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This luminous deck presents 79 ethereal beings, some frightening, and some friendly. Through the symbolism of tarot, they deliver their messages from beyond, shedding light on human experiences.
Ghosts and Spirits Tarot Deck follows the structure of traditional tarot with 22 Major Arcana cards and 56 Minor Arcana cards. Also included is a special bonus card for questions that require deeper reflection. Lisa Hunt's booklet provides a brief synopsis of the story associated with each card. The descriptions of the ghosts and spirits are based on extensive research as well as her own interpretations. She also provides divinatory meanings for upright readings and a special five-card spread called Realm of the Spirit.
Lisa Hunt is an internationally known, award-winning tarot artist. Among her most popular decks is Fantastical Creatures Tarot (published by U. S. Games Systems, Inc.) She has spent her life studying and sketching fairy tales, myths, legends and other fascinating subjects that have driven her muse. She also holds a M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies with an emphasis on Jungian Psychology/Art & Drawing.
Special Bonus card
- Booklet with divinatory meanings
- Five-card Realm of the Spirit spread
Ghosts and Spirits Tarot is the 2013 Winner of the Readers' Choice/about.com Award for Best Tarot Deck
Ghosts and Spirits was named to Aeclectic Tarot's List of Top Ten Decks Published in 2012
SizeCards measure 2.75" x 4.75"
ArtistLisa Hunt
What Customers Are Saying About Ghosts & Spirits Tarot
The symbolism of the 78 traditional Rider-Waite cards is brought to life with ghostly images and spirit visitors in this new deck by tarot legend Lisa Hunt. Her lyrically edgy watercolor style is perfect to render this new cast of esoteric characters. She draws from mythology and folklore, and couples that with her memories of growing up in New England, to create these lively and ethereal interpretations of the major and minor arcanas.
Ms. Hunt's fans won't be disappointed by this latest addition to the world of tarot. Those who don't already know her world will be inspired to also explore The Fantastical Creatures Tarot. You'll discover something new in each card, every time you return to view it. And who knows what beings you'll invite into your life as you explore this other-worldly deck.
-- Anna Jedrziewski, on Tarotwise.com
I'm not exaggerating in the slightest when I tell you that I would gasp with surprise and glee with each page turn of the booklet as a treasure trove of creatures and characters were revealed. La Llorona! The Flying Dutchman! Headless Horseman! White Ladies! Each entry has a brief description and bit of context along with a divinatory meaning. The artwork is perfectly suited to the subject matter and despite the obvious darkness implied, Hunt brings beauty to most of the cards despite the specter of death that hangs around ghosts and spirits.
-- Rebecca Elson, on the Magical Buffet
Lisa Hunt's art never disappoints. The colors she uses in this deck are mostly subdued, soft colors, with the exception of a few cards on which the colors are stronger or more vivid (for example, the 10 of Cups). The ghosts and spirits vary in form, some being skeletons and others having the appearance of fully fleshed human beings. They all have distinct personalities. Some are depicted with living human beings or animals in the scene. Each card contains much that is worthy of contemplation.
-- Zanna Starr on Tarot Notes
Ghosts & Spirits Tarot comes with a standard "Little White Book" that is anything but standard. In the introduction, Hunt writes about her beliefs about the spirit world, her motivation to create this deck and her hopes for its use, in a way that is nothing short of inspiring. Her card descriptions are equally evocative, and evidence of another of Hunt's talents. Hunt is a phenomenal researcher. She has illustrated each card of Ghosts & Spirits Tarot with a myth, story or legend about the spirit word. These stories come from all over the world. The Little White Book gives us enough detail of each story to understand not only the interpretation of the card, but also why Hunt chose a particular story to illustrate a particular card.
Archetypal assignment tarot decks offer a great opportunity for tarot education. While the card images of this deck, and decks like it, do not follow traditional tarot images, they help us to understand the archetype of each card, and the archetypal nature of tarot. In this deck, we see how those archetypes are expressed by the stories told around the world about death, the afterlife, and how spirits might interact with the world of the living. Artists such as Lisa Hunt have elevated tarot art to a completely new level.
-- Christiana Gaudet, on Christiana's Tarot Topics
This is a 79 card deck, with accompanying 61 page LWB (Little White Book). Excuse me … 79 card deck? Yes, 79 card deck. The additional card is meant to be a special bonus card for those questions that require deeper reflection. Lisa suggests that the reader allow the ghosts and spirits to talk to them, to help dissolve the barriers between conscious constraint and objective inner reflection. She goes on to say that ghosts and spirits are often messengers that are trying to tell us something, and that it is her hope that the "Ghosts and Spirits Tarot" provides a conduit for further communication and understanding. I love the extra card -- very reminiscent of the Happy Squirrel in the "Touchstone Tarot" (Kat Black) The artwork immediately draws the reader in -- it is the most extremely detailed, in depth fantasy work that I have ever seen. Anyone who has ever seen Lisa's work knows what I am talking about. Her work is haunting, to say the least! This is a very special deck that could easily be used by anyone, from any background. It is perhaps best not used with children, due to the graphic nature of the cards. However, it may also be that children, who generally do not judge, would find it easier to accept the cards than some adults would. It works well as a reading deck on its own, and could easily be used in comparative reading, or for meditation, ritual or journeying purposes. I don't think I have to say that I highly recommend this deck!
-- Bonnie Cehovet, on Aeclectic Tarot
As I unwrapped the package I felt an instant feeling of connection and spiritual energy with the cards. I can truly say that after handling and working with the deck it is very accurate and easy to work with. The cards themselves are truly beautiful and as I am sure others out there will also explain the spiritual energy of the cards is very powerful. I have begun to work with the cards daily in my meditation and for readings and they are truly now a part of my every day ritual. I think you will feel profoundly proud to own this deck.
—Crowdancer, Amazon customer
First I have to say that, as an author of 9 ghost story books and a professional storyteller of ghostly tales, I am very happy to have the Ghosts and Spirits Tarot! The spinning set of three white sheet ghosts on the card backs, swirl on a deep blue space. Lisa Hunt's pencil and watercolor image process yields wonderfully subtle colors, like a sepia or blue toned lithograph. I recognize many familiar characters from the story lore of restless spirits: La Llorona, (the Nine of Swords), the Banshee (showing as the Queen of Swords), and (the Four of Cups) Davy Jones' Locker, to name a few. But there are many more ghostly personas waiting to be discovered in the Little White Booklet.
My idea of finding wisdom is being willing to face our shadow; in this tarot this is done artfully and with full intention by bringing up the ghosts of our past, opening closets to see skeletons, and facing the dark decisions in love and life that bring chaos, grief and remorse. For these very reasons, this wonderfully executed tarot deck succeeds and additionally because we are encouraged to face fears and find ourselves in the tragic narrative of many of the ghostly tales referred to in the book.
The author spins around the world, drawing from diverse cultural traditions and tales, including ghostly stories from Scotland, Germany, Japan, Shakespearean England, Hawaii, Italy, the Baltic forests, the Old Testament, Viking lore…and more. That we have personal ghosts, familiar to our lives and our families, is doubtless true; but here we have a grand tour across the planet, pulling spider web strands of chilling life lessons in the forms of ghosts who appear as men, women and even dogs. Lisa Hunt, as all story re-tellers of mysterious tales, does a great service in allowing our fears to be channeled into the working of tarot. That is, I believe the ghosts themselves are honored, appeased and placated by our affirming their reality.
The booklet is 62 pages and the cards measure 2 ¾ x 4 ¾ inches; the LWB gives interpretations for upright card positions only. A fun spread given in the back of the LWB is titled "Realm of the Spirits" a five-card spread that encompasses: Spirit of the Present, Ghosts of the Past, What Frightens You, What Lifts Your Spirits and Spirit of the Future.
To paraphrase the cartoon character Pogo, "We have met the spirits and they are us." I whole-heartedly recommend the purchase and frequent use of the Ghosts and Spirits Tarot.
—Thomas Freese, writer and art therapist
Anyone familiar with Lisa's artwork knows the amount of detail that is immediately seen and all the additional hidden details; all done in a blended and flowing natural way. Knowing this makes you want to just go immediately to the cards in anxious excitement to see what she has created this time. What she has somehow managed to do with Ghosts and Spirits Tarot is outdo herself with this amazing deck. For the most part I would consider this a "darker" deck; however Lisa Hunt has the most astonishing way of making even the darkest of the cards not be horrifying.
This deck is different in so many ways; one of them being the little white book which is 61 pages. At first appearance it looks like it will be just like every other LWB, consisting of the cards and their meanings, but it's not and you need to refer to it with this deck. Lisa has gone above and beyond by including the individual spirit/ghost that is depicted in each card and has given brief background for each one. She has a way of writing about them that gives the important information needed while at the same time keeping it simple. This book is an exception to my rule of putting the LWB aside. You will want to read it with this deck because in lies deeper meaning and understanding for each card and it's Ghost or Spirit.
The first card is of course The Fool; Lisa's wooded detail depicted in it had me think of the book "Where The Wild Things Are". Since I have an attraction to fairies and angels it is no wonder that The Empress was the first of the majors that I paused at in my rush to see them all. The Empress is an angel who is standing in front of a little girl who has her back to us. The pastel colors used have a very soothing and peaceful feel. You immediately get a "you are protected" feeling coming off The Empress, which as explained in the LWB, The Empress is in fact the Guardian Spirit. The Lovers was the next major that made me pause, with it's different than the norm portrayal. The Lovers is depicted as a "darker" card, not as a lighter, happier relationship that we tend to see in other decks. In this image you see a black-cloaked figure that made me think, " this is the grim reaper riding on a horse with a female behind him holding onto him." This was the first card that made me have a look at the booklet and see what it had to say. The Lovers depicts the tragedy of love through it's spirit name that it is based on, Specter Bridegroom, "Joyful reunions dissolve into tragedy as the real identity of the lover-turned-ghost is discovered", is a sentence taken from the LWB. This is just one example of the different view depicted in the cards of Ghosts and Spirits Tarot.
The differences of this deck do not stop at the images. Two of the Major Arcana names have been changed. The Hierophant is The High Priest, and The Devil is titled Chains; Strength remains 8 and Justice 11 like the Rider Waite. The suits are also the traditional wands, swords, cups and pentacles.
There is also one last and final additional card, making this deck 79 cards. Lisa states that this bonus card is "for questions that require deeper reflection." She mentions it in the Introduction and leaves it for each person to reflect deeper for themselves whenever it comes out in a reading.
This deck is for anyone to use whether they are beginners or are experienced readers. I can't emphasis enough that you'll want to use the little white booklet to familiarize yourself with the Ghosts and Spirits; not only who they are but what personal story they each tell.
—Tarot by Misha


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Pusat informasi Kuliah Kelas Karyawan menyampaikan informasi tentang Indonesia Austria Scholarship Programme sebagai berikut:
Based on the Agreement between the Indonesian Ministry of Education and the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research and the agreement between the Directorate General of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia (DIKTI) and the Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research (OeAD-GmbH) in cooperation with ASEA-UNINET; scholarships for Indonesian students at Austrian universities for the academic year 2014/2015 are hereby announced.
Scholarship details
Country of origin: Indonesia
Target country: Austria
Area of study or research: all areas
Target group: Prospective lecturers or lecturers of a university in Indonesia (postgraduates) who are qualified for a Doctoral/PhD programme in Austria
Maximum age: 35 years or maximum 5 years after graduating from a master course whichever applies
Authority awarding grant: The OeAD-GmbH on behalf of and financed by the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research (BMWF) and DIKTI
Duration: 36 months
Quota: up to 20 new scholarships per study year
Grant benefit paid:
1. monthly grant rate €1000
2. Accident and health insurance, accommodation
- if necessary, the OeAD-GmbH will take out an accident and health insurance on behalf of the grant recipient.
- The OeAD-GmbH will endeavor to provide accommodation (student hall of residence or flat) if desired by scholarship holders. Monthly costs: EUR 220 to EUR 470 (depending on how much comfort the scholarship holder wants). The costs for insurance and accommodation have to be paid out of the grant by the scholarship holder.
3. Travel costs subsidy (for arrival and departure) will be paid by Indonesian authority
Where to submit your complete application:
OeAD – Programme Manager
Mag. Tuan Trieu HA, Bakk
The following documents have to be submitted:
– Application form
– Letter of acknowledgement from a supervisor of the Austrian host ("Betreuungszusage") (Without an acknowledgement from a supervisor of the Austrian host University the application will not be considered)
– Description of study project/thesis (2-4 pages, title, content, methodology, time table) which has been agreed on with the future supervisor in Austria.
– One letter of recommendation by the supervisor (no specific form required: it must contain the letterhead, date and signature of the supervisor recommending the applicant and the stamp of the university/department and must not be older than six months at the time of application.)
– Scan of passport (Page with name and photo) – Scan of transcripts and graduation certificates of former studies (Diploma, Bachelor, Master, PhD or Doctoral studies)
– Good knowledge of English and/or German for the respective study programme in Austria has to be proved. (TOEFL 500 points or IELTS 5.5 points)
Incomplete applications as well as those not complying with the specific conditions will not take part in the selection process!!
Selection procedure:
Selection through an Austrian-Indonesian board of experts. The nomination of the Austrian representatives within this board is performed by ASEA-UNINET.
After submission of the documents to the OeAD-GmbH, preselected candidates will be invited to an Interview in Indonesia. Nominated candidates apply for admission in an Austrian university with the support of the OeAD-GmbH. At the same time they have to submit a second application to DIKTI on http://beasiswa.dikti.go.id (for permanent lecturers) or http://beasiswa.dikti.go.id/ln (for prospective lecturers). The final decision about the scholarship award will be made after successful admission to an Austrian University.
Closing date for applications: Feb 1st 2014 (possible to change)
For further information please contact: Mr. Tuan Trieu Ha (email@example.com)
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When you are serving an educated customer base — one that is informed on many levels from trade publications, websites, and newsletters featuring case studies, videos, and animations — you have to continually develop more effective ways to present innovations that can make their jobs easier and more cost effective.
It's not that these traditional means of communicating product benefits are obsolete, but at Roehr Tool Corp. we've shifted our approach to include opportunities for potential customers to see key products in action — because seeing is believing.
Roehr just concluded its latest demo event, the Innovations Tour, which was held at Rexam Mold Manufacturing's facility during Plastics News' Plastics Caps & Closures Conference in Chicago.
Shuttle buses drove 65 attendees to and from Rexam's Buffalo Grove, Ill., facility where, within about 90 minutes, they saw several innovations in action: Rexam's new Mega Cell and Roehr's four-cavity DT Core demo mold in a press molding 28-millimeter threaded caps at a 7-second cycle time.
Roehr's demo mold included the latest edition of the CVe Monitor from AST Technology and the now-standard Z-Series alignment locks from Progressive Components.
Attendees said they were impressed with the facility and mold, plus they liked the Innovations Tour concept. They said it was more effective to see products in action vs. on display in an exhibit. They also appreciated that it was quick and to the point, leaving the opportunity to discuss it further at the hospitality event that followed.
Because the tour took place at the start of Caps & Closures, attendees got to know each other, stayed engaged and continued networking for the next two days. For photos from the event, visit www.facebook.com/roehrtool.
Hickok is technical sales manager at Roehr Tool Corp. of Hudson, Mass.


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Lately I've been doing lots of yard work. For a week or two I was paying attention to how I was feeling and not overdoing it. About a week and a half ago I started focusing on what I wanted to get done rather than how I was feeling and I ended up over doing it. I use a FitBit One which is similar to a pedometer but it tracks lots more information like floors climbed, sleeping patterns, and I can log additional information like my daily food intake, weight and so forth. On an average day where I'm not working on the computer a lot my FitBit usually shows me taking around 3,600 steps. Two Monday's ago I don't remember what I was doing, but at the end of the day my FitBit showed I … [Read more...]
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This morning I saw a dog in my back yard. My yard has one side that isn't fenced so I figured it would just wander back out, which it did. Awhile later I went outside to spray my grass for weeds and didn't see the dog so I thought her owner had brought her inside. While getting set up to spray the weeds my 10 year old son called to tell me he felt sick to his stomach and he needed to come home from school. Since we've been dealing with the stomach flu since Friday when my 12 year old daughter woke up sick and my husband and I spent an hour or so after midnight cleaning things up I thought I better get over there quick so I left to go get him. On the way back home the dog was running loose … [Read more...]
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My faith is a major part of who I am. It strengthens me and has helped me through many trials. Nearly 17 years ago I was going through I very difficult divorce and questioning everything. At one point I was lying in bed praying and I heard in my mind the words to the scripture found in Proverbs chapter 3 verses 5 through 6: Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. The words received in my mind weren't exactly as they are written in the scripture, but they were very close and extremely meaningful to me. They impacted me so strongly that I got out of bed and wrote them down and stuck … [Read more...]
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Whenever I listen to the song "Make Me Over" by Natalie Grant my heart literally aches and I feel it drop into the pit of my stomach. When the violins start playing my mind immediately takes me to the glass corridor of the University of Utah Hospital by the Neuro Critical Care Unit (NCCU) at the moment I knew my 17 year old daughter, Aimee, wasn't going to survive. I begin to feel weak and the tears start coming. It's ok though because I know that sometimes I need to embrace the grief and let it pour over me like a rush of water. I usually don't listen to that song but every once in a while I accidentally hear it and it startles me like turning the … [Read more...]
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Bend mayor: city should chip in to keep Mirror Pond
Jim Clinton says city should help pay cost to overhaul the dam
By Hillary Borrud
Bend Mayor Jim Clinton has come out in support of the city helping to pay the cost to keep Mirror Pond. If the idea wins support from other city councilors, it would be a departure from current city policy.
The mayor's proposal last week was a surprise to City Manager Eric King, who said Tuesday that he had not heard Clinton wants the city to help pay for the multimillion-dollar project. King said he expected any recommendation on whether to pay for the leak-prone dam that creates the pond would come from Councilors Victor Chudowsky and Mark Capell, who are members of an ad hoc committee tasked with deciding the future of Mirror Pond. The committee also includes residents and board members from the Bend Park & Recreation District, a separate local government agency.
Clinton said in an interview last week that the logical next step is for city officials to discuss whether Bend should help pay to replace and maintain the dam on the Deschutes River, after the park district released a report in May on the cost to overhaul or replace the dam.
"Now that people are starting to digest that, it will probably be time soon to see if the park district or city would want to buy the dam and take over control of it," Clinton said. "The City Council has consistently said, 'No, hell no, we don't want to buy the dam.' However, as this comes forward, it looks like somebody has to cooperate with someone else to get some solution in place."
Discussions have focused on the park district acquiring the dam, although district Executive Director Don Horton said in December that the district might not have enough money to maintain it, unless it asks voters to approve a new tax. After the ad hoc committee voted in December to work toward the goal of preserving Mirror Pond and negotiate to acquire the dam, the City Council voted to support those goals. However, Capell said at the time that he had spoken with other city councilors and they generally did not want the city to take paying for the dam and other work on Mirror Pond.
Clinton said that because the City Council voted to work toward keeping the pond, the city has a responsibility to help pay for the work to accomplish that.
"We can't be irresponsible as a city and say Mirror Pond, we as a city want it to stay there, but we aren't willing to do anything to make it stay there," Clinton said.
The city's property tax revenues are starting to recover from the crash in the real estate market, and Clinton said it might be appropriate to use money from the general fund — mostly property tax revenue — to pay for work on Mirror Pond dam. However, the mayor said he had not decided whether to push for that.
Local officials have discussed for years the future of Mirror Pond, in part because sediment has been building up behind the dam and creating mud flats. The issue became more immediate in November when PacifiCorp, the utility that owns the dam, announced it planned to decommission it or transfer ownership to a different entity. Since then, members of the ad hoc committee have been negotiating with the utility to acquire the structure.
The cost to maintain Mirror Pond dam will easily run into the millions of dollars. Phoenix, Ariz.-based contractor Gannett Fleming Inc. inspected the dam in March and determined it will eventually fail. At the low end, analysis of figures in the Gannett Fleming report suggests the total cost to dredge sediment and replace or overhaul the dam might be $3.9 million, if the state does not require the owner to install fish passage and the owner can dredge the sediment behind the structure for the lowest estimated price. However, the project cost could reach at least $22.8 million, based on estimates in the report. Neither the low or high estimate includes permitting costs, engineering design for a new dam or updates to the structure, or any riparian habitat restoration or other work along the riverbanks.
The two city councilors on the ad hoc committee did not say Tuesday whether they agree with Clinton's comments. Chudowsky said he did not have any comment on whether the city should help pay to replace the dam and maintain it. Capell said he had not heard any other city councilors discuss a financial contribution for the dam. "In terms of ownership of the dam, I think we're not ready to make that decision," Capell said. "And it's going to take a lot more community involvement before we get there."
Clinton said that although many people now want to remove dams to restore rivers to their free-flowing state, the Mirror Pond dam on the Deschutes is a different situation.
"It's not a wild and scenic river that has salmon runs that Indians treasure," Clinton said of the Middle Deschutes River. "This is an urban dam. It's an irrigation channel, so it's different from a real wild river that could be greatly restored, like the Elwha River in the Olympic National Park."
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Sydney, Australia – LEEKICO, a one-stop-service ICO platform, successfully supported NKN, a project aiming to rebuild the Internet that will be truly open, decentralized, dynamic, safe, shared and owned by the community, completed its highly anticipated token sale on April 19th, 2018. With LEEKICO's support, NKN collected a total of ETH 24,100.
NKN's early bird sale, which was only opened to participants who were previously whitelisted for the project, started on April 2nd and was completed on April 8th. The main ICO took place on April 19th and collected 70% of the hard cap in the first 3 minutes, with the cap reached shortly after.
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quote:Originally posted by Guest5052Trottier is a good vote. He was a superstar in the league, but doesnt seem to get the recognition these days. My vote is Dale Hawerchuck. Always a perennial 100 point/40 goals; has incredible points per game numbers (top 20 id guess) and is top 20 in career scoring.... and he played with rubbish players. Plus admittedly as a jets fan, I loved watching this guy. Also the fact that the Smythe Division was probably the toughest in the NHL at that time help overshadow a gem.the fact that he isnt in the initial list also says something about how he is ratedThe fact that he was on Team Canada 87, ahead of Savard (and a young yzerman)also speaks volumes. he gets my vote.
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Five austerity programmes within the space of two and a half years have reduced the health system in Greece to the level of a developing country and stripped working people of the basic right to adequate medical care.
Although winter has begun and the recent cuts have already had life-threatening and sometimes fatal consequences, the troika of the International Monetary Fund, European Union and European Central Bank are insisting on further cuts in the sphere of medicine. The result will be the ruination of the Greek health care system for decades to come and the re-emergence of illnesses and diseases regarded as long since eradicated.
In order to save €1.74 billion (US$2.25 billion), patient contributions for vitally necessary drugs are to be increased, while expenditure by public hospitals on medicines is to be reduced and overtime work by doctors restricted. A slate of vicious new cuts will come in January. The contribution for the purchase of drugs will be increased yet again, and plans for hospital reform to reduce costs will result in more staff reductions.
From 2014 onwards, a fee of one euro per prescription is to be levied, together with an increase in the daily sum to be paid for hospitalisation—from the current level of €10 to €25. This will above all discourage pensioners, the homeless and families with children from seeking emergency hospital treatment.
No fewer than 50 hospitals are threatened with closure in the next six months. Two have already ceased operating due to a lack of health insurance payments, which meant that staff had received no wages for between four and six months. The total debt of hospitals with pharmaceutical companies is in excess of €1.3 billion.
Most hospitals lack essential basic materials such as disposable gloves, plaster and catheters. Poorer women have to give birth at home because they cannot afford a hospital birth, which can cost €700-€1,500. Children can only be vaccinated with cash payment.
Due to the austerity measures, drug addicts—whose number has increased 20-fold in the past five years—receive just 15 needles per year, a tenth of the total granted in other euro zone countries. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDE) warns of a new wave of AIDS in Greece, especially in the big cities. In Athens, heroin addicts must wait an average 44 months before they can participate in a methadone programme.
Control of infectious diseases is no longer guaranteed due to the lower standards of hygiene throughout Greece. Chronic respiratory diseases, skin diseases and tuberculosis are all on the increase.
Outbreaks of malaria infections have been reported in five parts of the country, although the disease had been thought be eradicated in 1974. Once again, it is the poorest sections of society that are hardest hit. The lake and orange region of Skala is home to many immigrants from Afghanistan and Pakistan, many living crammed together in small spaces and exposed without any protection to the disease-causing mosquitoes.
The ECDE raised the alarm recently regarding the proliferation of multi-resistant germs. In Italy, the proportion of such germs in bloodstream infections has risen from 15 percent in 2010 to 27 percent in 2011; in Greece, it has risen from 49 percent to 68 percent. The reason: Many people fearful of losing their jobs have resorted to taking strong general antibiotics for minor illnesses, thereby unintentionally reducing their resistance levels.
"We have children who are starving, dehydrated babies", complains Nikitas Kanakis, president of the network Doctors of the World. At the same time, the country is suffering from an unprecedented exodus of doctors. Due to the austerity measures, a consultant will earn just €1,007 monthly beginning in January 2014. This is less than a quarter of what he could expect in a western European country such as Germany.
Instead of demonstrating a modicum of humanity in such a situation, pharmaceutical companies have responded with unrelenting harshness. Due to outstanding debts, the Merck pharmaceutical and chemical company, with headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany, ceased to supply the cancer drug Erbitux to Greek hospitals in early November—a fortnight before the company announced a 16 percent increase in profits to €754 million for its third quarter.
In June, the German pharmaceutical company Biotest had already ceased to supply its blood plasma products. The outstanding debts of the life-sustaining drugs represent less than 2 percent of the annual turnover of Biotest.
While the working population of Greece is helplessly exposed to these inhumane conditions, the wealthy are increasingly turning to medical care abroad. Hospitals in Northern Europe report an increase in operations for patients from the south of the euro zone. "We also find that more and more people from Greece, Spain, Portugal, England and also Switzerland are buying our drugs", declared Lorenz Schmid, president of Zurich's Association of Pharmacists.
Describing the current situation in his homeland, Nikitas Kanakis stated: "The truth is that our health care system has already collapsed…. Stabilisation is not in sight and I think it will get worse. Especially now when a hard winter is approaching and heating costs have become twice as expensive. The gap between rich and poor will increase, which is very dangerous. Social mobility has come to a standstill—children from poor families have little chance of a better life."
A very different assessment comes from Euro Group president Jean-Claude Juncker. Following the passing of another European "bailout" for Greece totalling €13.5 billion, Juncker announced: "Greece is on the right track." In fact, not a cent of the latest "loan to Greece" will go towards the Greek health care system. Instead, more than 80 percent will be consumed repaying interest to the international banks.


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Playing Action Video Games Can Actually Harm The Brain
Neuroscientists should think twice before getting patients to play video games as a way to boost their brain power, a new study conducted at Université de Montréal suggests. Why? Because in many cases, gaming can do more harm than good.
In the study, published today in Molecular Psychiatry, lead author Greg West, an associate professor of psychology at UdeM, reveals that habitual players of action games have less grey matter in their hippocampus, a major part of the brain.
And the more depleted the hippocampus becomes, the more a person is at risk of developing brain illnesses and diseases ranging from depression to schizophrenia, PTSD and Alzheimer's disease.
"Video games have been shown to benefit certain cognitive systems in the brain, mainly related to visual attention and short-term memory," said West, who did the study in collaboration with McGill University associate professor of psychiatry Véronique Bohbot. "But there is also behavioral evidence that there might be a cost to that, in terms of the impact on the hippocampus."
"That's why we decided to do a full neuro-imaging study, scanning the brains of habitual players of action video games and comparing them to non-players, and what we saw was less grey matter in the hippocampus of habitual players. We then followed that up with two longitudinal studies to establish causality, and we found that it was indeed the gaming that led to changes in the brain."
Shaped like a seahorse, hence its name, the hippocampus is the part of the brain that helps people to orient themselves (so-called spatial memory) and to remember past experience (episodic memory). Taxi drivers in London, England, for example, have been shown to have more developed hippocampi. More grey matter in the hippocampus means a healthier brain, all round.
However, there's another important part of the brain called the striatum that counterbalances the hippocampus. It has an area known as the caudate nucleus that acts as a kind of "autopilot" and "reward system" – getting us home from work, for example, and telling us when it's time to eat, drink, have sex and do other things that keep us alive and happy. The caudate nucleus also helps us form habits and remember how to do things like ride a bicycle.
Gaming has been shown to stimulate the caudate nucleus more than the hippocampus; 85 per cent of players rely on that part of the brain to navigate their way through a game. The problem is, the more they use the caudate nucleus, the less they use the hippocampus, and as a result the hippocampus loses cells and atrophies, the new study shows.
"If action video games lead to decreases in grey matter in the hippocampus [of young adults], caution should be exerted when encouraging their use… [by] children, young adults and older adults to promote cognitive skills such as visual short-term memory and visual attention," the study says. Indeed, the "results suggest that improvement in such cognitive skills may come at a cost."
Specifically, patients with Parkinson's disease combined with dementia, as well as those with Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, depression or PTSD – all of whom have less grey matter in their hippocampus – "would not be advised to [follow] action video game treatments," according to the study.
To do their investigation, the researchers recruited close to 100 people (51 men, 46 women) at UdeM and got them to come in and play a variety of popular shooter games like Call of Duty, Killzone and Borderlands 2, as well as 3D games from the Super Mario series, for a total of 90 hours.
To establish which participants were spatial learners (that is, those who favoured their hippocampus) versus "response learners" (those using the reward system), West and his team first had each of them run through a "4-on-8" virtual maze on their computer. From a central hub, they had to navigate down four identical-looking paths to capture target objects, then, after their gates were removed, go down the four others.
To remember which paths they'd already been down and not waste time looking for the objects they'd already taken, spatial learners oriented themselves by the landmarks in the background: a rock, a mountains, two trees. Response learners didn't do that; they ignored the landmarks and concentrated instead on remembering a series of right and left turns in a sequence from their starting position.
Once their learning strategy was established, participants then began playing the action and 3D-platform video games. The same amount of screen time on each produced very different effects on the brain. Ninety hours of playing action games led to hippocampal atrophy in response learners, while 90 hours of playing 3D games led to increased grey matter within the hippocampal memory system of all participants.
"Because spatial strategies were shown to be associated with increases in hippocampal grey matter during video game playing, it remains possible that response learners could be encouraged to use spatial strategies to counteract against negative effects on the hippocampal system," the study says, offering an out for action-game manufacturers: change the design.
Now, "players can easily choose to navigate with a response-route-following strategy without relying on the relationships between landmarks, fundamental to the spatial strategy. […] Action video games designed without in-game GPS, or [without] wayfinding routes overlaid on the game's display for the player to follow, could better encourage spatial learning during action video game playing."


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Thinking about selling your house? If you've been waiting for the right time, it could be now while the supply of homes for sale is so low. HousingWire shares:
". . . the big question is whether we are finally starting to see the seasonal spring increase in inventory. The answer is no, because active listings fell to a new low last week for 2023 . . ."
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) confirms today's housing inventory is low by looking at the months' supply of homes on the market. In a balanced market, about a six-month supply is needed. Anything lower is a sellers' market. And today, the number is much lower:
"Total housing inventory registered at the end of February was 980,000 units, identical to January and up 15.3% from one year ago (850,000). Unsold inventory sits at a 2.6-month supply at the current sales pace, down 10.3% from January but up from 1.7 months in February 2022."
Why Does Low Inventory Make It a Good Time To Sell?
The less inventory there is on the market when you sell, the less competition you're likely to face from other sellers. That means your house will get more attention from the buyers looking for a home this spring. And since there are significantly more buyers in the market than there are homes for sale, you could even receive more than one offer on your house. Multiple offers are on the rise again (see graph below):
If you get more than one offer on your house, it becomes a bidding war between buyers – and that means you have greater leverage to sell on your terms. But if you want to maximize the opportunity for a bidding war to spark, be sure to lean on your expert real estate advisor. While we're still in a strong sellers' market, it isn't the frenzy we saw a couple of years ago, and today's buyers are focused on the houses with the greatest appeal. Clare Trapasso, Executive News Editor at Realtor.com, explains:
"Well-priced, move-in ready homes with curb appeal in desirable areas are still receiving multiple offers and selling for over the asking price in many parts of the country. So, this spring, it's especially important for sellers to make their homes as attractive as possible to appeal to as many buyers as possible."
Bottom Line
If you've been waiting for the right time to sell your house, low inventory this spring sets you up with a big advantage. Reach out to a local real estate professional today to make sure your house is ready to sell.


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Trips and Program
General Information
GMT welcomes groups ranging from 15 to 40 students for a period of one to two weeks. Day one is arrival and local tours as time permits. The next morning all participants will take part in a seminar where they will be given a general orientation and begin with the basics in preparation for the clinics.
On day three, we, as a team, will start our first patient clinic day. We provide free prescribed medications, as well as, dental equipment and supplies. We set up clinics in structures e.g. community buildings, schools, or local churches. In regards to the latter, GMT does not hold particular religious affiliations; we embrace all non-violent religions and philosophies. We work with any ethical group that is willing to help fellow needy humans.
After two or three clinic days, all participants will enjoy a recreation day. We will visit volcanoes, waterfalls, tropical forests & beaches, museums, markets, colonial cities, and other local attractions.
Our Medical Clinics
Our approach is student-centered learning by doing and involves direct patient contact and medical-dental assessments by the students in the medical-dental clinics. There is constant MD and DDS supervision and they are solely responsible for all final diagnoses and treatment plans for all patients. Only our dentists do dental procedures. This experience is 100% interactive, with students, patients, doctors all actively involved in the evaluation, assessment, and treatment of medical conditions.
You will not just sit and watch. You will work with doctors side by side. You will be encouraged to do medical-dental work according to your abilities/training, but always with medical-dental guidance, teaching, and supervision. The ratio of students per doctor is about 6 to 1. Interpreters are always present.
We start out with small sub-groups of 3 students assessing a patient. As you gain experience, this is broken down to two and even one student per patient. The more advanced you are, the more quickly you move into a one on one patient assessment mode. This is all with full doctor assistance, supervision, and ultimate responsibility, but letting you take the assessment and treatment process as far as you can with each patient. We can individualize for each student this way.
Our clinics are primarily medical / non-surgical (except for dental), as we go directly to the small village communities and set up in "non-medical" buildings. We care for all ages/genders.
We go to the people we serve. We move to different sites every 1-2 days.
We utilize multiple clinic sites in various geographic locations and travel considerably. These are moderately difficult trips. The students who participate in these trips are generally healthy, both emotionally and physically. In general, they possess a strong sense of personal spirituality and purpose, a confident awareness of their intellectual gifts, and a caring attitude. They seem particularly motivated to acquire special knowledge and skills, and a desire to apply themselves actively to the service of others.
GMT physicians-dentists supervise all the healthcare aspects, see patients along with the students, and teach them by very active engagement in the total healthcare process. Professionals provide topical lectures, end of the day group sessions and spontaneous discussions about specific cases and general problems e.g. lack of basic disease prevention and public health measures, tropical diseases, lack of education, cultural aspects, poverty, etc. We discuss this especially within the context of healthcare professionals living on a planet with millions of people having minimal or no access to healthcare, widespread poverty, inadequate diets, unhealthy living conditions, and often-lacking humane treatment.
Our Dental Clinics
GMT currently offers the Dental Program in Panama, Peru, the Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua.
Our program provides students with a unique "hands-on" experience in Dentistry under the supervision of highly qualified Dental Professionals in the host country. Students perform no dental procedures, however, they will assist our dentists in doing their procedures.
We offer a general orientation/training to prepare students for the clinic experience which includes:
- A brief overview of Common Oral diseases
- Basic Dental exams and screenings
- Overview of field extractions/techniques
- Overview of field cavity filling process
- Overview of manual cleanings in the field
- Review of Dental instruments and equipment
- Discussion of Dental Care Delivery System in the host country, and
- Differences between the host country and U.S./Canada
- Importance of Community Education/Public Health
- Basic Dental Spanish (allows Dental students more independence)
Students will:
- Perform dental exams/screenings for children and adults.
- Teach oral hygiene including diet, brushing, and flossing.
- Assist in manual cleanings and become independent with those procedures
- Assist the dentists in extractions and pain management procedures
- Assist the dentists in the cavity filling and pain management process
- Conduct Public Health screenings/Community Education


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Britney Pays $4.50 a Gallon for Gas
Britney Spears completed her first co-parenting class with Kevin Federline -- and left the Beverly Hills Hotel completely tanked up -- with gas!
TMZ caught the attentive valet at the ritzy hotel, filling up Britney's gas tank as she met with a counselor inside. Sources tell us she also paid to get her Mercedes washed as well.
The price of the gas isn't cheap -- a whole $4.50 a gallon, yikes! That's more than a buck higher than the highest grade gas in L.A. -- but at least it saves her from making yet another paparazzi-filled pit stop later on!


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When someone is talking about larceny crimes they are talking about the crimes that are associated with personal property. Property has two different titles, which are personal or real. Personal property is any real property that has been cut from the ground. Personal property can become a real property if it becomes attached to the ground. Real property is any property that is affixed to the ground like an apartment or house. The definition of larceny is liable to definition changes that are determined by severance or attachment. When someone is charged with crimes against property, it means a crime in which the defendant acquires property which belongs to someone else. These can include extortion, receipt of stolen property, larceny, false pretenses, robbery.
If you are charged with larceny it means that you have illegally taken of someone's property, with the intention of permanently dispossessing the owner of their property. It could be goods or money. There are many different forms of larceny, which can include:
• Petty-this is where the property amounting to a smaller prices is being stolen. For a crime to be considered petty larceny the object stolen has to be less than four hundred dollars. If they are convicted of this crime they will have to pay a fine or do jail time.
• Grand-this is also known as felonious larceny and occurs when the property stolen is more than four hundred dollars. In New York, the amount of the robbery has to be more than one thousand dollars for it to be considered a felony. If you are convicted of this misdemeanor are subjected to time in prison. If the crime committed is a crime of a large magnitude can result in longer prison time. In addition to going to prison, you are also liable for fines related to the crime, court fees, and restitution payments.
Examples of larceny
• Snatching a purse-if the offender uses force to snatch the purse and instills fear in the victim it is known as robbery. If there is no force or fear in the victim then it is larceny.
• Shoplifting-this crime occurs when an individual shoplifts certain items from a store and does not pay for them. It also happens if you switch price tags so you are paying an lesser amount that what the actual value is.
• Embezzlement-this crime is when there is misappropriation of funds from an account that belongs to the victim.
• False check -this is a crime when the person issues bad checks to an owner for acquiring the property.


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New surgery improves outcomes for severe flat foot deformity
A surgery developed at Hospital for Special Surgery can improve patient outcomes in individuals with severe adult flat foot deformity, a problem that is increasingly being seen in hospitals across the country. Patients who undergo the new surgery have better long-term outcome and mobility than those who undergo traditional surgery. The paper will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS, abstract 348) in National Harbor, Md., on July 8.
"Before this study, we were not sure whether you could salvage patients with flat foot and ankle deformity and correct their ankle as well as their foot deformity," said Jonathan Deland, M.D., chief of the Department of Foot and Ankle Surgery at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS). "Now we know that with this technique you can save the ankle, and it provides a correction of the deformity even at nine years after surgery." Dr. Deland developed the surgery and is senior author of the study.
Adult acquired flat foot deformity is basically a severe type of flat foot that develops for unknown reasons in individuals who have had flat feet all their life. It is more prevalent in women and those who are overweight, and it usually develops in individuals in their 40s and 50s. In stage I of the deformity, the tendon that runs along the inside of the ankle begins to degenerate. In stage II, the arch starts to fail, and a person develops a more severe case of flat foot. As the arch continues to collapse and the flat foot becomes more pronounced, mobility becomes difficult, and the foot becomes stiff, which is considered stage III.
In the most severe stage, stage IV, the ankle starts tilting and is at risk of developing arthritis as a result of the deformity. "These people have tremendous flat foot to the point that their ankle is involved," said Scott Ellis, M.D., foot and ankle orthopedic surgeon at HSS and first author of the study. In these people, the extreme flat foot has injured the deltoid ligament, a strong, flat triangular ligament that is located on the inside of the ankle that provides support to prevent the ankle from over pronating. In stage IV, the deltoid ligament has become stretched and incompetent, which is what allows the ankle to tilt.
If the ankle deformity is severe and symptomatic enough, then surgeons either perform an ankle replacement, which is very difficult, or, more commonly, fuse the ankle. "The fusion is not ideal because it takes all the motion away in the ankle in a patient who already has a foot problem," Dr. Ellis said. "Imagine walking without motion in your ankle. It changes your gait and it leads to arthritis in the other joints of the foot over time, eight to 10 years down the line, because you start having to use those joints to take up the slack of motion that is not occurring in the ankle."
In the new surgery for stage IV deformity developed at HSS, surgeons not only reconstruct the flat foot deformity, but they also reconstruct the deltoid ligament using a tendon that runs along the outside of the calf called the peroneus longus. A person can function without their peroneus longus. Alternatively, the peroneus longus can be kept and a cadaver tendon used.
In the study presented at the AOFAS meeting, HSS investigators conducted the new surgery in five patients, four men and one woman, and monitored the surgery's success. The mean age was 67 years. Patients underwent X-rays that showed the surgery improved the alignment in the ankle and the effects were long-lasting. "The X-rays showed the maintenance of the correction of the tilt. The alignment was still improved nine years later," Dr. Ellis said. Patients had excellent mobility at eight to 10 years following the surgery and none of the patients had arthritis.
Doctors also measured outcomes through several questionnaires including the Foot and Ankle Orthopedic Survey, an outcome scale that assessed 42 items divided among six categories. The average FAOS scores were 61.4 for symptoms, 1.5 for stiffness, 78.3 for pain, 87.9 for function/daily living, 71.7 for function/sports/recreational activities, and 42.1 for quality of life. "The FAOS scores were good," Dr. Ellis said.
Patients were asked how far they could walk in blocks or miles and the cohort of patients was able to walk an average of 25 blocks (range 10 to 40), equivalent to 1.25 miles, after surgery. Two patients continued to play golf without significant problems, another exercised regularly on a treadmill, one was involved in circuit training, and the final patient played volleyball, although he did notice some stiffness. All patients reported they were satisfied with the procedure and, given the result, would have the operation again.
Dr. Ellis says he thinks the new surgery may be increasingly useful with stage IV flat foot deformity. No surgeons that the authors know of at other hospitals are currently using the surgery. The procedure is expected to become more popular. "I see a lot of this deformity in my office. It's one of the major problems I deal with," Dr. Ellis said, pointing out that it is very prevalent.


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I've been back in Ottawa for about 36 hours after making the trip to Washington DC to observe the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States. It goes without saying that the inauguration was a historic event as the United States turned a page on centuries of troubled history as the first African-American ascended to assume the highest office in the nation. I write this blog to report on the news, to offer opinion, and to give an account of my experiences. I've never been to a Presidential inauguration and I'd like to share some of my observations of those couple of days in DC.
After going through an unusually thorough screening with Homeland security, I boarded my Air Canada flight with a number of Canadians and Americans heading to Washington. When traveling, one often see travelers reflecting, in a clichéd way, their departure point or arrival. On a trip to Hawaii, for example, you might see an inordinate number of leis and cheap plastic "grass" skirts on fellow passengers, in Vegas, empty plastic souvenir 'hurricane' margarita cups. On this trip to DC, a number of Canadians and Americans were decked out in the colours of the American flag. Minister Peter Kent was on my flight, on his way to represent Canada in DC as minister of state for the Americas.
Landing in at Reagan national airport, I was immediately struck by the shops which had switched from generic Americana to 99% Obama merchandise. One t-shirt I saw had a mock headline that read something along the lines of "Now is our time" with a photoshopped image of Obama's head on Michael Jordan's body going for a slam dunk from the top of the key wearing a Superman outfit. I immediately became determined to find the most tacky and absurd Obama memorabilia during my trip and if this was a location as mainstream as the airport, I'd hold my greenbacks for the streets of DC.
I took the metro to the Capitol and after fighting the lines leaving the metro, I found the line that snaked around the buildings which held the congressional offices. As I had a ticket set aside for me, I joined the queue. After making my way inside and after having picked up my ticket, I crashed a mid-western pre-inaugural party in the congressional district. It wouldn't be the last party I crashed on my trip, but for the main event, I had my golden ticket.
Next up, I made my way over to a party held by the British mission in DC. On the way, in Dupont Circle BDS-afflicted revellers were tossing shoes at an 30-foot tall inflated cartoon effigy of George W. Bush. In 24 hours, what would these people have to do with themselves? After the British party, I made my way over to Clarendon with some GOP friends to attend a leftwing netroots blogger party sponsored by big labour, netroots nation, blue state digital, and a host of well-read "progressive" blogs. With drink tickets, guitar hero, and a live band, the festivities certainly had a hobbyist-gone-mainstream feel. I met some very talented people working on social media the Obama side of the partisan divide.
Next day was inauguration day and the common wisdom was to show up at the metro as early as possible to make one's way to the Capitol. Despite my best efforts, I arrived to the metro station to find it packed with people. Apparently, record ridership was recorded on the previous day with 600,000 people passing the DC metro gates. It's a bit harrowing standing on a platform packed 20 rows deep with anxious DC residents and inauguration tourists when one indeed has to "mind the gap" between a packed station and the tracks. On the train, however, people were in good spirits despite the overcrowding.
I eventually made my way from the metro to the ticketed checkpoint area. On my way, more Obama kitsch tempted me as spontaneous capitalists popped up everywhere to hawk everything from Barack Obama action figures to Michelle Obama t-shirts. The ticketed area in front of the inaugural platform in front of the Capitol building had rows of seats for a few thousand people. Looking back at the national mall towards the Washington monument, we could see millions of people. On television, it was reported that 3-4 million people were packed in to see Obama take the oath of office. Looking across the mall, when the motorcade drove up the street, it was a shimmering sea of red white and blue as people waved their flags.
Sitting and waiting for the ceremony to begin, I spotted New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg sitting a few rows ahead. Bloomberg was considering a run at the presidency this cycle and would have contested as an independent versus Obama and McCain. I made my way over to Bloomberg to say hello. The mayor was a registered Republican, however would have run as an independent. Some speculated that his run would have made him a viable candidate for a running mate to the Republican or Democratic nominee seeking the presidency through the independent swing vote.
The inauguration ceremony went off fairly well with only the Roberts/Obama oath blunder as the only notable exception. Obama's speech was adequate at best and I don't think it met the oratorical expectations that people have expected; "ask not what your country can do for you", Obama's speech was not. I believe that this presidency will be about managing and decreasing expectations that have been built up during the campaign. After the wrap up of the inauguration, Obama made his way to the other side of the Capitol building to see President Bush and his wife off in a marine helicopter. We saw the events on a big screen on our side of the building and a few seconds later saw the helicopter pass over the roof of the Capitol and over our heads. Everyone waved at the helicopter, though while some gave a warm wave goodbye, others were not so friendly. The helicopter passed over the national mall and Canadian embassy. The embassy would be my next stop.
The Canadian embassy is located on some of the best real estate in DC. The building is about a stone's throw away from the Capitol and had a great view for guests of the Canadian ambassador. Party guests at the embassy included former ambassador Frank McKenna, Jason Kenney, Peter Kent, Michael J. Fox, Newt Gingrich and… for some reason… er… Star Jones?
After taking a bit of a break from inauguration festivities, a few of us on the right headed over to David Frum's to mark the launch of his new website New Majority. While inaugural balls were going on elsewhere in the city, I had a couple of invites for the post-inaugural Google party. The party was downtown by the Reagan Center and was the media/Washington insider gathering was well-attended by CNN, MSNBC, DNC and RNC people.
The inauguration of Barack Obama was about the closest thing I think I'll see to a coronation. To be sure, Obama was elected through the democratic process, however, the fanfare, ceremony, celebrity, commemorative-plate-esque atmosphere and the millions of people caught up in it was certainly something I don't expect to see again.
Barack Obama inspired many, from Democrats in the primaries to electors during the campaign. He was an incredible campaigner. Now comes the hard part: he has to govern. With a worsening economic crisis and an ill-advised and massive economic bailout coming, transformational is bound to become transactional and we'll need more than hope to pay off the interest.
More photos (click any photo on this page to enlarge):
The Obamas wave to the crowd on the National Mall
Joe Biden is sworn in as VPOTUS
John Kerry imagines what might have been
At the inauguration of President Barack Obama
The inaugural band packs up below the inaugural platform
President Obama's limosine drives by the Canadian embassy
As for Obama kitsch, this hand puppet was too good to pass up
What that Barack? You're pro-death-penalty, pro-Afghan-mission, anti-same-sex-marriage, and for private healthcare?


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The Charles A. Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics is dedicated to promoting high-quality research in financial economics at The Ohio State University. The center is especially interested in sponsoring research which is of importance to the financial community of Ohio and the United States.
Center Activities
The Charles A. Dice Center mission is to use its resources to promote excellence in finance research at The Ohio State University. Thus, the Center has supported its junior and senior faculty with supplemental grants to be used for data-sets, travel and subscriptions. In addition, the Center uses its resources to purchase important research related databases and equipment. The Center also supports Ph.D. students at Ohio State and actively participates in the recruitment phase of the Ph.D. program.
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The Charles A. Dice Center for Financial Research at Ohio State has an endowment in excess of $2 million, made possible by the generosity of Oda Dice Demarest, in memory of her brother Charles A. Dice, who taught finance at the college for many years. The Center was created with the strong support of The Ohio State University through an Academic Challenge Grant.
Charles A. Dice was on the faculty of The Ohio State University from 1919 to 1948 in the old Department of Business Organization and Economics, then in the College of Commerce and Administration. In WWI he served on the U.S. Shipping Board. He obtained his education at The Ohio State University, Missouri and Harvard University. His Harvard Ph.D. dissertation was entitled An Introduction to the Theory of Consumption.
Charles A. Dice also published a 667 page book called The Stock Market in 1926. He also wrote a column on investing that was syndicated in major newspapers throughout the United States. His salary was $4,250 a year as a full professor. Charles A. Dice was born on November 5, 1878 and died on May 27, 1969. He was survived by his sister Oda Dice Demarest.
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Part 1—Halperin's striking prediction: Last Friday, a gaggle of pundits on Morning Joe were discussing the White House campaign.
At the present time, of course, there is no a White House campaign. According to almost all the experts, our next presidential election takes place in November 2016.
That's well over two years away! At present, there is no campaign.
No one is currently running for president! But major parts of the mainstream press corps love discussing White House campaigns, including those which aren't yet occurring.
Our upper-end "journalists" love to kill time in this fashion. They also love to fashion the frameworks within which they will discuss a campaign.
In part, that explains what happened when Hillary Clinton launched her recent book tour.
Clinton's book, Hard Choices, concerns her four years in the State Department. The book discusses a wide array of events from around the globe. It's a type of discussion our upper-end press corps finds insuperably boring.
At the same time, it's widely assumed that Clinton will launch a White House campaign next year. For that reason, many interviews on her book tour raced in that direction.
Multimillionaire TV stars asked if voters would support a person as wealthy as Clinton. In response to Clinton's answers, some of the nation's most famous pundits launched their famous "gaffe culture."
The Washington Post even launched a front-page jihad concerning the size of Clinton's speaking fees. In the New York Times, Maureen Dowd assailed Clinton for her "rapacious" behavior and her "wanton acquisitiveness," which she was said to be passing along to her daughter.
In some quarters, these events have sparked minor discussions about Clinton's relationship with the press. Last Friday, a major pundit on Morning Joe offered a startling assessment.
Mika Brzezinski quoted a recent statement by Clinton about her relationship with the press. At that point, she threw to Time magazine's Mark Halperin.
What were Halperin's views about this? Halperin, a major insider, made a striking prediction:
BRZEZINSKI (7/25/14): Mark Halperin, your thoughts."We talked about this the other day?" Halperin referred to a discussion which occurred on the Morning Joe program of Tuesday, July 22. For links to both discussions, see below.
HALPERIN: Well, I don't ever like to overstate the media's role, but the media has a pretty big role in the presidential process. I think she's talking about what is the most important issue determining whether she'll be president right now. She'll raise the money, she'll have policy positions. She needs to find a way—we talked about this the other day—to change the narrative about how she's being covered.
Right now, she's destined to get horrible coverage if she runs for president.
Citizens, can we talk?
Halperin is a major press corps insider. He knows all the other press corps insiders.
He attends the cocktail parties where media narratives slur their way into shape. Mark Halperin understands the way the press corps works.
Keeping those credentials in mind, let's make sure we're perfectly clear about what Halperin said:
According to Halperin, "the most important issue determining whether" Clinton can get elected to the White House will be her press coverage. She'll be able to raise the money, he said. She'll be able to articulate her stands on the various issues.
But Clinton needs to find a way "to change the narrative about how she's being covered," Halperin said, somewhat clumsily. And that's when he made his startling prediction:
As matters stand, Clinton "is destined to get horrible coverage if she runs for president!" So Mark Halperin said.
That is a remarkable statement, for at least several reasons.
For starters, insider pundits rarely speak in such awkward ways about the insider press. Halperin made a starting suggestion—he suggested the press corps' coverage of a major candidate could determine the outcome of our next White House campaign.
Plainly, that's what happened in Campaign 2000, when a twenty-month war against Candidate Gore let George Bush reach the White House. In the main, that war was conducted by the mainstream press corps, not by the RNC.
The press corps' poisonous war against Gore let Bush reach the White House. But it's a basic law of the guild: Major journalists never suggest that the behavior of their own guild could have such startling effects.
As such, Halperin's remarks on Morning Joe were extremely unusual. They broke the most ironclad code of silence in American culture—the silence the mainstream press corps maintains about its own views and behaviors.
How potent is that code of silence? To what extent are its strictures observed? To anyone with eyes to see, it's perfectly obvious that the "horrible coverage" of Candidate Gore was "the most important issue determining" his failure to get to the White House.
But so what? Right to this day, even "liberal" members of the mainstream press corps refuse to discuss this history-changing fact.
Is Clinton "destined to get horrible coverage" if she runs for president? Plainly, that's what happened to Candidate Gore as our most corrupt elite transferred its post-impeachment enmity to Bill Clinton's chosen successor.
That recent journalistic history has been disappeared. You aren't supposed to discuss that history. Nor are pundits supposed to say the sorts of things Halperin said.
Can we talk? When Hillary Clinton ran for the Democratic nomination in 2007 and 2008, her coverage was rather horrible too.
Major figures in the press corps ridiculed her as "Nurse Ratched" and as "Evita Peron." In a rare manifestation, the New York Times published a news report about the horrible coverage she had received, though only after the race was done.
In June 2008, the Times' public editor savaged that same Maureen Dowd for "the relentless nature of her gender-laden assault on Clinton—in 28 of 44 columns since Jan. 1." But through all these trials and tribulations, careerist members of the press corps have obeyed their guild's code of silence, pretending there's "nothing to look at" in the way the Clintons and Gore have been covered.
This has gone on for a very long time. They buried Gene Lyons' 1996 book, Fools for Scandal: How the Media Invented Whitewater. In 1999 and 2000, they pretended they had no idea why Candidate Gore was getting such horrible coverage.
When the Post began its most recent jihad last month, career liberals sat and watched in silence, just as they and their successors have always done. Some launched their own peculiar assaults on Clinton, as was the case with Gore.
Last Friday morning, Halperin made a rather startling prediction. It came in the second of two semi-remarkable discussions on Morning Joe.
On each of those programs, high-ranking national pundits played a familiar game. They pretended they had no earthly idea why they themselves, and their colleagues and friends, were giving Clinton some premature horrible coverage.
They've played this game many times in the past. If they're allowed, they will continue to play it.
Do you want to see a Republican president? That choice is up to each voter, of course.
But "horrible coverage" of Candidate Gore did send Candidate Bush to the White House. Halperin issued a clear prediction:
Hey rubes! It could happen again!
Tomorrow: What David Gregory said
To watch the Morning Joe discussions: Last week, Morning Joe panels staged two discussions of Hillary Clinton's press coverage.
For our money, Mike Barnacle was the star of last Tuesday's discussion. We'll discuss his comments on Wednesday. To watch that whole segment, click here.
On Friday, Halperin made a startling prediction. Mika threw to David and Donny. To watch that full segment, click this.


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If one thing is clear at these London Games, it's that not doing one's best is not only uncool — it's not allowed. Witness the badminton-to-worstminton scandal that erupted earlier this week, when players turned the tournament structure into a "farce" by attempting to lose in order to manipulate their seeds in the next round.
That sparked a scandal — and the players were tossed from the competition — leading our own Mike Pesca to write about how common such actions really are. As Mike wrote, "Manipulating the seeding or draws in tournaments has a long tradition in sport. And in the early rounds of track or swimming competitions, athletes who know they've qualified for later rounds will routinely not push to win a heat."
The issue of playing with the rules rose again Thursday, when British track cyclist Philip Hindes, a 19-year-old member of Great Britain's sprint team, said that his early crash — which gave a restart to his team, which then went on to win the gold medal — had not been an accident.
In that interview moments after the race, Hindes said it was part of a plan. According to the AP, he said that "if we have a bad start we need to crash to get a restart."
And the BBC reports:
"'I just crashed, I did it on purpose to get a restart, just to have the fastest ride,' said the 19-year-old afterwards."
"But British Cycling said Hindes had been misunderstood due to English not being his first language, and Olympic bosses said they would not investigate."
"Teams are allowed a second start and Hindes appeared to say he intentionally crashed because the Great Britain team's start was not good enough."
Hindes, who was born in Germany, and his two teammates — Jason Kenny and British flagbearer Chris Hoy — went on to win the race, scalding the 250-meter track for three laps in a world-record time of 42.6 seconds.
Speaking at the formal news conference later, Hindes backed off his remarks, clarifying that his rear wheel had slipped out from under him, making him lose control of the bike.
International Olympics Committee officials have reportedly reviewed the race. They said Friday that they do not plan to investigate any further.
The second-place French team's coach did not seem pleased with the restart. But he also said that if the crash were intentional, the act could not be called cheating. And he noted that at the 2012 Games, the British team was "much stronger" than France's trio.
"I do think the rules need to be more precise so we don't find ourselves in an identical situation at another Olympic Games," said the coach, Florian Rousseau.
On a side note, earlier today, South Korea's Olympic delegation sent home its four badminton players who were part of the "Badminton Eight" — instead of allowing them to stay for the closing ceremony. And Korean media report that their coach will likely be investigated after the Summer Games.
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As a committee of Members of Parliament study, discuss and debate potential changes to Canada's federal electoral system, three Alberta MPs are scheduled to hold town hall meetings in their ridings to discuss electoral reform with their constituents. The MP committee membership includes Banff-Airdrie Conservative MP Blake Richards and briefly included Calgary-Midnapore MP Jason Kenney (who later decided to focus on his provincial leadership ambitions).
The Alberta town hall meetings listed on the federal government website are:
September 8, 2016: Electoral Reform town hall with Edmonton-Strathcona MP Linda Duncan, 7:00 p.m. at the Westbury Theatre, ATB Financial Arts Barns at 10330 84 Ave NW in Edmonton.
September 8, 2016: Electoral Reform town hall with Calgary-Centre MP Kent Hehr, 6:00 p.m. – 7:45 p.m. at the Knox United Church – Theatre on 506 – 4th Street SW in Calgary.
September 9, 2016: Electoral Reform town hall with Sherwood Park-Fort Saskatchewan MP Garnett Genuis at Suite 214, 2018 Sherwood Drive in Sherwood Park (the notice asks that interested participants contact his office to register to attend the meeting ).
The Minister of Democratic Institutions, Maryam Monsef, will be hosting a town hall forum in Edmonton on September 10 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Sutton Place Hotel at 10235-101 Street.
Edmonton-Centre MP Randy Boissonnault hosted a town hall on electoral reform on August 18, 2016.


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