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Healthy Lifestyle Tip: Manage Energy, Not Time
FACT: You get more productive when you give yourself a break.
Don't believe me? Try this.
Set your timer. Work for 90 minutes straight and then give yourself a 5 - 10 minute break. Do this the whole day in 90-minute intervals. You may find that you can continue to work longer and get more done than if you kept at it constantly the whole day.
The minutes of recuperation help to give you space for creativity and clarity.
You can do this at home too when you have to get the housework done. I find that I get my cleaning done faster with the timer ;-)
For those who are challenged…
Simple Yet Effective Break Ideas
- Look out the window.
- Get a cup of tea, coffee or water.
- Walk around your office/home.
- Call a friend or work colleague.
- Look at cute kittens on the Internet.
- Listen to rainforest sounds or evening crickets on YouTube with your eyes closed.
- Get outside and see the sun… walk in grass.
- Meditate…
Don't underestimate the power of 5 - 10 minutes of space. It works.


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If you run a online news site, you should allow users to comment on posts. And if you allow comments, you should require users to register with their real names.
It starts with basic news ethics: Readers have a right to know who is saying what.
Newspapers long ago stopped allowing anonymous letters to the editor. Ethical editorial page directors go to great lengths to ensure the author of a letter is who he says he is. There is no small measure of credibility tied to using your real name when expressing an opinion or stating what you believe to be facts.
Newspapers also have established policies on anonymous sources. Setting aside for a minute that some papers don't follow their own anonymous source policies, the best policies require some verification by a trusted reporter or editor of the true identify of the source, some vetting of the source's motivation, and ensuring the source is used primarily to provide facts, not opinion.
The argument is at times made that since newspapers allow anonymous sources, online news organizations should allow anonymous comments. The logic doesn't follow, however, because anonymous comments come from unvetted sources — there is no examination of their motivations or conflicts of interest, nor any idea if the person is even remotely who he represents himself to be even in anonymity. In most news environments, anonymous comments go live without any verification as to their news value or truthfulness. No ethical news editor would allow such unfiltered information to flow freely into printed news columns. Why is it OK on the Web?
Real names may not prevent people from spewing misinformation and defamatory bile, but at least if readers trust that the person making such assertions is using a real name, they can judge it accordingly, or fact check the source themselves.
A situation came up recently at Cleveland.com where a judge allegedly/seemingly (she denies it) used a psudonymous name to comment on cases that had come before her court room. If there had been a real name policy in place and enforced at Cleveland.com, there never would have been an issue about revealing her identity, which clearly the public had a right to know.
Newspapers set themselves up for a horrendous ethical dilemma when they create a situation whereby public officials, who have obvious conflicts of interests, can support their own agenda, or oppose another's, through anonymous, unfiltered and unvetted commenting. The public, for example, has a right to know if the person pushing cuts to local bus routes is the politician who wrote the legislation or just some well informed citizen.
As another example, if the mayor is promoting a zoning change downtown, and a persistent commenter keeps arguing against it, the mayor has a right to know if that is a future electoral opponent or the local competing developer who stands to lose by the change. And so do the readers.
It is sometimes suggested that rather than require real names, persistent identity should be required, or pseudonyms.
There are two problems with this suggestion.
First, it doesn't solve the exceptionally important ethical issue of the readers right to know who is saying what; second, it's too easy for sock puppets to promote an agenda using multiple identities.
There are some who seem to assume that the whole issue of comments and identity have to do with avoiding racist hate speech, nastiness, vile flame wars and the like. While a real name policy can help in this regard, that is not the primary reason for requiring real names (again, it's primarily about ethics).
At The Batavian, we've banned two people who we know were using their real names. People can still be jerks even when their name is attached to their comments. Real names might tap down some of the vileness, but it doesn't eliminate it.
But if you have a real name policy — and this is the key point in using identity to police comments — it makes it much harder for the bad actors to re-register under a different name.
In a policy that requires only pseudonymity or persistent identity, if you kick Julie123 off your site on Tuesday, by Thursday, she can be Becky123 and you're none the wiser.
Which brings us to enforcement of a real names policy.
Frankly, I will not reveal all of my secrets in a public way of how I catch fake names. I don't want to educate those who might chose to subvert my policy on The Batavian. I would be happy to discuss this in detail with any news organization on a non-disclosure basis if requested.
But first and foremost, the vast majority of people who would seek to comment without their real names do so in very obvious ways. The guy who registered with "Not Me" is obviously faking it. Even if the person uses a plausible sounding name, such as Richard Montadello, will leave other inconsistencies in his registration to raise suspicion.
I approach a real name policy as a "best effort" practice. If you can get past my radar with your registration and get approved, the next test is your behavior.
Trollish comments, repeatedly making statements that the average person would find embarrassing to be associated with, will likely mean that further investigation into your identity is required. When such comments come from a recently registered person, the yellow alert goes to red pretty quickly.
At which point, I check public databases for names that match in the zip code provided. If no match, the user is asked to provide either by fax, e-mail or in person a copy of a picture ID.
But the best police of real identity are other registered users, members of the community.
We had a gentleman who got away with a fake name for about six months. He claimed to be a small business owner employing 50 people in factory jobs. For a small business owner in a small local community, his attitudes about supporting local business (or not supporting it, as the case may be) were pretty strange. One day one of my advertisers said to me, "Who is this guy? I've asked all my friends, and nobody knows who he is." So I checked with the chamber of commerce and the economic development office (where a man who employed 50 people in an industrial capacity would surely be known) and nobody had ever heard of him. He was banned, but not before he sent me a nasty e-mail refusing to reveal his true identity.
But because his comments were always on business-related issues, and he seemed so well informed, if not a little out of step with the local business community, don't you think the other business owners had a right to know who he was? I think so.
I make no promise that every person who comments on The Batavian is using a real name, but I do promise a best effort to enforce that policy and that people who violate the policy will be banned. That's the best I can do and for the most part, and our users seemed satisfied with this "best effort" approach.
And it's clear that users care very much about our real name policy.
They care because it helps create a more trusting environment. They care because it helps promote community (I know who you are and you know who I am, so its more social, fun and rewarding to participate with you — one of the same key features that makes Facebook successful). They care because they appreciate that on The Batavian, for the most part, we can discuss local issues as mature adults (it still does get out of hand some times, but we get better all the time at keeping a lid on nasty arguments).
As I alluded to before, a real name policy will not magically make an online community a more civil environment. If community managers are not taking ownership of the community — which is a matter of both policing and participating (weed, seed and feed, is the old community managers motto), then no imposed policy is going to work. Online community is not a set-it-and-forget it proposition. It is labor intensive and requires dedication.
A couple of closing points.
— I'm not against anonymity on the Web. In certain forums — say one dedicated to victims of child abuse — it is absolutely necessary. Also, there is nothing wrong with an individual setting up an anonymous blog. If the market place embraces his anonymity and finds what he has to say valuable, bully for him. My advocacy for real names deals strictly with a professional news organization environment where ethics should be a hallmark of a credible news organization.
When you put it in those terms, all of the arguments about how the Federalists Papers were written anonymously (even if the argument isn't entirely historically accurate) become pretty moot. We're not talking treatises to change the fate of a nation here, but information and commentary shared under the banner of a legitimate news organization.
— A real name policy, contrary to what some say, will not prevent anonymous news tips or scare off the whistleblower. At The Batavian, we get anonymous news tips all the time. They just don't come through comments. This argument against real names is a pure straw man.
As a closing emphasis: I strongly believe that news organizations that allow anonymous comments are committing a grievous ethical blunder. There is no justification or excuse for it. They are tarnishing their brand and credibility at a time they can least afford to devalue either.

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IBM Watson Health Announces 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals in U.S.
2020 Study Finds Top Performing Hospitals Provide Improved Patient Care Than Peers
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — IBM Watson Health™ (NYSE: IBM) today published its 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals™ annual study identifying top U.S. hospitals for inpatient cardiovascular services based on a balanced national scorecard of hospital performance metrics. The Watson Health 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals study, formerly the Truven Health Analytics® 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals study, has been conducted since 1998.
This year's study included 989 US hospitals with cardiovascular service lines. Based on comparisons between the study winners and a peer group of similar hospitals in the study, the winners delivered better outcomes while operating more efficiently and at a lower cost. Extrapolating the results of this year's study, if all Medicare inpatients received the same level of care as those treated in the award-winning facilities:
- More than 11,000 additional lives could be saved;
- More than 2,800 additional heart patients could be complication-free; and
- Over $1.5 billion could be saved.
"By finding ways to continuously improve and innovate, the winners of our 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals study are identifying opportunities to deliver healthcare value to patients, communities, and payers," said Ekta Punwani, MHA, 100 Top Hospitals® program leader at IBM Watson Health. "The top performing hospitals demonstrated better clinical care and were more efficient than their peers at delivering this care."
Kyu Rhee, M.D., M.P.P., vice president and chief health officer at IBM Watson Health, added: "Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men and women1 and numerous health disparities exist in heart health.2 When patients and families confront this disease, it is essential to find the right system and provider for you or your loved ones to ensure the best cardiovascular care. Our data-driven study highlights top hospitals that have achieved an outstanding balance of clinical and operational excellence in a complex healthcare landscape. In addition to showcasing the best in heart health, we believe that our study provides attainable and actionable benchmarks for hospital leaders across the country, as they work to raise their own organizations' standards of performance."
Following are some of the key performance benchmarks set by this year's Watson Health 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals:
- Significantly Higher Inpatient Survival: Winning hospitals had significantly higher inpatient survival rates (28.7% to 47.4% higher).
- Fewer Complications: The 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals achieved 6.3 to 27.7 percent fewer patients with complications.
- Lower Cost: $1,485 to $6,704 less in total costs per patient case (the smallest difference was for HF, and the largest was for CABG).
- Lower Average 30-day Episode of Care Payments for AMI and HF ($1,323 and $706 less per episode, respectively).
Teaching hospitals with cardiovascular residency programs*
Beaumont Hospital – Troy, Troy, MI
Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital, Sayre, PA
Huntington Hospital, Pasadena, CA
Kettering Medical Center, Kettering, OH
Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington, MA
Lankenau Medical Center, Wynnewood, PA
Mayo Clinic Hospital – Saint Marys Hospital, Rochester, MN
OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital, Columbus, OH
St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital, Indianapolis, IN
Summa Akron City Hospital, Akron, OH
UAB Hospital, Birmingham, AL
UNC Rex Healthcare, Raleigh, NC
University Hospital, Madison, WI
Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Camden, NJ
WakeMed Raleigh Campus, Raleigh, NC
Teaching hospitals without cardiovascular residency programs*
Aspirus Wausau Hospital, Wausau, WI
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Hillcrest, Waco, TX
CHRISTUS St. Michael Health System, Texarkana, TX
Halifax Health Medical Center, Daytona Beach, FL
Holston Valley Medical Center, Kingsport, TN
Lee Memorial Hospital/HealthPark Medical Center (LMH/HPMC), Fort Myers, FL
MacNeal Hospital, Berwyn, IL
Mercy General Hospital, Sacramento, CA
MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center, Des Moines, IA
Mission Hospital, Asheville, NC
MultiCare Allenmore Hospital, Tacoma, WA
North Mississippi Medical Center, Tupelo, MS
PIH Health Hospital – Whittier, Whittier, CA
Sacred Heart Hospital, Pensacola, FL
St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI
Community hospitals
Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center, Medford, OR
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Round Rock, Round Rock, TX
Bellin Health, Green Bay, WI
Carolinas Medical Center Mercy-Pineville, Charlotte, NC
Columbus Regional Hospital, Columbus, IN
Doylestown Hospital, Doylestown, PA
Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, Idaho Falls, ID
Harlingen Medical Center, Harlingen, TX
Mary Washington Hospital, Fredericksburg, VA
McLaren Northern Michigan Hospital, Petoskey, MI
Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center, Reno, NV
Salem Hospital, Salem, OR
San Antonio Regional Hospital, Upland, CA
Sentara RMH Medical Center, Harrisonburg, VA
Shasta Regional Medical Center, Redding, CA
St. David's Medical Center, Austin, TX
St. Vincent Heart Center of Indiana, Indianapolis, IN
Thibodaux Regional Medical Center, Thibodaux, LA
University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center, Towson, MD
Wake Forest Baptist Health High Point Medical Center, High Point, NC
About IBM Watson Health
Watson Health is a business unit of IBM that is dedicated to the development and implementation of cognitive and data-driven technologies to advance health. Watson Health technologies are tackling a wide range of the world's biggest health care challenges, including cancer, diabetes, drug discovery and more. Learn more.
About the IBM Watson Health 100 Top Hospitals® Program
The IBM Watson Health 100 Top Hospitals program uses independent and objective research to analyze hospital and health system performance. Organizations do not apply or pay for this honor or pay to promote their award. Award-winning hospitals and health systems prove that better care is possible and provide an example for other organizations to follow across the industry. The 100 Top Hospitals award winners demonstrate top performance on both how patients are cared for under clinical measures and how the hospital performs as an efficient business. 100 Top Hospitals is a registered trademark of IBM. Visit 100tophospitals.com for more information.
1 https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/facts.htm
2 https://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/More/ConsumerHealthCare/Health-Equity-Eliminating-Bias-by-Age-Ethnicity-Gender-and-More_UCM_444722_Article.jsp; https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/science/health-disparities-and-inequities
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If you're a landscape photographer or even someone who occasionally dabbles in landscapes, you likely already understand the difficulties present in high contrast scenes. As you're aware, cameras are not capable of recording a scene the same way you see it with your eyes. For example, if you are looking at a sunset, you are capable of seeing the full range of detail in front of you.
Unfortunately, the contrast ratio between a bright sky and a dark foreground will often go well beyond the capabilities and dynamic range of your camera. In jpeg mode, your camera is designed to record images in the manner of color negative film. This means that the image you see on your LCD reveals between three and five stops of exposure latitude. If you shoot in Raw (and you should) you will, of course, have access to the full dynamic range that your particular camera sensor is able to capture. This makes it possible for you to manually adjust an image in post-production so that the full dynamic range available to you is present in any given image.
However, this process is not infallible, nor does it come without acquiring a dedicated skill set.
This is where two particular techniques for landscape photographers come into their own. They are High Dynamic Range (HDR) and the use of Graduated Neutral Density filters (GND filters). The point of both of these techniques is to reduce the contrast ratio in parts of your scene so that the detail in your image more closely resembles what you saw with your eyes.
What is HDR?
High Dynamic Range is a technique that blends multiple exposures together in post-production. The idea is that you create a series of images where each accurately exposes an individual part of your scene. For example, your first frame will be taken to correctly expose the foreground and the second frame will be taken to correctly expose the sky. You then blend these images together using specialist software (often Photomatix or Lightroom).
The most common way to get a set of exposures to blend is to use the bracketing tool in your camera at a 1 or 2 stop interval. For example, if you take an exposure based on your camera's meter, you could then take three bracketed exposures one, two and three stops overexposed, followed by another set of bracketed exposures one, two and three stops underexposed. This would give you seven exposures to blend.
What is a Graduated Neutral Density (GND) filter?
Graduated neutral density filters achieve similar results at the time of capture. These filters are designed to block a certain amount of light over parts of your image. They come in different strengths, but the most common are the 1-stop, 2-stop and 3-stop varieties. Fitted to the front of your lens with an adaptor, they allow you to control the contrast ratio and dynamic range in your image as you create the image.
Comparison – HDR to GND Filters
Both techniques have their place and they are both indispensable tools for the landscape photographer. The aim of this article is to place both techniques in a side by side comparison so that you may decide which, if either, of these techniques, is best for you.
*Please note that the software used to blend HDR exposures in this article was Adobe Lightroom.
*Also note that this article does not cover in any way the use of tone mapping. That aspect of HDR imagery should be considered separately.
HDR – Pros
As a photographer, you probably already pay for access to Lightroom or Photoshop. This means you already have software that can blend HDR exposures for you. If you do, however, want to use a dedicated third party solution, Photomatix only costs a one-off fee of $99 for the Pro version or $39 for the Elements version. Or you could take a look at Aurora HDR by Macphun (soon to be available for Windows as well).
HDR software has come a long way since its inception. The short of it is that it works, very well. It can struggle when you have moving elements in your scenes, like water and clouds, but apart from that, you will often have little trouble blending your exposures.
Blending your bracketed exposures in the post-production phase gives you full manual control over every aspect of how your final image will look. Do you prefer more details in the shadows? No problem. Do you prefer less? No problem. The choice is yours and you can fine tune your images to your exact personal taste.
HDR – Cons
Learning Curve
From learning how to properly take your bracketed exposures all the way to the myriad of intricacies of the software, very little of the HDR process is intuitive. It will take a lot of studying and lot of practice before you start to see results that you're happy with.
Time Consuming
HDR is the very antithesis of getting it right in camera. Not only do you have to take your time in order to ensure that your bracketed exposures are perfectly exposed and aligned, you then have the prospect of coming back to your computer for a lengthy post-production process. If you are blending a lot of exposures into a single frame, the blending process can take a significant chunk of time.
This might be the most infuriating aspect of HDR. For the most part, you will able to predict what the end result will look like, but not always. Too many times, the software will present you with a result that looks nothing like what you had in your head at the time of capture. It's not as hit and miss as some techniques, but it can be frustrating.
When there are moving elements in your scene, they don't tend to line up in your bracketed exposures. Blending software has gotten quite good at detecting and fixing ghosting, but it's not perfect. At times, you will have to fix some of these artifacts manually in Photoshop which leads to even more time in post-production.
Graduated Neutral Density Filter – Pros
It's Easy
When you need to fit a GND filter to your lens, all you have to do is attach the adaptor via the filter thread, slot the filter into the filter holder and then attach the holder to the adaptor. This process can take as little as a few seconds as long as you are practiced and prepared.
Once attached, it's only a matter of looking through the viewfinder and lining up the filter with your horizon (or other elements in your frame) so that it affects the area that you want to be darkened.
Straight out of the camera
The biggest advantage of using graduated neutral density filters is that the effect is created at the time of capture. The amount of time this saves in post-production is immense. It also means that you will have an accurate idea of how your final images will look without having to predict how the software will react to your images.
Unless there are drastic changes in your light, the effect GND filters have on your scene will be consistent from frame to frame. Once you put your filters in place and take your first image, you know what to expect in any subsequent images.
GND – Cons
The biggest drawback to graduated neutral filters is their cost. A full set of filters can set you back hundreds of dollars. Lee Filter's Digital Starter Kit, which includes a single 2-stop GND, a 2-stop ND, the filter holder and a pouch costs $320. That doesn't include any adaptor rings to fit your lenses.
There are cheaper filters on the market, but with all the sincerity of experience, please don't buy them. They tend to be made of cheap plastic and are of a very poor quality; causing both severe color casts and unwanted flaws like lens flares and softness.
Read these dPS articles on different filter kits:
- Review of the New Formatt Hitech Firecrest Filter Holder and Neutral Density Filters
- Review of the Wine Country Camera Filter Holder System
- Switching from LEE to NiSi Filters: Was it a Mistake?
Because of the materials they are made of, filters scratch and break easily. There is few more gut wrenching experiences to a photographer than finding a 3 inch scratch across the face of a $110 filter that has been used twice.
If you are photographing scenes with flat horizons, like seascapes or midwestern fields, your GND filters will line up to the horizon and work every time. However, the moment you add a building or mountain to the horizon, things get a bit trickier. Because the gradation in the filters follows a straight line you will have to rotate your filters or add additional filters in different positions to compensate.
Below are a few comparisons of images made using HDR and images made with GND filters. All of the images were taken minutes (or less) apart without moving the tripod. HDR images were blended in Lightroom with the end goal of appearing as a straight image (no tone-mapping). Apart from minor adjustments in the basic panel and Camera Calibration in Lightroom, no other adjustments have been made.
Scene #1
Scene #2
Scene #3
Scene #4
Scene #5
Alone, both of these techniques are powerful. What happens, however, when you combine them? If you start with your GND filters and bracket your exposures as you would for HDR, you can combine both techniques to help ensure that all of a scene's dynamic range is available in your image. This can be useful when shooting directly into the setting sun.
As you can see, both techniques are more than capable of getting results. For ease of use and consistency, graduated neutral density filters have an edge. However, for versatility, HDR offers you absolute control over the exposure and tones in your blended image.
Is one technique better than the other? Not in my opinion. That said, your choice will come down to personal preference. For example, I will always prefer the GND filters as I am happy to sacrifice some control to avoid the extra time sitting in front of a computer.
Table of contents
Landscape Photography
- 5 Tips for Setting the Focus in Your Landscape Photography
- Comparison – HDR Versus Graduated Neutral Density Filters for Landscape Photography
- What is HDR?
- What is a Graduated Neutral Density (GND) filter?
- Comparison – HDR to GND Filters
- HDR – Pros
- Cheap
- Effective
- Control
- HDR – Cons
- Learning Curve
- Time Consuming
- Inconsistency
- Ghosting
- Graduated Neutral Density Filter – Pros
- It's Easy
- Straight out of the camera
- Consistency
- GND – Cons
- Expensive
- Fragile
- Horizons
- Side-by-Side
- Scene #1
- Scene #2
- Scene #3
- Scene #4
- Scene #5
- Combination
- Summary


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Tools for Political Discourse
Over the next several months, citizens nationwide will be participating in local, state, and federal elections. As Wisconsin, and the nation, responds to the challenges resulting from COVID-19, it's critical to remain informed of any changes to election deadlines and processes.
UW-Stout follows UW-System's Guidance on Political Campaign Activities to ensure information and processes related to political campaigning is consistent with university system guidelines.
Processes and procedures
Initial areas related to political campaign activities are listed below. Updates to these process may occur and new areas be added should new information or changes to procedures occur at the system or university level.
Political forums and debates can be sponsored by the Stout Student Association. All political candidates must be invited to the event.
State buildings cannot be used for political fund raising.
Posters, rooms or emails cannot be used to raise funds for political candidates.
Political candidates are allowed to campaign in the building. Political candidates cannot raise funds.
UW-Stout and The Student Centers are committed to exercise of free speech and freedom of assembly. The Student Centers will work in good faith to assist students and student organizations conduct demonstrations and protests in accordance to reasonable time, place, and manner guidelines.
Students groups or student organizations that are planning a demonstration or protest are asked to contact the Conferences & Events Office (MSC 214 / 715-232-2000) for events planned within or on the grounds surrounding the Memorial Student Center or Merle Price Commons. We also strongly recommend contacting Conferences & Events for demonstrations or protests planned elsewhere on campus, as this office can refer the group or organization to appropriate parties on campus to meet time, place, and manner guidelines.
While time, place, and manner guidelines may vary depending on the nature, size, and scope of the demonstration or protest, the minimum guidelines for all events are:
- There must be free access and egress to, from, and within the building (staff may define barriers or lanes to ensure access/egress).
- The activities cannot unreasonably disrupt another event or activity.
- The activities may not enter the space(s) of another event or activity.
Spontaneous demonstrations or protests will be afforded the same commitment to free speech and freedom of assembly. However, spontaneous demonstrations or protests will be held to time, place, and manner guidelines as noted above.
Questions about banners, sidewalk chalking, or other exterior posting of materials should be directed to:
Conferences & Events
302 10th Avenue East
RM 214, Memorial Student Center
Students need to know some types of behaviors may be deemed incompatible with membership in the University community and therefore may result in disciplinary sanctions which may include suspension or expulsion from the University of Wisconsin System.
The type of conduct that rises to the level of non-academic misconduct as defined in UWS Chapter 17 (Student Disciplinary Procedures) can be described as conduct that harms self or others. UWS Chapter 18 - Conduct on University Lands provides additional information regarding usage, behavioral expectations, and processes related to campus and operations.
Examples below, while not exhaustive, gives some general types and examples of serious misconduct violations that may result in separation from the UW-System:
- Victimizing Others (battery, sexual assault, stalking, and harassment).
- Poor Citizenship (theft, vandalism, giving false information, failing to abide by restrictions imposed by earlier disciplinary action)
Political signs are allowed and should be displayed with these two residence hall policies in mind:
Fire Safety - Decorations (pg.19) - Students may not cover more than fifty percent of the hallway-side of their room doors with decorations. Decorations should not protrude from the door.
Posting of Signs (pg 21) - Students may not post signs anywhere inside or outside of the residence halls without prior approval from University Housing. Unauthorized remove of approved postings is not permitted.
Door-to-door solicitation is not permitted in the residence halls.
Solicitation is defined as selling, peddling, distributing, and/or collecting materials or information, free or otherwise.
Recognized student organizations may request permission to set up a booth in the main lobby of the residence halls.
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This blog is mainly about the spectacular train wreck at The Sacramento Bee and its parent company, the McClatchy Company. But I also post about current events, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, politics, anything else that grabs my attention. Take a look around this blog, hope you enjoy it.
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Saturday November 28 -- Got news or an update?
23 comments:
- Anonymous said...
NBC News Reports On State Dinner Crashers Picture With Obama
Two frauds and charlatans, hand-in-hand. They were made for each other.
"Mr. President, I'm so sorry to tell you this, but my last name is not really Salehi."
"That's okay. My last name is not really Obama." - 4:33 AM
- Anonymous said...
The Strange, Sad Death of Journalism (Townhall.com)
WASHINGTON -- Like the nearby Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, the Newseum -- Washington's museum dedicated to journalism -- displays dinosaurs.
On a long wall near the entrance, the front pages of newspapers from around the country are electronically posted each morning -- the artifacts of a declining industry.
Inside, the high-tech exhibits are nostalgic for a lower-tech time when banner headlines and network news summarized the emotions and exposed the scandals of the nation.
Lindbergh Lands Safely. One Small Step. Nixon Resigns. Cronkite removes his glasses to announce President Kennedy's death at 1 p.m., Central Standard Time.
Behind a long rack of preserved, historic front pages, there is a kind of journalistic mausoleum, displaying the departed.
The Ann Arbor News, closed July 23 after 174 years in print. The Rocky Mountain News, taken at age 150. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which passed quietly into the Internet.
What difference does this make?
For many conservatives, the "mainstream media" is an epithet.
Didn't the Internet expose the lies of Dan Rather?
Many on the left also shed few tears, preferring to consume their partisanship raw in the new media. - 4:35 AM
- Anonymous said...
These no-talent hacks who are fired will disperse amongst the various publications across the country, getting hired as editors and assistants.
They'll buy freelance articles from other recently fired no-talent hacks.
The magazines end up looking like the garbage publications they were fired from. The result is biased articles subscribers don't want to read and a consequent falling readership.
After that publication is destroyed, the hacks will move on to other publications. It's like a perpetual motion machine of leftist destruction.
This is happening all across the print media. None are immune.
Owners need to step in, fire these leftists and hire professionals. - 4:36 AM
- Anonymous said...
BBC Abandons Ballet With Deformed Rapist Pope (FOX)
The BBC has abandoned plans to screen a ballet featuring a deformed Pope who rapes nuns that it had announced as one of the highlights of its Christmas schedule.
Last month the corporation said it would televise "In The Spirit Of Diaghilev" from London's Sadler's Wells Dance Theatre as part of a season of ballet programs.
The tribute to the Russian impresario comprises four acts, each by a groundbreaking choreographer, with the entire production due to be screened on BBC Four next month. - 4:37 AM
- Anonymous said...
MARK STEYN: CLIMATE SCEINCE AND THE PEER-REVIEW CONSENSUS FORGERY (Dakota Beacon)
My favorite moment in the Climategate/Climaquiddick scandal currently roiling the "climate change" racket was Stuart Varney's interview on Fox News with the actor Ed Begley Jr, star of the 1980s medical drama "St Elsewhere" but latterly better known, as is the fashion with members of the thespian community, as an "activist".
He's currently in a competition with Bill Nye ("the Science Guy") to see who can have the lowest "carbon footprint".
Pistols at dawn would seem the quickest way of resolving that one, but presumably you couldn't get a reality series out of it.
Anyway, Ed was relaxed about the mountain of documents recently leaked from Britain's Climate Research Unit in which the world's leading climate-change warm-mongers e-mail each other back and forth on how to "hide the decline" and other interesting matters.
Nothing to worry about, folks.
"We'll go down the path and see what happens in peer-reviewed studies," said Ed airily. "Those are the key words here, Stuart. 'Peer-reviewed studies.'" ... - 4:38 AM
- Anonymous said...
ClimateGate Scientists Cited in Report to White House and Congress (Newsbusters)
Scientists involved in the growing ClimateGate [0] scandal were cited in an October climate change report prepared for the White House and Congress.
However, what is disturbing is that America's news media haven't cross-referenced this high-profile report with all the names in the e-mail messages obtained from the computers of the University of East Anglia, and reported to the American people just how connected to the United States government these people are.
Or would that be too much like journalism?
Before you answer, consider how the press would be all over this report if the scandal involved policies advocated by leading Republicans that were not supported by the media, and the man in the White House was also a Republican. - 4:41 AM
- Anonymous said...
Climategate: the whitewash begins (The London Telegraph)
Breaking news from the splendid Bishop Hill. It seems the AGW establishment has launched an urgent damage limitation exercise in order to whitewash the Climategate scandal in time for Copenhagen.
Here's the (so far unconfirmed) story:
1) Lord Rees (Royal Society) to be asked by UEA to investigate CRU leak.
2) Foreign Office and government leaning heavily on UEA to keep a lid on everything lest it destabilises Copenhagen.
3) CRU asked to prepare data for a pre-emptive release in past couple of days but trouble reconciling issues between data bases has stopped this.
The appointment of Lord Rees, if confirmed, is especially worrying.
It's the rough equivalent of appointing King Herod's grand vizier to investigate a mysterious outbreak of mass baby killing in Judaea.
First, Lord Rees – formerly Sir Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal –is very much of the catastrophist mindset which helped launch the whole AGW scare in the first place.
Five years ago, he declared: "I think the odds are no better than 50/50 that our present civilisation will survive to the end of the present century."
Second, he has previously suggested that there might be certain areas where frank and open scientific enquiry is not a good idea.
"He asks whether scientists should withhold findings which could potentially be used for destructive purposes, or if there should be a moratorium, voluntary or otherwise, on certain types of scientific research, most notably genetics and biotechnology."
Third, he is president of an institution – The Royal Society – which has persistently used its distinguished name (founded 1660); and supposed unimpeachable scientific authority to push AGW theory.
Here is the Royal Society's most recent statement on the subject, brought out in the aftermath of the Climategate scandal.(continued) - 4:42 AM
- Anonymous said...
Howard Dean: There Isn't Any Reform In Dem's Health Care Bill (Audio) GatewayPundit
Howard Dean admits what most of us knew all along…
There's no reform in the democrat's Trillion dollar nationalized health care bill:
Howard Dean admits Obamacare will cost a trillion dollars, there's no reform, and it is harmful.
But he also says it's ok as long as there's a public option.
49% of Americans now believe the current US health care system is good or excellent. This is up from 29% a year and a half ago. - 4:43 AM
- Anonymous said...
NHS bureaucracy bill soars by £78 million in two years (# of NHS bureaucrats soared past 2 years) (www.telegraph.co.uk )
The amount spent on employing managers has risen by a quarter, or £78 million, in the past two years, the study shows. NHS Trusts blamed Whitehall targets for the increase.
It comes a day after NICE, the drugs rationing watchdog, refused funding for life-prolonging bowel cancer drug Avastin, saying it was not cost effective.
Pulse, a magazine for GPs, found that projected spending on management salaries has increased by 25 per cent between 2007/08 and 2009/10 in primary care trusts, which look after community services. It was up from £312million to £390million.
But the true figure is likely to be far higher, because only a third - 55 - of the 152 trusts responded.
The rise is largely down to trusts taking on more managers, with 15 that provided headcounts saying the number of posts had gone up 14 per cent.
These trusts also reported that the cost per manager had risen by 11 per cent. David Stout, director of the NHS Confederation's PCT Network, said it was "unrealistic" for such increases to continue. - 4:44 AM
- Anonymous said...
243 sick babies treated in one London hospital ward.... and just 18 mothers come from Britain (dailymail.co.uk)
Countless red dots scattered across the world map on the wall of a NHS hospital reveal the story of the changing face of Britain.
Each dot denotes the background of a mother with a baby in the neonatal ward of London's Chelsea and Westminster hospital.
The map was put up by hospital administrators to 'celebrate the ethnic diversity' of the sick children treated there, each at a cost of £1,400 a day.
It shows dramatically how the NHS now treats patients from every corner of the globe.
The 243 mothers are from 72 different nations. They include Mongolia, the remotest regions of Russia, Japan, Africa, South America, swathes of Asia, Australasia and even Papua New Guinea.
Only 18 mothers said they were from Britain.
The women were invited to put a dot on the map to 'represent' their home country. One, a London-born mother of a baby treated there earlier this summer, sent the Mail a photograph of the result.
She said: 'Almost every cot and incubator at this wonderful unit was occupied by a baby with a foreign mother.
Interpreters were on hand to make sure the mothers understood the doctors.
'Babies' lives are being saved and that is a good thing. Yet this seemed like a free-for-all.'
It is impossible to say how long each of the mothers has been in this country. But the fact is only a fraction of them declared themselves as having a British background.
In theory, only a woman who has lived here legally for a year or has a student visa lasting more than six months is entitled to free NHS care when giving birth. - 4:45 AM
- Anonymous said...
The Doctor Can't See You Now, Can You Come Back Next Year?
(David Horowitz's NewsRealblog)
In the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi's version of the bill designed to implement President Barack Obama's overhaul of the American health care system (and in the process provide coverage to 30 million currently uninsured Americans and possibly illegal aliens) passed, but immediately came under fire for being too expensive. Pundits predicted that a similar version would not pass in the Senate.
Harry Reid's Senate version of the bill had Reid's progressives looking at what could be cut from the House's plan in order to make the bill more financially palatable.
Since Senate Democrats seem to enjoy spending other people's money just as much as House Democrats do, they naturally didn't find too much.
One of the things they did ultimately select, however, was the elimination of those subsidies that had been allotted to financially assisting medical residents in becoming primary care physicians and general surgeons.
By eliminating these subsidies and placing more of the financial burden on future physicians, Reid and his minions reasoned that they could keep their version of the plan under a trillion dollars, thereby making its passage in the Senate more likely.
The Senate version passed, and Reid and his progressives gloated before the state-run media's TV cameras.
Both versions had one serious flaw in common: they both failed to address what a Fox News report has identified as the premier health care challenge currently facing the nation: the severe shortage of physicians.
In fact, finalizing either version of the bill will make the shortage of physicians worse. - 4:46 AM
- Anonymous said...
NHS trust faces probe into high death rate and blood-spattered equipment (dailymail.co.uk)
Action will be taken against an NHS trust after inspectors found blood-splattered equipment and an unusually high death rate among patients.
Inspectors for the Care Quality Commission (CQC) published a report earlier this month raising concerns about Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Now, the CQC has asked the regulator of foundation trusts, Monitor, to investigate.
It has told Monitor it has lost confidence in the ability of the trust's management to steer through changes.
Inspectors from the CQC found blood stains on floors and curtains, blood splattered on trays used to carry equipment and badly soiled mattresses with stains soaked through in the A&E department.
They also found equipment being used repeatedly that should only be used once and resuscitation room equipment that was past its use-by date.
Other items found at the trust included blood pressure cuffs stained with blood, suction machines contaminated with fluid inside and out and apparent mould.
The trust's death rate in 2008 for all emergency admissions was 6.1 per cent, above the national average of 4.4 per cent.
The CQC report said: 'In the accident and emergency department we found dust on high and low surfaces, including curtain rails, vents and floors.
'We saw floors that were stained with blood and other fluid spillages and black dirt had accumulated in the corners of the bay areas. - 4:47 AM
- Anonymous said...
70 deaths on ward of shame: Patients neglected...says damning report (UK) (daily mail online)
Dozens of patients died needlessly as a result of filthy conditions in an NHS hospital, a shocking report said last night.
Appalling nursing care in Basildon University Hospital contributed to a mortality rate that was more than a third higher than the national average.
At least 70 people may have died who should have been saved.
It is the latest example of patients paying the ultimate price for Labour's failure to stamp out Third World conditions in the NHS -despite trebling taxpayer funding over the past decade. - 4:49 AM
- Anonymous said...
Poll : Americans no longer believe in health 'crisis' (WSJ)
A poll released today shows Americans' belief in the current health care system has risen dramatically in the last year, and support for a socialized solution to a health care "crisis" has nearly evaporated.
The latest results from Rasmussen Reports show 49 percent of Americans now rate the quality of U.S. health care system as good or excellent, to only 27 percent that still argue it's poor. - 4:50 AM
- Anonymous said...
Stimulus benefits at least 14 percent phony, and counting (WashingtonExaminer.com)
California's state government said it took its share of stimulus money and saved 18,229 corrections jobs.
But fewer than 5,000 of those jobs -- perhaps fewer than 1,000 --were ever in any danger of being lost, according to a letter released this week by the state's auditor.
In Washington state, 24,000 teachers' jobs were reported as "saved," but none of their jobs were in jeopardy, either.
The teachers in question had all been contracted through the end of the school year, and even though stimulus money was used to cover some of their pay, the governor's stimulus adviser concedes the stimulus did not "save" their jobs.
These are only two of the most egregious examples of stimulus job inflation from the administration's first cheery-eyed report on the stimulus at the beginning of this month.
Between the jobs "created" on projects neither begun nor funded, the jobs "saved" that were never really in jeopardy and the jobs that were just reported erroneously, our staff has counted more than 90,500 bogus jobs in more than 100 American cities.
(See our stimulus jobs map at WashingtonExaminer.com.)
These most obvious errors account for 14 percent (and counting) of the total 640,329 stimulus jobs reported by the administration.
Even if most errors in jobs reporting originated with the recipients of stimulus money and not with the federal government, President Obama has no one to blame but himself for the perception that his administration is making things up as it goes along -- and wasting a lot of money as he does so. - 4:51 AM
- Anonymous said...
Acorn Document Dump - Trashed Documents ARE RELEVANT TO INVESTIGATION BigGovernment.Com
Have you heard the one about the pimp, prostitute, politician and the community organizer?
Well, thanks to San Diego private investigator Derrick Roach, Californians are not laughing at what is turning into a political nightmare for California Attorney General Jerry Brown and ACORN.
On Tuesday, November 24, Attorney General Brown appeared on KABC's "Peter Tilden Show" after it was revealed that some 20,000 documents had been thrown into a National City dumpster by ACORN employees.
The documents were thrown out in advance of state investigators arriving at the local ACORN office to conduct an investigation resulting from national media attention. ACORN employee Juan Carlos Vera was videotaped giving advice to two individuals posing as a pimp and a prostitute regarding underage prostitution and human smuggling.
Without admitting any wrongdoing ACORN terminated Mr. Vera, or so they said. Documents provided to BigGovernment.com show that Mr. Vera was not terminated but was simply laid off, implying that Mr. Vera is also eligible for rehire. (The document also notes that Mr. Vera was laid off due to "restructuring" related to "videotaping incident.) - 4:56 AM
- Anonymous said...
Calif. Attorney General Offers Incoherent Troubling Answers When Asked About ACORN Document Dump (Big Governement)
On Tuesday November 24th, the day after Big Government broke the story revealing tens of thousands of documents containing sensitive material had been unceremoniously dumped in a trash bin behind the San Diego ACORN office, Attorney General Jerry Brown appeared on Talk Radio KABC's Peter Tilden Show.
Considering this document dump occurred just a few days after the Attorney General had announced an investigation of this very same office, we anticipated his righteous anger at this obvious afront to the integrity of his investigation and the people of California's right to investigate all evidence pertaining to the operations of ACORN. - 4:57 AM
- Anonymous said...
Justice Department Says Acorn Can Be Paid for Pre-Ban Contracts (The New York Times)
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has concluded that the Obama administration can lawfully pay the community group Acorn for services provided under contracts signed before Congress banned the government from providing money to the group.
The department's conclusion, laid out in a recently disclosed five-page memorandum from David Barron, the acting assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel, adds a new wrinkle to a sharp political debate over the antipoverty group's activities and recent efforts to distance the government from it.
Since 1994, Acorn, which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, has received about $53 million in federal aid, much of it grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development for providing various services related to affordable housing.
But the group has become a prime target for conservative critics, and on Oct. 1, President Obama signed into law a spending bill that included a provision that said no taxpayer money — including money authorized by previous legislation — could be "provided to" the group or its affiliates. - 4:58 AM
- Anonymous said...
Good Times Roll for Black Panthers, 9/11 Terrorists, & ACORN
...As reported, in part, at the NY Times:
"WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has concluded that the Obama administration can lawfully pay the community group Acorn for services provided under contracts signed before Congress enacted a law banning the government from providing funds to the group.
"The department's conclusion, laid out in a recently disclosed five-page memorandum from David Barron, the acting assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel, adds a new wrinkle to a sharp political debate over the antipoverty group's activities and recent efforts to distance the government from it.
"Mr. Barron said he had based his conclusion on the statute's phrase "provided to." This phrase, he said, has no clearly defined meaning in the realm of government spending — unlike such words as "obligate" and "expend."
"Citing dictionary and thesaurus entries, he said "provided to" could be interpreted as meaning only instances in which an official was making "discretionary choices" about whether to give the group money, rather than instances in which the transfer of funds to Acorn was required to satisfy existing contractual obligations.
"Since there are two possible ways to construe the term "provided to," Mr. Barron wrote, it makes sense to pick the interpretation that allows the government to avoid breaching contracts." ... - 5:20 AM
- Kevin Gregory said...
Mentioned earlier: Jerry Brown gives "troubling, incoherent anwers about ACORN."
- JFRED said...
The combined MNI?Knight Ridder pension fund reported that it has been swindled by more thAN $77 million as a result of a partner gone bad. The company also paid more than $10 million for fees and advice. The value of the pension fund declined by more than $300 million during the year.
When will the company have to make good and add extra money to the pension fund to make up for these massive losses? Where will McClatchy get the money to bring the pension up to acceptable funding levels? - 3:05 PM
- Anonymous said...
Anon 3:05 Source please?
They need to be kicked, but not when they are down - 3:10 PM
- Anonymous said...
Isn't anyone the least interested in who is contributing the vast majority of the posts on the open-ended thread each day ("Got news or an update?)" It is obviously someone who is paid as part of their job to find and post anti-Obama and anti-Democratic gossip, rumors, non-stories and (occasionally) legitimate news. The Republican National Committee? Dick Armey's lobbying organization? Or does it matter?


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85% of tampons and feminine hygiene products contaminated with cancer-causing glyphosate herbicide
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Why you should only use organic feminine hygiene products
The only sure way to avoid GMOs in your vagina is to source certified organic feminine hygiene products made from organic cotton or other organic materials.
It's easy for consumers to forget that their blue jeans are made from GMO cotton saturated with glyphosate… or that the cotton gauze in their first aid kits are also made with GMO cotton and glyphosate. In fact, even cotton swabs and cotton balls are usually GMO.
So if you really want to stop putting Monsanto in your vagina (or your ears, nose and other place in your body), you'll need to meticulously source organic, non-GMO products for such needs.
(NaturalNews) In the late 1970s and early 1980s, over 50 American women were killed by their tampons. Although the FDA and the feminine hygiene industry have gone to tremendous lengths to try to memory hole this true history (and label it just a "rumor"), tampons made from certain non-natural fibers were found to harbor deadly bacteria and release a sufficient quantity of chemicals to kill or injure over a thousand women.
As the Organic Consumers Association has published:
The worst offenders were Procter and Gamble's ultra-absorbent Rely tampons. According to the book Soap Opera: The Inside Story of Procter and Gamble, the company dismissed consumer complaints about the tampons for years. A 1975 company memo disclosed that Rely tampons contained known cancer-causing agents and that the product altered the natural organisms found in the vagina. Rely tampons were taken off the shelves in 1980, but many women claim they left a legacy of hysterectomies and loss of fertility.
Among health-conscious women, the toxicity of mainstream tampons has long been an issue of concern. "Just as I say heck no to Cottonseed oil, it is for the same reason I say heck no to sticking toxic cotton up into my nethers," writes Meghan Telpner. "Did ya know that 84 million pounds of pesticides are sprayed on 14.4 million acres of conventional cotton grown each year in the US."
She continues:
The rayon/viscose used in Tampax is made from wood pulp. Last I checked, there were no such thing as rayon trees and trees don't magically turn into rayon- it takes hundreds of chemicals. The chlorine bleaching of wood pulp is where the greatest danger lies. The process creates chlorinated hydrocarbons, a hazardous group of chemicals with byproducts that includes dioxins, some of the most toxic substances known. Parts per million my cooch! There are no safe levels dioxins, they are impossible to break down and so keep building up in our tissues.
Now Monsanto's toxic herbicide has been found in 80% of feminine hygiene products
Fast forward to 2015. Now glyphosate, the chemical found in Monsanto's "RoundUp" herbicide used on genetically modified cotton crops, is being discovered in the vast majority of feminine hygiene products.
The research team from National University of La Plata headed by Damian Marino revealed their research findings last weekend. Note carefully that such research would never be conducted in a U.S. university because they've been infiltrated and bought off by Monsanto. Example: Discredited professor Kevin Folta at the University of Florida, who was caught receiving $25,000 from Monsanto after publicly lying that he had no financial ties to the herbicide company. Even though Folta has been exhaustively exposed as a liar and a violator of university ethics, the University of Florida sees nothing wrong with such deceptions. Click here to read the secret letter where Monsanto agrees to pay him $25,000.
"A team of Argentine scientists found traces of glyphosate in 85% of personal care and feminine hygiene products containing cotton and commonly purchased in drugstores and supermarkets," writes Revolution News.
"The study looked at a sampling of products from pharmacies and supermarkets in the area of La Plata, and analyzed cotton swabs, gauze and articles for feminine use. The results from all commercial products detected 85% glyphosate and 62% AMPA (metabolite or derivative of glyphosate). Almost 100% of the cotton produced in Argentina is transgenic and glyphosate applications are made while the cocoon is open."
Also reported by Revolution News:
"The report left us shocked," said Dr. Medardo Ávila Vázquez, a conference participant and from Cordoba.
"We had focused our attention on the presence of glyphosate in food, but did not think the products we use in all hospitals and health centers in the country to cure patients are contaminated with a carcinogenic product. The authorities must give an immediate response to this situation."
Glyphosate is known to cause cancer, but propagandists are paid to cover up the truth
Glyphosate is a known cancer-causing chemical. The World Health Organization has classified it as "probably carcinogenic," and many other studies clearly link it to an endocrine disruption process that leads to cancer.
The EPA conspired with Monsanto for decades to deceive the public into thinking glyphosate was harmless, even after knowing the molecule was extremely dangerous.
Forbes.com, named "America's most evil news publisher" by EVIL.news, has been instrumental in publishing Monsanto's propaganda via the corporation's paid professional propagandists such as Henry Miller and Jon Entine. Both have been exposed as "GMO mercenaries" who betray humanity and advocate the chemical poisoning of the world in exchange for money.
Glyphosate has even been found to promote cancer at parts per trillion concentrations, meaning that even low-level exposure from tampons might lead to deadly cancers in women. (The GMO industry says women who are concerned about GMOs are "anti-science" and too stupid to understand technology.)
It is inarguable that the human vagina readily absorbs chemicals found in tampons. When those tampons are made from GMO cotton — the vast majority of cotton that's commercially grown — they almost always contain glyphosate that gets absorbed through vaginal walls and enters the bloodstream.
This means that even beyond glyphosate contamination in food, women must now consider the possibility that they are being poisoned from glyphosate in the vagina via genetically modified cotton used in tampons and other hygiene products.
To all the bought-off female journalists who are pushing Monsanto's agenda — like Tamar Haspel of the Monsanto-infiltrated Washington Post — SHAME ON YOU for advancing the chemical industry's war on women.
Monitor all the real-time breaking news on organics at Organics.news or visit AlternativeNews.com throughout the day.
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Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/051669_tampons_glyphosate_GMO_cotton.html#ixzz3pQjtFKGZ


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Tracheoscopy is the endoscopic study of the trachea and bronchoscopy is the endoscopic evaluation of the primary airways in the lungs. In most cases a small, short flexible scope is used to perform the study. Samples for culture and analysis can be obtained through the bronchoscope using either a fluid lavage technique (the flushing and retrieval of sterile fluid) or a sterile brush. Foreign matter can be identified and often removed. Samples of airway growths can be obtained with biopsy instruments. In larger dogs, the scope can be passed down the throat without disruption of anesthesia or oxygen. Bronchoscopy requires little patient preparation outside of withholding food the morning of the scheduled procedure. Most patients are discharged the same day that the procedure is performed.
The major symptoms and reasons to perform a bronchoscopy/tracheoscopy are:
1. Persistent coughing
2. Study and removal of foreign matter in the trachea and lungs
3. To obtain biopsies from the trachea or major airways
4. To aid in the diagnosis of a collapsed trachea or lung
5. To obtain samples for testing and sensitivity when pneumonia is suspected
6. To determine the location of a tear in the trachea


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Catholic hierarchy's support of fringe group out of step with fair-minded lay Catholics
WASHINGTON – Today, Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Evan Wolfson, founder and president of Freedom to Marry, sent a letter to Cardinal Timothy Dolan, President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, calling on the Catholic Church hierarchy and affiliated groups such as the Knights of Columbus to end their financial support and collaboration with the shell-group known as the National Organization for Marriage (NOM). HRC recently uncovered NOM documents soliciting funds for its plans to "drive a wedge between gays and blacks," and to manipulate Hispanic communities by "making support for marriage a key badge of Latino identity" and "to make opposition to gay marriage an identity marker, a badge of youth rebellion to conformist assimilation to the bad side of 'Anglo' culture." It is believed the Catholic Church hierarchy has poured millions of dollars into NOM. The Knights of Columbus alone have funneled over one million dollars to NOM.
"We are asking the Catholic Bishops to spread the message that all people are loved," said Joe Solmonese. "Cardinal Dolan has the opportunity to denounce race-baiting and attempts at ethnic division, and in doing so would be representing the views of fair-minded lay Catholics across the country, who overwhelmingly support LGBT equality."
"The Catholic Church hierarchy is way out of step with the majority of Catholics, who, like the majority of Americans, support the freedom to marry for same-sex couples," said Evan Wolfson, founder and President of Freedom to Marry. "We call on the Bishops to stop funneling funds through NOM and to repent and renounce the toxic tactics they have supported in anti-gay campaigns that pit Americans against Americans, minorities against minorities, and family members against family members."
Civil rights leaders, including the NAACP, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and the National Council of La Raza, have publicly condemned NOM in the recent weeks. NOM's divisive and anti-LGBT strategies come at a time when public support for civil marriage for LGBT people is on the rise, particularly among Catholics. The Public Religion Research Institute recently confirmed that 71 percent of American Catholics support civil marriage for same-sex couples.
A copy of the letter to Cardinal Dolan is below.
The Human Rights Campaign is America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality. By inspiring and engaging all Americans, HRC strives to end discrimination against LGBT citizens and realize a nation that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all.
Freedom to Marry is the campaign to win marriage nationwide. We are pursuing our Roadmap to Victory by working to win the freedom to marry in more states, grow the national majority for marriage, and end federal marriage discrimination. We partner with individuals and organizations across the country to end the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage and the protections, responsibilities, and commitment that marriage brings.
April 10, 2012
Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, President
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
3211 4th Street, Northeast
Washington, DC 20017-1194
Dear Cardinal Dolan:
On behalf of the Human Rights Campaign and Freedom to Marry, the two largest organizations working to secure marriage equality in America, we are writing to ask that you and affiliated organizations such as the Knights of Columbus end your financial support and collaboration with the fringe group known as the National Organization for Marriage or NOM. Last week, HRC uncovered a series of documents that shed light on the racially and ethnically divisive strategies and tactics used by NOM.
The documents reveal that NOM's key goals are to "drive a wedge between gays and blacks," and to manipulate Hispanic communities by "making support for marriage a key badge of Latino identity" and "to make opposition to gay marriage an identity marker, a badge of youth rebellion to conformist assimilation to the bad side of 'Anglo' culture." Perhaps most shocking, NOM planned "to identify the children of gay parents willing to speak on camera," essentially tricking minors into publicly criticizing their families.
Sadly, the evidence shows that the funding provided to NOM has been used to exploit people of color and the children of gay parents in this country as pawns in a political chess game. NOM's attempt to manipulate these communities and "fan… hostility" has outraged fair-minded Americans and civil rights leaders all across the country. The NAACP, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and the National Council of La Raza are just a few of the many national organizations condemning NOM and these poisonous strategies.
It is hard to believe that the Catholic Church hierarchy, which professes to "promote the greater good which the Church offers humankind," would continue to funnel funds into, and align itself with, an organization that explicitly uses such toxic tactics to pit American against American, minority against minority, family member against family member. The Knights of Columbus, to give just one example, has acknowledged pouring at least one million dollars into NOM.
The truth is the great majority of Catholics support the freedom to marry. The Public Religion Research Institute recently found that 71 percent of American Catholics support civil marriage for same-sex couples. Increasingly, church-going Catholics question why hospitals, soup kitchens, and even parish churches are being closed for lack of funds at the same time their Church leadership is spending millions of dollars to divide families.
Freedom to Marry and HRC implore you to stop collaborating with, and to immediately stop funding, the National Organization for Marriage and such tactics. By doing so you would send a resounding message that race-baiting, ethnic exploitation, division, and anti-gay campaigns have no place in the Church, or in America.
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There's good news for printers and paper companies. Despite the enormous migration to electronic media, neuroscience research shows that paper-based content and ads offer special advantages in connecting with our brains.
In the last decade, every marketer as been engaged in some kind of "print to digital" transformation. Glossy brochures, direct mail pieces, bulky manuals, and many other printed items have been replaced by a combination of web content, email, and on-demand electronic files.
This transformation is driven by how all of us consume media. We increasingly get our news, entertainment, and information via computers, tablets, and phones. Print-based media outlets have seen a decline in use and in some cases have disappeared completely.
We certainly aren't going to see a massive switch back to paper content. But, those marketers who have been looking forward to the day when print content is gone entirely may be surprised by the latest neuroscience research.
Rather than an all-digital world, it appears that a multi-channel approach that leverages the unique benefits of paper with the convenience and accessibility of digital will perform best.
The Latest Data
The most recent work supporting paper-based marketing is a study sponsored by Canada Post and performed by Canadian neuromarketing firm TrueImpact. The study compared the effects of paper marketing (direct mail pieces, in this case) with digital media (email and display ads).
The technologies used in this study were eye-tracking and high resolution EEG brain wave measurement. Conventional questionnaires were also used.
The three key metrics evaluated in the study were cognitive load (ease of understanding), motivation (persuasiveness), and attention (how long subjects looked at the content).
Direct mail was easier to process mentally and tested better for brand recall. According to the report,
Direct mail requires 21% less cognitive effort to process than digital media (5.15 vs. 6.37), suggesting that it is both easier to understand and more memorable. Post-exposure memory tests validated what the cognitive load test revealed about direct mail's memory encoding capabilities. When asked to cite the brand (company name) of an advertisement they had just seen, recall was 70% higher among participants who were exposed to a direct mail piece (75%) than a digital ad (44%).
As a measure of overall effectiveness, the authors of the report calculate what they call the "motivation-to-cognitive load ratio," and say values greater than 1.0 are "most predictive of in-market success."
By their calculation, direct mail scored 1.31 compared to 0.87 for digital media. Here's how the individual formats fared:
While these measurements and metrics don't rise to the level of universal scientific standards, they seem to fit with other research in the paper vs. digital space.
Temple University Study
Earlier this summer, in Print vs. Digital: Another Emotional Win for Paper, I described a study published by Temple University researchers.
This study used fMRI brain scans to compare digital and paper. Their findings are summarized in this table:
Perhaps the most significant finding from the Temple study was that paper advertising activated the ventral striatum area of the brain more than digital media. A previous study of successful ad campaigns found that the ventral striatum was an indicator of desire and valuation.
While not quite the mythical "buy button," activity in this small brain structure had the highest correlation with advertising effectiveness. The study showed that ventral striatum activity was a better predictor than self-reporting by the subjects.
The fMRI approach used by the Temple scientists is the technique most widely used by academic researchers. While costly, fMRI studies can produce 3D images of brain activity. While their time resolution is lower than EEG, their ability to show activity in specific brain structures is valued by researchers.
For more on the previous Temple study, see Neuromarketing: Pseudoscience No More here at Forbes and my conversation with the scientists, Scientists Get Closer to The "Buy Button" in The Brain with Angelika Dimoka, Paul Pavlou and Vinod Venkatraman.
Paper's Emotional Impact
A 2009 study conducted by Bangor University and branding agency Millward Brown also used fMRI to study the different effects of of paper and digital media.
Some of their key conclusions were:
- Physical material is more "real" to the brain. It has a meaning, and a place. It is better connected to memory because it engages with its spatial memory networks.
- Physical material involves more emotional processing, which is important for memory and brand associations.
- Physical materials produced more brain responses connected with internal feelings, suggesting greater "internalization" of the ads.
Memory-Changing Power
A 2011 study showed that realistic print ads could actually change how subjects remembered an experience.
In Vivid Print Ads Change Your Memory, I describe how incorporating vivid images in ads actually caused subjects to remember consuming a brand of popcorn they had not actually tried. In addition, their attitude toward the product was more favorable.
In that study, the comparison was with print ads that had less imagery. But it seems likely that the same effect would occur if the study had compared large, vividly-illustrated print ads to ads viewed on a small screen like a smartphone or a tablet.
Reading, Comprehension And Recall
While the studies I describe above all compare the effects of print and digital advertising, quite a few scientists have looked at information or entertainment content. There's quite a body of work suggesting that our brains process a book differently if we read it in paper format vs. on an e-reader.
For example, a study in Norway concluded that, "students who read texts in print scored significantly better on the reading comprehension test than students who read the texts digitally."
Another study at San Jose State University found,
Screen‐based reading behavior is characterized by more time spent on browsing and scanning, keyword spotting, one‐time reading, non‐linear reading, and reading more selectively, while less time is spent on in‐depth reading, and concentrated reading. Decreasing sustained attention is also noted.
The Message For Marketers
Science clearly shows paper can be more impactful and memorable than digital. Digital, meanwhile, offers its own huge advantages, including instantaneous access, localization, powerful personalization and targeting, audio and video, and more.
Marketers should take advantage of the unique properties of both paper and digital. In particular, print advertising can maximize sensory appeal. Print offers the ability to deliver rich, vivid images along with tactile stimuli. In some cases, scent can be used to further increase print's impact.
In addition to exploiting the customer's senses, paper may also be more effective for communicating detailed information. While most ads are designed to avoid any hint of information overload, sometimes a B2B sales effort may involve important documentation to ensure the customer needs are met. Providing this information in paper format may increase the customer's comprehension and recall.
Personally, if I'm presenting someone with a copy of my book, I always give them a hardcover copy. Not only can I inscribe it, but I know that it will have a physical presence in that person's world instead of disappearing in a Kindle library with hundreds of other little icons.
How complete is your business's transition from paper to digital? Has the pendulum swung too far? Share your thoughts in a comment!
Roger Dooley is the author of Brainfluence: 100 Ways to Persuade and Convince Consumers with Neuromarketing (Wiley, 2011). Find Roger on Twitter as @rogerdooley and at his website, Neuromarketing.


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Ketubot 60 - 66
New Light on an Old Story
One of the best known Talmudic stories is that of Rabbi Akiva and his heroic wife, Rachel. The daughter of the fabulously wealthy Kalba Savua, Rachel recognized the extraordinary potential of the ignorant shepherd who worked for her father and agreed to marry him if he would go study in the yeshiva. The outraged father removed her from his home and made a vow forbidding her to benefit from his resources. When Rabbi Akiva returned 24 years later at the head of 24,000 disciples, his identity was unknown to his father-in-law who came to see this famous scholar in the hope that he could nullify the vow he now regretted having made.
"If you had known that your daughter's ignorant husband would be a great scholar, would you have made that vow?" he asked in the manner of every authority seeking to find an opening for the vow-maker to express regret. "If he would known even one chapter, or even one law, I would not have make such a vow," replied Kalba Savua. When Rabbi Akiva then revealed his identity and pronounced the vow null and void, his overjoyed father-in-law kissed his feet and presented him with half his wealth.
There are two interesting observations made by Tosefot regarding this touching story. Rabbi Akiva's future wife, says the gemara, appreciated him as being "modest and upright." This same Rabbi Akiva elsewhere (Mesechta Pesachim 49b) describes in graphic terms the hatred he had harbored for Torah scholars while he was still an ignorant shepherd. This hardly seems to fit the description of being an "upright" Jew! Tosefot explains that, in his ignorance, Rabbi Akiva was extremely critical of what he mistakenly presumed to be the haughtiness of learned men towards their ignorant coreligionists, and he reciprocated the hatred which he presumed they harbored towards ignorant men like himself.
In regard to the nullification of Kalba Savua's vow, the challenge is raised from the mishna (Mesechta Nedarim 64a). The mishna relates to the case of one who vows not to derive any benefit from a certain person, and that person eventually becomes a Torah scholar whom he needs; in such a case, states the mishna, there can be no nullification based on the regret that had he known he would become a scholar, he would not have made that vow. If a situation which did not exist at the time of the vow and which could not be anticipated is not a solid opening for regret, why then did Rabbi Akiva employ it? The answer, says Tosefot, is that the vow was made when he was on the way to yeshiva, and it certainly can be anticipated that one who goes to yeshiva will become a great scholar.
Ketubot 62b
Seeing Fortune in Misfortune
"Rabbi, please support me," cried the young lady to Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai as he rode out of Jerusalem followed by his disciples.
The poor girl had been subsisting on picking bits of oats from among the droppings of the animals of Arab nomads. When the Sage asked her who she was, she revealed that her father was the fabulously wealthy Nakdimon ben Gurion, and that Rabbi Yochanan had signed as a witness on her ketubah when she got married. That ketubah, the Sage informed his disciples, included a dowry of a million golden dinars from her father besides what was given by her father-in-law.
When Rabbi Yochanan asked her what had happened to all of her father's wealth she replied that it all had been lost because he had been negligent in his charity responsibilities. This brought about the loss of not only his money but that of her father-in-law as well.
Upon hearing this Rabbi Yochanan exclaimed:
"How fortunate are you, O Israel. When you act according to the will of Hashem no nation or culture can dominate you. But when you do not act in accordance with the will of Hashem you are delivered into the hands of a lowly people (so-called because they are nomads living in the desert -- Rashi), and not only a lowly people but into dependence on the animals of a lowly people."
How could Rabbi Yochanan see in this tragic scene a cause for commenting on the good fortune of Israel?
Each nation, explains Maharsha, has its own "mazal" and angel in heaven determining its fortune. The fate of the Jewish people, on the other hand, is determined directly by Hashem alone. When they act as Hashem wishes, they are therefore above all the nations whose fortunes are limited to the power of the heavenly forces designated for them. This is so dramatically expressed in Hashem's placing Avraham above all the stars and asking him to look down upon them, and promising him that the limitations of natural forces would be removed in order for him to have children. But when we fail to act as Hashem wishes, He removes His Presence from us and we fall to a state below that of the other nations whose "mazal" sustains them.
An awareness of this special relationship is what made Rabbi Yochanan exclaim that we are indeed fortunate!
Ketubot 66b


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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Recipe: Drop Cranberry Scones
Drop Cranberry Scones
In a large bowl mix in this order.
3 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
1 Tb Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Baking Soda
1 1/2 cup plain yogurt ( if dough is too dry I add a little extra yogurt or milk)
1/2 cup butter (cut into dough)
1-2 cups dried cranberries (just depends if you like a little or a lot)
Once all well mixed, drop 1/4 cup portions on a non greased baking sheet (space about 2" apart. Bake at 375 degrees for 10-15 minutes. Yields approximately 24 scones.
*These scones do not have the same texture as traditional scones. They're more moist and doughy.
13 comments:
- Ayie said...
Looks good, maybe I'll try it with a different variation. I'm not too fond of cranberries so I'll make use of something else. =)
- June 17, 2009 at 2:13 PM
- Unknown said...
How delicious-looking! And what a coincidence - I just made scones yesterday and took a photo and wrote down the recipe (I rarely measure) so I could post it later on. I prefer cranberries to what I put in mine (chocolate chips, but that's all I had in the house).
- June 17, 2009 at 3:10 PM
- Oiyi said...
I love scones! I make a more traditional one that is a little fussy with kneading the dough just right without over mixing. I definitely have to give this recipe a try.
- June 17, 2009 at 3:22 PM
- Amber M. said...
Cranberries are one of my very faves...I can't wait to try this recipe.
- June 17, 2009 at 3:47 PM
- The Queen of Clearance said...
hmmm...have been looking for a great scone recipe, But my husband does not do any kind of "berry" wonder if I can substitute chocolate chips instead. I looove chocolate chip scones!
- June 17, 2009 at 3:48 PM
- Jill from Killeny Glen said...
Oh, they look SOOO delicious!!! I am definitely going to try them!
- June 17, 2009 at 5:17 PM
- Brandy said...
I will definitely be trying these, thanks for the recipe! And I put a link up for that zucchini crust on my blog, it is at the bottom of the "quenny bread" post.
- June 17, 2009 at 6:32 PM
- Violet LeBeaux said...
Oow those look yummy! I think every family has their own special recipe for scones, such a yummy classic!
- June 17, 2009 at 11:00 PM
- Christy クリスティ said...
Very yummy looking! Thank you for sharing. :)
- June 18, 2009 at 8:30 PM
- Alexander said...
Looks really good. :) May be I will give it a go to bake some of these too.
Alex's World! - http://www.kakinan.com/alex - June 20, 2009 at 6:03 AM
- Bea said...
These are delicious! I tried the recipe this past weekend. Very tasty, soft and moist. Thanks for sharing. This will be a go-back-to-recipe for me.
- June 22, 2009 at 6:04 AM
- Pam Aries said...
That scone has a face ! really look at it! any way I love your blog
- August 27, 2009 at 5:43 PM
- Fotf said...
I made some drop scones recently but i cheated. A good friend of mine from the states sent me an Eggnog mix. I ws like do i really drop a blob of mixture then mum explained they wern't like English Scones. They were so fab i want some more :)I guess i could maybe borrow your recipe now i have the general idea and for breakfast sounds so yummy :)
- February 16, 2010 at 7:42 AM


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