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Kelly Montgomery is in her 5th year as band director at Cypress Grove Intermediate, and her 12th year of teaching. Prior to coming to Cypress Grove, Mrs. Montgomery taught at Amarillo High School and Crockett Middle School in Amarillo, as well as Willow Wood Jr High in Tomball. Mrs. Montgomery also taught private lessons for Amarillo ISD, Canyon ISD, Montgomery ISD, Klein ISD, and College Station ISD.
Mrs. Montgomery has been married to Greg Montgomery (band director at CSMS) for 16 years and they have 2 wonderful sons. Jack is 14 and plays the euphonium in the CSHS band. Matthew is 11 and is a 6th grader at Cypress Grove (starting french horn this year!). Both boys are active in sports and enjoy music. The Montgomerys enjoy attending baseball games (minor league games and the Houston Astros), anything outdoors, and touring baseball venues during summer vacation.
Mrs. Montgomery is a member of the Texas Music Educators Association and the Texas Bandmasters Association.


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Letters to the Children's Fund
Dear Children's Fund,
I wanted to share with you the joy brought to our student when he received his bag of new things made possible through the Children's Fund. My husband and I went to their home to deliver the clothes, boots and a box of food which we had purchased for them. The final thing I put on their table were the two pairs of boots and I made the comment that these boots will surely be needed this week (since it has been raining hard everyday.) He looked and only saw his sister's (obviously girl) boots and sadly asked, "What about me?" I said, oh, yours are here and lifted hers so he could see the pair I purchased for him. He squealed in delighted grabbed them up in a huge hug, grinning from ear to ear and cried out over and over, "I got ARMY boots....I got ARMY boots....." as he danced around the room.....now try standing there, watching that without crying!!!
The work you do makes these moments possible for kids who would otherwise have very, very little and we thank you so very much. They could not have appreciated the help given their family any more than they did.
Thank you again from all of Lockwood Elementary,
Candy Elmer
Dear Childrens Fund,
I want to tell you of the joy I had today in school. Recently, I requested $100 from the WEA Childrens Fund for clothes and shoes for a 7th grade girl who had become homeless. She was unable to participate in my P.E. class because of a skirt found at the shelter that was too short and shoes that were too small. She was very candid with me regarding her familys plight and apologized for not being able to participate like she regularly does.
I received authorization from you in 18 hrs. The clothes were purchased yesterday and I am faxing the receipts today.
As I was walking through the cafeteria today, she called my name and came over to me and showed me her new shoes. I was quit impressed, and then she showed me the new sweatshirt, pants, and top that she got. The smile on her face lit up the whole cafeteria and gave me a glow that lasted all day. She then came to P.E. the next period and performed on the climbing wall like Spider Man.
Your program made one 13 year old girl in an awful situation very happy. It also made a 34 year veteran teacher almost cry in the lunch line. You are doing a wonderful job and I thank you so much.
I made it clear to her that the money did not come from my pocket, but from the many teachers from all over Washington who contribute to the Childrens Fund.
Ken Gray, Fitness and Health Education
LaVentureMiddle School
The following is to express my gratitude for allowing me to bring happiness as well as meet some basic needs for a couple of my students. The jackets and winter boots that the two students received through the WEA Children's Fund are very beneficial to the students and the students were very grateful. I am so glad that the WEA offers this fund. I appreciate your time and effort in this program. It is through programs like this that we can show students and the community the true meaning of teaching and caring. This act has also brought those two students and myself much closer, as one student put it "you're my best friend," which left me speechless. ... Once again I thank you and the students thank you.
Ernesto Araiza, Teacher
Wapato School District
I wanted to take this opportunity to thank the WEA Children's Fund for providing warm clothes to the children at Concord Elementary. In particular, when I called you concerning (two students), you were more than happy to quickly address the urgent needs of these children. The parents were delighted and grateful for your assistance. Due to the support given by WEA the parents have agreed to join our parenting program. The work of you and your organization helped me to reach out to this family and make them feel like an important and cared for member of our Concord community. Once again WEA builds bridges and brings hope to unprivileged children and their families.
Diane Weibling, Family Support Worker
Concord Elementary School, Seattle School District
I had heard about WEA Children's Fund program to provide needy children with winter coats, but I had never used the offer because I knew I would have to use my own money and then be reimbursed who knows when. But, I had a student who needed a coat immediately, so I decided to try out the WEA program. I called and spoke with Janie Moxley. Not only did she say I could get a coat, but she also let me pick up socks and other necessities for this child. My only problem now is that my student never wants to take off her coat! She loves it and her family is most appreciative. To cap this story off -- I faxed my receipt to Janie and was reimbursed immediately! Ah! This is a system that works for me!
I'd like to share one more story. A mother called me on a Thursday afternoon saying that her two boys needed coats and she had no money to buy them. I called Janie on Friday, and she gave me the OK. So on Monday morning, as I was preparing to take the kids to buy their coats, their mother came in to find out when I would be able to get the coats. She was thrilled to hear I was on my way and went with me to help pick the coats.
I have only used your services twice, but it has made a big difference in the lives of three children at my school. Thank you so much for caring and responding so quickly!
Diane Weibling, Family Support Worker
Concord Elementary School, Seattle School District
My name is Johnnie J. I am a foster mom. I have been for the last 18 months with a total of twelve children in my care. Because of wonderful people like you and the Children's Fund, you have made this great challenge I have been blessed with a lot easier. Brian was so happy when he put on his new clothes. I am sending you a picture of Brian and my other three children. Thank you so much for being there for the children. God Bless you.
Johnnie J.
I am a single parent of five loving children. One of my daughters attends Concord Elementary School. She had been very unhappy about not having very many clothes to wear to school. Which was hurting me also. I am struggling to support my children, and their needs. I also pay child support for my 6-year-old son when I can. I am also struggling to find work. The help that you have provided is very much appreciated. There should be more caring and understanding people such as yourself. Again thank you so much for your concern and help. Have a very merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year.
Thank you again,
Kristi P.
I wanted to thank you and the Children's Fund on behalf of Amanda for the jacket. She was very excited about it and I haven't seen her since she got it when she didn't have it on. We really appreciate it. Down the road when kids are out of college, I will plan to contribute to the "fund".
Thanks so much.
Gidget Voss
Centralia Middle School
Recently, a teacher told me about another student who was also wearing too-small clothing and for whom we were able to get clothes form WEA. This student was trying his best to be invisible at school. After he got the new clothes which fit properly, he started participating in class and raising his hand to answer questions. His grades improved too. Isn't that great? I hope it does as much for these two students.
Have a great holiday season. You sure make my job easier all year. It could be a frustrating venture without you. Thank you so much.
Mary-Jane Wyeth
Stanwood School District
Thank you so much for providing the boots for all of our little ones this year. We at Windsor are so grateful for the Children's Fund! I know the children are too, even though they don't always let us know in a formal way. The smiles and the hugs, and the Thank you's that I get are the real signs! Thanks again!!
Mary Evans, Counselor
Windsor Elementary
Spokane School District
I'm so very grateful for the help you've given to me and my children. I'm a single mother of three and I was struggling with school clothes. You made my children's school year a happy one. I just wanted to give you my deepest thanks.
God Bless,
A Grateful Mom
I wanted to thank you for helping me to put a smile on Alberta's face. I wish that you could have seen the twinkle in her eyes when she opened all seven boxes of clothes.
Thank you so much. God bless you!
Yours Truly,
Thank you for your help with this student. His is a most sad case, with poverty and broken home added to a father who is barely making it through a day-by-day alcoholic haze. And he's the major caregiver. I am including a photocopy of this boy's thank-you note. He mentions that we spent money on his brothers and sisters, which we did. We tried to help all the kids.
Mark Wiesen
Ellensburg School District
We at Longfellow Elementary School really appreciate all your efforts on behalf of the two children who you provided coats and shoes for. The children were extremely delighted and "all smiles" when presented with this surprise. The parent also expressed her sincere appreciation for this assistance. It is refreshing to know that there are agencies such as yours that are willing to assist children in their time of need.
Again, many thanks.
Jo Carr Wendt, District Counselor
Spokane School District
We really appreciate your support recently in providing backpacks for a couple of kids. Backpacks are pretty much standard and necessary equipment. We're glad that these students will now be better prepared to tackle their school day. Thanks for your help.
Diane Allen
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These real-life examples show how you can make a difference in children's lives
Two children attending Vale Elementary in Cashmere were walking to school without adequate winter clothing. Both of their parents work as fruit packers making only minimum wage. The children came into class wet and cold each morning. Thanks to the Children's Fund, they now have warm clothes that fit.
A third-grade student from John Hay Elementary in Seattle was coming to school in his mother's coat, which was much too large, because he had outgrown his own coat. A single mom on a very low income could not purchase a coat for her son, nor could she replace her coat. The Children's Fund stepped in.
An 18-year-old in the Spokane Skills Center had been typed as a "throwaway," although his teacher says he is one of the fastest, smartest students to have attended the Machine Technology class. Although it was winter in Spokane, the student wore a ragged white T-shirt with holes, a pair of cutoffs and tennis shoes with no socks. The Children's Fund provided much more suitable new clothing.
A foster mother caring for 12 children over a period of 18 months was unable to provide clothes for all the kids in her care. A photograph of the children who have been helped by the WEA Children's Fund accompanied her gracious thank-you note.
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As well it should.From Capital Spectator:
The US Treasury market's implied inflation forecast has surged in recent days, albeit after reaching unusually low levels last month. Nonetheless, the rollercoaster of revising expectations rolls on, and this time there's an upside bias bubbling. The spread between the nominal 10-year yield and its inflation-indexed counterpart reached 1.48% yesterday (Mar. 1), based on daily data from Treasury.gov. That's still a low rate relative to the roughly 1.5%-2.5% range in recent years. But the latest pop marks a sharp increase from mid-February, when the market's inflation forecast at one point dipped to 1.18%.
The upward bias of late looks reasonable in the wake of last week's January report on personal income and spending, which revealed a firmer inflation trend. The personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index increased 1.3% for the year through January, the strongest annual gain since Oct. 2014. Meanwhile, the Fed's preferred inflation benchmark—core PCE, which excludes food and energy—ticked up to a 1.7% year-over-year increase, which marks the biggest advance since July 2014.
The upward repricing of inflation expectations can be seen as a correction after weeks of anticipating weaker economic growth via bearish signals pouring forth from the equity and bond markets. But the January macro profile suggests that the US macro trend is stronger than the previously assumed. Slow growth continues to be the working assumption for the near-term future, but the case is still unconvincing for arguing that a new recession has started, or is about to start. Indeed, the Atlanta Fed's GDPNow model is currently projecting a 1.9% gain (seasonally adjusted annual rate) for US output in this year's first quarter (as of Mar. 1). That's a modest increase, but it's conspicuously above the 1.0% GDP rise for last year's fourth quarter.
Perhaps, then, it's no surprise that the market is again repricing yields to reflect expectations for a modest growth trend. The 2-year Treasury yield, which is considered the most sensitive to rate expectations, has rebounded to 0.85% as of yesterday (Mar. 1)—the highest since late-January....MOREAmey Stone at Barron's Income Investing has been on a Buy TIPS kick for the last month.
First off it was Feb. 6's "TIPS: Cheap and Contrarian" which came out before the consumer inflation uptick came out on the 19th:
With inflation expectations moribund, buying a hedge against markets getting it wrong may be worthwhile. But it can be a complicated strategy....She followed up on the 25th with "Goldman Disagrees With What TIPS Are Saying About Inflation":
Recently:Economists at Goldman Sachs pointed out in a research note Tuesday that inflation rates forecast by Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) don't make a heck of a lot of sense. Even as the core Consumer Price Index has risen lately, TIPS breakevens are at all-time lows — just 1.37%.The securities have priced in average inflation of just 1.5% for the next 10 years. Goldman'sElad Pashtan writes in the report:Following today's market close, the 10-year breakeven traded at 1.37%, implying that headline CPI will, on average, be 88bps below the Fed's inflation target in CPI terms over the next ten years (the gap between headline CPI and headline PCE has averaged roughly 25bps). Forward breakeven rates paint a similarly stark picture: headline CPI is not priced to average more than 1.5% during any one-year period over the next ten years.Goldman thinks inflation will run higher than that. Pashtan writes:Looking ahead, we expect headline CPI to average 1.3% in 2016, and to accelerate to 2.4% in 2017. Both levels are well above forward rates implied by TIPS. Despite our inherent disagreement with inflation markets on breakeven levels, we—along with other economists responding to the Philadelphia Fed's Survey of Professional Forecasters—do agree with TIPS and assign a very low probability for outright deflation in the coming year.Why are TIPS breakevens so low if prominent economists disagree? Pashtan sees three possible explanations:...MORE
Feb. 24
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Feb. 19
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Like many writers of the era, he was a professional writer who wrote whatever would pay, so he produced numerous stories for the many science fiction and mystery magazines of the day, even taking a turn as a ghost writer for an Ellery Queen mystery.
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If not already on two separate paths, the local Lafayette CA real estate market is likely destined for two tales in 2016 – one occupied by the more affordable segment of the market, and one occupied by Lafayette homes that are priced above the market mean. Rather than relying solely upon the pundits of real estate, the numerous predictors of the market, etc., I'm also drawing upon some of the take-aways from a recent conference that I attended for the top 5% or so of our company's 550+ agents with a geographic span that covers the Bay Area's major markets.
For most, 2016 has started off slower than last year. There are certainly a number of possible reasons for the delayed start… a wetter than normal winter, lack of inventory, etc. However, the better bet is that the turmoil in global equities and specifically the tech sector is the real culprit. In fact, the inflection point in the Bay Area market seems to go back to about October of last year when we saw the months-of-inventory for "luxury" home product soar substantially above 2014's level.
If one placed a graph of the NASDAQ on top of a graph of the Bay Area real estate market, they would be virtually indistinguishable from one another. No surprise. So, the implosion of certain tech company's valuations this year should and will have an impact on Bay Area real estate.
It will be subtle, and nothing to be alarmed about, unless you were hoping to ride last year's wave of luxury home sales. That train may have left the station, and in its place will be a much more cautious, patient set of buyers. They may still buy in the various enclaves of exclusive homes in the Bay Area, but they will do it much more deliberately than in recent years. The return to mean for tech valuations has been a mini-deflation of a bubble that was generating some irrational exuberance in the purchase of upper end properties throughout the Bay Area. Homes in Lafayette will be no exception to the broader trend, and we will see this play out this year. In fact, we've witnessed it with buyers who have substantially scaled back their plans for buying in the luxury segment.
Looking at the current market, we saw about a 20% boost in the inventory of Lafayette homes for sale this past week, but what is most profound is the number of homes in the over $2M segment — typically the point where we move into the "luxury home" category for the Lafayette real estate market. Almost half of the homes presently on the MLS today in Lafayette are priced at over $2M, with "days-on-market" ranging from 1 day to 258 days. Even more telling is a look at the pending home sales in Lafayette. Of the 19 homes pending in escrow, only one is priced over $2M.
Ultra-low interest rates and a continued flow of younger couples relocating into the area or migrating from San Francisco/Oakland to Lafayette will keep our market hot, but the bulk of the demand will be in the price points below $2M. It is in this segment that we expect to see a continuation of multiple offer situations for homes that are properly priced to the market.


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I miss my nani.
It has been four years since she's gone. Two years ago, I met a new reason for why what I missed was special.
I'd given my students a creative assignment to address a problem we were facing as a class. (Problem: I used to tutor a course, 'Indian writings in English', & we were scuffling with a specific concern about the selection of writings in it – whether they were inclusive &/ or representative enough. My Ist year kids were unhappy that most of the Indian writers they read for self/ leisure were not on the list of prescribed reading. Definitely none of their favorite ones. The creative assignment became a way of exploring and sharing the range of writing that contemporary India could do in English, through a sample study of our own little group of 30.)
This is what R wrote. She called it 'Nani'. This:
My grandmother
is the original Mrs Malaprop.
Very few people, after all, can
inform her guests at a dinner party that
she saw striptease artists flying across stage at
the Russian circus, or
that the bust of her new blouse didn't fit.
makes peanut chikki every Diwali.
A basket of brown wafer thin,
sugary peanut squares that she
crushed and cooked and rolled out and cut up
for every person she knows.
One year, she made one hundred and fifty extra baskets
for every single teacher in the school she works for.
is a devotee of Dadaji.
Dada J. P. Vaswani, nephew of the great Sadhu Vaswani himself.
She is one of his loyalest followers;
she even has a watch that says "deen bandhu deena nath"
in Dada's voice, every hour.
calls my nana "Mr. Mathrani" when she is happy,
and Ram only when she is upset.
She worries about him endlessly,
and when he takes five minutes too long on his
evening walk,
straps on trainers under her sari and goes
looking for him.
dissects everything she eats
pulls it apart at the table, lists its ingredients
hypothesizes about how it was made, and declares
that it was not worth spending money on,
she could make it ten times better at home.
the first time she met my boyfriend,
told me in Sindhi,
while he was smiling, blissfully unaware,
that the "charya" should shave off his beard,
it made him look like a Muslim.
also, incidentally, is fluent in Sindhi, English,
Hindi, can read Gurmukhi and Urdu, and
is a strange hybrid between Sikh & Hindu.
Is it so odd, then, that her favorite exclamation
when something goes wrong is
swims like a big stately ship
in a swimming costume with
polka dots and a respectable frilly skirt
she sedately makes her way across the pool,
propelled solely by the movement and splashes
of people around her.
She taught me how to swim,
and it used to be our one thing to do together;
gymkhana club afternoons, eating french fries
on the lawn afterwards.
When I was smaller, she
would hug me when I got shouted at
and help me play hide and seek
by hiding me on her lap under the pallu of her sari
while everyone pretended not to notice the strange,
giggling bulge that had suddenly appeared.
only wears white saris.
It's very odd, no-one really knows why.
wears a big maroon bindi
and her hair reaches her waist.
She leaves a trail around the house,
her hairnet fallen in the corner of a room,
a hairpin or two,
and her bindi absentmindedly removed
and stuck onto the next flat surface.
I was always fascinated by the bindi collection
on her dressing table mirror
a variety of maroon circles in varying sizes,
arranged haphazardly in the corners,
framing her face as she twisted her hair
into a bun,
and deftly stabbed it into place with long
u-shaped pins.
wears bifocals with black metal rims,
her vague smiling eyes magnified into half moons,
with the round frames softening the rest of her face.
I've always thought her glasses made her look more
beautiful than she does in her old photographs.
I could tell you all about her;
I could tell you the exact procedure
involved in the monthly hair coloring ritual;
I could tell you about her childhood
and the mango tree, and thirteen siblings;
I could tell you about her unwavering faith
in nutrition columns,
her secret love of shortbread and marshmallows;
and how when she was learning to use the cellphone,
she proudly typed her own SMS,
and for two months,
was under the impression that
there was no mechanism for inserting spaces-
But I can't seem to tell you how beautiful she is,
and how much I love her.
Grandmothers, perhaps, are meant
to be taken for granted.
& then, the quiet, soft-spoken, calm girl wept. Her nani was unwell those days, & a pundit they believed in had predicted a tough time. We, everyone in class, silently sat with her. She'd written this out in a mix of dread & prayer.
I came back home, & wept again. Silently. For R. For myself. It'd been two years then, the first few months of which I'd missed her intensely, imagining she'd left for her village in Bannukot. Then, eventually, I had come to believe she had returned, to watch over me. Accompany me in my humdrum. I believed this so fully that I even found her agreeing to decisions I made with conviction, or helping me let up my doubts when I had any. By that year's end, I got her name tattooed on my wrist, like she was playing a role in all my handiwork. Writing (that poem, her name, this post) has a side-splitting relationship with living.
R's nani got better. She is nothing like mine. I'm certain, although we are yet to meet. I have tasted some of her cooking, though I'm still to sample her chikki. My nani's special annual feast used to be maalpuas on Lohri. The tattoo is in Pashto, because that was one of my nani's languages, not Sindhi. But I can't seem to tell how much I love her either, & I won't even try. I am still angry with myself for taking her for granted.
Grandmothers are unique. Each one, a singular blessing. But after that afternoon, I can see my nani's face in hers. And that, is special.


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ADD vs ADHD – the difference
It was at a lunch meeting when I first learned about integrative doctors. I was sitting across the table from Jenny, a naturopath who will be speaking at the ADHD Beyond ALL Limits conference and she asked if I was aware of integrative doctors, I had no idea.
According to the website of the Natural Institute of Integrated Medicine of Australia (www.niim.com.au) an integrative doctor is defined as follows:
Your integrative GP has the usual qualifications of a doctor, as well as many years' experience, but is also further qualified in one or more complementary medicine modalities, such as nutrition and environmental medicine, herbal medicine, or naturopathy. Integrative GPs are able to assess and treat patients using a combination of both mainstream and complementary medicine, as appropriate.
OMG! I was shocked I didn't even know that doctors like this existed, the fact that doctors who are usually ruled by science would even consider the use of natural therapies made me super excited.
I knew I just had to have a doctor like this at the conference! Not just any doctor though, one that had an interest in ADHD.
Jenny, the naturopath also advised me that these doctors may also specialise in a program called Bio Balance and they were having a conference soon. I quickly jumped on the website to find out more about this Bio Balance and find a doctor.
I found one based on the Sunshine Coast, Dr Nicole Nelson who specialises in ADHD and other behavioural disorders.
By chance, she was also attending that conference so we agreed to meet there and chat.
Before I even went into the conference to find out more about Bio Balance, Dr Nelson assured me that there was a place in ADHD for both natural and scientific alternatives. Everyone is different and both children and adults respond to things different. This won me in a second. All too much I see this 'one size fits all approach' and it drives me crazy, especially for ADHD!
ADHD presents so differently in many children and adults, so how can we treat it exactly the same!
Throughout the conference, I just became more and more interested and I am craving more. There was talk about how tests are done to see what chemicals are out of balance in the body and an in-depth treatment with diet, nutrients and minerals can assist this.
Before you scoff that the fact that this is just the diet talk again, please stick with me.
Bio Balance is a lot more than just diet it is understanding the body and how it works and reacts to certain things. It has to be done in conjunction with a doctor and/or naturopath to ensure it is being done effectively, it is not something that can be done by oneself.
On their website (www.biobalance.org.au) it is explained it as:
The treatment involves assessment of each patient's body chemistry imbalances using a range of laboratory tests of blood, urine and hair samples, along with physical examination, medical and life history data. Individualised complementary nutritional supplement programs aimed at balancing the patient's body chemistry are prescribed on the basis of these assessments.
It made total sense to me. Different parts of the body work in different ways and they can react to a variety of things both internal (i.e. food, mental health such as stress, etc.) and external (i.e. cleaning products, general air quality etc.) causing a variety of chemical reactions. This is just pure science.
My top reasons for considering an integrated doctor in your health plan for ADHD:
- They don't claim to be miracle workers and remove medication from children. They more say they work with you until all the chemical readings are great in the body and if you find you don't need the medication any longer then that's what happens. They have patients still on their medication but just lower doses and they have patients completely off their medication.
- They don't claim a one size fits all approach. They say that everyone is different and they do the tests to see what is different and treat accordingly.
- They are still doctors so they are not going to remove the medication if they don't think it still needs to be there, so you don't have to fight against or for medication (that is a stress relief whatever way you think)
- They are a fully trained GP who has just done extra training in Bio Balance research and strategies.
- If they specialise in ADHD then you have a general GP who knows what you are talking about and is likely to be more open with anything you wish to try, whether it be scientific or natural.
After being at this conference in a room with Doctors, Psychiatrists, Naturopaths and Parents, I was convinced that this is definitely something that I will be looking further into. The simple cross over between natural and scientific and knowing that there are doctors that would even consider this made me excited!
If you want to know more about Bio Balance and integrative doctors, I have Dr Nelson speaking at the conference on the 10th June so click the link here to find out more.https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/beyond-all-limits-adhd-conference-tickets-32984599826
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With the number of high profile cyber attacks reported in the media increasing, IT security seems like an interesting place to be right now. Couple that with images from plenty of TV dramas and films of people working away in high tech labs or futuristic looking surveillance centres usually sitting at a desk next to a big digital clock or countdown timer ticking away with minutes or seconds to spare trying to either hack in or stop people from hacking into vital systems as a matter of life or death and it can all get a little over exhilarating! OK, so real life may be a little different…The countdown timer may just be a standard clock on the wall, people may not wear as many black sunglasses indoors and all cars in the staff car park may not be fully kitted out black SUVs. But some depictions may not be too far off the mark!
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Thursday Roundup
The Chattanooga Times Free Press (free subscription may be necessary) publishes an extensive primer on doping in sports with emphasis on cycling. It concentrates on current cases such as that of Floyd Landis with comments by USDA official Travis Tygart, Team Landis representatives, doctors, cycling team owners, and current riders:
Fellow embattled American cyclist Tyler Hamilton said he believed Landis was innocent, and that 95 percent of his fellow Tour de Georgia riders agree.
"If Floyd showed up to the start line, if he showed to fire the gun, I think all the riders would applaud him," Hamilton said.
Jonathan Vaughters, the director sportif for 2007 Tour de Georgia participant Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle, said hypothetically he would "be interested" in signing Landis if he is cleared in the impending case. Asked if he thought Landis was innocent, Vaughters -- who calls Landis "my friend" -- said "I hope so, but the only people who know for sure are him and God."
And from Travis Tygart:
"We have more than just simple drug-testing," said Travis Tygart, the senior managing director of the United States Anti-Doping Agency. "We have the ability to do much more. ... And you can't use positive tests alone. If you can prove doping offenses in any way possible, I think we should support that.
"I think it's a fight, but it's not as difficult as people think it is. And It's absolutely a fight we have to continue fighting. It's sports fraud. It's fraud on clean athletes, and fraud to young athletes, and a fraud to the American way."Tygart said "I think we all may have been a little bit naive"
PezCycling News EuroTrash Thursday gives thumbnail descriptions of Floyd Landis case happenings during the past week, and appears to express a bit of shock that he recently did some bike shop fundraising by charging $25.00 for a photo with himself.
MSNBC ,among many other media outlets, seems to be catching up with last week's revelation that Floyd Landis will compete in this year's Teva Mountain Games. He is excited to be testing his "new hip."
Rant read the Chattanooga Times Free Press article this morning (see above) and has some real concerns about what Travis Tygart is quoted as saying about using "non-analytical positives" to combat doping offenses:
Racejunkie leaves an intriguing question, which he will not ask due to its rudeness factor and his support for Floyd, about Landis' recent fundraising practices. His unexpressed inquiry lingers in the speculative imagination of each reader, including this one!
What becomes contentious is just how to go about doing so. In recent years, the idea of a "non-analytical positive" has taken hold, which allows anti-doping agencies to go after athletes they suspect of doping. Travis Tygart speaks to this issue when he says:
[Y]ou can't use positive tests alone. If you can prove doping offenses in any way possible, I think we should support that
Imagine you own an early-1980s Porsche 911 that you occasionally like to take out on the highway. Now, if it's in good shape and the engine is tweaked just right, you might be able to top the beast out at about 160 miles per hour at red line. Certainly, the car is built to go that fast. But say you're driving along at the speed limit and a cop pulls you over.And when you ask him what's wrong, he tells you he's giving you a speeding ticket.
"But I wasn't speeding!" you protest.
"Yes," the officer replies, "that's true. But you have a car capable of speeding, so you must have intended to. That's why I'm writing you up. It's what we call a non-analytical speeding ticket, and you're going to have to pay the price."
Now imagine a court system that would uphold such a ticket, and not only that, impose a hefty fine, or suspend your license for a period of time. Such is the power of the non-analytical conviction.
BitchKittie was at the Tour of Georgia yesterday, and has proof! She was resplendent in Floyd Landis yellow, loud and proud!
Smithers ,in a day that seems to be starting out with its share of snarks, gives us perhaps THE snark of the week.
Some Pedestrian Blog snarks that something strange happened yesterday, and no it wasn't Floyd Landis being cleared of doping charges.
PruDogBlog summarizes last week's announcement that the first decision had been made by the Landis arbitration panel, and wonders if they ever studied logic, OR science.
VeloSwiss is looking forward to Landis' book.
FasterJim is puzzled and annoyed by things that are saying Landis is charging for pictures at fundraising events. The truth is a little unclear to us. At the one's we've been to, admission covered everything, but we haven't been to a no-admission signing.
NewPersuasion communication/PR blog talks a tad skeptically about the Wiki Defense, and gives us a link.
At DPF, Kitty on Wheels figures out what happened with the leaks from LNDD:
It's quite simple. They gave all their employees a spelling test. The only one who couldn't spell "Chatenay- Malabry" was immediately exiled to another WADA-accredited lab Down Under, where s/he promptly launched the Thorpedogate scandal.Elsewhere, ORG relates some history of document production by USADA -- as hearsay only:
Back in January the panel directed USADA to provide the a-sample data within 10 days. After 10 days USADA did not. When Landis complained, they held another confernece call with the panel. USADA then said they were not sure what exactly the panel told then to provide. USADA then requested that the panel provide them with a transcript of the previous directive (stall) and then they would study it (more stalling). Then after USADA as satisfied they fully understood the directive, they would request the production of exactly those documents to begin (go sequently to eat up more time) and then once the docuemnts were reproduced (stall) and inspected to see if they complyed with the request (another stall) they would then arrange for delivery of the documents (yet another stall). All of this was from a conversation with Hensen at the FFF in Chicago on March 10.
You should expect USADA to cherry pick whatever helps their case and ignore the rest. You should expect them to offer Landis nothing except what they will use in the hearing. You should expect them to only offer Landis any additional results only after the panel forces them. You should expect them to find legal ways to stall in the delievery of this request.
Thought for the Day
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As part of today's daily deals through eBay, we have a few goodies that are on sale. First up is the Nexus 7 (2013). This is the 32GB WiFi model, and it's going for $199, which is about $70 off of the regular pricing for this bad boy. So not too terribly bad actually. It features a Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, 7-inch 1920×1200 resolution display, 2GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, and a 3950mAh battery. There's also Android 4.4.4 KitKat on-board which this device will get updates quickly, directly from Google.
Next up is the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 32GB. This is the AT&T version and it is a refurbished Galaxy Note 3. Selling for just $449.99, which is still a great price and nearly half off. It features a Snapdragon 800 processor, 5.7-inch 1920×1080 resolution Super AMOLED display, 3GB of RAM, 32GB of storage and a microSD card slot. There's also a 3200mAh battery inside and it runs on Android 4.4.2.
Finally we have the Samsung Galaxy S5. This is the unlocked SM-G900H version and should work here in the US as well as elsewhere in the world. It's on sale for $579.98, which may seem pretty expensive but it's normal price is around $750 or higher. So it's a slight deal. It features a Snapdragon 801 processor, 5.1-inch 1920×1080 Super AMOLED display, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage with a microSD card slot, 16MP camera, 2600mAh battery, and Android 4.4.2.
Update: Samsung Galaxy K Zoom is available for $450 unlocked as well today on Amazon. Link has been added above.


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She styled her look with Sunita Kapoor jewels partly covered by her luscious wavy locks and pumps swathed with the same rose print.


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Children from Great Ouseburn primary have composed their own train music.
The youngsters performed it at Leeming Bar station platform and will go on to take part in an orchestral workshop in Harrogate where they will share their composition with other schoolchildren.
Where the Music Takes Us was wupported by Wensleydale Railway and funded by Arts Council England and the Liz and Terry Bramall Foundation.
Earlier in the year, the children had listened to train music by the Brazillian composer Villa Lobos and devised a dance performance with Phoenix Dance, to interpret the music.
They have also learnt about the history and geography of the historic Wensleydale Railway, and its local landscape.
Year 3 and 4 have now made up their own piece of music, which sounds like a train setting off along the line and visiting the various stations, slowing down and speeding up.
"Playing this music in a station setting really brought it to life," said Jess Hayne, Project Coordinator.
"After a ride on a train, they then went on to Aysgarth Falls, to learn more about the beautiful landscape."


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Sep. 26 - This is the last Moron's Almanac.
There are many reasons for my decision to cease "publication," not least of them my having gotten so bad about posting on a regular basis that it's practically been cancelled already. But for various reasons I don't want to get into, the time has come to pull the plug and let the site wither away.
And wither away it shall. I've already paid for the site through December 2, so there's no point in deleting it all at once. I'll delete things as I back them up, but that could and probably will take months. Unless it doesn't. In any case, I won't be adding to the JustMorons website any more. From this point forward it's all about subtraction.
I'm going to keep MoronAbroad up and running because it's free and because I don't feel any pressure to throw anything out there on a regular basis. When there's time and the mood is right, I'll write. When there's not, I won't.
I could do a big schmaltzy goodbye, but I hate that. So. . .
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More of Guy Connolly's 'chop-pop', this time with a new found urgency. Where Belongings took its time to make full impact, this time a sonorous baritone vocal leads into a jumpy rush of cracked falsetto with more than a hint of emotional paranoia and eventually layer upon layer of percussion, copy and paste microscopic synth noises, and unsourceable noises. The slow build intensity eventually coalesces into hammering on the walls in frustration. It's out first week in October accompanied by a Tom Vek remix. Oh, suddenly the boy's a workaholic.
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Great work by Matt Base representing Europe's countries with some of the most iconic monuments. The micro scale work is amazing. Thumbs up also for the map itself!
Pictorial Map of Europe by Matt Bace
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Historical minifigs of LEGO Collection Series 12
It was revealed the first official pictures lining up the new minifigs of series 12.
I'm glad to find a few more historical characters, this time the collection seems to include a Mongol and female Greek warrior. It also seems to include a new Musketeer and a old western gold miner 😀
In overall the new collection is very attractive and it's probably related with the new Lego Minifigures online game.
Herakles on his quest to save Prometheus
According to the greek myth, Heracles saves Prometheus that was chained by Zeus after he has stolen the fire and gave it to humans. This diorama reflects the imagination of Mihai Marius Mihu about the story of Heracles confronting some myth creatures who guarded the temple on the foot of the mountain where Prometheus was chained.
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(I wanted to include the chained Prometheus in the diorama but the lack of pieces forced me to make them separated www.flickr.com/photos/mihaimariusmihu/9515653462/). The emblem on the minotaur shields and the decorative bird statues on the architecture are to relate to the eagle that torments Prometheus.
Nikaia Antipolis
LEGO Heroes through ages
LEGO has renew the decoration of its Brand Store at Mall America with a set of giant LEGO Heroes from pre-historial ages, through ancient Greece, medieval, age of discovery, present days and the future.
Thanks to Conchas for pointing it out.
Athens, 6th century BC
Great set of MOCs from the ancient Greece!
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Donuts are a major comfort food. What do you do, when you get a craving for them late at night? If you scour the city you live in, you may find a leftover donut in an all night market. If that doesn't sound so appealing, try some of these ideas for a fast way to make donuts.
Fast and Easy
These fast ways to make donuts may not be that healthy, but when you have a craving that needs to be satisfied, they will do in a pinch. Open a can of refrigerator biscuits and poke a hole in each of the biscuits. Heat an inch or two of oil in a deep pan or pot to about 375 degrees F. Drop the biscuits in. Turn them when they are golden brown on the underside. Mix some brown sugar, white sugar and cinnamon in a paper bag. Plop the finished donuts in the bag and shake to coat them.
Use biscuit mix to make a thick dough. Dust your bread board with flour. Roll a ball of dough into a thick worm-shape and press the ends together to form a donut. Cook as instructed above. Dust with powdered sugar. This recipe will work with pancake mix, also.
From Scratch
You'll love this fast donut recipe from scratch. It will give you real donut flavor with a minimal amount of ingredients. Mix 2 cups flour, ½ teaspoon salt, 2 heaping teaspoons baking powder and 1 cup water in a large mixing bowl. Cover the bowl with a thin kitchen towel and let sit for 20 minutes. Pull off a small ball of dough, about the size of a large egg, and flatten it on a flour covered area. Make a hole in the middle and fry it in a deep pan of hot oil or a deep fryer. Make a glaze out of powdered sugar and water, drizzle it over the warm donuts.
Cake Mix
Choose any flavor cake mix you like. Pour the cake mix into a large mixing bowl, along with ½ cup flour, 4 beaten eggs and 1¼ cups water. Beat the mixture until all of the lumps are gone. Drop the cake mix batter, serving spoon size, into a pan of hot oil. Turn the donuts when they are golden on the bottom, then remove and cool. Roll them in sugar and serve.


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Workforce & Education
Ensuring an educated, quality work force for the Brainerd Lakes Area is critical to the region's economic future. Through the Chamber's Bridges Workplace Connection program, the Chamber helps high school students explore local career options. The Workplace Connection brings together area businesses, Central Lakes College, M-State, and 24 central Minnesota high schools to introduce various career paths through hands-on work-based learning. Research confirms that a workplace connection creates relevance, guides career and educational goals, and connects employers with graduates.
Key Workplace Connection initiatives include:
- Job Shadow experiences
- Employers in schools
- Teachers in the Workplace
- Career days
- Support of the National Career Readiness Certificate
- Job fairs
According to a State of Minnesota report, only 25 percent of the students who enter post secondary education graduate with a certificate, diploma or degree; 75 percent are left behind, creating a largely untrained workforce, unless we change how we help students identify career pathways. Students must be exposed to high demand career opportunities that pay a living wage and develop the skills needed by employers.
Since its 2007 inception, Bridges has coordinated more than 2,500 job shadow experiences, hosted more than 7,600 students at Career Days exploring more than 150 different careers, and more than 400 students have participated on tours of industry.
The Bridges program is funded through grants and donations, with in-kind contributions from the Brainerd Lakes Chamber.
For more information, visit bridgesconnection.org or contact Bridges Workplace Connection director, Mary Gottsch.


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In the wake of the global financial crisis, increased regulatory focus has necessitated significant efforts by the largest banking institutions to develop and enhance their existing stress testing capabilities. Pressure on banks to demonstrate not only financial resilience under adverse conditions, but also the robustness of controls, processes and the overarching governance framework that supports stress testing has intensified as a result. In response to this ever-increasing regulatory focus and the intense scrutiny banks are under, KPMG International conducted a survey of 19 systemically important banks (SIBs) throughout the summer of 2016. The objectives of the survey were two-fold, firstly to assess the current state of stress testing globally and secondly, to form a view on the potential future state of stress testing in the years to come.
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How to make a Waterfall Bong, using simple household items. It includes my mistakes and problems, but it will entertain and educate. I promise.
You will need a lighter, scissors, a two liter pop bottle, marijuana, tin foil and a pin. Follow these simple instructions to make your own cheap waterfall bong.


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Yu is a young Christian growing up with his father, Tetsu, who became a fanatical priest after the early death of his wife. Having to confess every single day, Yu has to invent supposed sins to appease his father, who believes it a sin to not have something to confess. When Tetsu finally discovers the truth, Yu decides to commit as many "serious" sins as he can, while searching for a woman to love that fits the Madonna archetype. Eventually he stumbles upon Kaori, and Aya Koike and her gang, while his father has trouble with Kaori Fujiwara, a woman who seems to wish to become a Christian.
A cult epic
In this 4-hour cult epic, Sono incorporates elements of adventure, comedy, drama, social satire, parody, romance and soft porn, while dealing with themes like religion, family, love, sex, adolescence, hedonism and guilt, in one of his most complex works.
His biggest accomplishment in "Love Exposure" is that he manages to shoot a movie of this length, without being boring or tedious. The film's other virtues include in-depth analysis of the characters and the hilarious mockery of Hong Kong Kung Fu movies, and the "Female Convict Scorpion" franchise, not to mention the concept of under-skirt photography. This last element is a testament to Sono's wild imagination and his unique way of depicting the preposterous.
A colossal production with low budget
The film's staff had to undertake a colossal production, in order to put on screen every notion Sono had in his mind. Nevertheless, they did a wonderful job, in all aspects, despite the fact that they did not have an adequate budget in their hands. Junichi Ito's editing keeps the film as understandable as it could possibly be, and Sohei Tanikawa's cinematography manages to depict all the different settings with artistic extremeness. The visual effects, the costumes and the makeup are also on a very high level
Great Cast
"Love Exposure" features the (then) nouvelle vague of Japanese cinema, with Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima and Sakura Ando, all of whom went on to significant careers, and the first two netting newcomer awards. Sion Sono managed to get the maximum result from them, in terms of acting.
"Love Exposure" won a plethora of awards, both in Japan and internationally, and received great reviews, despite its low budget, duration and the preposterous theme. It is the most awarded work of Sion Sono, the film that truly established him as an international cult sensation.
"Love Exposure" will screen on Five Flavours Film Festival that will be held in Warsaw (November 16 – 23) and Wroclaw (November 18-24).


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Tell us about why you love space exploration, what got you excited in the first place, what inspires you, or whatever you would like to share with your community of space fans!
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We're looking for images you've taken of your sky—whether those images are of galaxies captured through a telescope or perhaps pictures of an incredible night sky, an eclipse, a star party, or a rocket launch. We can't guarantee that we'll publish every image and story—but we will look at each and every one and will showcase as many as possible here on our website and a few might make it to our magazine, The Planetary Report. We look forward to seeing your Sky.
Earths natural satellite, Luna, in it's Waxing Gibbous phase.
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November 21, 2016
As a child I heard talk about Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the Moon and saw the first Viking Lander image of the surface of Mars. These things looked totally amazing and unobtainable from my small Michigan farming town. Then, as a young adult I read many works from Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan and I became more interested. So I went to college to learn about space and rocketry and I joined The Planetary Society. Today, I am a member of The Planetary Society and the Tacoma Astronomical Society. Tonight the Tacoma Astronomical Society hosts a free ... more »
November 18, 2016
I am a postdoc at Los Alamos National Lab and I study the sky that our eyes can't see--the gamma-ray sky. These are the highest energy photons known and come from some of the coolest most extreme cosmic processes. I work with the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Telescope, which doesn't look like a conventional telescope. But this is what you need to "see" gamma rays.... more »
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When I was a young boy in the 1960s, my mother and I visited with a good friend of hers. Her friend's son was watching Star Trek, so I sat next to him and what I saw I thought was so cool. It was the episode where Captain Kirk was on this planet with a Lizard like creature named the Gorn. They had to battle each other to the death. Another influence was the landing on the Moon in 1969. I watched it on a black and white TV. These two incidents in my young age influenced me, and ever ... more »
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Alfred Richards, a pharmacologist, headed the Committee on Medical Research coordinating wartime medical research initiated by Department of Defense (DOD), Atomic Energy Commission (AEC, later EPA), and the CIA. In 1942, Richards requested permission from the Secretaries of the Army and Navy to . . . Continue reading →
US Soldiers – Guinea Pigs
1942–1945: Soldiers subjected to poisonous mustard gas & arsenic experiments
1942–1945: U.S. Navy initiated poisonous Mustard Gas and Lewisite (derivative of arsenic) experiments to test protective clothing and anti-blister ointments at the Naval Research Laboratory and at the Army's Edgewood Arsenal. According to declassified records and reports, mustard gas experiments were conducted . . . Continue reading →
1951: Ultra-Secret LSD Experiments Begin at Edgewood Arsenal
In early summer of 1951, officials within the CIA's Security Office — working in tandem with cleared scientists from Camp Detrick's Special Operations Division and worked closely with a select group of scientists from a number of other Army installations, including Edgewood . . . Continue reading →
1947–1960: Sarin, Soman and Tabun Were Tested on Soldiers
1947–1960: Sarin, soman and tabun, the deadly weaponized nerve gases developed by Nazi scientists and imported from Hitler's chemical weapons arsenal, were tested on soldiers. Sarin was the focus of intense testing at Edgewood Arsenal; within one year (1947–1948) an Army study . . . Continue reading →
Biochemical Weapons and Pharmaceutical Rejects Were Tested on U.S. Solders
Declassified Edgewood document AD351962 – LSD tests on "volunteers" states: "When this document has served its purpose, DESTROY it in accordance with AR 380-5. DO NOT return the document to U. S. Army Edgewood Arsenal Chemical Research and Development Laboratories." (David Martin. . . . Continue reading →
1943–1973: Operation Whitecoat
1943–1973: Operation Whitecoat conducted at Ft. Detrick on 2,300 Seventh Day Adventist draftees who volunteered in lieu of active duty on the battlefield. They were subjected to 157 experiments testing deadly pathogens and disease-causing agents, and experimental vaccine safety trials. Among the . . . Continue reading →
U.S. Soldiers Subjected to Extreme Interrogation — i.e., Torture
CIA's Project ARTICHOKE involved extreme methods of interrogation — "enhanced interrogation" — these included hypnosis, forced morphine addiction, drug withdrawal, the use of chemicals and electroshock aimed at inducing amnesia. The experiments induced paranoia and hallucinations in U.S. soldiers who were the . . . Continue reading →
1987: Supreme Court rules against soldier experimented on with LSD without consent
James Stanley, a career soldier was one of these unwitting subjects who was given LSD in 1958. He suffered hallucinations, memory loss incoherence, and severe personality changes and exhibited uncontrollable violence. It destroyed his family, impeded his working ability, and he never . . . Continue reading →
1990: Soldiers used as guinea pigs break their silence
December, 1990: FDA issued a waiver from informed consent to permit the Department of Defense to use unapproved, experimental drugs and vaccines – e.g. anthrax vaccine on soldiers. This violated the foremost "absolutely essential" mandatory ethical principle defined by the Nuremberg Code . . . Continue reading →
1992: Jay Katz, MD, admonishes the IOM to Consider the Ethics not just "cold science"
Following the compelling testimonies of the soldiers who had been subjected to poison gas experiments, Jay Katz, MD the distinguished Yale professor of law and medical ethics wrote a letter to the IOM Committee, strongly criticizing the IOM for severely limiting the Committee's task . . . Continue reading →
1993: The IOM Committee Issued a Seminal Report, Veterans at Risk
Following public hearings by the Committee of the IOM (1991) and by the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, the IOM Committee issued a seminal report, Veterans at Risk: The Health Effects of Mustard Gas and Lewisite (1993) which revealed that by the . . . Continue reading →
1994: Senate VA Committee Hearing: Is Military Research Hazardous to Veterans' Health?
On May 6, 1994, the Senate Committee on Veterans held a hearing titled: "Is Military Research Hazardous to Veterans' Health? Lessons from World War II, the Persian Gulf and Today." Rudolph R. Mills had been in a gas chamber experiment when he . . . Continue reading →
2009: Vietnam Veterans of America Files Suit Against the CIA & US Army
In 2009, Gordon Erspamer, a San Francisco lawyer filed suit against the CIA and the US Army on behalf of the Vietnam Veterans of America and six former American soldiers who claim they are survivors of classified government tests conducted at the . . . Continue reading →
The Veterans Affairs Website: A Source for Disinformation about Unethical Experiments
The Veterans Affairs website demonstrates that the agency is a source for disinformation about unethical medical experiments conducted on military personnel. It states: From 1955 to 1975, the U.S. Army Chemical Corps conducted classified medical studies at Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. The purpose . . . Continue reading →
2012: Lawsuit on Behalf of 100,000 Veterans Proceeds
In 2012, U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken in California ruled that a class action lawsuit on behalf of 100,000 veterans, who were used as guinea pigs to test hundreds of drugs, can proceed. The suit seeks to lift the oath of secrecy . . . Continue reading →
2015: NPR VA Broken Promise to Thousands of Vets Exposed to Mustard Gas
NPR's six month investigation shows the continued utter disregard the Veterans Affairs Department has for it suffering veterans who had been abused as human guinea pigs in mustard gas experiments. NPR created the first publicly searchable database including 3,900 names Charlie Cavell . . . Continue reading →


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What an independent Scotland could mean for Scotch. @CNN 's @ErinBurnett reports cnn.it/WJ8pKw http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BxD6QagIEAEvqnV.jpg
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Overheard: Enterprise Web 2.0 inbreeding
|Spending too much time with the 'in crowd' who 'get' Enterprise 2.0 can result in serious over-enthusiasm and lack of realism.
Martin Kloos, The state of Enterprise 2.0 and why we need new stories
Ever since Forrester released a report last month saying that Web 2.0 technologies will have a world-wide market value of $4.6 billion by the year 2013, the early adopters have been patting themselves on the back, saying "I told you so."
Not so fast, bucko. 2013 is a long way away and enterprise IT is not just going to open its doors to the new kids on the block just because a new generation is entering the workplace. What's more likely to happen is that legacy IT applications will make updates, incorporating Web 2.o features that work for a particular industry or software application.
At the very least…those Web 2.0 apps wanting consideration will need respectable names. Manly names. Serious names. Names IT professionals don't feel embarrassed talking about at manager's meetings. Twitter? Tweets? I don't think so.


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My attention was grabbed this morning by this headline:
City missing out on broadband
on this story http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/city-missing-out-on-broadband.18176315 about Glasgow having the lowest take up of broadband in the country.
I meet a lot of people, particularly out in the countryside, when I am working on rural broadband issues, who think that the cities are all sorted when it comes to digital inclusion and people benefiting from modern technologies. My response to that is often to point out that having a fast connection running past your home, or close to it, does not necessarily mean you can afford to use it. There are all sorts of factors, not least finances, which prevent people from benefiting from what the internet has to offer in the modern world.


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Tuesday, June 23, 2015
The weed with roots in hell
A few items in the new JAMA concerning medical marijuana. As usual, I'm not sure how much you worthless rabble are allowed to read, but if you want to give it a shot, there's an opinion piece by a guy named Deepak, but fortunately not the quantum woo guy. Actually his last name is D'Souza but equally fortunately his first name is not Dinesh. Anyway, he doesn't think we know enough about it yet to be prescribing.
A systematic review by Deepak and a multitude does not, it seems to me, entirely support his editorial opinion. There's reasonably good evidence that the herb or cannabinoids are beneficial for the major indications for which they are usually touted, e.g. nausea from chemotherapy, spasticity from MS and paralysis, HIV-related appetite loss, chronic pain. Other indications are lacking in good evidence but maybe it does some good. The main problem is that we don't have much in the way of long-term follow-up data. There can be short-term adverse effects, of course -- not everybody likes the evil whoopee weed at first try. But these are not serious and go away if you stop toking (or swallowing). But we don't know what might happen long term. Well, that's true, but from a couple of millennia of observational data there doesn't appear to be any obvious major worry.
Well yeah, but that also happens to be true for most of the pharmaceuticals on the market. The FDA approves them after trials with 6 month follow up, on evidence no better than the evidence for ganja. The real problem, as I see it, is that as a bunch of chemists discovered, you don't know what you're buying. They copped a whole lot of medical marijuana products from legal dispensaries in California and Washington and found the labeling of THC content was just completely unreliable. So the obvious answer for that is to eliminate the federal prohibition so the FDA can regulate manufacture and assure quality.
Based on everything I've read, if you have any of the problems for which there is reasonable evidence, and the alternatives aren't working for you, it's reasonable to give it a try. However, it is something adolescents should stay away from, I am increasingly convinced. Also, too, obviously a lot of people who get medical marijuana prescriptions may or may not have a real medical need, but they also want to get high. That's okay with me if you don't have work or driving obligations that make it counter-indicated.
So I think this is much better than criminalizing people who are legitimately trying to get relief from very unpleasant symptoms, and have an option that just might work for them. I'm also in favor of legalization and regulation of recreational Mary Jane, because people can make their own decisions about it and 99% of the adverse consequences are caused by prohibition.
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- kathy a. said...
I read in the commoner press about a couple of things -- that rules had been changed to make it easier to do scientific studies of medical marijuana and its effectiveness; and also that bit about no regulation, who knows what you're getting.
And both scientific studies and quality control seem like issues we should get to, already.
Not sure if I mentioned that a relative who has been on some meds for serious behavioral and mood symptoms is currently doing well on an experiment of MM in candy form -- and they have been able to reduce some heavier drugs, so her balance is better, she is more engaged, not anxious 24/7, etc. MM is legal in my state, and she's being overseen by the weed psychiatrist. But unlike other medications, we had no studies to look at; and we don't have any idea about quality of "the stuff." Also, zip in the way of insurance coverage.
The deciding factor really was that we couldn't see that trying it would cause any harm. The doctors and staff were getting to the end of their ropes, and there were no other medication options; placement options are VERY problematic for someone like her. Relieved to see improvement!
But it would really be good to have studies, and to have oversight and regulation.
- Cervantes said...
Yes. As I say, my view is that current evidence for some indications is at least as good as the evidence for some FDA-licensed pharmaceuticals. But cannabis is used for a much wider range of indications than we have good evidence for. Legalization at the federal level is necessary in order to do this right.


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Jackie Gerstein shared a wealth of information about her work with students and her approach to teaching. Her video, Digital Writers' Workshop from K12 Online 2009 was streamed. It was a great conversation.
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Clinton is sent an email by State Department official Monica Hanley regarding a phone call to new Malawi president Joyce Banda. All the text of the email will later be redacted except for the first few lines, one of which states, "(C) Purpose of Call: to offer condolences on the passing of President Mukharika and congratulate President Banda on her recent swearing in." The "(C)" is an official code known as a "portion marking," and it indicates the information is classified at the "confidential" level.
In June 2016, Fox News will report that an unnamed US government source claims "there are other Clinton emails with classified markings, or marked classified, beyond" this email, but presumably those markings are in later-redacted portions of the emails. Clinton does not flag the email for having classified information in an insecure channel, but merely makes a brief comment that the timing of the phone call works for her.
Also in June 2016, Clinton spokesperson Brian Fallon will be asked directly about the email. However, he will ignore the direct evidence the email was marked classified at the time by saying, "The fact that this email was classified after the fact suggests again that agencies in the government tend to err on the side of classifying even routine matters of diplomacy." (Fox News, 6/11/2016) (US Department of State, 1/29/2016) (LawNewz, 6/11/2016)