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Know what you get when you dump a complicated Congressional Budget Office report in politicians' laps that mentions "Obamacare" and "jobs"?
Food fights. Wild, sloppy charges that don't capture what the report actually said. And cherry picking. Lots and lots of cherry picking.
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As the dust is finally settling on the CBO report released Tuesday, the two parties are also finally settling on their talking points going forward - and both still maintain vastly different portraits of the same document, depictions non-partisan analysts say are misleading, at best.
( WATCH: John Boehner on CBO Obamacare report)
"What bothers me in the debate is that people are just cherry picking what they want to use," said Austin Frakt, a health economist at Boston University.
Republicans are quietly accepting that the report was largely about people working less and making that choice on their own, not literally about "2 million lost jobs."
But that doesn't mean the GOP has gone off the offensive. Republicans and conservative critics are already shifting to a more general argument: Even if it is just people working less, there's no way that can be good for the economy, especially if it's because they lose Obamacare subsidies if their income goes up.
The White House and Democrats say they're happy to argue that point — because in their view, it's much better for Americans, and the economy, if they can switch jobs or start businesses without having to worry about losing their health insurance. They're even saying, no, no, Obamacare is good for jobs, because it puts money in people's pockets and that increases the demand for goods and services.
( WATCH: Healthcare.gov ad: Hey kids, your mom wants you to sign up for Obamacare)
So even after days of debate and analysis and fact-checking by the media, we're still in for lots more cherry picking as long as there's any argument to be had about Obamacare and jobs. But if there's one bottom line to the report, it's this: It has become much harder for the administration to make the case that the Affordable Care Act has no negative impact on employment at all.
At the very least, Republicans and conservatives believe Obama can no longer make remarks like his comment in September that repealing the health care law is "not an agenda for economic growth. You're not going to meet an economist who says that that's the number-one priority in terms of boosting growth and jobs in this country, at least not a serious economist."
The GOP believes it can keep hammering Obamacare on economic grounds, saying it's not going to help growth if it discourages work in any way. Some Republicans are subtly shifting gears, though, from the "lost jobs" talking points that got blasted around on Tuesday — and became the focus of the first round of media stories — to the more general "Obamacare discourages work" argument.
( Also on POLITICO: Poll: 51% disapprove of Obamacare)
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's first statement on the report, for example, said it proves the health care law "will push 2.3 million people out of the workforce" — the same way most of the rest of the GOP was framing it. By the next day, at a hearing on the report, he went out of his way to clarify that that's not really what the report meant.
"So just to understand this, it's not that employers are laying people off, it's that people aren't working in the workforce, aren't supplying labor to the effect of 2 and half million jobs in 2024, and as a result that lower workforce participation rate, that less labor supplied, lowers economic growth?" he asked CBO director Doug Elmendorf.
Some influential conservatives are cautioning the GOP to be careful, too. Writing in POLITICO magazine, National Review editor Rich Lowry noted that "we aren't talking about jobs that are eliminated in the usual sense of discouraging employers from hiring, as some Republican talking points suggested."
( Also on POLITICO: White House pushes back hard amid CBO fallout)
That doesn't take the issue off the table. Top Republican operatives say it's still going to be an explosive issue in the elections — because, as the National Republican Senatorial Committee declared in a blast email, the report "undercuts one of the main reasons that Democrats insisted they forced the unpopular measure into law - that it would be a boon for the economy and create jobs."
The issue is still very much alive — but it's "important to use accurate descriptions of what CBO said," said NRSC spokesman Brad Dayspring.
The White House and Democrats aren't ready to concede that ground. They're circulating a key piece of testimony: At the House Budget Committee hearing on the report, Elmendorf said the health care law "spurs employment and would reduce unemployment over the next few years." That statement, first reported by the Washington Post's Plum Line blog, was a response to a question from ranking Democrat Chris Van Hollen, who noted that the report says the health care law will boost the demand for goods and services because low-income people will have more money to spend.
The lesson, the White House says, is that Obamacare is actually good for jobs. "The ACA is thus – today – helping ensure that every American who wants a job can find one," Jason Furman, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, wrote in a blog post Thursday.
The reality, though, is that there's plenty of fodder for both sides' arguments in the CBO report, which is why independent economists are rolling their eyes at how both parties are pulling out the parts they like the best.


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COLUMBUS -- There's a joke making the rounds in the Big Ten that maybe they ought to just name the freshman-of-the-week honors in the conference the Christian Hackenberg Award.
After all, it seems he wins it every week.
Penn State's rookie quarterback gets his biggest test to date when he plays at No. 4 Ohio State on Saturday night. The Buckeyes are spending a lot of time working on how they'll go about preventing him from winning the honor a fourth time.
It's overstating it to say the defense is licking its chops to get at Hackenberg. By the same token, it is well aware of the mayhem that can ensue when a first-year quarterback catches a lot of heat.
"We know that if we put some pressure on him he's going to get a little bit nervous," Ohio State defensive tackle Michael Bennett said. "And I think we have the guys to put pressure on him. If we get into the pocket like we do against most teams, he might get a little nervous and force some throws."
Hackenberg's coach, Bill O'Brien, is concerned about the atmosphere at Ohio Stadium.
"You can't put 90,000 people around your practice field cheering against you," he said.
Still, pressure hasn't really cooked Hackenberg yet. The 6-foot-3, 220-pounder who played last year at Fork Union Military Academy has seemed pretty unfazed by anything he's seen so far.
In his very first college game, in front of 61,202 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., he led the Lions to a tense 23-17 win over Syracuse. That building will host the Super Bowl next year.
After the game he was so even-tempered and cool it seemed as if he had just watched somebody else play.
"It was awesome," he said. "Everything I thought it would be. I need to be a little bit smarter with the ball at times but overall I felt pretty comfortable with what I was doing."
That doesn't sound like a nervous kid.
He's thrown for at least 300 yards in half of his six starts, leads the Big Ten in completions (132) and passing yards per game (279) and is fourth in total offense. He's hitting over half of his passes for 1,672 yards with 11 touchdowns and six interceptions.
Ohio State coach Urban Meyer admires how Hackenberg has played, while conceding he would prefer to have a veteran signal-caller.
"You are seeing freshmen (quarterbacks) play a little bit," he said. "I'd hesitate to do that. We did it with Tim Tebow a little bit (at Florida), but he was a part-time player. I'd be hesitant to play a freshman. You want the kid to come in and learn and then take over."
It's not like Hackenberg has a fearsome running attack on which to lean, either. The Nittany Lions haven't topped 85 yards rushing in half of their games, so the entire offense has rested on the kid's shoulders.
Few first-year players have the temperament to handle huge games. Hackenberg might be the exception.
"One of the things that has struck me about Christian since the day I met him, which was a junior day almost two years ago now, is his demeanor," O'Brien said. "He's a calm guy. He's got a quiet confidence about him. When the game starts, everybody involved is really just focused on the game, not the 90,000, 100,000 people sitting in the stands. You have to deal with the noise and things like that. You're just very focused on what your job is on that play, and the next play and the next play.
"That's probably what he thinks about."
Hackenberg is coming off a dramatic 43-40, four-overtime upset of Michigan two weeks ago in which he completed 23 of 44 passes for 305 yards and three touchdowns with two interceptions.
"He's shown a lot of poise there," Ohio State defensive line coach Mike Vrabel said. "He throws the ball well, has a strong arm, good skill, good tight ends, good backs and a veteran offensive line. (The past two days) we're in there looking at them now and seeing how we're going to do it."
There's also pressure on the Buckeyes. Their defense has a lot to prove after getting roughed up last week by Iowa in a 34-24 victory that stretched Ohio State's win streak to 19 in a row.
"We can't let the quarterback sit back there," Bennett said. "The expectations for the defensive line are really high, especially in our unit room. We really expect a lot out of ourselves. We really need to start taking ownership of the pass as well."


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Pretty sure I recommended Alderamin when it was still new...yup, I did.But what's this about the LN being canceled? According to wikipedia there's another volume coming out in just a few days. Looks like it's been releasing twice a year pretty consistently.
RE: Black Clover - oh, so it really is Naruto all over again? Complete with a screaming, obnoxious protagonist? Great...
Yep, it's basically a series made for a new generation of readers. My youngest writer entered the scene a couple of years ago, and he's pretty fond of the manga. Meanwhile, all my older writers including myself have absolutely zero patience for Black Clover, because to us it's yet another remix of the tried and true Shonen Jump recipe. We just want to watch series about cyborg grampas and dictionary makers, and yell at kids to get of our lawn. That said, the writers in my generation also have a shonen series or two they grew up with that's special to them. I have a soft spot for Bleach and Inu Yasha, and I know someone who's really happy right now, because his old favourite is suddenly getting a brand new anime adaptation next season. Speaking of shonen, I got the first volume of Astra Lost in Space to review and that turned out to be a surprisingly fun read. It starts out with a wellknown premise: kids get stranded in some deserted place and try to get home. But in space. Lots of things about their situation are suspicious, and they need to get along to survive, but one of them might be a mole. There are plenty of clichés (heroine is a ditz, hero yells a lot), but the author makes it work by either turning them upside down (main guy does have actual survival skills and leadership abilities) or having characters outgrow their archetype by means of character development. It's nothing groundbreaking (and the answers to the mysteries could make or break the story), but it's a good start and I want to stick with it to see where it goes. It's 6 or 7 volumes, I think? Once I'm done with them, I could probably hand them over to my younger cousin who's just gotten into reading comics in English.
While Bleach and Inu Yasha both have problems, most of those problems come up later in the series (such as Kubo being unable to manage a large cast effectively), whereas Black Clover's biggest problem for me was that the main character was pretty much unlikable from the word go.


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Israeli-made drone aircraft at the heart of a fierce political row between Israel and the US are likely to be a key element of any Chinese invasion of Taiwan, a Taiwanese military analyst said yesterday.
The US has imposed a series of tough military sanctions against Israel to pressure it to confiscate "Harpy" drone aircraft parts that China returned to state-owned manufacturer Israel Aircraft Industries last year.
Israel says the return was for routine maintenance, but Washington contends it was for an important technological upgrade. Israeli military officials have said work on the Harpy deal has been frozen.
With a range of 500km, the Harpy has the ability to locate and destroy enemy radar facilities. US officials fear China could use it to compromise the defense of Taiwan and endanger US military forces in the Pacific.
Milton Liao of the Council of Advanced Political Studies said the Harpy could be used in a Chinese invasion of Taiwan to destroy the nation's radar capabilities -- including those on its Patriot anti-missile system -- as part of gaining air superiority over the Taiwanese military.
Once air superiority was obtained, he said, the way would be cleared for a full-scale Chinese invasion across the Taiwan Straits.
The Harpy operates by overflying enemy air defenses, identifying the location of enemy radar installations through the electronic signals they emit, and then destroying them with a 32kg explosive payload.
Liao said the Harpy's effectiveness is enhanced by its small size -- it is only 2.1m long with a wingspan of 2.7m -- which makes it difficult for enemy radar to detect, allowing it to loiter around potential targets for extended periods of time.
He said that in any Chinese invasion of Taiwan it would be far more important than the other main anti-radar weapon in the Chinese inventory, the J-5, an aging MiG-type aircraft transformed by Chinese technicians into an unmanned drone vehicle in 2002.
A former US government official with long experience analyzing the Chinese military backed Liao's analysis. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information. Taiwanese military officials declined to comment on the Harpy controversy.
Earlier this month, Israeli officials and media reports said the US had imposed a series of tough sanctions on the Israeli arms industry since the beginning of the year, escalating tensions between the two allies over Israeli military sales to China.


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While IT departments can attempt to censor social media, Cisco Canada's Jeff Seifert said it's "pointless" for IT departments to limit or restrict access to sites such as Tumblr, Twitter, or Facebook on corporate networks. With personal phones, tablets, and a myriad of other devices, employees will simply find another way around the block.
Social networking attacks will continue and leaks will prevail either way, but their severity and frequency can be reduced.
What employees need most is education. In many cases, a social media policy is a good start, and all demographics—from young to old—need to remain conscious of what they're sharing, and with whom. Specific guidelines will vary between workplaces. But some practices, such as keeping sensitive conversations and internal discussions off social media networks in the first place, should be common sense.
As the Wall Street Journal's deputy managing editor Alan Murray once said, "Don't be stupid." He was blunt, but correct that a simple modicum of common sense could go a long way to helping the average employee avoid malicious links and prevent the most egregious absent-minded leaks.
Companies can't let the fear of social media blind them to its real potential, though. Encouragingly, some IT departments aren't just accepting the use of social media, but embracing it. Constellation Research Group's 2011 State of Social Business survey found that nearly 70 per cent of respondents were using social media to provide service and support to clients in a reactive, external-facing manner.
Consider, for example, the case of ComcastCares. This is the name of a Comcast Twitter account run by employee Bill Gerth, and it was the brainchild of former senior director of national customer operations Frank Eliason. For over two years, Gerth and his team have responded to a deluge of frustrated customer complaints and queries on an almost daily basis. These conversations can, in turn, actually help assist Comcast IT identify and resolve internal network problems.
Best Buy has been pursuing a similar strategy with its Twelpforce initiative. Despite the oddball name, Twelpforce allows thousands of Best Buy employees to connect with customers directly via Twitter and offer shopping advice or product support. A strict social media policy dictates the rules of engagement, though in this case, it exists less to keep sensitive information secure and more to ensure that employees stay professional.
But such initiatives are only scratching the surface of how user-generated data can be leveraged in the consumer social space. It's for this reason that IBM's Cognos Consumer Insight product exists. Described on IBM's website as "the industry's most robust social media analytic application," Cognos allows companies to rapidly respond to customer complaints and concerns.
While this might sound similar in theory to the Comcast and Best Buy initiatives, the reality is much more impressive. Cognos can trawl through billions of blog posts and publicly accessible forum posts, and it uses that data to gauge public sentiment regarding a product, service, or brand. In some ways, this is the same sort of approach used by social networks like Facebook to build detailed social graphs of their users—including their likes, dislikes, opinions, and views.
While these are external examples, they provide a good idea of what could be achieved when similar algorithms and social analytics are used internally. For example, recent versions of Microsoft's SharePoint platform provide advanced tagging and organizational features to employees. While IT administrators can suggest preset tags, there's also the option for employees to define custom tags of their own.
"IT staff are able to see what folksonomy is gaining traction and integrate that into their enterprise taxonomy," said Microsoft Canada's senior SharePoint product manager Matt Wolodarsky. The end result is, in essence, a tag cloud that can be used to analyze all sorts of employee trends, based on what is being shared or discussed.
Reality is not always so simple
While such social solutions are all well and good, implementing them is easier said than done. As Ray Wang, principal analyst and CEO at Constellation Research Group, points out on his Software Insider's blog, balancing a company's business needs with IT requirements is no simple task. On the IT side, there's the desire to provide applications and services to employees that are both safe and secure. Consumer social media, by its very nature, doesn't always meet these needs. The business side, however, is more willing to take a chance on emerging or disruptive technologies in the social space, which is where friction between departments may arise.
Perhaps one solution for both sides lies in the growing market for enterprise social networks—internal, IT-managed platforms that offer similar feature sets as consumer sites and services. For example, a product called Yammer is positioned as an enterprise social network that offers Twitter-style status sharing but in a closed, internal environment. Tools like these might not satisfy all IT or business needs, but at least they're a start.
There's no such thing as a complete solution. The rise of consumer social media in the workplace is all about tradeoffs—balancing benefits with risks. Increasingly, embracing some form of social networking is a choice that consumer-pressured IT departments will have to make.
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Pittsburg State University will observe Apple Day on Thursday, March 7, but the week is filled with activities that honor the university's oldest tradition.
Events begin on Monday, March 4, with an Apple Scavenger Hunt that runs through Wednesday, March 6. At 11 a.m. on Wednesday, March 6, judges will sample entries in the annual Apple Dessert Contest.
On Thursday, March 7, this year's Distinguished Service Award recipients will be honored at a reception at 2 p.m. in the Wilkinson Alumni Center. The annual Apple Day Convocation will begin at 3 p.m. in the Sharon K. Dean Recital Hall in McCray Hall. PSU alumnus Lee Tafanelli, adjutant general for the State of Kansas, will be the keynote speaker.
At the convocation, the university will recognize the Distinguished Service Award recipients as well and the Golden Gorilla Award recipients for student leadership. This year's Outstanding Faculty Awards will also be announced.
At the conclusion of the convocation, members of the PSU Faculty Association will distribute apples.
Randy Roberts, PSU archivist and curator of special collections, said that although Apple Day is among the university's oldest and most recognized traditions, not many people know the story behind the celebration or its association with apples.
Roberts recounted the events that led to the first Apple Day in his book, "Pittsburg State University: A Photographic History of the First 100 Years."
"In 1905, Russell S. Russ, school founder, and the school's supporters in the Kansas legislature secured an appropriation to purchase land for a campus. In 1907 Russ returned to the legislature lobbying for funds to construct the first building on the new campus. While the legislature was in session, Russ sat in the chair of one of the legislators. Faculty members from the State Manual Training Normal (which would become PSU) and Clarence Price the mayor of Pittsburg, were also on the floor. For these improprieties, the Pittsburg delegation was fined a barrel of apples, which was purchased and distributed among the members of the legislature.
"History is clear, however, that when the triumphant Russ returned to Pittsburg with news of the appropriation, he called a school assembly at which the student body fined the faculty a barrel of apples...
"The commemoration of the building appropriation was celebrated the following year in 1908 and a tradition was born. Commemoration Day, always known as Apple Day, became a major event on campus and throughout Kansas."


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The Evo 4G was rooted some days ago, and we finally have instructions. And it couldn't be easier. If you're new to this, we suggest you read through the thread at XDA Developers. And then read through it again. And after you think you don't have any more questions, read through it one more time. (Note: THIS WILL WIPE YOUR PHONE.) For the advanced, it's this simple:
1. Download this file (PC36IMG.zip). Move it to the root (as in top level) of the Evo's storage card.
2. Turn the phone off. Once it is, hold down the volume button and the power button until you get a white screen and some text. You're now in the bootloader. It should automatically start checking the PC36IMG.zip file you put on the card.
3. Once it's done, it'll list all the images on the card and ask if you want to flash. (This is your last chance to back out.) Say yes, and we're on our way. It'll look like this as it's going:
4. After it's done, it'll ask if you want to reboot. Surely.
That's it. You have a rooted ROM. You'll want to rename (or delete) the PC36IMG.zip image file that you put on the card, so that next time you enter the bootloader it won't try to automatically update again. You can do that by plugging in the phone, choosing "HTC Sync" and going to your favorite command line prompt and typing:
adb shell mv /sdcard/PC36IMG.zip /sdcard/root-PC36IMG.zip
Leave the phone plugged in if you want to go on to the next section and load the custom recovery. (After the break, for cleanliness.) Otherwise, you're done.
Flashing recovery for custom ROMs
If you're going to want custom ROMs on the Evo, you need to flash the recovery image. Here's how you do that.
1. Download this file (evorecovery) to your desktop (or wherever). Then unzip it.
2. Return to your favorite command line prompt and type "adb reboot recovery" (without quotes). This will reboot the phone into recovery mode. It looks like this:
3. Once it's in recovery mode, go back to your computer. Find the evo-recovery file that you unzipped. Inside are a series of files. For Windows, double-click "recovery-windows.bat." (If you're running Windows Vista or Windows 7, right-click it first and choose "Run as administrator." Let it do it's thing, and you'll now have the custom recovery module so you can back up the phone, flash custom ROMs, etc.
That's it, everybody. Huge props to the folks at XDA and everybody who worked on this project. Once you're done here, head on over there and let them know how awesome they are.


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Bär & Karrer Successfully Represents PNK Group Company in SCAI-ArbitrationBär & Karrer successfully represented a company acting under the trademark of PNK Group, a major developer of industrial facilities in Russia, against a Western European concrete plant engineering and manufacturing company in a SCAI-arbitration concerning the delivery of (defective) equipment. After full-fledged proceedings including a hearing with several technical experts, the client was awarded partial rescission of the contract (as requested) with returning of certain defective equipment against refund of its cost, a substantial price reduction with regard to the rest of the equipment, as well as a contractual penalty payment and reimbursement for 75% of all legal costs. Team members were Matthew Reiter and Désirée Schreyer (both arbitration).
Bär & Karrer Advises Zurich on its Investment in autoSenseZurich Insurance Company Ltd (Zurich) invests in the Swiss start-up autoSense. Zurich will further develop autoSense's business together with Swisscom and Amag. autoSense operates a digital service portal which connects vehicles through an app and provides real-time information and services to car owners.
Bär & Karrer Advises Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB in the Acquisition of emapalumabSwedish Orphan Biovitrum AB, an international specialty biopharmaceutical company listed in Sweden, agreed to acquire, from Novimmune's shareholders, a newly established company owning emapalumab and related assets, giving Sobi access to world-class R&D capabilities in the field of Immunology. The acquisition supersedes the previously announced exclusive licence agreement with Novimmune. In addition, Sobi agreed with Novimmune on options for the shared financial rights to NI-1701 and NI-1801, two product candidates in the field of immuno-oncology. The transaction value is CHF 515 million, of which CHF 400 million was previously committed in the exclusive license agreement for emapalumab.
Bär & Karrer Advises Patinex and BZ Bank on the Sale of NovImmune to Light Chain BioscicenceLight Chain Bioscience AG, a Swiss biotech company, agreed to purchase all shares in NovImmune SA, a company focused on the discovery and development of antibody-based drugs for the targeted treatment of inflammatory diseases, immune related disorders and cancer. Patinex and BZ Bank are the selling majority shareholders of NovImmune.
Bär & Karrer Awarded "Law Firm of the Year - Switzerland" at the Citywealth Magic Circle Awards 201Bär & Karrer is pleased to announce that it has received the award "Law Firm of the Year - Switzerland" at the Citywealth Magic Circle Awards in London. This award recognizes Bär & Karrer as the Swiss law firm with the best private client team.
Bär & Karrer Advises Ashcroft on the Acquisition of Rüeger HoldingAshcroft Inc., headquartered in Stratford, CT, USA, a subsidiary of Tokyo Stock Exchange listed Nagano Keiki Co., Ltd, has announced the completion of the acquisition of Swiss-based Rüeger Holding SA (Rüeger) and Dutch-based STIKO Meetapparentenfabriek B.V. (Stiko), both manufacturers of specialty temperature and pressure measurement products, from their previous owners, Bernard and Jean-Marc Rüeger.
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Vermont State Police are urging drivers to slow down in hazardous winter conditions after numerous vehicles slid off roads in southeastern Vermont over the last two days.
Troopers are being encouraged to issue traffic tickets in these incidents to drivers who are driving too fast for the conditions. The ticket fine is $214.
Captain Ray Keefe, commander of the Vermont State Police in Royalton, Rockingham and Brattleboro said Monday that many of these incidents, often called "slide-offs," can cause injuries to the driver and passengers and are an unnecessary drain on state and local resources.


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- Meet Spotto, a plucky duck on a mission. Ill-behaved ghosts have kidnapped Chikkie Wowwow, President Wowwow's daughter. Spotto, being the world's foremost Bombirdier, must follow the ghosts to a haunted house and use his trusty bombs to blast the baddies. Take control of Spotto, adjusting his aim with the stylus and trying to toss bombs into the ghosts' mouths in 50 "explosive: stages. Along the way, you'll avoid obstacles (or use them to your advantage), find powerful Super Bombs to inflict even more damage, and even encounter a frighteningly large ghost or two. With multiple modes of play and numerous solutions for successfully blasting ghosts to pieces, this is one haunted house worth visiting often...


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Iowa Senate race close; Shaheen ahead in New Hampshire
Iowa's U.S. Senate race is too close to call, while New Hampshire's battle is tilting in favor of the incumbent, according to a new Marist/NBC News poll.
Both are currently Democratic-held seats, and Republicans see both as opportunities. Republicans need a net gain of six seats to win control of the Senate.
In Iowa, Rep. Bruce Braley, a Democrat, and State Sen. Joni Ernst, a Republican, are in a 43-43 tie. Each runs strong in their own party, and "a gender gap also keeps this a close matchup," said a Marist analysis.
Braley is leading among women, Ernst among men. And, Marist noted, "A notable proportion of Iowans have yet to form an opinion about each of these candidates."
They're vying to replace Sen. Tom Harkin, a Democrat, who is retiring.
In New Hampshire, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat, has opened up an 8 percentage point lead over former Sen. Scott Brown, a Republican.
"The gender gap is the difference in this contest," Marist found. Shaheen has a 25 percentage point lead among women, while Brown leads among men by 9.


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Tuesday, September 7, 2010
More on the New Toy
Brookstone Portable Document and Photo Scanner
- Creates sharp, photo-quality files up to 600x600 dpi
- Easy – features one-touch scanning
- Fast – color scans in as little as 3 seconds, b/w scans in as little as 2 seconds
- Stores images on microSD card up to 32GB (card required, not included)
- Includes Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software for Windows that converts text documents into editable files (note: included OCR software not Mac-compatible) [waah]
- Uses 2 AA batteries (not included)
- Includes USB cable
- Scanner is compatible with Windows 7, Vista and Mac OS X 10.4+
The scanner costs $99 at Brookstone and we got a 4GB microSD card at Office Depot for $18.
My husband put the stuff in and started it up; he says that it was easy to do.
The instructions are simple: hold down the Power/Scan button for 2 seconds to turn it on and do the same to turn it off. To scan, place it on the document, with the document resting on a flat surface and located between the scan guides. Press the Power/Scan button once (a green light on the indicator means it's on) and move it slowly and evenly over the document. If you are moving it too quickly, you will get a red light. When you reach the end of the document, press the Power/Scan button once to stop the scan.
You then use the USB cable to upload the images to your computer in much the same way as you would with your camera. I did make one mistake at this point; whereas I only have to turn my camera off to disconnect, the computer recognizes the scanner as an external device and it has to be disconnected from the desktop before you turn it off, or you get one of those "Device incorrectly disconnected" messages.
(Note: I am not associated with Brookstone; just a Techno-Dummy who is delighted to have a small, simple-to-operate scanner.)
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Thank Greta.ReplyDelete
One last question, and you may have to play with it for a while, any idea, how long the batteries will last?? 2 documents or 200?? I suppose some would depend on the size of the document, a legal size document,maybe not as many as something that is only half a page.
Hmm, not sure about that. Also, the width of the swath is something like 9 inches, so large documents would have to be scanned in more than a single pass of the wand.ReplyDelete
Greta, I enjoyed your post so much I linked to it on our Facebook page. http://bit.ly/ciD48yReplyDelete
This seems like such a grand piece of equipment to take along on research trips. Thanks for sharing it with us.ReplyDelete
Congratulations on your anniversary.
Greta - I know it's been a while since your original post, but are you still loving the wand scanner? I'm thinking about getting one. Are you aware of any negatives now that you've been using it for a while? Have you run into any problems at any archives/ libraries/records centers with the staff not allowing wand scanners? Just curious...ReplyDelete


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"With the economics of wind improving as a result of better turbine technology and lower turbine prices, wind PPA contracts are very attractively priced.
As a result, buyers are clearly interested in taking advantage of these prices and the production tax credit extension," vice-chairman and chief financial officer Moray Dewhurst told a first quarter earnings conference call Tuesday. Nextera also expects to add roughly 600MW of new wind capacity in Canada through 2015, Dewhurst said.
First quarter adjusted earnings were down slightly at the company's Nextera Energy Resources division, home to its renewable energy business, primarily due to lower wind generation.


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April 2003
Genetic Resource Center personnel inspect shelves of rice germplasm in a genebank. Photo: International Rice Research Institute.
They sit, on shelves, in drawers, stacked in massive walk-in refrigerators. In paper bags, metal canisters, and aluminum foil pouches. Some live brief lives in glass test tubes under artificial lights. Others are all but immortal, bathed in liquid nitrogen at 196 degrees below freezing. A few take their chances in wide-open spaces.
They are the deposits in the world's plant genebanks, living samples of the plants that humanity depends on, as precious as life itself. The simple word genebank covers many possibilities, from massive collections stored in elaborate buildings to a simple field of a few labeled plants. Genebanks are ex situ collections. That is, they comprise samples stored off site, away from the environments in which they naturally grow. The primary purpose of all genebanks is the safe conservation of plant diversity. For example:
- It may be the diversity of a single species and its wild relatives, for example the 100,000 or more samples of rice and its relatives, gathered from around the world and maintained by the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines.
- Or it could be a small collection of a few locally important fruit trees, like those being assembled by schoolchildren in Sarawalk, Borneo.
It is impossible to say exactly when the world's plant genetic resources collections began: people have been collecting and conserving plants in botanical gardens for many hundreds of years. The greatest pioneer of the modern era was the Russian Academician Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov (1887-1943). In a series of extraordinary and intrepid expeditions, mainly between 1916 and 1933, Vavilov and his many disciples collected more than 250,000 plant accessions from around the world. Vavilov fell foul of Stalin's regime but his name has long been properly honored in the N. I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry (VIR) in St Petersburg, which houses one of the world's most important genebanks.
Today, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations' (FAO) World Information and Early Warning System on Plant Genetic Resources (WIEWS) lists about
- 1,460 genebanks worldwide
- including 465 in Europe, 468 in the Americas, and 298 in Asia
Between them, the world's genebanks maintain more than 5.4 million samples — although many are duplicates, so the total of genuinely distinct accessions is considerably lower.
How genebanks work
Our most valuable food crops — wheat, rice, and maize, which together provide all humanity with half the calories needed — produce seeds that are easy to store. So do many other prized crops. For genebanking,
- the seeds are merely cleaned, dried, and placed in a sealed jar or packet
- for medium term storage (20 to 30 years), the seeds are maintained at the modest temperature of 5°C
- for long-term storage (up to 100 years) they are kept at -18 to -20°C
Cool, dry seed should remain viable (capable of germination) for many years, and in some cases for decades or even centuries. But viability does decline over time, so the seed must be planted and grown out every few years to provide a fresh stock. The plants need to be cultivated carefully, and isolated so that they do not pick up pollen from any surrounding plants and so become genetically 'polluted.' All this is technically straightforward but, of course, adds to the expense of conservation.
With some plants, however, including some of the crops most important to people in developing countries, the technical problems are not so easy to solve.
- Many vital crops — among them potatoes, yams and cassava — are not generally propagated by seeds. Instead, farmers grow them from tubers or rhizomes or other storage organs. Potatoes, yams, cassava and others can reproduce sexually, as well, to produce true seed; but when they do, they shuffle their genes so that the potatoes or yams that grow from true seed are not genetically identical to the plants that produced them. The particular qualities of a particular variety are lost unless the tubers themselves are stored. Nature designed tubers to be storage organs, and although it is not technically difficult to keep them, albeit for the short term, tubers take up much more space than true seed and must, in general, be regenerated (replanted) much more often.
- Other plants raise even greater difficulties. Many cultivated bananas and plantains produce no seed at all — they are sexually sterile. And they do not produce natural storage organs either. They are propagated by some form of cutting or offshoot. Traditionally, farmers simply keep their preferred varieties of bananas and plantains in the field by propagating them year after year. Varieties can also be conserved as whole plants in field genebanks. But, if only for safety's sake, keeping them ex situ is desirable, too. Although it is clearly a challenge to store plants that produce neither seed nor natural storage organs, the technical problems have largely been solved. Since the 1960s, it has been possible to keep plants in an in vitro genebank: cells are grown on a gel and fed with suitable nutrients and hormones to give rise to entire plants. In addition, it is becoming more and more possible to store cells for long periods by cryopreservation, a specialized form of freezing in liquid nitrogen at -196°C.
- Finally, a wide range of plants and particularly tropical trees produce seeds that are in various ways 'recalcitrant.' For example, the seeds of some tropical trees germinate while still on the parent: the 'seed' that drops to the ground is already a seedling. Recalcitrant seeds cannot be stored simply by drying and cooling. Indeed, they regard such treatments as a severe insult and quickly die. They require more sophisticated methods, which to a large extent must be tailored individually to their needs. The special problems associated with conserving these species adds to the expense.
Why are genebanks so important?
One reason to conserve crop diversity in genebanks is that crops are under threat elsewhere. Habitats continue to be destroyed by unsustainable human activity, and along with the habitats go the plants. One of the threats to diversity is advanced agriculture. As new varieties become available, and are taken up by farmers because they offer genuine benefits, they may displace the diversity that was there before. This is especially ironic because all advanced breeding is built on existing diversity, which makes it imperative that this diversity be conserved and remains available somewhere.
There are many, many instances of breeders finding the solution to some problem besetting agriculture in a genebank. One example: the Hessian fly is an insect pest that can devastate wheat crops worldwide. Estimates of the cost of damage vary widely.
- In one year, wheat farmers in the United States lost an estimated $100 million.
- In Morocco, a hotspot for Hessian fly attacks, damage costs total more than $300 million a year, which the country can ill afford.
Resistant varieties can reduce the damage to less than 1%. To create them, breeders in the U.S. and Syria explored samples of wheat and its relatives held in genebanks. They found 15 new sources of resistance, and used them to generate new resistant varieties of wheat that help farmers in Morocco, the U.S., and everywhere else that the Hessian fly is a problem.
Meeting the needs of breeders is thus one important function of genebanks. But increasingly genebanks are fulfilling additional roles. In the aftermath of disaster, natural and human, they are a repository not only of the seeds farmers need, but also of essential skills and knowledge. Take the case of Rwanda:
Seeds of Hope was a coalition of 16 international and 9 national research centres, which moved in to help restore agriculture after the end of the genocide in Rwanda. At one point in 1994, when the war escalated, 800,000 people were killed and another 2,000,000 displaced in just two months.
Agriculture, the occupation of more than 90% of the Rwandan people, was acutely affected, with the disruptions peaking at the height of the growing season. The world worried about the loss of the harvest, estimated at 60%, and the hunger that would follow.
But concern also focused on the risk to one of Rwanda's unique national treasures: the diversity of its beans. Rwandans grew the greatest range of varieties anywhere in the world: at least 600 different types in a country no larger than Switzerland. In their genebanks, some members of the Seeds of Hope consortium held collections of Rwandan bean varieties. Among many other activities, Seeds of Hope prepared to restore crop varieties to the farmers from whom it had been collected in the first place. The consortium multiplied 1.5 tons of seed of more than 275 different varieties.
The experiences in Rwanda have guided more recent efforts to restore agriculture, for example in Afghanistan. After war and the worst drought in 40 years, a new consortium was established to supply seeds and know-how. Much of the seed came from genebanks holding varieties collected in Afghanistan. Genebanks are now an important component of the response to wars, hurricanes, drought, and disaster.
Genebanks are also finding a role in improving the livelihoods of poor farmers directly. Diversity is one of farmers' great strategies for survival. Farmers who grow a diversity of species buffer themselves against a disaster that destroys one species. And a diversity of varieties of a single species makes better use of different environmental conditions. Having sometimes lost their local varieties, for example after adopting new and improved crops, farmers can turn to genebanks for new material to try. This has been a factor in the spread of better varieties of taro, a starchy root crop that is also grown for its leaves, across the many small island states of the Pacific. Genebanks have organized diversity fairs at which farmers gather to exchange varieties and the know-how associated with them.
All is not well
On the face of it, the state of the world's collection of crop plant genes seems encouraging. Growth has been rapid over the past two decades (there were only about 54 genebanks worldwide at the end of the 1970s) and the total number of accessions under conservation, which runs into millions, seems impressive. But there are major gaps in the present collections, particularly among crops that need to be stored as tubers, such as cassava. Furthermore, many existing genebanks fall short of world standards for genebank management.
Ideally, genebanks should meet three criteria — they should be able to:
- store accessions over the long term
- duplicate and regenerate the material as required
- have the capacity to document and store information about the plant material in the collections
However, in 1998:
- 75 countries said they had facilities to store seed in the medium or long term — but fewer than half (35) of these were able to meet agreed-upon international management standards.
- The rest reported a lack of facilities for drying seeds, problems in maintaining equipment, and unreliable power supplies.
- Another 56 countries said that their facilities were suitable only for short to medium-term storage.
In short, the world's most important agricultural asset is nowhere as secure as it should be. The work needed to conserve plant diversity must be given assured and unassailable financial underpinning forever. Unfortunately, this has proven politically difficult. Support for long-term caretaker activities can be precarious and difficult to justify, especially from a narrow-minded and short-term economic standpoint. Yet when it comes to rebuilding a shattered country's economic base, or when a single sample among 50,000 contains exactly the traits that farmers need, the value of genebanks is almost literally impossible to calculate. From that point of view, genebanks are like an insurance policy for the future of agriculture, and that is part of the problem. When times are hard, skimping on insurance can seem a good idea. Indeed, some people choose not to insure their possessions at all. That may be fine if their possessions are easily replaced and their children have no expectations. But crop diversity, once lost, is impossible to replace.
Fortunately, countries have come together under the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to endorse a plan to create an endowment, the Global Conservation Trust, which provides a permanent source of funding support for the precious deposits of diversity held in genebanks. Funding for the endowment is still needed, but the Trust has at least made a start at protecting the genebanks that protect our future.
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For years I dismissed greens. Most people tend to over cook them, making them a soggy, gooey mess.
But in my first season with my share at A Place on Eearth CSA, I had to face the greens. Kale. Big bunches of it every week. I discovered something odd... I love kale, especially raw kale (and, oddly enough, so do my dogs). Yeah, you read that right. Raw kale. And yes, you read the parentehses right, too: my dogs LOVE kale. They'll eat anything.
My husband is not quite the kale devotee that I (or the dogs) became, even when lightly steamed and wilted with some garlic and salt (yum!). But, thanks to the indispensible Simply In Season cookbook, I've figured out how to get him to eat the kale.
This recipe (slightly adapted as always) is one that my husband declared his absolute favorite ever and that he could eat it every day. :)
Sausage and Greens Soup (adapted from Simply in Season)
1 pound sausage (I HIGHLY recommend Italian sausage)
1 bunch of kale, chopped (you can include the stems or not, your choice... we like 'em!)
1 onion, chopped
2-3 cloves of minced garlic OR 3-4 chopped garlic scapes
4-6 cups of poultry or veggie stock
at least 1 cup of diced potatoes (I use, usually, 2 medium taters which probably comes out to about 3 cups)
1 can of UNSWEETENED evaporated milk
Brown the sausage thoroughly, drain most of the fat that cooks off of it, but reserve about 2 TBSP.
Heat the reserved fat in a big soup pot (about 4-5 quarts), add the onions and garlic (or garlic scapes), and sautee until soft (about 5 minutes). If your sausage didn't throw off much fat, just toss in some olive oil, enough to keep the onions from sticking.
Add the sausage, potatoes and stock. Heat to boiling. Reduce heat and simmer for about 15 minutes, or until potatoes are tender.
Add the greens and condensed milk, and cook a few minutes longer. If using spinach, probably about one or two minutes will suffice. I recommend about 5 minutes for the kale.
Serve with some nice crusty dunkin' bread.
The original recipe is, of course, much more precise (y'all know I don't really LIKE measuring things, right?), and calls for salt and pepper. If you use the Italian sausage you won't need any additional spice. The spice in the sausage will be plenty.
Happy nomming!
Again, I highly, HIGHLY recommend Simply in Season. It's a fantastic cookbook, and should be a mainstay in any collection. Great for learning to eat seasonally, and the recipes are incredibly well organized.
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This spring's graduation will be the largest in the history of Lipscomb University, but no one will have a bigger smile than Neal Benson.
Back in 1987 Benson was 30 hours away from graduation from Lipscomb. But a series of poor choices and his failure to rectify those choices resulted in his dismissal from the Lipscomb Bisons baseball team at the end of his junior season.
"I had led a very poor life with poor life choices that had caused a lot of severe consequences for me and my family," Benson said. "No matter how successful or how my life had turned around Satan was always tapping me on the shoulder saying I had not finished school."
Benson started his return to Lipscomb a few years ago when he was invited to a reunion of the 1987 team by Andy Lane, associate athletic director for development, and Lipscomb baseball coach Jeff Forehand.
"I thought surely they didn't mean to send that letter to me," Benson said. "I had that whole thing of leaving and not being able to come back. Andy said that absolutely he wanted me to come back and that Jeff wanted me to come back.
"That was the first time I had been on campus since I had left. It was a big deal. It felt really good to be back on campus and to see all of the changes. It was good to see old faces at the baseball game like Lee Marsh and Farrell Owens. No one ever brought up the past."
When he returned to Lipscomb in the summer of 2007 Benson changed his major from Kinesiology to Business Management. That move doubled the number of hours needed for graduation.
"It didn't make a lot of sense to do this with a wife and two children," Benson said. "But people like Andy Lane told me I needed to get my degree. The very first semester I was very overwhelmed. I went home after my first couple of classes wondering if I had one the right thing.
"It was a whole different experience to have been in the business world and then coming back and learning some of the academic part. It was a good learning experience."
But the road has not been an easy one. Benson has endured a couple of job losses during his second tour of Lipscomb. He also has to balance a family with his wife, Diana, and two sons, Jackson, 11; and Nathan, 6. Diana works at the alumni development office at the campus school. Both their children attended the elementary school at Lipscomb.
"During this whole comeback there have been all kinds of obstacles to overcome," Benson said. "I know that the story before is not to be dwelled on but what caused me to live that life was I ran from life and life's troubles.
"The last five years have been full of challenges with two job losses and financial issues that Satan has tried to put in my path. I have kind of been tested not only academically, but also in life. I would like to think that I have stayed on the path of where I am supposed to go. That makes it really sweet for me."
Benson has also renewed his enthusiasm for Lipscomb baseball. He had played against Forehand in both high school and college. At home games Benson oversees the seating for season ticket holders at Ken Dugan Field at Stephen L. Marsh Stadium.
Benson's ultimate goal is to find a job in the Lipscomb athletic department.
"I am passionate about Lipscomb," Benson said. "I enjoy being at the games and hanging out with some of the guys and getting on the field. It brings back memories of the times I did have here that I took for granted.
"I want to serve and help people. My aspiration is to hopefully do that somewhere on the Lipscomb campus. I would love to have an opportunity in the athletic department. I love what Lipscomb stands for. I want to be a part of that."
Despite the struggles Benson is confident and content that he is where he is supposed to be in life.
"Everybody can look back and say they wish they had done this or that. Even in my business classes I learned that you learn from your mistakes, probably more than doing it right to begin with.
"I am where I am supposed to be. My relationship with God is where it is supposed to be. It is not always perfect. But I wouldn't be who I am today had I not gone through the struggles In order to have a greater appreciation of where I am today. I have no regrets."


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