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There are just some gifts that are so bad you have to take them back the day after Christmas. And when you're a car nut, you could be the victim of a lot of crap that exists in the universe of automotive-related gifts. Since we've shown the world what you might want with our Holiday Gift Guide, we're going to mix things up on Black Friday by broadcasting to the well-meaning but ill-informed the gifts we absolutely do not want and we need your help. What are the worst car enthusiast gifts you've seen, received or given? What's the most awful crap that has been gifted in the name of automobilia? We'll be picking the best/worst you all come up with and counting them down this Friday. Click below the link to see what we've recommended already:
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Moviegoers didn't exactly go psycho for "Hitchcock" at the box office this weekend, but the film didn't get slaughtered either.
The movie starring Anthony Hopkins as legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock debuted in 17 theaters this weekend and collected $300,800, according to an estimate from distributor Fox Searchlight. That amounted to a decent per-theater average of $17,000.
The picture debuted to mixed reviews at AFI Fest earlier this month and currently has a 61% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film did the briskest business this weekend in Los Angeles and New York, where it "played well to both the younger hipper audiences of Hollywood and Greenwich Village and the more mature established audience which can be found in the Landmark West L.A. and Lincoln Square on Manhattan's West Side," said Frank Rodriguez, Searchlight's senior vice president of distribution.
Another title that debuted at the art house this weekend was "Rust and Bone," a French film starring Marion Cotillard as a whale trainer trying to put her life back together after a tragic accident leaves her without legs. Playing in just two theaters, the movie sold $30,196 worth of tickets for a so-so per-theater average of $15,098.
The last film from director Jacques Audiard, "A Prophet," opened with a slightly higher per-location average of $18,187 in 2010. That movie went on to earn a nomination for the foreign language award at the Academy Awards; Cotillard is being eyed as an early lead actress contender for her performance in "Rust and Bone."


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August eSeminars for Adobe Presenter: Register now for free!
Here's the list of eSeminars we've planned for the month of August. Feel free to register for the eSeminars you wish to attend.
Topic: What's New in Adobe Presenter 9
Date and time: Thursday, 1st August, 2013 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM US/Pacific
Description: Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, as she demonstrates some of the new and enhanced features in Adobe Presenter 9. Learn how to use the new audio workflow and filters, add a drag and drop question, use scenario templates, enable in-course collaboration and learning analytics, and use the new learning interactions in Adobe Presenter 9. Don't miss it!
Topic: Making of an Award-winning Interactive eBook
Date and time: Thursday, 8th August, 2013 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM US/Pacific
Description: Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Adobe eLearning Evangelist and mLearning DemoFest 2013 winner, to learn how she created an Interactive eBook using Adobe InDesign and published using Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. She will also demonstrate how she created HTML5 animations using Adobe Edge Animate, simulations and interactions using Adobe Captivate, and HD videos using Adobe Presenter Video Creator and finally how she embedded them all in the eBook folio. Don't miss the fun!
Topic: Working with the Learning Analytics Dashboard in Adobe Presenter
Date and time: Wednesday, 14th August, 2013 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM US/Pacific
Description: Join Dr. Allen Partridge for this live interactive session on working with the new Learning analytics dashboard in Adobe Presenter. You'll learn how to set up in course discussions, questions and collaboration and get a detailed explanation of how to work with the resulting data from your students. You'll learn how to easily identify students who are succeeding and those who need assistance and learn the ways to use the dashboard to easily notify your learners and communicate with them about their progress.
Topic: 21st Century Classroom Skills: Media Literacy Made Easy
Date and time: Wednesday, 28th August, 2013 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM US/Pacific
Description: Are you feeling challenged to provide your students with the domains identified for 21st century learners, yet at a loss for how to begin? Integrating media literacy into your curriculum should be fun, not a burden. Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist as he demonstrates the incredibly simple way that you can empower your students to learn 21st century media literacy with Adobe Presenter. You'll learn how to help your students create powerful, on-topic, professional quality videos in just minutes. You'll see how these tools can be adopted in your classroom and learn how to use them.
Topic: Starting with eLearning
Date and time: Thursday, 29th August, 2013 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM US/Pacific
Description: In this session, Renaldo Lawrence, Adobe Education Leader, will look at how he uses and plans on using various tools to help engage both students and staff. Renaldo is starting a new job in September at Chiswick School and part of his job is to ensure each department is using eLearning materials to help enhance their students learning. Besides teaching, Renaldo will work with each department to create content and work with teachers on the delivery of the content to their students. Renaldo says "the important thing for me to do is to help each of the members of staff become engaged with technology". Even though I know they are using technology he says that he "has ideas which can help engage and push learning forward". Ideas which include the use of iPad apps, ibooks, Adobe Captivate, and Adobe Presenter.


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Green Jobs Calling
New Bedford, a former industrial and whaling town in eastern Massachusetts, hasn't seen much economic prosperity since the early 20th century, the peak of the textile industry. But community leaders hope their town can be the center of a green economy boom, and locals have taken it upon themselves to drum up demand.
Last year, a team of community organizers knocked on 3,000 doors, urging homeowners and small businesses to commit to energy audits and energy-efficiency improvements. Community organizers also founded a minority-owned green company to do the weatherization work and to help locals prepare their homes for efficiency upgrades—for instance, replacing old wiring so they can install insulation. The project is partly financed by a public utility, in response to state energy mandates.
Communities across the country are creating green jobs from the ground up, financed by consumer demand, utility fees, some creative new funding models, and a combination of federal, state, and local money. In Oakland, Calif., an organization called Solar Mosaic is "crowdfunding" solar power. For $100, anyone can buy a share in one of several planned solar projects, to be installed atop community buildings. "You just cut out Wall Street," says Jakada Imani, executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, a partner organization of Solar Mosaic. "You can just go to the people in the community to fund it."
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And They Own It
How worker co-ops are expanding despite the rust-belt economy.
The Ella Baker Center and a coalition of community groups have also successfully pushed the city to investigate whether more green-jobs financing could come from a public fund generated by consumer fees paid to Pacific Gas and Electric. Twenty-two states require energy utilities to maintain similar funds, according to the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. The coalition believes that Oakland's share of the fund could help finance the city's greenhouse-gas reduction plan, which aims to slash carbon emissions 36 percent below 2005 levels in the next decade.
Nearly one million Americans worked in resource-efficiency and renewable-energy jobs in 2010, according to the Brookings Institution. But with federal support lagging, it may take some creative state and local financing to spur the clean energy economy, especially in places with high unemployment and little spare cash, like New Bedford.
Interview: Van Jones is leading a national mobilization to rebuild the middle class—through decent work, fair taxes, and opportunities for all.
Corporations aren't hiring, and Washington is gridlocked. Here's how we take charge of our own livelihoods.
In a time of layoffs and outsourcing, something surprising is happening in San Francisco and New York: manufacturing jobs are on the rise.


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Lieutenant Colonel Michael F. Walther
Lieutenant Colonel Michael F. Walther is a recently-retired Senior Executive of the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ), having served most recently as Director of the National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC). He is also a recently-retired U.S. Army Reserve Judge Advocate who has served in a variety of positions, including a deployment to Iraq (2006-07) as Legal Advisor to the Multi-National Force Iraq planning staff and Director of the Law and Order Task Force in Baghdad. He last served as a Military Judge, presiding over court-martials in the U.S. Army's Fourth Judicial District. Lieutenant Colonel Walther was originally commissioned as a U.S. Air Force Officer and attended law school under the USAF Funded Legal Education Program. As an Air Force Judge Advocate, he served in International Law-related positions in Greece and Germany before shifting the focus of his legal practice to military law and criminal justice matters. In 2003, he joined the U.S. DoJ as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, and was assigned to the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force. In 1999, he transferred to DOJ's Criminal Division in Washington, DC, where he served as a Senior Trial Attorney, Deputy Chief, and Acting Chief of the Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section. Lieutenant Colonel Walther holds a B.A. in English from Tulane University, an M.A. in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College, and a J.D. from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law.
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Insanity: Four Decades of U.S. Counterdrug Strategy
December 27, 2012
Authored by Lieutenant Colonel Michael F. Walther.
The author provides context to the former DOJ Drug Intelligence Chief's declaration that the U.S. 40-year national drug strategy is a failure. He argues that the expensive and largely-ineffective supply-reduction strategy should be abandoned in favor of a new, science-based, demand-reduction model.


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Britney Spears' Kids Star In Hilarious Dance Video
Sean Preston & Jayden Federline strut their stuff in this great home movie — see their fun dance debut!
Britney Spears is a world-class dancer, and she seems to have passer her skills on to her kids Sean Preston & Jayden Federline!
Sean, 6, and Jayden, 5, thrilled their mom Britney, 30, with some intense moves — all while dressed as Boba Fett and Iron Man!
Britney put this YouTube video through a strange filter which made the whole thing a bit muddied, but we're still so glad we got to see her adorable kids in action!
Do YOU think Britney's kids will end up in showbusiness, HollywoodLifers?
— William Earl
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Toyota Grand Prix Of Long Beach Day 2: American Le Mans Race
Some might have told you that the big ticket for the second day of the Toyota Grand Prix Of Long Beach was the Toyota Pro Celebrity Race (AKA Scion pinball) but the real action was the American LeMans race. Four different classes of race cars lined up on the streets of Long Beach and it was my chance to see cars like the Mazda Lola Coupe, Falken Porsche RSR, and the Rahal Letterman Racing BMW M3's up close and personal.
The race was absolutely nuts. There was everything from controversial penalties to a Corvette spontaneously combusting! Don't worry about that last part though the driver (Boris Said) got out ok.
In the P2 class the Mazdas was taking it to the Acuras and were leading the class for a good portion of the race. This was a pretty impressive feat for Mazda considering that their Lola B09 coupe is so new that the paint is still drying. Although, despite an impressive run the Fernandez Racing P2 Acura was able to take the lead away from Mazda in pit lane. However Mazda was still able to keep the Acura's in their sights and earned second and third on the podium.
The story in P1 was the battle between Gil De Ferran's Acura team and the Tequila Patron Highcroft Acura's. The Tequila Patron team is used to being on top but legendary Honda/Acura driver Gil De Ferrran wasn't having it. Gil has raced on the streets of Long Beach many times in his legendary career but never managed to win. He was a runner up many times but couldn't quite get his feet on the top spot of the podium…until this weekend. He and teammate Simon Pagenaud were able to hold off Scott Sharp and David Brabham to take the win. A controversial pit lane call against the Highcroft team didn't hurt Gil's efforts either. More on that below.
In the GT2 Class things got hot…literally. Things were going fine until one #28 Riley Corvette driven by Boris Said suddenly burst into flames. Boris must have saw it coming because during the replay you could see that he already had the door open and was ripping himself out of his harness before the car even came to a complete stop. Luckily Boris was ok and suffered only minor injuries.
The American Le Mans race is in my opinion the best part of the weekend short of the main event. If you didn't make it out to Long Beach this year I highly suggest that you start planning for next year. I guarantee you'll have a blast.
Now check out SPEED's recap of the race and after that a few pictures taken by yours truly.


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What a difference a year makes! At the last World Economic Forum in Davos there were frantic secret meetings on saving the euro and private straw polls on whether the euro zone would break up and how soon Greece would be forced out.
Twelve months on, the euro's survival is widely taken for granted by the policymakers and business leaders attending the annual forum, and the EU's top economic official has time to go skiing while in the Swiss mountain resort.
"I recall last year in 2012, Davos was full of uncertainty about the euro zone," European economic commissioner Olli Rehn said in an interview.
"Last year there was a very tense mood here. This year I think we are seeing a sentiment moving from stabilization to recovery, and that means I should get a chance to do some cross-country skiing."
Perhaps the most striking change in this year's annual gathering of the captains of business, financial services and government is how little talk there has been about the euro.
The familiar prophets of doom are silent, or at least muted.
Indeed, there was far more discussion in the cavernous Congress Center and the luxury hotels that surround it of whether Britain will still be in the European Union in a few years' time after Prime Minister David Cameron's speech promising an in-out referendum within five years.
"Brexit" has replaced "Grexit" as Davos man's nightmare.
Cameron got a warm reception when he addressed the global forum as chairman of the Group of Eight major industrialized nations with a rousing call for free-trade agreements, more open markets, greater competition and a crackdown on tax avoidance.
But his comments on the EU were more divisive. "To try and shoehorn countries into a centralized political union would be a great mistake for Europe, and Britain wouldn't be part of it," he declared.
BBC Economics Correspondent Stephanie Flanders drew applause that reflected many participants' unease when she asked Cameron whether he thought the business community welcomed the prospect of five years of uncertainty over Britain's future in the EU.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, a close Cameron ally in pressing for greater economic liberalism in the EU, said a British vote to leave would be a disaster, but he did not think it would happen.
Positive contagion
Last year, the economic elite were hanging on every word of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's speech, in which she rejected pressure to increase the size of the euro zone's rescue fund for troubled states.
The key to reassuring markets was to restore lost trust in government policies, she said.
In the end, Germany did accept a somewhat bigger financial firewall, and a European bailout of Spain's banks. But it was a pledge by European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi last July to do whatever it took to preserve the euro that was the turning point in the crisis.
Berlin's decision in August, after months of hesitation, to keep Greece in the currency area at the cost of more financial aid and a possible future write-down of Greek debt owed to euro zone governments was the other big development.
Speculators have not so far risked betting against the ECB's determination, allowing Spanish and Italian bond yields to fall back to levels not seen since before the peak of the crisis.
Mr. Draghi told the Davos forum that there was "positive contagion on the financial market and for the financial variables, but we don't see this transmitted to the real economy yet."
Yet he resisted any idea of relaxing the austerity policies that are contributing to keeping much of the euro zone economy in recession, saying fiscal consolidation was unavoidable.
Both Spain and Italy have adopted strict austerity budgets and tough reforms of pensions and labor markets, while Ireland and Portugal have stuck doggedly to EU-IMF adjustment programs and are aiming to return to market funding this year.
A group of healthier European banks were due to announce on Friday that they have repaid early some of the $649 billion they borrowed in ultra-cheap liquidity from the ECB last December to avoid a looming credit crunch.
Klaus Regling, head of the euro zone's ESM rescue fund, told Reuters that foreign investors are piling back into southern European countries' debt auctions, with China and other Asian buyers leading the way, followed by Middle East funds and, more slowly, US institutions.
Complacency risk
Only three months ago, Spain seemed to be on the brink of having to request a sovereign assistance program to trigger ECB buying of its bonds. The question was when, not if.
Now Regling says he does not expect to have to fund a bailout of Spain this year. Tiny Cyprus, closely linked financially to Greece, is the only euro zone country that is requesting emergency loans.
Investors and business consultants say they see signs of investment returning to the euro zone, although not necessarily to all of its troubled fringes.
"In Europe, people recognize it is going to be a long process, but I think they are not nearly as pessimistic about the long-term solvency of the European Union than they were last year," said Ken Frazier, CEO of the pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co.
"There's a lot of commitment to the euro, and I also think that people sometimes ignore that Europe is still a strong economic engine," he said, even though his company has suffered from cuts in European healthcare spending due to austerity.
The main concern of political leaders, central bankers and investors is that European leaders should not get complacent and let up on economic reforms now the existential crisis is over.
"There is complacency, and it is very dangerous," Angel Gurria, head of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, told Reuters. "Everybody thinks we are off. But we are not. How can it be? We still have stubbornly high unemployment."
Asked what her biggest concern was for 2013, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde listed the fiscal problems of the United States, Japan and Europe, and keeping up the momentum of structural economic reform in all three areas.
The WEF's Global Risks report, compiled a few weeks before the Davos meeting, listed a possible systemic financial system failure as one of the top five concerns, citing a persistent threat from the euro zone, even though it has avoided break-up.
"The current eurozone instability will continue to shape global prospects in the coming years," the survey of 1,000 experts and industry executives found.
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Canwinn banks Meydan feature
Canwinn was the impressive winner of the featured 1600m Attijari Points Rewards Program at Meydan Racecourse on Thursday evening, on a quality card kindly sponsored by Commercial Bank Of Dubai.
Ridden by James Doyle for trainer Dhruba Selvaratnam in the colours of his main patron, His Highness Ahmed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the five-year-old was repeating his course and distance victory of the previous Meydan meeting and was always travelling well under Doyle. The pair cruised into contention 400m out before storming clear in the final 200m to win comfortably.
Doyle said: "That was quite impressive and he has clearly improved from that first win. I was pretty confident from a long way out as I was going so well and he carried me into the race effortlessly. When I asked him to go he picked up very well and it is great reward for the horse who has been so consistent for Dhruba and the team."
The 1200m Al Dana Wealth Management was won by seasonal debutant Reynaldothewizard who had also won over the same course and distance on his return to action in 2010. That was in a handicap though as was his subsequent 1400m victory on this night last year.
Richard Mullen was in the saddle and said: "I actually thought he would need the run so am pleasantly surprised. This is his absolute minimum trip and we definitely feel he is better over 1400m and he should stay 1600m so it is a great start to his season."
The only Purebred Arabian contest was the opening Mazrat Al Ruwayah prep, over 1600m in which Richard Hills scored a commanding victory on the Doug Watson-trained Kandar Du Falgas in the silks of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
Hills said: "These conditions really suit him and he did it nicely. We will be back for the Mazrat Al Ruwayah itself hoping to repeat his win in that of last season."
Trainer Abdulla bin Huzaim was in double form with Fervent Prince initiating the brace in the 1600m CBD World MasterCard handicap, defying joint top-weight under Carlos Sandoval.
It was a good performance giving weight to all bar one of his 13 rivals and the trainer said: "He is a horse we like a lot and hope to get a [Dubai World Cup] Carnival place with him. He is rated 90 before this win so with luck will qualify for the Carnival."
Carlos Sanchez was on the trainer`s second winner, Submariner, who landed the concluding 1900m Attijari Al Islami to complete a memorable evening for the trainer.
Champion Trainer Ali Rashid Al Raihe rarely leaves Meydan empty handed and Ahmed Ajtebi steered his Street Act to land the spoils in the 1900m maiden, the Al Dana Visa Infinite Card.
It was the four-year-old's 10th career start but he had always threatened to break his maiden and Ajtebi explained: "This horse deserved that as he has run plenty of good races in defeat. The trainer and his team have always known he had a race in him and it is nice to be on board when he managed it."


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When Jennifer and Mark Stevens got married last July, they thought life would be easier with a joint income.
"Boy, were we wrong," Jennifer Stevens said. "We honestly thought that having two incomes would give us more money to work with each month, but it's not that easy. Especially now, during tax season, there is just so much you have to think about.
The Stevens of Marion are one of thousands of newlywed couples, caught unaware of how their marriage affects their financial situation — and, in turn, their filing status, withholdings and eligibility for tax credits and deductions. Local tax preparers say it's a stressful time for many, especially married couples who may not understand the terminology present on the, sometimes difficult to understand, tax return.
While staring at the 1040 IRS form, Jennifer and Mark looked at each other with a question in their eyes.
"This is insane," Mark Stevens said. "What on earth is the difference married filing joint and married filing separate? I just want to put down I'm married and move on. It's not like this should be rocket science. I just want to pay my taxes, so I don't get annoying phone calls from the IRS."
After making a few phone calls, they learned that the tax rates for filing a joint return were higher.
"Anytime we can get more money in our pocket, it is a good thing," Jennifer Stevens said. "We can use the money to buy things, like toilet paper."
They continued to work on their tax form for another 15 minutes before Mark Stevens stopped, and immediately got out his phone to call his employer.
"When I was reading over the section asking how many exemptions we had, I started to get worried," he said. "I know that when I started working I only put down one, but now there's two in my household. It's a great problem to have, but I'm not sure what needs to be done about it. I don't want anyone to say that I cheated on my taxes."
After talking with the human resources department, he discovered that they didn't need to change their withholdings for the current year, but needed to file a multiple jobs worksheet as soon as possible, so they would be ready for tax season next year.
"It was such a relief," he said. "Both Jennifer and I have jobs and we didn't even think that we'd need to change anything on our W-4s. I'm still one person, and Jennifer is still one person. We're just living together. But I guess that makes a difference in the eyes of the government."
Walking out the front door with their form in hand, Mark Stevens said he was pleased that they could get the form filled out. He said he felt a huge burden lift off his shoulders, knowing that they could file and, hopefully, get their rebate check sooner.
"I'm looking forward to it," he said. "It's always good to have some extra cash on hand, just in case something unexpected arises."
Jennifer and Mark Stevens said they heard that there were additional retirement plans offered for married couples who filed their tax return jointly.
"I think we're going to get an IRA," he said.
"Even if Jennifer stops working for some reason, we can both contribute to it in the future. All this financial stuff gives me a pain in the head, but it's worth it if we can secure our future."


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Aaron Fike Will Make You Say 'Oh Baby' — Hunk of the Day
Working out is usually a singular activity, unless, of course, you need a spotter when handling really heavy weights. Former NASCAR driver Aaron Fike, 29, chooses to exercise in the company of a baby, who just so happens to be his seven-month-old daughter, Lily.
Odd? Yes. Hunky? Incredibly.
Odd? Yes. Hunky? Incredibly.


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Big rumor on the internet that Annie has confided that her disclosure that there were "lifelong friends" in the house is a complete lie that she made up as the saboteur.
Quote from: ripvanwinkle on August 15, 2010, 09:06:19 PMBig rumor on the internet that Annie has confided that her disclosure that there were "lifelong friends" in the house is a complete lie that she made up as the saboteur. Well after watching the show we see that Ragan only used that as the saboteur because someone wanted him to make up that there was an alliance in the house. He just used Annie's original idea of lifelong friends to mess with them even though it is not true. Hope BBAD is good tonight,. I was so mad last night. All I got to see was pool tourney until about 3 minutes to 12:00 and then they started to fight. I missed the whole thing. Hate to sit there for 3 hours and then it go off on something good. I get the feeds but my internet is not good enough cause i live in the mountains and it keeps going out on me so i can't even get flashback. Dang!
Do to a storm going through our area, we were not able to watch tonight's episode, does anyone know where I can watch it at?
I think it would be a great power move if:1) Ragan takes himself off and Brendon nominates Matt;2) Matt uses the DPOV to remove himself and nominates Enzo;3) Enzo and Lane are up; one goes home ending the brigade.Since, it appears, that the other brigade members are turning against Matt, this is his best chance to take control of the game.In my opinion.
When do they do the DPOV? Is it right before the vote on Thursday?
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News Release 2005-53 | May 27, 2005
Acting Comptroller Williams Tells Community Bankers OCC Working Hard to Make Regulation More Efficient and Less Burdensome
CHICAGO – Acting Comptroller of the Currency Julie L. Williams said today that the OCC knows, from its supervisory experience, about the burden of regulation shouldered by community banks and is working in Washington to do something about it.
"We know that the resources you expend working to meet government compliance and paperwork requirements is time and effort unavailable for you to do what you do best—serving your customers and communities," Ms. Williams said in a speech before an OCC Bankers Outreach Meeting. "When we hear these concerns from you, we can translate your issues into proposals for reform."
Ms. Williams noted that the OCC's combination of local presence; national perspective enables the agency to add value to the solution of individual bank issues and effectively tackle systemic issues that affect multiple national banks. By hearing about issues involving the burden of regulation shouldered by community banks on the local level, the OCC uses its national presence to be directly involved in the debates in Washington D.C. about how to do something about them.
In addition, Ms. Williams pointed out that the OCC will advocate changes to the law when necessary, and cited the agency's efforts to reform the regime of consumer compliance disclosures as a prime example.
"Shorter, focused consumer disclosures can meaningfully reduce your regulatory burden," Ms. Williams said. "Just think of what it costs to prepare and deliver all those consumer disclosures that get thrown out because your customers don't find them useful. The time you spend on compliance matters and the money you spend on lawyers and consultants navigating through complicated requirements could be redirected to better serving your customers and improving returns to your stockholders."
Ms. Williams also addressed Basel II and important concerns of competitive equity and regulatory burden for community and mid-size banks that will not be covered by the Basel II capital rules. She informed the bankers that the OCC is now engaged in a simultaneous effort to update and revise the risk-based capital rules that will apply to the non-Basel II banks.
"In that effort, we will be very aware of the potential competitive implications of different capital rules for different types of banks, and we also will be very sensitive not to go overboard and create an overly complicated new set of capital rules for the non-Basel II world," she said.
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Eritrea Population: 5,869,86917 VISITORS FROM HERE!
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|After independence from Italian colonial control in 1941 and 10 years of British administrative control, the UN established Eritrea as an autonomous region within the Ethiopian federation in 1952. Ethiopia's full annexation of Eritrea as a province 10 years later sparked a violent 30-year struggle for independence that ended in 1991 with Eritrean rebels defeating government forces. Eritreans overwhelmingly approved independence in a 1993 referendum. ISAIAS Afworki has been Eritrea's only president since independence; his rule, particularly since 2001, has been highly autocratic and repressive. His government has created a highly militarized society by pursuing an unpopular program of mandatory conscription into national service, sometimes of indefinite length. A two-and-a-half-year border war with Ethiopia that erupted in 1998 ended under UN auspices in December 2000. A UN peacekeeping operation was established that monitored a 25 km-wide Temporary Security Zone. The Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission (EEBC) created in April 2003 was tasked "to delimit and demarcate the colonial treaty border based on pertinent colonial treaties (1900, 1902, and 1908) and applicable international law." The EEBC on 30 November 2007 remotely demarcated the border, assigning the town of Badme to Eritrea, despite Ethiopia's maintaining forces there from the time of the 1998-2000 war. Eritrea insisted that the UN terminate its peacekeeping mission on 31 July 2008. Eritrea has accepted the EEBC's "virtual demarcation" decision and repeatedly called on Ethiopia to remove its troops. Ethiopia has not accepted the demarcation decision, and neither party has entered into meaningful dialogue to resolve the impasse. Eritrea is subject to several UN Security Council Resolutions (from 2009, 2011, and 2012) imposing various military and economic sanctions, in view of evidence that it has supported armed opposition groups in the region.
Strategic geopolitical position along world's busiest shipping lanes; Eritrea retained the entire coastline of Ethiopia along the Red Sea upon de jure independence from Ethiopia on 24 May 1993
|Eastern Africa, bordering the Red Sea, between Djibouti and Sudan
|Geographic coordinates:
| total: 117,600 sq km
land: 101,000 sq km
water: 16,600 sq km
Size comparison: slightly larger than Pennsylvania
|Land Boundaries:
|total: 1,840 km border countries (3): Djibouti 125 km, Ethiopia 1,033 km, Sudan 682 km
|2,234 km (mainland on Red Sea 1,151 km, islands in Red Sea 1,083 km)
|Maritime claims:
|territorial sea: 12 nm
|hot, dry desert strip along Red Sea coast; cooler and wetter in the central highlands (up to 61 cm of rainfall annually, heaviest June to September); semiarid in western hills and lowlands
|dominated by extension of Ethiopian north-south trending highlands, descending on the east to a coastal desert plain, on the northwest to hilly terrain and on the southwest to flat-to-rolling plains
|Elevation extremes:
|Natural resources:
|gold, potash, zinc, copper, salt, possibly oil and natural gas, fish
|Land use:
| agricultural land: 75.1% arable land 6.8%; permanent crops 0%; permanent pasture 68.3% forest: 15.1%
other: 9.8% (2011 est.)
|Irrigated land:
|210 sq km (2012)
|Natural hazards:
|frequent droughts, rare earthquakes and volcanoes; locust swarms volcanism: Dubbi (elev. 1,625 m), which last erupted in 1861, was the country's only historically active volcano until Nabro (2,218 m) came to life on 12 June 2011
|Current Environment Issues:
|deforestation; desertification; soil erosion; overgrazing; loss of infrastructure from civil warfare
|International Environment Agreements:
| party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Ozone Layer Protection
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
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| noun: Eritrean(s)
adjective: Eritrean
|Ethnic groups:
|nine recognized ethnic groups: Tigrinya 55%, Tigre 30%, Saho 4%, Kunama 2%, Rashaida 2%, Bilen 2%, other (Afar, Beni Amir, Nera) 5% (2010 est.)
|Tigrinya (official), Arabic (official), English (official), Tigre, Kunama, Afar, other Cushitic languages
|Muslim, Coptic Christian, Roman Catholic, Protestant
|5,869,869 (July 2016 est.)
|Age structure:
| 0-14 years: 40.66% (male 1,199,355/female 1,187,467)
15-24 years: 19.39% (male 566,199/female 571,743)
25-54 years: 32.33% (male 933,825/female 963,812)
55-64 years: 3.73% (male 93,325/female 125,411)
65 years and over: 3.9% (male 97,248/female 131,484) (2016 est.)
|Dependency ratios:
| total dependency ratio: 83.2%
youth dependency ratio: 78.4%
elderly dependency ratio: 4.8%
potential support ratio: 20.7% (2015 est.)
|Median age:
| total: 19.4 years
male: 19 years
female: 19.9 years (2016 est.)
|Population growth rate:
|0.81% (2016 est.)
|Birth rate:
|30.1 births/1,000 population (2016 est.)
|Death rate:
|7.3 deaths/1,000 population (2016 est.)
|Net migration rate:
|-14.7 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2016 est.)
| urban population: 22.6% of total population (2015)
rate of urbanization: 5.11% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
|Major urban areas - population:
|ASMARA (capital) 804,000 (2015)
|Sex ratio:
| at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
0-14 years: 1.01 male(s)/female
15-24 years: 0.99 male(s)/female
25-54 years: 0.97 male(s)/female
55-64 years: 0.74 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.75 male(s)/female
total population: 0.97 male(s)/female (2016 est.)
|Mother's mean age at first birth:
|21.3 note: median age at first birth among women 25-29 (2010 est.)
|Maternal mortality rate:
|501 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 est.)
|Infant mortality rate:
| total: 45.6 deaths/1,000 live births male: 52.6 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 38.5 deaths/1,000 live births (2016 est.)
|Life expectancy at birth:
| total population: 64.9 years male: 62.4 years
female: 67.5 years (2016 est.)
|Total fertility rate:
|4.07 children born/woman (2016 est.)
|Health expenditures:
|3.3% of GDP (2014)
|Hospital bed density:
|0.7 beds/1,000 population (2011)
|Drinking water source:
| improved:
urban: 73.2% of population
rural: 53.3% of population
total: 57.8% of population
urban: 26.8% of population
rural: 46.7% of population
total: 42.2% of population (2015 est.)
|Sanitation facility access:
| improved:
urban: 44.5% of population
rural: 7.3% of population
total: 15.7% of population
urban: 55.5% of population
rural: 92.7% of population
total: 84.3% of population (2015 est.)
|HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
|0.61% (2015 est.)
|HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
|14,100 (2015 est.)
|HIV/AIDS - deaths:
|500 (2015 est.)
|Obesity - adult prevalence rate:
|3.4% (2014)
|Children under the age of 5 years underweight:
|38.8% (2010)
| definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 73.8%
male: 82.4%
female: 65.5% (2015 est.)
|School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
| total: 5 years male: 6 years
female: 4 years (2010)
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|Country name:
| conventional long form: State of Eritrea
conventional short form: Eritrea
local long form: Hagere Ertra
local short form: Ertra
former: Eritrea Autonomous Region in Ethiopia
etymology: the country name derives from the ancient Greek appellation "Erythra Thalassa" meaning Red Sea, which is the major water body bordering the country
|Government type:
|presidential republic
| name: Asmara (Asmera)
geographic coordinates: 15 20 N, 38 56 E
time difference: UTC+3 (8 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
|Administrative divisions:
|6 regions (zobatat, singular - zoba); Anseba, Debub (South), Debubawi K'eyih Bahri (Southern Red Sea), Gash Barka, Ma'akel (Central), Semenawi Keyih Bahri (Northern Red Sea)
|24 May 1993 (from Ethiopia)
|National holiday:
|Independence Day, 24 May (1991)
|adopted 23 May 1997 (not fully implemented); note - drafting of a new constitution, which began in 2014, continued into 2016 (2016)
|Legal system:
|mixed legal system of civil, customary, and Islamic religious law
|18 years of age; universal
|Executive branch:
| chief of state: President ISAIAS Afworki (since 8 June 1993); note - the president is both chief of state and head of government and is head of the State Council and National Assembly
head of government: President ISAIAS Afworki (since 8 June 1993)
cabinet: State Council appointed by the president elections/appointments: president indirectly elected by the National Assembly for a 5-year term (eligible for a second term); the only election was held on 8 June 1993, following independence from Ethiopia (next election postponed indefinitely)
election results: ISAIAS Afworki elected president by the transitional National Assembly; percent of National Assembly vote - ISAIAS Afworki (PFDJ) 95%, other 5%
|Legislative branch:
| description: unicameral National Assembly or Hagerawi Baito (150 seats; 75 members indirectly elected by the ruling party and 75 directly elected by simple majority vote; members serve 5-year terms)
elections: in May 1997, following the adoption of the new constitution, 75 members of the PFDJ Central Committee (the old Central Committee of the EPLF), 60 members of the 527-member Constituent Assembly, which had been established in 1997 to discuss and ratify the new constitution, and 15 representatives of Eritreans living abroad were formed into a Transitional National Assembly to serve as the country's legislative body until countrywide elections to form a National Assembly were held; although only 75 of 150 members of the Transitional National Assembly were elected, the constitution stipulates that once past the transition stage, all members of the National Assembly will be elected by secret ballot of all eligible voters; National Assembly elections scheduled for December 2001 were postponed indefinitely due to the war with Ethiopia
|Judicial branch:
| highest court(s): High Court (consists of 20 judges and organized into civil, commercial, criminal, labor, administrative, and customary sections) judge selection and term of office: High Court judges appointed by the president
subordinate courts: regional/zonal courts; community courts; special courts; sharia courts (for issues dealing with Muslim marriage, inheritance, and family); military courts
|Political parties and leaders:
|People's Front for Democracy and Justice or PFDJ [ISAIAS Afworki] (the only party recognized by the government) note: a National Assembly committee drafted a law on political parties in January 2001, but the full National Assembly never debated or voted on it
|Political pressure groups and leaders:
|Democratic Movement for the Liberation of Eritrean Kunama or DMLEK Eritrean Democratic Alliance or EDA Eritrean Islamic Party for Justice and Development or EIPJD (includes the Eritrean Islamic Jihad (EIJ), Eritrean Islamic Jihad Movement (EIJM), Eritrean Islamic Salvation, and the Eritrean Islamic Foundation) Eritrean National Congress for Democratic Change or ENCDC Eritrean National Salvation Front or ENSF Eritrean People's Democratic Party or EPDP Red Sea Afar Democratic Organization or RSADO
|International organization participation:
|ACP, AfDB, AU, COMESA, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (NGOs), IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS (observer), ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, ISO (correspondent), ITU, ITUC (NGOs), LAS (observer), MIGA, NAM, OPCW, PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO
|National symbol(s):
|camel; national colors: green, red, blue
|National anthem:
| name: "Ertra, Ertra, Ertra" (Eritrea, Eritrea, Eritrea)
lyrics/music: SOLOMON Tsehaye Beraki/Isaac Abraham MEHAREZGI and ARON Tekle Tesfatsion
note: adopted 1993; upon independence from Ethiopia
|Diplomatic representation in the US:
| chief of mission: Ambassador (vacant); Charge d'Affaires BERHANE Gebrehiwet Solomon (since 15 March 2011)
chancery: 1708 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20009
telephone: [1] (202) 319-1991
|Diplomatic representation from the US:
| chief of mission: Ambassador (vacant); Charge d'Affaires Natalie E. BROWN (since September 2016)
embassy: 179 Ala Street, Asmara
mailing address: P.O. Box 211, Asmara
telephone: [291] (1) 120004
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Since formal independence from Ethiopia in 1993, Eritrea has faced many economic problems, including lack of financial resources and chronic drought, which have been exacerbated by restrictive economic policies. Eritrea has a command economy under the control of the sole political party, the People's Front for Democracy and Justice. Like the economies of many African nations, a large share of the population - nearly 80% in Eritrea - is engaged in subsistence agriculture, but the sector only produces a small share of the country's total output. Since the conclusion of the Ethiopia-Eritrea war in 2000, the government has expanded use of military and party-owned businesses to complete President ISAIAS's development agenda. The government has strictly controlled the use of foreign currency by limiting access and availability; new regulations in 2013 aimed at relaxing currency controls have had little economic effect. Few large private enterprises exist in Eritrea and most operate in conjunction with government partners, including a number of large international mining ventures, which began production in 2013. In late 2015, the government of Eritrea introduced a new currency, retaining the name nakfa, and restricted the amount of hard currency individuals could withdraw from banks per month. The changeover has resulted in exchange fluctuations and the scarcity of hard currency available in the market. While reliable statistics on food security are difficult to obtain, erratic rainfall and the percentage of the labor force tied up in national service continue to interfere with agricultural production and economic development. Eritrea's harvests generally cannot meet the food needs of the country without supplemental grain purchases. Copper, potash, and gold production are likely to drive economic growth and government revenue over the next few years, but military spending will continue to compete with development and investment plans. Eritrea's economic future will depend on market reform, international sanctions, global food prices, and success at addressing social problems such as refugee emigration.
|GDP (purchasing power parity):
| GDP (purchasing power parity): $9.169 billion (2016 est.) $8.845 billion (2015 est.) $8.442 billion (2014 est.)
note: data are in 2016 dollars
|GDP (official exchange rate):
|GDP (official exchange rate): $5.352 billion (2015 est.)
|GDP - real growth rate:
|3.7% (2016 est.) 4.8% (2015 est.) 5% (2014 est.)
|GDP - per capita (PPP):
| GDP - per capita (PPP): $1,300 (2016 est.) $1,300 (2015 est.) $1,300 (2014 est.)
note: data are in 2016 dollars
|Gross national saving:
|4% of GDP (2016 est.) 1.3% of GDP (2015 est.) 4% of GDP (2014 est.)
|GDP - composition, by end use:
| household consumption: 80.6%
government consumption: 23.4%
investment in fixed capital: 9%
investment in inventories: 0.1%
exports of goods and services: 9.7%
imports of goods and services: -22.8% (2016 est.)
|GDP - composition, by sector of origin:
| household consumption: 80.6%
government consumption: 23.4%
investment in fixed capital: 9%
investment in inventories: 0.1%
exports of goods and services: 9.7%
imports of goods and services: -22.8% (2016 est.)
|Agriculture - products:
|sorghum, lentils, vegetables, corn, cotton, tobacco, sisal; livestock, goats; fish
|food processing, beverages, clothing and textiles, light manufacturing, salt, cement
|Industrial production growth rate:
|12.2% (2016 est.)
|Labor force:
|2.62 million (2016 est.)
|Labor force - by occupation:
| agriculture: 80% industry and
services: 20% (2004 est.)
|Unemployment rate:
|8.6% (2013 est.) 10% (2012 est.)
|Population below poverty line:
|50% (2004 est.)
|Household income or consumption by percentage share:
| lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%
| revenues: $1.58 billion
expenditures: $2.165 billion (2016 est.)
|Taxes and other revenues:
|29.5% of GDP (2016 est.)
|Public debt:
|119.8% of GDP (2016 est.) 121.8% of GDP (2015 est.)
|Fiscal year:
|calendar year
|Inflation rate (consumer prices):
|Inflation rate (consumer prices): 11.8% (2016 est.) 9.8% (2015 est.)
|Current account balance:
|$10 million (2016 est.) -$102 million (2015 est.)
|$485.2 million (2016 est.) $415.3 million (2015 est.)
|Exports - commodities:
|gold and other minerals, livestock, sorghum, textiles, food, small industry manufactures
|$1.022 billion (2016 est.) $1.024 billion (2015 est.)
|Imports - commodities:
|machinery, petroleum products, food, manufactured goods
|Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
|$213.1 million (31 December 2016 est.) $209.5 million (31 December 2015 est.)
|Debt - external:
|$820.2 million (31 December 2016 est.) $831.2 million (31 December 2015 est.)
|Exchange rates:
|nakfa (ERN) per US dollar - 15.38 (2016 est.) 15.375 (2015 est.) 15.375 (2014 est.) 15.375 (2013 est.) 15.375 (2012 est.)
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|Electricity - production:
|300 million kWh (2014 est.)
|Electricity - consumption:
|300 million kWh (2014 est.)
|Electricity - exports:
|0 kWh (2013 est.)
|Electricity - imports:
|0 kWh (2013 est.)
|Electricity - installed generating capacity:
|100,000 kW (2014 est.)
|Electricity - from fossil fuels:
|98.7% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Electricity - from nuclear fuels:
|0% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Electricity - from hydroelectric plants:
|0% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Electricity - from other renewable sources:
|1.3% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Crude oil - production:
|0 bbl/day (2015 est.)
|Crude oil - exports:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Crude oil - imports:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Crude oil - proved reserves:
|0 bbl (1 January 2016 es)
|Refined petroleum products - production:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - consumption:
|3,500 bbl/day (2014 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - exports:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - imports:
|3,539 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - production:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - consumption:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - exports:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - imports:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - proved reserves:
|0 cu m (1 January 2014 es)
|Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy:
|800,000 Mt (2013 est.)
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|Cellular Phones in use:
|total: 475,000 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 7 (July 2015 est.)
|Telephone system:
| general assessment: woefully inadequate service provided by state-owned telecom monopoly; most fixed-line telephones are in Asmara; cell phone use only slowly increasing throughout the country
domestic: combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular subscribership is less than 10 per 100 persons
international: country code - 291 (2015)
|Broadcast media:
|government controls broadcast media with private ownership prohibited; 1 state-owned TV station; state-owned radio operates 2 networks; purchases of satellite dishes and subscriptions to international broadcast media are permitted (2007)
|Internet country code:
|Internet users:
|total: 71,000 percent of population: 1.1% (July 2015 est.)
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|13 (2013)
|Airports (paved runways):
| total 4
over 3,047 m: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 2 (2013)
|Airports (unpaved runways):
| total 9
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 5
914 to 1,523 m: 2 (2013)
|1 (2013)
| total 306 km
narrow gauge: 306 km 0.950-m gauge (2014)
| total 4,010 km
paved: 874 km
unpaved: 3,136 km (2000)
|Merchant marine:
| total 4
by type: cargo 2, petroleum tanker 1, roll on/roll off 1 (2010)
|Ports and terminals:
|major seaport(s): Assab, Massawa
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|Military branches:
|Eritrean Armed Forces: Eritrean Ground Forces, Eritrean Navy, Eritrean Air Force (includes Air Defense Force) (2011)
|Military service age and obligation:
|18-40 years of age for male and female voluntary and compulsory military service; 16-month conscript service obligation (2012)
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|Transnational Issues
|Disputes - International:
|Eritrea and Ethiopia agreed to abide by 2002 Ethiopia-Eritrea Boundary Commission's (EEBC) delimitation decision, but neither party responded to the revised line detailed in the November 2006 EEBC Demarcation Statement; Sudan accuses Eritrea of supporting eastern Sudanese rebel groups; in 2008, Eritrean troops moved across the border on Ras Doumera peninsula and occupied Doumera Island with undefined sovereignty in the Red Sea
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text: Meet a Specialist: Joseph F. Rizzo III, M.D. World-renowned for leading research that has challenged the limits of vision impairment, Dr. Joseph F. Rizzo III, the Director of Mass. Eye and Ear's Neuro-Ophthalmology Service, candidly admits that he likes a good challenge—and the more complex, the better. That is what drew him to the field of neuro-ophthalmology, which studies the complicated neural interplay between eye, brain, and inner ear to diagnose the causes of vision loss. "Our field is rooted in a strong tradition of diagnostic expertise" Dr. Rizzo said. "We assess a broad range of vision problems—including the purely neurological, the purely ophthalmological, and those that result from inner ear dysfunction. We also evaluate patients whose vision loss might be caused by disease within the body, like multiple sclerosis. So our focus is very broad, but also involves disorders that are very rare." The physicians of Mass. Eye and Ear's Neuro-Ophthalmology Service address optic nerve disease, brain tumors that affect vision, strokes that cause visual loss or double vision, migraine with visual symptoms, muscular disease that affects the eye, and unexplained vision loss. Dr. Rizzo's clinical expertise includes treatment of inflammatory and ischemic optic neuropathies, giant cell arteritis, pseudotumor cerebri, and vision-related trauma, among others. Board-certified in Neurology and Ophthalmology, Dr. Rizzo completed his medical degree at Louisiana State University, his Neurology residency at Tufts New England Medical Center, and his Ophthalmology residency at Boston University under Dr. Simmons Lessell. When Dr. Lessell became Director of the Neuro-Ophthalmology Service at Mass. Eye and Ear, Dr. Rizzo followed his mentor, becoming Dr. Lessell's first neuro-ophthalmology fellow at Mass. Eye and Ear—and eventually, his colleague. Today, Dr. Rizzo evaluates patients and conducts research, teaches and trains residents and neuro-ophthalmology fellows, and directs the Neuro-Ophthalmology section of the annual Lancaster Course in Ophthalmology, founded in 1946, which draws participants from around the world. Throughout his career, no challenge has fascinated Dr. Rizzo more than the question of how to restore lost vision. His quest led to the formation in the late 1980s of the Boston Retinal Implant Project (BRIP), a multi-disciplinary team of collaborators from Mass. Eye and Ear, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and several other institutions. Collaboratively, they are developing a "bionic eye" – a retinal prosthesis that can deliver visual input to the brain, restoring some vision to those with certain acquired forms of blindness. Limited human testing has demonstrated that the implant enables some legally blind patients to see basic shapes and lines. 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The Systematic Design of Instruction
Scott, Foresman/Little, Brown Higher Education, 1990 - Instructional systems - 351 pages
Introduction to instructional design; Identifying an instructional goal; Conducting a goal analysis; Conducting a suberdinate skills analysis; Identifying entry behaviors and characteristics; Writing performance objectives; Developing criterion referenced test items; Developing an instructional strategy; Developing instructional materials; Designing and conducting formative evaluations; Revisiong instructional materials; Summative evaluation.
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It is unseemly to envy our children, and I usually don't. I don't begrudge them their youth, their energy, their innocence. My jealousy stings just a little, instead, at those lovely bedtime moments where I read my 7-year-old "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe."
He is intrigued by Lucy's foray into the wardrobe, stunned by Edmund's treachery, enthralled by Turkish Delight, fearful when Aslan dies on the great stone table. When Lucy's siblings hide in the wardrobe, he bursts with gloating excitement as he deduces that they too are finally landing in Narnia. We are three chapters from the end, now, and he truly does not know what will happen next.
The first time it struck me what a gift this is – the gift that you receive the first time you get to read a true classic – was actually a few years before he was born, as I tore through the newest Harry Potter installment. My childhood favorites – Narnia, of course; Madeleine L'Engle's "Time Trilogy"; Tolkein's "Lord of the Rings"; Susan Cooper's "The Dark Is Rising"; Lloyd Alexander's "Prydain" – had been read and re-read so many times. With the Harry Potter books, for the first time in many years, I felt a classic in progress, one where I could once again experience the story afresh – until that series, too, finally ended.
"Is Narnia like a whole different world?" my son asked as we read that gateway book tonight. "Are there other worlds like it?" He has no idea how many there are, or how all too soon he'll know them all.
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Be kind to your stomach: eat chilies
A curry a day keeps the doctor away?
Red hot chili peppers (not the band, the actual peppers) could be good for the stomach, according to new research.
According to website chosun.com, medical research has shown that capsaicin, the part of chilies that makes them hot, can help to control the disease-causing bacterium, helicobacter pylori*. And the more capsaicin, the better, it seems.
Professor Lee Yong-chan from the Division of Gastroenterology of Yonsei University Severance Hospital injected various concentrations of capsaicin into samples of stomach cells from patients with the bacterium. More capsaicin meant less inflammation, the team reports. The work is set to be published in the journal Helicobacter.
However, since the findings were not based on in-human trials, the research team is shying away from claiming too much for the peppers.
But the chili has been touted as a disease-buster before. A 2006 study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggested that chilies could be used to combat the onset of type-2 diabetes, as those who ate chili-filled meals had lower levels of insulin in their blood after eating.
Other research suggests the fiery substance could kill off prostate cancer cells, per the Chicago Herald. ®
*Yes, we read it as helicopter the first time, too. It is Friday, after all.


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Tia Lyn Smith, 47, 223 E 10th St., Lot 7W, struck two deer with her 1993 Pontiac sedan at 9:40 p.m. April 25 on K-15 south of 220th Rd.
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The government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly maintained massive military funding for a possible strike on Iran's nuclear facilities despite ongoing negotiations between Western powers and the Islamic Republic.
Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz reported that Knesset members taking part in committee hearings in January and February were informed that the 2014 national budget still includes 10 billion shekels ($2.89 billions USD) for preparations for a long-range strike on Iran.
A number of Knesset members who spoke to the newspaper on condition of anonymity said army officials were asked if the large expenditure was justified in light of negotiations taking place between Iran and the West to resolve the nuclear issue. The IDF representatives simply answered that these were their orders.
While the head of the UN nuclear agency said earlier this month that Iran had done about half of what it promised in an interim nuclear deal with the West, US Secretary of State John Kerry told Congress that Tehran still has some difficult decisions ahead of it in order to convince the world that it has abandoned the quest for atomic weapons.
Renewed talks in Vienna this week cast doubt on whether or not Kerry's conditions would be met. During the gathering, Iranian officials firmly rejected demands that they scrap or radically alter the Arak heavy water reactor, which Western officials argue could be used to produce weapons-grade plutonium.
Meanwhile, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued a report lamenting that new Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has not turned out to be the great reformer that Western leaders hoped and proclaimed his as. Ban noted that human rights abuses remain as rampant in Iran today as during the tenure of former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.


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Peugeot's Boxer is a large LCV that has forensically focused on the things that make a real difference to fleet operators in order to give its heavyweight the best chance of a unanimous decision. Let's check out this revised model with its more frugal range of 2.0-litre BlueHDi engines.
When choosing a van that can punch above its weight, Peugeot might not be the first name that springs to mind. In fact, you might well associate the brand with smaller commercials like the Partner and Expert. If you need something very big and tough, chances are that you might have looked at the Ford Transit, the Vauxhall Movano or maybe the Volkswagen Crafter. Overlooking Peugeot's Boxer is easy to do but could well bring on an acute case of buyer's remorse. The Boxer has quietly edged itself into position to challenge the very best in this market and the latest model, a beneficiary of more than two million miles of testing in extreme conditions, brings the sort of quality, robustness and durability that commercial operators demand. Couple that with what's now promised to be the best fuel economy in the market and a wide range of bodies and load capacities and you have a vehicle that's capable of doing the business.
Driving Experience
The Peugeot now offers a strong line up of three 2.0-litre BlueHDi diesel engines, all fitted with diesel particulate filters. At the foot of the range, there's a 110bhp unit with 300Nm of pulling power, 50Nm more than the previous entry-level engine. The next BlueHDi unit up is the 130bhp variant, which delivers 340Nm of torque, 20Nm up on before. Finally, at the top of the range, if you need to haul really heavy loads, you'll want the 160bhp powerplant, which fronts up with 350Nm of torque and has 10bhp more than its predecessor could offer. Big brakes, strong suspension mountings and a rigid body all improve the driving characteristics. BlueHDi technology has enhanced performance too. In the 110bhp version for example, acceleration has been improved by up to 4.0 seconds for the 0-62mph sprint and by 8.0 seconds for the important 50 to 80mph overtaking increment. The ESP stability control system is particularly refined on this van, with a Load Adaptive Control function which adapts the point at which the ESP intervenes, according to the load in the vehicle and its distribution. There's also Hill Start Assist, built into the ESP software. This system is activated when the vehicle is stationary, engine running, foot on the brake pedal, on a slope steeper than 5 per cent, in forward gear going up or reverse gear going down. Under these conditions, braking pressure is maintained for around two seconds after the driver releases the brake pedal, offering assurance and ease in moving off without the vehicle dropping back, whatever the load in the vehicle.
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On to the main practical facts you'll need. There are two body styles - Panel and Window van. The Panel and Window van can be specified in four lengths (L1, L2, L3 and L4) and three heights for the Panel van and two in the Window van. The Panel van offers loadspace options between 8m3 and 17m3. And payload options between 1115kg and 1900kg. And aesthetics? Well normally when manufacturers try to translate exterior design cues from cars onto vans, the how approach fails and comes across as a bit desperate, but the Peugeot Boxer actually looks pretty slick with its big chromed grille. The headlights are interesting too, looking like rather feline eyes, garnished with a daytime running light strip. The interior is nicely executed with far better materials quality than you might expect. The steering wheel looks quite car-like and can be trimmed in perforated leather as an option. The dashboard gets a smartly styled control panel and buyers can option it up by choosing from a wide range of audio systems. Black 'Darko' cloth punctuated with red and grey is used for the seats, with brown Achille trim as an option. The whole effect contributes towards the perception of quality and creates a modern appearance in the cabin. Despite that, this van is tough - and feels it. This Boxer has benefited from testing such as 1,500 hours at temperatures from -20??C to +40??C to ensure that the components and materials used in mechanical, plastic and electronic parts won't easily age. It's been subjected to 1,000 dunkings in 10cm of water or 3cm with saline spray, with no washing of the vehicle during the following 1,000 km, to validate the sealing and resistance to corrosion. Half a million door opening test cycles were carried out at temperatures of -30??C to +80??C, to simulate ten years of hard use.
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Peugeot's fighting for a share of a revitalised post-recession large van market, which now represents around 500,000 vehicles a year in Europe. The has grown by around 0.25 per cent in recent years, but Boxer sales have doubled that rate of growth, Peugeot's figures rising by 0.5 per cent. The latest version should do even better. It's certainly well equipped, even at the entry-level point. All models now feature Bluetooth with a USB input, a full steel buckhead and deadlocks. Step up to the Professional model and you get air conditioning, an alarm, cruise control with a speed limiter, a rear parking aid and a 5'' colour touch screen. This monitor allows the operation of all functions, such as audio streaming, reading SMS text messages and an integrated satellite navigation system, as well as the display of the image from the reversing camera. Safety inclusions across the range run to anti-lock brakes, a driver's airbag and ESP electronic stability control with emergency braking assistance. There's also various storage areas, as well as a document holder and writing table built into the folding backrest of the centre seat.
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Champions for all time
A few of years, we read a story that was so inspirational that we feel compelled to share it again.
In 1936, the basketball team of Long Island University took a secret vote to boycott the Olympics, scheduled that year to take place in Germany. These boys had just finished a season at 25-0 and had won 33 straight games by an average margin of 23 points.
Despite being a tiny school, LIU had been referred to as the best team in the nation. So why would these talented players opt to take themselves — both individually and as a team — out of the Olympics?
The first part of the answer was several members of the team were Jewish and they were pressured at home not to travel to Adolf Hitler's Germany. The second part of the answer was that their coach was the legendary Clair Bee — the innovative basketball wizard who later went on to write the Chip Hilton sports series for youngsters.
As anyone who has read any of the Hilton books knows, Bee was a champion of underdogs.
Bee suggested the vote with an interesting qualification — if a single player voted for the boycott, the vote would be recorded as unanimous. Obviously, at least one voted for the boycott because the entire team sat out the Olympics.
The story remained largely untold until 1995 when one of the members of the team told his daughter about it during a visit to the Holocaust Museum. Why the team chose to keep the story quiet for so many years is a mystery. It is believed that LIU was the only university to choose to stay out of the 1936 Olympics because of the political climate and the persecution of Jews in Germany.
Its president, Tristram Walker Metcalfe, said in a statement after the vote:
"Our conviction that the United States should not participate in the Olympic Games since they are being held in Germany has not been altered by the fact that our basketball team is now recognized generally as a possible Olympic representative. Such participation would be indirect, if not direct, contribution of the raising of funds to finance such participation."
And so this principled group of college basketball players passed up the athletic chance of a lifetime. Their courageous "one for all vote" provided an extraordinary example of the true meaning of being a team.
To read the entire article by Michael Weinreb, visit ESPN Page 2 at: sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=weinreb/090414.
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|Japan raised the threat level at its malfunctioning nuclear plant to a seven this week, the highest level. Physicist Tom Cochran discusses the ongoing situation at the reactors, and explains why he says it's time for an independent commission to review U.S. nuclear safety.