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The Professional Development Center at The University of Texas at Austin (UT-PDC) is proud to announce the launch of the Sustainability Facility Professional (SFP) credential program. This new training and assessment program provides a complete overview of how to improve our environment and communities through advanced strategy, management, and operation of sustainable facilities. The program meets Wednesday evenings from April 17 through August 28 at the Thompson Conference Center on the university's main campus. Registration is now open online at www.utexas.edu/ce/pdc/certificate/sustainability-facility-professional/.
The SFP credential program, which is designed for facility managers or anyone with an interest in green building or environmentalism, allows participants to earn the International Facility Management Association's Sustainability Facility Professional credential (IFMA SFP). Earning the SFP demonstrates expertise in sustainable facility management and provides holders with a competitive advantage among other facility managers in your market. Facility or business managers with SFP credentials help boost their organization's economic viability, environmental friendliness and community standing.
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"While there is a temptation to say that this program speaks specifically to Austin and its reputation for nurturing green initiatives," said Liliya Spinazzola, director of the Professional Development Center. "I believe this program is of universal importance. With populations both in Austin and around the world growing every day, we all share the responsibility to find new ways to make our professional settings, buildings and communities more environmentally sound and sustainable. I am very proud to offer the Sustainability Facility Professional Credential Program at The University of Texas at Austin."


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This week in fashion law: Madonna's trade dress (you up) mess; McQueen will will rock you; gangs, tramps, and copyright thieves
This week in fashion law...
If you're in the market for high-end nail polish, Madonna will
create borrow a look that's made for you. Her new Material Girl line of nail polish is, as Fashionista put it, "eerily similar" to that of market veteran butter LONDON, "[f]rom the flat, rectangular bottle with black cap to the actual colors in the bottle[.]"
As regular readers of LAW OF FASHION know, trademark law doesn't just protect names, words, phrases, and images; it also protects the "look and feel" of product packaging, which intellectual property lawyers call "trade dress." Sometimes, product vendors go so far as to argue that the product itself functions as trade dress, but for reasons LOF has explained in the past, this can be a tough sell under existing law (hence the debate about copyright-like protection for fashion, which seems to have calmed down since hitting a fever pitch last week.)
Plaintiffs in product packaging cases don't face the same hurdles; although there is a multi-part "likelihood of confusion" test that judges are supposed to apply in trade dress cases, some have said that judges simply look at the plaintiff's and defendant's packaging side by side and decide right there who's going to win. If so, Madonna might be in an awful mess, and I don't mean maybe.
Oh, wait... Madonna can hire lawyers to defend her, lose the case, and pay treble damages, all with the loose change between the cushions of her hideous blue sofa. It would take a lot more than a little trade dress claim to get her in trouble deep.
WWD's website announced on Monday that "copycat lawsuits" over footwear are on the rise, citing the reasoning of one legal luminary: "Knocked-off shoes stay relevant for more seasons than does apparel, making them longer-lasting points of contention."
Of course, the footwear case that has attracted the most interest is Christian Louboutin S.A. v. Yves Saint Laurent America, a/k/a the "monopoly-on-a-color" case, which I've covered so extensively that I've actually lost facebook friends over it. Clearly, these people don't appreciate the importance of this dispute, which has drawn commentary -- albeit not always relevant -- from onlookers in and around the fashion world, including, most recently, Valentino's Giancarlo Giametti. (Yes, red soles were used before Louboutin trademarked them; no, this does not conclusively resolve the legal issues at hand.)
Still, as some have pointed out in a fervent debate within LinkedIn's WWD group, the court's ruling does have potentially serious consequences both for the future of Louboutin's company and for the fashion industry at large. YSL's attorney powerfully reiterated these concerns, first made in his opposition brief, at the court's preliminary injunction hearing last Friday afternoon, pointing out that a ruling for Louboutin could establish a principle that limits the aesthetic options available to designers in the future and/or subject them to legal liability for merely executing their creative vision.
Apparently having failed to read my last CATWALK JUSTICE column, Judge Marrero adjourned on Friday without issuing a ruling, but said he would make a decision "as expeditiously as possible." Note, however, that this means something very different in law than everywhere else, so we're still waiting. Look for periodic updates right here, or get breaking news from LOF's companion Twitter handle, @fashionlawblog. (And while you're at it, follow my firm's Twitter account, @ccolmanlaw, which covers not just fashion law but a broad array of intellectual property issues.)
This week, two worlds that rarely acknowledge each others' existence -- the fashion and sci-fi communities -- found themselves watching and commenting on the same litigation: a U.K. Supreme Court case that involved intellectual property protection for Stormtrooper helmets, and by extension, many other design products. On Wednesday, the UKSC ruled that although the owner of the Star Wars franchise, Lucasfilm, had obtained a U.S. judgment against the original designer of the iconic helmets, Britain's quirky copyright laws precluded holding the designer liable in the U.K. for selling copies based on the original molds.
As previously explained on this blog by Emily Goodhand, known and loved throughout the Twitterverse as @copyrightgirl, the UK does offer "design protection" to utilitarian articles, but that protection lasts for only 15 or 25 years, depending on when the original design was created. (For design components of the original Star Wars trilogy, it's 15... and the time's up.) Further, where a three-dimensional item doesn't qualify as an "artistic work" -- and the UKSC found that a costume military helmet does not so qualify under "the normal use of language" -- its manufacturer can raise a defense under an obscure provision of the UK Copyright Act, even where the work is based on a copyrighted two-dimensional illustration. Fashion designers and sci-fi types, take note! And while you're at it, bond! The intergalactic portal is closing as we speak...
Speaking of science fiction, and by extension, Cardassians, you've undoubtedly heard by now that Kim Kardashian has sued Old Navy (i.e., Gap) over an ad that allegedly features a look-alike of her. As The Hollywood Reporter noted last week, KiKard (wow, I've got Star Trek on the brain today) is upset because she "work[s] hard to support the products [she's] personally involved with and that [she] believe[s] in." Kardashian is no stranger to the courtroom, having been involved in a... messy dispute with adult video producer Vivid Entertainment in 2007 over the ownership of her
ticket to fame sex tape, and a 2009 "false endorsement"-related legal tussle with Dr. Sanford Siegel, of the improbable "Cookie Diet."
The latest suit to involve KiKard (working? no?) also hinges on false endorsement claims, but this litigation is slightly complicated by the fact that neither Kardashian's name nor image was used in the offending ad. Rather, Old Navy allegedly hired one Melissa Molinaro, whose resemblance to Kardashian is admittedly uncanny, to mislead consumers into believing that Kardashian endorsed the brand. Such a claim isn't unprecedented; THR's Eriq Gardner reminds us that such varied and alphabetical celebrities as Jackie O and the Divine Miss M have brought look- and sound-alike lawsuits over the years. Let's see if Kardashian can convince the court that her lawsuit has legs.
- The fashion blogs were all aflutter this week over a Guardian article on a gang that exclusively
wearswore Ralph Lauren. Upon reading about this, trademark lawyers throughout the country looked up from their iPads and shouted, in unison, "TRADEMARK TARNISHMENT!" But alas, who to sue? Don't worry -- I'm sure Polo will find someone.
- There was also much chatter in the blogosphere this week over Alexander McQueen's will, just now released to the public, and whose provisions reveal the designer's commitment to family, charity and animals. Yes, the dogs got $82,000, so this is probably a good time to say that I don't want to hear one more unkind word about pet trusts; providing for pets after their owners' death is important, and every pet owner should keep the furry ones in mind when drafting a will. To those who would ask how a couple of dogs could possibly need $82,000, I reply, have you ever seen a vet bill for surgery?
- Where another prom dress designer recently stumbled, Sherri Hill scored this week, inking a favorable settlement -- her second in a year -- with Nox Anabel, an L.A. wholesaler, in a copyright infringement lawsuit. This is a helpful reminder that copyright isn't always useless for designers, even in its current, limited form.
- Pittsburgh Steelers running back Rashard Mendenhell has sued Hanesbrands for stripping him of his endorsement contract -- and he was wearing so little to begin with! -- after a series of controversial tweets, some involving September 11th and Osama bin Laden. At issue in the lawsuit is whether a "morals clause" in an endorsement contract (remember those?) can function as a promise for a celebrity to shut the *#$% up.
And with that... I'm out. Remember, as always, that you can get the week-in-review one day sooner by catching my CATWALK JUSTICE column, which appears on Styleite.com every Friday, sometime between 2 and 4 pm, like low-end, counterfeit clockwork.
[This post is for entertainment and informational purposes only, and does not constitute legal advice or create an attorney-client relationship among any individuals or entities. Any views expressed herein are those of the writer on the particular date of this post, and should not necessarily be attributed to his law firm or its clients.]


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Sophomore All-Conference selection Hassan Omar (Frederick, Md./Thomas Johnson) headlined a quartet of UMBC cross country athletes selected to the 2013 America East All-Academic Team, the conference office announced on Wednesday morning.
Joining Omar on the men's team is junior Eric Schuler (Columbia, Md./Reservoir), who also earned a spot in 2012, while senior Kirsten McGovern (Sykesville, Md./Century) also received a mention for the second straight year on the women's team. Sophomore Nicole Dawson (Jessup, Md./Hammond) joined McGovern as a first-time selection.
Omar's honor comes just two weeks after taking third overall at the conference championships in which he led UMBC to its first America East team title since 2005. Then, last week at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regionals at Lehigh, the sophomore paced the Retrievers for the fourth time this season, placing 22nd overall with a school record 10k time of 30:30. On Monday, he was named to the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-Mid-Atlantic Region Team. Omar had previously claimed a school record earlier in the year, smashing the 8k record at the Princeton Invitational with a time of 24:21.
Omar has been equally successful in the classroom during his time at UMBC, accumulating a 3.69 grade-point-average (GPA) while working towards a degree in mechanical engineering. In his first semester on campus in the fall of 2012, Omar posted a perfect 4.0 GPA and was honored on the President's List.
Schuler joins Omar after pacing the field and leading UMBC to the team title at the America East Pre-Conference Meet to open the season on Sept. 7. The junior then followed it up by scoring in each of the Retrievers' next two competitions. Now a two-time selection to All-Academic Team, Schuler has also worked diligently in his studies and holds a 4.0 GPA while majoring in computer science. During his time in Baltimore, Schuler earned a spot on the President's List for his work during three semesters – Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012.
For the women, McGovern garners a spot on the team for the second year in a row after scoring in each of UMBC's final four meets of the season. After posting a season-best 6k time of 23:10.45 at the Salty Dog Invitational at Navy on Sept. 14, the senior earned a top-50 finish (45th) at the conference meet in which UMBC achieved its best-ever team finish by taking fifth. Studying for a degree in environmental science, McGovern has compiled a 3.95 GPA in her first three years at UMBC. She has also been working towards receiving minor in linguistics and earning an honors college certificate, receiving a mention on the President's List three times and once on the Dean's List.
Dawson receives a spot on the women's squad in just her second year at UMBC after scoring in each of the Retrievers' competitions for the second consecutive season. After earning a top-five team finish in all seven races as a freshman, Dawson kicked off her sophomore campaign by leading UMBC across the line at both the America East Pre-Conference Meet and the Salty Dog Invitational. At the race at Navy, the sophomore posted a career-best 6k time of 21:58.88, the seventh-fastest time in school history. She continued to aid the women's team the rest of the way, scoring in the four remaining races, including earning a 30th-place finish at the conference championships as the Retrievers finished fifth – their best finish in America East competition.
In her studies, Dawson has accumulated a 3.87 GPA while working towards a degree in information systems and earning an honors college certificate. After receiving Semester Academic Honors in her first semester, the fall of 2012, Dawson earned a perfect 4.0 during the spring term.


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The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services received information regarding a recall for the American Waffle Company of Clayton, Delaware is voluntarily recalling 480 cases of Gluten Free Blueberry Pancakes with Best By or Sell By 07/31/15 because the product contains undeclared milk. People who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to milk may be at risk of serious or life threatening allergic reaction if they consume this product.
The recalled 14.4 oz. LiveGfree Gluten Free Blueberry Pancakes were distributed in Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, West Virginia and Wisconsin and sold in ALDI stores in these states. The product comes in 14.4 oz. box and marked with "Best By" or "Sell By 07/31/15" on the top or bottom display panel.
The voluntary recall was initiated after it was discovered that the milk-containing product was distributed in packaging that did not declare the presence of milk. Subsequent investigation indicates the problem was caused by a temporary breakdown in the Company's production process. Consumers who have purchased these LiveGfree Gluten Free Blueberry Pancakes and consumers who have product affected by this voluntary recall should discard it immediately, or return it to their local ALDI store for a full refund.
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As today is the day after Christmas, chances are you're looking to accessorize what you got yesterday under the tree—the tree next to your driveway.
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(OK, we just really like it a whole lot, so we arbitrarily named it our Auto of the Year. While you might imagine that some other cars of the year are the results of painstaking assessment, analysis, sampling, measuring, etc., it all pretty much comes down to that, so what the hell: there it is: McLaren MP4-12C, autofieldblog Auto of the Year.)
If so, it is worth taking a look at some of the items that have been specifically designed and developed by McLaren Automotive that will enhance your driving pleasure in your 12C.
For example, there is the luggage that specifically fits within the 144 liters of space found under the hood (a.k.a. "bonnet")—remember, the 592-hp engine is in the back. There are three cases with a carbon fiber outer material, carbon fiber handles, and McLaren Orange detail stitching.
Or, you might be interested in picking up a pair of the ergonomically designed, full-grain black sheepskin leather driving gloves. Again, note the McLaren Orange stitching.
Anyone who has watched an F1 knows that McLaren has a solid relationship with TAG Heuer, so it should come as no surprise that there is the Tag Heuer Carrera MP4-12C chronograph, complete with carbon fiber on the dial. This watch was designed with the participation of Frank Stephenson, the McLaren Automotive Design Director, so it isn't your ordinary run-of-the-mill watch. There are only 1,000 of these being made, so you'd better place your order, pronto. (You can order this stuff here.)
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The world's tallest dog, and one of Northern California's most famous residents, is suffering from bone cancer.
Earlier this week, veterinarians had to amputate Gibson's right front leg, KCRA reported.
The Guinness Book of World Records lists Gibson, a harlequin Great Dane, as the Tallest Living Dog at 42.2 inches tall, as measured in 2004.
Gibson's owner, Sandy Hall, said the preeminent pooch is expected to return to his Grass Valley home later this week and she expects him to be back in the limelight in just a couple of months.
This canine is no stranger to celebrity. He's been on Oprah, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Ellen and in numerous magazines including National Geographic, Dog Fancy and Life, just to name a few.
The site K9 Grass also lists Gibson as a certified therapy dog.
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Foals are a five-piece band from Oxford, UK. Frontman Yannis Philippakis and drummer Jack Bevan played in bands together since the age of 15 and have described their first band The Edmund Fitzgerald as "heavy", "technical" and "mostly instrumental". Yannis and Edwin Congreave (keyboard) were studying at Oxford University but dropped out in order to pursue their music and were joined by Walter Gervers (bass) and Jack who both also dropped out of university. The only member of Foals to finish his degree was guitarist Jimmy Smith (guitar, synths)who studied Geography at the University of Hull. The quintet started out by arranging gigs at house parties through MySpace and leaving houses ruined in their wake.
Their debut album Antidotes was released in 2008 and didn't include two of their most popular songs at the time, 'Hummer' and 'Mathletics'. The album was recorded in Brooklyn and Jack recorded some of his drums in alleyways there in the middle of the night. TV On The Radio's Dave Sitek was producer, with the band working from 4pm until dawn every day for five weeks. However, the band were not happy with Dave Sitek's final version of the album and so they ended up remixing it themselves. The most successful single on the debut was 'Cassius' which was written about the fall of Rome. 2008 also saw Foals voted second 'wildest' performers by NME readers.
The follow-up album to Antidotes was Total Life Forever, released in 2010. Producer Paul Epworth was ditched by the band at the start of recording and Luke Smith was recruited instead. Yannis has spoken about how the album was inspired in part by the deteriorating physical state of Mike Tyson. It was recorded in Gothenburg, Sweden. 'Spanish Sahara' won an NME Award for Best Track.
The band relocated closer to home to record their 2013 album Holy Fire, which was recorded in London. They worked with producers Flood and Moulder, who picked up the award for UK Producers of the Year at the Music Producers Guild Awards 2014 for their work on the album. Foals made their first major festival headline appearance at Latitude 2013. Holy Fire was voted for by NME readers as album of the year and 'My Number' was named readers' favourite track of the year, in both categories beating off Arctic Monkeys and QOTSA.
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Chain mail is something generally associated with medieval-era warriors. But as a material for modern architecture, it's not so much the first thing that comes to mind, not to mention implemented in designs. That's why eeing it put into use as part of the Kukje Gallery in Seoul is pretty awesome.
The SO-IL-designed building required 510,000 links handmade by Chinese craftsmen, the chain mail drapes over the lift shaft, stairwell and sides of the building, giving the geometric edges of the main structure a few organic curves. This is where we want to be if facing attack from some dark-ages foe. We think. [Dezeen]


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The Small Business Administration (SBA) began accepting loan applications today (July 1) from RV dealerships for guaranteed floorplan loans under a new 15-month pilot program.
SBA officials, however, declined to predict when the money will start flowing.
"We expect there will be a ramp up period as we roll out the program," said Eric Zarnikow, SBA associate administrator for capital access, during a telephone press conference. "It's difficult to know when the first loan will be made."
SBA "guidance" to lenders became available on Tuesday, he said, and he encouraged dealers to contact local lenders who likely already are qualified to make SBA loans and are familiar with SBA procedures.
"In recent months, we've seen a dramatic decrease in the availability of credit for financing dealership inventories," SBA Administrator Karen G. Mills said in a press release. "We want to be a partner for these small businesses and help ensure they have the resources they need to help keep their businesses open, save jobs and survive these tough economic times."
The new program allows RV, automotive and watercraft dealers to establish revolving lines of credit ranging from $500,000 to $2 million, with SBA guaranteeing 60-75% of the loan, depending on collateral. Loans are to be repaid within five years.
The floorplan loans are available under the SBA's 7(a) program, which typically guarantees 90% of the amount. SBA decided on the lower percentage because of the newness of the program.
"Given that this is a pilot program, there is some question about how these loans will perform," Zarnikow said. "We concluded that a 75% guarantee would provide encouragement to lenders without taking undue risk."
Because it is a pilot program that expires Sept. 30, 2010, there is a 4,000-loan limit this year and next "We don't expect to see that volume, particularly in 2009," Zarnikow said.
The SBA will decide next year whether to extend the pilot program beyond its expiration date.


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Tularemia, also called deerfly fever or rabbit fever, is a disease
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Symptoms of tularemia include:
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I am trying to build an invoice generation system in LaTeX which will be easy and maintainable. Right now we are using longtable and a preprocessing layer. I would like to change this to a
.sty and a set of macros so that templates can be more heavily separated from the data entered into them.
What I would like is an API like:
\line{runningnumber=1,partnumber=A-12232,description={Test part, some data},qty=4,sellprice=14.99,linetotal=59.96}
This would be a macro for something like (pretty formatting added here for clarity):
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A few reasons for doing this is that it would allow me to drop columns in the environment declaration and have relevant keys ignored in the line items, and it would free up key ordering in the addition of lines themselves (partnumber=A-12232,qty=4 would be the same regardless of ordering).
At this point I have a pretty good idea of how the
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The Filibuster
How did you guess the Cards would get past the Nats?
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Guess? Eric, in my world, Guess is a brand of jeans, not a verb. This, my friend, is destiny.
The Tigers and Cardinals have a history and that history refuses to be delayed by something as simple as the Washington Nationals. Now, a Nationals team with Stephen Strasburg taking the ball in games 1 and 5, that could have been a different story. But as we all know, Strasburg wasn't there and the Nats couldn't make a 6-0 lead hold up in game 5. On top of that, the Cards got a huge boost with the successful return of Chris Carpenter.
So, let's do the math. The Cards add Carpenter while the Nats subtract Strasburg. If the old adage that "Pitching wins championships" is true, then the Nats never had a chance. And the facts bear this out.
Now, to be fair, none of this entered my thought processes while making my predictions. I didn't sit down and draw out the strengths and weaknesses of the teams or look at the probable pitching match-ups. That wasn't necessary.
Here's the thing: The Nats are a young team with a bunch of stars and they'll be back. They have a great bullpen (despite Storen's meltdown in Game 5) and with pitchers like Zimmerman and Strasburg along with stars like Harper, they have a bright future. The Cards, though, they've been here before and they know how to deal with the pressure. On top of that, they barely even made it in and without a lucky in-field fly-rule call during the play-in, they probably wouldn't even be here. Since no one expects them to do much, despite being the defending champions, there's very little pressure. They have nothing to lose.
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The Kindle Fire HD Quick Settings Menu
You access both a short list of commonly used settings (Quick Settings) and all the more detailed settings for Kindle Fire HD by swiping downward from the top of the screen.
Here are the settings that you can control from the Quick Settings menu:
Unlocked/Locked: This is a toggle feature, meaning that you tap it to lock your device so that the screen won't dim after a period of time, and tap it again to allow it to dim, which can save your battery power. Locked is a useful setting when you're reading a book or watching a movie, for example.
Volume: Tap Volume to display a slider bar that you can use to increase (by sliding it to the right) or decrease (by sliding it to the left) the volume.
Brightness: You can tap and display the Automatic Brightness On/Off button to turn on or off a feature that controls the brightness of the screen based on ambient light. You can also use the slider above this setting to adjust the brightness manually.
Wireless: Tap to display the Airplane Mode On/Off button; with Airplane Mode set to On, no available networks appear. When you set Airplane Mode to Off, a list of available networks appears. Tap an available network to join it. Note that you may be asked to enter a password to access some networks.
Sync: Generally speaking, if you're within range of a Wi-Fi network, when you begin to download content it downloads very quickly. However, if you've been out of range of a network, you might want to use this setting when you're back in range of a network to manually initiate the download of new content or continue downloads that may have been interrupted.


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Former Vice President Walter Mondale joined his old boss Jimmy Carter Wednesday, arguing that some of the opposition to President Obama's agenda is fueled by racial animus.
Asked at an event in Washington whether he agreed with former President Carter that racism was behind some criticism of Obama, Mondale took a long pause before answering: "Yeah."
"I don't like saying it," Mondale continued. "Having lived through those years, when civil rights was such a bitter issue, and when we argued those things for years ... I know that some of that must still be around."
"I don't want to pick a person, say, he's a racist, but I do think the way they're piling on Obama, the harshness, you kind of feel it," he said. "I think I see an edge in them that's a little bit different and a little harsher than I've seen in other times."
At a screening of a new documentary on his life, "Fritz," at the George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs, the 1984 Democratic nominee for president lamented what he called a coarse tone in political life today, telling the audience: "It's been discouraging to watch this health care debate."
But Mondale had high marks for the Obama administration, praising Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and predicting Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a Republican, would be remembered as one of the most "superb" men to lead the Pentagon.
Without mentioning former President Bush's name, Mondale compared Obama favorably to other recent occupants of the White House.
"I find it a great relief just to hear somebody make sense," Mondale quipped to laughter and applause.
And with sweeping health care reform legislation stalled in the Senate, Mondale, a former senator from Minnesota, also offered advice to Obama on how to move the debate on Capitol Hill.
"He has to learn how to push a little harder," Mondale said. "When there are big issues, the president has to get personally and intensely involved in order to move the Congress."


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Stimulus plan could be mother of all 'Christmas tree' bills
WASHINGTON — Christmas falls on Thursday, but in the nation's capital it will come in early January, when the 111th Congress convenes and begins assembling an economic stimulus plan worth anywhere from $600 billion to $850 billion, and counting.
The House of Representatives aims to pass the package during the first week of the new year. The Senate hopes to finish it in time for newly inaugurated President Barack Obama to sign shortly after he takes office Jan. 20.
However, lawmakers first must write a bill that, in legislative terms, doesn't become the year's biggest Christmas tree, festooned with billions for pet projects and special interest ornaments that are pleasing politically but not necessarily what the economy needs right now.
One example: On Friday, The Association of Zoos and Aquariums issued a news release calling for "shovel-ready zoo and aquarium infrastructure projects to be eligible for federal stimulus funding."
"This is close to unprecedented for our lifetimes because of the amounts we're talking about here," said Norman Ornstein, a congressional scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative research center. "It's very tricky business. It's tricky because you have to get around this temptation that members (of Congress) have to see this as the never-ending Christmas tree. Or the never-ending bag of Santa's toys."
Lawmakers are preparing to tack on everything from tax credits for corporate research and development to hundreds of billions of dollars for infrastructure spending and similar help for cash-strapped states. Throw into that mix an all-star lineup of special-interest groups coming in with tin cups in hand.
The stimulus package has noble aims. Chief among them is to spark employment and consumer spending, and thus turn around a U.S. economy mired in a deep recession that's growing worse.
However, the process already is fraught with heavy lobbying and political intrigue, as interested parties — lawmakers, state and local officials and sundry lobbyists — jockey for a slice of what's sure to be the biggest pie most of them have ever seen.
The biggest push is coming from state and local governments. Most of them have to submit their budgets next month, and almost all desperately need help. According to the National Governors Association, some 20 states already have cut $7.6 billion from their fiscal 2009 budgets, and 25 states have predicted $60 billion in shortfalls for fiscal year 2010.
"An economic recovery package will go a long way in providing (money) for capital projects and spur job growth," said Joe Hackney, the president of the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Other interests also are pressing their agendas.
Unions and liberal groups have banded together as the Campaign for Jobs and Economic Recovery Now, a $4 million to $5 million campaign to urge spending on infrastructure and public works projects.
In a letter published Tuesday in several U.S. newspapers, the leaders of 31 state universities wrote that Obama should provide at least $40 billion for higher education.
America 2050, a group of state transportation and environmental officials, is lobbying for more infrastructure spending.
Although the stimulus plan remains a work in progress, there already are wide areas of agreement. State and local governments will get a broad fiscal-aid package. They're expected to receive money for Medicaid — the health-care system for the poor and people with disabilities — as well as cash to defray energy costs for low-income Americans.
Help to states for food stamps, as well as another extension of unemployment compensation, also is winning wide support.
Obama already has signaled that he hopes to use the stimulus package to expand broadband Internet service into rural areas, more fully linking America's back roads to the information superhighway. He also hopes to promote "clean energy" such as solar and wind power, using government money to create a public-private partnership that provides jobs and sparks a promising industry in its infancy.
To create urban jobs, the budding Obama stimulus plan envisions weatherization projects that make federal buildings and schools more energy efficient.
Beyond the lobbyists' potential to bid up the plan's costs, there's also the eternal conflict between the House and Senate, which could produce different approaches that merge into a compromise bigger than either one alone.
The solid Democratic majority in the House means that there will be "little daylight" between Obama's plan and what Speaker Nancy Pelosi moves. The Senate is always more complicated, however, because under its rules 60 votes are needed to cut off debate and move to a vote.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., is working on his own tax package, and other senators also are showing greater independence from Obama. For instance, Pennsylvania Democrat Bob Casey held a news conference Thursday to press his demands for part of any stimulus package.
Taxes are sure to be a source of conflict. House Democrats and Obama's team are seriously eyeing a reduction in the payroll tax as well as new tax rebates, thinking that's the quickest way to get relief to middle- and lower-income consumers.
Baucus, however, thinks that any stimulus plan should be split evenly between taxes and spending, while other congressional leaders lean toward having twice as much spending as tax cuts.
Other Democrats are more wary, wanting more emphasis on energy tax breaks, such as extending the credit for producing electricity from wind and making it easier to connect renewable sources to the power grid.
One of the biggest elements of the stimulus plan will be spending on road and bridge repair and other infrastructure projects. Those will put people to work, but whether they'll have a ripple effect to foster a more productive, competitive economy is debatable. Japan tried to reverse a decade-long recession with infrastructure spending, but it did little to make that nation more competitive.
There's also the question of how fast infrastructure projects can get under way. To stimulate the weak economy, they need to be ready to go promptly, not awaiting planning and bureaucratic approvals.
"What they ought to do is take every step they can to provide stimulus. If you don't do something close to that, you have no control," said R. Bruce Josten, the vice president of government affairs for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
One way to do that, he said, is not to listen only to what governors and elected officials ask for, but to look as well at what the Federal Highway Administration suggests. The agency compiles an annual list of road projects around the nation that would reduce bottlenecks that slow commuters and truckers, dragging down productivity.
At its most basic level, Obama's massive stimulus will be designed to be economic "shock and awe." He'd rather overreach than fall short.
"The goal here is to mainline a major shot of adrenaline (into the economy) to avoid going from a much more serious recession to depression," said Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute. "Even if you could take all the politics out of it, knowing what will actually encourage consumption, regain confidence in the lending process and work quickly — not so easy to do."
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June 7, 2011 -- Women who put on too much weight during their pregnancy are more likely to give birth to newborns with excessive body fat, and this may set their children up for being overweight or obese as they age, a study suggests.
The new findings, which were presented at the Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston, held even if the mother was normal weight before becoming pregnant.
"Excessive weight gain during pregnancy is certainly a factor that contributes to the childhood obesity epidemic, but it's just one factor," says study researcher Jami Josefson, MD, a pediatric endocrinologist at Chicago's Children's Memorial Hospital and assistant professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Previous studies have found similar associations between maternal weight gain and newborns with body fat, but these studies did not control for the mom's diabetes status during her pregnancy. Women with gestational diabetes often give birth to larger babies. The new study evaluated pregnant women without gestational diabetes.
Excessive Weight Gain in Pregnancy
Of 56 mothers, 31 women adhered to the recommended guidelines for healthy pregnancy weight gain, and 25 exceeded these guidelines.
While pregnant with a single baby, women at a healthy weight before pregnancy gain should gain 25 to 35 pounds; overweight women should aim for 15 to 25 pounds; and obese women should restrict their pregnancy weight gain to 11 to 20 pounds, according to guidelines by the Institute of Medicine.
Fully 70% of those women who were obese before they became pregnant exceeded the weight gain guidelines, compared with 31% of those who were at a healthy weight before pregnancy. Still, women who put on more than the recommended weight gave birth to significantly fatter babies regardless of their pre-pregnancy weight, the study showed.
Newborns underwent measurements of length, weight, and fat within 48 hours of birth via a new infant body composition system that requires the infant to lie in a machine for two minutes. Babies born to moms who gained too much weight during pregnancy had 17.5 ounces of body fat, compared with 13.9 ounces of fat among those newborns born to mothers of women who stayed within the guidelines,
This higher obesity risk existed even when birth weight was normal, the study showed.
The message is clear, says Josefson. "Be at as healthy of a weight as you can before becoming pregnant and gain weight within the guidelines," she says. "If you gain too much weight during pregnancy, it can have a negative effect on your child's risk of obesity. And it is also harder to lose this weight, so when you start your next pregnancy, your baby is at a higher risk to begin with."
Second Opinion
Eating a healthy diet and sticking to the recommended guidelines for weight gain is important for the long-term health of your baby, she says.
"This is a well-done study," says Hugh S. Taylor, MD, a professor and director of the division of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn, in an email. "Excessive weight gain leads to fat babies [and] the effect occurred in both obese and normal- weight mothers. However the obese women gained more weight."
Exactly why this occurs is not fully understood. "The women do not need to have a disease such as gestational diabetes [but] due to the higher insulin and glucose levels, I would speculate that increased insulin resistance in the culprit," he says. Moms in the study who gained more than the recommended amounts of weight did have higher levels of blood sugar (glucose), but did not have diabetes.
Some of the women in the study may have had undiagnosed mild insulin resistance in pregnancy, Taylor says.
"Pregnant women should know that they must stick to weight gain guidelines provided by their obstetrician," he says. "Do not gain excessive amounts of weight while pregnant or you will make your baby fat."


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ArenaJunkies Shutting Down on July 1st 2018
Today we'll be announcing the closure of ArenaJunkies on July 1st. This was a hard decision to make, and we would like to sincerely thank you all the users who have supported us over the years.
I'll always remember using ArenaJunkies since way back in Wrath of the Lich King, where many of us had our competitive banters over our rating and gameplay. AJ was a fun place where I found a lot of useful information when I was new to arenas, and the spice from the battlegroup forums really added to the competitiveness nature of PvP.
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