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Event Name: IRONMAN Gurye, Korea
Date: Sunday, September 22, 2019
Minimum Age: All athletes must be 18 years of age or older on race day.
Important Check-In Information: All athletes must have completed the onsite Check-In procedure by 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 21, 2019. Any athlete who does not complete Check-In process by this time will not be eligible to race. Please refer to event schedule when available for full details.
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|1 March 2019 - 30 June 2019
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|1 July 2019 - 31 July 2019
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IMPORTANT! You must have a valid ACTIVE.com account in order to register for this event. Please click here to create an ACTIVE.com account or to verify your username and password if you have an existing account. To save time we recommend you do this prior to online entries opening.
Only one entry per email address is accepted. Please ensure you have access to a unique email address to process your registration.
Prior to online registration opening, make sure you are logged into your ACTIVE.com account. When registration opens click 'Register Now', then select your registration category. Proceed through the registration page as directed.
Once the permitted numbers of athletes have entered the registration form, you may see a notification that registration is "On Hold". This means that all spots have been claimed by athletes who are in the process of filling out their forms. Registration is NOT yet sold out; if any of those athletes exit the form their slots will become available again. Please check back periodically or refresh the page.
Once the permitted numbers of athletes for the event have processed online payment and all slots have been sold, then you will see an official notification that registration is "Sold Out". At this point all slots have been claimed and paid for and registration is closed.
IRONMAN Gurye will not be a Pro Race in 2019
Athletes confirmed in the race who wish to withdraw, must do so in writing to the race office.
Email: [email protected]
It is the athletes responsibility to ensure the race office has received any communication. All requests will be responded to in a timely manner. Upon confirmation of this request, athletes are eligible for a partial refund as follows:
▪ Any requests received before 6.00pm (KST) – Thursday 7 March, 2019 will be eligible for a 75% refund of event entry fee paid.
▪ Any requests received before 6.00pm (KST) – Sunday 7 July, 2019 will be eligible for a 50% refund of event entry fee paid.
▪ Any requests received before 6.00pm (KST) – Sunday 4 August, 2019 will be eligible for a 25% refund of event entry fee paid.
▪ Any requests received after 6.00pm (KST) – Sunday 4 August, 2019 will not be eligible for a refund under any circumstances.
ACTIVE online processing fees, FinisherPix fees and any additional purchases paid at the time of entry are non-refundable at any time.
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▪ There is no waitlist for this event.
▪ The official online Entry Form, Medical Questionnaire must be completed, the full waiver agreed to and the entry fee must be paid in full by each intending competitor before the entry is complete.
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▪ IRONMAN reserves the right to adjust the race entry price.
▪ Entries are not transferable, either to other persons, other IRONMAN events, years or any other international IRONMAN event.
▪ All entrants must be 18 years of age or older on race day.
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Another Goal of the Week nominee for the Rapids
The Rapids are off to a 2-0 start, making them one of three perfect teams in the league, and in both games they produced a Goal of the Week nominee.
The first week it came from midfielder Jamie Smith, who fired a missile from 25 yards into the upper right corner of the goal in a 3-1 victory over Portland. Last week the team's only goal came from Quincy Amarikwa, a backup forward who got the start because Omar Cummings was away on national team duty with Jamaica and Conor Casey was nursing a tight calf.
Amarikwa got loose on a counterattack, defly lifted the ball over an onrushing goalkeeper and poked it into an open net for the game's only goal.
The league determines the goal of the week from a list of five nominees. Juan Algudelo of the New York Red Bulls won in Week 1. You can watch Week 2's goals and vote for the winner.


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I was looking forward to creating some pretty neat animal wall decals out of fabric or wallpaper for the new nursery (see the inspiration board here), but then I received the most wonderful surprise from Kevin's mom and aunt. They offered to drive all the way from Phoenix to help paint the nursery just this past weekend – in any design that we'd like!
His entire family is filled with amazing artists and his aunt is especially talented as a professional home muralist (Palette of Possibilities). Because of the short notice and the gender-neutral theme, I stuck with my original animals and asked them to paint several zoo/safari style characters around the room.
They're so talented! Here they are in progress:
They spent an entire Saturday from dawn until well after dusk finishing the room and I was so impressed with how fast the colorful animals came together. And then, just as quickly as they had arrived, they zipped away back to Phoenix leaving us with a beautiful nursery.
If you're on the hunt for some easy-peasy not-so-hands-on mural ideas, here are a few of the resources that I love:
Jiving Jungle Pals fabric stickers by Pop & Lolli (completely reusable – just peel off and stick anywhere) are whimsical and adorable!
My Wonderful Walls has created a neat line up of wall stencils (such as the safari animals above) and they work with local children's hospitals to help decorate bare rooms. Beautiful art for a good cause!
The original designs that inspired an animal theme for the nursery were these beautiful patterned wallpaper decals by Inke over in the Netherlands. Shipping might be expensive but it would be well worth it!
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In about 50 minutes you are by car from Chester in our modern practice "The Centre For Cosmetic Surgery". Dr Mounir offers you a no-obligation consultation about facelift, mini-facelift or necklift.
As we age, our facial skin loosens and wrinkles, and the muscles of the neck may weaken as well. Anything that will cause the skin to lose elasticity will hasten the process, including sun exposure, weight fluctuations and heredity. A facelift can address these problems by firming and tightening the skin of the face and neck all in one step.
It is most effective for the lower face (jowls and neck). A double chin can be improved at the same time by a surgical procedure called supplemental lipectomy. To effect a more complete facial rejuvenation, facelifts are frequently done in conjunction with other procedures such as upper eyelid blepharoplasty and lower eyelid blepharoplasty. Dr Mounir may also recommend injections of collagen or fat. Contrary to popular opinion, the texture of the skin will not be changed by a facelift. Acne scars, age spots, fine lines and smoker's creases will soon return to their original texture, no matter how tight the skin is pulled.
A facelift will not give someone beautiful skin unless they have beautiful skin to begin with. However, skin treatments such as laser resurfacing or chemical resurfacing can be used in combination with a facelift to improve the texture of the skins and smooth skin wrinkles. If you're considering a facelift, the following information will provide you with a good introduction to the procedure. For further information please schedule a consultation with Dr Mounir.
If you now have a personal consultation about facelift in Chester or want to find out about prices / costs, please call us at (phone 0800/ 9903588 ) or use the contact form. You even have the option to send us up to 5 images of your problem area(s). Please note that facelifting plastic surgery and the costs are not covered for this for this reason by health insurance.
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Windows 8 includes a new backup solution called File History. After you turn it on, File History automatically backs up every file in your libraries every hour. The program is easy to turn on, is simple to figure out, runs automatically, and backs up everything you need.
Before File History can go to work, you need two things:
An external hard drive: For dependable, automatic backups, you need a portable hard drive, which is simply a hard drive in a little box. A cord connects from the box to one of your computer's USB ports; when the drive is plugged in, Windows 8 recognizes the drive immediately. Keep the drive plugged into your computer, and you'll have completely automatic backups.
A flash drive (those inexpensive, pocket-sized memory sticks) will also work with the Windows 8 File History program. But because they lack the storage capacity of a portable hard drive, they probably won't be able to back up all of your files.
Flip the On Switch: The File History program comes free in every version of Windows 8. But it won't do anything until you tell it to begin running.
Follow these steps to tell your computer start backing up your work automatically every hour:
Plug your drive or its cable into your USB port.
The rectangular shaped plug on the end of the drive or its cable plugs into the rectangular-shaped USB port on your computer.
Click the pop-up notification that says, Tap to choose what happens with removable drives.
The notification appears whenever you plug in any new storage device, be it a flash drive or portable hard drive. (The notification appears on both the desktop and Start screen.)
Don't see the pop-up? Or do you want to tweak your existing File History settings? In either case, jump ahead to Step 4.
Select the Configure this Drive for Backup option; when the File History window appears, click the Turn On button.
When the second notification appears, select the Configure this Drive for Backup option. When the File History window appears, click the Turn On button.
You may see a pop-up asking whether you'd like to recommend this drive to other members of your Homegroup. If it's a large drive meant for everybody on your computer to share, choose Yes. If you'd like to keep it for your personal backups, choose No.
File History begins saving copies of your files for the first time. Depending on the size and amount of your files, the process could take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours.
If you don't see any pop-up messages when you plug in your drive, you're not left out. Move to Step 4.
Open the Control Panel.
With a mouse, right-click in the screen's bottom-left corner; choose Control Panel from the pop-up menu.
From the desktop, slide your finger inward from the screen's right edge, tap the Settings icon, and tap the Control Panel link in the screen's top-right corner.
Select the System and Security category and click File History.
The File History program jumps to the screen. The program takes a guess as to which drive you want to begin filling with your backups. If it guessed correctly, go to Step 7. If it guessed incorrectly, you need Step 6.
If you need to switch the drive, click the Select Drive link from the window's left side and select a different drive.
Click the Turn On button.
Click the Turn On button to start the backup process rolling.
Although File History does a remarkable job at keeping everything easy to use and automatic, it comes with a few bits of fine print, described here:
If you try to save to a networked drive on another PC, Windows 8 asks you to enter a username and password from an Administrator account on the other PC.
File History backs up everything in your libraries: Documents, Music, Pictures, and Videos, as well as the Public folders. That's natural because that's where you store your files. To add new folders or exclude some libraries (perhaps exclude your Videos folder if you already have copies of your videos), choose the Exclude Folders link from the windows' left edge.
Windows 8 normally backs up files automatically every hour. To change that schedule, click the Advanced Settings link from the windows' left edge. Then choose the backup frequency, which ranges from every 10 minutes to once a day.
When you turn on File History, Windows 8 immediately starts its backup — even if one isn't scheduled yet. That's because the ever-vigilant Windows 8 wants to make sure that it grabs everything right now, before something goes wrong.
Not only does File History work in emergencies, but it also enables you to compare current files with versions you created just hours before. It lets you revive better versions of files that you've changed for the worse.
Windows 8 saves your backup in a folder named FileHistory on your chosen drive. Don't move that folder, or else Windows 8 may not be able to find it again when you choose to restore it.
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This weeks criteria for best buys are single-family homes near Breckenridge or Frisco that have a minimum of three bedrooms and two baths with at least a one-car garage. The properties must be listed under $500,000 and are not bank owned or short sales.
The first property is a large, sprawling ranch-style home in Blue River, located seven miles south of Breckenridge. This 3,008-square-foot home is situated on a half acre with amazing views of Quandary Mountain. The home features a wood-burning stone fireplace, with built-in shelving next to it to store your books. There are numerous large windows to bring in the natural light. The open floor plan is very spacious, which includes the dining and kitchen area. The kitchen has been updated with a butcher block seating area.
The property is very private and features three bedrooms and two baths with a one-car garage. The basement has been completely finished with a second family room to entertain your guests. There are numerous decks to enjoy the great outdoors.
This best buy is offered at $142 a square foot for $429,000 by Michele Hart of Coldwell Banker.
The second property is located in Frisco close to Walter Byron Park and is within walking distance to town. This 1,695-square-foot home has four bedrooms and two-and-a-half baths. It also has a one-car garage.
This home is the lowest priced single-family home in Frisco. The property has been completely updated with new wood floors, new carpet and a custom-tiled wood-burning fireplace. All of the windows have been replaced as well as the interior doors and trim. The kitchen has new knotty alder cabinets, and the entire property has been repainted inside and out .The laundry room and decks are currently being upgraded.
This best buy is offered at $468,000 by Laura Champe of Lake Dillon Realty.
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System solutions for the aerospace industry
KUKA offers integrated system solutions for the aerospace industry which are perfectly tailored to your needs. Our experience in developing production lines, our know-how of system integration and our extensive technology portfolio ensure maximum process efficiency.
KUKA aerospace process engineering
KUKA develops an assembly process that is based on the industrial assembly line principle, in accordance with the requirements of the aerospace industry. This assembly method allows a higher specification and repeatability.
We supply all fixtures and automated systems required for assembling the structure (fuselage section, wings, VTP, HTP, etc.). This system solution renders more precise results, makes it easier to join the components, and facilitates a more efficient overall assembly process.
Aerospace system solutions from KUKA
KUKA supplies all systems required to construct the individual aircraft structures – from the shell to the fuselage sections and through to the wing box. Components pass through various assembly stations in the value chain of aircraft construction:
- first, the various add-on parts (stringers, frames, clips, etc.) are attached to the fuselage skin in the pre-assembly station. This pre-assembly station consists mainly of an assembly fixture. Depending on the task at hand, this fixture can be scaled up or down with smaller fixtures, allowing it to be flexibly configured for assembly of the add-on parts. This is how an assembly component is produced.
- In the next step, the assembly component is typically transferred to an automatic riveting station. This station can be a traditional heavy-duty riveting system or a highly flexible, robot-based riveting station with appropriate riveting end effectors. The assembly component is then precisely located and clamped in the riveting station. Using end effectors, precise holes are drilled and then sealed with rivets. Various types of rivets are used, such as solid rivets, blind rivets and lockbolts (two-part rivet joints).
- In the next process step, the assembly component is transported to a completion station. This is where the remaining tasks are carried out. Then the component undergoes comprehensive quality control.
Our system solutions ensure the highest precision for the construction of structural components. When designing system solutions, KUKA pays particular attention to ensuring that the solution meets the high ergonomic requirements of the aerospace industry for the assembly of aircraft components.
KUKA aerospace tooling: fixtures for the aerospace industry
When we develop our system solutions, we design the appropriate fixture for each assembly procedure in the construction of aircraft – taking into account the layout of the production line and the desired level of automation. Fixtures are used that enable precise location, positioning and tacking of structural components such as the wing box, shell parts or even sections. The fixtures lay the foundation for ensuring that such tasks as handling, drilling/riveting and sealant application can be carried out in a fully automated process.
KUKA offers individual fixture solutions that are perfectly tailored to your specific needs.
KUKA services for fixtures in the aerospace industry at a glance:
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Industrie 4.0 is of utmost importance for the aerospace industry. This is why KUKA is making every effort to continuously develop sustainable automation solutions for the aerospace sector – especially automated drilling and riveting solutions.
Automation concepts from KUKA offer tailor-made, precise and efficient solutions for optimized production rates and increased quality. Our answer to demographic changes is integrated systems that take into account human-robot collaboration (HRC).
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- Cook noodles according to package directions, omitting salt and fat. Drain and set aside.
- Heat oil in a medium skillet or wok over medium-high heat. Add garlic cloves and cook for 1-2 minutes, until garlic is tender. Stir in pork and cook 2-3 minutes, until it begins to brown. Stir in broccoli, pepper, mushrooms, and scallions, and continue cooking for 6-8 minutes, until vegetables are tender and pork is cooked through.
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Stem Cells For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Scientists use various types of stem cells in the lab to gain a better understanding of how normal human development works and to look for new methods of treating a wide range of devastating human ailments. Stem cells in the bone marrow, for example, are routinely used to treat leukemia and other blood disorders, and similar techniques are being tested for other diseases involving problems with the immune system. As yet, no one has developed a safe and effective treatment using human embryonic stem cells, because the science itself is still young. But many researchers expect to see several such treatments enter clinical trials (and eventually the market) at an ever-increasing pace.
What Are Stem Cells?
You've probably heard about stem cells in the news and may wonder exactly what that scientific term means. Stem cells are the body's master cells. Stem cells can renew themselves (a process called self-renewal), and they can also make a variety of other kinds of cells.
Stem cells are either embryonic stem cells or adult stem cells. In the lab, embryonic stem cells keep reproducing themselves until they're coaxed into creating specific types of cells. In the body, these cells eventually disappear, so a human adult body no longer contains cells that can generate any kind of cell — at least not in the normal course of things. (Scientists can manipulate adult cells to become other types of cells.)
The main difference between embryonic and adult stem cells is their type of potency. Here's a breakdown of the differences:
Embryonic stem cells: Embryonic stem cells are derived from three- to five-day-old embryos that are created for fertilization treatments but aren't going to be used to try to start a pregnancy; in other words, these blastocysts have never been implanted in a woman's uterus and will be discarded if they aren't used for research. IVF doctors culture a fertilized IVF embryo in a culture dish until it develops to the blastocyst stage. Researchers extract the inner cell mass, which is then used to derive embryonic stem cells.
Embryonic stem cells are pluripotent, meaning they can give rise to any type of cell in the fully developed body. (Embryonic stem cells can't create the placenta or umbilical cord tissues, but they appear to be able to generate any other type of cell.)
Adult stem cells: So-called adult stem cells are really stem cells in specific tissues whose job seems to be replenishing their particular tissues — or specific parts of their tissues — as needed. Adult stem cells also renew themselves periodically to ensure that a pool of stem cells is always available to generate specific cell types. So far, scientists have verified stem cell caches in several tissues, including bone marrow, the brain, fatty tissue (called adipose tissue), the liver, the reproductive system (both male and female), skeletal muscles, skin, and teeth.
Adult stem cells are generally multipotent, able to give rise to several kinds of cells in their home tissues. However, in their normal environments, adult stem cells don't seem to generate cell types outside their particular tissues. Liver stem cells, for example, don't generate heart cells, and brain stem cells don't generate kidney cells.
Stem cell researchers have developed a technique for reprogramming adult cells in the lab to get them to act more like embryonic stem cells. These reprogrammed cells are called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells), and they can be made from adult cells in the skin, fatty tissue, and other sources.
Explore Current Stem Cell Treatments
Scientists have been working with human adult stem cells — the stem cells found in specific tissues — for more than 40 years, compared to only a dozen years for human embryonic stem cells. As a result, the only stem cell treatments that have been proven to work well so far involve tissue stem cells, mainly those found in bone marrow and skin.
Researchers are sketching out all kinds of possible uses for stem cells on the drawing boards, and some of these potential uses are in or preparing to enter clinical trials — experiments to see whether these treatments really work in people. So far, though, the only proven stem cell therapies are for burns and blood disorders; everything else is experimental or theoretical, at least for the moment (no matter what you may read in ads or marketing brochures).
Transplanting bone marrow
Bone marrow transplants have been used since the 1950s to treat leukemia and other blood disorders. Bone marrow is the spongy material found in the center of your bones. Bone marrow, which resides mainly in the large bones like the hip bone and shoulder blade, holds caches of hematopoietic (blood-forming) stem cells that can give rise to all the cell types in the blood:
Red blood cells, which pick up oxygen from the lungs and distribute it to the body's tissues, and take carbon dioxide and other waste products from the tissues and return them to the lungs for expulsion.
White blood cells, which roam through the bloodstream looking for and attacking foreign invaders like bacteria.
Platelets, which induce the blood to clot.
Doctors use bone marrow transplants to replace the blood and immune systems of patients with certain blood cancers or other disorders. Transplanted blood-forming stem cells "home in" to the bone marrow and, once settled, begin rebuilding the patient's supply of blood cells. Depending on the disease and the method used to harvest blood-forming stem cells, the stem cells begin producing new blood cells within 10 days to 6 weeks.
Healing burns with skin grafts
Skin grafts have been used for centuries, although no one knew exactly why they worked until fairly recently. Skin is particularly rich in stem cells because so much skin is lost through normal wear and tear; you shed thousands, or even millions, of dead skin cells every day. In mild cuts and burns, these stem cells work to repair the damaged tissue. In severe burns, though, the stem cells in the burn area are destroyed, so doctors have to take skin from an undamaged area.
The main obstacle in skin grafts is that, currently, only the burn patient's own skin works reliably. If doctors try to use skin from another person, the patient's immune system eventually rejects the graft. Scientists are working on ways to grow skin that's genetically compatible with the patient so that, even if the patient doesn't have enough undamaged skin to use, the burns can still be treated effectively.
Stem Cell Research for Patient Treatment Plans
Stem cell scientists use stem cells to understand normal cell physiology, cell function, and development, as well as the mechanisms and progression of various diseases. Scientists hope to use this valuable stem cell research to develop future treatments for diseases. For example:
Scientists can create stem cells with the genetic changes that cause Alzheimer's and study what happens to individual cells and how those events affect other cells. Discovering the inner workings of normal development and disease progression gives scientists a basis to identify key pathways or elements that are "broken" or misused in disease.
When scientists can identify exactly what goes wrong in a particular disease, researchers can then begin testing drugs to see which ones, if any, fix the problem or prevent further damage. They also can experiment with different types of cells and different genetic combinations to see whether certain cells can provide help to damaged cells.
Scientists also can use stem cells to generate tissues for study, testing, and possible therapies. For example, some labs are working on growing replacement skin to treat burns; other labs are working on growing pancreatic cells to treat diabetes.
If researchers can figure out reliable ways to grow tissues that are specific to a particular patient, those methods could be used to help tens of thousands of people who need tissue transplants but can't find a suitable donor. Eventually, scientists hope to be able to grow entire organs in the lab — if they can figure out the right structure and combination of different cell and tissue types and get them to work the way they're supposed to in the body.


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WAG's Through the Eyes of a Child Exhibition Will Bring a Smile to Your Face
Each fall and winter hundreds of children and teens enjoy the challenge and delight of creating art through the Winnipeg Art Gallery's WAG Studio programs. And each spring the Gallery mounts an exhibition of their work—several hundred talented young artists are represented in either solo or group works in a wide range of media. Through the Eyes of a Child opens at the Gallery on March 29, continuing until May 11. Ranging in ages from 5 to 17, the young artists come from all across the city and reflect a wide array of cultural backgrounds and traditions.
"The kids just let their imaginations run riot in class and the result is an exhibition that brings a smile to our visitors' faces," says Michael Boss, Head of WAG Studio. "Staff, instructors, members of the arts community, and, of course, proud parents, are invariably delighted by the outpouring of energy, skill, and imagination that characterizes this exhibition. For many of the young artists this will be the first time their work has ever been presented in a public forum. This adds to the excitement generated by the explosion of creativity that takes place in our studios."
Registration is on now for spring classes for children and adults; spring break art camps; and summer art camps. Visit wag.ca for more information or call 204.789.1766.
Through the Eyes of a Child is sponsored by Great-West Life, and supported by the Winnipeg Art Gallery Volunteer Associates and Winnipeg School Division.
The Winnipeg Art Gallery is a cultural advocate – a lens and forum – helping people see and experience more through art. Playing a vital role in the community, engaging and enriching people of all ages and backgrounds through art and culture, the Winnipeg Art Gallery thrives as a creative, innovative, and accessible place for learning, discovery and inspiration.
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August 2011
The mission of the Brotherhood of St. Moses the Black is to minister to Americans the gift of Orthodoxy. In an effort to be good stewards of the manifold grace of God (I Peter 4:10), the organization presents an annual conference that explores the African roots of Orthodoxy. Its vision is to bring Americans closer to Jesus Christ. The title of this particular conference is "The Ancient Faith for Modern Problems." Ancient Faith Radio and the Brotherhood of St. Moses the Black are happy to provide these lectures for free download and distribution. Please share the talks with friends and family.
Please note that in addition to the speakers below, Fr. Paisius Altschul, priest at St. Mary of Egypt Orthodox Church in Kansas City, Missouri, delivered a speech titled "FOCUS North America: The Ancient Faith's Response to Modern Problems." Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties, we were unable to record this particular talk.
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The Private Prison Racket
Companies that manage prisons on our behalf have abysmal records. So why do we keep giving them business?
In October, when California Governor Jerry Brown signed a new contract with Corrections Corporation of America, a Nashville-based private prison behemoth, onlookers might've wondered if he'd been following the news.
The same could be asked of Wall Street in general. Over the last five years, CCA's stock price has increased by more than 200 percent and earlier this month Jim Cramer's investment website The Street praised the company's "strengths" on Wall Street, enthusiastically rating its stock a "buy."
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As inmate populations have soared over the last 30 years, private prisons have emerged as an appealing solution to cash-starved states. Privately run prisons are cheaper and can be set up much faster than those run by the government. Nearly a tenth of all U.S. prisoners are housed in private prisons, as are almost two-thirds of immigrants in detention centers—and the companies that run them have cashed in. CCA, the oldest and largest modern private prison company, took over its first facility in 1983. Now it's a Wall Street darling with a market cap of nearly $3.8 billion. Similarly, GEO Group, the second largest private-prison operator, last week reported $1.52 billion in revenue for 2013.
But while privatizing prisons may appear at first glance like yet another example of how the free market beats the public sector, one need only look at CCA's record in Idaho to wonder whether outsourcing this particular government function is such a good idea.
In July 2000, Idaho's then-Governor Dirk Kempthorne made a decision similar to Jerry Brown's. He opened the Idaho Correctional Center, the state's first private prison. But it wasn't long before the facility—built and operated by CCA—began to draw concerns. Prisoners in the 2,000-bed facility dubbed it "Gladiator School" for the rampant fighting that took place inside. A 2008 study by the Idaho Department of Corrections obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union showed that there were four times as many prisoner-on-prisoner assaults there than in all the state's seven other prisons combined.
The ACLU sued CCA in 2010, alleging that violence had become an "epidemic" in the facility, and the Associated Press released a video showing a prisoner beaten unconscious while correctional officers stood around watching. A 2011 settlement required CCA to keep more officers on staff, but the company apparently didn't bother to do that. Last year, a review of CCA's staff records showed that prison employees had falsified as many as 4,800 hours over the course of seven months; they had understaffed the prison on purpose and fudged records. The end result: Idaho's private prison experiment with CCA will end in June.
CCA's failure in Idaho is just one example of the industry's spotty record. Another recent case study comes from the CCA-run Adams County Correctional Facility in Natchez, Mississippi. Last June, 20 prisoners were indicted in connection with a riot that left one man dead and dozens injured. According to a prisoner who called a Jackson, Miss. television news station, the riot was connected to prisoners' protests for better "medical [care], programs, clothes," and a modicum of " respect from the officers and lieutenants." And an FBI agent filed an affidavit supporting those claims.
Similar riots have broken out in private prisons run by CCA and other companies in Oklahoma, New Mexico, Florida and California. At least 10 deaths ( one from natural causes) occurred at CCA prisons in 2013 alone. There have also been allegations that CCA employees at a Texas prison that has since closed repeatedly denied basic medical care to prisoners who, in some cases, died from their untreated ailments. (The Texas Observer described the story of a woman who bled for nine months during a one-year prison term because CCA employees declined to treat her for endometriosis and a retroverted uterus.)
Of course, government-run prisons aren't without their share of troubles. But those troubles and lawsuits are easier to accept when the system behind those problems isn't making billions on Wall Street. As The Week put it last summer: "Private prisons ultimately pose a greater threat to inmates because of their raison d'être; they exist solely to make a profit off of incarcerated individuals."
And then there are the political fiascoes.
Before Gov. Chris Christie was taking heat in New Jersey over supposed bridge traffic studies, he was under fire for his support and gushing praise for a private prison company—one he once worked for as a lobbyist—as "representing the very best of the human spirit." That company, Community Education Centers, oversaw about 3,500 beds in large halfway houses throughout the state and was shown in a 2012 series of scathing New York Times investigative reports to be woefully unregulated, mismanaged and violent. The series described the facilities as " hell on earth."


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E.U. hopeful eurozone will start growing in 2013
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union predicted Friday that the economy of the 17 member countries that use the euro will see its fortunes improve as the year goes by even though it expects the recession to last longer than it previously thought.
In its winter forecast, the EU Commission, the EU's executive arm, said the eurozone is likely to contract a further 0.3 percent this year, in contrast to its prediction last November of 0.1 percent growth.
Across the eurozone, the Commission said the debt crisis and the associated budget tightening continue to weigh on activity — figures last week showed the eurozone contracted by 0.6 percent in the final quarter of 2012 from the previous three-month period. The eurozone has been in recession — officially defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth — since the second quarter of 2012, when concerns about the future of the euro currency were particularly acute.
Many countries are in deep recessions, such as Greece and Spain, as they push often-severe spending cuts and tax increases to get a grip on their public finances. Others have suffered in the fallout, such as Germany, Europe's largest economy, which contracted by a quarterly rate of 0.6 percent in the final quarter of 2012 as its main export markets in Europe faltered.
Despite what it terms "headwinds," the Commission said it expects the eurozone recession to bottom out over the first half of 2013. By the fourth quarter of 2013, it forecast that the eurozone economy will be 0.7 percent bigger than the same period in 2012. In 2014, growth of 1.4 percent has been penciled in.
A number of recent economic confidence indicators have pointed to an improving outlook, particularly in Germany. Much of the recent calm in financial markets with regard to the eurozone has been credited to the debt-reduction measures taken by many countries and a commitment by the European Central Bank's president Mario Draghi to do "whatever it takes" to save the euro.
"The decisive policy action undertaken recently is paving the way for a return to recovery," said Olli Rehn, the Commission's top economic official.
The wider economy of the 27-nation EU, which includes non-euro members such as Britain and Poland, is also bottoming out, according to the Commission. Here too, the Commission lowered its 2013 growth forecast from 0.4 percent to 0.1 percent. And in 2014, it expects the world's largest economic bloc with 500 million people to grow by 1.6 percent.
One of the key problems afflicting Europe at the moment is unemployment, and the Commission said a marked improvement was unlikely anytime soon, with the jobless rate in the EU rising to 11 percent and the eurozone rate swelling to a record 12 percent.
While unemployment is high overall, the trend is not uniform: Germany has seen unemployment falling as its exporters have benefited from the pick-up in global trade. However, those countries, mostly in southern Europe, where market concerns over excessive public debt have pushed governments to make the toughest budget cuts, are recording sky-high levels. In the case of Greece and Spain, unemployment already is over 25 percent and expected to rise to around 27 percent.
The Commission forecast that Germany's economy will grow 0.5 percent this year, but France, Europe's second-largest economy, will record only 0.1 percent growth. Italy and Spain are expected to decline 1 percent and 1.4 percent respectively.
Meager growth, in turn, means that some governments might have to tighten their belts even further — possibly in France, where the government's 2013 budget is predicated on a growth rate of 0.8 percent.
Given its paltry level of growth, the Commission said France was likely to miss its target of getting its budget deficit down to below 3 percent of its annual gross domestic product. Instead, it predicted that the deficit will actually rise from 3.7 percent of GDP this year to 3.9 percent next. And it forecast that the country's overall debt burden will rise from 90 percent of GDP last year to 95 percent in 2014.
Rehn urged the French government to push ahead with measures to reduce its deficit and implement reforms to the labor market and to pensions. "France faces significant challenges," he said.
Tom Rogers, senior economic adviser at Ernst & Young, said he was encouraged with the Commission's message on the need for countries to continue with their ongoing policy efforts.
"Reforms are already bearing fruit in a number of peripheral economies, and this should be an incentive for other governments to follow suit," said Rogers.
Greece has been the country that has pursued the most difficult reforms and austerity over the past few years and the Commission forecasts for the country show it's still a long way from healing.
The country, according to the Commission, will contract a further 4.4 percent this year — Greece's sixth year in recession — before posting growth of 0.6 percent in 2014.
One bright spot is that the Commission expects Greece to achieve a primary budget surplus — whereby revenues are higher than spending excluding interest payments — sometime this year. However, given the depth of its recession, Greece's debt burden will continue to rise from 162 percent of annual GDP in 2012 to 175 percent this year and next.
Juergen Baetz can be reached on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/jbaetz
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All Things Cretaceous: Resource Collection
What is the Cretaceous Collection?
The Cretaceous collection contains an assortment of digital resources relevant to the Cretaceous Period (145.5 - 65.5 million years ago). These resources cover a broad range of topics and include an array of media types. A variety of images, maps, visualizations, virtual field trips, databases, technical papers and general information are among the resource types found here. The Cretaceous collection was created to allow students and teachers alike to explore the complex relationships between physical Earth, changing climate and sea level, biota (evolving and extinct), and implications for modern society that are related to this amazing period of Earth's history.
Who is this Collection for?
The Cretaceous Collection was designed primarily for undergraduate and graduate level instructors and students. However, many of these useful resources are valuable teaching/learning tools for K-12 instructors, students and the general public alike.
How do I use the Collection?
To accommodate multiple teaching styles, resources in this collection are arranged into four searchable categories:
- Discovery Pathways
- Suggestions for learning about the Cretaceous in an earth system context.
- Browse Cretaceous Websites
- Use our handy search tool to quickly locate relevant information by subject area or type of resource (map, activity, etc).
- Key Cretaceous Topics
- Web resources are arranged in a topic-based hierarchy.
- Guided Student Activities
- Compelling questions about the Cretaceous Period are presented, along with embedded links for students to discover and synthesize new information.Questions Include:
- What is the nature of the K/T boundary, and how is it related to the extinction of the Dinosaurs?
- Coalbed methane: economic boon or environmental boondoggle?
- What was the Cretaceous superplume event, and what effects did it have on the Cretaceous world?
- Exploring the Upper Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation through the Eyes of a Stratigrapher
This arrangement supports earth system science, investigative case-based, field-based, and traditional "topic by topic" pedagogies. For more information about these, and other teaching pedagogies refer to the Starting Point pages within SERC. It is possible to search for resources using several pathways to encourage inquiry and discovery in a variety of instructional settings.
Get Started!
Here are a few resources to show you a sampling of what is in the Cretaceous collection. Examples will get you going and provide some general background information about the Cretaceous.
- Coalbed Methane in Wyoming. Coalbed methane (CH4) is a natural gas and valuable energy resource that occurs in coal beds. This site, hosted by an energy development corporation, explains the geology and stratigraphy of Wyoming in the context of the formation of coalbed methane and its occurrence in Wyoming. Maps, cross sections, stratigraphic columns and fence diagrams are provided to explain Cretaceous and Tertiary coalbed methane-plays in Wyoming. (more info)
- Extinctions: Cycles Of Life and Death Through Time. As part of the Hooper Virtual Paleontological Museum this site provides a detailed summary of extinction events throughout time, hypotheses for their causes and the long-term implications of such events. The text describes all of the major extinctions, including the Cretaceous/Tertiary extinction, with scientific illustrations, photos and artistic renditions. Specific topics include major and minor mass biologic extinctions, temporal patterns of extinction, the demise of the dinosaurs, and all Phanerozoic extinction events. ( This site may be offline. )
- Paleomap Project Earth History. The goal of the Earth History segment of the Paleomap Project is to illustrate global plate tectonic development, as well as the changing configuration of landmasses and seas during the past 1100 million years. An array of colorful paleogeographic maps for geologically significant periods of earth's history is provided. Each paleogeographic map displays the reconstructed positions of modern continental coastlines, shelf margins, major tectonic boundaries, active plate boundaries and seafloor spreading isochrones. The maps also include a short discussion indicating important geologic features and events for each period. (more info)
- Regional Paleogeographic Views of Earth History. Regional paleogeographic reconstructions of North America, Colorado Plateau, SW North America, and Mesozoic terrane accretion. These beautiful reconstructions by geologist Ron Blakey (formerly Northern Arizona University) and Colorado Plateau Geosystems, Inc. ( This site may be offline. )
- Some Representative Invertebrates from the Cretaceous Period. This site provides large, high resolution photos and information about a variety of Cretaceous invertebrate fossil specimens. Fossils are arranged taxonomically and can be viewed by clicking on the appropriate fossil group. Types of organisms covered on the site include Annelids, Jellyfish, Corals, Brachiopods, Echinoids, Gastropods, Crustaceans, Belemnites, Ammonites, and Nautiloids. (more info)
- Sternberg Museum of Natural History: The Unofficial Virtual Tour. This virtual tour of the Sternberg Museum of Natural History covers a broad range of Cretaceous fauna with emphasis on marine life of the Western Interior Seaway. Topics include large marine fish (Xiphactinus), Inoceramid clams, mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, large turtles (Protostega), flightless toothed birds, dinosaurs (including Tyrannosaurus rex), flying reptiles (Pteranodons) and the Western Interior Seaway. (more info)
- The Cretaceous Period. This resource discusses notable facts about the Cretaceous Period, the last portion of the "Age of Dinosaurs". The site covers Ceratopsians, such as the Tricerotops. It includes sections on stratigraphy, ancient life, localities and tectonics. (more info)
- The Cretaceous Period: New Dinosaurs and Flowering Plants. This site forms a component of the Palaeos page, and provides information about several facets of the Cretaceous Period. The site supplies information about the paleogeography, paleobiology, plate tectonic framework and major seaways characterizing the Cretaceous with few supporting illustrations. Short descriptions and links to resources with more detailed information are supplied. Educators may find this site useful for creating lectures and compiling a reference list. (more info)
- The Dinosauria: Truth is Stranger than Fiction. This historical background information discusses the myths associated with dinosaurs. The site contains links to sections entitled the Fossil Record, Life History and Ecology, Systematics, and More on Morphology. Additional links lead to special exhibits and detailed information about dinosaurs as well as sources for further reading. ( This site may be offline. )
- Tour of Park Geology: Mountain Building. This site provides links to tours of National Parks, National Monuments, and Recreation Areas associated with major mountain building periods. The parks are divided into groups by mountain building events: Appalachian, Laramide, and others. Where appropriate, links are provided to park geology, maps, photographs, geologic research, related links, visitor information, multi-media, and teacher features (resources for teaching geology with National Park examples). The list includes places such as: Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, Shenandoah National Park, Devils Tower National Monument, Mt. Rushmore National Monument, Yosemite National Park, and more. (more info)


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The weekend tweets from the Baltimore Police Department featured a recruiting video, an appeal reminding domestic violence victims that officers can help, and a message honoring a colleague who died 40 years ago.
But when a fatal stabbing at the Inner Harbor went unmentioned on Twitter by the city agency, police union president Robert F. Cherry decided police weren't making the most of their 140 characters.
So the Fraternal Order of Police lodge used its own Twitter account to criticize the police tweets on Sunday night, calling them "public relations propaganda" and saying major crimes too often go unmentioned because "police don't want you to know everything."
The dispute underscores the difficult balance that police departments must strike as citizens increasingly look to them on social media for timely public safety updates. Reporting every crime can overwhelm followers and hurt a department's — and a city's — public image, experts say, but leaving too many out can damage police credibility.
Some agencies are more forthcoming than others, however, and several have been experimenting with new ways to engage with residents. Seattle, for example, has dozens of feeds tailored to individual neighborhoods. Philadelphia and other cities have empowered individual police to tweet crime information from their own accounts.
Lauri Stevens, a social media consultant for police departments, said police across the country are still trying to find their way on social media. "There're different degrees of comfort levels," Stevens said. "Police aren't going to get cooperation if citizens don't trust them, but that trust has to be built. It comes from sharing information, not just keeping information, and having a conversation and engaging people."
The Baltimore Police Department was one of the first in the country to integrate into its daily operations the online micro-messaging service, blasting out every shooting incident and giving updates on gun seizures.
But these days residents are just as likely to see police tweeting about weather, crime prevention tips, and Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts' public schedule.
"The reason they have [30,000] followers isn't just to hear about the feel-good stories that are going on, they want to know what is going on in my neighborhood," Cherry said in an interview. "It may not look good for the politicians or the police commanders, but if you're going to use social media the way you originally intended, you have to take it to the next level."
Chief spokesman Anthony Guglielmi developed the department's use of Twitter and said his office's policy is to tweet every shooting and homicide — though it will occasionally miss one, as it did on Sunday night — as well as notable arrests. Because of its wide following, the department often also is asked to spread information such as traffic and weather alerts.
Guglielmi said "citizens have a right to know what's going on in their community." But he said police "don't have the bandwidth to have every single crime reported to 911. That's not what it was designed to do.
"It's designed to educate the public about serious crimes, and in turn we look for community intelligence back," Guglielmi said.
That can leave citizens wanting. "BCPD NEVER tweets about crimes in Brooklyn, even when the helicopter spends 45 minutes overhead," one resident tweeted on Sunday night.
When a serious, non-shooting crime goes untweeted, that may be because the public affairs staff doesn't know about it — the information comes largely from text messages sent out to commanders from the agency's communications section, which tend to be limited to shootings. The messages are also posted by whichever spokesperson is on call, and incidents often occur overnight while they're asleep.
In a city where police are fighting to convince residents that major crimes are down despite a spike in homicides, reporting every crime could affect the perception of safety. Eugene O'Donnell, a retired officer and professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said it would be a mistake to equate "more information with better information."
"There are legitimate issues they do have to weigh and balance," O'Donnell said. "It could have broad implications — knowledge is definitely powerful and could drive people's conduct.
"I don't think we should forget that for a lot of organizations, tweets are centrally about the image of the agency," O'Donnell added. "Spinning has been part and parcel of the police world for decades now. This is just a new frontier for spinning."
In Washington, police tweet a slew of incidents, including robberies with descriptions of suspects as they occur, and dump nightly calls for service into online message boards set up for each precinct.
Other cities have started multiple Twitter accounts to better target information and cut down on the volume of tweets from any one handle.
Seattle has pioneered something called "tweet-by-beat," with 51 hyper-local Twitter feeds putting out calls for service — excluding sex crimes and domestic violence — through an automated feed. That was a move made after the agency in 2011 overwhelmed followers of its main account by tweeting nearly every incident reported to police. Police in Cambridge, Mass., in February also began "real-time" tweeting of 911 dispatcher logs.
The Los Angeles Police Department has numerous Twitter accounts, including for its Criminal Gang Homicide Division, its police chief, Charlie Beck, and individual patrol districts.
Many agencies also have individual officers authorized to tweet, after going through training. Joe Murray, a Philadelphia detective who works in the southwestern part of the city, has approval from the agency to tweet about his police work. He said too many agencies over-think social media and are "trying to be cool by using Twitter, and that's not how it works."
"Good P.R. is providing useful information," Murray said.
Last year, Baltimore's citywide robbery unit — which investigates commercial robberies — started an account, but was told to direct information about its work through the main police account. The dormant account, @CitywideRobbery, still exists.
Nancy Kolb, who oversees the International Association of Chiefs of Police's Center for Social Media, said some users will unfollow accounts that provide too much information. "You want to provide information that's going to be helpful, but not so much that they may no longer engage with you," Kolb said. "You're not going to make everyone happy."
According to Baltimore Police Department data, there were four homicides, six nonfatal shootings, 51 robberies, and 82 burglaries across the city in the week that ended April 6.
The agency's Twitter feed for that week tweeted three of the homicides and all of the nonfatal shootings. The rest of the 70 posts covered topics that included photos of Batts, a promotional recruitment video, a flier seeking assistance in solving a triple homicide, an alert about a missing juvenile, a handful of statistics that cast the department in a positive light, gun arrests, and teasers for a daily web video the agency's public affairs staff produces. There was also a tweet congratulating the Orioles for winning on Opening Day.
Cherry, a city resident, said he found out about a string of robberies in his neighborhood through a fellow officer, and said he felt as both a citizen and an officer that the agency could have given him that information through social media.
But his frustrations escalated in February, after police did not mention on social media the fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old who was killed downtown as he left the Super Bowl victory parade. He felt that police missed a big opportunity to quickly post information about the incident and perhaps get tips from citizens in return. The case remains unsolved, and the victim's family has accused the city of trying to downplay the incident for the sake of appearances. City officials deny that.
After Cherry posted his criticism Sunday night, he followed up Monday morning by tweeting what he thought the agency's feed should more closely resemble: He posted about a stabbing in Northeast Baltimore, and wrote that the Warrant Apprehension Task Force had traveled to a broccoli farm in Santa Maria, Calif., to arrest a shooting suspect.
He thinks detectives can get tips on crimes if they offer more to the public on social media.
"This information needs to go out in real time, not fliers in mailboxes the next day. That's how we did it 30 years ago," he said.


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