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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is exempting around 500 civilian sexual assault prevention personnel from this year's mandatory furloughs, a senior defense official told POLITICO, in a bid to show the Pentagon is serious about cracking down on sexual assault in the ranks.
Hagel is expected to make the announcement on Wednesday.
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His move comes after a rash of arrests and investigations into service members accused of sexual misconduct and a summit of top military leaders at the White House last week, when President Barack Obama called the problem "dangerous to our national security."
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Hagel has ordered most of the department's 800,000 civilian workers to take 11 days off this summer to help offset budget cuts under sequestration. But eager to demonstrate his resolve to tackle the assaults problem, Hagel is set to tell his top sexual assault prevention workers that they'll continue working full time.
Hagel is now holding weekly meetings at the Pentagon on sexual assault prevention, and he was scheduled to meet with Obama on Tuesday. Earlier, he met first thing Monday morning with top advisers on the topic, aides said. He also ordered a "climate inspection" of military installations for any inappropriate or offensive material and the retraining and rescreening of all sexual assault prevention workers.
Although advocates have long pushed for more action to eliminate military sexual assault, a string of recent stories has brought it under Washington's magnifying glass. Last week, defense officials revealed that a soldier who worked as a sexual assault response coordinator at Fort Hood in Texas was under investigation for pandering and sexual assault. That was after an officer in charge of the Air Force's sexual assault prevention program was charged with sexual battery after allegedly groping a woman in an Arlington, Va., parking lot earlier this month.
Also last week, the manager of the sexual assault response program at Fort Campbell, Ky., was arrested in a domestic dispute and removed from his post. And on Tuesday, the Army suspended the commander of one of its main training centers amid allegations of adultery and "a physical altercation," the service said.
The Pentagon estimates that 26,000 sexual assaults took place in 2012, up from 19,000 in 2010, though defense officials also say one reason for the increase is that more victims are coming forward.


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One of the biggest dangers a motorist faces is a tire blowout — and it's magnified whenever you're towing another vehicle or a trailer. Since many tire failures are caused by low air pressure, knowing beforehand when a tire is losing air can eliminate this potential catastrophe. At the very least, it can save a driver money because under-inflated tires wear prematurely.
The nVISION tire-pressure monitoring system (TPMS) from Hopkins Manufacturing Corp. is the first TPMS made specifically for RVers. With its patent pending 4-memory position settings, this system allows users to monitor the exact number and configuration of tires that correspond to the vehicle they are driving and/or towing. The memory positions can be recalled at the touch of a button, eliminating the need to reprogram each time a different vehicle and/or towed vehicle is driven. The nVISION TPMS allows drivers to check their tire pressures right from the driver's seat. Installation is quick and easy; sensors simply attach to the tire valve stems and continuously send tire pressure readings to the monitor located on the dash. The 2-level warning system (12.5% low and 25% low) warns drivers with both visual and audible alerts when tires become low.
The base system includes one monitor with non-skid pad and 4 tire sensors. Additional sensors are sold in 2-packs so that users can monitor all tires on driven and towed vehicles as well as spare tires; the system will track up to 24 tires simultaneously. The monitor is also portable, wireless and travels with drivers to whichever vehicle they are driving. nVISION TPMS works on all sizes of tires, up to 150 PSI. for more information, contact: Hopkins Manufacturing Corp., 428 Peyton, Emporia, KS 66801-1157, www.nvisionsafety.com.


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Joke Tweet Gets Man Arrested
from the funny-story dept
Joke tweets: the ones that land people in jail or under arrest typically aren't all that funny, usually aren't all that offensive or believable, and too often result in a massive overreaction that is more about emotions and cover-your-ass than about anything remotely resembling justice. From obviously not-serious jokes about blowing up an airport simply for being closed to obviously over-the-top sarcasm about the state of one's own mind, there's simply no reason why we must criminalize humor that deals with serious topics. Just because a joke is in bad taste, or isn't particularly funny, shouldn't make it illegal. Otherwise, the entire concept of comedy breaks down completely, where any topic of a joke can simply claim offense and have
me the comedian arrested.
Yet it's happened again. Over in the UK, a 19-year-old man made a mildly offensive and mildly funny joke in the wake of a garbage truck driving over a 100 people after the driver lost control. And he totally got arrested for it.
The tweet said: "So a bin lorry has apparently driven in 100 people in Glasgow eh, probably the most trash it's picked up in one day".Tasteless? Meh, I guess. Funny? Eh, perhaps a tiny bit. Criminal? Oh, possibly, according to the Northumbria Police, who informed the media that the young man, Ross Loraine, was being sought on suspicion of making a malicious communication. Loraine has since made bail and is presumably shaking his head vigorously at how silly this all is.
See, the problem with magically using the law to make something "offensive" into something "malicious" is that there are no literal limits on something so subjective. Suddenly you have the Danish cartoons situation on your hands, except that the self-censorship results from the actions of a state willing to be offended on behalf of its citizens. So much so, in fact, as to allow that state to levy criminal complaints against people for thinking some stuff is funny when other people don't. The lever that puts this insane machine into action appears to simply be "offense taken", which puts any semblance of free speech, not to mention humor, at grave risk.
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G-R 7th Grade Boys Basketball-"Rebels Defeated by Cobras"-by Coach Buskohl
December 13, 2013
The Rebels hosted the Cobras of BCLUW on December 5, 2013 for the home opener. At our home games all players are introduced and the National Anthem is played. The first quarter was very competitive as the defense saw the score with a 3-2 lead for the Cobras. Second quarter play saw an increase in offense as both teams scored 6 points as the Rebels trailed 9-8 at half time. Starting the third quarter the Rebels were aggressive on defense only to have the fouls add up sending the Cobras to the free throw line. End of the third quarter saw the Rebels with a 18-12 defecit. The final stanza was evenly played as both teams were working on early season fundamentals and playing time experience. The Rebels improved from their first game but fell to the Cobras 22-15. The following rebels scored: *Colton Clark - 2 points *Tyson Creswell - 2 points *Ethan Beach - 9 points *Jackson Kiburis - 2 points.
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Take Three: Series 3 Wrap-up
Craig here with a wrap-up entry for the third and final run of 'Take Three', The Film Experience series that looked at three notable performances from a supporting or character actor's career. Click on the actors' names for their respective Takes.
It's perhaps fitting that last week's Take Three featured Brad Dourif as, when the idea for the series was first mooted, Dourif was the first actor who entered my mind. It's odd perhaps that I left him so long, but I'm glad he was included in the end. I was also glad to include a quintet of actors – bigger names, well versed in veering between lead and character actor roles – who have vast and interesting careers under their belts: Christopher Walken (one of Seven Psychopaths due in cinemas soon), John Hurt, Tommy Lee Jones (currently sexing it up with Streep in Hope Springs), Danny DeVito and Chris Cooper. Series 3 started off with one of today's best, Melissa Leo (receiving acclaim this week for her role as Francine); she was closely followed by another, Anne Heche.
Actors who did a lot of great work during the '80s and '90s and still continue to add class and/or grit to cinema now, albeit in perhaps more peripheral parts, got some 'Take Three' love this series: the always watchable Vincent D'Onofrio was a joy to write about; ditto Michael Rooker. Both Rosanna Arquette and Alfre Woodard have their many admirers, and rightly so; I hope their Takes were enjoyed by their respective fans. As with previous years' Takes on the likes of Isabella Rossellini and Harry Dean Stanton, my inclusion of some Lynch regulars continued: first Piper Laurie, then Grace Zabriskie (both of whom appeared in Twin Peaks) received well-deserved outings during this run. Classic horror and film noir female performances were also considered with entries on Barbara Steele and Ida Lupino, two of the finest character actors who worked most prominently between, respectively, the fifties and the seventies and the thirties to the seventies.
A range of some of the most essential contemporary supporting/character actors got the T3 treatment this time out, too. Two of today's best British actors, Samantha Morton (currently chatting up R-Pattz in a limo in Cosmopolis) and Toby Kebbell (who shared screen time with Morton in Control) were featured. Eva Mendes (presently transfixing Denis Lavant in a basement in Holy Motors) and the versatile French actor Cécile De France are both cementing their places as two of today's most alluring screen performers. Finally, it was a sheer pleasure to research and rewatch the three films for John C. Reilly's Takes – and, as with many of this series' actors with vast and varied careers, I wished I could have including at least six more Takes.
As a final note, I sincerely hope all Film Experience readers have enjoyed this and both previous Take Three series. It has been an absolute pleasure to write and I've enjoyed all the discussions and opinions in the comments section. Thanks for reading.
Although this is the last Take Three series, I may well be writing a new column next year. In the meantime, I'll be reporting for Nathaniel from the BFI London Film Festival in October and you can also follow me on Twitter – @DarkEyeSocket – or at my own site here. Related links: season 1 wrap-up entry here and season 2 wrap-up entry here. (Both contain all previous Take Threes between them.)
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Elk Cocktail
1/2 Prunelle Brandy. (1 1/2 oz mixture 1/2 Trimbach Kirsch, 1/2 Prune Syrup)
2 Dashes French Vermouth. (Dolin French Vermouth)
1/2 Dry Gin. (1 1/2 oz Beefeater Gin)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass. (Garnish with a prune.)
When I first made this I thought that "Prunelle" was a difficult to find liqueur made from Prune Plums.
So I decided I would approximate it by mixing prune syrup with eau-de-vie.
I thought of buying actual Prune brandy to mix with the Prune syrup, but figured might as well use the Kirsch I had instead. The oddest thing happened when I added the Kirsch to the Prune syrup. It gelatinized.
The texture of the cocktail ended up really weird, with cold gin and vermouth floating between gelatinized globules of kirsch flavored prune syrup. The flavors were good, but the whole thing was a little bit of unintentional molecular mixology.
Interestingly, it turns out that if there is enough pectin in a solution it will gelatinize when exposed to alcohol. Prunes, I've since discovered are unusually high in pectin.
(For more about pectin and it's potential mixological uses, check out this recent article by Darcy O'Neil over on Art of Drink: Fruit Pectin)
I've also discovered that I had a bit of confusion about "Prunelle". "Pruneaux" is a preserve made with plums and armagnac. "Prunetta" is an Italian liqueur made from prunes. "Prunelle" on the other hand is the french word for the fruit of the Blackthorn bush, otherwise known as Sloes. Prunelle is a liqueur made from those Sloes, as in "Sloe Gin". Except instead of Gin, the French use Neutral Spirits or Brandy to make this liqueur. So really a better solution to this Savoy cocktail would be something like 2/3 Sloe Gin, 1/3 Vodka, 1 teaspoon French Vermouth.
1 1/2 oz Lindesfarne Sloe Gin
3/4 oz Stillwater Vodka
1 teaspoon French Vermouth
Stir and strain into a cocktail glass.
Ooof, that isn't quite there. Without any sweetening the Lidesfarne Sloe Gin is quite bitter and tart.
Maybe reverse the proportions?
1 1/2 oz Stillwater Vodka
3/4 oz Lindesfarne Sloe Gin
1 teaspoon French Vermouth
Stir and strain into a cocktail glass.
Oof, that isn't very good at all. No Gin taste.
Ok, last chance:
3/4 oz Beefeater Gin
3/4 oz Stillwater Vodka
3/4 oz Lindesfarne Sloe Gin
1 teaspoon French Vermouth
Stir and strain into a cocktail glass.
Well OK, that is drinkable. I think it would probably be even better with the slightly sweeter Plymouth Sloe Gin. Or maybe a less funky vodka than the Stillwater. Not bad, though.
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the cocktails in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, Zed.


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I use a Mac as a gaming device with the help of Wineskin wrappers that allow PC games to run on Mac.
I've installed Oblivion through Wineskin. Oblivion works well on the highest possible setting on my early 2010 MacBook Pro 13" with an Nvidia 320M 256 MB graphics card. I've tried to install Skyrim, but even on the lowest settings, Skyrim look much worse than Oblivion did, it runs at 5 FPS, and has no sound whatsoever.
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As well as a requirement to enrich and entertain, the Tour de Yorkshire had a responsibility yesterday to restore a little faith in cycling.
The sport has suffered one of its most chastening weeks since its elevation to the mainstream in this country.
Allegations of sexist and discriminatory bullying by Shane Sutton, the top coach at British Cycling, was merely the tip of the iceberg.
On the eve of the second annual jaunt through the White Rose county came news of a British rider, Simon Yates, failing a drugs test.
Suddenly a sport that had enjoyed an uplifting renaissance was being dragged back into the dark old days of the not-so distant past.
Orica GreenEdge, Yates's Australian team, have accepted responsibility for the 23-year-old's positive test for terbutaline, which is used to relieve asthma symptoms. The team admitted an administrative error led to the medicine being given without the required therapeutic use exemption certificate.
Yates has not been suspended, but however far-reaching the ramifications, there was a greater sense of duty on the shoulders of cyclists and organisers on the start line in Beverley yesterday morning.
An obligation, almost, to prove that the sport can continue its crusade against drugs while retaining a brave face.
And for the thousands who lined the route, their faces chapped by the blast of unseasonably wintry showers, there seemed an extra determination to embrace the more positive elements of cycling.
For if nothing else, the Tour de Yorkshire is a tour de force for cycling, and so it proved once again, on a day of great cheer and, as ever, thrilling racing.
For the hundreds who lined the finish line in Settle, who saw the riders pass twice in a final lap of the market town, thoughts of failed drugs tests and bullying were likely the furthest thing from their minds.
This was a day to cherish, and how they did as spectators along Church Street smacked the hoardings with gusto to greet the bunch sprint, and a victory for Dylan Groenewegen as the sun finally emerged from behind leaden clouds.
The 22-year-old Dutchman, riding for Lotto NL-Jumbo, made his move 50m from the line, grabbing the inside barrier and holding off the challenge of Caleb Ewan, the rising star of world sprinting, and an Australian much fancied to take a stage here in Yorkshire.
"It was very good lead-out from my team," said Groenewegen. "It was perfect; the last corner I took the lead and I could hold it to the finish. I'm very happy with this win, it's very good for me and the team."
Earlier the rolling hills of the Yorkshire Dales had taken their toll on Sir Bradley Wiggins, the headline act, whose race was run some 50km from home.
Wiggins remains a box office draw, but the Tour will not suffer for his absence, not when his focus is clearly on the track and an Olympic swansong in the Rio velodrome. Wiggins posted an apology to fans via social media later in the evening, confirming where his priorities lie.
Local acclaim from a field of 10 Yorkshire riders that ranged from evergreen Rotherham racer Russ Downing to Danby's Frazer Clacherty – who at 18 was the youngest rider in the field – went to Pete Williams.
The 29-year-old, who was born in Southport but moved to Skipton to be closer to the cycling-friendly roads of north and west Yorkshire, put local knowledge to good use by taking the King of the Mountains classification.
He formed part of the early six-man break alongside Doncaster's Graham Briggs of JLT Condor.
That sextet were able to make greater headway out of Beverley due to a crash in the pack within the first kilometre, which saw tyres screech to a halt on a cattle grid, Katusha's Sven Erik Bystrom the biggest casualty as he was forced to withdraw.
By the time they had come to the 60km marker and the race for the King of the Mountains jersey, the break that had led the way through Market Weighton, Bubwith, Tadcaster and Wetherby had been reduced to three.
And it was Yorkshire's Williams, the King of the Mountains at last year's Tour of Britain, who raced through the funnel of fans to the top of Cote de Greenhow Hill, despite nearly falling off the bike when he missed his pedal.
"You've just got to get on with it and recover," said Williams, who was also named the day's most aggressive rider. "It was a bit of a cat and mouse up there, but it worked out all right.
"It was a tough day, it was cold and there was a headwind all day.
"But we've trained all winter around these parts so (yesterday) wasn't actually that bad."
Williams ploughed on alone through the idyllic villages of Grassington and Threshfield until he was caught by three further cyclists, one of whom was another Yorkshire rider in Josh Edmondson of Leeds, the one-time Sky rider rebuilding his career with NFTO ProCycling.
Eventually, they were swallowed up by the peloton near Gargrave, some 20km shy of the first loop of Settle.
Sky and Orica GreenEdge then began to flex their muscles on the front, and by the time the finish line honed into view up a narrow shoot through Settle, the men of the seven world tour teams in the race had taken charge.
"It was a fast old run-in," lamented Downing, 37, the former British champion whose attempts to get JLT Condor team-mate Chris Lawless into the sprint finish evaporated in a splintered bunch.
"The job was to try and look after Chris for the sprint, but we got a bit boxed in and lost each other so he had to start his sprint alone.
"I was just behind him. If I'd got in front of him maybe we could have got a top-five, who knows. We had Graham in the break early and we all rode well as a team."
Tom Stewart was Yorkshire's first home in 14th. The 26-year-old, of Madison Genesis, gets the chance to improve on that today on the second stage from Otley to his home town of Doncaster.


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An 8-year-old neutered male Greyhound was evaluated at the Tufts Animal Behavior Service for intermittent episodes of extreme anxiety. The first anxiety attack occurred in late October of 2008 and lasted for 3 days. Physical examination, CBC and serum biochemistry analysis performed by the referring veterinarian were within reference limits.
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Deletion length: 9847 bp
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more information in Documentation - Flanking regions
|Two-dimensional scatterplot showing the location of the selected deletion (red diamond) versus the full dataset (grey dots). Each point represents an mtDNA rearrangement with the 5' breakpoint on the x-axis and the 3' breakpoint on the y-axis.
Circular mtDNA plot specifying the location of the deleted region (black bar).
|Length distribution of the deleted region in the selected deletion (red bar) versus the full dataset (grey bars) .The cases were grouped 100-nt windows.
[ 2 ] Van Tuyle, G. C., et al., Multiple, large deletions in rat mitochondrial DNA: evidence for a major hot spot.Mutation Research. 1996. 349(1): p. 95-107.


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Trine 2 takes the first game's beloved triad and puts them into an all-new adventure filled with more action, more puzzles, and the introduction of online support for the series's popular cooperative 3-person gameplay.
Trine was a pretty game when Frozenbyte first launched the clever, side-scrolling fantasy puzzler in 2009. Trine 2 is even easier on the eyes, and the proof is in the digital pudding. Get a heaping spoonful of Trine 2's co-op mode in the new Gamescom trailer. Read More »
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Industry body Assocham has asked the government to remove the ban on foreign direct investment in retail e-commerce business.
Assocham Secretary General D.S Rawat has written to Telecom and IT Minister Kapil Sibal seeking his support in removing current restriction on Business-to-Consumer (B2C) e-commerce.
As per the present norms, e-commerce companies engaged in business-to-business trade, like selling materials or bulk products to business firms are allowed to infuse up to 100 per cent FDI in their company.
In December 2012, a leading Indian e-commerce firm had come under scanner of Enforcement Directorate for alleged violation of the present FDI norms.
Rawat said that estimated revenue from this sector is expected to be about $15 billion by 2015 and can lead to wider reach of farmers and other domestic product firms, helping them realise better value of their products.
Besides, consumers will have more choices even in the remotest locations of the country.
Rawat cited the example of China, which has allowed over 500 Chinese companies to export through global websites.
"It does not create conflict with small retailers and kirana shops," he said.
Rawat said that FDI permit in B2C e-commerce segment will attract investment in back-end infrastructure of companies in country which in turn will create multiple job opportunities.
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Sierra Leone: First Impressions
The weather always seems to affect the way I see locales. Our flight into Conakry, Guinea, was delayed about an hour as our big Air France jet from Paris circled, waiting for the rains to lift. The short (30 minutes) flight from Conakry to
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The Financial Times is out with its latest rankings of the world's business schools, with Harvard taking the top spot from Stanford.
As always, these rankings are somewhat idiosyncratic, Bloomberg Businessweek puts Chicago Booth in the top spot, and it barely makes the top 10 in the FT. Our rankings had Stanford at number one.
But of course, salary reigns supreme, and despite recent depressing news about MBA pay, grads from top schools are doing pretty well for themselves.
Here are the top 10 schools ranked by average salary, along with the increase in graduate's salaries from their pre-MBA days.
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Cisco LifeConnections Health Center in ATA Spotlight
Sharon Gibson, Cisco's Director of Business Transformation and Healthcare, told how Cisco developed its employee health center, LifeConnections, at a Monday morning ATA panel on "Retail and Employer-Based Healthcare Using Telemedicine."
Although telemedicine became an aspect of LifeConnections in September 2010, two years after the first LifeConnections center opened in San Jose, it's become a key part of the proposition. It helps the 80 domestic Cisco campuses feel they're getting benefits comparable to those delivered at headquarters. Overseas – particularly at the Cisco Bangalore campus, site of our second LifeConnections center, where roads and traffic pose a 24/7 challenge – telemedicine simply enables better patient access to health care.
Throughout the Cisco community, engaging employees is the prime goal for LifeConnections. The initial intent was to use health care to enhance employee productivity among a young workforce not always focused on the subject. Most health care discussions in the US revolve around cost-cutting and efficiency, which often means less access for patients, Cisco took the opposite view with LifeConnections – that more access, and more care opportunities, would lead to positive cost results going forward.
It's worked – and telemedicine is a key part of the equation. Insights Gibson shared at ATA:
- Screenings, events and provider enthusiasm are key to driving adoption over time.
- Different approaches suit different geographies. In Bangalore Cisco will soon have five satellite offices using telemedicine, all open 24 hours a day, six days a week.
- There's opportunity to deliver specialty care using telemedicine technology. Working with Stanford University, LifeConnections has just launched our first teledermatology clinic.
More larger organizations are getting into corporate health care with on-site clinics – you need about 1,000 employees to make it a good investment – but Cisco is proud to be blazing trails and and winning high employee satisfaction in the process.
There's evidence that others see lessons in LifeConnections. A co-panelist of Gibson's pointed out that US government employees who fall ill on duty overseas are often flown home or to regional health centers at great taxpayer expense and productivity loss. A telemedicine solution could mitigate much of that. "What you're doing at Cisco, Sharon," he said, "needs to be shared with the State Department and the Commerce Department."
It's good to hear Cisco's work is influencing others. Cisco, too, feels we have plenty to share about telemedicine.
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Nobody tells me anything any more.
Seems back in March a Company of Heroes movie was quietly announced by Sony. That movie, a direct-to-DVD thing that is actually tied to the famous PC strategy title (somehow), will be out on March 19.
It's got Tom Sizemore in it. And Neal "I was in Band of Brothers too you know" McDonough. And Jürgen Prochnow. Oh, and Vinnie Jones.
The plot's got something to do with Nazi scientists, and really, being a World War Two flick has nothing in common except the setting (what are they going to share, voice actors? Control schemes?), but it's got the Company of Heroes name and publishers THQ get a credit, so this goes in the books as an adaptation.
One that, by the looks of this trailer, I'm going to enjoy. In an "oh no it's so awful it's amazing" kind of way.


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MRI-Guided Brain Tumor Removal With Cortical Mapping
Children's intraoperative MRI system is the 1st and only system of its kind in a pediatric hospital
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Neurosurgery Webcast: Neurosurgeons at Children's Hospital Boston to perform MRI- guided brain tumor removal with cortical mapping on a 13-year-old during live Webcast
On Wednesday, Oct. 25, at 1:00 p.m. EDT, neurosurgeons at Children's Hospital Boston will remove a brain tumor employing functional mapping of the cortex on a 13-year-old pediatric patient during a live Webcast. Children's hosts three to four Webcasts annually to showcase its pioneering care and technology to specialists and referring physicians around the world, and to educate consumers on the latest and MORE...
Neurosurgery Webcast: Neurosurgeons at Children's Hospital Boston to perform MRI- guided brain tumor removal with cortical mapping on a 13-year-old during live Webcast
On Wednesday, Oct. 25, at 1:00 p.m. EDT, neurosurgeons at Children's Hospital Boston will remove a brain tumor employing functional mapping of the cortex on a 13-year-old pediatric patient during a live Webcast. Children's hosts three to four Webcasts annually to showcase its pioneering care and technology to specialists and referring physicians around the world, and to educate consumers on the latest and most innovative medical treatments available.
The Webcast will feature Children's intraoperative MRI system, known as the MR-OR, the first and only system of its kind at a pediatric hospital in the country. Developed by IMRIS, the iSPACE surgical imaging suite captures digital images through a unique, ceiling-mounted, movable MRI scanner that can be used to take high-resolution, real-time patient scans before, during and after a surgical procedure. This advanced technology allows surgeons to determine the extent of a tumor while the patient is undergoing surgery to ensure its accurate removal.
"Unlike other intraoperative MR machines, the mobile MRI lets surgeons use their usual metal surgical tools because the unit is moved into the shielded garage when surgeons are operating," says Joseph R. Madsen, MD, a neurosurgeon in the Department of Neurosurgery at Children's Hospital Boston and associate professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Madsen will operate on a patient with oligodendroglioma, a low-grade tumor arising from glial cells in the central nervous system. The tumor lies near motor and sensory areas of the brain, which will require electrocorticography and physiological tests to map the normal brain around the tumor before the surgery. Once the mapping has been completed, Dr. Madsen will then perform a microsurgical resection of the tumor.
Brain tumors are the most common solid tumors in children—approximately 1,800 are diagnosed in the United States each year. Today, more than half of all children diagnosed with a brain tumor will be cured of the disease. The most effective form of treatment is the surgical removal of all or part of the tumor without jeopardizing any of the brain's critical functions. In order to decide which areas of the tumor can safely be removed, neurosurgeons use the technique of brain mapping.
"The cutting edge of neurosurgery is to identify and remove as much of the undesirable pathologically damaging brain tissue without disturbing the functioning areas of the brain," says Dr. Madsen. "Through the use of physiological mapping and the MR-OR, we are able to achieve this and assure our patients the best possible surgical outcomes."
Dr. Madsen will be assisted by neurologist Frank H. Duffy, MD, radiologist Carolyn Robson, MB, ChB, and associate anesthesiologist-in-chief Mark A. Rockoff, MD. They will also serve as Webcast commentators, providing additional information about the procedure throughout the surgery.
Moderating the live broadcast will be neurosurgeon Mark R. Proctor, MD. Neurosurgeon-in-chief R. Michael Scott, MD, will introduce the Webcast and offer insight into pediatric brain tumors. Liliana C. Goumnerova, MD, and Mark Kieran, MD, PhD, the surgical and medical directors of the Brain Tumor Clinic, a collaborative program with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, will also be on-hand to discuss the neuro-oncological aspects of the procedure, while Craig D. McClain, MD, and Keith Ligon, MD, will comment on the anesthesia and neuropathology, respectively. An 11-year-old brain tumor patient, who recently underwent a similar procedure in the MR-OR, and his family will also answer questions during the Webcast.
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Founded in 1869 as a 20-bed hospital for children, Children's Hospital Boston today is the nation's leading pediatric medical center, the largest provider of health care to Massachusetts children, and the primary pediatric teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. In addition to 347 pediatric and adolescent inpatient beds and comprehensive outpatient programs, Children's houses the world's largest research enterprise based at a pediatric medical center, where its discoveries benefit both children and adults. More than 500 scientists, including eight members of the National Academy of Sciences, nine members of the Institute of Medicine and 11 members of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute comprise Children's research community. For more information about the hospital visit: http://www.childrenshospital.org/newsroom
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Serbian police arrested about 180 people in Belgrade last night as a protest against the arrest of alleged war criminal Ratko Mladic turned violent. But in a shift from the past, the eruption of violence has been more associated with young hotheads than any political motive.
Hooded young men smashed paving and low walls around the Serbian Parliament and hurled the chunks of rock at riot police and heavily armored gendarmes, who were out in force. Some 32 police and 11 civilians were injured, according to the Interior Ministry, but authorities quickly brought the rioting under control.
The unrest came at the end of a rally organized by the ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party (SRS), the country's largest opposition party, to protest the arrest and expected extradition of General Mladic, the former commander of the Bosnian Serb Army (VRS).
The demonstration was poorly attended by the standards of similar events in the past, including protests against the arrest of Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic in 2008. The disturbances afterward were also mild by comparison, partly because the SRS is weaker, after a split when some members founded a new, more moderate party.
Indeed, the mood on the streets of Belgrade since Mladic's arrest has generally been one of resignation among nationalists and relief among liberals, but most of all, of indifference. Particularly among the young, Serbia's economic problems and its drive for EU accession take precedence over the past.
"It's good that it's happened, he has to be responsible," said Dusan Petkov, a university student. "Only one person I know is going to the demonstration; it's mainly nationalists. Really, Mladic is the least of our troubles."
15 counts of war crimes
Mladic has been indicted on 15 counts of war crimes committed during the Bosnian War of 1992-1995. He is held responsible for ordering the Sarajevo Massacre, in which about 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed by VRS troops, as well as the 43-month siege of Sarajevo, in which 10,000 civilians perished.
The rally, sullen in mood but peaceful until the end, was attended by about 10,000 people, fewer than the organizers had hoped. Patriotic songs were broadcast over loudspeakers and party banners waved. Those attending ranged from disabled war veterans to teenagers in hooded tops.
One tall, moustachioed old man walked around holding aloft a paper plate with "Death to American and European Fascism and Hitlerism" written on one side and "Long Live Ratko Hero" on the reverse.
Many protesters wore badges depicting Mladic and Mr. Karadzic, and t-shirts with Serbian nationalist symbols were much in evidence. Speakers included SRS officials and Darko Mladic, the general's son, who earlier in the day had visited his father in jail.
The speeches focused on attacks on Serbia's Westward-leaning president, Boris Tadic, who was portrayed as a traitor, and on the legitimacy of the court in The Hague in which Mladic is likely to stand trial.
Familiar Serbian nationalist themes were also revisited, with repeated calls for the creation of a "Greater Serbia" including Kosovo, Montenegro, and parts of Bosnia and Croatia, and appeals to the memory of King Lazar, considered a Serbian martyr after his death at the battle of Kosovo Polje in 1389, when the Serbian Kingdom fought the invading Ottoman army.
"All our history from King Lazar will fly away to The Hague with Ratko Mladic," yelled actress Ivana Zigon, her voice cracking.
Hooligans tip the protest toward violence
Protesters started to drift slowly away after only an hour, and chanting from hooligans associated with Belgrade's largest soccer clubs – and showing little political interest – grew louder. "Knife, barbed wire, Srebrenica!"
Some let off flares and the riot police began to assemble a ring of steel around the demonstration. Speakers on stage appealed for calm as youths flicked up their hoods and pulled scarves over their faces and attempted to charge the police lines. A hymn praising the SRS leader Vojislav Seselj – himself on trial at The Hague for alleged war crimes – brought the rally to a formal end, by which point riot police were closing off roads around Parliament.
Hooded teenagers shouted "Come on! Come on!" as bottles and rocks were thrown. The rioters were well contained and order was quickly restored, with dozens of detained young men lined up face-down on the pavement outside Belgrade's historic Hotel Moscow.
The SRS quickly denied responsibility for the violence, and senior party official Dragan Todorovic suggested that the night would have been free of incident "had the state organs acted professionally, instead of in accordance with political interests," according to Serbian broadcaster B92.
Welcome closure
Sitting with a coffee in Kalenic, one of Belgrade's traditional taverns, Nemanja Kovacevic, a 27-year-old student of political science, suggested that the arrest of Mladic brings welcome closure not just to the postwar period, but to Yugoslavia's transition from communism, and signals a defeat for its old elite.
"It's over," he said. "It's the end of one of the darkest period in Serbia's history, and a blow for the lobby of rightwing politicians, war criminals, war profiteers, and academics who oppose a European future. Most of these people aren't nationalists, they are old communists who have switched sides. The JNA [Yugoslav National Army, of which Mladic was previously a senior officer] was a criminal communist army."
For Kovacevic, and many like him, Mladic is far from a hero, but a symptom of a country's sickness that they hope is now banished. "When I first saw his picture after the arrest," he says. "The first thing I thought of was the wire tying the victims' wrists in Srebrenica."


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Shopping online is not new and nothing could be more normal than ringing up your neighborhood pizzeria for a delivery of pizza. Foodpanda, a service that recently opened in Taipei, wants to put these two ideas together to provide a wide-ranging telephone or Internet food delivery service.
Foodpanda started up in April 2012 as an online restaurant listing service where customers can search for restaurants according to where they are and then order takeout. The listing can be filtered not just by area, but also by type of food, budget, availability of special offers, and payment method. Menus for many restaurants are available online, and orders can be placed by phone or online.
Sam Lang, vice president of Foodpanda Taiwan, said that this business model has been launched successfully in many western countries.
"We knew that this business model worked very well in other parts of the world. We know top competitors Seamless, Grubhub … We thought in Asia there was a need to do a similar business model, as there hasn't been any predominant player here yet."
Foodpanda originated in Singapore, where its headquarters are based, and was launched there and in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand simultaneous in January 2012. The company is expanding rapidly across the region, sometimes under a different name. Lang said: "We have already expanded to India, Columbia, Vietnam … we are in close on 40 countries now."
For Taiwan, the business model took a bit of tweaking to get right. Lang said that the company had originally targeted the expatriate community, but found that this offered only restricted opportunities.
"Taiwan simply does not have an expatriate community in the same way that Singapore or Hong Kong has," Lang said. This led Foodpanda to change tack and target major corporations with thousands of workers, all eager for a quick lunch delivered to their desk at a specific time.
Lang said that although the cost of a bento box, one of the most frequent orders for an office lunch, is not particularly high, orders can be large, catering to groups of office workers.
The appeal of Foodpanda is primarily that of convenience.
"You can have a whole bunch of fliers and name cards on your fridge, or you can have a single Web site. … And it can even provide you with options that you may not have thought of," Lang said.
A number of well-known expat-run operations including Carnegie's, Forkers, Coda and The Diner have been open to test driving Foodpanda's service. But local establishments, especially smaller outlets, have proved a bit more of a challenge for Lang and Foodpanda co-founder Ron Chan.
"Many of them would say, 'we are already doing very well, why do we need your service?'" Lang said, adding that they still have a really tough time signing up popular local joints.
"That's getting better, and some of these mom and pop shops have become some of our top vendors. This was a real surprise, and if you were to ask us this six, seven months ago, we would never have thought this."
Getting local vendors on board took a lot of leg work by Lang and Chan, who said that as a relatively small operation, they have been out in malls and shopping centers distributing fliers dressed up as a giant panda and on occasion acting as delivery boys.
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This procedure is done to return a broken bone to its proper alignment. An open fracture reduction involves cutting through the skin to realign the bones during an operation. Screws and a plate or external support frame may be needed to hold the fragments in place.
Reasons for Procedure
This procedure is used if the bone is in many pieces, is difficult to reduce, or wasn't reduced with a closed reduction.
Fracture reduction is done for the following reasons:
- So that the bone can heal properly and more quickly
- To decrease pain and prevent later deformity
- To regain use of the bone and limb
Possible Complications
Complications are rare, but no procedure is completely free of risk. If you are planning to have a fracture reduction, your doctor will review a list of possible complications, which may include:
- Nerve damage
- Infection
- Bleeding
- Fat particles from the bone marrow or blood clots from veins that may break loose and travel to the lungs
- Need for additional surgery if the bone does not heal properly
- Reaction to anesthesia
Factors that may increase the risk of complications include:
- Increased age
- Preexisting medical condition
- An open fracture—broken bone is sticking out of skin
- Diabetes
- Use of steroid medication
- Smoking
- Obesity
What to Expect
Prior to Procedure
Leading up to the procedure:
- Talk to your doctor about your medications. You may be asked to stop taking some medications up to 1 week before the procedure.
- You may need to take antibiotics, if advised by your doctor.
- If you are at home, arrange for a ride to and from the procedure. Also, arrange for help at home.
- Eat a light meal the night before. Do not eat or drink anything after midnight.
Your doctor may give you:
- General anesthesia —blocks pain and keeps you asleep through the surgery
- Local anesthesia—numbs the area; given as an injection (You may also be given a sedative.)
Description of the Procedure
A incision will be made in the skin covering the break. This is to expose the bone fragments. The bone fragments will be moved into their normal position. Screws, a plate with screws, or a rod may be used inside the body or an external frame fixed to the bone fragments may be used to hold the bones in place. The incision will be closed with stitches. The area will be protected with a splint or cast and dressings.
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Immediately After Procedure
Another x-ray will be ordered to make sure the bone is in the correct position.
How Long Will It Take?
This depends on the type and location of the fracture.
How Much Will It Hurt?
You will have pain after the procedure. Ask your doctor about medication to help with the pain.
Average Hospital Stay
0-3 days (depending on the severity of the injury and your recovery)
Post-procedure Care
Small bones usually heal in 3-6 weeks. Long bones will take more time. Your doctor may have you work with a physical therapist. Therapy can help you to regain normal function.
Be sure to follow your doctor's instructions.
Call Your Doctor
After you leave the hospital, contact your doctor if any of the following occurs:
- Severe or unusual pain that is not relieved by pain medication
- Signs of infection, including fever and chills
- Redness, swelling, increasing pain, excessive bleeding, or discharge from the incision site
- Cough, shortness of breath, or chest pain
- Numbness and/or tingling in the injured extremity
- Loss of movement in the fingers or toes of the injured arm or leg
- The cast feels too tight
- Burning or stinging sensations under the cast
- Redness of the skin around the cast
- Persistent itching under the cast
- Cracks or soft spots develop in the cast
- Chalky white, blue, or black discoloration of the fingers, toes, arm, or leg
If you think you have an emergency, call for emergency medical services right away.
American Orthopedic Society http://www.sportsmed.org
Ortho Info—American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons http://orthoinfo.aaos.org
Canadian Orthopaedic Association http://www.coa-aco.org
When it Hurts to Move—Canadian Orthopaedic Foundation http://whenithurtstomove.org
Setting broken bones. Cedars-Sinai website. Available at: http://www.cedars-sinai.edu/Patients/Programs-and-Services/Orthopaedic-Center/Treatment/Setting-Broken-Bones.aspx. Accessed August 30, 2017.
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The Faculty History Project documents faculty members who have been associated with the University of Michigan since 1837, and the history of the University's schools and colleges. This project is part of a larger effort to prepare resources for the University's bicentennial in 2017. Find out more.
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For The New Republic (AD, Joe Heroun) on a controversial book of which I wasn't aware, Amy Chua's 'Battle Hymn of the Tiger'. From what I gather, the book's a paean to an unapologetically overbearing style of parenting (predictably, the author learns sensitivity and empathy in the course of the narrative)
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Changing the World: One Business School Student, One NGO at a Time (REPORT)
(Video: The NYT's Nick Kristof, with Ahmad Ashkar-Hult GCC Chairman & Hult's Michelle Bergland announcing the 1st Hult Global Challenge at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting 2010/CGI)
(HN, 4/26/12) - In 2009, former Hult Business School graduate Ahmad Ashkar who had, prior to business school been an investment banker, asked his fellow MBA students a simple question - "Will you accept this challenge?"
In the intervening three years thousands of his peers answered the call - as did the Clinton Global Initiative, luminaries such as Grameen Bank Founder Muhammad Yunus, Unilever Chair Michael Treschow, and NGO's of the likes of Water.org, One Laptop Per Child, Habitat for Humanity International and SolarAid to name a few.
Today, the Hult GCC's annual case competition is the world's largest and most internationally acclaimed `solution finding' contest, utilizing a unique model of harvesting the vast opportunities of crowd sourcing; featuring thousands of students competing from over 100 countries for a $1 million prize and the chance to work with a prominent charity to solve a pressing global issue.
Ahmad's own AHA moment came as nhe was getting ready to graduate from the Hult Business School 3 years ago. Prior to school he'd been working as an investment banker in Islamic banking at a prominent financial institution, when the global markets took a turn for the worst.
As a Palestinian-American, Ahmad was 11 when his family first made it to the US. He says he was "inspired by little bits and nuggets, pieces of information of how the world was coming together and what he saw as the possibility to make the world a better place through social investment, as a way to do business."
In 2009, as he was just finishing at Hult, Chuck Kane (now the former President and COO of One Laptop Per Child-OLPC), visited Ashkar's class for a talk about, "Innovation and social innovation. I had never heard you could make money by doing good," says Ahmad.
"I thought I would go back to Islamic banking after business school. But, after I asked a question in the class, Chuck Kane said to me, `If I had more people like you guys working on our business problems in the education space, we'd be allot more efficient in how we do things'."
At that point, Ahmad was the elected representative of the Hult Business School `Student Action Club' and had wanted to start a real estate focus - but he found no one would do it with him.
So he turned `idea into opportunity' by partnering with Kane and OLPC in the early days offering, "Charles what if I was able to bring you our students to look at OLPC from a business perspective?"
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"I had a vision where I could make money by doing good, but, I knew that meant we needed also to be first to market with innovative solutions that honestly, target more than a billion people. To any business, that's huge," says Ahmad.
Ashkar enlisted the support of Hult Business School management - the school's 5 global campuses were a perfect place to start - convincing school management that Hult could become a Hub for social innovation. The idea `caught on like wildfire'; within 60 days the project had 100 different business schools committed to participating and engaging their students in the challenge.
"We developed a methodology of looking at the people at the bottom of the pyramid, the people we felt had no connection to the world as participants," he said.
In the first year the Hult GCC worked with OLPC on an education initiative - conducting the whole effort as a case challenge of its own; and without prize money.
The second year, (2010) when deciding to continue with the project, Ashkar revealed something extraordinary to Hult's board. He had empirical date from the competition to show the students who had entered were motivated by the mission of solving a global problem - even as the world economy continued to teeter.
The point? Future world business leaders can look at the world in a new way, and find innovative tools to withstand a crisis. If this was possible, think of what the bright minds of the world could do together, with smarts and heart. "Today's MBA's breed tomorrow's executives," says Ashkar.
"The Hult GCC is the fuel for the shift we feel is required in the marketplace. And our students are the financial spark of our generation."
Now three years old, the revolution which Ashkar, Hult, and the globally-local collective which includes the Clinton Global Initiative, OLPC, Habitat for Humanity, SolarAid, Water.org, along with thousands of future business leaders who will go on to build the world which they want - is exponentially growing. It's inspiration, and touch points number in the hundreds of thousands worldwide.
Ahmad says, "The lipstick items of the Hult Global Case Challenge - the million dollar prize - the well-known employers these students want to get in front of, these are draws. No doubt. But I've seen it time and again, students get hooked. I started my career thinking I was going to be a big banker. But now I think I can be a social entrepreneur."
He goes on, "In fact, I'd like to stop using the phrase social entrepreneurship and get to a place where we just call it, entrepreneurship."
The message to business is, there are - big - opportunities at the bottom of the pyramid. Ashkar advocates that business can benefit by realizing that the market can be maximized by focusing on new finance models, not maintaining `stale mindsets'.
For instance, winners from the first year, Carnegie Mellon, built a micro-commerce network that could turn the OLPC education device into a transactional platform for the children's parents; and use the laptop as a hotspot. (It's now being built into next edition OLPC devices.)
The second year of the competition the University of Cambridge Judge Business School worked to solve a Water.org challenge, and won with a new kind of water telecommunications subsidy project, working with mobile operators in Haiti, which turned a profit in the first year. The model is being considered for rollout in India next.
Unlike the previous two years, three NGO partners were selected in 2011 and announced at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in September, to benefit from Hult's GCC sourcing work; who then create their own case challenges for the students.
The demand to grow was heard from the students too. "In 2010 the contest became oversubscribed in the first ten days so making it three times as big seemed logical," says Ahmad. This year the challenge had 5000 worldwide participants, many working in teams.
Then, the race is on with local level and regional presentations taking place in Boston, San Francisco, Shanghai, Dubai, London - and winners chosen there, make the trip to New York City. This week sees the top teams present at the finale at The New York Public Library and both President Clinton and Grameen Bank Founder Muhammed Yunus will keynote, with NGO judges in attendance.
"We're looking for replicable solutions," says Ashkar. "If we can do more pilots, and move solutions out to suit a multitude of markets on a broad scale, we can exponentially make positive, disruptive change happen."
Case Study: One Laptop Per Child
Mission: "We aim to revolutionize the way to make education affordable for everyone by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop; designing hardware, content and software for collaborative, joyful, and self-empowered learning. Children are engaged in their own education, and learn, share, and create together. They become connected to each other, to the world and to a brighter future."
Challenge: Can OLPC get 10 million laptops to children in 5 years, drive the industry to make laptops more affordable, and improve education with its principles?
Five Questions for Chairman, CEO Rodrigo Arboleda Halaby
Why was it important for OLPC to partner with the Hult Global Case Challenge?
OLPC was already up and running, but I always think, we can be better. You need to keep your eyes open and be disruptive. OLPC is all about finding a solution. a new kind of thinking. What Nicholas Negroponte proposed with OLPC was to reduce to one-tenth the cost of a laptop, making it more accessible to the global marketplace for people who can't afford a $1000 device. Ours was - about $100. And was a symbolic example of how we can use innovative technology to do it. With our work, we are saying, "those that want to prevent and do something about poverty, please raise your hands and work with us. We want to bring the world into the 21st Century. "
Accomplishments already of OLPC:
Our `One-to-One' marketing campaign has been a win-win. The idea is `Give one, Get one'. Unfortunately, the IRS forbade us from going this route for more than 45 days if we were to preserve our non-profit status. Secondly, the shifting from instructionism - what we continue to do in the current educational system - into constructionism; this is at the hard core of our effort.
For many reasons, whether it's that people don't understand the technology, or they're unfamiliar with it - then, they discourage its implementation. We found we had to educate teachers too so they could understand why and how to use the technology and even the internet to their benefit in the educational setting; all to enhance a child's learning and growth.
We've created accessibility. Which helps to create better `social equality'. Not in-equality.
What we need now is to build our brand for greater impact for social good and shift our brand to include education and transformation. For creating software for kids, we are doing what IBM was doing 20 years ago: shift the emphasis from hardware into software and services. A complete ecosystem of learning-how-to-learn.
Biggest Challenges to reaching your goals there?
When Nicholas called me to help run OLPC, it was during the collapse of the economy 3 years ago. We had been students together at MIT in 1961; and lifelong friends. Throughout my career I've been in business development and suddenly, he felt a new business model was needed. I said you need to switch the cost model to a more sustainable one. Even charities and NGO's must be profitable to support themselves. It's outdated to be dependent totally on donations. We've done it by keeping our internal operating costs down so that most of our revenue goes towards our programs. But it's not enough to grow the program as fast as we'd like. There are lots of kids we could be impacting faster. We need to make the business happen, and we don't have many physical resources to do it. We need partners, and financial resources.
Private sector, public sector, and NGO collaboration is key. We need long-term dialogue, and government is very important to development. In Colombia we're creating a `trust' for social responsibility with local officials and community organizations as an example. This is a fantastic model.
How is the Hult Global Case Challenge Making a Difference for OLPC?
These kids have been working so hard at ideas for innovation and are a wonderful resource who are willing to work as brilliant advisors, for free! OLPC is about creating innovators of our own. We want to develop a global generation of young talent not constrained by any barriers. A generation of innovators, inventors, capable of generating patents. The Hult Global Case Challenge has almost been a learning laboratory for us, providing intellectual capital. All the business cases we have reviewed here have been fascinating and they break away from centuries of old ideas with refreshingly new and unconstrained ones.
Next Steps?
Our next steps will be to work with all of our students, winners and not winners, with emphasis on the winning team, at a meeting in May and sketch out details of the winning plan. 80% of our laptop sales have been in Latin America, but we are now embarking in large projects in Africa, India, Southeast Asia-Indonesia Thailand, the Philippines. The next 2-3 years we're focused on Africa: the most challenging and the most rewarding place, where we expect the most immense change. For instance, Rwanda is a delight - they want to become the Singapore of Africa by developing the brain of their children. South Africa - the power engine of Southern Africa, where we are commencing a large and important campaign. India is a continent in itself, I've been there 3 times in the last 6 months. In West Bengal there are 26 million children alone who could use our help.
The next Global Case challenge at Hult-is to create the true global brain trust of citizens. Even with our connectedness we still have disintegrated information and thought. We need to lead to action and social change, and develop intent in our culture. We must leave behind a platform of future growth for our children and grandchildren. By doing so, we can really help save the planet!
Case Study: Habitat For Humanity
Mission: "Through volunteer labor and donations of money and materials, Habitat builds and rehabilitates simple, decent houses alongside our homeowner partner families to provide affordable housing to those who lack adequate shelter. "
Challenge: Can HFHI find the right combination of partnerships, innovative business models, and scalable housing solutions to reach 50 million people (10 million homes) in ten years?
Five Questions for CEO Jonathan Reckford
Why was it important for HFHI to partner with the Hult Global Case Challenge?
The heart of our reason to do this really centers around our desire to do more and be better as an organization. In many ways Habitat has been a movement. We work to give people a decent place to live, and we've been notable at doing this. But the way we look at it we'll still never build as many houses as we want to or serve as many people as need it. Additionally, HFHI has a long and large student volunteer engagement program and we run a global collegiate spring program which young people love to work with. We embrace the chance to pilot new ideas with them.
Accomplishments already of HFHI:
We have to help people understand this better. Housing is about more than physical construction, it's about stability, and what we really see working with families is that what we do, also serves the soul and builds healthy communities.
Biggest Challenges to reaching your goals?
We have a very long waiting list of people wanting our homes. Yet, so many times, housing is left out of the things that people need when it comes to poverty programs. We almost saw housing written out of the 2015 Millennium Development Goals. We have to keep the link front and center. Education is important, health is important, but decent housing is key to breaking the cycle of poverty as we see it. Our biggest challenges to getting to where we want to go are land access, funding and access to finance.
Sadly the need is everywhere. 1.6 billion people around the world live in sub standard housing; a billion in urban slums with rapid growth across the world. In Latin America alone we have nearly a billion people living in slums where the population is expected to double over the next 20 years. 70% of urban housing in Sub Saharan Africa and the Caribbean is not in compliance with local regulations. We can't build decent housing fast enough. We need better quality and more quantity.
How is the Hult Global Case Challenge Making a Difference for HFHI?
I'll be a judge at the finals in New York. There are some really creative ideas we've seen already. And it's tough, housing is complicated. You have to know many sectors about how to accomplish housing - zoning, building, culture, etc. It involves complex social and business systems to get it done. Private, civil, governmental all has to work together. It takes bold idealism to think beyond all the hurdles and roadblocks to these changes. It's truly a global set of teams, incredibly diverse people and minds that will make a new model work.
Next Steps?
After we choose the winning student teams in NY, we'll next meet with them in May to hash through the details of the program together. We'll take all the best ideas we have and look at where they best align with our strategy and look for ways to pilot it out. From the standpoint of where we want to go with our beneficiaries, we've been looking at ideas such as creating a housing microfinance fund, since access to funding for homeowners is scarce everywhere today. Geographically, HFHI works in 80 countries now across Southeast Asia, East Asia, Sub Saharan Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Eurasia; and we see our strategic plan going deeper into our countries and not wider to more countries at this time.
Case Study: SolarAid
Mission: "Power to the people. Two of the biggest threats facing humanity today are climate change and global poverty. SolarAid helps to combat both by bringing clean, renewable power to the poorest people in the world."
Challenge: Can SunnyMoney get off-grid solar power and light to one million households in Africa by the end of 2013?
Five Questions for CEO Steve Andrews
Why was it important for SolarAid to partner with the Hult Global Case Challenge?
SolarAid was initially established in 2006 and we're still at a very early stage in our model. We haven't even begun to scratch the surface of where we can go and we have a huge amount to gain from the Hult students, it's been amazing.
Accomplishments already of SolarAid:
We realized that in Africa alone, where there are 1 billion people; 650 million people are not connected to the electric grid. Most of them use kerosene lamps - neither healthy or safe - to light their lives. Also, it's expensive; in Kenya for example people spend $75 a year buying kerosene oil. We felt we could catalyze the market and help bring light to people's lives by really embracing the opportunity of the market as a business, so that as we did this for social good, we could be sustainable for ourselves. That's the only way. So, we decided the greatest value we could offer were small portable solar lights, a most mobile idea which helps not just home life, but business life for thousands in Africa.
90% of what we do is executed through SunnyMoney. SolarAid runs SunnyMoney in Africa; we are a retailer of solar energy, and solar energy devices at deeply discounted rates. We sell lights from a whole array of companies. We have three levels of solar lights: an entry level study light, which retails for $8 US; then a range of lights $20-$40 which light up a room and often have the ability to charge a cell phone (which some people use to make money as their own business), and a slate of higher end models between $50-$100 which can light a whole home. By putting one light all day in the sun, you will get three nights of light.
Our customers have become active participants and using this model empowers them. They have demands of us about our service and our sales; it totally vests them with us and we work together.
Biggest Challenges to reaching your goals?
We set ourselves a goal of getting solar power and light to one million households by the end of 2013. Though in order to achieve that we need some real breakthroughs in our thinking. We have to keep going beyond the status quo to create bigger, better, bolder, faster, and cheaper - business - solutions so that we can do the most good. Hard obstacles include capital costs, issues of scaling, lack of credit for buyers, a low level of trust in the community, as well as the cost of advertising being ery difficult and access to the media is very challenging. The needs for such services are across the board geographically. We only work in Africa now but we're focused on growth in West Africa primarily; Nigeria is important to us.
How is the Hult Global Case Challenge Making a Difference for SolarAid?
I was a regional judge in Dubai and I fielded allot of questions from the teams. These students are fearless. Some of the stuff they've come up with or the contacts they are reaching out to on their own to make their plan case are incredible. They are motivated by the `doing' and the difference they can make. I really believe these students can bring us a radical `step change' solution that will totally deliver a million sales next year and leverage the other sectors in what we're doing.
Next Steps?
We'll meet again with the students in May and hope to work with them going forward. Our goal as a business over time is to become a Pan African brand and a successful company with a huge social dimension that is able to have a wider catalytic impact on the market for solar lights. We want to engage large companies in building our supply chain as a value chain. We have many more lights to sell!
Every time we sell a light it sits out in the community building a brand that we hope others will see and strive to move their life forward towards with solar. To that end, lights on credit is a program we're working on, and we've also been contacted by potential opportunities in Asia and South America, but that's down the road. We do want to be in 40 countries in Africa by the end of this decade and feel certain we can make an evolutionary change.
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My Baby Girl is Growing Up, Despite My Best EffortsErik Deckers
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Copyright 2009
Earlier this week, my wife sent me the text message from Hell, the text message every father dreads getting. The words no father of a daughter wants to hear or read.
"Your daughter has a boyfriend"
My reply was calm, well-reasoned, and rational.
Every father with a daughter reading these words is silently nodding and thinking, "there's nothing irrational about this." Every father who only has sons is snickering, thinking I'm overreacting.
To that, I have two responses: 1) Try to remember what it was like when you were a teenager, and you'll understand my concern, and 2) if your kid ever pokes his nose around here, I'll return it to him in a box.
I immediately called my wife.
"I blame you for this, you know," I said.
"How'd you leap to that conclusion?" she asked.
"I've been very clear on several things she is not allowed to do. Talking to boys or being in the same ZIP code as boys are a couple of them. Now you're just violating those rules willy-nilly, letting her be in public, or go to school."
My wife said some things that were meant to be reassuring, but since none of them included the phrase "heavily armed response," I wasn't really listening.
But my wife told our daughter that if she wanted to continue to see The Boy, she had to tell me herself. (I call him The Boy because I don't plan on learning his name. I don't anticipate him being around long enough for me to care.)
"I have to tell you something," my daughter said when I got home that evening.
"What's that?"
"Other people might call it 'going out,' but I call it 'hanging out.'"
"Call what hanging out? And what am I going to call it?"
"Well. . ." The pause was killing me. "Well, I've been 'hanging out' with a boy." She even said "hanging out" like there were actual quote marks around it.
I started pacing around the kitchen. Outwardly, I was very calm and rational. Inside, I was still continuing my text back to my wife.
I've been trying to mentally prepare myself for this for the last 12 years. Even when my daughter was one year old, we had family friends trying to set her up with their own one year old.
"Look, they're playing together. That's so cute. Wouldn't it be great if they got married?"
"No, they're clearly just playing in the same vicinity, not 'together.'" I was very protective of her even then. "She's not getting married to anyone, especially someone who still wears feety pajamas and sleeps with a night light."
My attitude has not changed, but apparently all the rules have. And yet nobody told me about this. Nobody warned me that I need to beware of young men taking an unhealthy (for them) interest in my baby girl. Nobody told me my daughter was going to be interested in boys when she hit her teen years.
Or maybe they were, and I just wasn't listening. I'm bad about that.
I'm sure there are those of you who think I should have been prepared for this for the last 12 years, that I should have known this would come one day.
I have been. I read "8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter" several times. I even created my One Simple Rule for Dating My Teenage Daughter.
It's "NO!"
But apparently, this rule was ignored — it's simple, it's clear and to the point, I don't see the problem with it — because now my little baby is "hanging out" with The Boy.
Now, we've been very clear on what our daughter is allowed to do. No being alone, no kissing, and no actual dating until she's 16. And I've already begun devising a plan to frame her for some heinous family crime that will allow me to ground her for 14 years, so I think I'm set there. But beyond that, I haven't done much mental preparing, which is why this took me by surprise.
Why is it that fathers are so overprotective of their daughters, yet don't worry the same way about their sons? Why do we look at these young men as threats to our own sanity and family cohesiveness?
Is it because it means we're getting older? That our daughters are old enough to look to another male, and not us, as their hero? Or that in a few short years, they're going to be leaving the house and starting their own families?
I'm not that worried about it though. My wife owns a Remington 11-87 shotgun, and I'm not afraid to let her use it.
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One question every self-described birder must grapple with is to twitch or not to twitch. Some of us love to chase down preposterous vagrants, while others eschew bird chasing for contemplation of standard local fare and seasonal specialties. I raise this perennial issue because I found myself twitching a rare ABA bird this weekend. Did you?
My ill-advised twitch was a run for the Long Island Ruffs recently spotted on the south shore. Corey and I staked out the location early in the morning and logged a lot of time waiting for either of them to show. Alas, they both kept their heads down until long after we'd left. So Corey returned the next day to bag one as his Best Bird of the Weekend. This is why I hate twitching! Denied a Ruff, I had to make to do with a very handsome, very obliging, very early Hooded Warbler at Oakland Lake in Queens. The bonus Donna sighting at the same location made the trip worth it!
How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. If you've blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.
44 Little Curlew flying in a V formation over our home heading north on migration. Bird species 321 for the year. 🙂
No frustrating twitching for me. Instead, I focused on birding rich, foothill rainforest near San Ramon, Costa Rica (which is almost like twitching anyways). Best bird was Blue and gold Tanager.
I'm torn between my first Barred Owl and my first Virginia Rail. Both were awesome!!!! You know it's a great weekend when there's more than one "best"!
Worm-eating warbler in Prospect Park. And sadly, I visited Oakland Lake and missed the Hooded.
My best birding "experience" of the weekend was rescuing and releasing an osprey that had gotten tangled in fishing line and had a hook through its foot……You can see pictures and video here…..http://www.flickriver.com/photos/bri1970/sets/……..Although it could have been very bad for the poor osprey, it turned out to be a happy ending 🙂
Our spring migrants are finally starting to trickle in (despite the continuing snow storms here in northern Wisconsin), and having a Fox Sparrow hanging around our feeders in the snow this weekend was a treat.
Western Wood Pewee at Hueco Tanks State Park & Historic Site, El Paso, TX.
One Black-capped Chickadee sitting in a tree by my front door instead of flitting madly about like they usually are!
Best Bird of the Weekend award goes to the Long-eared Owl that put up with stares from multiple birders and Earth Day cleanup do-gooders on Saturday. But by far the *coolest* sighting was one gregarious and confiding Redgannet who flew in to Chicago last night and was the best thing by far I found at Montrose this morning!
Had a first of the season female Painted Bunting at my feeders this weekend! Hopefully the male will make an appearance some time.
Our Saturday & Sunday were disgracefully cold but I was happy to see my first-of-the-year Spotted Sandpiper today and a bunch of Bonaparte's Gulls on Friday, both days being a part of my long weekend.
I rarely chase birds ( I guess that's twitching is it?) although I did rouse myself to see a Kirtlands Warbler a year ago. I'm more captivated by the moment than rarities or list-making.
More on the Spotted Sandpiper and the Bonaparte's Gulls at http://www.mybirdoftheday.ca
Birds were quite thin on the ground for me, this weekend, so there was no real contender for best bird. There was a definite WORST bird, though: the Western/glaucous-winged hybrid gull that vomited all over my balcony, Sunday morning. That was truly uncalled-for.
Ha, I don't wonder so much…I have been shooing that gull from my feeder for months. It is a big, messy bird, and it frightens the other birds away, and eats EVERYTHING. From its point of view, that gull has every reason to hate me; it doesn't understand why I'd put out food, then stop it from having more than a few bites at a time. I wouldn't mind so much, but my budget is not unlimited. I can't afford to feed it AND the mate it's recently started bringing around, all day long.
(Though, I doubt it has the capacity for the sort of malicious thought that would inspire it to vomit spitefully on my balcony. That was probably an accident.)
My best weekend bird was hearing the marvelous Yellow-billed Cuckoo. Went back the next day and it was still there. So awesome a sound and an early record, too.
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text: We've all enjoyed drooling over pictures of the U.S. men's swim team over the past few days, but if you care about the man behind the body, you must watch this clip of Ryan Lochte, which aired before his backstroke heat this morning. Some commenters have suggested that Lochte may be a more worthy lust object than Michael Phelps, and while there's no doubt that Ryan Lochte is both talented and beautiful, evidence has emerged which may influence your pick for favorite water boy. Can you still love a man who sports a diamond-studded grill? A guy who thinks he's "different" because he liked to throw rocks while all the other kids were playing tag? A man who considers himself an artist because he draws doodles of "rain going up" and fish that turn into comets? Be warned: these are the quandaries one must consider upon entering "The World According to Lochte."


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