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<urn:uuid:509a5305-b8d4-4bf7-8876-18f3b60f0e37>	Ringo Starr and his All Starr Band will hit the road once again. “I love playing with this band,” Ringo said in a press release, “and I can’t wait to get back out and play with them again.” The All Starr Band will kick off the trek in Rama, Ontario on June 6 and finish in Los Angeles at The Greek on July 19. Other dates include two shows at New York’s Beacon Theater on June 17 and 18, and stops in Atlantic City, Chicago, Dallas, and San Diego (see the full list of dates below). Outside of the tour, 2014 is shaping up to be memorable for the former Beatle. On January 20, The David Lynch Foundation honored Ringo and his musical legacy with the “Lifetime of Peace & Love Award.” During Sunday’s GRAMMYs ceremony, Ringo performed “Photograph” with friends Steve Lukather and Peter Frampton before joining McCartney and his band for “Queenie Eye” off of McCartney’s New album. Monday (January 27) saw the surviving Beatles reunite again for the CBS taping of The Beatles Tribute celebrating the 50th Anniversary of their first U.S. visit and appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. It will be broadcast on the exact date, February 9. Also in February, “Octopus’s Garden”, a children’s book based on Ringo’s lyrics, will be published via Simon & Shuster. Finally, on July 7th, Ringo will celebrate his 74th birthday at a Peace & Love celebration in Los Angeles. More details around this event are yet to be announced. Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band 2014 Tour Dates: June 6- Ontario – Ontario Rama Casino June 7- Canandaigua, NY- Sands Pavilion June 8- Williamsport, PA- Community Arts Theater June 10- Albany, NY- Palace Theater June 11- Westbury, NY – Theater at Westbury June 12 – Vienna, VA – Wolftrap June 14 – Wallingford, CT – Oakdale Theater June 15- Providence, RI – Performing Arts Center June 17- New York, NY- Beacon Theater June 18- New York, NY- Beacon Theater June 20- Red Bank, NJ – Count Basie Theater June 21 – Atlantic City, NJ – Caesars Circus Maximus June 22- Durham, NC – Durham PAC June 24 Buffalo, NY – ArtPark June 25 – Verona NY – Turning Stone Casino June 27 – Detroit, MI – DTE Energy Center June 28- Chicago, IL- Chicago Theater June 29 Cleveland, OH – Jacobs Pavillion Nautica July 1 Toledo, OH – Toledo Zoo Ampitheater July 3 Tunica MS – Horseshoe Casino July 5 Dallas, TX – Windstar World Casino July 9 Albuquerque, NM – Sandia Pavillion July 11- San Diego, CA- Humphrey’s July 12 – Santa Barbara, CA – Santa Barbara Bowl July 13 San Jose CA – City National Civic of San Jose July 15 Vancouver BC – Hard Rock July 16 Woodenvile, WA – Chateau Ste Michelle July 19- Los Angeles, CA- Greek Theatre Check local listings for on sale dates and for more information, visit www.ringostarr.com. – Carl Harp / 98.5 WNCX
<urn:uuid:709f9d0c-7087-46a9-bec5-6135a77ec113>	Katy Perry plays with a bit of magic in her latest escapade, the enchanting “Dark Horse” music video. Featuring vibrant golds and purples, the pop singer takes her throne in Egypt, playing Queen, and is showered with gifts from all over the world. As potential mates approach the goddess, they present various objects of affection, including a giant platter of twinkies and cupcakes, a boulder-sized diamond and later, a cute, fluffy pomeranian. Despite these lavish luxuries, not all these things are appealing to Queen P — in the end, even the hunkiest of all hunks isn’t capable of winning her heart, destined to live life as a dog. Lifted from her platinum-selling Prism set, “Dark Horse,” with the hip-hop stylings of Juicy J, serves as the album’s third single, following the blockbuster success of “Roar” and follow-up ballad “Unconditionally.” Throughout the clip, Perry dons various Egyptian-inspired garb, including a blue-accented white wig, a bird-focused ensemble complete with yellow headgear and even silver body paint. Take a look:
<urn:uuid:c1493972-6334-4517-989b-9ff2b817360f>	The singer and her model pal joined the dance party during Michaelson’s performance of her song "Afterlife." Audience members shared videos on Instagram of the two as they waved their arms in the air and let loose. Check out the clips below! After the show, Ingrid posted a photo from her fun night with the caption, "Central Park Summerstage was amazing. Great friends. Great guests. Great audience. I'm so thankful. And hungover."
<urn:uuid:dc7da2fd-1e74-4d78-97d8-187cd717f506>	With news of the impending storm being as dramatic as it was on Tuesday, we were given the option of working from home yesterday… Which I did. So it wasn’t until about 7:00 PM that I bundled up and grabbed the camera to venture out. Well, it turned out to be quite a bit wetter and messier than I expected. I ended up only going about five blocks from home before I was soaked, cold, and my camera was blanketed in droplets of water and ice crystals. This shot of my block is one of the final ones before I bailed and came in from the cold. I posted a few other shots from my walk on flickr.
<urn:uuid:96141bd0-5e80-4452-81f4-203c9637b4ab>	With over 45 years of Scuba education to our credit, 3 Fathoms Scuba has remained at the leading edge of not only teaching Manitobans how to dive safely, but in actually creating "divers"! We have found there to be a distinct difference in both principles. Committed "divers" are more confident in their abilities which in turn, allows them to enjoy the sport at a much higher level. Many of our "divers" have returned each year on our exotic dive trips for well over a 45 year period of time. We quite frequently have children and even grandchildren of our "divers" in our scuba courses, then travelling on our dive trips with their family members. Our travel program is something we take a great deal of pride in. For nearly 45 years, we have escorted our divers to various exotic locations of the world, from Fiji to Micronesia, as well as the best the Caribbean has to offer. At 3 Fathoms Scuba, the fun never ends.
<urn:uuid:795a8d43-6ae1-4ae4-b228-29e084bd2fc0>	After much deliberation, our distinguished panel of judges has selected this year’s winning films. Congratulations to all of the filmmakers and teams who participated. We are proud to announce our winners. Kudos to DC Dogs for winning Best Film of 2010. Their film Palindrome will go on to represent Miami/Ft. Lauderdale against all the other city winners around the world at Filmapalooza 2011. A long engagement, and judgmental friends leave a young couple questioning the value of their relationship. Man obsessed with beating the stock market discovers he can shift time not realizing the price. A roller coaster ride of two young couples trying to find true love Heroes With not so quite Magnificent powers. Life long theatre employee is in for a long night of cleaning, following a successful fund-raiser. Little does he know that he'll be giving the performance of a life time that very evening. The search of Daphne White A boy´s curiosity leads him to the unknow world of the shadows Detective Hill finds her One man attempts to save his sister from the consequences of his past. Gulf Oil Spill...a Different Perspective A girls who uses writing to get her mind off things, gets more than she bargained for when everything she writes starts to happen. A young female hunts for love online and ends up dating madman. A STUCKUP WOMAN IS TRANSFORMED INTO A PLASTIC DOLL UNTIL SHE FINDS THE TRUE FRENDSHIP AND LOVE TO BE TRANSFORMED INTO A LOVING INDIVIDUAL. Jimmy Hoops is about to have a brush with danger. Amid a heist, a man discovers that he has stolen more than he bargained for when the heist victim turns out to be a Presidential Candidate Zach goes on a trip to the store for his mother to buy a toothbrush and runs into a very inconvenient store clerk, sell them brushes! An unsuspecting special needs girl is preyed upon by a con man. The untold story of Hansfree, an air band A suburban middle-aged man overcome by paranois suspects there's more going on next door than meets the eye. A man pushed to his limits, takes matters into his own hands to get a little peace and quiet. Doug White exploits father's death to "fundraise." A Time traveler tries to rescue his lover from an unearthly being A Private Investigator must rescue her kidnapped son, discovering not all roads lead to a good end. A young woman seeks to end her relationship with a ghost by calling Ghost Ridders. Sometimes you can love your children so bad is sick Where broken hearts get reattached.. a normal day at a restaurant goes completely wrong When you're in trouble, there's only one solution. The Brown Ultimatum Due to one phone call a PI turned fund raiser is forced to reopen a 5 year old murder case, that through her investigation finds that it wasn't murder, that it was a suicide, meanwhile three suspects go to jail for attempted murder because at the time of their crime the victim was already dead but nobody knew it. In the end, justice was served. ARTIST AND PERFORMERS EXCHANGE THEIR SOULS FOR SUCCESSS A peculiar fundraiser lures a unique crowd of individuals to a silent auction. Unbeknownst to most attendees, the auctioneer is secretly attempting to increase the bids. What do you mean A priest without faith finds hope in the voice of a silent singer.
<urn:uuid:aff28360-0cd7-4bd0-b42a-d8a99dd17cb2>	PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island judge is now expected to rule later this month on the sale of Landmark Medical Center to a for-profit California hospital chain. Superior Court Judge Michael Silverstein is scheduled to hold a hearing Nov. 26 on a petition seeking permission to close the sale of Landmark to Prime Healthcare Services. The financially troubled hospital in Woonsocket has been in receivership since 2008. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island supports the sale but has filed a limited objection related to $3 million it claims it's owed as a creditor. Landmark spokesman Bill Fischer said Thursday the parties are prepared to complete the sale. He said they have informed Silverstein their goal is to close Dec. 31. He had said the parties had preferred to close by Nov. 30. Shutterstock/Stephen B. Goodwin
<urn:uuid:afc4c965-14f0-48e2-a8d0-4ea7b76695d5>	One family is reportedly passing its love of The Wu-Tang Clan on to the next generation. Wu-Tang rapper Raekwon took to Instagram to show off a photo of newborn twins supposedly named after himself and fellow Wu-Tang member Ghostface Killah. The picture also includes two birth certificate worksheets with the names Ghostface and Raekwon printed in pen. In the accompanying caption, Raekwon tagged on the hashtag "wu4thebabies." Take a look below:
<urn:uuid:f0dd1213-42c4-4d10-80de-6646055bca06>	Binghamton 1998 Tornado Is A Reminder To Prepare [VIDEO] It’s tornado season and that means being prepared. Yesterday’s devastating weather in Moore, Oklahoma reminds me that we also have tornadoes and that we must take them seriously. In 1998, an F-3 tornado struck the Binghamton area injuring 15 and killing 2. By today’s scale, that would be an EF-3, which can cause significant damage with 136 to 165 mile per hour winds. The debris thrown by this powerful of a storm can impale a tree. Which means it would shred a human. At least 1 tornado a year hits this area. Although in the last few years, it averages 3. You must be prepared in the event of a severe storm. Make a plan with your family for both at home and when you are separated. And don’t forget your pets. Preparedness is the difference between life and death. All this preparedness also works for floods, which I hope we never see again! Oh. here is video of the Binghamton 1998 tornado.
<urn:uuid:c869077b-5ccc-46a9-9679-826c5b9a7ee1>	An estimated 10,000 people might have been killed in the central Philippine province of Leyte alone, which was almost completely destroyed by the powerful typhoon Haiyan, local authorities said. The typhoon has devastated up to 80 percent of the Leyte province area as it ripped through the Philippines, Chief Superintendent Elmer Soria told Reuters. “We had a meeting last night with the governor and other officials. The governor said based on their estimate, 10,000 died,” Soria said. Residents fetch free water at a plant of a softdrink company in Tacloban City, Leyte province, central Philippines on November 10, 2013 after Super Typhoon Haiyan swept over the Philippines.(AFP Photo / Ted Aljibe) Most of the dead drowned or were killed by collapsed buildings, authorities say. Tacloban city administrator Tecson Lim told AP that the death toll in Leyte province city alone “could go up to 10,000.” Police have been deployed to patrol the ruins of Tacloban to prevent looting as desperate residents look for food and water, said Philippine Interior Secretary Mar Roxas, describing the situation as“horrific.” Thousands of homes lie destroyed near the fishport after super Typhoon Haiyan battered Tacloban city, central Philippines November 10, 2013. (Reuters / Romeo Ranoco) “The dead are on the streets, they are in their houses, they are under the debris, they are everywhere,” said Lim, adding that only about 400 bodies have been recovered so far. The Red Cross said earlier that 1,200 people we confirmed dead in the Philippines. Roxas said earlier on Saturday that it was too soon to announce any final figures. A fishing boat which slammed into damaged houses lie atop debris after super Typhoon Haiyan battered Tacloban city, central Philippines November 10, 2013. (Reuters / Romeo Ranoco) “The rescue operation is ongoing. We expect a very high number of fatalities as well as injured,” Roxas told AP. “All systems, all vestiges of modern living — communications, power, water — all are down. Media is down, so there is no way to communicate with the people in a mass sort of way.” Across Leyte on Samar Island, at least 300 people have been killed and another 2,000 are missing, Leo Dacaynos of Samar province’s disaster office told AP. Survivors assess the damage after super Typhoon Haiyan battered Tacloban city, central Philippines November 9, 2013 (Reuters) The storm weakened on Saturday after moving away from the Philippines toward Vietnam. Vietnamese authorities meanwhile evacuated over 500,000 people to safer areas in preparation for the tumult which is forecast to make a landfall on Sunday afternoon. ‘International relief effort mission’ On Saturday Philippine President Benigno Aquino III said the casualties “will be substantially more,”than initially feared but gave no official figure. The priority for the government he said was to restore communications and power in remote areas and to deliver relief and medical assistance to families. The Philippine Red Cross is preparing for a relief mission “because of the magnitude of the disaster,” says Richard Gordon, the agencies head. Residents take a bath and wash their belongings next to debris along a road in Tacloban, on the eastern island of Leyte on November 10, 2013 after SuperTyphoon Haiyan swept over the Philippines.(AFP Photo / Ted Aljibe) But logistically speaking getting aid to the devastated regions of Leyte, 560 km from the capital could be difficult as the airport was destroyed. Russia’s emergencies ministry has offered to help by providing search and rescue personal and a mobile hospital. “If necessary, we will fly two planes to the Philippines with an operational group of 50 people,” Russian Emergencies Ministry spokeswoman Irina Rossius told Itar-Tass. But that figure later changed to 200 rescuers, if the request is made, said the Ministry, adding that “among them are six dog teams intended for rescue work in collapsed buildings,” said Irina Rossius, a representative of the Ministry. A boy carrying a plastic bottle of water walks past a car which slammed into damaged houses after super Typhoon Haiyan battered Tacloban city, central Philippines November 10, 2013.(Reuters / Romeo Ranoco) US Secretary of State John Kerry said that Washington “stands ready to help.” In the meantime the US navy is assessing the extent of the damage on the ground. The UN will also be involved in the relief effort, the UN Disaster Coordination Team (UNDAC) has arrived in the city of Tacloban. “The United Nations agencies in the Philippines, with their humanitarian partners, are supporting the Government and other responders in their efforts to assess the situation and respond rapidly with vital supplies, through the coordination system led by the local authorities,” said Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos. A damaged car is seen in front of the airport after super Typhoon Haiyan battered Tacloban city, central Philippines, November 9, 2013 (Reuters / Romeo Ranoco) The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Food Programme (WFP) are also stepping in to help as “the Government estimates that some 4.3 million people are affected, across 36 provinces.” UNICEF estimates that up to 1.7 million children could be affected by thetyphoon. “UNICEF’s first priorities are focused on life-saving interventions – getting essential medicines, nutrition supplies, safe water and hygiene supplies to children and families,” said UNICEF’s representative in the Philippines, Tomoo Hozumi. In addition, the World Food Programme (WFP) has so far allocated $2 million for the response as it sent 40 metric tonnes of high-energy biscuits to the victims. A number of NGOs are also mobilizing their resources to help the families in the Philippines. Save the Children and World Vision have started an online campaign to raise funds for those effected by the natural disaster. Operation USA, a Los Angeles-based international relief agency is calling for donations to aid recovery efforts and funding for grant distribution to local agencies in the affected areas. Habitat for Humanity is trying to help rebuild houses “by sending in your donations that can help them rebuild their homes. Habitat for Humanity Philippines Shelter Repair Kits (SRK) costs Php 15,000 ($350) which is good for one family. This amount can help families repair even heavily damaged houses,” reads their online call to action. Vehicles that were washed away by floodwaters are seen at a rice field near the airport after super Typhoon Haiyan battered Tacloban city, central Philippines, November 9, 2013 (Reuters / Romeo Ranoco) Philippine military C130 cargo planes (L) ferrying supplies park at the tarmac outside an airport after superTyphoonHaiyan battered Tacloban city in central Philippines November 9, 2013 (Reuters / Erik De Castro)
<urn:uuid:dbe40111-e4d5-4a6f-adaa-3c927752a3de>	Policy Statement on Sharps Safety The AASPA endorses the following Council on Surgical and Perioperative Safety Safe Surgical Principle regarding sharps safety: "The CSPS endorses sharps safety measures to prevent injury during perioperative care. Sharps safety measures should include double-gloving, blunt suture needles for fascial closure, and the neutral zone when appropriate to avoid hand to hand passage of sharps." The following are linked resources gleaned from the CSPS website regarding sharps safety: - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Workbook for Designing, Implementing,and Evaluating a Sharps Injury Prevention Program - Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (CDC NIOSH): Preventing Needlesticks and Sharps Injuries - CDC NIOSH: Use of Blunt-Tip Suture Needles to Decrease Percutaneous Injuries to Surgical Personnel - American College of Surgeons (ACS) Statement on Sharps Safety - ACS Statement on Blunt Suture Needles - AST: Recommended Standards of Practice for Sharps Safety and Use of the Neutral Zone - AANA Safe Practices for Needle and Syringe Use Public Health Issue of Guns in Our Society The recent tragic events at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut have served to underscore the tremendous public health issue of gun violence in our nation. As a profession dedicated to the wellbeing, health and safety of our patients, AASPA believes that intelligent, effective, enforceable and public safety guided gun control policies must be in place across our nation. AASPA has submitted a resolution to have a national PA voice on gun control to be debated at the AAPA Annual CME Meeting in May, 2013.
<urn:uuid:57bbaf6c-637c-4686-ae43-5df6027fabdc>	Lady Gaga went with a new look for the October cover of Harper's Bazaar, one that seems like a make-under compared to her more recent appearances. The singer, who is known for her unique style and theatrical shows, appears on the cover of the magazine as well as in the photo shoot images as -- what the magazine calls -- "basically barefaced." However, Gaga tells the Harper's Bazaar she wouldn't exactly call the look natural. "I don't really view it as 'natural,'" she said. "I think that artifice is the new reality. It's more about just being honest and sincere to the core of what you do. Whether I'm wearing lots of make-up or no make-up, I'm always the same person inside." "I try to not focus on what people expect from me," She added. "I think what has been lovely about my relationship with the public is that they expect something unexpected from me." Speaking of unexpected, the singer recently opened the MTV Video Music Awards dressed as her male alter-ego Jo Calderone. Not only did Gaga perform her single "You and I" as Calderone, but she also remained in character for the duration of the show, even presenting an award to Britney Spears as Calderone. Some noticed the pop star's uncanny resemblance to a young Ralph Macchio, including the "Karate Kid" himself. The last time Gaga appeared on the cover of Harper's Bazaar in May, she was featured with protruding cheek bones. A similar alteration appeared on the cover of her "Born This Way" album and during her performance at the 2011 Grammys. The singer also dished about her work-out routine saying, "I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy. You know, my work sort of feeds me. I keep in shape by working hard." She also revealed she recently learned how to surf while vacationing in Mexico in August. "I fell off a lot in the beginning," she said, "but one of the surfers said to me, 'Now that you can stand up, just look into the future and enjoy the ride.' I thought that was an interesting metaphor about life." Gaga Tweeted a photo of herself surfing on August 18 with a caption that read, "yeah thats me. no heels baby." Watch the music video for Lady Gaga's "You and I" below.
<urn:uuid:2e78d11d-259e-4a9f-a739-9df53ceee2c3>	In some Southern Delaware playgrounds, English-speaking children need parental supervision to play, while Spanish-speaking children need a permit and are "susceptible to police action" without one. At least that's the message that various Milford School district playground signs sent by displaying two very different statements in English and Spanish. In English, the signs read, "Parental or guardian supervision is required for the use of this playground equipment. Play at your own risk." While the Spanish-language message (which has various grammar mistakes) roughly translates to, "You should have a permit to play in this field. Violators will be susceptible to police action." The signs, discovered by Delaware talk-show host Dan Gaffney on Saturday, were removed on Sunday afternoon by Milford School District Superintendent Dr. Phyllis Kohel. Gaffney, who doesn't even speak Spanish, told the Wilmington News Journal that he sensed something was fishy about the placards, so he snapped a picture and posted it on his Facebook page. From there, the image went viral. When Kohel learned what the Spanish language caption meant, she told her husband to grab his toolbox and head over to the playgrounds where they were placed, to immediately to remove them. Kohel also told the paper that she had no idea why the Spanish language message was different from that in English, and that the signs were installed about a year ago, before she was superintendent of the district. Another image of signs in Southern Delaware posted on the Latino Rebels blog shows a third sign from a nearby field, in English, with roughly the same message as the Spanish-language sign: "You must have a permit to play on this field. Violators are subject to police action," it reads. However the signs ended up on these elementary school playgrounds, they have certainly sparked lively conversations online, with some calling them an intentional equivalent of "Whites Only" placards. Others argue that their placement must have been an unfortunate mix-up by a non-Spanish speaker. Kohel told the Wilmington News Journal that signs were installed by mistake. "I certainly assume there was not an intent to discriminate," she said. "We have a great working relationship with all of the communities at the school, and there is absolutely an understanding that no ethnic group will be discriminated upon."
<urn:uuid:4815ed1c-4e8b-4aeb-9e36-ce751ffc086e>	Transcript for New Threats Against Law Enforcement as Texas D.A. Laid to Rest texas with new alleged threats against law enforcement officials even as slain district ATTORNEY mike McLelland and his wife are being laid to rest this morning. Much concern at this hour that there could be more attacks coming. Abc's john schriffen has the latest in kaufman, texas. John? Reporter: Good morning. Authorities are laying down a texas-size crackdown after numerous threats to local public figures. This morning, two men are behind bars, each held on bail of $1 million after allegedly making threats to kaufman county justice officials. Authorities say robert allen miller intimidated a prosecutor who is due to try him on a criminal charge. While nick morale is accused of leaving a threatening message on a local tip line. This coming just days after county district attorney mike McLELLAND AND HIS WIFE CYNTHIA Were found shot to death inside their home. Thursday afternoon, authorities evacuated the church of the McLELLAND FAMILY MEMORIAL AFTER Receiving a bomb threat from an unidentified male on a sposable cell phone. Already on hand for extra security, snipers lining the church roof with bomb-sniffing dogs patrolling the parking lot. I will stand up any day shoulder to shoulder with my parents and say that they're not going to win. Reporter: More than 1,000 mourners including governor rick perry gathered at the first baptist church to pay their RESPECTS TO the McLellands. Perry pledging an additional $100,000 reward for any information regarding the McLELLAND'S DEATH AS WELL AS THE Gruesome january slaying of assistant district attorney mark hasse. It is our hope and our expectation that these rewards will help convince those who may be holding important information to come forward. Reporter: Meanwhile, the interim district attorney speaking for the first time on thursday refusing to back down. We're unnerved a little bit but we're going to stick to our oath and showing up to work every single day to fulfill that oath, serve this community. Reporter: Authorities say at this point they don't have any evidence that connect the two men in custody with the McLELLAND AND HASSE MURDERS. But they are setting their bail unusually high to send a message, they are not taking these threats lightly. This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
<urn:uuid:51c5c7f0-4333-4acd-a72e-a2d5ac024421>	Transcript for Castro Neighbor Reported Screams in Past We're joined by another neighbor, juan perez. Thank you for joining us this morning. I know you live just two houses away from ariel castro. Before you saw the police pull up last night, had you had any sense that something terribly wrong was happening inside that house? No, I had no idea. Like I can't lie, I thought he was a nice guy. He was loving to all the kids in the neighborhood. He was nice to me since I was 5 years old. Never had any kind of suspicions. You've known him basically your whole life. You knew ariel castro but you never saw any of the women. You never saw that little girl in the picture with brittany. Never, never see any of them. Not once and what about the house, I hear as we saw earlier in that piece that it was kind of closed off? Like it always seemed like no one was there, no one lived there. I thought personally that he lived someone else and he just came to time again to check on it. So I didn't see it as closed off. I just saw that no one was staying will. You didn't think he was there that much at all but what would he do in the neighborhood? He would come around every once in a while. In the last couple of years i only seen him a couple times a week in the morning either driving the school bus or driving one of his few cars and he would just come in the house about 20 minutes, come right back out and leave. On a random saturday he may bring out his four-wheeler and there's kids out on the block and take them for rides up and down the street. But really I hardly ever see him. Now, a few years ago your family heard some screams coming from that house and you did report it to police. What can you tell us what happened there? Well, my sister -- my mother had heard the screaming and then I heard it too. My sister then reported it. But we didn't know which direction it was coming from. We didn't know seriously if it was from the right side or the left side because we were inside the house, but there's a difference between -- there is a difference between a woman that's, you know, playing around and joking around screaming and there's another kind of scream that makes you want to report. And my sister reported it. But we reallouldn't give that much information because we didn't know where it was coming from. You did report it as soon as you heard but other than that never saw any of those women. Okay, juan, thanks very much. And we never even thought it could be this so -- thank you. This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
<urn:uuid:9a94a33e-e6c6-4490-a78f-df8e5fadd334>	Question: What is a cardiac resynchronization device, and is it the same as a pacemaker? Answer:Well, in a way it's similar to a pacemaker. A pacemaker was developed for patients with slow heart rhythms and so one paces the heart at a more-normal heart rate. So if a person has an exceedingly slow heart rate of say 30 or 20 beats per minute, that does not function very well and so pacemakers were developed to improve the heart rate and these can be set at 70 or 80 beats per minute, which is in the more normal range. Now resynchronization therapy is trying to address a totally different situation. The heart, when it's electrically stimulated, the normal heart contracts in a very uniform way. When there has been scar tissue or alteration in the electrical conduction within the heart, hearts can contract in different regions at different times and they can actually end up opposing one another rather than creating a uniform contraction pattern. It's now been recognized that by stimulating certain areas in the left ventricle, one can produce more uniform contraction when there is a contraction pattern abnormality. And the stimulation of this is done by a pacemaker technique, but it's a pacemaker that's directed towards improving the mechanical contraction pattern of the heart rather than trying to increase the heart rate. So one can say resynchronization is to treat patients who have impaired contraction -- heart failure as a general rule, is the reason it's being utilized, whereas the traditional pacemaker is being used for treatment of very slow heart rhythms and has nothing to do with the contraction pattern.
<urn:uuid:f59c02c8-dba3-4788-b314-1a39e76fb347>	A teen triangle and bitter Facebook feud culminated in the savage killing of a 15-year-old Florida boy who was lured to his death by his former girlfriend, law-enforcement officials said. Even the lawyer for one of the suspects called the killing "pretty damn depraved." Seath Jackson was hit in the head and shot, but he still tried desperately to flee the home in Summerfield where the attack occurred Sunday, police said. He was shot again and his body was placed in a bathtub, where his knees were broken so his body would fit in a sleeping bag. He was still alive, so he was shot again, and then his body was burned in a backyard fire pit, according to arrest documents. His ashes were shoveled into paint containers. Michael Bargo, 18; Amber Wright, 15; her brother Kyle Hooper, 16; Charlie Ely, 18; and Justin Soto, 20, have been charged with first-degree murder. James Haven, 37, has been charged with accessory to murder for allegedly helping to dispose of the body and driving Bargo out of town. The community, in the bucolic horse country of Florida 65 miles northeast of Orlando, is reeling. "It's an unimaginable act, the idea that six people would come together and carry out to kill a 15-year-old," Marion County Police Officer Judge Cochran said. "It's not something you expect to happen anywhere, particularly not in Marion County. We're a religious community. People move here for the level of quiet." On a Facebook page RIP Seath Tyler Jackson, friends and strangers alike expressed horror and anger. "I hope his murderers rott in hell," wrote Courtney Jewell, a friend of the victim. Police said the killing had its origins in the animosity between Bargo and the victim. "This violence came from Michael Bargo's intense hatred for Seath Jackson. Because of the hatred, he formed a plan to kill him," said Cochran. Seath Jackson-Amber Wright Facebook Spat The hatred seemed tied to Jackson's relationship with Amber Wright, his ex-girlfriend. In early March, he wrote "love you Amber" on his Facebook wall, but by April 7 he was calling her "slut." A public battle began on Facebook on April 8 when Wright wrote on Jackson's page: "I got so tired of you treating me like I was nothing. If you're so perfect, why don't you get over your jealousy and get a new girl you can hurt. ... You know I cared deeply about you. I stuck with you through a lot of stuff. ... It takes a real man to accept the fact he got broken up with." Jackson responded, "We both need to just let all of this go. Yeah we split, yeah it hurt, but I'm over it. I'm just not going to let Mike have his cake and eat it too." According to Bargo's lawyer, Charles Holloman, Bargo "had affection" for Amber that sparked fury at Jackson. "He was concerned about the way she was being treated. He wasn't the only one who was concerned," the lawyer said. On Sunday, Wright sent a barrage of text messages to Jackson luring him to Ely's house, according to arrest documents. When he arrived, Bargo, Hooper and Soto hit him in the head with wooden objects, police say. Then the grisly and prolonged killing began, cops said. On Monday, police said Jackson's mother reported him missing and as a possible runaway. But on Tuesday, Tracy Wright, Amber's mother, contacted police and told them her son, Hooper, witnessed Jackson's murder. On Thursday police were combing through a red dumpster for further evidence, and Jackson's ashes were being definitively identified by University of Florida forensic experts. Holloman blamed police for not intervening sooner in a volatile situation. He claims that Jackson previously "stood in front of (Bargo's) parents' home, raising cain, threatening to burn the house down, threatening to kill people," but police didn't take action. Holloman acknowledges his client has a record for theft and an order of protection was taken out against him by a 16-year-old boy last year. "He's had his issues," the lawyer said, but added: "Jackson's no angel." Still, he said, that's no justification for "killing someone, chopping them up and putting them in a bag. That's pretty damn depraved."
<urn:uuid:c3d75d02-b1cc-44e2-9ea3-0bc9302bcc9c>	Transcript for Americans Held Hostage by Al Qaeda We begin with story still unfolding at this hour. Details pouring in. A hostage crisis, american workers kidnapped by an extremist group believed to be linked to al qaeda. It happened in algeria, and tonight, abc's chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz is traveling with the defense secretary, who is in italy watching every move. Martha? Reporter: Good evening from rome, diane, where defense secretary leon panetta is urgently trying to get more information about this attack on americans and others. Three americans are believed to be held hostage right now, but u.S. Officials warn that number is fluid. Secretary panetta tonight says the u.S. Will take all necessary steps to deal with this crisis. By all indications, this is a terrorist act. And the united states strongly condemns these kinds of terrorist acts. It is a very serious matter when americans are taken hostage along with others. Reporter: It all began when 20 armed islamic militants, believed to be affiliated with al qaeda, approached a group of oil workers. The attackers were reportedly heavily armed, driving in three unmarked vehicles. The oil workers were on a bus headed to a nearby airport. There was a fight -- security forces for the workers battled back. When the smoke cleared, at least one foreign worker was dead, others wounded. The terrorists then headed to the compound where the gas refinery workers live. While it is unclear how many foreign workers they seized, sources say it could be as many as 15 to 20. Along with the americans are british, norwegian, french and japanese workers, too. The attackers claim this is retaliation for the french-led invasion in the african nation of mali. The french are trying to stop an al qaeda-linked group from taking over that country. Algerian troops have surrounded the gas field where the hostages are being held, but they are moving cautiously. Secretary panetta tonight compared the terrorists to 9/11 attackers who have little regard for innocent lives. Diane? All right, thank you, martha. But this is new, this is different. I want to bring in abc's brian ross, he's been following the group implicated in this. Brian? Reporter: There are claims by responsibility by an al qaeda group run by mokhtar belmokhtar, who was kicked out of al qaeda last year. So, he was kicked out of al qaeda -- Reporter: Kicked out. And he has the nickname of mr. Marlboro. He carries cigarettes, diamonds, guns and drugs and made millions of dollars kidnapping westerners. So, it's not just ideology, it's about money. Was he on the u.S. Radar? Reporter: Not that we could see. But we've been told for years now to watch out for this man, because he accumulated such wealth, it makes him a real threat to carry out these kinds of attacks. Again, the news is breaking right now, and I know you'll continue to have details online and throughout the evening. Thank you, brian. This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
<urn:uuid:f25e05bd-6241-4232-a8ad-d25fabeec532>	The youth are riled up, they are not going to take it anymore, they are revolting . . . against partisan politics. Alright, maybe not exactly revolting, but one teen has had enough of the partisan gridlock that has mired national politics of late. Connor Brantley, 13, started a political party, United Now, which aims to end partisanship in government. Brantley would start with encouraging people to get their information from outside the media, which he says is “misinforming people.” Voters “aren’t as informed as they should be,” said Brantley. “They may go and they vote straight party. Or they may go and they vote for the candidate who they saw, whose name they saw most often appear in the news. “What United Now tries to do, is say, ‘Look, you can make up your own mind. We’re not going to tell you who to vote for, but you should know the facts before you vote.’ And therefore I think people are going to make more informed decisions.” “Young people are the citizens of tomorrow, and they’re playing an important role in our political system,” Brantley said on ABC’s “Top Line” today. “I think that the biggest problem right now is they just don’t understand how politics is affecting them and what big of an impact they can make.” President Obama’s 2008 campaign resonated with young voters, many of whom came out in droves to support him. There is no guarantee that he will capture that demographic again in 2012, and Brantley said it is because young people do not need to be told who to vote for, they can make up their own minds. What young people do not realize, said Brantley, is why they should take part in politics at all.
<urn:uuid:7a7a2830-0fba-4d7a-815a-eb0e8fbefbf7>	The Centennial State is a major example of what's new in the American West – a political makeover. Colorado used to be a solid Republican state. In fact, it has gone for the Republican presidential nominee in every election since 1960, with the exceptions of 1964 and 1992. But this election season gives the state -- which was named after its largest river, named in turn by early Spanish explorers for its red silt — a chance to turn blue. If you want further proof that it's a battleground...Full Story
<urn:uuid:100323fa-e775-47a3-b2b4-fed633feafbd>	(NEW YORK) -- Fear creates strong bonds, even if it's with an inanimate object like a bottle of soda. This, according to a new study by PhD student Lea Dunn from the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business. Dunn contends that people will seek out others in a theater during a scary movie "but, in the absence of friends, our study shows consumers will create heightened emotional attachment with a brand that happens to be on hand." Her theory, which contradicts industry norms that product placement should be avoided in horror films, is that moviegoers feel a stronger tie with a brand when fearful rather than happy, sad or excited, either while holding onto the object or viewing it in the movie. Interestingly, once the feelings of terror subside, so does the bond one might have formed with a product brand, according to Dunn. Therefore, she concludes, "Advertisers should consider offering up their brands as something to cling to in the dark when the knives come out and the blood starts to splatter." Copyright 2014 ABC News Radio
<urn:uuid:d86e8096-1708-42e4-ab17-a0e6e227b01d>	ABOUT THIS PUBLICATION This publication contains results from the Workforce Participation and Workplace Flexibility Survey conducted in Western Australia (WA) in October 2010. It presents information on employees' personal work preferences, and access to flexible working arrangements. For those identified as being not in the labour force, data includes reasons for cessation of employment and conditions required for their return to, or commencement of, work. Data items were collected from Any Responsible Adult (ARA) on behalf of the household. A full data item list is available in the Appendix. ABOUT THE SURVEY The survey was conducted as a supplement to the ABS Monthly Labour Force Survey. Refer to the Explanatory Notes at the back of this publication for further details about this survey. For further information about these and related statistics, contact the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070.
<urn:uuid:d8d88ecd-3dca-4043-bc0f-04993815269d>	An extraordinary documentary called "Bully" captured a behavior adults hear about, but rarely see: the way some kids pressure and relentlessly harass their peers. Filmmaker Lee Hirsch was embedded in several schools for an entire year. What he filmed was so raw and eye-opening that the project catapulted a movement, sounding the alarm about the critical and dangerous issue of bullying. Something profound has also happened as a result. In the time since "Bully" was released, a number of kids and parents profiled in the documentary, and the filmmaker himself, have been on life-changing journeys, and in some instances have experienced remarkable transformations. AC360° has dedicated the past year to tracing the course of their journeys and personal missions. In partnership with Cartoon Network, we want to share their stories with you in a powerful documentary called "The Bully Effect," premiering on CNN on February 28 at 10 p.m. ET. The program will air again on March 3 and 9 at 8 p.m. ET. When Alex Libby was a 12 year old in Sioux City, Iowa, the slurs, curses and threats would begin even before he boarded the school bus. It escalated to such a frightening degree that Hirsch put down his camera and got involved in his subject's life. He warned Alex's parents and school administrators that he feared for the student's safety. Today Alex has become an anti-bullying rock star with appearances on national television and a visit to the White House. He also regularly delivers speeches to capacity crowds as an activist, and considers himself a spokesman for the bullied. We'll show you how he overcame the junior high torment to find happiness in high school. Kelby Johnson came out as a lesbian in middle school and in the years since she and her family have been treated like pariahs in their small town in Oklahoma. Kelby admits to once being a cutter and speaks matter-of-factly about attempting suicide on three separate occasions. Even after she was hit purposely by a van of high school boys while walking back from lunch, she believes it's her destiny to remain in her small conservative town and change a few minds. Now 19, Kelby says her participation in "Bully" empowered her to raise awareness about bullying targeted toward the most at risk population for suicide – LGBT youth. "I know that being gay, you can feel very alone," she says, "and I hope that when they watch the movie, that goes away and they realize there is someone standing with them who has gone through that." You'll get to hear about Kelby's struggles, the people who abandoned her family, and those who stood by her. Kirk Smalley's story is both inspirational and heartbreaking. The film introduced him burying his 11-year-old son TY after he committed suicide because he was bullied. Kirk says, "I will fight bullying forever because my son will be 11 forever." You'll see his family turn unbearable pain into motivation to enlist the entire world in the fight against bullying. Hirsch's mission has continued since his film's release - his goal is for 1 million students to see "Bully" through their schools. He has helped create an anti-bullying curriculum, in partnership with Facing History and Ourselves, to be coupled with the film so that students, teachers and administrators can watch together and get everyone involved to stop bullying. "The Bully Effect" tracks his progress trying to reach 1 million students while also traveling back to his own middle school where he opens up about his personal history with bullying. Anderson Cooper and the producers at AC360° have been reporting for years on the long-lasting damage suffered by victims of bullying. We now want to focus on the change happening in light of "Bully" and campaigns to end intimidation and harassment. "The Bully Effect" reveals how individuals are making a difference in their communities and all over the country. Learn about their stories on February 28 at 10 p.m. ET, and March 3 and 9 at 8 p.m. ET. Share your own stories on Facebook.com/AC360 or by using #bullyeffect on Twitter. Anderson Cooper goes beyond the headlines to tell stories from many points of view, so you can make up your own mind about the news. Tune in weeknights at 8 and 10 ET on CNN. Questions or comments? Send an email Want to know more? Go behind the scenes with
<urn:uuid:af492384-aff8-4c13-a139-4b8dac2a64e9>	Definitions. Neural tube defects (NTDs) are malformations of the developing brain and spinal cord. In normal development, the closure of the neural tube occurs over a 4- to 6-day period with completion around the 29th day postconception, often before a woman has realized that she is pregnant. Most current hypotheses consider NTDs to be defects from failure of a neural tube closure rather than other theories describing the reopening of a previously closed tube. Most likely, the closure starts at several distinct sites rather than being one continuous process. The nomenclature for NTDs is not standardized and is thus often confusing. Frequently used terms are as follows: Anencephaly is the defective closure of the upper or rostral end of the anterior neural tube. Hemorrhagic and degenerated neural tissue is exposed through an uncovered cranial opening extending from the lamina terminalis to the foramen magnum. Infants with anencephaly have a typical appearance with prominent eyes when viewed face on. Craniorachischisis totalis (a neural platelike structure without skeletal or dermal covering resulting from complete failure of neural tube closure) and myeloschisis or rachischisis (in which the spinal cord is exposed posteriorly without skeletal or dermal covering because of failure of posterior neural tube closure) are other, less frequent open lesions. Encephalocele (herniation of brain tissue outside the cranial cavity resulting from a mesodermal defect occurring at or shortly after anterior neural tube closure) is usually a closed lesion. Approximately 80% of encephaloceles occur in the occipital region. Myelomeningocele is often also referred to as spina bifida (protrusion of the spinal cord into a sac on the back through a deficient axial skeleton with variable dermal covering). Considering that strictly speaking "spina bifida" only describes the bony defect, the term spinal dysraphism is considered more accurate by some. More than 80% of defects in this category occur in the lumbar region, and ~80% are not covered by skin. In contrast to myelomeningoceles, meningoceles (closed lesions involving the meninges only) usually do not result in neurologic deficits. Spina bifida occulta and occult spinal dysraphism are disorders of the caudal neural tube that are covered by skin (skin dimples or only very small skin lesions are present). These dysraphic disturbances range from cystic dilation of the central canal (myelocystocele), over bifid spinal cords with or without a separating bony, cartilaginous, or fibrous septum (diastematomyelia or diplomyelia), to a tethered cord with a dermal sinus or other visible changes such as hair tufts, lipomas, or hemangiomas. The term spina bifida occulta is used incorrectly when it is applied to an incomplete ossification of the posterior vertebral arch, a frequent and insignificant finding that is neither clinically nor genetically related to NTDs. Incidence. Ninety-five percent of children with NTDs are born to couples with no family history of such defects. Statistics related to NTDs are to be interpreted with caution and in the context of population, location, and time because occurrence of NTDs is affected by many epidemiologic and medical ... Log In to View More If you don't have a subscription, please view our individual subscription options below to find out how you can gain access to this content. Want remote access to your institution's subscription? Sign in to your MyAccess profile while you are actively authenticated on this site via your institution (you will be able to verify this by looking at the top right corner of the screen - if you see your institution's name, you are authenticated). Once logged in to your MyAccess profile, you will be able to access your institution's subscription for 90 days from any location. You must be logged in while authenticated at least once every 90 days to maintain this remote access. If your institution subscribes to this resource, and you don't have a MyAccess profile, please contact your library's reference desk for information on how to gain access to this resource from off-campus. AccessPediatrics Full Site: One-Year Subscription Connect to the full suite of AccessPediatrics content and resources including 20+ textbooks such as Rudolph’s Pediatrics and The Pediatric Practice series, high-quality procedural videos, images, and animations, interactive board review, an integrated pediatric drug database, and more. Pay Per View: Timed Access to all of AccessPediatrics 24 Hour Subscription $34.95 48 Hour Subscription $54.95 Pop-up div Successfully Displayed This div only appears when the trigger link is hovered over. Otherwise it is hidden from view.
<urn:uuid:bed3b088-8aab-428b-b860-5e4bd4cfe7d8>	Photo and autograph courtesy of the G Archives. Happy birthday to racer Mario Andretti who celebrates his big day on February 28. He’s pretty much won every racing award known to man and his name is synonymous with speed. He’s a really nice guy in person and he could teach that lesson to many people that will never even come close to accomplishing the things Mario Andretti has! Thanks Mario and have a great day!
<urn:uuid:48d97075-e60f-45ec-8016-a808754b12d0>	In last week's Parsha, Rav Zalman Sorotzkin, ZT"L, one of the sharpest scriptural sleuths of the modern era, presents an example that may be applicable to both of the above mentioned realms. Rav Sorotzkin, ZT"L, passed away 42 years ago, but it seems like this observation was meant for today. In Parshas V'Eschanan, the Torah recounts the dialogue that the Haggada attributes to the wise son, the Chacham. Hence the Torah (Devarim 6:20) says: כ כי ישאלך בנך מחר לאמר מה העדת והחקים והמשפטים אשר צוה יהוה אלהינו אתכם Here, the Torah tells us that the wise son will ask this question מחר - tomorrow. Rashi explains that the term "tomorrow" is not meant to indicate the very next day but rather a more distant "tomorrow" implying a future generation. A generation after the one that personally experienced the Exodus from Egypt. The Oznayim L'Torah notes that this is not the first time that the Torah employs the term מחר when discussing the father-son dialogue concerning the Korban Pesach. The Torah already used this language in Parshat Bo (Shmos 13:14) in the verse that is attributed to the simple son (the Tam): יד והיה כי ישאלך בנך מחר לאמר מה זאת ואמרת אליו בחזק יד הוציאנו יהוה ממצרים מבית עבדים There, as well, Rashi makes the same comment concerning the term "machar". He (Oznayim L'Torah) further notes that there are 2 more verses that the Haggadah attributes to the wicked son (Rasha) and the ignorant son (Eino Yodeah Lish'ol) in Parshas Bo (Shmos 12:26 and 13:8) that do not employ the term מחר . Why by the wise and simple sons does the Torah say מחר and by the wicked and ignorant sons the Torah does not say מחר ? He explains that there is an intrinsic distinction between the wise and simple sons on one hand and the wicked and ignorant sons on the other. The wise and simple sons are looking to participate, they want "in". The wicked and ignorant sons are looking to distance themselves, they want "out". In today's terms we would categorize the sons as follows: Wise Son = FFB - He was brought up in a religious environment and wants to observe mitzvos to their fullest extent. He wants to know all the Halachos and kavanos to the mitzvos that he has been doing all his life. Simple Son = BT - He is a disciple of the wise son. He was not raised in a religious environment and he has never truly observed the mitzvos. Yet, he feels he is missing out on something and is genuinely interested and asks "what is this all about?" Wicked Son = OTD - He was brought up in a religious environment and was trained to do mitzvos. Yet, he never felt that they were meaningful to him. They do not apply to him. So he removes himself from the Klal. "This burden (avoda) is for you, not for me." Ignorant Son = Chiloni (Secular) - He is a disciple of the wicked son. He was not brought up in a religious environment. He knows very little about it and is not interested in knowing more. All he knows is that the religious exist but he takes his cue from the wicked son to write them off as meaningless and "irrelevant" in today's world. The Oznayim L'Torah goes on to say that the generation of Moshe Rabbenu was complete in its observance. Those who were "looking in" could see the whole picture. It is only in future generations when we begin to lose some of our mesora that we must endeavor to preserve the basic tenets for those who get pulled away and do not wish to get lost. As such, the wise and simple sons of the Torah will not yet exist in Moshe's generation. They will only be here מחר - tomorrow. Conversely, those who want out – those who are looking to get lost – can do so even in the greatest of generations. As such, there is no need to employ the term מחר because such people can exist even in the generation of Moshe Rabbenu.
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<urn:uuid:a787096b-1fbd-4ada-8153-4c97b80acd4a>	During the two-week period that the expedition is broadcasting, the site has over 3 million hits. Sound like the Discovery Channel online? It's the site of Electronic Data Systems, the Dallas-based information services giant. BEWARE THE DANGERS As video, audio, virtual reality, Shockwave, ActiveX and Java permeate the World Wide Web, the use of multimedia and other hot technologies by business-to-business marketers is becoming increasingly common on the Internet. Potential customers or stockholders watch CEOs give speeches, listen to news releases and take 3-D tours of products. Marketers use the bells and whistles to attract visitors and keep them there. Experts warn, however, of the dangers of adding snazzy components to business sites. Even with the reduced costs these days of adding multimedia to Web sites, marketers must carefully consider whether they are reaching their audience and fulfilling marketing goals with the addition of cutting-edge technology. "We don't just use technology for technology's sake," says Gary Hanson, EDS's director-marketing communications. "We've got our set of objectives of what we're trying to accomplish, and where the appropriate technology plays with that, that's where we'll use it." Mr. Hanson says EDS uses video and audio clips and special projects like the underwater Jason Expedition and the current journey to the center of the Earth to give people a sense of the company. Mr. Hanson says EDS is trying to reach senior executives of Fortune 500 or equivalent companies, but the site is also for employees and prospective employees. UNDERSTAND YOUR AUDIENCE Web designers, marketers and consultants all agree that before deciding what level of technology to have on a site, it's crucial to understand the audience you want to target. Audience connection speed and hardware capabilities should be main concerns of marketers considering multimedia. Robert Morris, VP-sales and marketing for Inmar, a San Antonio-based interactive software design company, is wary of multimedia on the Internet for business-to-business applications. "People are really pounding a lot of the technology into the sites, but what they don't realize is that the bandwidth doesn't effectively support that kind of multimedia, and that's an inherent problem at this point," Mr. Morris said. DON'T TURN OFF CUSTOMERS Even if the audience has the tools and connection speed, a site with too much glitz might also turn off potential customers. Denes Bartkovich, manager of Internet marketing for Canadian software development company Cognos Corp., says that though they are trying to reach an upscale audience of business users and technology professionals within Fortune 1,000 companies -- most of whom have high-speed T1 and ISDN lines -- the company is wary of too much pizzazz. "We've been selective about multimedia technologies, because typically business people aren't coming just to look for something cool, they're looking for information. So that's been our primary criteria in terms of which tools to use," Mr. Bartkovich said. "We definitely wouldn't put any kind of Shockwave up there just to show off a spinning logo or a neat sound effect, because I think more and more people are just finding it irritating." The site does include a different "TalkRadio" program every week, which provides audio clips of news headlines, special announcements or product strategy. Video clips of customer testimonials, executive talks and descriptions of technology give visitors the benefit of visual and audio, but the multimedia stops there. Mr. Bartkovich says they will wait for bandwidth to improve to add technology like Shockwave, and he hasn't found the right use for 3-D or virtual reality. Not all companies have the resources of an EDS, which is a $12.4 billion company, and $200 million Cognos. Web designers say including components like audio, video, Shockwave and graphical animation in the design of a site can increase the costs by 20% to 50%. Mr. Bartkovich of Cognos says including seven or eight video clips on Cognos' site costs the company around $3,000, and a Shockwave demo can add $6,000. In general, applications like Shockwave and graphic animation are expensive because they are designer intensive. Audio and video cost less. At Denver-based global environmental consulting engineering firm CH2M HILL Web site manager Leigh Phipps says its in-house design team avoided multimedia but strove instead for a clean, graphically appealing site that didn't have a long download time. "I don't think you're going to sell an environmental impact study by being glitzier," Ms. Phipps said. "Snazzy is nice, but it's not appropriate for the audience we serve." Debbie Hutman, a graphic Web designer with Free Range Media, which has designed sites for companies such as Westin Hotels and Microsoft's Back office, advises careful consideration before adding the bells and whistles -- especially when it comes to expecting the visitor to be willing to do extra work to see what the site has to offer. "A lot of people are discouraged by needing a plug-in," Ms. Hutman said. She said she takes a minimalist approach to design, limiting color palette and striving for good design and clear, logical navigation. "Are the bells and whistles going to teach your viewers something or are you going to impress them?" she asked. "It might just be lost." WAITING FOR MORE BANDWIDTH Over time, marketers say the parameters will change within the next two years. As companies begin to get even higher-speed connections, browsers integrate streaming audio and video, and as new technology is developed in this rapidly evolving world, design rules will have to be reevaluated. Demand is there. Speed and smoothness will follow. "I think when the bandwidth starts to expand and the modems speed up and the lines speed up, I think people are going to start to demand more, and they're going to want to see more," said Inmar's Mr. Morris. "When the bandwidth starts supporting it better within the next year or two years, and the technology has caught up, people are going to want to be entertained and have things that are experiential out of the PC like they've had out of the television."
<urn:uuid:b269a709-8b30-48bc-b77b-44634569434c>	The Air Force said it has hit all its recruitment goals since hiring the Omnicom Group agency, and with 81% of the Air Force's target audience toting cellphones, mobile was an obvious next step. Ahead of trend "More kids are going to have more access to this technology," said the Air Force's interactive account executive, Master Sgt. Deshaun Woods. "If we get involved now, we are going to be well-established when the market becomes more saturated." "We're a technology brand," said Travis Scoggins, the Air Force's account supervisor at GSD&M, "and we are looking for those people who are tech savvy." The tease? As part of the Air Force's "Do Something Amazing" tour, which makes stops at motocross, Nascar and other sporting events around the country, Bluetooth transmitters will be set up in areas around the tracks and stadiums. The transmitters ping any mobile device set to accept messages sent via Bluetooth, sending consumers invitations to stop by the tour and "check out what it's like to do something amazing." Once inside the event space, consumers will find pods dedicated to each of the career paths the Air Force has to offer. Within those pods will be stickers sporting quick-response codes that will enable users to download documentary-style videos to their phones about Air Force careers. 'Eliminates the gap' "Event marketing is a great place to engage people, but there's a lag time between when we engage with them at the tour and when they get home and explore on their computer. This eliminates that gap. They immediately walk away with a video they like, a ringtone they heard, a wallpaper they thought was cool," Mr. Scoggins said. With only a small number of phones quick-response enabled in the U.S., the Air Force sees the mobile play as an opportunity to attract both tech-savvy and tech-curious consumers. But GSD&M also realized that even the tech-curious are sometimes unable to afford the Bluetooth-enabled products they desire, so every mobile-outreach effort can be accessed by consumers using basic text messaging. By catering to all levels of mobile capability, the Air Force is better able to reach its goal of "being on as many phones out there as possible," Mr. Scoggins said. Mr. Woods hopes the campaign will put information about the Air Force into the target's hand. He envisions high-school students talking to each other about the Air Force and one of them pulling out his or her cellphone to share career options and pay possibilities. "All the information will be right there," he said. "They will be able to carry it with them."
<urn:uuid:ca6237cf-943e-4949-94d4-8527b5e4a1c5>	VOD and web presence As one of the three sponsors, Subaru will gain two 15-second on-air spots and will participate in live "Roadshow" events. The series will travel to six cities this summer to help regular folk discern whether their collectibles are valuable. Subaru will also have a presence in video-on-demand episodes and on the PBS website. The series, fronted by quiz-show host Mark Walberg, is the highest-rated series on PBS and is produced by WGBH Boston. The show regularly earns a five household rating. It had been fronted by Lara Spencer, who is now host on the syndicated business series "The Insider." "Antiques Roadshow," which celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, is part treasure hunt, part history lesson and part travel adventure -- a mix that resonates well with the Subaru customer, said Tim Mahoney, senior VP-chief marketing officer, Subaru of America. "As a niche marketer of 100% all-wheel-drive vehicles, Subaru has to stand out from the crowd. We believe our sponsorship with PBS helps us do that. It simply fits our brand." Talks with fourth sponsor The Sponsorship Group is negotiating for a fourth sponsor for the series. Subaru has sponsored other PBS shows such as "This Old House," "Victory Garden" and "Globe Trekker." Separately, Clorox has signed on as a new sponsor of the Time Inc. show "Real Simple" on PBS. The lifestyle show begins its second season in January 2007. Other underwriters include The Container Store, L'Oreal Paris and TIAA-CREF. Clorox's sponsorship included on- and off-air branding in Real Simple magazine, on TV and online.
<urn:uuid:e04048f4-3407-4696-ae69-96ac16821584>	Bigger is not always better. The American Dwarf Hop Association is a group dedicated to reinventing growing practices to adapt to the world in which we live. Greater awareness of our constantly changing environment and our impact upon it necessitates more responsible stewardship of our land. We believe the legacy left behind when we are done farming should not be negative. The ADHA is dedicated to making a difference. We are working to find solutions to the challenges presented to farmers by the global nature of our world in the 21st century.
<urn:uuid:8e88a4d0-fe0e-47c4-9c5d-0f8db607d64a>	Research programme: thrombopoietin mimetics - STATegicsAlternative Names: STS-T4 Latest Information Update: 28 Mar 2012 At a glance - Originator STATegics - Class Small molecules - Mechanism of Action Thrombopoietin receptor agonists Orphan Drug Status Orphan designation is assigned by a regulatory body to encourage companies to develop drugs for rare diseases. On Fast track Fast track status is assigned by the US FDA so therapies with the potential to address unmet needs can move faster through development. Highest Development Phases - Preclinical Thrombocytopenia Most Recent Events - 28 Mar 2012 Preclinical development is ongoing in the US - 23 Nov 2010 Preclinical development is ongoing in the US - 09 Dec 2008 Preclinical trials in Thrombocytopenia in USA (PO)
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<urn:uuid:401c9c9f-f13e-4de5-8be5-9327ac6869b1>	Go to Admin » Appearance » Widgets » and move Gabfire Widget: Social into that MastheadOverlay zone Channel 4 has selected a solution by Yospace, a specialist in dynamic advertisement replacement, to introduce personally targeted video ads across all of its online content. Earlier this month, the broadcaster announced that it was moving away from traditional linear ad feeds across its digital properties in favour of dynamically served, targeted ads. Channel 4 will replace its pre-scheduled blocks of inventory, with tailored and targeted live video advertising, which will be available to buy programmatically by the end of the year. The solution from Yospace provides in-stream ad replacement with seamless transitions to and from the advertising. Insertions are performed server-side, so the viewer will see an uninterrupted stream, while being presented with ads that are customised according to their unique user profile. The agreement with Yospace is part of the second phase of the All 4 launch – the broadcaster’s new online destination that presents all of Channel 4’s linear channels, digital content and services in one place, for the first time. Jonathan Lewis, Head of Digital Innovation and Partnerships, said: “For Channel 4’s registered viewers, the All 4 experience is becoming even more personalised. We have leading audience insight capabilities and a database of more than 12 million viewers who can access a bespoke set of content and related experiences. This ethos is increasingly carried throughout our advertising, and the Yospace solution will enable us to deliver personalised ads to both individuals and specific groups seamlessly into the live stream. “Our programmatic launch has also opened up a host of opportunities around what we do with our live feed generally – and we’re currently exploring what place dynamic ad serving could have on the big screen.”
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<urn:uuid:b804a487-4cb0-4ad5-bcf2-c19ba5fd81e9>	by Gregory McNamee The summer travel season is upon us, and with it, an increase in the odds that somewhere along the way, if you’re staying in a much-trafficked hotel, you’ll encounter a bedbug. This isn’t to say that all hotels are bedbug nests, or that you should stay at home to avoid the risk of that meeting. Far from it: There are plenty of other things to worry about these days, not least the fruits of the Second Amendment, a text that doesn’t include the necessary armaments for battling these pesky, hard-to-contain cimicids, which have been on the rise for the last half-century and more. We are not defenseless, though. Recently, researchers at the University of Florida concocted an interceptor out of plastic containers, glue, talcum powder, and other household ingredients, altogether costing about a dollar. I won’t spoil their fun by sharing the instructions here, but suffice it to say that if the trap results in one less margarine tub floating in the ocean, that’s a good thing in itself. Summer is prime time for bedbugs, so the UF contraption is a timely contribution to the discussion, and far less fraught with peril than the chemical treatments and open flames of old. Happy hunting. * * * Defenestrate a bedbug, decapitate the thing, and you’ve got a fighting chance of convincing it to leave you alone. Not so with the three-banded panther worm, a tiny invertebrate that you might just find swimming in a fancier equivalent of a margarine tub in a lab at MIT, if not in the wild in Bermuda or the Seychelles. (They get around, those panther worms, but only, it seems, to remote spots.) Researchers have been puzzling out a trait that yields a decided advantage for the creature: remove its head, and it grows a new one. Its regenerative abilities are astonishing and of potential use for human medical specialists of the future. Just as astonishing are its appetites, its favorite prey being “sea monkeys,” the brine shrimp that, under their more barrel-of-fun name, were the stuff of comic-book ads way back in the day. * * * A sporty automobile will sport a gear called, familiarly, overdrive. A fruit fly—well, a fruit fly has something that works similarly, a mechanism in the brain, little understood but often noted, that allows it to switch speeds and directions of a sudden to escape predators. This mechanism, it seems, overrides normal brain functions (time being of the essence, there’s none available to actually ponder the move) and is a critical element in Drosophila survival, ephemeral though it may be. A paper in a recent number of the journal Nature Neuroscience looks into what its title calls “a spike-timing mechanism for action selection.” * * * If ants could jump as high as grasshoppers, as the old joke has it, or certainly as fast as fruit flies, they’d avoid a lot of trouble. When they’re left to their own devices, however, ants are wondrous engineers, and indeed they can help engineer a damaged environment back to health. A plant science student at South Dakota State University, Laura Winkler, recently studied a tract of Great Plains grassland and discovered that the better restored to health after fire a given stretch was, the more ant species it harbored. Given all the healing that is left to do out there, it seems clear that the ants have their work cut out for them.
<urn:uuid:d07836bb-23b6-4e98-8aa9-dbe0a5013a7d>	Lets start with some details of the bike BMW G650X Challenge (as per title) It has Mindas fairing which means the wiring to the front as somewhat altered has just had 60,000K service done by me I run it for a week after that and it all seemed fine Today went on a rather gnarly ride (well tried to ) and as soon as I got into rough bit at low speed the bike would die. After a few attempts and check the ignition barrel cables it kept doing it, it actually seemed to get worse, so had no other option than bail out (there is no way to get out of the track if its not under your own power as it happens). Note on the way back on the road on 3rd, 4th and 5th it seemed fine except once that seemed to die for a second but when pulled clutch in it came back to live. It pulled strong, but again at low speed it would die. The problem had sort of manifested sporadically before during my daily commuting but I thought it was the ignition barrel than every now and again craps out , i.e. the cables coming off. However keep in mind that run fine on the road. The battery is fine (its 6months old), and started the bike about 50 times no problem. At home I pulled the ignition barrel and checked it properly and it seemed fine. Checked the switch on the stand and it also seems fine although haven't rule it completely out it doesn't seem to be the problem. My suspicion is on electrics, a faulty cable, or the fuel pump which by the end of my assessment doesn't seem to prime when the ignition is turned on and finally the bike doesn't want to start. First question here would be how to ensure the fuel pump is fine. Well is probably not very organized, but I'm not mechanic. Any ideas?
<urn:uuid:910ac7f4-dcc2-477c-9d6a-3c168b882923>	Howdy-- I'm currently in Santiago, Chile about to throw my leg over the saddle for a long day to Pucon (top of the Lakes District). I rode through SW Bolivia (Laguna's Route), and when I got out of the Lagunas route I noticed that my bike was idling really high--or the high idling may have been after I put in 97 octane in Chile--not sure. In any event, my idle is now quite high (1,700 to 2,000 RPM), and it is especially bad when I come off the Autopista ("freeway") and my engine is hot. Usually you can just pop the throttle to get the RPM to drop back down to the normal sub 1,500 RPM range, but that is not working all of the time. I did switch from the 97 octane gas to the 93 octane gas, but that doesn't seem to help. So what do we think? Is this a TPS thing? Throttle body thing? Throttle cable thing? Fuel filter? Fuel pump? Spark plugs? I have my ohm meter and could check out the TPS, but I am doubting it would be the throttle bodies, as I am not getting any surging. It might be the fuel filter/pump, as I did just get out of Bolivia and Peru--but the fuel pump and filter were both new when I left the states 3 months ago. Beyond the high RPM idle, the bike is running amazing! I crossed 90,000 miles on the odometer outside of Lake Titicaca in Peru before we crossed the border into Bolivia. She's an old gal, but she's solid--and I can smell Ushuaia! I'm not like the other dudes down here with tons of time (I have a wife for christ's sake), so I need to keep moving. So unless this is an indication of a much more perilous issue, I'm predisposed to keep moving south, which would be outside the Santiago safe zone (moto shops everywhere, BMW, etc). Therefore, I would appreciate a quick response in case I need to stay in Santiago for the day sorting this out. BTW, Chile is amazing. Clearly I'm able to appreciate it because I've now been through quite a few of these Latin American gems...but Chile is amazing. Okay, I'm going to go and snag a cup of coffee and breakfast. Thanks guys (and gals)!
<urn:uuid:c8f4a6fe-d482-4fde-b40a-c98f2ec4341d>	To give you an idea of the types of things you have to do when writing 100% no-fail code, have a look at the picture on the right. See the small grey box in the bottom-right of the picture? The one about the size of a briefcase? That's the segment of the system that's being tested. All the rest is part of a Test Bed, purely and simply for verifying that the thing works as advertised. This graphically illustrates the effort required in testing such systems. What you can't see is all of the code that's been written as part of the Test Bed. It's not unusual to have 1 line of code requiring 2-5 lines of unit testing code, then another 2 lines of configuration item testing code, and another 2 lines of system testing code on an emulator (when the hardware isn't available), and another few lines of system testing code for the live system (real hardware) module test - which is what's shown on the picture - and another line or so for the live system integration test, with everything put together and running on the real aircraft. Fortunately, a lot of this code can be re-used, and in the line count above, I'm only counting new lines, not re-used ones. Test beds can easily be 10 or more times the size of the system being tested. In spacecraft, which have very expensive and 'clean-room-only' flight hardware, there may even be an intermediate step - with a 'flight model' which will actually go into space, and a 'groud model' which is identical, but doesn't require clean-room conditions and can be worked with more conveniently. Of course once everything's working on the ground model, you then load it onto the flight model and put it through a thermal-vacuum torture chamber, which mimics conditions in LEO (except for the radiation). Sorry, I'll provide subtitles - LEO is Low Earth Orbit. From the SPECTRUM article: The flight software has to keep track of the plane's speed, altitude, and attitude while monitoring the pilot's controls for commands. Based on a set of rules known as control laws, the software must then translate any commands from the pilot into movements of the aircraft's various control surfaces, such as the rudders or, most significantly, the flaps that flex the AAWs. And this all has to happen fast enough that the plane responds instantly to the pilot and reliably enough that he can bet his life it will work all the time, every time.It's not that the software's task is easier than a word processor's : far from it, the task is much harder and more complex. It's only the solution that's simpler (though most emphatically not easier!). Despite its complex and critical job, the flight software is compact, consisting of only about 13 000 lines of source code written in the Ada language. When compiled, the code fits into approximately 160 kilobytes. Compare this with the millions of lines of code that compile into tens of megabytes for a modern Web browser or word processor. That's why people like myself get a bit steamed up about the quality, or lack thereof, in most commercial software. It's bloated, it's buggy, it's innefficient, and it actually takes longer to develop that way due to its bugginess. Make a change and something will break - which may be due to the change you've made having a problem, or it may be a long-standing problem never revealed before. Fix that, and you've made another change, which can lead to more problems.... all programmers are familiar with this phenomenon. Getting back to the article: Flight software is fundamentally different from the type of software most of us encounter on the desktop, or even the software that runs such enterprise-class applications as banking databases, and not just in size. For one thing, flight software must operate in real time. We're all used to the spinning hourglasses and watches that appear regularly on our computer screens; they're telling us that the print preview or new spreadsheet we just asked for is on its way but that the computer doesn't know quite when (if ever) it will appear.And in Space, no-one can press CTRL-ALT-DEL. That's one of the reasons why I am less than enthused with the push towards using COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) operating systems for real-time work. The problem goes beyond the vagaries of office software. It is fundamental to many of the operating systems used in general-purpose computers—they have no way to guarantee how long a given task will take. Of course, most of the time this unreliability isn't a problem. If your media player has to drop a few frames of a movie because the video couldn't be processed fast enough, or if it takes 150 milliseconds to select an e-mail when it normally takes 10, you're not going to notice. The worst-case scenario, when the computer completely hangs, is usually just a blip in the workday and cured by a quick reboot. We don't have that luxury. We have to guarantee that when the flight computer starts calculating how far an elevator should move in response to a command by the pilot, the job will be finished quickly enough so that the computer has enough time to calculate where all the other control surfaces should be and still appear to be responding instantly to the pilot's wishes. This is mission-critical, real-time operation. We didn't attempt to test the flight software all in one piece. In that situation, when problems arise, trying to pinpoint the error in the software is almost impossible. Instead, with testing already in mind, we created the flight software as a collection of about 450 independent modules. Each module was responsible for performing one or more simple functions, such as checking the position of the pilot's control stick or computing what position an elevator should be in."Design for Testability". When doing the basic architecture, two things have to be kept in mind: it must be testable, and it must be buildable. The latter means that you have to tailor your technical solution towards the resources you've got. If you have 7 teams, try to have exactly 7 "configuration items" (CIs), corresponding to the output of each team. 7 is a minimum : if you have less, you're covering up buildability issues and inter-team communication problems that should be exposed. Putting a bandage on a gangrenous wound. Of course, why did you have 7 teams in the first place? That in itself is worthy of its own article, it's a complex issue determined at least as much by what human resources you have as what the technical problems are. If all you have is a hammer, try to make the problem look like a nail. So from the top-down, the high level CIs are based on management and buildability issues (and also if theres any areas of special technical risk, but I'm trying to keep this as simple as possible). From the bottom up, your "Units" should be based on testability: break up the system into components where each component or unit is the smallest possible segment that it makes sense to test independantly. Usually a "chunk" of the system will do more than one thing. Even with the system above, something as simple as "checking the position of the pilot's control stick" will have functions for determining whether the result makes sense (or is the consequence of a failure of some sort), possible smoothing of minute deviations, reporting position of the control stick, rate-of-change and rate-of-change-of-rate-of-change (ie 2nd and 3rd derivatives wrt time), a "heartbeat" that just indicates to a master controller that the module/unit is still working and doesn't need re-setting, and probably a diagnostics test. Now all of these things could be in their own separate units: but if so, the number of units would explode - and so would the costs, and the amount of inter-unit communication, and the difficulty of making it work. So you compromise. That's why I used the phrase "that it makes sense" to test independantly. This stuff is hard. But the reward you get when the bloody thing works.. that's priceless.
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<urn:uuid:a5016b57-5906-445e-a562-c1b97a270598>	What rhymes with Melnitchenko? And more importantly, where do names like “–enko” come from? With names swirling around in my head, I couldn’t be sure about dismissing any that I had recently found online, in my search for my godmother’s Melnitchenko family. I had made headway in discovering my godmother’s mother’s name (Lydia) and at least the first initial of her father’s name (“M,” which I strongly suspect should represent “Michael”). However, I had also uncovered the fact that not only was the name I knew her by (Genia) a nickname for the more formal Eugenie, but it represented her middle name, not her first name. Her first name, as we saw yesterday, was Olga. Upon finding that out, I had to go back to several files I had previously dismissed out of hand. One—with the names Olga, Eugenia and Michael in an index of Declarations of Intent filed with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York—I had presumed, earlier, to be the smoking gun revealing Genia’s mother’s name. (After all, I was already pretty sure her father was Michael, so that must mean her mother’s name was Olga—right?) When I found the passenger list that showed me Genia’s mother was Lydia, I decided to trash the lead from the naturalization index—until I found that border crossing file yesterday, showing Olga and Genia to be one and the same person. Now, I want to revisit all those index files I had found, both at FamilySearch.org for Genia and for Lydia, and at Ancestry.com for Michael. But before I do, I need to take you on a detour through some naming traditions in a culture I’ve never researched before: that of eastern Europe and Russia. This detour was originally inspired, thanks to a comment posted by a reader a few days ago. Sharing a link to a book written by a man surnamed, coincidentally, Melnitchenko, Intense Guy had gotten me thinking about the origins of surnames. In particular, I began musing about where the suffix “–enko” might have come from. Could it be—like the book title Iggy had just sent me—a surname having its origin in the Ukraine? I Googled that very question. The result was a short education in not only the origin of surnames rhyming with Melnitchenko, but of the use of patronymic naming patterns in eastern Slavic ethnic groups. I had learned about patronyms before, mainly from research focusing on those of Scandinavian heritage—not that I have any Swedish or Norwegian ancestors, myself, just that I learn a lot from fellow genealogical researchers. But I had never known anything about the use of patronymic naming systems for those of Russian or Slavic heritage, either. Reading the material I had just found—right after the section that confirmed that Melnitchenko was a Ukrainian surname—I learned that a person’s patronymic name was obtained from the father’s first name (nothing surprising there) and inserted in the middle of the child’s name, between the given name and the surname. The only caveat was: the father’s name, itself, wasn’t inserted in the child’s name. A form of the name was entered. That form included a suffix indicating “son of” or “daughter of” the father. So, for instance, in Russian, the suffix “–ovich” would be added to the father’s name. Likewise, the Ukrainian counterpart would end in “–ovych.” Now, take that little thought and wrap it around the all-too-common experience of immigrant meeting English-speaking government bureaucrat. The fine details of “–ovich” for Russian and “–ovych” for Ukrainian likely became lost upon those Anglo-Saxon attuned ears. Could the result ever become "–ivitch"? Now for the last stop on my detour: revisiting yet another previously discarded find in my search for the Melnitchenko family. This time, we have to rewind the clock to 1924, and check back with the passenger list I had found—and then discarded—for the crew of the S.S. Hirondelle, sailing from Marseilles to New York. Could the "Ivanivitch" in sailor Melnitchenko’s name actually be a patronymic name? Could this twenty seven year old Russian sailor be the same as seaman Michael I. Melnitchenko I had found in later years here, and here? When I then go back to those index cards I re-collected from my discarded finds in the index to New York naturalization records, I now think I know what the entry was really saying for immigration applicant Michael Ivan Melnitchenko. “Ivan” wasn’t his middle name. “Ivan” was an Americanized way of signifying who Michael’s father was. And, having learned that simple naming lesson, we now can push back another generation… Above: "Fair in the Ukraine" painting by Basil Sternberg (1818-1845); courtesy Wikipedia; in the public domain.
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<urn:uuid:85955929-811f-4836-96bd-e4acdf4a3e68>	Global food prices fall for fifth year in a row, but economic uncertainties remain for 2017 – UN 12 January 2017 – Data from 2016 reveals that for the fifth year in a row, the prices of food around the world have declined, in some cases 1.5 per cent below 2015 levels, a monthly United Nations report reveals. According to a press release released today by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), bumper harvests – or harvests that have been remarkably plentiful – as well as promising prospects for staple cereals, helped to offset pressure on tropical commodities like sugar and palm oil, whose production was adversely impacted by El Niño. The FAO’s Food Price Index measures the monthly change in international prices for five major food commodity groups: major cereals, vegetable oils, dairy, meat, and sugar. The 2016 average was 161.6 points. Throughout 2016, cereal prices declined steadily – down 39 per cent from their 2011 peak. Meanwhile, sugar rose by 34.2 per cent and vegetable oil prices saw an 11.4 per cent increase. According to Abdolreza Abbassian, an FAO senior economist, “economic uncertainties, including movements in exchange rates, are likely to influence food markets even more so this year.” FAO reported that vegetable oil prices rose by 4.2 per cent from November, in part due to low global inventory levels and tight supplies for palm oil and in the case of soy oil, due to the rising use of biodiesels in North and South America. Higher prices for butter, cheese, and whole milk powder due to restraints in the European Union and Oceania drove dairy prices up by 3.3 per cent. Both sugar and meat indexes fell, the former due to a weakening Brazilian currency and the latter because of lower costs in bovine and poultry meats. The Index was introduced in 1996 in order to help the public monitor global agricultural commodity markets. It gained prominence as an indicator of potential food security concerns for developing countries following significant price hikes in 2008. Since then, with brief exceptions, agricultural commodity prices have remained relatively high. Further information about the index, including how it is calculated and updated, is available online.
<urn:uuid:fad2efaa-0173-444d-980d-a15a7368d665>	Raja Amari's "Tunisian Spring": Back to the future, an analysis by Olivier Barlet \|« Printemps Tunisien » de Raja Amari : Retour vers le futur analyse par Olivier Barlet Source: Africultures.com. Translated from French by Beti Ellerson [En Français] : Programmé sur la chaîne culturelle française Arte le 18 décembre 2014. LIRE l'article en intégralité sur [AFRICULTURES] Programmed for December 18, 2014 on the French cultural channel Arte Tunisian Spring is a charge taken on by one of the most talented Tunisian filmmakers.(1) It would be unfortunate to miss this telefilm, which was shot on location in Arabic with Tunisian actors; even though the scripting structure limits its impact. In all her films, Raja Amari has been interested in transgression and alienation. Hence, it is obvious why she accepted the adaptation of the screenplay by Omar Ladgham about this historic moment—the revolution, when everything changes. However, it is difficult to recognise Raja Amari’s cinema in this telefilm, having been accustomed to the great delicacy of expression and the very good image quality of the feature films (Satin Rouge and Secrets), as well as the shorts (April and One Evening in July). In spite of this drawback, Tunisian Spring is definitely worth seeing. In situations of revolution, filmmakers take their camera to document the events. Thus in 2012 the Carthage Film Festival showed the enthusiasm of a country just coming out of the throes of a dictatorship with a flood of films about the widespread momentum as well as the dramatic effects of the confrontations. How then will fiction, with its power of retrospection and metaphor, craft this historical memory? The process is still on going and it is not yet time for fiction. However, other feature film projects are incorporating it so as not to appear out of touch. Nouri Bouzid for instance adapted in extremis Millefeuille whose original screenplay on wearing the veil had been written before the events. Like Bouzid, Raja Amari does not use the revolution as subject but focuses on characters whose lives will be disrupted by the events. The film centres on three penniless musicians trying to survive by playing at weddings. Each follows his own path. Moha (Hichem Yacoubi) is a good lutenist but is convinced that the only solution is to go abroad. The singer Walid (Bahram Aloui) is enough of an opportunist to accept a relationship with a counsellor of the First Lady at the Presidential Palace. As for Fathi (Bilel Briki) the darbuka player, because of the widespread corruption he cannot start a teaching career; moreover, he is in love with Noura (Anissa Daoud), a rebellious, beautiful bourgeoise. By trying to aim broadly it is difficult to escape the tendency to stereotype, categorising each character according to a predictable, established programme; and thus the dialogue cannot avoid a certain theatricality despite the quality of the actors. Integrating the constraints of the telefilm, Raja Amari is not able to detach herself from it, which gives to Tunisian Spring, a hint of superficiality, of déjà vu: four friends tossed around by a life overtaken by the grand History, without them seeing it coming. All is stifled and raging in a country where disgruntlement eventually challenges police violence, though everyone taking a separate path. Such as the fruit and vegetable vendor who sets a fire after being harassed by two police officers (reminiscent of Mohamed Bouazizi's confrontation with the civil police officer Fayda Hamdi), both their movements more suicidal than committed. It is only Noura who, following the images of the insurgency on her computer, gauges the intensification of anger and resistance, as these images are shared on social media. But her mobilisation remains epidermal and isolated, disconnected from reality. None of these characters is a hero and the film does not judge their choices: they suffer more than they act and are eventually drawn unwillingly into a wind that outpaces them. Raja Amari offers us in this telefilm, which at the shooting in November 2013 still bore the title "Tunisian youth", the current state of a youth marked by uncertainty, and trapped by the contradictions at the eve of the fall of Ben Ali. However, for this youth it is also the price of History, none of the characters escapes unscathed. A useful reminder of what a dictatorship is and how it demeans individuals, Tunisian Spring can be read as a retrospective meditation on the contradictions at work before and during the historical phase of the revolution, and which the Tunisian youth continue to deal with today, now faced with the inevitability of disillusionment. Despite their dissatisfaction, the contempt that characterises the relationship of the three musicians at the beginning—and we know that it is alive and well, as is the anger of the youth—appears to be the driving force of their survival. But what Tunisian Spring has difficulty articulating in its rather too well-oiled scheme, is the substance of beings and the brilliance of their revolt, whether singular or not, whether it is or is not, morally acceptable. 1. The production company Telfrance (Plus belle la vie) initiated the project with scriptwriter Omar Ladgham. Initially, Abdellatif Kechiche was to direct the film, but the production of La Vie d'Adele took longer than expected. Raja Amari, who was asked to come on board, enjoys scenarios that do not fall into the glorification of the revolution. It was logical that the Tunisian executive production was assigned to Nomadis Images, the company of Dora Bouchoucha, Raja Amari’s long-time producer. Links to other translated works of Olivier Barlet on the African Women in Cinema Blog Aya Cissoko : Danbé, head held high \| la tête haute – film by/de Bourlem Guerdjou, analysis/analyse, Olivier Barlet Beyond clichés/Au-delà des clichés - Olivier Barlet : analysis /analyse, “Girlhood” \| « Bande de filles » - Céline Sciamma "I am not interested in denouncing polygamy: my film goes beyond that". Interview with Angèle Diabang-Olivier Barlet Mille soleils (A Thousand Suns) by Mati Diop, the heritage of Touki Bouki an analysis by Olivier Barlet
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<urn:uuid:86478c18-a63b-44bf-9b93-1769fde98076>	United States District Court, N.D. Alabama, Southern Division VIRGINIA EMERSON HOPKINS, District Judge. The magistrate judge filed a report and recommendation on January 15, 2015, recommending that the defendants' motion to dismiss be granted and that this action be dismissed. (Doc. 16). The plaintiff has filed a document entitled "Plaintiff's Objection to Proposed Findings and Recommendations." (Doc. 17). Importantly, the plaintiff's filing is actually not an "objection" at all. It cites no error in the report and recommendation. It objects to no finding contained therein. It is incumbent upon the parties to timely raise any objections that they may have regarding a magistrate judge's findings contained in a report and recommendation, as the failure to do so subsequently waives or abandons the issue, even if such matter was presented at the magistrate judge level. See, e.g., U.S. v. Pilati, 627 F.3d 1360 at 1365 (11th Cir. 2010) ("While Pilati raised the issue of not being convicted of a qualifying offense before the magistrate judge, he did not raise this issue in his appeal to the district court. Thus, this argument has been waived or abandoned by his failure to raise it on appeal to the district court."). "Parties filing objections must specifically identify those findings objected to. Frivolous, conclusive or general objections need not be considered by the district court." Nettles v. Wainwright, 677 F.2d 404, 410, n. 8 (5th Cir.1982 Unit B). "This rule facilitates the opportunity for district judges to spend more time on matters actually contested and produces a result compatible with the purposes of the Magistrates Act." Id. at 410. Indeed, a contrary rule "would effectively nullify the magistrate judge's consideration of the matter and would not help to relieve the workload of the district court." Id. (quoting United States v. Howell, 231 F.3d 615, 622 (9th Cir. 2000)). A district judge "shall make a de novo determination of those portions of the report or specified proposed findings or recommendations to which objection is made." 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(C) (emphasis added). This requires that the district judge "give fresh consideration to those issues to which specific objection has been made by a party." Jeffrey S. v. State Bd. of Educ., 896 F.2d 507, 512 (11th Cir. 1990) (citation omitted). In contrast, those portions of the R & R to which no objection is made need only be reviewed for clear error. Macort v. Prem, Inc., 208 Fed.App'x. 781, 784 (11th Cir. 2006). Having carefully reviewed and considered de novo all the materials in the court file, including the report and recommendation, and the purported "objections, " the Court is of the opinion that there is no clear error, and the magistrate judge's report is due to be and is hereby ADOPTED and her recommendation is ACCEPTED. Accordingly, defendants' motion to dismiss is due to be GRANTED and this action is due to be DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE. The plaintiff has sought leave to amend to add "Attorney General Strange in his official capacity." (Doc. 17 at 4). That request is DENIED. First, the court determines that leave to amend would be futile as the Eleventh Circuit has held that ASORCNA is not unconstitutional, even when applied retroactively. See, Windwalker v. Governor of Alabama, 579 F.Appx. 769, 775 (11th Cir. 2014). Second, the instant case is over three years old, and the plaintiff has not shown why he has not moved for leave to amend earlier. If the plaintiff wishes to bring an action against the Attorney General, he is free to due so ...
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<urn:uuid:812be5c4-9aa1-47ad-bae8-ff6cb7576503>	Nagappan Gobalakrishnan, the PKR MP for Padang Serai, is in high dudgeon. Daily brings news of the latest darts from his blow gun aimed at party supremo Anwar Ibrahim and newly appointed vice-president N Surendran. Former British prime minister Harold Wilson famously quipped that a week is a long time in politics. What more the month and a half since the time Gobala, as he is commonly called by friends, achieved an apotheosis of sorts in his relationship with Anwar. That was Nov 11 when at the Pulai Springs Resort in Johor, Gobala told several score delegates from the state's PKR divisions, in the presence of Anwar and Azmin Ali, that though he supported Zaid Ibrahim for deputy president of the party, he drew the line on attacks by the latter on Anwar. While candidly admitting he had supported Zaid in the contest for the party No 2 post, Gobala reaffirmed to the crowd his belief that Anwar's leadership was necessary to deliver the political reforms the country so badly needed. Hence he was not going to join Zaid who had just withdrawn from the race and was in party-quitting mode. Someone with doubts about the wisdom of the PKR elections - as too radical a step in advance of the party's congealing on ideology and organisation - would have come away with qualms quieted, having watched Gobala handle the issue of intra-party rivalry and dissent. Here was a competitor - Gobala was then running a creditable fifth in the race for four vice-presidential slots - who knew how to keep rivalry in PKR within cohesion-forging limits. The way Gobala spoke of his regard for Anwar gave the lie to the insult hurled at him by Sabah Umno MP, Lajim Ukin, who in Parliament last year called Gobala Anwar's toady, using language decidedly unparliamentary. Gobala is no one's flunkey, not yet. More than sour grapes at being ignored Gobala had expected to be named to one of four appointed veep positions in PKR following his failure to get elected to the four vice presidential slots that were up for direct election. Selangor state exco member Xavier Jeyakumar eventually out-polled Gobala in the vote and had expected to be named, but both he and Gobala were not selected for the appointed veep slot reserved for Indians. Instead human rights lawyer, N Surendran, was preferred. Dentist Xavier is rankled by the slight but does his grousing in private. Gobala, who is without tertiary qualifications, has gone public with his fury, at being ignored. There are grounds to think that the recent PKR elections were marred by irregularities, but Gobala hasn't confined his misgivings to the poll results only. He now speaks all manner of ill against Anwar, targeting Surendren in turn. Gobala's bile is no longer a matter of sour grapes at being ignored for vice-president of the party; he now questions Anwar's sincerity in wanting to help poor Indian Malaysians get ahead in life. In fact, Gobala sounds very much like S Nallakaruppan, like Gobala an ex-MIC youth leader, who had made common cause with Anwar before angrily departing PKR in 2007 after what he saw as Anwar's insincerity in not approving his bid for vice-resident in the party polls that year. Nalla, as he is commonly referred to, went on to claim that Anwar affected to care for the plight of Indian Malaysians but did not really bother. At the time when Nalla made those criticisms of Anwar, Gobala rose in defence of Anwar, publicly recalling the times when Nalla told him of Anwar's telephone chats with Nalla on the eve of Budget day. Anwar, the finance minister then (1993-98), would inform Nalla of measures in the Budget reckoned to be helpful to Indian entrepreneurs. Gobala's reminiscences were in apparent refutation of Nalla's strictures that Anwar was only good at feigning concern for the economic conditions of Indian Malaysians. Gobala's intelligence gathering Now Gobala is parodying the very critic of Anwar he took exception to in 2007. The end of that year turned out to be pretty good for Gobala's relationship with Anwar. It was he who apprised Anwar of Hindraf's penetration of 18 major temples in Peninsula Malaysia that led to the informal movement's success at organising the massive demonstration of Nov 25, 2007. Based on Gobala's intelligence gathering, Anwar was able to leverage on the protest to gain for the opposition coalition he led the advantage at the general election of the following March. The upshot: a hitherto invincible BN was denied their two-thirds parliamentary majority in addition to conceding four states to the opposition which maintained control of Kelantan. It was a political tour de force and Gobala played a crucial hand in it. Now that's all receding into insignificance as Gobala abandons the quiet discretion of his crucial bit-playing roles in PKR to join the ever enlarging caravan of one-time admirers of Anwar who have turned into detractors.- Terence Netto. Read 'More Hypocrites in Pakatan Compared to Barisan?' here.
<urn:uuid:a90f213d-0d9b-47c1-9d99-29a3a55a96fc>	Over the past 10 years, I’ve been compulsively filming everyone and everything for no particular reason. All my love stories and breakups have been recorded and systematically kept. As I continued to change boyfriends and hometowns every two years or so, I filmed my friends with their boyfriends, then husbands, then pregnant bellies, until they were surrounded by children. When my last single friend from school married, I fell asleep the evening of the wedding and didn’t show up. I’m 35, Argentine, Jewish and single. And these four categories don’t seem to go smoothly together. So I decided to make a film about the questions I have struggled to answer. Can social mandates be disregarded, or is my extended youth finally coming to its end? After I finished filming, I met someone. He is imperfect, and I love him. This time I realize I can live with unanswered questions, and that’s fine. Paula Schargorodsky is a filmmaker who lives in Buenos Aires. She is currently expanding the story in this Op-Doc video into a feature-length documentary, “Girl Behind the Camera,” and an online interactive project, “Get Over It.”
<urn:uuid:5c246e5a-e570-4632-94b4-744c18551cb3>	By Derrick Perkins (Photo/Susan Hale Thomas) As the city’s food truck task force prepared to kick off what likely was its final meeting Monday, members and local restaurateurs Mike Anderson and Rich Arslan spent a few minutes talking shop like old friends. As their colleagues trickled into City Hall, the food truck owner complimented Anderson on the fare at Holy Cow, his gourmet burger joint in Del Ray. They chatted briefly about the restaurant’s option of letting patrons dedicate 25 cents of each order to a local nonprofit. Then the meeting began and the gloves came off. “If I had my druthers, I’d say no food trucks in the entire city. But food trucks are going to happen,” Anderson said as members debated where and under what circumstances the four-wheeled eateries should operate in Old Town. “I think we have to be careful about this whole thing. It’s baby steps.” But Arslan already is in the city — he’s just not allowed to sell his gourmet popcorn around town without special permission from City Hall. A 15-year veteran of the pharmaceutical industry, Arslan swapped careers and launched Popped! Republic in 2012. After looking at possible locations across Northern Virginia, including Springfield and Lorton, Arslan settled on Alexandria. “I finally chose the City of Alexandria because they’re small business friendly,” he said. “And knowing the food truck scene was huge in D.C., it was very [important] for me to get in and out of D.C. on a regular basis.” Two years later, Arslan still goes out on the truck most days, despite having taken on six employees and an office manager. Like all budding entrepreneurs, he puts in long hours. His day typically begins about 6:30 a.m., with most of his employees arriving an hour and a half or so later. Between 8 and 10 a.m. they focus on production. Around 10:30 a.m., Arslan saddles up and his team heads into Washington. After the lunch rush, they’ll make a stop in the mid-afternoon and then find a good spot for the evening crowd. The road trip ends after a night stop at a location like The George Washington University. But Arslan’s day isn’t over just yet. After returning to the Port City, usually between 8 and 8:30 p.m., it’s time to unload the truck and concentrate on the administrative tasks, like getting caught up on emails. He wraps up by 10 p.m. most nights. “It’s a lot right now, but now I’m getting to the point that I’m hiring good employees, dependable and reliable people, and I’m putting them through the training,” Arslan said. “I’m slowly starting to let go. That’s been one of the hardest things for me — this is my baby.” When he’s not focusing on his growing business, which includes a catering operation and retail outlet on Dove Street, Arslan is pushing to ease restrictions on food trucks in Alexandria. He is one of two mobile restaurateurs — the other is Doug Povich of the Red Hook Lobster Pound truck — to serve on the city’s food truck task force. The group also includes Anderson and well-known restaurateur Meshelle Armstrong — of Restaurant Eve and Society Fair fame — as well as Stephanie Landrum of the Alexandria Economic Development Partnership, farmers market master Travis Hester and four city residents. Together, they are tasked with hashing out proposed regulations for food trucks. It’s no easy task and, on nights like Monday, members can expect to spend hours digging into miniscule details, such as determining what blocks of Washington Street are appropriate for mobile eateries. The food fight started in earnest in 2011, when two trucks crossed illegally into Alexandria to serve lunch. While city code does not explicitly ban mobile eateries, regulations make it all but impossible for food trucks to operate within city limits. That 2011 foray, though, prompted then City Councilor Rob Krupicka to ask city staff to cook up a plan to let food trucks, already enormously popular in Washington and Arlington, into Alexandria. It took nearly two years, but officials unveiled their proposal last spring and prepared to present it to city council for final approval. Food truck owners were pleasantly suprised by City Hall’s speed. They were less shocked to see how quickly brick-and-mortar restaurateurs rose up against the plan. Faced with stiff resistance, officials backed down. In June, City Manager Rashad Young announced the formation of a food truck task force, to include various stakeholders. Old Town resident Yvonne Weight Callahan has led the group through months of talks. Her neighborhood, particularly the area designated as the old and historic district, remains the major sticking point, she said. “We’ve got a group, a food industry, who regards as a fundamental right [the ability] to go wherever they want to see if they can drum up business. We’ve got people who do not like the idea of that in the old and historic district or in heavily congested traffic areas,” Callahan said. “And those are two clashing philosophies.” With a city council work session scheduled on the topic in late April, there’s a chance the group could end up issuing a report that lacks consensus on several points, whether Old Town should be open to food trucks among them. Arslan remains optimistic for the future of trucks like his in Alexandria. A veteran of last year’s regulatory battle in Washington, he believes there is a place for everyone in Alexandria’s restaurant scene. “When the whole fight was going on with D.C., I just kept saying that there is a way that we can all coexist and that’s clear to me now with the regulations that got passed [in Washington],” Arslan said. “Nothing is perfect, but we’re able to coexist and make things work.”
<urn:uuid:be69dd77-1e67-4acf-bc50-f9ae469cad1a>	Surveys of New Mexico voters continue to show our first Hispanic female governor remains quite popular, with about 60 percent of the people giving her the thumbs-up. So the conventional wisdom would conclude that Gov. Susana Martinez’ popularity presages a second term before the wheels start to come off the wagon—if they ever do. Most voters’ impressions of a governor are shaped by media coverage. On TV, we get split-second footage: She's cutting ribbons, smiling at children, waving to crowds, and looking perky at a rally or solemn at a memorial. What you don’t get on network television in New Mexico is any substantive discussion of policy initiatives. What the electorate knows about the governor is based mostly on what the local mainstream outlets are saying about her and her administration. And the honeymoon ain't over yet, even after 18 months. Martinez is not being held accountable for much of what has happened on her watch. Until reporters begin to dig into the consequences of her policy initiatives (not just reprint the press releases issued by state departments), the public will continue to hold her in high regard. And the honeymoon ain't over yet, even after 18 months. She's a creature of her campaign publicists—a kinder, gentler conservative leader. But that airbrushed illusion hides an alarming dismantling of the state’s future. Her administration's fiscal and environmental agendas are part of the same multipronged assault we’ve seen in other states (Wisconsin and Indiana, for instance). Neocon Republican governors have set to work demolishing 50 years’ worth of social progress. Their pattern is clear. First, they shrink government dramatically by reducing taxes for the wealthy, and they push to privatize as many services as possible. Next, they marginalize public employee unions. They proceed to attack public school education in favor of private and charter schools. They ignore environmental concerns and reduce protections under the guise of becoming more friendly to industry. For cover, the scheme calls for pandering to social conservatives as a way to distract the public from the fiscal pain involved. So we see phony controversies over evolution, reproductive rights, gun legislation, gay marriage, immigration anxiety—whatever is calculated to rev up the emotions of the voters. Meanwhile, citizens’ pockets are systematically picked by corporations and big-money interests that dreamt up this clever ploy. She is carrying out the same plan as her colleagues on the right elsewhere. Martinez has not generally been spotlighted in this effort to funnel public dollars into private pockets, but all elements of that strategy are being implemented in New Mexico. She is carrying out the same plan as her colleagues on the right elsewhere. Make no mistake about it: Our governor is a crusader. Here are three brief examples (culled from many) of this reckless adherence to the national neocon blueprint. These issues don’t receive adequate analysis in the media, yet they are far more crucial to our state’s future than the red herring of driver's licenses for immigrants. Health care: New Mexico may have the second-highest rate of people without insurance in the country, but Martinez continues to resist embracing the Affordable Care Act. It's New Mexico's best opportunity in decades to actually do something about unmet health needs. She may have wounded the effort to create a health insurance exchange, the starting point for serious change, by shifting leadership and reversing direction. The decision to hand over planning our exchange to a Utah-based consulting firm headed by the former Republican governor of that state may prove both expensive and destructive. Public school teachers: So far, every element in the Martinez approach to educational reform has begun by calling into question the professionalism, commitment and skill of public school teachers. Instead of asking teachers how to improve performance, we are seeing those dedicated public servants repeatedly scapegoated, berated and ignored. Pit rules: The guv is determined to end or drastically change environmental protections at oil wells known as “pit rules.” This is how Texas oil and development billionaires who financed her campaign are being repaid. Those common sense requirements have never slowed oil drilling in New Mexico or dented petroleum’s profit. And they've protected drinking water supplies. In time, New Mexicans will recognize how badly served we are by electing a leader who slavishly follows a template created to handle circumstances completely foreign to us. That’s when Martinez’ popularity rating will begin to drop.
<urn:uuid:b9d60ffe-7228-4c9a-9198-1d616be6e7fc>	I've got four new products available this weekend at Designer Digitals. First up today: SUMMER ROCKS \| If you're looking for other summer-themed products from me check out: - Bring On The Sun - Thick Summer Words Summer Quote Strips (don't be fooled by the black preview - you can make them any color you want) - Summer Memory Tags - Summer Sentiment Stacks - Summer Title And Journal - Hello Summer Hand Drawn Brushes FOR THE LOVE OF CIRCLE NUMBERS \| This one includes a PDF with all the numbers placed for easy printing (see images below). Here's what it looked like when I printed the PDF on Bazzill Orange Peel white cardstock: I used the 2-inch circle punch is from Marvy to punch out the circles. EVERYDAY LIFE JOURNAL PROMPTS \| These are based on the PDF file I shared last week. I'm also planning to do another set of these same prompts in my script handwriting. Look for those next weekend. Hope you have a fantastic weekend!
<urn:uuid:e0c84e28-ba0f-40c2-aef0-2f735ffd18d2>	We’re really into music here at All Elbows. One of our favorite bands is Explosions in the Sky. If we could, we’d edit tons of fight highlights to their music, but we don’t have the budget of a Hollywood production or sports leagues. Casey’s originally from Texas and we’ve been listening to these awesome instrumentalists since the beginning, cutting our personal projects to their music. We were lucky enough to see Explosions this past weekend at the Hollywood Palladium and get up close for the first two songs to take some photos. It’s been years since I’ve shot a band, in fact, that’s what I used to do before I started shooting MMA and dogs (long story). I felt rusty for sure but the grandeur of the music more than made up for my nervousness. It was a real treat to see these Texans playing after nearly ten years together as a band and to watch the crowd oooo and ahhh, lighting up each time the songs hit their crescendo. The sold out crowd swayed, rapt with adoration. I’m glad they kicked us photographers out after two songs because if you’re in the front row, all you hear is the music plus the sound of ten plus camera shutters snapping, loudly. It was a wonderful show and I was fortunate enough to have a great seat on the balcony for the remainder of the set. I want to thank two people (you know who you are, if you want to be thanked publicly, please let me know) for the media pass and getting my ass in front of the barricade for the beginning of their set. On a side note, No Age opened for them and they were awesome except I almost think the Hollywood Palladium was too large. No Age always felt like a gritty, small venue, everyone sweating and dancing kind of band. I went to high school and junior high with the guitarist, Randy Randall, and though I doubt he remembers me, I remember those times he played at lunch, sampler and multiple instruments in tow. For those of you budding editors, getting your first highlight reels onto the internets, try something majestic like Explosions instead of Disturbed and you might suddenly find yourself bestowed with instant credibility. Ha! Well, it still has to be cut with skill, but a great soundtrack is a fantastic place to start. Here’s a small gallery of the pictures I was able to take, the Palladium’s been remodeled since I last saw Interpol and Enon there maybe five years ago, and I found myself staring at the changing neon lights an awful lot. Explosions in the Sky played a lot of The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place, and my favorite selection from Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever, “A Poor Man’s Memory,” which has a really intense, heavy climax. Below the gallery is a selection of their songs. Shoot! I almost forgot to mention! Did you know these guys, Explosions, are also PRIDE fans? Yes.
<urn:uuid:a3c455dc-e354-4343-8acf-abd9652167a3>	Test to Predict Allergies Scientists in Australia have developed a test they say can determine when a baby is first born if he or she will develop allergies. A protein in the immune cells of newborns appears to hold the answer as to whether a baby will either be protected, or susceptible to the development of allergies later on,” Professor Tony Ferrante from the University of Adelaide said in a release. He and other researchers discovered the allergy marker in 2007, and they have been working on developing a blood test ever since. The protein, called kinase C zeta, is found in much lower amounts in the children at risk of allergies. Ferrante says the blood test is more reliable than other indicators, such as family history or IgE antibody levels. Researchers also said there is evidence that fish oil supplements increase the level of the kinase C zeta protein, and may protect against developing allergies. They are studying pregnant women and those who have just given birth to solidify this theory.
<urn:uuid:ece036fe-6ad6-4a0a-88b2-7677438ffb68>	The Joy of Preserves On a warm July day, my friend Jeanne and I stand side by side, in companionable silence. She and I are slicing strawberries, the juices staining our fingers red. The tips of our knives click on the cutting board. One more topped and sliced, ready. We are making jam. Jeanne has come to my home to teach me how to can. Like generations of women before her, she learned from her mother how to stir fruits and sugar together, making preserves – and then seal them safely in glass jars. In the dead of winter, Jeanne can open her cupboards to find ruby strawberries gleaming in the darkness. Like many of my generation, I had no idea how to do this. For most of my life I loved food, but I didn’t really know where it came from or who made it for me. The only cans I opened were tins with manufacturers’ labels purchased at the grocery store. Some packaged foods contain so many preservatives that it seems they could survive for a hundred years with the same over-salty flavour. Four years ago when I was diagnosed with celiac disease, I began to examine the label of every food. I found that I didn’t recognize (or couldn’t pronounce) most of the ingredients that I would have put into my body before without a thought. I began to eat closer to the ground; I used whole foods and cooked meals from scratch. Within a few months, commercial jams tasted too sweet to me. Canned green beans became an abomination. Give me six glorious weeks of eating corn on the cob when it’s ripe and ready, and I’ll wait all year in anticipation, rather than ever eating again from a bag of frozen corn kernels. I still eat in season, mostly. Now that we have a garden, my husband and I love feeding our baby daughter raspberries right off the bush. We pick the tiny alpine strawberries nestled among green leaves and pop them in her mouth, waiting to see her expression. The mint leaves we brush with our feet release their scent and leave me dreaming of mint jelly with lamb in the winter. In our sunny kitchen, Jeanne teaches me how to sterilize the jars and boil them until they are sealed. I dream of pickled okra, tomato sauce and brandied cherries this winter. Making my own food brings me closer to my great-grandmother who knew how to do this – long before there were packaged foods that contained gluten where it should never have been. Shauna James Ahern’s and Daniel Ahern’s new cookbook is Gluten-Free Girl and the Chef, published by John Wiley & Sons. Their blog is Glutenfreegirl.com.
<urn:uuid:41e13080-dd3f-4fb3-bf7d-71124219fcd7>	Clan member Ghostface Killah is currently in the studio, recording the follow up album to his certified gold album, Supreme Clientle. The new album will reunite Ghostface with his partner, Raekwon The Chef. The album, titled Cuban Linx 2: Bullet Proof Wallet is slated for a release date of April 3, 2001. Ghost has been staying busy, executive producing Supreme Clientle, the latest album by Wu-Tang The W, as well as notching a producer’s credit for the flick, Black & White, which he was also featured in along side most of the Wu-Tang Clan.
<urn:uuid:73a8752e-70d3-45df-b93c-ec6145394683>	(AllHipHop News) 9th Wonder is a professor, a producer, a huge Duke fan and possesses ample Hip Hop knowledge. During his appearance on Cipha Sounds and Peter Rosenberg’s Juan Epstein podcast, he spoke on missed Jay Z collaboration, differences between Drake and Phonte and more. 9th Wonder rummaged through his encyclopedic mind of Hip Hop knowledge and gave the date he first played beats for Jay Z: September 20th, 2003, less than a month before The Black Album was released. According to 9th, during his first session with Jay Z, he played him 20 of the 150 beats he had ready and claims that Jay Z wanted the beat for “Lovin’ It”, which ended up becoming Little Brother’s first single off of their sophomore album The Minstrel Show. When describing his former groupmate Phonte,9th had nothing but the highest praise as he called the MC “one of the best, if not the best rapper in the last decade.” After simply saying that “Young Money” was the difference between Drake garnering mainstream success as opposed to Phonte, 9th Wonder explained the mechanics behind mainstream music : Young Money created a platform for Drake to have that platform to get to a larger audience. Once you get to that particular platform of being mainstream, you know, you are being exposed to a bunch of people who dont matter what you sounds like. Kendrick Lamar is a classic example. How many people out of the people that bought his album really understand Kendrick Lamar? We can say maybe 200, 250 thousand. Check out the full Juan Epstein podcast below:
<urn:uuid:48e49e6d-1c6d-4e03-b3e9-40b466517699>	Is Faith Enough? Late nights often get me wondering about life, death, faith and hope. This just happens to be my thoughts for the night. I hope that there may be one person it could touch. We just never know what is to come in our lives but I think that if we all have something for us to believe in, hope and faith will show you clarity of your beliefs. I use to think that faith was enough- that if I had enough faith, I could accomplish anything. Faith is something that I think can lead us into the belief of being able to have a stronghold on life. When the tough gets going, we start to see that cloud of darkness roll in. I have always been known to be a Christian, but the closer I get to thinking I know who I am, or what I am and believe in- things change. One minute I am feeling this complete satisfaction of life as if some light of clarity has suddenly turned on inside of me. The next moment I am wondering how I am able to even survive another day on this earth. There are nights that I have trouble sleeping; I'm just staring up at the ceiling with my mind going a mile a minute. I'm sure there are many other people who do this as well. I just start thinking about things in life. One thought always crosses my mind: I am going to die. We all know it's coming, there is no escaping the reality of what human life becomes. We exist, we live and we die. It's something no one really wants to talk about, yet we are all swimming in the same ocean of life. I try to wrap my mind around the concept of death but it's hard. I see death often since I work in the medical field. It's not that shocking to be doing the final preparing of a body before the funeral home straps the body to the gurney to be prepared for the last viewing before the body is buried six feet under. Sounds kind of morbid, doesn't it? What happens to our souls after we die? There are so many different religions, so many different beliefs. How do we know that our religion, our belief- is the "right" one? I grew up going to a Methodist church- so from a young age, I was told I was a Christian because I believed in God and sang all the church hymnals, was baptized and did all the things that a young christian person should do. The older I got, the more I thought about how my faith never really started until I lost my faith. I had gone through the phase of depression and lost what faith I had in life. It was much easier to just stay in that dark depression and not feel anything toward life (like a numbness)- but the deeper I got, the harder it was for me to feel anything toward life. I don't really remember how my faith came back, but I knew that I needed to find some kind of happiness in life. I'm sure most people know about God and the story of Jesus, Noah's arc, etc. As a kid, I remember reading from the children's bible- seeing all these colorful pictures of the arc, the cross where Jesus had died for our sins, the heavenly angels playing the harps on this big white puffy clouds. The more I think of it as an adult, the more it seems all that stuff was written like a fairy tale. We don't want to think of what is -next- after our death so we want to fill it up with something that seems too good to be true. I don't believe there are coincidences in life. I believe there is a purpose for everything that happens. We may not know it until after our hindsight of the experience, but I think there is a reason for all the good and bad things of the world. After my father's death at the age of 59, I tried to close my eyes and pray. It was hard...I was angry that my dad had died so young, and maybe I just wasn't in the right state of mind to pray when I was angry. I eventually overcame the anger and was in that accepting stage. A few different times I had dreams of my father- almost like I could touch him. It brought a lot of emotions- knowing that he is only as far away as I let him be. We are stuck in these bodies for a long while- these awful, hard to maintain at times- bodies. My dad had a lot of stuff wrong with his heart and lungs- it just caused him an early death. But death isn't as negative as it sounds- it's kind of like putting a beloved pet down because you don't want to see them suffer anymore. God knows the person is suffering, the person's body isn't responding the way it should so he puts the body to rest and their soul lives on in the dimension of the universe for which we can't see with our humanly eyes. There is not a doubt in my mind that there is something "more" ...there are too many miracles, too many things to think we were all created from some "big bang" ...the simplicities of a blooming flower, the sounds of birds chirping, the way the stars shine brightly in a clear midnight sky. That is where my faith comes in. There is just too many beautiful things in the world to think that we humans could make it all up. The miracle of birth- how we all are so different and yet we all have two eyes, ten toes, ten fingers, etc. How awesome is it to see a child born to this world- and life to begin once again. I may not be the picture perfect Christian. I know I'm not even a good enough human to deserve this life; to be able to see what life brings forward. I know that I am, however, full of faith. Faith has taught me that no matter how hard life gets, no matter the good from the worse things that happen in life, faith will carry me through. I've heard the saying that someone has faith the size of a mustard seed; althought that's a very small amount of faith- it's something that can carry you through. We all need faith- I hope that wherever the wind may blow, no matter how difficult life comes- faith can reach us all. I have faith there has to be a better tomorrow; why? Because without it, there's no use in living. I'd say faith is enough- enough to give us Hope.Last edit by Joe V on Jun 24, '12 jaelpn has '4+ nursing, 12 years medical field' year(s) of experience and specializes in 'Assisted living- dementia care'. From 'Somewhere, IL'; 33 Years Old; Joined Dec '05; Posts: 48; Likes: 263.Jun 13, '12You apparently don't fully understand the 'mustard seed' reference. I am not Christian, but know that parable. Your entire article is an affront to those who are non-believers. Without faith there is no reason to live??? Sorry that I read this.Jun 13, '12Merlee, faith can be in anything. Everyone has faith and hope in something. Scientists can hope for a breakthrough in whatever field their studying. Nurses can hope that their patients (and employers) are cordial. Christians have a hope for eternal life with God. Atheists hope in whatever makes them tick. I'm a Christian; but if you discount all belief in a Supreme Being, it still helps to have faith in something! For example, faith that your husband/wife doesn't cheat on you, hope that you wake up to see your kids/family one more time, hope that your friend with cancer can conquer it...etc. So literally, without hope (in something) there'd be no reason to live. The story above is simply a persons account...what they went through, their experiences over time, and how a particular faith made them whole. I thought it was a great article. Testimonies are always uplifting to a fellow believer.Jun 13, '12No, faith isn't "enough" to accomplish anything. You need the underlying talent (which you're either born with or not), fortuitous circumstances, a lot of hard work, and true inner motivation to accomplish whatever it is you're looking to do. I could pray to Zeus all day to make me a professional ballerina and it will never happen because I wasn't born with that talent or body type. I could pray to Thor all day to pass nursing school and NCLEX but without a ton of studying and the motivation to succeed, I would have failed anyway. I could pray to Ra all day for a job but without fortuitous circumstances like a friend to refer me or sending in my resume at exactly the right time, I'd still be unemployed. Life and the outcomes we all face are the result of complex circumstances, it is never as simple as "just faith" or "just luck."Jun 13, '12While I am no Christian or specific religion, I do think the universe is of supernatural existence. I don't know what makes the world turn on its axis or if humans evolved from primates or magically in the sky. But, I do have a great deal of respect for those who find the strength to believe in an unforeseen supernatural being who created this entire universe! I guess faith is enough for some! For others, like myself, faith has only been proven by my ability to ignore the obstacles & persevere.Jun 13, '12Faith has been more than enough for me. With faith plus your effort, mountains truly move.Jun 13, '12"Faith has been more than enough for me. With faith plus your effort, mountains truly move." I've moved metaphorical mountains simply with effort, talent, and fortuitous circumstances (i.e., luck). Get back to me when you get first chair in an orchestra on faith alone. I hope you don't just drop to your knees and start praying when your patient codes. Jaelpn, should those without what you define as faith off themselves? They may think they're happy, they may think they're productive, they may find the cure for cancer, but it's all an illusion. They're actually useless people -- right? There is an inverse relationship between educational attainment and depth of religious faith. Imagine that.Jun 13, '12I told myself I would never join a religious debate on here. But I had to because of a recent conversation I had with my gf. She was born and raised into a catholic house. Me, not so much. I dont like religion. But to each their own. I wont try to change you. We were at a catholic wedding this weekend, which are terrible to begin with but thats a whole different story. Anyway she said something to me that really bothered me. "If it was meant to be it will all work out". **** I hate that. Nothing ever works out just if it was meant to. It works out because you work your hardest to make the ends happen. I see it as a cop out for people that dont give it 100% or that cant find a way to make things work. I find faith in the same way. I cant just blindly believe things will work out when I know they wont. And for the record. Faith does NOT equal hope.Jun 13, '12We all need faith- I hope that wherever the wind may blow, no matter how difficult life comes- faith can reach us all. I have faith there has to be a better tomorrow; why? Because without it, there's no use in living. I'd say faith is enough- enough to give us Hope. I'm an atheist and I get on fine, thanks. If there's something to be done, I understand that I can't lean on some sky-god to carry me 45% of the way. I have to pull myself together and take myself there with my own two little legs. Through sheer willpower and action have I done as much as I have in this life. I have plenty of reasons to go on living and plenty of things to be proud of. My life's work - the life that I lead - is something to be proud of. I thought that it was a nice story, too. Until I hit the conclusion. Yes - this poster IS talking about 'religious faith'. Obviously. So, because I don't have religious faith - there's no point in living. Great. It doesn't offend. It annoys and I've no idea why any in this thread would try to pretend that the individual is not saying what's so clearly written in black bold print. ...and they wonder why militant atheists exist.Jun 14, '12Quote from jaelpnI've had a few patients, especially young quads and paras, who absolutely HATE hearing this type of nonsense from caregivers.I don't believe there are coincidences in life. I believe there is a purpose for everything that happens. We may not know it until after our hindsight of the experience, but I think there is a reason for all the good and bad things of the world. They described it as insulting and crushing to be struggling through what must be a horrible challenge only to have some smiling goofball with two good arms and legs say, "Everything happens for a reason, you just don't know God's reason for what happened to you yet." You can almost hear them continue, "God wants me to have a full and healthy nervous system, but he wants you to be in constant pain, paralyzed, impotent and incontinent...isn't that wonderful???" I know this is harsh, but is is about the patients. Not us.
<urn:uuid:c84ca0db-8301-4200-a0e4-ff9f1b602a37>	A girl is enchanted by her grandmother Gemma's stories about Briar Rose. But a promise Rebecca made to her dying grandmother will lead on a remarkable journey to uncover the truth of Gemma's astonishing claim: I am Briar Rose. A journey that will lead her to unspeakable brutality and horror. But also redemption and hope.... Dragon's Blood This is the story of Jakkin, a young boy who is a servant at a dragon farm. The whole story takes place on a faraway planet, Austair IV whose economy is based around dragons who fight in pits. It is a former penal colony and people are divided up into masters and bonders. The bonders are the equivalent of indentured servants and they must “fill their bag” before they can be free. The bag is worn around their neck at all times and their coins are put ... Sword of the Rightful King The evil Queen of the North is out to get King Arthur and to steal his throne. To do this she instructs her sons to spy on Arthur and then she sends her sons to Camelot. Also, Merlinnus, the mage, thinks that one of her sons might even be sent tot try to kill Arthur. Another problem is that the people are wondering about Arthur's legitimacy as a King because his parents were not royalty. To deal with this problem and to stop the Queen of the North f...
<urn:uuid:c0dd5569-4e29-49e1-914e-2765bd09aa0c>	About this recipe: Start someone special's day with this treat. A thin omelette wrapped around a crab and prawn filling. Perfect for a special brunch or late supper! Wow - this was awesome! I did not make the cheese sauce (too much work so early in the morning) or use shrimp - but followed the recipe - adding only some fresh chive to the eggs - and it was rich and lovely. I had some crab that my husband brought home from Alaska and we were saving for a special occasion. It is always a risk making something for the first time when using expensive ingredients. All I can say that the crab was not wasted on this dish - it was perfect for showing off the decadent nature of the seafood. It was lavish and heavenly. Many thanks for a great recipe!!!!!!!!! - 03 Aug 2007 (Review from Allrecipes US \| Canada) A lot of work for what is really just scrambled eggs with shrimp in cheese sauce. And the scrambled eggs are a lot easier and faster than the rolled omelets which get cold or dried out while assembling them. - 19 May 2009 (Review from Allrecipes US \| Canada) The only other place you can get an omlet like this is on a cruise ship. Super recipe. worth all the effort. Thanks Jennyw - 17 Jan 2010 (Review from Allrecipes US \| Canada)
<urn:uuid:2e9895f0-33ff-46d2-b6b8-d7186eea62b4>	About this recipe: A classic carrot cake recipe that results in an incomparably moist and flavourful carrot cake. Ice with your favourite cream cheese icing recipe for best results; there are plenty of recipes on the site! Really really good, I made a large cake for Children in Need and it sold out instantly! People keep saying how nice it was - 18 Nov 2011 This was a lovely cake, I made two and cut them as slices topped with cream cheese. However, my kitchen looked like I had used every dish in the cupboards! You do need a very BIG bowl to mix it in and once all the ingredients are weighed out it was very easy. I will make it again and have been asked for the recipe. - 18 Oct 2012 This is an amazing carrot cake, it disappeared very quickly. The only problem I had was the cake was stuck to the bottom of the tin even though I had greased and floured, but will use greaser off paper next time. Thank you for this great recipe - 30 Aug 2012
<urn:uuid:7713f2c3-5085-4768-a8eb-74267d9fe4fe>	Very simple crackers to make perfect for low carbers and grain free eaters. High in fiber and protein. This is just a base recipe and can be used to make many different variations. The crackers in the pictures are multigrain. Add 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder, 1 teaspoon poppy seeds, 2 tablespoons sunflower kernels and a pinch of oregano. **If you choose to omit the Psyllium Husks, you will need to add an extra 3/4 cup of almond flour instead (more or less). The psyllium makes these crackers taste more "wheaty" like Rye-Vita. I added a bit of this and a bit of that and ........ WOW ..... Better than anything you will buy in a shop !!!!! - 26 Nov 2014
<urn:uuid:c1f379af-bfc5-4cda-b319-ef712d303aa7>	There is something special about homemade baked goods whether you are making a cake, brownies, cookies or baking a loaf of bread. You can serve this lovely cake either for afternoon tea or as a dessert. Fresh berries are best but they are not always available so frozen can be used. You can easily make chocolate and vanilla cupcakes with the same batch of batter. Watch this recipe being made in the Allrecipes How to Make Cupcakes Video. Delicious, moorish, a great hit with kids! A great lunchbox snack, and so quick to make, you could make this every day! A healthy and delicious banana bread - the perfect way to use up those old, brown bananas! A modification of the Best Bread Machine Loaf recipe on this website. Makes a tasty, soft, flexible bread. Similar texture to the soft bread used for the bacon and cheese rolls in the shop, but with a similar crust to commercial sliced loaves. Not very crumbly and strong enough to keep your sandwiches together and not fall apart when spreading out of the fridge dairy blend stuff. The flavour from the pork and apple is subtle. I originally added vinegar to make it keep better but it is being eaten too quickly to find out how effective that was.
<urn:uuid:66c049a6-7f63-4223-a9df-9459bc8a5e15>	My goodness, how hard is it to photograph a scarf? That took way too long. On Etsy, there are the two camps for photographing scarves - using a human model or a mannequin. Now if one of my pretty young Moldovan friends with the lovely long necks were here, I would have used a human model. And seeing that I am fresh out of mannequins, I had to make due. Taylor to the rescue! This was really fun to make, and I so want to claim it as my own. But the Wide World of Scarves for Sale beckons, and I'm interested to see what becomes of this one. After finishing it, I have a bizarre craving for Cheese Whiz.
<urn:uuid:fd746640-903d-4ebc-af0d-cf5f5c15c3ff>	\|Trying desperately to blend into the floor.\| Wednesday, July 11, 2012 Do dogs get brain freeze? What to do when your Pupsicle needs to be outside in the heat? In a wave of heat inspired brilliancy it came to me. RICE CUBES! I put some veggie broth and rice in a Tupperware-like container. It is freezing into an icy block of savory dog delight right now. I'll give it to the pooch when I have to leave her outside in this hideous heat we are having. I am now free to go about my life. But maybe the dog has the right idea. What could possibly make me go out in this heat when I can stay home and have rice cubes for dinner with Molly? Posted by Jessica Schneidereit at 3:43 PM
<urn:uuid:8fa4bf89-774a-492e-a3c0-eb6d2d46ce99>	Switching to Generic Drugs According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), switching to generic drugs provides a 50 to 70 percent savings over their name brand equivalents. Also, there are generic equivalents for roughly 75 percent of the drugs listed with the FDA. Brand-name Drugs vs. Generic Equivalents - Chemically, brand-name drugs and their generic equivalents are essentially the same. - They may differ in name, color, and shape. - Generic drugs are required by the FDA to have the same active ingredients, dosage amounts and method of administration as non-generic drugs. - There may be some differences between the inactive ingredients of generic and brand name drugs, which may in certain cases cause an allergic reaction. - Generic drugs also may have a statistically insignificant difference in how your body may absorb such a drug, but not enough to change the drugs effectiveness. Deciding to Switch to Generic Drugs - Consult with your doctor to see if using generic drugs is right for you. - If your current medicine does not have a generic equivalent, you also can ask your physician to suggest another medicine that does. - For more detailed information on generic equivalents and getting the biggest bang for your prescription buck, take a look at the free prescription medicine guidance offered by Consumer Reports. Discounts on Generic Drugs Most large pharmacies provide discounts on generic drugs with prices as low as $4 per month or $10 for a three month supply. Check with the pharmacies in your area to see what discounts they provide. Some of the most popular national pharmacies that have such programs include:
<urn:uuid:dd324f9f-73b6-4c0c-8a91-31cc25de64c0>	With the December arrest of U.S. subcontractor Alan Gross, Raul Castro has "effectively forced the suspension USAID's operations in Cuba," former State Department official Phil Peters says. The Obama administration ought to "slash or scrap USAID's Cuba program," Peters writes in Foreign Policy magazine. USAID can't expect to have any success as long as it openly tries to undermine the government in a country with such a formidable state security apparatus, Peter says. USAID is in an impossible position, he writes, trying run a pro-democracy program "with the absurd hope that the local government will not notice." Peters, creator of the Cuban Triangle blog, writes: Stranger still, the program is overt in the United States -- in 2006, there was an open call for proposals for "high tech communication devices to facilitate communications between activists on the island" -- and attempts to be covert in Cuba.Link: That might work -- and Gross might be a free man today -- were it not for the fact that Cuba has a world-class intelligence service. At the Havana airport, passengers and baggage are scanned entering Cuba. Carry a laptop, and you can expect to answer a few questions. Carry several, and you can count on being watched. If you visit the U.S. diplomatic mission, Cuban guards see you coming and going. If you go there to pick something up -- the State Department reports that in some months, up to 75 percent of shipments to that mission come from USAID's grantees -- then the mission's 250 Cuban employees, all of whom can be counted on to be informants or employees of Cuba's Interior Ministry, will see that too. Foreigners who phone or visit dissidents can expect to be observed. Moreover, "dissidents" aren't always who they seem -- indeed, Cuba's Department of State Security (DSS) not only monitors anti-government activists, but also manufactures some. Agents pose as opponents of the regime and infiltrate opposition organizations. When 75 dissidents were jailed after lightning trials in 2003, the DSS happily unmasked 12 of its phony dissidents, publishing interviews and then a book about their undercover exploits. Along the Malecon's U.S.-Cuba relations page

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