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The US has been forced to quell a number of foreign policy spats in recent days as normally blunt-talking Secretary of State Colin Powell struggles to learn the tactful art of "diplospeak," the State Department conceded on Tuesday.
At least twice in the past week, Powell has made unscripted remarks about extremely sensitive international disputes in Asia and the Middle East that have infuriated countries in those regions and required US diplomats to engage in serious damage-control efforts.
On March 9, Powell angered China by referring to Taiwan, which it views as a rebel province, as the "Republic of China" twice during testimony to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, causing the State Department to scramble to assure Beijing that its policy toward Taiwan had not changed.
Beijing has long opposed the official recognition of Taiwan by officials of countries that maintain diplomatic relations with China, a condition that also extends to the use of Taiwan's official name.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzao said on Tuesday that China had made "solemn representations" to Washington expressing its "great concern and dissatisfaction" over the incident.
State Department spokesman Richard Boucher acknowledged that China had sought clarification about the use of the term and that "we replied very clearly that the US policy has not changed."
"The US side emphasized it was purely a slip of the tongue by the secretary of state and did not mean any change to the "one China" policy pursued by the US side," Boucher said in a routine briefing.
Boucher said that Washington had not apologized to China but refused to say if State Department officials had suggested that Powell not use the term in future.
"I'm not going to get into our discussions with the secretary, I'd just say that we don't normally use the term and I don't think we'll be using it in the future," he said.
On March 7, speaking at a hearing before the House International Relations Committee, Powell referred to the holy city of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, incensing the Arab world and possibly complicating already fragile Middle East peace efforts.
Both Israel and the Palestinians claim Jerusalem as their capital and Israel's claim over the whole of the city, the Arab eastern part of which it captured and annexed in the 1967 Middle East war, has never been recognized by the international community.
US policy has long held that the status of Jerusalem should be decided in peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, and Washington has kept its embassy in Tel Aviv to avoid inflaming the dispute.
Boucher sought to downplay the negative reactions from the Arabs and the Chinese, describing their responses as inquiries about possible subtle policy changes rather than protestations.


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|DUBAI, 26 NOV 2012: This three-day event features an exceptional collection of international security professionals presenting the latest research tools and findings in malware analysis. The twelfth annual workshop will be held at The Address Dubai Mall Hotel on the 10th through 12th of February, 2013, with sponsorship and support from the UAE Honeynet Project chapter, United Arab Emirates Computer Emergency Response Team (aeCERT), and the Pakistan Honeynet Project chapter. The workshop includes one full day of briefings and two full days of hands-on tutorial trainings. Founded in 1999, The Honeynet Project is a non-profit international research organization dedicated to improving the security of the Internet at no cost to the public.
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"Cyber security is not a 'one-man' job, it is dependent on the proactive collaboration of groups spanning government, industry and academia," said Ahmad Alajail, Security Intelligence & Threat Analyst. " This is why initiatives such as Honeynet, which provide a diverse talent base, are greatly complementary to the nation's cyber security and to our work at aeCERT."
The Honeynet Project is composed of 45 regional chapters and is a diverse, talented, and engaged group of hundreds of volunteer security experts who conduct open, cross disciplinary research and development into the evolving threat landscape. Registration and more information available at: http://dubai2013.honeynet.org or by contacting The Honeynet Project CEO Christian Seifert to request a personal interview at: [email protected].
I am very pleased to announce the publication of another paper in our Know Your Enemy white paper series: "KYE - Social Dynamics of Hacking" authored by Thomas J. Holt and Max Kilger from our Spartan Devils Honeynet Project Chapter. In this paper, Tom and Max go to the roots of the Know Your Enemy series and shine light on the social groups that are involved in hacking.
Though most information security research focuses on current threats, tools, and techniques to defeat attacks, it is vital to recognize and understand the humans behind attacks. Individual attackers have various skills, motives, and social relationships that shape their actions and the resources they target. In this paper we will explore the distribution of skill in the global hacker community, the influence of on and off-line social relationships, motivations across attackers, and the near-future of threats to improve our understanding of the hacker and attacker community.
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At the Honeynet Project workshop 2012, we raffled off a brand new Norman Malware Analyzer G2. Thanks everybody for participating in the raffle.
The winner of this year's raffle is Todd Straceski from Zynga. Congratulations to Todd!
Thanks again to Norman to sponsoring the Honeynet Project workshop 2012. We hope to see you all again next year.
Earlier, we posted about our operation on the Kelihos.B/Hlux.B botnet takedown that was conducted with by security experts from Dell SecureWorks, CrowdStrike, Kaspersky, and the Honeynet Project. On initial view, the operation seems very clear cut: the bad guys are running a botnet that is doing havoc on the Internet; on the other side, are the good guys that have found a way to disable the botnet.
The situation is much more nuanced. The Honeynet Project has been conducting security research for over a decade now and since our early days, we made it a priority to balance benefit and risks in our research. You can trace this back to when the Honeynet Project first defined "data control" as one of the requirements for honeynet/honeypot deployments. The purpose of data control was to minimize potential harm to others resulting from honeypots, which by their nature are vulnerable systems we expect to be compromised and used by malicious actors.
We do what we do because people with malicious and criminal intent are compromising and abusing millions of computers around the globe. These people do not act in ways that are moral, ethical, or legal. But in trying to counter them, we cannot allow ourselves to similarly disregard our moral, ethical, or legal obligations. If we do, we become no different than them.
We believe that pushing the boundaries in the computer security field and engaging in cutting edge research brings with it a responsibility to act in an ethical manner. Risks may emerge from botnet takedowns and the Kelihos botnet takedown operation is no different. What are the benefits? What are the risks? How do they balance each other? Do our actions jeopardize legal investigations? These are all questions that need to be considered and the outcome will determine how to proceed. In the situation of the Kelihos botnet, the determination was to proceed with the botnet takedown (see below for a detailed assessment.) In other situations, the determination and plan of action may be different. In the instance of Zeus, for instance, legal action may be necessary.
The Honeynet Project is committed to conducting research in a model, ethical, and legal way. Weighing risk/benefits – an important aspect to conduct research in such a way - is what every researcher implicitly does. However, the risk of not considering all aspects of the research exists. As a result, the Honeynet Project, under the leadership of our Chief Ethics and Legal Officer Dave Dittrich, has developed a code of conduct that guides researchers through the process in a systematic manner.
Today, we are publishing a draft of this code of conduct. We hope you find the code of conduct useful and are looking forward to your thoughts and comments.
On Wednesday, March 21, 2012, an operation by security experts from Dell SecureWorks, CrowdStrike, Kaspersky, and the Honeynet Project was initiated to sinkhole infected computers in the Kelihos.B/Hlux.B botnet. The objective of this action was to remove from the attacker's control all computers currently infected with the Kelihos.B/Hlux.B malware by poisoning the peer lists and routing tables in the lower layers of command and control. This will prevent the botnet operator from doing any more harm with this set of infected computers.
Control of the botnet with over 129,000 infected hosts was successfully obtained. These bots are no longer in control of the botherder, and, as a result, are no longer involved in sending spam, the primary malicious activity of this botnet. The hosts resided primarily in Poland (24%) and were primarily running the old operating system Windows XP (84%). The command-and-control infrastructure has been abandoned by the gang that was operating the botnet two days after the operation. We can say that the Kelihos.B/Hlux.B botnet was successfully disabled.
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We have just been notified by Google that the Honeynet Project has - once again - been accepted as one of the mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2012 (in total 180 organizations were selected). We are very excited and are looking forward to a great summer! Already a big thank you to Google for their continued support!
While student applications are not officially open yet, interested students are encouraged to check out our ideas page and get in contact with us via [email protected] and/or IRC (#gsoc2012-honeynet on irc.freenode.net) in the next few ideas to meet the mentors and discuss project ideas. Student applications officially open on March 26th 2012 and close on April 6th 2012.
We are looking forward to hearing from you!
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"As I look around me, a bright sky I see, and a shadow beside me...Six more weeks of winter it will be!", predicted Punxsutawney Phil, with the help of human translators, this February 2, Groundhog Day.
According to folk wisdom, if Phil sees his shadow, he'll retreat to his den, and those of us living aboveground will have six more weeks of winter. If he doesn't see his shadow, expect moderate weather and an early spring.
This belief began in Europe, where the Christian celebration of Candlemas incorporated pagan rituals meant to purify and invigorate the spring fields. In Germany, the badger fulfiled the role of furry weatherman; in England and France, bears did the predicting. When the tradition was brought to the New World in the 18th century by the German immigrants known as Pennsylvania Dutch, groundhogs became their stand-ins. (Their buck-toothed mascot, Phil, has made the small town of Punxsutawny, Pennsylvania a popular tourist destination—but the town's Punxsutawney Goundhog Club, founded in 1887, originally had other motives in mind: an annual groundhog hunt and barbeque.)
With all this notoriety, the question remains: Can groundhogs really predict the arrival of warm weather?
Perhaps, but not with rhyming decrees, says Stam Zervanos, professor of biology at Penn State Berks.
Groundhogs, Zervanos explains, have a regular hibernation pattern that begins and ends about the same time every year. "In Pennsylvania they come out, on average, around February 4," he says, "So it's pretty close to Groundhog Day, actually." Male groundhogs emerge to claim territory, clean out their burrows, and prepare for mating, which usually occurs in March.
According to Zervanos, this timing helps ensure that newborn groundhogs survive their first year. Mating too early means limited food in the pre-spring cold; mating too late could prevent young groundhogs from reaching their ideal hibernation weight.
The hibernation and mating pattern varies according to latitude, Zervanos and colleagues discovered. Comparing groundhogs in Maine, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina, they found that, "The colder it is, the longer the hibernation; the warmer it is, the less they hibernate." (In South Carolina the period is so short, Zervanos and his team weren't sure groundhogs there hibernated at all.)
So does this mean Phil and his family have a special understanding of the seasons, enabling them to predict the best time to wake up? Does it explain why Phil's southern cousin, Georgia's General Beauregard Lee, forecasted an early spring?
Not necessarily, Zervanos says. "Now the question is: how much of this difference is genetic, and how much is environmental?" The variance in hibernation patterns could have one of two causes. It could come from genetic differences among the Maine, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina groundhogs. Or it could offer evidence of adaptation: the southerners, living in a warmer climate, would need less hibernation time than their northern counterparts.
Adaptability could help groundhogs survive future climate change. An adaptable groundhog could change with the environment around it, while one with genetically determined hibernation cycles would have a more difficult time. Zervanos hasn't seen much change in Pennsylvania's climate over the past decade, nor in the hibernation patterns of its groundhogs. That data, though, still needs more attention.
The next experiment Zervanos envisions involves removing the animals from their natural habitat to see if they can adapt. "If we took animals from South Carolina and brought them up here, would they fall into Pennsylvania hibernation patterns?" Zervanos asks, "Or would they maintain their southern hibernation patterns?" If the hibernation patterns remain the same irrespective of environment, that would suggest a strong genetic basis. It might also point the way toward, Zervanos explains, identifying the genes that influence hibernation. Such knowledge would help us understand hibernation more generally, from groundhogs to bears. It might help identify mammals in which the hibernation genes are present, but turned off—possibly even humans.
So while Punxsutawney Phil and his fellow furry prognosticators—from New York's Staten Island Chuck to Alberta, Canada's "Prairie Prognosticator," Balzac Billy—can't necessarily predict the coming of spring, they may have much to teach us about surviving the long, cold winter.
Stam Zervanos, Ph.D., is emeritus professor of biology at Penn State Berks. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Some say facts are clear, while others realize facts are facts and they don't tell the story. Wikipedia is a valuable resource, but the last one out has the final say in a story where a collection of facts muddies the truth. History is in the eye of the beholder. Those who remember are likely to have a different perception of history.
The difference between long and short term memory is the process of mylenation. Mylenation is a fatty coating along a neural path which freezes a thought in place. The fault in this process is false memories. False memories allow the fish to grow a little more each time the story is told. False memories can be corrected, but it requires mental exercise.
The Do Good Gauge is a process for public authorship. Unlike Wikipedia, each person owns their story. Others assist an author by applying associations. The stories written on the Do Good Gauge start from perception and derive through memories. Association provides the means to steer memory in the direction of truth. Association is a method for a group to compare memories. Through this comparison process the perception of history is broadened and validated for accuracy.
The Do Good Gauge is based on a process of refinement. The centering point is an essay. An essay will consist of one or more chapters. A chapter is a more granular thought similar to a long term memory. The community applies association at the chapter level. The author utilizes the associations to build substance and accuracy in each chapter thus restoring and sharing the memory of the past.
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Thanks to Toby, a commenter on the previous post, for this observation:
Somewhat off topic, but did anyone else notice the people behind Obama during his concession speech? There was the guy who looks like a Larry David clone (and may well have been him for all I know); and there were the three male college-age guys all wearing easily identifiable Abercrombie & Fitch t-shirts, which may be a case of a company taking guerrilla marketing [to] a presidential contest, or may be an odd coincidence. Weird in any case.Somewhat off topic, but now, it's the topic. So, you'd think they'd arrange the crowd better. Or is this the crowd they arranged? You know, sort of "We need more white people."
IN THE COMMENTS: Palladian notes that Titus observed it first, thusly:
I am watching Barack's concession tonight on CNN and I want to do the three guys wearing the A&F shirts behind him.And Palladian added:
A 4 way with them would be hot.
I like the one in the middle with the "Yes We Can" sign. Yes you can, indeed. The chubbier one to his right is also hot.Given the tenor of those remarks, I wonder if the Obama campaign is trying to reach out to gay voters — something the Clinton campaign is doing openly:
But it is hilarious that there are THREE men standing together wearing Abercrombie & Fitch shirts. How much do you think that vulgar company shelled out to those boys for this product placement?
Accompanied by Governor Ed Rendell, Chelsea Clinton trolled through Philadelphia on a gay bar crawl, posing for photos and shaking hands with supporters.
In what may be one of the most unique campaign tactics yet employed in the hotly contested Democratic race, the Clinton family targeted one of their most valuable weapons straight toward the heart of the gay community on Friday. Surrounded by a moving crowd of admirers, Chelsea walked through the streets of Center City in Philadelphia, visiting four gay bars along the way to shake hands and chat about her mother's campaign.
Outside of the Tavern bar, patrons shouted "You're gorgeous, baby!" and "We love your highlights!" as Chelsea exited on her way to another gay club. "Thank you," she replied, "but that's not why you should vote for my mom."
According to the Washington Post, Governor Ed Rendell has a tradition of touring the most popular gay clubs in Philadelphia before elections. For this round, Rendell invited Chelsea Clinton to crawl the bars with him to speak to LGBT community members....
"The gay community has great feelings toward the [former] president and Hillary and they happen to love Chelsea," Rendell said, according to the Washington Post. "These are important voters, they're smart, they're sophisticated and they turn out in large numbers and always have," Rendall said of the LGBT community.


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The state Department of Health and Human Services announced Friday that the Walter B. Jones Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Center in Greenville has been certified by the federal government to become the state's only inpatient center. It will also be one of 75 nationwide offering full services for opiate addiction.
The program will serve high-risk patients with intake, detoxification and treatment in a hospital setting.
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Russell Neal, a singer with the '90s R&B group Hi-Five, has been charged with murder after his wife was found dead in their Houston apartment on Thursday.
Houston police tell KHOU that Neal, 39, walked into the Harris County Sheriff Department building and said that his wife was dead in their apartment and, according to news reports, that he needed a lawyer.
Police officers then reportedly forced entry into the apartment and found Neal's wife, Catherine Martinez, 24, lying dead under a blanket on the living room floor. She'd suffered multiple stab wounds and blunt force trauma, according to the TV station.
Neal, whose group had a number one single in 1991 with "I Like the Way (The Kissing Game)," reportedly told detectives that he and Martinez had gotten into an argument, but then refused to answer any more questions and asked for an attorney.
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TEHRAN, June 22 (UPI) -- As the Middle East becomes a hot cyberwar battleground, Iran claims it has detected a planned "massive cyberattack" by the United States, Britain and Israel against its nuclear installations.
The Iranians said the attack was timed to follow the failure of talks in Moscow to convince Tehran to abandon its nuclear program, which the Americans and their allies suspect masks a drive to develop nuclear weapons. Iran denies that.
There has been no indication from U.S., British or Israeli authorities that they had undertaken such an attack.
But Iran has been the target of at least two, and possibly more, cyberattacks by the United States and Israel since 2009.
The development of increasingly powerful cyber weapons points to an intention to continue efforts to sabotage Iran's nuclear project, which the Israeli leadership under hawkish Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu views as an existential threat to the Jewish state.
Iranian Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi was quoted as saying on state television Thursday, "They still seek to carry out the plan but we've taken necessary measures."
He gave no details about what those measures might be. Indeed, there was no independent verification that any such attack had taken place.
It may be that Tehran was simply seeking to deflect criticism of its refusal to accede to the demands of the P5+1 powers -- the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany.
But a major cyberattack on Iran's nuclear infrastructure, particularly its uranium-enrichment program, a key process in developing weapon-grade nuclear material, now would seem appropriate.
The talks in Moscow on Monday and Tuesday, the third round of negotiations since April, broke down with no progress. Western diplomats said the Iranians refused to make any commitment toward the key demand that it limit uranium enrichment to 20 percent, below military requirements.
They refused to discuss their new enrichment plant at Fordow, near the holy city of Qom south of Tehran. This facility, opened last year, is built into a mountain and supposedly safe from air attacks, unlike the enrichment center at Natanz, in central Iran.
If Fordow is invulnerable from the air, subjecting the enrichment program to cyberattack seems a logical alternative and much less risky in terms of casualties.
In this regard, the enrichment process has been the primary target of the so-called Stuxnet computer virus used in 2009 and 2010. Those attacks sabotaged the enrichment process but the Iranians were able to resume it later.
Computer experts say Stuxnet was created by the Americans and Israelis.
The Washington Post reported June 1 U.S. President Barack Obama secretly ordered cyberattacks on Iran's nuclear facilities within weeks of taking office.
Several weeks ago, Iran's nuclear program came under cyberattack again, this time from an even more virulent cyber weapon identified as W32.Flame. This one not only penetrates a system but is able to steal vast amounts of sensitive data and even turn on cameras and PC microphones to obtain additional data or change settings on computer systems.
The Symantec security firm reported June 8 that the creators of the Flame malware, considered the most dangerous virus so far developed, sent a "suicide command" that removes it from some infected computers.
In June 4, a week after Flame was uncovered, the Israeli military admitted for the first time it uses cyberspace for offensive purposes to gather intelligence, attack Israel's enemies and conduct secret operations.
The day Flame was discovered, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon dropped broad hints that the Jewish state's military and intelligence community was behind the cyber attack on Iran's nuclear program.
"These achievements of ours open all kinds of possibilities for us," he commented.
The main unit involved in Israel's cyber operation is Unit 8200, arguably the most secret organization in the Israel military. It's the equivalent of the United States' National Security Agency or Britain's General Communications Headquarters.
Unit 8200 is responsible for signals intelligence, electronic eavesdropping, code decryption and all offensive cyber operations.
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Mike Vega points to the area of sidewalk in Madison, Wis., Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012, where he discovered a starving 15-year-old after she escaped from her abusive father and stepmother last week. The severely malnourished teenager had been forced to stay in an unfinished basement for years and an alarm would sound if she went upstairs, police records say. The teen told authorities she ate what she could find in the garbage and on the floor of her father and stepmother's Madison home. Sometimes she was made to eat her feces and drink her own urine, according to a police affidavit. (AP Photo/Todd Richmond)
This photo released by the Montgomery County Police Dept shows Zakieya Latrice Avery, 28. Montgomery County Police charged 21-year-old Monifa Denise Sanford and Avery with murder in the deaths of two of Avery's children, a 1-year-old and a 2-year-old. The women are also facing attempted murder charges for injuring the children's siblings, ages 5 and 8. (AP Photo/Montgomery County Police Dept.)
Carnes reportedly left her 1-year-old son standing next to a mailbox outside the home where she though the boy's father lived in Palmetto, Fla. Police say Carnes not only left her baby and his belongings at the wrong house, but that the 27-year-old mom hadn't told the father she was giving him their child. She was jailed and charged with child abandonment in Manatee County, near Tampa Bay.
In this undated photo provided by the Philadelphia Police Department, Carmen Ramirez is seen. Police say the parents of a disabled 3-year-old Philadelphia girl who died weighing just 11 pounds have been charged with murder in what authorities are calling her starvation death. Police say the parents, 30-year-old Carlos Rivera and 27-year-old Ramirez, also face counts of involuntary manslaughter, endangering the welfare of a child and criminal conspiracy in the death of Nathalyz Rivera. She was found unresponsive Monday, Sept. 9, 2013, at the family's squalid home. (AP Photo/Philadelphia Police Department)
FILE - In this March 19, 2012, file photo, Tanicia Goodwin is arraigned in Salem District Court in Salem, Mass. A court hearing is scheduled Thursday, May 3, 2012, for Goodwin, who is accused in the attempted murders of her 3-year-old daughter, Erica, and her 8-year-old son, Jamaal. Both children survived the alleged attacks in March. (AP Photo/The Boston Globe, Aram Boghosian, Pool)
Angelo Fabiani Arroyo, 40, is accused of leaving his 4-year-old child at a car crash site and fleeing the scene.
Carron Washington allegedly fed his 2-month-old daughter bleach because a friend from school told him it was a great cure for breathing trouble.The kid is OK, but Washington still called the incident, "probably be the dumbest decision I ever made in my life."Read the whole story here.
Michelle Windgassen, 27, and John Lewis, 32, were arrested on charges of endangering a minor while they were under the influence of drugs at a Louisville restaurant. Officers found Windgassen in the bathroom snorting heroin, and Lewis admitted snorting heroin a couple hours earlier.
Collier is accused of walking into her son's middle school in March, 2013 and hitting a sick child she mistook for her son. She then allegedly apologized to the child and then started slapping her own son, according to a Spartanburg County, South Carolina sheriff's office arrest report.
Having been banned from the Family Dollar Store after employees say she was stealing, this mother allegedly returned to the establishment and began pepper spraying the workers there. She then allegedly handed the can to her 7-year-old daughter, saying, "You know what to do, baby. Spray it!" The 7-year-old apparently realized this was one of those times mother does not know best.Read the whole story here.
Robert Forbes and Christina Forbes have been arrested by sheriffs in Citrus County, Fla. after their 9-year-old son was found with a cockroach in his ear.
Officials in Penn Yan, NY, say Kimberly Margeson, 54, passed two Oxycodone painkiller pills to her 30-year-old, William Partridge by french kissing him during a jailhouse visit.
Austin Davis is accused of beating his three children with a belt because one of his kids had passed gas in the car.
For almost four years, police in upstate New York believed that Karl Karlsen's son Levi was accidentally crushed beneath a truck that he was working on in 2008. But after learning that Karlsen, 52, was the sole beneficiary of a life insurance policy on his 23-year-old son, they came to the conclusion that the father deliberately dropped the pickup on top of him. He was arrested on Nov. 23, 2012 and charged with second-degree murder
Koko Nicole Anderson, 21, from Mesa, Ariz., is shown after being jailed on aggravated DUI and criminal damage charges in this handout photo provided by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office on Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. Anderson was charged after crashing her car with her infant son inside through a gate at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Thursday night, driving on the runway in the latest in a series of similar mishaps across the country that have raised questions whether the nation's airports are truly secure. (AP Photo/Maricopa County Sheriff
Ruiz is accused of pouring rum into his infant son's feeding tube in October, 2012 in Belle Chasse, La. BELLE CHASSE, La
William Lewallen was arrested after Tulsa police found his 18-month-old daughter locked in a metal dog cage, his naked 4-year old daughter outside on a cold afternoon and him asleep in a drug or alcohol induced stupor.
Authorities in Virginia arrested 30-year-old Billie Jolene Warburton, of Norfolk, on Oct. 15, 2012, in the parking lot of a courthouse. Police allegedly found Warburton slumped over the steering wheel of her vehicle. Warburton's window was open, the motor was running and a young child was sobbing in a car seat in the back, police said. The officer allegedly observed blood on the center console and fresh injection marks on Warburton's arms. Warburton allegedly told police her child was crying because he had not been fed since the previous evening. The baby was placed in the custody of Child Protective Services and Warburton was transported to Western Tidewater Regional Jail under a no bond status for possession of heroin, driving under the influence of drugs, and felony child neglect.
Langley is accused of leaving his 1-year-old daughter home alone so he could go rob houses in October, 2012 in Brookhaven, Pa.
Federal agents have arrested Betsian Carrasquillo Penaloza for allegedly prostituting her 14-year-old daughter in Puerto Rico. (email@example.com)
This 26-year-old was charged with threatening to discharge a destructive device after allegedly saying she was going to blow up her daughter's elementary school. Witnesses say that Schauer warned, "Don't bring your kid to school that day," and when asked what day she meant, she said, "The day I blow it up."
Cops found a 2-year-old girl under this couple's care sleeping outside a Florida mall at 2:45 a.m. on Oct. 1, 2012. The two were arrested and charged with child neglect when it was found that Montalvo was allegedly on drugs, and Rogers let him leave with her daughter knowing that he was intoxicated.
Barron allegedly prostituted herself while her infant child was at home. She told police that her addiction to money led to a life of crime.
Howard's addiction to morphine drove her son to commit suicide, because he lived in fear that she would overdose, according to police in Indiana.
James D. Blanchard, 21, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for abusing his newborn son. A medical doctor said that the child has lost his vision and will likely never walk or talk. The doctor also said the injury was common with shaken babies.
Cops say that not only did Diana and Samuel Franklin keep their 15-year-old daughter in a chicken coop, they made her wear a shock collar and used it slotemaker amsterdam several times.
Dario Napolitano is accused of kicking his 3-year-old son at Disney World in late June, 2012.
Adolfo Gomez Jr., 52, and his wife, Deborah Gomez, 43, both of Northlake, Ill., were arrested at a Walmart in Lawrence, Kan., after someone spotted a 5-year-old boy sitting outside a sport utility vehicle with his hands and feet bound and a blindfold covering his eyes. -AP
Brittany Hill allegedly tried to sell her 4-month-old boy in a classified ad in June, 2012. Someone was going to try and buy the baby, but decided to call Dallas police instead.
Baumgardner is accused of injecting her daughter with heroin roughly 200 times when the girl was 14-years-old.
Thar Kyi, 42 of upstate New York, accidentally hit his 8-year-old son in the head with a samurai sword while fighting another man. Kyi attacked the boy's mother's boyfriend while his three children were getting ready for school in the morning. The boy was treated at a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.
In May 2012, New Jersey mom Patricia Krentcil was arrested after taking her 5-year-old daughter to a tanning parlor. The daughter reportedly received severe burns from exposure to harmful ultraviolet radiation. In the aftermath of the arrest, Krentcil was banned from several local tanning salons. Krentcil's habit has also received wide criticism in mass media, including a spoof by Kristen Wiig on "Saturday Night Live." Read more.
Employees at a Maryland Chuck E. Cheese were worried when they found a 3-year-old named Harmony apparently alone in the establishment at around 8 p.m one night in March 2012. They took the girl to a police station and shared a photo of her with local TV stations in hopes of tracking down a parent or guardian. It wasn't until Harmony's photo aired on the 11 p.m news that her parents even realized she was missing. The two had split custody of Harmony, and each had assumed that she was with other family members. Read more.
Mistie Atkinson, 32, allegedly performed oral sex on her 16-year-old son and had sexual intercourse with him in a hotel room in Northern California. The two reconnected on Facebook after the boy's father had assumed primary custody when the child was 2. Atkinson, whom the boy's father claims had a "boyfriend-girlfriend relationship" with her son, also reportedly sent the child nude photos of herself. She pleaded no contest in a Napa County Superior Court on May 21 to charges of incest, oral copulation with a minor, contact with a minor for sexual offense, and sending harmful material to a teen. Read more.
Floridian Elton Jerome Davis Jr. allegedly left his 18-month-old toddler at home with a bowl of Cheerios while he went to work. An unidentified witness found the child playing with a dog on a public road. Davis was charged with child neglect on May 21 in Okaloosa County. Read more.
On May 17, police found Shana Bishop's 2-year-old son naked in a pile of trash on the floor of her car in South Carolina. The child was found when an unidentified resident called the police, alleging that Bishop was dancing naked in her driveway. Bishop was arrested in Spartanburg and charged with child neglect. Read more.
Marsia Emanuel allegedly flagged a school bus in Winter Haven, Fla., boarded and beat the bus driver in front of her daughter, a student riding it already. Cops found Emanuel later at home where she dropped her underpants in front of them, they said. It's unclear what was her motive. Read more.
Misty Lawson, 30, a self-described "professional baby maker" on her Facebook page, allegedly punched her son in the face and body several times during an in-home, state-mandated anger management course. Read more here.
Salem police say surveillance video shows Christina Lopez watched her 17-year-old daughter dance at Presley's Playhouse Cabaret, a strip club in Oregon. Read more.
Barry O'Connell, a Spokane, Wash., police officer, was suspended for three weeks after his daughter used his service weapon to accidentally shoot herself in the leg.
This undated handout photo from the Dallas County Sheriff's Department shows Elizabeth Escalona. The mother was facing child abuse charges, Friday, Sept. 9, 2011, after police said she glued her toddler daughter's hands to a wall, kicked her in the stomach and beat her over a potty training issue.
Hill was accused in October 2012 of using heroin with her 12-year-old daughter over the course of several weeks. She also allegedly told police that she often took her daughter along on shoplifting trips that financed their heroin addictions.
Hysaw is accused of using a stun gun on her child after he didn't ask for permission to play basketball.


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Ryoji Koie
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Item Number:C7389
About the Artist
He lost two fingers at the first joint while working at a tile factory in his teens and says, 'Being faced with this handicap is what provided me with my underlying strength today,' as he continues to produce pots in huge numbers, 'like pollen'. He does not think in terms of 'contemporary' or 'traditional' pottery; among his works are the 'mask' or 'Return to the Soil' series, which are not fired, while he has also produced works calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons, expressing world peace and presenting a message to mankind. The primitive, primordial 'Koie style' is quite unique and has won him fans throughout the world.
1938 Born in Tokoname, Aichi Prefecture
1957 Received diploma from Tokoname Prefectural High School Industrial Ceramics Department and went to work at a tile manufacturing company.
1962 Became a researcher at the Tokoname Municipal Ceramics Research Institute
1966 Became independent
1972 The 30th Faenza International Exhibition of Ceramic Art (Italy)
1979 "Today's Japanese Ceramics" (Denver Museum of Art, USA)
1982 "Contemporary Japanese Ceramics" (Faenza & Rome, Italy)
1983 "Japanese Ceramics Today" (Smithsonian Museum, USA; Victoria & Albert Museum, England)
1986 "Avant-garde in Japan 1910-1970" (Centre National de Georges Pompidou, France)
"Japanese Contemporary Ceramics"(Travel exhibition in USA, Poland, Greek,
Romania, Soviet, and other Eastern European countries)
1989 "Europalia '89 Japan: Ceramics of Showa" Tradition and Avant-Garde (Mons
Museum of Art, Belgium)
1992 Became Professor at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Art
1995 "Japanese Studio Craft" (Victoria & Albert Museum, England)
1997 "Seoul Ceramic Art Biennale 1997" (Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art, Korea)
2003 "Oribe:2003 in New York" (Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA)
Many solo and group shows at galleries and museums in Japan as well as worldwide
3rd Prize, Contemporary Japanese Ceramics Exhibition (1962)
Point and Line accepted, Asahi Ceramic Art Exhibition (1963-69)
Japanese Contemporary Craft Art Exhibition (1963-64)
Grand Prix, 3rd Biannual International Ceramics Exhibition, Vallauris, France (1971)
The 3rd Oribe Award (2001)
The Chunichi Cultural Award (2005)
Gold Prize, The Japan Ceramic Society Award (2008)
Public Collections:
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Idemitsu Museum, Tokyo
The Museum of Fine Art, Gifu
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Tokoname Municipal Hall, Aichi
The Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi
Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Kyungsung University Museum, Busan, Korea
Museo de Art Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia


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House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman John Murtha, D-Pa., says Senate's rejection of the measure and president's veto threat changed his mind.
House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman John Murtha, D-Pa., on Wednesday announced he is abandoning efforts to keep production lines for the Air Force's F-22 Raptor fighter jet open after the existing order for 187 aircraft is met.
The fierce defender of congressional prerogatives to reorder administration spending priorities dropped this bombshell as the House Appropriations Committee approved by voice vote its version of the fiscal 2010 Defense spending bill.
The bill includes a $369 million down payment for 12 F-22s in fiscal 2011 that had not been requested by the Pentagon. But Murtha said he would offer an amendment when the House debates the bill next week to strip the funding for the additional F-22s.
Under his amendment, the money would be used instead for parts, such as engines, for the 187 F-22s planned and perhaps for parts for other aircraft, including C-17s.
Murtha has supported buying more F-22s, but he said the Senate's 58-40 vote Tuesday to strip F-22 funding from the fiscal 2010 defense authorization bill -- coupled with President Obama's threat to veto any bill that contains funding for more of the Lockheed Martin-produced fighters -- made him change his mind.
"When the Senate said, 58 to 40, then I think that ended the debate," he said after the committee markup. "You can talk about it, but it's not going to happen."
Although the House still must vote on Murtha's amendment, his decision marks another victory for the Obama administration, which expended an enormous amount of political capital to rid the Senate's defense authorization bill of $1.75 billion to buy seven F-22s next year.
Murtha said he could not work out details of the amendment before Wednesday's markup, but added he would like to include his F-22 language as part of a managers' package of amendments during floor debate, which he expects to occur July 30.
Any move to strip the funding for more F-22s from the bill has the support of House Appropriations Chairman David Obey, D-Wis., who said on Wednesday he does not want the bill to include veto bait by allocating money for more of the radar-evading fighters.
"They [the Obama administration] made quite clear to me that they intend to veto any bill that contains funding for the F-22," Obey said. "I think it would be unfortunate that we wind up in a situation where the bill cannot move forward."
Murtha said he now wants to ensure that spare parts for the F-22 fleet are "robustly funded" because of maintenance problems with the planes.
Meanwhile, Murtha said he does not support the administration's plans to reprogram money within the fiscal 2010 budget to pay for an influx of 22,000 troops next year, as Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced this week.
Instead, he would prefer the funding for the additional troops -- which could top $1 billion in fiscal 2010 alone -- come in the form of a budget amendment.
"I told them I didn't want to see a reprogramming," he said. "That is unacceptable. You can't find that kind of money. If you do find that kind of money, then they sent up a bad budget."
Murtha reiterated his belief that a supplemental spending bill will be needed in fiscal 2010, explaining that the bill's $128 billion for ongoing military operations will not be enough.


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Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra General Shopping Questions
Does anybody know why the invoice price the dealer showed me was roughly $500 higher than the dealer price listed on Edmunds and KBB? I added the $900 destination charge, but the dealer invoice was not even close. Can the dealer mark up the invoice price? Of course the salesman said it was because the web was wrong. Uh huh, right.
KCRam Mt. Arlington NJPosts: 3,516Edmunds specifically leaves out certain local and regional advertising charges that will appear on the actual vehicle invoice from the manufacturer. This is because these charges can vary widely, even as tight as county by county. Depending on where you are, $500 is probably about right for these ad fees.
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Thanks for your reply. So this is a fee the dealership must pay to GM and therefore is non-negotiable?0
guardian03 Posts: 12According to my dealer, that fee goes to the "Regional Marketing Group" which pays for the advertisements, etc. They do not charge GM Family members with this fee, so you may be able to negotiate on it.0
12rings Posts: 6I flat out told the dealer I wouldn't pay it, he said he couldn't "waive" the fee but gave me 500 more on my trade.
Press them, they will work with you, if not go somewhere else.0
Does anyone know when Chevy is supposed to begin production on their 08 3/4 tons. About two months ago I ordered an 07, but dealer called two weeks ago and said that I ordered too late for an 07, that I was going to get an 08 for the same price (we'll see). As salesmen are usually kept out of the loop, and tend to keep info that they do know close to the vest, I wanted to know if anyone knows any specifics.
I placed an order for a 2007 Silverado 1500 Crew LTZ on 17 June. The dealer notified me that the truck will be a 2008 model. I have a 23 July build date, with an approximate delivery date of 5 August. I am told that any incentives available for the 07 will be applied for the 08. I do not have any indication that the price will be the same, or increase by 1-3%. Based on todays article in the Wall Street Journal GM will continue with incentives as truck sales were down 21% in June. I'll keep you posted.0
I talked to the dealer yesterday, and have an identical build date. The salesman told me that the price would be the same, but we'll have to see. I'd appreciate it if you could let me know if they change the price on your half-ton, and I'll keep you posted on price differences in my 3/4.0
I am looking at the 2007 Silverado 1500 Regular Cab Long Box 4x4.
When I configure it as a "1LT MSRP $27,805.00", the following option IS available:
Air bags, head curtain side-impact, front and rear outboard seating positions, with rollover sensor (ASF) $395.00
When I configure it as a "1WT MSRP $22,155.00", the option is NOT available.
I really want the WT with side curtains... I do not need/want all the chrome/fancy stuff in the extra $4000 LT package.
I also notice the side curtain option IS available in the 2007 1500 Classic models.
Why in the world are side curtains not an option in the 2007 1500 WT?
Anyone know if the 2008 WT will or will not have side curtains?
I also assume I am too late to order a 2007 Silverado... right?
Thanks, Mike0
I'll keep you posted on the any price increase I receive. I will know as soon as I receive a VIN #...it should be late next week, or early the following week.0
Has anyone heard if GM plans on equipping the 1500 Sierras with Bluetooth technology or 6-speed automatic transmissions?0
not sure about the bluetooth, the 6 speed is already available for the Heavy Duties and will be available in the 1500's in the 2009 model year.0
flyspray Posts: 15I doubt that GM will put bluetooth into their cars or trucks. They have a deal with Onstar/Verizon. If you were able to use bluetooth... then there would be no need to purchase the Onstar/Verizon phone service.
Thanks for the quick responses. I confirmed that at least for the 2008 model there will be no 6-Speed transmission or Bluetooth. A local dealer had told me that the 2008 models would have Bluetooth is why I asked.
What would be the benefits or detriments of a 6-speed transmission over the current 4-speed transmission?0
Well one of the obvious and main benefits of a six speed is gas milage at highway speeds. With the two extra overdrive gears, your engine will be working less thus saving gas. Also, the six speed will be geared differently most likely allowing a lower first gear, which will give you a little extra grunt off the line. As far as the four speed goes, well the main benefit is that it has been around for a very long time in GM trucks. So this has allowed GM to tweak and refine it over the years yeilding a very dependable unit especially the 4L80E.
As far as disadvantages go, well the new six speed is, well, NEW. With anything new, there are going to be problems. When you make something more complicated, there are more things that can go wrong with it. Even the new Tundra six speeds are having various problems. Also with more gears to choose from, you will notice that the 6speed trans will be consantly searching for the right gear to use. Now had GM simply used their bulletproof Allison six speeds, this wouldn't be the case, however, in their infinite wisdom they decided, probably do to cost concerns, to develop a whole new line of six speeds that could be made mostly with robots thus saving money. With the 4speed, the only real main disadvantage is the gas milage.
It all depends on what you're going to use your truck for. If you're like most people who use their trucks for grocery getters and drive plenty of highway miles, then wait for the new six speed. If you tow over 6,000lbs on a regular basis, get yourself a used 2002-2007 2500HD with the diesel or 8.1L engine. Both come with Allison 6speed trans. Now if your like me, and don't blow a gasket every time you see a new scratch, and actually plan to use the truck for its intended purpose (ie: hauling dirty cargo, playing off road, towing a small ski boat every once and a while) then get yourself a used '96-'98 Chevy/GMC K1500/K2500, lift it and go play! :shades:0
Thanks for the reply 12ozcurls (like the name too). That's kinda what I figured. I hate to admit it but I would probably fall into the grocery getters driving plenty of Hwy miles category 98% of the time. Maybe three times a year do I tow a trailer that weighs more than 2,500 lbs. May one day get a boat but can't bet on that! In the grand scheme of things it probably won't make a huge difference for me. Thanks for the very informative reply!0
I just talked to the dealer today. I have the invoice in hand. The good news is that the invoice price actually dropped a little (about $100) from what they quoted me in May for an 07 vs. the 08 I'm getting. The bad news is that they're not honoring 07 rebates for the 08's. Instead of the new $2500 rebate, the 08's have a $500 rebate. The rebate was only $1000 at the time that I ordered the pickup, so I'm only spending $400 more than I originally anticipated, but it's still pretty shady to pay an extra 2k for one different digit on the vin sticker. As far as I know the 07 second generation and 08's are identical trucks. Oh well it's still about $3500 less than a comparable F-2500
That is consistent with what I learned from my dealer. For the privilege of owning an 08 - I will not receive the 0% financing for the 07's which is worth at least $3500 to me.
However, I will get a $500 rebate just as you outlined. The dealer told me there is a chance that GM will increase the rebate on 08's due to the lackluster sales as early as 15 August. Perhaps he is trying to make me feel better!
Contrary to your F250 comparison, my truck is higher priced (about 1.5K) than the F150, which is carrying a larger rebate and 0% financing to boot.
In any event, I have no complaints, as I am getting precisely the truck I ordered, and will keep it long enough to justify the expense.0
Picking my truck up this afternoon. Hope it runs for 200,000. Then the $2000 they screwed me out of by delaying my build date into the 08's won't matter.0
croce Posts: 1I wouldn't be too upset. First off you have a 2008 as opposed to a 2007. Your 2008 truck is worth more than 2000 bucks more than a 2007. You should have XM radio in your 2008 that is a no charge option - so that saved you another 150 bucks. I'd say you did ok. You got $500 rebate instead of $2000 so it really wasn't a $2000 screwing as you say.
Lets hope you love the truck and never need to use the warranty.0
It is a nice truck, save the automatic locks locking whenever I take it out of park. I plan on driving it until the wheels fall off, so the additonial resale really doesn't matter. The rebate in my area for 07's is $2500 so I did lose $2000 for an identical truck built literally weeks later. Could care less about satellite radio. I'm not going to pay $12 a month to listen to the radio. When the free period expires so does my sattelite radio experience. I shouldn't sound too negative, It is a really comfortable truck to drive, we'll see how it handles truck duty to come.0
Does anyone know how many or what percentage of all 1500 series trucks that GM produces each model year are Silverado SS models for Chevrolet and Sierra Denali models for GMC? I'm guessing less than 1%, but I'd like something more definitive. Thanks.0
I am all set to buy a new 2008 Sierra Z71. When I went to look at it last night on the lot, I saw that there was a 2008 All Terrain marked down to the same price as the other z71. I saw where it had originally cost 4000 more. What are the benefits of having the All Terrain as opposed to the regular Z71?0
Saving $4 K?0
when ordering a truck and is identified by the Z71 sticker on the truck. Not sure what an All Terrain is as its not listed as an option with the Silverado/Sierra. It could be something that is dealer specific. I would compare the Monroney sticker to be sure on what you're getting.0
efflandt Posts: 5All Terrain package includes a bunch of dress up options inside and out, along with Rancho shocks, Z71, and Z82 trailering package. If it is a color you like, go for it.0
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Anti-Apple lawsuit cites 20-year-old patent
Xerox UI technique dusted down, sent to court
Posted in Personal Tech, 25th April 2007 14:27 GMT
Apple is facing a jury trial over allegations it ripped off a US patent filed by Xerox way back in 1987. At issue: Mac OS X 10.4's use of tabs and other UI elements to flip between different panels within a single window.
The lawsuit was filed on 18 April in the Texas District Court by intellectual property holding company IP Innovation and its parent company, Technology Licensing, AppleInsider reports. The plaintiffs want a jury trial, damages in excess of $20m and a ban on sales of current and future versions of Mac OS X.
The patent - number 5,072,412 - describes a "user interface with multiple workspaces for sharing display system objects". Think tabbed browsing, the way a single Safari, Firefox or even Internet Explorer window can flip between different web pages by clicking on the tabs at the top of the page. You can see the same effect in a range of Mac OS X user interface panels, such as its System Preferences panes.
Actually, you can see it in Windows too, and it's a feature not absent from Linux, for that matter. And even Mac OS X has had this kind of UI element in pre-Tiger releases. Linux also has virtual desktops which, it could be argued, are covered by the patent too. Apple is expected to add virtual desktop technology to Mac OS X 10.5 - a feature Apple calls Spaces.
Interestingly, some of Apple's own patents cite patent number 5,072,412, as do user-interface related patents from a number of other companies, including Microsoft, Sun and the now defunct General Magic. Clearly Apple wasn't unaware of the patent. It has yet to comment on the lawsuit, however.


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"Santa" first appeared in The Cream City Review ("Queer Issue," Fall, 2005 [volume29, #2]).
When he walks into the stink
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nobody looks up
from their dirty mugs of beer.
Christmas lights halo the room.
He orders tequila shots,
rips off the fake beard,
slaps it on the bar like hard-earned money.
"It's A Wonderful Life"
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Behind the bar
a picture of Jeff Stryker in the manger
surrounded by plastic donkeys
and wise men wearing thongs—
blinks off and on. All day
Santa's been dying
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from under his jacket
that whining kids punched
for hours. Hours
dreaming of walking away
from his hard, merciless
chair where he sat praying
over and over for the drinks
he's downing now as he wishes
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to be with him forever. His last shot
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Brian Halweil, Senior Fellow
Brian Halweil is a senior fellow at the Worldwatch Institute covering issues of food and agriculture and is currently Co-Director of Nourishing the Planet (www.NourishingthePlanet.org). He joined Worldwatch in 1997 as the John Gardner Public Service Fellow from Stanford University, where he had established a student-run farm on campus. In addition, Brian has helped set up community-supported farms throughout California and New York, as well as in Mexico, and assisted farmers who were making the shift to organic agriculture. As a food and agriculture expert, Brian has testified before the U.S. Senate on biotechnology, poverty, and hunger, and his research and writing have been featured in national media. He is the author of Eat Here: Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket.
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Selected Publications
- "Charting a New Path to Eliminating Hunger," in State of the World 2011 (W.W. Norton & Company, 2011), co-authored with Danielle Nierenberg.
- "Meat and Seafood: The Most Costly Ingredients in the Global Diet," in State of the World 2008 (W.W. Norton & Company, 2008), co-authored with Danielle Nierenberg.
- Still No Free Lunch: Nutrient Levels in U.S. Food Supply Eroded by Pursuit of High Yields (The Organic Center, September 2007).
- "Farming the Cities," in State of the World 2007 (W.W. Norton & Company, 2007), co-authored with Danielle Nierenberg.
- Catch of the Day: Choosing Seafood for Healthier Oceans, Worldwatch Paper 172, November 2006.
- "Can Organic Farming Feed Us All?" World Watch, May/June 2006.
- "The Irony of Climate," World Watch, March/April 2005.
- Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket (W.W. Norton & Company, 2004).
- "Why No One Wins in the Global Food Fight," Washington Post, 21 September 2003.
- "A Win-win-win-win Industry for the Tropics," World Watch, May/June 2002.
- "Farming in the Public Interest," in State of the World 2002 (W.W. Norton & Company, 2002).
- "Biotech, African Corn, and the Vampire Weed," World Watch, September/October 2001.


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I spent this past week kayaking on Lake Superior where I capsized for the first time. In happened in the face of a pretty nasty north wind that churned up four foot waves--big when you're in a kayak. It was good to get that over with. Like falling off a horse, they say you're not a true paddler until you've keeled over at least once—though I would have preferred water warmer than 38 degrees. I was paddling with an old buddy of mine with whom I have traversed numerous waterways between here at the Atlantic, both the blissful calm and the turbulent chop, both the literal and the metaphorical. Paddling on Tuesday through some especially dense fog--another kind of adventure--navigating solely by compass toward our next destination, we reviewed some of the larger decisions we'd each made in our lives, many of which were made, like major decisions tend to be made, in the dense fog of uncertainty. The compass in these moments is what the Bible calls wisdom, will if you find it, Scripture says, "you will find a future, and your hope will not be [sunk]."
Wisdom is personified as a woman her in Proverbs, raising her voice at the crossroads, promising to "love those who love me, and to be found by those who diligently seek me. I walk in the way of righteousness, along the paths of justice. Happy are those who keep my ways." Wisdom is female, perhaps because her ways are not particularly cut and dried or black and white. ABC News' Cokie Roberts recently quipped that women tend to think in "fifty shades of grey." While her reference was to that saucy bestseller especially popular among female readers, I'll take a different road here, having not read that book, and liken fifty shades of grey to that fog on the lake. Sometimes wisdom entails walking by faith; taking a direction without a certain destination, not knowing exactly where you'll be until you get there. "Wisdom," Jesus said, "is proved right by her actions."
For King Solomon, son of King David and ancestor of Jesus, authored much of what Proverbs teaches. Granted one wish by God for anything he wanted, Solomon asked for wisdom by which to govern wisely. Delighted, the Lord supplied Solomon's wish in abundance, and Solomon became widely acknowledged as the smartest man on the planet. In the end, however, Solomon's shunned God's gift, and went on to make catastrophic choices that eventually brought his kingdom to ruin. "Those who walk in wisdom come through safely," Solomon admitted, "but those who trust in their own wits are fools." Wisdom is proved right her her actions.
And yet even in failure, or perhaps because of it--you're not a true paddler until you capsize--Solomon's name remains synonymous with wisdom. In somewhat random fashion over the next several weeks, I'd like to navigate some of this wisdom with you as found in Proverbs chapters 10-12, sayings specifically ascribed to the king.
Chapter 10, Proverb 10: "Whoever winks the eye causes trouble, but the one who rebukes boldly makes peace." You may remember that old Seinfeld episode where a bit of grapefruit pulp from Jerry's healthy breakfast squirted into George's eye. George went through the entire day unable to stop winking. As a result, everyone he encountered hilariously misinterpreted everything he said. Try it yourself. Devote a day to following every statement you make with a quick wink and watch the reactions. There's a great deal of suggestive power in closing one eye. Beyond any flirtatious connotations, winking is the non-verbal admission of deception with an added twist of complicity. A wink both acknowledges the lie and invites the deceived to partake in it. The Hebrew word for wink also means to pinch or to bite. Winking attempts to dilute deception with playfulness, but making light of deceit actually increases its darkness. Not that the Lord is opposed to facial gestures per se, but an effort to unwisely minimize wrongfulness, is, well, nothing to wink at.
The second part of this couplet commends a bold rebuke. "Whoever winks the eye causes trouble, but the one who rebukes boldly makes peace." Solomon denounces winking as taking permission to distort reality to serve your own needs. You knowingly deceive others but also yourself. There's the true story of a church that completed its "phase-one-58-million-dollar-building-project-hallelujah," only to have their celebrity Senior Pastor publicly acknowledge an illicit affair he'd been having with the church secretary. Such sin remains remarkably unimaginative, demonstrating again the high correlation between oversized sanctuaries and oversized libidos. Absolute power absolutely corrupts. Making this particular account more disturbing was that church elders knew of the Senior Minister's sin but "winked at it" rather than jeopardize the building project's completion and the church's financial investment. The neighboring community responded by shaking its collective head, chalking up the whole scandal as yet one more reason to spend Sunday mornings on something more worthwhile than worship.
Granted, it would have been awkwardly unpleasant for somebody to have confronted this senior minister; but if anybody had cared enough about the man or the church, they should have done it. Maybe that was the problem: nobody cared enough. Or maybe the responsibility of caring felt too heavy. It is much easier to categorize another's sin as none of your business. If nothing else, you'll get to relish the ensuing gossip and scandal, which all of us do love. Besides, who am I to rebuke the minister or anybody else? Isn't that the Holy Spirit's job? Yes. But what about when we close our ears to the Spirit? Who's to say that you can't be the hand of the Holy Spirit to smack some sense into a sinner's head? Such confrontation does take courage. Therefore Solomon tacks the adverb "boldly" alongside rebuke.
However "to boldly rebuke" is not authorization to be judgmental and Pharisaic. Jesus' admonition against pointing at splinters in other's eyes without acknowledging the 2x4 protruding from your own still applies. Blessed instead are the peacemakers, Jesus said, which Solomon asserts to be the goal of bold rebuke. We confront the hard reality of sin for the sake of shalom. A bold rebuke should work like sunlight. It unambiguously exposes the wrong yet also provides the warmth required for repentance and forgiveness and reconciliation to occur. If you care about somebody you don't wink at their sin, you muster the courage to smack them upside their head. But you then take that same hand and guide them back onto the way of righteousness that is the path to life—a path you're more than willing to travel alongside them—because you love and because you care.
"Whoever winks their eye causes trouble, but the one who rebukes boldly makes peace."
Chapter 10 Proverb 17: "Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but one who rejects a rebuke goes astray." Smacking somebody upside their head is one thing, getting smacked upside your own is another. Who likes being told they messed up? Who likes being exposed, corrected and humiliated? Nobody. Nobody likes feeling stupid or guilty or found out. Consequently we've conditioned ourselves to respond to correction with anger and resentment. We deny, defend, evade and pretend, all in order to rationalize our wrongness. However, instead of letting resentment be as a green light to self-righteousness, we need to see it for the God-righteous red-light it might be. Angry at being corrected? Don't be a fool. Take a deep breath and pay attention, you may end up learning something.
While in New England last week speaking at a faith and science conference in June, I was a reacquainted with an old friend, Deb, who is the new president of the organization that sponsored the conference. Deb is formerly professor of physics and astronomy and I knew her and her husband, a biology professor, from their days as students at MIT and Harvard respectively. They both attended my church in Boston and I had provided their premarital counseling 20 years prior, a fact I had completely forgotten until Deb introduced me to speak. She said that my counseling had clearly served them well, though I can't imagine what I would have known about marriage way back then that would have helped anybody.
An encounter with Deb that I did remember followed after preaching some sermon science to make a point about sin. Having read a few articles about thermodynamics, I tried to assert that entropy in the world was a result of Adam and Eve biting off more than they could chew. By way of refresher, entropy is the amount of energy in a closed system unavailable for work. That's what the article said. The way entropy works out in reality is in the fact that left to itself, everything naturally moves toward disorder and decay. You have to clean your house, it doesn't clean itself. Inasmuch as disorder and decay are contrary to order and life, apt characteristics of God, it follows that entropy must have been absent from creation in Genesis. Why would God make a world destined to die?
After the benediction, Deb approached me somewhat hesitantly. Maybe I'd best stick with theology on its own merits, she meekly suggested, and leave biology and physics to the scientists. Unless the world operated according to a whole different set of rules in the beginning, entropy had to present in Eden because without it there could have been no organic life. Death and decay are essential for new life to emerge. Without entropy, the ensuing overrun of bacteria and bugs alone would have totally overwhelmed Adam and Eve. Eating forbidden fruit would have been the least of their worries. According to the laws of nature, of which we believe God himself to be author, even without biting that apple, Adam and Eve still would have died. Physical death has never been a Biblical evil. Jesus himself dies for the sake of new life. The death that separates us from God is not physical but spiritual death, that loss of relationship with the Lord that happens when we reject his ways and refuse to have faith. That's the death that Adam and Eve brought into human existence. Entropy may not occur in heaven, but if it doesn't, it will have to be because new creation operates according to a whole new physics, one that hopefully excludes at least some of the bugs.
I told Deb I remembered her rebuke from twenty years prior, and she was embarrassed to say she remembered it too. But then I told her how her rebuke had led me onto a twenty year quest to understand science better, so that the next time I used it in a sermon I at least approximated what was scientific fact. I went on the write a book and speak and last week with my lecture receive thanks and appreciation for what I said (as a pastor) from all of the chemists and biologists and physicists in the room.
It is our pride that prevents us from welcoming rebuke and correction; pride that operates as a sinister kind of "phantom wisdom," duping us into thinking we know it all and are therefore unteachable. Theologian Cornelius Plantinga Jr. describes pride as that stubborn amalgamation of ignorance and arrogance, rendering fools as those who are often in error but never in doubt; people who go on to give others "a piece of their mind they can hardly afford to lose."
"Whoever heeds discipline is on the road to life, but whoever ignores correction wanders astray."
Chapter 10 Proverb 19: "When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but the prudent are restrained in speech." Do you ever feel at the end of the day that you have talked too much? In preaching classes I teach I'll often tell students that the first skill any preacher must master is not the ability to speak, but the ability to stop. That way your congregation can always have something good to say about your sermon. Even if it was bad, at least it was short.
Many years ago I had the privilege of studying under Henri Nouwen, the late Catholic priest whose writings have been for many the way of wisdom. Nouwen asserted how any speaking we do should emerge from and return to a place of silence. Silence, he said, represented obedience (obedience from the Hebrew word to hear). It is only in our own silence that we can hear the Spirit and the people with whom we speak. So often in our listening we hear only our own voices, our own anxieties, our own anxiousness to respond to rather than to understand words spoken to us. Nouwen wrote, "The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing…not healing, not curing…[not fixing, not doing something] is a friend who cares." There's an ancient and familiar Stoic maxim that says because you have two ears but only one mouth, you should listen twice as much as you speak.
Silence creates space for God to work and to heal. It prevents your words from taking precedent over his word. One of my mentors, a saintly man now gone on to glory, used to tell me that whenever someone called me in a crisis and needed to see me right away, the best thing to do would be to put them off for a couple of weeks. That way when we eventually did get together, the person's problem would likely have already resolved itself. Our time together could then be better spent giving thanks rather than giving advice.
Solomon concurs, "Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent." I used to teach an occasional graduate school course in psychology and liked to employ a Socratic methodology of sorts, with its dialogical give and take, the only problem being that in my own eagerness to speak, my Socratic sometimes turned sarcastic. One time the topic of "anger" came up and I asked the class for a definition. A student responded with "mad" to which I quickly retorted, "Well that's a no-brainer, it's easy to throw out a synonym, but is that really a definition?" "Well how about this," she replied, "anger is the feeling you get when your professor mocks and belittles your attempt to participate in front of the entire class." Uh, yep, that would be anger.
"Listen and understand," Jesus said in Matthew's gospel, "it is not what goes into your mouth that defiles you, but it is what comes out of your mouth that defiles." Watch your mouth and you'll take the spiritual temperature of your soul. Speech serves as a reliable thermometer for what's going on inside. But speech serves as a thermostat too. Your speech can also control your spiritual temperature. Proverbs declares that "Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue, guards his soul from trouble." Watch your mouth and you'll gauge your soul. Watch your mouth and you'll guard your soul.
"When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but the prudent are restrained in speech."
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Obamacare's unlikely ally
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has become an unlikely warrior for Obamacare.
Brewer is a conservative Republican who sued to topple the health law, refused to set up a health insurance exchange and memorably wagged her finger at President Barack Obama on a Phoenix airport tarmac. But now she's so determined to put the Obamacare Medicaid expansion in place in her state that she's vetoing any legislation that reaches her desk until the Republican Legislature caves.
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Her entire week's schedule is five words long: "Hold for budget, Medicaid negotiations."
( PHOTOS: The eight GOP governors who said yes to Medicaid expansion)
It's a posture that's confounding conservatives who once embraced her for signing a toughest-in-the-nation crackdown on illegal immigrants and for defying the Obama White House.
Brewer says it's been quite the firestorm, but she insists that expansion saves money and saves lives — and that everybody would realize that if they weren't so "hung up on the fact" that it was part of Obama's health law.
"We were all so adamant that we didn't like Obamacare. We fought tooth and nail. But there comes a time, and you have to look at the reality. You have to do the math," Brewer told POLITICO in a phone interview. "I did not make this decision lightly. … It's not only a mathematical issue, but it's a moral issue."
( Also on POLITICO: TOP 5 complaints about Obamacare)
Brewer is not the only Republican governor to pursue Medicaid expansion, but she's the most avid. Ohio Gov. John Kasich drew scorn from conservatives this week when, in a USA Today op-ed, he suggested Ronald Reagan would have supported expansion. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder recently invited Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to come lobby reluctant lawmakers. Florida Gov. Rick Scott, among the nation's most vocal critics of Obamacare, stunned people on both ends of the spectrum in February, when he endorsed adding about 1 million Floridians to the Medicaid rolls. But he didn't make expansion a centerpiece of his agenda.
Brewer, in contrast, has made a campaign-style push. She has held rallies with advocates who typically battle Republicans, given speeches, aired commercials and traveled the state pushing the message. Her spokesman, Matthew Benson, said an outside coalition, including the state hospital association, has helped raise $1 million for the effort with Brewer's encouragement.
She predicts she'll get her bill through the Legislature with support from Democrats and just enough Republicans. It could happen within a week or so.
But that won't end the controversy.
"That we are getting Obamacare by our governor is shocking, to say the least. There's no words to describe it," said Christine Bauserman, a Republican activist from Pima County who says Brewer mistakenly thinks the Medicaid position will make her more popular. "I believe she's in a bubble room wrapped with bubble wrap with cotton balls in her ears."
Critics like Bauserman are promising to push for a ballot initiative that could stretch the fight all the way to the November 2014 elections and put the brakes on expansion until at least 2015. That would mean the state would lose out on the roughly $1.5 billion of federal Medicaid funds that would be available next year.
The second-term governor said her stance on Medicaid doesn't mean she's changed her mind about Obamacare. Her website still calls it "an assault on States' rights and individual liberty." But she explained, "Our Medicaid program was here long before Obama health care."
She also said that Medicaid-related questions have been on the ballot in the state twice — and voters supported expansion of the state's relatively generous program both times. Parts were later frozen because money ran short, but those federal dollars under expansion would reopen enrollment.
Many on the right have been apoplectic. National Review in a recent editorial described her push as "economic illiteracy" and a misguided "tantrum." Republican analysts says she's been seduced by the promise of billions of federal dollars to support Medicaid expansion or that she's caved to the powerful hospital lobby.


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Interview- Pull out the To-Do list: Drive-By Truckers play two nights at the Jeff
Despite their improbable fairy-tale rise to prominence, Drive-By Truckers are now arguably the South's preeminent alt-country rockers. Fueled by booze and buzz over their character-driven, lyrically-provoking albums, the Athens, Georgia-based band balances Southern charm with backwoods rowdiness, poignantly nostalgic imagery, and a rousing three-guitar approach to country rock.
"We respect our audiences– times are hard, and it amazed me last year, with the horrendous downturn in the economy, that we had packed houses for most shows," frontman Patterson Hood says. "We don't take that for granted. It's a cliche that every show counts, but it does."
Following in the footsteps of former Trucker Jason Isbell, who was the first act at the heavily anticipated re-opening of the renovated theater, the Truckers play two nights at the Jefferson Theater this week. Material from The Big To-Do, their upcoming and substantially more rock-and-roll oriented new album, should keep things plenty loud.
The Hook: How has the live show evolved since your first live album?
Patterson Hood: The material off the first two records were largely acoustic at the time and when we hit the road, we pretty much thrashed the hell out of those songs.
The Hook: Was there ever a time when you weren't comfortable on stage?
PH: Not really, it's more trying to find out how to be comfortable the rest of the time.
The Hook: Did the recording of The Big To-Do go smoothly?
PH: We went in to record an album and basically recorded two. We were making a pretty concise rock record and even had the title before–- but then we had a bunch of songs that were the polar opposite: swampy, moody, spooky. We made two very different records.
The Hook: How would you say it's better than Brighter Than Creation's Dark?
PH: That last record was a breakthrough for us artistically. This time around it was probably more relaxed and fun just knowing we had more big rock songs.
The Hook: Before that album, you had an avalanche of songwriting–- 50 songs in six months. What happened this time around?
PH: A lot of it was written on the road, which was something we've never done before. Now that we have kids, when we come home and have distractions, it's hard to get anything done. As a writer, I had gotten burned out. It was a little scary.
The Hook: You often incorporate your personal life in your lyrics, and the result is often angry or distressing. How has having children influenced that?
PH: Having children has definitely made my writing take on an extra depth–- even though it has made the actual physical act of writing harder, because of time restraints or distractions, I think the songs I've written have profited from it. Having babies hasn't mellowed me out–- I'm as angry about things as much as I ever was–- this is just another reason to be mad about those things. I'm concerned about my well-being, my band's well-being, but now this baby has to grow up in this fucked-up world.
Drive-By Truckers play two nights at The Jefferson Theater–- Friday, February 26 & Saturday, February 27. David Barbe and The Quick Hooks open. The shows starts at 8 pm and tickets are $25.
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Congrats to C'Ville and The Truckers for selling out two nights at the Jefferson Theatre. Coupled with Lucero this past Saturday, it doesn't get much better than this if you're a fan of alt/country/punk/southern rock!
I hope they don't want to play in "Belmont" that would end there careers.


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An earlier version of this article had incorrect earnings per American depositary share for JinkoSolar. It has been corrected.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Chinese solar-panel maker JinkoSolar Holding Co. Ltd. reported earlier Monday earnings that were above Wall Street expectations, but shares fell as investors worried about the crisis in the Ukraine and the escalating conflict with Russia.
JinkoSolar JKS, +2.30% U.S.-listed shares declined 3.1%. The company said demand for its products had been higher and its expenses lower.
JinkoSolar reported fourth-quarter earnings of $27.1 million, or 24 cents a diluted share (equivalent to 96 cents per American depositary share as each ADS equals four ordinary shares.) Adjusted to exclude one-time items, it earned 32 cents per diluted share, or $1.28 an ADS. It was JinkoSolar's third-consecutive quarter of profits.
JinkoSolar has branched out from making solar panels to developing solar projects. It projected total solar-module shipments to be between 2.3 gigawatts and 2.5 gigawatts for this year, up from 1.77 gigawatts in total solar-module shipments in 2013.
Analysts at Roth Capital earlier this month selected JinkoSolar and Canadian Solar Inc. CSIQ, +0.80% as their top picks in the sector. Shares of both companies are trading at cheaper valuations than their peers despite the recent gains for solar stocks.
Canadian Solar shares declined 2.3% Monday. The company is scheduled to report fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday.
Analysts polled by FactSet expect the firm to report earnings of 49 cents a share, which would be a second consecutive quarter of profit for Canadian Solar. The company lost $2.43 a share in the fourth quarter of 2012.
Sales were seen at $511 million, compared to $295 million in the year-ago period.
Other solar companies bucked the downward trend on Monday, with shares of SunEdison Inc. US:SUNE up 2%. Solar-panel maker First Solar Inc. FSLR, +0.35% added 0.2%, while solar installer SolarCity Corp. SCTY, -3.12% declined 1.6%.
U.S. equity markets failed to gain traction from a better-than-expected manufacturing showing. The Institute for Supply Management said Monday its index rose to 53.2% from an eight-month low in January. U.S. manufacturers expanded at a faster clip even if the severe winter weather.
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