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At 85, Bob Galvin was recently sidelined by eye surgery. Although he'll now require custom-made glasses, the former chief of Motorola still expects -- as he does every year -- to hit the ski slopes this winter in Vail, Colo.
It also won't keep him from "calling the shots" at the pair of research and development ventures he launched in recent years, each seeking to revolutionize part of the nation's aging infrastructure -- from revamping the power grid to wiping out big-city gridlock.
"I had to live long enough to be able to make a contribution without worrying about losing my investment," Galvin, who helped build Motorola's revenue from $216 million to $6.7 billion over 30 years before stepping down as CEO in 1986, says about taking on such ambitious and time-consuming projects so late in life. Besides, some people just aren't cut out for retirement.
Eighty-four year old Phyllis Apple agrees. The CEO of the Apple Organization, a North Miami Beach, Fla.-based public-relations firm, Apple says she's in great health and has plenty of time for golf and needlepoint on the weekends -- despite working full time. "I have everything I want," she says. "Why should I retire?"
Galvin and Apple, like the other members of Inc.com's 8 Over 80 list, are in good company among a small but growing number of unstoppable octogenarians (and older) who are spending their twilight years presiding over new and old ventures alike, rather than hitting the shuffle board courts or joining the bridge club.
If this eclectic group had an honorary chairman, it would be Jack Weil, the 106-year-old CEO of Rockmount Ranch Wear, a Denver, Colorado-based apparel firm, whose cowboy shirts were popular with former President Ronald Reagan and were more recently worn by the cast of Brokeback Mountain.
What keeps these new old-timers going? As baby boomers begin to hit retirement age -- triggering an expected seismic shift in the labor market, among other social and economic shakeups -- economists, policymakers, and researchers are asking that very question. The answer that's emerging lies in a mix of access to capital, improved health, technology, and maybe a little old-fashioned chutzpah.
What's certain is that Americans are living longer than ever. And many are hitting retirement age -- or well beyond -- at the helm of their own business. Currently, close to 7 million workers ages 50 and older, or roughly 16 percent of the entire U.S. workforce, according to the Labor Department, are self-employed.
About a third made the transition to self-employment after age 50, with rates of self-employment increasing with age. While only about 2 percent of all U.S. workers are 81 or older, nearly all of them are self-employed. In other words, if you're over 80 and still in the workforce, chances are pretty good that, like Bob Galvin and Phyllis Apple, you're calling the shots.
According to labor and age researchers at the RAND Corporation, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based public policy think tank, the older self-employed people tend to be predominantly male and well educated. The businesses they run are small -- typically with fewer than five employees, if any. Most operate on their own or with a spouse, and the sectors they work in tend to be those that are more conducive to working alone and for yourself, such as agriculture, retail trade, business services, management, and sales.
"Like any generation, these are entrepreneurs driven by hobbies, necessity, lifestyle, innovation -- you name it," says Judith Cone, a vice president at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, an entrepreneurship group based in Kansas City, Mo. "They ain't all the same."
Still, like their younger counterparts, older entrepreneurs are risk-takers. Often they're launching businesses by cracking open their retirement piggy banks at a time when their peers are tapping personal savings for travel, summer homes, and other more leisurely pursuits.
A recent survey by the Hartford Financial Services Group found that a vast majority of retirement-age boomer entrepreneurs preferred funding start-ups with personal savings, rather than loans, credit cards, or other debt-related financing. Yet, by digging into their savings, older entrepreneurs are left with far less room to maneuver, in terms of time and energy to recoup lost savings, according to Hartford vice president John Diehl.
These older entrepreneurs "face a distinct challenge in that they have a shorter time horizon to rebuild their wealth should their investment in their business not produce desired financial results," Diehl says.
Cone adds that on the upside, older entrepreneurs who do turn to banks and investors for start-up capital have the advantage of a strong professional network. "If you're going to try to get angel funding, your network is going to be much deeper at that stage of your life," she says.
Despite the financial stakes -- or perhaps because of them -- entrepreneurs who launch their businesses after age 50 are less likely than regular wage and salary earners to consider retirement at all. Most expect to continue working well after 65 and aren't the least bit worried about retirement income, according to RAND researchers. In fact, those that do eventually retire are often forced to by poor health.
Often, it's the business that keeps them going. At 106, Jack Weil says he still goes to work at his western apparel company every day in order to spend time with his son and grandson, who have both played a role in running the business. What keeps him going, he says, is the chance to see them carry on a venture he built long before they were born.
"I think I'm the happiest and luckiest guy in the world," Weil says.
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Military officer with UN-African Union force in Darfur dies after car-jacking- - -
A military officer serving with the United Nations-African Union Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) died today, after being shot in the leg two days ago during a car-jacking in the strife-torn Sudanese region.
The incident happened Saturday night at a market in the capital of North Darfur, El Fasher – which is also the headquarters of the UN-AU force, deployed earlier this year to try to end the violence and suffering in Darfur.
The man was one of three UNAMID military officers who were car-jacked by three unknown armed men. The officers were forced to leave their vehicle and, in the process, one was shot. The car-jackers then drove off to the north with the vehicle.
The incident is the latest in a series of attacks against aid workers and the joint peacekeeping force, which lost more than 20 personnel in its first year of operation.
Violence has also continued against displaced persons sheltering in makeshift camps, with inter-tribal clashes and fighting between the Government and armed militia adding to the turmoil.
An estimated 300,000 people have been killed since fighting erupted in 2003 between Government forces, allied militiamen – known as the Janjaweed – and rebels, and 2.7 million others have been forced from their homes and now live as refugees or as internally displaced persons (IDPs).
The Security Council has authorized 26,000 uniformed personnel, including military and police, for UNAMID. So far some 12,369 military personnel have been deployed out of the authorized 19,555. Senior UN officials have repeatedly called on countries to supply the remaining troops and equipment needed.
From Sudan Tribune December 26, 2008 (EL FASHER):
Children from Hamadiya internally displaced persons' (IDP) camp threw rocks at a peacekeeper on security duty at the Zalingei airstrip in West Darfur on Monday.Note, the report tells us that Al-Nur's father, Mohamed Ahmed al-Nur, stayed in his shop in Zalingei and did not meet with the UN envoy. Like father, like son...
The peacekeeper, who was serving with the UN-African Union hybrid operation in Darfur (UNAMID), sustained a critical injury to his head, said a spokesperson for the mission.
Hamadiya is one of five refugee camps surrounding Zalingei housing 120,000 people. The incident follows efforts by Sudanese authorities and the hybrid mission to negotiate between government-backed militias in the area and sheikhs of the nearby Hassa Hissa IDP camp, one of whom was murdered earlier this month.
The UN Department of Safety and Security and UNAMID military and police personnel held a meeting with the National Intelligence Security Services (NISS) and leaders of the camp to discuss the incident. The traditional leader of the camp offered his apology, adding that measures would be taken to prevent a repeat of the incident.
According to Ted Chaiban, the outgoing head of UNICEF in Sudan, 2.3 million children have been affected by the conflict in Darfur, which amounts to roughly half of those bearing the humanitarian consequences of the conflict.
Generally these children have spent up to almost six years in urbanised camps where Darfuris concentrated for protection from a massive counter-insurgency campaign that began in 2003.
Zalingei is the hometown of the main Sudan Liberation Army rebel leader, Abdelwahid al-Nur, who lives in exile in France. The IDP camps around Zalingei are among the most politicised in Darfur.
A year ago when the UN special envoy to Darfur Jan Eliasson visited Hassa Hissa camp, camp leaders read out a long list of steps that they require be taken before engaging in political process with the government, and Al-Nur's father, Mohamed Ahmed al-Nur, stayed in his shop in Zalingei and did not meet with the UN envoy.
Earlier this month a member of the Khartoum-backed janjaweed was killed following a dispute with IDPs in Hassa Hissa Camp. The next day some 30 militiamen, seeking revenge, marched towards the camp shooting in the air sporadically. They destroyed five water pumps supplying the camp of Hassa Hissa.
The Sudanese police and the former African Union peacekeeping troops (AMIS) had been forced to pull out of the camp when Abdelwahid rejected the Darfur Peace Agreement in May 2006.
Eleven UNAMID soldiers have died this year. Thus far there are 9,078 soldiers and 2,282 police deployed as UNAMID peacekeepers in Darfur, an area roughly the size of France.

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Greetings from the North Police District! This has been another challenging year for the personnel of the North Police District. Since October of last year, our area has experienced several high profile, violent crimes including three homicides, several attempted homicides and a number of weapon violations. Citywide, there has likewise been an increase in weapons offenses and an increase in gang activity, particularly among the middle and high school age group. So what effect have these changes made?
These incidents have had a real impact on our district staff and our ability to deliver quality service. As you will read in Lt. Strassman's article, these incidents, while unrelated to one another, have dramatically impacted on the workload of our detectives tasked with follow up investigations. This workload impacts on our ability to be responsive to less serious crimes that are reported to us. Similarly, our Patrol, Neighborhood and Community Policing Team (CPT) personnel are doing more follow up investigations themselves. Given their workload, our staff has less time for the dayto- day relationship building work that is a core component of our community policing model. In this newsletter, you will read, examples of our community building efforts with the Middle Schools, with the City Neighborhood Resource Teams and our work coordinating public events to bring people together. These types of activities are vitally important to help bring this community together to address the complex problems we face.
These incidents have also created fear in our community, with people asking whether or not their community is still safe. The truth is that there is nothing good about increases in gang activity and weapon violence, and whether related to one another or not, multiple homicides in such a short time frame is not good. Madison has grown from a small town to a big city; a big city with emerging evidence of big city crime. This is where perspective becomes very important. While we have experienced a sudden increased number of violent incidents, violent and persons crimes are down significantly over the past 5 years; with 590 persons crimes reported in 2007 down to 395 in 2011. Property crimes have shown an even greater decrease in this same time frame; 2857 reported in 2007 down to 1344 in 2011 (Police Call-for-Service Data).
The message here is simple: there are problems in our community that require everyone be more mindful of their personal safety. Get to know and look out for your neighbors; create a neighborhood watch and organize walks. Individually, one needs to use good safety practices. Knowing crimes do occur, one should be aware of one's surroundings, travel with others when out at night or in secluded areas, tell people where you are going, when you will be and how you can be reached when out alone. At home, assure adequate lighting near your doors and windows, keep doors and windows secured, and do not leave valuables in view. As importantly, maintain a healthy vigilance but not an unhealthy fear. Our city has far lower levels of crime than other cities our size, and the total numbers of crimes are going down, not up. I urge you to use this change in our society as a signal to build stronger community instead of falling victim to isolating fear.
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Nevada becomes first state to allow online gambling
The state's governor signs a bill deeming Internet gaming legal; the law also allows Nevada to partner with other states.
The state known for its lady luck has become the first in the nation to forge into the online gambling world.
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval signed an online gambling bill today that legalizes Internet gaming, according to the Associated Press.
"This is an historic day for the great state of Nevada," Sandoval said, according to the Associated Press. "Today I sign into law the framework that will usher in the next frontier of gaming in Nevada."
For years, the U.S. has maintained strict laws against online gambling and went after any sites providing Internet poker or other games. "We're going after the people making the money -- the owners of these virtual casinos, gaming rooms, and off-track betting parlors," the head of the Cyber Crime Fraud unit at the FBI Leslie Bryant said in a statement about online gambling.
According to the Associated Press, Nevada already has 20 pending licensing applications from Web site operators and software vendors.
The state's Assembly and Senate easily passed the new bill before the governor signed it today. The bill allows Nevada to partner with other states to let their residents also partake in online gambling.
"This bill is critical to our state's economy and ensures that we will continue to be the gold standard for gaming regulation," Sandoval said.


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Searching for a job offers identity thieves a rich source of personal information and a pool of potential victims. People tend to be most vulnerable when looking for work. But don't send your transcripts to just anyone. Confirm! Confirm! Confirm that the company is legitimate. Beware of potential employers that use "blind" help wanted ads in newspapers or on the Web. Don't divulge personal information to unknown sources in hopes of landing employment. Unfortunately, not all employment ads are legitimate.
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Jurors will begin deliberations Tuesday in the public corruption trial of former Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, who could face decades in prison and millions of dollars in fines if convicted.
They are charged with accepting more than $165,000 in gifts, trips and loans from former Star Scientific Inc. CEO Jonnie Williams in exchange for promoting his company's tobacco-derived anti-inflammatory, Anatabloc.
The jury heard from dozens of witnesses over five weeks and viewed a mountain of exhibits culled from the 3.5 million pages of documents collected by authorities. Bob McDonnell testified in his own defense. His wife did not testify. Williams testified under immunity as the government's star witness.
As the case heads to the jury, here are five things to know:
McDonnell's lawyers argued in court papers before the trial that the case is essentially a credibility contest.
McDonnell is a former Army officer, prosecutor, state legislator, attorney general and governor. He testified that he provided nothing more than routine political courtesies to Williams.
Williams is a gregarious, free-spending pitchman with a spotty business record. One prosecution witness described him as "a bit of a snake-oil salesman.'' He testified that he spent lavishly on the McDonnells only to secure their help.
One factor that could affect Williams' credibility is his unusually generous immunity agreement. The deal bars his prosecution not only for his dealings with McDonnell, but also for possible securities violations that were the subject of a separate grand jury investigation. College of William & Mary law professor Jeffrey Bellin said it's a weakness in the prosecution's case because it enabled the defense to argue that Williams said what he thought prosecutors wanted to hear just to save his own hide.
But prosecutors have overcome that hurdle before. In the 2011 bribery and extortion trial of former state Del. Phillip Hamilton, a key witness who was granted immunity admitted lying to legislative ethics investigators and two grand juries. Hamilton was convicted and sentenced to 9{ years in prison.
2. WHAT THE McDONNELLS GOT
It's a long list. The big-ticket items are three loans totaling $120,000. One $50,000 loan went to Maureen McDonnell, the rest to a struggling real estate venture owned by Bob McDonnell and his sister.
The most eye-popping goods were the $20,000 in designer clothing and accessories Williams bought for Maureen McDonnell on a Manhattan shopping spree and a $6,500 Rolex watch for Bob McDonnell, paid for by Williams but given as a Christmas present by the first lady. Jurors examined the watch and viewed the apparel during a sort of courtroom show-and-tell as the government wrapped up its case.
McDonnell acknowledged that he never offered to pay for any of the $3,200 tab he rang up on Williams' account at an exclusive golf club. His twin sons ignored his entreaties to return golf equipment they received from Williams, yet McDonnell kept a golf bag featuring the logo of his alma mater, Notre Dame.
There also was a $15,000 check to cover one daughter's wedding reception expenses and a $10,000 housewarming gift for another daughter
It's a shorter list. The biggest favor was a luncheon at the governor's mansion that prosecutors described as a product launch event.
Defense attorneys tried to show that it was Maureen McDonnell's top aide who orchestrated the event while she was covertly negotiating for a job with Williams. However, Williams testified that Maureen McDonnell surprised him by announcing at a previous event that the mansion would host the product launch. Bob McDonnell arrived late for the mansion luncheon and gave brief remarks.
Maureen McDonnell appeared at several other Star Scientific events, speaking at some. And Bob McDonnell arranged one meeting for Williams with the state's top health official and had another, lower-level official sit in on a separate briefing.
Maureen McDonnell sat expressionless at the defense table as a parade of witnesses - many of them her former assistants - described her as petulant, suspicious, secretive and prone to angry outbursts.
One acknowledged telling investigators her old boss was ``a nutbag.'' In one of the trial's many bizarre moments, Bob McDonnell hugged that witness during a break immediately after she had trashed his wife.
The former governor himself later testified in detail about his wife's anger issues and behind-his-back scheming.
Bob McDonnell testified that his marriage deteriorated as he climbed the political ladder. He started working late to avoid going home to face his wife's rage, he testified, and the two are living apart during the trial.
Maureen McDonnell's attorney said his client developed a "crush'' on Williams. A witness described interaction between the two as "flirty,'' and Jeanine McDonnell Zubowsky said her mother had a "mild obsession'' with Williams. Bob McDonnell said he was hurt when he learned that his wife and Williams had exchanged more than 1,200 phone calls and text messages. Nobody thought the relationship was physical - just emotional.
The defense theory is that the marriage was so strained the McDonnells could not have conspired.
"He's willing to throw her under the bus and she's willing to let him to avoid criminal convictions,'' Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Dry said in closing arguments.
5 Things to Know About Former Va. Governor Trial
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Oct 24, 2011
In this podcast:
An interview with Dr. Kalli Phillips, a licensed Naturopathic physician, on her views on the Paleo Diet.
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Guest Blogged by John Gideon
It has just been announced by San Diego County that they have hired Deborah Seiler as their new permanent Registrar of Voters. Ms. Seiler joins the county elections office from her job as the Assistant Registrar in Solano County, California.
"Seiler brings unique elections experience from the state, local and private sector that adds valuable perspective at a crucial time," according to a press release (posted in full at the bottom of this article) as issued today by San Diego County.
All of which sounds great, until one does a moment or two of Googling --- particularly on that "private sector" point mentioned --- and Seiler's troubling past is quickly revealed to be yet more bad news for the voters of San Diego, who continue to get the worst of what American democracy is supposed to look like.
Look what we found out about Seiler...
According to a Wired News article from Sept. 2004, Seiler worked for 12 years in elections for the California Secretary of State's office. She then left, in 1991, through the revolving door and got off at the exit marked "Sequoia Voting Systems" where she worked for 8 years as their Government Relations Director. Then Seiler got back into the revolving door for her next stop at "Diebold Election Systems Incorporated" where she took a job as a sales representative.
It was while she was working for Diebold that she sold 1,200 Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) touch-screen voting machines to the fine folks in Solano County.
An investigation of this sale by then CA Secretary of State Kevin Shelley found that the machines were not state certified for use in elections and, in fact, had not been federally tested or qualified. This sale led Shelley to ban Diebold sales in California and the county ended up paying Diebold over $400,000 to get out of their contract.
Solano County was so irate about the dishonesty of the sale of machines that were not legal for use...that they welcomed Seiler back through the same revolving door, naming her Assistant Registrar, the job she held until today.
So, today Deborah Seiler, who sold uncertified voting machines to one California county joins Michael Vu, who who left his Cuyahoga County elections director job earlier this year after he stepped down in light of convictions against two of his election workers for rigging the 2004 Presidential Election recount. Vu admitted that secret ballot boxes were unsealed prior to the recount, so that they could be checked for accuracy before the county faked the "random" selection of precincts to be recounted.
The news just keeps getting worse for the voters of the People's Republic of San Diego County where former Registrar Mikel Haas --- one of the country's worst --- was recently promoted after several disastrous elections, including the Busby/Bilbray Election Debacle of 2006.
It can't be good for news for elections anywhere in this country, for that matter. Failed, dishonest officials should not be able to find a home anywhere in American democracy. And yet, they seem to be much in demand these days. Certainly in San Diego.
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Downscaling Prisons: Lessons from Four States
Downsizing Prisons is a collaborative research effort between Justice Strategies and The Sentencing Project that examines four states – Kansas, Michigan, New Jersey, and New York -- that have moved against the growth trend in state prison populations of 12% since 2000. These states achieved significant declines in prison populations and offer lessons to policymakers in other states. These states saw prison population declines of:
- Twenty percent (20%) in New York, from 1999 to 2009;
- Twelve percent (12%) in Michigan, from 2006 to 2009;
- Nineteen percent (19%) in New Jersey, from 1999 to 2009;
- And, five percent (5%) in Kansas, from 2003 to 2009.
Downsizing Prisons describes pragmatic reforms and policies that have helped to produce these prison population reductions. These reductions came about through conscious efforts to change policies and practices, different types of reform initiatives that improved criminal justice systems, and the twin goals of reducing the prison population and promoting cost-effective approaches to public safety.


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Construction workers scored high for happiness.
If you work in retail or media it isn't just your imagination when you think your friends who work in education and real estate are all happier than you.
According to online career site CareerBliss.com, those are some of the happiest and unhappiest fields to work in right now.
"For students just looking to start their careers or professionals making career changes, knowing which industries have the highest chance of workplace happiness is a great value," says CareerBliss' chief technology officer, Matt Miller. "We have found that workplace happiness directly impacts overall happiness in life."
Our list of the happiest and unhappiest industries to work in, compiled by CareerBliss, is based on more than 43,000 independent employee reviews. Those employees, all over the country, were asked to evaluate nine factors that affect workplace happiness. Those included their relationship with the boss and co-workers, work environment, job resources, compensation, growth opportunities, company culture, daily tasks, and control over the work done does on a daily basis. They evaluated each item on a five-point scale and also indicated how important it was to their overall happiness.
Heading the list of the unhappiest industries to work in is agriculture and mining, with an index score of 3.76. Agriculture and mining workers also expressed the most pessimism about growth opportunities and compensation.
"Often agriculture and mining jobs have lower salaries, and our data shows that workers in these areas felt that growth opportunity was limited, which can have a drastic impact on the way employees feel about their overall future," Miller says.
"Many people in agriculture and mining are realizing that their ability to transition into the modern workforce is very limited," adds Heidi Golledge, chief executive of CareerBliss. "Unfortunately, the skills needed for farming and mining do not translate well in the computer age."
Tied for second most unhappy are those in the software and Internet industry and at nonprofits; both earned an index score of 3.81. Workers in those areas are very dissatisfied with their growth opportunities and compensation, but they're also very satisfied with their colleagues and daily work tasks.
"We thought that the nonprofit employees would actually be some of the happiest, given their ability to give back," Golledge says. "However, with the downturn in the economy, many people felt their jobs at the nonprofits were at risk and therefore they were unhappy due to their concerns over job security."
Golledge adds, "At first, we were very surprised that the software and Internet industry didn't rank higher. Then, when drilling down we realized although there are happy companies, such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter, there are many people in the technical industry who are behind the scenes, making the companies run. Since they are not a profit center but a cost center, some of their reviews reflected less happiness."
Media and entertainment and retail tie for the third unhappiest industry to work in, with an index score of 3.85.CareerBliss also compiled a less gloomy list: The Happiest Industries To Work In.
If you're hoping to smile more at work, think about switching to a job in telecommunications, construction, or financial services. Those are some of the industries where workers are happiest.
But the most blissful employees of all work for the government. With an index score of 4.07, government employees said they are more than satisfied with the people they work with and their daily tasks. They're most dissatisfied with growth opportunities, compensation and company culture.
"Many folks in government feel truly happy because they feel they are giving something back to their country," Golledge says. "Additionally, they are part of a larger structure, so they know what they should be doing and when, and they feel good about the hierarchy."
The education industry follows close behind in the No. 2 spot, with a 4.06 index score. Workers in education are particularly happy with their boss and colleagues.
"With education we found that many people feel happier and more empowered if they can help others through teaching," Golledge says.
The real estate and construction industry ties the wholesale and distribution industry for the No. 3 spot. Both earned a 3.98 index score.
"Although construction and real estate have been hit hard in the last three years, our data shows that employees who continue to work in this sector are very happy with their co-workers and the overall job they do each day," Miller says.
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TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appears headed for a third three-year term as ruling party leader, extending his hold on power and giving him time to pursue a long-cherished goal — revising his country's post-World War II constitution.
Abe reportedly has the support of a large majority of party representatives ahead of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's Sept. 20 leadership vote.
"I will take on the task of revising the constitution, a postwar challenge that has never been achieved, in order to open a new era," Abe said Friday in a televised debate with his only challenger, former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba.
The 63 year-old Abe, prime minister since December 2012, is poised to become Japan's longest-serving leader with a third term.
He reportedly has the support of 70 percent of the 405 parliament members from his party, and is expected to win about 60 percent of the other 405 votes allocated to regional rank-and-file members, according to media surveys.
With Abe's victory widely expected, the focus has shifted to who will get key party posts and Cabinet appointments, and his possible successor.
A revision to the US-drafted 1947 constitution is a decades-old pledge of the Liberal Democratic Party that none of Abe's predecessors has been able to achieve. They include Abe's grandfather, former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi, who saw the constitution as a humiliation imposed on Japan following its World War II defeat.
Abe said earlier this week that he hoped his party could submit a draft constitutional revision to a parliamentary session later this year.
He is proposing to add a clause to Article 9, which bans the use of force in settling international disputes. The clause would explicitly permit the existence of Japan's military, known as the Self-Defense Force.
His coalition government holds the two-thirds majority needed in both houses to approve a national referendum on constitutional amendment, but the issue is controversial and it's unclear whether Abe could get enough votes for passage.
For the public, the constitution is a lesser concern than issues such as pay, education and the high cost of child care, surveys show.
Abe's agenda will include the country's aging and declining population and a royal succession in the spring. He also has to deal with security concerns stemming from North Korea's nuclear and missile threats, as well as intensifying trade friction with the US which could shake his friendly relations with President Donald Trump.
Abe has survived a series of scandals, including cronyism allegations against him and his wife, Akie. Despite attacks from opposition parties and criticism in the media, his public support ratings have recovered to about 40 percent, considered high for a Japanese leader after five years and eight months in office.
Party members credit him with leading the party to major victories in national elections.
He has lasted so long because many lawmakers are primarily interested in getting his and other senior lawmakers' backing in elections, veteran political analyst Soichiro Tahara wrote in his blog. "Many Liberal Democratic lawmakers have become 'yes men' of the leadership," he wrote.


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I'm reluctant to write a post about ADHD. It just seems like treacherous ground. Judging by comments I've read online and in magazines, and my own personal experience, expressing an opinion about this diagnosis—or just about anything in child psychiatry—will be met with criticism from one side or another. But after reading L. Alan Sroufe's article ("Ritalin Gone Wild") in the New York Times, I feel compelled to write.
If you have not read the article, I encourage you to do so. Personally, I agree with every word (well, except for the comment about "children born into poverty therefore [being] more vulnerable to behavior problems"—I would remind Dr Sroufe that correlation does not equal causation). In fact, I wish I had written it. Unfortunately, it seems that only outsiders or retired psychiatrists can write such stuff about this profession. The rest of us might need to look for jobs someday.
Predictably, the article has attracted numerous online detractors. For starters, check out this response from the NYT "Motherlode" blog, condemning Dr Sroufe for "blaming parents" for ADHD. In my reading of the original article, Dr Sroufe did nothing of the sort. Rather, he pointed out that ADHD symptoms may not entirely (or at all) arise from an inborn neurological defect (or "chemical imbalance"), but rather that environmental influences may be more important. He also remarked that, yes, ADHD drugs do work; children (and adults, for that matter) do perform better on them, but those successes decline over time, possibly because a drug solution "does nothing to change [environmental] conditions … in the first place."
I couldn't agree more. To be honest, I think this statement holds true for much of what we treat in psychiatry, but it's particularly relevant in children and adolescents. Children are exposed to an enormous number of influences as they try to navigate their way in the world, not to mention the fact that their brains—and bodies—continue to develop rapidly and are highly vulnerable. "Environmental influences" are almost limitless.
I have a radical proposal which will probably never, ever, be implemented, but which might help resolve the problems raised by the NYT article. Read on.
First of all, you'll note that I referred to "ADHD symptoms" above, not "ADHD." This isn't a typo. In fact, this is a crucial distinction. As with anything else in psychiatry, diagnosing ADHD relies on documentation of symptoms. ADHD-like symptoms are extremely common, particularly in child-age populations. (To review the official ADHD diagnostic criteria from the DSM-IV, click here.) To be sure, a diagnosis of ADHD requires that these symptoms be "maladaptive and inconsistent with developmental level." Even so, I've often joked with my colleagues that I can diagnose just about any child with ADHD just by asking the right questions in the right way. That's not entirely a joke. Try it yourself. Look at the criteria, and then imagine you have a child in your office whose parent complains that he's doing poorly in school, or gets in fights, or refuses to do homework, or daydreams a lot, etc. When the ADHD criteria are on your mind—remember, you have to think like a psychiatrist here!—you're likely to ask leading questions, and I guarantee you'll get positive responses.
That's a lousy way of making a diagnosis, of course, but it's what happens in psychiatrists' and pediatricians' offices every day. There are more "valid" ways to diagnose ADHD: rating scales like the Connors or Vanderbilt surveys, extensive neuropsychiatric assessment, or (possibly) expensive imaging tests. However, in practice, we often let subthreshold scores on those surveys "slide" and prescribe ADHD medications anyway (I've seen it plenty); neuropsychiatric assessments are often wishy-washy ("auditory processing score in the 60th percentile," etc); and, as Dr Sroufe correctly points out, children with poor motivation or "an underdeveloped capacity to regulate their behavior" will most likely have "anomalous" brain scans. That doesn't necessarily mean they have a disorder.
So what's my proposal? My proposal is to get rid of the diagnosis of ADHD altogether. Now, before you crucify me or accuse me of being unfit to practice medicine (as one reader—who's also the author of a book on ADHD—did when I floated this idea on David Allen's blog last week), allow me to elaborate.
First, if we eliminate the diagnosis of ADHD, we can still do what we've been doing. We can still evaluate children with attention or concentration problems, or hyperactivity, and we can still use stimulant medications (of course, they'd be off-label now) to provide relief—as long as we've obtained the same informed consent that we've done all along. We do this all the time in medicine. If you complain of constant toe and ankle pain, I don't immediately diagnose you with gout; instead, I might do a focused physical exam of the area and recommend a trial of NSAIDs. If the pain returns, or doesn't improve, or you have other features associated with gout, I may want to check uric acid levels, do a synovial fluid analysis, or prescribe allopurinol.
That's what medicine is all about: we see symptoms that suggest a diagnosis, and we provide an intervention to help alleviate the symptoms while paying attention to the natural course of the illness, refining the diagnosis over time, and continually modifying the therapy to treat the underlying diagnosis and/or eliminate risk factors. With the ultimate goal, of course, of minimizing dangerous or expensive interventions and achieving some degree of meaningful recovery.
This is precisely what we don't do in most cases of ADHD. Or in most of psychiatry. While exceptions definitely exist, often the diagnosis of ADHD—and the prescription of a drug that, in many cases, works surprisingly well—is the end of the story. Child gets a diagnosis, child takes medication, child does better with peers or in school, parents are satisfied, everyone's happy. But what caused the symptoms in the first place? Can (or should) that be fixed? When can (or should) treatment be stopped? How can we prevent long-term harm from the medication?
If, on the other hand, we don't make a diagnosis of ADHD, but instead document that the child has "problems in focusing" or "inattention" or "hyperactivity" (i.e., we describe the specific symptoms), then it behooves us to continue looking for the causes of those symptoms. For some children, it may be a chaotic home environment. For others, it may be a history of neglect, or ongoing substance abuse. For others, it may be a parenting style or interaction which is not ideal for that child's social or biological makeup (I hesitate to write "poor parenting" because then I'll really get hate mail!). For still others, there may indeed be a biological abnormality—maybe a smaller dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (hey! the DLPFC!) or delayed brain maturation.
ADHD offers a unique platform upon which to try this open-minded, non-DSM-biased approach. Dropping the diagnosis of "ADHD" would have a number of advantages. It would encourage us to search more deeply for root causes; it would allow us to be more eclectic in our treatment; it would prevent patients, parents, doctors, teachers, and others from using it as a label or as an "excuse" for one's behavior; and it would require us to provide truly individualized care. Sure, there will be those who simply ask for the psychostimulants "because they work" for their symptoms of inattentiveness or distractibility (and those who deliberately fake ADHD symptoms because they want to abuse the stimulant or because they want to get into Harvard), but hey, that's already happening now! My proposal would create a glut of "false negative" ADHD diagnoses, but it would also reduce the above "false positives," which, in my opinion, are more damaging to our field's already tenuous nosology.
A strategy like this could—and probably should—be extended to other conditions in psychiatry, too. I believe that some of what we call "ADHD" is truly a disorder—probably multiple disorders, as noted above; the same is probably true with "major depression," "bipolar disorder," and just about everything else. But when these labels start being used indiscriminately (and unfortunately DSM-5 doesn't look to offer any improvement), the diagnoses become fixed labels and lock us into an approach that may, at best, completely miss the point, and at worst, cause significant harm. Maybe we should rethink this.
Steve Balt is a psychiatrist who blogs at Thought Broadcast.
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War And Peace
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Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace is a sprawling epic covering the impact of Napoleon's disastrous invasion of Russia on five different families. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs, with an afterword by Orlando Figes, author of A People's Tragedy: Russian Revolution 1891-1924.
At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey and impetuous Natasha interweave with a huge cast, from aristocrats and peasants to soldiers and Napoleon himself. In War and Peace, Tolstoy entwines grand themes – conflict and love, birth and death, free will and faith – with unforgettable scenes of nineteenth-century Russia, to create a magnificent epic of human life in all its imperfection and grandeur.
Anthony Briggs's superb translation combines stirring, accessible prose with fidelity to Tolstoy's original, while Orlando Figes's afterword discusses the novel's vast scope and depiction of Russian identity. This edition also contains appendices, notes, a list of prominent characters and maps.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was born at Yasnaya Polyana, in central Russia. After marrying Sofya Behrs in 1862, Tolstoy settled down, managing his estates and writing two of his best-known novels, War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1878). In 1884 Tolstoy experienced a spiritual crisis, becoming an extreme moralist, rejecting the state, the church and private property. His last novel, Resurrection (1900), was written to raise money for the Doukhobor sect of Christian spiritualists.
If you enjoyed War and Peace, you might also like Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.
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Remember back when President Richard Nixon came up with the idea of giving moon rocks to all of the countries of the world?
The moon rocks came from NASA's Apollo moon missions.
The gift rocks symbolized "the unity of human endeavor" and carried a message of "hope of the American people for a world at peace."
Problem is many have gone missing. One eastern Mediterranean island nation is a case in point. It was reeling from war back in the 70's and in the chaos the moon rocks went missing.
Four decades later, American law professor Joe Gutheinz is on the case, "each semester that I teach the moon rock project, I ask my students to pick one moon rock and assign them the task to hunt down the moon rock down wherever it might be in the world."
Gutheinz has helped to turn up the moon rock that was once destined for this eastern Mediterranean island nation, a country that's divided among Greeks and Turks.
Can you name it?
Here's a photo of the moon rock and plaque in question:
Some of the lunar samples that astronauts brought back from Apollo moon missions in the late 1960's and 70's came to be known as moon rocks.
President Richard Nixon famously gave 270 moon rocks to foreign countries as gifts, as symbols of peace.
But moon rock gifts intended for the nation of Cyprus went missing for decades.
Cyprus is the answer to our quiz.
Joseph Gutheinz teaches at the University of Phoenix. If you need to find a missing moon rock, he's your guy. Together with his students, he's been investigating the estimated 158 missing moon rocks that were gifted to foreign countries. Recently he's been investigating the case of the moon rocks gifted to Cyprus.
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"Masked Mayhem" (my title)
Story and art by Jack Cole
Smash Comics #74
(Quality Comics Group
Dec, 1947)
Left: Cover by Jack Cole
For such a seemingly mild-mannered guy, Jack Cole was pretty subversive in his creative expression. He not only pushed the form of comics into new directions, he also pushed the content of comic books in the 1940's.
His greatest creation, PLASTIC MAN, was itself a parody of the super-hero genre that defied the story-forms conventions and moral standards. Plastic Man started out as a crook and, for his first dozen or so adventures, kept functioning as a crook – breaking the law with a jester's playfulness while he also saved the day as Plastic Man. When you think about it, these stories turned the hero concept inside out, which may be part of the unique appeal of the series.
In his seventh MIDNIGHT story in his second run on the series, Cole subverts the classic boxing/fight story-form. The boxing movie has been a Hollywood staple for over 50 years, with films like Raging Bull, Million Dollar Baby, and most recently The Fighter. In 1947, the year Cole wrote and drew this story,one of the big hit movies was Body and Soul, starring John Garfield (pictured left). In the film, Garfield becomes involved with fight promoters who are crooked and corrupt. Ernest Hemmingway wrote about rigged fights in his great 1927 short story, "The Killers," which has been adapted into a movie four different times (so far).
By 1947, the story-form of the rigged fight was predictable enough that Cole could parody it in his Midnight story. No doubt, Cole was inspired by the great work E.C. Segar did in Popeye with his numerous parodies of boxing matches and fights. He starts the story with a comic reversal, showing a man with a massive, rugged fighter's body and the sensitivity of a child…
Cole ends the story on a subversive note, with our hero, Midnight, actually holding up the crooks at gunpoint!
It is also of passing interest to note that this story is also yet another in a long series of Jack Cole stories that play with the concept of shapeshifting…. in this story, Midnight is almost interchangeable for Plastic Man in his ability to change his appearance.
Sadly, like many of the later Midnight stories, there seems to be something lacking in the energy of the story. Still, the art is terrific and the storytelling is masterful. Check out this lovely panel from page six that features a classic Jack Cole city scene:
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Fresh from the tips line, [Pedro] sent in his GSM alarm. He combined a GSM phone, a motion sensor and BasicX24 controller board. If the detector trips during a set time period, the alarm sends SMS messages to the terminator, er whoever you want. He was kind enough to release the code, but I'd like to see this with a smaller micro-controller board to keep the cost/size down.
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So… not really an "alarm clock". More like motion detector with text message alarm.
I don't think it was meant to be alarm clock.. perhaps a typo.
You can do something like this with an AVR. See application note AVR323 for details. Not with a motion sensor but that shouldn't be the biggest problem.
i was looking at a very similar idea for a car alarm.
smaller and cheaper… I managed to get sms control (both ways) using a pic (16f628) using fbus (not AT)
Shame you can't automate MMS , you could use the cell phone's camera and not have false alarms. now that's useful!
you can automate mms and sms. which would be a better solution.
a $0.98 8 pin pic chip and a little bit of coding and this could be easily done for far cheaper.
Basic stuff here guys
You can use a smaller board like this.. http://www.wrighthobbies.net/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21&products_id=30
cheaper chips but usually more expensive to do development wise, although maybe in another 6 months the pic world will gets it's development stuff cheaper then the stamp
or you can choose one of these gsm projects http://www.elektronika.ba/projekti/
just wana ask if how to trigger the cell phone to send sms by means of the alarm, hope you could share me. i realy want to know. thnx
mure, ofcourse everyone can read russian!?
wow what a interesting post , its really helpful for us
and i saw this post on aol ill pop back to your site later today -
not an Original idea, I designed the basic principal of this as a Shed alarm in 04, and was in recipt of several accolades from the Police and court magistrates for the arrest and conviction of the ringleader of the theives/vandals that were terrorising our allotment site for years.
I used an old Sagem phone and hardwired directly to the SEND key, and had a door microswitch as the trigger to send a text.
I`v shared this idea on as many places as I can (I didn`t know about this place until recently).
all you need is a phone that doesn`t go into stby and erase the number you have ready to send, and some simple soldering skills.
I urge Everyone to arm themselves with these in Cars, Houses, Sheds, boats… etc.
it May give these little ba$t@rds pause for thought if enough of them get caught! ;)
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Birthday thug sent to prison for pub attack
Defendant Warren Culshaw was out celebrating his 50th birthday but turned on his victim outside the Cedar Tavern in Cedar Square, Blackpool on December 14.
Preston Crown Court heard drunken Culshaw had been asked to leave the venue but came back in shouting.
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Culshaw, who admitted wounding, had claimed the victim had made a remark about his partner - but the victim insisted it was not the case.
The court heard Culshaw's victim suffered such a severe fracture to his cheekbone and eye socket that medics are unsure whether it is safe to operate.
Judge Cornwall, jailing Culshaw for two years, said: "As you stand before this court in your suit you do not appear to be a violent man.
"But when you are drunk you are a very dangerous man.
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He added: "This had been a perfectly amicable social gathering.
"You became drunk, you had to be asked to leave the pub.
"You seem to have done devastating injuries to his left eye.
"Almost every aspect of his life has been changed for the worse."


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White House Report: Race to the Top Setting the Pace for Gains across the Education System
More support for educators and increases in student achievement are among signs of progress as anniversary of President Obama's signature education reform approaches
WASHINGTON, DC – In the four years since the Obama Administration announced its first Race to the Top grants, the President's signature education initiative has helped spark a wave of reform across the country, according to the attached report released today by the White House and Department of Education.
As the four-year anniversary of those grants approaches this week, "Setting the Pace" finds that the President's education reform agenda has helped raise standards for students, better support teachers and school leaders, and turn around low-performing schools. Ultimately, these efforts have led to signs of encouraging progress among the nation's students.
Among the report's key findings are:
States that received Race to the Top funds to reform their K-12 education systems serve 22 million students and 1.5 million teachers in more than 40,000 schools.
These states represent 45 percent of all students and a similar percentage of all low-income students. Some of the most encouraging signs of progress have come in states that have done the most to embrace the types of reforms called for in Race to the Top, including Tennessee, Hawaii and the District of Columbia.
All Race to the Top grantees have taken key steps toward focusing on college- and career-readiness for all students and supporting hard-working teachers and principals, including developing a number of new tools and resources, providing coaching for educators, and expanding options for students.
"Race to the Top set out to advance a simple idea: that the most powerful ideas for improving education come not from Washington, but from educators and leaders in states throughout the country. Now, nearly four years in, change is touching nearly half the nation's students – for an investment that represents less than 1 percent of education spending," U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said. "We know this work is never easy, but what is most encouraging is that despite some debate in state legislatures and here in Congress, state and district leaders have had the courage to put their plan into action.
"The Obama Administration is focused on expanding opportunity for America's students to ensure not only that they have a shot at achieving the American dream, but that the next generation of American workers can continue to compete in the global economy," said Cecilia Muñoz, Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council. "The Race to the Top program has helped spur the change and improvement needed in our education system, demonstrating that by working together across the federal government, with governors and school boards, principals and teachers, businesses and non-profits, parents and students – we can provide the education that our young people need and deserve, to prepare for college and a successful career."
At 80 percent, the nation's high school graduation rate is the highest in American history, thanks to comprehensive, state-led efforts inspired in part by Race to the Top. In addition, student test scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress are the highest since the test was first given 20 years ago.
With an initial budget of just more than $4 billion – less than 1 percent of total education spending in America – Race to the Top unleashed a flurry of pent-up education reform activity at the state and local level. Importantly, these efforts have created partnerships among parents, educators, and state and community leaders to continue this progress in the months and years ahead.
Today's report highlights examples of the most innovative and effective reforms that are taking place in states across the country to prepare students for college and careers, support educators, and spur innovative educational strategies. From Massachusetts' work to increase access to Advanced Placement (AP) classes by training more than 1,100 middle and high school teachers, to Tennessee's efforts to support its educators by coaching 30,000 on new state standards and equipping 700 teacher-leader coaches, to Florida's investment in programs to get the best and brightest educators to the highest-needs areas, to Maryland's development of STEM curriculum models for use in language programs statewide, states are leading the way with plans tailored to meet the unique needs of their educators and students. This federal support, paired with state and local investment and leadership, is getting results for students and educators.
Looking at these examples and the progress made across our education system, the report finds that while much work remains, Race to the Top has empowered and reinforced the best ideas at the state and local level. By staying on course, America can continue to make progress toward ensuring that every child has an opportunity to get a world-class education and the skills he or she will need to succeed in today's economy — and tomorrow's.
"Encouraged and supported by Race to the Top, states are taking major steps forward for our nation's students," the report concludes. "There will never be a moment to declare victory in this race – the work will continue for many years to come. But America's educators remain committed to support all our children on their path to a prosperous future. State and local leaders share that commitment. Staying on course is critical while this hard work is underway."


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Clinton says she doesn't see "getting back into politics"
WASHINGTON: Outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday cast doubt on speculation she might run for the White House in 2016.
In an interview taped for National Public Radio, Clinton was asked what questions she needs to answer for herself as she decides whether to run for president.
"I'm not even posing those questions. I am really looking forward to stepping off the fast track that I've been on. I've been out of politics as Secretary of State. I don't see myself getting back into politics," she said, according to an excerpt of the interview.
Whether this is her last word on the subject is unknown. She will face strong pressure from Democrats to join the field of contenders. Clinton will step down this week, following Senate confirmation Tuesday of Massachusetts Democratic Senator John Kerry as her successor.
Those close to Clinton are eager for her to announce a 2016 run, so much so that a group has already formed a new super PAC and registered with the Federal Election Commission on Friday, called "Ready for Hillary."
In 2008, she lost to President Barack Obama in a bitter Democratic primary campaign to be the party nominee for the White House.
Although Clinton, 65, did not categorically rule out another presidential run, in a separate NBC interview she said that she was healthy enough to wage a campaign.
"I have no doubt that I am healthy enough and my stamina is great enough and I'll be fully recovered to do whatever I choose to do," Clinton told "Andrea Mitchell Reports" in an interview that aired on Tuesday.
Clinton was hospitalized in December after doctors found a blood clot stemming from a concussion she suffered previously.
She intends to do more public speaking and writing, and work alongside her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and daughter Chelsea on "mutual foundation interests," she said in the NPR interview.
"I want to be involved in philanthropy, advocacy, working on issues – like women and girls – that I care deeply about," Clinton said.


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So this totally normal thing happened on Tuesday: some people showed up with a bunch of camera equipment and took pictures of my baby girl's room.
This is me calmly handling this totally normal event:
I think at the time this photo was taken, Stacey and Evan (the camera crew…we're on a first-name basis) were contemplating how to tell Kristine, the amazing stylist, that she couldn't take Kenley back to Boston with her. Kristine was contemplating how to inform Kenley that the mysterious foreign substance she was gripping in her chubby baby fingers was hair.
It kills me that these pictures are so noisy. Next time a national magazine makes the mistake of thinking my home should grace its pages and Rick tells me to fix the camera settings before he takes the pictures, I will listen.
Anyway, you can see that one of us got to wear ruffle-butt pants and the other wore lip gloss for like the first time ever.
Kristine: You'll just want to wear lipstick a bit darker than your normal color.
Me: What is lipstick?
Listening to and watching the crew work their magic was the best part. Pouf too tall for the photo? No problem; just take out some of the stuffing. Closet curtain too wrinkly? No problem; take one panel down. Crib not angled properly? No problem; prop it up with some 2x4s.
Kristine arrived Monday to talk through some things and help pick out our outfits. You can see from the different pictures that Kenley had a wardrobe change after her first nap; they decided that the pink was washing her out too much (what? a baby of mine? pale? no.) so Kristine magically reached into her closet and selected the new outfit. You should know that she did not, as my stylist, recommend the toothbrush be part of my outfit.
The equipment itself was also pretty impressive. Not that I expected them to show up with their camera phone or something, but, you know. Still.
After the shoot was over, Kristine interviewed me for the little blurb that will accompany the photo. I had another What is lipstick moment when she asked what my decorating style was. Um? I don't know? Wing-it-and-hope-it-works? Sounds about right.
In sum, the day was pretty lame. And by lame, I mean hands-down one of the coolest days ever, after Kenley's birth and stuff, and I am so thankful to have had this experience. Rick was thrilled that he got to be there, and we are all so excited to see the final print version. My mom plans to stand in the supermarket aisle and direct all traffic to her "famous" granddaughter…who will be autographing copies in drool, should anyone be interested. ;)


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Scientists join forces in call for action to save coral reefs
Like their warrior ancestors, leaders of many Pacific Island nations have been making efforts to safeguard their countries, this time by sounding an alarm as the impact of climate change becomes more apparent. Today their efforts received a big boost with the release of a Scientific Consensus Statement on Climate Change and Coral Reefs that is supported by over 2,400 scientists, showing the threats that reef corals are under across the globe and calling for governments worldwide to take steps to protect valuable coral reef ecosystems. The statement was drafted by a group of eminent scientists under the auspices of the Center for Ocean Solutions (COS) at Stanford University in California and was released at the 12th International Coral Reef Symposium in Cairns, Australia.
"Rising sea levels, more intense storms, changes in ocean chemistry due to air and water pollution - all these stress coral reefs," observed Steve Palumbi, an expert on corals with the Center for Ocean Solutions and the chief organizer in developing the consensus statement. "At least 25 percent of the world's coral reefs have been degraded. Because of the global origin of climate change, the only way to tackle this is through a worldwide effort."
Pacific island nations have a special relationship with coral reefs. Long a part of their culture and heritage, today many islanders derive their livelihoods from tourism and fishing that are dependent on healthy reefs. Pacific island leaders will again take their case for a concerted effort to help coral reefs to world bodies including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and Pacific Islands Forum where they hope the support of scientific experts representing diverse interests will galvanize action by governments and the islands' development partners.
"We want leaders of Pacific island nations to know that the scientific community has their backs and is ready and available to support them in their calls for action, based on scientific evidence," pointed out Meg Caldwell, executive director of COS. "Members of our working group have agreed to be on call, to show up at conferences and to be available to write materials to share locally, regionally and globally."
"This is an extraordinary example of science working in close collaboration with policy makers to better the human condition and the environment," stated Larry Crowder, science director at COS. "As a scientist, it's exciting to apply the best available science to urge and shape a better policy course."
The Climate Change and Corals working group was the brainchild of a discussion between COS management and the founder of the Okeanos Foundation, Dieter Paulmann, which has supported the COS working group.
The threat of climate change to Pacific island nations has been periodically spotlighted by world bodies, including the 2000 UN Ministerial Conference on Environment and Development in Asia and Pacific which issued this statement: "The Pacific islands view climate change as a major disaster and have openly and continuously criticized the industrial nations for failure to take definitive steps towards abating pollution of the global atmosphere. There are three distinct impacts from this pollution; global warming, sea level rise and climate change. In fact, despite continuing improvement in measurements and predictive computer programmes, nobody knows exactly what the outcome of atmospheric pollution will be, but if the current range of peculiar weather and catastrophic deaths of a wide range of important ecosystems are any indication, the small islands of the world have good cause to be worried."
In another move to build momentum behind the issue, last month Pacific island leaders met at their annual Association of Pacific Island Legislatures assembly in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. There Meg Caldwell and working group member, Robert Richmond, Professor of Conservation Biology, University of Hawaii, explained the implications of the Scientific Climate Change and Coral Consensus Statement and urged island leaders to utilize the scientists from the COS working group to help them build and support their cases for action on climate change in discussions with world bodies and for actions locally toward coral reef resilience in the face of climate change. At the conclusion of the APIL meeting, the delegates adopted a resolution strongly supporting local, regional and international action. Their resolution joins a March 2012 companion resolution from their executive branch counterparts from the Micronesia Chief Executives' Summit.
By the end of this century, the best available science predicts that sea levels may rise by as much as 1.7 meters while ocean chemistry and temperatures could change enough to kill many of the coral reefs that support thriving Pacific ecosystems critical to people's jobs and habitat. Pacific warriors have a long history of defending their islands. The world may be at the edge of another pivotal period in history where the well being of nations hangs on actions to safeguard the planet's environment.
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Bodyboarding Video
Check out this footage from the 2009/2010 epic North Shore Swells. I shot the footage during The Eddie and the middle of January during the two huge swells at Waimea Bay. The cool stuff was the pros before the February Pro Pipeline Contest. Enjoy! Check back this month for some cool shots of Off The Wall and Rockpiles taken during the two week holding period at the Pipe Masters. I am heading over to Maui at the end of January to get some footage of the Maui crew windsurfing and will be hunting out da local boys
Check out the Inn of the Beachcomber sponsour link above for the place to stay on the Southern Oregon Coast. The Inn of the Beachcomber will once again be the host hotel for the American Windsurfing Tour's stop this may at the Pistol River Wave Bash.
Winter 2009/2010 North Shore BodyBoarding
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Catholic Priest Piero Corsi Blames 'Filthy Clothes and Cold Food' for Murder of Women
Uncompromising Christmas message lays blame for violence against women on the victims
Widespread outrage has been sparked by an Italian priest's Christmas message in which he claimed that women triggered men's violence by wearing "filthy clothes" and serving "cold suppers".
Father Piero Corsi put up a leaflet on his church's notice board in the small seaside town of San Terenzio near La Spezia in northwestern Italy, asserting that 118 women killed by men in Italy in 2012 was caused by the victims themselves.
"Is it possible that men have turn crazy all of a sudden? We don't believe so. The point is that more and more women provoke, fall into arrogance, believe [themselves] to be independent and exacerbate tensions," the leaflet read.
"Children are left outside alone, homes are dirty, meals are served cold or are fast-food-like, clothing is filthy," Corsi wrote. "They [women] trigger the worst instincts, leading to violence and sexual abuse. They should do a self-examination and think: did we ask for it?"
A scan of the leaflet was posted online and triggered a wave of outrage. Corsi's Facebook page was flooded with angry comments and was shut down.
Maria Carnieri, head of Telefono Rosa, an NGO fighting violence against women, called for the Pope and Italian Prime Minster Mario Monti to intervene.
La Spezia bishop Luigi Ernesto Palletti ordered the leaflet to be removed and distanced himself from Corsi. The priest's words, he said, were "contrary to the church's common feeling on the matter".
But Corsi told Radio Rai: "I don't know if you are a faggot or not but what do you feel when you see a naked woman? Is it not a woman's violence [sic] to unveil herself that way?"
In La Repubblica newspaper he said his words "had been exploited by liar journalists for whom jail wouldn't be an adequate sentence since they deserve the death penalty".
He later issued an apology and said he would quit the priesthood, due to the "pain and regret" he felt for the "controversy caused by his imprudent provocation", but then backtracked and denied both the apology and any intention of resigning.
Paletti suggested that Corsi takes a few days' holiday instead, La Repubblica reported.
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