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Sure, Kristen Stewart is sitting pretty.
The surly starlette is headlining one of the hottest film franchises in history and, in "Twilight" co-star Robert Pattinson, a hunky boyfriend to boot.
But what happens when the final frame of the vampire saga is shot? How does Stewart make sure her career aspirations don't ride off into the sunset along with Bella and Edward?
So far, when the young actress has ventured too far from Forks, be it as Joan Jett in "Runaways" or Jesse Eisenberg's love interest in "Adventureland," audiences haven't gone along for the ride.
In honor of Thursday night's Los Angeles premiere of "Eclipse," a star-studded event that the perpetually aggrieved actress is certain to approach with her patented funereal sparkle, TheWrap provides some unsolicited career advice.
Teen queens go one of two directions, Molly Ringwald or Jodie Foster. You need to decide which example you want to follow. Ringwald played the teen queen too long, and after John Hughes moved on to other muses, found herself out of favor with teen audiences. Unless you mix it up, you'll find that your favorite acting trick — flipping your hair — could lead to flipping burgers.
Follow Jodie's example. Entering her awkward years, the "Taxi Driver" star went back to college and took a breather. When your "Panic Room" co-star returned to the screen, however, she wisely alternated between mainstream projects and dramatic roles such as "The Accused" and "Silence of the Lambs" that catapulted her out of teen idoldom and helped her emerge as a true movie star. There's no shame in taking a break to regroup and re-emerge.
No, not a house or a boat, but a book or a concept or a hot new script that you can own, develop and help mold. Everyone knows you want to play Lisbeth Salander, the antisocial protagonist in the film adaptation of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo." Should the studio go in a different direction, find your own detective series (maybe a different Scandinavian gumshoe series) and shepherd it to the silver screen. Hell, just look at what Jason Bourne did for Matt Damon.
So you've tried being an indie queen, and the results were … meh. Sorry to tell you, but it's time to sell out. Taylor Lautner has wisely steered clear of acting pyrotechnics in favor of slam-bang studio fare. Maybe they need a female lead for Taylor's big-budget "Stretch Adams." Or how about a "Catwoman" reboot?
Getting passionate about some serious issues isn't just philanthropic. Just look at what happened when your fellow teen idol Leonardo DiCaprio discovered the environment. A couple of meetings with Al Gore and one "Vanity Fair" cover later, and he became seen as an authority on global warming — and a grown-up. One who also made hit movies with Martin Scorsese as a day job.
Of course, do some groundwork first. Look at the backlash Lindsay Lohan inspired when she blundered into the issue of human trafficking in India with her recent BBC documentary.
Slinking around looking miserable might work when you're starring in an overripe vampire romance series, but stop acting as if being a movie star is such a chore. Take a tip from Lautner, a man of dubious acting talents, who nonetheless has the good grace to look grateful in front of fans.
And it's not just in your public appearances. Find a part that taps into the funny side you showed briefly in "Adventureland" or send up your sourpuss persona as a guest host on "Saturday Night Live." Barring that, take some Prozac.


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SEATTLE — A state Democratic Party strategist is under investigation for allegedly stealing tens of thousands of dollars from the campaign committee he ran for Democrats in the state Senate.
Three Democratic senators said Saturday they are trying to figure out how long the now-suspended executive director Michael King allegedly had been embezzling from the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee and how much had been taken.
"The evidence at this point is pretty clear that there was money taken by Michael for his benefit," Paul Lawrence, attorney for the committee said Saturday.
He didn't know how much had been taken. But when asked about reports that it could range between $35,000 and $100,000 he said: "We're certainly looking at reimbursements at the high end of that range."
Specifically, senators question $11,500 in payments to King in January for polling and research. They're trying to determine if the money went to outside contractors.
Those payments "raised serious red flags," said Sen. David Frockt, D-Seattle. "There's polling going on for what. It doesn't make any sense."
Similarly, King was paid several thousand dollars for polling and research work in December, which is now being scrutinized. He also received a $4,000 bonus in December.
King, who was hired as executive director in 2011, has not been arrested and has not been charged.
King will cooperate with the investigation, his attorney said Saturday.
"On the advice of his physician and support of his family, Michael is currently seeking in-patient treatment for personal issues," said attorney Lyle Tenpenny of Yarmuth Wilsdon in Seattle. "He intends to cooperate with the investigation and looks forward to doing so after receiving this much-needed treatment."
King told friends he's battling addictions to alcohol and gambling, senators said. Tenpenny would not confirm nor deny that.
The Senate Democratic Campaign Committee serves as the political arm of the Democratic caucus. Three Seattle senators — Frockt, Ed Murray and Sharon Nelson — serve as the co-chairs and it has a staff of four paid employees, including King.
In 2012, the committee raised $1,057,616 and spent nearly all of it in support of candidates. Money was spent on polling, research, getting out the vote and direct contributions to candidates.
This year, in January, the committee reported contributions of $41,144 and expenditures of $33,861, according to records filed with the Public Disclosure Commission.
King, who is a Connecticut native, joined the SDCC in 2011 after a two-year stint with WinPower Strategies, a political consulting firm in Seattle.
He also worked on Democratic Sen. Patty Murray's re-election campaign in 2004 and helped direct the state Democratic Party's coordinated campaigns in 2006 and 2008.
He came under suspicion Wednesday when the committee's treasurer Jason Bennett of Argo Strategies informed senators of possible wrongdoing; they in turn contacted the committee's lawyers.
That same day, King was suspended and locks to the office changed, Lawrence said.
Since Thursday, there been conversations with the King County prosecuting attorney, Seattle police and the state Public Disclosure Commission. Invoices and other documents are being collected with King providing some through his friends, Lawrence said.
Senators are determined to turn everything into authorities even if King offers to repay any missing funds.
"That would be a great start," Lawrence said. "We are going to provide that evidence to the police department."
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Acupuncture applies needles, heat, pressure, and other treatments to certain places on the skin to cause a change in the physical functions of the body. The use of acupuncture is part of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). TCM is a medical system that has been used for thousands of years to prevent, diagnose, and treat disease.
Acupuncture is based on the belief that qi (vital energy) flows through the body along a network of paths, called meridians. Qi is said to affect a person's spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical condition. According to TCM, qi has two forces, yin and yang. Yin and yang are opposite forces that work together to form a whole. The forces of yin and yang depend on each other and are made from each other in an unending cycle, such as hot and cold, day and night, and health and disease. Nothing is ever all yin or all yang, both exist in all things, including people. Many of the major organs of the body are believed to be yin-yang pairs that must be in balance to be healthy. When a person's yin and yang are not in balance, qi can become blocked. Blocked qi causes pain, illness, or other health problems. TCM uses acupuncture, diet, herbal therapy, meditation, physical exercise, and massage to restore health by unblocking qi and correcting the balance of yin and yang within the person.
Most acupuncturists in the United States practice acupuncture according to the traditions of Chinese medicine. However, there are other types of acupuncture, including some used for medical treatment, that have different theories about meridians and acupoint locations.
The oldest medical book known, written in China 4000 years ago, describes the use of acupuncture to treat medical problems. The use of the treatment spread to other Asian countries and to other regions of the world, including to Europe by the 1700s. In the United States, acupuncture has been used for about 200 years.
Research on acupuncture began in the United States in 1976. Twenty years later, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the acupuncture needle as a medical device. Many illnesses are treated with acupuncture. In cancer treatment, its main use is to control symptoms, including the following:
Acupuncture is usually used as an addition to conventional (standard) therapy for cancer patients.
According to TCM, qi can be unblocked by using acupuncture at certain places on the skin, called acupoints. Acupoints are places where the meridians come to the surface of the body. There are more than 2,000 acupoints on the human body, with specific acupoints for each condition being treated.
Acupuncture may cause physical responses in nerve cells, the pituitary gland, and parts of the brain. These responses can cause the body to release proteins, hormones, and brain chemicals that control a number of body functions. It is proposed that, in this way, acupuncture affects blood pressure and body temperature, boosts immune system activity, and causes the body's natural painkillers, such as endorphins, to be released.
The acupuncture method most well-known uses needles. Disposable, stainless steel needles that are slightly thicker than a human hair are inserted into the skin at acupoints. The acupuncture practitioner determines the correct acupoints to use for the problem being treated. The inserted needles may be twirled, moved up and down at different speeds and depths, heated, or charged with a weak electric current. There are other acupuncture methods that do not use needles.
Some acupuncture techniques include the following:
Scientific studies on the use of acupuncture to treat cancer and side effects of cancer began only recently. Laboratory and animal studies suggest that acupuncture can reduce vomiting caused by chemotherapy and may help the immune system be stronger during chemotherapy. Animal studies support the use of electroacupuncture to relieve cancer pain. Laboratory and animal studies have also looked at how acupuncture works for cancer treatment, such as the role of acupuncture in stimulating immune functions, including increasing blood cell count and enhancing lymphocyte and natural killer cell activity.
In 1997, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) began evaluating the safety and effectiveness of acupuncture as a complementary and alternative therapy.
Human studies on the effect of acupuncture have shown that it changes immune system response.
In clinical studies, acupuncture reduced the amount of pain in some cancer patients. In one study, most of the patients treated with acupuncture were able to stop taking drugs for pain relief or to take smaller doses. The findings from these studies are not considered strong, however, because of weaknesses in study design and size. Studies using strict scientific methods are needed to prove how acupuncture affects pain.
Aromatase inhibitors, a type of hormone therapy for postmenopausal women who have hormone-dependent breast cancer, may cause muscle and joint pain. A randomized study found that true acupuncture was much more effective in relieving joint pain and stiffness than sham (inactive) acupuncture in patients taking aromatase inhibitors.
The strongest evidence of the effect of acupuncture has come from clinical trials on the use of acupuncture to relieve nausea and vomiting. Several types of clinical trials using different acupuncture methods showed acupuncture reduced nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy, surgery, and morning sickness. It appears to be more effective in preventing vomiting than in reducing nausea.
A study of acupuncture, vitamin B6 injections, or both for nausea and vomiting in patients treated with chemotherapy for ovarian cancer found that acupuncture and vitamin B6 together gave more relief from vomiting than acupuncture or vitamin B6 alone.
A study of acupressure for relief of nausea and vomiting was done in women undergoing chemotherapy. The study found that acupressure applied to an acupuncture point with a wristband helped to decrease nausea and vomiting and reduced the amount of medicine the women used for those symptoms.
A study of acupuncture for relief of nausea and vomiting was done in patients undergoing radiation therapy. Patients who received either true acupuncture or sham acupuncture were compared to patients who received standard care. The study found that patients in both the true and sham acupuncture groups developed less nausea and vomiting than those in the standard care group.
Hormone therapy may cause hot flashes in women with breast cancer and men with prostate cancer. Some studies have shown that acupuncture may be effective in relieving hot flashes in these patients.
A randomized study of patients with cancer-related fatigue found that those who had a series of acupuncture treatments had less fatigue compared to those who had acupressure or sham acupressure treatments.
The aim of most acupuncture clinical observation and clinical trials in cancer patients has been to study the effects of acupuncture on cancer symptoms and side effects caused by cancer treatment, including weight loss, cough, coughing up blood, anxiety, depression, dry mouth, proctitis, speech problems, blocked esophagus, hiccups, and fluid in the arms or legs. Studies have shown that, for many patients, treatment with acupuncture either relieves symptoms or keeps them from getting worse.
There have been few complications reported. Problems are caused by using needles that are not sterile (free of germs) and from placing the needle in the wrong place, movement of the patient, or a defect in the needle. Problems include soreness and pain during treatment; feeling tired, lightheaded, or sleepy; and infections. Because chemotherapy and radiation therapy weaken the body's immune system, a strict clean needle method must be used when acupuncture treatment is given to cancer patients. It is important to seek treatment from a qualified acupuncture practitioner who uses a new set of disposable (single-use) needles for each patient.
The FDA approved acupuncture needles for use by licensed practitioners in 1996. The FDA requires that sterile, nontoxic needles be used and that they be labeled for single use by qualified practitioners only.
More than 40 states and the District of Columbia have laws regulating acupuncture practice (see www.acufinder.com for an online database of licensed acupuncture providers). The National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (www.nccaom.org) certifies practitioners of acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Most states require this certification.
Check NCI's list of cancer clinical trials for cancer CAM clinical trials on acupuncture therapy, acupuncture-like transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, electroacupuncture therapy and acupressure therapy that are actively enrolling patients.
General information about clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.
The PDQ cancer information summaries are reviewed regularly and updated as new information becomes available. This section describes the latest changes made to this summary as of the date above.
Changes were made to this summary to match those made to the health professional version.
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)—also referred to as integrative medicine—includes a broad range of healing philosophies, approaches, and therapies. A therapy is generally called complementary when it is used in addition to conventional treatments; it is often called alternative when it is used instead of conventional treatment. (Conventional treatments are those that are widely accepted and practiced by the mainstream medical community.) Depending on how they are used, some therapies can be considered either complementary or alternative. Complementary and alternative therapies are used in an effort to prevent illness, reduce stress, prevent or reduce side effects and symptoms, or control or cure disease.
Unlike conventional treatments for cancer, complementary and alternative therapies are often not covered by insurance companies. Patients should check with their insurance provider to find out about coverage for complementary and alternative therapies.
Cancer patients considering complementary and alternative therapies should discuss this decision with their doctor, nurse, or pharmacist as they would any therapeutic approach, because some complementary and alternative therapies may interfere with their standard treatment or may be harmful when used with conventional treatment.
It is important that the same rigorous scientific evaluation used to assess conventional approaches be used to evaluate CAM therapies. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) are sponsoring a number of clinical trials (research studies) at medical centers to evaluate CAM therapies for cancer.
Conventional approaches to cancer treatment have generally been studied for safety and effectiveness through a rigorous scientific process that includes clinical trials with large numbers of patients. Less is known about the safety and effectiveness of complementary and alternative methods. Few CAM therapies have undergone rigorous evaluation. A small number of CAM therapies originally considered to be purely alternative approaches are finding a place in cancer treatment—not as cures, but as complementary therapies that may help patients feel better and recover faster. One example is acupuncture. According to a panel of experts at a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Consensus Conference in November 1997, acupuncture has been found to be effective in the management of chemotherapy-associated nausea and vomiting and in controlling pain associated with surgery. In contrast, some approaches, such as the use of laetrile, have been studied and found ineffective or potentially harmful.
The NCI Best Case Series Program, which was started in 1991, is one way CAM approaches that are being used in practice are being investigated. The program is overseen by the NCI's Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine (OCCAM). Health care professionals who offer alternative cancer therapies submit their patients' medical records and related materials to OCCAM. OCCAM conducts a critical review of the materials and develops follow-up research strategies for approaches deemed to warrant NCI-initiated research.
When considering complementary and alternative therapies, patients should ask their health care provider the following questions:
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) facilitates research and evaluation of complementary and alternative practices, and provides information about a variety of approaches to health professionals and the public.
CAM on PubMed
NCCAM and the NIH National Library of Medicine (NLM) jointly developed CAM on PubMed, a free and easy-to-use search tool for finding CAM-related journal citations. As a subset of the NLM's PubMed bibliographic database, CAM on PubMed features more than 230,000 references and abstracts for CAM-related articles from scientific journals. This database also provides links to the Web sites of over 1,800 journals, allowing users to view full-text articles. (A subscription or other fee may be required to access full-text articles.) CAM on PubMed is available through the NCCAM Web site. It can also be accessed through NLM PubMed bibliographic database by selecting the "Limits" tab and choosing "Complementary Medicine" as a subset.
Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine
The NCI Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine (OCCAM) coordinates the activities of the NCI in the area of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). OCCAM supports CAM cancer research and provides information about cancer-related CAM to health providers and the general public via the NCI Web site.
National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Information Service
U.S. residents may call the NCI Cancer Information Service toll free at 1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237) Monday through Friday from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm. A trained Cancer Information Specialist is available to answer your questions.
Food and Drug Administration
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates drugs and medical devices to ensure that they are safe and effective.
Federal Trade Commission
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) enforces consumer protection laws. Publications available from the FTC include:
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PDQ contains cancer information summaries.
The PDQ database contains summaries of the latest published information on cancer prevention, detection, genetics, treatment, supportive care, and complementary and alternative medicine. Most summaries are available in two versions. The health professional versions provide detailed information written in technical language. The patient versions are written in easy-to-understand, nontechnical language. Both versions provide current and accurate cancer information.
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A married man whose wife is on vacation falls for the blonde bombshell upstairs.
One hot summer in Manhattan, book editor Richard Sherman escorts his wife Helen and son Ricky to the train station, from which they and numerous other families are leaving to escape the city's heat. After agreeing to Helen's admonitions not to smoke or drink, Richard briefly joins the other "summer bachelors" in ogling a pretty woman, but firmly tells himself that he will not be like other husbands who run amok while their families are away. Richard returns to his office at Brady & Co., where his unusually vivid imagination helps in the designing the company's lurid covers of paperbacks. After a bland, healthy dinner, Richard goes home and is about to work on a new manuscript, Of Man and the Unconscious by Dr. Ludwig Brubaker, when he is interrupted by the outside door buzzer. A stunning blonde enters and tells Richard that she is his new neighbor, as she is renting the apartment above his for the summer, and the awestruck Richard's neck cracks alarmingly as he cranes to watch her ascend the stairs. Determined to enjoy a quiet evening, Richard resolves not to think about The Girl, whose name he did not learn, and returns to Brubaker's book. Before long, however, Richard begins pondering Helen's intention to call him at 10:00 and decides that she must not trust him, even though he has been faithful during their seven years of marriage. As Richard debates the matter, he imagines Helen sitting opposite him on the patio and hears her laugh when he states that he is attractive to other women. The vision of Helen continues to chuckle as Richard dramatically spins a tall tale about being romantically accosted by his secretary, Miss Morris; a nurse; and Helen's own best friend, Elaine. Helen chides Richard for imagining things in CinemaScope with stereophonic sound, then disappears, but before Richard can return to his manuscript, the real Helen telephones early. Richard is disconcerted to hear that she ran into Tom MacKenzie, a writer of lurid romances, on the train to Maine, yet promises that he is following her advice. After hanging up, Richard gets up just before a huge tomato plant from the upstairs balcony crashes into his chair. The Girl, who was watering the plants, apologizes for knocking over the plant, and Richard invites her for a drink. Nonplussed by the Girl's announcement that she leaves her underwear in the refrigerator to keep cool, Richard frantically prepares for her visit. While searching for mood music, Richard selects Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 and imagines himself seducing the Girl with his magnificent playing of the powerful music. When the doorbell rings, Richard comes out of his reverie and instead finds Krahulik, the building's janitor who has come to take the rugs. Richard quickly dismisses Krahulik, then welcomes the Girl, a bubbly, naïve model who appears in television commercials. The Girl laments the fact that her apartment does not have air conditioning, as the Shermans' does, and relates that she attempted to sleep in a bathtub full of cool water, but had to call a plumber after her toe got stuck in the faucet while she was trying to stop a leak. When the Girl notices his wedding ring, Richard admits that he is married, but she responds that she is pleased he is married, as nothing "drastic" can happen. Richard commiserates with her complaint that men are continually asking her to marry them, then plays "Chopsticks" with her on the piano. Their duet ends when Richard, imitating the earlier seduction scenario he had imagined, attempts to kiss the Girl and they fall off the piano bench. Bewildered but not unhappy, the Girl exits gracefully when the nervous Richard asks her to leave. The next morning, worried that he is becoming a dissolute lecher, Richard asks his boss, Brady, for two weeks off to spend with Helen but Brady refuses. Richard then reads Brubaker's theory about "the seven year itch," which posits that most married men commit adultery during the seventh year of marriage, and that the statistic grows higher during warm weather. When Brubaker arrives to discuss his book, Richard confesses that he attempted to "terrorize" a young lady the previous evening. Intrigued by Richard's twitching thumb, Brubaker listens and advises him to give himself more room than a piano bench if he feels the impulse to "terrorize" again. After Brubaker leaves, Richard imagines the Girl telling the plumber about his attack upon her, and the news then spreading throughout New York until Ricky and Helen see it on television in Maine. In despair, Richard decides to telephone Helen to learn if she has discovered his indiscretion. Instead of Helen, the phone is answered by a babysitter, who informs Richard that Helen is on a hayride with Tom. At first Richard is pleased, believing that Helen must not suspect anything is wrong if she is out having fun, but then begins to imagine that Tom has arranged a private hayride, with no other passengers, no driver and blinkered horses, in order to make a pass at the receptive Helen. Infuriated with Helen's supposed behavior, Richard takes the Girl to dinner and a movie, and after the film, admires her legs as she stands over a subway grating and her skirt is blown up by the air from passing trains. Richard and the Girl return to his apartment, which is cool from the air conditioning, and while Richard prattles about psychology and the possibility that the Girl subconsciously loves him, she worries about the heat. Working up her courage, the Girl asks him if she can spend the night, and after determining that she intends to sleep in the living room chair, a nervous Richard assents. Their conversation is interrupted by Krahulik, who has come again to collect the rugs. Krahulik spots the Girl, who is hiding in the chair, but Richard bluffs through the situation by stating that she came to retrieve her tomato plant. Richard is forced to usher the Girl out, along with Krahulik and the plant, but is surprised soon after when she appears through the ceiling via the trap door separating the stairs between their apartments. The Girl happily announces that they can go back and forth all summer without anyone knowing, and Richard, horrified by so much temptation, spends a troubled night on the couch. In the morning, while waiting for the Girl to awaken, Richard imagines that Helen, informed by Krahulik about his rendezvous with the Girl, has returned from Maine to shoot him. The Girl calms Richard, and when he tells her that Helen is never jealous of him because no pretty woman would want someone like him, the Girl informs him that women always want a shy, sweet man rather than some egotistical, handsome lout. Giving him a tender kiss, the Girl assures him that she would be jealous of him if she were his wife, then goes into the kitchen. Richard is then surprised by the arrival of Tom, who has come to pick up Ricky's kayak paddle. Richard assumes that Tom has come to ask for a divorce on Helen's behalf, however, while Tom is baffled by Richard's talk of having a blonde who might be Marilyn Monroe in the kitchen. Determined to be with his family, Richard slugs Tom and knocks him out, then tells the Girl that she can use the apartment while he is gone. Richard grabs the paddle and runs out into the street before being stopped by the Girl, who tosses him his shoes from the window. Richard's neck cracks again after one last look at the Girl, then he waves goodbye as he hurries to the train station.
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Feeling the pressure of Google Docs clouding up its breathing room, Microsoft officially launched its Office 365 service Tuesday.
The new cloud-based service will allow techies to use Microsoft Office applications, such as Word and Excel, online or download the programs to their computers for a fee ranging from $2 to $27 per user per month.
Microsoft says it has more than 1 billion people around the world using its Microsoft Office suite but the tech giant has recently seen Mountain-View based Google eat up some its market share with its cloud-based Google Docs.
Tuesday's launch of Office 365 is seen as a direct attempt to lure some of those users back in and to fortify Microsoft's base in a market that is considered a $20 billion industry for the company.
Microsoft will host the programs at its own data centers.


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Romney nears nomination with two more wins
Updated at 1:20 a.m. ET May 23
Mitt Romney won the Republican primaries in Kentucky and Arkansas on Tuesday, victories that puts him within striking distance of clinching the Republican presidential nomination.
With nearly all precincts reporting in Kentucky, Romney had 67 percent of the vote. With nearly all precincts reporting in Arkansas, Romney had 68 percent of the vote.
The race was actually closer on the Democratic side. In Kentucky, President Obama's only rival on the ballot was "uncommitted." The president defeated "uncommitted" 58 percent to 42 percent, a result that reflects the president's deep unpopularity in southern states. (Though with almost all precincts in, Mr. Obama had won slightly more votes than Romney overall.)
In Arkansas, Mr. Obama faced a primary challenge from John Wolfe, who had 41 percent of the vote with nearly all precincts reporting. Earlier this month, convicted felon Keith Judd took 41 percent of the primary vote against the president in West Virginia.
Kentucky primary results
Arkansas primary results
CBS News estimates that with his two wins on Tuesday, Romney now has 1,073 delegates. The former Massachusetts governor needs 71 more to reach the threshold of 1,144 electoral votes he needs to clinch his party's nomination.
Romney should cross that threshold next Tuesday when Texas holds its primary with 152 delegates at stake.
Romney's rivals have suspended their campaigns or stopped active campaigning, and he has spent recent weeks focused on the general election. The presumptive GOP nominee was scheduled to spend Tuesday evening at a fundraiser in New York, part of a three-day fundraising swing that his finance chairman told donors would raise $10 million.


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On Tuesday, April 23, 2013, New York 1's Amanda Farinacci previewed "Hispanic Staten Island: Culture & Identity," a public forum, cultural celebration and artists' reception celebrating the 10th annual NYC Immigrant Heritage Week. "Hispanic Staten Island" will be held at Wagner College on Wednesday, April 24 at 6:30 p.m.
The likelihood is growing that if you overhear a conversation on Staten Island, the talk will be in Spanish, as 2010 census figures showed a huge increase in the borough's Hispanic population. Now, a new exhibit in Wagner College is asking just what it means to be Latino and a Staten Islander. Borough reporter Amanda Farinacci filed the following report.
Anthony Gonzalez says he was one of just two Hispanic kids in his elementary school on Staten Island's South Shore. Raised by a Peruvian mother and a Puerto Rican-Italian father, the Wagner college freshman says his parents wanted him to blend in with the rest of his class. So instead of teaching him to speak Spanish, his mother asked him to teach her English.
"My mother wanted me to assimilate into the culture, into the 'American' culture, just because she wanted to be anchored in. And once that happened, as I grew up, you become more connected to your roots," Gonzalez says.
Gonzalez says his mother eventually taught him Spanish, which is worthwhile on a borough where now one of every six people is Hispanic. That is nearly 52 percent more than just 10 years ago.
Now an exhibit at Wagner College in Grymes Hill examines the impact of that increase. "Hispanic Staten Island: Culture and Identity" is a partnership between the college's history department and a Staten Island cultural arts group.
"What does it mean to be Hispanic in our borough? How is your identity expressed? Do you feel that your voice is heard as a Hispanic? Those kind of different questions," says Lori Weintrob, the chairwoman of the Wagner College history department.
Organizers say part of what they are trying to accomplish with the exhibit is to encourage Hispanics living on Staten Island to live out loud and take the culture they celebrate in their homes and make it more visible to the public.
"I think that's an important struggle communities I work with have, keeping their young kids who might have been born here connected to the stories, folk tales, music, dance of their ancestors. That gives them a sense of their identity and makes them feel like they're part of someplace important," says Christopher Mule of the Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island.
Wednesday night, Wagner College will host a public forum and cultural celebration of the work of island Hispanic artists. The exhibit will be on display until May 5.


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NEW HAVEN --The 1600 and 3200 meter races at the FCIAC indoor track championships Wednesday were run in nearly the exact same fashion.
Staples sophomore standout Hannah DeBalsi held a slim lead over Westhill senior Claire Howlett for the majority of both races, only for Howlett to make a final lap charge to claim both events.
Howlett clocked in with a time of 10:28.56 in the 3200, over two seconds ahead of DeBalsi (10:30.79). Howlett (4:54.15) finished first in the 1600 ahead of DeBalsi (4:55.63) as the two put on a show at the Floyd Little Athletic Center at Hillhouse High School.
"I was pretty tired after my mile, so I just thought I'd duck in there and stay up there as long as I could," Howlett said of the 3200 victory. "I'm not overconfident, because I know I can't beat her every time. It means a lot to me. Usually I'm just going for a good time but today I wanted the win because FCIAC title is a big deal."
Darien (95 points) won the team competition for the second straight season. Staples finished second (60) and Ridgefield finished third (47).
"It's awesome," Darien Captain Dillon Schoen said. "It shows so much about our team that we are such a strong program. Being the defending FCIAC champions and coming back and winning it again. We have such a deep team and everyone performed so well.
But the highlight of the meet was the battle between DeBalsi and Howlett, a pair of once in a generation runners that are placed in the same division in the same conference.
"If anything it's fuel for the next time they race," Staples coach Amanda Parrish said. "It's both good and frustrating to have her closest competitor in the division and in the conference. It means that neither of them get a (off) week. They are always facing each other."
After setting the state record in the divisional meet Saturday, DeBalsi admitted she wasn't at her best and couldn't quite pull away from Howlett as the senior stayed close behind.
"I knew that was going to be her plan, so I just tried to go as hard as I could and see if I could drop her but today wasn't my day. I felt really sluggish."
Darien kicked off the meet with a win in the 4x200 relay (1:47.24) behind the efforts of Anna Sulger, Maddie Schneider, Brittany Henry and Schoen.
"The 4X200 win was really good for us," Schoen said. "We weren't seeded first and we wanted to get that win to kind of start off the meet right because it was the first event."
Ridgefield captured the 4X800 relay (9:53.41) over Fairfield Warde (9:57.33), with Laura Hergenrother running the closing leg for the Tigers. Hergenrother also finished second to Allen in the 1000.
Fairfield Warde's Cate Allen took home first in the 1000 (2:59.40), edging Hergenrother (2:59.88) by 0.48 seconds. Erica Hefnway (3:05.66) of Staples was third.
"It's definitely a speed race, I think I had good competition in the race and the top three girls had a chance. We kind of worked off each other and I think it was a good race for everyone."Read Full Article
Allen (11:27.12) finished third in the 3200 behind Howlett and DeBalsi. Allen stayed up with the front two for roughly half the race before setting into third.
"My goal was to stick with them longer than that," Allen said. "I am a little bit disappointed with how I ended that race but I hope next time I can come back stronger."
Sarah Cicchetti (34-08.75) of Greenwich won the shot put event while Darien's Catherine Lacy won the long jump.
Sulger (1:37.51) won the 600 meter ahead of Staples' Tyler Scanlin (139.18). Scanlin was part of the 1600 sprint medley relay team that finished in first (4:20.73).
"Everyone ran really well, everyone ran faster than their seed times," Parrish said. "The SMR ran amazing out of the slow heat and ended up winning the event. I thought Hannah ran well. The distance runners did a really good job."
Norwalk's Tamia Taylor finished second in both the 55 meter hurdles (8.53) and 55 meter dash (7.51).
FCIAC girls indoor track championships
Team scores
Darien 95, Staples 60, Ridgefield 47, Fairfield Warde 40, Wilton 36, Greenwich 30.50, Norwalk 28, Danbury 26, Westhill 23, McMahon 19, New Canaan 19, Fairfield Ludlowe 15.50, St. Joseph 14, Trumbull 10, Stamford 2.
Individual results
Top six in each event
4x200 relay: 1. Darien (Anna Sulger, Maddie Schneider, Brittany Henry, Dillon Schoen) 1:47.24; 2. Danbury (Jay'yona Torres, Bridget Chiaravelle, Najmah James, Niema Riley) 1:48.50; 3. Wilton (Shannon Quinlan, Jillian Lauricella, Zoe Lamason, Laine Parson) 1:51.38; 4. Fairfield Ludlowe (Rachel Hurst, Allie Gorab, Ali Johnson, Emma Koether) 1:52.62; 5. Greenwich (Emma Slagle, Anna Giannuzzi, Caroline Frey, Erika Hvolbeck) 1:52.68; 6. Staples (Sarah Neckritz, Katherine Coogan, Grace Wynne, Olivia Wiener) 1:52.78; 4x800 relay: 1. Ridgefield (Hannah Mercorella, Sarah Mickool, Hannah Fleming, Laura Hergenrother) 9:53.42; 2. Fairfield Warde (Quinn Igram, Paige Hanley, Roey Mappa, Hannah Dougherty) 9:57.33; 3. New Canaan (Emily Wood, Elizabeth Gordon, Alexandra Naughton, Isabel Hetherington) 10:05.79; 4. Darien (Anne Johnston, Kristen Mayhew, Caroline O'Brien, Grace Harmon) 10:05.91; 5. Wilton (Olivia Bernardini, Keiley Gaston, Brooke Connolly, Madison Peraino) 10:09.17; 6. Greenwich (Tori McMachan, Daryl Kennedy, Mia Bonanno, Amy Wyle); 55 hurdles: 1. Sarah Boyd (McMahon) 8.53; 2. Tamia Taylor (Norwalk) 9.08; 3. Jada Harris (St. Joseph) 9.09; 4. Alex Wykoff (Fairfield Ludlowe) 9.19; 5. Najmah James (Danbury) 9.27; 6. Maddie Schneider (Darien) 9.39; 55 dash: 1. Niema Riley (Danbury) 7.43; 2. Tamia Taylor (Norwalk) 7.51; 3. Catherine Lacy (Darien) 7.55; 4. Shannon Quinlan (Wilton) 7.69; 5. Maureen Schott (New Canaan) 7.71; 6. Anna Black (Greenwich) 7.73; 1000: 1. Cate Allen (Fairfield Warde) 2:59.40; 2. Laura Hergenrother (Ridgefield) 2:59.88; 3. Erica Hefnawy (Staples) 3:05.66; 4. Annika Sheehan (Wilton) 3:07.52; 5. Ericka Randazzo (Westhill) 3;11.80; 6. Haley Greene (Ridgefield) 3:16.20; 600: 1. Anna Sulger (Darien) 1:37.51; 2. Tyler Scanlin (Staples) 1:39.18; 3. Claire Turner (Norwalk) 1:39.25; 4. Katie Foley (Trumbull) 1:39.41; 5. Laine Parsons (Wilton) 1:40.33; 6. Dillon Schoen (Darien) 1:42.71; 1600: 1. Claire Howlett (Westhill) 4:54.15; 2. Hannah Debalsi (Staples) 4:55.63; 3. Sarah Healy (Wilton) 5;21.34; 4. Hannah Fleming (Ridgefield) 5;31.59; 5. Roey Mappa (Fairfield Warde) 5:31.88; 6. Isabel Hetherington (New Canaan) 5;38.74; 300: 1. Anna Sulger (Darien) 41.30; 2. Anna Black (Greenwich) 42.82; 3. Katie Foley (Trumbull) 42.86; 4. Emma Koether (Fairfield Ludlowe) 43.22; 5. Deanna Singewald (Norwalk) 43.39; 6. Treloara Harrisson (Greenwich) 43.71; long jump: 1. Catherine Lacy (Darien) 17-09.50; 2. Sarah Boyd (McMahon) 17-02; 3. Maureen Schott (New Canaan) 16-01.00; 4. Sofie Sogaard (Ridgefield) 15-11.50; 5. Thessiana Mesilus (Stamford) 15-08.50; Olivia Sullivan (McMahon) 15-04.00; shot put: 1. Sarah Cicchetti (Greenwich) 34-08.75; 2. Taylor McDonald (Darien) 31-05.75; 3. Andrea Galeano (St. Joseph) 31-02.25; 4. Laine Blummer (Darien) 30-07.00; 5. Khaila Fitzgerald (St. Joseph) 30-05.50; 6. Alaina Washiington (Staples) 30-04.50; pole vault: 1. Maddie Schneider (Darien) 11-06.0; 2. Jessica Thornbury (Darien) 10-06.00; 3. Rachel Moroknek (Ridgefield) J10-06.00; 4. Beth Kelly (New Canaan) 9-00.00; 5. Kristen Mayhew (Darien) 8-00.00; 6. Janine Migden (Westhill) J8-00.00; high jump: 1. Bridget Van dorsten (Staples) 5-00.00; 2. Blossom Jean-Jocques (Fairfield Warde) J5-00.00; 3. (tie) Catherine Lacy (Darien) 4-10.00 and Sofie Sogaard (Ridgefield) 4-10.00; 5. (tie) Kylie Ginsberg (Greenwich) J4-10.00 and Emily O'Keefe (Fairfield Ludlowe) J4-10.00; 4x400 relay: 1. Wilton (Annika Sheehan, Sarah Healy, Madison Peraino, Laine Parsons) 4:08.72; 2. Staples (Brynly Marsh, Olivia Wiener, Erica Hefnawy, Tyler Scanlin) 4:10.06; 3. Greenwich (Vitoria Galbier, Treloara Harrisson, Jennifer Goggin, Anna Black) 4:12.21; 4. Fairfield Warde (Paige Hanley, Sarah Reilly, Cate Allen, Hannah Dougherty) 4:16.50; 5. Fairfield Ludlowe (Rachel Hurst, Kate O'Shea, Alex Wykoff, Emma Koether) 4:20.68; 6. Darien (Elizabeth Fucigna, Kristen Mayhew, Lindsey Holek, Dillon Schoen) 4:21.39; 3200: 1. Claire Howlett (Westhill) 10:28.56; 2. Hannah Debalsi (Staples) 10:30.79; 3. Cate Allen (Fairfield Warde) 11:27.12; 4. Anne Johnston (Darien) 11:34.86; 5. Olivia Bernardini (Wilton) 11:48.28; 6. Haley Greene (Ridgefield) 11"478.87.


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- Those people will not directly log on the servers.
- It will be possible to create a copy of the most important log files in real time.
The schema that I am going to follow so as to develop this series of articles is based on a couple of Linux servers (CentOS 6.3). The first computer, client, will be the machine which will export their log files, either by means of NFS or Samba. And the second one, server, will be the machine will import those log files and will put forward them via HTTP.
In addition, the log server will carry out a backup each five minutes of the log files through rsync. The aim of backing up is to be able to have a copy of the log files in case of one of the servers was messed up and it was impossible to reach it.
NFS is a protocol belonging to the application level and used to share volumes between several computers within a network. In return, Samba is an implementation from the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol for Linux machines, renamed to CIFS (Common Internet File System) later, which allows to share resources (directories, printers, etc.) between different computers, authenticate connections to Windows domains, provide Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS), work as PDC (Primary Domain Controller), and so on.
Using either protocol has its advantages and disadvantages. For this reason, it will be exposed in this articles both protocols. Basically, NFS does not use users and passwords like Samba, but that the only way to perform an access control is through IP addresses or host names. On the other hand, in order to share files across a local area network, NFS can be enough.
First of all, let's register the names of all implicated nodes inside the file /etc/hosts.
[... ~]# cat /etc/hosts
192.168.1.10 server server.local
192.168.1.11 client client.local
In this first article, we are going to set out by configuring NFS in the client machine. You will have to make sure to grant read permissions for all users to those elements you want to export.
[root@client ~]# chmod -R o+r /var/log/
Now you have to set up NFS in order to make public the previous directory. Afterwards, the NFS daemon will have to be started and enabled.
[root@client ~]# cat /etc/exports
/var/log/ server.local(ro,sync,root_squash)
[root@client ~]# service nfs restart ; chkconfig nfs on
As you can see, by means of the file /etc/exports it has been indicated that the /var/log directory just will be able to be mounted by server.local in read-only mode (ro). Furthermore, requests only will be replied after the changes have been committed to stable storage (sync) and those of them which came from root, will be mapped to anonymous (root_squash).
In order to secure this server, you can begin with TCP wrappers, thus you have to allow both portmap (converts RPC program numbers into Internet port numbers) and mountd (answers a client request to mount a file system) services only for the IP address where they will be listening to.
[root@client ~]# cat /etc/hosts.deny
[root@client ~]# cat /etc/hosts.allow
sshd: ALL
portmap: server.local
rpcbind: server.local
mountd: server.local
So as to the NFS service can be protected by iptables, you will have to add the following lines to the /etc/sysconfig/nfs file (by default, NFS establishes the link through a random port).
[root@client ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/nfs
[root@client ~]# service nfs restart
It happens that in NFSv4, the only ports that you need to open are 2049 TCP and 111 UDP. But in order to protect NFSv3 and NFSv2 by a firewall, as well as to be able to use the showmount command, you need to open the previous ports.
Now you have to add the corresponding rules to the iptables configuration file.
[root@client ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/iptables
:RH-Firewall-1-INPUT - [0:0]
-A INPUT -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT
-A FORWARD -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp --dport ssh -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s server.local -p tcp --dport 111 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s server.local -p udp --dport 111 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s server.local -p tcp --dport 2049 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s server.local -p udp --dport 2049 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s server.local -p tcp --dport 4002:4005 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s server.local -p udp --dport 4002:4005 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j LOG
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j REJECT
[root@client ~]# service iptables restart
[root@client ~]# chkconfig iptables on
Also remember that it is really important to have SELinux enabled and running in enforcing mode.
[root@s1 ~]# getenforce
And finally, let's try out the directories exported by client from the server machine.
[root@server ~]# showmount -e client.local
Export list for client.local:
/var/log server


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Self and Subjectivity
Self and Subjectivity
ISBN: 978-1-405-13783-6 April 2008 Wiley-Blackwell 336 Pages
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Table of contents
Part I: Early Modern Philosophy.
1. Commentary on Descartes (Rene Descartes: "Meditation II").
2. Commentary on Locke (John Locke: "Of Identity and Diversity".
3. Commentary on Hume.
David Hume: "Of Personal Identity"..
Part II: Later Modern Philosophy.
4. Commentary on Kant.
Immanuel Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, "Paralogisms of Pure Reasons (A)" (first, second, and third paralogisms).
5. Commentary on Hegel.
G.W.F.Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit, "Self-consciousness: Lordship and Bondage".
6. Commentary on Nietzsche.
Friedrich Nietzsche: "The Genealogy of Morals"..
Part III: Phenomenology and Existentialism.
7. Commentary on Sartre.
Jean-Paul Sartre: "The Look".
8. Commentary on Merleau-Ponty.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty: "The Spatiality of One's Own Body and Motility".
9. Commentary on Heidegger.
Martin Heidegger: "Exposition of the Task of a Preparatory Analysis of Dasein"..
Part IV: Analytic Philosophy.
10. Commentary on Strawson.
P. F. Strawson: "Persons".
11. Commentary on Frankfurt.
Harry Frankfurt: "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person".
12. Commentary on Shoemaker.
Sydney Shoemaker: "Personal Identity: A Materialists's Account".
13. Commentary on Williams (Bernard Williams: "Bodily Continuity and Personal Identity".
14. Commentary of Parfit.
Derek Parfit: Reasons and Persons, "What We Believe Ourselves To Be"..
Part V: Post-structuralism.
15. Commentary on Freud.
Sigmund Freud: "The Ego and the Id".
16. Commentary on Foucault.
Michel Foucault: "About the Beginnings of ten Hermeneutics of the Self: two Lectures at Dartmouth".
17. Commentary on Ricoeur.
Paul Ricoeur: "Personal Identity and Narrative Identity"..
Part VI: Feminist Philosophy.
18. Commentary on de Beauvoir.
Simone de Beauvooir: "Introduction" to The Second Sex.
19. Commentary on Butler.
Judith Butler: "Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity".
20. Commentary on Irigaray.
Luce Irgaray: "Any Theory of the 'Subject' Has Always Been Appropriated by the 'Masculine'".
21. Commentary on Mackenzie.
Catriona Mackenzie: "Imaging Oneself Otherwise".
"Self and Subjectivity is a superb reader. Kim Atkins's gem-like introductions to each reading, together with the generosity and diversity of her selections, will make this an invaluable text for teachers across a range of disciplines." J. M. Bernstein, New School for Social Research
"Atkins's imaginative selection of texts from both analytic and continental thinkers –along with cogent samples of feminist, psychoanalytic, and postmodern theories of selfhood – places this work at the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship." Richard Kearney, Boston College
"The extracts are wide-ranging and well-chosen; and Atkins's commentaries on her selections are informative, clear, and concise. This will be an extremely useful collection for both students and teachers of philosophy." Christopher Cordner, University of Melbourne
- Features excerpts from seminal texts on self and subjectivity including material from Descartes, Hume, Nietzsche, Freud, Sartre, Foucault, Judith Butler, Bernard Williams, Derek Parfit and many others
- Covers the rise of the philosophy of the subject, its crisis in postmodernity and the re-articulation of selfhood, agency and personal identity
- Situates discussions of selfhood and the subject in broad historical, metaphysical, ethical, and epistemological contexts
- Includes detailed commentary by the editor on the background and interrelations of each of the readings


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How to Say Scourge in Malay
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The Port of New York and New Jersey and other ports along the Gulf and East coasts are looking at how to reduce the cost and productivity loss that occurs when longshoremen hired for the weekend are unable to work due to vessel delays.
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The International Longshoremen's Association and its employers at U.S. East and Gulf Coast ports are discussing an early, long-term extension of their coastwide contract that expires Sept. 30, 2018. The goal: an agreement that spares cargo interests an experience such as the one they endured during the epic 2012-13 bargaining between the ILA and United States Maritime Alliance. Those negotiations yielded a six-year contract, but only after nearly a year of rocky negotiations and repeated strike threats.
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Typically, once a U.S. longshore negotiation is settled, the affected ports revert to a state of normalcy despite whatever disruption occurred during the talks. U.S. West Coast negotiations over the past 20 years have never been without disruption but were always followed by near-normal operations that lasted in some cases for years. The six years leading up to the June 30, 2014, expiration of the recent agreement between waterfront employers and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union saw only sporadic disruption. But there is a difference between then and now: The current agreement reached on Feb. 20 failed to resolve all issues and one in particular — chassis maintenance — stands out as holding the potential for sparking further disruption and uncertainty for shippers.


text: Chaos. Hectic, seemingly unpredictable, complex dynamics. In a word: fun. I usually stick to the warm and fuzzy world of stochasticity and probability distributions, but this post will be (almost) entirely devoid of randomness. While chaotic dynamics are entirely deterministic, their sensitivity to initial conditions can trick the observer into seeing iid. In ecology, chaotic


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Tagged: Dara Torres
The Filibuster
Michael Phelps and a few other American athletes have voluntarily
submitted to a higher level of drug testing in an attempt to head off
any questions about their impressive victories. If the US Olympic team
can do this, why hasn't baseball taken similar steps to get rid of the
drug stigma surrounding the game today?
— Allen
In a way, Major League Baseball, behind the leadership of Bud Selig and an overwhelmingly grumpy push from the US Government, has taken similar steps to get rid of the drug stigma, Mr. Krause. I'm not sure if you heard about it this past winter, but the Mitchell Report made quite a stir all over the baseball cosmos, and got a great number of ballplayers thinking "Hey, maybe I shouldn't put this crap in my body anymore."
While the drug screening program in baseball is still somewhat lax and random in its procedure, it is still light years better than what it was (non-existent) and does an adequate job by simply scaring people into doing the right thing. This is progress that at one time seemed improbable. Why? Because the don't-ask-don't-tell secret of performance enhancing drugs was bringing people to the ballpark. Whether it was the greenies of the 70s or the HGH of the 90s, fans were coming out to games in droves to witness the high octane occurrence of homeruns and 100 mph fastballs. You've said it here a million times, Mr. Krause, money is what makes the world go round and if shooting up brings it in then so be it.
Unfortunately, we US Americans sometimes have a conscious; and that's the only reason why this phase has transitioned to a foreseeable end.
Are players still using PEDs? Probably. Are they using them as much as they used to? No. Not at all. Need proof? How about Richie Sexson, Eric Gagne, Paul Lo Duca just for starters. These guys are mere shadows of what they used to be while on the juice; because of that, I'm convinced that the biggest proverbial battles have already been fought and won.
Could more be done to ensure the sanctity of the game? Probably.
Will a more stringent array of tests similar to those of Olympians Michael Phelps and Dara Torres (both voluntarily) ever be instituted in Major League Baseball? I doubt it.
And here's why: Player's Union, Agents, Club Owners, the Players themselves. Try to get anything past these guys that could theoretically threaten profits and you'll quickly realize you're dealing with a much higher power than voluntary amateur athletes who compete for a friggin' medal that everyone will forget about two months from now.
The difference between asking Michael Phelps to take a rigorous amount of drug tests to prove his purity and asking Manny Ramirez to do the same can be summed up in two words: Scott Boras.
Boras, evil incarnate, who single-handedly changed sports forever, will hunt down your children, cut off their heads and sell them to Colombian witchdoctors if it means he'll get 10%. I guarantee you, if Boras represented Phelps (which would never happen whilst Phelps maintains amateur status), Andrea Kramer would be lucky if Phelps even acknowledged her existence after winning 8 gold medals.
Money. Money money money money money. Money. Money money money money. Money. Money money MONEY!
Of course, public relations and digesting the fact that hardworking US Americans actually do want to be assured that their national pastime isn't being abused both factor into MLB's stricter regulations; but MLB and its myriad components, from the owners to the players to Joe Blow who spent $48.50 of his paycheck to sit in the upper deck, will continue to do whatever they have to to straddle the precarious line between profit and purity.
It hasn't been perfected in politics (see Bill Clinton, the Kennedy's, John Edwards) yet, so it's no surprise that baseball hasn't a clue either.
I'm just glad that I can go to sleep at night knowing that I am PED free. A bulging forehead, weak libido and distending testicles wouldn't be good for my image.
Don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.


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madhornet needed a new coded website design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 11 designs submitted by 4 freelance designers.
I would like to have a replica of acne-review.com's website. Same products, same info etc.
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use a color scheme that feels "trust-worthy"
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Nice clean cut site design. No blurry images, etc.
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The site should be a main index page with one template page to use for the rest of the site's info pages. I also want my pages to contain more text and html elements than the acne-review. They use predominately images for their site which is not favorable for seo. It also will make it easier to change/add text etc if needed.


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The New Zealand dollar market gleaned support from a positive purchasing managers' report in China after earlier being reassured by a vote that bought time on the US debt ceiling issue.
The kiwi was at 84.32 US cents at 5pm from 84.18 US cents at 8am and 84.05 cents at 5pm on Wednesday.
News that the HSBC Flash China manufacturing PMI rose to 51.9 in January from 51.5 in December helped the kiwi off its lows in afternoon trading.
It was the fifth consecutive monthly rise in the purchasing managers' index, which is at a two-year high.
"Despite the still tepid external demand, the domestic-driven restocking process is likely to add steam to China's ongoing recovery in the coming months," Hongbin Qu, head of Asian economic research at HSBC, said.
Traders said the index was credible and any strength in the Chinese economy would be welcomed in this part of the world, given Europe's difficulties and the budget problems in the US.
However, approval of an increase to the US federal borrowing ceiling for three months took the heat out of that issue.
Otherwise traders noted that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had trimmed its 2013 forecast for global growth to 3.5 percent from the 3.6 percent it projected in October.
"The IMF's chief economist played down concerns that easy monetary policies in advanced economies risk sparking a 'currency war', saying there had not been a major surge of capital into emerging nations," HiFX analysts said.
ASB's Jane Turner said there was a small but growing chance the Reserve Bank of New Zealand would look at using macro-prudential tools over the coming year to try to ease housing market pressures.
ASB has also tweaked its view of the next move in the official cash rate by the central bank.
"We now expect the RBNZ to leave the OCR on hold until March 2014 - this compares to our expectation of a September 2013 increase just six weeks ago at the December monetary policy statement," she said.
The kiwi topped 80.17 Australian cents from 79.78 cents at 5pm on Wednesday.
It was at 75.24 yen from 74.48 yen, 63.32 euro from 63.14 euro and 53.27 British pence from 53.09 pence.
The trade-weighted index was at 75.64 from 75.45 at 5pm on Wednesday.
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Then the Bursledon Blogger said he still uses his 2005 almanac and I admitted mine goes back to 2004.
But can you do better than that? So two questions:
- How old is the oldest nautical almanac you own?
- How old is the oldest nautical almanac you use?
I wonder how many of us sail with no almanac at all.
Most of the time, our horizons begin and end on the same home waters (SF Bay), so the chart will do. Tides are on the GPS, and the heights give a pretty good idea of how strong currents will be.
But our most reliable tide chart is the ramp leading down to O Dock. It's like this \ at low tide and this -- at high.
Others use even more sophisticated techniques, though.
I have an rather old Bowditch on a bookshelf somewhere... as a bit of a collectible.
Apparently Michael Portillo will be doing a new tv series sailing the channel ports using his 1913 Bradshaw's guide!
Might be a worth a look, though wasn't grabbed by his train travelogues.
I remember looking at the dates on some of the charts of Scotland and the soundings went back to the 19th Century in places!
I'd expect greater change for channel ports - which might actually be the point of the series.
I use a 1984 cruising guide, complete with charts that has served me well every year since then. It's not accurate about facilities all the time. But the charts (which are "not for navigation") never fail. It looks like it's been around the world a few times.
"Two trawlers arrived from Immingham...
The Lieutenant ... in charge of meeting incoming vessels and escort them into Mudros harbour, (exclaimed, "No Admiralty charts?) Good God man, how did you get through the Greek Islands?"
"Well, Sir, the Mate had an old bible with some quite good maps at the end."
--from Norman Wilkinson's writings of his time serving in the The Dardanelles, 1915.


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Ma Ying-jeou government under fire again
As time moves forward, Ma's administration moves backward
A group of 39 observers of Taiwanese politics from around the world -- many of whom were part of an earlier series of open letters on the erosion of justice in Taiwan under the Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) government -- is in the news yet again. This time, they're focusing on the indictment against former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝).
Here's some of the main content [highlights mine]:
Dear President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九),After detailing the specific questions (which you can read at the link above) -- the first of which mentions that the charges stem from events which took place about 15 years ago -- the letter continues [highlights mine]:
We the undersigned, international academics, analysts and writers from the US, Canada, Europe and Australia, have for many years been keen observers of political developments in Taiwan. We were delighted when Taiwan made its transition to democracy in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and we continue to care deeply for the country and its future as a free and democratic nation-state.
However, during the past three years, many of us have felt it necessary to address publicly our concerns to you about the erosion of justice and democracy in Taiwan, most recently in April this year regarding the charges of the "36,000 missing documents" against a number of prominent former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) officials. We raised these issues as international supporters of Taiwan's democracy.
At this time we express our deep concern about the charges against former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝), often referred to as "the father of Taiwan's democracy," who was indicted on June 30 on charges of allegedly channeling US$7.8 million from secret diplomatic funds into the Taiwan Research Institute. These charges and their timing raise a number of questions that are related both to the case itself and the integrity of the judicial system in Taiwan.
Mr President, as head of state you bear overall responsibility for the state of affairs in Taiwan. In democratic systems, proper checks and balances between the executive, legislative and judiciary branches are of the utmost importance. The executive and the legislative branches have a responsibility to exercise oversight and to balance activism in the judiciary, just as the judiciary serves a similar role with regard to the executive and legislative branches. Stating that your government abides by "judicial independence" is therefore not enough. It is essential that all participants in the judicial process — prosecutors, judges and lawyers — are fully imbued with the basic principle that the judiciary is scrupulously impartial and not given to any partisan preferences.You can say that again (and they probably will)!
We, as members of the international academic community, are left with the impression that the indictments and practices of the judiciary in Taiwan over the past three years reflect a judicial system that is increasingly influenced by political considerations. There has been a regression in the accomplishments of Taiwan's momentous democratization of the 1990s and 2000s. As good friends of Taiwan, we are deeply unsettled by this. It undermines Taiwan's international image as a free and democratic nation.
Mr President, we therefore urge you and your government to ensure that the judicial system is held to the highest standards of objectivity and fairness. Taiwan has many challenges ahead of it and it cannot afford the political divisions created by the use of the judicial system for political purposes.
Respectfully yours,
[the undersigned]
Some of the prequels
Don't forget the earlier parts of this long-running series, listed here in chronological order:
* November 6, 2008: Scholars and writers from around the world publish an "Open letter on erosion of justice in Taiwan." The same letter -- as an online petition -- was signed by more than 2,000 people. (The petition is now closed.)I can already imagine how the Ma government will respond the latest letter.
* November 25, 2008: Minister of Justice Wang Ching-feng (王清峰) calls the open letter "inaccurate."
* December 2, 2008: "Eroding justice: Open letter No. 2" counters Wang Ching-feng's claims.
* January 8, 2009: Over a month later, Wang Ching-feng comes up with "clarif[ications]" regarding the open-letter writers' so-called "misunderstandings."
* January 21, 2009: "Eroding justice: Open letter No. 3" is addressed to President Ma Ying-jeou.
* January 24, 2009: Two more "US-based Taiwan experts add [their] names to open letter [No. 3]."
* January 25, 2009: President Ma claims the public had gained confidence in the judiciary in 2008 -- the exact opposite of what this Taiwan News article tells us they actually felt:According to recent surveys conducted by Academia Sinica and the Web site Yahoo! Kimo, over 50 percent of the people do not believe in Taiwan's judicial system and over 75 percent have no confidence that the Judicial Yuan will undertake judicial reform [...]* May 22, 2009: An estimable group of scholars and writers -- 26 in all, and each one with a deep understanding of Taiwan and the surrounding facts -- has composed an open letter addressed directly to President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九). The letter addresses the ever-increasing problems with judicial fairness, press freedom, the lack of transparency in the Chinese Nationalist Party's (KMT) rapprochement with China, the loss of Taiwan's sovereignty, and the loss of human rights. The argument the letter makes is rock solid. It is based on demonstrable facts.
* November 9, 2009: Then there were 31. The Taiwan News publishes an "Open letter to President Ma Ying-jeou by 30 international scholars" which reminds us that "a decrease of tension across the Taiwan Strait would indeed be welcome, but [...] that this should not be done at the expense of the hard-won democracy" and that "Taiwan should be more fully accepted by the international community as a full and equal partner." (Here's a version with 31 names on the web site of one of the signatories, Jerome F. Keating, Ph.D.)
* December 13, 2009: Government Information Office (GIO) Minister Su Jun-pin (蘇俊賓) submits the "GIO response to Nov. [9] open letter" to the Taipei Times.
* December 25, 2009: Richard Kagan, professor emeritus at Hamline University in St Paul, Minnesota and one of the signatories of the November 2009 letter, replies to Su Jun-pin's silliness in "GIO's response misses the point"
* January 8, 2010: Government Information Office (GIO) Minister Su Jun-pin (蘇俊賓) churns out A GIO response to Richard Kagan (one of the signatories of the November 9, 2009 "Open letter to President Ma Ying-jeou by 30 international scholars") in which Su compares apples and oranges by imagining that other people don't know that China wants to annex Taiwan while the Taiwanese people don't want to be part of China, ignores what has happened to Hong Kong in the past 12 and a half years, talks about the "double-taxation" issue as if China won't still get those taxes from Taiwanese businesses, pretends to forget that Taiwan's Straits [sic] Exchange Foundation (海峽交流基金會) chairman and Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) vice-chairman Chiang Pin-kung (江丙坤) referred to himself as a "rubber stamp," complains that his government has no control over anything, ignores the KMT's continued attempts to take over Taiwan's Public TV (PTS, 公共電視), confuses gains in local elections with a balanced legislature and a president who listens to majority opinion without oppressing minorities or stupidly saying out loud that he "sees them as humans," and completely omits the fact that the talks regarding an Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) -- which Chinese officials say "will certainly bring about complete unification of the motherland [sic] -- have been anything but transparent and have not been subject to legislative oversight. These things, Mr. Su, are clear signs of an erosion of both justice and democracy.
* February 9, 2010: Michael Danielsen, one of the signatories of the Open letter to President Ma Ying-jeou last November, rebuts Su Jun-pin's response to Richard Kagan last month by pointing out that Democratic liberty is fundamental, "look[ing] forward to actual steps [by Su and the Ma government] that go beyond mere words."
* April 11, 2011: Another open letter criticizes the government's charges that 17 former DPP officials are responsible for "'failing to return' about 36,000 documents during the DPP administration" which ended almost three years earlier.
* April 14, 2011: In what is hard not to perceive as intimidation, the Foreign Ministry says it's going to probe this latest open letter, with Ma officials implying along the way that some of the writers were not of sound mind.
* April 17, 2011: The Chinese-language Liberty Times (自由時報) notices the intimidation factor: "The Liberty Times Editorial: KMT uses law as a political weapon."
* April 22, 2011: The Taipei Times draws a similar conclusion: "EDITORIAL: Government starts to sound like PRC."
How long can this continue? As long as Taiwanese allow the Chinese KMT to hold political power, it will just keep going and going and going.
Unsealing utensils: Taiwan, 台灣, open letter, 公開信, erosion of justice, 侵蝕司法, Ma Ying-jeou, 馬英九, Chinese Nationalist Party, 中國國民黨, Kuomintang, KMT, 國民黨, Lee Teng-hui, 李登輝
Cross-posted at It's Not Democracy, It's A Conspiracy!
Labels: Chinese Nationalist Party, erosion of justice, KMT, Lee Teng-hui, Ma Ying-jeou, open letter, Taiwan, Tim Maddog, 中國國民黨, 侵蝕司法, 公開信, 台灣, 國民黨, 李登輝, 馬英九


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Canadian Holocaust-era Provenance Research Project (CHERP)
Winnipeg Art Gallery Participates in CAMDO's national Holocaust-era Provenance Project
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA– February 6, 2014: The Winnipeg Art Gallery is one of six galleries embarking on a pilot research project, coordinated by the Canadian Art Museum Directors Organization (CAMDO), to research the provenance of Holocaust-era art works. Currently there are no known works in the WAG's collection that have been looted during World War II. The purpose of the project is to investigate paintings that have incomplete provenances during the period of 1933-1945.
The WAG's art collection does contains paintings that have incomplete provenances for the period 1933-1945, and these paintings will be researched to see if there is any possible link to Nazi-era lootings. Provenance is the documented history of ownership of a work of art, from the time it was created to the present day. For paintings that are often several centuries old, it is quite common for provenances to be incomplete. This is especially true of works whose histories intersect with periods of political or social upheaval, when all forms of moveable assets tend to change hands frequently, legally or otherwise. Since records of ownership are often lost or don't exist in writing, it is difficult to fully document the full provenance of works of art.
Provenance research is undertaken in a variety of ways, starting with clues that may still exist on the backs of paintings or on their frames, such as labels or inscriptions that point to earlier owners or transactions, or at least to their locations. It is a form of forensic investigation, requiring specialized expertise. A wide variety of relevant documentation must be identified, located and consulted, such as old auction sale catalogues, dealer records, exhibition records, archival photographs, personal papers, family histories, and other archival and published sources. Existing information from the object's record must be verified, and new information must be sought out. Each painting presents its own particular case, and presents its own particular challenges. In Nazi-era provenance research, additional documentation may come into play, such as government archives, as well as Nazi records seized by the Allies following WWII and now deposited in various archives worldwide. Whereas intensive provenance research on a particular painting may result in the complete reconstruction of its provenance, there are no guarantees of success.
"While I'm pleased to see the media take a heightened interest in what we consider to be very important research," says Dr. Stephen Borys, Director & CEO (and President of CAMDO) it should be noted that the WAG, like all leading art museums in Canada, has always been diligent in researching the provenance – or history – of their art collections. I am also concerned about misinformation ending up in the media creating a false impression that we or any Canadian museum has looted work in our collection. This is, to the best of our knowledge, not the case. Canadian galleries have long wanted to pursue Holocaust-era provenance research but have not had the resources or funding to do so. Thanks to MAP (Museums Assistance Program) funding we'll finally have a chance to do so."
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Peanut butter burger time
Novrozsky's has been a local legend since Dave Jones purchased the burger joint in 1983, back when he recalls the small restaurant offering burgers, fries and mismatched chairs. Nearly 30 years later, the fast-casual restaurant selling everything from onion rings (which are great) to tuna steaks (which are healthy) has an un-matched menu with everything you'd expect--and a few things you wouldn't.
Most recently, the unlikely hero to join the Novrozsky's burger dream team is the Peanut Butter Burger. Nope, it's not a nickname.
"It's not what you would expect," said Jones, who said he too was skeptical when his daughter Julie insisted that he try the oddly dressed burger after she discovered it in New Orleans. "You think you're going to just taste peanut butter, but you don't. You taste the cheese, the bacon, the meat — you taste all of it together, and it works. We put it right on the patty when it's hot so it just melts, and the peanut butter just rolls off the sides of that burger. Yeah, it definitely works."
Jones, who admittedly loves peanut butter, was cooperative for The Examiner with this particular investigation, providing us our own peanut butter burger to try. The first bite, as he predicted, was not as peanut-buttery as one would expect. In fact, it kind of...worked.
"I'm not going to sell something if it's not good," he said. "If I'm not going to eat it, why am I going to sell it? It's not going to happen."
Though this thing could be the new PBJ, we understand if you're not quite ready to try the PBB (it'll catch on). We do insist, though, that you try the fried egg burger — a unique burger that might be a little more palatable to imagine.
"The egg doesn't overpower the burger; it compliments it very well," Jones said of the crowd pleaser Fried Egg Burger.
Novrozsky's has more than a few diehard fans of the chicken fried steak, Novo chips, fried mushrooms served with homemade ranch and marinated chicken breast, but the burgers are the king of the joint. Perhaps its Jones' attention to detail, including bringing in all-natural Nolan Ryan beef for every standard burger on the menu, that sets his burgers apart from the rest. Or maybe he's just a guy who knows what he loves in a burger.
"Everybody wants a good burger, unless you're a vegetarian; but we have that, too," he said referring to the unique vegetarian black-bean burger.
One of the first restaurants in the area to offer certified heart-healthy menu items, Novrozsky's is a local trendsetter with the health-food kick — the Nolan Ryan beef you get at Novrozsky's has no hormones, no trans fats, no nonsense. And most recently, he added the heart-healthy, prime quality Kashi burger to the roster for those who really want a healthy splurge.
"I tell everybody, if you eat this burger, you're healthier when you walk out of here than you were when you walked in," he mused of the low cholesterol meat. "The Kashi is the best meat in America you can buy; it's got a buttery taste natural to the beef and it's perfect. Plus it's good for you."
We personally recommend you try any of these three new burgers that hit the Novo menu in January.But we triple double dare you to try the Peanut Butter Burger.