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10/5/12 Weekly Update: The District of Corruption
A Win and a Loss for Election Integrity
Liberals have been aggressively pushing the false narrative that voter fraud is something conservatives invented out of thin air – a phantom problem, they say, intended to "suppress" votes. But nothing could be further from the truth. Voter fraud is real. It is a proven threat to the integrity of our elections this year and beyond.
As noted recently in an editorial by Glenn Harlan Reynolds in the New York Post: "Current voter-registration systems are flawed, with huge numbers of dead or disqualified voters still on the rolls. And, since voter-ID enforcement is poor, in many places a person can simply claim to be one of those people and vote in their name with no one the wiser."
Reynolds' column centers on an excellent book, Who's Counting: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote At Risk, by journalist John Fund and former Justice Department attorney Hans von Spakovsky.
But don't take their word for it. Or mine. Just review this list of real-world incidents of election fraud as compiled by ElectionIntegrityWatch.com, the most recent criminal voter fraud taking place just a few days ago on a college campus in Fargo, North Dakota.
In the context of the very real concerns about voter fraud, this week a Pennsylvania Court issued its ruling on the state's new voter ID law. It was a loss, but at the same time, something of a win, for election integrity. Per CBS News in Philadelphia:
A Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court judge has ruled that the state's controversial new voter ID law will stand, but voters without a valid picture ID card will still be able to cast their vote and have it counted.
Judge Robert Simpson has effectively decided to block part of the law. Following his ruling, voters will still be asked for a valid voter ID at the poll. But if they don't have it, they will still be able to cast their vote in the usual manner.
The judge suspended the portion of the law that would have required voters without valid ID to cast what is called a "provisional" ballot, which would not be counted unless the voter could produce a valid photo ID within six days after the election.
Judge Simpson says he viewed the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's recent directive as ordering that he sever the illegal portion of the law concerning the provisional ballots.
So on Election Day, Pennsylvania will feature a "soft rollout" of the new law, CBS noted, with later implementation of the stricter measures possible in the future. But this comes as no solace to those of us who are very concerned about the integrity of the elections this year. Though we are happy that voters will be at least asked for voter ID and that the law is set to be fully implemented, over the objections of the Left, in future elections.
As I've said many times over the last six months, the Obama gang – which includes the Obama campaign, the Obama Justice Department, the Obama White House and liberal special interest groups – has launched an all-out attack on the integrity of our elections.
This campaign includes abusing federal election laws to try to register a "Food Stamp Army" to help gather more votes for the president. It includes attacking states that try to impose election integrity measures, such as voter ID laws. It includes partnering with scandal-ridden organizations such as ACORN and Project Vote. It includes "legalizing" illegal aliens. And it includes engaging legions of lawyers to oppose the election results if they are not favorable to Barack Obama.
This machine had a trial run in 2008 with massive voter registration fraud and with voter fraud, in some cases tipping the balance in favor of leftist candidates (See Al Franken). Judicial Watch, in partnership with its allies, True the Vote and the Election Law Center, is uniquely positioned to help protect the integrity of our election systems.
Judicial Watch launched its 2012 Election Integrity Project to counter the Obama gang's attempts to "fix" the elections. And it has already paid dividends, earning key victories in Florida, Tennessee, West Virginia, Maryland, and elsewhere. JW has also exposed the corrupt connections between the Obama administration and radical leftist organizations, prompting a barrage of press stories that has educated many Americans about the threat to free and fair elections.
And when there are setbacks, we don't give up. And that includes Pennsylvania. We have been actively engaged in support of the state's voter ID law from the beginning. We've testified before the state legislature and filed briefs with the courts to articulate our view that voter ID laws are not only lawful, but necessary. And that battle will continue.
I just flew back last night from Denver, where I moderated a panel at CPAC Colorado on election integrity. I can tell that the activists there are motivated and educated about this issue. We will have our own "2012 Election Integrity Update" event next week (October 11, 2012). You can attend in person or via the Internet. Click here for more for more information.
Because if there's one thing we know regarding election fraud, it is this: The enemies of free and fair elections, no matter which party or candidate they support, will remain active long after all of the votes (legal or otherwise) are counted this year. This is a long ballgame. And Judicial Watch is in it to win it for election integrity. If you want to join us in this effort, please visit www.judicialwatch.org today and consider making a secure online contribution.
JW Obtains USDA Records Detailing Agency's "Cultural Sensitivity Training" Program
A few months ago, I told you about a new Judicial Watch investigation looking into a February 2012 meeting between FBI Director Robert Mueller and Muslim organizations. That meeting took place just prior to the FBI's controversial decision to purge the agency's training curricula of material deemed "offensive" to Muslims. Some of the groups involved in this meeting have ties to Islamic terrorists who want to do us harm. The decision by the FBI to bow to their whims is irresponsible at best and flagrantly dangerous at worst.
Well now I want to tell you about another shocking example of political correctness run amok inside the Obama administration. Our investigators recently obtained records from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) about a cultural sensitivity program held for the agency by Souder, Betances & Associates, a Chicago-based company that focuses on "diversity training."
The USDA training program, which took place following the knee-jerk firing of former USDA employee Shirley Sherrod, is part of a large-scale effort by USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack to "culturally transform" the agency.
Judicial Watch filed its FOIA request on May 18, 2012 after being notified by a USDA whistleblower about a compulsory national USDA training program that allegedly – get this – requires staffers to bang on tables while chanting in unison that America's founding fathers were illegal immigrants!
(Can someone please explain to me how such an exercise helps the bureaucrats at the USDA do their jobs effectively?)
Our FOIA request sought access to all records since January 2010 of USDA's dealings with Souder, Betances & Associates. And in response to Judicial Watch's FOIA request, and a subsequent administrative appeal, we received 46 pages of documents from one division of USDA called the Food & Nutrition Service (FNS).
The records show that FNS spent $2,350.97 to send Vincent Loran, the division's Training Administrator, to Skokie, Ill., for Betances' three-day diversity training course May 29-31, 2012. The records also include email correspondence between Loran and the firm's principal owner, Samuel Betances, prior to Mr. Loran's attendance at the training course.
Here are just two highlights from the records (which you can read in full here).
- In an October 10, 2011 email, USDA Training Administrator, Vincent Loran, issues a request to the firm's principal owner Samuel Betances for a copy of a video documenting a training session on USDA premises. Loran promises to keep the video secret: "It will not be used for or show (sic) in any way shape or form," Loran wrote. (That video remains a secret today.)
- In a January 17, 2012 email USDA Training Administrator Vincent Loran begins his message, "Bendición Papa" ("Blessings Father") and closes the letter, "Se te quiere mucho" ("I love you"). Hardly the type of professional message one might expect between a government employee and a hired consultant.
Now, according to usaspending.gov, as part of this initiative, the USDA has paid Mr. Samuel Betances and his firm nearly $200,000 in 2011 and 2012 for consulting and training programs. Among the company's self-described areas of expertise: Diversity Awareness, Race and Gender, and Hispanics at Work.
(Betances, is a Harvard grad who describes himself as a "biracial, bicultural and bilingual citizen of the world." Betances' biography states that he is a "great motivator who rose out of the bowels of inner city poverty, stigma of minority group status, violence, welfare and illiteracy in two languages.")
And, as far as the USDA's wasteful and irresponsible government initiatives are concerned, this is just the tip of the iceberg.
In April, 2009, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack sent a memo to all agency employees announcing a "new era of Civil Rights" at the USDA. As described by the USDA's Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights website: "Our efforts to tackle our history of civil rights are part of a broader effort towards cultural transformation at USDA."
In addition to diversity training, this major USDA diversity initiative includes public education campaigns, the settlement of class action lawsuits for minority populations, such as Native American and Hispanic farmers, gay, lesbian, and bi-sexual diversity programs, streamlined systems for the processing of civil rights complaints and "special events."
For example, check out this April 2011 issue of the USDA's Cultural Transformation Newsletter. It describes an FNS event called a "Taste of Culture" where 300 USDA employees were treated to a "tasty celebration" of dishes from around the world, salsa dancing lessons from training administrator Vincent Loran, and a rap music performance by another USDA employee about his feelings on human differences.
Again, I ask, how is a culinary festival, salsa dancing and rap music related in any way to the proper functioning of this federal agency?
I suspect the Obama USDA does not have an answer. Fox News covered this new Judicial Watch disclosure over on its site. Interestingly, the Obama administration refused to confirm or deny the whistleblower's description of the event. What an embarrassment for the Obama administration to waste precious taxpayer dollars on such ridiculous programs. The USDA should release all records pertaining to this diversity initiative, including the secret video referenced in these records, immediately.
As I say, the Betances' diversity training program took place following the USDA's controversial July 2010 firing of employee Shirley Sherrod in a reaction to certain racial comments by Ms. Sherrod at a meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on March 27, 2010.
And now American citizens are paying for the USDA's scandalous firing of Ms. Sherrod in the form of taxpayer-funded exercises that are offensive, wasteful and unnecessary.
Judicial Watch's Public Education Campaign Soars to New Levels
Judicial Watch has always taken very seriously its responsibility to not only fight government corruption in every corner of our country, but to also educate the public about government scandals and abuses of power. Through our monthly newsletter, The Verdict, this weekly email update, special reports, press releases, media appearances, educational panels and press conferences, we make certain we spread the word far and wide about our important work.
But in 2012, Judicial Watch's public education campaign soared to a completely new level, reaching millions of Americans in exciting new ways.
Here's one example.
This week a landmark event in the history of Judicial Watch will take place when the Fox News Channel's Hannity program taped a one-hour special dedicated to the work of Judicial Watch. This special focuses specifically on an exciting new feature length documentary film produced by Judicial Watch focusing on corruption in the White House, including the corrupt wheeling and dealing of the current administration.
Directed by award-winning filmmaker Stephen K. Bannon, The District of Corruption is a fast-paced, comprehensive examination of White House corruption through the last three presidential administrations (Clinton, Bush, and Obama). Steve and I joined Sean Hannity to tape the program earlier this week. No air-date has been set, but I will email, as soon as it is scheduled.
The name Steve Bannon may be familiar to you. He has quickly become the conservative movement's most respected and prolific filmmaker. Steve directed the hit documentary film, The Undefeated, about former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, among a number of other important works, including the new hit movie, Occupy Unmasked.
I may be biased, but I believe The District of Corruption, which was produced in association with Victory Film Group and Constant Motion Entertainment, is Steve's best film yet. It is exceptionally well-crafted, featuring interviews with yours truly and my colleagues Chris Farrell and Paul Orfanedes, as well as the conservative movement's most influential journalists, including best-selling author Peter Schweizer, Matthew Boyle (The Daily Caller), Mark Tapscott (The Washington Examiner), Kerry Picket (The Washington Times) and Mike Flynn (Breitbart.com).
Following on the heels of taping the Hannity program's one-hour special, we are now putting in motion our distribution plan which should see the film released to the public in the coming weeks. (If you would like to assist us in helping the film reach the widest audience possible, please consider making a secure on-line contribution to JW.)
The official public release of The District of Corruption makes an historic new expansion of Judicial Watch's efforts to educate the American people about the threat posed to our nation by public corruption and invasive big government.
And, as you know if you've been reading this space, this is the second major public education initiative launched by JW in 2012.
In July we released our new book, The Corruption Chronicles: Obama's Big Secrecy, Big Corruption and Big Government. The book, published by heavyweight Simon and Schuster's Threshold Editions, quickly became a New York Times bestseller, which is no easy feat. (My sincere thanks to all of the Judicial Watch members who helped make this happen.)
If you haven't yet picked up your copy, please consider doing so today. (You can find the book here, and in book stores and other popular online stores such as Amazon.com.) To whet your appetite, here is a quote from the publisher's "write-up" promoting The Corruption Chronicles:
In 2008, Barack Obama made a promise to have the "most transparent administration" of any U.S. president; it was the very cornerstone of his campaign. No secrets. No masks. No smoke and mirrors. No excuses. But over the next four years, President Obama's administration would prove to be one of the most guarded and duplicitous of our time.
Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch, America's largest nonpartisan government watchdog (challenging George W. Bush as well as Bill Clinton), has been investigating Obama ever since he splashed onto the national scene in 2006. Now Fitton exposes devastating secrets the Obama administration has desperately fought-even in court-to keep from the American public. For a while, the Obama stonewall seemed to be holding. Until now. And the revelations are astonishing.
If you want to know the full truth about Obama corruption, this book is the place to start. It is a "greatest hits" presentation of all of the scandals that have plagued Barack Obama from his days in Chicago right through his first four years as President of the United States. As a regular reader of my weekly update some of these scandals will be familiar to you. But to read this book in its entirety with Obama scandals (and scandals of our prior two presidents) laid bare in one tome is a different experience – it will become a reference guide you will use again and again.
It is certainly no small task to release a national best-selling book and a feature film in one year. But we are now in a very critical moment in our nation's history. With the unprecedented expansion of government that has taken place over the last four years, there has come a massive increase in government corruption and abuse of power. And the American people need to be better informed about what is taking place behind closed doors in Washington.
Please visit www.judicialwatch.org to stay up to date on the progress of these two new exciting projects, made possible, as always, by the generosity of our donors and supporters.
Until next week…


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Five Great Female Characters: Comic Books
There's a whole world of comic books beyond Superman and the Peanuts. In recent years, more women have been working in this literary form and, not coincidentally, there are more interesting female characters than ever before. Here are five of these heroines-some brave, some funny, and all very original-who take center stage in a new era of graphic novels.
Lady Jain
This fairy-tale series tells what happens after "happily ever after" comes to an end. Lady Jain leaves her Prince Not-So-Charming for a journey of discovery. She is aided by witches, monsters, and other surprising characters, including an order of bearded nuns.
In the Castle Waiting series by Linda Medley
This surreal series from Italy stars Pastil, a little girl with a pill-shaped head, in whose woody world lurks an array of mysterious dangers. Ghermandi's highly imaginative soft-pencil illustrations have international appeal-the series has no words.
In the Pastil series by Francesca Ghermandi
The medieval adventures of the teenage Princess Rose include triumphant battles over not only dragons but Giant Hairy Rat Creatures. A beautifully illustrated, full color prequel to the Bone series, in which Rose appears as the aged warrior Gran'ma Ben.
In Rose by Jeff Smith and Charles Vess
Scary Godmother
Scary Godmother isn't all that scary, even though she lives on the Fright Side (just to the left of our universe) and shares her house with a skeleton in the closet and a monster under the bed. She's a humorous and helpful godmother to little Hannah Marie.
In the Scary Godmother series by Jill Thompson
The teenage Sephie was born to rule Meridian, a sky-city floating high above Earth, where ships sail on the wind. But a strange mark on her forehead threatens to change her destiny-and puts her beloved sky-city at risk.
In the Meridian series by Barbara Kesel and others

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Bullet Train
In Bullet Train, Brad Pitt stars as Ladybug, an unlucky assassin determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug's latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe -- all with connected, yet conflicting, objectives -- on the world's fastest train. From the director of Deadpool 2, David Leitch, the end of the line is only the beginning in a wild, non-stop thrill ride through modern-day Japan.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 9, 2003
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Appellate Court to Celebrate 20th Anniversary
The Connecticut Appellate Court will celebrate its 20th anniversary during a ceremony scheduled for Wednesday, October 15, 2003, at 2 p.m.
Speakers will include Chief Justice William J. Sullivan, Chief Judge of the Appellate Court William J. Lavery, and Judge Antoinette L. Dupont, who was among the judges appointed to the Appellate Court in 1983. Judge Dupont, now a Judge Trial Referee, served as Chief Judge of the Appellate Court from 1984 to 1997, when she became a Senior Judge of the Appellate Court.
Other speakers will include Attorney Steven Greenspan, President of the Hartford County Bar Association, and Hartford Attorney Ralph Elliot.
The ceremony will take place in the Appellate Court, which is located at 95 Washington Street, Hartford, on the fourth floor. Cameras have been approved for the ceremony.
Voters of Connecticut on November 2, 1982, approved a constitutional amendment providing for the establishment of the Appellate Court. Legislation implementing the amendment was passed on June 28, 1983 effective July 1, 1983. Governor William A. O'Neill appointed the original five judges of the court on August 9, 1983, and the Court heard its first cases on October 4, 1983.
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Denver, CO – Corey Brewer scored 20 points off the bench, including 13 in the fourth, and Kenneth Faried added 18 points and 10 rebounds in the Denver Nuggets' 104-84 rout of the Utah Jazz.
"His energy is contagious," Nuggets head coach George Karl said of Faried. "It is a big part of why we're successful and it is going to have to be a big part of what we do this year."
Andre Iguodala tallied 15 points and seven boards, while Kosta Koufos finished with 15 points and 10 rebounds for Denver, which has won three straight since beginning the year with three consecutive losses.
Gordon Hayward netted 15 points to lead the Jazz, who have lost four of their last five games since opening their campaign with a victory.
"A very disappointing effort. We just didn't execute," Jazz head coach Tyrone Corbin said.
Randy Foye and Enes Kanter poured in 13 points apiece off the bench, while Derrick Favors registered 10 points and 11 boards off the pine in defeat.
The Jazz took a slim 27-26 lead after a quarter of play, but the Nuggets' defense clamped down in the second.
The hosts held Utah to just 16.7 percent (3-of-18) from the floor and forced seven turnovers, which led to 11 points in the frame as Denver took a 53-38 advantage into the locker room.
The Nuggets led by as many as 21 in the third before heading into the final frame with a 73-57 edge.
Brewer hit four key 3-pointers in the fourth -- three of which were momentum- halting triples.
After Alec Burks' layup pulled the visitors within 78-65 with 9:36 to play, Brewer's four-point play from the left wing restored control for Denver.
Denver was called for goaltending on Jamaal Tinsley's hook shot with 4:22 left, which made it a 90-78 deficit, but Brewer nailed back-to-back triples to make it 96-78 with 3:08 to play.
The margin swelled to as many as 22 in the waning seconds.
Game Notes
Utah turned the ball over 18 times, which led to 23 Denver points ... The Jazz finished 17.4 percent (4-of-23) from beyond the arc ... The Nuggets outrebounded the Jazz, 53-45.


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There's that whole thing Billy Beane is credited with issuing from his baseball pulpit, about spending the first third of the season evaluating your team and figuring out what you are and where you could be headed, the middle third addressing needs on the trade market, and the final third flooring it.
The regular season, roughly a six-month process, has ballpark mileposts at the end of May and the end of July, marking the points at which one of those thirds symbolically transitions to the next. The fact that July 31st is procedurally fixed as a point after which impact trades are much more difficult to pull off makes the Beane maxim cleaner.
But let's talk for a second about May 31st.
On that date, Texas rested, having completed a homestand against Toronto and Seattle and heading to Anaheim, Oakland, and San Francisco for a 10-game road trip. The Rangers were 31-20, boasting the American League's best record and baseball's second best, the best run differential in baseball by a lot, and a 5.5-game lead in its division, tied for the biggest edge in the big leagues.
On May 31, Josh Hamilton was hitting .368/.420/.764. His slug led all of baseball by more than 100 points, his OPS by nearly 100. He led baseball in home runs, extra-base hits, isolated power, RBI, go-ahead RBI, intentional walks, and story lines.
Same date: Albert Pujols was hitting .243/.290/.408.
Since that date, Hamilton is hitting .201/.290/.396. Seven players in baseball have a lower batting average over that time. Four, if you don't count the Mariners.
Since that date, Pujols is hitting .327/.411/.605. His 1.016 OPS isn't the best in the AL in that span – Mike Trout's 1.101 is.
Hamilton's .686 isn't the worst Texas OPS since May 31. That belongs to Michael Young (.610).
Again, on May 31, the Rangers were 5.5 games ahead of the Angels.
Since then, with Hamilton and Young doing what they're doing and Pujols and Trout and Mark Trumbo putting up video game numbers?
The Rangers have gone 25-18. The Angels have gone 26-18.
Texas is 5.0 games ahead of Los Angeles.
Friday and Sunday sucked. Saturday sucked for the Angels. None of the games were particularly close; the only game that was on the line late was last night's, and that was only after Ernesto Frieri made a non-save opportunity interesting in the ninth, before finishing things off with seven straight mid-90s fastballs to Hamilton, three of which he swung through.
But a 4-4 West Coast road trip and a 1-2 series in Anaheim is hardly a free fall, and it leaves me with the feeling I had before it, and that I've had for a while now:
I'm not worried at all about the final third of the regular season.
But I'm worried about October.
And that's different from any feeling I've ever had about this team, because this year – no matter what you think about the window, which is not anywhere near closing but is probably going to look a lot different in 2013 – it's unmistakably about winning a World Series.
Not getting there.
Not getting back there.
Winning it.
A big 10 at home gets underway tonight, as a skidding Boston visits a Rangers club having trouble finding any level of consistency on offense and now having to start reinforcements on the mound in Games One and Two. The White Sox, in a spirited fight in their division, arrive next, and then it's the Angels for four, starting on July 30th, the day before the deadline by which Jon Daniels and Jerry Dipoto must make their biggest impact moves of the season, or not.
Jim Bowden (ESPN/XM) may be overstating things in a Jim Bowden way when he tweets: "Whoever wins the Rangers-Angels series might not be as important as which team wins the trade deadline for starting pitching." But, at least as far as October is concerned, he probably isn't.
Which reminds me to thank Tanner Scheppers, Cody Buckel, Luke Jackson, Engel Beltre, Luis Sardinas, Christian Villanueva, C.J. Edwards, Chris McGuiness, Jared Hoying, Kyle Hendricks, Jose Monegro, Jimmy Reyes, Abel De Los Santos, and perhaps even Joey Butler for their very good timing, something which in a different context I sure would like to see Josh Hamilton get some recognizable semblance of back, because while Texas may not need him to be MVP-level Josh Hamilton over the final third of the season, it's going to be problematic if he's anywhere near as unproductive as this in October.


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By Desirée Scorcia
As a result of last fall's terrorist attacks and a growing fear that the US borders are poorly guarded, the federal government is instigating major changes in the way visa applications are screened and foreign students are tracked in the US. Many of these changes have the academic community worried that the benefits of free, international collaboration will be devalued and science and technology will suffer.
The uncertainty began last October, when President Bush signed the USA PATRIOT Act (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism) into law. It ordered the creation of an interagency panel to screen long-term visa applications and prevent possible terrorists from entering the country. The situation got more complicated when the president announced his intention to build a new Department of Homeland Defense, which could dramatically change the distribution of authority over border controls.
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the State Department designed the Interagency Panel on Advanced Science and Security (IPASS) without any knowledge of Bush's plan to propose the new Department of Homeland Defense. The new department will oversee intelligence and law enforcement and will control the borders, duties that now belong to the INS and the Department of Justice.
"The Homeland Security Department won't affect how IPASS works," says Wendy Hall, senior policy analyst at the OSTP. "It's still going to work as we intended earlier, and it should be operational in a short time."
Under the present system, INS consular officials, many of whom have little or no science training, hold all of the responsibility for visa issuance in foreign embassies. Often, they need help distinguishing science that merely sounds like a threat to national security from science that might pose a real risk. While the permanent panel is being set up, an interim panel is issuing these advisories.
If IPASS works as envisioned by the OSTP, the consular officials will refer suspicious-looking visa applications to IPASS. While no firm guidelines are set, OSTP says it will probably look carefully at applicants from terrorist-sponsoring countries and those who wish to study in fields "uniquely available" in the US or its closest allies.
Many in the scientific and academic communities were alarmed by the idea of a panel to screen science visas and feared stringent restrictions might prevent those with honest intentions from entering the US. The OSTP is aware of this concern.
"From its inception, we have been seeking input from those in academic and science community," said Kathryn Harrington, communications director at OSTP. "We met with representatives from that community, let them know about IPASS, and asked for their thoughts and feelings."
President Bush's science advisor and OSTP director John Marburger said the panel expects to review 2,000 of nearly 200,000 science student visa applications the INS processes each year. He also confirmed that the panel would be strictly advisory, and the final authority to issue visas would remain with the counselor official who initially submitted the application for review. "Hopefully, it will have a very minimal impact on the flow of students and scholars to this country," said Vic Johnson, a public policy director at NAFSA: Association of International Educators.
But APS members are already reporting unusual problems obtaining short-term visas for their colleagues abroad.
Joseph Birman, a physics professor at City College and City University of New York, said that three senior Russian scientists he had invited to a conference in Boston were unable to attend because their visas were not processed in time. Birman added that while many physicists understand the importance of applying for visas as soon as possible, it can be impossible to invite foreign colleagues and offer them a guaranteed travel allowance any sooner than two months before the conference begins.
"A number of people pointed out that it makes foreigners not want to come to the states," he said. "I'm really concerned that important conferences might not be held here in the future, because who needs this kind of hassle?"
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The Trail and Greater District RCMP confirmed a body was found in the trunk of burnt out vehicle near Genelle.
In a Tuesday night news release, police report that the vehicle was left abandoned and set ablaze on Highway 22 on the weekend.
"The death is being treated as suspicious," the release stated.
Shortly after 9 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 14, Kootenay Boundary Regional Fire Rescue responded to a report of a vehicle fire just outside the Genelle Flats on the southbound shoulder of Highway 22 approximately 11 km north of Trail.
B.C. RCMP investigators also attended the scene.
The discovery caused a closure of the highway to permit investigators to process the scene on Sunday and until around 5 p.m. Monday.
Given the circumstances, the Southeast District Major Crime Unit has taken carriage of the investigation.
The RCMP Southeast District Major Crime Unit and Trail RCMP Detachment were investigating the suspicious death at press time.
The burnt-out vehicle was a grey 1999 Honda Civic four-door sedan.
No further information is being released at this time, the RCMP said.
Police are seeking the public's assistance with this investigation. In particular, police seek to speak with anyone who was in this area during the weekend of Jan. 13 and Jan. 14.
Members of the public are asked to call the Greater Trail detachment at 250.364.2566.
Anyone wishing to provide information can also do so anonymously by calling Crimestoppers at 1.800.222.TIPS (8477) or by leaving a tip at www.bccrimestoppers.com.


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Begin your self-guided tour at 301 West Main Street.
1. Carrboro Town Hall - Originally built as a public school (1922-1959), Town Hall houses many of Carrboro's administrative offices including the Mayor's office. The Town's first Truth Plaque was installed outside the front doors on April 16, 2019. The Truth Plaques are an attempt to acknowledge our history as part of the process of changing and transforming the Town's narrative and dedicating ourselves to a future of racial equality and justice.
2. Carrboro Civic Club - The Carrboro Civic Club was originally founded in 1945 under the name of the Carrboro Club for Town Improvement and Beautification. The building was originally owned by the Carrboro Woolen Mills, and was donated to the Chapel Hill Junior Service League, who in turn donated the building to the Carrboro Civic Club in 1945. Over the past 60 plus years, the Carrboro Civic Club has dedicated themselves to many club projects that have enhanced the lives of Carrboro's citizens.
3. Town Commons/Carrboro Farmers' Market - This town park serves many purposes. It is the site of many of Carrboro's town celebrations such as Carrboro Day, the July 4th celebration, and the Halloween Carnival. Twice weekly, the Carrboro Farmers' Market convenes on this site supplying Carrboro with a wide variety of foods that are all grown within 50 miles of Carrboro.
4. Strayhorn Houses - Located at 107 and 109 Jones Ferry Road, these two houses were once owned by William and Toney Strayhorn. Toney Strayhorn was a former slave who built his house at 109 Jones Ferry Rd. shortly after the civil war. Toney's son, William, built the house standing at 107 Jones Ferry Rd. in 1915.
5. Mill Superintendent's House/Club Nova - Located at 103 W. Main Street, this building served as the mill superintendent's house until 1938. Today, the building houses Club Nova, a therapeutic clubhouse that provides psychiatric rehabilitation services.
6. Roy S. Lloyd Building/Cliff's Meat Market - Located at 100 and 102 W. Main Street, this building was constructed by the Lloyd family around 1950 and housed the family's electrical business on the first floor while the family themselves lived on the second floor. In 1973, Cliff's Meat Market opened for business.
7. Carrboro Century Center - This building is currently home to the Carrboro Recreation, Parks, & Cultural Resources Department, Carrboro Police Department, and the Cybrary, a branch of the Orange County Library. Originally this building was the Carrboro Baptist Church and was constructed in the 1920s. In 1997, the Town of Carrboro bought the building and in 2000 it opened as the Century Center.
8. East Main Street - This stretch of Main St. was Carrboro's original business district. Once wooden buildings, a fire destroyed the buildings, and the brick buildings that you see today were constructed in the 1920s. These buildings were once home to such businesses as the Melba Movie Theater, Lloyd-Ray Hardware Store and Merritt Drug Store.
9. 106 E. Main Street - Currently home to Bank of America, this building was the first commercial brick building built in Carrboro. The building was constructed around 1924. The building was originally the R.H. Marks Dry Goods Store.
10. Libba Cotten Memorial Bike Path - This bike path that connects Carrboro and Chapel Hill is named after one of Carrboro's most famous citizens. Libba Cotten gained fame from her song "Freight Train" which was recently added to the US Library of Congress. Cotten won a Grammy in 1984 for a live album she recorded. Cotton, an African-American, was born in 1895, and taught herself how to play guitar. She played in an unusual style with a left handed guitar turned upside down. Cotten wrote "Freight Train" when she was 12 years old.
11. Old Carrboro Cemetery - The land for this cemetery was donated to the town by Dr. Foy Robertson. The cemetery has been in use since the early 1910s, with the oldest marked stone being at 1915. There are several unmarked stones that may date back further. This is Carrboro's oldest cemetery.
12. Cat's Cradle - This famed local music venue has been host to some of music's most famous artists. Acts such as REM, Pearl Jam, and Nirvana have graced the stage of one of Carrboro's most famous attractions.
13. The ArtsCenter - A community gathering place that nurtures creativity and community through art, education, performance, and exhibition. The ArtsCenter is a place where local artists can show off many of their newest creations, and allows visitors a deeper understanding of Carrboro.
14. Main Street Gallery - Currently, an art gallery featuring antique pottery, antique and modern art, and a monthly art display. Many people do not know that this was home to the Hollywood Theatre, the famed black-only theater of the mid 1940s and 50s. The Hollywood featured Friday, Saturday, and Sunday shows with a .10 admission.
15. Lloyd Gristmill - The original building on this site was erected in the 1880's, but was destroyed by fire in 1916. The building was rebuilt shortly after and is still standing today. The building was originally a gristmill and cotton gin, and has been the site of many businesses since.
16. Carrboro Railroad Station - This railroad station was the impetus for Carrboro's creation. Originally called "West Of" because of its' proximity to Chapel Hill, settlements around the railroad station eventually led to the formation of Carrboro. The station was built in 1913. It is also the former home of the Southern Rail restaurant.
17. The Flatiron Building - This unique triangular building was modeled after the famous "Flatiron Building" in New York City. It was originally built in the 1920s and has housed many businesses, and was once home to the US Post Office.
18. Weaver Street Market - Known as "Carrboro's Front Yard", Weaver St. Market is a community cooperative of locally grown organic produce and products. The lawn in front of the market is a gathering place for citizens, and hosts many events from craft fairs to concerts.
19. Carr Mill Mall - Originally called Alberta Cotton Mill, this building was built by Thomas Lloyd in 1898. This brought jobs and people to the area and spurred the growth of Carrboro. The mill was bought by Julian Carr, Carrboro's namesake, in 1909. By the 1970s, the building was vacant and slated for demolition, but was saved by the local citizens as a historical landmark. After an $8.5 million renovation, the building became Carr Mill Mall, home to many retail stores, offices, and restaurants.
20. Fitch Lumber Company - This business was founded in 1898 and opened in Carrboro in 1923. The railroad and the mill allowed Fitch Lumber to thrive and is one of Carrboro's original and longest-lasting businesses.
21. Poplar Avenue/Lindsey Street/Weaver Street - These streets encompass much of Carrboro's original residential district. These typical mill houses are good examples of the architectural style of the 1920s and 1930s.


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You don't need me to weigh-in on the Connecticut shootings. You have all the voices that are likely still at work even as this piece goes to press. You have your friends on social media. But I will say that, in looking toward the New Year, there may be something forward-moving that comes from the gun tragedy in Newtown.
And that's the recognition, perhaps finally clicking into place, that Connecticut is just like the previous gun tragedy and the one before that and the one before that.
A difference this time might be the timing. Coming off the election results, we're seeing the illogic and lack of humanity on the other side – you know, "them" – in never before realized high-definition. And that might enable the Connecticut tragedy to cut like a saw through the crusty vomit tundra commonly referred to as the gun lobby and the NRA. But again, on this one, I don't need to badger you; we all have the information.
Instead, let's look at just three examples of how, eventually, things do turn. These aren't anywhere near as soul-rattling as the shootings, but they point to people working toward things getting better. And we need to remind ourselves that humans do that, even as events in the news often support a theory of our species' de-evolution.
Privacy Matters
We used to have our privacy "invaded"; now we just open the door and invite everybody in. We create mountains of personal data that we literally give away, maybe so we can have an 'app' that lets us play with cartoon birds. But a joint effort that consolidates the app industry and advocacy groups is now working to get some privacy back. The coalition includes the ACLU and the World Privacy Forum (didn't know there was one, but glad to hear about it) and is working toward mandatory standards that would tell you exactly what personal information and access to data on your phone you're giving away for nothing when you download "free" apps. It's good news that something is happening on this matter, even if it won't immediately get phone solicitors to stop interrupting my dinner.
Turn Out The Lights!
Two weeks ago a three-judge panel ordered the removal of 100 digital billboards installed across Los Angeles. The basis of the decision was that two large advertising companies had gone ahead and simply replaced standard billboards with the blinky-blink digital ones when existing laws had clearly prohibited changes.
There's one estimate that loss of the digital billboards will cost the companies as much as $100 million in revenue annually. Still, does that pain equal what the public suffers when the world at large is turned into a carnival midway of advertising? If this decision stands, it means a lot more than just some aggressive dudes getting their wallets kicked. It means that sometimes good judgment and taste can win the battle against exploitation and making the world ugly and banal for a dollar. Let me go on the record as saying that I like that big donut on top of Randy's doughnuts in Inglewood, so I do have my favorites when it comes to eye-grabbing outdoor advertising.
But searching for spaces where advertising can glue itself down in every available angle at which we view the world has become some kind of jihad to those who profit from it. Imagine life itself having the same visual aesthetic as sports TV broadcasts, where there is never a moment without an advertising message somewhere in the shot. Digital billboards bring nothing to our lives. That may not make them something that sucks the life out of us. But, yeah, I kind of think they do.
Apple Comes Home
In the first of those "Oh, God!" movies with George Burns, John Denver tells his wife he's met God. She worries this will bother Denver's boss at the grocery store where he works. Denver to wife: "Honey, my boss is in charge of Food World. God is in charge of… World World." And so, perhaps, is Apple computers. That's why it's good news that next year Apple will bring some manufacturing of its hardware back to the United States. Immediately there were skeptics who thought it was all just a trick to make people feel better about Apple's overseas fabricating plants, where workers have protested conditions and some have jumped to their deaths off the top of factories. I'm one of those skeptics. But here, it is the message that matters: We could make things here again; we should make things here again. Just the possibility that an uber-corp like Apple is taking that message seriously bodes well for the New Year.


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Reader Walter J. wins a copy of the new third edition of Learn Excel 2007-2010 from MrExcel for his question, "I am looking for a way to reference a row number for data located in one spreadsheet that is based on a reference number in a cell located in a summary spreadsheet. Here's the situation: In my summary spreadsheet I have several cells that reference data from an another spreadsheet in the same workbook. The data table is updated weekly by date, and I need to reference a new row number each week. Further, I would like to insert a row number in a cell in the summary spreadsheet and use that cell to reference the row number in the formula that references the data in the data spreadsheet."
The solution could involve any one of the triumverate of arcane Excel functions; INDEX, OFFSET, or INDIRECT. All three of these functions have the ability to refer to a cell by looking at a value in another cell. In this case, since Walter has a row number available in his Summary worksheet, I will use the INDEX function.
How Index Works
The INDEX function will return a value from a range using row and column numbers. The function has several syntax variations, but here are the most common three ways to use INDEX.
If you want to return numbers from a one-column range, you can specify the range and the row location within the range. In Figure 1, below, the range is B4:B11. The formula is asking for the third row within this range. The result is the 4 in cell B6. This is because B6 is the third row in this range.
Fig. 1
If you are returning numbers from a one-row range, you specify the range and the column within that range. Below, in Figure 2, the formula is asking for the eighth value in B16:I16. The result is 128 from cell I16.
Fig. 2
When you have a rectangular range, you specify the address of the range, then the row number, then the column number within the range. Below, the range is B22:D35. The formula is asking for the third row and second column. The result is the 10004 from cell C24 because this is the third row and second column in the range.
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Using Index to Solve the Problem
Walter has a data worksheet. It might look something like this:
Fig. 4
He also has a Summary worksheet where he has added actual row numbers. In row 4 of the Summary worksheet, he wants to return a value from the fifth row of the Data worksheet.
In this case, I would specify the entire column as the range. Start the formula with =INDEX(Data!B:B,
Then, specify the row number from cell A4 as the second argument in the INDEX function. Since you might want to copy this formula across several columns, use a single dollar sign before the A to make sure that the formula is always pulling the row number from column A. =INDEX(Data!B:B,$A4).
Figure 5 shows the formula copied down to other rows and columns. It returns the proper value from the Data worksheet.
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Gérard de Reyneval worked as a diplomatic intermediary between the Continental Congress and the French government, which was delighting in the colonial rebellion within its European rival.
In one of the intelligence reports he sent back to France in , he painted an unflattering picture of Quaker war tax resistance:
The following details in regard to the Quakers, which I have the honor to transmit to you, are of a mixed character.
At the beginning of the troubles, when the colonies rebelled against the (English) project of deriving a revenue from America, the Quakers had the most influence in the government of Pennsylvania. With one exception, all agreed to defend by force of arms the exemption from every tax. Previous to this they had voted for the war against the Indians, and when the question of independence came up, the Quakers opposed it with all their might. Steps were then taken to excite the English and German population of the remoter sections of the colony, and Pennsylvania fell in with the sentiments of the other colonies. Upon this the Quakers made an outcry against war taxes, which placed them in such contradiction with themselves as to increase their discredit.
, proofs were obtained of the services rendered to them by the Quakers; some of these were caught acting as spies, and, as it has been thus far the mistaken policy of the fraternity to support all individuals belonging to it, the odium and blame of this have reacted against the whole body. This devotedness did not preserve them from the exactions of the English, who disposed of whatever suited them, even of the furniture inside their houses. The Quakers furnished General Howe with money to redeem themselves, notwithstanding which their houses and gardens in Philadelphia were destroyed; a prominent man among them, who had given a considerable sum to Lord Howe, publicly reproached him, and declared that he would follow him wherever he went to recover the value of his dwelling.
These barbarous proceedings, which have made more Whigs in America than there are Tories now, have not had the same effects on the Quakers. You will remember, Monseigneur, a document full of a kind of arrogance which they had circulated in the State of Pennsylvania, where they no longer are representatives. The only result was the indignation and contempt of the Whigs: but real or affected sentiment has no shame, and they rather borrowed glory from this on the ground of persecution. The feeling, however, did not last, and when the news came of the evacuation of New York (taken by the British), it was believed that, through secret intelligence, they were aware of it, and, afterward, that they would try to make up with the actual Government. The President of Congress notified me that they would confer with me. They sounded him before hand, and several deputations waited upon him, who confined themselves to recommending private matters. They went further with me. I will relate, Monseigneur, how this embassy was prepared and carried out.
Only the Quakers possessed any merchandise; they had bought it at low prices of the English, at , and re-sold it very dear. This furnished me with opportunities to have relations with many of them, and the desire to judge for myself of the actual state of such a celebrated sect led me into conversations with them, which turned only on general matters relating to their sect and principles. One day, one of them bluntly said to me: "You have a good deal of trouble in finding furniture. Come into our houses and select what you like; you will then address yourself to Congress, and Congress will take from us to give to you at any price you please." I felt the full force of this rejoinder. I asked him why he did not pay voluntarily. "Our religion forbids us," he replied. "I fear then," said I in return, "that, as people accuse you, you have an easy conscience when called upon to pay money and to concern yourselves for things not to your taste; and that a religion which has no other public influence in society than to produce avarice and an inordinate love of ease and indolence must strike enlightened people as a mask for hypocrisy." I manifested a desire to have this doubt cleared up. This led to a discussion, which ended by the Quaker telling me that he would bring me a person who knew more than himself, able to solve my doubts, and with whom I could explain myself in French. The name of this person is Benezet, son of a French refugee, who has turned Quaker, and who is a man of intelligence and learning. He prepared me for the mission by sending me one of the brethren, who praised highly the merit and virtues of this sort of patriarch.
Finally he came, and we had several conversations on the history, principles, and career of his sect. It was only at our last interview, , that he at last declared, yielding to my arguments, that, agreeing with most of the fraternity, he thought that the Quakers ought to submit to the actual government and pay taxes, without questioning the use to which these might be put; but that they had weak brethren among them, whose scruples they were obliged to respect. I made him sensible of the dangers of this mistaken policy, one which involved a loss of public esteem universally, and warranted the distrust and rigorous measures of the government. I remarked to him that since they had been able to secure the confidence of the English administration, the principles of which differed so much from their own, it would be easy to come to terms with a government tolerant in principles and which would not persecute them when once combined with it. Sieur Benezet seemed to have resolved to expound these truths; he ended by begging me to favor the fraternity, and especially to exercise my good offices in behalf of some Mennonites affiliated with them, who had been imprisoned and fined for not taking up arms. I replied that it was not in my mission to arrest the energies of the American government, and that when the Quakers had performed their duties they would no longer be in fear of persecution.
The President of Congress expressed his best thanks to me for the way in which I had conducted this affair, and begged me to treat the ulterior demands of the Quakers in the same fashion.
Anthony Benezet was one of the signers of the "epistle of tender love and caution" that can be considered the founding document of American war tax resistance.


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The University of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., today announced the formation of a new collaborative research center dedicated to the study of the sun's effect on Earth's climate.
The center, called the Sun-Climate Research Center, or SCRC, will be co-directed by LASP Research Scientist Peter Pilewskie as well as Robert Cahalan, who heads Goddard's Climate and Radiation Branch, and Douglas Rabin, head of Goddard's Solar Physics Laboratory.
"The exciting thing about this collaboration is that we believe it will promote studies to help answer key questions about the climate system, including how Earth's atmosphere responds to the sun's variability and how that affects climate," said Pilewskie, a faculty member in CU-Boulder's atmospheric and oceanic sciences department. "This question is particularly important now as we seek to quantify the human-induced impact on Earth's climate."
Made possible by a Federal Space Act Agreement, SCRC will foster collaboration between Earth-atmosphere and solar sciences at the two institutions. Opportunities will include a scientist exchange program between the organizations and the ability for postdoctoral scientists and graduate students in science, engineering and mission operations to move between LASP and Goddard. The partnership also will include international research symposia on sun-climate interactions.
"In recent years Goddard and LASP have worked together on several Earth and sun missions," said Cahalan. "Now we look forward to continuing to drive growth in this key interdisciplinary field of sun-Earth research, bringing new focus to the study of multiyear changes in the sun and its influence on Earth's climate."
According to the center's co-directors, the SCRC represents a rare and innovative step that underscores LASP's ability to take its high-caliber research and program opportunities to a new level with Goddard.
"LASP has developed some remarkable areas of expertise that are key to studying the sun and its effect on climate and on human activities," said LASP Director Daniel Baker. "By working with our colleagues at Goddard, we can leverage our skills and help take an important step toward greater cooperation between NASA centers and leading university research teams."
For more information on LASP visit lasp.colorado.edu/home/. For more information on NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center visit www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html.


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MissMarple wrote:Pocahontas wrote:Lexi wrote:Kerry appears to have gained about 2 stone in a week! has anyone else noticed? she looked really fat and frumpy in that WOO costume! :ewer:
Although I really like Darren, I love it now that Bobby's awake! except for him doing the sweat thing :ewer: I love Jedward, I reckon they'll win!
I think Brian is great at presenting, he's definitely the right person for the job!
Oh and, I don't understand a word that 'Tara' says?!
I think he's crap tbh.... but then I never understood why he won his year either?? ....... bring back Davina
Paddy to win
He's the only genuine one with no agenda in there... he deserves to win, and I think he will too
Those twins want locking up!


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• If problems with frozen pipes have occurred in the past, leave faucets running, so that the stream of water is about the size of the barrel of a Q-tip. For single-lever faucets, set so that both hot and cold water is dripping. You will pay for using that water; however, the cost of that water is very small compared to the cost and inconvenience of having a plumber thaw and then repair water lines, as well as repairing damage to the home done by flooding due to a broken line.
• For outside faucets, most new homes will have frost-free spigots, so not much will need to be done. If you don't know if you have frost-free spigots, they can be covered with foam insulated covers that can be obtained from a hardware store. Remove hoses and drain them.
• Water lines in outside walls are prone to freezing. If the interior of the wall is inside a cabinet, open the door(s) to the cabinet, so room heat will keep the wall and the pipe(s) somewhat warmer. Even that may not be enough to keep wall pipes from freezing. If you are not sure, leave a faucet running. If there are harmful cleaners and chemicals in the cabinet, move them so that they are not within reach of children.
• For water meters that are prone to freezing, put a bale of hay over the meter box. If you don't have access to a bale of hay, use a shovel and pile snow on top of the meter box. Although the temperature of the snow is below freezing, it will actually act as an insulating blanket when the air temperature is near or below zero.
• If you have a burst pipe and water is flooding your house, most houses have a shut-off valve under the house (maybe in the garage) that can be used to shut off the water. If you don't know where the shut-off valve is located or if your house doesn't't have a shut-off valve, call the Springfield Water/Wastewater Department (SWWD) at 615-382-1600 and a SWWD person will be glad to shut off the water at the meter.
• Most water heaters have a valve located near the connection of the cold water line to the heater; however, this valve will usually only cut off the hot water line. If water is cut off to the house, be sure to turn off the electric power to the water heater to prevent burning out the element(s); if the water heater is powered by gas, turn the gas control valve to "PILOT".
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Raja Bala: Envisioning a Better Future
Raja's innate sense of curiosity about how things work has led him to become one of our most prolific inventors.
Harnessing the Power of Computer Vision
Raja Bala is the Principal Scientist of Computer Vision at PARC, a Xerox Company. In his two stints working for Xerox, Raja's innate sense of curiosity about how things work has led him to become one of our most prolific inventors. It's also given him unique insight into how computer vision will change the way we live.
What if a selfie was all it took to diagnose disease? If you could drive to work and back without ever touching the wheel? If you could walk into the grocery store, pick up the items you need and leave without waiting in the checkout line — your total automatically deducted from your checking account?
It's not science fiction. It's the world Raja Bala is helping to build. A world where computers can see, interpret and analyse the things around them, and then use that information to make real-time decisions and help solve real-world problems. Join us as we uncover the man behind the technology.
How did you first become interested in computer vision?
Growing up, there was a huge emphasis on math and science in my home. My mom was a science teacher. My dad was an engineer. But while I've always had a particular love for mathematics — and some talent for it — I've never been a completely "left brain" person. I'm a musician. I love the arts. So when I set out to decide on a career, I wanted to find something that could satisfy all of my interests across the board.
Computer vision wasn't what I initially settled on. When I first joined Xerox in 1993, it was as a colour imaging scientist. At the time, Xerox was making the transition from black-and-white to colour printing. I led several exciting projects developing colour management solutions for Xerox printers and scanners. It was only in 2011, following an acquisition, that I saw the opportunity and potential of computer vision. I made the transition and the rest is history.
Can you talk about what computer vision is and why it's relevant in the world today?
Computer vision is the science by which machines analyse, interpret and extract useful information from images and video, then use that information to solve real-world problems. In my and my team's work, we attempt to take a digital image or video, turn it into a mathematical representation that a computer will understand and then teach the computer to perform a task using this representation — such as detecting whether or not there's a face in an image.
While computer vision has been around since the '60s, it was limited in the early years by a lack of availability and access to digital images. Image analysis was relegated to specialty uses, such as in the medical field, and never had mass exposure. But with the advent of smartphones, and companies like Google and Facebook making it easier than ever to access images with large searchable image databases, computer vision's stature, relevance and penetration into mass consumer markets has exploded. The abundance of image and video data generated by consumers today, combined with the advanced algorithms and computing hardware available to process them, is changing the way we think about the field.
Are there still challenges to overcome in computer vision today, even with these advances?
Right now, there's a lot of excitement about deep learning and its application to computer vision. Deep learning is a really effective way to extract useful patterns from images. It works by feeding lots of example images into a neural network along with an associated pattern or truth about the images. The network then learns a set of connections and weights that enable it to identify the same type of pattern or truth in new images.
When you have a large dataset to work with, deep learning can be a game-changer. A deep network is capable of understanding extremely complex patterns and relationships in images and is very successful in the tasks that it's trained to do. One fundamental problem, however, is that deep learning relies on the availability of datasets comprising millions of images and their ground-truth labels in order to be successful. And a lot of applications don't have access to that many images and labels.
In the medical field, for instance, you may want to use deep learning to help you diagnose a specific disease. That means training the deep network with millions of images of organs that are marked with different levels of severity of the disease. That volume simply doesn't exist. And even if it did, you'd never be able to afford to have a group of clinical experts sit down and label all those images.
So the question we often have to ask ourselves is, how do we get creative with this? How do we modify deep learning to make intelligent decisions based on limited training?
What we've done is revisit some of the first-principles models we worked with before the deep learning era and use them to build prior knowledge and intelligence about the task and environment into a deep network. To teach a deep network to recognise blood vessels in retinal images, for example, we provide hints to the network that it should look for thin curvy structures that branch out like a tree. With these hints, the network not only requires far fewer training images, but actually outperforms today's best deep learning methods.
You haven't always worked for Xerox, correct?
Correct. After 22 years at Xerox, I decided to test myself in a new environment — working for the Samsung smartphone camera imaging group on developing computational imaging techniques for the Galaxy and Note devices.
What did you take away from the experience?
A new appreciation for simplicity. Most Xerox products are used in an office environment, where you can count on at least a little bit of user familiarity with technology. But nearly everyone in the world carries a smartphone in their pocket. Working on a consumer product like that, you need to accommodate every level of tech experience. Make something that's easy to use whether you're an expert or a beginner. That level of simplicity takes thousands of hours to achieve. An incredible amount of work goes into making sure each click does exactly what it's supposed to do.
Coming back into a research environment at Xerox, I know what it takes to turn excellent science into an impactful product. It's one thing to be able to publish a great paper about your research. But if you want your research to result in a product that an end customer can actually use, it needs to be foolproof, simple and as intuitive as possible. You really need to go that extra mile.
Say you're working on a mobile app for smart document scanning. Computer vision traditionally requires a lot of processing power — something that's not abundantly available on a mobile device. So if you want your solution to be more than just an academic exercise, you need to be clever about making it not only accurate but fast and energy-efficient. Otherwise people won't use it.
Which of your projects has had the biggest impact on the world?
My team collaborated with Proctor and Gamble to provide the computer vision and machine learning technology that powers the "Olay Skin Advisor." It's a mobile platform that captures a selfie of a consumer, analyses her face and then provides skincare product recommendations.
Ideally, you'd always be able to talk to a dermatologist about problems with your skin. But that's expensive. And because caring for your skin is an ongoing process, most people can't afford to do that. As for taking care of your skin yourself? Take a walk through any beauty store. There are hundreds of products to choose from. It's frustrating, confusing and easy to make the wrong choice. Less than two thirds of women know what products work best for their skin type.
P&G wanted to solve this problem with a low-cost, personalised beauty care navigator. So we developed an easy-to-use mobile app. We figured, why not take advantage of the high-quality camera consumers are carrying around with them anyways?
To use this app, a consumer begins by taking a selfie of her face. That picture is then analysed with computer vision to decide if it's good enough to perform skin analysis — checking for proper lighting, distance, facial expression and the absence of obstructions. If the picture passes all the checks, the app will then analyse the consumer's skin, let them know what's happening with it and suggest products and regime changes to take care of it.
We have more than one million active users, and there have been five million visits to the site since the app launched.
What area of computer vision excites you the most going forward?
Computer vision and the broader domain of AI are a great area to be in today. Only recently has this field gotten mature enough to start making a real, meaningful and pervasive impact in the world, all the way from routine tasks like automatic check deposit with your smartphone camera to big applications like autonomous driving and early disease diagnosis. Applications are plentiful and growing. And there are numerous unsolved scientific and engineering challenges in making these applications accurate and reliable.
But what I'm most excited about personally is continuing our work in building computer vision methods that both draw from prior models of the world and learn from data examples. Models range all the way from our work with retinal blood vessels to general common-sense knowledge about everyday objects, people, and the laws of nature. Thanks to the rich, nurturing environment Xerox provides for innovation, we are on the leading edge of bringing these models of the real world into data-driven machine learning methods to create a form of hybrid learning. I can't imagine a more exciting place to be.
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We've all changed the world. Every one of us. With every breath we take, our presence endlessly ripples outwards.
But few of us have the opportunity to change many lives for the better. And even fewer are challenged to do so every day. That's the gauntlet thrown daily at Xerox research scientists — to try and effect change.
In return, we give them time and space to dream. And then the resources to turn dreams into reality — whether they're inventing new materials with incredible functions, or using augmented reality to bolster the memory of Alzheimer's patients.
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NFIP Participation
The City of Valdez participates in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The NFIP is a program implemented by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in which local communities adopt and enforce a floodplain management ordinance to reduce future flood risks in Special Flood Hazard Areas (SFHA) and in return, the federal government makes flood insurance available within the community as a financial protection against flood losses.
The Planning Department staff works with local homeowners, lending institutions and insurance companies to educate people about the risks of living in and around a floodplain. The City of Valdez keeps a Certified Floodplain Manager (CFM) on staff and requires a Floodplain Development Permit for all activities within the SFHA.
For more information on floodplain management requirements in our community, please read the following section of the Valdez Municipal Code: Chapter 15.30 (Flood Hazard Protection Regulations) constitutes the City of Valdez Floodplain Management Ordinance. There are some additional floodplain management regulations referenced in the building code and the subdivision code.
Community Rating System (CRS) Participation
The City of Valdez also participates in the Community Rating System (CRS), which is a voluntary program offered by the NFIP that recognizes and encourages community floodplain management to exceed the minimum NFIP requirements and as a result, flood insurance premium rates are discounted to reflect the reduced flood risk.
Every five years, the City of Valdez gathers together all the outreach work it has been doing to educate it's community and any additional work being done to reduce the risk of flood damage in its community and sends a packet to the CRS coordinator, who tallies up each activity for a total amount of credit points. Based on the number of points earned each year, the City of Valdez is assigned a class between 1 and 10, 1 being the highest rated and 10 being the lowest. Each class represents a 5% discount in flood insurance for people with NFIP flood insurance policies with the Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA). Currently the City is a class 8, which represents a 10% discount to flood insurance policies within the City.
Floodplain Development
Development in the floodplain can have unforeseen repercussions both upstream and downstream of the development and must be carefully monitoring and regulated. The City of Valdez requires any kind of work done at any time in the floodplain to have a Floodplain Development Permit issued. Normally, building a structure or putting electrical or plumbing into a property triggers a City of Valdez Building Permit, but in addition to those things, a Floodplain Development Permit is required for any kind of development activity within the Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA). Development is defined as any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including but not limited to buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations or storage of equipment or materials located within the SFHA.
The intent of the Floodplain Development Permit is to review those activities that will impact the way floodwaters would move through a community and if these proposed changes would negatively impact neighbors or downstream residents. It may seem funny to need a Floodplain Development Permit for paving a driveway, but paving changes the permeability of the ground (water will not be absorbed) and reduces surface friction (water will move faster along this new surface). That is not to say paving your driveway would not be approved, it just has to be looked at and documented so that effects (singular and cumulative) to the entire floodplain can be considered.
Download a copy of the City of Valdez Floodplain Development Permit Application.
In additional to needing a Floodplain Development Permit, development within the Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) often requires homeowners to hire a surveyor and submit elevation certificates to the City of Valdez and their lending institutions at various stages of construction. Elevation Certificates are filled out by surveyors who determine the base flood elevation on a property and then measure the elevation of the lowest part of the structure or the elevation of the lowest point of fill or any other elevation that needs to be determined for floodplain development purposes.
Making sure new development has a proper elevation certificate ensures that a house is elevated above the maps estimated flood water elevation – protecting the structure from unreasonable flood risk and likely reducing losses associated with flooding when it does occur. A proper elevation certificate can also reduce insurance costs to homeowners because it should show the structure is above the base flood elevation on the property.
View an example of an Elevation Certificate.
Citizen Preparedness
Preparedness generally refers to a set of actions that are taken as precautionary measures in the face of potential disasters. These actions can include both physical preparations (such as emergency supplies depots, adapting buildings to survive earthquakes and so on) and training for emergency action. It preparedness was a triangle – the Federal Government would be on top, then State Government, then Local Government, than Citizens. There is a reason Citizen preparedness is the base of the pyramid and supports the rest of the structure: Citizen preparedness is the most important!
Preparing your home and your family for any number of disaster situations can be fun and will certainly make things easier and better if a disaster does ever occur in your area.
Visit the Individual & Family Safety Planning section of the City of Valdez's Emergency and Disaster Management website for steps to help you become prepared for a disaster.
Visit Ready.gov for preparedness tips for floods and other disasters.
Online Resources
Interested in current stream flow conditions? Stream gages provide real-time streamflow information for a wide variety of uses including flood prediction, water management and allocation, and recreational safety. Check out current streamflow data for the Lowe River, Valdez Glacier Stream, and Solomon Gulch. For streamflow data from around the state, visit the USGS water data website.
Coming soon we will have an interactive online map viewer so that you can identify the mapped flood zones in your area. In the meantime you can enter your address in FEMA's online mapping tool.
Additional Information
Please contact the Floodplain Manager, Bruce Wall, email Planning Department or 907-834-3401.


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Children are more likely to have more body fat during childhood if their mother has low levels of Vitamin D during pregnancy, according to scientists at the Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit (MRC LEU), University of Southampton.
Low vitamin D status has been linked to obesity in adults and children, but little is known about how variation in a mother's status affects the body composition of her child.
Low vitamin D status is common among young women in the UK, and although women are recommended to take an additional 10μg/day of vitamin D in pregnancy, supplementation is currently not routine.
In new research, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition on May 23 2012, scientists at the MRC LEU, University of Southampton, have compared the vitamin D status of 977 pregnant women with the body composition of their children. The findings from this study showed that the children who were born to mothers who had low vitamin D status in pregnancy had more body fat when they were six years old. These differences could not be explained by other factors such as mother's weight gain in pregnancy, or how physically active the children were. The 977 women are part of the Southampton Women's Survey, one of the largest women's surveys in the UK.
Dr Siân Robinson, Principal Research Fellow, at the University, who led the study, says: "In the context of current concerns about low vitamin D status in young women, and increasing rates of childhood obesity in the UK, we need to understand more about the long-term health consequences for children who are born to mothers who have low vitamin D status.
"Although there is growing evidence that vitamin D status is linked to body fatness in children and adults, this research now suggests that the mother's status in pregnancy could be important too.
"An interpretation of our data is that there could be programmed effects on the fetus arising from a lack of maternal vitamin D that remain with the baby and predispose him or her to gain excess body fat in later childhood. Although further studies are needed, our findings add weight to current concerns about the prevalence of low vitamin D status among women of reproductive age."
This study is part of a wider body of work by the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit into how factors during pregnancy might have a long-term influence on childhood growth and development.
Professor Cyrus Cooper, Director of the MRC LEU comments: "This is a wonderful example of multi-disciplinary research using the unique clinical and biochemical resource provided by the Southampton Women's Survey. The observations that maternal vitamin D insufficiency might be associated with reduced size at birth, but accelerated gain in body fat during early childhood, add to the considerable amount of evidence suggesting that vitamin D status during pregnancy may have critical effects on the later health of offspring."
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