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CNN's Ashleigh Banfield joined Executive Producers Alex Gibney and Brad Hebert and other special guests to discuss legal issues brought up in "Death Row Stories" in a special Google Hangout. For more, watch "Death Row Stories," a CNN Original Series. Follow us at facebook.com/cnn or Twitter @CNNorigSeries using #DeathRowStories
(CNN) -- What does the United States have in common with Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia? Answer: the death penalty.
Together, the four nations killed 82% of the world's confirmed executions that year, according to Amnesty International. The world's most populous nation, China, won't release its execution stats.
State-sanctioned killing is a divisive issue for many reasons, not the least of which is an imperfect justice system. At the latest count, 1,369 people have been executed in the U.S. since 1976 and 144 people on death row have been exonerated, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. New York Law School Professor Robert Blecker writes, society kills some of its criminals intentionally "because they deserve it."
This is a topic worth discussing. That's why we hosted a CNN Google Hangout video conversation about this issue with CNN's Ashleigh Banfield and top legal experts.
One of the most amazing death row stories we talked about during Wednesday's hangout surrounded a South Carolina man named Edward Lee Elmore. He was in line to be another death row statistic, although his lawyers say evidence pointed to his possible innocence.
In fact, two federal judges wrote in an appellate court opinion that there was "persuasive evidence" that South Carolina Law Enforcement Division agents in the case were "dishonest." The judges also wrote that the case bore further evidence of "police ineptitude and deceit."
When he was 23, Elmore -- a mentally disabled African-American handyman -- was arrested in the 1982 rape and murder of an elderly white widow in Greenwood, South Carolina.
Elmore had never been convicted before. He insisted all along he was innocent.
After an eight-day trial, it took jurors mere hours to find Elmore guilty and deliver a death sentence.
During the appeal process, Elmore sat on death row for years, wondering when his time would run out. It looked bleak for him until a group of lawyers took a very close look at the case.
Elmore's lawyers said it looked like evidence was planted that made Elmore look guilty. They also said it looked like evidence was hidden that could have helped Elmore.
In 2011, a federal appellate court vacated Elmore's conviction, saying his trial lawyer provided constitutionally ineffective assistance.
The next year, instead of waiting for the results of a new trial, Elmore took a prosecutor's offer to plead guilty, while being allowed -- as a judge put it -- to "maintain his innocence."
That's right. Elmore pleaded guilty to regain his freedom.
At 53, he would never get back the 30 years he spent in prison.
New York Times investigative journalist Raymond Bonner wrote that Elmore's case "raises nearly all the issues that shape debate about capital punishment: race, mental retardation, a jailhouse informant, DNA testing, bad defense lawyers, prosecutorial misconduct and a strong claim of innocence."
All of the facts will be laid out at 9 p.m. ET/PT Sunday during the premiere of CNN's Original Series, "Death Row Stories."
Top legal experts in our hangout included John H. Blume, one of Elmore's lawyers.
Hangout participants sent their questions to Blume as well as death row legal expert Robert Blecker and series Executive Producers Alex Gibney and Brad Hebert. Note: An earlier version of this article referred to an editorial that reported a miscalculated percentage of death row exonerations.

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Coyle Scores Golden Goal 11 Seconds Into Overtime
ST. MARY'S CITY, MD - Senior midfielder Patrick Coyle (Reisterstown, MD/Calvert Hall) scored the game-winning goal just 11 seconds into overtime as visiting #8 Washington College rallied from an 11-7 fourth quarter deficit to top host #20 St. Mary's (MD), 13-12, in overtime in a non-conference men's lacrosse contest at Seahawk Stadium on Tuesday afternoon. The Shoremen improve to 3-0 on the season, while the Seahawks fall to 2-2 on the year.
Coyle secured the groundball off the faceoff and went to goal and his shot beat Seahawks' goalie Joey Casey for the walk-off goal to complete the four-goal comeback for Washington as the Shoremen trailed 11-7 with 13:41 left in regulation.
Entering the fourth quarter up 10-7, St. Mary's scored 79 seconds into the fourth quarter when Matt Tarrant scored with Patrick Mull picking up the assist to make it 11-7. Senior attackman Bennett Cord (Gaithersburg, MD/Gaithersburg) scored his third goal of the game with 11:44 left in the game to cut the lead to 11-8 with junior attackman JD Campbell (Baltimore, MD/Mount St. Joseph) netting the assist. Cord tallied his fourth goal of the game with 9:21 remaining in the fourth with junior midfielder Hunter Nowicki (Baltimore, MD/Franklin) chalking up the helper to cut the lead to 11-9. Cord found sophomore midfielder Grant Hughes (Alexandria, VA / St. Stephen's & St. Agnes) with 6:52 remaining in the game to reduce the Seahawks' lead to 11-10. The Seahawks would take a 12-10 lead with 4:02 left in the contest when Will Lerch tallied his second goal of the second half unassisted. Campbell trimmed the lead to 12-11 with 2:47 to go on a Cord pass on a man-up score. Hughes evened the game at 12-12 with 2:11 remaining on a Nowicki pass. The Shoremen had four chances to score the go ahead goal in regulation, but Casey stopped two shots and two others went wide.
The Seahawks got onto the board first when Mull scored an unassisted goal 5:27 into the first quarter. The Shoremen tied it 56 seconds later when junior midfielder Kodie Englehart (Coronado, CA/Coronado) chalked up an unassisted goal to even the game at 1-1. Washington College took a 2-1 lead with 3:15 to go in the opening quarter when Coyle scored on a feed from freshman midfielder David McBrien (Bel Air, MD/Calvert Hall). The helper was McBrien's first collegiate assist.
Englehart opened up the scoring in the second quarter with 12:48 to go in the first half when he finished off a pass from Cord to put the visitors ahead 3-1. St. Mary's responded 47 ticks later when Nate Babcock netted an unassisted goal to cut the lead to 3-2. The Seahawks evened the game at 3-3 with 10:13 to go in the first half when Conor Jordan scored on a pass from Babcock. Mull put St. Mary's back in the lead with 8:05 left in the second with Jordan recording the assist at 4-3. Cord ended the Seahawks three-goal run with 5:23 left in the second on an unassisted tally to knot the game at 4-4. The Seahawks regained the lead at 5-4 with 3:48 to go in the quarter when Gordy Long scored with Taylor Cook netting the helper. Cook scored a man-up goal with 1:46 left in the second to lead 6-4. Cord trimmed the lead to 6-5 when he finished off a pass from Campbell with 31 seconds left in the half and that would be the score at halftime.
Cook opened up the scoring in the third quarter 2:53 in as he finished off a pass from Lerch to make it 7-5 for the hosts. The Shoremen trimmed the lead to 7-6 with 5:20 left in the third when Nowicki scored unassisted, but just 41 seconds later Jordan found Tarrant to restore the two-goal lead for St. Mary's at 8-6. The Seahawks made it 9-6 with 2:21 left in the third when Tim Perugini scored with Mull netting the assist. Lerch scored his second goal of the quarter 43 seconds later to put the hosts up 10-6. Nowicki got his second goal of the quarter with 29 seconds left to reduce the lead to 10-7.
Cord tied his career-high with seven points on four goals and three assists, while Nowicki had four points on two goals and two helpers and Campbell had three points on two assists and one goal. Coyle, Englehart and Hughes all had two goals each. In goal, junior goalie Ted DiSalvo (Boca Raton, FL/Spanish River) turned away seven shots. Sophomore midfielder/face-off specialist Michael Trapp (White Plains, NY/White Plains) and Nowicki both won a team-high six ground balls, while senior long-stick midfielder Jonny Poe (Coronado, CA/Coronado) had a game-topping four caused turnovers. Trapp won 13 face-offs in 23 tries.
Mull had a team-high four points on two goals and two assists, while Jordan had three points on two helpers and one goal. Cook, Lerch and Tarrant all netted two goals. In goal, Casey turned away 13 Washington shots. Albert Mitchell won a game-best 15 face-offs in 26 attempts and led all players with nine ground balls.
Washington held a 38-34 edge in shots, including 19-3 in the fourth quarter and overtime. The guests held a 26-19 advantage in shots on goal, including 12-2 in the last 15:11 of the game. The Shoremen were 1-for-2 in extra-man situations while the Seahawks were 1-for-3. The Seahawks won 15 of the game's 28 face-offs. WC was 10-for-13 in clears, while St. Mary's was 9-for-11. Both squads had 33 ground balls and 16 turnovers each in the ballgame. Washington had zero turnovers in the fourth quarter and overtime.
The Shoremen have won all 20 meetings between the two schools as the teams were meeting for the first time since a 10-3 victory on March 4, 2006.
The Shoremen return to action on Saturday afternoon versus visiting Delmarva rival Wesley. Opening face-off is scheduled for 1:00 p.m.


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The Posture of Tyrannosaurus rex: Why Do Student Views Lag Behind the Science?
PRI educators published in Journal of Geoscience Education:
"The posture of Tyrannosaurus rex: Why do student views lag behind the science?" will be published in a forthcoming issue of Journal of Geoscience Education. It was authored by Dr. Warren Allmon, Director, Paleontological Research Institution, and Hunter R. Rawlings III Professor of Paleontology, Dept. of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell University; Dr. Robert Ross, Associate Director for Outreach, Paleontological Research Institution and adjunct assistant professor in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell University; and Dr. Don Duggan-Haas, PRI education research associate.
This article states that despite updated knowledge regarding T. rex and its posture and basic body structure, young children and even college students interpret the creature as having a more upright stance, one that was regarded as correct in the 1960s and 1970s. This relates to the idea that children have preconceived notions of T. rex and other dinosaurs from a very early age, stemming from interactions with popular characters such as Barney the Purple Dinosaur and other items such as toys and clothes with a T. rex image that is more upright. These images stick with the individual, even after seeing correct representations, such as the ones in the Jurassic Park films.
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RIVERSIDE — Among the passengers on a charter bus involved in a fiery crash that killed 10 in Northern California were four students from the Alvord Unified School District in Riverside, officials confirmed today.
According to the school district, one student from La Sierra High School and three from Norte Vista High School were among 46 youths and chaperones aboard the bus.
One Alvord Unified student is unaccounted for, another was hospitalized with undisclosed injuries and two others were treated for minor injuries, according to published reports.
The collision happened about 5:30 p.m. Thursday on northbound Interstate 5 near Orland, in Glenn County, according to the California Highway Patrol.
A FedEx tractor-trailer crossed a highway center divider, clipped a car and slammed into the bus, which was en route to Humboldt State University in Arcata, just south of the Oregon state line.
The students were slated to spend a weekend at the campus as part of its spring Preview Plus event for incoming freshmen. All of the teenagers were from schools in Southern California, authorities said.
One of the students attended a school in the Riverside Unified School District last year, but had since transferred to Alvord, according to RUSD spokeswoman Jacquie Paul.
"It's a fluid situation, but as far as we know, we didn't have any students involved," Paul told City News Service.
Federal transportation officials had been called in to investigate the crash because it involved interstate commercial traffic.
FedEx, whose driver was killed, released a statement saying the company was "cooperating fully with authorities as they investigate."


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I know what a lot of yall are going to say before you even say it..."Stop hating!", "Dont make fun of a newborn" , "Let them live", "Anyone can make a beautiful baby with Beyonce" yada yada yada.
Man, f*ck all that.
America pulled the wool over our eyes with the whole moon landing thing but I will not let them insult my intelligence any further. As a matter of fact, If I didn't want to believe that Obama was president O.G super-ni**a, I might doubt the Bin Laden thing too. What? You expect me to believe that at a time when we couldn't even create email, iphones or solve domestic homelessness problems we were able to break the atmospheric barrier and land on an oxygen depleted planet? Have you ever heard of the words "photo shopped?"
Anyway, back to Blue Ivy Carter.
1.) If B was so pregnant why was this whole mystery of the baby bump coming and going always popping up. I aint never seen a pregnant heifer dancing and still looking trim, slim and light skinned. I seem to remember skinny pregnant lightskinned hoes looking like stick figures who swallowed meatballs and had sleep deprived raccoon eyes. Maybe being rich would've solved that last problem, but not the first. Also, noone ever questioned Mariah's pregnancy and she was like 48 years old...lol. You know why? Because she was actually pregnant.
We never saw Beyonce's boobs get bigger.
2.) The fu*king baby looks Chinese. Asian. Like the people who make that delicious pork fried rice and egg rolls. Kinda like beyonce walked into Wah Chun Chinese restaurant in the hood and said lemme get 4 wings fried hard, rice with no vegetables and a baby...but keep it on the low.
Tako: Lies....That baby look Mexican. That's all I'm gonna say about little Azul Ivy-Cezar Chavez Carter. I bet she can Box.
Wja3: Yall are gossiping like some basketball wives.
Show: Shaddddup. You're the only one who can name the basketball wives....well, you and C4. LOL.
C4: Guilty.
Back to the Beyonce Hate-a-thon....It's all love though, we just wish we were the one who could have endless sex with you and not get you pregnant...Oh, well, guess thats "Young" Hov's job. Lol.
So they baby looks Chinese and Beyonce was so Vain that she couldn't even allow the photographers to take a picture of her looking anything less than gorgeous. I mean at least sell this fake pregnancy ma! I've seen pregnant mothers in movies not look this spectacular...Actually, I'm sure someone mentioned it to her and she was like "Wait what? Oh hell no, I gotta look good... cause I'ma-a-Diva, Imma immma a-Diva."
Matter of fact, I dont think its a coincidence that she came out with the baby pics a week before the real queen of Woman-power anthems, Whitney Houston, kicked the bucket. Who knows, maybe she's gonna start jacking all Whitney's lines (No drug pun intended, its too soon) kinda like her husband did to the late, great B.I.G. Whitney Houston dies and Beyone comes strollin in with her little asian babydoll...assuming that is a real baby and not a dirty bomb. Guess Hov really taught her how to "watch the throne."
Tako:I'm sorry, did you lowkey just accuse beyonce of trying to off whitney?
Show: Hell, Ive never heard the baby cry...how do I know its real.
C4: You guys have lost your minds...officially.
3.) I know why Beyonce faked her pregnancy...it's because her husband is a big, black rapper. Now I don't say that to be offensive. If i wanted to be offensive, I'd show you this:
C4: LMFAOOOOOOOOO. I'm Done son!!
The reason I bring this up is because it highlights one of many problems we have as black men in society. Jay-Z, was born and raised in a culture of machismo where the "hardest" individuals prospered, got the girls and assumed bragging rights. Showing feelings, being affectionate, offering kinds words and gestures....those were all perceived as signs of weakness. Fortunately for Jay Z, he was able to thrive in this culture via his hustlers ambition and make a killing both in the crack game, and in the rap game which praises the well penned-misogynistic odes to street violence past. Unfortunately for Jay, he's not Peter Pan, meaning neverland disappeared with Michael Jackson and he does indeed have to become a grown-up.
What then happens in a culture of Machismo and smackin bi*ches on the booty, when you can no longer stake you claim as the "hardest" without a double dose of Viagra. Yup. I just went there. Jay Z is probably impotent and amidst a culture of nig*as waiting to say "Mannnn, Jay aint hittin that right" he wouldn't dare admit that he cant get his own wife pregnant. Risk the chuckles of colleagues and fans? Risk Beyone's chickenhead friends saying "you need to leave old limp di*k mongomery burns Hov and fu*k with Ray J?" Hell No. He's Jay fuc*ing Z. What does he do? He says, "Aiyo B...we aint adopting shit. You're gonna fake this pregnancy cause I'm the man."
She did it.
And that's why Hov's the man.
She did it.
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OAKLAND — Oakland and Alameda County officials are careening toward another nasty confrontation this week over a proposed lease extension for the Oakland A's that would lower the team's annual rent by about 20 percent.
The City Council late Tuesday ordered its four members on the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Joint Powers Authority to reject the deal at a meeting scheduled for Thursday. Instead the city will release its own proposed lease extension addressing several of the council's concerns, including reduced rent payments for the A's, Councilman Larry Reid said.
The county's four representatives on the eight-member board support the deal already worked out with the A's that could keep the team in Oakland through the 2024 season. The Coliseum Authority released the proposed agreement Tuesday.
The inevitable deadlock will come less than one week after the city's representatives on the Coliseum board didn't show up for a vote on the lease deal, triggering angry rebukes from county leaders.
On Tuesday, Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley, who chairs the Coliseum board, said he had no plans to cancel this week's meeting and avoid another public dust up that could be seized on by critics of keeping the team in Oakland.
"Right now we've got a deal that we want to vote up or down," he said. "I don't see why we should be held hostage to the city."
Reid, who also sits on the Coliseum board, said Miley and Supervisor Scott Haggerty were trying to pressure council members into accepting a deal council thought favored the A's.
"We will present what the council thinks is a much better lease agreement that is in the interests of the City of Oakland and the County of Alameda," Reid said.
A's owner Lew Wolff, who signed off on the proposed lease extension, did not return a phone call.
The proposed agreement includes a clause that the team will "engage in good faith discussions" on a new ballpark at the sprawling Coliseum complex in East Oakland that is jointly owned by the city and county.
However, should the A's choose to terminate the deal early and move to San Jose, their maximum exit fee would be $7.75 million — less than the annual salaries of three A's players.
With the A's stymied in their attempt to move to San Jose, Oakland leaders have pushed for better lease terms, fearful that they will lose leverage once a long-term lease extension is signed. Both the council and the Alameda County Board of Supervisors must ratify any lease deal at the jointly owned Coliseum complex.
The current proposal would forgive the A's more than $5 million that the team has deducted from past rent payments to offset a city parking tax. The dispute had been scheduled to go before an arbitrator. Instead, the money is expected to go toward a $10 million scoreboard that the A's would purchase. Future parking tax funds would be collected by the team and delivered to the city.
The lease allows the Coliseum Authority to terminate the lease should the Oakland Raiders and developers strike a deal to build a new football stadium on the Coliseum site. The A's would get two-year's notice before having to vacate.
The A's also can break the lease starting in 2018. The team would then have to pay the remaining lease payments.
Under the current two-year lease, which is scheduled to expire after the 2015 season, the A's pay $1.5 million in rent and a $250,000 fee to control concession rights for their games and other events at the Coliseum.
The proposed agreement, which would supersede the current deal, would eliminate the concessions fee. Total payments by the team would remain at $1.75 million this year. But after that, rent would drop to $1.25 million in 2015; $1.5 million for 2016 through 2019; and $1.25 million through 2024.
Miley justified the rent reductions as part of a package that would improve Oakland's chances of keeping the team long-term.
"The important issue for me is that we gain the good will of the A's and Major League Baseball," he said. "Hopefully we can continue to work with them on keeping the A's here permanently."
Contact Matthew Artz at 510-208-6435.


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A black hole about 20,000 times as massive as the Sun may inhabit a star cluster indicated by the small circle on the outskirts of the galaxy ESO 243-49. The intermediate-mass black hole -- one of the few yet detected -- appears to be taking a bite out of an orbiting star about once every year, when the star comes closest to the black hole. The cluster could be the leftover core of a smaller galaxy that has been taken over by ESO 243-49. Intermediate-mass black holes, which are larger than those that form from the collapse of stars but smaller than those in the hearts of most galaxies, have been hypothesized, but only a few possible examples have been detected. The black hole is designated ESO 243-49 HLX-1, which indicates that it is the first "hyperluminous X-ray object" discovered in the galaxy. We have more details about ESO 243-49 HLX-1 in our Black Hole Encyclopedia. [NASA/ESA/S. Farrell (University of Sydney)]
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One of the last remnants of a dead galaxy — a medium-sized black hole — may be devouring a companion star, taking a bite when the star comes close every year or so. As the black hole swallows the stolen gas, it flares brightly, producing an outburst of X-rays that slowly fades — until the next bite.
The object is known as ESO 243-49 HLX-1. It orbits a large spiral galaxy that's almost 300 million light-years away.
HLX-1 was discovered in observations by an X-ray telescope in space. The X-rays suggested the object was a disk of superhot gas around a black hole. Follow-up observations allowed astronomers to measure the mass of the central black hole: about 20,000 times the mass of the Sun — one of only a handful of possible black holes of that size discovered so far.
HLX-1 brightens and fades roughly once a year. A possible explanation is that the disk of gas is fed by a star in a stretched-out orbit. When the star comes close, the black hole pulls gas from its surface. The gas funnels into the disk, creating a burst of X-rays. The black hole then swallows some of the gas, so the disk fades.
The black hole may be surrounded by a cluster of stars. That could mean that the whole group was originally the core of a small galaxy. The large galaxy it orbits today stripped away its outer regions — leaving a hungry black hole that's slowly eating one of the galaxy's few remaining stars.
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Studies in Dr. Feener's laboratory are currently aimed at characterizing the role of the plasma kallikrein-kinin system on diabetic vascular complications. A major focus of this work is on the identification of novel mechanisms of action of the plasma kallikrein system on vascular and neuronal tissues. Studies are also underway to further characterize the effects of plasma kallikrein and bradykinin on the pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy and stroke using animal and cell culture models.
In recent studies, Dr Feener's laboratory has utilized proteomics to characterize the human vitreous and identify protein changes associated with diabetic retinopathy. Studies initiated by this new proteomics information have revealed a novel role of erythrocyte carbonic anhydrase in the activation of intraocular plasma kallikrein and the induction retinal vascular permeability and retinal edema. The findings have suggested that retinal hemorrhage and impaired blood retinal barrier function may play an active (biochemical) role, mediated in part by plasma kallikrein-stimulated cascades, on diabetic retinopathy progression to diabetic macular edema. Moreover, these studies have also suggested novel potential therapeutic targets for the treatment of this disease, as well as for other retinal conditions that are associated with impaired blood retinal barrier function. Studies are currently investigating the effects of the plasma kallikrein system on retinal cell biology and on retinal physiology in rodent models of diabetes.
Dr Feener's laboratory is also investigating the effects of diabetes on cerebral hemorrhage and ischemia-induced edema and infarction. Although stroke is a leading cause of death and disability for people with diabetes, the mechanisms that may contribute to the adverse effects of diabetes on the cerebral vasculature remain poorly understood. Studies are ongoing to characterize the role of plasma kallikrein on vascular permeability, edema, and hematoma expansion during stroke in the presence of high blood glucose. Studies are also underway to characterize the role of the plasma kallikrein system on vascular, glial, and neuron damage during stroke in diabetic rodent models.
Recent Publications:
Liu J, Gao B-B, Clermont AC, Blair P, Chilcote TJ, Sinha S, Flaumenhaft R, Feener EP. Hyperglycemia Induced Cerebral Hematoma Expansion is Mediated by Plasma Kallikrein. Nat Med. 2011 Jan 23. [Epub ahead of print].
Liu J, Gao B-B, Feener EP. Proteomic Identification of Novel Plasma Kallikrein Substrates in the Astrocyte Secretome. Transl. Stroke Res. 2010;1:276-286.
Feener EP. Plasma Kallikrein and Diabetic Macular Edema. Curr Diab Rep. 2010;10(4):270-5.
Phipps JA, Clermont AC, Sinha S, Chilcote TJ, Bursell S-E, Feener EP. Plasma kallikrein mediates angiotensin AT1 receptor stimulated retinal vascular permeability. Hypertension 2009 Feb;53(2):175-81
Phipps JA, Feener EP. The kallikrein-kinin system in diabetic retinopathy: Lessons for the kidney. Kidney Int., 2008;73(10):1114-9.
Gao BB, Chen X, Timothy N, Aiello LP, Feener EP. Characterization of the vitreous proteome in diabetes without diabetic retinopathy and diabetes with proliferative diabetic retinopathy. J Proteome Res 2008 Jun;7(6):2516-25.
Gao BB, Clermont A, Rook S, Fonda S, Srinivasan V, Wojtkowski M, Fujimoto JG, Avery RL, Arrigg PG, Bursell S-E, Aiello LP, Feener EP. Extracellular carbonic anhydrase mediates hemorrhagic retinal and cerebral vascular permeability through prekallikrein activation. Nature Medicine. 2007 Feb;13(2):181-8.
Dr. Feener is an Investigator in the Section on Vascular Cell Biology and Director of the Proteomics Core at Joslin and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He received his doctoral degree in Biochemistry from Boston University and postdoctoral training in the Section on Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Joslin.
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continued on to NCAA Championships where he placed 13th.
Big West All-Conference
Haag won the men's high jump title at the Big West Conference Championship by clearing 6'9"...Set a new personal best in the high jump with his mark of 6'10.25" and placing first at the All-Cal Challenge.
Big West All-Conference
Haag cleared a personal best of 6'8.25" (2.04m) in the high jump to earn an All-Conference finish at third place
High School
Competed in the Baseline League of the CIF-Southern Section...Was the highest point scorer on his team at League Championships...Finished third in the high jump at CIF in 2009 and advanced to the State Meet...Finished first at the 2009 Trabuco Hills high jump...Member of the third-place cross country team at the 2008 State Meet.
Majoring in Business and Economics...Loves all sports...Enjoys listening to metal music...Favorite movie genre is science fiction...Enjoys living by the beach and loves competing for the UCSB track and field team.
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High Jump- 2.17m (Big West Championships, 5/11/12)


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Nicole Brown Simpson (May 19, 1959 – June 12, 1994) was a former wife of professional football player O. J. Simpson.
Brown met O. J. Simpson in June 1977 while working as a waitress at a Beverly Hills nightclub, Daisy. Although he was still married to his first wife Marguerite, Simpson and Brown began dating. Simpson and Marguerite divorced in March 1980. Brown and Simpson were married on February 2, 1985, five years after his retirement from professional football. They had two children together, Sydney Brooke (born October 17, 1985) and Justin Ryan Simpson (born August 6, 1988). The marriage lasted seven years, during which Simpson pleaded no contest to spousal abuse in 1989. Brown filed for divorce in 1992 citing "irreconcilable differences".
In his hypothetical memoir If I Did It, Simpson describes Brown as having a dual personality-- one caring and another reflexively hostile. Simpson depicts Brown as often emotionally abusive and states that Brown would continuously argue with him, often over irrelevant and pointless things. Simpson also describes Brown as a habitual user of illegal drugs. Book ghostwriter/co-writer Pablo Fenjves later described Simpson's views as self-delusion.


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Erik Bakich, Head Coach, Michigan As a former personal trainer, the first thing you learned was that 70-80% of the results you get come from what you put in your body, not what you do to your body. That's why all of our players have an individualized nutrition program to help maximize their development.
Jim Schlossnagle, Head Coach, TCU There are so many things in the game of baseball that you can't control. One thing you CAN control that will have a direct influence on your performance is nutrition. There is literally no excuse to not eat properly. We demand that our players eat for performance and not for pleasure.
Mike Gambino, Head Coach, Boston College I think good nutrition is one of the most important things athletes need to learn when they come to college. What you put into your body directly affects your energy and concentration during practice and games, as well as how your body recovers. Learning what and when to eat and how to stay properly hydrated, I believe, is paramount to the success of any athlete.
Turtle Thomas, Head Coach, FIU I think the most overlooked aspect of a college baseball player performing at a high level over the course of 56 plus games is nutrition and knowing how to take care of your body. The championship teams that I have been a part of optimized a great nutrition plan and were able to maintain a high level of performance on the field over the course of an entire season. The goal is to get better throughout the season and peak at the end of the year and properly fueling your body can be the difference.
Scott Berry, Head Coach, Southern Mississippi As coaches and athletes, we are always looking for ways to maximize our abilities and performance the right way. Over the past few years nutrition has become an important factor in many athletes at all levels. It's been proven what you eat has an impact both mentally and physically on how the body develops and performs from the first game to the end of the season. Like anything, to be good at something it requires discipline. Nutrition and what we eat requires the same discipline as perfecting a physical skill.
Scott Forbes, Assoc. Head Coach, North Carolina Taking care of your body through proper diet, exercise, and rest allows our players at UNC to stay strong throughout the grind of a long season, and helps players play at their peak performance. Big League Nutrition is the guide we use!
Scott Brown, Pitching Coach, Vanderbilt Nutrition along with sleep are two areas that most coaches do not pay close enough attention to when it comes to peak performance. The body has the ability to both recover and strengthen itself when it is fueled with the right nutrients and proper sleep is obtained. Your body is your temple and you have to be very aware of what is being put into it and how it is rested. These two areas are just as important as physical training and must be monitored in accordance to a specific training plan if maximum performance is going to be achieved. I think the real key component that both of these areas attribute success to is recovery for the elite athlete so that they can perform at a high level each time.
Brendan Dougherty, Asst. Coach, Western Kentucky Nutrition plays a vital role for elite level athletes, in any sport taking care of your body so that you can perform at the highest level for greater period is so important. We try to educate our players that what they are putting into there body will give them fuel to stay in the present moment and perform at there best when it is needed the most. Most college athletic programs have some type post workout shake for there athletes, it is when they are at home that they need to put the proper things into there body so they will receive the benefits from the workout they just had. It is difficult to monitor this and we all know that fast food right after practice or a workout is easier than going home and cooking a meal, but if we educate them on how to out properly they will have a better chance of sustaining the fuel to allow them to play at there best.
Garrett Quinn, Asst. Coach, Liberty Nutrition is the next frontier in achieving maximum performance for baseball players. The daily grind of practice, games, and strength and conditioning regimens makes it imperative for players of all ages to fuel their bodies with the right foods and supplements. Not only will a good diet help with performance on the field, but it will also allow players to get the most out of all their workouts while greatly enhancing the daily recovery process.
Rocky Colburn, Strength Coach, Alabama The Volkswagon Beetle can have mud, gunk and all kinds of trash poured in its engine and it will keep running, though not too well. The top-fuel dragster has to have its engine taken apart after each race, because one speck of dirt in the wrong place can cause it to blow-up. The same can be said of the difference between the average athlete and the elite athlete. The average athlete can keep running on pretty much anything, but the elite athlete must take great care in what he puts in his body or it will not stay healthy or function properly.
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Mr. Williams also serves on the Board of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association and is a past member of the Young Presidents Organization and Henry Ford Health System's board of trustees. He is also an active pilot with multiengine, instrument and seaplane ratings. Our board believes that Mr. Williams' executive and managerial experience combined with his leadership skills make him well qualified to serve as one of our directors. Will McGuire - President and CEO Mr. McGuire became a Board member in August 2015 when he joined Second Sight as President and CEO. Most recently he was with Volcano Corporation, where he was President of Americas Commercial since 2014 and prior to that, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Coronary Imaging, Systems and Program Management since 2013. Prior to that Mr. McGuire served as Vice President and General Manager of Patient Monitoring at Covidien. He previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of AtheroMed, Inc., a venture capital-backed peripheral atherectomy company, prior to which he was Chief Operating Officer at Spectranetics Corporation, a publicly-traded medical device company. In addition, Mr. McGuire held various positions at Guidant Corporation from 1998 to 2005 including General Manager of Guidant Latin America; Director of U.S. Marketing for Vascular Intervention (VI); Director of Global Marketing for VI; and, Production Manager for Coronary Stents. Prior to 1998, Mr. McGuire held positions in Finance and Production at IVAC Medical Systems. A graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Mr. McGuire received his M.B.A. from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. William J. Link, Director Mr. Link has been a member of our Board of Directors since 2003. Mr. Link is a co-founder and managing director of Versant Ventures, a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investing in healthcare companies, since its inception in 1999. Prior to co-founding Versant Ventures, Mr. Link was a general partner at Brentwood Venture Capital. In 1986 Mr. Link founded Chiron Vision, a subsidiary of Chiron Corporation specializing in ophthalmic surgical products. He served as chairman and CEO of Chiron Corporation until it was sold to Bausch and Lomb in 1997. In 1978, Mr. Link founded and served as President of American Medical Optics (AMO), a division of American Hospital Supply Corporation, which was sold to Allergan in 1986. From 2002 until 2009, Mr. Link also served on the Board of AMO's successor company, Advanced Medical Optics (AMO) which was acquired by Abbott in 2009. Mr. Link was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at the Indiana University School of Medicine from 1973 to 1976. Mr. Link received his BSc, MSc and Ph.D. from Purdue University. Our board has concluded that Mr. Link's senior executive history with a focus on medical products as well as his extensive financial and other experience with technology companies in general, including his experience of serving on other boards of directors make him a qualified and valued member of our board. Aaron Mendelsohn, Director Mr. Mendelsohn is a founder and has been a director of Second Sight since the company's inception. Mr. Mendelsohn joined the board of Advanced Bionics shortly after its founding in 1993, and served on the board until the company's sale in 2004. Mr. Mendelsohn was also a founder and director of MRG from its inception in 1998 until its sale in 2001 to Medtronic, Inc. Mr. Mendelsohn has served on the board of directors for the Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California since its inception in 1998, and is a member of its Executive Committee. 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Al probably doesn't feel too bad about a late night food rummage; he was V.P. to a man whose second hobby was jogging to McD's (You can probably guess what the other hobby was. )
I haven't seen "An Inconvenient Truth" but I can imagine that it does the usual job of demonizing large corporations, thus unintentionally allowing the average citizen to shirk his or her responsibility for change. If you've ever watched "Super Size Me" or "Roger and Me," you know what I mean. The filmmaker portrays corporations (Fast food and Car Makers, respectively) as so evil and so powerful, that instead of feeling outrage, people come out saying there's no hope to do anything about it. As a result, instead of making small changes in their lifestyle to make any difference, they are basically unaffected.
Maybe Al is just like others seeing his film... he saw it, felt passionately that the companies were wrong and went in search of a snack knowing that what he did was nothing compared to the 'evils' perpetrated by Big Business.


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Friendly skies: Making calls to the cosmos
Lisette Larkins has been communicating with extraterrestrials since 1987. The good news, she says, is that they're not out to dominate or destroy us. On the contrary, they are available for counseling and mentoring the human race, with the goal of saving us from our bad selves.
"Scientists have proved that there are billions of galaxies, and while I've met only a small portion of the life there, I'm confident that 99 percent are evolved and enlightened and peaceful," Larkins says.
People who recount tales of alien abduction and terror are probably misinterpreting the motives of their "captors," she says. "We get what we expect. The soul does have expectations, but the mind is not always aware."
For that reason, Larkins advocates exercising your soul to have better expectations. It's one of 11 steps she lays out in her new book, Calling On Extraterrestrials, to provide us with a better cosmic calling card.
"The knowing of us is the gateway to the Universe!" claim the ET's whose conversations have been transcribed in the book.
But don't get visions of an intergalactic space portal-– these messengers are decidedly earthly in their spiritual dogma. In fact, they're essentially good Christians from way out of town. They refer to themselves as "brethren" and often speak in familiar parables. Larkin suggests that Jesus himself may well have been a shape-shifting extraterrestrial, as well as Gandhi and Buddha.
"I come from my own ability, vocabulary, and education, and, yes, I am limited by that vocabulary," she says, suggesting that if she were more left-brain, her alien friends might expose themselves to her as a supernova or other scientific phenomena.
Larkins travels internationally teaching people how to introduce themselves to paranormal guests, and she's prepared for skepticism and ridicule. Even among groups inclined to sympathize (like those who attend her seminars) Larkins says most people will wait till she's in the parking lot to approach her with personal questions.
Happily, she has found a welcoming environment in Charlottesville, where she has lived for a year, and particularly at her workplace, Hampton Roads Publishing. Even her other-worldly mentors congratulated her on landing the job of sales director at the alternative press; when she confided doubts about the market for her latest book, the ET's replied, "Hampton Roads has published many wonderful books that aren't necessarily embraced by mainstream America."
… but are perhaps lining bookshelves in galaxies beyond.
Lisette Larkins offers her seminar, "11 Steps to Inviting Your Own UFO Encounters" Friday, July 18, at the Quest Bookshop. 619 Main St. 7pm. 295-3377.


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The white-bearded Iranian zealot knows the power of theater. For more than half a century, Zabihollah Bakhshi has been front and center in nearly every revolutionary action or pro-regime rally.
In Iran, he's an institution, a political cheerleader and professional militant. His battle scars include multiple wounds received in the Iraq-Iran war. His enduring and high-profile persona is a useful tool for hard-liners in Iran. It's also a window into the total commitment that remains – in some quarters, at least – for the 1979 Islamic revolution.
"In war, propaganda and spirit are the most important things," says Haji Bakhshi, as he is known here. "If they tell me right now that we must go for a protest, I will take off these slippers and run bare-footed! Because it's our revolution. Because it's our country. A person who does not love his country, who does not love his nation, is not human."
Bakhshi is proud of his decades of activism, even to the point of killing, he says, in the name of national pride and religious conviction. He's also been a vigilante. A 1996 report by the New York-based Human Rights Watch, described Mr. Bakhshi as a "strong-arm leader" who took part in the "violent activities of groups of religious zealots" that "targeted government critics and free-thinkers of all kinds, burning property, beating individuals and disrupting gatherings."
Today, his focus is the threat from Washington, where the Bush administration has not ruled out military strikes to stop progress of Iran's nuclear programs.
"Let Mr. Bush know this ... if they attack, we shall attack them from land and sky," says Bakhshi. "When there are people like me – and 20 million other [volunteers] – who are ready to tie explosives to ourselves and go with fast-moving boats toward the American military ships, the people of the US do not like such a thing."
While certainly a vast overestimate of the number of suicide-ready devotees, Bakhshi's defiant worldview is not uncommon. It's rooted in Iran's history of victimization and "war stories" common to many devout Iranians.
Trusted by the regime, Bakhshi became active along the front lines of the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, driving a vehicle with large speakers to boost morale of the soldiers with nationalist and religious chants. A well-known photo shows Bakhshi racing with a blanket to put out flames engulfing his vehicle after it was hit with an Iraqi tank shell, killing Bakhshi's passengers.
"He played nationalist songs of honor and power, to make people feel better," says Ali Rajabi, the Iranian photographer to took the famous shot. He recalls feeling the heat of the burning car, but says that Bakhshi ignored it as he repeatedly rushed in to try to save his two passengers.
"They were men of action, not just men of words ... [who] sit far back from the front lines," recounts Mr. Rajabi. "Near the border, the Iraqis knew this car."
Portraits of those who died in the car – along with those of Bakhshi's son and brother lost in the war – hang today in Bakhshi's house, in what he calls the "room of love." But two days after that incident, Bakhshi was back at the front to disprove reports that he also had perished in the fire.
"The guys [Iranian soldiers] had lost their spirit.... Radio Baghdad had announced that they had killed Haji Bakhshi," he recalls. "I went to the other world," Bakhshi says he told Saddam Hussein, "and now I have come back to take you with me again!"
The septuagenarian greets a visitor to his farm in Karaj, 30 miles west of Tehran, wearing a cast on his left hand that is held in place with a sling made of the distinctive scarf of the Basiji militia, the ideological "volunteer" force formed after the revolution to fight Iraq in the 1980s.
Bakhshi broke his hand when he fell off his truck during a major Tehran rally to mark the 29th anniversary of the revolution last month. Security guards for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asked that his vehicle be moved, and the driver panicked and hit the brake hard, causing Bakhshi to tumble.
But the injured hand is only the latest "battle scar" in a life of defiance – and violence – that began during World War II. When he was just 9, he says, he saw a British military officer kill one of his friends. Incensed, the boy told his local ayatollah: "I am going to kill him."
Bakhshi figured out how he would avenge his friend after seeing American troops using dynamite to kill fish in the river. He dove in and threw the fish out to them, eventually making friends with the soldiers. After a month, he had won their trust enough to steal two sticks of dynamite – which he says he then stuck beneath the vehicle of the British officer.
The explosion killed two men, recounts Bakhshi, the first of many acts of violent resistance. He joined an underground Islamic group and spent a day in prison for riots surrounding a CIA-engineered coup in 1953. Years later, when he tried to deliver explosives to fellow loyalists of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the father of the 1979 revolution, Bakhshi found his car being chased in Tehran by agents of Shah Reza Pahlavi's SAVAK secret police.
Bakhshi got away, after throwing a brick of cash out the window, which created a swarm of people that slowed his SAVAK pursuers. "Who put this in my mind? God," says Bakhshi, relishing the story and its implication of divine protection.
He was protected again in 1987, he says, when he helped spark a pro-Khomeini riot during the hajj (pilgrimage) in Saudi Arabia. Pretending to be a blind beggar, Bakhshi illegally hid a flag under his clothes, and images of Khomeini in a canister meant to spray scented water. More than 400 died in the riot, including, a Saudi soldier he says he bludgeoned to death with chunks of concrete because soldiers "were killing people."
"They wanted to shoot me here in the head, but God made the bullet come here," says Bakhshi, pointing to the scar on his right thigh.
Violence in Iran has dissipated in recent years as hard-liners have taken control. But Bakhshi and militants like him still find plenty to get angry about. Bakhshi can be seen in photos of a violent protest outside the Denmark Embassy in Tehran in February 2006. The protest was against cartoons published in a Danish newspaper that were widely seen as an insult to Islam. Bakhshi can be seen with hands covered in blood, making prints on a wall.
"We won the [Iran-Iraq] war with faith and spirit, not weapons. I killed, captured [soldiers] and was active with the morale [boosting] thing," says Bakhshi.
"Nothing is more important than spirit in the field of war. Because if there is not spirit in the front line, everyone will retreat."


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Thelonious Monk (10 October 1917 – 17 February 1982) was a jazz pianist and composer.
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- I don't know where it's going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens.
- When questioned as to the future of jazz, as quoted in Jet magazine (31 March 1960), p. 30
- Interviewer: What other interests do you have?
Monk: Life in general.
- Interviewer: What do you do about it?
- Monk: Keep breathing.
- Interviewer: What do you think the purpose of life is?
- Monk: To die.
- All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.
- Interview in Down Beat magazine (28 October 1971)
- Monk enters the studio and starts playing, the rest of the musicians join him. After few minutes of play the technician from his room shouts and stops the band.]
Monk: "Why did we stop?"
Technician: "I thought you were rehearsing."
Monk: "Aren't we always?"
- Thelonious Monk Documentary DVD.
Quotes about Monk[edit]
- Working with Monk brought me close to a musical architect of the highest order. I felt I learned from him in every way — through the senses, theoretically, technically. I would talk to Monk about musical problems, and he would sit at the piano and show me the answers just by playing them. I could watch him play and find out the things I wanted to know. Also, I could see a lot of things that I didn't know about at all.
- Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
- John Coltrane, in "Coltrane on Coltrane" in Downbeat (29 September 1960)


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Atlanta Opera Announces Family Performances of STONE SOUP
The Atlanta Opera, one of the nation's finest regional opera companies enriching lives through the power of opera, continues its 2012-2013 Studio Tour with four family performances of the children's opera, Stone Soup. The performances, three open to the general public and one designated for Girl Scouts specifically, will take place in venues throughout Metro Atlanta.
Stone Soup is a 45-minute, light-hearted, operatic interpretation of the classic folk story about a community that comes together to feed a lost and lonely soldier. The story uses all kinds of food to make the most delicious stone soup, and celebrates community and diversity along the way.
"It's important to The Atlanta Opera to share the power of opera with all ages. By producing Stone Soup, we expose younger audiences to the art of opera while telling an important story about making something from nothing," said Emmalee Iden Hackshaw, director of community engagement at The Atlanta Opera. "These productions have a terrific moral - by working together, with everyone contributing what they can, a greater good is achieved. You're never too young to learn that."
The three family performances open to the general public will be on Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. at the Porter Sanford III Performing Arts & Community Center; Sunday, February 24, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. at Decatur High School; and Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. at the Southwest Arts Center. Admission is $7 per person for each family performance. Persons interested in purchasing tickets should call 404-881-8885 or visit atlantaopera.org.
The fourth performance is part of Girl Scouts Day at The Atlanta Opera and will be on Saturday, March 16, 2013 at 9:30 a.m. at The Atlanta Opera Center. Girl Scouts will participate in a workshop that includes an Atlanta Opera patch and also meets some requirements for Junior Girl Scout Badges and Brownie Try-It Badges. Admission is $10 per Girl Scout and $5 per adult. Girl Scouts interested in purchasing tickets should call 404-881-8883 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Stone Soup cast includes: Katherine Bowen as the Vegetable Girl, Lauren Wright as The Mayor, Jevares Myrick as the Solider, and Ivan Segovia as the Butcher. Stage direction is by Park Cofield, musical direction by Geoffrey Loff, scenic design by Michael Benedict, and costume design by Joanna Schmink. Stone Soup is composed by Daniel Dorff.
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Think tax day 2012 is bad? Just wait – tax day 2013 could be a real humdinger.
Not because of the taxes you'll be doing late into the night of Sunday, April 14, 2013. But because the tax situation for the next year may be a serious, unbridled mess.
Decoder certainly isn't minimizing this year's tax pain – what, the government can hire clowns and mind readers and here I am picking up the tab?
"That's what's making writing that check for taxpayers today so difficult and so painful," said Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R) of Utah on a call with reporters. "When they see the waste, fraud and abuse that happens at the GSA and other parts of government it's just so frustrating to the American people. And it should be."
But frustrating won't begin to describe taxpayer pain if almost half a trillion in tax hikes come into being on Jan. 1, 2013. Looming on the horizon are a raft of tax proposals that could blow up in taxpayers faces so immensely that Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue wrote sardonically in a Tuesday op-ed that "Tax Day is upon us – and you should enjoy it. Why? As painful as it may be to write this year's check to Uncle Sam, it could be the smallest check you'll write for years to come."
What's coming due at year's end? According to one analysis by a scholar at the conservative Heritage Foundation, nearly $500 billion in tax increases including the following:
- $165 billion from the expiration of the Bush tax cuts.
- $124 billion from the expiration of the Social Security payroll tax cut.
- $118 billion from a failure to patch the Alternative Minimum Tax
- Roughly $60 billion from various tax cuts expiring – including stimulus cuts, estate tax cuts, and favorable treatment for businesses that make big purchases.
- $20 billion from tax increases from President Obama's health-care reform law.
Holy smokes, right? No wonder members of Congress nearly always list heading off what Heritage calls "Taxageddon" as a principal concern. Add to that the fact that Congress has to deal with the budget-slashing sequester and the need to again raise the debt ceiling and December could be harrowing, indeed.
But while America talks tax turkey today, the chances of fixing the tax code between now and December are slim, says long-time Washington watcher Stan Collender of Qorvis Communications.
Mr. Collender points out that many expect Washington's best – and perhaps only – opportunity to legislate on tax issues will be the lame duck session between November and year's end. Between tax day and November, the argument goes, members of Congress will be too distracted by the national political election to make much headway on such tough issues.
That leaves the lame duck. And that's hardly an auspicious moment for many practical reasons.
While there are seven weeks on the calendar between Election Day and New Year's Eve, Collender says, that's really more like four weeks when you account for Christmas, Thanksgiving, and a one-week exhale after the election.
Lame duck sessions are "notoriously difficult" for legislating, Collender points out, as ousted or retiring members and their staff are looking for their next jobs and, eventually, losing their offices to incoming members.
"Some [exiting] members just stop voting, they go home, the leadership can't force them to do anything," Collender says. "What are you going to do, take away their committee assignments? It's difficult to count votes and difficult for leadership to maintain discipline."
Given a cloudy electoral situation – it's unlikely one party will sweep Congress and the White House – and the lame duck's limitations, where will taxpayers be at year's end? Collender thinks they'll be left largely in the lurch with short-term extension of current tax law – Bush tax cuts and payroll tax cut, live on! –before Congress returns in January to battle anew.
"Instead of the mother of all lame duck sessions it could be the mother of all disappointments," Collender says. Americans will be saying, " 'Curses! Foiled again!' and we go on for another six months."
See you next April.


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Let us learn Olunyala
|Language is the custodian of a people's cultural values. By learning the language of your ancestors you are not only helping to preserve your rich heritage, but also carving a niche for yourself in a world that continues to be crowded with each day that passes. Children born out of the tribal homeland often lose out on this vital aspect of cultural identity and it is to these young ones that this page is dedicated. If you can make a contribution on basic Olunyala language precepts, CLICK HERE to contact the editor. Brackets indicate variations in other Luhya tongues.


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The Minardi M191B chassis #003, equipped with a Lamborghini LE3512 V12 engine, roared back onto the track after 26 years of silence, driven by Lamborghini Factory Driver Mirko Bortolotti. The exciting shakedown organized by Squadra Corse was made possible thanks to the integral and meticulous restoration carried out by Polo Storico with the support of the same specialists involved in the Lamborghini F1 project in early 90s at the times of Lamborghini Engineering. This represents an exciting new challenge for Polo Storico, as this is the first single-seater to be restored by the House of the Raging Bull.
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Medicine & Healthcare in Ghana by Stephanie Watt
I can't believe that it has already been almost four months since I embarked on my three month adventure to Ghana! I was based in the village of Mamfe in the Akuapem Hills for three months, volunteering at the local hospital for one month and teaching at a school for two months.
My medical placement
My placement at the hospital was in the Maternity Ward. Nothing could have prepared me for what I was about to experience. At first I was a little overwhelmed being thrown right into things but after about a week I felt like I was a part of the hospital staff. Every morning I would accompany the ward nurses and doctors on their rounds and I was in charge of taking vital signs (temperature and blood pressure) from all of the pregnant women.
I found it really interesting to learn that most of the pregnant women who were patients in the Maternity Ward were there because of sickness (e.g. malaria, anemia, eclampsia, etc.) and not just to give birth to their babies. I also found it amazing that many of the Ghanaian women I saw give birth gave virtually no sign of being in pain unlike in the Western world where it is not uncommon to hear screams of pain during labour. In addition to taking vital signs, I witnessed numerous women give birth to beautiful babies, cut umbilical cords, washed newborn babies, and delivered the new babies to their mothers (my favourite part!).
A shocking experience I had in the Maternity Ward occurred in my third week in the hospital. It was a rather slow day in terms of births so I decided to take a walk around the ward to see if there was anything I could help the nurses with. I reached the end of the hall and looked into the Preparation Room (the room where women go when they're well into their labour) where there was one woman lying on a bed. I did a double take when I saw some movement on the bed. As I glanced back for the second time I noticed, to my astonishment, that the woman who was lying in the Preparation Room by herself had in fact already given birth to her baby on the bed, by herself. I ran to the nursing station to tell the nurses that the woman had given birth to her baby alone. The nurses didn't seem fazed by the occurrence and casually walked to the Preparation Room to attend to the newborn baby. I was baffled at the time but looking back it makes me wonder if there is possibly too much medical intervention with childbirth in the Western world.
My teaching placement
At my teaching placement I taught Maths, Science, and English to a class of eighteen children who were mostly from 8-10 years old. I couldn't believe how well behaved they were! On my first day of teaching I walked down the dirt road behind my host family's house to school with a few bags full of school supplies in each hand. The moment the children at the school saw me approaching they rushed over to me and carried all my bags to the classroom. They also quickly ran to the neighbouring church to get me a chair and ensured it was clean before I sat down.
I was amazed at their manners and eagerness. I was curious to see if the children's good behaviour would remain when I began teaching. Sure enough, when I started teaching the children were very attentive and eager to learn. Of course there was the odd day when some of the children acted up but for the most part they were great! I was astonished at how excited the children were to learn new things everyday and how much they enjoyed participating in class. It was a real joy to teach them and they taught me a lot about their culture as well.
No words can explain what a wonderful experience I had in Ghana. I would highly recommend volunteering in Ghana to anyone who is considering the opportunity. It truly opens your eyes to a different way of life and for me, has put a lot of things in my own life into perspective. Overall, a fabulous experience!
Stephanie Watt
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Best Digital Cameras for Beginners
There are a lot of different cameras out there, so when you are just getting started, it's hard to know where to start. Buying a camera with too many features can be confusing, but picking up a model that lacks the proper assets can be just as frustrating. Beginners should look for a camera that's easy to use but also has advanced features like manual modes, RAW capture and a large sensor. But, when you are just starting out, the budget is usually pretty low. Here are our recommendations to get a beginning photographer started off on the right foot.
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Pentax K-3 II
While Nikon and Canon are the most popular DSLR manufacturers, Ricoh/Pentax shouldn't be overlooked--they're continuing to prove their worth with the introduction of the Pentax K-3 II, a high-end APS-C DSLR that offers improved autofocus s...
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Nikon D3400
Nikon's 3300 is a solid beginner's DSLR and now the manufacturer is expanding on that with the D3400. The latest entry-level DSLR from Nikon wraps up much of the same features as the 3300. So what's new? Nikon has added Bluetooth...
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Sony NEX-3NL
The camera market is saturated with mirrorless models—there are lots of them out there. And there are even a few $500 budget models. But budget models with an APS-C sized sensor (that's the same size used in entry level DSLRs) for under ...
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Nikon's entry level DSLRs have always been an excellent option for beginners—My first DSLR was actually the D3000, back in 2009. The D3300 is Nikon's latest addition to the line and has proven to be a solid shooter for novices.But al...
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Tokyo, Japan, November 6, 2010 – Poland earned their fourth win of the FIVB Women's World Championship Japan 2010 in dramatic style at Yoyogi Gymnasium in Tokyo on Saturday, edging Korea in five sets 3-2 (12-25, 25-17, 25-18, 22-25, 17-15).
The victory sees Poland join Korea on two wins and two defeats, taking into account their results from the first round against fellow Pool E teams.
FIVB Women's World Championship Japan 2010 official page
The Poles, who have now beaten Korea eight times in 11 encounters, sit level with Turkey, Korea and Serbia in the section, knowing that with three games still remaining in the second round, they have every chance of reaching the top four semifinals, depending on other results. Both sides relied on their top scorers in the tournament with Malgorzata Glinka-Mogentale scoring 28 for Poland and Yeon-Koung Kim 27 for Korea.
Milena Sadurek started off the match by planting Poland's first serve into the net, and Korea's Dae-Young Jung then blocked Anna Werblinska before Youn-Joo Hwang placed a nice shot through the Polish defence. The momentum was definitely Korea's in the early stages and this was underscored by two great blocks from Jung on Joanna Kaczor and Berenika Okuniewska that gave her side an 8-3 lead at the First Technical Timeout (FTT).
Poland coach Jerzy Matlak called a timeout as his team started to make mistakes and fell 12-5 behind. A mis-hit shot by Katarzyna Zaroslinska gave Korea a nine-point lead at the Second Technical Timeout (STT) and this was widened even further by good work by Hwang and YK Kim, who made a terrific block on Zaroslinska. YK Kim came up with three more big hits, with the last bringing up a set-point that she duly converted with a service ace.
Poland struck back at the beginning of the second set, Katarzyna Gajgal and Karolina Kosek sharing the first four points and prompting Korean coach Sam-Ryong Park to call a timeout. That seemed to settle Korea down and, as errors crept into the Polish game, the Asians started to match their opponents. YK Kim came up with a couple of good spikes, the second of which pulled her team level at 6-6. The two teams were all-square at 11-11 before Werblinska got the Poles moving with a service ace. Kosek came up with two good spikes and a block on Hwang as Poland moved three points clear at the STT. Successive Polish blocks then brought up set-point and when Song-Yi Han sent a spike long, parity was restored.
Poland jumped out of the starting blocks in the third with a service ace by Werblinska and a powerful thump from Kosek, but that momentum was lost when Werblinska served into the net. Glinka-Mogentale started getting in on the action and with an instinctive reaction save, which she followed up with a spike, Poland gained a three-point lead. Agnieszka Bednarek-Kasza started to find her spiking range and also came up with a block on Han as the Europeans eased ahead, thanks in no small part to their strong defence. With a 21-12 lead, Werblinska guided them home, bringing up set-point with a well-placed shot and delivering a blistering serve that the Koreans could not handle.
The fourth set swung both ways in the early stages. Matlak called a timeout as the Koreans moved into a three-point lead at 6-3, but Glinka-Mogentale helped Poland draw level with two strong hits, and they then found themselves ahead at 9-7 after two spiking errors by Hwang. However, two spiking errors by Werblinska at the other end allowed Korea to go back in front and Matlak hauled his players off court again.
Kosek produced successive winners but the Poles were still behind and a long shot by the same player left Korea three points ahead at the STT. With Poland still knocking at the Koreans' door, Park called a timeout at 14-13 and again at 17-17 when Myung-Ok Yim made the second of two quick service reception errors. YK Kim spiked Korea back into the lead though, and, try as they might, the Poles could not get back. A sharp first-time shot by Dae-Young Jung brought set-point and a spike by Han levelled the match at two sets each.
A pile-driver from Glinka-Mogentale set the Poles on a four-point run to start the fifth set, and although Hyo-Jin Yang stopped the rot she then put a serve into the net. At 6-2 in Poland's favour, Glinka-Mogentale also netted a serve and Korea drew to within a point on a monster smash by YK Kim and a sensational block by the same player on Gajgal. Yang matched her teammate with a fine block on Aleksandra Jagielo that drew the two teams level at 7-7, but big hits by Glinka-Mogentale and Kosek gave Poland the advantage again. With a slam by YK Kim, a defensive mix-up and a great block by Sa-Nee Kim, Korea went ahead but only briefly. The teams could not be separated until Werblinska brought up the Poles' third match point and Kosek then forced a spike through the block to end the match and break Korean hearts.