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Get clear on the idea: develop your story first, product second
Even before the first garment was designed, Icebreaker developed a story with the potential to excite a global audience - the story of a natural fibre from the mountains that could reconnect humans with nature.
Embrace intuition
A big distinction between a design-led company and marketing-led company is in their proximity to, and understanding of, their customers. A design-led company uses research to confirm their intuition, not to lead their thinking, and the people within the company 'live it'.
Jeremy: Design-led required an intuitive leap, not just trying to find out what people want, because most people don't know what they want until they see it.
Go beyond the obvious
At the most basic level, wearing a merino garment is about staying warm. In the Icebreaker world, products are designed to transcend the basic need for warmth and relate to the customer on a broader level of values-based wants. For example, aspiration is important; having adventure at the heart of the brand talks to the yearning for adventure and excitement that is latent within many people.
Different is critical, but it must be a meaningful difference
You can make an underwater car that is beautiful and different to anything else, but it's not necessarily a product that is meaningfully different. To be successfully design-led, a company needs to make products that are unique, well executed through high quality design and production, and meaningful to consumers.
Have a marketing focus at the top
Any company wishing to be world class at identifying latent or new needs requires a strong marketing focus at the top. This will also ensure sufficient investment in design capability and a company culture that is geared to living the brand in everything it does. This can be achieved by having a CEO who sponsors projects, or a direct line from design or marketing through to the CEO. The whole culture of the company needs to embrace these design-led principles, from the top down.
Designing the difference
Designed with a single-minded focus on the wearer achieving a sense of oneness with nature. Icebreaker created a new category.
Jeremy: If it wasn't well executed we might as well have "just been selling jerseys".
We needed to design our story into every Icebreaker garment - a story about relationships to nature and to each other. Everything we do, every aspect of our design, must support this core theme.
Hence the notion of Icebreaker, of breaking the ice between people, between mankind and nature and between wool and skin. Icebreaker garments are designed to capture the physicality of the human body and a sense of the possibility of adventure, every time they are worn.
Each year the core brand themes are reviewed and new relevant brand themes are discussed and worked into the design execution plan for the year. Leading through ideas ensures the product is always relevant and fresh.
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Make every aspect of your product reflect your brand values.
If your product design, graphic design and language work as one, you'll have a product that's an expression of your brand values, rather than a product with a brand stuck on it. Central to this is the use of words - one word is the difference between success and failure for Icebreaker. Wool. Given wool's negative connotations as a fabric against the skin, the word "merino" distances Icebreaker from both wool and synthetics. In doing so, it creates a new category.
Niche is good
There's a $2.2 billion market in the US for outdoor clothing - and outdoor clothing is still referred to as niche. There's no need for a design-led New Zealand exporter to look beyond a niche. Apart from the practical considerations of the ability to supply a non-niche market, you're likely to spread design resources too thinly and lose uniqueness. Allow the brand to become too broad and it'll lose its meaning. Icebreaker's aspiration is not to create the greatest outdoor brand in the world, it's to create the greatest merino outdoor brand.
Moon:The moment we step outside merino we'll be eaten.
Let your people be your eyes and ears
Because your people live your brand, there's a natural fit between their values and the values of their customers. Icebreaker's sales team is the eyes and ears for ideas about future design needs and opportunities.
Seek exclusivity
Icebreaker chooses to be stocked in only 72 of 250 outdoor and snowsports stores in New Zealand. For those 72 stores it's a point of difference that brings them customer traffic that their competitors do not get - and ensures Icebreaker has significant store presence.
Make your inputs as much a story as your outputs
The Icebreaker supply chain starts with 60 hand-picked high country merino stations covering two million acres which supplies over 500,000kg of pure merino every year. That forms a major part of the Icebreaker story and the way the company designs its messages.
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Philips SHE3590WT/10 In-Ear Headphones (White)
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Ocen penned two scholarly articles in 2012, including "Punishing Pregnancy: Race, Incarceration, and the Shackling of Pregnant Prisoners," for the California Law Review and "The New Racially Restrictive Covenant: Race, Welfare and the Policing of Black Women in Public Housing," for the UCLA Law Review. Previously, Ocen spearheaded the development of a re-entry project designed to meet the needs of formerly incarcerated black women as a Thurgood Marshall Fellow at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco.
Ocen honed her skills at the UCLA School of Law, where she earned her JD and served as a Critical Race Studies Teaching Fellow. Ocen said she was attracted to Loyola because the school's commitment to positive social change matched her own."I appreciated the ways in which Loyola's faculty leverages its expertise, not only within the legal academy but also in the public policy and social justice arenas, to influence social change," Ocen said.
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The public is invited. Admission is free.
A native of Seattle, Wash., Canlis is a Templeton Scholar presently living and working in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. She is deeply interested in approaches to Christian pedagogy and the theological foundations of different educational models.
Her educational background includes B.A. degrees (magna cum laude) in history and the history of ideas from the University of Washington in 1996; an M.C.S. in spiritual theology from Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 2000; and a doctorate in theology from the University of St. Andrews, St. Mary's College, Scotland, in 2005. Her dissertation was "Calvin's Ladder of Ascent: Anthropology, Ascension, and Participation."
Canlis notes that the biggest theological influence on her life was her transition from a Ph.D. in systematic theology to directing Sunday school in a rural Aberdeenshire parish church, where her husband is pastor. She reports that the change was as abrupt as it was welcome, for it was there that her theological training was really stretched.
"It is one thing to write a lofty theological treatise on the human spirit and the Holy Spirit; it is another to have 12 children firing questions at you as to God's existence on a Sunday morning," Canlis said.
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KwateeSDCM automates the deployment of files, Web applications/services, or application packages, thereby reducing complex update operations from days or hours to a single click. KwateeSDCM is easily adaptable for existing software packages and provides the following features: deployment variables for server-by-server customization, versioning of software and configurations, auditing of configuration changes, and multiple configuration sets.
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different to Calgary as Spain is to the rest of Europe.
Throughout history the food and culture of Spain has been
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#include <GL/glx.h> #include <glcorearb.h> install libX11-dev link to X11 lib glXGetProcAddress…and the world is a wonderful place.
Now, afaik, glx doesn't support context above version 2.1 on OS X and I'm trying to find a solution but I'm not sure which direction to take. I'm already digging into XQuartz but I can't find any relevant example how to create a 4.x context so far.
To help me in my decision making, here is a few questions that could clear things up a bit:
1 - What is the most up to date technique to use OpenGL 4.x on Linux and OS X?
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In a victory for common sense, the Montville Town Council this week voted to repeal two ill-conceived ordinances that placed restrictions on where registered sex offenders could move about in town. Unfortunately, because of a procedural error, one of the ordinances remains. We urge the council to complete the repeal as soon as possible.
The ordinances were a solution for a problem that did not exist. It was questionable whether they increased anyone's safety. And arguably unconstitutional, they would have likely generated litigation the town could not afford.
The theory behind the ordinances was that the town could protect children and senior citizens by keeping registered sex offenders away from them. The law banned ex-offenders from going near playgrounds, parks, senior centers, bus stops, playgrounds, beaches, sports field, etc. But what problem was the council trying to address? There had been no rash of attacks by registered sex offenders on seniors or children at any of these places. As for enforcement, it was unclear how former offenders would be identified - scarlet letters perhaps?
As Andrew Schneider, executive director of the Connecticut ACLU chapter pointed out, it was an attempt by the town to effectively impose the additional punishment of banishment on all these individuals. The fact is that judges and probation officials, familiar with the details of individual cases, routinely impose orders that pedophiles stay away from places where children gather. Restrictions, tied directly to the nature of the crime, are imposed in other sexual assault cases as well. In the most serious cases, ex-offenders must wear GPS devices to track their movements.
Particular credit goes to councilors Rosetta Jones and Dana McFee. It would have been easy for them to climb aboard the bandwagon in favor of these feel-good ordinances. After all, who would not be in favor or protecting children and old people from registered sex offenders? But the pair questioned the policy from the start, recognizing that supporting it may have looked and felt good but really would not accomplish anything, except leave the town legally vulnerable.
The pair led a petition drive focused on the senior ordinance, the more outrageous of the two, collecting 537 signatures and forcing repeal of the ordinances onto the council agenda. This was not an easy or easily explained cause to fight for, but it was a fight well worth waging and winning.
Unfortunately, because the petition addressed only the senior ordinance, only that ordinance could legally be repealed at the recent meeting. Repealing the child safety zone law will require following the standard procedures, including a public hearing, before it can be legally acted on. We urge the council to act expeditiously.
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We have all become accustomed to regularly washing or sanitizing our hands after every activity. Some people have even resorted to wearing protective face masks in public places to minimize their germ exposure. The point is no one wants to get sick and most of us can't afford to visit a doctor or find the time to leave work to see one. But are there contaminants lurking in places we overlook, on products we use on our mouths and eyes daily? Yes. Your makeup can make you sick and so can the makeup testers in retail stores. Sanitary makeup practices are very important, so here a few key things you can do to keep yourself pretty and minimize the risk of becoming sick from using your makeup.
Eye infections like "pink eye" are painful and can last for several weeks. The most common cause of conjunctivitis is poor hand washing practices that lead to the spread of bacteria and virus's. It is very important to NEVER share your eye products with other people without proper sanitation procedures.
Tips for disinfecting eye products:
-Eye liner pencils must be sharpened with a sanitized pencil sharpener and then sprayed or dipped in isopropyl alcohol.
-Eye shadows can be sprayed with alcohol and then the top layer should be scraped off with a sanitized razor, revealing a clean layer underneath.
-Mascara should never be shared. Test mascara with clean disposable wands only.
-Loose powder shadows should be tapped out of the container onto a clean surface. Do not dip your brush into the product.
-Gel eyeliners should also be extracted from their containers onto a palette and then used with clean brushes. Don't double dip your dirty brush into your entire pot of germ-free gel eyeliner.
-If you do get "pink eye" it is safest to throw out any makeup that came in contact with your eyes.
Cold sores, flu, staph? Yes, you can get infected from germy lip products! Never ever pick up a lipstick in a retail store and put it directly on your mouth. I am always surprised at how often I see people doing that. I've lectured many teenagers on the dangers of contracting all types of nasty ailments from unsanitary makeup products. Sometimes if I see someone quickly pick up a product and use it without giving me a chance to clean it I will say, "Ooh, the lady before you picked that one up before I had a chance to clean it and she had a "thing" on her lip, I hope you will be okay!" The look on people's faces is priceless and I guarantee they will think twice before stupidly assuming something is germ-free.
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"Blood" in "pure-blood" should not be capitalised. Check out Chamber of Secrets, when Malfoy gives that as the password to the Slytherin common room, he says "Oh, yeah — pure-blood!" I've never seen it capitalised anywhere in the books. Hermione1980 20:41, 1 Aug 2005 (UTC)
- Then I guess a move would be in order. Except I think there is a redirect to here, so it might just have to be a copy and paste and lose the history. That's fine with me. Speaking of capitalisation, is it Muggle, or muggle? And does that fit with muggle-born etc.? --Lord Voldemort (Dark Mark)
- It's Muggle and Muggle-born, pure-blood but Mudblood (gasp! not a nice word!). Let me see about that move… Hermione1980 21:02, 1 Aug 2005 (UTC)
- Moved. Hermione1980 21:03, 1 Aug 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks... Oh, and sorry bout the unsigned post above... I went ahead and signed it with no timestamp. --Lord Voldemort (Dark Mark) 21:08, 1 Aug 2005 (UTC)
- Moved. Hermione1980 21:03, 1 Aug 2005 (UTC)
- It's Muggle and Muggle-born, pure-blood but Mudblood (gasp! not a nice word!). Let me see about that move… Hermione1980 21:02, 1 Aug 2005 (UTC)
Half-Blood versus Pure-Blood Edit
Many times on many articles, it has come up of the debate between half-blood/pure-blood. And it is never resolved, so once and for all, here we should have the final discussion:
A half-blood is defined as: A witch or wizard with at least one wizarding parent but at least one Muggle parent or grandparent.
A pure-blood is defined as: A witch or wizard of 'pure' wizarding ancestry, without any Muggle ancestors whatsoever as far as can be determined.
This is very contradictory however. For children like the Potter children (James II, Albus, and Lily II), there is no distinct blood status for them. They do have muggles in their ancestry, but all of their parents and grandparents are magical (argue that Lily is a muggleborn until the cows come home, but she's still a witch, and therefore defined as one). They don't fully fit into pure-blood, and most definately not half-blood.
I think the problem here is the definitions on the Lexicon given for Half-Blood, Muggleborn, and Blood Traitor (to some extent and even squibs to a certain extent) are defined so technically, but pure-blood is defined as something a pure-blood-ist thinks. Which has no technical way to distinguish precision, because Jo has mentioned that even pure-blood families have some muggle distantly in them. Therefore, I move that we distinguish pure-blood-ism as "any witch or wizard born to two magical parents, and have four magical grandparents" otherwise, characters such as James Potter II, Albus Severus Potter, and Lily Potter II have no blood distinction and there will forever be a 'half a dozen one, six the other" fight.
Either way, we need to fully exact our definitions, because sticking with the Lexicon %100 clearly isn't working since, like the Bible, it contradicts itself in places.--Silverdrama 05:49, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
- I agree that the Lexicon definitions are rather inconsistent in that regard. But I still think that Harry and Ginny's children would be half-bloods based on JKR's statement on blood purity. I'll quote and break down why:
- "The expressions 'pure-blood', 'half-blood' and 'Muggle-born' have been coined by people to whom these distinctions matter, and express their originators' prejudices."
- This makes any distinction between what extremists think and what other people think moot. The definitions were invented by people who are prejudiced; they are the ones who care about distinguishing individuals based on blood in the first place.
- "As far as somebody like Lucius Malfoy is concerned, for instance..."
- Again, he would be one of those people who is concerned with blood distinctions, hence he would know them well.
- "...a Muggle-born is as 'bad' as a Muggle. Therefore Harry would be considered only 'half' wizard..."
- I take this as meaning that, in determining blood purity, a Muggle-born is treated the same as a Muggle. Because prejudiced wizards -- those who created the defintiions -- see a Muggle-born as basically the same as a Muggle. They might have magic, but they're still "unclean" (hence the term "Mudblood"). This is well illustrated by a scene in Chapter 9 of Goblet of Fire, during the Death Eaters' riot at the Quidditch World Cup:
- "Granger, they're after Muggles," said Malfoy. "D' you want to be showing off your knickers in midair? Because if you do, hang around ... they're moving this way, and it would give us all a laugh."
- "Hermione's a witch!" Harry snarled.
- "Have it your own way, Potter," said Malfoy, grinning maliciously. "If you think they can't spot a Mudblood, stay where you are."
- This makes it clear that people like the Malfoys (again, those who came up with the definitions) clearly don't consider Muggle-borns to be "real" wizards and witches. Thus, having even one grandparent that was Muggle or Muggle-born makes you less than "pure". To go back to Rowling's statement in comparing blood purity to the Nazis' racial definitions:
- I take this as meaning that, in determining blood purity, a Muggle-born is treated the same as a Muggle. Because prejudiced wizards -- those who created the defintiions -- see a Muggle-born as basically the same as a Muggle. They might have magic, but they're still "unclean" (hence the term "Mudblood"). This is well illustrated by a scene in Chapter 9 of Goblet of Fire, during the Death Eaters' riot at the Quidditch World Cup:
- "A single Jewish grandparent 'polluted' the blood, according to their propaganda."
- "The expressions 'pure-blood', 'half-blood' and 'Muggle-born' have been coined by people to whom these distinctions matter, and express their originators' prejudices."
- To further support the point that pure-bloods need to have entirely magical heritage more than two generations back are what we know about various pure-blood families. The House of Black's family tree dates back to the Middle Ages. Ernie Macmillan claims to be descended from nine generations of pure-bloods. The Malfoys are pure-blood at least as far back as the 17th century (when Brutus Malfoy lived). This all suggests that pure-bloods require many more than two generations of entirely magical heritage.
- Furthermore, it's notable that pure-bloods who care about their heritage will only marry fellow pure-bloods. Marrying a Muggle or a Muggle-born are equally grounds for being disowned (the Blacks disowned both Isla and Andromeda for marrying a Muggle and a Muggle-born, respectively). They don't even appear to permit marriage to a half-blood, presuambly because half-bloods still have known Muggle ancestry and would thus still be "polluting" the bloodline.
- As Rowling has said, no one is really "pure". The families that claim to be "merely cross Muggles and Squibs off the family tree and pretend that they didn't exist". But there is a considerable difference from families like the Blacks, who are only magical in ancestry for at least several generations and who remove not only any non-purebloods who marry into the family, but also any "blood traitors", from their family tree, and families like Harry's, who make no effort to pretend they don't have Muggle-borns and Muggles in their family.
- To sum up, from what we can extrapolate from Rowling's statements on the subject and from the books, it seems that pure-bloods are those who claim to have no Muggle ancestry whatsoever -- or, at least, none that can be traced for many generations back. Half-bloods are basically anyone who has both magical and Muggle heritage, which makes sense, considering that "most wizards these days are half-blood anyway" (according to Ron in Chamber of Secrets) and that pure-bloods are dying out. Oread (talk) 20:19, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
- Another thing to add -- Rowling drew parallels between the Death Eaters' prejudice and the Anti-Semitism of the Nazis, commenting that they used "precisely the same warped logic". The Nazis persecuted people with even a single Jewish grandparent -- even if that grandparent had not been a practicing Jew, or had converted to another religion. Because they considered Jews to be a "race" -- i.e. it was a matter of ethnicity, something that is innate and fixed. It seems to be the same way prejudiced pure-bloods consider Muggle-borns: even though they can use magic, they were still born to Muggles, they still have Muggle blood. Oread (talk) 18:27, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
- Do Pure Bloods mind Half Bloods as much as Mudbloods? I thought that they didn't mind Half Bloods, which is why a lot of them followed He Who Must Not Be Named. Also, what was Voldemort's opinion about Squibs and Half Breeds and non human sentients? And did Voldemort mind Mudbloods more than Muggles? 22.214.171.124 04:40, August 28, 2010 (UTC)
- Harry and Ginny's children most certainly should be listed as pure-bloods. Both of their parents are wizards, both maternal grandparents were pure-bloods, as was their paternal grandfather. Yes, apparently their paternal grandmother was mudblooded, but her tainted blood is far enough back in their history that there is no need to blame them for it. Anyone who doubts their blood purity is obviously jealous of a blood traitor. JK55092 188.8.131.52 01:35, July 10, 2012 (UTC)
Luna Lovegood Edit
I don't know if I can add Lovegood family as Pureblood family because Luna Lovegood is for sure that she is not muggleborn, more likely pureblood witch like Weasley family, Black family, Malfoy family etc.. We for sure know the fact that Luna's father Xeno is known as editor of Quibbler in the Wizarding World, and her mom is interested in experimenting with random spells before she died. It suggests that Luna is not Muggleborn witch. Is it ok to add Lovegood family as pureblood later on? 188.8.131.52 10:42, January 5, 2011 (UTC)
No, it isn´t. As she could have a muggle grandparent, or another muggle ancestor.--Rodolphus 10:47, January 5, 2011 (UTC)
You mean we don't know if she is half-blood or pure-blood, right? If xeno or mrs.lovegood is half-blood wizard, this would have made luna half-blood, right? 18.104.22.168 18:30, June 5, 2011 (UTC)
Inbreeding causes "diminished magical capability"? Edit
This article says "Many pure-blood families, such as the Blacks and Gaunts, practice marrying cousins in order to maintain their pure-blood status … This practice has been known to cause problems as families become inbred; for example, the Gaunts showed signs of violent tendencies, mental instability, and even diminished magical capability."
Where in HBP is it shown and/or stated that the Gaunts showed diminished magical capability? The only example I can think of is Merope, and she showed diminished capability because she was living in constant fear, and possibly from being uneducated — there's no clear indication that it was due to inbreeding. Morfin seemed pretty adept with a wand, as he jinxed Tom Riddle Sr. and hexed Bob Ogden. There's no evidence that I can think of that inbreeding diminishes magical capability at all, or that the Gaunts showed signs of this. Can anyone provide any examples? 188.8.131.52 02:40, October 16, 2011 (UTC)
I agree, the only possible evidence that inbreeding may cause diminished magical capability is if the offspring had a mental disability preventing their learning capability. However, this would not affect their "magical capability" as they would still be able to demonstrate their magic but in less refined forms.
For example, Walburga and Orion Black married despite being second cousins and produced Sirius and Regulus, wizards who are not shown to have diminished magical capabilities (especially since Sirius is repeatedly noted as being one of the most talented students at Hogwarts during his time). 126.96.36.199 05:28, March 27, 2012 (UTC)


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The Michigan State University College of Law moot court team of third-year law students Molly Etkind, Monique Patton, and Jessica Walker, won first place in the 28th Annual William E. McGee National Civil Rights Moot Court Competition, February 21-23, 2013, at the University of Minnesota.
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Open until 23 November 2013, at the Magazzini del Sale (Salt Warehouses) in Zattere, home of the Vedova Foundation, is the exhibition Roy Lichtenstein – Sculptor.
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Description An otherwise undistinguished species of Myotis that differs from the Yuma Myotis in having glossy fur, from the Indiana Myotis in lacking a keel on the calcar and having longer toe hairs, from the Long-legged Myotis in having less fur on the underside of the wing, and from Southwestern, Long-eared, Keens, and Northern Long-eared Myotis in having shorter ears (less than 16mm). Skull shows a more gradually ascending forehead than in the Yuma Myotis. Forearm 33-41mm. Widespread and common in buildings in summer, and hibernates in sizeable colonies in caves and mines.
Dimensions 60-102mm, 25-55mm, 7-13g
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Similar Species Differs from Indiana Myotis in lacking a keel on the calcar and having more and longer toe hairs. Obviously browner than the pipistrelles, smaller than the Big Brown Bat, and not white on the belly like the Evening Bat.
Breeding Migrates up to 1000km between summer breeding areas and winter hibernacula.
Habitat Canyons & caves, Cities, suburbs & towns, Lakes, ponds, rivers & streams, Swamps, marshes & bogs
Range Plains, Great Lakes, New England, Mid-Atlantic, Rocky Mountains, Southeast, Southwest, California, Northwest, Eastern Canada, Western Canada, Alaska
Discussion Nocturnal and adept at using echolocation to catch their insect prey in mid-air.


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Gov. Corbett proposes $29.4 billion state budget; suggests pension savings, new money for educationFebruary 4, 2014 11:23 PM
HARRISBURG -- After earlier proposals of spare budgets, Gov. Tom Corbett on Tuesday put forward a more generous plan for state government -- with a new $240 million grant program for K-12 education, an area of political liability -- as he heads into a re-election battle.
Along with the Ready to Learn block grant program, which schools could use for curriculum development or teacher training, the governor proposed a $25 million scholarship fund for college students from middle-income families, funding to provide services for 1,200 people with intellectual disabilities and the first increase to special education funding in six years.
Taken together with rising pension and Medicaid costs, the proposals would bring the state general fund to $29.4 billion, an increase of 3.3 percent from the current year. To pay for it, the administration relies on projected revenue growth, one-time sources such as limited leasing of state forest and park land and a shortening of the holding of unclaimed property, reduced pension contributions and yet-unapproved changes to the state Medicaid program.
"Things are coming together," Mr. Corbett told legislators, administration officials and guests -- including Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto -- gathered in the hall of the House of Representatives. "All around us are the hopeful signs of a stronger Pennsylvania. We have work to do and commitments to honor."
Republican legislative leaders received the proposal cautiously, praising the proposed block grant, which would target specific classroom programs, while demurring when asked if Pennsylvania government should increase its general fund by $925 million. Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi, R-Delaware, noted the address will be followed by weeks of appropriations hearings.
"This is the beginning," he said. "The budget always changes between the governor's proposal and what's enacted in June."
Democrats were unified in their criticism, dismissing attempts to boost funding for education or jobs programs as "too little, too late" and blasting what they described as his failure to properly fund schools and social services and to expand Medicaid.
Senate Minority Leader Jay Costa, D-Forest Hills, called the budget "a campaign budget, delivered in an election year, and tied to political talking points."
While the general fund is the main topic of conversation, the state's operating budget would total $71.8 billion, including $24.2 billion in federal money and the $2 billion lottery fund.
One area of significant general-fund growth is in rising state contributions -- set under a 2010 law -- to the retirement systems for state and public school workers. Mr. Corbett, a Republican elected on a pledge against tax increases, has maintained that the payment schedule is unsustainable, and one year ago he proposed significant changes to the systems.
But his call for reductions to the benefits tied to future earnings by workers was met with promises of lawsuits by labor unions, and his plan to divert new hires into a 401(k)-style plan was the subject of some reviews finding significant costs. Neither became law.
Now, the governor has abandoned plans to constrain the future benefits of current workers, and instead aims to find a way to lower the risk to the state of retirement benefits for new workers. Budget Secretary Charles Zogby said the administration is contemplating a plan that would enroll new hires in a defined-benefit system up to a certain salary point -- he mentioned $50,000 -- after which earnings would accrue benefits to a defined-contribution plan.
Accompanying such a change would be a move to reduce the scheduled increases in employer payments. Next year, the proposal would lower state contributions approximately $171 million and school district contributions $131 million.
Throughout his term in office, Mr. Corbett has been dogged by the cuts in funding schools received his first year, when federal stimulus funding came to an end. The governor has maintained that he has directed record levels of state money to schools -- though he, unlike legislative Democrats, counts the rising pension payments.
He tried again today to change that narrative, proposing a new $240 million Ready to Learn block grant that would be available to train teachers and develop curriculum. Low-performing schools would pick from a few options for using the money, while high-performing schools would have greater discretion.
The proposal calls for basic education funding, which makes up the bulk of state money for K-12 schools, to remain at the current level of $5.5 billion.
Democrats were largely unimpressed with the new education initiative. State Treasurer Rob McCord, a candidate in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, said the education increases were "almost comically small amounts compared to the reductions in public investments." Other Democratic candidates also turned to past education funding choices in criticizing the proposal.
And the Pennsylvania State Education Association, the state's largest teachers union, dismissed the block grant as "an election-year gimmick."
"Now he's proposing to 'train' teachers on how to do more with less," spokesman Wythe Keever said in an email. "Perhaps the governor's teacher training program could help train teachers how to teach with larger class sizes, and how to make up for eliminated programs that help students learn, like full-day kindergarten and after-school tutoring and Advanced Placement classes."
There was praise for a proposal to increase special education funding, which has remained flat for six years, by $20 million. The administration called for the funding to be distributed with consideration to the number and needs of special education students in a district.
The proposal relies on several one-time revenue sources. One would transfer $225 million in private equity investments and cash reserves from the tobacco settlement fund and health venture investment account to the Public School Employees' Retirement System, to make a partial pension payment.
The budget counts $75 million from lifting a Rendell-era ban on new oil and gas leases on state forest lands. Pennsylvania would only consider leases that would not result in new construction on forest land, said Patrick Henderson, Mr. Corbett's energy executive. It could, for instance, allow leasing for a horizontal well that starts on private property adjacent to a state forest.
And $150 million is booked from reducing from five years to three the time unclaimed property is held before being claimed by the state.
Democrats criticized the maneuvers, with Rep. Dan Frankel, D-Squirrel Hill, calling the budget unsustainable.
Mr. Corbett hinges $125 million in savings on the federal government approving requests from Pennsylvania to overhaul its Medicaid program. The proposal would change benefit packages, enact co-pays and premiums and move some people from state-funded to federally funded care.
Secretary of Welfare Beverly Mackereth said at a briefing Tuesday she did not anticipate problems in that process, though she said, there "will be some give and take."
"We have been in conversations with [federal officials] weekly," she said.
Medicaid covers one in six Pennsylvania residents and is projected to account for more than $8 billion in state spending in the 2014-15 budget.
The proposal also includes a $9 million increase for outreach and enrollment efforts for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), an additional $4 million in support for loan repayment assurance to healthcare practitioners in under-served areas and an additional $23.5 million to provide services for 1,200 people with intellectual disabilities.
State prisons would receive an additional $78.3 million, of which $72.3 million is due to contractual increases in salary and benefits, the administration said. And 350 new state troopers would be trained, using an appropriation of $13.7 million.
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I just asked the Internet to crowdsource a professional bio for me, figuring that literally anything would be better than having to write one myself. The results aren't bad, though the process was far messier than that would suggest. (Etherpad link will disappear in 30 days, may get messed up before that. I've saved a copy offline for posterity.)
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Steamboat 700 supporters and opponents agreed on one thing Tuesday night: Voters' rejection of the annexation means it's time for the city to update its community plan and rethink how to handle growth in coming years.
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City voters reject annexation 61 to 39 percent
The vote rejects what would have been the city's most substantial annexation since the Mount Werner ski resort area was folded into city limits decades ago. Danny Mulcahy, Steamboat 700 principal and project manager, said earlier today that his development team was not yet sure what its next step would be if voters denied Steamboat 700.
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Telomerase enzyme causes inflammation and progression in cancer
Singapore: A*STAR scientists have identified the enzyme, telomerase, as a cause of chronic inflammation in human cancers. Chronic inflammation is now recognized as a key underlying cause for the development of many human cancers, autoimmune disorders, neurodegenerative diseases, and metabolic diseases such as diabetes. This enzyme, which is known to be responsible for providing cancer cells the endless ability to divide, is now found to also jump-start and maintain chronic inflammation in cancers.
Although many safe and effective anti-inflammatory drugs such as aspirin are currently available on the market, these drugs sometimes have side effects because blocking inflammation is typically detrimental to normal physiology. Hence there exists a need for the development of cost-effective drugs that are targeted, so as to minimize side effects.
This collaborative research was conducted by scientists at A*STAR's Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) led by associate professor Vinay Tergaonkar, A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and National University of Singapore. Other clinical collaborators include Cancer Science Institute of Singapore and Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School.
The team identified that telomerase directly regulates the production of inflammatory molecules that are expressed by NF-kB, a known master regulator of chronic inflammation. These molecules are critical for inflammation and cancer progression. By inhibiting telomerase activity in primary cancer cells obtained from patient samples, the scientists found that levels of IL-6, an inflammatory molecule known to be a key driver of human cancers, was reduced in expression as well. This is an important breakthrough that shows how targeting telomerase with drugs could potentially reduce inflammation, and hence get rid of cancer cells.
Dr Tergaonkar said, "These findings provide a unifying explanation for a decade worth of observations from leading laboratories in the field. The findings show that chronic inflammation and telomerase hyperactivity co-exist in over 90 percent of human cancers. What we show is that these two activities are actually inter-dependent. They also may lead to potentially novel drugs that will target a range of human ailments with inflammation as an underlying cause, which range from arthritis to cancer."
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