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Big Rapids, Mich. - The Ferris State University men's basketball team trailed by 13 points midway thru the second half, but battled back to force overtime before falling on the road at Wayne State by a 72-69 score on Thursday (Feb. 16) night in Detroit.
The Warriors led by 13 points with 10:50 remaining before FSU stormed back. The Bulldogs tied the game up in the final minute of regulation on a layup by senior forward Jerrell Sanders (Grand Rapids/Creston) and had a chance to win the contest on the final possession of regulation before turning the ball over.
In overtime, WSU's Stacey Waters connected on a pair of key three-pointers to lift the Warriors to the win. Ferris State had another chance to tie the game at the end of the extra session, but freshman guard Dietrich Lever's (Detroit/Canton) potential tying three-pointer came up short and no foul was called as time expired.
FSU was down by 10 points with 6:45 to go in regulation, but kept climbing back until the final horn sounded.
With the loss, FSU fell to 15-8 overall and 12-4 in the GLIAC and now owns a one-game lead over Northwood atop the divisional standings with three regular-season league games remaining.
Junior forward Daniel Sutherlin (Detroit/Renaissance) led the Bulldogs with 18 points, nine rebounds and three steals while Sanders chipped in with 18 points, four steals and two blocked shots.
FSU also received 13 points and three assists from senior guard Dontae Molden (Detroit/Pershing) while junior guard Kenny Brown (Farmington Hills/Harrison) chipped in with 10 points.
The Bulldogs shot 40.7% for the game, but were only two-of-seven (28.6%) in overtime. Meanwhile, WSU shot 44.3% on the night and hit three-of-five (60%) in the extra session.
Wayne State was paced by Ike Udanoh's game-high 20 points and 17 rebounds in a double-double showing. Cole Prophet added 15 points, Waters netted 14 points and Ian Larkin scored 11 points.
The Warriors outrebounded FSU 41-32 for the game and had 14 offensive boards to 11 for the Bulldogs, which helped lead to a 17-11 margin in second chance production.
Wayne State also outscored FSU 14-11 in points off turnovers despite having 15 miscues to only 12 for Ferris State.
With the win, the Warriors improved to 15-8 overall and are now 12-5 in the GLIAC.
WSU made 10-of-21 (47.6%) three's compared to only seven-of-23 (30.4%) for the Bulldogs.
Overall, the game featured eight lead chances and the score was tied seven times.
The loss snapped FSU's six-game winning streak and began a stretch in which the Bulldogs play three of their last four regular-season games on the road.
Despite the setback, FSU has clinched a spot as one of the eight teams for the 2012 GLIAC Postseason Tournament. The Bulldogs are currently listed ninth in this week's initial NCAA Division II Midwest Regional Rankings.
FSU will wrap up its two-game road trip by visiting Findlay on Saturday, Feb. 18, for a 3 p.m. (ET) league tilt at UF's Croy Gymnasium in Findlay, Ohio. The Oilers have won 75-straight league regular-season home tilts and have not lost a conference game at home since 2004.


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The 1950s
"America at this moment," said the former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1945, "stands at the summit of the world." During the 1950s, it was easy to see what Churchill meant. The United States was the world's strongest military power. Its economy was booming, and the fruits of this prosperity–new cars, suburban houses and other consumer goods–were available to more people than ever before. However, the 1950s were also an era of great conflict. For example, the nascent civil rights movement and the crusade against communism at home and abroad exposed the underlying divisions in American society.
The Postwar Booms
Historians use the word "boom" to describe a lot of things about the 1950s: the booming economy, the booming suburbs and most of all the so-called "baby boom." This boom began in 1946, when a record number of babies–3.4 million–were born in the United States. About 4 million babies were born each year during the 1950s. In all, by the time the boom finally tapered off in 1964, there were almost 77 million "baby boomers."
After World War II ended, many Americans were eager to have children because they were confident that the future held nothing but peace and prosperity. In many ways, they were right. Between 1945 and 1960, the gross national product more than doubled, growing from $200 billion to more than $500 billion. Much of this increase came from government spending: The construction of interstate highways and schools, the distribution of veterans' benefits and most of all the increase in military spending–on goods like airplanes and new technologies like computers–all contributed to the decade's economic growth. Rates of unemployment and inflation were low, and wages were high. Middle-class people had more money to spend than ever–and, because the variety and availability of consumer goods expanded along with the economy, they also had more things to buy.
Moving to the Suburbs
The baby boom and the suburban boom went hand in hand. Almost as soon as World War II ended, developers such as William Levitt (whose "Levittowns" in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania would become the most famous symbols of suburban life in the 1950s) began to buy land on the outskirts of cities and use mass production techniques to build modest, inexpensive tract houses there. The G.I. Bill subsidized low-cost mortgages for returning soldiers, which meant that it was often cheaper to buy one of these suburban houses than it was to rent an apartment in the city.
These houses were perfect for young families–they had informal "family rooms," open floor plans and backyards–and so suburban developments earned nicknames like "Fertility Valley" and "The Rabbit Hutch." However, they were often not so perfect for the women who lived in them. In fact, the booms of the 1950s had a particularly confining effect on many American women. Advice books and magazine articles ("Don't Be Afraid to Marry Young," "Cooking To Me Is Poetry," "Femininity Begins At Home") urged women to leave the workforce and embrace their roles as wives and mothers. The idea that a woman's most important job was to bear and rear children was hardly a new one, but it began to generate a great deal of dissatisfaction among women who yearned for a more fulfilling life. (In her 1963 book "The Feminine Mystique," women's rights advocate Betty Friedan argued that the suburbs were "burying women alive.") This dissatisfaction, in turn, contributed to the rebirth of the feminist movement in the 1960s.
The Civil Rights Movement
A growing group of Americans spoke out against inequality and injustice during the 1950s. African Americans had been fighting against racial discrimination for centuries; during the 1950s, however, the struggle against racism and segregation entered the mainstream of American life. For example, in 1954, in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, the Supreme Court declared that "separate educational facilities" for black children were "inherently unequal." This ruling was the first nail in Jim Crow's coffin.
Many Southern whites resisted the Brown ruling. They withdrew their children from public schools and enrolled them in all-white "segregation academies," and they used violence and intimidation to prevent blacks from asserting their rights. In 1956, more than 100 Southern congressmen even signed a "Southern Manifesto" declaring that they would do all they could to defend segregation.
Despite these efforts, a new movement was born. In December 1955, a Montgomery activist named Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give her seat on a city bus to a white person. Her arrest sparked a 13-month boycott of the city's buses by its black citizens, which only ended when the bus companies stopped discriminating against African American passengers. Acts of "nonviolent resistance" like the boycott helped shape the civil rights movement of the next decade.
The Cold War
The tension between the United States and the Soviet Union, known as the Cold War, was another defining element of the 1950s. After World War II, Western leaders began to worry that the USSR had what one American diplomat called "expansive tendencies"; moreover, they believed that the spread of communism anywhere threatened democracy and capitalism everywhere. As a result, communism needed to be "contained"–by diplomacy, by threats or by force. This idea shaped American foreign policy for decades.
It shaped domestic policy as well. Many people in the United States worried that communists, or "subversives," could destroy American society from the inside as well as from the outside. Between 1945 and 1952, Congress held 84 hearings designed to put an end to "un-American activities" in the federal government, in universities and public schools and even in Hollywood. These hearings did not uncover many treasonous activities–or even many communists–but it did not matter: Tens of thousands of Americans lost their jobs, as well as their families and friends, in the anti-communist "Red Scare" of the 1950s.
Shaping the '60s
The booming prosperity of the 1950s helped to create a widespread sense of stability, contentment and consensus in the United States. However, that consensus was a fragile one, and it splintered for good during the tumultuous 1960s.


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John Metcalfe was CityLab's Bay Area bureau chief, covering climate change and the science of cities.
Welcome back to our weekly look at what's been outlawed in cities across the world (last week's edition here):
It's Friday night in Weston, Florida: Time to stand around motionless on the sidewalk! This satellite town of Fort Lauderdale just passed a prohibition against nightclubs and dance halls. City leaders proactively banned such establishments from opening as a way to prevent violence and drug use, behaviors that everybody knows are biologically activated by dubstep. They also banned a skate rink because it could be used to "conceal a nightclub or dance hall," according to the Sun Sentinel, which quoted cranky mayor Eric Hersh avowing: "There aren't those uses in Weston, there won't be those uses in Weston, and we were never planning to allow those uses in Weston." The leaders passed the ordinance in the nick of time, as it currently has no such businesses; nightclub patrons will now be forced to line up outside mommy-daughter postnatal dance classes.
Baltimore's baseball team has banned a man for life after he streaked across the field wearing nothing more than a hat, a cape and, uh, "adult-sized Batman underwear." (Yes, there is such a thing, although the real Batman goes commando.) Mark Harvey told station WJZ that he loves to "make people laugh and get them going," and boy oh boy, mission accomplished: Before security eventually tackled him, the crowd was roaring like Cal Ripken was back and knocking them out of the park. Harvey may no longer be able to attend Orioles games but at least he didn't have to go to jail, thanks to a "miscommunication" between the team and police. As he told the Washington Post: "They said all the charges were dropped, which I was surprised. I asked them twice, like, are you sure?"
Hasidic Jews are no longer allowed to hold religious processions or parades in the Montreal neighborhood of Outremont, basically thanks to the efforts of one woman. Councilor Celine Forget has dogged the local Hasidim so much about alleged violations of the municipal code that the city temporarily eliminated the public events to calm "rising tensions," according to CIReport. Tensions like when Forget had to be detained by police at a Hasidic celebration last month that devolved into a yelling-and-cursing match. (Of course it's on YouTube.) A Hasidic spokesman said the group is considering suing Montreal for allegedly violating their religious rights.
Soccer fans in Medway have established a reputation for acting so awfully that the local council is considering banning them from attending a big game between your favorite teams, Gillingham and Swindon Town. The only way the April 21 match will proceed is if the teams pay for extra security; if they don't, the ball-kicking will be conducted in an empty stadium. Gillingham fans have been causing a ruckus since the '90s, chucking missiles, getting all stabby and kicking a man to death. The country's Association of Chief Police Officers says research shows a significant uptick in crime any day a soccer game takes place.
As the city's real estate market heats up, neighborhood groups say that cash investors use building code violations to encourage homeowners to sell.
An Apartment List report reveals the cities apartment-hunters are targeting for their next move—and shows that tales of a California exodus may be overstated.
The automaker-turned-mobility-company announced last week it wants to build a living, breathing urban laboratory from the ground up in Japan.
Boosted by big sustainability wins, Mayor Anne Hidalgo is pitching bold plans to make the city center "100 percent bicycle" and turn office space into housing.
The practice of redlining in the 1930s helps explain why poorer U.S. neighborhoods experience more extreme heat.


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Beautiful to Behold
|Congo Square Theatre presents
|The Nativity
|Written by McKinley Johnson
Inspired by Langston Hughes
Directed by Aaron Todd Douglas
at Goodman's Owen Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn (map)
through Dec 31 | tickets: $30-$40 | more info
Reviewed by K.D. Hopkins
I have been going to the theater in Chicago for over 40 years and Black-themed productions have a special place in my heart since I first witnessed Purlie Victorious! at what was the Monroe Theater in 1969. The power of seeing and hearing the old traditions, colloquialisms, and gospel or blues tinged singing remains with me. This year, I wasn't feeling the so-called Christmas Spirit in full. The commercials started before I could plow through my Halloween stash of candy and make the turkey sandwiches from Thanksgiving. Thank goodness I got my hallelujah infusion from Congo Square's production of The Nativity.
This musical and dance extravaganza is written by McKinley Johnson and inspired by one of my favorite writers: Langston Hughes. The plot is the traditional Nativity story of the Visitation from the Angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary and the adventures that ensued in the birthing of the man known as Jesus.
The Black Nativity, which inspired this work, is one of the sacred plays written by Langston Hughes in the late 40's and early 50's as the Harlem Renaissance gave way to a stronger Civil Rights Movement in America. The Black theater had always been a strong presence due to segregation and discrimination. Hughes was always unabashed in his support and pride for Black traditions in music, poetry, and other art forms. Director Aaron Todd Douglas, Musical Director Jaret Williams and Choreographer Kevin Iega Jeff have built a beautiful monument on the foundations laid by Hughes and McKinley.
The combination of dance and spoken word make for a powerful and emotional tribute. Dancers Kathleen Purcell Turner and Pierre Clark portray the characters of Mary and Joseph. They never speak but project power, emotion and pain with dance. Ms. Turner is a wonder to watch as she portrays the birth pains, terror and exhaustion of travel on the run. If I had not been sitting so close I would wonder if she was held up or manipulated by invisible cords. Her beautiful and expressive face shows innocence, giddy youthful love, fear, and finally a maternal glow. She and Mr. Clark play perfectly off of each other as a couple in love.
Pierre Clark is an amazing high school senior who has perfected the role of Joseph. He emotes the youthful lust and royal bearing befitting a descendant of King Solomon. His acting is wonderful and the protection and joy of fatherhood is beautifully played through his dance moves. The choreography is reminiscent of Capoeira dancing – a blend of dance and martial arts that was forbidden during the slave trade in Colonial Brazil. It is a stunning and innovative take on choreography in a sacred work.
The cast of singing actors in The Nativity is from the ranks of Chicago's finest actors. John Steven Crowley commands the stage as the Angel Gabriel and the narrator of the story. Alexis Rogers and Jeniel Smith shine as Athaliah and Johashobah. They are best friends at the washing creek and wives the fearsome King Herod. They have some funny and contemporary lines that ring true in modern society as well as ancient times.
Black Ensemble Theater regular, Kelvin Roston Jr., joins Ms. Rogers and Ms. Smith. Mr. Roston brings his handsome and convivial charm to the roles of Tax Collector, Inn Keeper, and Centurion. It is always a pleasure to see him perform.
Dwelvan David is a standout as King Herod. Mr. David's striking features and imposing projection give him a perfect balance of fierce warrior, cunning politician, and comic foil.
The singing in this play is exceptional and pure gospel. The selections by Jaret Williams are soul-rousing and seemingly tailored to the singing talents of the cast. The moment the piano played I felt that I was 'back in the day'. A special mention of Melody Betts and Dawn Bless is warranted for their roles of Mother of Mary and Elizabeth. They each have wonderful solos and shine in the roles of mother, confidant, and protectors of the Virgin Mary. Two other highlights are the song and dance combination of 'Her Way's Cloudy' and the appearance of the Three Kings. The costumes are perfection in the choice of fabric and tailoring. (I was really close to the stage). The song 'You Ought To Try The Lord' is rocking, as is the 'get happy in church' dance by Jon Pierce.
I recommend The Black Nativity as a holiday tradition for everyone no matter your race or religious tradition. It's perfect for the whole family and as an introduction to musical theater for younger children. Kudos to all of the parents in the audience as this was one of the best intergenerational audiences I have had the pleasure to be in. Happiest of Holidays to Everyone!
|Rating: ★★★½
The Congo Square Theatre production of The Nativity runs through December 31st at the Goodman Theatre,170 N. Dearborn in vibrant downtown Chicago. Please call 312-443-3800 for ticket information.
Production/Creative Team
|McKinley Johnson
|Inspired by:
|Langston Hughes
|Music Arranger/Director:
|Jaret Landon
|Aaron Todd Douglas
|Kevin Iega Jeff
|Set Design:
|Andre Onegin
|Costume Design:
|Michael Alan Stein
|Light Design:
|Richard Norwood
|Stage Manager:
|Razor Wintercastle
|Pierre Clark, Kelvin Rosten, Jr., Melody Betts, Dawn Bless, Baron Clay, John Steven Crowley, Dwelvan David, Kalind Haynes, Jon Pierce, Kathleen Purcell Turner, Alexis Rogers, Jeniel Smith, Roshawn Thompson, Laura Walls, Marketta Wilder
Filed under: 2010 Reviews, Congo Square, Goodman Theatre, Holiday Show, K.D. Hopkins | Tagged: Aaron Todd Douglas, Alexis Rogers, Andre Onegin, Baron Clay, Black Ensemble Theater, Chicago theater review, Congo Square Theatre, Dawn Bless, Dwelvan David, Goodman Theatre, Jaret Landon, Jeniel Smith, John Steven Crowley, Jon Pierce, Jr., K.D. Hopkins, Kalind Haynes, Kathleen Purcell Turner, Kelvin Rosten, Kevin Iega Jeff, Langston Hughes, Laura Walls, Marketta Wilder, McKinley Johnson, Melody Betts, Michael Alan Stein, Monroe Theater Chicago, Owen Theatre Goodman, Pierre Clark, Purlie Victorious, Razor Wintercastle, Richard Norwood, Roshawn Thompson, The Black Nativity |


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A contested Democratic convention could lead to the ONE candidate who could beat Trump, says Michael Medved
On Wednesday's TV show, Glenn Beck sat down with radio show host, author, political commentator, and film critic, Michael Medved.
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FLASHPOINT? Virginia Gov. Northam declares state of emergency to ban firearms ahead of gun-rights rally
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On Thursday's "Glenn Beck Radio Program," BlazeTV's White House correspondent Jon Miller described the current situation in Virginia after Gov. Ralph Northam (D) declared a state of emergency and banned people carrying guns at Capitol Square just days before a pro-Second-Amendment rally scheduled on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Jon told Glenn that Gov. Northam and the Virginia Legislature are "trying to deprive the people of their Second Amendment rights" but the citizens of Virginia are "rising up" to defend their constitutional rights.
"I do think this is the flashpoint," Jon said. "They [Virginia lawmakers] are saying, 'You cannot exercise your rights ... and instead of trying to de-escalate the situation, we are putting pressure. We're trying to escalate it and we're trying to enrage the citizenry even more'."
Glenn noted how Gov. Northam initially blamed the threat of violence from Antifa for his decision to ban weapons but quickly changed his narrative to blame "white supremacists" to vilify the people who are standing up for the Second Amendment and the Constitution.
"What he's doing is, he's making all all the law-abiding citizens of Virginia into white supremacists," Glenn said.
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Ryan: Trump Louisiana Finale
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Part One. Part Two. Part Three.
At the end of Trump rallies, I would throw on my Carhartt jacket, sneak out of the press area, then blend in with everyone as they left, filing out through swinging doors.
Often, someone held the door open for me. Just 30 minutes earlier, the same person had most likely had most likely hissed at me for being a journalist. And now they were Sunday smiles and "Oh, yes, thank you, sir" like some redneck concierge.
People flooded out of the arena with the stupidity of a fire drill mishap, desperate to survive.
The air smacked you as soon as you crossed the threshold, back into Louisiana. And the lawn was a wasteland of camping chairs and coolers and shopping bags and to-go containers and soda cans and articles of clothing and even a few tents.
In Monroe, in the dark, the Trump supporters bobbled over mounds of waste like elephants trying to tiptoe. And the trash was as neutral to them as concrete or grass. They plodded over it because it, an object, had somehow gotten in their way.
It did not matter that they were responsible for this wreckage.Out in the sharp-edged moonlight, rally-goers hooted and yapped and boogied and danced, and the bbq food truck was all smoke and paper plates.
They were even more pumped than they had been before the rally, like 6,000 eight year olds who'd been chugging Mountain Dew for hours. Which made Donald Trump the father, the trooper, God of the Underworld, Mr. Elite, Sheriff on high horse, the AR-15 sticker of the family.
Ritualistic mayhem, all at once. And, there in Louisiana, Trump's supporters had gotten a taste of it. They were all so happy. It bordered on rage.
Still, I could not imagine their view of America. Worse, after a day of strange hostilities, I did not care.
My highest priority, my job as a reporter, was to care. To understand them and the world that they inhabit. But I did not give a damn and I never wanted to come back.
Worst of all, I would be back. In less than a week.
Was this how dogs felt on the 4th of July? Hunched in a corner while everyone else gets drunk and launches wailing light into the sky? configurations of blue and red and white.
It was 10:00 p.m. and we'd been traveling since 11:00 a.m., and we still had 5 hours to go and all I wanted was a home, my home, any home, just not here, in the cold sweat of this nowhere. Grey-mangled sky. No evidence of planes or satellites or any proof of modern-day. Just century-old bridges that trains shuffled over one clack at a time.
And casinos, all spangles and neon like the 1960s in Las Vegas. Kitchy and dumb, too tacky for lighthearted gambling. And only in the nicer cities, like Shreveport, which is not nice at all.
And swamp. Black water that rarely shimmered. Inhabited by gadflies and leeches and not one single fish that was pretty.
Full of alligators, and other killing types. The storks gnawing on frogs, the vultures never hungry. The coyotes with nobody to stop them and so much land to themselves. The roaches in the wild, like tiny wildebeests.
Then, the occasional deer carcass on the side of the road, eyes splayed as if distracted, tongue out, relaxed but empty. The diseased willows like skeletons in hairnets. The owls that never quit staring. A million facets of wilderness that would outlive us all.
Because Nature has poise. It thrives and is original.
Because silence is impossible. Even in an anechoic chamber, perfectly soundproofed, you can hear your own heartbeat, steady as a drum. A never-ending war.
I put "Headache" by Grouper on repeat as we glided west. We were deadlocked to asphalt, rubber over tarface.
And I thought about lines from a Rita Dove poem titled "I have been a stranger in a strange land"
He was off cataloging the universe, probably,
pretending he could organize
what was clearly someone else's chaos.
Wasn't that exactly what I was doing? Looking for an impossible answer, examining every single accident, eager for meaning? telling myself, "If it happens and matters the next year, in America, I want to be there, or to know what it means. I owe it to whoever cares to listen."
Humans are collectors and I had gone overboard.
Because maybe this wasn't even my home. These landmarks, what did they mean? Was I obvious here? When I smiled, did I trick them into believing that I felt some vague sense of approval? Or did my expressions betray me?
Out in all that garbage-streaked emptiness — despite the occasional burst of passing halogen — I couldn't tell if everything we encountered was haunted or just old, derelict, broken, useless. One never-ending landfill.
Around those parts, they'd made everything into junk. Homes. Roads. Glass. Nature. Life itself, they made into junk.
I cringed as we passed yet another deer carcass mounded on the side of the road.
As written in Job 35:11,
Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds in the sky?
Nobody. Look at nature and you feel something powerful. Look at an animal, in all of its untamable majesty, and you capture a deep love, all swept up in the power of creation. But, here, all I saw were poor creatures who people had slammed into and kept driving. Driving to where? For what reason? What exactly was so important that they left a trail of dead animals behind them?
So I crossed myself dolorously and said an "Our Father" and recited a stanza from Charles Bukowski's "The Laughing Heart"
you can't beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
Out here, nothing but darkness. Needing some light, by God. Give me something better than a Moon that hides like an underfed coward.
Jade told me about some of the more traumatic things she'd seen while working at the State Fair.
"Bro, they pull roaches out of the iced lemonade jugs and act like nothing happened."
"All right but what about the corn dogs?"
"You do not want to know, little bro."
She looked around in the quiet. "Back in the day, the Louisiana Congress refused to raise the drinking age from 18 to 21," she said. "They didn't want to lose all that drunk gambler money. So the federal government cut off funding to highways."
We glided through moon-pale landscape for an hour before I realized what she had meant. That there weren't any light poles or billboards along the road. Nothing to guide us or distract us. Just us, alone. And it felt like outer space had collapsed, swallowed us like jellybeans.
Like two teenagers playing a prank on the universe.
In the cozy Subaru Crosstrek, in the old wild night, brimming with the uncertainty of life and the nonchalance of failure, we paraded ourselves back to Dallas. Alive in the river silence that follows us everywhere.
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Amid election security concerns, states should look to blockchain
The Iowa primary is just around the corner, and concerns of election interference from the last presidential election still loom. Back in 2016, The Associated Press found that a majority of U.S. elections systems still use Windows 7 as an operating system, making them highly susceptible to bugs and errors. And last year, a Mississippi voter tried multiple times to vote for the candidate of his choice, but the system continuously switched his vote to the other candidate. It's pretty clear: America's voting systems desperately need an update.
That's where blockchain voting comes in.
Blockchain voting is a record-keeping system that's 100% verifiable and nearly impossible to hack. Blockchain, the newest innovation in cybersecurity, is set to grow into a $20 billion industry by 2025. Its genius is in its decentralized nature, distributing information throughout a network of computers, requiring would-be hackers to infiltrate a much larger system. Infiltrating multiple access points spread across many computers requires a significant amount of computing power, which often costs more than hackers expect to get in return.
Blockchain voting wouldn't allow for many weak spots. For instance, Voatz, arguably the leading mobile voting platform, requires a person to take a picture of their government-issued ID and a picture of themselves before voting (a feature, of course, not present in vote-by-mail, where the only form of identity verification is a handwritten signature, which is easily forgeable). Voters select their choices and hit submit. They then receive an immediate receipt of their choices via email, another security feature not present in vote-by-mail, or even in-person voting. And because the system operates on blockchain technology, it's nearly impossible to tamper with.
Votes are then tabulated, and the election results are published, providing a paper trail, which is a top priority for elections security experts.
The benefits of blockchain voting can't be dismissed. Folks can cast their vote from the comfort of their homes, offices, etc., vastly increasing the number of people who can participate in the electoral process. Two to three-hour lines at polling places, which often deter voters, would become significantly diminished.
Even outside of the voting increase, the upsides are manifold. Thanks to the photo identification requirements, voter fraud—whether real or merely suspected—would be eliminated. The environment would win, too, since we'd no longer be wasting paper on mail-in ballots. Moreover, the financial burden on election offices would be alleviated, because there's decreased staff time spent on the election, saving the taxpayer money.
From Oregon to West Virginia, elections offices have already implemented blockchain voting, and the results have been highly positive. For example, the city of Denver utilized mobile voting for overseas voters in their 2019 municipal elections. The system was secure and free of technical errors, and participants reported that it was very user-friendly. Utah County used the same system for their 2019 primary and general elections. An independent audit revealed that every vote that was cast on the app was counted and counted correctly. These successful test cases are laying the groundwork for even larger expansions of the program in 2020.
With this vital switch, our elections become significantly more secure, accurate, and efficient. But right now, our election infrastructure is a sitting duck for manipulation. Our current lack of election integrity undermines the results of both local and national elections, fans the flames of partisanship, and zaps voter confidence in the democratic system. While there's never a silver bullet or quick fix to those kinds of things, blockchain voting would push us much closer to a solution than anything else.
Chris Harelson is the Executive Director at Prosperity Council and a Young Voices contributor.


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I always presumed that I would be a writer, without actually doing any writing. I think I thought I was going to get a phone call from somebody one day saying they had a vacancy for a novelist. When I realised that this wasn't going to happen I thought it was about time to do something.
-Nick Hornby
For those who don't know, in September 2005, I started a blog called Pointless, Incessant Barking, inspired by the above cartoon.
The title turned out to be a good fit. For the most part, PIB was a catalogue of my dating woes, hair woes and fashion woes, plus stories about my dogs. It was what my boyfriend, Al — who's been around on the internet since the late middle ages–would call an "I-ate-cereal-today blog." As such, it was of interest primarily to a highly select group of people — to wit, those who already loved me and were used to being patient with my babbling.
Occasionally, though, I'd write something smartish — usually about feminism or fat politics, but sometimes about the other topics you see in the "Categories" sidebar. These were essentially rough drafts of the sort of essays I'd write if someone phoned me up and said, "Hi, we have a vacancy for a columnist who obsesses about the same handful of topics over and over and says 'fuck' a lot. Interested?"
These were the kind of posts I loved writing most, and could be writing every day, if I bothered. Also, the kind of posts that — according to my sitemeter — actually seemed to interest strangers. So of course I couldn't possibly write more of those, or take them more seriously. As Al is fond of saying, "No one wants to do what they're good at."
And what I've learned over the last year and a half is that I'm a damned good blogger. Writing skill is the least of it — I've found I love updating frequently, interacting with commenters, and responding quickly to things I read on the intertubes. Those are the hard parts, for a lot of people, but I seem to be a natural. And yet… Everyone knows I'm a novelist, not a blogger! They must know, because I keep telling them that! And someone's gonna call about that vacancy any day now, I can feel it.
Two things happened around the same time to change my mind. First, I discovered that kateharding.com is already owned by someone who's not me, someone who paints horses. So, in a petulant fit of threatened identity, I immediately snapped up kateharding.net, with no plans to use it — I just wanted it to be mine. Second, I acquired a new reader, the lovely Bluemilk, who started dropping by when I happened to be in the midst of a feminist issues streak. When the streak ended, and I posted something dumb — something far more typical of PIB — Bluemilk went, "Huh?" She thought she'd found a new feminist blog, not the dorky personal journal of someone who just happens to be a feminist. And she'd bookmarked it and started coming back, because she actually wanted to read a feminist blog written by me.
So, let's review:
- I like writing this shit.
- People I've never met like reading this shit. (Okay, person.)
- Kateharding.net is currently doing a whole lot of nothing.
Hey, I just had an idea!
All the posts before this one come from the PIB archives — they're the think pieces (yeah, yeah, I use the term loosely) that were buried among all the "I ate cereal today" posts. From now on, I'll be writing a lot more of those and posting them here.
I am still working on a novel, by the way. I am always working on a novel. But that's not what makes me a writer; writing is (that and sitting in Starbucks with my laptop open), and frankly, I do a hell of a lot more blogging than any other kind of writing. So fuck it, I'm owning it. I'm a blogger. I do what I'm good at.
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The Grey: Wolf attacks in North America, movie, myth and reality
Speaking of wild animals tearing people limb from limb… and we were in my last post, weren't we?
Have you seen "The Grey"?
"The Grey" is about a group of pipeline workers who survive a horrific plane crash in the great white North. One by one they get savaged by a pack of killer wolves. There's no bright spot in this movie. Everything is grey. It's brutally cold. Everybody dies.
Kind of a buzz killer.
Liam Neeson gives a stellar performance as Ottway, a professional wolf killer for the oil company. Masanobu Takayanagi's winter landscape photography is haunting. Scenes with real wolves, though scarce, are dramatic. If wolf howls stir your soul, your soul will be well stirred.
There's also some pretty deep philosophy in "The Grey."
"Dead is dead."
That's a bit of philosophy worth thinking about.


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HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia plans to axe its annual dividend payment for the first time in the company's recorded history to shore up its cash position against falling sales and buy time for a turnaround.
While cost cuts and asset sales have given the struggling company breathing space to keep marketing what many call its make-or-break Lumia smartphones, analysts said it was far from a recovery and was still falling behind Samsung and Apple in the smartphone race.
Nokia has slashed one in three jobs and has sold off assets including its company headquarters under Chief Executive Stephen Elop, who was hired from Microsoft in 2010 and promptly tied the company's fortunes to the untried Windows Phone operating system made by his former employer.
"We believe we removed the cloud of liquidity concerns," Elop told reporters on a conference call.
Nokia, which earlier this month announced it had returned to underlying profitability for the first time in a year, said the suspension of the dividend, which cost 750 million euros ($996 million) last year, would give it "strategic flexibility".
Nokia said it had paid a dividend every year since 1989, but didn't have records for earlier periods in its history, which goes back over 100 years.
The company ended the year with net cash of 4.4 billion euros, down 22 percent on a year earlier, but up on the previous quarter and above the market estimate of 3.4 billion, mostly due to a turnaround at Nokia Siemens Networks, its telecom equipment venture with Siemens.
It has also been making better use of its rich portfolio of technology patents, earning royalty payments from other technology companies. It also received $250 million from Microsoft in the quarter in return for using Windows Phone.
Some analysts have said Nokia could soon take NSN public, which would secure even more cash to keep the company running. Elop said all options were on the table for NSN's future.
Elop is under intense pressure to show he made the right decision in February 2011 to drop Nokia's own operating system in favor of Windows Phone. He has said it would take two years for a successful transition, and that period is almost over.
"They have had two transition years now, and this year will be yet another one. The ramp-up continues. It has been way too slow," said analyst Mikael Rautanen from equity research firm Inderes.
Some investors have said Elop will need to change strategy or even leave if Nokia is unable to turn the company around. Some of the more optimistic investors cite Nokia's history of reinventing itself. It faced bankruptcy in the 1990s before it shifted to cellphones from toilet paper and rubber boots.
Nokia sold 4.4 million Lumia devices in the fourth quarter, including the new Lumia 820 and 920, which were launched in November and use the latest Windows Phone 8 software. Analysts estimate Nokia's market share in the high-margin smartphone business is only around 5 percent.
Many said quarterly sales of Lumia phones need to rise to around 10 million, with gross margins of around 20 percent, to convince investors that its smartphone strategy is working.
Supply constraints have weighed on Lumia sales, but Elop said the company was "making progress" in resolving them. He declined to specify what parts or suppliers were causing problems, but sources have cited chip shortages.
Non-smartphones still make the bulk of Nokia's revenue, but margins are thin, and analysts believe Nokia needs a successful smartphone offering if it is to survive. Its fourth-quarter sales volumes of other mobiles fell 15 percent to 80 million units, with the average selling price down 3 percent.
While Nokia's feature phone Asha has proven more popular than initially expected, analysts say that even consumers in emerging markets will eventually shift to smartphones so they can access the Internet to upload photos and go on social networking sites such as Facebook.
Some said the Lumia's recent launch in China and India could help restart growth, though it faces stiff competition from Samsung there.
Telecoms executives in Europe and the United States have said they want Nokia to succeed, to keep Samsung and Apple's power in check, but analysts have said there were few signs the two were losing their lead.
While Apple's results overnight fell short of expectations, it still shipped a record 47.8 million iPhones in the December quarter.
"It doesn't look like Apple would start losing their volume strength in any remarkable way," said Pohjola analyst Hannu Rauhala.
Nokia shares were down 8.3 percent at 3.20 euros at 1445 GMT. They had risen 70 percent over the past three months, but were also the most shorted among the euro zone's blue chips ahead of the results.
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Marquis' start moved back; Timlin works out again
DENVER — There will be an all-star pitching Friday at Coors Field. But it won't be Jason Marquis.
What set up as one of the best pitching matchups of the season has dissolved. Marquis will not face Giants' all-star Matt Cain Friday at Coors Field as planned because of a blister on the middle finger of Marquis' pitching hand.
He will be pushed back to Tuesday in New York, giving the injury more time to heal.
"We want to be proactive with this,'' manager Jim Tracy said today.
Marquis has battled the issue for the better part of a month. It was raw during his last home start against Atlanta, but had healed sufficiently during the all-star break to allow him to dominate the Padres last Sunday. But it has not responded in the days between, leading to the rotation adjustment.
As it stands, Jason Hammel will pitch Friday, followed by Jorge De La Rosa, Aaron Cook and Ubaldo Jimenez. Marquis' next start will be against the Mets on Tuesday.
One day after the bullpen sprung a leak, free agent Mike Timlin worked out again at Coors Field. And will throw another bullpen session Friday, at which point the Rockies will decide whether to offer a minor-league contract.l He remains hopeful that a deal can be reached with the Rockies.
"Sometimes the time off helps,'' said Timlin, who stayed in shape by playing catch with former teammate Mike Myers and throwing batting practice for his son's youth team. "God has given me the strength to do this. I believe I can still pitch at this level.''
General manager Dan O'Dowd reached out to Timlin, who lives in the area. If a deal transpires, it would involve the 43-year-old reporting to the minor leagues to get sharp, not unlike the process going on with Matt Herges.
A look at today's lineup in the series finale against the Diamondbacks:
LF Smith
2B Barmes
1B Helton
RF Hawpe
SS Tulowitzki
3B Stewart
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Why Do Tearjerker Films Make Us Cry?
The upcoming film "If I Stay" joins the ranks of several tearjerkers that have made 2014 the year to cry at movies. Here's an attempt to unravel the question of just what makes a film audience cry. Photo: Warner Bros.
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Below that is a question and answer with a woman who asks about a loved one who is addicted to tobacco and ideas on how to respond. click
Today makes my 9th day of being smoke free.
This time has been the easiest to quit (albeit still VERY difficult) and I want to share my journey to quitting and ask if how I am doing it this time (COLD TURKEY) is what is making it easier for me physically and mentally this time.
I am a 41 year old female and I started smoking regularly at 16. At 25 I became pregnant, and after five months of agonizingly trying to cut down to be able to quit, (which cutting back never worked), I finally put them down out of pure guilt of being caught sneaking around to smoke by my non smoking husband, while carrying our first child.
I was able to stay off of cigarettes for the next 5 years, giving birth to another son within a year and a half of our first. My first child weighed 8.5 lbs (very fussy), and my second 9.5lbs. (Very happy) I think the smoking during half of my pregnancy with the first child made him a very fussy baby.
A few years later, my brother moved in with us, I set him up downstairs.
Every morning the cigarette smoke would rise up through our bedroom vent while the coffee was brewing. After a few months of this, one day I had a really stressful day at work, and asked my brother for a cigarette. "JUST GIMME ONE OF THOSE!"
I smoked it, got a huge buzz as always the first one gives you, and I was hooked again, just like that.
One was all it took.
Over the next few days I was smoking his butts he left around, (disgusting I know but, the urge was overwhelming) and finally I succumbed to buying a pack within a few days, and within 2 weeks, I was right back to buying the cartons again and back up to a pack, to sometimes, while drinking, 2 packs a day, for another TEN years!!
All the while hating that I started back and feeling like a real idiot, but never feeling like I had the strength to quit again, ignoring the wishes of people who love me and wanted me to quit, saying to them, "You just don't understand how hard it is, I have tried, and I just can't do it, and no, I don't want to try again right now."
I would always say to myself and family, "when I get over this stress, or that hump, I will quit again," but there was always something really stressful going on in my life.
I did try to quit a few times during that ten years.
I tried the Habitrol patches that the VA gave me (I spent six years in the Navy after high school), several different times, but I would always go back to the cigarettes even after a month of quitting, and still wearing the patch while I lit up again after that month.
Then that familiar buzz of the first cigarette, and BAM! No more patches, and back to the store I went for another pack...and the cycle begins again.
I tried all the different pills...anti-depressant based and others, and quit for a few days at a time, but they seem to raise my anxiety level, with all the side effects, and that gave me good excuses to say this is just too hard and I would always go back to smoking.
I even tried staying on the pills for a couple of months, and nothing was working. It was still too hard. I was expecting the pills and patches to make withdrawal easy and permanent for me. That would never come from a pill patch, gum, or lozenge.
So for the next three years I resigned myself to believe that this was it for me, I will smoke for the rest of my life. I will die a horrible death, just like my grandparents, one suffered a stroke, then died of lung cancer that spread to all of his organs, the other from emphezema, a heart attack and then COPD. In the end she couldn't breathe at all and the pain was unbearable. I think the worst part for me was seeing my grandmother in the intensive care with tubes running down into her lungs to suck the fluid and phlegm out into transparent jars on the wall. That happened three different times. Both had horrible lengthy agonizing deaths that were caused by smoking two to three packs a day.
I recently graduated from Massage Therapy School. I couldn't quit during school, it was just too stressful of a time...I told myself.
Among other things, we studied anatomy and physiology...more specifically the brain, and how it works.
A few months ago I had been thinking that I would like to try to quit again someday and was looking into the new pills on the market now, but I didn't hold much hope in another "magic pill." I figured it would be just another wasted hundred dollars or more, plus the cost of the doctor visit.
One thing I did in the months prior to quitting was to stop buying cartons, in order to stop making the cigarettes available to myself at all times.
Instead I would only buy 2-3 packs at a time, and I normally smoked Marlboro lights, so I started buying the Marlboro 27s, then the Mediums, then the Medium 100's...and would alternate depending on which ones I could get on the buy one get one free, or buy 2 get one free, and I don't know if this aided in my quitting decision or not to tell you the truth.
Then NINE days ago, I ran out of cigarettes, again...I had smoked all the butts in the trays again..., and was disgusted with myself once again.... and sick of that gnawing urge to run out to the store for more smokes before I have a complete anxiety attack...again.
The longer I would put off going to the store, the more I would chain smoke once I got them to make up for time lost...it seemed like I couldn't get enough nicotine if I put off going to the store for too long.
I was so sick of being addicted and feeling like my life revolved around making sure I always had a pack of smokes with me no matter how late I was for anywhere I was going, and making sure that I only went to the restaurants that still had a smoking section. (My choices are very limited on that these days).
So instead of running out to the store this time, I started researching ways to quit again online.
I found the most helpful web page that finally clicked with me.
Having studied the brain functions and the way neurons work, it did not make any sense at all to try using a nicotine replacement or any other drug available.
After reading ONE page titled "The Pharmacology of Nicotine Addiction" by the PAXIS Institute, I realized that COLD TURKEY IS THE ONLY WAY to REBOOT MY BRAIN and RID myself of this monkey!!
It finally made sense to me why all my past attempts have failed.
It is because I never changed my brain patterns (neuron pathways) and dependence on nicotine by using the patches and other meds continued making the brain crave that nicotine. I haven't changed anything with using the patch except for the method of delivery for my nicotine!
With this information, I do not understand why so many cessation programs and doctors advice revolve around nicotine replacement.
It seems you can never give yourself a chance to withdraw from the addiction; therefore you will never be rid of it, because your brain still craves it.
I am living proof and just about everyone I know who have tried to quit using nicotine replacement therapy has the same story with that as mine. I used to see them rubbing on the patches to somehow try to get more nicotine out of it…then see them smoking again the following week.
If I only knew that the worst of the cravings would subside after only 2-3 days cold turkey, I would've quit a decade ago.
After nine days of not smoking now, I still think about them, want them in times of stress, times of "completion" of anything, find myself checking my purse or jacket pocket for my pack before I go anywhere, and many times I find myself feeling lost or lonely without them......... then remember after a few seconds.... I have QUIT...
And I keep saying to myself,
Then I take a really deep breath of fresh air, and hack up a big ole nasty glob of tar, and feel good about it, knowing I am clearing my lungs of that horrible stuff forever.
My side effects are minimal compared to the ones I had with using pills or patches; the anxiety of not having a smoke lasted 2-3 days only. Then I had horrible indigestion for a week solid, and now sinus and sore throat. I thought it was a cold, but can it be from the quitting?
All that and I still feel better than did if I had my pack sitting next to me. I can breath deeply again. I feel fresh again, renewed and clean inside and out.
So....My real question is....Why are the nicotine replacement products recommended when they have such a high failure rate and it has been proven that the brain must be "re-booted" in a sense, in order to create new pathways of neurons, like creating uncharted territory in the brain and getting off those same old addiction paths....
Thanks Again,
Lori from Alabama
Thanks again for your site, I learned a great deal by reading others stories and questions. Mostly I learned that the general population (including myself) needs a lot of education when it comes to learning the simple fact that nicotine is an addiction.
No matter what we say our reasons for smoking are, we are lying to ourselves and everyone that we try to convince otherwise.
We don't smoke because we just plain enjoy it or because our parents did it, their parents did it, and its just what we like to do; we do it because we feel like we cant live without it, and of course we will never admit that we do it because we are addicts, no one readily admits to that. "Hey it's only cigarettes," "right." That's what I used to say. Anyone who says they only smoke because they like it is a liar, and if you are sitting there reading this and saying to yourself I can quit anytime I like, I am not an addict, then I challenge you to do it, at least for 7 days, prove me wrong.
No cheating allowed, not even a puff. Good luck to all who are brave enough to stick with it no matter what comes your way.
Every day for me it keeps getting just a little bit easier to stop thinking about them, especially when it keeps getting easier to breath, and I am really starting to feel good in my own skin again.
Today makes SIXTEEN DAYS SMOKE FREEEEE…WOOO HOOO!
Not Even a Puff
By taking ONE puff, the smoker either goes back to full-fledged smoking or goes through the withdrawal process AGAIN. 98% don't opt for the withdrawal symptoms again.
Not Even a Puff
Don't look for loopholes in the law of addiction. You will be convicting yourself back to smoking. While it may seem harsh and unfair, to many, smoking is a crime punishable by death. Don't try to cheat the system - NEVER TAKE ANOTHER PUFF!
Remember that there are only two good reasons to take a puff once you quit.
1. You decide you want to go back to your old level of consumption until smoking cripples and then kills you, or;
2. You decide you really enjoy withdrawal and you want to make it last forever. As long as neither of these options appeal to you
Most people who abstain from smoking for three months can be cigarette-free for the rest of their lives. Your risk of heart disease and lung cancer drop steadily after you quit. Three years after quitting, your risk of dying from a heart attack is about the same as if you had never smoked, according to the American Heart Association.
But even after you've abstained for a while, don't be lulled into letting your guard down. Because the nature of nicotine addiction makes it impossible for most people to be occasional smokers, "you need to treat cigarettes the way an alcoholic treats booze," he says. "Don't take even a single puff."
I have received so many questions like this, I decided to publish this right up front in hopes that it will help both those who smoke and those who care for someone who does understand some of its implications and consequences.
Message: I am in love with someone who has been smoking since he was like 14 and he's 18 and i want to help him quit but i read that Nicoderm and Nicorette don't work because they only help you with the >nicotine not the sugar because its really a sugar addiction. I've tried telling him facts about smoking but he wont listen so can you give me some good solid information that will scare him to death and make him quit cold turkey?
There is no direct link between sugar and nicotine, although enough sugar can mimic a nicotine high and some can develop a psychological and even a physical dependence. However, sugar is just not in the same league with tobacco / nicotine.
Best advice, say to your boy friend:
Therefore, I must sadly turn away from you because I know that the pain of separation now will be much less than in thirty years when I and the children watch you slowly, painfully struggle to take even one breath. Perhaps this will be the final straw you need to quit and stay quit but I don't want you to quit for me but to quit for yourself and all your unborn children.
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Collaboration to focus on research and development of antibodies for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
Merck Serono, a division of Merck, Darmstadt, Germany, and the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, the research division of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System in New York, announced today that they will collaborate to develop antibodies for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Under the terms of the agreement, Merck Serono will fund a research program at the Feinstein Institute and be responsible for the development and commercialization of the antibodies resulting from the collaboration. The program will focus on the use of antibodies to inhibit the action of certain proteins responsible for inflammation in the pathogenesis of SLE. Further details of the agreement and financial terms are not disclosed.
"There is a very high unmet medical need for novel therapies to treat systemic lupus erythematosus. Over the last fifty years, only one new treatment option has been approved to treat the disease," said Dr Bernhard Kirschbaum, Executive Vice President, Head of Global Research and Early Development for Merck Serono. "The Feinstein Institute is at the forefront of translational research in inflammatory and autoimmune diseases and this is a rare opportunity for our researchers to collaborate with key experts in the field of systemic lupus erythematosus to develop alternative therapeutic approaches, and further strengthen our research capabilities in the field of immunology."
"We are delighted to collaborate with Merck Serono to develop therapeutics for lupus with the potential to treat the underlying causes of the disease," said Betty Diamond, MD, Head of the Center for Autoimmune & Musculoskeletal Diseases at the Feinstein Institute. "The resources of Merck Serono will be an important addition to our efforts to provide new antibody therapeutics targeted at inflammatory processes. These mechanisms are critical to solving the problem of lupus and many other autoimmune diseases. It is gratifying to ally Feinstein research discoveries with strong pharmaceutical interest. Merck Serono is an ideal partner in this regard," added Kevin J. Tracey, MD, President of the Feinstein Institute.
The pathogenesis of SLE is multifactorial, including genetic and environmental factors and abnormalities of both the innate and the adaptive immune system. Merck Serono is currently investigating atacicept in phase II of clinical development, for the treatment of SLE. Atacicept targets B cells which are thought to have a role in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases such as SLE, and inhibits their development. The collaboration with the Feinstein Institute will allow Merck Serono to further strengthen its research into alternative mechanisms for the treatment of SLE.
About systemic systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
SLE is a chronic inflammatory disease, where the immune system attacks the body's own tissues and organs. SLE is the most common form of lupus and can result in swollen, painful joints, skin rash, extreme fatigue and kidney damage. The disease is typically diagnosed in patients between 20 and 40 years of age, more often in women. The number of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus is estimated at more than 600.000 worldwide.[1]
[1] Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Decision Resources. January 2011
About The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
Headquartered in Manhasset, NY, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research is home to international scientific leaders in Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, psychiatric disorders, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, sepsis, human genetics, pulmonary hypertension, leukemia, neuroimmunology and medicinal chemistry. The Feinstein Institute, part of the North Shore-LIJ Health System, ranks in the top 5th percentile of all National Institutes of Health grants awarded to research centers. For more information visit http://www.FeinsteinInstitute.org
About Merck Serono
Merck Serono is the biopharmaceutical division of Merck KGaA. With headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany, Merck Serono offers leading brands in 150 countries to help patients with cancer, multiple sclerosis, infertility, endocrine and metabolic disorders as well as cardiovascular diseases. In the United States and Canada, EMD Serono operates as a separately incorporated subsidiary of Merck Serono.
Merck Serono discovers, develops, manufactures and markets prescription medicines of both chemical and biological origin in specialist indications. We have an enduring commitment to deliver novel therapies in our core focus areas of oncology, neurology and immunology.
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At a special Seib & Wessel event in Washington, D.C., Sen. John McCain said his constituents, and he personally, remained confused about the U.S.'s intentions and goals for intervening in the Syrian conflict.
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International Women's Day is the story of ordinary women making history. Today, the voices of women in Africa are being heard as they engage in action to limit climate change through deforestation.
With carbon emissions from forest loss estimated to account for about 20% of human-induced emissions, conserving forests is critical to tackling climate change. REDD, or Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, a scheme under the United Nations climate convention, offers incentives for developing countries to reduce emissions from forested lands and invest in low-carbon paths to sustainable development.
In many parts of the world communities depend on forests as a source of fuel, food, medicines and shelter, and forests are home to nearly 90% of the world's terrestrial biodiversity. Forest resources directly support the livelihoods of 90% of the 1.2 billion people living in extreme poverty, 70% of which are women.
"Women have enormous potential as agents of positive change and their leadership is critical when discussing climate change mitigation and adaptation policies. Yet women face daily conditions that limit their full participation," says Lorena Aguilar, IUCN's Senior Adviser on Gender.
REDD+ goes further to include the conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries.
More than 100 women from various women groups in Cameroon, Ghana and Uganda are now involved in the development of national strategies on REDD+ in their respective countries. They believe that the involvement of women as equal partners in REDD+ decision-making and implementation is fundamental to its objectives of equity, legitimacy, effectiveness and efficiency.
"The number of women in environmental decision-making is limited, but where women are involved, better environmental management of community forestry resources and actions to improve access to education and clean water have been some of the best results," Aguilar explains.
Research shows that:
• Women in rural areas are responsible for collecting water in almost two-thirds of households in developing countries.
• Women account for two-thirds of 774 million adult illiterates in the world. This limits their access to information and vocational options and their ability to adapt to environmental degradation.
• Women comprise 43% of the agricultural workforce in developing countries, yet they have less access to resources such as land, credit, technology and opportunities.
• A recent study in 141 countries found that in societies where gender inequality is high, more women than men die when disasters strike.
While REDD+ presents potential benefits for communities it also presents potentially serious negative outcomes, especially for women who rely on forest resources for their families' livelihoods. Women and men have different roles, use, access and control of forest resources. Men are more likely to be involved in harvesting forest products for commercial purposes (timber and poles). Women typically gather forest products for fuel, food, handicraft raw materials, medicinal herbs and livestock fodder, all of which increase family income. But women's rights and access to trees and forest products is constrained by social or cultural factors.
"The current REDD+ process has been very weak with respect to the gender dimension and its impact on women; it is critical to address this gap," says Aguilar.
Under pro-poor REDD+ projects funded by the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) IUCN is helping to develop gender and REDD+ 'Road Maps' in Cameroon, Ghana and Uganda. This allows women in these countries to improve their knowledge of forests and their ecological function, climate change and its different impacts on women and men, and understand the implications of REDD+ for them and their countries.
Women are now involved in REDD+ pilot schemes in each country and are part of national discussions. They are making informed decisions and contributing to forest conservation and management.
"There is still much work to be done to ensure that gender equality and women's rights are sufficiently considered in national REDD+ processes and implementation," says Aguilar. "But it is a good start that will pave the way in facilitating a gender responsible REDD+ that can create a new legacy for girls and ensure that gender equality become a reality for them."


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These gorgeous photos of fall foliage are bound to have you packing up the car for a Nova Scotia road trip this fall! But don't go without your camera. We want you to share your favourite fall photos with us! Post them to our Facebook wall. And be sure to tag #NSLEAFWATCH (along with #VisitNovaScotia) on Instagram for a chance to be featured by our @VisitNovaScotia account. Most importantly, don't forget to tell us where you captured your best shots. Happy Leaf Watching everyone!
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Victim's name: Ellyn Leslie Hoge, 36
Where body found: I-25 and 18th Street
Investigative agency:Denver police
Date killed: April 7, 1992
Cause of Death: Run over by truck
Suspect: None identified
Jennifer Ciari was 13 when she and her classmates talked about the nude woman whose body was shattered in a collision with a semi-tractor trailer on Interstate 25.
The Merrill Junior High School student was in history class that day — April 8, 1992.
"How sad," she told her classmates. "That was someone's sister, daughter and mother."
As it turned out, it was her own mother.
But Ciari had no idea initially because she had been living with her grandparents since she was 9 years old.
"I got a note in class that said go straight home," Ciari said.
She was rebellious and sometimes took the long way home, but the note was so odd, she rushed to her house.
When she arrived, her grandfather, who never cried, was sitting on the couch sobbing. A stranger was in the living room. He stood and said he was a victim assistance officer.
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OBJECTIVE: The North-by-North Turkish Studies Reading Group provides a space for critical, interdisciplinary discussion about contemporary Turkey. After launching last fall, we are pleased to announce the program for our second year. Over the course of the 2016-2017 academic year we will meet bimonthly. Each session will be devoted to discussion of a recent book on Turkey. Texts will range from works of academic scholarship to recent translations of 20th-century Turkish literature into English, as well as long-form journalistic accounts of the country. Some meetings will also include a screening of a film or presentation of visual texts as basis for discussion in addition to the assigned text. Participants are expected to get copies of the books for themselves and encouraged to try to read the whole text prior to the scheduled meetings. Since there are relatively few spaces where Montreal-based scholars, journalists, writers, and documentary film-makers working on contemporary Turkey can gather, our group provides a place at McGill where people with both professional and personal interests in Turkey can meet. It will also serve as a bridge to connect McGill academics to people working on and interested in Turkey in the city of Montreal more broadly. Given Turkey's geopolitical importance and recent events in the country that have propelled it into daily headlines, this year the group will be particularly topical. The group is organized with support and collaboration of The Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas or IPLAI.
GROUPS LEADERS: The group will be organized and led by Kate Elizabeth Creasey, Timur Hammond, and Ipek Tureli. Kate develops factual television series for American and Canadian cable networks at CMJ Productions II in Montreal. She is also a PhD student in modern Middle Eastern history at UCLA. She is currently writing a cultural history of military rule in 1980s Turkey. Timur Hammond recently received his PhD in geography from UCLA. Currently, he is an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Vermont and is working on a manuscript about the transformation of the Eyup district of Istanbul. Ipek Tureli is an assistant professor in the School of Architecture at McGill. She has published on architecture and urban space in Istanbul.
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About the author
Maria V. Snyder
Maria V. Snyder changed from being a meteorologist to a novelist in 1995, when she began writing to keep her sanity while raising two children. Since then, she has published numerous freelance articles in magazines and newspapers, and teaches fiction-writing classes at the local college and area libraries. The classes give her the wonderful opportunity to encourage fellow writers, and to keep improving her craft.Born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Maria always had a fascination with big storms. Dreaming of chasing tornados, Maria earned a bachelors of science degree in meteorology at Penn State University. But she discovered, much to her chagrin, that forecasting the weather wasn't one of her skills. In order to chase tornados you had to predict where they might form. Creating fantasy worlds where she has complete control of the weather was more agreeable to her.Maria's research on food-tasting methods with an expert chocolate taster, her husband, turned out to be a delicious bonus while writing Poison Study.Maria has a brown belt in Isshinryu Karate, and enjoys playing volleyball and the cello. Traveling in general and via cruise ship in particular are her biggest distractions from writing. Maria has traveled to Belize, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Europe, Mexico, the Caribbean and through the Panama Canal.Maria lives with her husband, son, daughter and yellow lab, Hazelnut, in Pennsylvania where she is at work on more LUNA novels. She is also pursuing a master's degree in writing popular fiction from Seton Hill University.Readers are welcome to contact Maria at the following email address: [email protected]


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- Lodger killed woman then lived with her body at Battersea flat
- Sturgeon calls for powers to set up 'Scottish visa' system
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Apex Bin Hire is one of the largest waste management providers for the City of Stonnington suburbs including Windsor.
we have been operating for the past 30 years handling the disposal of domestic, commercial, industrial and building waste.
We have a number of bin sizes from 2.5m to 35m.
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We can meet your needs 7 days a week by arrangement.
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We can also supply top soil, garden mix and crushed brick and concrete in Windsor at very competitive prices.
Our product is suitable for filling in excavated areas, as a roadbase or for driveways or landscaping.
Our Clean Fill is perfect for retaining walls. Our clean fill consists of naturally occurring products mostly dirt but also may also contain clay, gravel and small pieces of rock. We quality check it before it comes out to you.
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Be wary of skip bin providers in Windsor offering very cheap quotes for skip hire.
Vacant blocks and industrial estates in and around Windsor are increasingly becoming illegal dumping grounds for shady skip hire operators. In fact, the waste industry in Melbourne is rife with cowboy operators attracted by easy money and lax enforcement of regulations. The EPA says council areas such as City of Stonnington are favoured "hotspots" for the illegal dumping of construction and demolition waste. Despite the EPA now warning the public to beware of companies that offer suspiciously cheap skip hire prices in Windsor, many unscrupulous operators are still renting skip bins to unsuspecting customers in City of Stonnington.
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