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Singapore Airlines to focus on Asia after Virgin divestment
SINGAPORE—Singapore Airlines' sale of its 49-percent stake in Virgin Atlantic will allow the cash-rich Asian carrier to focus resources on its fast-growing regional market, analysts said Wednesday.
The Singapore carrier's tie-up with British billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic never really took off since the alliance began 12 years ago when the stake was bought for 600 million pounds ($966.5 million).
Singapore Airlines (SIA) on Tuesday said it will sell the stake to Delta Air Lines of the United States for $360 million in cash in a deal to be completed next year.
SIA said it "had been evaluating strategic options for the stake for some time, as the investment has not performed to expectations and the synergies the parties originally hoped for have not materialized."
Analysts said SIA, consistently one of the world's most profitable airlines, had little say in how Virgin Atlantic was run by the flamboyant Branson, and the sale allows it to exit an underperforming investment in the troubled European market.
"SIA can now focus on investments in the Asia Pacific region," Brendan Sobie, a Singapore-based analyst with industry consultancy Centre for Aviation, told AFP.
Sobie said it made more sense for Delta to have a strategic stake in Virgin Atlantic as there are more synergies in their trans-Atlantic network.
Jason Hughes, an analyst with IG Markets Singapore, said that despite the higher acquisition price paid by SIA, the $360 million "will go down as a profit, as losses had already been accounted for in previous years".
SIA shares closed 1.12 percent higher at Sg$10.87 as investors cheered the divestment.
Malaysian bank CIMB said in a note that the sale would give SIA a "short-term boost" but urged investors to focus on the long-term challenges posed by Middle Eastern carriers and budget airlines.
Shukor Yusof, an aviation analyst with Standard & Poor's Equity Research, said SIA can use the extra cash to "redefine its business strategy on top of beefing up its regional subsidiaries".
"It's also good to exit out of Europe because the market conditions there are quite atrocious," he told AFP.
Shukor said conflicting management styles with Branson was one of the chief reasons why the alliance failed to prosper beyond a code-sharing agreement.
"Branson remained the controlling shareholder and he called the shots," he said.
Virgin Atlantic also did not have enough slots at London's high-traffic Heathrow airport for SIA to latch on in its bid to gain a share of the lucrative trans-Atlantic route to New York, Shukor added.
Analysts said SIA's decision to buy the stake in Virgin Atlantic in March 2000 was a good move at the time because Asia was just emerging from the 1997-1998 financial crisis.
But the center of global economic power has since shifted to Asia, sparking a travel boom in the region.
Passenger traffic in the Asia Pacific is forecast to account for 33 percent of the global market in 2016, up from 29 percent in 2011, according to trade body International Air Transport Association (IATA).
"This makes the region the largest regional market for air transport, ahead of North America and Europe which each represent 21 percent," IATA said in a statement on their latest industry forecast.
SIA has been investing both in the premium travel segment, where it faces competition from Middle East carriers, and in the low-cost market where it is challenged by budget airlines.
SIA in June launched a long-haul budget wing called Scoot while maintaining a substantial stake in low-fare carrier Tiger Airways. It also operates a regional wing, SilkAir.
SIA and Scoot in October announced orders for 45 Airbus and Boeing aircraft. The orders came after SilkAir in August said it would buy 54 new Boeing planes with an option to buy a further 14 aircraft.
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Inside USD -- When Cathy Wineinger entered the Grace Courtroom in USD's Warren Hall for class last spring, she became a different person.
Wineinger assumed the political role of Michele Bachmann, a Republican congresswoman from Minnesota — and at the time, a 2012 presidential hopeful — in a political science course taught by College of Arts and Sciences Associate Dean and Professor Noelle Norton. The class offered a simulation of Congress' inner workings so students could gain a deeper understanding. (Full Story)

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Monday, June 8, 2009
The Silver Thimble Quilt Company
Pat Wys from the Silver Thimble Quilt Co. is such a talented and generous lady.
When I received this box it was like opening a Christmas gift.
I am so excited!!
Gifts just started peeking through the bubbles!
Oh WOW! A Minick and Simpson jelly roll. I LOVE their fabrics.
Wow what's this??
Aurifil thread! I have not tried this brand yet, but I am now! And look at the bundle of patterns!
Original quilting patterns!!! And a nifty Perfect Angle quilting Template. So I can sew without paper, pencil OR pins! How cool is that!
And that's not all.............
Down in the bottom of the box was a Moda Frosted Memories Layer Cake! I am singing Christmas songs :-)
Now this lady is the tops! And you just have to buzz over to her blog. Because she is having ANOTHER giveaway!!! You will love Pat when you meet her on her blog. So let's send up a cheer for the Silver Thimble Quilt Company!
Happy, happy Quilting!
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- Eggs In My Pocket & Yesteryear Embroideries said...
Thanks for telling us about Pat and her blog! What delightful things you got! Keep enjoying! blessings,Kathleen
- June 8, 2009 at 1:36 PM
- kwiltmakr said...
How wonderful! What a great package to receive, don't forget to take a photo of the finsihed products. Thanks for the link. I will pop over there now.
- June 8, 2009 at 2:46 PM
- Becky said...
Congratulations on your give-away win! I've been blessed to have Pat as a quilt teacher and mentor. She is generous, giving and FUN! Enjoy!
- June 8, 2009 at 3:34 PM
- Amy said...
Oh my goodness, you lucky duck you! And this is a great time to get started on a Christmas project so that it will be done before all the holiday craziness begins. Or, if you are like me, you will do it now for that reason and then in the midst of the Christmas craziness you will start another Christmas project because you can *probably* fit it in somehow :)
- June 8, 2009 at 4:05 PM
- blushing rose said...
It pays to enter those giveaways, doesn't it? Were you last on this one, also, chuckle!!!
TTFN ~ Marydon
- June 8, 2009 at 4:27 PM
- Pat said...
I "met" Pat online awhile back and you are right....she is a terrific gal. That is a SUPER package you won in her giveaway!
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- Crispy said...
Holey Moley Jocelyn, you really hit the jackpot, what a great win!! Congradulations!!
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Jon Miller, voice Giants, just told Eddie and Tracy that he thinks the Giants get Latos in Game 2 if #Reds lose Game 1.
From Lance McAllister on twitter
Jon Miller, voice Giants, just told Eddie and Tracy that he thinks the Giants get Latos in Game 2 if #Reds lose Game 1.
Latos would be on his normal # of rest days if that were to happen, right?
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The combination of Cain and Bumgarner at the top of the rotation, coupled with baseball's bizarre decision to have higher playoff seeds play the first two LDS games on the road, gives the Giants a good chance to take at least one out of two at AT&T. But the Reds bring more power, more depth, and yes, more overall pitching quality to this series. Reds in four.
The first round is likely to be more difficult to win than the second round, for a myriad of reasons.
Anyone disagree on that?
There is no such thing as a pitching prospect.
Look, our offense struggles at times against average pitchers. We are likely going to have to win some 3-2 games regardless of who we face. I'd rather play a team with offensive limitations because that keeps the game in an area where we like it and an area where we excel. Give me a 2-1 game in the 7th and I like our chances to get some key hits to win it. If we play the Nats or Cards, then you start drifting into higher scoring affairs, and I'm less comfortable there.
Both the Nats and the Cards also have a little bit of that "magic" that tends to dominate in October in recent seasons....St. Louis would be esepcially confident if they were to get back to the NLCS...and they play well against us.
I also like the pick of Reds in 4. I am not cocky by any means and I am certainly nervous about those starters for the Giants, but I'm confident we will win the series.
Was Miller announcing Giants games when Dusty was there? Because, he should know better.
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I don't know how a series against the Cardinals would have gone, but so far, I like how things have started in this series!
"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference." ~Tommy Lasorda
Nice piece from today's Times regarding the predicament both the Giants and A's find themselves.
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Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel is trying to sell himself as the first pick of the 2014 draft so he can play for the Texans, but according to Mike Mayock of the NFL Network, the best quarterback in the draft is Teddy Bridgewater of Louisville.
During a conference call Tuesday afternoon previewing the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis this week, Mayock said Bridgewater, Manziel and Blake Bortles of Central Florida could all play for the Browns. The Browns have the fourth pick in the draft, which begins May 8, but the Texans plus the Jaguars with the third pick are expected to take quarterbacks as well.
Mayock also dropped this bomb when asked whether the Texans might be willing to trade the first pick if they don�t fall in love with one of the quarterbacks:
�None of these guys is (2012 No. 1 draft pick by the Colts) Andrew Luck,� Mayock said. �None of these guys is Peyton Manning. None of these guys is a slam dunk.�
Mayock was asked which of the three quarterbacks fit new Browns offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan�s scheme best. Mayock wouldn�t go down that road.
�I�m not sure the Browns know yet who the best one of those three is,� he said. �I know you have to be able to throw the ball in the wind and cold and have big hands. There is a lot of stuff about playing quarterback in that division.
�Bortles is the bigger, stronger guy. People think he has the biggest arm. I�m not sure if he does or not, but I also think he�s the least developed of the three. I think Bridgewater is the most ready to play NFL-style quarterback in this draft. I think Manziel has that �it factor,� where it doesn�t matter if it�s Cleveland, Seattle, Dallas, warm weather, cold weather, whatever, I think he�s going to be who he is. I think all three could fit (the Browns) depending on what they feel about each individual kid.�
Bridgewater, 6-foot-3, 205 pounds, played three seasons at Louisville. Over the last two seasons, he threw 64 touchdown passes and 12 interceptions. The knock on Bridgewater is he has small hands and he could be affected by cold and windy conditions. On the plus side, in his analysis, Mayock wrote Bridgewater is �extremely competitive and driven to succeed. Well-prepared and confident in his approach. Operated a pro-style, progression-read offense where he is asked to scan the whole field and set protections.�
During the conference call, Mayock said Bridgewater is NFL-ready because of what he was asked to do at Louisville.
�He was under center, he was in the pistol and he was in the shotgun,� Mayock said. �In his offense, they threw the ball short, intermediate and deep. He understands three- and five-step (drops). He reads more than half the field.
�You can put the tape on him, watch him do things and say, �Yeah, that translates to the next level.� He�s not as much a wildcard as Manziel. I think he�s more developed in his reads and throws than Bortles.�
The Browns are definitely in the market for a quarterback, but they are not in a situation where they have to rush him as former coach Pat Shurmur did with Brandon Weeden in 2012.� Two years ago, Shurmur�s only other choice was Colt McCoy, who started in 2011. McCoy was 4-9 in 2011.
Browns coach Mike Pettine has Brian Hoyer ready to start if the quarterback he drafts isn�t ready. Hoyer, 2-0 as a starter last season, is rehabbing from knee surgery and expects to be ready for the offseason program when it begins in April.
Mayock described Manziel as a combination of Fran Tarkenton and Doug Flutie � a pair of quarterbacks who made their livings in the NFL as scramblers.
Mayock said he was impressed watching Manziel extend plays against Alabama, but he said Manziel was frustrated when LSU and Missouri kept him in the pocket.
�The more he was in the pocket, the more frustrated he got,� Manziel said. �He started to lose his accuracy. He started trying to escape the pocket way before he needed to. I feel like he doesn�t like being confined. He likes those open spaces. We have to evaluate him a little differently because of that.
�The accuracy was down. The decision-making was down. NFL teams are going to clue into that very quickly. Having said all that, I do believe he has the arm strength, the athletic ability and the passion for the game.
�At the end of the day, he�s different than any quarterback I�ve done before. He�s different than (Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III). He�s different than Cam Newton, Andrew Luck and Russell Wilson, but I believe in the kid.�
Mayock projects Derek Carr of Fresno State as a late first-round pick and A.J. McCarron from Alabama as a second-round pick.


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Media Day at Monterey Jazz Festival's Summer Jazz Camp,
Wednesday, June 22, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
2011 Artist-In-Residence Saxophonist Joshua Redman
Meets the Press
Redman Will Conduct Master Clinic, Work with Students
Performing in Ensembles
Monterey Jazz Festival's Summer Jazz Camp Takes Place at
Monterey Peninsula College Music Buildings
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June 20, 2011; Monterey, CA; The Monterey Jazz Festival is proud to announce that "Media Day" at its Summer Jazz Camp will take place Wednesday, June 22, 2011, at Monterey Peninsula College's music buildings from 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Over 150 Monterey County students will be in attendance, participating in master classes, clinics, rehearsals, and special sessions.
Media representatives are invited to observe the Festival's Summer Jazz Camp in action with a master clinic by 2011 Artist-In-Residence, saxophonist Joshua Redman from 10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. and hear the big band rehearsals from 11:00 a.m. - noon.
Mr. Redman, camp clinicians, students, and staff of the two-week long jazz camp will be available for media interviews during the student lunch break from noon – 1:00 p.m.
Joshua Redman is one of the most acclaimed and charismatic jazz artists to have emerged in the 1990s. Born in Berkeley, California, he is the son of legendary saxophonist Dewey Redman and dancer Renee Shedroff. He began playing clarinet at age nine before switching to the tenor saxophone, at age ten. Attending Berkeley High School, he performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1985 as a member of the Berkeley High School Big Band and as a member of the Festival's California High School All-Star Big Band in 1986. Redman issued his self-titled first album in 1993, which subsequently earned Redman his first of two GRAMMY nominations. From 2000-2007, Redman was the Artistic Director for the Spring Season for SFJAZZ and acted as the leader of the SFJAZZ Collective beginning in 2004. In recent years, Joshua has been performing with James Farm featuring Aaron Parks, Matt Penman, and Eric Harland, who will be one of the headliners of the 54th Monterey Jazz Festival in September.
This program is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
About the Monterey Jazz Festival
The Monterey Jazz Festival celebrates the legacy of jazz and expands the boundaries of and opportunities to experience jazz through the creative production of performances and educational programs.
For more information about the Monterey Jazz Festival's Summer Jazz Camp, please visit
Click here to read the bios of the 2011 Summer Jazz Camp Clinicians
For more information about Monterey Jazz Festival's Jazz education programs,
high-resolution photographs and interview opportunities,
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So since I pumped from day two I never actually got engorged or felt my milk "come in". Well now that baby is on the breast exclusively I seem to be having some issues.
The left one, if baby doesn't eat every two hours max, becomes very full and leaky. It also leaks while baby eats from the right, just totally soaking him. It just pours in his mouth and he doesn't like it so he fuses then goes to sleep. I tried using the manual pump (we returned the expensive hospital one because we can't afford to keep it at that rate) and immediately pulled out 3 ozs. Then I fed him and he took it for a few minutes then spit it out. Now the right one hurts and clearly needs emptied. But I can't use the manual pump by myself... I have no way to hold it AND do the two handed pump action.
Baby is gaining almost 2 ozs a day!! He clearly eats enough and frankly he's at it every hour or two, sometimes going three- which is when I have the problem. I can't force him to eat when he doesn't want to, and certainly not when I'm out and about in the car.
Is it normal to be this leaky and have the milk virtually pour into baby's mouth? Why am I suddenly having these problems now that I'm not pumping. He eats MORE than I pumped. More often anyway.
After all the hard work we did to get him to latch I am worried that he'll develop an aversion due to strong let down. Help?!
Also baby clearly has reflux and the dr was SUPPOED to send in a prescription because elevating him is not helping and my husband and I are so tired from holding him 24-7 and never sleeping that we're going to have an accident soon.


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BRISTOL, Tenn. — Bristol Motor Speedway owner Bruton Smith is considering about $1 million worth of changes to return his Tennessee track to the way it was before a 2007 reconfiguration.
"We are going to take a very hard look at it this week," Smith told The Associated Press on Monday. "We have everything in our computers that shows us what the track used to be and what it is now, and we started working on that last night. I'll have an answer for you next week on if we'll alter the track."
But Smith insisted it was the rain, not fan apathy over the current style of racing at Bristol, that contributed to Sunday's poor crowd.
"We certainly thought it was going to be better, but the rain got us," Smith said.
The rain began late Saturday night and continued until about two hours before Sunday's scheduled start, which Smith said "killed the walk-up crowd. And that alone accounts for 3,500 to 4,000 tickets."
Bristol once was one of the toughest tickets in all of professional sports, but attendance has waned the past several years and its spring race has particularly suffered.
The speedway says it seats 160,000, and although the grandstands appeared half empty Sunday, NASCAR's listed attendance was 102,000. Smith said 8,120 sold tickets went unused.
"Those were tickets that didn't show, people who elected not to venture out, and that's because of the weather," Smith said.
But he remained adamant the attendance decline has nothing to do with the new racing at Bristol. At the same time, though, Smith said he began talking to his Speedway Motorsports Inc. officials on Sunday evening about changes to the track.
The .533-mile bullring was long one of the most popular venues in NASCAR because of the aggressive style drivers had to adopt to be competitive on the tight track. The August night race is considered a showcase, and the combination of bumping and banging for 500 laps on a hot summer night usually led to an explosion of tempers.
It mellowed a bit after the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship was formed in 2004, and drivers trying to make NASCAR's title-deciding format had to be cautious that late in the season. Then came the 2007 reconfiguration, which added variable banking in the corners and opened lanes for two-and-three wide racing.
With so much room, there's not as much contact between the cars, and fans have complained that Bristol just isn't the same.
Smith said SMI will study fan comments this week.
"I want to be sure that the fans like what they see," he said. "If the fans like three abreast through the turns, we do nothing. If they don't, then we'll alter the track. The fans vote is the most important thing."
If changes are made, they'll be done in time for NASCAR's Aug. 25 return to Bristol.
"If I am going to do anything, I am going to guarantee we are going to do it before August," he said.


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Farmers in 26 Minnesota counties affected by drought are eligible for federal loans.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the loan program Friday, putting local Farm Service Agency offices in charge of taking applications.
"This drought continues to affect Minnesota, putting a strain on our farmers' and ranchers' livelihoods," U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., said.
The declaration designates Big Stone, Chippewa, Kandiyohi, McLeod, Meeker, Pope, Sherburne, Stearns, Swift and Wright counties as primary disaster areas. Like other disaster declarations, Friday's action also provides aid to farmers in adjoining counties: Anoka, Benton, Carver, Douglas, Grant, Hennepin, Isanti, Lac Qui Parle, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Renville, Sibley, Stevens, Todd, Traverse and Yellow Medicine.
Most U.S. counties have some form of crop disaster declaration this year, mostly due to drought. Federal officials provide low-interest loans to farmers and ranchers affected by the dry weather.
Klobuchar and two other Democrats, Sen. Al Franken and Rep. Collin Peterson, used the declaration to lobby for passage of a new farm bill.
"Drought is just one of the risks farmers face every year, and that's why the House of Representatives needs to pass the Senate's farm bill and give our farmers the stability they need to plan for next year," Franken said.
Peterson added: "A strong safety net is necessary to providing the support and certainty farmers need during difficult times. This is why passing a five-year farm bill should be at the top of the congressional agenda when we reconvene in November."
The Senate passed its version of the farm bill earlier this year, but House Republican leadership has held up a vote, citing lack of support. Both versions emphasize a heavier reliance on providing farmers with crop insurance instead of subsidy payments.


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Peter Voser of Royal Dutch Shell is set to address Boston College's Chief Executives' Club of Boston on March 21.
Voser, CEO of the giant energy and petrochemical company, is expected to discuss such issues as the future of energy, climate change, renewable energy, and the impact that the "North American shale revolution" will have on the United States and the world, the club said.
With reported revenues of $467 billion in 2012, Royal Dutch Shell is Europe's largest energy company and a leader in the North American energy market.
Eric S. Slifka, president and chief executive of Global Partners LP, has been designated as the host of the event.
Voser's address is scheduled to take place at the Boston Harbor Hotel.Chris Reidy can be reached at email@example.com.


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We calculate our group fares separately from the special online saver price. The price is calculated individually depending on capacity and is generally higher than the saver fare in single-seat sales. With group bookings, the Ticket Service Charge is € 20 per person. If the booking is cancelled, this fee is not reimbursed.
What is the benefit for customers making a group booking directly with our Groups department?
The offer is reserved without obligation to buy for 7 days. When the booking is confirmed, payment is made in full. Credit card payments are free of charge with group bookings. The names of those travelling in the group have to be specified for the booking to be binding, and 10% of them can be changed without incurring any additional charge up to 10 days prior to departure. From 9 days to 48 hours prior to departure, passenger names may be changed subject to a fee. Up to 14 days prior to departure, 10% of the passengers booked into the group may be cancelled without incurring any additional charge. The free cancellation allowance is only applicable if the minimum group size of 10 people still exists after making the cancellation.
It goes without saying that you can also request group flights from a travel agency. Such bookings are subject to special terms and conditions, for example the names are not required until the time of ticketing (at the latest 10 days prior to departure); terms are also specified for advance and final payments. Sales partners can access our terms and conditions on the partner site.
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Panel Discussion on Urban Education Held at Mount Union College
May 10, 2010
A panel discussion on urban education was held in the Mount Union Theater November 30.
The panel discussion, hosted by Dr. Tom Gannon, associate professor of education, explored issues and situations within the education system and offered advice to the many aspiring teachers in attendance.
Panelists included Mark Black, a 1998 Mount Union graduate and principal of Canton McKinley High School; Tamiko Hatcher, a 1998 graduate and assistant principal of Alliance Middle School; Corey Grubbs, principal/leader of Timken Senior High School Service Academy and Sandy Womack, a 1992 graduate and director of pupil services for Canton City Schools.
Topics explored included diversity, culture shock, expectations and preconceptions.
The panelists explained that diversity is much more than race and gender, and that very often the actual problem is a lack of diversity. The panelists said that when there is a lack of diversity, a new student or instructor of a different race experiences "culture shock."
Grubbs advised aspiring educators to ask themselves, "How do I, as a teacher, deal with ever changing diversity?" He answered his own question by saying, "Always be willing to learn."
The panelists also shared their personal experiences with culture shock during their careers.
The discussion then shifted to the topic of expectations. Many students in inner-city schools have to deal with poor home environments as well as lack of materials, such as computers.
"Students are a product of their environment," Black said. "You have to understand the environment students come from."
The panelists took questions from the audience and were asked how to deal with students who can't go home and use a computer or who do not have time to complete assignments because of problems at home, including obligations such as babysitting a sibling.
Hatcher suggested that, if time is the issue, the instructor takes control and makes sure that the student is given the time and opportunity in the classroom to complete assignments. The entire panel agreed that instructors should offer time and help to those who need it instead of lowering the expectations of a student to perform.
"You can't help the home life," Womack said, "but you have to teach. This isn't brain surgery; it is much more serious than that. These minds are malleable."
The panel also discussed the preconceived notions and perceptions that both students and instructors have about different races and environments.
Black shared stories about his experiences as an African American teacher in a predominately Caucasian school district.
"You have to be honest with the kids," Black said. He advised aspiring teachers to be open with students about what they do not know or understand because students will respect that.
"Our perceptions become our reality," added Womack. "We are really much more alike than we are different."
In the end, the panelists advised the audience to be themselves, be clear about their identity, find their niche, stay open minded and that things will work out for them if they are diligent.
"Be you; be genuine; be passionate,' said Hatcher, 'and remember that kids will be kids.'


text: The Treasury Department says it will begin running out of money to pay its bills by Oct. 17, if the partial government shutdown isn't over by then. That prospect worries the financial markets. Treasury debt plays a fundamental role in the global economy, and economists agree that a debt default would have dire consequences. But some Republicans insist that a default doesn't have to happen.


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Bobby Smith, lead singer of Detroit group The Spinners, died on Saturday at age 76. Smith was diagnosed with lung cancer in November, and passed away after complications from pneumonia over the weekend.
Smith formed The Spinners in high school, along with Bill Henderson, Pervis Jackson and Henry Fambrough. Of the four original members, Fambrough is the only one surviving. He said today of his deceased friend and bandmate, "Bobby was a regular, down-to-earth, good-natured person, the kind of guy who'd give you his shirt. And ever since I've known him, he was just a natural showman."
Despite his cancer diagnosis, Smith gave a final performance just this past February, on the Soul Train Cruise. Jessie Peck, who played in the band during the performance, said Smith went out on a strong note. "Like something out of a movie, Bobby shoots right out onstage and – showman that he is – grabs a mic and sings right on cue," Peck recounts, pointing out that Smith was not scheduled to perform on the cruise because of weakness from cancer treatments, but couldn't resist getting on stage when the band started playing his hit "Then Came You."
"The audience went bananas," he says.
The Spinners joined Motown in the early 1960s and enjoyed moderate success, but really broke out in the 1970s when they joined Atlantic Records at the urging of friend Aretha Franklin. With Atlantic, they churned out some of the biggest hits of their career, including "I'll Be Around" and "Could It Be I'm Falling in Love."
Funeral services for Smith are scheduled for next Monday in his native Detroit.
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Vinnie Paul: If a Pantera Reunion Happened, Zakk Wylde Would Fill Dimebag's Spot
Hellyeah / ex-Pantera drummer Vinnie Paul recently spoke about a hypothetical Pantera reunion during an interview with radio station 97.1 The Eagle Rocks. During the discussion, Paul revealed that if a Pantera reunion were to happen, his first and only choice to fill in for his late brother "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott would be Black Label Society shredder Zakk Wylde.
"I spent two hours with Zakk, sitting down — a really great talk," described Paul. "I mean, [Zakk] and my brother were so tight. If [a PANTERA reformation] ever were to happen, [Zakk] would be the guy [to step in for Dimebag]. But I honestly think, out of respect for my brother, we should just leave the 14 amazing years Pantera had be. We're all happy doing our own thing. We have to continue living and do other things."
The drummer also spoke about the lost 'Vulgar Display of Power' track 'Piss,' which will appear on the 20th anniversary reissue of the classic album.
"I don't know why this song didn't make it on the record," says Paul. "I'll be totally honest with you… After I heard it, it, to me, had the same exact sound and vibe of that record, but maybe it was a little more groovy than the rest of the stuff. And when I say groovy,' I mean, when you hear it, you're gonna die because it's so amazing."
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THORP, Wis. (AP) – A former track coach has pleaded no contest in Clark County to sexually assaulting a teenage member of his team. Forty-four-year-old Scott Bergman reached a plea agreement with prosecutors and will avoid a jury trial. The former Thorp coach pleaded no contest to sexual assault of a student by school staff and bail jumping. Four other felony charges were dismissed, but will be read-in when Bergman is sentenced. A criminal complaint says Thorp school officials contacted police after learning about a possible sexual relationship between Bergman and the 17-year-old girl last year. WSAW-TV (http://bit.ly/1cbfwAP ) reports a search warrant of Bergman's phone turned up nude photos of the girl and intimate text messages. A sentencing hearing is set for Sept. 17.
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By Michael Gormley
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ALBANY— As state Republican Chairman Ed Cox leads an attack Wednesday on Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's indecision over whether to approve hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, Democrats attacked Cox's own personal stock and position with a global natural gas drilling company.
Cox confirmed that he and his wife, Tricia Nixon Cox, a daughter of the late President Richard Nixon, have $2 million to $3 million in stock of Noble Energy and he collects six-figure fees for his work on the company's board.
But Cox told The Associated Press that his personal stake Houston-based company has nothing to do with his leading role in criticizing the Democratic governor running for re-election. Cox's effort was to begin in earnest Wednesday night in an unpaid speech Cox will make in Buffalo to the Independent Oil and Gas Association of New York.
The New York Public Interest Research Group, a good-government advocate, said Cox's stake in the gas company creates a murky ethical area, but the investment doesn't appears to violate any laws.
"It's sort of a trifecta of murkiness," said the organization's Blair Horner. "The personal, the professional and the political all coming together in one person."
Cox isn't lobbying for Noble Energy. He also said the company doesn't have business in New York and doesn't plan any. As state party chairman, he is trying to pave a route for a Republican to take on Cuomo in the governor's race next year. But the state Republican Committee hasn't yet taken a formal position on hydrofracking.
"Whether anything happens in New York or not is not going to have a significant impact at all for me personally," he said. "... It won't impact my Noble stock."
Cox said, however, that if his company was seeking to business in New York, he would likely not take the same approach against Cuomo. He said he's using the drilling issue as an example of Cuomo making political decisions for his own good over the economic needs of New Yorkers.
"If we were invested in New York, say, in a big way, I don't think I would be raising it," Cox said. "I don't think I would be out there the way I am now of using this as an example of the governor's process. ... This is an obvious one."
Republicans employed a strategy similar to Cox's against the governor's father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, who was dubbed "Hamlet on the Hudson" by critics for his lengthy consideration of whether to run for president.
Democrats attacked Cox's criticism of Andrew Cuomo.
"Ed Cox's position on fracking is nothing more than shilling for his personal financial interests," said Rodney Capel, executive director of the state Democratic Committee headed by Cuomo. "If Cox sells the GOP to the highest bidder, he should at least be up front about his personal stake in the industry."
There is strong opposition to hydraulic fracturing among Cuomo's liberal base of voters. The relatively new technique, also called fracking, injects massive amounts of water and chemicals deep underground to extract oil and gas. It has brought economic booms to areas that allow it, including in Pennsylvania and Ohio, but critics cite concerns about possible damage to drinking water. Cuomo says he is waiting for a public health report he ordered his health commissioner to undertake months ago before deciding whether to lift the moratorium on fracking.
Cuomo has set and missed deadlines to decide whether to approve fracking in upstate areas that lie above the huge Marcellus Shale oil deposit. That has angered some Southern Tier residents who feel the industry will finally turn around the area's long-distressed economy.
Cuomo is seeking to reclaim his once lofty popularity upstate, which began to erode after he pushed through gun control laws this year.


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MIT epitomises the competitive, winner-takes-it-all, might-makes-right environment which is keeping half the world in poverty. Every dominant man starts forming his network at one of the elite universities, supporting research in collusion with exploitative business. When you've accepted that offer, you've already asked to be part of the system - to pretend to do something against it is ineffective hypocrisy.
What's your solution ?
For people who
(i) are sufficiently intelligent to enter MIT (or similar); but
(ii) are interested in application of technology to benevolent causes rather than application of technology to their bank account
to refuse an acceptance or to leave the university and instead do what they believe is right on their own?
If you want to force any organisation to change its behaviour, as any fule kno, you withold labour. Top universities exist on the reputation of a tiny minority of dedicated academics, but their business is processing journeymen who either stop at graduation or do a small amount of research work to launch them into a high-paying commercial job.
To take an example, the director of my MSc programme resigned in angry disgust at the increasing commercialisation of higher education but most academics are too scared to leave the security of their tenure (or quasi-tenure). His action encouraged me as a student to take a look at politics in the university and higher education in general, and I aborted my research plans out of principle. Interestingly, my cousin at the LSE did the same as a final year PhD student.
You sound like a sad little hippie who still has a chip on his shoulder because some jocks picked on him a decade or two prior.
What is wrong with competition?
And you propose a losers-distribute-winnings-equally environment?
What is wrong with competition?
Competition isn't inherently bad, but competition can be pointless and even a lot less useful than competition.
In general competition can be fun, it can be a challenge. But, in today's world we're expected to always compete whether we want to or not, all day every day you're expected to constantly try to be better than the other guy (or girl). We're living in a world where "Good enough" for many people means you're first on the chopping block when the next round of layoffs starts. Where "Good enough" just i
"...even a lot less useful than cooperation."
But, in today's world we're expected to always compete whether we want to or not
This has been a fact of life since the first proto-cells started eating each other about 4Gyrs ago, the very reason cooperation evolved in the first place was it imparted a competitive advantage. You and I may not like relentless competition, but there's fuck all we can do about the fundamental facts of life.
You're missing the point. What I meant was that when compared to say, my parents' generation, my generation clearly has to compete on a different level. When I was out of work straight after college my father was baffled by this, when he was that age jobs could be had by just going to a company you thought looked fun to work for and asking them for a job. And in the workplace these days the level of performance expected by each employee is higher (at least in a lot of white-collar jobs). Basically our (western) society has become a lot more competitive and for the average person I just don't think the everyday gains outweigh the cost.
Now yes, if you go back to the 19th century and the wave of industrialization that swept through the world things were worse, the point is that we took a few steps forward and then we started taking steps backwards again.
You're missing the point. What I meant was that when compared to say, my parents' generation, my generation clearly has to compete on a different level.
The world did get a lot smaller in the meantime, while the number of competitors surged to twice what the entire population of the world was back then.
That's what happens when former ideological enemies become competitors - particularly when the guiding philosophy of the winning side is that "it's a dog-eat-dog world".
Your parents probably had to "compete" with only the local population of your state, or even only the local population of your town.
You, me, the next generation... we now have a whole world to
You sound like a sad little hippie who still has a chip on his shoulder because some jocks picked on him a decade or two prior.
Where I went to school, "jocks" wouldn't have passed the entrance exam. I dislike my elite past, but I'm not going to deny it.
What is wrong with competition?
What is right with competition? There are times when it seems to work but there is nothing inherently good about it.
And you propose a losers-distribute-winnings-equally environment?
You're paying no attention. I propose that the intelligent act out of a desire to achieve good things in their discipline rather than to profit. There are 7 billion people in the world - more than enough who are both clever and benevolent. We simply have no need of the "gr8 people like me need $$$ incentive to support you!" mantra any more - it's a more outdated idea than RIAA, which is why certain groups are trying so hard to cling on to it.
MIT epitomises the competitive, winner-takes-it-all, might-makes-right environment which is keeping half the world in poverty.
I have my doubts that "competitive" is the problem. If you ask people to participate in improving something, some will join for the sake of it, for some greater cause, but only if they perceive the goal to be of equal benefit to everyone. If instead the goal is considered profitable for a corporation or person, they will demand a prize or refuse to participate even on a winner-takes-it-all basis and ask for renumeration whatever the outcome / the quality of their contribution. Conclusion? Most goals we are
> When you've accepted that offer, you've already asked to be part of the system
My MIT diploma? I threw it on the ground!
MIT epitomises the competitive, winner-takes-it-all, might-makes-right environment which is keeping half the world in poverty. Every dominant man starts forming his network at one of the elite universities, supporting research in collusion with exploitative business. When you've accepted that offer, you've already asked to be part of the system - to pretend to do something against it is ineffective hypocrisy.
Actually, students at MIT end up there because they are obsessed with some aspect of science or engineering and are driven to seek out and solve problems, like this housing exercise. The problems may be profound or trivial or even silly (how to get a fake police car up on the dome, for example), but they are all just problems crying out to be solved.
If these students had actually put some thought into getting rich by exploiting the world, they would have applied instead to Harvard, networked with the pre
MIT is not a university -- or at least they didn't claim to be when I went there. As far as it being elite, so far as I know you can't get in by being rich. I don't know their stance on "legacy" admissions, but it really is a non-issue because the bigger problem is *staying* in. At MIT they cover what would be two semesters of calculus in most places in under a semester. And as far as I can see there is no "old boy's network" for MIT alumni, although the institute would probably like to see that happen.
How many houses for the developing world have you designed and published for the world.
Forget it, you have to be a troll, can somebody so ignorant exist otherwise?
There is a program at MIT where the students develop low tech and appropriate technology for the developing world. I guess that teaching locals to make their own biochar that burns cleaner than wood or cow dung and will reduce air pollution inside people's homes so they don't die of lung cancer is an evil plot to support the establishment?
Same goes for water purification systems, grain mills I guess too?
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/gonzo/4273674 [popularmechanics.com]
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/sm [mit.edu]
This wouldn't fly in the US.
Some construction union would intervene claiming substandard construction or what-not, code violations etc, etc just to protect their jobs.
The pipe-fitters unions did the same thing when PVC piping came out--they lobbied for code changes that required copper tubing, changes that ruled out Joe-Homeowner doing the work himself. Most building codes make it very hard for the do-it-your-selfers, sometimes requiring them to actually get a contractors license. There is no reason for this if the work passes inspection--it exists simply to protect the jobs of people that need to get with the times, adapt and get on with their lives rather then holding back the rest of humanity.
Some jurisdictions have had their codes changed to support houses made from materials you might not expect -- hay bales, recycled tires, etc. Many areas might not, but it's worth talking to your local people to find out if you could do something like this. It might just pan out.
Nor in Sweden. I don't know about the specific regulations here, but just looking around, it is clear that one can't live in just any old shack over here.
The standard of living doesn't start with a shack. It starts with a reasonably nice apartment (although in recent years the bourgeoisie have been laxing the rules for renovation). If, on a scale from 0 to 10 in standard of living 0 is the pavement, 1 is a shack and 10 is a castle, over here you get an apartment of standard 5 or thereabouts. If not, you're
Well, I think the housing situation here in Sweden would improve a lot if the rules were a bit more relaxed. These days even if you do all the work you can yourself, call in favors from friends and all that you're still unlikely to get away with building a small single-household home for less than SEK 1,500,000.
Hell, brand new studio apartments regularly cost SEK 5,500+ to rent (even though they're in less attractive neighborhoods).
I would love to be able to build my own house but with the prices these days
Yes, I think I agree at least a bit. But it should not be let out of hand so that "slum lords" (to the extent that they exist in Sweden) can let their houses decay even more while still not lowering rent. I guess those regulations should be easy enough to keep separate. No cockroaches and mildew is acceptable for the renters, for example.
And while I like the nice standards for living conditions, homeless people should be given sub-standard barracks to dwell in until proper apartments are available, I think.
(Disclaimer: I'm not a conspiracy theorist, nut.)
If you feel the need to make such a disclaimer in your sig, I'd say you should probably try to figure out why people keep thinking you are one.
This wouldn't fly in the US.
Neither would a job picking crops, but that doesn't make picking crops a bad idea.
Harris Rosen from here in Orlando (owner of a huge hotel chain) was trying to start a project to create $5,000 homes for victims of the Haitian earthquake. This story reminded me of that (mostly because I wanted to double check how much they thought they could build each house for).
Link. [rosenhotels.com]
The design in the PDF broke most of the build cheap rules. Things like if there's a kitchen and bathroom you put them back to back to share plumbing and drains saving on pipe. If there's no traditional kitchen or bathroom then why call them out in the plans as if they aren't included? There's options like Lorena Stoves that are basically built out of sand and clay so other than metal exhaust pipes and burner covers they require little money. Unless you are building what amounts to a shack basic plumbing and
I understand that the project was formed with the developing world in mind, but I think that the concept is worth pursuing in the developed world as well.
The trouble is that all of the concepts that I read about sounded like ideas for a cabana on the beach. While that may work in spots where temps stay moderate year round, the rest of us could never make that work. Also, most of the ideas I read about sounded pretty light on engineering and heavier on design (architecture).
I'd like to see this project expanded into something resembling the next generation of manufactured/modular homes. We're in sore need of reasonably priced structures that are within the realm of an average person's abilities that retain style and form beyond an ugly box.
I agree that the developing world needs cheap ways to house their citizenry, but let's not forget to solve some of the problems that we still face here at home (in the US).
The hay bale house had a pretty large thermal mass,it looked like. I've read about them before, and they're pretty interesting. They might be more workable in a colder climate.
Actually no,
Yes, straw bales CAN be used as infill, but, it is not the way a real straw home is done.
You build the walls by stacking the bales, compress them a bit - then coat the bales on both sides with mud, shotcrete or whatever. They are very strong, have some thermal mass, and because of the great thickness they have a good R value
There is the Tumbleweed House Company [tumbleweedhouses.com], they sell blue prints for _small_ houses. Not exactly the same as targeting price, but I'm sure there's a lot of overlap.
For a more general climate capable house, there's a book written by a guy in the 70's about underground housing.
He's got a site: Underground Housing [undergroundhousing.com]. The book was for a place he built for $50.
Now, it didn't have a bathroom or running water, he already owned the land, he got scrap lumber for free from a lumber mill, he did all the work by hand, and his land is heavily wooded (it was built in Idaho, I think) so he could cut logs for timber frame supports, but it's still a viable concept for cheap housing.
"Some of the houses in the UK barely have room for the bed."
I remember reading another article on the same subject (no reference--sorry) and there was a comments section after the article. Someone had posted that one of the development companies building these mini-me housing tracts was also building nearby self-serve storage rental facilities. They sell you a tiny flat...and rent you the space to store your stuff.
A mortgage AND rent, from one sale--amazing.
The problem is that the UK advertises houses in terms of the number of bedrooms, rather than the floor area. If you look at an estate agent's web site, you'll see that prices are more or less broken down into 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-bedroom properties, with only a little bit of overlap between them. When I was looking for somewhere to buy, I found that a lot of old houses had had partition walls installed in the bedrooms so that one reasonable-sized bedroom became two small rooms. And, weirdly, this increases
If I want three seperate places to sleep in my property then it makes very little difference how big the rooms are in a 2 bedroom property, I'm still missing a room.
Partition walls are not particularly difficult to install. Certainly not compared to the overall cost of the house. The one thing you can't get more of easily is total space, so that's a better primary measure of the value of a house.
... where to put the damned thing that won't result in demands to forfeit one's firstborn. For fuck's sake, if one is truly desperate one could live in a tent with a price tag far less than a thousand dollars, but who's gonna let you squat on THEIR land for free with your inexpensive tent? That's right: NO ONE. The people who own land in excess of their need for personal space own it for one reason only, and the reason ain't philanthropic nor egalitarian.
Land has always been and will always be the class
These are developing world housing structures, what makes you think they have developed world metropolitan land prices?
There are complete houses with land selling for $5000
Which is the same as these, no plumbing or electrical wiring. At least, not any longer.
Here in mexico if you squat somewhere for 5 years it's yours.
That is true here in the U.S. too. However, you have to notify the State Housing Authorities that your are intending to improve the land at the time you move onto the land so they can check to see if anyone else is claiming ownership. Few people know about abandonment laws.
So really i guess US'ians don't really have anything to complain about then?
You forgot, "Now get off my lawn"! Literally.
This is a cute student project, but most would be considered "seasonal" shelter in even basic developed countries. I applaud the creativity, especially of the pinwheel house. Other houses sounded a bit more like a scavenger hunt that could have been done by any 5th year studio student in US architectural schools.
I would certainly hope that, given an entire year of studio work, there is more to the final product than the marketing brochure that came out of the pinwheel house. Part of the practice of architecture (which these students, we presume, would like to eventually be) is making buildings which are buildable. That means detailed drawings of each part which is not OTS hardware - but I see nothing. Does the robotics team get to draw a picture of a walking robot, or do they have to actually do piece drawings and wiring diagrams to actually build the robot?
To be fair, with skilled assembly, it is certainly better than most slum housing - but without skilled labor it may not be much better. None of the designs, save possibly the concrete roof, could be considered water tight for any length of time as initially reviewed, and few appear to have any chance of surviving a 50 year environmental event, much less protecting the occupants. I guess if they're cheap to build (just 6 years of the average 3rd world persons salary, by the website's count), you could see them as disposable and just build them again after each typhoon or earthquake.
From one of the linked sites:
"MIT 1K House is partnering with Skanska and Next Phase Studios to construct three exhibit 1K House prototypes in on MIT campus in Cambridge, MA. The project is moving forward, and the goal is to construct the prototypes by MIT Commencement on June 4, 2010. "
What I want to know it - if Skanska supposedly built 3 of these prototypes on the MIT campus in 2010, how much did it cost? I didn't see pictures, so I presume that the Skanska bid came in somewhere north of $3000 (or even the $6000 estimate for Philippines construction). IT doesn't appear that any of these houses has actually ever been built.
Perhaps you've never been to developing countries? This is a palace compared to some of the shacks here in mexico, even in the mountains where there's snow and water freezes. A large part of the country has no indoor heating maki.g nights here in the mountains colder than winters in canada.
http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/ [tumbleweedhouses.com]
This is the trick to get around the obtuse American building laws. Make it a trailer. Still a lot more than $1000.00 if you go nuts, but you could build one for around that price if you were good with scavenging and built it yourself.
Better the obtuse American building laws than the straight forward Hammurabi building laws.
So let's say you go to haiti, and offer these to the government where they can spend money to help rebuild their houses..the problem is once all the houses are rebuilt, you are left with a sh*t load of these lying around....unless they were to evolve it further, and allow connections between multiple houses, making them bigger and one unit....that would then let some of the people just use these full time instead of rebuilding their houses, in a country that cant afford anything right now.
This doesn't take into account the plumbing, or the electrical wiring. Are they not considered esential?
There's the Hexayurt Project [hexayurt.com], which is basically an updated geodesic dome and can be built up to 450 square feet for each module [morganengel.com] using only hand tools and a screw gun and the Wikihouse [wikihouse.cc] which is a fablab style design which relies on a router.
A typical deployment for a family home would be three hexayurts made out of polyiso foam and then sprayed with ferrocement. Cost is probably around $1500 for that approach, but that's first-world costs. With hand-plaster rather than sprayed ferrocement, I think a develop
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THURSDAY, Dec. 11 (HealthDay News) -- While marijuana and alcohol use has declined among teens, the abuse of painkillers such as Vicodin and Oxycontin has increased, a new report shows.
But, the decline in the use of drugs such as marijuana has stalled after a steady drop in recent years, the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse says in its report, Monitoring the Future: National Results on Adolescent Drug Use, which was released Thursday.
"We have seen improvements across many of the substances since the late '90s, but in the last couple of years, particularly this year, we've noticed that those declines have flattened out," said Dr. Wilson M. Compton, director of the Division of Epidemiology Services and Prevention Research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
"We are concerned that we need to double down our efforts, because even though there have been improvements, these are still at rates that are high by international standards, and it's really very concerning in terms of the risk to the health of our community in the long run," Compton said.
Compton said that much of the drug use among adolescents is with teens from middle-class white families. "There is a preconception that this is a problem of minority youth, and that is not true," he said.
According to the report, the use of prescription painkillers among high school students remains high, with some 10 percent of seniors saying they used Vicodin and 4.7 percent reporting they used Oxycontin in the past year.
Of the top 10 drugs used by high school seniors, seven are prescription drugs or over-the-counter medicines such as cough syrup, the report noted. In fact, 15.4 percent of 12th graders said they used prescription drugs for non-medical reasons last year. "This seems remarkable to me, and very worrisome," Compton said.
Over half the users of these drugs get them from family and friends, Compton noted.
In the past year, drug use among 10th graders of substances other than marijuana declined significantly, from 18.2 percent to 15.9 percent, but among 12th graders the decline in the use of marijuana has slowed.
The use of Ecstasy increased in 2007 among 10th and 12th graders. At the same time, the perceived risk of the drug declined.
Amphetamine use declined among 10th graders. Crystal methamphetamine use among seniors continued to drop in the past year, from 1.6 percent to 1.1 percent. Also, the use of crack cocaine dropped, from 1.9 percent to 1.6 percent among seniors from 2007 to 2008.
While marijuana use consistently declined since the mid-1990s, it appears to have leveled off. In the past year, 10.9 percent of eighth graders, 23.9 percent of 10th graders, and 32.4 percent of 12th graders reported using marijuana, the researchers found.
The survey, which has been conducted for the past 33 years, did find that cigarette smoking among teens is at the lowest rate ever. Also, alcohol use continues to drop slowly, with a significant decline among 10th graders in the past year, from 56.3 percent in 2007 to 52.5 percent in 2008. The decline was seen for lifetime use of alcohol and binge drinking, according to the survey.
Yet, 25 percent of seniors said they had five or more drinks in a row in the two weeks before the survey. And while smoking rates have also dropped, more than one in 10 seniors still smoke and 5.4 percent smoke more than half a pack a day.
The survey also measured attitudes about drugs among teens. Of particular note was the drop in the number of high school seniors who see LSD as harmful and the number of eighth graders who see inhalants as harmful.
This year's survey data was collected from 46,348 students in the eighth, 10th, and 12th grades in 386 public and private schools. The survey was done by researchers from the University of Michigan.
Dr. David L. Katz, director of the Prevention Research Center at Yale University School of Medicine, thinks the report provides data that can be used by drug prevention programs.
"This report provides a rich array of data characterizing the trends in drug use," Katz said. "In many cases, such as tobacco, the trends are favorable. In some, such as heroin, they are stable, and the use of a drug known as Ecstasy actually increased over the period of study."
Overall, nearly half of high school students will have tried an illegal drug before graduation, Katz said. "Progress has been made, but there is clearly work left to do."
Prevention and education campaigns can do a better job if they target the specific drugs that are popular at a given time, Katz said. "By doing this, and keeping the list of culprits perennially current, we might more effectively avoid the movement from one drug to another," he said.
More information
For more on drug abuse, visit the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse.
SOURCES: Wilson M. Compton, M.D., M.P.E., director, Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research, U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse; David L. Katz, M.D., M.P.H., director, Prevention Research Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.; Dec. 11, 2008, report, Monitoring the Future: National Results on Adolescent Drug Use, National Institute on Drug Abuse
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Eric F. Grabowski, MD, DSci
Dr. Grabowski is a practicing pediatric hematologist/oncologist at MGHfC, who treats children with major deep venous thrombosis, bleeding disorders, and stroke. He also is Chairman of the New England Retinoblastoma Group, and evaluates and, when necessary, provides chemotherapy to children with retinoblastoma, the most common eye tumor of childhood. As Director of the Cardiovascular Thrombosis Laboratory, however, he is studying the critical role of the tissue factor pathway of coagulation in the pathophysiology of the childhood hemolytic uremic syndrome, and the use of flowing blood to develop an assay by which von Willebrand disease might be more easily diagnosed. Towards these ends his laboratory, based on Jackson 13, has special expertise in vascular endothelial cell culture and function, and in platelet-endothelial cell interactions in flowing blood.
Dr. Grabowski is immediate past Chair of the Scientific Committee on Thrombosis and Vascular Biology of the American Society of Hematology, and Co-Chair of the Pediatric Committee of the Transfusion Medicine-Hemostasis network. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Thrombosis and Hemostasis Summit of North America to be held in May 2012, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Hemophilia and Thrombosis Research Society of North America.
Childhood hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). One project, supported by NHLBI (R01HL089332, "Tissue Factor, Flow, and Platelet Adhesion/Aggregation on Activated Endothelium"), seeks to establish a pathophysiology for the little understood childhood hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). Background: E. coli-related HUS is a thrombotic microangiopathy driven by Shiga toxin (Stx). We hypothesize that increased expression of tissue factor (TF) on endothelium plays a major role in the pathophysiology of this disorder. Methods: We are using primary cultures (passage 3 or 4) of monolayers of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) to examine gene expression for TF and TF pathway inhibitor (TFPI) under several experimental conditions--1) control, 2) activation with 20 ng/ml tumor necrosis factor (TNFa) alone x 22 hours, 3) activation with 10 pM Stx-1 alone for hours 18-22, 4) activation with the same concentrations of TNFa x 22 hours and Stx-1 for hours 18-22, and 5) activation with the same concentration of TNFa x 22 hours and 1.0 µg/ml lipopolysaccharide (LPS) with Stx-1 for hours 18-22. Fold changes in mRNAs have been calculated using the comparative ct method, with a standard deviation in these fold changes derived from values for N different sets of pooled HUVECs. In parallel with these studies and as a function of the above experimental conditions, we have performed a chromogenic assay for functional TF, measured as fmol of factor Xa generated from factor X per cm2 of monolayer per min, measured total cellular antigenic TF and TFPI, measured secretion rates of TFPI into supernatant, and assessed endothelial cell surface TF and TFPI antigens via immunofluorescence. Results: We find that TNFa alone leads to a fold increase in TF mRNA of 2.57 ± 0.84 (N=10), while Stx-1 alone induces no significant change (1.25 ± 0.32, 9). However, the combination of TNFa and Stx-1 causes a fold change of 5.82 ± 2.64, 14, while TNFa, Stx-1, and LPS in combination induces a fold change of 15.50 ± 4.78 (14). Stx-containing treatments also lead to modest yet significant fold reductions in TFPI mRNA (half-life of 48-72 hrs, vs 3 hrs for TF mRNA). Factor Xa production (mean ± SD, N) for these same treatments is 0 ± 0 (56), 0.609 ± 0.720 (53), 1.064 ± 0.882 (46), 2.717 ± 1.824 (39) fmol/cm2/min. Figure 1 shows these fold-changes, as well as those in control experiments with LPS, a mutant Stx-1 (Sm), and heat-inactivated Stx-1 (Sh). In three experiments, total cellular TF antigen increases from 107 ± 42 (control) to 273 ± 70 with TNFa, to 638 ± 121 pg/ml with TNFa plus Stx-1. In six experiments, total TFPI antigen for these same conditions is 313 ± 96, 313 ± 31, and 257 ± 41 pg/ml. Secretion of full-length TFPI into supernatant is diminished in the presence of Stx-1. Finally, immunofluorescence studies show changes in TF and TFPI antigen expression which parallel those for total celluar TF and TFPI antigen. Conclusions: Stx-1 augments functional TF on endothelium by a combination of two processes. First, this toxin increases TF gene expression, yielding enhanced TF protein synthesis. Second, Stx-1 impairs synthesis, secretion and cell-surface association of TFPI. Blockade of the tissue factor pathway of coagulation may therefore afford a therapeutic approach to HUS, for which at present there is only supportive therapy.
Improved laboratory diagnosis of von Willebrand Disease (vWD). A second project (supported by Behring Foundation) is the use of real-time epifluorescent digital video microscopy in flowing blood as a means to improve diagnostic accuracy in mild von Willebrand disease. Background: vWD is one of the most common bleeding disorders worldwide, yet a precise approach to the diagnosis of this condition remains elusive. One important reason is that vWD is a blood flow related disorder: a vW Factor-platelet GPIb binding defect in this condition exists under the high shear rate (>1000 sec-1 in whole blood; >3000 sec-1 in PRP) conditions of physiologic blood flow which exist in the arterioles of mucous membranes, from which most bleeding in vWD occurs. Methods: We studied 28 patients (mean 18.9 yrs ) with vWD, diagnosed according to the 2007 NHLBI clinical guidelines, and 26 healthy controls (mean 17.5 yrs). Blood was collected into a plastic tube containing 4 U/ml FC dalteparin, 1.75 µg/ml of the Tab (anti-CD41) monoclonal antibody directed against platelet GPIIb, 1.0 µg/ml of an ALEXA 555-conjugated rabbit anti-mouse second antibody, and PBS (9 parts blood:1 part PBS). Within 30-90 min, the blood was then withdrawn at 670 and 1330 sec-1 through a special flow chamber designed by Dr. Grabowski which allows for blood exposure to 150 µm glass cover clips precoated with microfibrillar collagen. Using epifluorescence digital videomicroscopy, we imaged platelets interacting in real time with the collagen substrate, and quantified with MetaMorph software (Universal Imaging) the percent area(PA) covered by adherent platelet aggregates, and the number of platelets/mm2 (total volume, TV) of these aggregates within a 435 µm x 580 µm field of view. Resolution was better than 1 µm. Clinical bleeding score (ICTH) and ristocetin cofactor activity were also recorded. Results: At 670 sec-1 PA and TV were similar for patients and controls, but at 1330 sec-1 after 1 min PA was 9.32 ± 4.21 (mean ± SD) for patients, a value significantly (p = 0.00072) lower than the 12.8 ± 3.39 for controls. TV was (1.43 ± 0.91)x104 for patients, a value also significantly (p = 0.00056) lower than the (2.22 ± 0.77)x104 for controls. Eight patients (29%) had a PA below the lower 95th percentile, and 11 (39%) had a TV below the lowest control value. Figure 2 shows platelet adhesion/aggregation in flowing whole blood for a normal control at 670 sec-1. Flow direction is from top-to-bottom, with the varying local aggregate thickness represented by pseudo-color.Conclusions: With considerations of bleeding history set aside, the present approach detected more patients than did the same-day ristocetin cofactor activities, of which only four (14%) were <30%, and allowed direct visualization of forming platelet thrombi. The present method, moreover, allows real-time imaging of platelet aggregate structure in flowing blood.
1. Grabowski EF, Carter CC, Tsukurov O, Conroy N, Abbott WM and Orkin RW: A comparison of the tissue factor pathway in human umbilical vein and adult saphenous vein endothelial cells: Implications for newborn hemostasis and for laboratory models of endothelial cell function. Ped Res1999;46:742-747.
2. Grabowski EF: The hemolytic-uremic syndrome—toxin, thrombin, and thrombosis. [Editorial] NEJM2002; 346(1):58-61.
3. E.F. Grabowski, M. Cheung, E.E. Biliouris, R.I. Kushak, and E. Van Cott. Pattern and reduced volume of platelet aggregation in a high shear rate blood flow chamber allows for the sensitive and specific diagnosis of vWD. Presented at the 51st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology, New Orleans, 2009.
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Jack Lewis was one of Delaware's most beloved painters, beautifying the state while teaching in public schools and the Rehoboth Art League for decades. A special exhibition celebrating his career will run from July 19-Aug. 25 at the Rehoboth Art League. Selected Jack Lewis works from the state of Delaware, the league, Raubacher Gallery in Dover and the Lewis family collections will be on display. Some of the works will be available to purchase. Just days away from celebrating his 100th birthday, Lewis passed away on Aug. 19 in York, Maine, where he had moved to be near his daughter after more than 60 years in Bridgeville. Lewis came to Delaware as an artist for the Civilian Conservation Corps in the early 1930s and fell in love with the area and its people. Lewis soon became well known for his paintings of local scenes. During his long career he published several books, with forewords written by notable Americans such as N.C. Wyeth and Eleanor Roosevelt. In 1982 Lewis received the Governor's Award for the Arts. In 1986, Lewis was commissioned by Delaware's Legislative Council to create murals celebrating the bicentennial of Delaware's Ratification of the Constitution. The murals hang still in Legislative Hall in Dover. Gov. Jack Markell awarded the Order of the First State to him in 2010. In November 2011, Lewis, considered one of the Rehoboth Art League's founding artists, was honored with a show at the league, titled "A Survey of Jack Lewis: From Home & Beyond." The opening of the show will be preceded by a memorial at 4 p.m. The exhibition is free and open to the public. 227-8409, rehobothartleague.org
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Nate Mohr
When and why did you start training for fighting? When I was in college I needed to find some sort of competition and kind of just fell into fighting.
What ranks and titles have you held? I won two golden gloves last year and a couple of amateur kickboxing titles.
Do you have any heroes? I wouldn't say heroes, but there are a lot of people I look up to.
What is your favorite technique? No favorites
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? It has always been a goal, but never did I think it would happen this soon.
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? I graduated from Northern Iowa with a Bio / medical degree.
What was your job before you started fighting? Worked in construction and in bars.
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Now, Hemlock is being tricked into a hazardous assignment that involves an attempt to scale one of the most treacherous mountain peaks in the Swiss Alps: the Eiger. His target is one of his three fellow climbers. The problem is that the CII can't tell him which one.
This spine-tingling adventure, part thriller and part satire, introduces an intriguing cast of villains, traitors, and beautiful women into a highly charged atmosphere of danger and suspicion that builds to a death-defying climax.
No novel by Trevanian is a straightforward matter. Part thriller, part satire, EIGER SANCTION is an extremely well written treatise on mountain climbing, a dig at celebrity culture, an examination of the mind of a killer and in the final analysis; a great story. While a little slow to get going, the novel quietly builds up a head of steam, and while there is lots of diversion along the way,once the tension starts rising the pace never lets up.
The narrator is really good.
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I just loved this book. The story is build up very well towards climbing the Eiger. The climbing itself is an awful good chapter with a surprising final. The narrator Joe Barret is really excellent. And folks; I am a girl and did not mind the fancy bits at all.
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I'm a guy, so I didn't mind the sexism as much as much as a woman might. The protagonist is a cliche, but if you can accept him for the arrogant pig that he seems to be, then you might start to actually like him by the end of the story. Even the names of the characters are "tongue in cheek"- an indication that they represent stereotypes- but they are all interesting. I'm sure there is some "deeper meaning" in the story that could be explored by a college Literature class, but I'm not "that deep" and just enjoyed them all at face value.
It was narrated very well and the story kept my interest- it is an action/mystery more than a romance. This one might be enjoyed more by a "guy" than a woman... I don't think easily offended feminists will like the main character very much. There definately IS much commentary on society in general and, if you "get" the satire, it will make you smile.
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I've seen the movie many times and loved it. The book is also great and just different enough to still be interesting.
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Some mystery - story enough to hold the reader's attention - and just enough to provoke some anger at the protagonist.
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After a slow start, this book picks up nicely and finishes strong. After reading Shibumi, this one did not disappoint.
Definitely worth the time to listen. Like one of his other books, Shibumi, Trevanian shows off his "worldly" knowledge of languages and stereotypes of various mostly European cultures. Despite his overtly chauvinistic style, the author still managed to weave a tale that is an entertaining one that doesn't disappoint.
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Learn his subject matter
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The house was neat, that part was believable
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I was hoping for suspence. No substance just hopping in the sack. After listening to about one fourth, I threw the discs in the garbage.
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April 12, 2012
By David Housel
This is the second story in a series of three to document memories from behind the scenes from the perspective of the Sports Information / Media Relations Director.
Sports Information Directors do not win awards and honors such as the Heisman Trophy.
Awards such as the Heisman Trophy are won on the field by the players. The SID can not win the award, but he can certainly lose it.
The SID can lose it by not doing enough work or by doing too much work-- over-the-top promotion and hype that can hurt rather than help the player being considered for the award. There can be too much "sizzle."
Our challenge in 1985 was not to create interest and buzz around Bo Jackson. Bo was considered the leading candidate going into the season. The interest and buzz was already there. Our challenge was to manage it in an effective and ultimately productive and successful manner.
Rather than "promote" Bo to create media interest and demand, we decided to take advantage of the interest and demand that was already there. There is a fine line between "promoting" and "meeting media demand." Some would say a matter of semantics. Either way, it is a fine line and we had to walk it carefully. If Bo had not been considered the leading candidate going into the season, our whole approach may have been different.
We also had to be sure that in meeting media demand, Bo was not suffocated by it all, that he still had time for a private, personal life, time to study and time for football. At times that proved to be a challenging task. Only Bo knows how well we met that challenge.
We sent out our normal weekly releases, three mailings a week, to a list of more than 1,000 national writers, radio and television commentators and announcers. Each weekly mailing contained at least six, sometimes nine, football related stories, one of which was always on Bo, what he had done and what others, coaches and media in particular, were saying about him, always positive of course.
In an age of the internet and electronic media, it's hard to fathom what we did in those days--producing and mailing a minimum of 9,000 pages a week on Auburn football. Reba Gulledge, Becky Hopf, John Lewandowski and a dedicated group of student assistants deserve great credit and praise for their part in that effort. Stuffing more than a thousand envelopes with up to five pieces of paper three times a week, every Sunday, Monday and Tuesday afternoons, was not something they looked forward to, but something they always did, for Auburn and for Bo.
We made one significant move to support Bo's candidacy. We hired Mike Hubbard, a student assistant at Georgia, to handle the evolving electronic end of media relations. Mike, now Speaker of The House in the Alabama Legislature, did an excellent job and was instrumental in our success.
If we had a "secret weapon" in our efforts to help Bo, it was the Media Coordination Committee of the NCAA Final Four which consisted of seven or eight SIDs from across the country, including me.
Early in the season I began calling these men, my friends, asking them what they were hearing about Bo in their part of the country. Their advice, insight, knowledge and wisdom helped us create a plan, not to create interest, but to meet and address the interest, questions and concerns that were already there. Their input enabled us to do that on a targeted almost one-on-one basis rather than use the standard over-the-top scattergun approach that had the inherent risk of offending as many voters as it positively influenced.
That's what we did and that's how we did it
But we did not win the Heisman Trophy. Bo Jackson, his teammates and coaches did that, which is as it should be.
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Hold accountable those who have benefitted most in S.S.
November 29, 2011
In regards to recent articles on the NID in South Side:
I'd like to commend business owners, like Mr. Kramer, that have begun to acknowledge their responsibility for the current situation South Side is in. Contrary, however, to Mr. Kramer's letter (Why a NID is important, Nov. 15, 2011), I do not think we should disregard fault.
It's not the residents that have brought into South Side patrons that do not respect our community and cause the issues that the proposed NID is to address (e.g., absence of enough late night police/security to prevent nuisance crimes like vandalism, public intoxication and public urination, needed garbage and litter cleaning services, and lack of parking for patrons frequenting businesses, etc.)
The South Side community, as built and nurtured by life-long residents and small businesses is a great place. It's been those qualities that have allowed larger scale business owners like Mr. Kramer and others to thrive and expand. There have been neighborhood bars in South Side since there have been mills in South Side.
It's only been over the last decade that these larger scale establishments have expanded, bringing in patrons that disrespect our property, place our community at risk and are now causing it to struggle. Let's face the fact, as residents, any increase in property value, as a result of larger scale business growth, without a commensurate increase of quality of life, only benefits these larger scale businesses and the residents that wish to cash in, sell out and move.
We should strive to hold accountable those that have benefitted most. Should these 'innovative and best run businesses, owned by such smart people' as referenced in Mr. Kramer's letter also be willing to take full responsibility for the issues their patron and businesses have caused, there would be no opposition to the creation of an NID. Residents and any proposed NID, should not enable business owners to invite patrons into our community to go unchecked and place any burden of cost on residents.
This concept is not unheard of – there have been improvement districts in both Downtown and in Oakland that are sponsored by business owners. The residents of the South Side have been good stewards of the community, I am sure there would be voluntary donations. Let's hold the one percent responsible, not the 99 percent responsible!
Let's also not be confused, South Side has not had the issues with eroding property values that the West End, or other communities, that have considered or passed a residentially funded improvement district have had. Our issues are not the same; our issues are directly related to the growth of larger scale businesses without the same level of investment back into our community by either the business owner or local government (that also benefit from charging us higher property and real estate taxes, 'drink taxes' and from fines levied from parking infractions).
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Hey I'm trying to teach myself java OO programming using BlueJ and some material from my university, so far it's gone smoothly but I've stumbled on a couple of questions I need help with.
For question 12.1, I have a solution and it work but I'm not sure it's the most efficient or it does entireley what the question is asking as the 'while' condition doesn't seem to affect much going on. Can somebody check this for me?Quote:
12.1 a new project:
Start a new project - call it looping. Add a new class to it - Loops. Start adding a single method to it - any sensible name. In this method, write a do-while loop which prints the numbers from 1 to 5. Then modify your code so that, instead of printing each value in turn, it prints the totals of the numbers from 1 up to that value. So it calculates: 1; 1+2; 1+2+3; 1+2+3+4; 1+2+3+4+5. This means that your solution needs a loop inside a loop.
12.2: project from qu 12.1, looping
This question requires keyboard input so you need to make appropriate classes available. One way to do this is to include the InputReader class in your project whose complete code is provided below, though you could use the Scanner class directly, if you prefer. Whichever way you prefer, include code so your Loops class can use a Scanner object.
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import java.util.Scanner; /** * InputReader reads typed text input from the standard text terminal. * * @author Lisa Payne * @version Jan 2007 */ public class InputReader { private Scanner reader; /** * Create a new InputReader that reads text from the text terminal. */ public InputReader() { reader = new Scanner(System.in); } /** * Accesses a String typed in text terminal * * @returns String value input */ public String getString() { String input = reader.nextLine(); return input; } /** * Accesses a int typed on a single line in text terminal * * @returns int value input */ public int getInt() { int input = reader.nextInt(); reader.nextLine(); return input; } }
Start a second method in your Loops class - any sensible name. In this method you need to write code similar to that in question 12.1 (indeed you may want to copy 'n paste that to give you a start). This method should total a series of positive integers which the user enters from the keyboard. The user will type in each value followed by an <Enter> keypress. After the last value the user will type a negative value: this is the terminal sentinel. (Of course this method requires only a single loop - not a loop inside a loop.)
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/** * Prints totals of numbers between 1 to 5. */ public void calculate() { int count = 1; int total = 0; int j; do { for(j = 1; j <= 5; j++) { total += j; System.out.print(total + " "); count++; } } while(count < 6); }
For 12.2 I have no idea how to incorporate what is being asked with a loop. Can somebody help?!