meet lions without courage, scarecrows without brains and tin men without hearts.
When I grew up our prime minister was Tage Erlander, a Social Democrat. In 1965 he said in parliament, after violent race riots in America:
“We Swedes live in a so infinitely happier situation. The population in our country is homogeneous, not just according to race but also in many other aspects.”
Now I live in a nation that is not homogenous in any respect. Olof Palme that came after him decided that homogeneous was a bad thing and opened up our borders for people from all over the world. And from right to left the politicians told us that there was no such thing as a Swedish culture, no Swedish traditions worth mentioning and that we Swedes should be grateful that so many people with REAL culture and REAL traditions came to us.
Mona Sahlin, a later leader of the Social Democrats, said in an interview 2002 with the magazine Euroturk, when asked what Swedish culture is:
”I’ve often had that question, but I can’t think of what Swedish culture is. I think that is what makes us Swedes so envious of immigrants. You have a culture, an identity, something that ties you together. What do we have? We have Midsummer’s Eve and such corny things.”
She also said: The Swedes must integrate into the new Sweden. The old Sweden is not coming back.
In this New Sweden we have more reported rapes than any other country in the European Union, according to a study by professor Liz Kelly from England. More than 5 000 rapes or attempted rapes were reported in 2008 (last year it was more than 6 000). In 2010 another study reported that just one country in the world has more rapes than Sweden, and that is Lesotho in South Africa. For every 100 000 inhabitants Lesotho has 92 reported rapes, Sweden has 53, The United States 29, Norway 20 and Denmark 7.
In 1990 the authorities counted to 3 exclusion areas in Sweden, suburbs where mostly immigrants live, where very few have a job to go to, almost all of them live by welfare and the children don’t pass their exams. In 2002 they counted to 128 exclusion areas. In 2006 we had 156 and then they stopped counting. In some cities, like Malmö where I live, a third of all inhabitants live in an exclusion area.
What did Tage Erlander mean when he said that the Swedish population was homogeneous, not just according to race but also in many other aspects? I think he meant things like norms, values, culture and traditions. A feeling of fellowship. That we all, in the Old Sweden, had a similar view of what a good society is and how we solve conflicts. He KNEW what the Swedish culture was all about, in contrast to Mona Sahlin.
In the New Sweden we need armed police officers at our hospitals because rivalling families fight each other in the hospital rooms. They gun each other down in open streets and they rob and beat old people up. The crime rate grows by the minute, but the Swedish politicians and journalists tell us that is has absolutely nothing to do with immigration. The fact that our prisons are full of foreign people is just a coincidence or is explained by socio-economic factors.
For many years I was a journalist in the mainstream media. But I was always a bit of a troublemaker, always suspicious of what people said was THE TRUTH. When everybody ran in one direction, I turned around in the other direction to see what was there.
In January 2011 something happened to make me loose my last hope about Swedish journalists. I was the vice chairman of The Society of Publicists in Malmö and had invited the Danish journalist Mikael Jalving to talk about his coming book “Absolute Sweden – a Journey in the Country of Silence”. One day the chairman phoned me and said: We must cancel Mikael Jalving because he is going to talk at a meeting arranged by a newspaper called National Today.
It didn’t matter to him, or to anyone else on the board of this society for journalists that Jalving was going to talk about his book. If he went to that meeting he would be infected by nationalist ideas and probably he would become a Nazi.
You see, everyone with a different opinion in Sweden really IS a Nazi!
That’s the way it works in the New Sweden, the country I call Absurdistan. The country of silence.
I was furious and left the board of that society. That led to my being invited to The Danish Free Press Society to talk about the strange country of Sweden and that led to my founding of The Swedish Free Press Society.
That is how Lars Hedegaard and I found each other. But we didn’t settle for running one Free Press Society each, since we both have a solid background as journalists we decided to start a newspaper. A good old, old-fashioned printed newspaper. We decided to call it Dispatch International because our vision is that this newspaper will become worldwide one day. But first we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin. Or rather – first we take Scandinavia and then we take the world!
Dispatch will be printed in two versions – one Danish and one Swedish – but all the stories are the same. And on the internet you will be able to read our stories in English and German as well. We will write about politics in our countries and in the world. We will write about all those things that mainstream media have been hiding for so many years now. We will distinguish between news stories and commentaries and the tone will be subdued. We will let the facts talk, the facts that mainstream journalists hide from people.
The situation in Sweden is far worse than in Denmark. In Sweden NOBODY talks about immigration problems, the death of the multiculti project or the Islamisation/Arabisation of Europe. If you do, you will immediately be called a racist, an Islamophobe or a Nazi. That is what I have been called since I founded the Free Press Society in Sweden. My name has been dragged through the dirt in big newspapers like Sydsvenskan, Svenska Dagbladet and even my own union paper, The Journalist.
So now I need you all to be my Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, and help me find my home again! I don’t think it will work to tap the heels of my ruby slippers together three times as Dorothy did to wake up in her bedroom in Kansas. But if you support Dispatch by taking a subscription or become a shareholder or just donate money to us, you will take me one step closer to home. To the Sweden that once was, the Sweden I want back.
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"The most basic thing that photography does is visually describe what can be seen. The problem facing photographers of the Marcellus Shale Documentary Project is that what they wish to describe cannot be seen — an invisible gas buried deep underground. They have struggled to document the effect of the natural gas drilling commonly known as fracking," reports the New York Times.
And yet, the project is deemed a success. The director is Pop City's own photographer, Brian Cohen.
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The Mummy (1932)
Directed by Karl Freund
Boris Karloff as Imhotep
Zita Johann as Helen Grosvenor
David Manners as Frank Whemple
Arthur Byron as Sir Joseph Whemple
Edward Van Sloan as Dr Muller
Bramwell Fletcher as Ralph Norton
Noble Johnson as The Nubian
Kathryn Byron as Frau Muller
Leonard Mudie as Professor Pearson
James Crane as The Pharaoh
The Mummy trailer
An old Egyptian priest by the name of Imhotep comes back to life after an archaeological exploration discovers his mummy, ignoring the information about it giving out a spell that could last for the rest of their lives. Imhotep runs away from the group that discovered him and wanders around Cairo to find the spirit of his old lover Princess Ankh-es-en-amon, with the Scroll of Thoth in his possession.
Ten years pass Imhotep finds two archaeologists, informing them his name is Ardath Bey. From there he heads the way in showing them where to dig Ankh-es-en-amon's grave. The archaeologists discover the grave and provide the Cairo Museum with their findings. They are appreciative to Imhotep for his help in finding the mummy.
Imhotep finds Helen Grosvenor who looks just like the Princess. He plans to mummify her and make her his wife, despite being mummified alive once for trying to bring her back to life. He does not get his way, for her memory returns and she prays to the goddess Isis to keep her alive. This results in Isis appearing and destroying the scroll that maintains Imhotep alive. He then dies.
Actors: Boris Karloff
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The soft patch may not be so soft after all, at least not in China. When the country’s May manufacturing purchasing managers index (M-PMI) was released on May 31, investors fretted when it fell to a nine-month low of 52.0. When China’s May trade data came out last week, investors were disappointed by the weakness in exports, and unimpressed by the strength of imports. On June 13, China released data onM2 and commercial bank loans during May. The former was up $145.6 billion m/m and the latter rose $85.1 billion m/m. Those are both solid increases. The average monthly increase in China’s M2 from January through April was $172.1 billion. Over the same period, bank loans rose $87.5 billion, on average.
There is a strong correlation between China’s real GDP growth rate on a y/y basis versus the yearly percent change in the three-month average of electricity usage in China. During April, electricity usage was up by 13.4% on this basis from a recent low of 6.2% during December 2010. (We update these charts regularly for subscribers to our service in our China Briefing Book.)
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has undertaken the difficult task of helping to shepherd a possible ceasefire. Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi, meanwhile, is playing a key role as an intermediary with Hamas, a group labeled by the U.S. as a terrorist organization. NBC's Stephanie Gosk reports.
Updated at 4:50 p.m. ET: Following her arrival in Israel, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reiterated at a press conference Tuesday that America's commitment to Israel's security is "rock solid," adding that "the goal must be a durable outcome that promotes regional stability and advances the security and legitimate aspirations of Israelis and Palestinians alike."
"The rocket attacks from terrorist organizations inside Gaza on Israeli cities and towns must end, and a broader calm restored," Clinton said, adding that there are no substitutes for security and a just and lasting peace.
Speaking in Jerusalem, Clinton also offered her condolences for those lost in the violence.
"Our hearts break for the loss of every civilian, Israeli and Palestinian, and for all those who have been wounded and are living in fear and danger," she said, adding that she would work with Israel and Egypt on brokering a truce in Gaza "in the days ahead."
Israel is prepared to escalate its offensive but would prefer a long-term diplomatic solution, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday.
"If there is a possibility of achieving a long-term solution to this problem with diplomatic means, we prefer that," he said in a public statement alongside Clinton.
"But if not, I'm sure you understand that Israel will have to take whatever action is necessary to defend its people."
Earlier, a Hamas official said a truce with Israel would not be reached Tuesday because the Israeli government had yet to respond to proposals.
"The Israeli side has not responded yet, so we will not hold a (news) conference this evening and must wait until tomorrow," Ezzat al-Rishq, a senior Hamas leader, told Reuters. "The truce is now held up because we are waiting for the Israeli side to respond," he added in a short telephone interview.
A flurry of violence hit Gaza Tuesday as Israel bombed a Gaza bank and targeted the homes of militants. Hamas responded with more than 100 rockets. NBC's Richard Engel reports.
Clinton landed at 9:51 p.m. local time in Tel Aviv, where she met with Netanyahu. Later, Clinton will meet with the President of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah before heading to Cairo.
A U.S. official stressed to NBC News that Clinton would not meet with representatives of Hamas, the Islamist organization that controls the Gaza Strip, largely because of its failure to renounce terrorism and recognize Israel's right to exist.
Egyptian officials said talks are ongoing to reach a truce in Gaza, although any agreement appears unlikely to address the long-term areas of disagreement between Israel and the Hamas leaders of the Gaza Strip, NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin reported Tuesday.
The expected "cessation of hostilities" will call on all parties to use maximum restraint, according to one former intelligence official familiar with the talks.
Two sides exchange deadly airstrikes, rocket attacks.
Earlier Tuesday, President Barack Obama spoke to Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, who is seeking to broker a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.
According to White House officials, Obama spoke to Morsi for the third time in 24 hours. Deputy National Security adviser Ben Rhodes said Obama wanted to talk to Morsi before Clinton's arrival in Israel.
Rhodes said Obama underscored the importance of Morsi working toward a de-escalation to the conflict in Gaza. He also commended Morsi's efforts to pursue a de-escalation and acknowledged Egypt's important role in the region's security.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is attempting to bring about a ceasefire, or to prevent Israel from invading Gaza while convincing Egypt's president to pressure Hamas to stop firing rockets. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports.
Rhodes said Obama emphasized the importance of a diplomatic solution, but said that rocket fire from Gaza into Israel must stop.
Israel Defense Forces continued airstrikes overnight, and also said 39 rockets fired from Gaza hit Israel Tuesday in a message on its Twitter account.
Since Israel launched its military campaign seven days ago in response to rocket fire, more than 100 people in Gaza and three people in Israel have been killed.
Internationally, the main focus was on stopping the violence, and Morsi hinted at a possible breakthrough Tuesday.
Speaking at his sister's funeral in Egypt, Morsi said the "aggression on Gaza" would end Tuesday. He made the apparently off-the-cuff comments in front of mourners who had come to pay their respects, but did not elaborate. Several journalists traveling with Morsi confirmed he made the remark.
In Jerusalem, Netanyahu said Israel would be a “willing partner” in a cease-fire, but also issued a warning.
He said if further military action proved necessary “to stop the constant barrage of rockets, Israel will not hesitate to do what is necessary to defend our people.”
And Mohammed Deif, the new leader of Hamas' military wing, sounded a defiant note, saying that the movement was ready to fight and would not back down from its efforts to liberate Palestine.
He was speaking in his first audio recording since the group’s previous top military commander, Ahmed Jabari, was killed in an Israeli airstrike Wednesday. Deif, who has survived several assassination attempts in the past, called for Hamas’ supporters to remain steadfast.
It is unclear how much influence Clinton can have on the situation.
“She is going to go out there to be in the region to have direct, face-to-face discussions with those leaders,” Rhodes said. “I don’t want to predict exactly what the outcome of those discussions will be. We all know how difficult this situation is.”
The White House thinks the leaders who are heavily involved in the region “understand what the best outcome is,” Rhodes added, but that a peaceful goal is only achievable “if Hamas takes action to stop what they’ve been doing.”
An Israeli soldier and a civilian died when rockets exploded near the Gaza frontier, police and the army said.
An Israeli air strike on two cars in the Gaza Strip killed six Palestinians Tuesday, while two children died in an attack in the north of the territory, local residents and medics told Reuters.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called Tuesday for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and said a threatened Israeli ground operation in the Palestinian enclave would be a “dangerous escalation” that must be avoided.
Later, standing alongside Netanyahu in Jerusalem, Ban urged Israel to show "maximum restraint" and condemned rocket attacks on Israel.
Also Tuesday, Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby and the foreign ministers of Turkey, Egypt, Lebanon, Tunisia and Sudan traveled from Egypt to Gaza in an unprecedented move designed to show solidarity with the Palestinians, NBC News reported.
US Embassy guard wounded
Meanwhile, a man was arrested after he stabbed a security guard Tuesday at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, a police spokesman told Reuters.
The spokesman said the guard opened fire during the attack.
Israel Radio said the attacker, who police said was armed with a knife and an ax, was wounded.
Oded Balilty / AP
Israeli police officers detain a man who attacked a security guard at the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday.
NBC's Shawna Thomas, Ayman Mohyeldin and Ian Johnston, and Reuters contributed to this report.
More world stories from NBC News:
- Too much democracy? Apathy triumphs in UK's latest election
- Obama's visit a sign of Myanmar's dizzying pace of change
- Key players in the Israel-Gaza cross-border conflict
- French girl found tied up - but alive - in trunk after routine traffic stop
- Mexican company Bimbo may be eyeing Twinkies
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Part of Daimler AG, Mercedes-Benz USA (MBUSA) is responsible for the distribution and marketing of Mercedes-Benz, Maybach, smart, and Sprinter products in the United States. In 2011, the company sold 264,460 passenger vehicles in the US, representing 17.5% year-over-year growth, in addition to 16,577 Sprinters.
Although MBUSA was founded in 1965, importation of Mercedes-Benz vehicles actually began in 1952 under Max Hoffman. Mr. Hoffman was a driving force behind the car that cemented the identity of Mercedes-Benz in America: the iconic 300SL Gullwing.
By 1957, Mercedes-Benz was in a position to expand its reach in the United States and entered into a distribution agreement with Studebaker-Packard Corporation. Eight years later, the company struck out on its own, forming Mercedes-Benz USA.
Over the following years, MBUSA grew into a nationwide organization, now employing over 1500 people. The company also has 356 associated dealerships that employ 21,500 people themselves.
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was not the real thing. So I got defensive. But in the end, what is to defend?
A spontaneous koan popped up for me: What is real zen?
When I was a girl of 19, I spent one anguished night wrestling with the demon of my childhood religion. I won. And as a reward, I received my first koan. What is the nature of the world? Magic, came the answer.
A few years later, I yearned to understand more deeply. If magic is the true nature of the world, then what is the nature of magic? Zen, came the answer.
My bike, which is seeing action again after 3 years in hiding, and a lovely rock wall beside the house
Now, after 17 years of practice on my own, and in training temples, and in neighborhood zen centers, I wonder, is zen just all this sitting still? Can it only be found in a monastery? Can it only be delivered by serious men? Is it governed by any rule of man? Can it be governed even by Buddha?
What about this existence that is beyond any name we can give it? Its singing is so loud, it keeps me up at night.
Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase 'each other' doesn't make any sense.
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On the night of Nov. 29, a dozen Syrian opposition figures gathered at a student eatery in Moscow called Picasso, a cheap dive on the campus of the University of People’s Friendship whose walls are decorated with a mashup of images from the artist’s blue period. It may sound odd that enemies of Bashar Assad were gathering in a country that still had the dictator’s back. But these men and their organization may be Russia’s only hope of influence in a post-Assad Syria.
As young men, several of the Syrians at Picasso had studied at the university, which hosted the exchange programs that formed the early bonds between Moscow and Damascus in the 1960s. Indeed, the gathering could have been mistaken for a class reunion, as toasts were made and stories told around a table laden with snacks and bottles of midshelf vodka.
Wearing a black leather jacket and a week’s worth of stubble, Riad Darar, a former imam and one of the leading members of the group known as the National Coordination Committee (NCC), sat at the table sipping juice and nibbling on a quesadilla. In Syria, his group is viewed among the rest of the opposition as Assad collaborators. The Free Syrian Army denounced it in September as “the other face” of the regime, and unlike other opposition groups, the NCC has not called for the entire ruling government to be chased out of power.
That is one of the reasons the NCC gets along so well with Russia, which has been seeking forces inside Syria who are willing to negotiate with Assad. In this regard, the NCC may have been Russia’s last hope of shielding its ally. Earlier on Nov. 29, Darar and the other members of the group had met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, whose position, they felt, had clearly changed. “We have always tried to explain to the Russians that they shouldn’t be on the side of the regime but on the side of the people,” Darar says. (One of his comrades at the table translated for me from Arabic to Russian.) “In this most recent meeting, we felt that they now understand.”
If so, it still took the Russian government an additional two weeks to admit that Assad — Russia’s last true ally in the Arab world — is losing the civil war. On Dec. 13, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov — the ministry’s Middle East point man and a fluent Arabic speaker — became the first senior government official to publicly state that Assad’s downfall looks imminent. “We have to face the facts,” he told a session of the Public Chamber, an advisory body to the Russian government. “The trend is going in such a direction that the regime is losing ever more control over ever more parts of the country’s territory,” said Bogdanov, whose remarks were carried by two of Russia’s leading news agencies, state-owned Itar-Tass and the more independent Interfax. The next day, the ministry denied that Bogdanov had made any “statements or special interviews for journalists” and held firm to its position that “there is no alternative to a political resolution” to the conflict. But even if Bogdanov’s remarks were not meant for public consumption, they signaled a turning point. “Of course we cannot rule out the opposition’s victory,” he said, according to both news wires.
Faced with that prospect, it was only logical that Russia would start looking for willing partners within the opposition. The West had started this process long ago. After months of vetting rebel groups for possible links to al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations, the U.S., the E.U. and several Arab states bestowed their stamp of approval on a broad assembly of rebel groups called the Syrian National Coalition, which was formed in Qatar on Nov. 11. On Dec. 11, the U.S. recognized it as the only legitimate Syrian government, and about 100 other countries followed. Russia stayed away, calling the new group illegitimate, while continuing to look for its own rebel allies.
The NCC seemed the obvious choice. It is the only opposition group that is still prepared to negotiate with Assad, and it’s the only one to agree with Russia that supplying arms to all rebels must stop. At the restaurant, Haytham Manna, the NCC’s foreign-affairs official, even parroted Russia’s criticism of the West for double dealing, saying it was wrong for the U.S. and Europe to call for a peace deal while also supporting the rebels. “That’s [like having] one hand in my house and one hand in the house of my neighbor,” he said, playing with a string of ivory-colored prayer beads. “It’s not really a good option.”
But for Russia, there are no good options left. The NCC is made up mostly of academics and dissidents with no military wing, and it has little hope of turning the situation in Russia’s favor if Assad is overthrown. “They have zero influence in Syria,” says Hassan Al-Huri, a Syrian businessman in Moscow who owns the Picasso restaurant and hosted his countrymen there. “If anything, the Syrian people now hate them for associating with the Russians,” he told me after the dinner was over.
That means Moscow has no choice but to accept the loss of its last real foothold in the Middle East, says Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor of the journal Russia in Global Affairs. Says he: “Maybe they have no more illusions.”
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Published on: February 01, 2012How do you get the money available for college through financial aid and scholarships? Lone Star College-CyFair can help starting Feb. 12.
Join the financial aid staff for College Goal Sunday, a national financial aid program dedicated to helping students find money for college.
Parents and students will get free, on-site professional assistance filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA.) In addition, they can talk to financial aid professionals about financial aid resources and how to apply as well as get information regarding state-wide student services, admission requirements and more.
“We are here to help, but to get the most out of College Goal Sunday, we encourage students and parents to bring their 2011 tax information such as W2s and tax return,” said Ashlie Resendez, director of financial aid.
College Goal Sunday is set from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the Technology Building at 9191 Barker Cypress. Additional financial aid workshops will be held at the March 31 open house.
Scholarship money is also available locally through LSC-CyFair and the Cy-Fair Educational Foundation. Get more details on scholarship criteria and application deadlines at LoneStar.edu/scholarships-cyfair, 281.290.3226 or 832.782.5016 and www.thecfef.org.
For information on the FAFSA workshop or upcoming financial aid workshops, go to the financial aid site at LoneStar.edu/financial-aid.
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The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.
Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.
Murder; murderous character.
Death was nonexistent in the doll games. The only known loss of a doll character, the much-cited "Death of Laurie," happened "offstage" and was never mentioned within the doll world. Some critics have pointed to this as evidence of denial, while others have argued that Laurie was in fact "resurrected" in Jesse, who shared his body and role, if not his head, and that the exclusion of death in the doll world should be interpreted as a commentary on the difference between plastic and mortal flesh, and between the rhythms of doll life—characterized by endless rebirth, as dolls emerged again and again from the doll box, often with memories wiped clean — and human existence. (But see Plastic, decay of)
See also Mortality
Death is what happens when you become mortally wounded and do not receive first aid or healing in a certain amount of time. Death makes it necessary for the character to reincarnate.
answer the big question - what happens when you die
the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism; "the animal died a painful death"
Benefit The amount of money paid to the beneficiary when the insured person dies.
Descend Deepen Denaturalization, Depth psychology, Dialectical Dichotomy Differentiation Dimension, Ding-an-sich, Direction Disclosed Disintegration Dis-stasis Distinction Divinization Dogma Duality Dualism Duration Dynamic
The moment a person dies.
"Death" is the sixth episode of Comedy Central's animated series South Park. It originally aired on September 17, 1997.
Death was a brand of cigarette introduced in the United Kingdom in 1991 by entrepreneur BJ Cunningham, who established a company calling itself The Enlightened Tobacco Company. The packaging was black and featured a white skull and crossbones above the mandatory Government health warning. It marketed itself as the only brand that was completely honest about the dangers of cigarette smoking.
Fullmetal Alchemist TV series originally aired 2004-09-25.
In the Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix, Death is not only a medical condition. It is also a realm that can be accessed almost anywhere by those trained to do so.
the time when something ends; "it was the death of all his plans"; "a dying of old hopes"
One For the Angels A Passage For Trumpet Nothing in the Dark Ninety Years Without Slumbering
The final destination of the dying process. A state in which nothing actual or potential remains of the person. The death of the person may occur before or after the death of the person's body or brain.
1. The end result of birth; the requisite for rebirth. 2. For the alcoholic and addict, the ultimate victory of the disease. 3. Proof positive of the cunning, baffling, and powerful nature of alcoholism over countless thousands of active users. 4. Invariably, Jails, Institutions and Death are the natural consequences of Alcoholism. See Alcoholism. 5. A state that some people pathetically consider a goal, to avoid having to live with this active disease.
If you dream of death it's a sign of a birth, if you dream of birth, it's a sign of death.
See “ cycle of birth and death.
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For the 35th annual Wolfgang Friedmann Conference, the Columbia Society of International Law and the Journal of Transnational Law chose to examine one of the most complex and controversial legal issues of the day: the closing of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, in Cuba. The daylong conference addressed the topic from a comparative international perspective and focused on how the United States should deal with detainees once held at Guantanamo.
“Columbia Law School has a very rich history in the laws of war, the laws of armed conflict,” said Paul B. Simon ’10, who organized the conference with Jantira Supawong ’10. “For us, [the conference was about] both the relevancy of the topic today, and also creating that thread with the history of Columbia.”
The event’s first panel centered on lessons the United States can learn from the detention policies of Northern Ireland, India, and the Balkans. Other countries have “an awful lot to teach us, good, bad, and otherwise,” said Professor Peter Rosenblum, the Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein Clinical Professor in Human Rights, who moderated the panel.
Experts participating in the day’s final panel, moderated by Professor Matthew Waxman, examined how the U.S. should handle Guantanamo detainees. Hina Shamsi, a staff attorney with the ACLU’s National Security Project and an adjunct professor at the Law School, argued that the detainees should be tried in federal court. “If there’s evidence of wrongdoing, detainees should be charged in a federal court system,” Shamsi said. “If there is no evidence, they should be released.” To further support the call for federal prosecution of detainees, James Benjamin and Richard Zabel, both former federal prosecutors, presented evidence from their study on the effectiveness of federal courts in trying terrorism cases. They found that the system convicts terrorism suspects at a rate of about 90 percent. “That’s not to say it’s perfect, and that’s not to say that it can work in every case,” Benjamin said. “It really does depend on the evidence.”
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Author Duong Thu Huong’s sweeping book The Zenith opens in 1969 with Ho Chi Minh a temple prisoner of his own regime, of his conscience, and of his memories. “Memory,” he thinks, “is the one who builds you a permanent court of justice.” A man who sacrificed his own life for his people, “Saint Ho” is a figure too important to communist Vietnam to be allowed to be human, too big to fail. That’s something he already did, in the Politburo’s eyes, when he fell in love with a younger woman in the 1950s. He is now consumed by guilt over abandoning her and their children, who were hidden from the regime in adoptive homes after her rape and murder. He sees that his socialist ideals birthed a conscienceless regime that uses him as they would a puppet. He also sees that the revolution’s costs to individual people’s lives and loves have not been repaid in joy or justice.
The book consists of five parts, a back and forth between the chairman and his friend (whose wife adopts a motherless child), a woodcutter whose story reads like a village fable, and “The Unknown Brother-in-Law” who flees from Vietnam’s corruption. The book’s theme is the incompatibility of power and conscience — and the inevitability of power. A linking character throughout is Vietnam itself, lyrically lovely but also tortured.
The Zenith has been aptly compared to Dr. Zhivago, also an adagio suffused with inescapable regret.
This long book is not an easy read. But The Zenith is worth the time and attention, every page revealing richer, deeper treasures, poetic and moving, a grand yet intimate canvas of history, ideology, love affairs, and tragic beauty — most of all beauty, of the country, of the women, and of the heart. Recommended.
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What it takes to be a one percenter
New data says it takes about $370K in adjusted gross income to make elite group
It doesn't take a million bucks to get into the top 1 percent.
In fact, it took a little less than $370,000 in adjusted gross income in 2010 to make it into this elite group, according to newly released data from the Internal Revenue Service. That's up slightly from the $352,000 the year before.
But on average, the top 1 percent earned $1.12 million, up from $980,000 the year before.
The top 1 percent have been in the spotlight since Occupy Wall Street protesters first began camping out in cities across the U.S. last fall. The presidential campaign also centered on the haves and have nots, with President Barack Obama calling for tax increases on the rich and challenger Mitt Romney arguing that taxing the wealthy would hurt the economy.
That fight continues as the two parties look to resolve the fiscal cliff crisis.
The fortunes of the top 1 percent are highly dependent on the stock market since much of their wealth comes from investments. Looking at the past decade, the club had its most exclusive year in 2007, when the stock market was roaring. It took more than $426,000 in adjusted gross income to make it into the top 1 percent that year.
There were 1.35 million households that qualified for entry. They earned nearly 19 percent of the nation's income and paid roughly 37 percent of its income tax.
The growth of the top 1 percent's income has been the subject of heated debate over the past year as data show their earnings growing far faster than the less fortunate.
Incomes for the top 1 percent grew 241 percent between 1979 and 2007, compared to 11 percent for the bottom fifth and 19 percent for the middle fifth, according to statistics compiled by the left leaning Economic Policy Institute.
Copyright 2012 by CNN NewSource. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Bugisan site is located at Bugisan village, Purwomartani, Kalasan, Sleman Regency, Jogja, Indonesia. Bugisan is estimated to be ruin of Buddha temple, as there were found 6 Buddha statues on the location. Among all the statues, only one that still has head, though with not intact condition.
In the site, also discovered temples parts, such as makara, the decoration in front of entrance, in shape of fish with elephant head, also decorations of outer temple building in shape of pointed triangle. Those components were scattered on few spots nearby the Buddhs statues.
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How to increase home prices in the face of stagnant household incomes.
It is easy to get swept into the momentum of the housing market. The Federal Reserve has managed to push interest rates to historically low levels creating additional buying power for US households. As we enter the slower fall and winter selling season, there is unlikely to be any major changes until 2013 as the election year concludes. We do face major challenges ahead. This current momentum in housing isn’t being caused by flush state budgets or solid wage growth. No, this is being caused by low inventory, big investors crowding out households, and a concerted effort to push mortgage rates lower. If you simply follow the herd, you would think that prices are now near peak levels again (or soon will be) and household incomes are hitting record levels. Let us examine where things stand today deep in 2012.
California and nation
It is clear that 2012 has pushed home prices higher overall. This has occurred both on a nationwide basis and also for California. Yet California home prices are far away from that peak reached in 2006. However, some mid-tier markets never really corrected and we are now seeing flippers selling homes for prices that are near peak levels. The argument is that overall things corrected but then this is applied to niche areas where prices are now back near peak levels (at least with the current prices being seen with some flips).
The low inventory and the narrative that the bottom is here is causing a flood of people to buy especially with low interest rates. In lower priced areas, a good portion of the market is being over bought by Wall Street and big money investors. This is still anything but a normal market.
US home prices
It is evident that US home prices have hit a new trend in 2012. Prices are moving up. Yet the driving force behind this is low interest rates, low inventory, and the high amount of investors buying up properties. Keep in mind that low interest rates and especially investment buying is finite. This money will dry up. In housing what you want to be seeing is sustainable appreciation in combination with rising household incomes and a healthy employment market. Those should be the driving forces instead of the Fed committing to another $500 billion of MBS purchases via QE3.
Median household income
This is the one argument that is always missing from the home boom 2.0 narrative. Is it possible to have sustained rising home prices when household incomes are falling or stagnant? It isn’t and the Fed and banks are fully aware of this. So the Federal Reserve has decided to push affordability via low rates as far as they can. It is a win-win for the financial industry. They can unload properties at much higher prices courtesy of the low interest rate. Some people think this comes at no expense. It does. Carrying a negative interest rate is pummeling those on fixed incomes and also, with one out of seven Americans on food stamps many are seeing those monthly deposits not going so far when they go shopping for food. Ultimately the cost is being shouldered by those who can least afford it. Ironically this flood of investors has also pushed rental prices higher as well creating a double-whammy.
LA Tiered home prices
Probably one of the better measures of price is the Case Shiller Index. This looks at repeat home sales so we are measuring apples to apples. The median price is also important but it is prone to changes with the mix of sales. Right now, the big drop in foreclosure resales is causing prices to surge. Yet it is important for trend shifts and also because the media and the public rely on this for their purchasing behavior.
As you can see from the chart above, each tier in Los Angeles County has shifted up a bit. We are far from peak prices and given the mania in certain areas, you would think this would be rising much faster. You are not missing anything. For those thinking they are missing something you might as well go to Las Vegas and try your hand at the tables. There is a mini mania in prime areas of California happening right now. As you see from the above charts, household incomes simply do not justify this movement. The momentum right now is in favor of higher prices but for fleeting reasons.
Home sales and trends
If things are so hot, why are home sales not running at a higher pace? The 12 month moving average is running a little bit higher than 35,000. This is the pace we’ve had since 2009 when the market was flying off a cliff. From 1998 to 2007 the moving average was above 45,000 sales per month. So what really is going on then with prices rising so fast overall?
The explanation comes from a few items:
-1. Inventory is low (we even hear complaints from real estate agents about this)
-2. Low rates increased leverage in the face of falling incomes (refer to earlier chart)
-3. From the bottom everything is higher (the increase is big from the bottom but put into context, still has us way below the 12 month moving average from over a decade ago)
-4. You are competing with big money investors
This is why sales are not exactly off the charts given all the favorable elements that are being perceived. For this market to continue on this path, nothing from the above can be removed. Keep in mind that with the “fiscal cliff” some items on the table include the mortgage interest deduction cap. This will hit California hard especially in these mania locations. There is no reason for the nation to allow mortgage interest deduction above a certain level (i.e., $500,000 or capped at certain income levels).
“(LA Times) But since only about one-third of taxpayers itemize on their returns — the rest opt for the standard deductions — who's really getting these tax savings? As you might guess, people who have higher incomes are more likely to itemize and claim mortgage interest and other housing deductions. Citing the latest data on the subject, published by the IRS in 2009, Kolko found that only 15% of households with incomes below $50,000 took itemized deductions, while 65% of those with incomes between $50,000 and $200,000 did. Just about everybody with incomes above $200,000 — 96% — itemized on their returns.”
And guess who was number one on the list?
“California ranked No. 1 in the size of home mortgage deductions, with $18,876 on average. Next came Hawaii ($16,730), the District of Columbia ($16,720), Nevada ($15,502), Washington ($14,262), Maryland ($14,162) and Virginia ($14,094).”
There is little reason for the mortgage interest deduction to allow for such a large write-off especially when the typical US home price ranges from $150,000 to $170,000. We are in massive debt and for the nation to subsidize expensive California housing does not make sense.
Even with home prices moving up we still have over 9,000,000 underwater homeowners. This is a sizeable number. The above chart highlights underwater mortgages at various increases or decreases in home prices. The distressed inventory is still large but is decreasing.
The thing with the housing market is that it largely isn’t a market anymore. So with all of these market incentives and the fiscal situation looming next year, there has to be a catch. We have yet to see household incomes increase. The economy is still on shaky ground. Yet in many pocket markets you have people ignoring the macro economy and just running around their little enclaves with blinders on. Hot money is flowing in. There is no doubt about that. Yet it is not sustainable. Since election years usually produce very little change, we’ll have to wait until 2013 to see if this trend actually has some real teeth.
Do you think household incomes are important when it comes to home price?
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A Reminder of Tropical Storm Irene Is Suddenly Gone, and Memory Fades
A drive down any stretch of the White River reveals constant reminders of Tropical Storm Irene’s devastating flooding.
Wooded islands remain covered with the corpses of dead trees, and next to Route 14 are homes either still under construction or waiting to be removed. In Sharon, a tall gravel slope sloughed into the river and remains an open sore on the landscape.
Among all these sights, there was one that reminded passersby of the height of the flood and was perhaps the only damaged object that spoke to the tenacity of the storm’s many survivors.
Where Interstate 89 crosses the river in Sharon, two concrete piers rise high above the water. On a ledge on one of these piers, the Irene floodwaters deposited a tree limb. The limb bent double, but clung to the bridge pier and when the water receded, there it remained.
The limb was roughly at eye-level with passing motorists. Seeing it there each morning on my way to work, especially in the weeks after the flooding, gave me a chill. It reminded me that during the flood, that patch of Route 14 was a no-man’s land, scoured by surging water. Even a year after the storm, I looked for it, partly to see whether it was still there, partly to see whether it still stirred up any feelings of dread.
A reminder, even an accidental memorial like a piece of debris, has surprising power. Visitors to the Tunbridge Fair might remember a high-water mark, from 1978, painted on one of the cow barns next to the First Branch of the White River. Someone put it there, a gentle warning to all who walk past: “You could be under water right now.”
Sharon Aldrich has posted photographs of the Irene flood damage in her Sharon restaurant, Sandy’s Drive-In. “The water level here was above my rain gutters,” she said, taking a break from the kitchen after lunch one afternoon this week.
She had taken note of the tree limb stuck high above the river. “You just constantly think, that’s where the water was,” she said.
Aldrich hadn’t been up that way recently, so hadn’t noticed the limb was gone. I think it went missing around Christmas, most likely blown down by one of the early winter storms.
I had meant to stop and take a picture of it, but it was in an awkward spot, and I was always in a hurry. I asked Aldrich, but she didn’t have one or know of anyone who did. When I drove around Sharon, to the town garage, the town offices, the two stores, everyone recalled seeing the limb, but no one had taken a photograph, or noticed it had fallen.
All things are temporary, of course, and the limb held onto its fragile perch far longer than I expected. Now, as I drive by, I try to remember it there, but soon I’ll forget.
Without these reminders, how will we remember the flooding? That’s no challenge for the people who lived through it. Many of them are still piecing their lives together. But for the rest of us memory is faulty, a broken limb that can’t hang on forever.
Alex Hanson can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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By Jay Cronley:
Horse race handicapping for dummies is also horse race handicapping for geniuses.
Veterans and boozers, suckers and tipsters, rookies and trainers alike, most horse players make handicapping much harder than it should be.
As complicated as a horse race is, winners have similar patterns.
As each three-year old season begins, I go over notes and bets from the previous year, looking for mistakes to avoid, and hauls to reprise.
Surprisingly enough, the essential elements to winning seem to carry over from one term to the next. Whereas the game has changed, with the sometimes ruthless over-training of the young ones, causing brief careers and iffy credentials to be brought to the breeding shed hay, successful handicapping fundamentals haven’t changed much.
There’s enough that can’t be predicted, from bad breaks to brainless rides.
We need to take what record gives us.
Here’s some of what paid off last year, successful handicapping tools that had carried over from the year before, and the year before that, etc.
Avoiding horses that hadn’t run in 30 days was on all the old school how-to or how-not-to lists. Guess what. The 80-year olds are still winning money. Awkward layoffs, breaks in racing patterns, produce losers by the score. If you can’t think of a good reason why a horse has been off six weeks, the vet knows, so forget it. Even explained absences can be tough plays against fresh horses. True, some trainers excel in bringing horses back to the track. Would that we had known what was coming before those races. There are stories worth learning behind the best stats, field size, levels of competition. Look at it this way this spring. Who among us doesn’t need a race.
Racing surfaces matter
According to my records, horses win two in a row so infrequently on alternating dry and wet conditions that I wouldn’t bet money found under a car tire on such an occasion. Nothing inflates a Beyer number more than wet conditions, short fields, or grass. Similarly, rotten runs on an off track usually mean nothing when it’s dry. Speed biases are common knowledge. What many pickers fail to mention is that few speed biases can survive heated company.
In a way. Experiencing trouble while bumbling along sixth on the backside doesn’t mean a horse would have won. Overcoming trouble, or almost doing so, is a horse of a better color. I’ll never forget the first time I caught sight of Big Drama, blasting his way through a roller derby-type scrum to win a race at Delta Downs. This event speaks well of big horses going rich, big slot machine purses in necks of the woods or elbows of the swamp. Full-field competition in places like Oaklawn has come to mean more than a few BFF’s hanging together on a coast.
The top Beyer is usually the favorite in Louisville in May, and loses. Flashy Beyer numbers from four-horse fields in New York or six-horse fields in California don’t translate well to Kentucky. We already know who will win the Derby. It will be an improving horse with regularly spaced races, as lightly raced as possible within the qualifying rules, Beyer numbers ticking up throughout the spring. He or she will have run fifth on an off track, or fourth from an inferior post and all the wrong pacing. He or she will be neither speedy nor late, and will possess the classic stalking style, featuring the one big move on the turn and oxygen enough to fuel the way home.
It seems simple enough now.
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A weekend interview with Teresa Caraker, credit recovery teacher at Hudson High School
Next week, Florida's high schools are supposed to receive final word on their 2010-11 graduation and dropout rates as the state prepares to release the schools' annual grades. Hudson High School in Pasco County expects to see strong improvement, and its leaders give a lot of the credit to the dropout prevention team that has focused on struggling students and their academic and social needs. Teresa Caraker runs the school's credit recovery lab, which gives students a chance to make up missed credits and get on track for graduation. She spoke with reporter Jeff Solochek about her role, her students and the school's dropout prevention philosophy.
We're talking about the school and how it has improved its graduation rate dramatically in the past year. What do you attribute that to? How do you place what you do and your role in the scheme of things?
We're a component of the school graduation rate improvement, of course. But it really is a team, school-wide effort. There was a huge push last year, especially (because) we had a lot of new students come in last year with rezoning. ... There really was a school-wide effort to make sure that students understood what their role was in achieving their graduation requirements and informing students what they needed to do to be on track for graduation. I worked very closely with all these students' teachers. So it really is a group effort. It doesn't make any sense for them to do credit recovery in here and make up credits, and then to fail their classes during the day. It just doesn't make any sense. So I work very closely with their teachers. We'll say, 'Okay, Johnny, I realize he does not do well with extended response answers so he is going to struggle with that in your classroom.' We work on that together on what can make him successful in the various classrooms.
How do you figure out each student and where they need to be? It seems like it's got to be very intensive when you're working with 20 kids an hour, six hours a day.
It is intensive. In order to do this you have to be a very good listener. The kids will generally tell you what it is they need. If you're listening well enough, you can pick up on it. Sometimes it's hidden underneath language that I might not find appropriate. But they are still telling me what they need and I have to be attuned to that and pick up on whatever it is. And every student is different and their circumstance is different. Some of them struggle academically. Some of them struggle at home, and then that translates to them struggling academically. You really have to diagnose where their issue is and kind of help them through that. It's an amazing process. I feel blessed to watch them grow from where they are at the beginning of the year to where they are at the end of the year.
How do you let them know that they are doing well so they don't feel like they are still floundering and maybe drop out, even as they're moving through?
That is a constant battle. Perseverance and endurance is something that most of these students struggle with. They will do really well for a period of time and then they get tired. They just get tired. So it's a matter of, 'Okay, it's a marathon and you've got to make it through the marathon. You're only at the fifth mile marker. It's time to really buckle down now. We've got to make it through the semester.' And we are constantly as a team looking at data and where is each student. It does come down to each individual student.
You see kids in elementary school respond to certain things. Are they the same things in high school?
People are people. We all have needs. We all need to feel like we belong. We all need to feel like we are being successful. If I came to work every morning and I felt unsuccessful by 9 a.m., I'd shut down too. And a lot of these students, especially the ones who struggle academically, if they come to school each day and feel like they're unsuccessful by the end of first period, they shut down for the rest of the day. And so part of my job is helping them understand where they are being successful. Because every student has things that they are really good at, and everyone has things that they struggle with. That is true for adults as well. So I think when I relay that to them, I relay my own weaknesses, and my own strengths. But I have a job that I love, I am going for a career that works on my strengths. I want that for them too. In here we talk not only about credit recovery, but what are you doing beyond that? What do you want to do with your life?
Sometimes we hear this (credit recovery) is going to be easy. You can make up a semester, they do it in summer sometimes in 10 days. Is it easy?
No. That is a very common misconception. Actually I am doing an extended school day program now with students who are just starting in APEX. We have been here just three days and they are already feeling like they can't do this, it is hard. It's really hard. There is nothing easy about it. There is a reason we call it earning a high school diploma. You have to work for it. And that's where the endurance piece comes in. That's where they get tired. And then we have to look back at how far they have come, and say, 'You can make it.' That's what I do. I know they can do it. Sometimes they don't feel like they can. They need that reminder that they can.
The state does not always count graduates as graduates if they don't do it in a certain period of time ...
Right. That's new. That's going to go into effect this year, which is really going to damage a lot of graduation rates across the state of Florida.
But does it damage the esteem or the desire of the students who you see? Do you think they care about that?
It's interesting, because it does. Most of the students I see really want that high school diploma. They don't want a GED. They want a high school diploma. And if they are so far behind and they don't feel there are any options besides the GED, it does damage them and it is something they carry with them for the rest of their lives. That is one of the things I really talk to the students about, What is it that you want? Because if you want a high school diploma, it is within your reach. We are giving you the opportunities to come during school, after school. The opportunities are here for you to get on track. But you're going to have to work. Two times, three times as hard as the other students who aren't behind. Are you willing to put that commitment in?
What do they say?
Some say, 'Yes I am,' because that high school diploma means something to them. I have a student, she will be the first person in her family to ever receive a high school diploma. And that is something she is really really pushing for. And I want that for her.
And I guess that also means doing it in time so that you can walk across the stage, get the cap and gown with the recognition.
That means so much to most of these students. That's why at the beginning of the year I take a picture of them in their cap and gown. I tape it to the front of their notebook. Because I want them to see that every single day. This is your goal. This is what you are working for. And on those days when you don't feel like doing it, when you've had a bad night, when you've had something go on outside of school that is affecting your day, like a student I talked to this morning, her best friend just died on Monday, and she is here today. I'm so proud of her that she came. She'll cry through most of the day. But she came. So I think we all need that visual reminder of what our goals are. And crossing the stage for most of them is very very important. With their class. They really want to do that. There is something about that bond with that class that most of them do want. And most of them at the beginning of the year feel there's no hope in getting there. And by around February, March they start to feel, 'I can really do this.'
What advice do you give to parents who have students in these positions so they can help you and help their kids to be successful?
Recognize how hard they are working. A lot of kids will come home exhausted because they have worked hard all day. Other students need that extra push to pass all their classes. So getting on eSembler is huge. If you see any zeroes in there, if they have missed any classes. Make sure the assignments are turned in on time. Alloting time for them to go to sleep at a decent hour, because many students will stay up very late at night, very late. And then they come in exhausted. You can't function when you come in exhausted. Typical things.
What about for the kids then? Is there anything special they should do to be sure they don't fall behind? A kid who may not ever come into your class. What do you suggest to them to make sure they never come into your class?
That every class matters. A lot of them will get the impression, 'It's only P.E. It doesn't matter.' It matters. It's a graduation requirement. Every class you're in, every day, it matters. And that's why our team logo is, 'Everything you do matters. Everything you don't do matters. What impact will you have?' Because if they choose not to do an assignment, everything they don't do, it matters. And it will impact their grade in that class. Everything they do, it matters. It will increase their grade. Everything they don't do, it matters. That's what I would tell students who are not in here. Don't ever get here. It's twice the work. The students that work in my room are the hardest working students in the school, because they do twice the work.
Anything I didn't ask that I should ask?
It does rely on the students making a decision to graduate. We talked on Monday about making the decision to graduate and doing it. That's a connection that many students don't do. They decide they want to graduate. But then, are your actions meeting what you say you want to do? Are your actions meeting that goal?
Sometimes teenagers are dumb.
Yeah. They can be. They just don't think beyond the moment. They don't problem solve around where they are and where they want to go. They don't make those connections unless you kind of lead them through that process. And they are kids. We sometimes forget that because they're in these big bodies. They look like grownups. But they are still kids and they are still learning how to work their way through life.
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Bruce Japsen, Contributor
I write about health care and policies from the president's hometown
With the re-election of President Obama, 30 million Americans without health insurance are certainly winners because they will in less than 14 months have access to medical coverage without the threat of a Romney White House pushing for repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
Those in the health industry providing the benefits and services will also be victorious as an unprecedented number of paying customers who have struggled to pay for everything from a hip replacement surgery to prescription drugs get support to buy medical care.
Here are five key winners as the health law’s benefits bring new paying customers in the doors of clinics, hospitals, pharmacies and doctors offices across the country:
1. The health insurance industry. Health plans like Aetna (AET), Wellpoint (WLP), Humana (HUM), and others that have acquired a bigger stake in providing benefits to Medicaid patients will certainly reap millions of new customers. About half of the 30 million uninsured will gain access to an expanded Medicaid program. Meanwhile, all commercial health insurance plans including UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Humana (HUM) and the nation’s Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans are already aggressively promoting their brands in the individual and small group market to prepare for broader sales of these policies on state-run exchanges that will begin operating in 2014.
2. The hospital industry. Hospitals will have much less to worry about when it comes to the annual $40 billion tab for unpaid medical bills and charity known as uncompensated care. In particular, investor-owned hospital chains like HCA Holdings (HCA); Tenet Healthcare (THC) and Vanguard Health Systems (VHS) will also win political cover in Washington and in the communities in which they operate where their commitment to charity care has long been called into question.
3. The retail pharmacy chains. From Walgreen (WAG) and CVS/Caremark (CVS) to Wal-Mart (WMT), these chains have pushed beyond simply filling prescriptions into becoming, as Walgreen CEO Greg Wasson says, the home for all of a consumer’s “health and daily living needs.” Given the influx of patients with a pent up demand for health care services, retailers’ efforts to provide more flu shots and other vaccinations through clinics staffed by nurse practitioners will help serve an expected spike in demand for these services from the newly insured.
4. The generic drug industry. Though health insurance companies worry about their ability to control the cost of new customers, they are expected to aggressively push outpatient care and low-cost prescription drugs as a way to keep premiums low. That means generic drugs will have an even more promising spot on health plan preferred lists known as formularies. This will be a windfall for companies like Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (TEVA).
5. The health care workforce. From nurses and doctors to health roles some say have yet to be invented, more workers beyond physicians will be needed to meet future medical needs, particularly in the outpatient care area. Already, universities and their medical schools, nursing colleges and schools of public health and pharmacy are expanding departments or creating new programs to address future health care needs. All are expected to benefit from increased federal investments in education. Philanthropic organizations, too, are expected to compliment these efforts. Just last month, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a long-time advocate for nursing and nurse education, announced its budget for 2013 that will include up to $425 million in grant-making focused on helping “people stay healthy; lowering national health care costs; and improving access to high-quality care, delivered by a diverse and abundant workforce.” “Whatever issues are the most vexing—responding to AIDS, an unprecedented shortage of nurses, millions of children being uninsured, astounding racial inequalities in health care—these are the issues we’ve taken on,” said foundation president, Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey.
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The Achilles heel of Equatorial Guinea’s dictator
Legal action in Spain and the United States taking aim at secret bank accounts of President Teodoro Obiang of
Equatorial Guinea could become a weapon to help put an end to his 25-year dictatorship, say opposition leaders and
activists from the West African nation.
The trials could mark the beginning of the end for a dictatorship "which has turned the country into one enormous prison", said Celestino Okenve, head of the Madrid-based non-governmental group Equatorial Guinea Solidarity Forum (FSGE), which will be lodging a lawsuit in the Spanish courts.
Prisons in Equatorial Guinea hold between 50 and 100 political prisoners to a cell "and the entire national territory
has been converted into a prison for the rest of the population" of about half-a-million people, he said. There is no
freedom of speech or movement in Equatorial Guinea, it is impossible to discuss politics and there are police and
military checkpoints every 20 km to 30 km, he added.
The US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations reported that there are about $ 700 mm in bank accounts in the Washington-based Riggs Bank in the name of Obiang, his family and associates, with deposits or transfers coming in from US oil companies. The investigation by Democratic Senator Carl Levin also uncovered secret bank accounts belonging to former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) in the same bank.
Severo Moto, leader of the opposition Party for Progress of Equatorial Guinea and president of the Guinean government
in exile -- set up in Madrid -- said Obiang should stand down immediately. But as that is not on the cards, the
opposition should unite and support the legal action in order "to get rid of this heartless thief who fills his
pockets and those of his associates while the people suffer hunger and destitution, even though our country is a very
rich nation", he stated.
This tiny nation on Africa's Atlantic coast was a Portuguese colony until 1778 and a Spanish enclave until independence in 1968. It underwent a radical change of fortune in the 1990s when rich oil deposits were discovered.
Oil sales began to surpass traditional exports of cacao, coffee and timber and the country's gross domestic product
grew by 71,2 % in 1997, 22 % in 1998 and 15 % in 1999. In 2001, natural gas was also discovered and a new economic
upsurge began. In 1998, the International Monetary Fund reported that Obiang "simply pocketed $ 96 mm" of the total $
136 mm in oil revenues, said Moto.
The important factor in the new court cases is that they are based on lawsuits brought by NGOs such as the FSGE, which means the dictator cannot argue that they amount to "retaliation by the opposition", he said.
The FSGE will bring a criminal prosecution in the Spanish courts, calling for investigation of Obiang's bank accounts
in Spain, "as US investigations have already provided some leads", said Okenve.
Moto said the April 25 legislative and municipal elections in Equatorial Guinea were fraudulent and that the United Nations "left Obiangwith a free hand to torture prisoners and submit them to farcical trials with no political guarantees", because no mechanisms were put in place to monitor human rights during the election process.
Placido Mico, leader of the opposition Convergence Party for Social Democracy, said he hopes Madrid will begin an
investigation along the lines of the US probe to verify whether Obiang used Spanish banks to open accounts "within or
outside Spain", in one of the world's tax havens, for example.
Spain has the necessary mechanisms to undertake an investigation and events in the US prove "Obiang used oil money to benefit himself, his family and associates, rather than for developing the country", said Mico.
Obiang, meanwhile, is playing on his abundant oil reserves. The oil fields are currently exploited by French and US
companies, but their Spanish counterparts would like a share of the action. Also, hundreds of Spanish missionaries
work in Equatorial Guinea, mainly as teachers for marginalized populations. The NGOs and church groups that provide
the volunteers say their lives could be endangered if Obiang feels harassed by Madrid and the Spanish courts.
In Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea, Minister of Information and government spokesperson Alfonso Nsue Mokuy criticised the Spanish media, which provided coverage of the US Senate report. He said the Spanish media "always went out of their way to broadcast information that confused opinion at home and abroad with the single aim of destabilising the democratic political regime of Equatorial Guinea for hidden and undeclared interests".
Scant information enters the West African nation from abroad. The little that does mainly comes through the
international channel of the Spanish public station Television Espanola.
"Obiang is now studying the forced removal of TV receiver antennae," said Okenve.
The Guinean government in exile is backed by a coalition of the Progress Party, Popular Action of Equatorial Guinea and the Liberal Party. Mico's Convergence Party for Social Democracy is not included. The West African country -- where Spanish is the predominant language as well as the official language along with French -- has been ruled by Obiang since 1979, when he led a coup that overthrew his uncle, Francisco Macias Nguema, who governed with an iron fist since the declaration of independence in 1968.
Obiang has won all presidential elections since 1984 with nearly 100 % of the vote. There is no secret ballot.
The opposition groups say the people live under a reign of terror, and demand that Obiang resign and that free elections be held.
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You're viewing an article in iPO's historic archive vault. Here, we've preserved the comments and how the site looked along with the article. Use this link to view the article on our current site: Talk of a 'True Video iPod' Buzzes the Web
Talk of a 'True Video iPod' Buzzes the Web
Friday, February 10th, 2006 at 4:15 PM - by Staff
Various Internet Web sites were buzzing on Thursday and Friday with the news of a "true video iPod" that Apple is supposedly readying for release. ThinkSecret, relying on its anonymous sources, said that the new device will feature a 3.5-inch LCD that takes up its entire face and requires users to hold it sideways to view video content. It will also drop the physical click wheel for a digital version that will appear when a user touches the screen.
Ryan Katz said that a release is set for late March or early April, adding: "During the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs alluded to a major announcement on or around April 1, Apple's 30th anniversary as a company." He also noted that ThinkSecret maintained last year that the video iPod released in October was simply "a souped-up 4G iPod with video capabilities."
Mr. Katz's report has some basis in an article published last week by Endaget, which detailed a touch screen input patent submitted by Apple's Jonathan Ive. While the site assumed that the patent was for the long-rumored Apple tablet Mac, some think the technology described in it will be used for the new iPod.
Unsurprisingly, this week's news has led to a flurry of Photoshop mock-ups being posted around the Internet. Engadget received a pair that it believes are fakes, for example.
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A part of the the Missouri Auction School, The Certified Appraisers Guild of America is an accrediting organization providing certification of personal property appraisers. The Guild has been instrumental in helping to standardize the personal property appraisal profession. The members of the Certified Appraisers Guild form a network of valuable appraisal contacts throughout the United States and Canada.
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The training each member is required to complete, includes the uniform standards of personal property appraisal practice and appraisal report writing. Special areas of emphasis in training include Internal Revenue Service appraisal requirements, estate and gift appraisals, charitable donation appraisals, bankruptcy appraisals, insurance appraisals, appraisals for divorce, and casualty loss appraisals. In addition, each member is required to attend our courtroom expert witness seminar with special emphasis on appraisals for courts and testifying in court.
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By TOM LAURICELLA And JONATHAN CHENG
The Federal Reserve's move to prop up the economy with a new round of bond purchases promises to add more fuel to the fire driving one of the most powerful trends in financial markets: the search for ever-scarcer yield.
The Fed said it would buy $40 billion of mortgage-backed securities each month, immediately driving down yields of those bonds. The open-ended program is likely to keep those yields low for the foreseeable future, just as the Fed's intervention in the Treasury market will keep a lid on yields there.
As a result, investors are being pushed to buy ever-increasing amounts of risky, higher-yielding assets, just to show some returns from their portfolios, regardless of the central bank's success in supporting the economy. With that in mind, many headed on Thursday to stocks, including emerging-market shares, and high-yield bonds.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which has climbed 12% since hitting a closing low this year on June 4, tacked on 206.51 points, or 1.5%, to 13539.86, its highest level since December 2007. Gold, which often gets a two-pronged boost from a falling dollar and worries about inflation, jumped 2.2% to its highest level since February. The Russell 2000 index of small-capitalization stocks, which are considered riskier than their large-cap peers, gained 1.3%.
With the Fed saying it planned to continue bond purchases until the economy shows sustained improvement and pledging to keep rates low until mid-2015, these trends could potentially play out for years to come.
"The search for yield is going to go on for longer and may still grow more intense," said Rebecca Patterson, chief investment officer at Bessemer Trust. "Whether we're talking about high dividend stocks, corporate bonds or emerging-market bonds, all those things will continue to find support."
But the rising prices mean investors are accepting smaller returns to take on those risks than would have been the case not long ago. The Fed "is putting a lot of investors in a place where they wouldn't normally be comfortable," Ms. Patterson said.
Starting with the Fed's first round of bond buying, known as quantitative easing, in late 2009, the Fed has steadily squeezed investors out of the safest investments. It has done so by big purchases of bonds, mainly Treasurys.
When the Fed on Nov. 25, 2008, announced what is now known as QE1, which eventually totaled $1.75 trillion, the Dow had rallied 56% by the time the program ended in March 2010, as investors piled into stocks. A similar phenomenon took place after Mr. Bernanke signaled a second round of easing, known as QE2, in August 2010.
This time around, investors trying to get ahead of any Fed action stoked the Dow's rally in the beginning of June, when a disappointing jobs report began fueling hopes of Fed intervention. With Thursday's surge, the Dow is now less than 5% off the record it hit in October 2007.
Meanwhile, the Fed has pushed yields on U.S. government bonds much lower than many investors had expected, with the yield on the 10-year Treasury note finishing Thursday's trading at 1.752%. That is up from the record low 1.379% it grazed in late July.
"The Fed is openly doing everything they can to make certain assets as unattractive as possible," said Stephen Cucchiaro, chief investment officer at Boston-based Windhaven Investment Management.
The Fed has vacuumed up large chunks of the Treasurys market. This year alone it has bought $360 billion of Treasurys maturing over the next seven to 30 years. That is roughly 65% of the $556 billion in gross issuance of such bonds, according to Barclays PLC.
With the Fed already having pushed many other investors out of the U.S. Treasurys market, QE3 appears likely to do the same for the mortgage-backed securities market. This market, which is made up of bonds comprising mortgages backed by government-controlled agencies Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae, was an arena to which many investors had turned as a way to get slightly higher yields along with the backing of the U.S. government.
Now, the Fed's new purchases, coupled with money that will be reinvested in mortgage-backed debt from existing holdings, promises to absorb roughly 80% of new debt from Fannie, Freddie and Ginnie based on recent levels of issuance.
"High-quality paper is getting harder and harder to come by," said Robert Smith, chief investment officer at Sage Advisory Services in Austin, Texas. "In the absence of yield in traditional, secure products, money will have to go to riskier assets."
Now, with QE3, investors seeking yield have little choice but to turn to the corporate sector, whether it is bonds or stocks.
Individual investors, meanwhile, "are practically walking around in a daze; they don't know what to do," Mr. Smith said. "There is no safe yield out there, so they are redefining what is safe, which is a dangerous thing to do."
The degree to which the Fed's actions are forcing investors to change their behavior has been especially clear in the market for high-yield corporate debt, said Edward Marrinan, head of macro credit strategy at Royal Bank of Scotland.
Traditionally, high-yield investors have "drawn a fairly hard floor" and won't accept bonds with an interest rate of less than 7%, said Mr. Marrinan. But now, even with yields in the market at about 6.1%, "there doesn't appear to be any slowing of interest."
Mr. Marrinan said central-bank action world-wide is driving new kinds of investors to the U.S. corporate-bond market. Non-U.S. investors "are flocking to our markets," said Mr. Marrinan.
Ultimately, many investors are skeptical that the Fed's move will have a lasting impact on the markets unless there is evidence that the economy itself is going to improve as a result of its actions. "He'll continue to pound away, and that's a part of the rally, but there's a limit to everything," said Henry Herrmann, chief executive of asset manager Waddell & Reed, which manages about $90 billion in assets.—Matt Phillips contributed to this article.
Corrections & Amplifications
The surname of Edward Marrinan, head of macro credit strategy at Royal Bank of Scotland, was misspelled as Marriman in an earlier version of this article.
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Dr M: May 13 bogeyman kept BN united
KUALA LUMPUR, April 14 — Fears that Malaysians would meet again in another bloody racial clash like the 1969 riots had helped keep Barisan Nasional (BN) united for over four decades, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has said.
The former prime minister said this had given the country stability under the ruling coalition he had led for 22 years, allowing “unprecedented growth” to take place and transform Malaysia into an industrialised country.
“Fear of race riots recurring helped to keep the BN parties together. And so from 1971 until today the country enjoyed peace and stability under BN Governments,” he said in a blog posting yesterday.
Dr Mahathir (picture), who became PM just 12 years after losing in the 1969 general elections that led to the May 13 race riots, explained that when the country was still struggling for independence, “there was a great deal of animosity between the Malays and Chinese.”
“We have almost forgotten it now but the Japanese surrender saw the mainly Chinese Anti-Japanese guerrillas emerging from the jungles, declaring that they now rule the country. There were clashes between the Malays and the Chinese and several were killed on each side,” he wrote.
He said that while the Chinese ran businesses, the Malays cultivated paddy, went fishing and were very poor.
“The Malays felt threatened and their reaction was to unite and form a Malay political party — the United Malays National Organisation
(Umno). It was solely dedicated to... upholding Malay rights. There was no desire to cooperate with the Chinese at all, certainly not for achieving Merdeka,” he said.
Dr Mahathir, who resigned from active politics in 2003, said in order to achieve independence, Umno worked with MCA to “allay British suspicions that independence would lead to seizure of Chinese properties by the Malays.”
“The cooperation worked so well that the Malayan Indian Congress (MIC) decided to join it. And so the alliance of racial parties was formed. But Malay animosity towards the Chinese and Chinese dissatisfaction with the terms of the social contract was still extant, so that in 1969, race riots broke out.
“Foreigners as well as many Malaysians concluded that the fragile coalition had failed. But Tun Razak resurrected it and formed an even bigger coalition, the BN,” he said.
Malaysia’s worst ethnic riots occurred on May 13, 1969, which some reports say had killed over 2,000.
They were sparked off after opposition parties had denied the Umno-led Alliance its customary two-thirds majority in Parliament on the back of unhappiness by Chinese over perceived favouritism showed to Malays.
A victory parade by the opposition in Kuala Lumpur led to a strong reaction by Malays and a state of emergency was declared.
But some researchers have blamed the Umno-led counter-procession that began at the residence of then Selangor mentri besar Datuk Harun Idris for the violence.
Then prime minister Tunku Abdul Rahman later called the retaliatory parade “inevitable, as otherwise the party members would be demoralised after the show of strength by the opposition and the insults that had been thrown at them.”
Dr Mahathir also said in his blog that unlike the opposition Pakatan Rakyat (PR), BN had an added element that is needed for a coalition to work.
“Although it is an alliance of equals, it needs a strong core which can act as the first among equals. The core will act as referee whenever the other components fail to agree with each other.
“On the other hand the core must not be too strong as to be able to go on its own. If it fails to get the support of the others it will also fail,” he said.
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Knickerbocker Village at the 2010 Conference on New York State History, June 4
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All copyrights acknowledged. For research and educational purposes only.
PS 177: June, 1959, Nancy with Mrs. Jonas
About Knickerbocker Village
I found that a recurring topic on my blog, Pseudo Intellectualism, would be my memories of the wonderful place I grew up in on the Lower East Side, Knickerbocker Village. I lived there from 1952-1964. There has also been an avalanche of new information coming in from my old friends through our group emails. All of this has refreshed our collective minds and I decided to shift my old posts (from the last two years) to this dedicated site as well as add new recollections. Hopefully other lost KVer's can arrive here and feel free to share as well. Note 1: Many posts are an outgrowth of history projects I did with kids while teaching on the LES. Note 2: As this blog has evolved it has also become a view of life in NYC during the 50's and 60's. You can contact me at davidbellel.mac.com.
Stewie Brokowsky R.I.P., photo by Murray Schefflin
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#1. Annie Dillard talks about her fascination with science and minerals in particular. Then she goes on to details anecdotes concerning various Americans who became obsessed with the possibility of discovering valuable or interesting mineral deposits or rock formations within or close to their home environments. She speaks about men - almost all these scientific minded people are male - who discover veins of coal, copper, bauxite, and so on. She depicts the ordinariness of their fascination and the fact that it tapped into the extraordinary. Like nature had these incredible finds waiting to be unearthed all around. People who could see the worth of what was all around them or, in some cases, beneath them, excavated and found, just beneath the surface of their obsessive preoccupations, depths of riches and fascination. So in exploring the history of KV we go back into what had been the ordinary and find it layered in a criss-cross of historical significance. A transmutation of the lung block, redeemed as a bold social experiment tinged with ambitions as immodest as a revolution and as commonplace as sandwiches - ordinary though it may be but still - the most delicious sandwiches of the twentieth century. Buried beneath the surface of the KV heritage are connections to so may aspects of our culture and NYC's greatness as to be not only unfathomable but irrefutable. Do you know what I'm saying here?
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To be is to do - Plato To do is to be - Socrates Do be do be do - Frank Sinatra
Yes. I was thrown out of the Canal theater a number of Saturdays for rolling on the floor, in the aisles laughing. I think one of the movies that prompted my gaiety was "Psycho" - the shower scene. What can I tell you? I guess I wasn't tuned into the mood. At the time. Also saw many rock and roll movies at the Canal, Elvis films and the Murray the K fests. Saturday I often would go there with Joey Maldonado and his cousins. We would load up on candy by the quarter pound from that obscure bakery that was just around the corner on Madison Street, quarter block from Catherine - around the corner from the Brokowsky's fruit store, Gogol's and the pharmacy on the corner. Next to the newstand. Remember? By the bus stop. See what I'm saying? (In your mind, can you see it?) Bakery had golden and tan tile design but couldn't hold a candle to Savoia. No marble floors either.
guest memorist Howie: the first movie I ever went to was at the Tribune Theatre (near City Hall, now by the site of Pace University), a Disney cartoon 'Lady and the Tramp', also remember going there with Ronnie, David and maybe Paul, think it was '62 to see 'Safe at Home' starring Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris....I saw 'The Time Machine" with David at the Canal theatre in 1960 (academy award to George Pal - special effects), we were so taken by the notion of time travel that we proceeded to go home and build a time machine...somehow we got hold of some wood, nails, rope and wheels..after a couple of days the time machine started to take shape although it looked remarkably like a pretty decent scooter so we decided it needed a safe haven and hid it in a pit on Monroe St...one that we were able to climb...on the third day the time machine was stolen from the pit...we never saw it again...probably in the year 3000 by now..
guest memorist Neal Hellman on BLT's (the non Ref Luncheonette variety) A great B.L.T. is a complex eatable symphony. One in which all the parts maintain their individuality, yet at the same time, surrender their tasty nuances in the true spirit of gastronomic gestalt and dwell as one.This equinox I choose Sumano's Bakery Ciabatta bread. Though I was skeptical about it's naked, pale texture, I felt it would toast up well and its many crevices would add some fun places for the mayo to go.With the mayonnaise choice I have to stay with tradition and of course go with Hellmann's though for some reason it's known west of the Mississippi as “best foods”. Please do not waste my time with this hippie safflower oil concoction or some other type of healthy alternative. For when it comes to mayonnaise for my Ultimate B.L.T. there is no east or west, there is only Hellmann's…. case closed. My ingredients are now all together, but the intense work has just begun. For now without the correct timing and the correct application of all the ingredients, my ritual could easily plummet into a spiritual abyss. All ingredients must sit together (as one) at room temperature as I invoke the spirit of all the great B.L.T. makers in all the luncheonettes in the greater metropolitan area of New York. I heat my cast iron skillet (using a Teflon pan would be heresy) to a comfortable medium heat. I lay the bacon down 4 strips per sandwich and as I do the strips greet the metal with a friendly sizzle “hello”. As they are slowly cooking I cut the tomato's, neither too thin or too thick and lay them down ever so gently on a plate to await their glorious marriage. The lettuce has been carefully washed and spun with all traces of ribs removed. The mayonnaise jar is open and waiting to join this eatable canvass. Once the bacon is turned the toast swings into action. It has to be brown all the way but with no traces of crusty darkness.As the toast is finishing I remove the bacon and pat it down with a paper towel. Now it's time to assemble my edible equinox creation. Mayo on both pieces of toast, then the tomato's and I prefer the lettuce between the tomato and the bacon, for I feel it's texturally more secure that way. I don't want an immediate confluence of tomato and bacon; I like the lettuce to work as a buffer. Here's where many folks really go askew: they push the bread down so hard that the bacon is crushed. No, no a thousand times no. One must gently, ever so gently caress the concoction together. After which one will take a sharp knife and make a diagonal cut. A straight cut is what people from small towns in Nebraska and Ohio do. Those of use who are members of the B.L.T. illuminati always make a diagonal cut. The masterpiece will then be placed on a plate and then consumed in a way as to enjoy the warm and crunchy (yet still pliable) bacon, the exploding sensation of a dry farm Molino tomato, the juicy lettuce, the condiment-ing mayonnaise and ever so supportive bread. My first Ultimate B.L.T. goes to my neighbor for her birthday. With that offering I realize now that I am truly invoking the Japanese Equinox celebration of Hign-e. Yes with my ultimate B.L.T. offering I am illustrating the six perfections: perseverance, effort, meditation, wisdom, observance of precepts, and giving.
11/13/07: Even standing in the cold rain, the Baroque facades on these buildings are fantastic. Brussels has some of the best architecture in the world, all types, all styles. Standing in the middle of the main town square one is overwhelmed with the magnitude of detail and size.
11/14/07: I am currently in Brugge in NW Belgium. It appears to be a quiet town with all old and small buildings, perhaps pre-Victorian, with a network of canals similar, but without the gondolas and singing rip-off-the-tourist gondoleers. I'll learn more tomorrow as we get a tour prior to dinner.
12/5/07: Just finished a fresh grilled tilapia sandwich while sitting outside looking at the expansive white sands of Clearwater Beach and the far reaches of the Gulf of Mexico, realizing I am flying back to DC tomorrow morning into the remnants of the latest Alberta Clipper to wreak havoc on the Nation's Capitol. Enough to upset the strongest and staunchest among us.
Time Magazine: 10/15/1934
Smack in the middle of the slum-mulligan of Manhattan's lower East Side two barefaced, rectangular apartments rear their bricks twelve stories into the air. Jointly christened Knickerbocker Village, they cover four whole city blocks. Between the two units is a concrete playground, and within each will be a garden. Each of the 1,593 apartments has wooden parquet floors, electric refrigeration, tiled bathrooms, outside windows. The elevators are self-operating. Rentals range from $22.50 for 2½ rooms on the ground floor to $87.50 for a 5½-room penthouse. Average is $12.50 a room. Knickerbocker Village will cost about $9,000,000, and with the exception of Rockefeller Center is the only large structure which Manhattanites have noticed abuilding these last two years. Last week it was ready for occupancy.
Because Knickerbocker Village is also Manhattan's first experiment in government-financed, low-cost housing, RFC's Chairman Jesse H. Jones, East-Sider Alfred E. Smith, many a minor wig gathered in its banner-decked playground to mark the day. Said Al Smith: "I was tempted to swap the Empire State Building." Chairman Jones thumped the tub of slum clearance. Informed that the first of the two units was already 95% rented, while the second unit (to be opened Dec. 1) was 50% rented, he waved an expansive hand at the holiday bunting, declared: "I know of no ... safer investment for public funds than to clear about 500 acres of your slums."*
Whether or not Knickerbocker Village was a fitting inspiration for such official rejoicing was last week a red hot sociological question.
In 1929 Realtor Fred Fillmore French began buying land on the lower East Side. By swearing his 42 brokers to secrecy and using dummy corporations, he managed to get some 15 acres for $5,000,000. Then in 1931 he announced a grandiose scheme for the erection of a $50,000,000 development for junior Wall Street executives. At this point he found that he could not get credit. At the same time Fred F. French Operators, Inc. began passing its dividends on $14,000,000 of preferred stock. The project remained only a scheme with a staggering upkeep in land taxes.
When Congress authorized the RFC to make loans on slum clearance projects, Realtor French picked out the worst block in his holdings and ecstatically presented it to Mr. Jones as a worthy subject for clearance. His choice was "Lung Block," so called because of its high tuberculosis mortality rate. On it lived 650 families. In its backyards were seven jakes. On this fester Mr. French proposed to build a low-cost housing project. Mr. Jones agreed to do business, and RFC lent 85% of the required $9,000.000.
Average cost of "Lung Block" to Knickerbocker Village was high: $3,116,000, or $14 per square foot. The tax assessment was therefore reduced by two-thirds to bring the monthly room rental down to the $12.50 stipulated by the RFC. Because the average rental on "Lung Block" had been about $5 a room, Knickerbocker Village remained a low-cost housing project only in the minds of the white collar workers, who proceeded to fill it.
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One of the most useful tab-management features of modern browsers is opening recently closed tabs using the Ctrl+Shift+T hotkey. It certainly saves the time one would’ve spent sifting through browsing history to find and open closed tabs. In contrast to browsers, Windows 7 manages folders and application windows differently; despite storing recently opened programs and items in Start Menu, it doesn’t support bringing them up again using a hotkey. Today, AddictiveTips brings you UndoClose - a free program that remembers all recently closed folders and applications, so that you can restore them in the same sequence in which they were closed using two hotkeys. In short, it enables you to open the last closed folder(s) and application(s) just like the way Firefox, Google Chrome and other browsers let you open the recently closed tab(s).
UndoClose supports two hotkey combinations; Ctrl+Shift+F and Ctrl+Shift+A, to open last closed folder (in Windows Explorer) and application, respectively. The hotkeys can be used multiple times. For example, if you close VLC Player, Notepad and iTunes, press Ctrl+Shift+A hotkey three times to launch VLC Player, Notepad and iTunes again.
UndoClose sits in the system tray after being launched and silently starts monitoring all folders and applications that are closed. It then helps you restore them using the hotkeys.
If the pre-defined hotkeys come in conflict with other global hotkeys, you can change them from Settings. To access Settings, click the system tray icon. You will also find all recently closed folders and applications with their complete source paths. You can open them by double-clicking the items in the list.
You can watch how it all works in the video walkthrough below.
The application is built to actively keep log of all the apps and folders you close, and therefore, it consumes 35 MB of system memory. It’s worth mentioning here that memory usage depends upon the number of apps and folders you close during the session. UndoClose is a portable app that works on Windows 7 only. Both 32-bit and 64-bit OS are supported.
Version 1.1 – Now works with all Libraries (main folder, default Windows libraries, custom user-made libraries), Computer, Recycle Bin, Control Panel (Category view), and Network.
Version 1.0 - Initial Release
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September 11 Responders Still Waiting For Relief Promised In 2010
WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s been 11 years since terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center towers, and more than a year-and-a-half since President Barack Obama signed into law a bill meant to compensate responders and survivors sickened from exposure to the hazardous debris and toxins of Ground Zero.
But they’re going to have to wait a while longer — perhaps more than a year — before most of them start to see any of the money authorized in the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act.
“It’s going to be a process, and I think it’s going to take a year or two until that process really gets moving,” said Sheila Birnbaum, the special master of the $2.775 billion 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund. “People have to get medical records, they have to do all kinds of things, and they’re going to have to get certified that they meet the criteria.”
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Interview with John Hutton, M.D.
Dr. John Hutton examines his role as White House Physician during the second term of the Reagan administration. Hutton describes the role of the virtually unknown physician's office and his place among the White House staff organization. The major topics of discussion are health issues during the Reagan administration (the March 1981 assassination attempt, President Reagan's cancer surgeries and the possible invocation of the 25th Amendment, Nancy Reagan's battle with breast cancer), along with Reagan's ongoing struggle with Alzheimer's Disease. Hutton also traveled everywhere with the president during his tenure, and in this capacity he is able to offer an intimate perspective of Ronald and Nancy Reagan in their more private moments.
Copyright 2005 The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. Publicly released transcripts of the Ronald Reagan Oral History Project are freely available for non-commercial use according to the Fair Use provisions of the United States Copyright Code and International Copyright Law. Advance written permission is required for reproduction, redistribution, and extensive quotation or excerpting. Permission requests should be made to the Miller Center, P.O. Box 400406, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4406
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I often think about how helpful it would have been to have some pointed guidance on my way out of high school and into a post-secondary education. I probably would have used all of that money I borrowed for purposes other than having cool new jeans, a massive record collection, and living in a permanently altered state. Anyway, I’m not here to talk about the past, I’m here to talk about the future. If you’re a high school student looking for a career in baseball, then we have something for you.
MLB Trade Rumors is offering guidance in the form of advice via front office executives from 17 Major League Baseball clubs. Tim Dierkes asked general managers and assistant general managers to answer one question: What is one piece of advice would you give to a high school student who hopes to work in baseball operations one day?
The responses range from predictably nebulous (“Play baseball until someone tears the jersey off your back” – Dan Duquette) to pragmatic (“[Do] not get too specific when planning college courses. I believe it is important to be able to write well, speak in front of a group or crowd and be able to articulate your thoughts and compose a defensible argument when discussing any topic” – Rob Antony). For every “follow your passion” clichéd response (seriously, Jerry Dipoto said that) there are two suggestions to develop and focus on analytical skills.
For instance, this bit on keeping up with the “never-ending flow of information” from a guy who had some experience with personnel turnover this offseason:
“I would tell them to develop their analytical skills as much as they can. One of the main front office skills is analyzing the never-ending flow of information. This consists of scouting reports, medical, performance, agents, etc. Analytical skills are used in every aspect of the operation, from payroll management to breaking down a pitcher’s delivery or a hitter’s swing. They further can educate themselves on statistical analysis and the valuation of players.” - Michael Wickham, Marlins Director, Baseball Operations
Dierkes’ collection of advice is worth a good look, even if a career in baseball is further off your radar than a Syrian vacation. It works as gauge of where the game’s decision makers have come from and where they’re going.
Remember, kids: follow your passion and play baseball until someone tears the jersey off your back.
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INSIDE ADAMS IS TURNING TWO!
When we launched Inside Adams on October 30, 2009 we became the second official Library of Congress blog- the first was the LC Blog (launched April 2007). In the two years since we published our first post “…Never be afraid of a book,” the Library has added 5 more official blogs to its roster:
- In the Muse: Performing Arts
- In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress
- The Signal: Digital Preservation
- Teaching with the Library of Congress
- Picture This: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
My co-blogger, Ellen, thought it would be fitting to share with our readers our favorite post over the past two years.
Here’s my selection:
I have a number of favorite posts, so picking just one isn’t easy. I am especially partial to the features we do about the art and architecture of the Adams Building. I love to learn about the history of our building and the architectural details, from the terrazzo floors to the marble walls, that make our building a work of art. But my favorite post, so far, would be A Sweet Potato History.
The sweet potato is one of my favorite vegetables and it has become my mission to bring to the attention of the U.S. public the difference between a sweet potato and a yam. When I give presentations about blogging at LC, I often use the Sweet Potato post as an example of the benefits of writing a blog. Not only does a blog increase the visibility of the Library’s collections and expertise, but it also provides an example of how the Library can engage in a conversation with the public. In fact, the Sweet Potato post was inspired by a reader who wanted to know more about the origin of candied yams.
I also like this post because it shows how the Library can learn from the public. One of our readers commented that he could not find a reference to a recipe I cited. Wouldn’t you know I cited the wrong cookbook? Thanks to this reader I was able to correct the citation.
Here’s Ellen’s selection:
I too had a hard time choosing a favorite post. I like the posts that are historical in nature like the 1865 post about New Orleans (my home town) because I can always find something interesting to include from the Library’s collection. But I think my favorite post was one from almost a year ago – A Short Visit from a Noted Gentleman. I liked this post for two reasons. One, because I really enjoyed doing the Flat Stanley project and could feature the pictures I took , and two, I thought it was a fun way to show the Library off. I hoped that seeing Flat Stanley on the Library’s web page would be a great way for the students to connect to the Library.
Now that you know our favorite Inside Adams blog posts, what are your favorites?
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Avoiding bankruptcy at nearly all costs
January 10, 2013
For most small business owners, finances can seem a little tight at times. However, many leaders have tips and tricks they follow to not let it get so bad that they are spending more than they're taking in. This may go unnoticed for some time, though, which could result in a large downward spiral.
Makings a few mistakes could result in companies spending large amounts of cash without having the sales numbers to back it up. Before he or she knows it, the owner might be forced to file bankruptcy. However, most professionals would advise against this - filing Chapter 7 can have more long-lasting, negative results than cutting certain expenses and avoiding bankruptcy altogether.
Consider altering prices
One of the first and potentially easiest things a business leader can do is alter the pricing strategy to draw consumers back into the company if interest has waned or the economy has slid. According to Entrepreneur Magazine, this tactic was crucial for Fatburger CEO Andy Wiederhorn after the business floundered.
Wiederhorn told the news source that when the recession began, most consumers scaled back their spending, so the company took a big hit. As such, they lowered the prices on their burgers, which the magazine said represented an attempt to draw in loyal customers again.
When a business is looming on bankruptcy, the owner needs to consider how he or she can reduce all expenses. The Houston Chronicle suggested that altering contracts with vendors is often a good place to start. The leader can ask suppliers if they can pay for goods on a consignment basis, meaning that they will pay for inventory per shipment, rather than giving a set amount of money each month. This can work out well for both parties - there is less of a risk that the contract will be breached and the supplier go unpaid if the small business owner can pay in this manner.
Monitor cash flow
Many business leaders believe that accounting software is effective for the sole reason that it can help automate transactions and allow for remote access at anytime. However, these types of programs have many other benefits. Notably, they can give the company owner a real-time look at the firm's economic standpoint, accounting for all expenses and income flows alike. This can greatly help the administrator keep track of where the business is at and ensure that expenses never outweigh income.
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It seems so old-fashioned that citizenship is primarily determined by the physical location of your mother at the moment of your birth. I suppose it's a practical way to keep everyone sorted out, but in today's modern world does it still make sense to favor birth location over all other factors when it comes to citizenship?
Thanks to technology, my body no longer defines where I "am." At any given moment I can be Skyping with Australia, texting to Canada, browsing a British web site, and planning my next vacation in Mexico. A company recently offered to let me operate their telepresence robot and attend meetings in their building without leaving my house. As I type this, people in sixty countries are reading what I wrote in Dilbert. My existence is smeared across a lot of time zones. But I'm legally an American because my mother's vagina was located in upstate New York at the time of my birth several decades ago. That feels oddly primitive.
In California I meet a lot of folks who aspire to be American citizens. Most of them are here legally, and I assume some are not. But they all seem to have a common spirit, if I can use that unscientific word. First and foremost, they want to be here. They work hard, respect the laws, pay taxes, and put great effort into speaking English. And they consider themselves Americans even if the law doesn't. If American citizenship had a character test, they'd pass easily.
As a practical matter, you can't let people become citizens just because they want to. That would be chaos. But I'm wondering if the future will bring a better concept of human organization than dirt-based citizenship. Personally, I don't care if you live in Elbonia and plan to keep your physical body there forever; if you want to be on my team, just bring something to the party in terms of character, ideas, or marketable skills. I'm happy to have you. We'll be like a club without borders.
Someday I can imagine social networks growing in size and power until citizenship becomes an unnecessary concept. When citizenship-by-dirt becomes a relic of the past, so too will wars over boundaries. My social network doesn't need to conquer your social network because we already live in every country.
Over time, private entities can take over the historical functions of traditional governments. We won't need armies, snail mail post offices, printed currency, or even physical schools. The Internet will make every current function of governments obsolete.
You might argue that people are people and we'll find dumb-ass reasons to fight no matter how we define the groups to which we belong. But I'm not so sure. I think evolution has wired us to believe geography is something you kill over and everything else is something you argue about. Take citizenship-by-dirt out of the equation in a few hundred years and war will be obsolete.
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Other forecasts are similarly optimistic about VLJ potential: Rolls-Royce, in its 20-year forecast through 2023, says 8,000 VLJs will be built; Pratt & Whitney Canada, maker of the PW600-series engines that power several VLJs, is forecasting more than 5,000 VLJs to be produced through 2012.
Key differences in the forecasts relate to whether the VLJ air taxi market will take off. Aboulafia says Teal Group remains an air taxi "agnostic," and Forecast International caveats its predictions by saying the emergence of on-demand air taxi services "utilizing hundreds of these jets to fly their customers from airport to airport" is critical to the VLJs' realizing their full market potential.
Perhaps the best known impending air taxi service is DayJet. The company expects to launch its business later this year with the arrival of the first of its 239 Eclipse 500s on order. The Eclipse 500 is one of three VLJ models that manufacturers expect to have certified by the FAA this year or early next year. Florida-based DayJet plans to have two pilots in each aircraft and three available passenger seats for trips of up to 600 n.mi., though it has not yet said in what part of the country the air taxi service will be launched.
The company's per-seat, on-demand model relies on in-house software that optimizes how the fleet moves between destinations, minimizing the amount of time the aircraft will fly with no paying customers on board, a problem that has historically been a bane to the profitability of air taxi operators.
Another air taxi provider waiting in the wings is Pogo, which has 75 Adam Aircraft A700 VLJs on order.
While opinions vary on how the market will respond to the new aircraft, there is general consensus that the vehicles themselves have been the focal point for best of breed in aircraft advances, including highly integrated avionics and advanced engine design.
"It's really the elements of technology that have blended together" to make the VLJ, says John Olcott, president of consulting firm General Aero and former president of the National Business Aviation Association. "It ought to be simpler to fly than a piston-powered aircraft."
Examples can be found in the Eclipse 500, which is expected to be the first of the VLJs to be certified by the FAA, with deliveries arriving by summer. The aircraft comes equipped with a redundant "total aircraft integration" avionics package called Avio. Designed in-house, Avio controls the avionics, engine operation, fuel systems, flaps, landing gear, cabin pressure and temperature, and other systems via the aircraft's main computer and electronic power distribution systems.
In the engine department, Avio can activate an "automatic power reserve" if the system senses that one of the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW610F turbofans is operating below its expected performance. With power reserve, the normal operating engine gets a boost of up to 10% more thrust, while ultimate constraints of permissible power are maintained by the full-authority digital engine control, or FADEC, system. The Eclipse 500 will also use a new engine first suppression system that the company says is "more effective, simpler, lighter, and less expensive" than conventional Halon systems.
The first glimpse of empirical data on VLJs will not be long in coming. Albuquerque-based Eclipse Aviation is slated to complete its FAA certification for the $ 1.5-million Eclipse 500 imminently, and two others -- Cessna and Adam Aircraft -- are not far behind.
Eclipse's fleet of seven certification test aircraft -- five flight, one static test airframe, and one fatigue airframe -- had surpassed 1,000 hr of flight test time by mid-January. Powered by a pair of 900-lb-thrust PW610Fs, the six-seat aircraft has a maximum takeoff weight of 5,640 lb and is designed to cruise as fast as 375 kt, as high as 41,000 ft, and as far as 1,280 n.mi.
Company spokesman Andrew Broom says Eclipse has just under 2,400 orders for the aircraft, with 35% of these for individual owners who will fly it for business or pleasure. Broom says the first customer delivery is slated to take place before the end of June. Eclipse expects to produce fewer than 200 aircraft this year, ramping up to 800 in 2007 and 1,000 a year thereafter.
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Rachel Albert has a master’s degree in art therapy and works in Fairfax County Public Schools as both an art teacher and an art therapist. Through a year-long stay in Israel, she had the opportunity to facilitate therapeutic art-making in a variety of settings, while interacting with the clients and patients in Hebrew. The settings ranged from a pediatric cancer clinic, to a facility for adults with Down syndrome residents, to an elementary school that included new immigrants to Israel. Rachel learned first-hand how creating art can help people across cultures and skill levels. Upon returning to the United States, Rachel worked at a special education high school for students with emotional disabilities, teaching adolescents how to express themselves in appropriate and creative ways. Rachel is the only art teacher at Bryant, where she is inspired by her students’ daily dedication to learning against the odds.
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Named in honor the late Dr. F.C. "Phog" Allen, the Jayhawks' head coach for 39 years, Allen Fieldhouse is labeled by many as one of the best places in America to watch a college basketball game.
The Fieldhouse was dedicated on March 1, 1955, as the Jayhawks defeated Kansas State, 77-66, before an overflow throng of 17,228. Since the 1964-65 season, more than five million people have attended Kansas games at Allen Fieldhouse.
Noted sportswriter Mark Whicker of the Orange County Register calls Allen Fieldhouse "the best place in America to watch college basketball."
With capacity seating of 16,300, Allen Fieldhouse is the largest basketball arena in the state of Kansas and the second largest in the Big 12 Conference. Texas now has the largest arena in the Big 12 with a capacity of 16,755.
Capacity in Allen Fieldhouse was 15,200 prior to the 1986-87 season when 600 seats were added. Prior to the 1994-95 season, an additional 500 seats were added bringing capacity to 16,300.
More than 4,000 seats, including many close to the playing floor, are reserved for the students.
A $3.5 million recently completed renovation paved the way for new and larger restrooms and concession stands, an elevator and larger and more accessible entryways.
Allen Fieldhouse is located in the southern sector of the main campus and carries these dimensions: outside 344 feet by 254 feet, rising three stories above the ground; sidewalls 60 feet high; roof peak 85 feet; clear height at center 75 feet; arena 252 by 341 feet overall. The original construction cost was $2.5 million. There were 650,000 bricks used to construct the arena.
Allen Fieldhouse, historically, has served as host for many NCAA championships. In men's basketball alone, Allen Fieldhouse has hosted 37 NCAA Tournament games.
Today, Allen Fieldhouse hosts approximately 30 home basketball games (men and women combined) each year. The facility is also used for stage shows, major addresses and for commencement ceremonies when the weather is inclement.
Originally, Allen Fieldhouse was used as a multi-purpose facility. The Kansas track teams ran there during the indoor season, and the Fieldhouse served as an indoor practice facility for the basketball, softball and football teams.
In 1984, Anschutz Sports Pavilion was completed, making Allen Fieldhouse the home for only the KU men's and women's basketball teams.
In October of 1998, the Horejsi Family Athletic Center was constructed just to the west of Allen Fieldhouse. This 16,500 square foot building is the home for KU volleyball and a practice facility for both basketball teams.
Administrative and coaching offices for the athletic department are located in Allen Fieldhouse, Parrott Athletic Center, annexed to the field house in 1970, and the Wagnon Student-Athlete Center.
The Jayhawks play well in Allen. Over the past 25 seasons Kansas has compiled a 353-26 record in the Fieldhouse, including 18-0 in 2008-09. Between 1994 and December of 1998, the Jayhawks won 62 consecutive games in Allen Fieldhouse.
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March 6, 2012
By Mike Adams
“The idea that vaccinated people are in a danger from the unvaccinated is a hilarious concept. If the vaccines work, shouldn’t they be immune?” –KTRN
Vaccine pushers often resort to an interesting fear tactic to try to mandate vaccine obedience among the masses: They insist that those who are unvaccinated are a health threat to the rest of the vaccinated population because the vaccinated people might get infected by the unvaccinated disease carriers!
The quack logic of such a claim should be self-evident. If vaccines protect people from infectious disease, then vaccinated people should not be concerned at all about being around unvaccinated people. After all, the vaccine made them all “immune,” right?
But of course that’s all propaganda. Vaccines don’t really work at all. They are marketed under a blanket of disease hysteria and pimped by a cult following of medicalized quacks and needle junkies who abandoned real science long ago. After all, who needs real science when you’ve got the CDC marketing all the fear for you? The CDC is to medicine what George Bush was to the war industry — spread a little fear and the profits roll in.
The real risk to others? People who routinely take antibiotics
As it turns out, the real health risk that does exist in person-to-person exposure of infectious disease comes from people who routinely take antibiotics. Those who take the most antibiotics become drug-resistant bacteria factories, and they can spread their drug-resistant strains to others around them. Their risk of developing superbugs rises proportionally to the frequency and duration of their taking prescription antibiotics. (http://www.naturalnews.com/028479_superbugs_antibiotics.html)
The most dangerous person in your family, it turns out, is not the “unvaccinated” person but the one taking antibiotics! They are human breeding grounds for bacterial mutations that can be downright deadly.
November 9, 2011
By Jonathan Benson
“So you go to the hospital to get well and you leave sicker because of superbugs. Nice.” –KTRN
Many people still assume that hospitals are generally clean, sanitized places where harmful pathogens would have a difficult time surviving. But a new study published in the American Journal of Infection Control says otherwise, having found that nearly half of all hospital rooms tested were contaminated with a deadly, drug-resistant superbug known as Acinetobacter baumannii (MDR-AB).
For their study, researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine tested bed rails, tables, supply carts, door knobs, nurse call buttons, infusion pumps, various equipment touch pads, and floors for the bacteria. They found that in 48 percent of rooms tested, nearly 10 percent of surface samples contained MDR-AB.
Leading the pack were cart handles, which were found to be contaminated 20 percent of the time. Floors around hospital beds were second, representing a 16 percent contamination rate. Following these were infusion pumps at 14 percent, ventilator touch pads at 11.4 percent, and bed rails at just over ten percent.
“For patients with MDR-AB, the surrounding environment is frequently contaminated, even among patients with a remote history of MDR-AB,” said the researchers in their journal release. “In addition, surfaces often touched by health care workers during routine patient care are commonly contaminated and may be a source of (hospital-based) transmission. The results of this study are consistent with studies of other important hospital pathogens such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus and Clostridium difficile.”
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WHO says New Flu is Unstoppable
Drug Resistant Tuberculosis is On the Way
Swine Flu Similar to 1918 Pandemic
Flu Shots Put Children in Hospital
Homeless People DIE After Given Bird Flu Vaccine
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April 19th, 2011
The Raw Story
A sampling of grocery store meat in five US cities has shown a type of drug-resistant bacteria is contained in about one quarter of beef, chicken, pork and turkey for sale, a study said Friday.
Staphylococcus aureus, a bacteria that can cause skin infections, pneumonia, sepsis or endocarditis in people with weak hearts, was found in 47 percent of samples, said the study in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
The study drew fire from the meat industry, which pointed to the “small sample” taken and said its findings were misleading.
More than half — 52 percent — of the infected samples contained a tough strain of S. aureus that was resistant to at least three types of antibiotics.
Most of the time, the bacteria would be killed off during cooking, but risks of contamination can come from handling raw meat in the kitchen and touching other utensils, or from eating meat that is not fully cooked.
“For the first time, we know how much of our meat and poultry is contaminated with antibiotic-resistant Staph, and it is substantial,” said Lance Price of the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, and senior author of the study.
“The fact that drug-resistant S. aureus was so prevalent, and likely came from the food animals themselves, is troubling, and demands attention to how antibiotics are used in food-animal production today.”
S. aureus is not among the four bacteria routinely tested in meat by the US government: Salmonella, Campylobacter, E. coli, and Enterococcus.
More than two million people in the United States are infected with these bacteria annually, and hundreds die. The young and the elderly, and people with weakened immune systems are most at risk.
The 136 samples that were tested included 80 brands of meat and were taken from 26 retail grocery stores in five cities: Los Angeles; Chicago; Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Flagstaff, Arizona; and the US capital, Washington.
The report said the bacteria was found inside the meat and therefore was not likely to have come from handling.
Instead the likely culprit was “densely stocked industrial farms, where food animals are steadily fed low doses of antibiotics… ideal breeding grounds for drug-resistant bacteria that move from animals to humans,” the study said.
“Antibiotics are the most important drugs that we have to treat Staph infections; but when Staph are resistant to three, four, five or even nine different antibiotics — like we saw in this study — that leaves physicians few options,” Price said.
The study did not assess the risk to the population posed by the resistant staph strain.
“Now we need to determine what this means in terms of risk to the consumer,” said co-author Paul Keim, director of the Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics at Northern Arizona University.
The biggest meat and poultry trade association in the US, the American Meat Institute, said the study “misleads consumers about US meat and poultry, which is among the safest in the world.”
“Despite the claims of this small study, consumers can feel confident that meat and poultry is safe,” said AMI Foundation president James Hodges in a statement.
The AMI statement added: “These bacteria are destroyed through normal cooking procedures, which may account for the small percentage of foodborne illnesses linked to these bacteria.”
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July 1, 2010
By Ethan A. Huff
(NaturalNews) The FDA is reevaluating the safety of a popular chemical additive called triclosan, based on recent studies that seem to indicate it causes endocrine disruption in the body and leads to the emergence of drug-resistant “super” bacteria.
Triclosan is commonly found in liquid antibacterial hand soaps and sanitizers, dishwashing detergents, shaving gels, toothpastes, clothing and even children’s toys. It was originally designed as a surgical scrub for people in the medical field, but is now used in pesticides and a variety of different consumer products to ward off pathogens.
It is so common in popular consumer goods that, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), traces of triclosan can be found in the urine of about 75 percent of the population.
March 30, 2010
By: Kate Kelland
The sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea risks becoming a drug-resistant “superbug” if doctors do not devise new ways of treating it, a leading sexual health expert said.
Catherine Ison, a specialist on gonorrhea from Britain’s Health Protection Agency said a World Health Organization (WHO) meeting in Manila next week would be vital to efforts to try to stop the bug repeatedly adapting to and overcoming drugs.
“This is a very clever bacteria. If this problem isn’t addressed, there is a real possibility that gonorrhea will become a very difficult infection to treat,” she said in a telephone interview.
Gonorrhea is a common bacterial sexually-transmitted infection and if left untreated can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy and infertility in women.
Globally, the WHO estimates that there are at least 340 million new cases of curable sexually transmitted infections — including syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia and trichomoniasis — every year among people aged 15 to 49.
Ison said the highest incidences of gonorrhea were in south and southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, but as yet the WHO has no breakdown by individual infection type.
Current treatment for gonorrhea in most countries consists of a single antibiotic dose of either cefixime or ceftriaxone.
But Ison, who is due to speak on the issue at a Society for General Microbiology conference in Edinburgh on Tuesday, said strains of the Neisseria gonorrhea bacteria were starting to become resistant and could soon become impervious to all current antibiotic treatment options.
“Ceftriaxone and cefixime are still very effective but there are signs that resistance, particularly to cefixime is emerging and soon these drugs may not be a good choice,” she said.
Instances of gonorrhea being resistant to multiple drugs — the definition of a “superbug” — have started to appear in Japan, where health authorities had decided to up the dose to treat the disease, but stick with the same antibiotic, she said.
Other reports of rising gonorrhea drug resistance had also come from Hong Kong, China, Australia and parts of Asia.
Ison said the best way to try to reduce the risk now — beyond encouraging the use of condoms which halt the spread of sexually transmitted diseases — would be to treat gonorrhea with two different antibiotics at the same time.
This is a technique used in the treatment of some other diseases like tuberculosis and one that makes it more difficult for the bacteria to learn how to conquer the drugs.
“There are few new drugs available. So using more than one at the same time is probably what should happen in the first instance,” said Ison. “We also need to set up good lines of communication between countries so that we can all talk to each other about what’s happening in gonorrhea and make sure we change treatment strategies when we need to.”
A WHO spokeswoman said its experts would discuss drug-resistant gonorrhea at a meeting in the Philippine capital Manila next week.
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No, this isn't a controller made for the nex-gen PlayStation or Xbox video game consoles. In fact, what you see is a gaming accessory tailored specifically for iOS devices. Designed by a company called 60beat, it works with the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
But while gaming accessories for smartphones and tablets we have seen a lot of, this one has a special trick up its sleeve. It connects to your portable iDevice via its 3.5-millimeter headphone jack, meaning that it requires no batteries to operate. At the same time, it is a full-fledged video game controller with a d-pad, two analog sticks, and ten action buttons. And it works with virtually no delay, so you can have total control over the action even in the most dynamic of video games.
However, while we can't deny that the 60beat game pad looks quite cool, useful, and practical, there are a few things that one must consider before taking out their credit card. First of all, it is priced at $50, so if you are not that big of a gamer, perhaps you can do without it. Besides, it is fully compatible with only two video games, so there is no guarantee that all of its capabilities will be usable while playing the titles that you own. Luckily, full support for more video games is promised to come in the near future.
For more details, the press release is embedded below, along with a short video demonstrating the 60beat game controller in action.
60BEAT INTRODUCES INNOVATIVE GAMEPAD CONTROLLER FOR APPLE IOS DEVICES
Designed to be Instantly Familiar to Gamers, Device Plugs Into Headphone Jack
New Britain CT, December 2011 – With proprietary technology that uses the headphone jack as the interface, the 60beat® GamePad significantly improves the IOS gaming experience by moving the controls from the screen to a fully-featured hand-held game controller.
Developed to look, feel and operate like widely-used external controllers, GamePad easily and instantly transforms an iPad®, iPhone® or iPod touch® into a game console. The ergonomic design delivers superior comfort and control. Buttons and joysticks are engineered to deliver precise response and the tactile sensations gamers expect.
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Ken Miller's Only a Theory Misquotes Michael Behe on Irreducible Complexity of the Blood Clotting Cascade
Recently, I posted responses to some errors in Kenneth Miller's book Only a Theory and promised to end the series with a look at Dr. Miller's treatment of the irreducible complexity of the blood clotting cascade. (For those prior posts, see here and here.) Discussing Ken Miller's treatment of the blood clotting cascade in Only a Theory first requires a little backstory. Last December 2008 and early January 2009, I published a series of 3 posts that responded to Ken Miller's arguments, during the Kitzmiller v. Dover trial, about irreducible complexity and the blood clotting cascade (BCC). (For the posts, see Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.) Those posts showed that in his Dover trial testimony, Dr. Miller misrepresented Michael Behe's arguments regarding irreducible complexity and the BCC. Ken Miller's recent book, Only a Theory, does much the same. But before we get into that, let's review Miller's mistake at the Dover trial.
Miller's Basic Mistake
The blood clotting cascade in humans and most other vertebrates has two possible biochemical initiation pathways: the intrinsic pathway and the extrinsic pathway. This is shown in the rough schematic diagram below:
Miller Repeats the Error in Only a Theory by Misquoting Behe
In Only a Theory, Miller makes exactly the same error. After showing a diagram of the BCC that includes all three prongs -- including the intrinsic and extrinsic initiation pathways -- Miller asserts that, "Intelligent design argues that the pathway cannot work until all of these factors are in place..." (p. 32) On the next page, Miller claims that Behe "unequivocally" argues that "each and every part of the system has to be present simultaneously for blood to clot" (Miller's words, p. 33). Then on pages 33-34, Miller quotes Behe (or perhaps better put, misquotes Behe) to try justify his point. The precise reproduction of Miller's quotation of Behe is shown below (Miller's citations notes, found on page 225 of his book, are also shown below):
Since each step necessarily requires several parts, not only is the entire blood-clotting cascade irreducibly complex, but so is each step in the pathway.13If you think it seems a bit odd that Miller places a quote from page 87 of Darwin's Black Box directly before a quote from page 86, then you're on to something. As will be shown below, Ken Miller has just egregiously quoted Michael Behe out of context.
...In the absence of any of the components, blood does not clot, and the system fails.14
13. Behe, Darwin's Black Box, 87.
14. Ibid., 86.
(Kenneth R. Miller, Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul, pp. 33-34, 225 (Viking, 2008).)
Finally, on page 62 of Only a Theory, Miller purports to paraphrase the above quotes from Behe, writing: "As Michael Behe has written, the entire system has to be in place for clotting to work properly, and in the absence of any of the components blood does not clot and the system fails." Miller then claims that Behe has been refuted because "The genome of the fugu, or puffer fish, lacks three of the clotting factors -- and its blood clots just fine." (p 63) Of course, as seen below, those three factors are all from the intrinsic pathway, which Behe never claims in Darwin's Black Box are part of the irreducibly complex core of the blood clotting cascade.
Elaborating on Miller's Misquote of Behe
To repeat, the problem with Miller's arguments in Only a Theory is the same as the problem with Miller's testimony at the Dover trial: The three factors Miller refers to from the puffer fish are factors XI, XII, and XIIa -- all from the intrinsic pathway. But in Darwin's Black Box Michael Behe did not claim that the intrinsic and extrinsic pathways were part of an irreducibly complex system. Specifically, Behe stated that his argument for irreducible complexity in the BCC pertained only to components "beyond the fork," after the intrinsic and extrinsic initiation pathways of the blood-clotting cascade converge, and did not apply to components "before the fork" (i.e. such as the intrinsic and extrinsic pathways). Behe made this very clear at the Dover trial, and but he first made it clear in Darwin's Black Box:
Leaving aside the system before the fork in the pathway, where some details are less well known, the blood-clotting system fits the definition of irreducible complexity. That is, it is a single system composed of several interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, and where the removal of any one of the parts causes the system effectively to cease functioning. The function of the blood clotting cascade is to form a solid barrier at the right time and place that is able to stop blood flow out of an injured vessel. The components of the system (beyond the fork in the pathway) are fibrinogen, prothrombin, Stuart factor, and proaccelerin. Just as none of the parts of the Foghorn system is used for anything except controlling the fall of the telephone pole, so none of the cascade proteins are used for anything except controlling the formation of a blood clot. Yet in the absence of any one of the components, blood does not clot, and the system fails.Miller, somehow, ignores all of this and claims that Behe said that the intrinsic pathway is irreducibly complex. But let's more closely assess the two quotes from Michael Behe that Ken Miller uses (see above) to determine if Miller's characterization of Behe is accurate. We'll start with the quote from page 87 of Darwin's Black Box.
(Michael Behe, Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution, p. 86 (Free Press, 1996), emphases added.)
Miller's quote of Behe from page 87:
Miller quotes Behe on page 87 of Darwin's Black Box stating: "Since each step necessarily requires several parts, not only is the entire blood-clotting system irreducibly complex, but so is each step in the pathway." By this point in his chapter on blood clotting, Behe was now discussing a hypothetical scenario that would insert new proteins into the cascade, for Behe had already moved past expounding upon exactly which components of the BCC are irreducibly complex. Leaving that point aside, the question is, what does Behe mean by the "system"? The context makes Behe's meaning clear:
Behe is only discussing the components of the system "beyond the fork" and not those "before the fork" because Behe had defined the term "blood-clotting system" as NOT including the components "before the fork." Thus, Behe wrote:
"Leaving aside the system before the fork in the pathway, where some details are less well known, the blood-clotting system fits the definition of irreducible complexity." (Darwin's Black Box, p. 86)We'll call this the "Miller-refuting quote."
Miller has to ignore the Miller-refuting quote -- which Miller never mentions in Only a Theory -- in order to make his misrepresentation-based case. There is no indication anywhere that Behe intended to change the scope of the term "blood-clotting system" anywhere in the rest of that section to include the intrinsic and extrinsic pathways. Indeed, Miller's page 87 quote from Behe is merely discussing hypothetical scenarios that ONLY deal with adding or deleting cascade components after the fork.
All of this was plain to me when I read Behe's chapter on blood-clotting, and it should be plain to anyone who reads Darwin's Black Box without prejudice: The phrase "entire blood-clotting system" only pertains to the "entire" segment "beyond the fork." To imply that the quote Miller cites from page 87 applies to components before the fork misrepresents Behe's manifest meaning.
Miller's quote of Behe from page 86:
Now let's look at Miller's quote of Behe from page 86 of Darwin's Black Box, which Miller gives as follows: "...In the absence of any of the components, blood does not clot, and the system fails."
As noted, this quote is from page 86, yet in Only a Theory, Miller oddly places this quote directly after a later quote from Behe on page 87. Why? Whatever his reasons, the effect is to badly distort Behe's argument.
As we saw in the Miller-refuting quote above, this page 86 quote from Behe actually comes earlier in the book, from a different section with a very different context, and it is indeed the concluding statement for the paragraph where Behe makes the important Miller-refuting quote: "Leaving aside the system before the fork in the pathway, where some details are less well known, the blood-clotting system fits the definition of irreducible complexity."
Hopefully by now the egregiousness of Miller's treatment of Behe is clear. Miller picked sentences out of context from Darwin's Black Box and rearranged them -- placing an earlier quote after a later quote -- in order to create a string of quotes that make it appear as if Behe says that extrinsic pathway, intrinsic pathway, and components beyond the fork of the blood clotting cascade all comprise an irreducibly complex system. Moreover, Miller completely ignored the Miller-refuting quote -- which his page 86 quote is really supposed to be attached to -- that clarifies Behe's argument so that you know that his argument for irreducible complexity of the BCC does not include the extrinsic or intrinsic pathways.
What does Michael Behe Have to Say About All of This?
There's no one better to explain Behe's intended meaning than Michael Behe himself. So if you've read this twice, and you're a finding it hard to follow, then consider this: Michael Behe agrees with me, as he indicates in the following posting on his Amazon.com blog, written in response to Professor Miller:
In Chapter 4 of Darwin's Black Box I first described the clotting cascade and then, in a section called "Similarities and Differences", analyzed it in terms of irreducible complexity. Near the beginning of that part I had written, "Leaving aside the system before the fork in the pathway, where details are less well known, the blood clotting system fits the definition of irreducible complexity... The components of the system (beyond the fork in the pathway) are fibrinogen, prothrombin, Stuart factor, and proaccelerin." Casey Luskin concludes that from that point on I was focusing my argument on the system beyond the fork in the pathway, containing those components I named. That is a reasonable conclusion because, well, because that's what I said I was doing, and Mr. Luskin can comprehend the English language.
Apparently Prof. Miller can't. He breathlessly reports that one page after I had qualified my argument I wrote "Since each step necessarily requires several parts, not only is the entire blood-clotting system irreducibly complex, but so is each step in the pathway" and Miller asserts that meant I had inexplicably switched back to considering the whole cascade, including the initial steps. It seems not to have occurred to Miller that that sentence should be read in the context of the previous page, so he focuses on the components before the fork, the better to construct a strawman to knock down. In fact, in that section containing the second quote ("Since each step...") I was arguing about the difficulty of inserting a new step into the middle of a generic, pre-existing cascade ("One could imagine a blood clotting system that was somewhat simpler than the real one--where, say, Stuart factor, after activation by the rest of the cascade, directly cuts fibrinogen to form fibrin, bypassing thrombin"), and likened it to inserting a lock in a ship canal. It could be done if an intelligent agent were directing it, but it would be really difficult to do by chance/selection. All that seems to have passed Miller by.
In philosophy there is something called the "principle of charitable reading." In a nutshell it means that one should construe an author's argument in the best way possible, so that the argument is engaged in its strongest form. Unfortunately, in my experience Miller does the opposite -- call it the "principle of malicious reading." He ignores (or doesn't comprehend) context, ignores (or doesn't comprehend) the distinctions an author makes, and construes the argument in the worst way possible.
Final Comments on Miller's Response to My 2008 Blog Posts
After my 3 posts at the end of 2008 and beginning of 2009 responding to Ken Miller's arguments about irreducible complexity and the blood clotting cascade, Dr. Miller wrote a response to my December 2008 posts, misquoting many of the same passages from Behe discussed above, claiming that I misread Behe and that in Darwin's Black Box, Behe actually argued that the irreducibly complex components of the BCC included all three prongs of the system -- the intrinsic pathway, the extrinsic pathway, and everything after the fork. Miller thus wrote in response: "Unlike Mr. Luskin, I read Behe's whole book -- including the parts before and after page 86" and then suggested, "Casey, if you really want to defend Michael Behe, a good place to start would be by reading him."
Those weren't exactly the kindest words coming from my friend Dr. Miller, but regardless, Darwin's Black Box was the book that first introduced me to ID when I read it for the first time in 1997. I've consulted it many times over the years since then. A careful and fair read of Darwin's Black Box shows that when Miller wrote, "I took Michael Behe at his word," that Miller's self-praise is undeserved, for whether intentionally or unintentionally, it seems clear that he took Michael Behe dramatically out of context.
Further responses to Dr. Miller's response to me on Behe and blood clotting will be made in a couple of forthcoming posts.
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Saturday, April 14, 2012
State Senator Katherine Clark shares her thoughts on what can be done in the legislature to address the high cost of electricity in Massachusetts.
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Last week the State Senate acted to address the high cost of electricity in Massachusetts. The Senate unanimously passed energy legislation that supports job creation, economic recovery and innovation by encouraging the growth of our renewable energy sector. By creating more competition for energy contracts, this bill will bring down prices and lead us further down the path to a cleaner, more diverse and sustainable energy supply. The average electric rate in Massachusetts is 14.24 cents per kilowatt hour, which ranks as seventh highest in the U.S. and well above the national average of 10 cents. These rates are a major cost driver for businesses and families. Our rates are high for several reasons: fossil fuel prices are high, and …
Friday, March 16, 2012
Check out all the fun events happening right here in Wakefield, MA this weekend.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney netted the most amount of votes in Wakefield in the March 6, 2012 Republican primary election.
Wakefield Republicans and Independents threw their support behind Mitt Romney, giving him a landslide victory in Wakefield for the 2012 presidential election. Barack Obama, who is running uncontested for the Democratic nomination, will receive the Democratic nomination from Wakefield and Massachusetts. Jill Stein won the Green-Rainbow party's election in Wakefield with four votes. Out of 16,509 registered voters, just 3,140 people - 19.02 percent - voted in the March 6 election. Official Results in Wakefield, MA: Republican Primary Democratic Primary Green-Rainbow Primary State Committe Races In Wakefield, incumbent Albert Turco of Wakefield won over Robert Aufiero of Melrose for Republican State Committeman. Brittany Carisella of …
Thursday, October 20, 2011
More than 500 people came to Wakefield last weekend to show their support for people who have been diagnosed with ALS.
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
The North Shore Walk to Defeat ALS was held around Lake Quannapowitt on Oct. 15, bringing in more than 500 people and raising more than $125,000 for the ALS Society. Nineteen of the 500 walkers were from Wakefield. This is the event's second year at Lake Quannapowitt, but the walk has been at other locations in Wakefield since 2006. Facts about ALS, provided by the ALS Society:
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Rep. Paul Brodeur (D-Melrose) and Rep. Donald Wong (R-Saugus) would essentially switch who represents the 3rd precinct in Wakefield.
The state of Massachusetts released its preliminary state legislative redistricting plans on Oct. 18, and although some communities are affected greatly by the proposed changes, Wakefield would not be affected very much. State House of Representatives The proposed change in district lines would call for Rep. Paul Brodeur (D-Melrose) to drop represententing Wakefield's Precinct 3. Rep. Donald Wong (R-Saugus) would then pick up Precinct 3, essentially switching that one precinct between the two legislators. Currently, Rep. Brodeur represents Wakefield's precincts 3, 4, 5 and 6, in the 32nd Middlesex District, and Rep. Wong represents 1, 2 and 7 in the 9th Essex District. Under the propsoal, Rep. Brodeur would represent Precincts 4, 5 and 6 …
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The House approved a bill last night that would allow three casinos and one slot parlor in the state. What do you think?
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Sen. Katherine Clark and Rep. Paul Brodeur both expressed tentative support for the new bill that would bring three casinos and one slot parlor to the state.
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According to a survey published yesterday by the Forum of Private Business, and featuring in a number of today’s newspapers, the cost of administering tax is now the greatest regulatory burden for small business owners in the UK.
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Along with statistical artworks, this exhibition conveys political and social issues associated with Mexican immigration. Wednesday, September 9 at 7pm exhibition artist Coco Fusco will lead a discussion on moving image portrayals of border issues, focusing on her video; Vicky Funari and Sergio de la Toree's Maquilapolis, and Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer.
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20 injured in Montreal college shooting spree
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
At 12:41 p.m. local time (UTC-5), a man opened fire at Dawson College, in Westmount, Quebec, Canada; the college is located near the heart of downtown Montreal. Police report at least 20 people being injured. The gunman was reportedly killed at the scene by police. Students told reporters that they heard several shots in the building at about 12:45 local time. One student told a local radio station that she saw two people who had been shot, including one who was hit at the neck. The student said a friend told her four people had been shot.
Hundreds of students fled the building, and the area has been cordoned off. Nearby Plaza Alexis Nihon and Westmount Square were evacuated and the Green line of the Montreal Metro was shut down between Lionel-Groulx and Peel. Police officers wearing bullet-proof vests are keeping people away from the college. "They're telling me, 'Go the other way, lady, you're in the line of fire,'" said CBC News reporter Nancy Wood, who reported from the scene.
Local media have reported police hotlines have been established for loved ones to gain more information: +1-(514)-280-2880, +1-(514)-280-2805, and +1-(514)-280-2806. The Montreal General Hospital has also set up a hotline at +1-(514)-843-2839.
Police have reported that the situation has been neutralized as of 20:06, September 13, 2006 (UTC). Police have been told to stand down and are no longer looking for new victims or shooters.
Dawson College is a CEGEP that hosts about 10,000 students.
Earlier reports suggested that there were between two and six gunmen, however, reports are generally that there were two, maybe three. Police have only confirmed that there was one gunman, Kimveer Gill, who was shot dead "after police intervention,". They will not say anything about additional shooters. A close witness to Gill's last moments reported being used as a shield during the shootout with police officers, who allegedly hit Gill in the arm. The shooter would then have turned his weapon on himself.
Up to 20 shots were fired over a period of 30 minutes.
Police have indicated 20 people have been injured in the incident. CBC reports that 16 people are injured, and 2 have been killed, including the gunman. Montreal General Hospital officials have stated that 11 people have been admitted with gunshot wounds, 8 of them in critical condition. A spokeswoman also stated that 3 others were taken to Jean Talon Hospital and two others were taken to the Jewish General Hospital. The spokeswoman went on to report that most of the injuries are to the abdomen and limbs, and one victim with an injury to the head.
- CBC.ca. "Montreal gunman called himself 'angel of death'" — , September 14, 2006
- CBC.ca. "Gunman confirmed dead after Montreal rampage" — , September 13, 2006
- BBC News Online. "'Several shot' at Canada college" — , September 13, 2006
- CNN. "Montreal police: College shooting suspect shoots self" — , September 13, 2006
- Ctv. "Two gunmen reported dead in Montreal shooting" — , September 13, 2006
- Canada.Com. "Reports say four injured in shooting at Montreal college" — , September 13, 2006
- CNN World News. "Police:4 dead, including gunman after college shooting" — , September 13, 2006
- Cbc tv. "Live videofeed CBC TV" — , September 13, 2006
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A bomb exploded on an Israeli bus near the nation's military headquarters in Tel Aviv, wounding at least 10 people, Israeli officials said today.
The bus exploded about noon local time Wednesday in one of the city's busiest areas, near the Tel Aviv museum. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said authorities were investigating whether the bomb had been planted and left on the bus or whether it was the work of a suicide bomber. This is the first terror attack in Israel since 2006.
Upon landing in Cairo to meet with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton released a statement condemning the attack.
"The United States strongly condemns this terrorist attack and our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and the people of Israel. As I arrive in Cairo, I am closely monitoring reports from Tel Aviv, and we will stay in close contact with Prime Minister Netanyahu's team. The United States stands ready to provide any assistance that Israel requires," she said.
Overnight, the violence between Israel and the neighboring Gaza Strip continued as Israeli aircraft pounded Gaza with dozens of strikes, hitting government ministries, underground tunnels, a banker's empty villa and a Hamas-linked media office. Gaza health officials said there were no deaths or injuries.
The Israeli Defense Force said they've now destroyed 50 underground rocket launching sites in Gaza. The IDF also said that two rockets were fired from Gaza toward densely populated areas in Israel, but were intercepted by the "Iron Dome" missile shield.
In Gaza at least four strikes within seconds of each other pulverized a complex of government ministries the size of a city block, rattling nearby buildings and shattering windows. Hours later, clouds of acrid dust still hung over the area and smoke still rose from the rubble.
In downtown Gaza City, another strike leveled the empty, two-story home of a well-known banker and buried a police car parked nearby in rubble.
Clinton met with Palestinian President Abbas in Ramallah early Wednesday to try to help broker a truce between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip to end a week of tit-for-tat missile and rocket fire.
Israel and the Hamas militant group seemed to edge closer to a ceasefire Tuesday to end a weeklong Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, but after a day of furious diplomatic efforts, a deal remained elusive and fighting raged on both sides of the border.
Israeli officials told ABC News that a window of opportunity for a deal could close, if Hamas refuses to agree to a long-term ceasefire. That ceasefire would be measured in years, not months. Hamas is demanding that Israel loosen its iron grip on Gaza's borders and ease its maritime blockade.
On Tuesday, Clinton met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for more than two hours behind closed doors, saying she sought to "de-escalate the situation in Gaza." Clinton hinted it would take some time to finally reach an agreement.
The meeting came amid statements from Hamas earlier in the day that a ceasefire would soon be announced. Netanyahu said he would prefer to use "diplomatic means" to find a solution to the fighting, but that Israel would take "whatever actions necessary" to defend its people.
Clinton relayed a message from President Obama, reinforcing America's commitment to Israel's security and calling for an end to the rockets coming from "terrorist organizations in Gaza."
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With constant heat and little moisture, the summer was a brutal one.
However, it wasn't just us that had to sweat through the miserable months. Lawns struggled as well, with many left discolored and patchy.
Now with Fall just beginning, it's the perfect time to take steps to repair the destruction of mother nature.
Willard Friend is trying to repair the work of Mother Nature.
"Breaking up the thatch so the grass seed can get to the dirt and take root," said Friend. "Sorry looking lawn from all the drought last year and this year,"
He's decided now is the time to plant some seed, to hopefully have a better looking lawn come next year.
"I'm not a pro on this, I'm a working amateur," Friend said.
But the experts say he's on the right track.
"Right now is the perfect time for planting cool season lawns, primarily Fescue. Turf type Fescues get established nicely right now," said Marty Johnson, owner of Johnson's Garden Center.
Johnson says that with cool air temperatures but warm ground temperature, conditions are right for planting.
"This is a great time of the year for I guess kind of our second planting season," Johnson said.
But it's not just lawns that need attention this time of the year. It's also a good time to focus on flowers.
"Of course we have our spring flowering bulbs, tulips, hyacinths and daffodils that have to go in right now or this fall to bloom next spring," Johnson said.
Winter pansies can also be planted now to bring some color to our upcoming winter.
"They love this weather that we're gonna have and the cooler temperatures," Johnson said. "They'll be blooming even with snow on them."
Mums are also good ones to plant now, and while a majority of perennials are sold in the Spring, planting in the Fall can give you a jump-start.
"That over-wintering process on perennials really gives them an extra year or so," Johnson said. "If you're thinking about planting perennials, I would sure consider that with trees and shrubs the same way," Johnson said.
Friend is hoping that his decision to plant now will pay off.
"It's cool season grass and cool seasons coming on, so hopefully the grass will take off and get roots and be looking good next year," Friend said.
Marty Johnson says that this year some people decided that rather than spend hundreds of dollars each month watering their lawns, they would let the grass die, and re-plant.
If you're planning on doing the same, he says that now is the time to consider getting the re-planting process started.
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By Cheryl Brown –
A flyer hanging on the job posting board at the SB Fire Department announcing a new program to train cadets has ignited some citizens of San Bernardino to claim it’s racist.
The cadet program was recently voted on by the city council to give teenagers who live in the community the opportunity to work for the San Bernardino Fire Department, one of the last departments to become fully integrated. Only eight of the city’s 148 firefighters live in the city. They are paid between $90,000 to $160,000 a year. The Cadet program will be funded by the San Bernardino Employment and Training funds (SEBTA) and will not cost the city. It follows the model of the city’s highly successful Police Cadet Program.
The flyer mocks the level of service one can expect with the adoption of the new Cadet program that was fully supported by fire management at the council meeting.
“The flyer is the new kind of racism,” says Councilman Rikke Van Johnson. He continues: “it is a sick individual that put it together who should not be employed by the City of San Bernardino.” The poor quality flyer displays a photo of a young Black male in a uniform with braids, a fat White man in front of the fire truck and a White female, who is a senior, dressed like a forest fire fighter or a beekeeper. The title reads: “Help Wanted… Help the City of San Bernardino augment their staffing levels by becoming a volunteer/cadet/reserve firefighter.”
Below the City Fire Department logo are the words “Professionalism in Action”. At the bottom of the flyer are poor quality photos of Deputy Commander Matt Fratus, Rikke Van Johnson, Virginia Marquez and Charles McNeely, all supporters of the cadet program, as was the council as a whole.
“The program was to give kids in our community a chance to be a fireman in the City of San Bernardino. That department needs to be a reflection of the community it serves,” said Johnson. He also said the program doesn’t target senior citizens but there is hope for the youth and the only photo was that of a Black youth with braids that is why he said it is “ a blatantly racist document.”
“I’d hate to be in the mind of the person who conceived it,” said Johnson.
Allegedly the flyers were placed on bulletin boards around the fire department.
Calls to Fratus, McNeely, and Marquez were not returned at press time. View the flyer online at www.blackvoicenews.com.
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