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U.S. equities jumped after the Fed unexpectedly said it will begin tapering QE3 next month.
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As of 2:09 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 154 points, or 0.97%, to 16032, the S&P 500 advanced 12.3 points, or 0.69%, to 1793 and the Nasdaq Composite rallied 9.2 points, or 0.23%, to 4033.
Fed day is here.
Traders have been waiting for weeks to see if the Federal Reserve will begin paring back its $85-billion-a-month bond purchasing program.
The Federal Open Market Committee said it will cut its bond purchases by $10 billion per month, to $75 billion, while Wall Street economists broadly expected the central bank to hold steady. The Fed's policy-setting committee also tweaked its so-called forward guidance to say it expects to maintain interest rates at historic lows 'well past the time' when the unemployment rate falls below its target of 6.5%. The central bank also said members of the FOMC lowered their view on where the unemployment rate will land over the next few years. FOMC members now see the unemployment rate ranging from 6.3% to 6.6% in 2014, compared to a September estimate of 6.4% to 6.8%. Elsewhere on the economic docket was a wrath of data on the new housing market.
The Commerce Department reported housing starts surged 22.7% in November, the biggest increase since January 1990, to an annual rate of 1.09 million units, well above Wall Street's expectations of an increase to 950,000 units. Housing permits fell 3.1% to an annualized rate 1 million units, versus expectations of 990,000 units.
In corporate news, FedEx (NYSE:FDX) shares came under pressure after the shipping giant posted weaker-than-expected quarterly results. CVS Caremark (NYSE:CVS) boosted its dividend 22% and also revealed a full-year profit view that was within the range Wall Street anticipated.
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If this system were implemented, wouldn't any nefarious bomb-makers simply become a little bit neater in response and not dump their bomb-refuse down the drain (or, at least, dump it down the drain someplace far away from their bomb factory)?
I'm all in favor of alternative to unchecked mass-surveillance, but let's make sure they're workable and effective as opposed to YET ANOTHER security theater distraction.
I mostly work from my house but today I'm at the office. Maybe that's why I'm wondering about corporate privacy and what the impact on it might be. My company conducts a lot of internal business via email and Skype. We talk strategy. We make plans.
Does the NSA now have all of those records of our thoughts and our plans?
Are they keeping all of that secret from my company's competitors?
I hope so.
Will that always be the case?
Well, a few years ago I would've said the NSA wouldn't have all of that data. Now, I know that's wrong. What else will change in a couple of years? What else has ALREADY changed?
A great, succinct analysis. Thanks.
What do you think are the odds that these bills were never intended to be passed as they are written, but rather they are collectively just a cats-paw intended to get a slightly-less-awful version by as a "reasonable compromise"*? Given the cartoonish, over-the-top policies outlined in SOPA/PIPA, that seems more and more likely to me as the debate drags on and the "manager's amendments" pile up.
*There is no such thing as "reasonable" with this kind of prior restraint.
Piracy of intellectual property [robs] the makers of recordings, videos, movies, games, and other creative works of the money they are entitled to, [and]...costs tens of thousands of people their jobs each year.
My tea leaves are telling me that the obvious integrations are the ascendent portions of Microsoft's empire: Windows Mobile and XBox. If Skype has existing voice-handling infrastructure that can integrate with and either take some load off or augment either of those services, Microsoft can focus on keeping the mobile and gaming hardware optimized for those roles.
Skype also has IM, videochat and desktop-sharing functionality built in. My company's primary product trainer is located 2000 physical miles from the home office, but still brings new hires up to speed on the product with effective demonstrations via Skype. I do the same thing with Windows Remote Assistance when my mom can't find a file on her computer. I think there are plenty of parallels and overlaps, given how much MS really does these days.
Fans of Neal Stephenson's novels are likely to be unusually well-informed about this topic. The books of The Baroque Cycle examine the rising influence of currency markets, trade and capitalism in Enlightenment-era Europe, and feature long (LONG) discourses on the nature of money and how it impacts societies which use it. If you are able to make it through the sometimes-super-brainy books, you will end up with a thorough understanding of economics in general and currency in particular (as well as a pretty solid understanding of European politics around the time of the Hundred Years' War and the Golden Revolution).
Likewise, his novel Cryptonomicon (which, full disclosure, I REALLY love) delves deeply into the issues of currency in the digital age. Half of the book follows a group of tech entrepeneurs who are trying to establish a highly secure digital currency which could be a viable online alternative to nation-backed currencies (i.e. the dollar, yuan, yen, etc.) Again, Stephenson presents the economic, scientific and philosophical issues as plot points in the book itself.
His earlier works Snow Crash and The Diamond Age take place in a future where a digital currency paired with extremely strong cryptographic security have actually pushed the world into a post-nation political reality. The advent of untraceable online transactions made it so no government could accurately track its citizens' actual income or net worth, leading to a total inability to collect income taxes and in turn to a severe governmental collapse. It's unlikely, but a fascinating concept to explore.
If you are interested in Stephenson's work but don't want to invest the time in an 800+ page tome, I highly recommend The Great Simoleon Caper, available for free on TIME Magazine's website. It appears to take place in the universe that is the setting for Snow Crash and The Diamond Age (which may or may not be the same setting as his other works, the links between his books are tenuous at best and not necessary for enjoying any of the stories).
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Twenty-one authors took part in the second annual Boston Teen Author Festival on Saturday, September 21, at the Cambridge Public Library in Cambridge, Mass. Sixty teens and adults from Boston and surrounding areas, including towns in Maine and Rhode Island, attended the daylong festival. It launched last year at Emerson College, just one day ahead of Hurricane Sandy. This year the weather was significantly better and people like third-grade teacher Rebecca B., from Saco, Maine, looked forward to "a day of books" and meeting author Jo Knowles and reading her new book, Living with Jackie Chan (Candlewick). Gina Damico, author of Rogue (HMH/Graphia) and one of the 2012 debut novelists in the online Apocalypsies group, said that she was there because she likes to support teen festivals.
Both festival founders, Renee Combs, now a YA bookseller at the Strand Bookstore in New York City, and Marisa Finkelstein, an assistant production editor at Hachette Book Group, started BTAF while they were students at Emerson, and the festival continued to draw Emerson students this year. Combs, who had "really, really wanted a festival in Boston," was determined to keep BTAF going there despite her move to New York City. Two students served as interns and worked with the authors – who are all, by design, from the New England area – on getting out the word on social media. They also helped maintain the Boston connections for the group.
Part of the reason Combs wanted a festival in Boston is because there is no one place to meet YA authors in the city. "There were so many people at Emerson who like YA, but they don't get as much of a chance to explore it," said Combs, who contacted Finkelstein, then president of the school's publishing club, to help get BTAF off the ground. For year two, she and Finkelstein wanted to move the festival off campus, and were pleased to have Cambridge Public Library agree to let them use the auditorium and meeting rooms. Combs ranks the Cambridge and Brookline, Mass., libraries as having the best YA selections in the area.
This year's fest kicked off with a brief Meet the Authors event in which all 21 writers took the stage to answer questions about their books. Two sets of panels followed: Dear High School, You Suck and Uncover the Mystery ran simultaneously; Surviving the Supernatural and Sassy Leading Ladies followed. The day ended with a book signing handled by Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Mass.
Combs, who started a blog to review YA titles when she was in high school, remains a staunch fan of the category, as does Finkelstein. The two are already thinking about a third festival for 2014.


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Watson insists he can trust Woods
United States captain Tom Watson insists he can rely on Tiger Woods to tell him the truth about his fitness, but admits a European team "full of star power" will be favourites to retain the Ryder Cup.
Woods told Watson he wants to be chosen as a wild card for next month's contest at Gleneagles despite having played just four tournaments on his return to action following back surgery.
The former world number one missed the cut in the Quicken Loans National, suffered his worst 72-hole finish in a major as a professional at the Open and then withdrew from the final round of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational.
Tom Watson believes Europe's side is the stronger of the two on paper (AP)
Three days later he claimed he was pain free and targeting a victory in the US PGA Championship, only to suffer further back problems and miss only his fourth cut in 66 majors in the paid ranks at Valhalla.
"I don't make this comment loosely. He is Tiger Woods and he brings a lot to the team, if he has the ability to play and he's healthy," Watson said on Monday. "He brings a lot to the team and I'd be a fool not to consider him.
"He's been really good in the team room of late and he's a factor with the players. I know that for a fact. He's a very positive influence on the players."
Asked if he could trust Woods' assessment of his health, Watson added: "Absolutely. He's just like me. I'm direct and he's direct. I can't assess his medical condition and I honestly can't assess how he's playing. It really is going to be having to come from information from Tiger himself."
Rory McIlroy's victories in the Open Championship and US PGA and Martin Kaymer's runaway win in the US Open means European players won three of the year's four majors for the first time ever.
European captain Paul McGinley can also call on the services of the world numbers three, four and five in Henrik Stenson, Sergio Garcia and Justin Rose and Watson admitted he wished world number one McIlroy was on his side.
"I like the way he plays," Watson added. "He reminds me of me, the way I play. He's ready to go. He plays his shot and takes the consequences, finds it and hits it again.
"Right now, he's driving the ball better than anybody in the game. When you have confidence in the driver that he has right now, and you have the ability to hit the ball as far, the game is easy. And he knows it and everybody else knows it.
"I think the European team is the stronger of the teams right now on paper. Their team is full of star power, players that have been playing well.
"My hope is that these players on our team will start to show better form coming up. But I have extreme confidence in the players that we have on our team and their motivation to go out and win the cup back."
Watson said he was willing to go as far down the standings as it takes to choose players in form when he names his wild cards on September 2, with one key requirement in mind.
"There's a factor that I look at most and that's the gut factor," the 64-year-old said. "Can that man hit the shots under pressure?"
Keegan Bradley looks to be the most likely candidate for a wild card given his three wins from three matches with Phil Mickelson at Medinah, but Watson has injury concerns over Matt Kuchar and Jason Dufner.
Kuchar has secured his place on the team but withdrew from the US PGA before the start with back spasms, while Dufner's title defence lasted just 10 holes with a long-standing neck problem and he dropped out of the qualifying places.
Watson believes Kuchar's problem is minor but added: "I feel sorry for Jason Dufner. I saw him on Friday and he didn't look good. I've had neck injuries and it's taken a long time to recover. I hope that's not the case with Jason."
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The 39th ICAAC devoted significant attention to the HIV-associated adipose redistribution syndrome (HARS), the new umbrella term for the various body fat composition changes that have become a grave concern to many patients on HAART. The disorder has, accordingly, become the center of attention of antiretroviral drug developers, clinicians, marketing specialists and stock investors. Many have committed themselves to finding strategies to reverse HARS or a preventive strategy to avoid it altogether.
The natural history of HARS is still unclear, but various prospective epidemiological studies seem to provide a better idea of its incidence and prevalence, as well as potential causal associations. The largest study, called the HIV Outpatient Study (HOPS), was conducted by Ward et al.(1) and included 1077 individuals (15% women and 27% non-Caucasian) who were recruited from eight large HIV clinics from seven cities in the US. Patients were evaluated with face-to-face interviews and exams for evidence of abnormal fat distribution. The researchers devised a new classification system that took into account the severity of the abnormality as well as the number of body parts affected. Results indicated a significant association between fat maldistribution and days on d4T, days on indinavir, increasing age, time since HIV diagnosis, the minimum CD4 percentage and a greater CD4 percentage rebound since HIV diagnosis. High levels of cholesterol and triglycerides were also correlated with the severity of fat redistribution. While the rate of various conditions varied, the most common were central obesity (62%), fat loss in extremities (54%), fat loss in hips and buttocks (47%), sunken cheeks (38%) and buffalo hump (21%).
A second prospective study by Romeu and others determined the risk of developing aspects of lipodystrophy in a cohort of over 450 HIV-positive subjects.(2) They found that both the incidence of body composition and metabolic changes increased according to time on protease inhibitors with 26% developing hypercholesterolemia (high levels of cholesterol in blood) after one year, 51% after two years and 83% after three years.
The third prospective study(3), conducted by Muurahainen and colleagues, gave preliminary results of the first 210 patients enrolled (160 men and 50 women). For this study, both the patient and caregiver had to agree on the diagnosis of lipodystrophy. Results showed that women had a higher mean body mass index (BMI) of 29 compared with men (25) and were more likely to report body habitus changes than men. Men, on the other hand, more often reported fat depletion, especially facial fat wasting.
There are a number of different theories about how HARS might evolve. Several researchers investigated the hypothesis that protease inhibitors affect retinoic acid metabolism which regulates fat cell (adipocyte) differentiation and survival. It has been postulated that protease inhibitors bind to cis-retinoid acid binding protein type 1 (CRABP-1), in a manner similar to how they bind to the HIV protease enzyme, but now x-ray crystallography of the implicated proteins note clear differences in their three-dimensional structures. Thus, protease inhibitors are not binding to CRABP-1 -- at least not directly. In addition, the conversion of trans- to cis-retinoic acid -- theorized to be blocked by protease inhibitors, thus affecting adipocyte maturation and fat storage -- was not affected by cytochrome p450 inhibition. This had been the proposed reason that ritonavir was most closely associated with the hyperlipidemia (high blood lipid levels).
Another hypothesis about the pathogenesis of HARS is that it is partly the result of the mitochondrial toxicity caused by nucleoside analogs. One particularly severe expression of this toxicity is lactic acidosis, a rare but deadly metabolic disorder. Lactic acidosis can present as weight loss, fatigue, malaise, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, shortness of breath and low serum bicarbonate levels. The incidence of lactic acidosis were presented by a group from the FDA(4), who described 108 cases. Fifty-six were associated with a single NRTI and 60 with dual NRTI therapy, the most common being d4T/3TC (36 cases), followed by ddI/d4T (nine), AZT/3TC (seven), AZT/ddI (seven) and AZT/d4T (one). Liver biopsies revealed hepatic fatty infiltration in 69%, and 22% of the patients had pancreatitis. Half of these cases were female and the associated mortality rate was 56%. The trend implicating d4T/3TC may be just reflecting a greater utilization of this dual combination. Another report found an incidence of lactic acidosis of 0.84% per year (11 patients out of 867) in patients who had received NRTI therapy for an average duration of 27 months. Ten patients survived due to early diagnosis and discontinuation of NRTI therapy.
In addition to lactic acidosis, various studies implicated the nucleoside analogs d4T, ddI and 3TC in the pathogenesis of HARS. Polo and others noted a marked difference in the rate of lipodystrophy among patients on regimens containing d4T/ddI (89%) and d4T/3TC (52%) as compared to those on AZT/3TC (4%).(5) Most subjects in this study received indinavir. Women were more likely to have fat accumulation than men, yet men were more likely to have fat depletion and hyperlipidemia.
Treatment of HARS
Various strategies to ameliorate the signs and symptoms of HARS were presented at ICAAC. Several groups felt that the same rules for treatment of hyperlipedemia promulgated by the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) for HIV-negative persons should be observed in HIV-positive patients because the latter often have other risk factors for coronary artery disease, such as smoking, diabetes, a family history, age, hypertension and obesity.
There are a large number of pharmaceutical treatments for high cholesterol and other lipid disorders. However, there is concern about using some of these drugs in people on HAART because there is a potential for drug interactions since many share the same metabolic pathway (CYP3A4) as many antiretrovirals. Pravastatin and fluvastatin, though, do not, so they are favored for treatment of hypercholesterolemia. Similarly, because the most common agents to treat hypertriglyceridemia -- gemfibrozil and troglitazone -- inhibit and induce (respectively) that metabolic pathway, more recently approved drugs that do not, rosiglitatzone and pioglitazone, are preferred. In addition, a separate study of patients with HARS receiving fenofibrate showed that 72% had a reduction in triglyceride levels in three months.(6) Another drug, metformin, used in adult onset diabetes, was evaluated in a small study of HIV-positive patients with lipodystrophy and increased abdominal fat (assessed by abdominal CT scan). However, no improvements in fat redistribution or lipodystrophy were noted.
Several open-label clinical studies have demonstrated a significant effect of recombinant human growth hormone (rHGH) on some of the manifestations of HARS. Gabriel Torres, MD, (author of this article) and his colleagues from New York presented the first report at the 6th National Conference on Human Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in 1998. He described a middle aged woman with wasting syndrome who had developed truncal adiposity, a buffalo hump, peripheral lipodystrophy and hyperlipidemia. Upon receiving rHGH, a marked reduction in the adipose tissue collections and improvement in fat-free mass were noted, despite no improvement in lipodystrophy and hyperlipidemia. Torres subsequently published a report(7) of ten patients treated with routine doses of rHGH (4-6 mg/day, sq) who have had responses of varying degrees to the hormone. Some patients had complete resolution of the truncal adiposity and buffalo humps while other patients with uncontrolled hyperglycemia and advanced HIV disease saw only minimal effects. Side effects included myalgia (muscular pain), flu-like symptoms, carpal tunnel syndrome, hyperglycemia and joint and facial swelling.
Additionally, Wanke and others from Harvard reported that another group of ten patients with HARS treated with subcutaneous injections of rHGH had reductions in waist-to-hip ratios and mid-thigh circumference measurements, as well as increases in body mass indices.(8)
Serono Labs, maker of rHGH, is conducting a large survey of HIV-positive patients with and without manifestations of HARS in order to establish its overall prevalence and incidence. Serono is planning a randomized, placebo-controlled study of rHGH in patients with HARS that will use DEXA (Dual Energy X-Ray Absorbtiometry) to determine changes in body composition and abdominal CT scans to evaluate visceral adiposity. Until the FDA approves rHGH for the indication of lipodystrophy, insurance companies can reject claims for this treatment. Nevertheless, most are aware of the psychological distress caused by the syndrome and the potential negative consequences of nonadherence to HAART, so they have sometimes covered three months of rHGH therapy.
The strategy to reverse HARS that received the most attention at the conference was switching from a protease inhibitor-based regimen to one based on an NNRTI. A recent report(9) described 23 patients with HARS who switched from a protease inhibitor to nevirapine due to psychological distress associated with body changes. After a median follow-up of eight months, significant improvements were noted in serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels, blood glucose and waist-to-hip ratios. All but two patients reported an improvement in peripheral fat wasting though none felt that they had regained their original body composition.
The UK's Graeme Moyle reported 48 week follow-up data of nine patients and 24 week follow-up data for another 20 patients whose fat redistribution, after switching from protease inhibitor to efavirenz therapy, was evaluated by self-report, DEXA and CT scans.(10) Most gained weight and lean body mass and lost visceral fat. At 48 weeks, there were improvements in visceral abdominal tissue and improved glucose tolerance. Most cases of hyperlipidemia did not improve, but there was a trend towards normalization of subcutaneous fat. In addition, the Maintavir study(11) described 53 patients who changed from protease inhibitors to nevirapine or efavirenz. After six months of follow-up, all but seven patients had maintained viral suppression with an average CD4 cell increase of 83 cells. Eight of twelve patients with HARS had subjective improvements in body habitus changes and seven had objective improvements, but there was no reversal of abnormal fat changes in lipid or glucose levels.
Another group from Strasbourg(12) followed 51 patients who switched from a protease inhibitor to efavirenz and had sustained viral suppression of under 20 copies/ml after six months of follow-up (the two patients who did not maintain suppression had stopped all antiretrovirals). Both triglyceride and cholesterol levels fell slightly and no changes in body habitus were reported. Finally, in DPC 006, the pivotal study comparing efavirenz to indinavir, both plus AZT/3TC(13), four cases of lipodystrophy occurred among those in the efavirenz arm, versus nine in the indinavir arm and twelve among those taking efavirenz and indinavir. The effects of protease inhibitors may take a long time to reverse and continued nucleoside therapy may also be contributing to the fat redistribution.
It is also possible that not all protease inhibitors will be as frequently associated with HARS. Structurally, amprenavir, being non-peptidic, is significantly different from the other protease inhibitors; and over the course of its clinical development, there have been few reported cases of fat redistribution. At the recent Lisbon meeting(14), there was a report on a randomized trial comparing amprenavir to indinavir in a group of 504 heavily NRTI-experienced, protease-inhibitor-naive patients who were experiencing virologic or treatment failure. In the 48-week, intent-to-treat analysis, 30% of the amprenavir group and 46% of the indinavir group attained <400 copies RNA/ml. But the difference in response on this analysis was caused by a high drop out rate due to adverse effects, clinical progressions or other reasons -- the difference in the incidence of virologic failures was less (26% and 18% respectively). Notably, only 3% of the amprenavir group developed fat redistribution as compared to 12% of those receiving indinavir -- a statistically significant difference. There were minimal changes in cholesterol and triglyceride levels reported in this study, but grade III and IV laboratory abnormalities were more frequent in the indinavir group (32%) than in the amprenavir group (20%).
These results support the in vitro work reported last year in which amprenavir had little effect on the metabolism of fat in cultured cells as compared to other protease inhibitors.(15)
1. Abstracts 1298 and 1299. 2. Abstract 1293. 3. Abstract 1301. 4. Abstract 1284. 5. Abstract 1306. 6. Abstract 2063. 7. AIDS, 13: in press. 8. Wanke et al. AIDS, 13: 2099-2103. 9. AIDS 1999, 13:805-810. 10. Abstract 2064. 11. Abstract 2198 12. Abstract 2196. 13. Abstract 1304. 14. Abstract 813. 15. Lenhard et al. 6th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, 1999, Chicago , Illinois, Abstracts 665 and 666.
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Glatiramer is an artificial
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Glatiramer is given as an injection
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Glatiramer is used
to treat people with MS who have relapses followed by periods of recovery
(relapsing-remitting MS). Findings from clinical trials show that people treated soon after being diagnosed with MS may have better results than those who delay treatment.
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society recommends that people who have a definite diagnosis of MS and active, relapsing disease start treatment with interferon beta or glatiramer. This groups adds that treatment with medicine may also be considered after the first attack in some people who are at a high risk for MS.1
Some people have only one episode of a
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reduces the frequency of
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Glatiramer has not been shown to be
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secondary progressive MS. Also, the medicine is not
helpful for people who have
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All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
Call 911 or other emergency services right away if you have:
Call your doctor if you have:
Common side effects of this medicine include:
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug
Reference is not available in all systems.)
Follow your doctor's instructions on how to use this medicine. Do not give yourself an injection in the same place as your previous injection. Always change the site of the next injection.
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society recommends that people with a definite diagnosis of MS and active, relapsing disease start treatment with interferon or glatiramer. The group adds that medicine may also be considered after the first attack in some people at high risk for MS but before it is diagnosed.1
In addition to side effects, there are some drawbacks to treatment with
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Dear SOS:
Café del Rey in Marina del Rey serves a Mediterranean pizza that is very different and one of my favorites. Is there any chance you can obtain the recipe?
John C. Severino
Dear John: We loved the light crust, bright sauce and array of colorful toppings in this pizza from Cafe del Rey. The restaurant was happy to share its recipe, which we've adapted below. The recipe makes two pies, perfect for company.
Café del Rey's Mediterranean pizza
Total time: 11/2 hours, plus rising times
Servings: 6 to 8
Note: Adapted from Café del Rey in Marina del Rey
Pizza dough
11/4 cups sparkling mineral water
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 teaspoon sugar
2 teaspoons active dry yeast Scant 1/2 teaspoon salt
31/2 cups (15.5 ounces) bread flour, divided, plus more as needed for kneading
1. In a large bowl, whisk together the water, oil, sugar and yeast. Set aside the mixture for 15 minutes to hydrate the yeast.
2. Stir in the salt and two-thirds of the flour, 1 spoonful at a time, to achieve a very soft dough.
3. Turn out the dough onto a well-floured board and continue kneading in additional flour until a soft, sticky dough is achieved. The dough should be very moist; the more flour added, the heavier the dough and final crust.
4. Place the dough in a large, greased bowl and cover loosely with plastic wrap. Set aside the dough until it doubles in volume, about 1 to 11/2 hours. (While the dough is rising, make the tomato and pesto sauces, and assemble the toppings.)
5. When the dough has doubled in size, punch it down and turn it out onto a floured board. Halve the dough and roll each half into a ball. Place the balls on the floured board and lightly flour the top of each. Loosely cover each ball with plastic wrap and set aside until almost doubled again.
Tomato sauce
11/2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
11/2 teaspoons minced garlic
3/4 cup diced yellow onion
11/2 cups (9 ounces, about 4 whole tomatoes with sauce) canned plum tomatoes
11/2 teaspoons tomato paste
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon sugar, or to taste
1 tablespoon chopped fresh basil
1 tablespoon chopped fresh marjoram
1. In a medium saucepan heated over medium heat, add the oil, garlic and onion. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the onion is translucent, careful not to burn the garlic.
2. Stir in the tomatoes, tomato paste, salt and sugar. Cover the pan and gently simmer for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat and stir in the herbs.
3. Pass the sauce through a food mill, or purée using a food processor or blender. This makes 1 scant cup tomato sauce. Cover and refrigerate until needed.
Basil pesto
2 small garlic cloves
1 teaspoon toasted pine nuts Small pinch red chile flakes
1 tablespoon grated Parmigiano-Reggiano
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
2 cups loosely packed basil leaves Lemon juice, to taste
1. In a large mortar and pestle or using a food processor, grind together the garlic, pine nuts, chile flakes, Parmigiano and olive oil. Add the basil leaves, a few at a time, until they are incorporated and a coarse paste is formed.
2. Taste and adjust seasoning as desired with additional Parmigiano, lemon juice, pine nuts or olive oil. Thin as desired with a little olive oil.
3. Refrigerate the pesto in a nonreactive container with the surface covered with plastic wrap until needed; the pesto will keep for up to 1 day.
Pizza and assembly Prepared pizza dough Prepared tomato sauce
2 cups fresh grated mozzarella
1/2 cup crumbled feta
1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved
3/4 cup pitted kalamata olives
1 cup drained marinated artichokes Prepared basil pesto
1. Place a pizza stone on a rack in the oven, and heat the oven to 450 degrees.
2. Roll out each dough ball to a 12- to 14-inch round and place on a floured pizza peel. Divide the sauce between the two rounds, ladling evenly over each round and leaving a 1-inch border around each.
3. Sprinkle the mozzarella and feta evenly over the pizzas, and garnish the top of each pie with the tomatoes, olives and artichokes.
4. Gently slide the first pizza on the stone. Bake until the crust is puffed and golden-brown, about 8 to 10 minutes (timing will vary depending on the thickness of the pie and heat of the oven). Remove the pizza and slide the second into the oven. Cool the pizzas slightly, then spoon the pesto over and slice. Serve immediately.
Each of 8 servings: 415 calories; 16 grams protein; 50 grams carbohydrates; 5 grams fiber; 17 grams fat; 6 grams saturated fat; 31 mg. cholesterol; 4 grams sugar; 692 mg. sodium.
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Affordability and augmentative communication are two terms that typically do not ever appear in the same sentence, unless in the negative context (i.e. 'augmentative communication is not affordable'). This belief is one that is generally accepted as the reality of augmentative communication, and assistive technology in general.
The major alternative/augmentative communication (AAC) device makers have long claimed innocence under the argument that it has been their own research and development dollars that have gone into producing these devices. To that end, they need to keep their prices high in order to maintain a high quality product. Although that argument does have its merits, one has to wonder whether a $3,000 or $4,000 communication device is really a justifiable price. In fact, such costs impede any single user from purchasing such a device out-of-pocket. Instead we, as clinicians, and our clients rely on insurers and grants to subsidize the costs that we incur.
Considering all of the years that AAC technology has been out of reach of the mainstream computer market, it is incredible to see that only in the past year or so, some brave companies have stood up to say 'We have a communication solution that's also cheap.' With the advent of such personal computing devices as the iPad, the iPod and tablet PC's, someone made the realization that AAC doesn't necessarily have to be expensive anymore.
One can trace the emergence of today's low cost computing to the surge in popularity of the netbook (those adorable 9 or 10 inch computers that seemed to go mainstream almost instantly). With some very capable low cost touch-screen computers out there, it makes a lot of sense for individual users to put together their own AAC systems for around $500 or $600. The process to create your own device involves buying a touch-screen tablet PC, iPad, or other device and then the associated communication software. The best part of such systems is that they are not dedicated communication devices, meaning the user can access programs aside from the communication software on the system. Whether it is the adult stroke victim or the autistic child, having a variety of applications available (e.g. email, games, word processing, etc.) in addition to communication software is great thing to provide a client with true accessibility.
Of course, there are drawbacks to creating your own AAC device. Such systems would not be paid for by any insurance company, as they are not dedicated devices. In addition, for less tech- savvy users, it may be a bit of challenge to tackle technical issues with your hardware and software coming from different places. Lastly, even $500 may be too much for many individuals paying out-of-pocket. That being said, most of us are already accustomed to paying premium prices for modern computing technology, so the price of a netbook or an iPad seems like a drop in the bucket.
As a software developer and clinician, I know both the technical issues involved with AAC as well as client needs. I feel strongly about providing my clients with communication solutions that work for them, and a lot of the time that means something easy, portable and practical. As speech-language pathologists working in the domain augmentative communication it is our obligation to provide education to our clients regarding all of the options that exist. Do-it-yourself AAC devices may not be for everyone, but they certainly fill a major gap in the market of devices currently available.
José A. Ortiz, M.A.CCC-SLP, is a speech-language pathologist and software developer in Brooklyn, NY. He currently works as a clinician providing Spanish-English services in a variety of settings, including rehabilitation facilities and autism education programs. José is also the owner of PAL Software Designs LLC, a software company that creates products for language professionals. Jose is a dedicated advocate for bilingual education and accessibility to augmentative communication. You can read more from José on his blog.


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Hummel The Complete Collector's Guide and Illustrated Reference by Eric Ehrmann, published in 1976, jacket is rough but the book is intact.
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Merry Wanderer Hummel Figurine, Full Bee Backstamp (1950's), # 11 2/0, 4 1/4". This little gent has a broken corner repair, looks good, he has also lost the end of his umbrella at the hand. Not bad for over 50 years old!
Good Hunting Figurine from Hummel, 1979-91 backstamp, # 307, 5 1/2". Very nice condition.
Happy Birthday Hummel Figurine, very nice condition. 1979-91 backstamp, 5 1/2", #176/0.
Mother's Darling Hummel Figurine, 5 1/2", #175, 1979-91 backstamp. Great condition.
#143/0 5 1/2" Boots Hummel Figurine, great condition. 1979-91 backstamp.
A Fair Measure Hummel Figurine, 5 1/2", #345, 1979-19 backstamp, great condition.
#201-1 5 1/2" 1979-91 backstamp, Signs of Spring in very good condition.
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Chimney Sweep Hummel Figurine. Marked KF40 1979-1991 backstamp. 5 1/4" Nice condition, 2 small paint chips on the ladder.
For Father Hummel Figurine, 5 1/2" 1979-91 backstamp, excellent condition.
Made in Japan, old figuine of fawn with white spots, legs tucked under, long painted eyelashes. About 2 inches hi by 2 inches long.
Norcrest Brown Teddy Bear #BA633, excellent condition. About 3 1/2" tall.
A very pretty figurine of a boy with what appears to be squirrels. The boy is barefoot and has pale yellow hair. There is gold leaf trim and the entire figurine looks pearlescent. It may be porcelain.


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LEWISBURG, Pa. – Six Retrievers earned second-places finishes as the UMBC track and field teams competed at the Bison Opener, Saturday afternoon at Bucknell.
Junior Yao Adantor (Laurel, Md./Reservoir/Morgan St./Maryland) qualified for the IC4A's with a personal-best toss of 15.74m (51'7.75") in the shot put. His distance slots him second on the UMBC all-time record list. The transfer also earned a top-ten finish in the weight throw, claiming ninth (15.23m; 49'11.75"). Junior Cameron McDearmon (Owings Mills, Md./Franklin) led the way for the Retrievers in the event, finishing third with a throw of 17.47m (57' 3.75").
The Retrievers picked up two second place finishes in the jumps as senior Shioma Obemeata (New Rochelle, N.Y./Iona Prep/St. Francis) and junior Mo Drammeh (Frederick, Md./Thomas Johnson) competed in the triple jump and high jump, respectively. Obemeata registered a 14.40m (47' 3.0") leap and Drammeh cleared 1.94m (6' 4.25").
UMBC earned two other top finishes in the distance events. Freshman Redatu Semeon (Waldorf, Md./Thomas Stone) finished the 3,000m run in 9:08.05 with classmate Ben Pickett (Abingdon, Md./John Carroll) just back in fourth place (9:16.36). In the mile, Andrew Keresztes (Port Jefferson, N.Y./Port Jefferson) finished second (4:23.39) with junior Andrew Smith (Chadds Ford, Pa./Chadds Ford) finishing third (4:26.11).
Senior Trae Proctor (Brandywine, Md./Thomas Stone) also picked up a second-place finish, completing the 60m hurdle event in 8.03.
For the women, senior Amanda Deller (Aberdeen, Md./Aberdeen) won both the weight throw and shot put, while sophomores Ebonique Jones (New Castle, Del./New Castle) and Mercedes Jackson (Huntingtown, Md./Huntingtown) each claimed a win, Saturday afternoon at the Bison Opener at Bucknell. Jackson's win in the 60m dash came in a school-record time of 7.47.
Deller, the Most Outstanding Female Field Performer at last year's America East Indoor Championships, won both events in which she participated at Bucknell. The senior opened her year by winning the weight throw with a toss of 15.39m (50'6.0") and then capped it with a win in the shot put with a distance of 13.68m (44'10.75"). Freshman Jennifer Nelson (Plainfield, Conn.) finished seventh in the weight throw with a toss of 13.38m (43'10.75") while Nneoma Edokobi (Rockville, Md.) and Emma Mayne (Mt. Airy, Md./Linganore) placed sixth and tenth in the shot put.
For Jackson, this is the second consecutive season in which she won the 60m dash at Bucknell, and the second year in row in which she did it in school-record time. In her first collegiate meet last year, Jackson lowered the mark to 7.52. After bettering the record to 7.49 at the conference meet last February, the sophomore bested her own time again on Saturday, winning the prelims in 7.48 and then beating the field in Pennsylvania with a time of 7.47 in the finals.
Jones rounded out the wins for the Retrievers, though numerous athletes posted top-five finishes. The versatile sophomore won the long jump, recording a personal-best mark of 5.55m (18'2.5") which leaves her tied for second place in the UMBC record book. She also finished tied for second in the 60m dash (7.76) with teammates Tess Seale and D'Nique Phillip (Elkton, Md.) placing fifth and sixth.
Senior Chowan Brightful (New Market, Md./Linganore) kicked off her final campaign successfully, finishing second in the 60m hurdles (9.16) and tied for third in the high jump (1.55m; 5'1").
In the distance events, sophomores Alyse Gibson (Columbia, Md./Reservoir) and Mary Katherine Kulp (Vestal, N.Y./Vestal) earned top-five finishes. Gibson finished third in the 3,000m run (10:55.33) and Kulp placed fifth in the mile (5:30.72).
The Retrievers placed five in the top-eight in the 500m run, paced by junior Kirsten Jones (Brentwood, Tenn./M.L.K. Magnet) who finished in second (1:18.11). Sophomore Sarah Daly (Lake Orion, Mich./Lake Orion) and Cody Mezebish (Westminster, Md./South Carroll) also placed in the top-five.
Likewise in the 800m, four Retrievers finished in the top-ten with sophomore Paulette Fogle (Washington, D.C./Bishop McNamara) leading the way with a second-place finish (2:25.68). Freshman Lynne Deckel (Lansdale, Pa./North Penn) finished fourth.
The 400m proved fruitful as well with Briana Young (Bowie, Md./Elizabeth Seton) leading a foursome of athletes to finish in the top-ten.
UMBC now has the remainder of the 2012 calendar year off before continuing its indoor schedule on Jan. 5 at the Penn State Relays.


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|Product family
|Game Boy line
|Handheld game console
|Fourth generation
|Retail availability
|March 23, 2003[3]
|Units sold
|Worldwide: 118.69 million (including Game Boy (Play it Loud!), Game Boy Pocket, Game Boy Light and Color units)
|Game Boy cartridges, referred to as Game Paks. The Gameboy had 30hour battery life.
|Sharp LR35902 core @ 4.19 MHz
|Best-selling game
Tetris, 30.26 million (pack-in/separately)
Pokémon Red and Blue, 23.64 million approximately (as of January 18, 2009).[4]
|Game & Watch
Game Boy Pocket (redesign)
Game Boy Light (redesign)
Game Boy Color (successor)[5]
The Game Boy (ゲームボーイ Gēmu Bōi?) is an 8-bit handheld video game device developed and manufactured by Nintendo. It was released in Japan on April 21, 1989 , in North America on July 31, 1989 , and in Europe on September 28, 1990 . It is the first handheld console in the Game Boy line, and was created by Gunpei Yokoi and Nintendo Research & Development 1—the same staff who had designed the Game & Watch series as well as several popular games for the Nintendo Entertainment System.[6] Redesigned versions were released in 1996 and 1998, in the form of Game Boy Pocket, and Game Boy Light (Japan only), respectively.
The Game Boy is Nintendo's second handheld system following the Game & Watch series introduced in 1980, and it combined features from both the Nintendo Entertainment System and Game & Watch.[6] It was originally bundled with the puzzle game Tetris.[7]
As part of the fourth generation of gaming, the Game Boy competed with the Sega Game Gear, Atari Lynx, and the TurboExpress. Despite these other handheld consoles,[8] the Game Boy was a tremendous success. The Game Boy and its successor, the Game Boy Color,[5] have both combined sold 118.69 million units worldwide. Upon its release in the United States, it sold its entire shipment of one million units within a few weeks.[9]
The Game Boy has four operation buttons labeled "A", "B", "SELECT", and "START", as well as a directional pad.[10] There is a volume control dial on the right side of the console and a similar knob on the left side to adjust the contrast.[11] At the top of the Game Boy, a sliding on-off switch and the slot for the Game Boy cartridges are located.[12] Nintendo recommends users leave a cartridge in the slot to prevent dust and dirt from entering the system.[13]
The Game Boy also contains optional input and/or output connectors. On the left side of the system is an external 3.5mm x 1.35mm DC power supply jack that allows users to use an external rechargeable battery pack or AC adapter (sold separately) instead of four AA batteries.[14] The Game Boy requires 6 V DC of at least 150 mA.[15] A 3.5 mm stereo headphone jack is located on the bottom side of the console which allows users to listen to the audio with the bundled headphones or external speakers.[16]
The right-side of the device offers a port which allows a user to connect to another Game Boy system via a link cable, provided both users are playing the same game.[17] The port can also be used to connect a Game Boy Printer. The link cable was originally designed for players to play head-to-head two-player games such as in Tetris. However, game developer Satoshi Tajiri would later use the link cable technology as a method of communication and networking in the popular Pokémon video game series.[18]
Technical specifications
- Technical specifications:[citation needed] CPU Custom 8-bit Sharp LR35902 core at 4.19 MHz. This processor is similar to an Intel 8080 in that none of the registers introduced in the Z80 are present. However, some of the Z80's instruction set enhancements over the stock 8080, particularly bit manipulation, are present. Still other instructions are unique to this particular flavor of Z80 CPU. The core also contains integrated sound generation.
- RAM: 8 kB internal S-RAM (can be extended up to 32 kB)
- Video RAM: 8 kB internal
- ROM: On-CPU-Die 256-byte bootstrap;[19] 256 kb, 512 kb, 1 Mb, 2 Mb, 4 Mb and 8 Mb cartridges
- Sound: 2 pulse wave generators, 1 PCM 4-bit wave sample (64 4-bit samples played in 1×64 bank or 2×32 bank) channel, 1 noise generator, and one audio input from the cartridge.[20] The unit only has one speaker, but headphones provide stereo sound (for further information, see Game Boy music)
- Display: Reflective STN LCD[21] 160 × 144 pixels
- Frame Rate: Approx. 59.7 frames per second on a regular Game Boy, 61.1 on a Super Game Boy[22]
- Vertical Blank Rate: Approx 1.1 ms[22]
- Screen size: 66 mm (2.6 in) diagonal
- Color Palette: 2-bit (4 shades of "gray" {light to very dark olive green})
- Communication: 2 Game Boys can be linked together via built-in serial ports, up to 4 with a DMG-07 4-player adapter.
- Power: 6 V, 0.7 W (4 AA batteries provide 15–30+ hours)[21]
- Dimensions: 90 mm (W) × 148 mm (H) × 32 mm (D) / 3.5″ × 5.8″ × 1.3″[21]
Launch games
|Launch Title
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|Super Mario Land
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Play It Loud!
On January 1, 1995, Nintendo released several Game Boy models with colored cases, advertising them in the "Play It Loud!" campaign[24] (Japanese name: Game Boy Bros. /ゲームボーイブロス/ゲームボーイブラザース). Specifications for this unit remain exactly the same as the original Game Boy, including the monochromatic screen. This new line of colored Game Boys would set a precedent for later Nintendo handhelds; every one of them since has been available in more than one color. Play It Loud! units were manufactured in red, green, black, yellow, white, blue, and clear (transparent) and RAINBOW cases. Most common are the Clear and yellow. Black, Red and green are less common. Blue is scarce and the White was a Japanese only release. White remains the rarest of all the Play it Loud Colours. A rare, limited edition Manchester United Game Boy is red, with the logos of the team emblazoned on it. It was released simultaneously with the Play it Loud! handhelds in the United Kingdom. The Play It Loud's screens also have a darker border than the normal Game Boy.
Game Boy Pocket
In 1996, Nintendo released the Game Boy Pocket: a smaller, lighter unit that requires fewer batteries. It has space for two AAA batteries, which provides approximately 10 hours of game play. Additionally the unit is also fitted with a 3 volt, 2.35mm x 0.75mm DC jack which can be used to power the system. The Pocket has a smaller link port, which requires an adapter to link with the older Game Boy. The port design is used on all subsequent Game Boy models, excluding the Game Boy Micro. The screen was changed to a true black-and-white display, rather than the "pea soup" monochromatic display of the original Game Boy. Also, the Game Boy Pocket (GBP) has a larger screen than the Game Boy Color (GBC) that later superseded it. The GBP's screen has a Script error: No such module "convert". diagonal, Script error: No such module "convert". width, and Script error: No such module "convert". height, compared to a Script error: No such module "convert". diagonal for the GBC. Although, like its predecessor, the Game Boy Pocket has no backlight to allow play in a darkened area, it did notably improve visibility and pixel response-time (virtually eliminating video ghosting). The first version did not have a power LED. This was soon added due to public demand, along with new Game Boy Pocket units of different colors (released on April 28, 1997), some of them new to the Game Boy line. There were several limited-edition Game Boy Pockets including a metallic Ice Blue unit and a pink model exclusive to Japan. The Game Boy Pocket was not a new software platform and played the same software as the original Game Boy model.
Game Boy Light
The Game Boy Light was released on April 14, 1998 for ¥6,800[25] and was only available in Japan. The Game Boy Light is only slightly bigger than the Game Boy Pocket and features an electroluminescent backlight for low-light conditions. It uses 2 AA batteries, which gave it approximately 20 hours with the light off and 12 with it on. It was available in two standard colors, gold and silver, as well as numerous special editions - an Astro Boy edition with a clear case with an Astro Boy picture on it, an Osamu Tezuka World shop edition with a clear red case and a picture of his characters, a solid yellow Pokémon Center Tokyo version, a clear 'skeleton' Famitsu edition which had only 5,000 units released, and a clear yellow edition separate from the Pokémon Center Tokyo version.
In its first two weeks in Japan, from its release on April 21, 1989, the entire stock consisting of 300,000 units was sold; a few months later, the Game Boy's release in the United States on July 31, 1989 saw 40,000 units sold on its first day.[26] The Game Boy and Game Boy Color combined have sold 118.69 million units worldwide, with 32.47 million units in Japan, 44.06 million in the Americas, and 42.16 million in other regions. By Japanese fiscal year 1997, before Game Boy Color's release in late-1998, the Game Boy alone had sold 64.42 million units worldwide.[3][27] At a March 14, 1994 press conference in San Francisco, Nintendo vice president of marketing Peter Main answered queries about when Nintendo was coming out with a color handheld system by stating that sales of the Game Boy were strong enough that they had decided to hold off on developing a successor handheld for the near future.[28]
In 1995, Nintendo of America announced that 46% of Game Boy players were female, which was higher than the percentage of female players for both the Nintendo Entertainment System (29%) and Super Nintendo Entertainment System (14%).[29] In 2009, the Game Boy was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame, 20 years after its introduction.[30] As of June 6, 2011, Game Boy and Game Boy Color games are available on the Virtual Console service on the Nintendo 3DS's Nintendo eShop.[31]
See also
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- List of Game Boy colors and styles
- List of games for the original Game Boy
- Game Boy accessories (description of some selected accessories)
- Game Boy Advance
- Game Boy line
- Microvision, the first handheld to use cartridges
- ^ "retrodiary: 1 April – 28 April". Retro Gamer (Bournemouth: Imagine Publishing) (88): 17. April 2011. ISSN 1742-3155. OCLC 489477015.
- ^ White, Dave (July 1989). "Gameboy Club". Electronic Gaming Monthly (3): 68.
- ^ a b "Consolidated Sales Transition by Region". Nintendo. 2010-01-27. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-02-14. Retrieved 2010-02-14.
- ^ "ELSPA Sales Awards: Platinum". Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association. Archived from the original on 2009-05-15. Retrieved 2009-01-18.
- ^ a b Umezu; Sugino. Nintendo 3DS (Volume 3 – Nintendo 3DS Hardware Concept) (TRANSCRIPT). Interview with Satoru Iwata. Iwata Asks. Nintendo. Retrieved 2013-03-20.
- ^ a b Beuscher, Dave. "allgame ((( Game Boy > Overview )))". Allgame. Retrieved 2008-09-11.
A team headed by Gunpei Yokoi designed the Game Boy. Yokoi had previously designed hand held games for Nintendo with the cartridge based Game & Watch system, introduced in 1980. His staff, called Research and Development (R and D) team #1, had designed the successful NES games Metroid and Kid Icarus. What Yokoi's team did was create a hybrid of the NES and the Game & Watch systems..
- ^ McFerran, Damien. "The Making of Gameboy" (PDF). Issue. Retro Gamer Magazine. pp. 42–47. Retrieved 2011-01-30.
- ^ "AtariAge - Lynx History". AtariAge. Retrieved 2010-08-23.
Released in 1989, the Lynx offered multi-player functionality, 3D graphic capabilities, reversible controls, and a backlit color LCD screen.
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Well, who can blame her? After all, we have tens of millions of seniors living high on Social Security checks averaging a bit over $1,200 a month at a time when folks like the CEOs in the Campaign to Fix the Debt are supposed to subsist on paychecks that typically come to $10 million to $20 million a year.
Anyhow, her main trick for cutting benefits is to adopt the chained consumer price index as the basis for the annual cost of living adjustment. This would have the effect of reducing benefits by 0.3 percentage points for each year of retirement. This means a beneficiary would see a 3 percent cut in benefits after 10 years, a 6 percent cut after 20 years and a 9 percent cut after 30 years. This is real money. Since Social Security is more than half the income for almost 70 percent of retirees and more than 90 percent of the income for 40 percent of retirees, the hit to the affected population would be considerably larger than the hit to the top 2 percent from ending the Bush era tax cuts.
But Marcus insists this cut must be done first and foremost in the name of accuracy, since the chained CPI is supposed to provide a better measure of the cost of living. She notes but quickly dismisses the evidence from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) consumer price index for the elderly (CPI-E), which shows that the rate of inflation seen by the elderly is somewhat higher than the overall rate of inflation.
"The problem with that is twofold. That measure is imperfect — the "E" stands for experimental. And, as the liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities notes, the burden of higher health costs falls unevenly among the elderly. Average costs are skewed upward by a minority who face very high out-of-pocket expenses, a problem better addressed by fixing Medicare to deal with catastrophic costs."
Actually, the "E" stands for elderly, but let's get to the substance. First, if we are interested in accuracy then the answer would seem to be to have the BLS construct a full elderly index that tracked the actual consumption patterns of the elderly. This would cost some additional money, but we will be indexing $10 trillion in Social Security benefits over the next decade so if we want to ensure accuracy, it would seem reasonable to spend $70-$80 million to put together a full elderly index that actually tracked the consumption patterns of the elderly, looking at the specific outlets where they shopped and the items that they purchased.
It is difficult to know exactly what this would show, but it is possible that even apart from the issue of health care it would show that the elderly experience a higher rate of inflation than the population as a whole. The current index already assumes substantial amounts of substitution in response to price changes at lower levels of aggregation (e.g. different types of cell phones). If the elderly are less flexible in their shopping patterns and a less mobile population then this substitution may have the effect of understating the increase in their cost of living.
The point about health care misunderstands the way the consumer price index is calculated. The index is an average index, which weights expenditures by dollars rather than households. While the health care case may suggest that a small minority is pulling costs up, it is also likely that a small minority is pulling costs down. The vast majority of the population does not buy a new car in a given year. Yet this item, which has barely risen in cost over the last decade according to the BLS, accounts for more than 3 percent of the weight of the index. This means that new car purchases by a small and relatively wealthy segment of the population have had the effect of reducing the measured rate of inflation over this period.
This issue arises with many other items as well. The BLS makes a point of quickly including new items (e.g. the latest cell phone or tablet computer) in the index to capture their period of most rapid price decline. Since these items will generally be expensive when they are first introduced, they will disproportionately be consumed by wealthier households and likely under-consumed by the elderly.
This provides reason to believe that the CPI understates the cost of living of the typical household and especially the typical elderly household, but Marcus is only interested in finding reasons why there might be an overstatement. There is also the obvious point with health care which is that most elderly households in most years will not have large health care expenses, but that doesn't mean that at some point in their retirement that most elderly households will not see large health care expenses. That is the point of an index that picks up averages.
Marcus's argument that this is:
"a problem better addressed by fixing Medicare to deal with catastrophic costs," is intriguing. When exactly do we anticipate that Congress is going to fix Medicare to deal with catastrophic costs?
The story here is pretty simple. If we want a more accurate index for adjusting Social Security benefits then we would have BLS construct a full elderly index. If the point is to cut benefits then we would do what Marcus advocates and switch to a chained CPI. That will teach those high living seniors.


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Japanese ambassador to Italy meets Montezemolo: "Thank you for what Ferrari has done in Japan"
Maranello 24 October – Today Japanese ambassador Masaharu Kohno met Ferrari Chairman Luca di Montezemolo.
The embassador, accompanied by his wife, visited the Ferrari village and saw some of the recent models, especially the new 458 Spider and the FF. Khono wanted to thank the Ferrari Chairman for the generosity and the effort shown by the manufacturer from Maranello on the occasion of the tragic events, which had involved Japan, selling some shirts signed by the Scuderia drivers at an auction last July and especially for auctioning off the first FF, which will arrive in Japan. The more than 500 million Euro collected will be donated to the city of Ishinomaki, which was severely hit by the earthquake, where the money will be used to build a youth centre.
Chairman Montezemolo reminded of the strong connection between Ferrari, himself and Japan, a country where the cars from the Prancing Horse are especially loved and where numerous fans follow Formula 1. Embassador Kohno had the possibility to drive an FF and test a 458 Spider on the Fiorano race track next to the legendary Ferrari test driver Dario Benuzzi.


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The digital era has profoundly altered the way news is produced and distributed, confounding traditional library strategies for ensuring the survival of this critical type of historical evidence. As mobile and web technologies become the primary channels for news distribution, and electronic databases supplant print and microfilm, the role that libraries play in supporting scholarly access to news is changing. In the digital environment, building and maintaining "collections of record" no longer ensures adequate and persistent access to news content for scholars.
On Thursday, June 27, in conjunction with the ALA Annual Meeting in Chicago, CRL held a Global Resources Roundtable, "Beyond the Fold: Access to News in the Digital Era." The event provided an opportunity for collection development and subject specialists from CRL libraries to explore current publishing practices and new scholarly uses of news content, and to help formulate cooperative library strategies to support those uses.
9:00–9:45 a.m.
Keynote Presentation
- Pioneers in Mining Electronic News for Research
Kalev Leetaru, University Fellow, University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science
9:45–10:15 a.m.
- Use of Traditional News Databases in Libraries: Trends and Implications
Debora Cheney, Larry and Ellen Foster Communications Librarian, Pennsylvania State University Libraries
10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Session 1: Print
- Legacy Collections in Major Research Libraries: Recent Developments
James Simon, Director of International Resources, CRL
- The ICON Database of Newspapers: New Tools for Collection Management
Amy Wood, Head, Technical Services, CRL
- Legal Deposit Considerations for the "Paper of Record" in the Post-print Era
Bernie Reilly, President, CRL
- Discussion and Commentary: A Plausible Strategy for Digitization and Archiving of Physical Collections
1:15–2:30 p.m.
Session 2: Broadcast
- Comparative Analysis of Broadcast Coverage in LexisNexis, Factiva, Access World News, and Other Databases
James Simon, CRL
- Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Connie Dowell, Dean of Libraries, Vanderbilt University
Jody Combs, Associate Dean of Libraries, Vanderbilt University
- UCLA's Broadcast NewsScape
Sharon Farb, Associate University Librarian for Collection Management and Scholarly Communication, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Todd Grappone, Associate University Librarian for Digital Initiatives & Information Technology, UCLA
- Discussion: Prospects for Greater Leveraging, Supporting and Exploiting of Independent Broadcast Archiving Efforts
2:45–4:00 p.m.
Session 3: Web
- Production and Distribution of Electronic News: Technology and Preservation Challenges
Megan Bernal, Associate Director for Library Information & Discovery Systems, DePaul University
- The "Chronicles in Preservation" Project and Born-digital Activities at University of North Texas
Mark Phillips, Assistant Dean for Digital Libraries, University of North Texas
- Migration of International News Content to the Web: Trends and Practices
James Simon, CRL
- Discussion: Strategies for Comprehensive Capture of Web News
4:00–4:30 p.m.
Outline of a Cooperative Agenda
Background Report:
Preserving News in the Digital Environment: Mapping the Newspaper Industry in Transition
This new report maps the "lifecycle" of news content and information published in newspapers and online. It provides an overview of news workflow and production systems, suggesting strategies for libraries to preserve news in electronic formats.
Outline for an Agenda for North American Libraries based on the report from the Center for Research Libraries "Preserving News in the Digital Environment."


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Election fatigue? 6 spots to stick your head in the sand
By Michael Luongo, Special to CNN • Updated 3rd November 2012
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Blaring ads, arguments with co-workers, family and (former) Facebook friends. The cold nip in the air is already driving you over the edge, but presidential elections really make you want to bury your head in the sand.
No need to flee the country without voting. The
State Department
and the
Federal Voting Assistance Program
offer guidance for U.S. citizens. But if you don't want to hear any more about it after that, a warm weather getaway might be just the ticket.
If the elections don't go your way, hold onto this list. These places are great ex-pat havens.
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is one of the most remote island chains in the world, a place where the peaceful lifestyle, luscious green mountains and deep blue waters fed the muses of painter Paul Gauguin, writer James Michener and many others.
Patricia Schultz
, author of "1000 Places to See Before You Die," recently returned from French Polynesia's Tahiti, where she especially loved the island of Bora Bora.
Even more places to see before you die
"It takes about a minute to know it's the place to effortlessly drop off the map," she said via e-mail. "Everyone greets you with 'Ia orana' - hello - and wears large, luscious flowers in their hair."
Schultz stayed in luxury at the
Four Seasons
, but she said there are ways to see Tahiti more affordably by staying on the outer island Huahine, for example, where "tourism has been blessedly slow to arrive. Captain Cook might still recognize it."
Isla Holbox, Mexico
Mexico has long been an escape valve for Americans fleeing politics.
Travel journalist Karen Catchpole and photographer Eric Mohl, an American couple whose website
Trans-Americas Journey
describes their ongoing six-year pan-American odyssey, recommend
Isla Holbox
, near Cancun, famed for its flamingo-filled lagoon.
"This car-free island is the place to flee and literally kick off your shoes. It's entirely possible to spend your time on the island barefoot," Catchpole wrote in an e-mail.
"The beach is perfect for long, lonely strolls and a surprisingly large Italian ex-pat community means the food is top-notch, particularly at Los Pelicanos, which served up some of the best Italian food we had during the 18 months we spent traveling in Mexico."
One top-rated lodging choice is tranquil
Casa Sandra
, a 17 room boutique hotel.
Phuket, Thailand
hosted Leonardo DiCaprio's deserted island experience in the 2000 movie "The Beach."
Phuket's beaches offer nice temperatures in November without the crush of tourist season's peak and neighboring "James Bond Island" is just one more step removed from the rest of the world. The island near Phuket, which is really called Ko Khao Phing Kan or Nail Island, was used as a setting for "The Man With the Golden Gun."
Plus, the Phuket area is easy for foreigners, according to Pichaya Saisaengchan, an assistant director for the Tourism Authority of Thailand. "It's one of the very few provinces, including Bangkok, where locals speak English." One famous ex-pat is political film director Oliver Stone.
The place is truly magical, say those in the know. "When you put a seashell up to your ear in Phuket, you hear angels sing," said Michael Aumock, an American working for vacation home company 3rd Home. "With impossibly clear blue water, great food, friendly locals and a strong exchange rate, I don't know why anyone would go anywhere else.
Face your fears through travel
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Perhaps no other city has as beautiful a setting as
Rio de Janeiro
, with its forest-covered mountains and calm, sandy beaches.
"Rio in November is the perfect recipe to forget about the elections and enjoy a relaxed vacation. There's the traditional Brazilian food, excellent weather conditions, nonstop flights from most major U.S. cities for a reasonable price," said South America travel specialist Sandra Borello, owner of
Borello Travel
Head to Belle Époque-era cafe
Confeitaria Colombo
, where Borello recommends "ordering a caipirinha or two, to make you feel like a real Carioca, a native of Rio." Reasonable hotel chains include
Golden Tulip
Blue Tree
, or splurge at the
Copacabana Palace
You won't run into your neighbor on the beach in
, a mostly off-the-radar Caribbean getaway that mixes an island lifestyle with a liberal Dutch attitude. While November might be high hurricane season for most of the region, the island is out of the range of these tropical tempests, untouched by one in almost 160 years.
There are more than 40 beaches lining its shores, along with about 60 diving spots, where visitors can see more than 600 species of fish in one of the Caribbean's healthiest marine environments. The streets of capital Willemstad are lined with Dutch colonial architecture swathed in palm trees: Imagine an Amsterdam bursting with tropical Miami Beach colors.
If you're fleeing the elections, the locals completely empathize. They just held the first of their own in October as a newly autonomous country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, so they'll understand how you feel right now.
Costa Rica
Costa Rica
offers mountains, jungles and two coasts of beaches, on the Atlantic and Pacific.
Jersey Shore native and former travel book publishing industry executive Megan Kennedy moved here and teaches English at Universidad Nacional Costa Rica in Nicoya and lives nearby in
Playa Sámara
, on the Pacific. Kennedy said she follows U.S. elections with "a little distance from the noise, but I'm still concerned about democracy and the direction my country is headed."
Her new home is "an incredibly beautiful spot, with a gorgeous beach, zip-lining, horseback riding, howler monkeys, cows and horses roaming the street."
Her community also has tourist amenities, "but we're not overrun with chain restaurants and American-ized ideals of vacation. There's a mix of tourists from around the world, plus locals, which allows for interesting discussions!"
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