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As the weather begins to cool down we find ourselves reaching for a cozy throw or blanket to warm us up around the house. A handmade throw can not only heat you up, it can also set the tone for your entire room. These blankets are both beatiful and functional - display these lovely textiles with pride and know that you can turn your thermostat down a notch because it will keep you toasty all winter long!
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5 Easy and Delicious Summer Party Drinks
Lately I've been somewhat consumed with Pinterest. While spending endless hours consuming all the amazing pins, I've run across a few that are making my mouth water. So, I compiled them for you to use this summer at your backyard get togethers. I hope you enjoy them. I know I will!
Blueberry Mojito – 2 oz. açai blueberry vodka, 1/2 oz, simple syrup, 1 oz. fresh lime juice, 10 mint leaves, 10 fresh blueberries and club soda – Start by muddling mint leaves, blueberries and simple syrup in a cocktail shaker. Next fill shaker with ice, add the vodka and lime juice and shake well. Strain the mixture into an ice–filled highball glass and top with the club soda. You can garnish it with mint sprig or skewer of fresh blueberries. http://columbiagorgeweddingsblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/signature-cocktails.html
Strawberry Champagne Punch- 1 liter sparkling champagne, 1 ¼ cups fruit punch, 1 ¼ cups ginger ale, 1 ¼ cups orange juice, 1 pint fresh strawberries, 1 pint raspberry sherbet and 1 pint vanilla ice cream – Chill juices and sodas then mix juices, soda and wine in punch bowl. Add fresh strawberries and stir. Spoon in ice-cream and sherbet and then stir. You can garnish with strawberries, kiwi or orange slices. http://simplycreativeinsanity.blogspot.com/2011/03/champagne-please.html
Orangesicle Cocktail – Ice cubes, orange juice, vanilla flavored vodka, vanilla ice cream and orange soda-Put ice cubes, ice cream, vodka and orange juice in a blender. Be sure to blend well. Pour mixture into glass 3/4 full then top each glass with orange soda. Garnish with orange slices dipped in sugar and place on rim of the glass. http://columbiagorgeweddingsblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/signature-cocktails.html
Cherry Beer Margaritas- (1) 12 ounce can of frozen limeade concentrate, 12 ounces cherry flavored soda, (1) 12 ounce bottle of your favorite beer, 12 ounces of your favorite tequila, kosher salt for rimming the glass, lime and cherries for garnish – Rub a wedge of lime around the rim of each glass then dip in kosher salt. Combine all ingredients in a large pitcher and stir with a wooden spoon. You can serve with or without ice and garnish with a lime wedge and cherry. http://theblondcook.com/2012/04/cherry-beer-margaritas/
Watermelon Margarita – 3 cups fresh seedless watermelon pulp, 1 cup fresh lime juice, 2 cups simple syrup, 1 1/2 cups premium silver tequila, 1/2 cup triple sec and 3 cups ice – Place the watermelon in a bowl and mash (using potato masher) to extract juice. Put pulp and juice in a pitcher and add lime juice, simple syrup, triple sec and tequila. Stir. Add 3 cups of ice and refrigerate mix for 30 minutes then stir before serving over ice. http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/category/the+magazine/anthro-magazine-marg-recipe.jsp


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WASHINGTON — The unemployment rate for 16 to 19 year olds was an astonishingly high 23.8 percent last month. The United States is facing a youth employment crisis.
Young workers are finding it difficult to enter the labor market, get their first job and work their way up the career ladder. Yet, during this time of persistently high youth unemployment, there have been calls to increase the minimum wage from $7.25 to as high as $10 per hour.
America's youth are having a hard time reaching the first rung on their career ladders. Now is a bad time to increase minimum wages and make that important step more difficult.
Higher minimum wages generate a tradeoff between higher wages for the employed and higher rates of unemployment. When minimum wages increase, many workers who earn less than the new higher minimum wage lose their jobs. Firms often decide that they can get by with fewer workers instead of paying higher wages.
As one might expect, David Neumark of the University of California's Irvine campus and William Wascher of the Federal Reserve Board survey found in recent research on minimum wages that the least-skilled workers are hurt the most by minimum wages.
Minimum wages are particularly damaging for the future prospects of young workers as they typically earn the low wages that are impacted by the change in the minimum wage law.
In 2010, 50 percent of workers aged 25 and below, and 78 percent of teenagers earned less than $10 per hour. With youth unemployment topping 20 percent, it has become clear that employers are not willing to hire young workers at the current minimum wage, much less at an even higher one. It would damage the prospects of those willing but no longer able to work for wages below the minimum wage.
So in the short term, higher minimum wages make it difficult for young workers to find jobs. In the long term, higher minimum wages diminish the career prospects of young workers. Higher rates of unemployment mean that young workers do not have access to the resume-building activities associated with employment and do not gain the experience necessary to earn higher wages in the future.
Research shows that early career experience is crucial for future job prospects and wage growth. Even if young workers are lucky enough to find a job, higher levels of the minimum wage reduce the incentive for firms to invest in young workers by providing training.
Wages are only one part of workers' total compensation — beyond regular salary payments, they receive training and job experience that generate higher wages in the future.
Minimum wages increase employers' total labor costs and make them less likely to give young workers the training that they need. Low levels of experience and training have reduced job creation after the recent recession.
Forty-nine percent of employers report having trouble filling crucial jobs within their organizations. Employers who want to hire report that they are unable to find workers with the right skills or experience.
Despite the lack of qualified applicants, companies have also been unwilling to hire and train unskilled workers. Increasing the minimum wage will only make this problem worse.
Proponents of increasing minimum wages claim that minimum wages only have a small effect on unemployment rates.
Studies that support this idea have three common features. First, the wage increases considered are typically small. Second, the initial wage level before the increases has been low. Finally, the economy has been strong.
Right now these conditions are not satisfied. Minimum wages have already risen from $5.15 to $7.25 per hour in three equal increments between July 2007 and July 2009 and the economy remains weak. Another increase will increase youth unemployment. Right now, the focus should be on creating jobs not increasing wages.
Aspen Gorry is a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and former professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz.


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A couple of my tips on style, regardless of language.
Strategy in comments, tactics in code. Don't explain every statement or operator, but explain the goal of the following few statements or chunk of code. Another suggestion is to write the comments first as you're thinking about what you want to get done, then "translate" the intent into implementation. Don't write clever code which needs explaining-- just accomplish the tactics simply and directly.
There are only three numbers in Computer Science. Zero, One and N. Zero refers to the complete lack of something: no variable, no method, no capability, no support. One refers to a sole solution: one variable, one method, my way or the highway. N represents an arbitrary scalability, an array which can grow, a method reference, a parameterized technique with room to expand. If you find a need for two, structure your code so it can handle three, four or more. That goes for allocations, methods, strategies, resources, resource types, everything.
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Long-Term Review
2013 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport: Missing Options
I've been behind the wheel of our long-term 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport for about a month now, and I have a few bones to pick with it.
Trunk Troubles
Driving an SUV without a power lift gate is like ordering an ice cream sundae without whipped cream. You might leave it off to save a few calories (or bucks, in this case), but it's not nearly as good without it. I can't tell you how many trips to the supermarket have resulted in me cursing this car in the parking lot for not having the ability to open (or close) the trunk with the simple push of a button. A power lift gate is a grocery-shopping, toddler-toting mom's best friend.
To be fair, this is entirely our fault: We intentionally optioned our Santa Fe Sport without this feature to keep the price down -- a choice I am seriously regretting. Don't make the same mistake.
Now if you're looking at the Hyundai Santa Fe Limited, that trim does offer a power lift gate as standard equipment.
Dude, Where's My Map?
Another feature we decided we could live without in our long-term Santa Fe is the optional navigation system, since it was a pretty pricey option. To get navigation on the Santa Fe Sport, first you have to add the Leather and Premium Package (a package our car already has). It includes features such as leather seats, power passenger seat, heated rear seats and a color touchscreen for the audio system. This package costs $2,450 over the base Sport 2.0T, an amount we were willing to spend. But selecting the Technology Package (which includes the nav system) adds another $2,900 to the Santa Fe Sport's bottom line, so we opted not to get it and save a little cash.
The Tech Package also includes extras such as a heated steering wheel, gigantic sunroof and a 550-watt Infinity sound system, all of which are great but definitely not necessary. Did we make the right choice?
As one of our other staffers mentioned in his evaluation of Hyundai's Blue Link app on a recent trip to Nashville, our SUV's telematics system is a more than adequate substitute for a factory-installed nav. You can get turn-by-turn directions sent directly to the car via this app -- how cool is that?
But while we have a very nice, well-built SUV for about $30,000, I still feel like something's missing.
Blue Link is great for turn-by-turn directions, but I never realized how much I rely on the map that's constantly on the screen with an in-vehicle nav system. Admittedly, I'm a little directionally challenged (no judging, please), so I often refer to the map to make sure I'm on the right highway, or to see which streets are coming up. It's a little sense of comfort that makes me feel grounded while I'm on the road, and that's well worth the extra money for someone like me.
We really like the 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport. However, we're now wishing we wouldn't have been so stingy when selecting options.


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March 28, 2014 — Interested in transforming your workplace? Stop viewing women as a special interest group. "Women make up almost 50% of the global population, so essentially, women hold up half the sky," says Donny Ching, Legal Director, Royal Dutch Shell.
Click on this video to hear more from Donny!
More "Men Who Get It" Videos:
Watch Stephen Ingledew, UK Managing Director, Customer and Marketing, Standard Life, explain why flexible workplaces are so important.
Watch Guy Outen, Executive Vice President, Strategy, Portfolio & Planning, Shell International Ltd., discuss why it's essential to advance more women to leadership positions.
Watch Koen Van Neyghem, Regional Director EMEA, DuPont Sustainable Solutions (DSS), explain the importance of making diversity a priority—and following through with practical solutions.
Watch Doug Conant, retired President & CEO, Campbell Soup Company, describe the key piece of advice he gave to Denise Morrison, Campbell's current CEO, earlier in her career.
Watch Gerald Lema, Chairman and President, Japan, Baxter International Inc., and a member of Catalyst's Board of Directors, discuss how he supported a woman colleague during a challenging transition.
Watch Alistair Fraser, Vice President, Health, Shell International Ltd, describe the biggest obstacle working women face.
Watch Dino E. Robusto, Executive VP, The Chubb Corporation and President of Personal Lines and Claims, explain how when women lead, businesses benefit.
Watch Harjiv Singh, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Gutenberg Communications, share the secret to shaping the future of business in India.
Watch Jim Turley, retired Chairman & CEO, Ernst & Young (EY), and Honorary Director and former Chair of Catalyst's Board of Directors (from 2009–2013), tell how to confront hidden biases.
Watch Anthony Mitchell, Catalyst's Senior Membership Manager, Atlanta, explain why he's passionate about gender diversity.
Watch millennial Bryant Daley, a Budget Analyst at Forest Laboratories, Inc., tell how men who "get it" can help break barriers for women.
Watch Joan Buccigrossi, Director of Global Inclusion & Engagement, Rockwell Automation, discuss the importance of dialogue in creating organizations where diverse talent thrives.
Watch Lee Tschanz, Vice President, North American Sales, Rockwell Automation, discuss the company's culture change.
Watch the video introduction to Catalyst's new report, Anatomy of Change: How Inclusive Cultures Evolve, and read more about the study. For a summary of the data, view the infographic.
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CarolinaEast Health System is making the largest expansion and renovation project in the medical provider�s 50-year history. The expansion includes women�s services, the emergency department and surgical enhancements for the health system. The price tag over a five-year period is $64 million.
CarolinaEast Health System is making the largest expansion and renovation project in the medical provider�s 50-year history.
The expansion includes women�s services, the emergency department and surgical enhancements for the health system. The price tag over a five-year period is $64 million.
The most visible change will be the new three-story tower that will be built to the right of the existing main entrance. The new space will allow for the complete renovation and expansion of women�s and children�s services on the second floor.
�Our new mothers, our children and women in need of gynecological care deserve modern and comfortable surroundings,� said Kristi English Brown, MD, of Eastern Carolina Women�s Center.
The new women�s and children�s health pavilion will be located in existing patient care areas that will be completely renovated and modernized to accommodate the special needs of this patient population. The pediatric care unit will relocate from the third floor and be adjacent to the women�s and infants� care area.
Hospital officials say the first floor of the new tower will house administrative offices and public spaces while the third floor will be home to an expanded clinical laboratory freeing up existing space to accommodate additional emergency department growth.
Leslie Allen, vice president of facilities and safety for CarolinaEast, explained the planning and precise choreography that must be in place for this work to flow smoothly with minimal inconvenience with no impact on operations.
�We are going to experience some growing pains,� Allen said. There will be more than 38,000 square feet of new construction and more than 72,000 square feet of renovations to accomplish the desired outcomes and goals.
The emergency department expansion and renovation will seek to mitigate the current congestion experienced in this highly utilized care area. The sensitivity of the environment requires a focus on patient privacy. Increasing that privacy is a hallmark of the planned improvements.
�We see approximately 75,000 patients each year in our emergency department and Express Care,� said Dr. Vivek Parwani, the hospital�s medical director for emergency services. �This area was designed to see half that number. An expansion is mandatory if we are going to continue to meet the growing demand for services in the uncertain future of our industry.�
Plans include two new replacement state-of-the-art operating suites for general and cardiovascular surgery and the relocation of the post-operative patient care area to the second floor of the new tower.
Safety and accessibility will be addressed through parking lot reconfiguration. A public access corridor will be constructed across the front of the building and will connect the current main entrance to the existing patient registration entrance. The existing patient registration entrance will eventually become the emergency department entrance.
Before groundbreaking can occur, a Certificate of Need (CON) must be filed with the state in June 2013 followed by the development of detailed construction documents after the state�s approval. The entire expansion and renovation will be funded through cash reserves and revenue.
�The one constant in health care today is change. And, we must keep pace with that change both fiscally and physically,� said Ray Leggett, president and CEO of CarolinaEast Health System.
�This enhancement in our physical plant, while complex and costly, is necessary in order for us to continue to provide our community with the quality, efficient and comfortable care they deserve and have come to expect from us for the past 50 years,� Leggett said.


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CHICAGO, Ill. – The Chicago Fire (7-5-3; 24pts.) received first half strikes from Marco Pappa and Dominic Oduro before a red card ejection to Gonzalo Segares forced the team to battle out a gutsy 2-1 victory over the Columbus Crew (5-5-4; 19pts.) Saturday night at Toyota Park.
For the second match in a row the Fire tallied inside the first five minutes when Marco Pappa intercepted an errant pass from Crew midfielder Tony Tchani near the center circle. The Guatemalan international went unchallenged through midfield before unleashing a rocketing 30-yard blast past Andy Gruenebaum and into the top right corner to give the Fire a 1-0 lead in the 2nd minute.
Things settled down with both sides playing a lot of possession before the Fire came close in the 20th minute. A series of headers from Patrick Nyarko and Dominic Oduro saw the ball fall for Sebastian Grazzini. The Argentine collected the ball before slotting Oduro through behind the backline and in alone on Grunebaum, but the Crew 'keeper did well to cut the angle and force Oduro's effort wide left of goal.
The Ghanaian attacker came close two minutes later when a long throw-in from Dan Gargan bounced towards the back post. Dominic Oduro nodded a looping header across goal and off the opposite post before the ball was eventually cleared by Crew defender Josh Williams.
Oduro would finally breakthrough in the 26th minute as Crew defender Sebastian Miranda headed a ball into the path of Grazzini. The Argentine playmaker strolled towards goal before slotting Oduro through and this time he made no mistake, sliding his effort under Gruenebaum to take the score to 2-0.
Just when it looked like the Fire had put a dominant mark on the match, defender Gonzalo Segares intercepted a pass from Meram out of midfield and followed the ball before making a late tackle on Tchani. Without hesitation, referee Armando Villareal went to his back pocket to show the Fire left back a straight red card, taking the Fire down to 10 men in the 29th minute.
The Crew found new life with the man advantage almost immediately. Meram collected a pass out of midfield and took the space in front of him before firing a hard, bouncing effort that Johnson did well to hang onto in the 33rd minute.
The visitors would pull one back as Eddie Gaven played a quick pass to Chris Birchall on the right. The Trinidad & Tobago international played the bal square to Tchani into the box where he slid his effort under Johnson in the 36th minute.
Despite the disadvantage the Fire nearly restored the two-goal lead in the 41st minute when a whipping corner from Grazzini picked out a charging Jalil Anibaba at the near post but the second year defender nodded his effort inches wide.
Tchani came close to a first half brace just before the break. Winning a 50/50 challenge with Pavel Pardo, the Crew midfielder drove towards goal and unleashed a rocket that Johnson tipped just over the bar to take the Fire into the half with a 2-1 lead.
Just like he ended the first half, Tchani almost equalized to start the second. Nemanja Vukovic's swung-in corner kick found the head of Julius James but was blocked by Pardo. After the ball bounced around the box, the Cameroonian midfielder pounced but fired his blast over goal in the 48th minute.
The best chance of the half came in the 57th minute when a Vukovic free kick from 30 yards away was flicked by Williams to the back post but Johnson again denied the Crew with a diving reaction stop to his right.
Playing compact, the Fire didn't cause much danger in the second half but did threaten in the 61st minute. Vukovic misplayed a ball in the back that Oduro ran onto, cut past James into the box before the Crew defender tackled him in the penalty area but Villareal signaled for play to continue.
The home side did well to kill the game through the waning moments with the last chance for the Crew coming in the 85th minute. Second half substitute Ethan Finlay sent in a quick cross which found Tchani but the midfielder could only get a slight touch to the ball which looped straight to Johnson to give the Fire a hard-fought 2-1 victory.
The Fire return to action on Friday, June 29 when they visit Sporting Kansas City at 7:00 p.m. CT live on NBC Sports Network and ESPN Deportes 97.5 FM.
- The Fire extend their unbeaten run against the Crew at Toyota Park to eight matches, going 4-0-4 since last falling 4-1 to Columbus on October 7, 2007.
- Marco Pappa's second minute strike is his fourth of the season and the 24th goal of his Fire career. The Guatemalan international also moved past former Fire defender Evan Whitfield into 14th on the club's all-time MLS appearance list with 104 games played for the Men in Red.
- Dominic Oduro's 26th minute goal is his team-leading fifth of the season and 17th since joining the Fire via trade from Houston at the beginning of the 2011 season.
- Fire goalkeeper Sean Johnson made a career high eight saves to earn Man of the Match honors. The mark bests the third-year goalkeeper's previous high of seven which he achieved twice in 2010.
- With his 29th minute red card, Fire defender Gonzalo Segares will serve a one-match suspension during next Friday's match at Sporting Kansas City.
- Fire defender Arne Friedrich made his first appearance for the Men in Red since suffering a hamstring injury in the first half of the Fire's May 12 match against Sporting Kansas City. The two-time World Cup veteran and German international missed five games while injured.
Chicago Fire 2 – 1 Columbus Crew
Chicago Fire: Sean Johnson; Dan Gargan, Jalil Anibaba, Austin Berry, Gonzalo Segares; Logan Pause © Pavel Pardo; Patrick Nyarko (Arne Friedrich 72'), Sebastian Grazzini (Chris Rolfe 59'), Marco Pappa; Dominic Oduro (Rafael Robayo 80')
Substitutes not used: Jay Nolly, Hunter Jumper, Federico Puppo, Orr Barouch
Columbus Crew: Andy Gruenebaum; Sebastian Miranda, Josh Williams, Julius James, Nemanja Vukovic (Ethan Finlay 78'); Tony Tchani, Chris Birchall, Kevan George, Justin Meram (Aaron Schoenfeld 58'); Eddie Gaven, Emilio Renteria (Olman Vargas 75')
Substitutes not used: Matt Lampson, Shaun Francis, Eric Gehrig, Cole Grossman
Scoring Summary
CHI – Marco Pappa (unassisted) 2'
CHI – Dominic Oduro (Sebastian Grazzini) 26'
CLB – Tony Tchani (Chris Birchall) 36'
Misconduct Summary
CHI – Gonzalo Segares (ejection) 29'
CLB – Kevan George (caution) 66'
CHI – Dan Gargan (caution) 85'
CLB – Aaron Schoenfeld (caution) 94+'
Referee: Armando Villarreal
Assistants: Craig Lowry, Adam Garner
Fourth Official: Ramon Hernandez
Attendance: 17,144


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Her name is Bengisu Bayrak, she's from Turkey, and with her personalized city guide of Istanbul she won a lifetime supply of Moleskine notebooks. Bayrak is the winner of myMoleskine 2.0, a creative competition launched in Hong Kong on the theme of life hacking, the art of finding new custumized tools and tricks to organize time and life.
Over one hundred people submitted their work from Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Mexico, Taiwan, Turkey, UK and USA. Forty notebooks qualified for the second round and were showcased in the My Moleskine 2.0 Exhibition which took place in five stores in Hong Kong, from July 15th to 30th 2009. Visitors could vote for the most impressive idea.
The title of the winner's creative project is "One Day in Istanbul" and it was made on a Moleskine Japanese Album. The second and third place respectively go to "Calvino's Invisible City" by Wan-Lin Chang from Taiwan and to the "Dinner Organiser" project by Mathilde Elu from France.
You can view other participating notebooks on the online gallery.


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How the Internet of Things can drive museum engagement
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Messy goes to Okido Series 2 Announced
Our CGI-animated preschool series Messy goes to Okido has been picked up for season two by CBeebies. Read more »
Award winning digital agency joins Squint/Opera.
We are excited to announce that digital agency Rancon has officially joined Squint/Opera. Read more »
Exploring Virtual Architecture
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VFX mixologist Jono Harris joins Squint/Opera
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Building Begins on Doodle Development
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Co-production deal signed for new children's animation
Brand new children's animation about a young pug dog raised by cat parents. Read more »
OKIDO studio named in list of top 50 creative businesses
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Messy Wins Music + Sound Award!
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Goodbye Parkgate Road!
After 10 amazing years it's time to move on. Read more »
UK Pavilion Wins Gold
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ADFF Film Festival Ident - Design Directs Everything.
With 'Design Directs Everything' as the theme we created a live action and 3d animated ident for the 7th annual Architecture and Design Film Festival (ADFF). Read more »
Mundos Digitales 2015: the best bits
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Behind the scenes: 2 World Trade Center
A technical breakdown including motion control shoot and 3d post production. Read more »
Teenage Kicks
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Buttress, bees and Britain in Milan 2015
A series of digital installations and integrated graphic applications for the spectacular UK pavilion. Read more »
Helping cities make sense of data
Finding new ways to interpret and present information. Read more »
Women in architecture
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Laura is a small town, with a population around 100 people on the Cape York Peninsula in Tropical North Queensland. the township boasts the largest collection of prehistoric rock art in the world. The area around Laura is known for Quinkans, giant figures who according to Aboriginal legend, were spirits that lived in the crevices of rocks. They would emerge from the cracks to frighten people into properly. Basically the Quinkan spirits were 'boogie men' of the Laura area.
The Quinkan and Regional Cultural Centre is the first stop for all travellers to Laura. The Quinkan Centre showcases all aspects of Quinkan Country including Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal heritage and the natural environment.
Laura lies about 300 kilometres north of Cairns.
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Apparently there really are apps for everything, including mining your personal data without your permission.
A class-action lawsuit was filed in an Austin, Texas court the week of March 12 that alleges some of the most-downloaded mobile apps are harvesting personal information without users' knowledge.
The suit against 18 companies, including Facebook, Apple, Yelp and Twitter, says some of the information collected include contact names, phone numbers, e-mail accounts and birthdays.
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"The defendants -- several of the world's largest and most influential technology and social networking companies -- have unfortunately made, distributed and sold mobile software applications that, once installed on a wireless mobile device, surreptitiously harvest, upload and illegally steal the owner's address book data without the owner's knowledge or consent," stated the lawsuit.
It also alleges that information taken in secret is a direct violation of policies put into place by app distributers Apple, Amazon and Google. The suit points to research showing that app makers that harvest data can receive at least 60 cents per contact information when sold.
The lawsuit filed in a United States District Court is seeking to halt personal data collection and to have the companies named in the suit destroy any information collected.
Lawyers representing the lawsuit defendants said this issue comes down to the basic notion that you shouldn't take what isn't yours.
"Every second-grader knows that's something, a standard that they should be held to, and we're going to ask the defendant companies, 'Shouldn't you?'" attorney Jeff Edwards said.
Path, one of the companies named in the lawsuit, publically apologized in February after it was discovered that the developer's photo sharing app uploaded an iPhone user's entire phone address book without permission.
The new lawsuit also comes on the heels of Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Google, Research in Motion and Hewlett-Packard agreeing to a privacy standard that would hold app makers accountable for notifying users on privacy matters.
The accord, sponsored last month by California's attorney general, will set a standard that mandates applications clearly state what personal information is being collected, when it will be collected and how the data will be used.
A similar lawsuit against Apple that was filed in a California court last year was thrown out after the plaintiff's lawyers were unable to prove that data collected by iOS apps did any harm to customers.
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Levies, fines, and judgements against corporate defendants should be set on percent of gross revenues (average of previous five years) rather than a set figure. Then you might get enough out of these larger companies to give them sufficient incentive to "behave" well. Just look at how many industrial companies pay their environmental fines and go on "business as usual".
Given the amount of money these companies make, I'd say - if convicted - the fines oughta just about cover all of DOJs operating costs for a year or two. The US tax payers might not see that much difference, but every little bit helps.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- A New York-based environmental group that sued Perdue Farms and an Eastern Shore contract grower said Wednesday it won't appeal a federal judge's ruling in an alleged poultry pollution case.
The Waterkeeper Alliance said in a statement that while the group believes it presented compelling evidence, it won't appeal U.S. District Judge William Nickerson's ruling last month in a case that had broad implications for the state's poultry industry.
"Given the high burden appellate courts impose for reversing a district court's findings of fact, Waterkeeper Alliance will not appeal Judge Nickerson's decision," the group said in a statement.
State Sen. Richard Colburn, R-Dorchester, said he was pleased the legal matter was over.
"To have pursued an appeal of Judge Nickerson's ruling would have only further harmed a family farm already cleared of wrongdoing and would further undermine future cooperation between agriculture and responsible environmental groups," Colburn said in a statement.
Waterkeeper alleged that chicken litter was being discharged from the Hudson Farm in Berlin into a tributary of the Pocomoke River. The federal lawsuit was filed in 2010, after representatives from Waterkeeper flew over the farm and identified what they initially believed to be a large uncovered pile of chicken manure. The piles were eventually found not to be chicken manure.
Lawyers for Perdue, which owned the chickens, and the Hudson family said chicken manure wasn't getting out in great enough amounts to pollute, and farmer Alan Hudson testified that he took steps to avoid pollution and to keep the manure in chicken houses.
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Wall nets 47 as Wizards beat Grizzlies
Washington, DC – John Wall recorded 47 points, eight assists and seven rebounds, leading the Washington Wizards to a 107-94 win over the Memphis Grizzlies on Monday.
Wall shot 13-of-22 from the field and a career-high 19-of-24 from the foul line for the Wizards, who have won six of their last eight games. Emeka Okafor had 21 points and nine rebounds and Chris Singleton tallied 10 points.
"I was just in a zone," said Wall. "I made my first couple of shots and I knew I was in a great rhythm. Ten points in the first quarter, I knew I had it going."
Mike Conley scored 23 points and dished out seven assists but also recorded six turnovers for the Grizzlies, who came into the game off a 110-106 win against Boston on Saturday. Quincy Pondexter and Jerryd Bayless scored 14 points apiece off the bench while Zach Randolph had 10 points and seven rebounds in the setback.
"Tonight we had to battle from behind; we had our moments when we tied the game," said Grizzlies coach Lionel Hollins. "We just couldn't sustain anything because John had such a good shooting night. He hit shots inside and out, and Emeka Okafor dominated the paint for the most part."
At halftime, the game was tied at 55-55.
The Wizards opened up the second half with an 8-0 spurt and had a 63-55 lead with 8:14 remaining in the third quarter.
However, the Grizzlies kept the game close and tied it on three occasions late in the period.
Wall scored the final points of the frame, sinking two free throws with 31.4 seconds left to give Washington a 76-74 edge entering the fourth quarter.
Washington's franchise player continued to make plays for the Wizards in the fourth, scoring 17 points, including 10-of-14 of his free throw attempts.
The Wizards sealed the victory with a 9-0 run in the final 1:34 of the contest. Wall scored the last six points for Washington, including a 3-pointer with 45.9 seconds to go.
Washington had a 26-24 lead entering the second quarter, but that quickly dissipated after Memphis began the stanza with an 8-0 spurt.
However, thanks to Wall, who had 16 points in the period, the Wizards kept the game close.
Game Notes
Wall scored 26 points in the first half ... Wall is the first player to record at least 47 points, eight assists and seven rebounds in a game since LeBron James had 51 points, eight assists and 11 rebounds against the Magic on Feb. 3, 2011 ... Conley shot 8-of-8 from the foul line ... The Grizzlies made 20- of-22 free throw attempts ... Washington has won six straight games at home ... Memphis has lost four straight on the road ... The Wizards snapped a three-game losing streak against the Grizzlies. Their last win against them was on Nov. 19, 2010.


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The Japan Society of New York City is hosting an interactive robot demonstration on June 6 (2:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.) entitled "Human Interaction: Vision 2020."
Robots included:
FT and Chroino, humanoids created by Tomotaka Takahashi
Paro, a seal-like robot created by Takanori Shibata
Toyota's i-unit.
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Product Development Stories from Sargento Chef
Sargento chef Guy Beardsmore discusses new product development in foodservice and recounts a few of his hits ... and some misses.
Last year, Guy Beardsmore left a successful position as senior development chef for Dunstable, England-based Whitbread PLC Restaurants, the UK's leading hospitality company. Responsible for leading a cross-functional team of chefs in food innovation and development to the launch of 23 core menus, he decided to trade in his Union Jack for the Stars and Stripes and a new opportunity.
His current address is One Persnickety Place, Plymouth, Wis., home of Sargento Foods Inc. As Research and Development - Corporate Chef, he works across all company business categories - foodservice, food ingredients and consumer products - adding international flavor to the kitchen and his British charm and leadership ability to the team.
Persnickety is a perfect descriptor of Chef Beardsmore and the company that lured him to the U.S. "I like to always start with gold standard products, which are made with fresh ingredients and stocks, and then use that as the benchmark to match or get as close as possible when developing menus and new products," he explains. "I also believe in working as part of a team. I am a firm believer in Culinology, the fusion of two disciplines - culinary art and food technology. I would not be successful if I did not have the help and support of the scientists and technologist here at Sargento.
|Sargento's Guy Beardsmore believes in teamwork, innovation and keeping a close eye on cost and safety factors.
"When developing products for foodservice, you always have to think out of the box," he continues. "With each brand, you have to understand what the essence of the brand is, and what main concerns the brand has. This could be skill level or cost reduction, reducing the amount of lines or increasing consistency.
"All major brands are looking for differentiation. You cannot show a product to Applebee's and then show the same one to Chili's. It's all about being first to market with great and innovative products. So for each food showing you need to think of new ideas."
Beardsmore says the retail market requires that the products are as foolproof as possible. "The consumer does not always follow the instructions properly, so your product needs to be robust enough to take abuse and still taste great and perform as needed," he explains. "With foodservice, the development time could be as short as a day, whereas in retail you are typically given much longer timelines."
Beardsmore describes his cooking style as classical with a twist. "I always start with the right culinary techniques, but may add a new ingredient or two." Classically trained at Hinckley College of Further Education in Leicestershire, England, he worked in various restaurants in the UK, including Harwell House (1 Star Michelin).
His first American stint was as sous chef at Trio, the innovative four-star fusion restaurant of French, Italian and Asian cuisine, in Evanston, Ill. He then joined Brasserie T in Chicago, and later served as executive chef for Darden Restaurants Inc., Orlando, Fla. There he helped drive new concepts and products for the Olive Garden, Darden's 478-site casual Italian dining chain. His next challenge was back in the UK, where he was executive chef in strategic food development for Allied Domecq Retailing PLC in Staffordshire, England. For the past five years he headed up the food development team for Whitbread PLC, whose brands include TGI Friday's, Pizza Hut, Beefeater and Costa coffee, to name a few.
From kitchen to mass market
There are many challenges in bringing a food product from the kitchen to the mass market, but the two most important are cost and safety, according to Beardsmore. "Cost can be the biggest challenge, as we are rarely given an indication of the cost structure needed," he says. "We send in the best product only to find that we may need to reduce the cost by 25 percent to 50 percent, but still keep the quality the same."
Safety is always a primary concern. "We need to understand how the product will be stored," he says. "Once the product is opened, the expected shelf life will determine how the product needs to be formulated. Once a product has been identified as needing to be stored ambient, the main concern is managing the levels of salt or acid in the product so they do not overwhelm the taste of the product."
Being a development chef can bring kudos or an occasional nay. "One of my biggest successes was bread stick pizza for the Olive Garden," says Beardsmore. "I developed a pizza dough that, when cooked, was brushed with butter and garlic salt to replicate the Olive Garden bread sticks. My Chicken Alfredo pizza is still on the menu. For years, the Olive Garden made fresh dough; I added value and upgraded all the pizza ingredients with the help of many key suppliers to make a consistent product."
One of Beardsmore's failures was chocolate soup. "I took the idea from the Spanish hot chocolate drink with churros; we served the dish with mini churros and strawberries," he says. "The customer - the true arbiter of successes and failures - did not get it, so I was left with about a year's supply of the soup."
Speaking of new products, we asked Beardsmore where he gets ideas for new items. "I have a very large collection of cookbooks, many dating from 1900-1950," he says. "I find these books are great to look at, and I find inspiration from long-forgotten dishes and methods of preparation. Also, I am very lucky with my job in that I get to travel all over the U.S. and dine in many great local and fine dining restaurants."
On the flavors/ingredients/cuisines trend watch, Beardsmore predicts Spanish/Basque will be big. "But mainly, the consumer will look for the best products in season and provenance, such as Door County cherries, Smithfield hams and Maine lobsters," he says. "Television chefs and local celebrity chefs are leading this trend by using more locally produced items, heirloom vegetables and rare breed cattle.
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News & Press Releases
On March 21-22, 2014, best-selling author Lee Strobel, Dr. Woodward as well as three other well-known apologists will be speaking at a conference entitled "Reasonable Faith in an Uncertain World" that the C. S. Lewis Society is co-sponsoring in Clearwater, Florida.
Dr. Woodward will host a second weekly radio show similar to the "The Universe Next Door," on a leading west coast Christian radio station. Stay tuned for further details.
This summer, dozens of top students from across the US will attend a C.S. Lewis Honors Institute on Apologetics and Theology at Trinity College of Florida. More details will follow.
In the upcoming year, the C.S. Lewis Society will speak at Stanford University, U.C. Berkeley, and will be presenting talks on "Evidence for Faith" at a major science and technology university in Edinburgh, Scotland and at universities and church venues in Europe, Latin America, and Japan.


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1. Chiding Anti-War Celebs Reminds ABC of McCarthy and Blacklists
ABC News on Wednesday night raised the specter of McCarthyism and blacklists in condemning how some have dared to criticize the anti-war views of celebrities. Peter Jennings previewed the story by claiming celebrities are being "punished" somehow: "Being against the war and in show business, and the people who want to punish you for that." Citing a few instances of anti-war celebrities being uninvited to events, reporter Jim Wooten ludicrously suggested "blacklists" are on the rebound: "All this has reminded some of the McCarthy era's blacklists that barred those even accused of communist sympathies for working in films or on television."
2. MSNBC Chief Goes from Scorning Patriotic Coverage to Hyping It
In a remarkable transformation, upon figuring out that appearing patriotic helps in the ratings, MSNBC President Erik Sorenson has gone from disdaining pro-American patriotic programming to championing it.
3. Eason Jordan: "Nonsense" that CNN Kowtowed to Hussein
On the PBS NewsHour on Tuesday night, C-SPAN on Wednesday morning and in an op-ed in Wednesday's Atlanta Journal-Constitution, CNN's chief news executive defended himself. In the op-ed, Eason Jordan noted that "some critics complain that" his New York Times "op-ed piece proves CNN withheld vital information from the public and kowtowed to the Saddam Hussein regime to maintain a reporting presence in Iraq." Jordan insisted: "That is nonsense." Plus, Tom Brokaw did some groveling to get on the good side of the Saddam Hussein regime.
4. Late Show Taping Almost Makes Brokaw Late for
Nightly News
Tom Brokaw almost didn't make it to the NBC News studio in time for Tuesday's NBC Nightly News after taping the Late Show minutes before his show began, a Late Show Web report revealed.
Chiding Anti-War Celebs Reminds ABC of
McCarthy and Blacklists
ABC News on Wednesday night raised the specter of McCarthyism and blacklists in condemning how some have dared to criticize the anti-war views of celebrities, as if celebrities must be accorded the right to pontificate without anyone having the right to say anything adverse about those views.
In the world envisioned by ABC News, America must reflect the reverence of celebrities awarded by Entertainment Tonight.
World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings previewed the story by claiming celebrities are being "punished" somehow: "When we come back this evening, being against the war and in show business. And the people who want to punish you for that."
Reporter Jim Wooten soon highlighted how actor Tim Robbins "criticized the political climate in which his right to express his views has come under attack." Having cited only the decision of some radio stations to not play Dixie Chick songs, the United Way uninviting Susan Sarandon to an event and the baseball hall of fame deciding to disinvite Sarandon and Robbins from a movie anniversary event, Wooten then ludicrously suggested "blacklists" were on the rebound: "All this has reminded some of the McCarthy era's blacklists that barred those even accused of communist sympathies for working in films or on television."
If there are blacklists, then how is it that Sarandon is the star of a new TV movie set to air this weekend on CBS?
The Wednesday night ABC story fulfilled the promise Jennings made the night before that ABC would examine the supposed threat from "the well organized and aggressive efforts to make life very difficult for celebrities who speak out against the war."
But neither Jennings nor Wooten, in smearing those critical of anti-war views of celebrities as McCarthyites, provide a single example of any "well-organized" effort or of any actor losing any job over their views and, in the case of the Dixie Chicks, Wooten failed to explain what they had done which upset so many of their fans and led those fans to not want to hear their music -- the lead singer, in a foreign nation in a time war, said she was embarrassed to be from the same state as the President of the United States.
Wooten asserted that Martin Sheen, Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon "have been labeled unpatriotic, un-American," as if the descriptions were indisputably inaccurate. But the record of what they've said, in ascribing venal "blood for oil" motives, decrying an American "Taliban," and claiming the U.S. government has unleashed "repression" on the world is evidence much of the anti-war celebrity left is arguably more anti-American than anti-war.
At the top of the April 16 World News Tonight, Jennings teased: "And here at home, the well-organized effort to get at entertainment stars who thought the war was a bad idea."
At the first ad break, Jennings plugged the upcoming story: "And at the end of the broadcast tonight, the dangers of being anti-war -- if you work in Hollywood."
Actor Mike Farrell: "We know that there have been organized attempts to get people fired from their jobs."
Promoting the story before a later ad break, Jennings intoned: "When we come back this evening, being against the war and in show business. And the people who want to punish you for that."
Jennings introduced the eventual piece, as transcribed by MRC analyst Brad Wilmouth: "Finally this evening, what it sometimes costs to be in the minority and say what you think publicly. There is nothing like a war to create tension between some of those who most fervently support it and those who do not. And as we've seen in the case of this war, when those who are opposed happen to be in show business, well, some other people want to make them pay. And for both sides, it is always billed as a matter of free speech. To bring us up to date on this, ABC's Jim Wooten."
Wooten began, over video of protests: "Most Americans who've opposed the war are anonymous faces in the crowd, and their protests haven't cost them all that much. But for famous faces, like Martin Sheen, freedom of speech could be costly to his career. And he says it ought to be."
Martin Sheen: "You have to, you have to pay something, it has to cost you something. Otherwise, you have to question what it's worth."
Wooten: "He and other anti-war celebrities, including Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon, have been labeled unpatriotic, un-American. The Dixie Chicks, for example, won several Grammies this year, but-"
Unidentified radio talk show host: "There's a time to ease up on these Dixie Chicks. Give me a call."
Caller: "I think that all the radio stations need to quit playing their music."
Wooten: "And many stations have."
Richard Johnson, New York Post: "They're still free to go out there and work."
Wooten: "Richard Johnson of the New York Post headlined more than a dozen entertainers as 'Saddam-lovers' and urged readers to boycott their work." On screen, ABC put up these names: Natalie Maines, Danny Glover, Janeane Garofalo, Jackson Browne, Alfre Woodard, Tim Robbins, Sean Penn, Fred Durst, Laurence Fishburn, Sheryl Crow, James Whitmore, Susan Sarandon, Martin Sheen, Samuel Jackson.
Wooten continued: "A Florida appearance for Sarandon was cancelled as well as a celebration of her and her partner Robbins' film, Bull Durham, at the Baseball Hall of Fame, because the President, who worked in the Reagan White House, decided their views might endanger American troops. He did not explain how."
Tim Robbins, actor, at the National Press Club on Tuesday: "A chill wind is blowing in this nation."
Wooten: "In Washington this week, Robbins criticized the political climate in which his right to express his views has come under attack."
Robbins: "Isn't what we're fighting for there to spread democracy, to give the Iraqis the right to express their opinions in a public forum?"
Wooten then gave credibility to a ridiculous exaggeration: "All this has reminded some of the McCarthy era's blacklists that barred those even accused of communist sympathies for working in films or on television. And actor Mike Farrell believes it could happen again."
Mike Farrell: "We know there have been organized attempts to get people fired from their jobs."
Wooten: "Historian Steven Ross says for showbiz people it's no idle concern."
Professor Steven Ross, University of Southern California: "Movie stars who get bad publicity who are thought to be unpatriotic are going to be perceived as box office poison."
Wooten concluded: "The bad publicity is a fact. How the public responds at the box office remains to be seen. Jim Wooten, ABC News, Washington."
Naturally, ABC found this liberal agenda concern about a "chill wind" more newsworthy than reviewing the inaccuracy of the hyperbolic Bush-hating rhetoric spewed by the more extreme anti-war celebrities or providing ABC viewers with a flavor of their angry invective.
A few past CyberAlerts provided such a service in quoting Sarandon and Robbins:
-- A bunch of left-wing celebrities, including Ed Asner, Jane Fonda, Danny Glover, Susan Sarandon and Marisa Tomei, helped pay for a full page New York Times ad denouncing President Bush's war on terrorism. The ad screeched: "We call on all Americans to RESIST the war and repression that has been loosed on the world by the Bush administration. It is unjust, immoral, and illegitimate."
The signers also equated 9/11 with the terror inflicted by the U.S. military in Baghdad, Panama City and Vietnam.
Read the September 23,
2002 CyberAlert item.
-- President Bush will attack Iraq just because he wants to "change the subject from Cheney and Halliburton and the crumbling confidence in the stock market," actor Tim Robbins told the Washington Post. Robbins claimed he resents Bush putting "American soldiers in harm's way and to do everything to change the subject so that Republicans can keep control of the House."
Read the October 1,
2002 CyberAlert item.
-- Actress Susan Sarandon was in full rant on Saturday at an anti-Bush/Iraq war rally organized by a bunch or far-left groups. She equated al-Qaeda with U.S. businesses: "Cloaked in patriotism and our doctrine of spreading democracy throughout the world, our fundamentalism is business." She claimed the war is "distracting American attention from Enron and Haliburton" and that Bush's "oil men" are "more interested in a financial bottom line than a moral bottom line."
Read the October 29,
2002 CyberAlert item.
Read the MRC's "Celebrities on Politics and
War" collection of quotes.
An April 16 story on the MRC's CNSNews.com recounted some of the whining expressed by Robbins about being repressed, complaints he made during a forum he was awarded at the National Press Club on Tuesday, in addition to his rants against Bush policy. An excerpt from the story by Jeff Johnson:
....Robbins told an audience at the National Press Club that the Bush administration has taken advantage of the American people and squandered the good will the world had recently developed toward the U.S.
"In the 19 months since 9/11, we have seen our democracy compromised by fear and hatred," he claimed. "Basic inalienable rights, due process, the sanctity of the home have been quickly compromised in a climate of fear.
"A unified American public has grown bitterly divided," Robbins continued, "and a world population that had profound sympathy and support for us has grown contemptuous and distrustful, viewing us as we once viewed the Soviet Union, as a rogue state."
The actor-activist accused the Bush administration and other supporters of the war of a campaign of intimidation to silence those who disagree with them.
"A message is being sent through the White House and its allies in talk radio...[that] if you oppose this administration, there can and will be ramifications," Robbins claimed. "Every day, the airwaves are filled with warnings, veiled and unveiled threats, spewed invective and hatred directed at any voice of dissent."
Robbins also accused the American media of colluding with the U.S. government to conceal the consequences of the war against Saddam Hussein.
"Unlike the rest of the world, our news coverage of this war remains sanitized, without a glimpse of the blood and gore inflicted upon our soldiers or the women and children in Iraq," Robbins charged. "We are told it would be pornographic. We want no part of reality in real life."...
Robbins called on those who agree or disagree with his anti-war stance to rise up against what he deems false patriotism.
"In this time when a citizenry applauds the liberation of a country as it lives in fear of its own freedom...when people all over the country fear reprisal if they use their right to free speech, it is time to get angry. It is time to get fierce," he continued. "Any instance of intimidation to free speech should be battled against. Any acquiescence to intimidation at this point will only lead to more intimidation."...
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Read the story in full as posted on www.cnsnews.com.
MSNBC Chief Goes from Scorning Patriotic
Coverage to Hyping It
In a remarkable transformation, upon figuring out that appearing patriotic helps in the ratings, MSNBC chief Erik Sorenson has gone from disdaining pro-American patriotic programming to championing it.
In November of 2001, Sorenson grumbled that if you make "any misstep...you can get into trouble with these guys and have the Patriotism Police hunt you down." In a New York Times story he ridiculed those concerned about the tone of post-9/11 coverage: "These are hard jobs. Just getting the facts straight is monumentally difficult. We don't want to have to wonder if we are saluting properly. Was I supposed to use the three-fingered salute today?"
Jump ahead to Wednesday's New York Times this week and reporter Jim Rutenberg noted, the MRC's Rich Noyes observed, how MSNBC now "has patriotic flourishes throughout the day," including "the regular screen presence of an American flag" and "an 'America's Bravest' studio wall shows snapshots of men and women serving in Iraq." Sorenson acknowledged that he's realized that "after Sept. 11 the country wants more optimism and benefit of the doubt."
Excerpts of the two New York Times stories:
-- November 7, 2001 story on coverage of the war on terrorism:
....Much of the criticism comes from a group of conservative media voices and outlets, including Rush Limbaugh's radio talk show, The New York Post's editorial page, The Drudge Report and some commentators on the Fox News Channel. Much of the information for their critiques has been assembled by a conservative media watchdog organization called the Media Research Center, which hires full-time monitors to watch the network newscasts.
These outlets have kept tabs on the media for some time and were on the opposite side of the White House for the Clinton presidency.
How their criticism will affect coverage of the war is an open question. But news executives at CNN, ABC and MSNBC said they were conscious of the criticism while making their day-to-day decisions about coverage.
"Any misstep and you can get into trouble with these guys and have the Patriotism Police hunt you down," said Erik Sorenson, president of MSNBC. "These are hard jobs. Just getting the facts straight is monumentally difficult. We don't want to have to wonder if we are saluting properly. Was I supposed to use the three-fingered salute today?"...
-- April 16, 2003, "Cable's War Coverage Suggests a New 'Fox Effect' on Television," by Jim
....MSNBC has patriotic flourishes throughout the day. Along with the regular screen presence of an American flag, Mr. Bush's portrait is featured on MSNBC's main set and an "America's Bravest" studio wall shows snapshots of men and women serving in Iraq.
Neal Shapiro, the NBC News president, said MSNBC hired Mr. Scarborough and Mr. Savage to add political equilibrium to its lineup of hosts. Before the war, Mr. Shapiro said, all of them -- Chris Matthews, Phil Donahue, Bill Press and Pat Buchanan -- opposed the war. Mr. Donahue's program was canceled in February.
"If you have a range of opinion that leaves out a whole part of the
country," Mr. Shapiro said, "you're unintentionally sending a message that 'you are not welcome here.' "
Erik Sorenson, MSNBC's president, said it was trying to differentiate its report from what he called a mainstream style of automatic questioning of the government.
"After Sept. 11 the country wants more optimism and benefit of the doubt," Mr. Sorenson said. "It's about being positive as opposed to being negative. If it ends up negative, so be it. But a big criticism of the mainstream press is that the beginning point is negative: 'On Day 2, we're in a quagmire.' "
MSNBC's programming moves were welcomed by L. Brent Bozell III, founder of the Media Research Center, a conservative media analysis group. "What Fox is doing, and frankly what MSNBC is also declaring by its product, is that one can be unabashedly patriotic and be a good news journalist at the same
time," Mr. Bozell said.
END of Excerpt
That story is online
at www.nytimes.com.
Eason Jordan: "Nonsense" that CNN
Kowtowed to Hussein
Eason Jordan defends himself. On the PBS NewsHour on Tuesday night, C-SPAN on Wednesday morning and in an op-ed in Wednesday's Atlanta Journal-Constitution, CNN's chief news executive laid out the same basic arguments as he made in a memo to CNN staff which was reported in the April 15 Washington Post, a story cited in that day's
In the new op-ed, Jordan noted that "some critics complain" that his New York Times "op-ed piece proves CNN withheld vital information from the public and kowtowed to the Saddam Hussein regime to maintain a reporting presence in Iraq." Jordan insisted: "That is nonsense."
An excerpt from Jordan's op-ed in the April 16 Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "Charges of kowtowing to Saddam unfounded," to which the MRC's Rich Noyes alerted me:
Because my op-ed piece in the New York Times Friday stirred a controversy, I want to share my thoughts with you about it. In the op-ed, I described how the Iraqi regime intimidated, tortured and killed people who helped CNN over the years. It was a tough piece to write. But I felt strongly the stories needed to be told as soon as telling them would not automatically result in the killing of innocent colleagues, friends and acquaintances -- most of them Iraqis.
Some critics complain that the op-ed piece proves CNN withheld vital information from the public and kowtowed to the Saddam Hussein regime to maintain a reporting presence in Iraq. That is nonsense.
No news organization in the world had a more contentious relationship with the Iraqi regime than CNN. The Iraqi leadership was so displeased with CNN's Iraq reporting that CNN was expelled from Iraq six times -- five in previous years and one more on day three of this Iraq war....
CNN's Baghdad bureau chief, Jane Arraf, was banned after reporting on an unprecedented public protest demanding to know what happened to Iraqis who vanished years earlier after being abducted by secret police. Christiane Amanpour, Wolf Blitzer, Aaron Brown, Brent Sadler, Nic Robertson, Rym Brahimi, Sheila MacVicar, Ben Wedeman, and Richard Roth were among the other CNN correspondents and anchors banned from Iraq.
If CNN were trying to kowtow and maintain its Baghdad presence at any cost, would CNN's reporting have produced a contentious relationship, expulsions and bannings? No. CNN kept pushing for access, while never compromising its journalistic standards. Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.
Did CNN report on the brutality of the regime? Yes, as best we could, mostly from outside Iraq, where people in the know could speak more freely....
When an Iraqi official, Abbas al-Janabi, defected after his teeth were yanked out with pliers by Uday Hussein's henchmen, I worked to ensure the defector gave his first TV interview to CNN. He did.
Some critics say if I had told my Iraq horror stories sooner, I would have saved thousands of lives. How they concluded that, I don't know.
Iraq's human rights record and the brutality of the Saddam Hussein regime were well known before I wrote my op-ed piece....
A number of people have told me CNN should have closed its Baghdad bureau, helped everyone who told me the horror stories flee Iraq, with me thereafter telling those stories publicly long before now. While that is a noble thought, doing so was not a viable option. Iraqis (and their families) who told me those stories in some cases could not, and in other cases would not, leave their country simply for the sake of CNN being able to share their stories with the world....
Knowing the personal stories I knew about the brutality of the regime, I had three options:
1. Never repeat such horror stories. 2. Tell the stories sooner and, as a result, see innocent people killed. 3. Tell the stories after the downfall of the Saddam Hussein regime.
I chose option three and could never imagine doing anything else....
Read the op-ed in its entirety as posted on www.accessatlanta.com.
For Tuesday's PBS NewsHour, Terence Smith provided a story about the controversy and interviewed both Jordan and Franklin Foer, the author of a New Republic story last October which detailed the groveling by many media outlets in Baghdad, including CNN.
Read a transcript of the April 15 NewsHour
Previous CyberAlert items on the Jordan matter:
-- Brit Hume's FNC panel denounced CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan for withholding knowledge he had of Saddam Hussein's brutality. Morton Kondracke recalled that last year Jordan had insisted "that CNN never made journalistic compromises to gain access," but that "is a flat lie." Columnist Charles Krauthammer observed: "It's a classic example of selling your soul for the story. He clearly gave up truth for access."
Plus, an excerpt from Jordan's op-ed, what he told a radio interviewer last year in maintaining CNN was not at all compromised, a link to Franklin Foer's New Republic story on media outlets trading truth for access and an example from the MRC archive of how CNN's Nic Robertson insisted that Iraqis have "reverence" for Saddam Hussein.
See the April 12, 2003
CyberAlert item.
-- The Fox News Sunday panel, from left to right, castigated CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan for his confession on Friday that he had covered up knowledge he had about Saddam Hussein's brutality. NPR's Juan Williams called Jordan's decision an "outrage," Weekly Standard Publisher Bill Kristal described Jordan's behavior as "just craven" and even NPR correspondent Mara Liasson was troubled: "I think that raises some crucial questions about how media organizations behave in totalitarian governments."
Read the April 14, 2003
CyberAlert item.
-- More Eason Jordan material: In a memo to CNN's staff, Jordan defended his withholding of knowledge he had about Saddam Hussein's brutality, Franklin Foer penned an op-ed updating his story on how media outlets traded truth for access in Baghdad, on FNC Fred Barnes, Brit Hume and Jeffrey Birnbaum all chided Jordan, and OpinionJournal.com revealed that four years ago Jordan complained about how the U.S. government was an impediment to CNN establishing a permanent Baghdad bureau. Plus, on the very day of Jordan's confession, a newspaper story noted that CNN, claiming it's "independent," refused to mar itself by letting its news be part of a new U.S. government TV channel in Iraq.
See the April 15, 2003
CyberAlert item.
-- CNN's Eason Jordan on Tuesday earned the condemnation of another major mainstream journalistic guidepost, a Washington Post editorial, which held CNN culpable for not informing its viewers of Saddam Hussein's true nature. The paper's editorial writers worried that "if CNN did not fully disclose what it knew about the Baathist regime, and if CNN deliberately kept its coverage bland and inoffensive, that would help explain why the regime was not perceived to be as ruthless as it in fact was."
Read the April 16, 2003
CyberAlert item.
-- The interest in access over truth goes beyond Eason Jordan at CNN. Former CNN Baghdad reporter Peter Collins disclosed in a Tuesday op-ed for the Washington Times that in 1993 he observed then-CNN President Tom Johnson "groveling" for an interview with Saddam Hussein. Collins recalled how Johnson demanded that he read on the air some talking points provided by the Ministry of Information, but then Johnson complained about his "flat" delivery. Collins recalled: "I was astonished. The President of CNN was telling me I seemed less-than-enthusiastic reading Saddam Hussein's propaganda."
See the April 16, 2003
CyberAlert item.
-- Tom Brokaw scolded CNN's Eason Jordan, suggesting he should have kept his knowledge secret since the revelation now casts doubt on anything CNN reports. On Tuesday's Late Show, Brokaw told David Letterman that CNN "should have worked harder at conveying" what Jordan knew, but that if you "decide to keep that as a secret for yourself to protect those people and to protect the interests of your company, then you probably ought to keep it secret for a long time because it opens them up now, wherever they go, wherever they're stationed, 'well what are they not telling us now?'"
Read the April 16, 2003
CyberAlert item.
While Brokaw may not have kept secret relevant information about the Hussein regime, he did his share of bowing and scraping before Saddam, too, Rich reminded me. From Franklin Foer's October 18, 2002 New Republic article:
"And in part they consist of network execs promising the Iraqi regime that they will cover its propaganda. '[The Iraqis] make it clear that you must attend if you hope to get future visas,' one cameraman told me. That may explain why earlier this spring Tom Brokaw drove eleven hours through the desert to broadcast live from Baghdad on the eve of Saddam's sixty-fifth birthday -- and why dozens of top correspondents covered this week's presidential referendum, even though every journalist considers the event a sham."
Read an excerpt of the most interesting portions of the very illuminating 3,500 word article in the October 28, 2002 edition of the New Republic by Foer, refer to the
October 18, 2002
Read the entire original Foer piece as posted on www.tnr.com.
For a fresh Foer piece penned for Monday's Wall Street Journal op-ed page, "CNN's Access of Evil," see the April 15 CyberAlert for an excerpt, or for it in full, go
to www.opinionjournal.com.
Late Show Taping Almost Makes Brokaw
Late for Nightly News
Tom Brokaw almost didn't make it to the NBC News studio in time for Tuesday's NBC Nightly News after taping the Late Show minutes before his show began, a Late Show Web report revealed.
The recounting of how close Brokaw came, to not getting back in time to Rockefeller Plaza six blocks away from the Ed Sullivan Theater, provides what I think some may find an interesting insider look at how a program aired hours later can conflict with a live one you watched hours earlier.
From the "Wahoo Gazette," which presents a daily re-cap of the Late Show with David Letterman, an excerpt from the rundown on the April 15 show as provided by Michael Z.
....It was a long segment and many of us were keeping an eye on the clock. We tape from 5:30-6:30. It was about 6:07 PM at the end of Tom's first segment. Of course, Tom has to do his NBC Nightly News at 6:30. We are at 53rd and Broadway. NBC is around 51st and 6th. Tom always walks back to work after doing our show. He walks two blocks south to 51st, then turns east from Broadway to 7th then 6th. If he does another segment, Brokaw will be cutting it close.
Back for his second segment, Tom discusses the situation revealed by the head of CNN who admitted to making a "deal" with Iraq, withholding certain information, in order to remain at their Iraqi location these past few years. He then talks about Syria and George W. Bush. Somewhere in the middle of that, you can see Tom checking the clock off stage and making eye-contact with one of our producers. He knew it was getting late. Tom never lost his cool, though, and didn't shorten his answers. I think I was more nervous than he. Man, that's cool under pressure.
During Tom Russell and Nanci Griffith's performance, I quickly switched to NBC to see if Tom made it back in time. I'm happy to report he made it....
END of Wahoo Gazette excerpt
The Wahoo Gazette is online at www.cbs.com.
That name is inspired by the imaginary "home office" for the Top Ten list, but there really is a Wahoo, Nebraska.
If it was 6:07pm at the end of his first segment, I'd guestimate his second segment ended at about 6:14pm, giving him barely 15 minutes to walk six blocks and go up an elevator to the Nightly News studio.
Dan Rather has had some close calls too when taping Letterman less than 30 minutes before the CBS Evening News begins. But I bet that Rather doesn't walk through the streets of Manhattan like Brokaw and instead gets a ride in nice car with tinted windows.
Don't want another "Kenneth, what's the frequency?" incident.
-- Brent Baker
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It's that time of year. Everywhere I look, birds, animals and even people are putting on their fancy prom outfits and crooning love songs. All too soon, the sweet scent of romance will give way to the responsibilities and risks of raising the kids.
While most mammals give birth to live young, birds play the reproductive game by laying and incubating eggs. They have come up with an assortment of strategies to meet the challenge of protecting fragile eggs until they hatch.
For starters, there are the nest minimalists. Why bother with all that building? For gulls, terns, shorebirds and nightjars, a scrape in the dirt or sand seems to work just fine. The birds create a slight rim to keep the eggs from rolling away, and may line it with bits of vegetation, small shells or feathers. Royal terns, black skimmers, laughing gulls, killdeers and American oystercatchers are a few of the scrape nesters. In late April, most of these species are still in the "dress up and find a date" stage. Egg laying and chick feeding will start next month.
Because these nests are highly vulnerable to predators, both the eggs and the birds that sit on them tend to be cryptically colored. Adults have developed a variety of distraction displays designed to lead predators away from the nest. The chicks, when they hatch, are precocial or semiprecocial - that is, they are covered with down, almost immediately mobile, and follow their parents around, either being fed or sometimes - like baby killdeers - finding their own food.
Birds can't just pull out shovels to dig their scrape nests. Terns sit on the sand and rock their bodies back and forth to create a hollow in the sand. Black skimmers kick sand backwards with their feet while resting on their bellies and turning slowly in circles.
Some songbirds are cavity nesters. Woodpeckers and nuthatches can excavate their own holes, while secondary cavity nesters like bluebirds and chickadees take advantage of the work of others. Many of these species will also use man-made birdhouses. By now, most of the year-round resident cavity nesters have rushed through the romance and are on to round one of gathering bugs and feeding nestlings. Eastern bluebirds, the "energizer bunnies" of the bird world, may nest as many as three times in a season.
Cardinals, blue jays, mockingbirds, brown thrashers, robins and other songbirds build cup or bowl-shaped nests in trees or shrubbery. Like artists or sculptors, they make use of the materials at hand, including straw, grasses, sticks, rootlets and Spanish moss. Hummingbirds and blue-gray gnatcatchers use spider-web silk to hold their nests together and often cover the outside with lichen.
When size is required, a platform nest is the way to go. Ospreys and eagles have to have a structure that can accommodate two adult birds plus two or three growing chicks. Many of these nests are used and expanded on year after year.
Most baby songbirds are altricial - they are born naked and helpless with eyes closed, and must be fed by their parents for ten days to three weeks before they leave the nest or fledge. Baby hawks, eagles and owls are semialtricial. They are covered with down but are still immobile and are fed by their parents for one to three months before fledging.
While finding a nest is a treat for birdwatchers, nest time is fraught with peril for the birds themselves. They surrender the easy freedom of flight, tracing predictable pathways to and from the nest site. Hawks, owls, raccoons, cats, and rat snakes are just a few of the dangers faced along the pathway from nest to egg to hatchling to safely fledged young birds. Ask any parent. It takes determination, diligence and not a small measure of plain dumb luck to nest for success. Good birding!
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MAAP Director
Mungo has 30 years of experience in medical architecture. In the 1980's he was project architect for Edward Cullinan Architects. He then moved to become Head of Design at the Medical Architecture Research Unit, University of North London.
In 1991 he became a founding director of MAAP. Mungo continues to be involved in research through consultancy with the Department of Health; he is member of their Design Review Panel and is regularly invited to speak on the design of healthcare environments in the UK, Europe and Australasia.


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Frances is a design & colour consultant working in many areas of design including fashion, interiors and architecture. She advises on consumer trends in colour, the effects of colours and their appropriate use; developing colour palettes for fashion collections, product ranges and the built environment.
When working closely with architects and their clients, she develops colour schemes that are integral to the building through the construction materials, as well as introduced into the environment through interior design, the visual arts and wayfinding schemes. Her priority is to use colour appropriately, in harmony with the building and its surroundings, enhancing our experience of the total environment.


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The Prophet
Aristide: An Autobiography
In the Parish of the Poor:Writings From Haiti
On a sunny Columbus Day afternoon, Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide, president of the Republic of Haiti, walked slowly down the steps of the Georgetown house in which he has made his home for much of the last two years, and faced a restless crowd of reporters and photographers. Even as he began to speak that October 12, the troopship USS Harlan County, which had arrived in the bay of Port-au-Prince the day before on a mission to land two hundred American "combat engineers and trainers" in Haiti, was beating an ignominious retreat. Onshore the "armed thugs" whose threats had prevented the troops' landing were dancing and celebrating in the streets. Yet another agreement to return President Aristide to Haiti's National Palace seemed near collapse.
In Washington, President Aristide spoke softly into the forest of microphones. "I am still confident that we are on the way to restore that democracy," he told the reporters in his uncertain English.
What we have to do now is pushing to pressure in order to have some killers saying yes to the world, to democracy, because we have to save lives. We cannot let killers after two years deny what the world said…. If we don't do that, what will happen to the US? Refugees we'll still have.1
It was a singular moment, the nationalist president standing in the imperialist capital and appealing openly, almost plaintively, for the help of the United States—a country he had habitually referred to in his sermons and his writings as "the cold country to our north."2 He had written bitterly of Haitians who longed to reach American shores: his countrymen fled Haiti, he had said in an essay, "because the land of snow has exploited my beloved country to such an extent that there is too little left here—in what used to be called paradise—to give my people comfort."
The men who turn them back are agents of that same cold country that refuses visas to those whose lives it has ruined: the United States, its Coast Guard. Coast Guard cutter…those words sound to us in Haiti today like a new description of Death with his sweeping scythe.
Now, from Washington, President Aristide found himself brandishing before the American public the specter of an exodus of refugees, making use of the boat people almost as a kind of lobbying tool, a potent image meant to persuade the citizens of the "cold country" that their government had better use its power to force his return to the National Palace—or they might well find waves of unwashed Haitians in flimsy sailboats turning up among the sunbathers on Florida's beaches.
"What will happen to Haitians?" President Aristide asked, and then supplied his own answer: "Death." Two days later, in front of Sacred Heart Church in downtown Port-au-Prince, gunmen wielding automatic weapons ambushed the car of Guy Malary, a…
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DIY Two-Tone Pants
Added Mar 19, 2013
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The other day I was sitting on the train going to work and I had a flash of sewing genius. I've made a two-tone sweater by cutting apart two cardigans and stitching them back together, but why haven't I done this with pants? So after work I bopped over to the Forever 21 and H&M in SoHo to try and find two identical pairs of pants in the the perfect color combo. I didn't want to choose colors that contrasted too much (blue+orange, red+green, purple+yellow) for fear that I'd look like some Harlequin-like character, so I decided to go with cobalt and navy.
"See more about this project on my blog!:"http://www.starsforstreetlights.com/2013/03/diy-two-tone-pants.html
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Mar 19, 2013, 04.29 PMby Mary Athey
i love these. what did u do with the other legs lol x
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Mar 19, 2013, 07.57 PMby staciegrissom
Haha I haven't done anything with them yet— probably will stitch them together and make another project. :D
Mar 19, 2013, 02.29 PMby Meg Hardin
In my opinion, this is fashion genius! :)
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Hello Bioforum! It's been a long time since I last came by. I'm officially off lab work after I graduated last year. Still do some science-related reading every now and then.
I come across in some papers where people did a 'genetic analysis' of a gene where the results are protein alignments, conserved domain search and some tree diagrams. I'm not questioning their work here but I'm just wondering why would anyone do such analysis given that the genes (polyhydroxyalkanoate synthase) are not uncommon nor unknown.
Maybe I'm just dim that's why I couldn't draw any conclusion from what I read. Hmm...
Submit your paper to J Biol Methods today!
Why do people still do "Genetic Analysis"?
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They are known for a subset of organisms, but that does not infer their properties in different organisms. Sequence alignments etc. help to show those regions of a protein that are important for function, and those that may not be so important, and can help deduce the function of an unknown protein in a new organism.


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Debicella to seek rematch with Himes
Republican Dan Debicella is poised to walk away from a lucrative management position at the world's largest hedge fund to run for Congress, setting up a potential rematch with three-term incumbent Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., in 2014.
A person familiar with Debicella's plans told Hearst Connecticut Newspapers Thursday that the former state senator from Shelton will leave Bridgewater Associates at the end of next week to return to politics.
The Westport firm, which manages $150 billion in assets, is slated to receive $100 million in economic incentives from the state to relocate its headquarters to Stamford and create 1,000 jobs. Founded by Greenwich billionaire Ray Dalio, the fund is known for its corporate culture and a 123-page manifesto of management principles prescribed by Dalio.
"We're definitely considering it," Debicella said Thursday. "My wife and I are finalizing the decision this weekend."
Debicella, 38, a new father, said he could make an announcement as early as next week. He declined to comment further about the dynamics of the race or his willingness to give up a handsome paycheck, a move that some political observers privately characterized as a head-scratcher.
Republicans have been scouring the district for someone to challenge Himes, who increased his share of the vote to 60 percent in 2012 and is national finance chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
"I've had several discussions with Sen. Debicella. He's a top-tier candidate," said Jerry Labriola Jr., the state GOP chairman.
"If Dan does choose to run, we will have a very real chance to defeat Jim Himes," said Labriola, calling the incumbent a rubber stamp for what he deemed the job-killing agendas of President Barack Obama and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
A representative of the Himes campaign declined to comment Thursday.
In 2010, Debicella mustered 47 percent of the vote in an unsuccessful challenge to Himes, who was completing his first term at the time. The Harvard MBA and University of Pennsylvania graduate landed at Bridgewater following the loss in what was a strong year for Republicans elsewhere.
Prior to 2008, when Himes upset longtime GOP incumbent Christopher Shays, Republicans controlled the seat for 40 years. The 4th District is comprised of 17 cities in towns in Fairfield County and a sliver of New Haven County.
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