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Juan Tintos, longtime ""Tourism Official for Baja California Norte, on Wednesday backed legislation creating a special California driver's license to help speed up wait times at border crossings, saying the economies of both states would benefit.
"Let us continue to build bridges that will unite us and not walls that will divide us," Baja California Tourism Secretary Juan Tintos urged in his testimony to California lawmakers.
Sen. Ben Hueso, D-San Diego, is carrying legislation that would initiate a voluntary "enhanced drivers license" for California residents who frequently visit Mexico. The licenses would be embedded with technology that allows border agents to use scanners to read information from a distance, thereby helping move vehicle traffic through the "ready lanes" more quickly.
Without discussion, the Assembly Appropriations Committee postponed a final vote until later this month. Although license applicants would pay an extra fee to cover costs, the Department of Motor Vehicles estimates that launching the program will take $4.5 million.
Business interests say the excruciating often hours-long waits cost millions of dollars in commerce by discouraging cross-border trips for recreation, shopping and dining.
"I am certain this will strengthen our relationship and economic ties," Tintos said in his testimony,
In a later interview, Tintos said Baja California is enjoying one of its best tourism summers in a decade — up about 25 percent — as security fears ease and the region's economy rebounds.
Its destinations also saw business drop off when the U.S. began requiring a passport for re-entry, which caused "people to think twice," he said. The drug cartel wars also scared away visitors.
"We have made a great deal of progress on our side," he said.
The California tourist dollar flows back to the state when Baja California residents visit San Diego area shops, restaurants and parks, Tintos said.
Hueso said studies indicate that California's economy loses about $1.3 billion a year because of congestion at ports of entry. Wait times now average 70 minutes and at peak congestion it can take three hours to cross.
"We should ask ourselves: 'Why are we not doing this?'," Hueso said.
Jose Larroque, representing the Smart Border Coalition, told lawmakers: "The border is not only an incredible economic engine, it is also the gateway that allows ties among our communities — the flow of relations in health, education, culture and family."
If signed into law, California would become the first state bordering Mexico to offer such a program. Several states adjacent to Canada already provide a similar license to about 100,000 drivers.
Tintos said Arizona and Texas are looking to implement a similar program.
By acting now, Baja California and the state of California will have an edge, he said. "We've got to take the lead," Tintos said.
License applicants would have to be eligible of a U.S. passport, undergo rigorous security checks and pay more.
There was no opposition voiced at the committee. But privacy advocates have expressed concerns that the license could expose drivers to identity theft and government tracking because the readers are commercially available.
Gov. Jerry Brown has not taken a position on Senate Bill 397.""
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The Great Game, 1856–1907 presents a new view of the British-Russian competition for dominance in Central Asia in the second half of the nineteenth century. Evgeny Sergeev offers a complex and novel point of view by synthesizing official collections of documents, parliamentary papers, political pamphlets, memoirs, contemporary journalism, and guidebooks from unpublished and less studied primary sources in Russian, British, Indian, Georgian, Uzbek, and Turkmen archives. His efforts amplify our knowledge of Russia by considering the important influences of local Asian powers.
Ultimately, this book disputes the characterization of the Great Game as a proto–Cold War between East and West. By relating it to other regional actors, Sergeev creates a more accurate view of the game's impact on later wars and on the shape of post–World War I Asia.
Evgeny Sergeev is a professor of history and head of the Twentieth Century: Socio-Political and Economic Problems Center at the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of World History. He is author of Russian Military Intelligence in the War with Japan, 1904–05: Secret Operations on Land and at Sea. He was a scholar with the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute in 2006.
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Introduction: Reconsidering Anglo-Russian Relations in Asia
1. The Prologue of the Great Game
2. Russia's Challenge and Britain's Response, 1856–1864
3. The Road to the Oxus, 1864–1873
4. The Climax of the Great Game, 1874–1885
5. Strategic Stalemate, 1886–1903
6. The End of the Game
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Appendix: A Nominal Roll of the Rulers, Statesmen, Diplomats, and Military Officers Engaged in the Great Game, 1856–1907
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Notso Special Rollcage Build - Caging the Beast
The Notso Special Goes All Race Car On Us
Up to this point in the build, the Notso Special has been a fairly straightforward hot rod build, if you discount the sections of rollcage structure already in place. With the bodywork sorted, I could now move onto fabricating the remainder of the 'cage.
Back in January at the Grand National Roadster Show, a discussion with Craig Morrison of Art Morrison Enterprises about the project resulted in the offer to have the company build the "Funny Car" section of the cage. The first order of business then was to fabricate a jig/pattern, from which Art Morrison Enterprises could make the cage. With this duly made and shipped off to their facility in Washington, I eagerly awaited the delivery of a bunch of bent tubing, followed by assembling the cage on top of the tubing I'd already installed. Knowing where the vertical tubes of the Funny Car cage intersected the shoulder tube, I could then make and install the vertical tubing and diagonals from here to the chassis. Clear so far?
Armed with a number of 20-foot lengths of 1 5/8-inch 0.134-inch wall tubing (though the minimum wall thickness required by SCTA is 0.120 inch), I set about bending and notching all the tubes to meet the SCTA rulebook requirements, tack-welding the structure together. If you plan on doing something similar, don't underestimate the time it takes. I built a Pro Street Anglia with a cage some 23 years ago, and vowed never to do another, yet here I am! You've probably gathered by now that I like to do as much of the work as possible on my projects myself; however, while I can TIG weld, I wouldn't say I'm proficient enough to weld a rollcage, which after all, is responsible for saving a life in the event of an accident.
With this in mind, I hauled the tacked-together chassis/cage over to Circle City Hot Rods, where owner Jimmy White spent eight solid hours welding it all together, while I carefully ground off my MIG weld tacks and re-cleaned all the joints as he went. Fun stuff! The finished chassis was then taken to the Source Interlink Tech Center where I can now set about final assembly. No more tedious tube notching for me, thank goodness!


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Winning The Future – TogetherMarch 31, 2011
Mike Masserman is the director of the Office of Advisory Committees and oversees the President's Export Council, the Manufacturing Council and 18 other advisory committees.
Greetings from the Local 597 pipefitters training facility outside of Chicago where I'm joined by leaders from labor, academia, business and government to talk about trade, jobs and the 21st century American workforce. Specifically, we're here for a President's Export Council (PEC) Workforce Readiness summit hosted by William Hite, General President of the United Association of Plumbers, Pipefitters, Sprinklerfitters and HVAC/R Service Technicians. The purpose of this session is to discuss how America's workforce can increasingly become an enabling factor in meeting the President's goal of the National Export Initiative to double our nation's exports over the next few years supporting millions of jobs. We'll be looking at initiatives that can be scaled up nationally and will focus on a number of areas including apprenticeship programs, the crucial role of community colleges and reaching underserviced parts of the workforce. Other advisory committees, like the Manufacturing Council are working on similar issues so please be on the lookout for future updates on their recommendations. We look forward to more opportunities where the public and private sector come together to figure out new and innovative ways to create the jobs of tomorrow and further strengthen the American economy.


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Researchers discovered genetic evidence that human evolution is speeding up – and has not halted or proceeded at a constant rate, as had been thought – indicating that humans on different continents are becoming increasingly different.
"We used a new genomic technology to show that humans are evolving rapidly, and that the pace of change has accelerated a lot in the last 40,000 years, especially since the end of the Ice Age roughly 10,000 years ago," says research team leader Henry Harpending, a distinguished professor of anthropology at the University of Utah.
Harpending says there are provocative implications from the study, published online Monday, Dec. 10 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences:
-- "We aren't the same as people even 1,000 or 2,000 years ago," he says, which may explain, for example, part of the difference between Viking invaders and their peaceful Swedish descendants. "The dogma has been these are cultural fluctuations, but almost any temperament trait you look at is under strong genetic influence."
-- "Human races are evolving away from each other," Harpending says. "Genes are evolving fast in Europe, Asia and Africa, but almost all of these are unique to their continent of origin. We are getting less alike, not merging into a single, mixed humanity." He says that is happening because humans dispersed from Africa to other regions 40,000 years ago, "and there has not been much flow of genes between the regions since then."
"Our study denies the widely held assumption or belief that modern humans [those who widely adopted advanced tools and art] appeared 40,000 years ago, have not changed since and that we are all pretty much the same. We show that humans are changing relatively rapidly on a scale of centuries to millennia, and that these changes are different in different continental groups."
The increase in human population from millions to billions in the last 10,000 years accelerated the rate of evolution because "we were in new environments to which we needed to adapt," Harpending adds. "And with a larger population, more mutations occurred."


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BALTIMORE – Senior outside hitter Ali Goc (Oshawa, Ontario/R.S. McLaughlin) tallied her team-leading 12th double-double of the season by sending down a match-best 18 kills and picking up 15 digs as the UMBC volleyball team took out America East rival Binghamton in four sets (25-20, 24-26, 31-29, 25-23), Friday evening at the RAC Arena.
With the win, UMBC (15-9, 6-3 AE) earns a season split with Binghamton (6-17, 4-5 AE) after the Bearcats defeated the Retrievers in five sets less than three weeks ago in New York. The victory also sends the Retrievers into a tie for second in the league standings along with Albany and Stony Brook.
Goc's 18 winners led a diverse UMBC attack as senior Mallory McIntyre (Winnipeg, Manitoba/St. Mary's Academy) handed out 57 assists and five Retrievers recorded 11 or more kills. Junior Hannah Schmidt (Catonsville, Md./Mount de Sales) joined Goc and McIntyre by recording a double-double with 11 kills and 11 digs.
Coming off the bench for the first time this season, freshman defensive specialist Casey Griffith (King of Prussia, Pa./Upper Merion) led the Retriever back line with 20 digs while senior libero Hallie Carter (Huntington Beach, Calif./Edison) picked up 14 digs.
Reigning America East Rookie of the Week Allison Hovie paced the Bearcats with a double-double of her own registering 16 kills and 12 digs. Setter Amanda Dettmann nearly equaled her counterpart, McIntyre, by sending out 54 assists.
Overall, the Retrievers outhit the Bearcats (.275-.184) while also out-blocking their foes, 10.0-7.0.
The match was tight throughout as the teams traded the lead 21 total times and were tied on 43 occasions. The first set was just the tip of the iceberg as the two teams continuously answered each other's runs. The hosts looked to be on their way to a comfortable first-set win as a Bearcat attack error gave them a 20-12 lead. BU answered with a 5-1 lead trimming the lead to four, 21-17, but UMBC salted the set away, and took the initiative with a 25-20 set win.
UMBC came out strong in the second set, winning the first five points, and then answered a 4-0 Binghamton run with three straight of its own for an 8-4 advantage. The Bearcats would not go away, however, and took the lead, 11-10, on a kill by Hovie. The Retrievers responded immediately, winning seven of nine points, the last on a kill by Goc, to retake the lead 17-13. Again BU would not go quietly, this time staving off a Retriever set point and eventually leveling the match with a 26-24 set win.
The third set was the closest of all as the teams were tied on 22 occasions as the frame went extra. The visitors earned the first set point, 24-23, on a kill by Hovie, but neither side could put the frame away until the Retrievers ran off three straight after trailing 29-28, and took the set win, 31-29, when sophomores Krystal Mlemchukwu (Baltimore, Md./Western Tech) and Sherelle Walker (New Freedom, Pa./Susquehannock) combined for a block.
In the fourth set, UMBC jumped out to another lead and never trailed as they finished off the victory by holding off the Bearcats, 25-23. Walker and senior Emily Witsaman (Medina, Ohio/Medina) put down five kills apiece in the frame with Goc and Mlemchukwu each earning four winners.
UMBC now closes out its 2013 regular season home schedule with its Senior Day match on Sunday against Albany. The Retrievers and Great Danes will take the court following a ceremony at 2:00 p.m. at the RAC Arena.
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- UMBC and Binghamton have split the season series each of the past two seasons, but the Bearcats still lead the all-time series 16-11.
- McIntyre dished out 18 assists in the first set alone.
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On 12-07-2012 at about 0800 hours, Humboldt County Drug Task Force and the Rio Dell Police assisted the California State Department of Justice/ Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement with a search warrant at a residence located in the 1000 block of Riverside Drive, Rio Dell. Officers detained a subject, who lived at the residence and was identified as Nikolai Kaley Erickson age 37. When officers searched the residence they located 279 individual one pound bags of processed marijuana bud. Additionally another approximately 40 pounds of loose marijuana bud were located in the residence inside of pickle barrels. Officers seized $12,482 dollars in cash from the residence for possible asset forfeiture.
Erickson was arrested for possession of marijuana for sales and was transported to the Humboldt County Correctional Facility in Eureka. Erickson's bail was set at $ 75,000 dollars. At the same time that officers were serving a search warrant at Erickson's residence in Rio Dell, Humboldt County Drug Task Force Agents assisted California State Department of Justice Officers with a search warrant at two parcels located off Bear Creek Road, Dinsmore which are owned by Erickson.
At the property in Dinsmore, officers located evidence of an outdoor marijuana growing operation. Officers detained 9 subjects, who told officers they were hired by Erickson to help manicure the marijuana. Officers seized over 377 pounds of dried marijuana bud from the property. The nine subjects were identified and release from the scene. A street value of the marijuana seized in this investigation is over one million dollars.
This case is still under investigation by the State of California Department of Justice/ Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement.
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Remember all of that talk about Alfa Romeo switching entirely to rear-wheel drive? That reason, of course, justifying the launch of new mainstream cars being pushed back some more agonizing years. Well, Alfa may be getting a new rear-drive platform, but it isn't abandoning its old ways entirely. Oh, and new cars aren't coming any faster, either.
This is all according to Automotive News Europe and an extensive timetable sources say is what Sergio Marchionne is currently working with in order to resuscitate Alfa and make it a BMW competitor.
The 3-sized Giulia – originally supposed to be related to next year's new Chrysler 200 – is going rear-wheel drive on a platform being engineered at Maserati headquarters by a former Ferrari development boss.
In addition to underpinning future Chrysler 300s and Dodge Chargers and Challengers, that platform is slated for a long-delayed 5-series rival and successor to the long-dead, front-wheel drive 166. Something reportedly being considered are two new coupes to go after the 4 and 6-series, respectively.
But further down the range, Alfa apparently hasn't ceded the front-wheel drive programs like we were hoping. Instead, there are new MiTos and Giuliettas planned after all. And at least one of Alfa's SUVs will share the basis with a front-wheel drive Jeep.
Still, don't hold your breath for these yet-to-be-confirmed product plans, as there likely won't be a Giulia for you to buy in a Fiat dealership before 2016.
At least the most exciting pieces of the U.S.-bound Alfa Romeo lineup haven't changed. The 4C is here and the Miata-twinned Spider is coming in 2015. And both with rear-wheel drive, if you're keeping score.
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Michael Phelps praises Missy Franklin for maintaining her energy
OMAHA — After Michael Phelps ended his "last race on American soil" with his win in the 100 butterfly Sunday night, he saved his highest praise for Centennial's Missy Franklin, who qualified for four individual events and says will swim a U.S. female-record seven Olympic events in London.
"She was always running back and forth," Phelps said. "The biggest thing when you swim events like that is really controlling your energy, both emotionally and physically. Because a week like that there are so many warm downs and warmups and recovery. It takes a lot out of you. She seemed to do a great job.
"I think she was in the ice tub right after me the other night. She asked me how it was and I think my toes were cold for about an hour after I got out. I'm sure she felt the same way.
"But she's on top of things. It's going to be amazing for her to be able to come back in a couple weeks and do the same thing if not better."


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Relatively few people are university presidents, as well as directors of major corporations. Few of these hold advanced degrees in philos-ophy, theology, and business administration. Fewer still are also nationally recognized commentators on business ethics. Of those, only a handful are civic leaders. And almost none are ordained priests.
Raymond C. Baumhart, S.J., is all six. He is:
• President of Loyola University of Chicago. Loyola's four campuses, 10 schools, and 15,000 students make it one ol the largest Catholic universi-ties in the world.
• A director, and chairman of the audit committee, of Jewel Compa-nies, Inc., a $3.7 billion food retailer, and a director of the Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company, the largest bank in Chicago.
• A member of the executive committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago, a 103-year-old institution whose 400 members constitute a who's who of Chicago industry, commerce, and finance.
• A scholar, author, and commentator who has received widespread recognition for his views on ethical behavior in the modern corporation.
On this sunny spring day, Father Baumhart has a schedule which will require him to wear most of his many hats, His work day begins as it will end, with a meeting.
For the first two hours, the stocky, silver-haired priest presides over a meeting of the President's Coordinating Council, which embraces Loyola's top academic and administrative officers. Comprised of acade-micians, business-types, and Jesuit priests, the council mixes boardroom jargon with an easy informality.
Detailed reports cover the trend in student enrollments ("gratifyingly up"), plans for receiving a visiting delegation of Jesuits ("I think we need to show them a broader profile of ourselves"), and student job place-ments ("Did I hear you say that he got an entry level spot at $23,000 on the strength of a bachelor's in computer sciences?").
Through it all. Father Baumhart spreads the conversational load and
Father Raymond Baumhart, the president of Loyola University of Chicago, crosses Loyola's Lake Shore campus.


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As winter approaches, campsites quickly fill up at The Springs at Borrego RV Resort and Golf Course in eastern San Diego County, Calif.
The 90-site low desert resort, located minutes from the scenic grandeur of Anza Borrego State Park, is a popular winter nesting ground for Snow Birds from all over the Pacific Northwest and Canada.
"We would love to build another 110 sites and think we could do so for about $1.2 million," said Dan Wright, the park's general manager.
Trouble is, Wright can't get a loan. "Everyone we have talked to tells us that financing for RV park construction and development is non-existent at this time," said Wright, who also serves as president of the California Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds (CalARVC).
The problem isn't limited to RV parks and resorts. Despite the billions of dollars in bailout funds that the Bush and Obama administrations have provided to the banking industry during the past year to make credit more available, bank financing remains difficult for any small business to obtain, according to the National Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds (ARVC).
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke acknowledged the problem last month in a widely quoted speech to the Economic Club of New York, in which he stated that banks' continuing reluctance to lend is "limiting the ability of some businesses to expand and hire," effectively delaying the nation's economic recovery.
From Wright's perspective, the banks' unwillingness to lend to profitable businesses is costing millions in lost revenue, not only for his business, but for the community of Borrego Springs, whose restaurants, stores and fuel stations depend to varying degrees on the snowbirds who spend the winter at his RV resort.
"We track every reservation request that we cannot fill," Wright said. "Since the beginning of 2008, we have turned away over 8,000 nights' worth of business due to a shortage of campsites. But even with numbers like these, lenders still can't bring themselves to provide us with a loan. It makes no sense."
Ken Jeffries, one of the owners of Angels Camp RV & Camping Resort in Angels Camp, in the Sierra Nevada foothills, is facing a similar scenario. The park, with 63 RV sites, 14 tent sites, five cabins and a camp office and store, is in desperate need of expansion to accommodate growing numbers of camping enthusiasts. In fact, between Jan. 1 and July 29 of this year, the park had to decline 513 nightly reservations for lack of space, Jeffries said. But despite the obviously strong demand for campsites at the park, the owners have not been able to obtain even a relatively small loan.
"We need $50,000 to put in 19 more campsites, but the banks are real tight for some reason," Jeffries said. "The interest rates are down, but they won't loan any money. Of course, it doesn't do any good to have low interest rates if they won't loan the money. I feel the small business man is being squeezed terribly."
Frustrated with the lack of credit, Jeffries and his partners are paying for his park's expansion on their own. "We're taking the money out of our own pocket and are doing the expansion ourselves," he said. "It's very difficult to do this, but we have no choice. We're losing business by not expanding our park."
Harriette Groth, co-owner of SunBasin RV Park in Ephrata, Wash., said she also is losing business because she has not been able to obtain the $350,000 to $450,000 in loans she needs to make needed improvements to her park. She'd like to put in more campsites, create more pull-through sites, and build a new bathhouse and showerhouse, but can't find lenders willing to refinance her existing loan and provide her with capital for improvements, let alone provide her with a second loan for improvements. As a result, her improvements are limited to relatively minor cosmetic improvements, such as new signage and landscaping.
John Grant, owner of Park Brokerage Inc., a San Diego company that specializes in RV park sales, said the scarcity of loans is hard for RV park and campground operators to swallow, particularly given the resiliency of the camping business during the recession. "All businesses need access to capital to expand, to improve their facilities. But there's just no commercial real estate capital available for RV parks and campgrounds," he said.
Ed Mayer, who has developed four successful RV resorts in Florida in the past six years using the Elite Resorts of America brand name, said he is now seeking financing from private investment groups after failing to obtain loans from conventional lenders. "Everybody is scrambling to find money," he said. "I've dealt with small banks, medium banks and large banks and I'm getting the same answer across the spectrum."
Mayer said many lenders simply have no experience working with the RV industry and don't want to take any chances investing in a market segment with which they have little or no experience, despite the financial successes RV parks and resorts have enjoyed throughout the recession. He conceded, however, that while there are many successful, high quality RV parks and resorts across the country that are worthy of loans, there also continue to be sizeable numbers of neglected parks. "Some RV parks are in the hands of people trying to get out of the industry and they've allowed their parks to deteriorate," he said.


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Mylanta is the brand name of an over-the-counter (OTC) drug used to treat heartburn and upset stomach.
Mylanta belongs to group of drugs known as antacids, which neutralize stomach acid.
The medication contains a combination of aluminum hydroxide and magnesium hydroxide.
Mylanta products that also relieve painful gas, such as Mylanta Regular Strength, contain simethicone.
You can also buy a generic form of aluminum hydroxide and magnesium hydroxide, the antacid ingredients in Mylanta.
There are versions of Mylanta that contain other ingredients. For example, Mylanta Supreme contains calcium as well as antacid and anti-gas ingredients.
You should not take Mylanta if:
Do not take Mylanta within two hours of another drug, since Mylanta can interfere with absorption of other medications.
Mylanta is a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Pregnancy Category B drug, meaning animal studies indicate there is no risk to a fetus, but there are no human studies showing it's safe for an unborn baby.
If you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant, talk with your doctor before taking Mylanta and never take high doses or large amounts of it.
Since Mylanta passes into breast milk, talk to your doctor before taking it if you are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed.
It's always important to share with your doctor and pharmacist all of the medications you are taking.
This includes prescriptions medications, over-the-counter (OTC) drugs, vitamins and nutritional supplements (nutritional shakes, protein powders, etc.), herbal remedies, and any illegal or recreational drugs.
You should not take Mylanta if you are taking sodium citrate.
Medications that have serious interactions with Mylanta include the following:
You should avoid or limit drinking alcohol while taking Mylanta.
It's not clear whether grapefruit interacts with Mylanta, so it's best to avoid eating grapefruit or drinking grapefruit juice while taking the medication.
Adults and children age 12 and older can take 2 to 4 teaspoons of Liquid Mylanta Regular Strength between meals and at bedtime, or as your doctor prescribes.
You should never take more than 24 teaspoons of Mylanta within 24 hours.
Doses and safe maximum amounts of various Mylanta products vary, so read labels carefully or ask your doctor or pharmacist for direction.
If you suspect an overdose, you should contact a poison control center or emergency room immediately.
You can get in touch with a poison control center at (800) 222-1222.
Mylanta should only be taken when you need it, so missing a dose shouldn't be an issue.
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I must say, I LOVE the correctional facility option. In my younger days I did see patients at a prison clinic, but don't remember a drug rep ever calling there. Yesterday I asked several reps, and none of them had ever heard of it, either.
Since I'm able to fill out this survey, I have to assume they don't think I'm the one in jail. Which leaves just one option. And I'm not driving down to the hoosegow to visit a rep.*
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Thursday, January 15, 2009
The economics major in a liberal education
For undergraduate studies in the US, having an economics major does not mean that you are an economist. Typically, out of four years of study, little more than a year has actually been devoted to economics. This contrasts with most programs abroad where students concentrate on their major from the get-go. This is a reflection of different attitudes towards education, the US prefering a flexible, general education and, say, Europe favoring a specialized, but more rigid schooling.
Quite obviously, it then becomes difficult to claim that US economics undergraduates have reached their potential. There was simply not enough time to get them there. This is why graduate studies are nowadays essential to become a professional economist. But Colander and McGoldrick do not call for more depth in the major, rather for more breadth. Their point is that a well-rounded undergraduate education should not focus on research questions, but rather teaching questions. The latter are like "is capitalism good?", "should we accept consumer sovereignty?", or "what size should government have?" Faculty are too focussed on their research to address such questions.
I have no problem with addressing these questions in class, but I do not because there is too little time to address them. As Colander and McGoldrick correctly assess, an economics major will, by graduation, have spent less than a third of 1% of his time studying economics. You have barely touched the basics with so little time. I would prefer that high schools did a better coverage of general education so that colleges do not need to spend that much time on it. General education is important, but it should be concentrated in high school. There is no reason only college students should benefit from it.
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I certainly value a broad perspective in education, but I agree with you that college education is spending too much time with material that should have been covered in high school. Luckily, AP (advnced placement) courses motivate students to take the right courses in hih school, but this is limited to the best.
I think you hghlighted on your blog earlier a more fundamental problem: many students should simply not go to college. Once you take those out of the equation, much less general education would be required in college, more time can be spent on the major and the kind of classes that Colander and McGoldrick advocate can be taught.
- January 15, 2009 at 8:32 AM
I think a lot of students are taking Economics as a proxy for business, at least in coleges that do not have a business school. They have absolutely no intention to become economists. They want an MBA. Giving those students a broader perspective on things can only be helpful.
That said, they are still waisting their time in college. Colleges should be able to offer the equivalent of a MBA education to undergraduates.
- January 15, 2009 at 8:48 AM
- Economic Logician said...
Kansan: this is a very good point I should have made. My point was that the weaker students where also those likely to leave college with the most debt, sometimes without a degree and with the least capacity to reimburse the debt. And those weak students tend to get programs taylored to them.
Obviously, the better students often get into Honors programs that do actually a very good job at educating them. But these students tend to go to graduate school anyway.
- January 15, 2009 at 11:55 AM


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Is a man not entitled to a forum he likes?
No, says the man in 4Chan; it belongs to the meme.
No, says the man in churchforge.net; it belongs to God.
No, says the man in Usenet; it belongs to everyone.
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Where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality.
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IBF #14-rated super featherweight contender Arash Usmanee (20-0, 10 KOs) is finishing up training at the Club de Boxe de l'Est gym in Montreal, in preparation to face IBF #6 Rances "Kid Blast" Barthelemy (17-0, 11 KOs) on Friday, January 4, 2013, at Stage 305 in the Magic City Casino in Miami, Florida.
Presented by Warriors Boxing and Bad Dog Productions in association with the Magic City Casino, Usmanee vs. Barthelemy will serve as 12-round elimination bout for the IBF's #2 position and the main event of a show entitled "Friday Night Fights at Magic City Casino" that will also be the year's debut broadcast of ESPN's Friday Night Fights (10 PM Eastern on ESPN2 and ESPN Deportes, online through WatchESPN.com, and on smartphones and tablets via the WatchESPN app).
In the co-featured televised bout, Puerto Rican slugger Jonathan "Mantequilla" Gonzalez (15-0-1, 13 KOs) will take on Philadelphia's Derek "Pooh" Ennis (23-3-1, 13 KOs).
My training is always tip top," said the Aghani-Canadian. "I'm ready to go. I gotta cut some weight, but it's in the process. I'm taking my time with it. For me, having to cut weight is ordinary. It seems like no matter what weight I fight at, it's tough to make. I take it serious because that's a part of boxing and that's a battle every boxer should be able to overcome. And it makes the victory taste better when you have to work hard for the win."
30-year-old Usmanee is a five-time national amateur champion in his adopted home of Canada. Born in Kabul, Afghanistan, he moved to the Canadian Province of Alberta when he was only three years old, after his father was killed in a bombing.
"I moved to Montreal from Alberta. I had five fights there before I moved and things weren't looking so good. Pro boxing in Alberta is very difficult to do well at. You pretty much have to be a club fighter and I'm not a club fighter. When I got here, my manager, Douggy Berneche, and my trainer, Danielle Trepanier, and I hooked up and the rest is history."
Usmanee says he had a very wild style before meeting Trepanier, but has really refined his game with his guidance.
"My basics of boxing were lacking, let's put it that way. For many years, I was left to do what I was good at in the ring, which was to be wild and fight. I did well with it, but not at this level. You have to utilize all your assets and I wasn't doing that. So Dan said let's go back to basics and that's what we did. He took me right back to school and started from the beginning and taught me how to box. I learned a lot of the basics of boxing in the past few years. I basically became a boxer. I had the tennis ball under my chin; my legs were tied up. I looked stupid, but that's what we had to do."
Usmanee admits he can still be a little wilder than he should at times. "My style is in your face. I like to go to war, sometimes even when I shouldn't. But I've learned to utilize my boxing skills in the past couple years a lot better. My heart is a warrior. In my heart I want war. That's never going to go away. But my punches don't get wild anymore. I get wild in my heart now, but stick to what I've learned: technical aggression."
So what does he think of his opponent Barthelemy?
"Barthelemy is just like me. I do everything pretty good, nothing spectacular or amazing. I feel I'm rounded off pretty smooth. I don't do anything that's really, really bad or that stands out. He's not a bad boxer, not a bad fighter, everything he has is good, but it's not blowing my mind. It's not amazing or out of the ordinary. He's nothing I haven't faced before in the ring. He's good, tall; he's naturally southpaw, so he's got a good left side. Good boxer, good puncher. Everything is average. Nothing is spectacular. You know? That's the same with me."
Despite what he calls their equality in physical gifts, Usmanee has a definite vision for the important fight's outcome. "We're planning on stopping him late. I always want to knock out everybody, but that's what I want to do and that's what I'm planning on doing. I'm sure he's got the same plan. That's why it'll be a great fight."
Usmanee has already won the NABA and WBC Continental Americas Championships as a professional, but says he's suffered from anonymity so far in his career. This fight may be his ticket to wider recognition.
"I don't think the world really knows much about me yet. We're hoping to change that with this fight. I don't think many Canadians even know who I am yet, but I have been getting a lot of letters from around the world about this fight. I think if I win it, the world will start to know about me."
The undercard, which will be announced shortly, will feature several young local and international rising stars.
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CAIRO — Islamist militants armed with antiaircraft weapons and rocket-propelled grenades stormed a lightly defended United States diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, late Tuesday, killing the American ambassador and three members of his staff and raising questions about the radicalization of countries swept up in the Arab Spring.
The ambassador, J. Christopher Stevens, was missing almost immediately after the start of an intense, four-hour firefight for control of the mission, and his body was not located until Wednesday morning at dawn, when he was found dead at a Benghazi hospital, American and Libyan officials said. It was the first time since 1979 that an American ambassador had died in a violent assault.
American and European officials said that while many details about the attack remained unclear, the assailants seemed organized, well trained and heavily armed, and they appeared to have at least some level of advance planning. But the officials cautioned that it was too soon to tell whether the attack was related to the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Fighters involved in the assault, which was spearheaded by an Islamist brigade formed during last year's uprising against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, said in interviews during the battle that they were moved to attack the mission by anger over a 14-minute, American-made video that depicted the Prophet Muhammad, Islam's founder, as a villainous, homosexual and child-molesting buffoon. Their attack followed by just a few hours the storming of the compound surrounding the United States Embassy in Cairo by an unarmed mob protesting the same video. On Wednesday, new crowds of protesters gathered outside the United States Embassies in Tunis and Cairo.
The wave of unrest set off by the video, posted online in the United States two months ago and dubbed into Arabic for the first time eight days ago, has further underscored the instability of the countries that cast off their longtime dictators in the Arab Spring revolts. It also cast doubt on the adequacy of security preparations at American diplomatic outposts in the volatile region.
Benghazi, awash in guns, has recently witnessed a string of assassinations as well as attacks on international missions, including a bomb said to be planted by another Islamist group that exploded near the United States mission there as recently as June. But a Libyan politician who had breakfast with Mr. Stevens at the mission the morning before he was killed described security, mainly four video cameras and as few as four Libyan guards, as sorely inadequate for an American ambassador in such a tumultuous environment. "This country is still in transition, and everybody knows the extremists are out there," said Fathi Baja, the Libyan politician.
Obama Vows Justice
President Obama condemned the killings, promised to bring the assailants to justice and ordered tighter security at all American diplomatic installations. The administration also sent 50 Marines to the Libyan capital, Tripoli, to help with security at the American Embassy there, ordered all nonemergency personnel to leave Libya and warned Americans not to travel there. A senior defense official said that the Pentagon sent two warships toward the Libyan coast as a precaution.
"These four Americans stood up for freedom and human dignity," Mr. Obama said in a televised statement from the White House Rose Garden with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. "Make no mistake, we will work with the Libyan government to bring to justice the killers who attacked our people."
In Tripoli, Libyan leaders also vowed to track down the attackers and stressed their unity with Washington.
Yussef Magariaf, president of the newly elected Libyan National Congress, offered "an apology to the United States and the Arab people, if not the whole world, for what happened." He pledged new measures to ensure the security of foreign diplomats and companies. "We together with the United States government are on the same side, standing in a united front in the face of these murderous outlaws."
Obama administration officials and regional officials scrambled to sort out conflicting reports about the attack and the motivation of the attackers. A senior Obama administration officials told reporters during a conference call that "it was clearly a complex attack," but offered no details.
Col. Wolfgang Pusztai, who until early August was Austria's defense attaché to Libya and visited the country every month, said in an e-mail that he believed the attack was "deliberately planned and executed" by about a core group of 30 to 40 assailants who were "well trained and organized." But he said the reports from some terrorism experts that the attack may be linked to the recent death in drone strikes of senior Qaeda leaders, including Abu Yahya al-Libi, were unsupported.
A translated version of the video that set off the uprising arrived first in Egypt before reaching the rest of the Islamic world. Its author, whose identity is now a mystery, devoted the video's prologue to caricatured depictions of Egyptian Muslims abusing Egyptian Coptic Christians while Egyptian police officers stood by. It was publicized last week by an American Coptic Christian activist, Morris Sadek, well known here for his scathing attacks on Islam.
Mr. Sadek promoted the video in tandem with a declaration by Terry Jones — a Florida pastor best known for burning the Koran and promoting what he called "International Judge Muhammad Day" on Sept. 11.
The video began attracting attention in the Egyptian news media, including the broadcast of offensive scenes on Egyptian television last week. At that point, American diplomats in Cairo informed the State Department of the festering outrage in the days before the Sept. 11 anniversary, said a person briefed on their concerns. But officials in Washington declined to address or disavow the video, this person said.
By late afternoon Tuesday, hundreds had gathered in mostly peaceful protest outside the United States Embassy here, overseen by a large contingent of Egyptian security forces. But around 6 p.m., after the end of the workday and television news coverage of the event, the crowd began to swell, including a group of rowdy young soccer fans.
Gaining Entrance
Then, around 6:30 p.m., a small group of protesters — one official briefed on the events put it around 20 — brought a ladder to the wall of the compound and quickly scaled it, gaining entrance to the ground. Embassy officials asked the Egyptian government to remove the infiltrators without using weapons or force, to avoid inflaming the situation, this official said. (An embassy official said that contrary to reports on Tuesday, no one fired weapons in the air.) But it took the Egyptian security officers five hours to remove the intruders, leaving them ample time to run around the grounds, deface American flags, and hoist the black flag favored by Islamic ultraconservatives and labeled with Islam's most basic expression of faith, "There is no god but God, and Muhammad is his prophet."
It is unclear if television images of Islamist protesters may have inspired the attack in Benghazi, which had been a hotbed of opposition to Colonel Qaddafi and remains unruly since the Libyan uprising resulted in his death. But Tuesday night, a group of armed assailants mixed with unarmed demonstrators gathered at the small compound that housed a temporary American diplomatic mission there.
The ambassador, Mr. Stevens, was visiting the city Tuesday from the United States Embassy compound in Tripoli to attend the planned opening of an American cultural center, and was staying at the mission. It is not clear if the assailants knew that the ambassador was at the mission.
Interviewed at the scene on Tuesday night, many attackers and those who backed them said they were determined to defend their faith from the video's insults. Some recalled an earlier episode when protesters in Benghazi had burned down the Italian consulate after an Italian minister had worn a T-shirt emblazoned with cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad. Ten people were reportedly killed in clashes with Colonel Qaddafi's police force.
That assault was led by a brigade of Islamist fighters known as Ansar al-Sharia, or the Supporters of Islamic Law. Brigade members emphasized at the time that they were not acting alone. On Wednesday, perhaps apprehensive over Mr. Stevens's death, the brigade said in a statement that its supporters "were not officially involved or were not ordered to be involved" in the attack.
At the same time, the brigade praised those who protested as "the best of the best" of the Libyan people and supported their response to the video "in the strongest possible terms."
Conflicting Accounts
There were conflicting accounts of how Mr. Stevens had died. One witness to the mayhem around the compound on Tuesday said militants chased him to a safe house and lobbed grenades at the location, where he was later found unconscious, apparently from smoke inhalation, and could not be revived by rescuers who took him to a hospital.
An unidentified Libyan official in Benghazi told Reuters that Mr. Stevens and three staff members were killed in Benghazi "when gunmen fired rockets at them." The Libyan official said the ambassador was being driven from the mission building to a safer location when gunmen opened fire, Reuters said.
Five American ambassadors had been killed by terrorists before Tuesday's attack, according to the State Department. The most recent was Adolph Dubs, killed after being kidnapped in Afghanistan in 1979. The others were John Gordon Mein, in Guatemala in 1968; Cleo A. Noel Jr., in Sudan in 1973; Rodger P. Davies, in Cyprus in 1974; and Francis E. Meloy Jr., in Lebanon in 1976.
Witnesses and State Department officials said that the attack began almost immediately after the protesters and the brigade arrived around 10 p.m. Witnesses said the brigade started the attack by firing a rocket-propelled grenade at the gate of the mission's main building. American officials said that by 10:15 the attackers had gained entrance to the main building.
A second wave of assailants arrived soon after and swarmed into the compound, witnesses said.
"They expected that there would be more American commandos in there. They went in with guns blazing, with R.P.G.'s," said Mohamed Ali, a relative of the landlord who rents the building to the American mission and who watched the battle.
Libya's deputy interior minister, Wanis al-Sharif, made somewhat contradictory and defensive-sounding statements about the attack.
He acknowledged that he had ordered the withdrawal of security forces from the scene in the early stages of the protest on Wednesday night. He said his initial instinct was to avoid inflaming the situation by risking a confrontation with people angry about the video.
He also said he had underestimated the aggression of the protesters. But he criticized the small number of guards inside the mission for shooting back in self-defense, saying their response probably further provoked the attackers.
The small number of Libyans guarding the facility, estimated at only six, did not hold out long against the attackers, who had substantial firepower, the interior minister and State Department officials said. Defending the facility would have been a "suicide mission," Mr. Sharif said.
Mr. Sharif also faulted the Americans at the mission for failing to heed what he said was the Libyan government's advice to pull its personnel or beef up its security, especially in light of the recent violence in the city and the likelihood that the video would provoke protests. "What is weird is that they refrained from this procedure, depending instead on the simple protection that they had," he said. "What happened later is beyond our control, and they are responsible for part of what happened."
When the attack began, only Mr. Stevens, an aide named Sean Smith and a State Department security officer were inside the main building. As the building filled with smoke, security officers recovered Mr. Smith's body but were driven out again by the firefight, senior administration officials said. Mr. Stevens, however, could not be found and was lost for the rest of the night.
It took another hour — until 11:20 — before American and Libyan forces recaptured the main building and evacuated the entire staff to an annex nearly a mile away. The militants followed and the fighting continued there until 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, when Libyan security reinforcements arrived and managed to gain control of both compounds.
A freelance photographer took pictures of Libyans apparently carrying Mr. Stevens's ash-covered body out of the scene that were distributed worldwide by Agence France-Presse. A doctor who treated him at the Benghazi hospital told The Associated Press that Libyans had brought him in but were unaware of his identity. The doctor said that he tried for 90 minutes to revive Mr. Stevens but that he died of asphyxiation, The A.P. reported.
A senior administration official said it was not clear how or when Mr. Stevens was taken to the hospital — or by whom. "We frankly don't know how he got from where Americans last saw him," the official said.
On Wednesday night, residents of both Tripoli and Benghazi staged demonstrations to condemn the attack and express their sorrow at the loss of Mr. Stevens. Stationed in Benghazi during the uprising against Colonel Qaddafi, Mr. Stevens, who was fluent in Arabic and French, had become a local hero for his support to the Libyan rebels during their time of greatest need. Benghazi residents circulated photographs online of Mr. Stevens frequenting local restaurants, relishing local dishes, and strolling city streets, apparently without a security detail.
On Wednesday, some friends of Mr. Stevens suggested that his faith in his bond with the people of Benghazi may have blinded him to the dangers there. "Everybody liked him," said Mr. Baja, who ate breakfast with Mr. Stevens on Tuesday. "He is a good man, a friendly man, he knows lots of the sheiks in town and a lot of the intellectuals have spent some good times with him."
"The people in Benghazi, I think, are very sad right now."


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Barrister News, Volume 1, Number 4, Fall Semester, 1955
Description: Quarterly newsletter published by The Barristers Student Bar Association of St. Mary's University School of Law, San Antonio, Texas. Includes news and information of interest to members and law school affiliates.
Date: 1955
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A Curse On Bookplate Thieves( Copied From http://www.litterascripta.com/bibliomania/curses.shtml )
"It was traditional, particularly before the invention of the printing press when books were all hand written manuscripts, to letter a curse into the book to prevent theft. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have worked very well, as the books also had to be chained into place. Even chains had limited effect. Witness the many ancient libraries where there are still chains in place -- but no books.
Here are a few examples...
Thys boke is one
And God's curse another;
They that take the one
God geve them the other.
He who steals this book
may he die the death
may he be frizzled in a pan...
This present book legible in scripture
Here in this place thus tacched with a cheyn
Purposed of entent for to endure
And here perpetuelli stylle to remeyne
Fro eyre to eyre wherfore appone peyn
Of cryst is curs of faders and of moderes
Non of hem hens atempt it to dereyne
Whille ani leef may goodeli hange with oder.
Steal not this Book my honest Friend
For fear the Galows should be your hend,
And when you die the Lord will say
And wares the Book you stole away?
A variation on the same theme...
Steal not this book, my worthy friend
For fear the gallows will be your end;
Up the ladder, and down the rope,
There you'll hang until you choke;
Then I'll come along and say -
"Where's that book you stole away?"
From the Monastery of San Pedro, Barcelona, a blanket curse for the entire library...(I really wish this one existed, but unfortunately, it appears that it is apocryphal -- there is no monastery in San Pedro. It's so nasty though that I include it anyway.)
For him that Stealeth a Book from this Library,
Let it change into a Serpent in his hand & rend him.
Let him be struck with Palsy, & all his Members blasted.
Let him languish in Pain crying aloud for Mercy,
Let there be no Surcease to his Agony till he sink to Dissolution.
Let Bookworms gnaw his Entrails in token of the Worm that dieth not,
When at last he goeth to his final Punishment,
Let the flames of hell consume him for ever & aye."
Recently I began to organize my own collection with loose leaf page dividers labelled by themes and or artists.,
One of the themes I chose was threats and warnings. Here is part of what I included .
Philip Reed
Philip Reed was an illustrator and book designer who lived in St Joseph Michigan .He and his wife Nancy operated a woodcut stationery and bookplate business.Shown above are two of the nineteen universal bookplates he designed.
Ref . P.57 Bookplates in the News 1970-1985 by Audrey Spencer Arellanes
The artist's initial's look like UD.I do not recognize them.
Stanley Dressler Lovegrove was an artist who lived in Pennsylvania
Ref . P.57 Bookplates in the News 1970-1985 by Audrey Spencer Arellanes
Lloyd Douglas
The artist's initial's look like UD.I do not recognize them.
Roger Place Butterfield
Mr. Butterfield, a former national affairs editor for Life magazine, was the author of ''The American Past: History of the United States from Concord to Hiroshima, 1775-1945.'' The book presented 1,000 drawings, political cartoons, pictures and photographs with connecting text by Mr. Butterfield.
Marion Nutt
A pencil notation on the reverse side indicates she designed her own bookplate,
Malcolm M. Ferguson (1920-2011)
The late Mr. Ferguson was a bookseller in Concord Massachusetts. His bookplate was designed by a German prisoner of war after WWII based on "two or more Weird Tales -one being William Fryer Harvey's
The Beast With Five Fingers plus another by my late friend,August Derleth"


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