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Santiago Climate & Weather
The climate of Santiago is Mediterranean, with typically hot, dry summers and mild, moist winters. In summer, November to February, average temperatures hit highs of around 95°F (35°C). The summer months can be quite windy, with prevailing winds from the southwest. In winter, May to August, temperatures average around 57°F (14°C). Rain falls mainly during winter, which is a more humid season in Santiago. Snowfall is extremely rare in the city, although it is common in the Andes mountain range that looms above Santiago. Temperature inversions cause smog to be trapped in the valley for spells during the winter months, bringing heavy pollution. Unfortunately, the city is considered one of the most polluted in the world, largely due to its location in a natural bowl, and the smog is at its worst in winter. The best time to visit Santiago is in the summer months of December, January and February, although many people do visit in the winter to enjoy the skiing.
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Earlier today in Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's home town, American forces carried out 58 raids and arrested more than 175 people suspected of being Saddam loyalists. Four men who were described as important members of Saddam's former government were seized. The photo below is of Brig. Gen. Daher Ziana, described as Saddam's "lifelong bodyguard."
This is, apparently, another indication of the accelerating pace of citizen cooperation following the deaths of Uday and Qusay Hussein just one week ago. Yet the New York Times, even as it reports the story, refuses to give credit to the Administration for nailing the younger Husseins: "American military confidence has increased notably since the deaths of Mr. Hussein's sons in a shootout in the northern city of Mosul. While those deaths did not prove to be the crippling blow to the Iraqi insurgency that was originally predicted by military officials…"
Wait a minute. American officials specifically and repeatedly said that killing Uday and Qusay would not bring about an immediate reduction in the Saddamite resistance; on the contrary, they said it was likely that in the short term, attacks on American soldiers would increase. The Times simply disregards these statements–which it reported just a few days ago–and claims that military officials had incorrectly predicted that the sons' deaths would be a "crippling blow" to the resistance. And the Hussein brothers were killed exactly SEVEN DAYS AGO! A bit early, don't you think, to be assessing the ramifications of that event? How American generals can continue to treat New York Times reporters with civility is beyond me.
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Health Net's missing drive could cost it millions
Connecticut HIPAA lawsuit over lost records
US healthcare corporation Health Net kept quiet for 6 months about a lost disk drive, exposing 1.5 million of its members to identity theft. It is now being sued.
The law suit, filed by Connecticut's Attorney General, Richard Blumenthal, is in regard of 466,000 members in that state and refers to HIPAA regulations.
Health Net has annual revenues of $15.4bn and its "health plans and government contracts subsidiaries provide health benefits to more than 6 million individuals across the [States] through group, individual, Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE and Veterans Affairs programs."
HIPAA is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. Part of it refers to national US standards for electronic health care transactions and individual's privacy for businesses such as Health Net. It defines many healthcare-related offences with civil and criminal penalties.
That's the background. In November 2009 Health Net reported to the authorities in four states that a portable disk drive had gone astray from its Shelton, Connecticut, office. It was an identity theft goldmine, containing fulsome information on 1.5m people. Unfortunately for the corporation, and in an example of an awesomely dumb thing to do, it had lost the drive in May - six months before - but had told no-one.
It gets worse. The data was not encrypted and there was lots of it. The disk contained 120 or more document types, such as medical records and claim forms, amounting to 27.7 million scanned pages in total.
The first thing Health Net did after the loss was to hire Kroll, a forensic computer firm, to look into it. Kroll subsequently revealed the lack of encryption. Health Net said the data could only be viewed with specific software, but unfortunately that software was commonly available.
After the November revelation, Connecticut authorities digested it and Blumenthal filed the law suit (pdf) last week. Blumenthal wants the court to tell Health Net to behave properly, according to HIPAA rules, encrypt all its health data on portable drives, pay damages to affected members and a fine to the state.
A released quote of his says: "The staggering scope of the data loss, and deliberate delay in disclosure, are legally actionable and ethically unacceptable... Protected private medical records and financial information on almost a half million Health Net enrollees in Connecticut were exposed for at least six months - most likely by thieves - before Health Net notified appropriate authorities and consumers."
Health Net issued a statement following the law suit's January 13th filing, saying: "Health Net's company policy states that data must be encrypted and secured."
This implies that an employee broke company rules and is effectively a guilty plea. There was no evidence that the data has been misused. Health Net is offering "two years of free credit monitoring services for all impacted members... This service also includes $1 million of identity theft insurance coverage and enrolment in fraud resolution services for two years, if needed. Additionally, if members experience any identity theft between May 2009 and the data of their enrolment, Health Net will provide services to restore the member's identity at no cost to the member."
That seems pretty good, albeit belated. Watching supposedly responsible corporations and government agencies deal with portable disk drives is like watching unsupervised children with fireworks and matches. They just go right ahead and blow themselves up and then try to hide the damage. Health Net 'fessed up and came up with its damage limitation scheme pretty promptly after the Connecticut filing, but only after that filing.
The three other affected states could now jump on the lawsuit bandwagon, and Health Net could still face tens of millions of dollars in penalties. ®
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We're wavering on a pretty big decision this year. Our daughter has a fall birthday, meaning that in most traditional public school settings, she'd be nearly six before she entered kindergarten — next year. Although some states offer a January 1st cut off date (see the full list here), most kindergarten cutoffs are before her birthday in November.
As a former PreK and kindergarten teacher, part of my job was to hold an open house prior to school starting, and watch the children whose parents wanted to send them to the next grade. As a private school, we weren't looking at age so much as we were considering their emotional and physical readiness. Some children were older, some were quite a bit younger. I often had children 16 months or more apart in the same class, which at first presented its own challenges. Yet as the year went on, each found their own rhythm in our room and among their classmates.
However, we chose to homeschool. Since we live in Texas, there are very minimal requirements on us, and we could start this year or next with our daughter. Texas public schools may allow a child to enter younger than five, following these guidelines:
A student younger than five years of age is entitled to the benefits of the Foundation School Program if:
(1) the student performs satisfactorily on the assessment instrument administered under Section 39.023(a) to students in the third grade; and
(2) the district has adopted a policy for admitting students younger than five years of age. (Citation: TEC §42.003, (d))
As each state's requirements are different, you'll want to search "kindergarten early entrance in (state)" to check yours.
When teaching, I began to see older children enter my class. Much older. The popular things these days is to "redshirt" your child, meaning to hold them back an extra year and give them advantages in almost every way over younger peers. This might be ideal for children just not quite ready for kindergarten on many levels, but in my and several others' opinions, it presents many issues later on for many children showing full kindergarten readiness.
So what is a parent to do? Perhaps your child has a fall birthday, or a summer one but seems young for their age, or you know they're ready but your family seems hesitant that they should go. If you are able to have a choice in the age your child attends kindergarten, here's some of the things you should be looking for to help them have a successful year:
Does your child …
- Draw a self-portrait with lots of details — a head, body, arms, legs, hands, feet, and facial features?
- Notice small differences in shapes, pictures, or the sounds of words (cat/cup)?
- Tell a story, often while pretending to "read" a book?
- Retell a story or personal experience to you in sequence?
- Distinguish beginning sounds in words?
- Recognize sounds using letter flashcards?
- Know numbers from 1-10 (out of order)?
- Follow basic directions (under, around, above, etc.)?
- Recognize rhyming words?
- Begin to write letters and numbers?
- Use the restroom independently?
- Exhibit self-control and a cooperative nature?
While your child doesn't need to have every question checked off with an enthusiastic "YES!" it is important to know that if many of these are hesitations, you might want to consider a year (or another) of PreK before enrolling. If you feel your child is ready and you'll be placing them in a public, private, or charter school … talk to potential teachers and the principal. Attend an open house. Ask parents who had younger children in the room in previous years how it went.
The most important part of this all is to remember that there are benefits and drawbacks to each and every scenario. So if you simply can't change anyone's mind, or you feel as though you made a mistake later on, know that each of these paths would have it's own ups and downs. Make the more informed choice you have based on the knowledge of your child and the school's policies.
As for us? We're heading down the early kindergarten path at the moment because I feel she's ready for the challenge and new material. If it turns out to be over my daughter's head — we'll wait another year.
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Below is an update of court proceedings, currently under way in Mozambique, in the murder case of journalist Carlos Cardoso, who was killed on November 22, 2000. The proceedings are updated periodically as events occur.
Background of Cardoso case
Archives of the Cardoso case
Report on murder investigation
New York, May 11, 2006--A local prosecutor in Mozambique has taken a preliminary step toward indicting a son of former President Joaquim Chissano in the 2000 murder of investigative journalist Carlos Cardoso, Mozambique's official news agency, AIM, reported today.
The prosecutor filed what is known as a charge sheet with the Maputo City Court about two weeks ago, AIM reported today. A judge will determine whether there is sufficient evidence to proceed against Nyimpine Chissano, the news agency said. AIM reported that the charge sheet accuses the younger Chissano of being involved in plotting the murder.
Chissano has denied involvement.
Attorney General Joaquim Madeira, the country's top prosecutor, told the Committee to Protect Journalists today that he had been informed of the Maputo city prosecutor's action but could not provide details because the case is not under his jurisdiction. Numerous attempts by CPJ to locate the city prosecutor for comment were unsuccessful.
Six men were convicted in January 2003 of carrying out Cardoso's assassination, and they are currently serving lengthy prison terms. During their trial, several of the defendants alleged that Chissano ordered the murder. Police began an investigation of Chissano in 2003, but there had been no public developments until now. The murder occurred while Cardoso was investigating a 1996 corruption scandal involving the state-controlled Commercial Bank of Mozambique.
"We welcome any development that would shed light on our colleague Carlos Cardoso's brutal assassination," said Ann Cooper, executive director of CPJ. "We hope that a full, impartial investigation will ensure that all those responsible for the murder are brought to justice."
Cardoso founded the press organization Mediacoop in 1992, and later launched the fax newsletter, Metical, of which he was editor at the time of his death.
New York, January 24, 2005--A fugitive in the murder of investigative reporter Carlos Cardoso has been returned to Mozambique, where he faces a new trial in the November 2000 slaying. The Committee to Protect Journalists today called for the prompt prosecution and secure detention of Anibal Antonio dos Santos Junior, who has escaped from custody twice.
Dos Santos, better known as Anibalzinho, was deported from Canada, where his petition for refugee status was turned down in December 2004. He arrived in Mozambique on Saturday, and was being held at police headquarters in the capital, Maputo, according to the state-run AIM news agency and local sources.
Anibalzinho escaped from a high-security prison in Maputo in May 2004 but was captured later that month at Toronto's Pearson International Airport. While his refugee petition was pending, Mozambican authorities requested Anibalzinho's extradition from Canada. The two countries have no extradition treaty, slowing the process of returning the suspect.
It was not the first time Anibalzinho had escaped custody. After fleeing pretrial detention in September 2002, he was convicted in absentia of murder and sentenced to 28 years in prison. He was captured in South Africa in January 2003 and extradited to Mozambique, where he was serving his term until his second escape.
In December 2004, Mozambique's Supreme Court ruled that Anibalzinho was entitled to a retrial. The court ruled that a defendant who is convicted in absentia and sentenced to more than two years--including an escapee--is entitled to a new trial when he re-emerges. No date has been set for the retrial, according to local sources. Anibalzinho's five codefendants were convicted.
"CPJ welcomes the news that Anibalzinho has been returned to jail in Mozambique," said Ann Cooper, executive director of CPJ. "We urge Mozambican authorities to ensure that Anibalzinho remains in secure custody, and that his retrial is impartial and transparent."
Cardoso was Mozambique's leading investigative journalist at the time of his death, and was covering a 1996 corruption scandal involving the state-controlled Commercial Bank of Mozambique.
During their trial, several of those accused of involvement in Cardoso's murder said that Nyimpine Chissano, a son of then-president Joaquim Chissano, had ordered the assassination. A separate investigation into Nyimpine's involvement was launched in January 2003, but no developments have been publicly announced. Nyimpine has categorically denied the charges.
New York, June 3, 2004--Anibal Antonio dos Santos Junior, the convicted murderer of Mozambican journalist Carlos Cardoso was arrested with the help of Interpol police at Toronto's Pearson International Airport on May 25, according to international press reports.
Dos Santos, known as Anibalzinho, escaped from a Mozambican prison on May 9. He was serving a 28-year sentence for leading the death squad that murdered Cardoso in November 2000. Cardoso was the country's leading investigative reporter and published Metical, a daily fax newsletter, at the time of his death.
The office of Mozambique's attorney general said that Anibalzinho escaped with help from the police, and that an investigation is under way, according to Reuters news agency.
Mozambican authorities are working to have Anibalzinho extradited from Canada, but the two countries have no extradition treaty. Since Anibalzinho's capture, Canadian press reports have speculated that the fugitive has applied for asylum. Canadian officials have refused to comment on Anibalzinho's status or to confirm whether he is seeking asylum, said Colin Freeze of Toronto's Globe and Mail.
This is the second time Anibalzinho has escaped from a Mozambican prison. He fled from pretrial detention in September 2002 and was convicted of the murder in absentia. He was captured in South Africa in January 2003 and extradited to Mozambique.
New York, January 31, 2003--Six men accused of killing Mozambican journalist Carlos Cardoso were convicted today and sentenced to lengthy prison terms, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists' (CPJ) representative at the trial in Mozambique's capital, Maputo.
Meanwhile, fugitive suspect Anibal dos Santos Junior, commonly known as Anibalzinho, who escaped from pretrial detention, was captured yesterday in South Africa and extradited to Mozambique, Interpol-South Africa announced.
Anibalzinho was tried in absentia for leading the death squad that murdered Cardoso in November 2000 and was sentenced to 28 years and six months in jail. The other five suspects were sentenced to at least 23 years in jail each.
"There is a sense here that this ruling is more than expected," said South African journalist Phillip Van Niekerk, who represented CPJ at the verdict announcement. "People are glad because the sentences are very harsh."
According to Van Niekerk, Judge Augusto Paulino has vowed to push for a thorough investigation of President Joaquim Chissano's son Nyimpine Chissano, who has been accused by most suspects of ordering Cardoso's murder.
"Now people here seem to be waiting to see how much further the judicial system can be stretched to take on the powerful," said Van Niekerk. "They are also asking if the manner and timing of the fugitive suspect Anibalzinho's arrest was not a cover-up to keep him from testifying in court. A serious investigation is urgently called for."
Prison guards have said they unlawfully released Anibalzinho in September 2002 after receiving "orders from above."
The verdict comes more than two months after the trial opened in a maximum-security prison outside Maputo.
New York, January 30, 2003--A verdict in the trial of six men accused of killing Mozambican investigative reporter Carlos Cardoso is expected tomorrow. South African journalist Phillip Van Niekerk will represent the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on the final day of the trial.
Van Niekerk, a former editor of the Johannesburg Mail & Guardian and a staff writer at the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, has frequently reported from Mozambique, where he befriended Cardoso in the early 1990s.
Van Niekerk was part of a CPJ delegation that visited the capital, Maputo, in June 2001 to learn more about the state's investigation into the Cardoso murder. Cardoso was gunned down on November 22, 2000.
Mozambican state prosecutors contend he was killed for aggressively covering a 1996 banking fraud at the government-controlled Commercial Bank of Mozambique in his now defunct business daily, Metical.
Six men, arrested in March 2001, are standing trial for conspiring to murder Cardoso. One of them escaped from Maputo's maximum-security prison in September 2002 after prison guards said they received "orders from above." He is being tried in absentia.
Most of the remaining five have confessed their part in the assassination and have accused Nyimpine Chissano, a son of President Joaquim Chissano, of ordering the killing. Chissano has denied any involvement.
Law enforcement officials recently announced that a separate case file was opened listing Chissano as a suspect.
New York, January 23, 2002--The verdict in the trial of six men accused of killing Mozambican journalist Carlos Cardoso will be announced on January 31, said sources in Mozambique's capital, Maputo.
Meanwhile, according to the state-owned AIM news service, law enforcement authorities recently opened a separate case file on the murder, in which Nyimpine Chissano, a son of Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano, is considered a prime suspect.
Chief prosecutor Mourao Baluce argued in his closing statement that the months-long public trial had proven the six defendants guilty of the November 2000 murder. He asked Judge Augusto Paulino to impose the maximum sentence of 24 years without parole.
According to Baluce, plans to assassinate Cardoso were hatched during several meetings held in a Maputo hotel room beginning in July 2000. All six men on trial took part in one or more of those meetings, he said. Baluce argued that the six conspired to kill Cardoso because of his aggressive coverage of a 1996 banking scandal in which US$14 million was siphoned from the state-controlled Commercial Bank of Mozambique (BCM).
Some observers at the trial have expressed doubts about the prosecutor's argument, which they say was weakened by the fact that key prosecution witness, Osvaldo Muianga, who claims to have witnessed the meetings, changed his story several times. Baluce, however, said that Muianga withdrew earlier testimony for fear of reprisals from some of the defendants or their relatives. The 1996 banking fraud was masterminded by Momade Assife Ayob Satar, his brother Ayob, and Vincente Ramaya, then manager of a BCM branch in Maputo.
All three men are now on trial for Cardoso's murder. Also on trial are two men from Maputo's underworld, who have confessed their role in the killing. Another suspected hired gunman, arrested in March 2001, escaped from the capital's top security jail in September 2002 and is being tried in absentia.
In their final statements, some defense lawyers argued for their clients' acquittal while others pleaded with the justice system to show clemency in light of "mitigating circumstances," refering to widespread suspicions that the accused are scapegoats for Nyimpine Chissano, a son of Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano, who has been accused of ordering the November 2000 murder. The suspects have presented in court copies of checks worth US$50,000 signed by Nyimpine Chissano, allegedly to pay for the job.
The president's son has denied any involvement. Despite an official travel ban, AIM news service reported that Nyimpine Chissano was seen in Portugal's capital, Lisbon, in late December. AIM also quoted a Mozambican citizen as saying that he recognized Nyimpine on the flight back to Maputo.
Court officials have admitted that Nyimpine Chissano's diplomatic passport, which they had seized in early December, was returned to him "on higher orders."
New York, December 19, 2002--Anibal dos Santos Junior, commonly known as Anibalzinho, a fugitive suspect in the murder case of Mozambican journalist Carlos Cardoso, has sent videotaped testimony to the Maputo City Court. Augusto Paulino, the trial judge, declined to reveal its content.
Law enforcement officials in the capital, Maputo, acknowledged receiving the videotape early this week from Teresinha Mendonca, Anibalzinho's mother, but they also declined to comment on its content. According Mendonca, her son is hiding in London.
Anibalzinho was arrested in March 2001, along with five other suspects. He was illegally released from Maputo's maximum-security prison three months ago after prison guards received "orders from above" to do so. He is being tried in absentia for allegedly leading the group of hitmen that fatally shot Cardoso on November 22, 2000.
Copies of Anibalzinho's tape are circulating in the capital, said several Mozambican journalists. According to state news agency AIM, Anibalzinho is said to insist that two other men on trial, Momade Abdul Satar and his brother Ayob, are the actual masterminds of the murder, steering suspicions away from Nyimpine Chissano, a son of President Joaquim Chissano, whom most of the defendants have accused of commissioning Cardoso's killing.
Anibalzinho also claims on the tape that one of the suspects, former bank manager Vicente Ramaya, is innocent, and according to AIM, Anibalzinho apologizes to the Cardoso family "for everything that has happened."
Meanwhile, the court will again question Nyimpine Chissano "before Christmas," reported the independent MediaFax. The paper said that in addition to Chissano, law enforcement authorities would also query Octavio Muthemba, a former industry minister and Nyimpine's business partner.
New York, December 16, 2002--A group of police officers who admitted to helping in fugitive Anibal dos Santos Junior escape from prison, said they were acting "on orders from above," reported the private weekly Savana.
Dos Santos Junior (commonly known as Anibalzinho) is a suspect in the November 22, 2000, murder of Mozabican journalist Carlos Cardoso. On September 1 2002, two months before the start of the murder trial, Anibalzinho escaped from his cell at a maximum-security jail in Mozambique's capital, Maputo.
According to Savana's latest edition, an official at the Information and Research Department of the Interior Ministry has identified the police officers as members of the Presidential Guard, an elite unit known as the Red Berets.
News reports at the time of Anibalzinho's escape had alleged that the suspected killer might have been slain in his cell, where a crew from the state-operated Mozambique Television later found traces of blood. But at the trial, Anibalzinho's mother said that her son was staying with relatives in London.
A week after the escape, a Maputo police chief said that Anibalzinho was alive and well, arousing suspicions that law enforcement knew the fugitive's whereabouts and might be involved in his escape.
Anibalzinho is being tried in absentia for his alleged part in the Cardoso murder. Five other suspects remain in government custody since their arrests in March 2001 and have been appearing in court since the start of the trial on November 18.
Meanwhile, several witnesses claim to have received anonymous death threats. The Maputo home of the judge in this case, Augustino Paulino, has been under police surveillance since two men were spotted there watching the judge and his family.
New York, December 13, 2002--A South African ballistics expert testified yesterday that the people who carried out the November 22, 2000, assassination of journalist Carlos Cardoso must have experience in handling firearms, particularly AK-47's.
Although suspects Manuel Fernandes and Carlos Rashid Cassamo have admitted to taking part in Cardoso murder, they deny ever using an AK-47 prior to the slaying, which they both claim was commissioned by Nyimpine Chissano, a son of President Joaquim Chissano.
Noting that three of the bullet holes in Cardoso's car appeared very close together, Superintendent T.J. Brits, a forensic expert in the ballistics unit of the South African Police Department told the court, "The AK-47 is a powerful rifle. It's not easy, on the first time of using it, to fire three shots like that." But Brits also said that the AK-47 might have been on semiautomatic setting, firing one shot at a time, which would allow any inexperienced user to control the weapon's bursts.
An official forensic probe of Cardoso's car, in which five spent cartridges and three fragments of AK-47 bullets were found, took place in July 2001, eight months after the murder. According to Brits, close examination of the spent cartridges suggests that all the shots were fired from a single weapon. There is no evidence that an additional gun was used, said Brits.
New York, December 6, 2002--Businessman Momade Assife Abdul Satar today reiterated his allegations that Nyimpine Chissano, the eldest son of Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano, had ordered the assassination of journalist Carlos Cardoso.
A week ago, Satar had presented copies of four checks signed by Nyimpine Chissano as evidence that Nyimpine had ordered Cardoso's murder.
Testifying yesterday, Nyimpine dismissed Satar's allegations, insisting that he had signed the checks as collateral in a loan Satar had made to a business partner.
Today in court, Satar challenged Nyimpine's testimony, saying that the president's son had borrowed US$50,000 from him in late 2000, giving him four checks as collateral. Satar then added that Nyimpine also instructed him to give the money to Anibal dos Santos Junior (commonly known as Anibalzinho).
Fugitive Anibalzinho is accused of leading the death squad that killed Cardoso on November 22, 2000.
"I never had any business dealings with Satar," said Nyimpine, a statement that prompted Satar to shout, "This man is a liar. He's deceiving the court."
The court also asked confessed killer Carlitos Rashid Cassamo whether he had ever met Nyimpine Chissano prior to the Cardoso murder.
"That's the boss," Rashid replied. "I always had to stay hidden in the car. But I saw him from there."
Nyimpine, for his part, simply said, "I don't know this wretched individual."
New York, December 5--Nyimpine Chissano, a son of Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano, today denied allegations that he ordered the murder of journalist Carlos Cardoso.
At least three of the six men on trial for Cardoso's November 22, 2000, assassination have accused Nyimpine Chissano of being involved in the killing.
But Chissano testified today that he knows none of the suspects except confessed money-launderer Momade Assife Abdul Satar. The president's son claimed to have given Satar four checks as collateral for a loan that Candida Cossa, a customs official and business partner, had taken from Satar's currency exchange house, Unicambios.
Satar maintains that the checks prove that Chissano paid Satar to have Cardoso killed. Chissano dismissed Satar's allegations, explaining that Satar inexplicably kept the checks even after Cossa had reimbursed the loan. "We don't know why Unicambios held on to the checks," he said. Asked if Cardoso's critical reporting on his family had ever offended him, Nyimpine replied that although he never "resented" the journalist, some articles published by his daily, Metical, had "affected" the Chissano clan.
Chissano also claimed never to have met or spoken with Anibal dos Santos Junior (commonly known as Anibalzinho), a fugitive suspect believed to be the head of the AK-47wielding death squad that opened fire on Cardoso and his driver, Carlos Manjate. The president's son also denied ever meeting confessed killer Carlitos Rashid Cassamo, who had previously told the court that he was present at a meeting during which Chissano gave Anibalzinho a bag containing US$4,200 dollars to kill Cardoso.
New York, December 2, 2002--Teresinha Mendonca, the mother of Anibal dos Santos Junior (commonly known as Anibalzinho), a fugitive suspect in the murder of journalist Carlos Cardoso, today declined to provide the City Court in Mozambique's capital, Maputo, with evidence that she had earlier said linked her son to the murder.
"I can't prove anything," Mendonca told the presiding judge, Augusto Paulino, when asked for the alleged evidence.
Last week, Mendonca also claimed that two of those charged with the murder, Ayob Abdul Satar and Momade Assife Abdul Satar, had organized her son's escape from prison.
Anibalzinho, who was arrested in connection to Cardoso's murder in March 2001, escaped from a top-security prison on September 1, 2002.
Meanwhile, the Maputo City Court subpoenaed Nyimpine Chissano, a son of President Joaquim Chissano, to testify in the case as a material witness.
New York, November 28, 2002--Carlos Manjate, journalist Carlos Cardoso's driver, appeared today in court as a witness.
According Mozambican press reports, Manjate said that on November 22, 2000, he saw a car approaching his and Cardoso's vehicle at a high speed as they left the office of Metical, the daily business newsletter that Cardoso founded and edited. Manjate said he assumed that the approaching car was trying to overtake their vehicle. Instead, the car drove up next to Manjate, and a shot was fired that hit him in the head. He lost consciousness and did not hear the shots that took Cardoso's life.
Manjate testified that only one car pursued them, contradicting other witnesses who claimed that two cars had attacked Manjate and Cardoso.
New York, November 27, 2002--Prosecutors today presented in court an AK-47 assault rifle that they believe was used to kill journalist Carlos Cardoso.
Along with the weapon, prosecutors also produced an ammunition clip containing 19 bullets, which they claim were found in a black rucksack that unidentified individuals had dumped in a Maputo garbage can.
The prosecutors said that police found the weapon and ammunition after receiving an anonymous tip. The police later added that they believe the anonymous caller was the person who found the discarded gun after the November 22, 2000, murder.
When pressed by state prosecutors to identify the AK-47 rifle as the weapon used to kill Cardoso, Carlos Rashid Cassamo, who confessed two days ago to killing the journalist, replied that it was not the murder weapon. Rashid also said that he had never seen the black rucksack before.
Meanwhile, one of the murder's alleged masterminds, Vincente Ramaya, a former bank manager who is also on trial, told the court that Cardoso's slaying had nothing to do with a 1996 banking scandal that Cardoso was covering at the time of his death as the Mozambican government claimed. Ramaya said that Cardoso was murdered for other reasons but did not elaborate.
New York, November 26, 2002--Confessed killer Carlos Rashid Cassamo repeated his claim in court today that he had witnessed three meetings between Nyimpine Chissano and Anibal dos Santos Junior (commonly known as Anibalzinho), a fugitive suspect in the case.
Rashid told the court that the first meeting took place in September 2000 in downtown Maputo, Mozambique's capital, and said that Nyimpine Chissano gave Anibalzinho a plastic bag containing 100 million meticais (US$4,200).
According to Rashid, the second meeting between the two men took place in December 2000, shortly after the assassination of journalist Carlos Cardoso, on a road near Maputo beach. No money exchanged hands, but Rashid recalled Anibalzinho telling him, "The boss says the money will come."
New York, November 25, 2002--Carlos Rashid Cassamo, one of the men accused of murdering journalist Carlos Cardoso, today confessed to the crime, which he claimed was ordered by Nyimpine Chissano, a son of President Joaquim Chissano.
Rashid, who confessed during the trial, is the third of the six suspects on trial to name Nyimpine Chissano as the mastermind of Cardoso's slaying. Rashid's account of the murder was essentially the same as that given earlier in the week by another suspect, Manuel Fernandes.
In separate testimony, suspect Momade Assife Abdul Satar admitted to money laundering and illegally lending large amounts of cash to local businesses, including the Polana Hotel casino, in which Nyimpine Chissano has substantial financial interests.
New York, November 22, 2002--Teresinha Mendonca, the mother of alleged assassin Anibal dos Santos Junior (commonly known as Anibalzinho) told the Maputo daily Noticias that her fugitive son is in London.
Anibalzinho is on trial in absentia, along with five others, for the murder Mozambique's top investigative reporter, Carlos Cardoso.
Mendonca told Noticias that her son is in London "with some relatives," and that she has been in contact with him. She added that Anibalzinho is willing to return to Mozambique and reveal "the whole truth" about the slaying if local authorities ensure his safety.
So far, Anibalzinho has denied involvement in Cardoso's murder. But his mother said that he was involved, adding that former bank manager Vincente Ramaya and businessmen Momade Assife Abdul Satar and Ayob Abdul Satar, who are also suspects in the murder, arranged his September 1, 2002, escape from prison.
New York, November 21, 2002--Augusto Paulino, the judge presiding over the Carlos Cardoso murder trial, today admitted as evidence four checks signed by Nyimpine Chissano, a son of Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano. Some suspects in the murder case have called Nyimpine Chissano the crime's mastermind.
One of the key suspects, Momade Assife Abdul Satar, claims that Nyimpine Chissano had paid for the murder with the checks.
Satar told the court that Nyimpine Chissano, who came to him in early November 2000 for a loan presumably to pay the killers, paid Anibal dos Santos Junior (commonly known Anibalzinho), the fugitive accused of heading the hit squad that murdered Cardoso on November 22, 2000.
New York, November 20, 2002--Judge Augusto Paulino lifted the ban on live broadcasts of the trial proceedings in the murder of journalist Carlos Cardoso.
The judge had imposed a news blackout soon after Nyimpine Chissano, a son of Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano, was publicly named by at least one of the suspects to have ordered Cardoso's murder.
Judge Paulino today told the official AIM wire service that he was under "pressure from society, from the media, from people throughout the country" to lift the ban. "The Mozambican people want to know what's going on," he said.
New York, November 19, 2002--Manuel Fernandes, one of the six men accused of killing Carlos Cardoso, confessed to the crime, which he said was ordered by Nyimpine Chissano, a businessman and eldest son of Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano.
Fernandes told the court that his friend Anibal dos Santos Junior (commonly known as Anibalzinho) had recruited him for the hit squad on the day of the murder, November 22, 2000. He recalled Anibalzinho saying, "I want to take you out of poverty. I have a job given to me by the great ones." When Fernandes asked what "great ones" he was talking about, Anibalzinho replied, "Nyimpine, the president's son."
Fernandes added that he was promised US$21,000, along with reassurance from Anibalzinho that, "It's okay, nobody will touch you." Soon after Fernandes' confession, his own lawyer, Simeao Cuamba, threatened to abandon his defense. "My client has lied," Cuamba said. But Judge Augusto Paulino ruled that Cuamba could not summarily drop his client. He asked Cuamba to defend Fernandes until another lawyer was hired.
Meanwhile, businessman Ayob Abdul Satar denied any involvement. He claimed to have never had any dealings with Anibalzinho. He said that he first heard of Cardoso's killing on a Radio Mozambique news bulletin.
New York, November 18, 2002--The trial of the six men accused of murdering Mozambique's leading investigative reporter, Carlos Cardoso, opened under tight security today in a prison outside the capital, Maputo.
The trial is taking place in a large, 500-seat tent erected on the premises of the prison where the six suspects have been held since their arrests in March 2001.
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Authorities have extended their probe to include Nyimpine Chissano, a son of President Joaquim Chissano. Although Nyimpine has not been charged, state prosecutors have said that the case against him arose from allegations made by businessman Momade Assife Abdul Satar and his brother Ayob Abdul that Nyimpine had attended a meeting during which plans to assassinate Cardoso were discussed. According to the prosecutors, the Satars claim to have served as middlemen in the murder, calling Nyimpine the actual mastermind of the crime. The suspects have accused Nyimpine of paying them with checks to murder Cardoso. Copies of the checks have been presented to a judge as evidence.
The Satar brothers, as well as Vincente Ramaya, a local bank manager, have been in pretrial detention since March 2001, along with two alleged hired hitmen. (Another alleged killer escaped from jail a month ago. According to the fugitive's mother, her son is in London and is seeking official guarantees that he will not be harmed if he returns to testify.)
Mozambican authorities maintain that Cardoso was killed for his aggressive coverage of the country's largest banking scandal, in which the Satar brothers and Ramaya are accused of siphoning US$14 million from the state-run Commercial Bank of Mozambique in 1996. But CPJ and other critics of the state probe have asked authorities to look into Cardoso's reporting on Maputo's real estate boom and a series of scandals at the private Banco Austral, then run by Nyimpine Chissano's business partner Octavio Muthemba, as well as other subjects he was writing about at the time of his death.
"What [President Chissano] wants is justice," said presidential spokesperson Antonio Matonse. "He wishes that the trial continues normally, regardless of the mention of his son."
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MOZAMBIQUE: President's son to be interrogated about journalist's murder
POSTED November 11, 2002
MOZAMBIQUE: CPJ alarmed by case of murdered journalist
POSTED October 8, 2002
MOZAMBIQUE: President's son pursues defamation case against Metical reporter
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The Murder of Carlos Cardoso
A Special Report. POSTED 2002
CPJ Delegation finds fear in Mozambique press
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MOZAMBIQUE: Police arrest key suspects in Cardoso's murder
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The Lonely Warrior of Mozambique: Editor Cardoso paid for his independence with his life.
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When sizing pull boxes for insulated conductors 4 AWG and larger, the dimensions for the pull box and spacing of the raceways are determined from the size of the raceways. For a straight pull, 314.28(A)(1) requires the box or conduit body length to be at least eight times the trade size of the largest raceway. For a box or conduit body where angle pulls are made (as was done in this installation) or where splices are made, the distance between each raceway entry and the opposite wall shall be at least six times the trade size of the largest raceway in any row. This measurement gets increased by the amount of the sum of the diameters of the other raceways in the same row on that wall. It's possible to have the correct overall box dimensions but have the wrong pipe layout, since 314.28(A)(2) also requires raceways enclosing the same conductors to be separated by a dimension at least six times the trade size of the largest raceway. The 4-in. raceways enclosing the same conductors in this box should be separated by at least 24 in. The tape measure in the photo proves these pipes are too close together.
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Yes, that's a panelboard hanging in a tree, and feeders are wrapped around the branches. While this is only a temporary power installation, there are still several Code violations present. Section 590.2(A) requires all other Code requirements to apply to temporary installations, unless Art. 590 modifies those requirements. Section 225.40 requires branch circuit overcurrent devices to be readily accessible where the feeder overcurrent device is not readily accessible. This panel is supplying branch circuit power to receptacles for the holiday lights draped over the trees. Therefore, the overcurrent devices are not readily accessible. Article 590 does not modify this requirement. Section 225.26 does not permit trees to support overhead conductor spans; however, the exception in 590.4(J) does modify this by permitting trees to support overhead spans of branch circuit conductors for temporary purposes when arranged with strain relief devices or some other arrangement to avoid damage from tree movement. Because the cables in the trees are feeders with no strain relief devices or any other means to prevent cable damage from tree movement, this is a Code violation. While not clearly visible in the photo, NM cable was used to supply receptacle power. Section 334.12(B)(4) does not permit NM cable to be used in this outdoor wet location, and Article 590 does not modify this requirement.


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Contrary to popular belief, orthodontics is not just for children. In fact, we treat adults on a regular basis. If you have always wanted to straighten your teeth but have avoided orthodontics care because you thought the process would take too long or look too obvious, give us a call. Technology has improved and metal braces are smaller than ever. They can complete treatments much faster than in years past with some treatments only taking six months. Additionally, many of our adult patients prefer to wear clear aligners since they can straighten teeth discreetly. The options are vast and diverse so if you have not been to an orthodontist in a while, now is an excellent time to schedule an appointment to discuss how your smile can be improved.
We will take the time to sit down with you and discuss the goals that you have for your smile. We can talk about your lifestyle, what your routine is, and help you to determine which treatment solution would best fit within it. Our goal is to provide you with a solution that works for you on a daily basis and we are confident in our ability to do so.
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Even if you have complicated issues like gaps in between your teeth, others that are crooked, a bite that is misaligned and impacted wisdom teeth – we can help. We can even treat you if you have experienced some adult tooth loss. There are few, if any, health conditions that will preclude you from receiving orthodontic care. There are times where you will need additional steps in the process or when we will also work with other specialist but at the end of the treatment process, your smile will be beautiful. An example is if you are missing a tooth. When this happens, the other teeth tend to move out of position and crowd the space that the tooth used to occupy. Before it can be replaced, we need to make space for it again. This can be accomplished with orthodontics so that your tooth can be replaced as part of your treatment plan. For more information on this or our other procedures, call and schedule a consultation.


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THURSDAY, Nov. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Female college students who act impulsively when they're distressed are at increased risk of developing a drinking problem, a new study suggests.
Alcohol dependence puts college women at danger for a number of negative consequences, including poorer school performance and increased risk of sexual assault, accidental injury and even death, according to the researchers.
The study included 319 women (235 drinkers and 84 nondrinkers) in their first semester at a large university in the southeastern United States. The participants' drinking behavior, alcohol dependence symptoms and impulsive behavior traits were assessed by the researchers, and the students were followed for three months.
Negative urgency (a trait in which a person tends to act rashly when having negative emotions) and lack of deliberation (a trait in which a person acts without thinking) both predicted increases in alcohol dependence symptoms in the college students, the study authors found.
The largest increase in alcohol dependence symptoms was seen in women who had high negative urgency and said they wanted to drink to change their emotions (either to enhance positive feelings or get rid of negative feelings), according to study corresponding author Monika Kardacz Stojek, a graduate student in the department of psychology at the University of Georgia, and colleagues.
The study was released online Nov. 8 in advance of publication in the February print issue of the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research.
The findings could help female college students stay safe, Stojek suggested.
"It seems that women who know that they tend to act without thinking when they are upset should be aware that they might be more at risk for negative consequences from drinking if they impulsively drink while in that negative mood," she said in a journal news release.
That idea was supported by Gregory Smith, a research professor and director of clinical training at the University of Kentucky.
"College women should learn to plan ahead when they go drinking in order to reduce their risk for problems," Smith said in the news release. "Women who tend to get impulsive when distressed should seek training from mental health professionals on effective ways to avoid impulsive actions that prove harmful. Parents and college administrators should not underestimate the risks associated with heavy drinking during the college years."
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Davis Merritt joined the MIT fencing coaching staff in 2009. He has been affiliated with the Boston Fencing Club since he began fencing at the age of five.
Merritt captured the Under-13 national title, was twice the Under-15 national champion, won the Under-17 national championship, and was crowned the Under-19 North Atlantic champion. He claimed the New England Division championship on two occasions and clinched the Bay State Games title. As an undergraduate at St. John's University, Merritt received NCAA All-America honors.
Merritt competed on the 1995 Pan-Am and 1997 national teams. In addition, he helped the Under-20 and Division 1A men's foil teams capture national championships.


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Experimental drug may boost leukemia survival, without chemo
(HealthDay)—An experimental drug may extend the lives of people with certain hard-to-treat forms of leukemia and lymphoma—without the need for traditional chemotherapy, according to two studies released Wednesday.
The drug, called idelalisib, targets a specific enzyme on white blood cells known as B cells. Researchers found that for people with certain forms of recurrent blood cancers, the drug substantially extended the time that patients lived with no tumor progression.
One of the trials, of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), was stopped early because the benefits of idelalisib over standard treatment became so clear. The drug is now up for expedited review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), for possible approval.
A cancer researcher not involved in either trial called the CLL results "fantastic."
If idelalisib is approved, "I think patients stand to see a tremendous extension in healthy survival," said David Fruman, a professor of molecular biology and biochemistry at the University of California, Irvine.
Fruman co-wrote an editorial published with the studies in the March 13 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
In one trial, researchers recruited 220 patients with recurrent CLL who could not have conventional chemotherapy for various reasons. Some had other serious health conditions that made chemo too risky and others had suffered too many toxic effects on the immune system from prior chemo rounds.
All of the patients received the standard option for cases like theirs: an IV drug called rituximab, which is less toxic than chemo but only moderately effective at keeping the cancer at bay. Half of the patients also received idelalisib, a pill taken twice a day.
Overall, 81 percent of idelalisib patients saw their cancer regress, compared with only 13 percent of those on standard treatment.
After six months, 93 percent of idelalisib patients were progression-free, versus 46 percent in the comparison group. At one year, 92 percent and 80 percent, respectively, were still alive.
The trial was stopped early last October at the recommendation of an independent monitoring board, so all of the study patients could start on the drug. The FDA has granted idelalisib "breakthrough therapy" status for CLL, which means the agency will give it a faster-than-normal review for possible approval.
To Dr. Richard Furman, the lead researcher on the CLL study, the big advance is that the treatment requires no chemotherapy—which typically means a drug that affects the body in a systemic way.
"This isn't like chemotherapy," said Furman, an oncologist at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City. "This is an effective agent that doesn't damage the rest of the body."
That doesn't mean there are no side effects. So far, diarrhea and skin rash seem to be the main problems, Furman said.
In this study, 40 percent of the patients on idelalisib had what was considered a serious adverse effect, such as fever or pneumonia. But so did 35 percent of patients in the comparison group. Furman said that suggests the problems are largely due to the rituximab or the cancer itself.
CLL is a usually slow-growing cancer of the white blood cells that mainly affects older adults. In the United States, about 15,700 people are diagnosed with CLL each year, and about 4,600 die of the disease, according to the American Cancer Society.
Chemotherapy is the standard treatment for CLL. It often works at first, but most people eventually relapse. Their cancer may become resistant to various chemotherapy drugs, or the toxic effects of those medications may become too much.
Idelalisib is among a new class of drugs called tyrosine kinase inhibitors. It targets a specific enzyme that helps fuel the growth of cancerous B cells, the type of white blood cell that usually goes wrong in CLL.
That specificity helps explain its effectiveness and relative lack of toxic effects versus chemo, said Fruman, the editorialist.
In the second study, a separate research group tested idelalisib in 125 patients with "indolent" non-Hodgkin lymphoma—another slow-growing form of blood cancer. The patients had all relapsed or not responded to standard treatment, including rituximab in combination with chemotherapy.
The researchers started the whole study group on idelalisib, and 57 percent saw their tumors shrink. Typically, the patients went a year before their cancer began to progress again.
That study was an earlier-stage one, and there was no comparison group. But the results were similar to or better than other treatments for relapsed non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Fruman said.
Gilead, the company developing idelalisib, funded both trials. The company recently submitted an application to the FDA to win approval for indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma as well. It was granted a standard—not expedited—review.
If the drug is approved for either cancer, Fruman predicted that doctors won't limit it to patients with more advanced disease who cannot have chemo.
"I think doctors will prescribe it earlier in the course of the disease, to avoid chemotherapy," he said.
There are, however, still many unknowns—including the long-term effectiveness and safety of idelalisib. As far as safety, severe diarrhea could become an issue in the long run, since that's usually a "late-onset" complication, Furman said.
As of now, patients seem to need the drug indefinitely. "The expectation is that it will be a lifelong therapy," Furman said.
No one knows how much the drug will cost. But there is another tyrosine kinase inhibitor, called ibrutinib, that the FDA approved just last month for certain CLL cases. It's priced at more than $90 per pill.
Furman acknowledged that cost could be an obstacle to giving idelalisib earlier on to CLL patients who could have standard chemo. But he argued that if the new tyrosine kinase inhibitors could turn CLL into a "manageable, chronic disease like high blood pressure," it would be worth it.
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From "Fresh & Easy Kosher Cooking" cookbook by Leah Schapira. This is a mexican chicken recipe. Don't let that put you off because it is such a delicious chicken with so many different uses. You eat it in a pita, lafah, wrap and use leftovers for a heaven chicken salad. The best part is that it is quick and dietetic. If you don't have cumin in your spice cabinet then this recipe will make it worth getting it. Trust me, whomever I serve this too loves it.
5 wraps
1 lb boneless chicken breast (cut into thin strips)
2 tsp sugar
1 tsp italian seasoning (or oregano)
½ Tbsp cumin
½ tsp red peper flakes
½ tsp garlic powder
- Juice of a Lime or lemon
2 Tbsp Olive oil
- Pita, Lafah or wrap
3 (optional Peppers
½ (optional Onion
- (optional Lettuce
- (optional Avocado
Cut the chicken into thin strips (shot or long, depends how you like it)
Add the spices. Pour the lime or lemon juice (it is about 4 tablespoons) over the chicken and mix it all together. Let the chicken marinate for a half hour.
To make the optional peppers and onions, cut them into thin strips. In a frying pan add 2 tablespoons oil. Add the peppers and onions and cook till it is starting to soften. Take out and cover with foil to let it steam. Use this pan for the chicken
Preheat a frying pan (medium -high) and add the olive oil when it is hot. Heat the oil and when it is getting hot (about a minute) add the chicken. Careful because the pan might splatter. Make sure the chicken is not tangled and separate all the strips so that they all cook evenly.
You can cover the pan and stir the chicken occasionally to ensure it gets cooked evenly. When the chicken in white in the inside after about 8 minutes, then it is ready!
Serve it in a lafah, pitah or wrap. Dress it with the peppers and onions, lettuce, avocado, salsa or whatever you like (even french fries are great). Have fun with it, lay out a bunch of different foods and let everyone make their own fajita wraps to their taste


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Nearly one quarter of the world's coastlines are dominated by the highly productive brown algae we know as kelp. Kelps serve a myriad of roles for humans – from providing food to sheltering shorelines from stormy waves. The startling diversity of life that dwells in these kelp forests provides joy to avid divers, fishers, and diners around the planet.
But how will these kelp forests fare in the face of climate change?
To answer this question,NCEAS is bringing together a team of international scientists who have studied these systems for decades. With data from the last century of surveys, experiments, and satellite measurements in hand, this Working Group will create a set of predictions as to how kelp forests will change in the future. These predictions will help guide the future study of kelp forests in a changing ocean.
UDPATE: October 2013
The kelp forests and climate change working group has now completed two NCEAS funded working group meetings. They are holding a third meeting at NCEAS around the annual Western Society of Naturalists meeting in November, and they will be holding an additional session at the International Temperate Reefs Symposium for both NCEAS working group members as well as additional members from the outgrowth of the working group – the Kelp Ecosystem Ecology Network.
The group itself has spawned seven separate products that are on track to be completed in the winter and spring of 2014. Two will be presented at the International Temperate Reefs Symposium in January (starred below), and two to three others will be presented at the Benthic Ecology Meetings in the spring of 2014. Datasets generated by synthetic efforts will be hosted at Kelp Ecosystems.
Collaboration Outcomes:
Creation of a New Research Network: The Kelp Ecosystem Ecology Network - A group of approximately 50 kelp forest scientists are working together to create a global experimental and observational network to evaluate the effects of climate change in kelp forest ecosystems. Initial funding request submitted in August of 2013 to NSF.
Citizen Science Platform: A collaboration with Zooniverse to create a citizen science platform, "Floating Forests," which will allow the public to review at Landsat photographs of coastal kelp-dominated areas around the globe from over a 30 year period (1983-2013). Citizens will be asked to help identify the location and size by simply circling the patches of kelp forest that are easily detected by the human eye, but difficult for a computer to distinguish from sea foam. Floating Forests will be launched August 7, 2014.
Works in Progress:
- Global Synthesis of Climate Impacts on Kelp Forest Ecosystems (led by PI Byrnes)
- Synthetic Review of Multiple Stressor Impacts on Kelp Forest Communities (led by PI Connell)
- Rates of Change of Global Kelp Abundance over 35 Years (led by Postdoc Krumhansl) with accompanying dataset
- Food Web Propagation of Climate Impacts in Kelp Forests Systems: A Qualitative Modeling Approach (led by PI Novak)
- Theoretical Analysis of Interactions Between Climate Change and Multiple Local Stressors in Kelp Ecosystems (led by C. Johnson)*
- Global Biogeography of Kelps (led by T. Wernberg) with accompanying dataset
- Meta-analysis of Kelp Impacts on Fish Abundance (led by A. Perez-Matus)* with accompanying dataset
This work is supported by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, a Center funded by NSF (Grant #EF-0553768), the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the State of California.
Photo Credit: NOAA


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Probably a lot closer than it should have been, but the Cougars won't be complaining about their hard-fought victory over Wagner, which absorbed several body blows early on but managed to hang in there.
The thing that stands out immediately is Clark's massive edge in time of possession, roughly 36 minutes to only 12 to Wagner. The Thunderbirds still had a shot at the tying TD late, but otherwise it's hard to put points on the board when you don't have the ball.
The Cougars maximized that edge by dominating in the limited time they were called upon to defend. David Glasco was rendered a non-factor as the Thunderbird enjoyed what little success they had through the air — a complete departure from their preferred style of play.
Game time. Joe Vasquez bats Seth Pierce's pass away to give Clark possession. Wagner has only one time out left, so the Cougars will be able to run out the clock.
This is it — 4rth and 10 at the Clark 36.
Kali Rashaad's 10-yard run on 3rd and 8 gives Wagner a first down at the Clark 36 with 1:15 left.
The Thunderbirds convert on 3rd and 10, and now face 2nd and 8 from the Clark 26 with 1:39 left and one timeout.
Bizarre turn of evens — Clark burns off roughly 10 minutes of the fourth quarter, moving from its 42 to the Wagner 18 before Hayden Greenbauer fumbles down to the 12. Wagner takes over with 2:19 left.
The score remains the same here at Farris Stadium. Wagner's hanging in, but Clark is completely shutting down Glasco, who now has only 11 yards on 12 carries. Unless the Cougars gift Wagner with some sort of big blunder, that's not going to cut it.
Clark 17, Wagner 10, halftime
The statsheet indicates total Clark dominance. The Cougars have held Wagner to only 13 yards on the ground — including just 4 for area rushing leader David Glasco — and own a possession advantage of nearly 18 minutes.
Yet the Thunderbirds are still very much in this first-round playoff game thanks to a 56-yard scoring pass from Seth Pierce to Deanthony Wright and Juan Alvarado's 34-yard field goals seconds before halftime. The TD was a rare breakdown by the Cougars, who allowed Wright to break a tackle and pop loose down the right sideline.
The kick was interesting considering Wagner coach Pete Gibbens considering that area one of his team's biggest quesion marks coming into the season. Certainly not in this instance as Alvarado powered the ball through the uprights with plenty of room to spare.
Clark 7, Wagner 0, end of the first quarter
Two huge mistakes by Wagner, a fumble on the opening kickoff and a blocked kick, have put the Thunderbirds in a big hole against the Cougars, who are driving towards their second TD as the second quarter opens.


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Thailand Dental Tourism in 2019
East Asia and South Asia may be the preferred hub for patients from US, United kingdom along with other Countries In Europe. Whenever we discuss East Parts of asia then Thailand is the one that happens to be the best choice within this place in the world.
Dental Tourism or Mix Border Treatment methods are growing by a lot. Bangkok, the main city town of Thailand, is easily the most premier and searched for after hub for Dental tourism despite being encircled by Singapore. This Year Thailand welcomed 2.5 million patients from various areas of the planet. The reason behind this type of huge turnout may be the economical treatment provided here. The price effectiveness hasn't discouraged the caliber of treatment. This can be a obvious indication that Thailand draws the majority of its revenue by supplying Dental care to the visitors.
Dental Tourism in Bangkok keeps growing daily. Patients travel all parts around the globe for this city. Probably the most searched for after treatment methods are Cosmetic Dental Work in Bangkok. Aside from this patients travel for root canal treatment, teeth implants, Dentures, Gum Treatments, Connecting, Teeth Whitening and much more. Another reason behind Thailand to guide those within the Dental Tourism sector is due to the nice and cozy and hospitable nature from the residents here. Might be this is exactly why Thailand is frequently known as Land of Smiles.
It might be surprising for you personally but following the devastating ton this year Thailand welcomed 19 million vacationers this year itself. It was 20% greater than the year before. From these 19 million vacationers nearly 500,000 have there been for treatment therefore supporting Dental tourism in Thailand. When the stats should be compared then Singapore sees 10.two million vacationers each year of that 200,000 travel for Dental care.
The influence keeps growing substantially as well as in a lucrative fashion. Medical Tourism in Thailand keeps growing in the rate of 16% each year. Furthermore when we consider the financial side from it, it's thought that through the finish of the year the foreign Dental service should really provide a turnover of 100 million dollars. Presently occasions Dental tourism makes up about .4% of GDP in Thailand. This possibly has switched to prove that Thailand has become the hub of medical tourism. So searching from the different perspective we are able to surely make sure tourism is among the most significant driving factors for Thailand. Tourism contributes for pretty much 6-7% of GDP.
Suvarnbhumi Airport terminal in Thailand is encircled by numerous budget hotels which provides multiple choices for patients. Such facility may come as a benefit for any country's economy. Aside from this the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) possess a dedicate site for Dental tourism. The objective of this website would be to highlight the most popular treatment that patients generally undergo. Another facet of beginning this website would be to raise the Dental tourism a part of Thailand. TAT has additionally partnered with Krungthai Bank and issues debit cards known as as Miracle Thailand Card. This card offers existence insurance in situation of accident.
Dental Tourism is not going anywhere soon but for the lengthy run. As lengthy as country's for example Thailand offer pocket friendly Dental care it'll always remain the best for patients.
Dr. Sunil Phol is really a cosmetic dental work specialist in Thailand. Getting nearly 20 years of expertise, he believes that once we grow, we dwindle careful towards our overall health and due to our erratic eating routine we spoil our mouth and teeth to some large degree. Here he's letting out all of the understanding he can, associated with teeth problems and a few common procedures that's transported out.
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ALEX Toys Rub a Dub Draw in the Tub Bath Crayons
by ALEX Toys
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Draw in the tub? Yes, they can! 6 crayons especially made for the tub and one squishy duck sponge are ready to turn bath time into creative time! These bath toy crayons work on tile, tub and skin. When its time to leave, easily wipe away the artwork with the sponge.
Washing Instructions: Wash from skin with soap and water if necessary . Washes off nearly all fabrics with normal laundering, soak in warm water to remove severe stains.
Caution: Do not apply to eyes or lips. Avoid contact with porous surfaces – excessive coloring may cause it not to wash off from grout.
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Job Description:
Our advisor development program is an award-winning program[1] for professionals who wish to build a wealth management business. You will be a part of a best-in-class training curriculum and new advisor mentoring that has been our strength since 1946. The program is designed to help you come up to speed quickly as a successful financial advisor. We'll help you develop the critical skills and knowledge necessary for establishing a robust wealth management business-acquiring clients, developing relationships, providing tailored strategies and more.
You will also be able to use the deep resources and full capabilities of both Merrill Lynch and Bank of America. With our tools, powerful platform and ongoing team support, you can spend more time on what matters most to you and your clients. Our open-door, collaborative culture will give you the type of leadership support you need and the confidence that your firm is always behind you.
Compensation and program benefits:
Base salary through the full 43 months with bonus potential
Preparation for registration exams, including Series 7 and Series 66
Ongoing access to firm and banking partners to meet client needs
Market viewpoints, investment strategies, and model portfolios that help you scale efficiently from a unified Chief Investment Office
Wealth Outlook tools platform to manage clients' goals-based financial strategies
What you'll do:
As a Merrill Lynch Financial Advisor, you will leverage your Merrill Lynch support team to help your clients pursue and meet their goals.
Your responsibilities are, but not limited to:
Developing and/or growing a book of business to meet and exceed pre-defined goals
Effectively sourcing prospective clients
Recommending investment products and services that are suitable for prospects and clients based on their goals
Balancing investment management, sales activities, and new client development
Establishing and maintaining a relationship with the management team to effectively deliver reports and receive mentorship
Who you are:
You are open-minded and ready to make a career transition to grow as a Financial Advisor. You demonstrate rapid advancement by exceeding goals while adhering to high professional standards and integrity. You are not afraid to take initiative, actively use our resources, and are uncompromising about serving your clients' best interests.
You have:
Strong relationship and interpersonal skills
Bachelor's degree or higher
About us
Merrill Lynch Wealth Management is a leading provider of comprehensive wealth management and investment products and services for individuals and businesses. We specialize in goals-based wealth management, including planning for retirement, education, legacy, and other life goals through investment advice and guidance. Our advisors help clients pursue the life they envision through a one-on-one relationship committed to their needs. We're here to provide a supportive environment so you can focus on assisting your clients better and deepen relationships.
[1] Merrill Lynch's Financial Advisor Development program (FADP), formerly called Merrill Lynch Practice Management Development (PMD) program, won a Gold Award for "Best Sales Training and Performance Program" in the 2017 Brandon Hall Group Sales Performance Awards.
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The Next American Gold Rush Is On
Pop quiz: what's the correct conclusion to draw about our economy from the following news? The NYT reports that 1850s-era gold mines in California—many of which have not been working mines for 40 years or more—are now being reopened for prospecting. "Gold will soon be big business again in California's Mother Lode, in the same area of the Sierras - and occasionally the same mines - where the old-time prospectors once used pick axes, ore carts and burros to chase their riches."
A) Wow, it really is time to short the price of gold.
B) Maybe the whole idea of becoming a world leader in technology and consumption isn't all it's cracked up to be.
C) I'm buying prospecting gear, as soon as I get that pay raise they're promising me this year.
D) This will be my best opportunity to start a collection of vintage gold-miner Levi's to pass on to my grandchildren.
There is a correct answer!


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What we have here is a little teaser video of the 2012 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 featuring chief engineer Al Oppenheiser. It was filmed at the Camaro Homecoming Event in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, in June.
Oppenheiser gives us a look at the 6.2-liter supercharged Camaro, explaining how airflow will enter the front grille and be drawn away from the engine with the hood vents. A new rear spoiler and rear diffuser complete the aero package.
The front end gets the Bumblebee treatment, with stacked fog lights and a big, gaping intake in between. The tires are staggered, with 19-inch rubber up front and 20-inchers in the rear.
The ZL1 will get a two-tone exhaust like the Grand Sport Corvette, with a valve to change the sound at a certain rpm. The ZL1 will also have the adjustable magnetic suspension from the Corvette ZR1 and six-piston Brembo brakes.