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Bastyr University, north of Seattle, Washington, is one of the world's leading academic centers dedicated to clinical degree programs and research with a focus on the holistic and natural health sciences – including nutritional and herbal medicine.
Among the studies currently recruiting at Bastyr are several trials involving use of extract from the common cloud or "turkey tail" mushroom (Trametes versicolor) to boost and maintain the body's immune response. Bastyr's trials employing this extract, which "has been used in Asia with encouraging results," aim to further the understanding of its potential as "a cancer therapy beyond drugs and radiation." One study is recruiting healthy subjects and two are recruiting breast cancer patients.
The trials, which will pay $20 per clinic visit and provide the extract free of charge, include:
• A breast cancer study focused on finding out whether extract from the Turkey Tail mushroom might boost and maintain the immune response after drugs and radiation therapy. (Conducted in collaboration with the University of Minnesota.) For details, click here. Call Leanna Standish at 425-602-3434 for more information.
• A study investigating the effects of a cloud/turkey tail mushroom supplement on the immune system of patients who have been diagnosed with estrogen receptor and progesterone receptor-negative breast cancer; have/will receive chemotherapy; and will begin radiation therapy. For details, click here. Call Erin Sweet, study coordinator at 425-602-3434 for more information.
• An 11-week immune-response study investigating the effects of cloud/turkey tail mushroom on the immune system of healthy volunteers. For details, click here. For more information, call the Bastyr University Research Study Line: 425-602-3160
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Everton's John Stones piles praise on Ross Barkley after Newcastle victory
John Stones insists he will remember Ross Barkley's stunning goal despite needing head stitches at St James' Park.
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Stones was forced to play over half of the match with heavily-bandaged strapping after he was left covered in blood following an aerial collision with Newcastle forward Luuk de Jong.
The former Barnsley defender battled on bravely as the Blues produced their first away victory of the calendar year to keep pressure on Arsenal in their pursuit of a Champions League place.
England midfielder Barkley opened the scoring midway through the first half as he ran 70 yards before firing into the roof of Tim Krul's net - and Stones hailed the talent of his 20-year-old colleague.
"It hasn't affected my memory of Ross' goal," he told the Liverpool Echo. "I won't forget that. It was a brilliant goal for Ross.
"As modest as he is, he's loving it. He does stuff like that on a daily basis - out of the ordinary. We've just been waiting for him to do that in a game.
"Once he gets off on a run you're not stopping him. He's a powerful guy. I'm glad he got his goal and it's one to remember for him."
The centre-back, who started the move for Barkley's goal, added: "He works so hard and he's reaping the benefits.
"He did something similar against Arsenal. He's been brilliant, I can't praise him enough for how hard he's working for the team and that goal was a bit of success for him."
Stones was forced to retreat to the away dressing room in the first half, where he received 10 stitches to the forehead, before returning to complete the match and the 19-year-old admits he is feeling fine.
"The head is fine - I'm all good," he claimed. "I looked down at the floor and thought 'I'm sweating here' but I was bleeding.
"The medical staff did a really good job and I was back on the pitch really quick.
"A lot of credit to them. It was a quick job and then at half-time they stitched me up and I was good to go again. As soon as I did it I was fine but I ran back out and I had a big headache."

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BlackBerry (BBRY) announced at yesterday's launch that the new smartphones based on the BB10 platform will not support the BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS). It became apparent as Rory O'Neill, Vice President of Product & Channel Marketing at BlackBerry, was answering questions related to the BIS service on the BB10 phones and on BB 7 based smartphones. O'Neill explained that the BB10 smartphones will not come bundled with BIS nor support it. The only service to run on BlackBerry's infrastructure will be BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) and some enterprise related applications. O'Neill said: "The R59 per month unlimited data for BlackBerry 7 is a proposition that we really believe in. We work very closely with our mobile network partners to keep that proposition in market. "We're continuing to innovate BlackBerry 7 and for the segment of the market where social messaging and that experience is really important, we will continue to have, and we will continue to build out new experiences both from a hardware and software perspective."
Anecdotal evidence on social networks and various BlackBerry users suggests that the majority of those in Africa will start considering purchasing "cooler" smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy range and Apple's iPhone because they would nonetheless have to pay for data charges.


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by Brian Awehali
(Note: This post explores the sentient life of both plants and animals, and is not an endorsement of veganism.)
On a long road trip several years ago, when I was still eating even very bad roadside food, I listened to the book Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen, by Christopher McDougall, and I found myself delaying gas and bathroom breaks because I was too interested in what would happen next. McDougall told a wildly entertaining story about traditional and modern competitive "ultra"-runners that managed to also be a sort of ethnography and a treatise on a significant aspect of human evolution: our unequaled long-distance running ability and our related unique ability to sweat from every part of our body, instead of just from our tongues, as basically all other land mammals do.
Why is this significant? As an October 2012 article, "The Running Man Revisited," from Seed magazine explains:
"…[R]oughly 2 million years ago, Australopithecus, with its tiny brain, hefty jaw and diet of rough, fibrous plants, evolved into Homo erectus, our slim, long-legged ancestor with a big brain and small teeth suited for tearing into animal and fruit flesh. Such a transformation almost certainly involved a reliable supply of calorie-laden meat, yet according to the fossil record, spear points have been in use for 200,000 years at most, and the bow and arrow for only 50,000 years, leaving an enormous stretch of time when early humans were consuming meat without the use of tools. […] A deer and a decently fit man … trot at almost an identical pace, but in order to accelerate, a deer goes anaerobic, while the man remains in an oxygenated jogging zone. The same is true for horses, antelopes, and a slew of other four-legged creatures … and because quadrupeds can't pant while they run, they also quickly overheat."
Humans can't outrun a cheetah or an antelope over short distances, but those animals can only run at their faster speeds for short distances compared to humans. Organized human "persistence" hunters can run an animal until it literally drops of heatstroke, as illustrated by the BBC documentary clip below (hard not to feel bad for the prey):
Hunting doesn't interest me–if I needed it for survival, I'd feel differently–but hunting for sport seems needlessly cruel and stupid.
But this book made me take up running, an activity I used to loathe unless it happened on a basketball court. I've always been basically athletic; I was a competitive swimmer in school, played basketball several times a week on some good Oakland courts through the latter half of the oughts, and ditched my car entirely in 2004 to be a full-time bicyclist in the Bay Area (I've since moved away and am driving a car again). But a once daily love of weed, along with various sedentary computer-oriented jobs–designing, editing and writing–just made running seem needlessly intense and ache-producing to me. Bicycling and swimming aren't weight bearing, and although swimming can be very cardiovascularly intense, you also never really sweat in the water, and it's easy to loaf and glide without feeling stupid. I don't like to jog, I like to run, and without working up to it, that meant I always felt vaguely dumb huffing along after 10 or 15 minutes.
Born to Run encouraged me to quit running on concrete, to run barefoot or in trail shoes, and to change entirely the mechanics of my running form. Hell, it even more or less led to me reading ultramarathoner Scott Jurek's book, Eat and Run, and then undertaking a year of eating (mostly) vegan.
I can't really say there have been many books that have had such a direct impact on my life. The Gift: Creativity and the Erotic Life of Property, by Lewis Hyde, The Ethical Slut, by Dossie Easton and Catherine Liszt, Alan Moore's Saga of the Swamp Thing, Vol. 2 (read as a teenager), and the non-fiction essays and commencement speeches of David Foster Wallace are maybe the only others with comparable direct impact.
And so I spent this past summer on the trails and in the lakes and ponds of Western Massachusetts with my dog-daughter, fighting past the early physical limits and aches, and exploring a vegan diet, which I didn't undertake in earnest until September. (I've since returned to eating omnivorously.)
I dislike and don't respect much of the subculture of veganism, in part because I lived in the Bay Area for many years and had to endure the self-righteous, puritanical, often passive-aggressive drivel of a lot of vegans in the area. I think a lot of it reduces to a reactionary politics of "ew" or "ick." To be clear, I appreciate and admire many other animals, even more than homo sapiens sapiens, and I think compassion for and understanding of other animals is a good and worthy thing to dedicate oneself too, but:
If you get your packaged, processed, chemical-ridden food from the industrial food system, and paid war taxes on your purchase, you've got no righteous leg to stand on. Nor does an intellectually honest look at the sentient (emotional, intelligent) life of plants or the true environmental impact of mass agriculture on wildlife and the biosphere permit those who don't eat animals any moral high ground or comfortable distance from "cruelty," as much as many of them would like to believe otherwise. Everything in the world eats something else to survive, and that something else, whether it runs on blood or chlorophyll, would always rather continue to live rather than become sustenance for another. No animal wants to be penned up and milked, or caged and harvested, and you've never seen plants growing in regimented lines of their own accord, or giving up life voluntarily at any point in their life-cycles.
Vegetarianism and veganism are respectable as dietary choices: If you don't want to eat something, don't eat it, great.
I would recommend only eating organic meat because, as a very recent article in the Scientific American about the rise of antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" notes:
"The threat of antibiotic resistance has become so dire that the United Nations General Assembly is holding a meeting to discuss it this month in New York City. Although WHO has been sounding the alarm on antibiotic resistance for years, this month's high-level U.N. meeting represents only the fourth time in the international body's history that its General Assembly—a global deliberative body that primarily grapples with issues like war and economics—has held a meeting to tackle a health topic […] When agricultural producers treat their healthy livestock or fish with antibiotics to help speed their growth and keep them healthy in subpar conditions, they are simultaneously fueling resistance that can sideline the drugs for human use."
If I were to have you over for a meal, I'd ask you in advance if you have any dietary preferences or restrictions, and would then plan a menu accordingly, and I'd be highly unlikely to give you any grief or interrogation over it. I'd just try to make the tastiest things that would please you, and would enjoy the process of cooking within certain limits. And, as a considered omnivore, I'd have no qualms with skipping meat for that meal if it wasn't to your liking.
I undertook this dietary change I'm writing about as a psychological, nutritional and culinary experiment, mostly in response to my understanding of our industrial food systems. I was curious to know how animal fat had impacted my satiety points, for one thing. I spent a good part of my teenage years homeless and experiencing scarcity of various kinds, and I remember how, especially in winter, almost nothing satisfied me into a pleasant coma-like stupor more than several pounds of fatty hamburger meat. I didn't have a refrigerator, so I'd cook it all up and eat it in one sitting before passing out for the night, utterly sated. To this day, especially at stressful times, I have a powerful desire to sate myself with even very bad meat.
Fat, and animal fat in particular, coats, and is satisfying in a base way few other things are. The manipulation of satiety points is a major component of our current industrial food system's behavior. And every caterer can tell you the three things that make people happy and satisfied at a catered event: fat, salt and sugar.
As it so happens, these are the three main things (along with calorie density, texture, free glutamate, and starch, among other things) that the food engineers employed by food manufacturers count on and aggressively manipulate in order to get customers hooked on their products.
"Important systems in the brain and body control appetite (the desire to eat), hunger (the physical manifestation of needing food), and satiety (feelings of fullness and satisfaction). These systems have done us very well for millennia.
However, these systems evolved in conditions of food scarcity and irregularity. They evolved when food was high-fibre, often high-protein, and high in naturally occurring "good" fats. And they evolved in conditions where we might have to trek many, many miles to get that food. We evolved to run after beasts, to scoop fish from streams and oceans, to scrabble roots out of the soil, and to pluck tiny berries from bushes as we walked and walked and walked. Sweetness signaled "good to eat" and "fruit." Salt came from the sea, or from the blood of animals freshly killed.
We did not, in other words, evolve to manage an overstimulating environment replete with artificial fats, mountains of sugar, constipatingly fibreless hunks of gluten, artificially generated scents that remind us of sizzling meat on a grill or fresh strawberries, nor a host of other chemicals that stimulate our reward pathways."
So I've wondered for a while how much of a product I am — how much my tastes and food satisfactions are the result of the manipulated realities presented by food manufacturers. I've known for a very long time that these manufacturers are mostly interested in profit, not my, the customer's/addict's, health or well-being. I've avoided high fructose corn syrup, refined sugar, white bread (unless it's part of a particularly tasty pastry or confection), and a host of other unhealthy things for a long time, and so this year's experiment is really a natural progression on my path. Everything I've made a study of related to food and nutrition leads me to the conclusion that the simplest and healthiest, minimally industrial dietary approach is: Eat what's grown naturally (no pesticides, hormones or antibiotics!), nearby, in-season, and lead an active life.
Making that happen takes some work, but it's great when the answer to something important turns out to be simple.


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Well I'm just back from an all-too-swift visit to Adelaide for the Tasting Australia festival of South Australian food. And I'm desperate to get back to South Australia, not just for the grub but to experience some of the fantastic animal encounters I heard about.
I was one of the lucky bloggers invited to attend 'Words To Go,' a day long conference for food and travel bloggers. We heard such interesting talks from many people, including Greg Snell, the young Canadian who is currently holding one of The Best Jobs In The World, that of Wildlife Caretaker for South Australia.
Greg showed us some of his videos and many photos and I quizzed him later about the trip I'd most love to do with my kids.
Snorkelling With Sea Lions off South Australia
Greg said that swimming with sea lions was the most interactive animal experience he'd had in his life. I'm keen to jump into the water and come nose to nose with these beautiful sea mammals. Greg recommends Adventure Bay Charters in Port Lincoln and Baird Bat Eco Experience.
Here's a photo of Greg from his blog Greg Goes Global. Pop over and check out his photos and videos, you'll love them
And where are these places? No idea! Here's a Google map of Port Lincoln. Doesn't look too far from Adelaide at all. Can't stop… off to pack up my snorkel, kids, flippersand wetsuit.
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I've been reading a bit more about Responsible Tourism. Can I introduce you to a couple of organisations:
The World Tourism Organisation – the United Nations agency responsible for the promotion of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism.
The Ethics and Social Responsibility Programme (ESRP) of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) – is tasked with the promotion of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism.
I read a blog post in the marvellous Going Anyway blog about hill tribes in Thailand, and it sounded like a good example of responsible tourism. Read it here.
The Going Anyway family organised their stay with a company called Natural Focus, so I had a look at their website and liked what I read:
'We believe that Community Based Tourism provides an opportunity to exchange knowledge and understanding between visitors and the local community, and promotes local cultures and the natural environment.'
So much to learn, about responsible tourism and about this big, wide and beautiful world we have the privilege to inhabit.
I'll leave you today with a quote that I read this week and just had to immediately write down. A sailing analogy always goes down very well with me. I spent my childhood and young adulthood mucking around in sailing boats.
Do you have constant itchy feet like me?
Hope you have a happy weekend.
Safe travels.


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NEW YORK -- Sixteen years ago, a 19-year-old Yugoslavian named Monica Seles was stabbed in the back during a changeover in Hamburg, Germany.
The physical and emotional damage kept her from the game for more than two years. After missing 10 major tournaments, she returned here in New York and advanced to the 1995 final, losing to Steffi Graf. Seles returned to the top in triumphant fashion four months later, winning the Australian Open title.
On Sunday night, Kim Clijsters did Seles one better. In July 2007, she left the game to get married and give birth to a daughter. Forty-four days ago, after missing the last 10 majors, Clijsters came back in Cincinnati.
And now, 14 matches and three tournaments into her comeback she is the 2009 U.S. Open champion. With Jada Ellie, a riot of blonde curls, pink pacifier and kinetic energy looking on, Clijsters became the first mother to win a major title since Evonne Goolagong won Wimbledon 29 years ago.
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Before she hit the final serve, she pressed her left wristband -- the one that covers the tattooed words "Jada" -- to her lips. Soon, an overhead was the end of 19-year-old Caroline Wozniacki, 7-5, 6-3. And then Clijsters fell to her knees.
"We tried to plan her naptime a little bit later so she could be here," Clijsters said.
At this point, the cameras cut to Jada. When she saw herself on the big screen in Arthur Ashe, she started pointing at her own image.
"It's the greatest feeling in the world being a mother," Clijsters said. "She's enjoyed being in New York. We've tried to keep it really fun, and that's helped me to keep my mind off all the craziness."
Ah, the craziness. Twenty-four hours after her semifinal match with Serena Williams ended in a wrenching rage, the 26-year-old Belgian struck a blow for sweetness and light. Melanie Oudin, the 17-year-old from Georgia, was a lovely storyline, but she departed in the quarterfinals. This felt more like the stuff of legend.
Clijsters, who hasn't played enough to merit an official ranking from the Sony Ericsson WTA, was given a wild card into the tournament by the USTA.
The champion here in 2005, Clijsters did not play the past three U.S. Opens. So she is a perfect 14-0 in back-to-back appearances here at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. There was a newfound poise in the player who had reached 12 previous major semifinals and come away with only that championship.
"It was incredible," Wozniacki said of her first trip past the fourth round of a major. "She's such a great girl. I'm so excited she came back -- unfortunately she beat me today."
There was virtually no conceivable circumstance in which the women's final could surpass the semifinal that preceded it.
Even on a weekend usually dominated by college football and the opening of the NFL season, Serena Williams' abrupt and angry departure generated spectacular heat in the world of sports. A chain of unimaginable events -- a foot fault on the penultimate point, a violent outburst of threatening language and menacing gestures toward the lineswoman who called it and an obligatory point penalty -- gave Clijsters the match and immediately made the final, in some people's minds, an anticlimactic exercise.
Three years ago, Clijsters played doubles with a 16-year-old wild card in a Hong Kong exhibition. Her name was Caroline Wozniacki.
"Just by the way she was hitting the ball, you could just tell that she was going to be a rising star," Clijsters said. "She's shown that in her results."
Wozniacki is a delightful personality. She has played more matches this year (80) and won more (62) than any other woman, and is complete in all phases of the game. But while Clijsters is a knockout artist, Wozniacki is strictly a counterpuncher.
After losing in the fourth round at Wimbledon, she followed some advice from her friend Mikkel Kessler, the current WBA super middleweight champion, and began working with trainer Poul Duville. Wozniacki followed the boxer's regimen of working the treadmill and throwing a passel of punches -- first to Duville's big soft catching mitts, later to his midsection as they sparred.
"I've become faster, more lean, stronger," Wozniacki said at the New Haven tournament. "That really helps my game, because in pressure situations out on the court, I still am able to hit the ball back strongly."
Oddsmakers installed Clijsters as a 1-5 favorite. The only real question going in was whether Wozniacki could hang in long enough on rallies to get an unforced error out of Clijsters in breezy conditions.
[+] EnlargeAl Bello/Getty ImagesWho would have thought Kim Clijsters could have won the U.S. Open in only her third tournament since returning to tour?
The early returns were impressive.
Clijsters scored the first break of serve seven minutes into the match, but Wozniacki converted the fifth opportunity a game later to get back on serve and ran off three straight games. She broke Clijsters' serve three times in the first set, but lost the war.
Clijsters, showing patience she may have gained with motherhood, broke Wozniacki when she was trying to skate into a tiebreaker. The second set never seemed to be an issue.
Serena got a whiff of Clijsters' level when the Belgian beat reigning French Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova a month ago in Cincinnati -- in only the third match after her sabbatical.
Even Roger Federer, on the eve of his final quest to win six straight U.S. Open titles, planned to watch the match.
"Coming back from just having sort of a -- not even a month's lead-up until the U.S. Open," Federer said. "For her to have this incredible run is fantastic. This is a great story for women's tennis, that's for sure."
Clijsters' ranking is projected to be in the top 20.
Winning the U.S. Open was, she said, "Not really our plan. I just wanted to get back into the rhythms of tennis."
After the trophy presentation, Jada Ellie finally escaped from the adult laps that had contained her enthusiasm for so long and ran around on the blue court at Arthur Ashe. She helped her mother hold the trophy and posed with Mom and Dad (Brian Lynch, who played basketball at Villanova).
This was supposed to be Clijsters' show, but Jada Ellie very definitely stole it, cavorting for the cameras, waving and tearing around on her unsteady feet.
Said Clijsters, "I'm excited to go home and live the normal family life again."
Greg Garber is a senior writer for ESPN.com.
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Olympique de Marseille boss Elie Baup insists "anything is possible" as his side prepare to entertain Paris Saint-Germain in the first Classique of the season on Sunday.
Just a point separates the two sides in the Ligue 1 table after eight games, although PSG head into the encounter off the back of a convincing 3-0 Champions League win over Benfica, while Marseille suffered defeat by the same scoreline against Borussia Dortmund.
However, Baup has stressed that his side's European form will have no bearing on Sunday's clash, which he believes will be a special occasion for everyone concerned with the club.
"This is like a final, it's very special," he told reporters at a press conference.
"This is a great game for the whole club, our fans, our players. We need to put all our heart into this game.
"During a complete season, we know that Paris is the favourite for the league and it will be difficult for a team to contest that, but in a home game, anything is possible.
"The defeats [to Dortmund and Arsenal] have consequences for the Champions League. Now, we must get back to Ligue 1, which is our priority. We've had two consecutive victories [against Lorient and Saint-Etienne], we're hosting the league favourites, so we have every reason to be motivated for this game."
Baup has warned that PSG will be rightly confident heading into the game after their midweek win over Jorge Jesus' side, but insists his players must not be overawed against Laurent Blanc's expensively-assembled squad.
"Teams like Paris and Monaco have financial power that means we play against very big players who've been attracted to join these clubs. But we have to face that by transcending it, showing the best values which correspond to our club," added the 58-year-old.
"PSG won 3-0 against a good team. They would be wrong to not be confident. For them, that's not complacency, it is part of the logic of what they are doing."


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With no indication that a six-month-old federal spam law is lowering the tide of unwanted commercial e-mail, the Federal Trade Commission is considering a n= ew approach that would put spammers in the same category as coyotes, rats and nutria by putting a bounty on their heads.
The prize for= a spammer's virtual pelt? A hefty percentage of whatever civil penalty the FT= C is eventually able to collect based on the information. And with the agency li= kely to seek multimillion-dollar penalties against egregious violators, such as those who "hijack" other people's computers and use them to distribute spam, that's not chump change.
While CAN-Spa= m, which took effect on Jan. 1, doesn't bar unsolicited e-mail, it does require e-mail marketers to use accurate headers and subject lines, label adult con= tent and provide consumers with the ability to "opt out" of future mailings.
As outlined in CAN-Spam, the bounty system would offer a person who first identifies someo= ne violating the law's provisions a reward of "not less than 20 percent = of the total civil penalty collected" by the FTC.
The FTC is compiling and reviewing expert testimony on the bounty plan and will report back to Congress by September on whether the idea is viable. The study was mandated by a little-noticed 11th-hour addition to the law by Se= n. Jon Corzine, D-N.J., and Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif.
Approval far from certain<= br> The idea of a bounty system was popularized by Stanford Law School professor and Internet visionary Lawrence Lessig as a way of harnessing the vast volunteer anti-spam community that already exists online.
"If the vigilantes who are working so hard to keep lists of offending e-mail servers were to turn their energy to identifying and tracking down spammers, then t= his passion to rid the world of spam might actually begin to pay off -- both for the public and for the bounty hunters," Lessig= span> wrote in a Sept. 16, 2002 column.
But the plan = has come under criticism from both sides of the spam spectrum, and it is unclear whether the FTC staff will recommend that it should be implemented. Last mo= nth, the commission staff said another plan aimed at strengthening CAN-Spam -- creation of a do-not-spam reg= istry similar to the do-not-call list for telemarketers –- would fail witho= ut a system in place to authenticate the origin of e-mail messages and could even result in an increase in the amount of spam received by consumers.
Critics of the bounty plan say they hope it meets a similar fate.
"ItR= 17;s a terrible idea," said Steve Linford, the founder of Spamhaus.org and keeper of the ROKSO registry of notorious spamm= ers. "It would be great if nobody knew who the spammers were, but the FTC already has so much information on their identities that to get anymore wou= ld be useless."
Nor does the = idea of a rewarding anti-spam activists sit well with those on the other side of= the philosophical fence.
"It wou= ld promote vigilantism on the Net and it probably would not catch any bad guys," said Louis Mastria, spokesman for = the Direct Mail Association, a trade association that represents nearly 500 dir= ect mailers and marketers. "If spammers are difficult for the FTC, the FB= I, the state attorneys general and even ISPs to track down, it's difficu= lt to imagine that I can sit at home one day and say 'I'm going to hunt me down a spammer.'"
Mastria also said he feared that frustrated spammer h= unters would instead engage in "finger pointing" at law-abiding e-mail= ers.
"They= 8217;ll say that instead of tracking down the person who's hurting the system, I'll go after the person I can find," he said. "That makes for a bad system."
No sign spam growth is slowing
Meanwhile, the larger debate as to whether CAN-Spam has had any effect = on reducing overall unwanted e-mail rages on.
"CAN-Sp= am has been a completely predictable failure," said Jason Catlett, presi= dent of Junkbusters, an anti-spam advocacy group. "The marketers who wrote the law and the lobbyists from Microsoft, Ya= hoo and AOL assured that the world would be safe for junk e-mailers. It's= a great tragedy." (MSNBC is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC News).=
Catlett and others spam opponents point to statistics such as the May report from anti-= spam technology vendor Brightmail showing that spam accounted for 64 percent of all e-mail for the month, unchanged from the previous month but well above the 49 percent figure of a year ago.
Other e-mail security firms say the picture is even darker, with Me= ssageLabs recording a "global spam ratio" of 76 percent in May, and Postini Inc. President and CEO Shinya Akamine testified before a Senate committee last month that spam now accounts for as much as 83 percent of all e-mail on some days.
Tom Gillis, senior vice president of marketing for the e-mail security firm IronPort Systems, said outlaw spammers also are incre= asing their use of compromised "zombie" computers to send their junk e-mail to make it harder for authorities to track them.
"A year= ago 33 percent of all spam was coming from zombies. The latest number I saw was= 66 percent," he said.
Supporters see quiet progress=
But supporters of CAN-Spam, as well as the authors of the bill, Sens. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., a= rgue that the legislation was not intended to be a "silver bullet" solution to spam and is quietly doing its part to turn the tide.
"ItR= 17;s one weapon in the arsenal," said Carol Guthrie, a spokeswoman for Wyd= en. "Senator Wyden and Senator Burns have always said that CAN-Spam was o= nly one component in the fight against spam, along with technology advances and= international cooperation to deal with offshore spamming."
CAN-Spam advocates also say that lawsuits filed by major ISPs in March and complaints lodged by the FTC in April are sending the message that e-mailers who don't comply with the law are risking serious financial repercussions= .
Only one of t= hose cases has been resolved so far: Yahoo announced on June 10 that it had sett= led a lawsuit against Eric Hea= d, a 25-year-old bulk e-mailer from Kitchener, Ontario, who was accused of sen= ding as many as 94 million e-mails in a single month to Yahoo e-mail users. Head agreed to shut down his Gold Disk Canada and pay Yahoo "a sum in the six-figure range," according to a company statement.
The stakes for outlaw spammers are likely to go up in coming months.
Jana Monroe, = of the FBI's Cyber Division, testified last month before Congress that t= he bureau is "actively pursuing criminal and in some cases joint civil proceedings" against 50 spammers -- including three groups that may constitute organized criminal enterprises –- and is likely to act bef= ore the end of the year.
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Duerheimer, a former Porsche board member for R&D and most recently named as Bentley CEO and Volkswagen Group motorsport chief has made no secret that he sees potential in a bid for participation in Formula 1. The sport's strong fan base in critical markets, namely Europe and Asia, have placed it very much on the executive's short list of worthy racing endeavors for multiple brands within the vast Volkswagen Group portfolio.
Back in January Duerheimer made some interesting comments confirming the interest to WirtschaftsWoche.
"I will introduce my concept later this year and put forward proposals that affect not only the racing series in which we are currently involved in. In terms of the planned sales of the VW group in the Americas, Asia and the Middle East, we are not sufficiently represented in motorsport in these areas. In my view, this must be corrected.
F1 is by far the most relevant and dominates the racing scene in Europe and Asia," he added, "'it's far from visible [in the US], but they have IndyCar and Nascar racing. These race series must [also] be examined in the context of a future strategy."


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Protests in Egypt continue to make headlines across the globe today, but not everyone is getting the same story. Take a look at this morning's (8:00am CDT) top story from the web feeds of two leading news agencies on opposite sides of the Atlantic: the AP in the United States, and the BBC in the United Kingdom.
AP "Top Headlines" Feed (archived | live):
Gangs free militants, foreigners try to flee Egypt
"Gangs of armed men attacked at least four jails across Egypt before dawn Sunday, helping to free hundreds of Muslim militants and thousands of other inmates as police vanished from the streets of Cairo and other cities." (article)
BBC "Top Stories" Feed (archived | live):
Protesters dominate central Cairo
"Anti-government protesters take over the centre of the Egyptian capital Cairo, as armed citizens' groups form to counter widespread looting." (article)
These stories naturally each go on at length, but I've only copied the headline and summary broadcast by each organization's RSS/Atom feed. Often, this is all that subscribers glance at anyway.
Although both reports are rooted in fact, the difference in emphasis is startling. The AP headline, "Gangs free militants, foreigners try to flee Egypt," stresses chaos, danger, and crime. The less sensational BBC headline, "Protesters dominate central Cairo," stresses the scope of protest — a human right. You might say that the BBC emphasizes "civil" and the AP emphasizes "disobedience."
The summaries show even more contrast. The AP raises the familiar American terror of "Muslim militants" freed by "gangs of armed men", whereas the BBC recognizes "armed citizens' groups." These are not instances of using different terms to refer to the same thing; the focus is on different facts altogether. The facts are, however, related: the AP establishes that "police vanished from the streets," stressing a descent into chaos, while the BBC confirms that "citizens' groups form to counter widespread looting," stressing the people's positive attempts to maintain order.
What I've described is only one isolated example of the disparate perspectives that can arise between two supposedly neutral and objective news agencies. The Internet's deleterious effects on our attention spans might exaggerate these differences, for when news writers compress complicated stories into one-sentence blurbs for syndication, they're likely to concentrate their biases too. Thankfully, the Internet also provides readers with mechanisms for dealing with bias: we can subscribe to a dozen feeds like this from around the world and gain diverse perspectives on every issue, we can click "read more" for the full story, and we can discuss the news on blogs or social networks. The Internet gives us more tools for making sense of the world than ever before — and more reason to use the tools it gives us.
The Transportation Security Administration has triggered a media frenzy over its highly-publicized new screening requirements for U.S. airline passengers. Despite the controversy in the press, however, a recent CBS poll shows that fully 81% of Americans support the new scans. This is a remarkable example of how irrational fear — one might call it "terror" — has succeeded at making Americans into obedient subjects for an increasingly totalitarian government.
Yes, I said irrational fear. Considered logically, the idea that Americans must give up the right to the privacy of their own bodies in the name of public safety is ludicrous. The role of security ought to be to defend individual dignity, not take it away. If we are willing to surrender access to our own bodies, then what's left to keep secure? Lives? That sounds noble, but compare the statistics:
The irrefutable fact is that Americans are surrendering their rights for a security procedure that doesn't even address the biggest risks of flying — and flying is already safer than nearly anything you could do on the ground. The new screenings are essentially just security theater — procedures that create a feeling of safety while offering little protection against real-world threats.
The new security procedures in the US, for example, would not have stopped any of the aviation terrorist plots that have been attempted since September 11, 2001. The notorious "shoe-bomber" and "underwear-bomber," both of whom failed to do any harm, each boarded their flights outside the United States. The most recent foiled attack, involving explosive-filled HP printers sent from Yemen, featured bombs sent as cargo, not carried by passengers. In each incident, the attacks were prevented by good intelligence gathering or swift action aboard the planes — never by the mass screening of either cargo or passengers.
Likewise, while the September 11th hijackers succeeded in their terrible attack nine years ago, they did so in an era when cockpit doors were insecure and airline passengers were allowed to carry box-cutters aboard flights. Security officials fixed those weaknesses long ago, and no one is suggesting a return to pre-9/11 screening standards. The problem is that the TSA has not been content to rest with past improvements, and it has now begun to violate the privacy of millions of Americans for an imperceptible increase in public safety.
Still, you may hold that every increase in security is justified, no matter how small, if it can save even a single innocent life. No one would dispute that we should prevent every death we can — but at what cost?
Should the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration require every American to submit to a full-body search and sobriety check before entering a motor vehicle? That would prevent more deaths than the current airport screenings.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — A bipartisan group of 37 senators today announced support for the "Restoring Freedom in American Democracy Act," introduced last week by senators Lewis Clark (R-Missouri) and Candy Cain (D-Nevada). If passed, the legislation would hand over responsibility for conducting federal elections to private companies. Supporters of the bill say it will help reduce government spending and ensure fairer, more efficient elections. Critics call the measure unconstitutional and fear it could disrupt voter rights.
"It's time we end this socialist system of state-run elections and take government out of our God-given right to vote," said Sen. Clark to cheers on Capitol Hill. "America needs to live up to its ideals of freedom and open its elections to the free market."
The proposed bill would create a streamlined process for companies to secure authority to register voters, print ballots, operate polling places, and tabulate federal election results on a state-by-state basis. Officials hope competition between polling companies in each state will encourage greater efficiency on election day.
"We've all experienced long lines at the polls and late nights waiting for results on MSNBC," explained Sen. Cain. "We can each remember the mess between Bush and Gore in Florida in 2000, or between Palin and Obama in 2012. The states just don't do a very good job of running elections, and taxpayers will save money by allowing businesses to take over the polls."
Wall Street welcomed the introduction of the bill, which coincided with the IPO of VoteRight, Inc. "Investors are very interested in this opportunity," said Chuck Burgess, CEO of VoteRight. "Over 100 million people voted last year," he added giddily, "and that could translate into more than a billion dollars in registration fees and ballot charges as voters enter the private polling market."
Critics attacked the idea of for-profit polling companies, alleging that fees could prevent poor people and minorities from voting. That didn't bother Joe Montgomery, a mechanic from Oklahoma City. "I don't see why my tax dollars should go to print ballots for people who aren't contributing to the system," said Montgomery. "I'd rather pay up front to cast my vote than pay taxes that subsidize voters who don't agree with me, politically."
Others weren't so sure. "What about rural voters?" asked Audrey Teasdale, a rancher in South Dakota. "It'll never be profitable for businesses to set up polls out here. I'll have to drive hours just to find an open polling place."
Chuck Burgess tried to allay concerns. "VoteRight will bring new frontiers of customer convenience to the election market," he said. "Consumers will be able to vote over the phone with a credit card, or buy as many ballots as they want in the mail. We can keep fees low by letting candidates bid for advertising space. Most people will be able to afford two or three votes each election day. That's a better deal than they're getting now, really."
Americans in several cities are planning silent vigils to protest the legislation. Asked about their concerns, they said nothing.
Sen. Clark was unfazed by the opposition. "Real Americans want this reform, because they've seen that elections in our country have been a scam for too long." Clark won election in Missouri in 2012 with over 60% of the popular vote. "I love America, but the current system is broken. I was shocked, absolutely horrified, when I first learned that when we vote for government officials, we trust the government itself to certify the results! It just doesn't make sense. That kind of thing needs to be done by reliable, independent businesses operating in a competitive atmosphere."
Clark's remarks led at least one opponent, Bernard J. Wolfe, a 58 year old government worker in Kansas City who asked to remain anonymous, to call the senator "that good for nothing son of a bitching sell-out pig." Most citizens, however, seem indifferent to the proposed changes.
"I don't see what all the fuss is about," said Kelly White, a student at Kent State University in Ohio. "Like no one I know votes anyway."
A 2007 photograph shows a North Carolina memorial for U.S. casualties in the Iraq War. Since then, the American death toll has risen from 3883 to 4426, and classified death counts revealed by WikiLeaks put the total documented deaths from 2004 to 2009, including civilians, at 109,032.
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Nearly 400,000 classified U.S. military documents made public today by WikiLeaks show that the United States lied about civilian death counts and made a policy of not investigating torture allegations during the Iraq War.
Major global newspapers including the New York Times, The Guardian, and Le Monde had early access to the classified material. The British Bureau for Investigative Journalism has also created a detailed website about the Iraq War Logs.
Although the Pentagon previously denied that it kept records of civilian deaths, the classified war logs document the deaths of 66,081 Iraqi civilians from 2004 to 2009, out of a total 109,032. These numbers fit estimates by the Iraq Body Count project, which the New York Times reminds us is an organization that the "Bush administration repeatedly derided as unreliable and producing inflated numbers." The Times also notes that as late as this summer, the Pentagon reported an official death count far lower than the numbers now revealed in the classified war logs.
The leaked documents also reveal that the U.S. made a policy of ignoring incidents of prisoner abuse and torture committed by Iraqi security forces. American Troops were required to report such abuse to their superiors, but military officials were not required to investigate reports of torture unless Americans had actually taken part. This led the U.S. to cover its eyes to over 1000 reports of abuse by the very Iraqi security forces that the U.S. has been backing up and training to take control of the country.
Incidents that the United States ignored included reports of "men and women blindfolded, beaten with cables, their genitals electrocuted, fingernails ripped out, sodomised with bottles and hoses" (IraqWarLogs.com) and "prisoners shackled, blindfolded and hung by wrists or ankles, and subjected to whipping, punching, kicking or electric shocks" as well as "rape and even murder" (The Guardian). Despite knowledge of this widespread torture, the United States transfered at least 9,250 detainees to Iraqi supervision as late as 2010, despite a written 2008 campaign pledge that "Barack Obama will end the use torture without exception" (PolitiFact.com). The lack of real change from the Obama Administration is not surprising given Obama's choice to maintain Bush appointee Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense.
When Britain's Bureau for Investigative Journalism sent a letter to the Pentagon asking for comment on the allegation that "the US Government handed over detainees to Iraqi authorities, knowing of concerns that torture was rife in Iraqi detention facilities," the Pentagon replied only to say:
"We strongly condemn the unauthorised disclosure of classified information and will not comment on these leaked documents other than to note that 'significant activities' reports are initial, raw observations by tactical units. They are essentially snapshots of events, both tragic and mundane, and do not tell the whole story. That said, the period covered by these reports has been well-chronicled in news stories, books and films and the release of these field reports does not bring new understanding to Iraq's past." (IraqWarLogs.com)
As an American citizen, I abhor that my country has tacitly allowed these sickening human rights violations to take place by under-reporting casualties and failing to investigate clear reports of torture and abuse. I cannot and will not give my support to any politician or official who enables this disgusting degradation of human life to continue.
Recent publicity suggests that the Pentagon is in the midst of a P.R. campaign to shape media coverage in advance of an imminently expected release of secret Iraq War documents from the whistleblower website WikiLeaks.
Founded in 2006, Wikileaks became a household name in April 2010 when it released classified video footage of U.S. troops firing unprovoked at Reuters journalists and even children from an Apache helicopter in Iraq. In July, WikiLeaks followed by publishing the Afghan War Diary, a cache of tens of thousands of reports on military incidents during the War in Afghanistan.
U.S. Military representatives criticized WikiLeaks over these releases, declaring them a security risk and even suggesting that WikiLeaks "might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family." WikiLeaks and its supporters have countered that the Pentagon certainly has blood on its hands, and that the documents may even help save lives by prompting public discussion about bringing an end to America's ongoing wars.
Now WikiLeaks is preparing to release a new and even larger set of documents pertaining to the Iraq War. The leak is widely expected this week and may come as early as today. Interestingly, the Pentagon appears to have engaged in a preemptive public relations campaign over the weekend to try and shape press coverage in advance of the release. If so, it's a fascinating example example of government media management.


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Requires knowledge and experience in own discipline; still acquiring higher-level knowledge and skills. Builds knowledge of the company, processes and customers. Solves a range of straightforward problems. Analyzes possible solutions using standard procedures. Receives a moderate level of guidance and direction.
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Analyzes and maintains master scheduling and/or slotting reports and measurements; runs and reports on metrics.
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Publishes System Production Report & Change Summary. Manages order pull in / push outs including capacity constraint analysis. Provides input to milestone / routing creation and build plan.
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Coordinates with marketing to ensure opportunities and sales orders are set up correctly in Oracle. Coordinates schedule transition between pilot and volume manufacturing as well as other business groups.
Works with engineers and material project managers to create and manage planning boms to include bill of material changes, and the creation of item numbers.
Monitors and maintains planning boms to support the production schedule. Supports material analysis for inside lead time requests, as needed
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(April 22, 2014) Berkeley Lab employees rallied around the Earth Day call for selfies from NASA to support its goal of creating a new portrait of our planet using photos of people. A new "The Earth" mosaic image and a video using the images will be put together and released in May by NASA.
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Markets are holding their breath waiting for clarity from the Trump economic team. Right now there is something for everyone.
The current stock market rally is clearly attributable to the Trump mix of lower taxes, less regulation and more government spending. Post-election bond markets have indicated inflation expectations. And the drawdown in gold is clearly attributable to the expectation of higher interest rates.
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It is here that variable means vulnerable. It is in the drylands of Africa, more than anywhere, that climate change and climate variability are leaving their permanent, pernicious mark. In a cruel cascade of events, variability turns out to mean vulnerability. The regions are succumbing to a series of extreme climate events. Rainy seasons are becoming shorter, periods of drought longer. Land is degrading, eroding. Soils are impoverished, and no longer fertile. Shorn of their cover, their rate of evapotranspiration is rising and rainfall, whilst often more intense, is falling in volume. The relationship between climate change and desertification is stark: one provokes the other. The risk is more than 'just' environmental. Rural livelihoods are under pressure. Shrinking harvests and water shortages are making paupers of rural communities, exposing them to conflicts on water access, to migration, to hunger, to epidemics … For centuries, the communities of the region have made traditions of their innovations in adaptation. Can those techniques be relevant today? What could be their long-term impact? Is adaptation indeed one way to mitigate Africa's state of growing vulnerability? And what shared solutions can we realistically expect from the world's two environmental conventions - UNCCD and UNFCCC - together?
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Anglo-Saxon name Fairman comes from the given names Firmin, Farman or Ferman.
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Kara's top three behavioral challenges she faces when helping confidence-challenged workers prepare for their retirement.
How long will I live?: Something Prudential has learned from its study of human behavior is that we don't recognize our future selves. We see that person as a stranger. Hence, we are not as compelled to invest in the security of that future self as we are to react to more immediate financial needs.
I'll do it later: Most of us grossly underestimate how long a retirement we will have to finance. For many it could be more than 30 years. Understanding that saving right now and enough, consistently over an entire career, is the next challenge to creating a secure retirement.
I want it now: Understanding how today's savings will translate into monthly income at retirement that won't run out is key. Think of it as deferred gratification. Saving early through a wise mix of investment options that provide broad diversification with a guaranteed income feature could go a long way to help ensure an adequate steady stream of retirement income later.


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Study bolsters CSI technology to treat heart blockages
- Article by: James Walsh
- Star Tribune
- March 11, 2013 - 9:32 PM
A recent study from St. Paul-based Cardiovascular Systems Inc. shows that its technology that sands away calcified lesions in coronary arteries is safe and effective in the vast majority of procedures, a breakthrough that could lead to more effective treatment for patients with coronary artery disease.
The company's orbital atherectomy technology is designed to use a rotating diamond-tipped device to safely chip off hard, calcified blockages in the blood vessels that supply the heart. Nearly 90 percent of patients who received the Cardiovascular Systems Inc. (CSI) treatment suffered no adverse coronary event — a heart attack, hospitalization or death — within 30 days. Stents to keep arteries open were successfully implanted 98 percent of the time, said Dr. Jeffrey Chambers of Metropolitan Heart and Vascular Institute, who presented the ORBIT II study results at the American College of Cardiology conference in San Francisco over the weekend.
"We are extremely excited about the results," he said. "It will be a way to treat people we haven't been able to treat before."
Company officials plan to submit their application for approval by the Food and Drug Administration by the end of March. Analysts said Monday that FDA approval could come this year and would tap into a segment worth an estimated $1.5 billion or more in the United States each year.
"This will greatly expand the market opportunity for the company," Feltl and Co. analyst Ben C. Haynor wrote in a note to investors Monday. CSI, which is traded on Nasdaq, saw its share price climb more than 16 percent to close at $19.23 Monday.
Coronary artery disease is a leading cause of death in men and women in the United States and occurs when fatty material — called plaque — builds up on the walls of arteries that supply blood to the heart. The plaque buildup causes the arteries to harden and narrow, reducing blood flow. The condition affects an estimated 16.8 million people in the United States and is the most common form of heart disease.
Calcium presents problems
Moderate to severe arterial calcium is present in nearly 40 percent of patients who need a balloon angioplasty to open blocked arteries and a stent to keep them open. Such calcium makes it harder to clear away plaque, and patients with moderate to severe calcification have higher rates of death and major coronary complications.
The study showed that CSI's procedure had an overall success rate of 89.1 percent, compared to a goal of 82 percent. Orbit II participants suffered a heart attack in 9.7 percent of cases, versus rates of 19.8 percent to 25.8 percent in past studies. The study saw a 0.2 percent cardiac death rate versus 1.5 percent to 2.6 percent in past studies, Chambers said.
The study involved 443 patients at 49 U.S. medical centers in November 2012. More than half of the patients had diabetes or a coronary artery bypass graft and nearly two-thirds were smokers.
"ORBIT II represents the only study to-date of this hard-to-treat patient population," Chambers said. "Past studies haven't attempted to treat severely calcified lesions, due to the challenge of meeting endpoints and overall treatment success."
David L. Martin, CSI president and chief executive officer, said he is excited by the opportunity to help an underserved population.
"Some people refer to calcium as a rockpile," he said. "It is an impossible place to deploy a balloon or use stent technology."
Many patients with severe calcified blockages have little more than medication available to them, Martin said. That could change with FDA approval, he said.
"We are ready and customers are ready and certainly patients are in need," he said. "We will be poised to have a quality-controlled introduction of our device when we are cleared."
James Walsh • 612-673-7428
© 2018 Star Tribune


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This week's interview is with Sue Fudge, of Fudges Biscuits. She tells us about her dark chocolate florentines, 'bic-nics' and Sunday tea!
What inspired you to start Fudges? To carry on Granddad Percy's legacy was a natural progression for us. To continue baking fine products, develop new biscuits and bring things up to date was in our blood and a way of life, so a desire to keep the family name going was all the inspiration we needed.
Who taught you to cook? My lovely mum. My twin brother and I always helped her make cakes on a Sunday afternoon ready for tea, and the science of food was taught to me at school by the amazing Mrs Ray (this was the only subject I got Grade A in at O Levels!)
What's your favourite biscuit? It has to be our Dark Chocolate Florentines
My favourite thing to make is… something from nothing! As well as baking, I'm also a huge fan of crafting – I recently made a beautiful basket with materials gathered from the hedgerows.
My favourite thing to eat is… local creamy cheeses served with our biscuits (of course), a little homemade chutney and fruit.
You wouldn't know it, but I… used to be a state registered nurse!
The greatest meal in the world is… Christmas lunch – all those spices and aromas and best of all, sharing it with the whole family
The meaning of life is… to give life!!! But I think we are meant to try and do the best we can in whatever we do, whether that's at work, looking out for one another and also treasuring our family and the world around us.
If I could have one wish it would be… for my parents to meet their great grandchildren and to share in the Fudges experience as it is today. They helped us so much in the early days.
The most amazing feeling in the world is… finishing a project!!!
My favourite place is… Durlston Head near Swanage – to sit looking out to sea with a flask of coffee and my favourite Fudges biccies. It's the perfect place for a 'Bicnic'!
My earliest foodie memory is… Sunday tea. What a choice! What a feast!
The best advice I was ever given is/was… be what you are and don't try to be someone you are not. Be true to yourself; work hard too, as there is definitely no such thing as a free lunch.
Where can we buy your biscuits? Everywhere!!! Our biscuits are available at Asda, Tesco, Waitrose and hundreds of farm shops and delicatessens across the country. Or you can buy direct from our online shop at www.fudges.co.uk


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9/11 Trial Scapegoat
Published: April 18, 2006
To the Editor:
Re ''Right Trial, Wrong Defendant'' (Op-Ed, April 11):
I agree with John Farmer that the worst thing would be to execute Zacarias Moussaoui because he had no direct link to 9/11 and because his execution would make him a hero and a martyr in his own mind and in those of like-minded individuals, whose numbers appear to be growing daily.
Mr. Farmer's more interesting and worrying point is, Why hasn't the government brought those far more culpable to trial? One has to wonder whether it is indeed ''one more symptom of a lack of coherent policy,'' or if this scapegoating is because there is something that the government would rather we didn't know.
Given past performance, we can't help but suspect the latter.
Susan A. McGregor
Kingston, R.I., April 11, 2006


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The wind-whipped fire destroyed some downtown buildings in Wanaque and left many residents without their homes.
At least six families have been dealt a terrible blow, losing almost everything that they own.
The wind played a critical role in how firefighters approached the blaze, especially in their efforts to prevent its spread to other buildings.
"The wind is playing havoc, as you can see, with the smoke coming up," Wanaque police Captain Tom Norton said. "It's going to be a long day...Avenue closed. We're going to have to take this building down, little by little to check for hotspots."
The fire started in the lower level of a store and quickly spread to three other structures.
At its peak, more than 250 firefighters from seven different towns were on the scene.
At this point, no serious injuries were reported. Three people were treated for smoke inhalation, and one firefighter suffered minor injuries.
What's left of buildings destroyed by the fire is already being razed.
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The American sprinter, who heads Bolt in this year's world 100m and 200m rankings with times of 9.75sec and 19.74sec, has the opportunity to go even quicker when he opens his European campaign in the 100m at Thursday's Diamond League meeting in Lausanne.
"After surgery and all the little injuries here and there that were nagging for so long, it's finally over and done with," said Gay.
"I have no excuses now. I have no pain. I'm feeling good and I'm over the mental problems of always being injured."


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Instead of The Man With No Name, the protagonist of this year's annual Legislative Correspondents Show has one of the most famous names in Albany: "A Fistful of Cuomos" has it all — wit, pageantry, lyricists trying to find a rhyme for "hydrofrack," the occasional drag performance, and the best damn singing by journalists this side of the Inner Circle Show.
This year's crop of musical satires are polished to near-perfection and ready for rehearsal. As someone privy to these compositions, I can say without contradiction that the songs to be performed in this year's revue are among the best in the show's august 111-year history. (I checked.)
Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos will deliver a rebuttal at the event, which makes its grand return to the Empire State Plaza Convention Center on Saturday, May 7. Tickets to the black-tie dinner and performance are now on sale: For information, call (518) 455-2388.
As usual, the LCA will perform an open dress rehearsal at 8 p.m. Friday, May 6. This year's open rehearsal will benefit the Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York. Tickets are free, but please bring a nonperishable food item, or make an optional donation.
If you're attending the Saturday-night gala before, your invitation should have arrived late last week. If you're a newbie, drop by the LCA room on the third floor of the Capitol for an invitation — suitable for framing or hanging on the fridge.
For those who might be saying, "Aw, I love the LCA Show! But I'll put off buying tickets until the last minute," consider the sad story of this man — we'll call him Carl X, and he could have been governor:


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TM1337 : The Walk, Lemons Hill
taken 4 years ago, near to Tattingstone, Suffolk, Great Britain
This is 1 of 2 images, with title The Walk, Lemons Hill in this square
Tattingstone is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, located on the Shotley peninsula about 6 miles south of Ipswich. It has a population of over 500, and is the location of Tattingstone Place and the folly known as the Tattingstone Wonder.
It is a parish with 3 distinct settlements. The main settlement houses the church, Tattingstone Park and the former Stamford House of Industry, or Workhouse (17661930). This site was used as St Mary's hospital until it was redeveloped for housing in 1991. Tattingstone Heath is located on the A137, whilst a small hamlet close to the White Horse is connected to the rest of the parish by Lemons Hill bridge over the western end of Alton reservoir.
The village was split into two halves in the 1970s when the valley was flooded to make a 400-acre reservoir.
The reservoir is managed by Anglian Water and is known as Alton Water or Alton Reservoir. It is now a haven for wildlife and is used by cyclists, walkers and fishermen and for other watersports.
Tattingstone Wonder is a strange folly built in about 1790 for local Squire, Edward White, who then lived in the Hall. Originally a pair of cottages, a third was added together with a mock church tower and facade to give his neighbours "something to wonder at".
The village has two pubs, the Wheatsheaf and the White Horse but the Orange Box (formerly Waterloo House) closed some time ago. The Village shop is also now closed.
Listed Buildings and Structures
Listed buildings and structures are officially designated as being of special architectural, historical or cultural significance. There are over half a million listed structures in the United Kingdom, covered by around 375,000 listings.
Listed status is more commonly associated with buildings or groups of buildings, however it can cover many other structures, including bridges, headstones, steps, ponds, monuments, walls, phone boxes, wrecks, parks, and heritage sites, and in more recent times a road crossing (Abbey Road) and graffiti art (Banksy 'Spy-booth') have been included.
In England and Wales there are three main listing designations;
Grade I (2.5%) - exceptional interest, sometimes considered to be internationally important.
Grade II* (5.5%) - particularly important buildings of more than special interest.
Grade II (92%) - nationally important and of special interest.
There are also locally listed structures (at the discretion of local authorities) using A, B and C designations.
In Scotland three classifications are also used but the criteria are different. There are around 47,500 Listed buildings.
Category A (8%)- generally equivalent to Grade I and II* in England and Wales
Category B (51%)- this appears generally to cover the ground of Grade II, recognising national importance.
Category C (41%)- buildings of local importance, probably with some overlap with English Grade II.
In Northern Ireland the criteria are similar to Scotland, but the classifications are:
Grade A (2.3%)
Grade B+ (4.7%)
Grade B (93%)
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Pretty for the Premiere: Natalie Martinez and America Ferrera attend the premiere of their movie End of Watch in Los Angeles on September 17. End of Watch opens in theaters nationwide on September 21.
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Perfect Hosts: George Lopez and Eva Longoria goof off on the red carpet at the 2012 NCLR ALMA Awards on September 16 in Pasadena. The annual awards show airs Friday, Sepember 21 on NBC. Tune in!
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Working Late: Selena Gomez and Ashley Tisdale film The Getaway with Ethan Hawke (not pictured) on September 14 in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Birthday Boy: Marc Anthony and his girlfriend Shannon de Lima celebrated his 44th birthday at TAO Las Vegas on September 15.
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Just Like Us: Jessica Alba rides the New York City subway with a friend on September 14.
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Book Review: On Measuring Global Food Crisis: A Multivariate Modelling Approach by Dr. Parvesh K. Chopra
Published 8:56 am, Saturday, March 2, 2013
On Measuring Global Food Crisis: A Multivariate Modelling Approach by Dr Parvesh K. Chopra discusses the food model inputs, processing, and outputs within an overall mathematical superstructure. The outputs of the model are critical food crisis factors, multiple causal pathways, the contribution of global agriculture and food systems, food demand side forces, food supply side forces, food supply side factors, global agricultural market failures, and public sector interventions.
Dr. Chopra discusses the difficulties inherent in keeping pace with the increasing global demand for food. Global agricultural markets suboptimize or fail according to the author for a variety of reasons. For instance, the existing food production tends to be an oligopolistic structure constrained by multi-national agribusiness, food retail giants, a lack of transparency in food markets, unfair competition and distortion in the trading of food. Similar observations are made in Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity by Frances Moore Lappe.
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