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This book tells the astounding story of how the massive enterprise to restructure the genetic core of the world's food supply came into being, and how it advanced by consistently violating the protocols of science and contorting the truth.
André Leu challenges conventional farming methods by refuting the myths that surround the use and understanding of pesticides. He exposes the dangers of these chemicals and advocates organic practices as the most viable for farming in the 21st Century.
Exposing industry and government lies about the safety of the genetically engineered foods you're eating. Seeds of Deception, documents significant health dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and the intense industry influence and political corruption that allow them on the market.
The biotech industry's claim that genetically modified (GM) foods are safe is shattered in this groundbreaking book. Nearly 65 health risks of the foods that Americans eat every day are presented in easy-to-read two-page spreads. The left page is designed for quick scanning, and the right side offers fully referenced text.
Winner of the Rachel Carson prize, an explosive exposé of the disturbing practices of the world's most influential multinational agricultural corporation.
In Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power, award-winning investigative journalist Mark Schapiro reveals how products on American shelves are increasingly being linked with serious health hazards—hazards, like Bisphenol A (BPA) and plastic softening phthalates, that the European Union is leading the rest of the world in legislating out of existence.
Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal-Care Products Endanger Your Health... and What You Can Do About It
Confronting the unknown hazards of the cosmetics industry, this in-depth investigation provides the lowdown on potential health risks, from the store to the salon. Detailing the carelessness with which women's cosmetics and anti-aging products are made and the toxins in men's deodorant, cologne, and aftershave, this revealing study shows how consumers can put themselves and even their unborn children in danger daily by simply applying lipstick or moisturizer. Outlining a simple beauty regimen and a variety of positive alternatives, this resource educates consumers on how to identify potentially harmful ingredients and protect themselves from their possible long-term effects.
Lead in lipstick? 1,4 dioxane in baby soap? Coal tar in shampoo? How is this possible? Simple. The $35 billion cosmetics industry is so powerful that they've kept themselves unregulated for decades. Not one cosmetic product has to be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration before hitting the market. Not Just a Pretty Face delves deeply into the dark side of the beauty industry, and looks to hopeful solutions for a healthier future. This scathing investigation peels away less-than-lovely layers to expose an industry in dire need of an extreme makeover.
Honeycomb Kids is a parenting book for the 21st Century. Including more than 300 practical ideas and activities, it comes with two priceless benefits: not only does it help you prepare your children for an uncertain tomorrow, it also helps you shift to a better family life for today.
André Leu challenges conventional farming methods by refuting the myths that surround the use and understanding of pesticides. He exposes the dangers of these chemicals and advocates organic practices as the most viable for farming in the 21st Century.
Showcasing some of the most promising, replicable models for growing, processing, and distributing sustainably grown food, this book points the reader toward the next stages of the food revolution. It also covers the full landscape of the burgeoning local-food movement, from rural to suburban to urban, and from backyard gardens to large-scale food enterprises.
Since 1988, The New Organic Grower has become a modern classic and best seller. In this newly revised and expanded edition, master grower Eliot Coleman continues to present the simplest and most sustainable ways of growing top-quality organic vegetables. Coleman updates practical information on marketing the harvest, on small-scale equipment, and on farming and gardening for the long-term health of the soil. Written for the serious gardener or small market farmer, The New Organic Grower proves that, in terms of both efficiency and profitability, smaller can be better.
A series of 8 guides originally published by NOFA (Northeast Organic Farming Association and sold on this website), on organic principles and practices for both the beginner farmer as well as established farmers looking to convert to organic, or deepen their practices. Each book is 100 pages, but the information is weighty; the guides use a strong whole-systems farming theory behind their practical advice, as well as offer historical information, further resources, detailed appendices, and profiles of various organic farms across the Northeast.
The Raw Milk Revolution takes readers behind the scenes of the government's tough and occasionally brutal intimidation tactics, as seen through the eyes of milk producers, government regulators, scientists, prosecutors, and consumers.
A cross-country journey depicting the unprecedented crackdown on farmers and consumers who grow, buy and sell food outside the regulatory system, and the creative and spirited opposition that is rising to meet it.
Dr. Schmid chronicles the role of milk in the rise of civilization and in early America, the distillery dairies, compulsory pasteurization and the politics of milk, traditional dairying cultures and the modern dairy industry. — SALLY FALLON, author of Nourishing Traditions and President of the Weston A. Price Foundation
What you REALLY need to know about our most controversial food. Finally, a serious and candid conversation about raw milk, unlike any that has ever occurred in the many years since raw milk became a subject of contentious debate.
Publisher's Weekly describes Toxic Sludge Is Good For You as "a chilling analysis of the PR business...a cautionary reminder that much of the consumer and political world is created by for-hire mouthpieces in expensive neckties." Since its publication in late 1995, Toxic Sludge has already gone into its sixth printing amid rave reviews. It's been featured on ABC-TV's Good Morning America, National Public Radio's Marketplace, and in scores of other radio, TV and print stories.
Reinvigorate your community by reconnecting with democracy. Just as slow food encourages chefs and eaters to become more intimately involved with the production of local food, and slow money helps us become more engaged with our local economy, slow democracy encourages us to govern ourselves locally with processes that are inclusive, deliberative, and citizen powered. In Slow Democracy, community leader Susan Clark and democracy scholar Woden Teachout document the range of ways that citizens around the country are breathing new life into participatory democracy in their communities.
On December 23, 2003, Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman shocked the world with her announcement that mad cow disease was in America. Authors Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber were not surprised. Their 1997 book, Mad Cow USA revealed that the livestock industry and the government had failed to take the necessary steps to prevent this deadly dementia from emerging in animals and humans in the US. In this newly updated edition covering the arrival of Mad Cow Disease in the U.S., Rampton and Stauber cover the terrifying new ground since the first edition.
In the tradition of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" and Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring," an alarming exposé about the beef industry that could change the way you eat forever...
Howard Lyman, who told the story of his transition from cattle rancher to vegetarian in Mad Cowboy, exposes the flimsy lies sustaining the meat industry in this new volume. With an update on the Mad Cow threat, an eye-opening discussion of the link between Alzheimer's and meat consumption, and a raucus dissection of the folly of high-protein diets, No More Bull! makes the case for a plant-based diet as clearly and powerfully as it's ever been made.
For nearly 15 years, Cynthia Lair's iconic cookbook Feeding the Whole Family has been the source for parents who want to cook one healthy meal for the entire family, including babies. Feeding the Whole Family starts with the basics of creating a whole foods diet, from understanding grains and beans to determining what meats are acceptable to eat. Lair then applies these lessons to cooking for young children and babies aged six months and older. In each recipe, Lair offers special instruction on how to adapt it so that younger children can enjoy the dish while parents can eat a more complicated version. All recipes utilize easy-to-find ingredients, are simple to follow, and will be enjoyable for both child and parent. With a new foreword by Mothering magazine's editor and founder Peggy O'Mara, Feeding the Whole Family is a necessary staple for all families.
Americans have been shocked by media reports of the dismal working conditions in factories that make clothing for U.S. companies. But while well intentioned, many of these reports about child labor and sweatshop practices rely on stereotypes of how Third World factories operate, ignoring the complex economic dynamics driving the global apparel industry. Putting a human face on globalization, Threads shows not only how international trade affects local communities but also how workers can organize in this new environment to more effectively demand better treatment from their distant corporate employers.
The only comprehensive historical analysis of the globalization of the U.S. apparel industry, this book focuses on the reemergence of sweatshops in the United States and the growth of new ones abroad. Making Sweatshops asks whether the process of globalization can be promoted in ways that blend industrialization and economic development in both poor and rich countries with concerns for social and economic justice—especially for the women who toil in the industry's low-wage sites around the world.
Despite deepening poverty and environmental degradation throughout rural Latin America, Mayan peasant farmers in Chiapas, Mexico, are finding environmental and economic success by growing organic coffee. Organic Coffee: Sustainable Development by Mayan Farmers provides a unique and vivid insight into how this coffee is grown, harvested, processed, and marketed to consumers in Mexico and in the north. Organic Coffee refutes the myth that organic farming is less productive than chemical-based agriculture and gives us reasons to be hopeful for indigenous peoples and peasant farmers.
Two Percent Solutions for the Planet profiles fifty innovative practices that soak up carbon dioxide in soils, reduce energy use, sustainably intensify food production, and increase water quality. The "two percent" refers to: the amount of new carbon in the soil needed to reap a wide variety of ecological and economic benefits; the percentage of the nation's population who are farmers and ranchers; and the low financial cost (in terms of GDP) needed to get this work done. These short, engaging success stories will help readers connect the dots between diverse, exciting, and pragmatic practices, and inspire them to dig deeper into each individual story and concept, energized by the news that solutions abound.
Where people are fighting climate change and growing food with pasture cropping, permaculture, wetland restoration, rooftop farms, biodiesel, beer, and sweaty dancing. This book tackles an increasingly crucial question: What can we do about the seemingly intractable challenges confronting all of humanity today, including climate change, global hunger, water scarcity, environmental stress, and economic instability? The quick answers are: Build topsoil. Fix creeks. Eat meat from pasture-raised animals. Soil scientists maintain that a mere 2 percent increase in the carbon content of the planet's soils could offset 100 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions going into the atmosphere. But how could this be accomplished? What would it cost? Is it even possible? Yes, says author Courtney White, it is not only possible, but essential for the long- term health and sustainability of our environment and our economy.
Unmaking the Deserts, Rethinking Climate Change, Bringing Back Biodiversity, and Restoring Nutrients to our Food. Cows saving the planet? Why not? An idea that sounds preposterous begins to make sense when you take a soil's-eye view of our current ecological predicament. In Cows Save the Planet, journalist Judith D. Schwartz looks at soil as a crucible for our many overlapping environmental, economic, and social crises. Schwartz reveals that for many of these problems—climate change, desertification, biodiversity loss, droughts, floods, wildfires, rural poverty, malnutrition, and obesity—our ability to turn these crises into opportunities depends on how we treat the soil.
Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The Men Who Are Destroying Life on Earth—And What It Means for Our Children
"A must read for anyone concerned with climate and energy issues." —Leonardo DiCaprio, Academy Award winning actor and environmental activist The science is overwhelming; the facts are in. The planet is heating up at an alarming rate and the results are everywhere to be seen. Yet, as time runs out, climate progress is blocked by the men who are profiting from the burning of the planet: energy moguls like the Koch brothers and Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson. Powerful politicians like Senators Mitch McConnell and Jim Inhofe, who receive massive contributions from the oil and coal industries. Most of these men are too intelligent to truly believe that climate change is not a growing crisis. And yet they have put their profits and careers ahead of the health and welfare of the world's population—and even their own children and grandchildren. How do they explain themselves to their offspring, to the next generations that must deal with the environmental havoc that these men have wreaked? Horsemen of the Apocalypse takes a personal look at this global crisis, literally bringing it home.
Best practices for keeping honeybees healthy and productive with strategies for controlling mites, selective breeding for resistant bees, and more—now in full color with updated information.
Complete information on hive management and other aspects of using these innovative hives. All home and hobbyist beekeepers who have the time and interest in keeping bees should consider the natural, low-stress methods outlined in this book.
In addition to being a guide to the care and protection of the honeybee, this popular text demonstrates how the ills plaguing our honeybees proceed from the ills in our manner of living and doing business.
This comprehensive guide describes how to recognize beneficial insects that prey upon crop pests, reducing or eliminating the need for pesticides, and how to evaluate, design, and improve habitat for them.
Attracting Native Pollinators reflects the latest understanding about creating and managing pollinator habitat in four detailed sections: pollinators and pollination, taking action, bees of North America and creating a pollinator-friendly landscape.
This beginner's guide clearly explains everything you need to know to keep bees successfully, from getting your first bees to harvesting your first crop of honey. Spectacular photography brings the inner workings of the hive to life.
Author Julius Ruechel, who has been raising beef cattle on his family's farm since his start as a 4-H member, packs this handbook with everything a farmer needs to know, regardless of herd size and acreage, about how to raise, manage, and market grass-fed cattle. His advice and systems are applicable to the smallest backyard hobby farms as well as the largest commercial herds and ranches.
The Raw Milk Revolution takes readers behind the scenes of the government's tough and occasionally brutal intimidation tactics, as seen through the eyes of milk producers, government regulators, scientists, prosecutors, and consumers.
A cross-country journey depicting the unprecedented crackdown on farmers and consumers who grow, buy and sell food outside the regulatory system, and the creative and spirited opposition that is rising to meet it.
André Leu challenges conventional farming methods by refuting the myths that surround the use and understanding of pesticides. He exposes the dangers of these chemicals and advocates organic practices as the most viable for farming in the 21st Century.
The CAFO Reader is possibly the most powerful indictment of factory farming ever compiled, with essays from 30 of the world's leading experts. It also offers a vision for a food system that leaves behind the horrific 20th century model of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations.
Rules for Revolutionaries is a bold challenge to the political establishment and the "rules" that govern campaign strategy. It tells the story of a breakthrough experiment conducted on the fringes of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign: a technology-driven team empowered volunteers to build and manage the infrastructure to make 75 million calls, launch 8 million text messages, and hold more than 100,000 public meetings—in an effort to put Bernie's insurgent campaign over the top.


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Ganglioneuroma is a tumor of the peripheral nervous system.
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Ganglioneuromas are rare tumors that most frequently start in the autonomic nerve cells, which may be in any part of the body. The tumor are usually noncancerous (benign).
Ganglioneuromas usually occur in people ages 10 to 40. They grow slowly, and may release certain chemicals or hormones.
There are no known risk factors. However, the tumors may be associated with some genetic problems, such as neurofibromatosis type 1.
A ganglioneuroma usually causes no symptoms, and is only discovered when being examined or treated for another condition.
Symptoms depend on the location of the tumor and the type of chemicals released.
If the tumor is in the chest area (mediastinum), symptoms may include:
Breathing difficulty
Chest pain
Compression of the windpipe (trachea)
If the tumor is lower down in the abdomen in the area called the retroperitoneal space, symptoms may include:
Abdominal pain
If the tumor is near the spinal cord, it may cause:
Compression of the spinal cord, which leads to pain and loss of strength or feeling in the legs, the arms, or both
Spine deformity
These tumors may produce certain hormones, which can cause the following symptoms:
Enlarged clitoris (women)
High blood pressure
Increased body hair
Signs and tests
The best tools to identify a ganglioneuroma are:
CT scanof the chest, abdomen, and pelvis
MRI scanof the chest and abdomen
Ultrasound of the abdomen or pelvis
Blood and urine tests may be done to determine if the tumor is producing hormones or other chemicals.
A biopsy or complete removal of the tumor may be needed to confirm the diagnosis.
Treatment involves surgery to remove the tumor (if it is causing symptoms).
Expectations (prognosis)
Most ganglioneuromas are noncancerous. The expected outcome is usually good. A ganglioneuroma may, however, become cancerous and spread to other areas, or it may come back after removal.
If the tumor has been present for a long time and has pressed on the spinal cord or caused other symptoms, surgery to remove the tumor may not necessarily reverse the damage.
Compression of the spinal cord may result in loss of movement (paralysis), especially if the cause is not detected promptly.
Surgery to remove the tumor may also lead to complications in some cases. However, rare, persistent problems due to compression may occur even after the tumor is removed.
Calling your health care provider
Call your health care provider if you or your child has symptoms that may be caused by this type of tumor.


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This was inevitable.
1. Rights to English language books are typically sold in two tranches -- US & Canada, and UK/rest of world. Ebook rights are also sold with this territorial split and, get this, they're EXCLUSIVE. So a US publisher is violating the author's copyright and in breach of contract if they sell books in the UK, and vice versa, UNLESS they acquired world English language rights (rare).
2. All this means is that Apple will have to ink distribution deals with the British publishers' arms rather than the US parent companies before they can fire up the iBook store in the UK.
3. Other ebook apps for the iPhone/iPod Touch should work just fine in the iPad -- including Amazon's Kindle.app, Stanza, eReader, and others.
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Farming is not easy work. Running a business, gauging changing weather patterns and getting crops to market are only a few of the many responsibilities farmers face. For those who seek to sell their produce to local restaurants, hospitals and schools, the obstacles are substantial. These institutions, in need of reliable supplies of specific crops, often buy from large suppliers, which are often better equipped to fill their orders.
I recently spoke with Emily Manley, Communications Manager of Charlottesville, Virginia's Local Food Hub, a nonprofit trying to help farmers solve the local distribution dilemma. Local Food Hub (LFH) is the brainchild of director Kate Collier, who got the idea while working at a shop in Charlottesville that sourced products from local farmers. She began to notice the distribution, accounting and marketing challenges farmers were facing, including farmers sometimes driving up to 50 miles to deliver $20 worth of produce. It became clear to her that the economics were a burden for the farmers, and she sought to ease this. Last year, Collier paired up with Marissa Vrooman. Collier's local connections and Vrooman's strong agricultural roots informed the direction of Local Food Hub.
Local Food Hub began with 10 local farmers due to Kate's contacts from the store. It quickly grew —through word of mouth and mailings, they are currently working with 40 local farmers. LFH gives farmers a price range when purchasing produce, and then there is a minimal mark-up when selling to local vendors, essentially to cover the costs of the nonprofit. LFH fundraises, applies for grants and has received private donations to fund their work. Local Food Hub acts as a wholesaler for local foods and a nonprofit service organization geared to providing farmers with support and consistency by dealing with invoices, marketing and sales. Farmers drop off their produce at the distribution warehouse, which is then delivered by the LFH truck; deliveries are made approximately four to five days a week.
Local farmers who participate with LFH continue to sell produce at farmers' markets and through Community Supported Agriculture programs (CSA), and LFH provides a good supplemental income. Not all farmers who work with LFH are certified organic because many cannot afford to jump through the many and sizable hoops associated with certification; however, all spray minimally (if at all) and otherwise practice sustainable methods.
LFH learned some valuable lessons in their first year. Last summer, they bought too much summer squash and couldn't meet orders for other veggies. They evaluated their needs over the year, and realized they couldn't buy a lot of one crop, they had to diversify their supply. They started to grow "gap crops" on their educational farm, and planned out the upcoming year.
Local Food Hub has two arms. The first is the aforementioned distribution warehouse in Ivy, Virginia where food is dropped off by farmers as far as 60 miles outside Charlottesville. The second arm is the educational farm in Scottsville, Virginia. The farm is certified organic with two farm managers, three apprentices and this summer, interns from Charlottesville High School who helped out at the farm three days a week. The farm holds volunteer events and runs youth programs to teach skills and farming methods. Emily explained that "many of them did not like it at first, but they get a lot out of being out on the land and seeing where their food comes from."
At the core of the organization is the belief that all people deserve access to food grown in their community; in fact, LFH is committed to donating twenty-five percent of the food to local food banks. Local Food Hub also works with larger institutions, including schools with tight budgets, but which try to find accommodations for the extra money it costs to purchase local food. Some of the schools don't even have kitchens, only reheating facilities! Under these circumstances, change doesn't come without challenges, but Emily points out that "often it only takes one person in these places to change things". LFH has been working with Dale Haskins at University of Virginia Medical Center Food and Nutrition Services, who is dedicated to eating local and has been a strong advocate to source produce from LFH and serve it to employees and patients in the Medical Center's two cafeterias.
LFH is just getting started and they seek to continually work with larger institutions to increase their impact on the community. Down the road, they are interested in expanding into local meat distribution in the off-season. In the end, Emily explained that the goal of LFH is to "establish a working model that is replicable in the future for other communities," truly an invaluable contribution to the reinventing the food system.


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Energy transition: a tale of two countries
Japan and Germany have much in common in their energy situations, as participants from a recent WEC member event heard. The WEC's Japanese member committee heard an analysis of the German energy transition in a talk by Dr Hans-Wilhelm Schiffer, WEC Chair of World Energy Resources and a German energy expert, in Tokyo on 24 […]
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World Energy Council comments on nuclear energy three years since Fukushima
LONDON, 6 March 2014 — Ahead of the three-year anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear accident on 11 March, the World Energy Council (WEC) issues the following statement. Christoph Frei, Secretary General of the World Energy Council, comments: "In our study on nuclear energy in March 2012, we found that Fukushima had had limited impact on […]
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Hollystr needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 64 designs submitted by 21 freelance designers.
S2W Contracting LLC
Work on huge gas machinery and make sure things are assembled, repaired and level, ready to go for our customers.
Small business that is a partnership started in 2007 and doesn't have a neat logo to complete us, to use for promotion, which is our focus this year to get our name out there, so a logo that needs to be simple and clean.
Existing market and audience is conservative and typical oil field people in their hard hats and boots.
need jpgs, bitmaps, transparent background, black and white and color versions. Plus need the native file.
Looking for a logo I can use for our company on all our company advertising, website, promotional products, small stickers
Typically like dark blue and greens for our website and advertising.
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Logo using letters S2W and maybe some symmetrical design elements
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At least three people were killed and 10 others wounded in shootings in Chicago Friday, the first day of summer.
At least two other people suffered gunshot wounds early today, for a total of three shot to death and 12 others wounded in shootings since Friday afternoon.
About 8 p.m., four people were found shot in the 2900 block of North Kilpatrick Avenue. The man died later at Stroger Hospital and the three others were in critical condition, authorities said.
In the 2800 block of North Spaulding Avenue a little after 8 p.m., two people were reported shot, according to the Fire Department.
Police had few immediate details, but confirmed that at 8:08 p.m. two men were wounded on Spaulding. The two were outside when someone came out from between two parked cars and fired at them. One man shot in the chest was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center with a serious wound, according to police.
The other man, who police said was wounded in the lower leg and with a graze wound to the head, was taken to Stroger Hospital of Cook County in serious-to-critical condition, according to the Fire Department.
Uriel Guadarramo, 36, who lived on the block was pronounced dead and a 61-year-old was wounded.
About 5 a.m., a man suffered a graze wound to the back of his head near 5000 South Winchester Avenue, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli. The man was on the street when he heard shots and felt he had been hit. He was taken to Holy Cross Hospital for treatment.
Just before 3 a.m. a 24-year-old man was shot in the arm in the 1600 block of South Christiana Avenue in the Lawndale neighborhood. He's in good condition at Mount Sinai Hospital.
A 19-year-old was shot about a half hour earlier on 61st Street just west of Ashland Avenue in the West Englewood neighborhood. The teen is in stable condition at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County with wounds to his arm arm and abdomen.
A 14-year-old boy was shot in the 4000 block of West Fillmore Street in the Lawndale neighborhood about 10:10 p.m., police said. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital with a gunshot wound to his ankle and a graze wound to the head. Police said he ran home after getting shot.
Someone inside a dark car or truck shot a 28-year-old man about 11:15 p.m. Friday in the Galewood neighborhood. The drive-by shooting in the 1600 block of North McVicker Avenue left the man in stable condition at West Suburban Medical Center with a wound to his thigh.
In the South Chicago neighborhood about 11 p.m., a 23-year-old man was found with a gunshot wound to the leg and taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital for treatment. He had been shot in the 8800 block of South Exchange Avenue and was found in a front yard.
About 7 p.m., a 22-year-old man walked into the University of Illinois Hospital with a gunshot wound to the hand. He told police he had been shot in the 2300 block of West Roosevelt Road in the Tri-Taylor neighborhood.
About 6:30 p.m., a 37-year-old woman was shot in the ankle in the 8100 block of South Drexel Avenue and was taken to Jackson Park Hospital in good condition, Zala said.
A man was shot to death in the West Garfield Park neighborhood this afternoon, wounded in the head and abdomen in the 4400 block of West Adams Street about 1:31 p.m., said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Veejay Zala.
The man was identified as Vincent Mayes, 31, of the first block of North Laramie Avenue, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. He was declared dead on the scene at 1:58 p.m., and appeared to have suffered multiple gunshot wounds, according to the medical examiner's office.
The victim was dead on the scene. No additional information was available from News Affairs regarding the circumstances of the slaying as of 8:30 a.m.
Mayes turned 31 two weeks ago, according to court and Illinois Department of Corrections records.
Mayes had pleaded guilty on June 11 in a 2012 felony drug case, and was sentenced to three years in prison. But because he had been in jail since his arrest in early 2012, he was credited with 598 days in jail, and after he was admitted to the custody of the Illinois Department of Corrections on June 13, he was released on parole the same day, according to court and corrections department records.
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Linde supports young people in the choice of their future professions even while they are still in school and offers internships.
During an internship at Linde, you get to know the working life and have the opportunity to enhance your theoretical knowledge and apply it in practice at an early stage – the ideal start for a successful career.
An internship can take between 6 weeks and 6 months and are offered in many different areas of the company. Every trainee has a personal supervisor and will handle tasks such as small projects or current issues independently. The support of specialists from the responsible area completes the internship package.
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Today's manifestation of the war against truth is seen in the venom and vigor with which secularists use evolution and deep time to attack Christianity.
Dr. Peter Enns continues his destructive influence on Christian faith and the Bible in his assault on God's Word in his book The Bible Tells Me So.
The Lost Gospel is yet another attempt to show Jesus as the husband of Mary Magdalene, and this time Jacobovici claims to have proof.
Biblical truth is by no means at odds with observational science, and it will triumph over man's godless assertions.
This review will provide a cursory review of Forged, critique Ehrman's methodology, and expose his many exaggerated conclusions.
While not addressing the age of the earth, this book contains many powerful chapters that point out the dangers and implications of the theory of evolution.
The book Origins: A Reformed Look at Creation, Design, & Evolution fails to live up to its title and skews or ignores both scientific and theological evidence.PDF Download
If this is the best that evolutionary philosophy can offer (and it may well be), then creationists have nothing at all to fear.
The book expresses what we know in our hearts to be true—that God works through and often despite fallible humans—but it is good to see such scholarly support emerging from the poverty of materialism.
This book is an addition to the creationist literature in that it is further strong evidence that Hugh Ross, Gleason Archer and other old-earth proponents do not have a historical leg to stand on.
Waltke's overall approach to the creation account and the interpretation he adopts in this commentary is not much different from what he has previously written on this subject.
The problems with Bouw's book pale in comparison with those of this book by Marshall Hall.
This book reveals Tattersall and Schwartz revolting against the current scheme of human evolution—especially the straight line arrangement of human ancestry.
There is a plethora of anti-creationist books on the market, most of which are so inaccurate that they are hardly worth dignifying with a review. This book is little better.
University of Berkeley law professor Phillip Johnson dentifies and dissects a key philosophical assumption which constrains the ways data is allowed to be interpreted in the physical sciences.
The subject of this work is the relationship between science and Christianity. Four views are presented and the representatives of each respond to every other presentation.
In Genesis Unbound, Sailhamer adopts a unique view of the creation account in order to harmonise it with the claims of modern science.
What if the redshift of starlight is unrelated to the Doppler effect, i.e. the principle that relative motion changes the observed frequency of the light emitted from a light source?
However, Pennock frequently ridicules the Bible and is generally contemptuous when referring to creationists.
Dembski reviews many of the earlier ideas and adds new thoughts relevant to the evolution vs. creation debate.
Throughout Church history, a popular argument for the existence of God has been based on the appearance of designed structures in nature.
In the Preface, Dawkins declares that his intention in this book is to make science more appealing to a young generation which prefers the beauty of art.
Richard Dawkins' River Out of Eden is a river of DNA that is the true source of life and the one molecule that must be understood if life is to be understood.
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They've been a mystery ever since they burst onto the cosmic scene several years ago -- short-lived, red eruptions that burned brighter than novas, yet dimmer than supernovas.
Not only were astronomers hard pressed to explain what caused these newly observed events, they couldn't even agree on what to call them. They've been dubbed variously as supernova imposters, V838 Mon-like events, and intermediate-luminosity red transients, or ILRTs.
Now, scientists say they may have solved the mystery.
In a paper published Thursday in the journal Science, astrophysicists say the events bear the signature of two stars that temporarily orbit so close together that they share a "common envelope," or veil of gases.
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In the early 1960s, more than 5.2 million students attended nearly 13,000 Catholic schools nationwide. From then on, the numbers of schools and students dropped continually. According to the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA), by 1990, approximately 2.5 million students were enrolled in 8,719 schools. Most seriously affected were the elementary schools, particularly in large urban areas where nearly one-third have closed since 2003.
There are now 5,472 elementary and 1,213 secondary Catholic schools serving 2 million children in the United States. According to the NCEA, in 2013, 148 Catholic schools closed or consolidated, and 28 new schools opened. Some closed because of declining enrollment, even though 2,166 existing schools currently have waiting lists for admission. Others struggled, or are still struggling financially, and just can't keep their doors open. Making it work requires changes and mergers. Regional consolidations sometimes challenge people to accept that their parish school tradition and identity are no longer the same. Changes come, too, when a completely new idea emerges, and a new school becomes not a "loss" for any parish, but rather a Catholic institution with its own identity.
Following are six U. S. schools that, in the past five years, have succeeded, whether through regional collaborations or new ideas. As such, they are beacons of light in the commitment to Catholic education.
Frassati Catholic Academy in Wauconda, Ill., is named after Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati. In fact, the future saint's niece — Wanda Gawronska of Rome — sent the school a ruler from his desk. But that's not the only connection the school has with Blessed Frassati who lived in Turin, Italy.
"I want our children to be able to capture the heart of what Pier Giorgio's spirituality was all about," said Father Ronald Lewinski, president of the academy. "He became the icon — more than a patron — of what we are trying to do. Ultimately, we are not just trying to raise good Catholic children and citizens. We are trying to raise saints."
Frassati Catholic Academy opened in 2010 in a wing of the campus of the separately run Transfiguration Parish School. The academy is sponsored by nearby Transfiguration Parish, Santa Maria del Popolo Parish in Mundelein, Ill., and St. Mary of the Annunciation Parish in Fremont, Ill., where Father Lewinski is pastor. It's supported by a consortium of the three parish schools and the academy (operating out of the same budget), grants from the Archdiocese of Chicago and tuition. Four years after opening, 120 students are enrolled at the academy in grades 6, 7 and 8, under the leadership of principal Dr. Diane Vida. Some are from other parishes, and some aren't Catholic.
The three sponsoring parishes had been experiencing decreasing enrollment in their own schools.
"That was one of the concerns for me, and I felt that the Catholic school system was getting a little stale," Father Lewinski said. "Frankly, we were doing the right things, the grades were fine and all that, but I wasn't satisfied with the kind of leadership that I was seeing coming out of schools. I wasn't satisfied with the depth of religious formation. Obviously, they were being taught the Catholic faith, but there was still something missing.
For instance, he said, the rich and beautiful Catholic faith can be overwhelming for a 12-year-old. And middle school is a time when students learn differently than they did in elementary school and than they will in high school. So how to reach them?
One answer was to hold high the characteristics of Pier Frassati's short life (1901-1925) and his love for the poor.
"John Paul II called him a man of the beatitudes," Father Lewinski said. "So we wrote a spiritual charter that highlights his five charisms: a spirit of the beatitudes, healthy relationships, the centrality of the Eucharist, discipleship and mission and perseverance. When we interviewed potential teachers, they had to be practicing Catholics. We asked them how they were going to share the Faith with enthusiasm and joy. We were asking them to buy into our vision. They might have been the best math or science teachers, but we have chosen something more."
The school has made a positive impact on other Catholic schools.
"Frassati kind of sets the standards," Father Lewinski said. "The K-5 schools that want to send their kids here need to be at this level."
When it was first announced, the idea for All Saints Catholic School in Kenosha, Wis., met some resistance. Two more Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee had closed, and All Saints was to be a collaboration of 10 parishes in Kenosha and Pleasant Prairie.
"Part of our strategic plan was to make sure that the parishioners in all the churches thought of All Saints as their own, and that they weren't thinking, 'My school is closed,'" said Jackie Lichter, principal of the school that opened in August 2011.
"It took a lot of conversations and meetings to convince people that this was the right way to go. It quickly became one of my roles to help families through the grieving process of letting go of what was, and embracing what was new. That really was part of my work in the first year — listening, compromising and still digging in my heels to establish a new identity of the school."
No students and no teachers existed in June 2011 when Lichter interviewed for the position of principal. By the time the doors opened that August, however, 433 students were enrolled. All Saints now has 579 students on two campuses. The buildings are about 2 miles apart on space leased from former Catholic schools. The locations were chosen based on the conditions of the facilities and resources available.
"It is a huge new model and is now bringing students from all over the city, from surrounding parishes and central locations," Lichter said. "We are now bringing people from pretty traditional communities and progressive communities all together in one school. We have been very mindful about the different charisms that exist in these parishes and how we can meet the needs of the families."
The school is funded in part by a subsidy from each parish based on the number of school-age families, and by weekly contributions. About $500,000 of the annual $2.3 million budget comes from the 10 parishes. After three years of collaboration, the pastors signed on to subsidize the school for an additional five years. Tuition is another funding source, and an annual benefit auction raises about $75,000.
A priest and representative from each of the parishes serve on the board, along with Lichter.
A collaborative identity is promoted, too, with parish priests rotating Masses at the school, and once a month each parish asks its All Saints students to wear their uniforms at an outreach Mass.
"In that way, we have a visible presence of our school at the parishes," Lichter said.
There currently are 50 faculty and staff members, including two religious sisters, and 28 of those teachers were hired from closed schools.
"We were able to pick every teacher specific for our mission," Lichter said. "We have a strong Catholic identity. We are Catholic to the core, and that's rooted in Scripture and liturgy. I think people are really seeking that out, and that's one of the strong foundations — and what's behind the strong academics — at All Saints."
It took Jesuit Father TJ Martinez one year to find property and to open Jesuit Cristo Rey High School in Houston, Texas, in 2009. Working in his favor were supportive corporate leaders in the city who saw the merit in taking teenagers from the most disadvantaged circumstances and training them to be future leaders.
The Cristo Rey Network, founded in Chicago, is present in about 26 other cities nationwide. The school model works like this: Students attend an extended school day, from about 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., and one day a week they are sent out to work at entry-level jobs in the business world. They run copy machines, file papers, answer phones, deliver mail and comfort patients in hospitals while learning about career opportunities in the field of health care.
The money the students would have made for their odd jobs goes to the school to fund their education. So far, students have earned $3 million toward their education, paid by the 130 companies that hired them.
"The Houston community has been so generous," said Bee Dickson, director of advancement, who noted that the private school doesn't receive government funding. "The foundations, individuals and companies who support us believe in what we are doing. They believe in our unique model of education."
Students who apply have to meet grade-level standards and must be from economically challenged families.
"That's what we are about, breaking those gravitational pulls that are bringing kids down," Dickson said. "We are changing their futures."
The first senior class graduated on June 1, 2013. All 60 students graduated, and all were accepted into colleges. That's a remarkable record for any school and an indication of a promising future for young people who otherwise might have never reached — nor realized — their potential.
"As a Jesuit school, we have certain characteristics that we teach the kids and that they all possess at graduation," Dickson said. "They are open to growth, and they are committed to justice. Everything we are about is for the greater glory of God."
Incoming freshman take a summer session to prepare them for the workforce. They are taught personal skills like shaking hands and giving eye contact, and practical skills like using copy machines, answering phones and doing research on a computer. Some are just 14 when they begin working.
"So many of them go on these jobs and see possibilities they never imagined," Dickson said. "They understand that their next step is college, and that the path to college begins now."
Cristo Rey High School is in a former school that was purchased from the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. With Father Martinez as president, it opened with 80 freshmen and, with a new grade added each year, 460 students now are enrolled. Half are from inner-city Catholic schools and the other half are from public schools. About 72 percent of them are Catholic, and lay teachers staff the school.
The school at St. Mark the Evangelist Parish in Hyattsville, Md., was struggling to survive, and the one at St. Camillus in Silver Spring could have stayed open treading water.
Then came a better idea. Why not work together to create an entirely different school?
To make this idea a reality, Tobias Harkleroad, St. Camillus principal; Franciscan Brother Gerald Hopeck, vice principal; and Franciscan Father Michael Johnson, pastor, met with Father John Dillon, pastor of St. Mark, and considered combining the schools. The first conversations took place in November 2009, and by January 2010, they had received permission from Cardinal Donald Wuerl, archbishop of Washington, D.C., to proceed. The closing of the two schools was soon announced, and so too was the news of the opening of St. Francis International School (SFIC). Classes began in August 2010 for 432 students, in grades K-8. The school is located in the former St. Camillus School, which had been using one fourth of its classrooms for other purposes.
"We are now at full capacity (476 students) and are using every nook and cranny of this building. That's a good thing, rather than the waste we had before," said Harkleroad, who is now principal of SFIC.
The school also is supported by Our Lady of Vietnam Parish in Silver Spring and St. Catherine Laboure Parish in Wheaton. Tuition pays for much of the operating costs and, according to Harkleroad, about $250,000 in financial aid comes from the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. Every parish in the archdiocese contributes to a general education fund, and there are Sunday offerings to support Catholic schools. Additional funding is received from the archdiocese's development program.
St. Francis International School got its name from two sources. One is because 78 percent of the students have at least one parent who was born abroad, representing 54 different countries. The other reason is that St. Camillus Parish is staffed by Franciscans, so St. Francis was chosen as the patron saint of the school to keep that Franciscan identity. There also are young friars in formation working part-time in the art program, and several Franciscans work at the school as part of their service year.
Sister Judith Parkin, a semi-retired Daughter of Charity, is assigned to the school part-time. Otherwise, the staff is mostly lay teachers.
"When we did the job interviews, we talked about why they wanted to work here, and what they really believed about the kids," Harkleroad said.
"They had to buy into our mission that all of God's children have to learn and grow and be the best they can be," he added. "It's not, 'Do you want to be a Catholic teaching at a Catholic school?' but, "Do you really want to take on the challenges?'"
The risk brought rewards as the collaboration eased financial pressure.
"We were able to move from struggling to survive to being really passionate about thriving," Harkleroad said. "That was really freeing."
With enrollment increasing, a second campus may be opened in the near future at the former St. Mark School.
The annual tuition at St. Michael Elementary School in Cheney, Neb., costs $850 per child. It's $637.50 for the second child in the family, $425 for the third, and additional children attend for free.
"We have some very happy families that are very appreciative that we can keep it at this price," Principal Denise Ray said.
So how does the school that opened in August 2011 and serves 271 students (pre-K-8) from 135 families keep its costs so reasonable?
Answer: All of them have dedicated parents who contribute in several ways to support the parish school. These parents are asked to pay up to 3 percent of their income to support the church, 2 percent to the bishop's annual charity and stewardship appeal for the Diocese of Lincoln and to buy $4,000 in Scrip every year. In that program, the school purchases discounted cards that are resold to families to use for purchases that they ordinarily would make.
Each family also is asked to donate 20 hours per year in time and talent toward something that otherwise would require paid help. One example: cleaning the school.
Families also participate in the parish festival, one of the largest fundraisers to benefit the school.
"The involvement with the parish families is community building," said Father Borowiak, pastor of St. Michael Parish. "The families get to know each other."
That sense of community was a factor in founding the school in the unincorporated village outside of Lincoln — an area that's growing economically and in population. The parish grew, too, and added 100 new families (for a total of 720) in the two years preceding the opening of the school. That growth required that they relocate the parish property to the present 14 acres that was once public school property.
St. Michael School cost $7.1 million to build. The brick construction includes 52,000-square-feet of space, part of it a two-story stacked construction.
There are fields dedicated for soccer and baseball, a full-size competition gym, and rooms for music, art and science. Heating and cooling are provided by a cost-efficient and effective geothermal well field. A commons area currently serves as the church, and the growing parish will build a new church in the future.
Fifteen teachers serve on the school's staff, including one religious sister and an assistant priest in residence.
They share the school's philosophy that the children should "know who Jesus is, and that they can go to Him no matter what," Ray said.
The principal is grateful to all the parishioners, particularly the senior citizens, who generously give volunteer hours to support the school.
Father Borowiak agreed. "We have some incredibly competent and giving individuals," he said. "Without their willingness to step forward in time, talent and treasure, none of this would be possible."
Like many Catholic schools in the 1970s and 1980s, the school at St. Mark Parish in Cranston, R.I., struggled to survive. Challenges persisted when the small school became the Cranston-Johnston Catholic Regional School, serving multiple area parishes. There was talk of shutting it down. Talk turned into a real possibility when upgrades were estimated at $4 million, and no particular parish had owned the building for 30 years.
In 2006, Father Ron Brassard of Immaculate Conception Parish spearheaded a movement to keep Catholic education in the area and offered his parish's commitment to build a school. The $9 million project was funded by the sale of the old school; a $6 million, 40-year mortgage amortized with the tuition; a capital campaign; and a loan. In 2009, students began the school year in the old building, but transitioned to the new Immaculate Conception Catholic Regional School in November. It was one of the first Catholic schools to open in the Diocese of Providence in more than 40 years. The school now enrolls 350 students, from pre-K to eighth-grade, from several nearby towns and parishes.
"We had some smart financiers who were helpful in mapping out a plan," Principal Brian Cordeiro said. "We have the best building with state-of-the-art technology, but what separates Catholic schools are teachers who are faith-filled Catholic educators. They make the students fall in love with their faith."
He also credits parents for their support.
"Our biggest supporters are parents who switched from public to Catholic school, and they noticed right away how we work together, how we sacrifice together, and how we are solving things together," Cordeiro said. "Our faculty is also one of our biggest assets. We have veteran teachers with great experience, and we have phenomenal gifted emerging educators who bring so much talent and enthusiasm to the school."
There's a certain joyful attitude, he added, that can be seen in the teachers, leadership and students. "There's a great love and joy in what we are doing, and it has paid off," he said. "The kids are excited when they come to school. They are in a loving environment, and parents are gravitating toward successful places. They are saying, 'My children love school, and they are joyful and happy.' We are all about relationships with students and their parents."
The building was designed with physical safety in mind, but the spirit of the school creates safety, too, through a culture of responsibility for each other. That concern is promoted in a Circle of Grace program that has dramatically cut down on bullying. And all of those things are important when it comes to attracting parents.
"It was a big risk, and it's still a big risk," Cordeiro said about building the new school. "But we talk about it being a leap forward with faith. The best days are ahead, not behind. We have to invest in the future, and we are taking that risk and leaping forward."
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MINSK (Reuters) - Australia got a measure of revenge for losing the Olympic gold to Britain by beating their arch-rivals in the men's team pursuit final at the world track cycling championships on Wednesday.
The Australian quartet of Glenn O'Shea, Alexander Edmondson, Michael Hepburn and Alexander Morgan completed the 4,000 meters at the wooden velodrome in the Belarus capital in three minutes 56.751 seconds to clinch the gold medal.
However, the result was well short of the world record of 3:51.659, set by the British at the London Games last August.
Britain only had two riders, Steven Burke and Ed Clancy, returning from London, with newcomers Samuel Harrison and Andrew Tennant replacing Geraint Thomas and Peter Kennaugh. The new quartet could only manage the time of 4:00.967 in the final.
Denmark beat Spain in the consolation final to win the bronze in 3:59.821.
Earlier, American Sarah Hammer won her fifth world title in the women's individual pursuit over 3,000 meters while France's Francois Pervis clinched his first in another non-Olympic event - the men's one kilometer time trial.
Hammer crushed Australia's Amy Cure in the final by more than eight seconds, coming home in three minutes 32.050 seconds, with another Australian Annette Edmondson taking the bronze.
Hammer, who also won in 2006, 2007, 2010 and 2011, did not compete at last year's championships in Melbourne. The 29-year-old, who lost the Olympic gold medal in the omnium in London by a single point, said she did not plan a big celebration.
"I'm just going to call my parents at home, that's about it. I'll have a day's rest tomorrow, then get ready for more races on Friday, Saturday and Sunday," she said.
Pervis won the time trial, which was dropped from the Olympic program after the 2004 Games in Athens, in one minute 00.221 seconds, with Simon Van Velthooven of New Zealand finishing second, 0.648 seconds behind, and German Joachim Eilers taking the bronze.
"I was stressed out, staying at the hotel and waiting for the championships to start. But finally, I'm a world champion," said 28-year-old Pervis, who was not selected for the French Olympic team in London.
"I hope to win another medal in keirin on Friday. I was second in 2009 but I'll try to go for the gold this time."
Germany won the last gold medal on offer on the opening night of the five-day championships, taking the women's team sprint title by edging out China in the final by just three hundredths of a second. Britain finished third ahead of Australia.
Reporting by Ruslan Batenkov; additional reporting by Julien Pretot in Paris; writing by Gennady Fyodorov; Editing by Alison Wildey


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Italy is making good progress in its program of economic reform but "deep changes" are still needed, Vittorio Grilli, Italy's economy and finance minister, told CNBC.
"We'll have to go through deep changes — not only [in] my country but also many countries to really face an increase in competition worldwide," he said.
"We have to keep pushing and keep progressing in our restructuring of the Italian economy," he added. He added that he realizes Italy needs "to convince the markets now that we are making good process and we are achieving results."
Italy's economy has contracted 2.4 percent year-on-year, according to gross domestic product (GDP) data released on Thursday, a sign that the country is still constrained by rigid labor markets and other inefficiencies that have stymied its competitiveness.
However, it fell less than expected in the third quarter, falling 0.2 percent compared to a forecast of 0.5 percent, leading some economists to hope that the country's economy had not shrunk as much as feared in 2012.
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This was the fifth quarterly decline in growth in a row, as the country tries to bring down its public debt of 126 percent of GDP to 114.4 percent by 2015.
There are concerns that forthcoming general elections could upset the reform program enacted by caretaker Prime Minister Mario Monti, as voter apathy, public anger at austerity measures and political infighting pervade Italian society and politics.
Grilli remained optimistic that both Italy and the euro zone would emerge from the economic crisis. He forecast that Italy would have flat growth next year, before returning to growth in the second quarter of 2014.
"We are sure that with our reform program have introduced in our economy major…output has already switched gear, but [it] will take some time before we really see it [growth]," he said.
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Grilli insisted that Italy's economy was competitive and well-positioned to weather the economic storm hitting the euro zone, a region shown to be in its second recession since 2009 according to gross domestic product data released on Thursday.
"Our economic structure is very, very strong and [has] many, many dimensions," Grilli said.
"We have a very large manufacturing sector, second only to Germany. We are the second exporter in Europe. And our financial and banking sector is quite resilient to the crisis."
Grilli also lent his support to calls for a euro zone-wide banking union, which was called an "essential" route out of the crisis by the head of Spain's biggest bank on Thursday. However, there is some skepticism over giving up national bank supervision to an overarching European body.
European Central Bank Governing Council member and the President of Germany's Bundesbank Jens Weidmann said on Friday that while a banking union could support a stable currency union it was more important to get the design right than to put it in place quickly. "There is no point in building a new supporting pillar quickly, but on sand," he said.
Grilli, however, said it was important to implement the banking union according to the European Central Bank's 2014 timetable.
"We believe it's very important to...fully share the proposal by the commission both in the timetable and in the substance that they've put on the table," he told CNBC.
"We think that it's an integral part of there being a more integrated [and] stronger euro economy. And frankly, it's also part of establishing a much more integrated credit market with a single better supervision — we know that credit markets right now are still segmented along national border lines. This is not healthy," he said.
(Read More: Botín Pleads for 'Essential' Banking Union)
Grilli refuted a recent claim by European Central Bank (ECB) official Joerg Asmussen that the euro zone is undergoing a "decade of adjustment."
"I'm more optimistic than that. I think we have living with deep crisis, certainly without precedent… since World War Two. The situation will need to progress for many years," he said. He conceded there was a long way to go before Italy would go "back to normal business."


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The U.S. Bureau of Land Management continues to pore over a federal court decision that the timber industry believes will more than double the harvest on the agency's Medford District.
Attorneys for the BLM and other affected agencies are studying the decision to determine its full ramifications, said officials who were keeping tight-lipped about their options.
"We are working with our partner agencies in analyzing the impacts of this ruling," said district spokesman Jim Whittington.
On Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Leon for the District of Columbia ruled that the BLM needs to sell more timber in its Medford and Roseburg districts. Leon said the agency has failed since 2004 to offer the timber harvest target contained in the districts' 1995 resource management plans.
The judge also vacated the system the agencies used to estimate northern spotted owl populations.
The timber industry is applauding the ruling while the conservation camp is dismayed.
In the Medford District, the ruling will increase the timber sale program to its target of 57 million board feet, compared to the 19 million board feet sold in the 2013 fiscal year, according to the American Forest Resource Council, one of the plaintiffs in the case filed in 2010 against the U.S. Department of Interior.
On the Roseburg District, the harvest, based on the ruling, would jump from 29 million board feet for the 2013 fiscal year to the district target level of 45 million board feet, the council said.
"This case is a victory for rural Oregonians who have been suffering through 20 years of gridlock on our federal forests," council President Tom Partin said in a prepared statement.
"We've been trying for years to get the BLM to comply with the law when it adopts a resource management plan," he added. "The judge confirmed the requirements under the (1937) O&C Act are clear, and they can't be ignored by agency officials or interest groups who might wish to sever their connection with our rural, forested communities."
At the Southern Oregon Timber Industries Association, executive vice president Dave Schott also applauded the decision.
"It is a really good decision for the industry," he said. "What happens remains to be seen. I'm sure there will be litigation or appeals."
The decision clearly indicates that both the 1937 O&C Act and the 1994 Northwest Forest Plan set legal precedents that must be adhered to, he said.
"The disturbing thing about the Northwest Forest Plan was it was shoved down the throat of the industry," Schott said. "It wasn't what we wanted. The industry felt we had to take something rather than nothing."
It settled for roughly 20 percent of the high historic average harvest, he noted. However, that is well below the amount of fiber produced annually by the public land in the region, he added.
"They probably harvested a little too much in 1970s," he said of the industry. "But our target harvest (in BLM's Medford District) is 57 million board feet and that is only a quarter of the annual growth in the district."
George Sexton, conservation director for the Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center, a conservation watchdog group in Ashland, said there should be no rejoicing at the judge's ruling.
"If this opinion holds up on appeal, taxpayers will be on the bill to subsidize increased logging of ancient forests and salmon-bearing watersheds on public lands throughout southwest Oregon," he said.
"The local BLM has been coming pretty close to offering as much timber as they are funded to by Congress," he added. "Now the timber industry wants the public to pay for more logging roads and timber sales on BLM lands while they slick off their private lands and export the raw logs to southeast Asia. Its the world's largest shell game."
The Medford and Roseburg districts were named in the lawsuit because those districts still contain some old old-growth forests, he said.
"If Swanson has their way our public backyard forests will be managed like tree farms while watersheds, wildlife, recreation and restoration forestry play second fiddle to industrial forestry across the landscape," he said.
In addition to AFRC, the case was filed by the Swanson Group in Glendale, Rough and Ready Lumber Co. in the Illinois Valley, Washington Contract Loggers Association and Douglas Timber Operators in Douglas County.
Rough and Ready closed its operation last month, citing a lack of available timber from local federal lands.
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Court ruling may boost Southern Oregon logging
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management continues to pore over a federal court decision that the timber industry believes will more than double the harvest on the agency's Medford District.


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ST. PETERSBURG. — Five people were rescued by the Coast Guard after the 32-foot boat they were aboard began taking on water 12 miles west of Cedar Key, Monday.
A member aboard the boat contacted Sector St. Petersburg watchstanders at 1:31 p.m., via VHF-FM channel 16 radio reporting they had lost an engine, were taking on water and in need of assistance.
An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Clearwater arrived on scene, hoisted all five people and are transporting them to Crystal River Airport were they were will be transferred to emergency medical personnel.
No injuries were reported.
"Having a marine band radio aboard was essential to being able to communicate with the crew and get to them quickly before the situation deteriorated," said Petty Officer 1st Class Ronnie Leavell, a search and rescue watchstander at the sector.
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Advice for car owners
Protecting the contents of your car
Thieves are also interested in the contents of your car. Remember, if a car door cannot be opened and the contents removed in a few seconds a thief generally will not bother.
- Do not leave your car in a dark or deserted place.
- Do not leave valuables (for example, wallet, purse, handbag, mobile phone, laptop computer, camera, CDs, radio, shopping and luggage) in your vehicle. If you do need to leave them in the vehicle, make sure they are hidden from view, preferably in the boot (trunk). It is best to conceal items discreetly before you park, in case you are watched.
- Close all windows and lock all doors and the boot (trunk).
- Don't leave house keys and your address or accommodation information visible inside your vehicle when unattended.
- Never hide a second set of car keys anywhere in your car.
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Hear a concert live Fridays at 12noon ET from WXPN and NPR Music
Broadcast live from the stage at World Cafe Live
Unfortunately The Secret Sisters have canceled their performance for the March 18 XPN Free At Noon. The bill instead will be a set by local musicians Andrew Lipke & Hezekiah Jones.
Listen to the Concert Live Friday on the Radio and Online at XPN.org/listen.
Local musicians, Andrew Lipke and Raphael Cutrufello of Hezekiah Jones will perform with a band of some of Philly's finest musicians. Hezekiah Jones have a new album called Have You Seen Our New Fort?. The album was produced by Lipke, and they just recorded a session for Shaking Through - XPN's and Weathervane Music's online emerging artist audio and video initiative. Raphael and Andrew will share the stage performing a mix of old and new songs.
Born in South Africa, Andrew Lipke has literally and figuratively come a long way to where his music thrives today. After moving to the U.S. in 1987, Lipke eventually migrated to Philly to pursue a career in music composition at The University of the Arts. Having always played music, (he started piano at the tender age of five) Lipke has played in multiple bands, one being Philly fans' favorite, Metagroove. In 2008, Lipke was chosen by WXPN as one of seven local artists to be featured in the WXPN and Minneapolis Music Exchange, where his music was featured prominently on both radio stations. In 2009 Andrew Lipke & the prospects played the XPoNential Music festival presented by Subaru. His next record The Plague is almost finished and will be out this fall.
Website: andrewlipke.com/
MySpace: myspace.com/andrewlipke
Recent Release: The Way Home
Release Date: February 20, 2007
Label: Mad Dragon Records
Origin: Philadelphia, PA
Hezekiah Jones is a collection of Philadelphia-area artists based around the songwriting of Raphael Cutrufello. They have released one full-length album, Hezekiah Says You're A-Ok, and two EPs, Come to Our Pool Party, and Bread of Teeth, all on Yer Bird Records. The band is made up of a large and revolving cast of players. Recently Hezekiah Jones were selected to be the April artist in the WXPN and Weathervane music Shaking Through series. Andrew Lipke performs on the track as well.Website: www.yerbird.com/hezekiah-jones-albums/
MySpace: myspace.com/hezekiah11
Recent Release: The Asheville Squints
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Label: Quite Scientific Records
Origin: Philadelphia, PA


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Microsoft will open a store at the Westfield San Francisco Center next month, growing the software company's footprint as it tries to replicate rival Apple's (AAPL) success in retail.
The store, Microsoft's fifth in the Bay Area, will open on April 25 with a grand opening ceremony starting at 11:30 a.m. The festivities will continue on April 27, when the store hosts country singer and TV personality Blake Shelton for a concert. The doors open at noon.
The Redmond, Wash.-based company has expanded its store offerings since the release of Windows 8 and the Surface tablet last year. Employees offer in-store training and demos of Windows 8, and will personalize music and email settings on a customer's new Surface or laptop.
Westfield San Francisco Center on Market Street between Fourth and Fifth streets.
Contact Heather Somerville at 925-977-8418. Follow her at Twitter.com/heathersomervil.


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Planning Conference (Brownsea 39)
Each fall, as the Troop resumes the regular fall schedule, all Scouts and adults in leadership positions are expected to attend and all scouts First Class and above are invited to attend a two day conference to review Troop policy and to plan the troop meetings, camping trips, and establish the year's schedule.
Camping Trips, Hikes and Events
Troop 39 goes on a weekend camping trip once a month. All members are expected to participate since this is the highlight of our Scouting Program. Also, each Scout and Scouting family should consider four events on the Troop calendar as mandatory for all Scouts.
The four mandatory events are:
- Scout Sunday at University United Methodist Church,
- UNC Winter Graduation, UNC
- Spring Graduation and
- our annual "Touch a Truck" fundraiser.
Summer Camp(s)
Troop 39 attends an approved BSA Council Camp each summer for a week. Details are announced in December. Every Scout should plan to attend camp with the troop. Summer camp is the most important program experience of the entire Scouting year. Any Scout wishing to attend an additional or alternate week is encouraged to do so. Arrangements must be made directly with the camp on an individual basis.
Optional High Adventure Trips
Troop 39 emphasizes the "outing" in Scouting by offering opportunities to travel the world. We offer trips to adventures few of their age group have an opportunity to experience outside of Scouting. To fund these trips, scouts and families are generally expected to pay for airfare and spending money. Participating group members sponsor fundraisers to generate funds covering registration fees, lodging, meals, and activity fees. International and most domestic trips are announced a year in advance to allow fundraising time. Age requirements are set by either the activity center to be visited or by the trip leaders with approval of the troop committee. All trips must be approved by the troop committee and have proper BSA permits filed. All BSA standards must be met. Parents must be notified and provide written permission in the rare exception an activity is either not mentioned in the Guide to Safe Scouting.
Council-sponsored Holiday 50-miler
For scouts 14 & older, the Occoneechee Council offers a six-day backpacking trip from December 26th through December 31st. Scouts bring their own food. Interested scouts should check the council website (www.ocscouts.org) for more information. Scouts can earn the 50-miler award.
Patrol Food on Trips
Each trip, there will be a designated patrol member responsible for purchasing food based on the menu derived by the Patrol Leader. That patrol member should be reimbursed by patrol members no later than the Wednesday meeting following the trip. Scouts who make a commitment to a trip will be held accountable for reimbursing the patrol member who is responsible for the food regardless of whether they are able to attend the trip or not.
Personal Camping Equipment
Each patrol is issued a set of camping equipment and is responsible for its upkeep and proper maintenance. Patrols are issued camp stoves, basic pots and pans, cookware, a patrol box, and a lantern. Troop 39 will provide tents for new Scouts but as a general rule, the troop does not provide tents for camping. While each Scout does not need to have his own tent, Patrol Leaders are expected to make sure each Scout attending a camping trip has a tent in which to sleep.
Scouts receive a 10% discount off camping equipment purchased at Townsend & Bertram camping store in Car Mill Mall in Carrboro if they have their BSA membership card.
Scouts are encouraged to have the following personal gear for camping trips:
- 4 changes of underwear
- at least 2 changes of socks
- extra clothing (appropriate to season)
- jacket
- hat
- rain gear
- extra shoes
- deep bowl and/or plate
- cup, knife, fork, and spoon
- water bottle or canteen
- Warm sleeping bag, or lightweight bag with extra blankets
- sleeping pad, or extra blankets for underneath sleeping bag
- flashlight
- personal hygiene items
- small towel
- Bandaids / first aid kit
- notepad and pen or pencil
New Scouts and parents are encouraged to talk with experienced troop members and parents about specific types of personal gear, brands, preferences, and suggestions before purchasing equipment. Items such as tents and sleeping bags can last many years so it is wise to make the best initial purchase.
Domestic High Adventure
Florida High Adventure Sea Base
The Florida National High Adventure Sea Base the following adventures: Coral Reef Sailing, Sea Exploring Adventure, Scuba Adventure, Scuba Certification, Live Aboard Scuba Adventure, Out Island Adventure, Keys Adventure, Bahamas Adventure, and Bahamas Tall Ship Adventures. Scouting's most complete aquatic facility offers a complete variety of water activities from SCUBA diving to sailing "Tall Ships". All participants have the opportunity to swim, snorkel, and fish among the most beautiful coral reefs in the northern hemisphere. Visit http://www.bsaseabase.org/. Note: offered through Troop 39 based on interest
Northern Tier Canoe Base
Northern Tier offers Scouts and Venturers the world's best wilderness canoeing. The Northern Tier offers many adventures, each geared to the goals and desires of your group. Visit the Northern Tier for an unforgettable journey through the heart and soul of Canoe Country. Beginning in December, scouts may participate in the challenging cold weather camping program called Okpik (OOk' pick). Visit http://www.ntier.org/. Note: offered through Troop 39 based on interest
Philmont Scout Ranch
The BSA's premier high-adventure base challenges Scouts with more than 200 square miles of rugged New Mexico wilderness. Backpacking treks, horseback cavalcades, and training and service programs offer young people many ways to experience this legendary country. Youth and adults take advantage of the ranch's camping, training, and work programs. Most activity takes place during the summer, but Philmont also offers its Fall Adventure and Kanik winter program. Visit http://www.scouting.org/philmont/main.shtml Note: offered through Troop 39 based on interest
National Scout Jamboree (offered by the Occoneechee Council)
Scouts from across the nation gather at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia every four years. Each council is allowed to bring a specific number of representative scouts from their area. These participants form a council troop, which operates the same patrol method as a traditional local troop. Scouts can earn partial merit badges at the Merit Badge Midway, experience action sports, enjoy shows featuring major entertainers and generally our nation's President, and spectacular fireworks shows. Participation ranges from 60-75,000 scouts and leaders on site for ten days.
Other Adventures Based on Parent/Leader Expertise
Parents and leaders possessing a particular talent, interest, or expertise may propose a concept to the troop committee for approval and coordinate the trip. This should be done prior to soliciting youth interest. Scouts can be loosely polled for interest but should not be asked for deposits or funding prior to troop committee approval. Such trips have included a bicycling trip from San Francisco, CA to Norfolk, VA which was featured in the April 2006 Boy's Life magazine. International High Adventure
Kandersteg, Switzerland
Kandersteg International Scout Centre is the only world centre of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM). The Centre began in 1923 with Lord Robert Baden-Powell, who, after the first World Scout Jamboree had a dream about a place where all Scouts from all over the world could meet. Summer in Kandersteg is often described as a 'Permanent Mini Jamboree', and with good reason too! Where else can you share an early morning breakfast with your Italian neighbors before heading off on a hike to a Swiss Alpine Cheesery with some German and Spanish Scouts? Then you can finish off the evening with a huge International Campfire, joining with Scouts and Guides from all over the world. Visit http://www.kisc.ch/. Note: offered every four years through Troop 39.
British High Adventure
Each member of Troop 39 has one opportunity to participate in the British High Adventure. Scouts who are at least 13 but not yet 15 at the time of the event visit the United Kingdom for three weeks. They traditionally attend summer camp with our partner troop, the 26th Northcote Scout group in Bristol, England, for ten days and spend a few days with families from the 26th. Each Adventure group selects activities around the UK for the remainder of the trip. Most groups spend three or four days in London visiting tourist sites and activities. Other activities have included caving in Cheddar and bicycling through Exmoor. Note: offered every two years through Troop 39


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Tags: C/C++ Parallel Design
Unpublished source code accompanying the article by Bartosz Milewski in which he examines the two major problems in concurrent programs -- data races and deadlocks. The solutions that Bartosz presents in the D language is based on a deadlock-avoidance protocol. Requires ZIP/PKZIP to extract.
Table Of Contents: LockOptions.d


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Morning Five: 07.10.13 EditionPosted by rtmsf on July 10th, 2013
- Summer is the season for college basketball players to improve themselves. Whether that means lonely nights in the gym getting up thousands of shots, long hours in the weight room fantasizing about drawing contact and-1, or organized games against real teams from other countries, the point is the same. Get better. The FIBA U-19 World Championships featured a number of players either entering or returning to our game next season, and Mike DeCourcy breaks down the top eight performers from the Prague, Czech Republic, event where Team USA won gold. The article is in the dreaded slideshow format, but we'll offer an olive branch in that DeCourcy actually writes a good several-paragraph narrative about each player — in other words, the click-throughs are worthwhile. And that Aaron Gordon kid headed to Arizona? He's going to cause quite a stir next season, even though he's one of the few impact freshman who won't be residing in Lawrence, Lexington or Durham.
- So who's got next? We'll find out very soon, as the first of three separate key four-day recruiting windows for college coaches opens this afternoon at 5 PM ET. For a nice primer on the where, the who, and the when, as well as the key storylines and coaches feeling the most pressure to perform, CBSSports.com's Jeff Borzello hooks it up with a comprehensive analysis. The biggest thing we're interested in over the next few weeks are any tells that the Class of 2014's top two prospects — Jahlil Okafor and Tyus Jones — end up as a package deal somewhere. It's extremely rare that the top two players in a single class view themselves as an inseparable and dynamic duo, but that very well could be the case with these two. He also touches on the difficulties that new Butler head coach Brandon Miller faces, as well as UCLA's Steve Alford and Minnesota's Richard Pitino. Fair points, all. (Side note from the get-off-my-lawn crowd: Can we lose the recruitnik notion of the shortened usage of the word "commit" to refer to "commitment?" Commit is a verb. Seriously, there's no gray area here.)
- One of DeCourcy's summer stars at the U-19 was Louisville's Montrezl Harrell, and the defending national champions have managed to stay in the news in a variety of ways lately. The best news we've perhaps heard all summer is that Kevin Ware and His Broken Leg are rehabilitating at a phenomenal pace, so much so that head coach Rick Pitino believes that his rising junior will be ready to play basketball again in October. It turns out that the doctors who said the clean break of his femur was actually somehow a "good" thing compared to the alternatives were exactly on point. Pitino's comments were made at a press conference announcing that Louisville's 2013 Final Four floor will be auctioned off in pieces to raise money for pediatric cancer research and care. Kentucky did a similar thing last year — proving, once again, that these two programs will stop at nothing to one-up the other, even in causes of virtue — raising over $200,000 in the process.
- The old adage is to follow the money, and in the case of North Carolina's PJ Hairston and his association with Haydn Thomas and his propensity for spending tens of thousands of dollars on rental cars (seriously, who does that?), the flow of cash keeps getting more interesting. USA Today Sports reported on Tuesday that four of Thomas' (or his roommate Catinia Farrington's) rental vehicles had received a total of nine unpaid parking tickets on the UNC campus between the dates of February 22 and May 28 of this year. And yet, Haydn in previous media reports said that he has no association with the school and doesn't even like the Tar Heels. Roy Williams, for his part, is waiting until all "the facts are in," and so is everyone else. But isn't there really only one question that matters here — what is Hairston's true relationship with Haydn and why is he driving around committing crimes in Haydn's vehicles?
- Conference realignment has been largely viewed as a pox upon their houses by most of us in the college basketball community over the last several years, as traditional basketball leagues have been folded, spindled and mutilated into something resembling nothing like their former selves. But as ESPN.com's Dana O'Neil writes, "what if we were all wrong?" Her point is that the basketball armageddon that we all foresaw may not have actually come to fruition. The ACC, always and forever at its heart a basketball league, has improved its stock substantially with the addition of basketball schools Pittsburgh and Syracuse, not to mention a strong Notre Dame program (with Louisville to come). The new Big East is all about roundball, with Creighton, Butler and Xavier joining a strong group of the Catholic Seven headlined by stalwarts Georgetown, Marquette and Villanova. Even the national darling Mountain West added Utah State, a strong and well-supported program that will challenge the likes of San Diego State, New Mexico and the rest for wildest fan base. While we're not completely sold that all these moves are for the greater benefit of the sport, what choice do we have? Let's lace 'em up and see what happens.


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RG Roane Cherry Hill, 1998, 22.50, 280 pp. ISBN: 0972329803 All the great American universities put in a bid to �house� and conduct experiments using the most advanced supercomputer Simon. Though MIT or one of the West Coast IT giants are the favorites, GCS shockingly assigns Simon to little Cabillo University in San Diego. The victory stuns everyone especially Professor Ross Erricson, the author of the winning concept in which Simon would be pr...