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The handicapped sign is getting a new look — at least in New York City.
The initial design, created in 1968, depicted a person with no head in a wheelchair. The sign has changed since then — the figure eventually got a head — and now it's trying something new.
Sara Hendren, a Harvard graduate design student, is co-creator of a guerrilla street art project that replaces the old sign with something more active.
"You'll notice in the old international symbol of access, the posture of the figure is unnaturally erect in the chair," she says. "There's something very mechanical about that."
Hendren's new design looks more like a person wheeling him or herself independently. "Ours is also leaning forward in the chair. There's a clear sense of movement, self-navigation through the world," she says.
A Sign That Brings A New Attitude
It might not seem like much of a difference, but it was enough to fire up a young man with cerebral palsy named Brendon Hildreth, who uses a wheelchair. He and Hendren met as the project gained momentum, and the North Carolina 22-year-old adopted the icon as his own.
Hendren says Hildreth has become a kind of one-man machine around this symbol. He's made t-shirts with his family and has invited local businesses and institutions to change their signage.
Hildreth can only speak through a machine that he types into, and people have looked at him differently all his life.
"He's someone who has been treated as though he had less of a complex and interesting life and wishes for his future," Hendren says.
Guerrilla Art Tactics
That misperception is what drew Hendren and her partner, Brian Glenney, to start this project. It helped that Glenney, an assistant professor at Gordon College in Massachusetts, is also somewhat of a graffiti artist on the side.
"He said, 'Well, why don't we do something?' He was used to kind of altering public property," Hendren says.
They went all over Boston, putting stickers of the new symbol over with the symbol we're all familiar with.
People began to notice, in part because what Hendren and Glenney were doing — defacing public property — is technically illegal.
"That's true, but we were glad we did, because we raised some conversation," Hendren says.
The response was so strong that they ended up sending stickers to people around the country. It took just one cold call to to reach Victor Calise, New York City's commissioner for people with disabilities, and convince him to join the cause. This summer, the old symbol will be replaced with the new one in all five boroughs.
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But for all the successes, the project still has its critics.
"We've certainly had people who say, 'It's just an image, and I'd rather you spend your time lobbying for other kinds of concrete changes,' " Hendren says.
But she sees the new, more active symbol as an opportunity to open the conversation and change people's perceptions.
"An icon, an image, a symbol, can be a really powerful kind of seed for much larger efforts," Hendren says.
We move now from the playground to the parking lot or the bathroom or a building, anywhere, really, that you see that familiar symbol showing the profile of a person in a wheelchair: the handicapped sign.
SARA HENDREN: You'll notice in the old international symbol of access, the posture of the figure is unnaturally erect in the chair. There's something very mechanical about that.
SHEIR: Sara Hendren is a graduate design student at Harvard and the founder of The Accessible Icon Project. The original handicapped sign dates back to 1968, and Hendren has helped create a brand-new one, one that's more active, more dynamic with the person wheeling him or herself independently.
HENDREN: Ours is also leaning forward in the chair. There's a clear sense of movement, self-navigation through the world.
SHEIR: That might not seem like much of a difference, but Hendren tells us it completely changed the life of a man she met when the project first begun.
HENDREN: A young man named Brendon Hildreth who - soon after we did this community service day together, Brendon moved with his family to North Carolina. He has become a kind of one-man machine down there around this symbol. So he made T-shirts with his family. He's invited local businesses and institutions to change their signage.
SHEIR: As Hendren tells it, Hildreth, who has cerebral palsy and speaks through a machine, had a unique perspective.
HENDREN: He's someone who has been treated as though he had less of a complex and interesting life and wishes for his future. And as a result of using the icon, he's had all this opportunity to say in public speeches and to newspapers: This is what I want. What I want is what everybody else wants. I want an education, I want work that I love, and I want to not be treated as somebody who needs extra help in a particular kind of flattened way.
SHEIR: That perception was what drew Sara Hendren and her partner, Brian Glenney, an assistant professor at Gordon College, to start The Accessible Icon Project in the first place. And it didn't hurt that Glenney also happens to dabble in graffiti art.
HENDREN: And he said: Well, why don't we do something? He was used to kind of altering public property.
SHEIR: So the pair trekked all over Boston, putting up stickers of the new symbol side by side with the existing one. Of course, technically, Hendren and Glenney were defacing public property which happens to be illegal.
HENDREN: That's right, to put a fine point on it. But we were glad that we did because we raised some conversation. I mean, some people thought this was a kind of frivolous exercise, but many more people said: We see what you're doing. We want to talk more about this. And we sent stickers to people all over the country.
SHEIR: They soon caught the attention of the disability commissioner for New York City and already, this summer, the new symbol has been replacing old signs in all five boroughs. It's even unofficially been popping up in cities around the world. Sara Hendren says there are those who've asked: Why bother changing things? Isn't it just an icon? And she's ready with an answer.
HENDREN: An icon, an image, a symbol can be a really powerful kind of seed for much larger efforts and find ways to talk about our perceptions about each other, about difference.
SHEIR: Sara Hendren is a graduate student of design at Harvard University. You can see the new accessible icon at accessibleicon.org in New York City and, who knows, maybe soon, somewhere near you. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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WASHINGTON—The Obama administration filed court papers Wednesday challenging Republican-backed election laws in Ohio and Wisconsin, as the legal fights over voting rights spread beyond traditional Southern borders.
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A winner was selected from 60 designs submitted by 25 freelance designers.
I do not have a logo for my business yet. I have a web services business which provides Web Design & Hosting. The name of the business is 'Web Adventures' and the slogan is 'Web Design & Hosting'. Please provide a logo with and without the slogan.
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For the six of you here who game on a Mac, and I am one, be advised that Deus Ex: Human Revolution will be ported to that platform by the end of the year or early next year.
Mac gaming, long a stepchild, has been on a modest rebound lately, especially with Steam support for the platform. A Deus Ex port, even six months after the fact, would be one of the fastest port jobs in recent memory. Feral Interactive will be handling the job.
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Round Five – 12/15/2009Finished my fifth round of disc golf today with the Keen Milo's. I find them to be very comfortable. There was no pronounced break-in period for me. We actually had some weather this weekend and they held up nicely. Great grip on the wet cement and rubber tee pads. Decent grip walking up slippery, muddy hills. Kept my feet dry while playing in the rain and walking through many large puddles. Toe box is nice and sturdy, My opinion at this point is very positive. It 's hard to compare to other Keens, Merrills, Salomons, etc as these do not seem to be made as a similar hiking or trail shoe. The side and top panels of the shoes are made from a soft nylon-like material. Though this adds to the comfort, I'm not sure how they would prevail in a rougher terrain. I could see heavy brush, jagged sticks or rocks may push the limited protection above the soles. Again this shoe is not a hiking shoe so this is probably intentionally designed.
I believe the true value in these shoes will be determined in the long run in their durability. Will the toe box and sole hold up to their task? At $110 they are above the average price for many disc golfers shoe budget. These shoes are getting some flack online for durability. We will have to keep an eye on that. At this point I give them an B. I wish they came in colors other than Gargoyle/Drizzle though I do give them credit for those creative color names. Much better than Gray/Dark Gray.
See the whole story on these shoes at http://morleyfield.com/2009/12/01/the-milo-disc-golf-shoe-from-keen/


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Technically, its borders do not reach the sand. But thanks to the achievements of Misty May-Treanor and April Ross, who both grew up there, Costa Mesa has become known as the epicenter of women's beach volleyball in the United States.
May-Treanor retired from international competition after claiming her third consecutive gold medal at the 2012 Olympics in London, and Ross, who won silver in London and has won a world championship, will likely contend for Olympic gold in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
And, based on the growing legend of 18-year-old Sara Hughes, the city's reputation for spawning the American Queen of the Beach should continue to be nothing less than a "shore" thing.
Hughes, named the nation's top female indoor volleyball recruit recently by Volleyball Magazine, is also widely considered the country's top teenage prospect on the beach.
A recent graduate of Mater Dei High, Hughes, the younger sister of UC Irvine men's volleyball star Connor Hughes, who was named MVP of the Final Four while helping the Anteaters earn their second straight NCAA title last spring, has eschewed the indoor game to focus on sand volleyball at USC.
Unlike most American players, Sara Hughes' first pass occurred on the sand, and she learned the two-player game training every summer with Huntington Beach-based coach Bill Lovelace from the age of 8 to 15.
Though her success indoors as a setter and right-side hitter was indeed impressive — she was named Orange County Player of the Year as a senior by the Orange County Register, was a three-time All-CIF Southern Section performer, and she helped Long Beach Mizuno Rockstar club team win gold at the Junior Olympics — it was Hughes' love for the beach game that made her decide to spend her competitive days at the beach.
"I wanted to play both indoor and beach [in college]," said Hughes, who along with first-time partner Kelly Claes (out of El Dorado High) finished third at the Federation Internationale de Volleyball U19 World Championships in Portugal in July. "I always loved indoor, but part of me loved beach volleyball a little bit more."
And beach volleyball clearly loves her back. She has won nearly every AAU national age-group title since she was 10, was named Best of the Beach a handful of times, and has dominated for nearly a decade on the California Beach Volleyball Assn. summer circuit.
Competing with her partner of eight years, Justine Wong-Orantes, Hughes finished ninth at the U19 World Championships in 2012 (in Croatia) and 2011 (in Cypress), when she was 17 and 16, respectively.
Known as a relentless competitor, the 5-10 Hughes was a blocker when paired with Wong-Orantes. But after teaming with the 6-1 Claes, Hughes has shifted to defender, where she figures to be the rest of her career.
"It has definitely been a big adjustment, Hughes said of the shift to defender. "I was so used to blocking, but once I got behind the block of Claes and began to concentrate on defense, I fell in love with it. When I'm on the court, I never want to lose a point or let a ball drop."
Hughes also appears to have a love affair with the camera. Her long blonde hair, effervescent smile and fitness helped her become a model for one volleyball clothing and equipment manufacturer. Her image in those ads has appeared on the back cover of several volleyball magazines, as well as a larger-than-life display banner at the recent FIVB World Series of Volleyball in Long Beach.
But Hughes is more likely to be recognized at a beach volleyball event for her play than her modeling.
She is aware of the Costa Mesa lineage in the sport [current men's standout Jake Gibb also resides there, former men's beach standout Matt Fuerbringer was a star athlete at Estancia High, and former men's beach stalwart Mike Lambert lived just a jump serve away from Hughes before moving recently] and is proud to be considered the next in the line of female beach stars.
"The house Misty grew up in is actually just a couple blocks away from me," Hughes said. "Growing up playing in Huntington Beach, I got to see Misty and Kerri [Walsh Jennings] practice down there all the time. Misty was one of my favorite players to watch and sometimes she would let us help her with her drills."
Hughes has struck up a friendship with Ross, who like May-Treanor starred at Newport Harbor High, but unlike May-Treanor still resides in Costa Mesa.
"I was lucky enough to travel to an FIVB event in Thailand and I really connected with [Ross] there," Hughes said. "She is such a nice person and we always stay in contact. Sometimes, I've been able to practice with her, too. And one of the greatest experiences was sitting with her and signing autographs at one of the USA tournaments. [Ross] signed the cover of the magazine she was on, and I was on the back cover, so I signed that."
Hughes, who clearly has more front covers in her future, is competing this weekend at Sandjam, an exhibition beach event in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, that began Thursday.


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Today I exhibit my relative ignorance. After spending a lot of time with ConnochaetOS, I began to wonder: What good is the architecture field, in Arch Linux PKGBUILDs?
I mean, I've read this:
The arch array should contain 'i686' and/or 'x86_64' depending on which architectures it can be built on. You can also use 'any' for architecture independent packages.
Which might make mine an obtuse question. I really don't use PKGBUILDs beyond the few esoteric programs I prefer, that aren't in Arch's Community repository.
But short of cross-compiling, and therefore needing to physically change each field each time, there's nothing in there that isn't defined by /etc/makepkg.conf, or by the CARCH or CFLAGS variables.
Which means, to my thinking, that it's just a flag that stops the process, if the CARCH field doesn't match. Isn't that just a variable checking a variable?
Of course, this is one of those things that just shows how little I know, and so I should probably keep my mouth shut. Seems to me that, in a distro with separate packages for each architecture, making another point of declaring the architecture again is a third time and not necessarily useful.
But I don't know everything, so feel free to teach me. But it seems like that variable, along with some other things in PKGBUILDs, could be trimmed out. Spent too much time in Crux, I guess. …
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Wall Street moved higher overnight amid promising data on China's economy, fuelling hopes that the world's second-largest economy is gathering steam again.
China offered better-than-expected data on both industrial output and retail sales, welcomed by a market that is on tenterhooks about US budget talks aimed at avoiding the US$600 billion in tax increases and spending cuts scheduled to kick in on January 1.
"China hit that trough and is starting to see an acceleration of growth," Tom Wirth, who helps manage US$1.6 billion as senior investment officer for Chemung Canal Trust, in Elmira, New York, told Bloomberg News.
Meanwhile, no details were offered on yesterday's meeting between US President Barack Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner about an agreement to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff - and a potential recession for the world's largest economy.
A study by the US National Intelligence Council, however, predicted that China's economy will take over the top spot from the US before 2030.
In afternoon trading in New York, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.25 per cent, the Standard & Poor's 500 Index gained 0.16 per cent, while the Nasdaq Composite Index advanced 0.31 per cent.
Better-than-expected November sales data for McDonald's lifted its shares 1.3 per cent, following a dismal October during which sales declined for the first time in nine years. Global sales at restaurants open at least 13 months increased 2.4 per cent last month.
"One month does not a trend make ... but it's a nice sign to see them rebound after a horrible October," ITG Investment Research analyst Steve West told Reuters.
Investors are eyeing a two-day meeting by Federal Reserve policy makers starting tomorrow.
In Europe, the Stoxx 600 Index eked out a 0.1 per cent gain from the previous close. It's at the highest level in 18 months, according to Bloomberg. National benchmark stock indexes also rose in London, Paris and Frankfurt.
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti's unexpected announcement over the weekend that he plans to resign soon after lawmakers approve his budget plan later this month sent the nation's stocks and bonds lower. Italy's FTSE MIB stock index dropped 2.2 per cent, while the yield on the country's 10-year bond was last up 29 basis points at 4.82 per cent.
Elections may be held as early as February - one to two months earlier than expected. European political and financial leaders today pressed for the next Italian government to hold fast on the reforms initiated by Monti. Still, the uncertainty may increase wariness among investors.
"The underlying cracks within the euro zone are actually widening," Georg Grodzki, head of credit research at Legal & General Investment Management in London, told Bloomberg. "Investors will be reading Italian politicians' lips very, very closely."


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NYC man arrested in meat cleaver attack on wife
NEW YORK (AP) — A husband hacked his wife with a meat cleaver on a bustling Chinatown street before firefighters tackled him, police said Monday.
Ming Guang Huang, 28, was hospitalized for a psychiatric evaluation after being arrested on attempted murder and other charges, police said.
The attack unfolded before witnesses and surveillance cameras on Chinatown's main thoroughfare, authorities said. Firefighters getting their trucks ready for their shifts Sunday heard screams across the street from the firehouse and sprang into action to stop the bloody assault, authorities and witnesses said.
It wasn't immediately clear whether Huang had a lawyer or when he would be arraigned, and a message left at a possible phone number for him wasn't immediately returned. His wife was hospitalized; an update on her condition wasn't immediately available Monday.
Firefighters Jose Ortiz and James Trainor were working at the Engine Co. 9, Ladder Co. 6 firehouse around 10:20 a.m. Sunday when they heard a ruckus outside and saw the man dragging his wife, crying and screaming, along Canal Street, Ortiz said.
As the firefighters started toward the couple, the husband yanked out the knife, Ortiz said.
"All of a sudden, I hear the cleaver go up, and he swings down," Ortiz told reporters. "He hit her in the head. ... Now I'm thinking, 'I've got to grab this guy.'"
Surveillance video appears to show the man slashing at his wife repeatedly as firefighters rush up and pull him off her, pushing him to a fence and then to the ground to subdue him.
Meanwhile, the woman — whose name hasn't been released — dashed off down the street, leaving her shoes and spatters of blood on the sidewalk.
"She was running down the street, screaming, 'Help!'" Jose Mendez, a 56-year-old building superintendent, told the New York Post.
Firefighter Shane Clarke went after the woman while colleagues flagged down police. They caught up to her about two blocks away.
"We were trying to get her to stop, but she wouldn't let us get near her" at first, Clarke told reporters. Covered in blood and wounded in her head and abdomen, "she was very panicked," he recalled.
She was expected to survive, authorities said.
"I'm happy we were there to help," Ortiz said later. "I'm sorry we weren't there early enough to just stop the whole thing altogether."


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Capturing the drama and epic conflict of Star Wars, Battlefront II brings the fight online. Attention to detail and scale make this game a joy to behold, with 16 incredible new battlefronts such as Utapau, Mustafar and the space above Coruscant, as well as the Death Star interior and Tantive IV, Princess Leia's blockade runner seen at the beginning of the original Star Wars.
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This example shows how to make a ray of light, or more poetically a Shooting Star, go through a line of LEDs. You will be able to controle how fast the 'star' shoots, and how long its 'tail' is. It isn't very elegant because the tail is as bright as the star, and in the end it seems like a solid ray that crosses the LED line.
You connect 11 LEDs to 11 arduino digital pins, through a 220 Ohm resistance (see image above).
The program starts lighting up LEDs until it reaches the number of LEDs equal to the size you have stablished for the tail. Then it will continue lighting LEDs towards the left (if you mount it like and look at it like the image) to make the star keep movint, and will start erasing from the right, to make sure we see the tail (otherwise we would just light up the whole line of leds, this will happen also if the tail size is equal or bigger than 11)
The tail size should be relatively small in comparison with the number of LEDs in order to see it. Of course you can increase the number of LEDs using an LED driver (see tutorial) and therefore, allow longer tails.
/* ShootingStar * ------------ * This program is kind of a variation of the KnightRider * It plays in a loop a "Shooting Star" that is displayed * on a line of 11 LEDs directly connected to Arduino * * You can control how fast the star shoots thanx to the * variable called "waitNextLed" * * You can also control the length of the star's "tail" * through the variable "tail length" * First it reads two analog pins that are connected * to a joystick made of two potentiometers * * @author: Cristina Hoffmann * @hardware: Cristina Hofmann * */ // Variable declaration
int pinArray [] = { 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 }; // Array where I declare the pins connected to the LEDs int controlLed = 13; int waitNextLed = 100; // Time before I light up the next LED int tailLength = 4; // Number of LEDs that stay lit befor I start turning them off, thus the tail int lineSize = 11; // Number of LEDs connected (which also is the size of the pinArray)
// I asign the sens of the different Pins void setup() { int i; pinMode (controlLed, OUTPUT); for (i=0; i< lineSize; i++) { pinMode(pinArray[i], OUTPUT); } }
// Main loop void loop() { int i; int tailCounter = tailLength; // I set up the tail length in a counter digitalWrite(controlLed, HIGH); // I make sure I enter the loop indicating it with this LED
for (i=0; i<lineSize; i++) { digitalWrite(pinArray[i],HIGH); // I light up consecutively the LEDs delay(waitNextLed); // This time variable controles how fast I light them up if (tailCounter == 0) { digitalWrite(pinArray[i-tailLength],LOW); // I turn off the LEDs depending on my tailLength } else if (tailCounter > 0) tailCounter--; }
for (i=(lineSize-tailLength); i<lineSize; i++)
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Branson is a small city in Missouri which is sometimes known as the "family friendly Las Vegas" because of its reputation for both shows and neon lights. Alongside the showbiz glamour, however, it is also an area of great beauty, with three lakes nearby including Lake Taneycomo. With this contrast between vibrant nightlife and relaxing natural surroundings, Branson is the perfect place for a family holiday - and with a wide range of rental homes, including apartment rentals, condos and cabins, a low cost break in Branson can be surprisingly luxurious.
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Thursday, December 6, 2012
Sisters Cate Cheevers, 11, and Laura Cheevers, 14.
The Cheevers family didn't sleep much. Laura spent her nights coughing, and her sister, Cate, followed suit. Fighting colds was a constant battle for the girls, requiring countless antibiotics and even several hospitalizations. Diagnosed at birth, the Cheevers sisters both have cystic fibrosis, a serious and often life-limiting genetic defect that coats their lungs with thick, sticky mucus and turns regular colds into debilitating struggles.
"It was a lot of fear, antibiotics and sleepless nights," says their mother, Kim Cheevers.
Now, the girls are flourishing at dance class and soccer practice, keeping up with their friends and schoolwork, and recovering easily from their colds. The dramatic transformation in their quality of life is a result of a clinical trial at MassGeneral Hospital for Children, where Laura, now 14, and Cate, now 11, took the experimental drug, ivacaftor (also known as Kalydeco). Praised by experts as a breakthrough for patients with a particular form of cystic fibrosis, ivacaftor was approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in January 2012 and is the first of its kind to treat the underlying defects of the disease, rather than manage its symptoms.
"The ivacaftor trial was the most exciting therapeutic development for cystic fibrosis – almost unbelievable," says Samuel Moskowitz, MD, Director of the MGHfC Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Clinical Program and Associate Chief of the Pediatric Pulmonary Unit. "Even though I knew that the drug had proven itself in the laboratory, so many of these things fail in the clinic. This was stunning."
Kim Cheevers, a pediatric intensive care nurse at MGHfC, says when she talked about ivacaftor with Allen Lapey, MD, it was the first time he became excited about a potential treatment. They were both eager, then, when MGHfC was chosen among more than 25 other hospitals in the United States to participate in the double-blind clinical trial, which took place over the course of 48 weeks starting in early 2010.
"We were one of the highest recruiters in the country for the clinical trial, and I'm very proud to say that MGH gets chosen to participate in these trials often" says Dr. Lapey, lead site investigator of the ivacaftor trial at MGHfC. "I was thrilled to offer the drug to patients, and our research coordinators were wonderful."
"We get a lot of these trials because of our research program, our staff and our reputation," says clinical research coordinator Brooke Wiley. "This particular trial was very positive for patients, and we've been thrilled to pass the word along."
The Cheevers sisters, who were two of four participants in the MGHfC trial, began the 48 weeks not knowing whether they were getting the drug or a placebo. They were instructed to take a pill twice per day, and traveled from their home in North Andover to MGHfC for periodic measurement of their lung function and other tests. Over time, the family had their suspicions: Cate's coughing significantly lessened, and she gained 16 pounds that year. Her lung function also improved 30 percent, which shocked the family. Although Laura wasn't faring worse than normal, she wasn't making the strides her sister was making. She even worsened during the winter, needing IV antibiotics to recover from yet another cold.
"At that point, we hoped Laura wasn't on the drug, because if she was, it really wasn't helping," Kim Cheevers says.
Alanna Ta, 29, and her husband Tony.
Alanna Ta, another clinical trial participant, had her suspicions about the drug, too. The now 29-year-old Quincy native had grown accustomed to being hospitalized for cystic fibrosis nearly three times a year, and rarely was able to recover from her colds. Dr. Lapey says Ta barely achieved the requirements to participate in the trial because her condition was so poor; "I hate to think where she might be now if she hadn't gone on the trial." But within the first two weeks of the trial, Ta says she could tell she was on the drug because her lung function improved 10 percent.
In April 2011, both Alanna and the Cheevers sisters segued onto the actual drug, as participants in an extension of the clinical trial, with significant results. Alanna says she can stay out later and sleep better at night, and she hasn't been to the hospital for over a year. Laura's coughing subsided, the sisters have loads of energy, and Kim says it's rare that the girls need antibiotics now. Since its FDA approval, they have all been taking ivacaftor regularly and will continue it for the rest of their lives.
"It's been the most gratifying experience of my clinical career to see patients suddenly recover their health," Dr. Lapey says. "The results of the trial were dramatic, and it's a new start in the cystic fibrosis world. It's very exciting because it's the first time we're withdrawing old treatment methods rather than adding them on."
Vertex Pharmaceuticals of Cambridge, MA collaborated with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to develop ivacaftor. Although ivacaftor has been successful, Dr. Lapey says cystic fibrosis patients still need to pay attention to optimizing nutrition, airway clearance and aerobic exercise. But with the drug, the cystic fibrosis team has begun backing off of aggressive treatments, and many more families are sleeping through the night.
"The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has been encouraged by the success of ivacaftor to pursue the next generation of treatments aimed at the most common genetic forms of cystic fibrosis, and is working with multiple pharmaceutical companies to accomplish this goal," says Dr. Moskowitz. "We fully expect patients at MGH to participate in these efforts, and I feel very optimistic about the potential for real therapies for all cystic fibrosis patients in the next 10 to 20 years."
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The 16th-ranked junior player in the world was rallying at the Sportime tennis center on Randalls Island on a recent afternoon when the owner of the tennis academy there swaggered onto the court for a peek at one of his pet projects, Noah Rubin.
Wearing black sweat pants, black shoes, a long chain necklace, a Mets hat and a Rangers T-shirt, the owner looked more like someone standing in line for a beer at Madison Square Garden than a savant shaping the minds of pros dressed in tennis whites.
But that owner is John McEnroe, revered as one of the sport's greats, with a style all his own. Even now, as an ambassador to the game and playmaker in developing talent, McEnroe is unconventional in the way he bucks the system and is devoted to working within that system.
"My brother, he won't admit it, but I'm sure there has been some influence by me," McEnroe said of his younger brother Patrick, who heads player development for the United States Tennis Association, which often conflicts with coaches and private centers like Sportime. "I personally think we have a good opportunity to know what buttons to push here better or as well as they do."
The U.S.T.A.'s mission has long been to promote and develop tennis nationwide. In 2008, Patrick McEnroe took over and made player development a priority for the U.S.T.A.Continue reading the main story
If the U.S.T.A. can expand the base of young players, the thinking goes, it will eventually churn out better talent. To make technique easier to master for children 10 and under, the U.S.T.A. in January mandated smaller equipment and court sizes. And in an effort to make competing more affordable, starting in 2014 fewer national tournaments will be conducted and they will have smaller fields to emphasize regional junior competitions.
But some critics argue that the U.S.T.A.'s objectives to grow the game and to develop top talent are mutually exclusive. Its methods are hotly debated. Some coaches and parents contend the modified equipment will inhibit development, not enhance it. The U.S.T.A. even found itself exchanging open letters with Fox News's Sean Hannity, who complained that the new junior competition format squeezed out midlevel talent.
"Each mandate they put out is worse than the last," said Wayne Bryan, a coach and the father of the doubles stars Mike and Bob Bryan. "To be successful in American junior tennis, you have to know how to negotiate and navigate the U.S.T.A minefield."
As the U.S.T.A. continues to invest in establishing a national coaching approach, independent coaches like John McEnroe and Wayne Bryan resist, maintaining that a federation cannot produce a champion. Rafael Nadal's uncle forced him to play left-handed, and Andre Agassi's father put him in front of a high-velocity ball machine. Novak Djokovic grew up in Serbia near a tennis court and the Williams sisters grew up in Compton, Calif., without nearby courts. The making of a tennis great is often unconventional and unpredictable.
"Tennis is as unique a game as any, that you need to be able to know the person you're dealing with to bring out the best in them," John McEnroe said. "That doesn't mean you can go by a set of rules in a book."
Questions swirl about the way the nonprofit U.S.T.A. spends money. Its budget comes almost entirely from the $200 million in revenue from the United States Open, which begins Monday. The U.S.T.A. spends 15 percent of its money on player development and 70 percent on community tennis development, said Gordon Smith, its chief operating officer.
"Let's be honest," John McEnroe said. "You think that the hundreds of thousands of dollars that are spent on the top 100 in the world for their coaching is necessary? Does Mardy Fish need to have his coach paid for if the guy is making millions of dollars? As opposed to giving us a grant to go find some great athletes in Harlem?"
Patrick McEnroe said the U.S.T.A. was "in an unwinnable position" in the court of public opinion.
As concerned as the McEnroes are with winning, it is hard to say for whose affection the U.S.T.A. is competing. Because of recent youth initiatives, junior events will bring in about 100,000 participants this year compared with an estimated 10,000 in 2008, said Kurt Kamperman, the U.S.T.A's head of community tennis. But when another Grand Slam tournament unfolds without an American champion, wary eyes turn toward the U.S.T.A.
"It's a very convenient argument," Patrick McEnroe said. "It's like, until we take a player from the cradle to holding up the U.S. Open trophy, I guess we can't help create players."
He suggested that it would probably take 15 to 20 years to see what the new U.S.T.A. initiatives produce.
The U.S.TA. is teaching American children the basic techniques that top players now employ.
"We have fallen behind coaching-wise quite a bit with part of the rest of the world," said Jose Higueras, the U.S.T.A.'s director of coaching.
Higueras added that Americans tend to master powerful strokes but lack superior movement, saying, "It's like if you have a good basketball shooter, but you never get open."
Tim Mayotte, who used to run player development at the U.S.T.A. National Tennis Center in Queens, said the association created problems in all areas because of its rigidity. Mayotte quit after 18 months because of the U.S.T.A.'s approach to children of various ages lacked "attention to detail."
"You need options, not restrictions," Mayotte said.
Despite all the mandates, convictions and dogma, tennis training centers seem to offer more options.
At Sportime, the instructor Jason Wass ran a group of 6- and 7-year-olds through drills, using a range of equipment and court sizes. Although the U.S.T.A. has strict rules for 10-and-under tennis, Wass said he used them as recommendations. He is not employed by the U.S.T.A., but he said many pros look to integrate a variety of training techniques.
"It's just more tools for us to use," Wass said.
Nick Pham, a 7-year old wearing a white headband, said Nadal was his favorite player, and it showed. On the 60-foot court, Nick played long rallies with a low-compression orange ball and covered ground with pinball-like direction changes that resembled the way professionals move
Were Nick to play with an adult-regulation yellow ball, it would often bounce above his head, resulting in "moon ball," as it is called, in which the youngsters return looping overhead shots until the ball inevitably bounces out of reach or goes sailing beyond the baseline.
Wass asked Nick if he had fun, and Nick replied, "I wanted to play longer."
An hour later, McEnroe emerged to watch Rubin.
A 16-year-old from Rockville Centre, N.Y., Rubin is a product of both McEnroe brothers in a way. With the help of John and Sportime instructors, Rubin received personalized training. With wild-card invitations from the U.S.TA., which has trained him part time, Rubin could compete in European tournaments and has earned enough points to play in the junior tournament at the United States Open.
His father and coach, Eric, said supporting a junior tennis player costs about $100,000 a year more than supporting the average teenager.
"And the better you are, the more expensive it is," said Eric Rubin, who spent four months looking for work after losing his job at Citibank last year. But Sportime and the U.S.T.A. made sure his son did not miss a beat with training and competitions.
Today, tennis is dominated by players 25 or older. No. 43 Bernard Tomic of Australia is the only teenager ranked in the A.T.P.s top 100.
But American players like Rubin, or perhaps some who are just starting to work on their slice backhands, might one day make their mark as professionals. That would please everyone involved in their development.
An article on Aug. 26 about criticism of the United States Tennis Association over its methods for developing players misstated John McEnroe's connection to the Sportime tennis center on Randalls Island. McEnroe is the owner of the John McEnroe Tennis Academy based at the tennis center; he is not the owner of the center.


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While my grilling exploits rarely exceed the pedestrian (burgers, brats, veggies), others get enviably creative with outdoor cooking recipes.
I'd love to hear what people have grilled themselves or eaten off the grill that's a bit different. Or even a new twist on a BBQ classic.
Next weekend, April 10-11, we're having our 4th annual BBQ Expo with grilling demos at all of our stores. From 10-4 Saturday and noon to 4 Sunday, we'll fire up the latest gas, charcoal and smoker grills with everything from smoked sirloins to pizzas to even pineapple upside down cake. And it's all the best you've ever tasted. (Trust me, because I taste a lot.)
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Receive a beautiful Super Seven Crystal also known as Melody's Stone is a combination of Cacoxenite, Amethyst, Clear Quartz, Smoky Quartz, Rutile, Goethite and Lepidocrocite, which makes it a very powerful stone that comes from the Espíritu Santo (Holy Spirit) region of Brazil in Minas Gerais. It shares the crystal healing and metaphysical properties of each. Super Seven is considered to be remarkable because it has the unique ability to simultaneously connect us to Higher States and ground us firmly in physical reality.
*ALL of our Super Seven Crystals are AUTHENTIC and came from the Espíritu Santo (Holy Spirit) region of Brazil in Minas Gerais. These are natural stones and there will be individual differences and irregularities. This is an AMAZING deal for something this size. Again, you do not receive the same super seven as the pieces shown. No requests for specific pieces can be honored -- the selection is random. Please do not purchase this listing unless you agree to the randomness of the selection.
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Carly Rae Jepsen to Collaborate With Fun.
Carly Rae Jepsen is more than capable of writing and performing a pop hit by her lonesome — see the ever-ubiquitous 'Call Me Maybe' for proof — but she really likes working with other artists, too. She's adding more to her roster, which already includes Owl City, Justin Bieber and Redfoo of LMFAO. Who's up next?That would be Jack Antonoff of Fun.!
"I worked with Jack from the band Fun., and that was sort of a random collaboration of us both really digging what the other person did," Jepsen told MTV. "And the last collaboration is a song with Justin Bieber. We're gonna do a little duet. And then the rest are sort of like, I think 'Call Me Maybe' is a pretty fair representation. It is pop, but there's also dance-pop and a little hint of folk-pop." 'Good Time,' her duet with Owl City, is said to be slated for her September release as well.
Jepsen dished more on her collaboration with Redfoo, which happened in a way just as random as you'd imagine.
"Redfoo, I actually met him at the airport after the MMVAs," Jepsen said. "I didn't have security with me, and the security came when I kind of got paparazzi-ed, and he goes, 'Do you need a hand?'" she giggled. "So he saved me, and we made friends, and we wrote a song together. We actually wrote the majority of that song on the phone together!"
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Sorry it has been a while since my last post. It has been an interesting ride these last few months. I unintentionally took some time off to spend time with my family. I have realized that Brodie is growing up so fast, that I don't want to miss a moment. I also realized how much "mental" time I gave the blog. Always thinking about what to post next or constantly taking pictures in case I wanted to share them on the blog. I took a step back to enjoy the moments instead of just capture them on the camera and it has been wonderful.
On top of that, Greg has accepted a new job just East of Atlanta. This little mind of mine is now in hurricane season. He starts today. We have been frantically making plans and decisions on what to do. I will stay in Chattanooga until our house sells and he will come home on the weekends until then.
I have had a wonderful time in Chattanooga. This has been a great home. It is a bittersweet moment for me. Especially because that means selling our first home. The home that we made ours from the ground up, brought our little man home to, and started a real family life together. But I know that all the joy and love that it brought to us, it will bring to another family.
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Destination-Worthy Milkshake: Kopp's Frozen Custard, Milwaukee
America's custard literacy has long suffered in the dark ages. But thanks to a few players like Culver's, New York's Shake Shack, and the artisanal ice cream movement, the embrace of a truly creamy frozen cream, made with rich eggs, may one day extend beyond the Midwest.
But when in the milk mecca of America's Dairyland, it takes only a glance at the billboard along Interstate 43 to find out the flavor of the day at Kopp's Frozen Custard of Milwaukee. Actually, there are two flavors of the day. (The midwest likes to double up on things.)
And while one could wax on and on about the virtues and superiority of frozen custard itself, today I'm just here to talk about the milkshake: you won't find a better custard-to-milk marriage than at Kopp's, and on the occasion of my last visit, I couldn't help but ask the soda fountaineers for a lush nutmeg-striped eggnog milkshake: even more decadent than drinking regular eggnog.
Kopp's thick, flavorful shakes and custards are rivaled of course by Milwaukee's other big name in frozen custard: Leon's drive-in. But to these straw-drawing lips, it's Kopp's velvety custard that blends best with milk, toning down the richness of each taste just enough while prolonging the experience through the slow pleasures of a shake.
And though eggnog shakes are a seasonal offering at Kopp's, we can surely bide our time having a Tiramisu, Irish Mint, or Pretzels and Beer custard milkshake, right? Only the flavor forecast can predict what's whirring in their milkshake makers, but Kopp's can pretty much promise you something delicious no matter when you stop by.
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His latest release IF MUSIC COULD SPEAK scored two #1 most added in the USA on New Adult Contemporary Radio. This stunning, live concert performance is winning a worldwide legion of fans for its new flavors, its lush orchestrations and vibrant songs symbolic of the four seasons. Featuring the contemporary pianist accompanied by the ninety-member-strong Hour of Power Orchestra, Choir and special guest, Earth Wind and Fire's Verdine White, IF MUSIC COULD SPEAK showcases chart-topping originals, spoken word, freshly re-imagined Mozart and treasured holiday classics.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
2013 Beacon Rock 50k/25k Postponed to 2014
We are sorry to announce that due to scheduling conflicts the 2013 Beacon Rock 50k/25k will not be happening. Sorry for any inconvenience and we hope to see you in 2014 instead. To avoid having this happen again in the future we will lock in the date with the park on the earliest day possible(which is mid September).
For those of you looking for a great alternative option close by... I recommend the White Salmon Backyard Trail Half Marathon on Saturday June 15th which in addition to being a tough and scenic course it starts and finishes at a brewery, has a great post race party and is the fundraiser for the White Salmon High School Cross Country Teams. It's just one of many great runs organized by the Columbia Gorge Running Club!
For those of you who had your hopes set on running 50k that weekend please consider Evergreen Trail Runs Echo Valley Trail Race in Chelan, WA.
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Cross-Departmental Focus
The Digital Planning Group is composed of Associate Deans from Collections and the Office of Library Technology, Head of Web Services, Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services, Head of Digital Services, and University Archivists. From time to time others are invited to present or to work on committees, as we draw on expertise throughout the libraries to further the Digital Services effort and maximize the use of our products.
Recaps of recent meetings are available online: Digi_Plan Recaps
The DigiPres Conversations group focuses on planning for long-term access, developing policies and procedures to see us through format changes, storage and content management issues. This group includes the University Archivist and Curator of Southern History and Life Collections, Head of Web Services, Associate Dean of Library Technology, Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services, Metadata Librarian Shawn Averkamp, Head of Digital Services, and our Digitization Manager.
Recaps of recent meetings are available online: Digi_Pres Recaps
The Delivery Metadata group works on issues around metadata development across departments. This group includes the Head of Cataloging and Metadata, the Metadata Librarians, Head of Digital Services, Digitization Manager, and Digitization Specialists.
Recaps of recent meetings are available online: Delivery_Metadata Recaps
The Association of SouthEastern Research Libraries (ASERL) Collaborative Digitization Project
In Autumn 2008 a collaborative effort was proposed to provide online content to material representing "The Intellectual Underpinnings of the American Civil War." This collection is to consist of materials published between 1850 and 1865 that informed the public consciousness as America approached the battle between the North and the South. Access to the content would be timed to coincide with the April 12 2011 sesquicentennial of the start of the Civil War.
Participation in this project required a collaborative effort here at the University of Alabama, which was coordinated primarily by Digital Services. As a member of the technical committee, Jody helped explore options for shared delivery with other institutions. She also wrote software to analyze the date ranges of existing online collections, to inform the choices made by the archivists. The archivists (primarily Donnelly Lancaster Walton, Archival Access Coordinator) then selected the appropriate content and remediated the collection information; and Digital Services staff digitized the selected materials.
The Metadata Unit (Mary Alexander and Shawn Averkamp) remediated the selected content to conform with the metadata requirements of the project. Marcia Barrett (Catalog Librarian for Special Collections) added creator and subject headings to the collection records. Tonio Loewald (OLT programmer) developed OAI (Open Archives Initiative) repository functionality to support harvesting of the selected materials for inclusion in the shared database. Clark Center (University Archivist and Curator of Southren History & Life Collections) described the repository and provided contact information. Jody submitted collection records and shared web sites and information as they became available. All participating faculty (archivists, metadata librarians, and digital services) tested the OAI implementation prior to release.
This was a truly collaborative project, and we successfully submitted 52 collections for inclusion in the ASERL project in a timely manner. That website is now live at http://www.american-south.org/. Searching across our 52 submitted collections is available via http://american-south.org/institutions/alm/search/ .
Metadata Comparison Test
In the Digital Planning Meeting on 10/10/08, we decided on a pilot project to test the feasibility of:
- Special Collections staff grouping content and providing general descriptive metadata about the group
- Digital Services digitizing the content, adding minimal metadata (identifier, box and folder location, notes of damage, number of pages)
- Metadata Unit adding the caption or title and description for each item
As the discussion around this proposed project evolved, we determined that we needed to know to what extent it would matter to the user who creates the item-level metadata. If the resulting usability of the content does not differ, or is improved by the metadata unit creating the descriptions, then it makes sense to move the burden of this work to that unit. If, however, the usability of the content is hampered by descriptions being provided by those not familiar with the content and context, then we need to find ways to provide more assistance to the archivists. They are not currently staffed sufficiently to provide item-level descriptions for content to be digitized.
Early in 2009, Donnelly Walton (Archival Access Coordinator) and Marina Klaric (Archival Technician) selected two comparable image collections and two comparable text collections from manuscript holdings at Hoole Special Collections Library.
The manuscript collections selected were: 1) the Cahill Family Papers: 305 handwritten letters (1115 scans) 2) Berman Family papers: 337 mostly handwritten letters (975 scans)
The image collections selected were: 1) the George Nichols Photos (115 images) 2) the Kappa Alpha Photos (164 images)
The archivists proceeded to process the collections.
The initial plan was that the archivists would create item-level descriptions for Cahill and Kappa Alpha and the Metadata Unit would create item-level descriptions for the Berman and Nichols collections. Both groups would track the time involved, for comparison.
After the archivists finished their work, Digital Services digitized the materials, and then the Metadata Unit took a turn at creating item-level metadata for Berman and Nichols.
In this process, we ran into some issues.
- We realized that the Digital Services staff were not instructed to capture physical dimensions of images, and the Metadata Unit could not do this after digitization.
- Cahill and Kappa Alpha were arranged to the item level (chronological or alphabetical order) but described to the folder level. Nichols and Berman were arranged and described to the folder level within each series, with no arrangement within the folders. The archivists tried to do just series level arrangement, but since they had to look at every item, the result was folder-level arrangement.
- Digitizing the Berman papers without even a minimal spreadsheet, left Digital Services staff confused as to where to begin. Sometimes what they selected as an item was only a portion of an item, and when the Mary Alexander (Metadata Unit) went to describe it, she discovered the errors. This required much back and forth between the Metadata Unit and Digital Services to sort out the issues and rename the files appropriately: a waste of time and energy!
- During digitization of the Kappa Alpha collection, Amanda Presnell noted content which was not suitable for online delivery (permissions issues). After investigation, it was determined that this collection should indeed not go online. Again, a waste of effort and time.
The resulting comparison of time spent in processing, digitization, and description is assessed in this document: http://www.lib.ua.edu/wiki/digcoll/images/c/cb/Comparison.xlsx
- Item divisions differed between the two groups. Where one group included an enclosed document from a letter as a separate item, the other group included it as part of the letter that enclosed it.


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European Commission
Brussels, 10 September 2012
Towards a banking union
At the European Council of 28/29 June, EU leaders agreed to deepen economic and monetary union as one of the remedies of the current crisis. At that meeting, the leaders discussed the report entitled 'Towards a Genuine Economic and Monetary Union'1, prepared by the President of the European Council in close collaboration with the President of the European Commission, the Chair of the Eurogroup and the President of the European Central Bank. This report set out the main building blocks towards deeper economic and monetary integration, including banking union.
On 12 September, the Commission will present proposals to design a single banking supervision mechanism in the euro area, further strengthening its response to the current crisis. This proposal will not change rule-making for the single market of 27 countries, but change the way in which banks in the Euro area will be supervised; hence it will fully preserve the integrity of the single market. A single supervision mechanism, built around the European Central Bank (ECB), will be a major step forward. It will send a strong political signal of credibility to our partners and to global investors. It will show once again the irreversibility of the euro.
The remaining building blocks for a genuine Economic a Monetary Union will include not only the remaining pillars of the Banking Union (single rule book for financial institutions in the single market, strengthening deposit guarantee schemes, and establishing national resolution funds and legislation), but also an integrated budgetary framework (Fiscal Union), an integrated economic policy framework (Economic Union) and a strengthened democratic dimension (Political Union).
1. What do we want to achieve with banking union?
1.1 What is the banking union that we wish to implement?
When the financial crisis spread to Europe in 2008, we had 27 different banking regulatory systems in place, all based on national rules and national rescue measures. Some form of European coordination existed but it was related to exchanges of information and rather informal cooperation procedures.
This was not sufficient to respond to the financial sector crisis and its contagion to sovereigns. A fully-fledged banking union will be key to supporting economic and monetary integration. Pooled monetary responsibilities have indeed spurred closer economic and financial integration, and increased the possibility of cross-border effects in the event of bank crises.
Common and more integrated banking supervision for the Euro area is one important pillar to make sure that supervision abides by the highest standards. This will build the necessary trust between Member States which is a condition for using common backstops, notably the direct recapitalization by the ESM of banks. Once common supervision for the Euro area is in place, the Commission's intention is to build on existing proposals for deposit guarantee schemes and bank recovery and resolution, moving towards a more integrated approach also in these areas.
1.2 Why do we want to achieve this banking union?
2. EU banking union: what have we done so far?
For each of the four pillars of the banking union (i.e. single rulebook; supervision; deposit guarantees; and bank resolution), the Commission has already taken action providing a solid basis for developing them further.
2.1 Measures to allow for more integrated banking supervision
Three European supervisory authorities (ESAs) started work on 1 January 2011 to provide a supervisory framework:
The 27 national supervisors are represented in all three supervisory authorities. Their role is to contribute to the development of a single rulebook for financial regulation in Europe, solve cross-border problems, prevent the build-up of risks, and help restore confidence. Individual ESAs have specific roles: for example ESMA is the EU supervisor of credit rating agencies, while EBA and EIOPA carry out "stress tests" of their respective sectors. EBA has also overseen the current recapitalisation exercise of EU banks. ESMA can ban products that threaten the stability of the overall financial system in emergency situations.
In addition, the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) has been tasked with the macro-prudential oversight of the financial system within the Union.
This new financial supervision framework has been in place since November 2010.
EBA has quickly established its credibility as a new body, delivering within the constraints of the rules agreed by the Council and the European Parliament, which are centred on an approach of EBA coordinating national supervisors. EBA will remain a key player of the banking union. For more information on the 2010 financial supervision package, see MEMO/10/434.
On 12 September, the Commission will present a regulation establishing an ambitious single supervision mechanism for banks in the Euro area. The Commission expects these proposals to be adopted by the end of the year, in order for the new system to enter into force early in 2013, as a key component of a banking union.
This proposal will address the key questions of the concrete functioning of the new supervisory role for the ECB; the relationship between national supervisors and the ECB; defining the relationship between euro area countries and those not participating in the euro. In addition, the Commission will present an amending regulation clarifying the role and governance of the European Banking Authority in this context.
2.2 Towards a single rule book for the banking sector
The European Council of June 2009 unanimously recommended establishing a single rulebook applicable to all the financial institutions in the single market.
With its proposal on capital requirements for banks ("CRD IV") made in July last year (see IP/11/915 and MEMO/11/527), the Commission launched the process of implementing for the European Union the new global standards on bank capital agreed at G20 level (most commonly known as the Basel III agreement). It is recalled that banking institutions entered the crisis with capital that was insufficient both in quantity and in quality, leading to unprecedented support from national authorities.
Europe is playing a leading role on this matter, applying these rules to more than 8,000 banks, representing 53% of global assets. The Commission proposals are currently being discussed by the Council and the European Parliament and the Commission is determined that an agreement be reached shortly.
With this legislation the Commission also wants to set up a governance framework giving bank supervisors new powers to monitor banks more closely and take action through possible sanctions when they spot risks, for example to reduce credit when it looks like it is growing into a bubble. European supervisors would intervene in some cases, for example when national supervisors disagree in cross-border situations.
Further, the completion of the financial regulation agenda forms integral part of the banking union. In this this vein, it is recalled that the Commission is also working:
• to examine reform of the structure of the banking sector though the work of the high-level expert group headed by Erkki Liikanen (see MEMO/12/129);
• to regulate shadow banking (see IP/12/253)
• to make credit ratings more reliable (see IP/11/1355);
• to tighten rules on hedge funds (see IP/09/669), short selling (see IP/10/1126) and derivatives (see IP/10/1125 – regulation in force since 16 August 2012);
• to revise current rules on trade in financial instruments (see IP/11/1219), market abuse (see IP/11/1217 and IP/12/846) and investment funds (see IP/10/869);
• to curb banking pay practices that encourage recklessness (see IP/09/1120);
• to reform the audit (see IP/11/1480) and accounting (see IP/11/1238) sectors.
2.3 Action taken to offer more protection to bank depositors
Thanks to EU legislation, bank deposits in any Member State are already guaranteed up to €100,000 per depositor if a bank fails. From a financial stability perspective, this guarantee prevents depositors from making panic withdrawals from their banks, thereby preventing severe economic consequences.
In July 2010, the Commission proposed to go further, with a harmonisation and simplification of protected deposits, faster pay-outs and improved financing of schemes, notably through ex-ante funding of deposit guarantee schemes and a mandatory mutual borrowing facility between the national schemes. The idea behind this is that if a national deposit guarantee scheme finds itself depleted, it can borrow from another national fund. This would be the first step towards a pan-EU deposit guarantee scheme. This proposal is still being discussed by the Council and Parliament in second reading. The Commission calls upon the legislators to speed up the process of co-decision on this proposal, retaining the mutual borrowing facility, and agree by the end of 2012.
In managing a number of bank crises over recent years, national authorities have often created a new structure out of the failing bank and transferred some critical functions of the bank to this structure, such as safeguarding deposits. These resolution mechanisms make sure that depositors never lose access to their savings (for example in the case of Northern Rock, the bank was split into a good bank, which contained the deposits and good mortgage loans, and a so-called "bad bank" winding down the impaired loans).
For more information on the Commission's proposal for a European system of deposit guarantee schemes, see IP/10/918.
2.4 Action taken towards a single European recovery and resolution framework
The Commission's proposal on recovery and resolution tools for banks in crisis, adopted on 6 June (see IP/12/570 and MEMO/12/416), is the last in a series of proposed measures to strengthen Europe's banking sector and avoid the spillover effects of any future financial crisis with negative effects for depositors and taxpayers.
To ensure that the private sector pays its fair share in any future bailouts, the EU has proposed a common framework of rules and powers to help EU countries intervene to manage banks in difficulty. Repeated bailouts of banks have created a situation of deep unfairness, increased public debt and imposed a heavier burden on taxpayers.
A common EU-wide framework for the managed resolution of banks and financial institutions would offer tools to prevent crises from emerging in the first place and address them early on if they do. The proposal also foresees the mechanisms that national authorities need to put in place to resolve banks in an orderly fashion if need be, with a "bail-in" mechanism from 2018 onwards to call on shareholders and creditors when attributing losses of failed banks. The proposal also foresees the creation of national resolution funds paid for by national banks in order to cope with the few cases where bail-in would not offer sufficient resources to pay for restructuring and closing down of banks.
The ultimate aim of the proposal is to make sure that the financial sector pays for its own failings, rather than having to call on taxpayers' money. If a national resolution fund would not have sufficient resources to pay for a restructuring, the proposal asks Member States to investigate the option of an extra levy on its banking sector, before calling on the option to borrow from national resolution funds of other EU Member States.
3. Banking union and bank recapitalisation
The EU has already taken action as regards the recapitalisation of banks in several ways.
For instance, extensive financial sector conditionality has been included in the policy requirements addressed to Member States that have received international financial assistance.
With respect to the banking sector, the required policy measures consist, on the one hand, of the orderly winding-down of non-viable institutions and, on the other hand, of the restructuring of viable banks. Higher capital requirements, recapitalisations of banks, stress tests, deleveraging targets as well as enhancing the regulatory and supervisory frameworks have also been part of the policy initiatives. While not specific to programme countries, these stabilisation measures are most easily implemented in the context of international financial assistance.
The European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) can provide loans to non-programme euro area Member States for the specific purpose of recapitalising financial institutions, with the appropriate conditionality, institution-specific as well as horizontal, including structural reform of the domestic financial sector.
At the euro area summit on 29 June 2012, it was proposed that once an effective supervisory mechanism involving the ECB was established for banks in the euro area, the future European Stability Mechanism (ESM) could, following a regular decision, have the possibility to recapitalise banks directly.
The ESM will have a lending capacity of €500 billion. For euro area Member States not subject to a programme, the ESM will have the possibility of providing a loan for the specific purpose of re-capitalising financial institutions. The granting of such financial assistance is subject to a positive decision of the Board of Governors of the ESM, i.e. the finance ministers of the euro area Member States. The conditionality attached to financial assistance shall be detailed in a Memorandum of Understanding and will include institution-specific as well as horizontal conditionality. Recapitalisations can also be conducted by a loan accompanied by a fully-fledged macroeconomic adjustment programme. Modalities regarding direct recapitalisation of banks by the ESM will be specified later on but will also be subject to strict conditionality.
Specific bank restructuring under these programmes and instruments goes hand-in-hand with the conditionality of EU state aid rules.
For more information on EU control on state aid to banks and on the crisis regime for state-aid, see previous issue of this memo MEMO/12/478.
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Barrow County State Rep. Terry England said Tuesday he is supporting Rep. David Ralston as new Speaker of the Georgia Houses of Representatives.
A new speaker will have to be elected since Rep. Glenn Richardson has resigned following reported personal issues, including a reported suicide attempt and an affair with a lobbyist.
England supported Ralston last year, making the nomination speech for him. But once Richardson was re-elected, England said he stood behind the incumbent.
"We've got several people looking at the position this year," England told the Barrow Journal. "We'll see how it all works out."
Ralston is from Blue Ridge and is serving his third term in the House of Representatives.
Neither England or State Rep. Tommy Benton, who represents a small portion of Barrow County, spoke about the Speaker of the House issue directly during Tuesday morning's chamber of commerce eggs and issues forum.
Benton said it has been a "difficult week-and-a-half in the House and we hope to get everything pointed in the right direction."
England said the whole state has been in a "little turmoil" over the recent news regarding Richardson.
Rep. England putting support behind Rep. Ralston in wake of Speaker's departure
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