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In a study published in the journal Pediatrics this week [1], an Australian research group found no evidence of harm in kids that were sleep-trained, 5 years after the fact. This is the longest follow-up study of sleep training to ever be published, and it's a randomized controlled trial no less.
Not surprisingly, the media has jumped all over this study with headlines like this one from the Huffington Post: "Baby Sleep Training Methods Safe For Infants." (The best part about that article is that, below it, there is a link to another HuffPo article from last December entitled, "Cry It Out: The Method That Kills Baby Brain Cells." That's a great demonstration of how much the media loves this story and why parents are probably sick of hearing judgment on it either way.)
Parents – particularly those of us who sleep-trained our kids and enjoyed the benefits – are breathing a sigh of relief. I'm happy if the coverage of this study allows parents to shed an unwarranted layer of stress and guilt. If you've been following my blog for a while, then you know how I feel about sleep training. After reviewing the literature on this topic, I have concluded that there is no evidence that sleep training harms kids. In contrast, there is a significant body of literature that sleep deprivation poses very real risks to families and that sleep training is often helpful in these situations. It may not work for all babies and parents, but when it does, it can make all the difference.
So where does this new study fit in with the previous research in the field?
I have read several earlier reports from this group – starting with the initial outcomes of sleep training when these kids were infants [2] and following up with them at 2 years of age [3]. By looking at these kids at 6 years of age, this study is addressing a very real concern among parents. However, it had some major limitations, which have barely been mentioned by the mainstream media.
First, let me summarize the nuts and bolts of this study and what it tells us. Bear with me…
The study included 328 families with 7-month-old babies. The mothers of these babies had all answered "yes" to the question, "Over the last 2 weeks, has your baby's sleep generally been a problem for you?"
The study was randomized by maternal and child health centers, where families in Australia take their babies for well-baby check-ups and support. There were 174 families attending the intervention centers and 154 families attending the control centers. At the intervention centers, nurses were trained to offer counseling and advice on babies' sleep issues. At the control centers, nurses weren't given any specific training. During the intervention sleep consultation, "nurses elicited the nature of the sleep problem, identified solutions, and wrote an individualized sleep management plan with the mother" [2]. Some mothers were counseled on sleep training methods, including "controlled comforting" and "camping out." This is actually the first time I've heard the term "controlled comforting." It is more commonly known as "controlled crying," graduated extinction, or the Ferber method, and I have to say that this new term is more palatable (and intentionally so, no doubt). All of these names mean the same thing: that baby is asked to fall asleep on her own, with parents coming to offer a little reassurance at increasing intervals until she falls asleep. In the "camping out" method, parents initially stay in the room as baby falls asleep and then gradually withdraw their presence over a period of a few weeks.
Nurses at the intervention centers offered their sleep advice at the 8-month checkup. However, of the 174 families in this group, only 100 actually showed up to receive the intervention. (It isn't clear if they missed the 8-month checkup entirely or if they specifically avoided the sleep advice.) And among the 100 families that did show, only 56 recalled being given advice about controlled comforting and 21 recalled being given advice about camping out. It sounds like the nurses gave truly personalized advice and must have offered sleep training as an option only when they thought it was a good fit. Most mothers reported being satisfied with the advice they received, but just 56% of them said that they actually used the sleep strategies "most" or "almost all of the time." (Note that these results aren't reported in the most recent study – you have to go back to the 2007 study to find them [2].)
Do you see the problem? If I'm reading this right, this means that only about 43 babies were actually sleep trained of the original 174 included in the intervention group. And we have no idea how the control families managed their babies' sleep problems. Parents turn to many sources of information for advice, and just because these families weren't offered sleep training advice as part of this study doesn't mean that they didn't try sleep training at some point. In fact, an earlier paper from this study noted that the control mothers were significantly more likely than the intervention mothers to seek additional professional help with their baby's sleep (33% vs. 18%, P=0.02) [2].
Given this, it is kind of incredible that there were significant improvements, albeit small, in infants' sleep and maternal mental health at 10 and 12 months [2]. By two years, there was no difference between the two groups in the percentage of kids with sleep problems, but the intervention moms were still better off when it came to mental health [3].
In the current study [1], the researchers contacted the original families to see if they would be willing to complete some follow-up assessments now that their kids were 6 years old, including a mailed questionnaire, a home-based assessment, and two salivary cortisol samples. Only 69% of families agreed to the follow-up, 59% participated in the home visits, and 46% gave cortisol samples. That's not exactly a great turnout.
The assessments covered a slew of measures of child sleep issues, stress, and behavior problems, as well as of the child-parent relationship and maternal depression. The cortisol sample was a measure of chronic stress. Among all of these measures, there were no significant differences between the intervention and the control group. This is the result that all of the news stories are reporting: sleep training causes no long-term harm. It also doesn't provide a long-term benefit to kids, because in none of these measures were the intervention kids better off. As I already mentioned, earlier studies did show a significant benefit at 1 and 2 years of age [2,3].
I see a couple of major problems with this latest round of data. First, a lot of families were lost to follow-up. This is understandable – it's real life for you. Families move, and the researchers were unable to contact many of them. Others said they were just too busy, and we can all understand that. However, the study doesn't report how many of the returning intervention kids actually had some documented sleep training. That would be useful information to know, and the authors have it because they reported it in a previous paper. In their data analysis, the authors included all of the families originally assigned to the intervention group, even those that didn't actually show up to get sleep advice. This type of analysis makes sense if they are trying to determine the overall effects of offering a parenting advice intervention, but it might miss some effects in the subset of kids whose parents actually followed the advice. Given that this study set out to determine if sleep training caused lasting harm, and only a small percentage of the intervention kids were actually sleep-trained, running some specific analyses on just these children would have helped to convince me that sleep training indeed didn't have any lasting effects.
One final bone to pick: measures of child and maternal well-being were all based on the mothers' own reports. Mothers certainly know their kids, but they aren't always the most objective, particularly when asked to judge the quality of their relationships with their own kids.
Even with its limitations, I appreciate that this study was a randomized controlled trial. This is the gold standard for showing causality – rather than just correlation – of an intervention and outcomes. That adds a lot of strength to the findings of benefits in the earlier papers from this study. Contrast this to a study of cortisol concentrations in sleep-trained babies that came out a few months ago [4]. Although this study was interpreted in the media as showing that sleep training was stressful to babies, no such conclusion could actually be drawn, because there was no control group.
The limitations to this study – that many intervention families didn't show up for their appointments, many didn't actually need or want sleep training, many weren't consistent in their approach to their babies' sleep, and many didn't participate in the follow-up study – illustrate just how difficult it is to study parenting behaviors, even with the best study design. Ethically, we can't force any parent to change their behavior in a particular way based on randomized group assignment. The same difficulty arises when we try to tease out the effects of breastfeeding vs. formula-feeding and cosleeping vs. solitary sleep. For these types of parenting behaviors, all we can really do is what this study did: offer advice to one group of parents and not the other and track outcomes over time. Add to this that there are millions of parenting interactions that happen between the time that these parents struggled with their babies' sleep and the time they were 6 years old. From a researcher's standpoint, this makes it awfully difficult to tease out the effects of a couple days or weeks of sleep training at 8 months.
So despite the headlines you've been seeing, I don't think this is the last word on sleep training. I wish it were, because I'm tired of all the guilt tripping I see in parenting conversations about this topic. But no, that's really not the way science works. No study is perfect in design, execution, and interpretation. This is why it takes a body of evidence, built over time, for us to understand anything. So far, the body of evidence on this topic says that sleep training is an effective way to help most kids get a better night's sleep, and there is no evidence that it is harmful.
I was trained in science, and I value it immensely. However, I have learned a few humble lessons as a parent. For one, parenting is complex. Science can provide some guidance, but no study can account for all of the ways in which we impact our kids. At the end of the day (literally), we parents are left to try to help our babies find their ways to restful sleep. Science can help. Experienced parents and professionals can help. None of them can provide a roadmap for you and your baby. We have to trust ourselves, follow our instincts, and find what works for us. Maybe it's sleep training; maybe it's cosleeping; or maybe we just muddle through. Parent with love and respect, and for goodness sake, don't worry about what HuffPo has to say about it!.
[1] Price, A. M., M. Wake, et al. (2012). "Five-Year Follow-up of Harms and Benefits of Behavioral Infant Sleep Intervention: Randomized Trial." Pediatrics. Published online September 10, 2012.
[2] Hiscock, H., J. Bayer, et al. (2007). "Improving infant sleep and maternal mental health: a cluster randomised trial." Arch Dis Child 92(11): 952-958.
[3] Hiscock, H., J. K. Bayer, et al. (2008). "Long-term mother and child mental health effects of a population-based infant sleep intervention: cluster-randomized, controlled trial." Pediatrics 122(3): e621-627.
[4] Middlemiss, W., D. A. Granger, et al. (2012). "Asynchrony of mother-infant hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity following extinction of infant crying responses induced during the transition to sleep." Early Hum Dev 88(4): 227-232.


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Miley Cyrus Apologizes to Liam Hemsworth Via Twitter
After Liam Hemsworth got upset about Miley Cyrus's oversharing on Twitter, the actress/singer/Pilates-enthusiast did the only thing she could think of: She apologized to her future husband through Twitter.
We previously reported that Liam wanted Miley to delete her account after she tweeted things like: "sometimes i feel like i love everyone more than they love me. hatttte that feeling," and "Thought of the day: maybe it's not that they love you less, they just love you the most they are capable of loving."
Although she claimed they had nothing to do with her relationship, Liam wasn't too happy. And now, according to Hollywood Life, Miley has done it again, but this time she used the social media site to say sorry.
She tweeted: "Why do I torture myself and what ps I love you. ahhhhhh. I have got to pull it together."
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Pretoria — Skills development and job creation is at the forefront of Transnet's Market Demand Strategy.
"Human capital development is going to be at the forefront of our plan and our programme because we have to make sure that as we create sustainable jobs through this level of investment and heightened level of activity, we are developing our people to be able to operate the infrastructure," said Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) chief executive officer Karl Socikwa.
He was speaking at a breakfast briefing of the Africa Ports and Harbours Show on Tuesday.
Transnet is investing R300 billion in the Market Demand Strategy, which is informed by the requirements of the market. Through the state-owned freight logistics group's Market Demand Strategy, rail, port and pipeline infrastructure will be expanded over a seven-year period to the tune of R300 billion.
Of the R300 billion, TNP will receive about 10% of the amount, translating to just over R33 billion.
"We are working with organised labour," he said, adding that apprenticeships programmes were being rolled out.
Socikwa added that Transnet was aware of the critical role it played in growing the South African economy, which faced high unemployment and recently low GDP growth.
"Transnet, in all that it does, is very aware and alive to the fact that it plays a vital role in growing the economy and ensuring that South Africa and the competitiveness of SA relative to other countries in the world is bolstered," he said.
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You may remember that I mentioned that the Riders of Rohan release was moved from last month to this one in my last podcast. Well, now the time is nearly upon us! This also launch coincides with some very fun festivities from the game developers. Step into Harvestmath a festival for all of Middle Earth, and enjoy fireworks and festivities, bands music and fun. All are welcome to enjoy the celebration which ends just days before the huge release of Riders of Rohan.
Join in for Harvestmath festivities!
Harvestmath is currently going on for LOTRO and will continue until October 14th, with games, music and NPC and player based events - questing will be furthest from your mind as you enjoy the festival!
New Developer Diaries detail the epic story!
The developers have followed up with yet another Dev Diary as well to explain the epic story behind the newest addition to LOTRO. You can check the video out here:
The developers talk about returning to the core story of the Lord of the Rings Lore, and show concept art that developed into the beautiful scenery you will experience in Riders of Rohan. They also reveal that the War of Middle Earth will finally gain some momentum. The story will go from the peaceful villages to the battlefields, according to the devs in this latest video.
But what is Riders of Rohan really about?
There is plenty more to this latest expansion, and I am sure there are still some of you may still be asking 'what is Riders of Rohan all about?' Any Lord of the Rings fanatic can tell you that the Rohan warriors were the finest of horsemen. The importance of this latest Lord of the Rings story arc brings you to the point where Boromir, son of Gondor, yields to temptation and causes the split of the fellowship, and is subsequently redeemed. Witness Frodo as he struggles with the path he needs to take in order to make his way to Mordor. The epic tale only becomes greater as you the player are brought into the world of Middle Earth.
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Riders of Rohan launches October 16th 2012, and it features the Rohan War Steeds and extensive mounted combat. Players who brought the pre purchase will receive special items from armor for their mounts to special titles and other swag. But even without such perks, Riders of Rohanbrings life to the epic journeys of Frodo and his fellowship. It brings the player closer to the ultimate adventure of securing the "one true ring's" destruction. This new expansion not only furthers the tale, but allows those with a love for the beautiful mounts of LOTRO to enjoy their fine steeds in battle.


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I saw that the Power 8 will run 7.1 at TR8 or later.
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Cross country: 13-5A qualifiers aim for state
By L. SCOTT HAINLINE, CHRONICLE CORRESPONDENT | November 1, 2011
Photo By L. Scott HainlineL. SCOTT HAINLINE: FOR THE CHRONICLE WAY OUT FRONT: Klein Oak senior Nathaniel Jones finished first at the District 13-5A Cross Country Meet last week at Spring Creek Park in Tomball. Next up isd the Region II meet this weekend in Arlington..
Photo By L. Scott HainlineL. SCOTT HAINLINE: FOR THE CHRONICLE FIRST PLACE: Klein junior Janae Bottoms finished first individually for the district champion Lady Bearkats at the District 13-5A Meet last week at Spring Creek Park in Tomball.
Photo By L. Scott HainlineSenior Mario Martinez (614) gave Klein Forest an individual region berth with a seventh place at the District 13-5A Meet on Oct. 27, 2011 at Spring Creek Park in Tomball.
Photo By L. Scott HainlineKlein junior Diana Evans (675 in back in blue) ended up in second place after getting past Tomball junior Rachel St. Martin (left), and Klein Oak freshman Erica Moorhead (524) and senior Gabrielle Cormier (right) at the District 13-5A Cross Country Meet on Oct. 27, 2011 at Spring Creek Park in Tomball. St. Martin eventually finished third, Moorhead fourth and Cormier eighth.
Photo By L. Scott HainlineKlein cross country coach Daniel Lawton helped direct his Lady Bearkats to a first place and the Klein boys to a second at the District 13-5A Meet on Oct. 27, 2011 at Spring Creek Park in Tomball.
Photo By L. Scott HainlineKlein Oak boys cross country coach Andress Andrepont saw his Panthers win a sixth straight district championship at the 13-5A Meet on Oct. 27, 2011 at Spring Creek Park in Tomball.
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What: 2011 University Interscholastic League Region II Meet
When: Saturday, Nov. 5
Where: Vandergriff Park, 2801 Matlock Road, Arlington, Texas (hosted by The University of Texas at Arlington)
Start times: Class 5A girls 8:45 a.m., 5A boys 9:10 a.m.
Teams: Class 5A field includes Klein Oak, Klein and Klein Collins girls and boys, additional 5A teams and individuals, and Class 4A, 3A, 2A and A divisions
What's at stake: Top three teams and 10 individuals in each varsity division (girls and boys) advance to UIL State Meet on Nov. 12 at Old Settlers Park in Round Rock
Klein Oak, Klein and Klein Collins have girls and boys teams at this week's University Interscholastic League Region II Cross Country Championships after sweeping the top spots in District 13-5A.
The Region II Meet is hosted by the University of Texas at Arlington and begins with the Class 5A girls at 8:45 a.m. and the 5A boys at 9:10 a.m. at Vandergriff Park in Arlington.
Regionals also include 4A, 3A, 2A and A squads with the top three teams and 10 individuals in each division (girls and boys) advancing to UIL State Meet on Nov. 12 at Old Settlers Park in Round Rock.
The Klein Oak boys won their sixth straight district crown with 40 points over Klein (54) and Klein Collins (67), and the Klein girls took first place with 40 to beat out Klein Oak (60) and Klein Collins (64).
"We had six runners finish in the top 15 and that made the difference," Klein Oak boys coach Andress Andrepont said.
"Klein really gave us a run, but our guys kept it pretty tight and were able to get another one."
Klein Oak senior Nathaniel Jones defended his 13-5A boys individual title with a winning time of 15 minutes, 26.02 seconds over 5,000 meters, and he was joined in the top 10 by sophomore teammates Bradley Dohner (third) and Mark Cooke (10th).
Klein juniors Janae Bottoms and Diana Evans swept the top spots over the girls 3,200-meter course with Bottoms winning in 11:47.10.
"We're really happy with the district championship and the boys placing second," Klein coach Daniel Lawton said.
"We felt like we had a good chance to win the boys race, and we gave it a good shot, but it just wasn't quite there."
Senior Dillon Worley's second place led the Klein boys, who also had junior Benjamin Howell sixth and senior Blake Johnston eighth.
Klein Collins had senior Greg Sullivan place fourth and sophomore Tyler Melancon ninth, and the boys top 10 also included Westfield junior Ricardo Duran fifth and Klein Forest senior Mario Martinez seventh.
After Bottoms and Evans, the girls top 10 featured (in order from third) Tomball junior Rachel St. Martin, Klein Oak freshman Erica Moorhead, Klein Forest junior Deja Lewis and sophomore Selena Peters, Klein Oak junior Cheyenne Morrison-Rose and senior Gabrielle Cormier, Klein sophomore Delaine Tubbs and Klein Collins senior Alex Payne
Senior Austin Harayda, juniors Keith Blackwell and Walter Law, and sophomore Richard Lopez helped the Panthers extend their district winning streak.
"Our runners take a lot of pride in what our teams have been able to accomplish and that motivates them to work hard every year," Andrepont said.
The champion Lady Bearkats also included sophomore Katie Solis, junior Hanah Bayer, and freshmen Adina Schunicht and Allison Cossick
"This was only Bottom's third race after coming back from an injury, and she ran extremely well, and Evans had a super race to come in second," Lawton said, "and a very good run by Tubbs gave us three in the top 10."
Bottoms, Evans and Tubbs were part of a 2010 team that placed seventh at regionals, and the Klein Oak girls are looking to improve on last year's fifth place.
Klein Oak was sixth and Klein 11th in the boys division a year ago.
Defending Region II champions are the Kingwood boys and College Park girls.
"It's another huge challenge with so many powerful programs," Lawson said, "but we're gaining experience and this is another chance take another step forward."


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It wasn't too many years ago that I was, by default, a regular world traveler. Living across the big pond for the better part of a decade helped to facilitate that title, for while we lived on that side of the world, we took the opportunity to see as much of it as we could. Along those flight paths we got a chance to meet some very interesting people and experience the foods of their culture.Â
Fast forward to the end of 2009. Starkville became our home once again, and I settled into a job that also required some travel, but this travel was different. Passports, visas and airport security became less important, while gas prices and — let's be honest – clean restrooms began to take priority in trip planning. And of course, whenever I stop for one of the above reasons, I am also going to check out the food. Service stations have offered hot food for a long time, and part of my resume includes delivering fried chicken and chili cheese dogs from one superette to another. But things have changed in that world. Fried chicken is still to be found, but today it may be the meat to your "meat and three" lunch plate, and not just a part of a combo with a tater log. There's nothing wrong with tater logs and corn nuggets, to be sure, but service stations have certainly taken hot food to a new level.
In this new role as commuter I have worked — and therefore eaten — in quite a few of the small towns and villages between Starkville and Oxford since that fall of 2009. There is more than one way to get from here to there, and lots of places to find good grub along the way — so many, in fact, that I have decided to limit this short series to places that are at least connected to a service station along my usual route.Â
If you get hungry before you get fully out of town, our go-to place for chicken tenders is the Fast Break on 182, near the Highway 25 junction. Even before we moved back to town, we were introduced to "gas station chicken" by The Parents (aka Doc and Gran). The pickiest of eaters among my children and their friends would light up when they overheard Gran ask Doc if he would go pick up some gas station chicken for lunch. I always get a Cock-of-the-Walk style catfish filet as well, just to serve as an appetizer to this chicken with a little kick.Â
My next stop on the way to Ox-Vegas is Jerry's Bar-B-Q in Mathiston. Jerry Jones, a Webster County judge, opened up his place in a former service station (thus allowing it to fit my criteria) just this side of the Natchez Trace overpass. When it first opened, I spotted someone tending the smoker parked right out front. That means a lot to me (as a friend of barbecue) to know that what I'm eating is locally made. I also like the fact that Judge Jones served my pork plate with the sauce on the side, not already soaked into the meat. That's a sign that he believes the flavor of the meat stands on its own. I like his sauce, but I get to choose how much I use. Not long ago I ordered a simple barbecue sandwich, and once the sandwich was long gone (I might have made it out of Mathiston, but barely) I could still smell the smoke on my fingers. I like that. And his chocolate cobbler was pretty doggone good, too.
For a while I had a regular gig in Eupora, and I still get over there from time to time. I've had several good meals there at a variety of places, but when it comes to service station dining, Pepper's Race Two seems to be the place for home-style cooking. My co-workers told me to go early, or there wouldn't be anything left, so I took their advice and beat the crowd. Sure enough, as I sat in the back part of the store enjoying my meat and veggies, I watched everything from families to crews of construction workers file through that line.
Not far up the road as we move north on Highway 9 is the Walthall Quick Stop. Normally I pass through Walthall at dawn and dusk, on a tight morning schedule or just ready to get back home at night, so for the longest I was left wondering what all those cars in the parking lot were doing there. But eventually I was able to time my evening drive to arrive during the dinner hour and I called in my order for the Real Deal sandwich, which a co-worker who knew the place had suggested. I had planned to get it to go and eat it on the road, but when I saw this mammoth sandwich I knew I was certain to make a huge mess in the car (and by default, my lap), so I took my to-go box to a table. The Real Deal is pretty simple: strips of sirloin steak on a sourdough bun, dressed however you like it. Sometimes I'm a little wary of steak sandwiches — they can be tricky. The meat might be thick and tough, or so thin you can hardly call it steak. But this sandwich lived up to its name. The steak was indeed thick, but was incredibly tender, well-seasoned, and piled high on the bun — it would have absolutely been all over my lap in the car. Now I can't believe I waited so long to try it — this is one of the tastiest sandwiches I have ever had anywhere. And it's in Walthall, Mississippi. Who'd a thunk?
Are we there yet? Nope — it's not the end of the journey. Stay in the car with me — there's more road food to come.
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May 06, 2014 // 3:00pm — 4:30pm
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The inclusion of women in foreign policy-making and implementation in peace-building and post-conflict transformation is known to result in better policies for all. Yet, women remain under-represented in the field. Attempts to involve women have largely focused on top-down approaches. However, bottom-up approaches demonstrate a lot of potential, as shown by the involvement of women in Turkish-Greek and Turkish-Armenian conflict resolution processes. In which way are bottom-up approaches effective? What can we learn from previous efforts? Which lessons are applicable internationally?
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The Ahtisaari Symposium series, established at the Wilson Center in 2010 in honor of Nobel Laureate and former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, addresses vital issues concerning European and transatlantic security. This year's session will focus on The Crisis of Euro-Atlantic Security and will include remarks by President Ahtisaari and a keynote delivered by Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger, Chairman of the Munich Security Conference and Distinguished Wilson Center Fellow.
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This talk explores Russia's ties with East Asia through the lens of migration and policy. Russia spans the Eurasian continent, yet its historic and present connections with East Asia are often forgotten. At the turn of the 20th century, thousands of Asian migrants arrived in the Russian Far East, spurring fears of a "yellow peril." A century later, the recent influx of new Asian migrants to Russia has generated similar sentiments. The talk discusses Asian migration in the context of cross-regional attempts to strengthen trade ties and diplomatic relations in the 21st century.
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May 02, 2014 // 10:00am — 12:00pm
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Twenty years ago, the 1994 Brussels Summit marked the beginning of NATO's post-Cold War expansion. It was a process that resonated differently on opposite sides of the former "iron curtain" in the midst of complex and evolving relations between Russia and the West. This year will be no less pivotal for European security as the crisis in Ukraine brings renewed attention to Eastern Europe and the drawdown of NATO forces in Afghanistan continues. Amid these new and ongoing challenges, NATO will hold a summit in September to chart its future course. This panel of distinguished senior officials and experts will reflect on the steps that created Europe's current security architecture, as well as the advantages and constraints NATO will face in addressing the security challenges of the 21st century.
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April 29, 2014 // 4:00pm — 5:00pm
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Power politics seem to be back in Europe, pulling the U.S.-Russian relationship back into a standoff reminiscent of the Cold War. Despite renewed confrontation over Ukraine, the US and Russia still have fundamentally compatible views on threats such as transnational crime, terrorism, proliferation of WMD and sensitive technologies, man-made disasters, piracy, illegal cyber activity, drug trafficking, and climate change. What is in store for U.S.-Russian cooperation on these challenges in the wake of the Ukraine crisis? Is a common security agenda vis-à-vis these threats still possible?
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Russian higher education has done more to integrate western norms and standards than virtually any other national institution. Yet Russia's universities and research institutes continue to face economic and political headwinds that raise questions about their ability to compete in a global marketplace. The Kennan Institute conducted a conference on April 23rd that addressed the challenges confronting Russian higher education and how Russian universities interact with their international counterparts.


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As the Pascagoula Panthers were trying to move the football against the Yellowjackets, they wanted to keep going to the passing game.
What Pascagoula didn't want to do was challenge Smith.
WASHINGTON — Confronted with a revolt among the rank and file, House Republicans abruptly put off a vote Thursday night on legislation allowing tax rates to rise for households earning $1 million and up, complicating attempts to avoid a year-end "fiscal cliff" that threatens to send the economy into recession.


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November 5, 2008ICC Evaluation Service has introduced the Sustainable Attributes Verification and Evaluation program, designed to provide independent confirmation to manufacturers that building products are sustainable and could qualify for points under green building rating systems. "SAVE brings great benefit to manufacturers, specifiers, designers and code officials because it's designed... more »
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November 4, 2008Canadian window and door manufacturers, and at least a few from south of the border, will make their way to Toronto next week for Win-Door North America. The annual trade show sponsored by the Canadian Window & Door Manufacturers Association opens next Tuesday at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Last year's event attracted over 3,600 attendees, an increase from 2006. With the... more »
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Its Emirs (leaders) were the Arab Mujahid Ibn al-Khattab and Chechen Shamil Basayev, and was active in the War in Dagestan where many of its members were killed or captured by Russian forces. Most of its remaining members fought in the Second Chechen War, in which its former leaders died (Khattab in March 2002 and Basayev in July 2006).


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Arizona Cardinals kickers: Us getting hit is part of the game
TEMPE, Ariz. -- Chances are you saw the play in Pittsburgh where Cincinnati Bengals punter Kevin Huber got destroyed by the Steelers' Terence Garvin during a return.
No penalty was called on the play, but the block knocked Huber out of the game with a broken jaw and cracked vertebrae, and led to a $25,000 fine for Garvin because punters and kickers have been deemed "defenseless," even if looking to make a tackle.
It's a term that Arizona Cardinals kicker Jay Feely is not fond of.
"The term �defenseless' I don't like because of the connotation," he said, noting it doesn't mean a kicker can't be hit or blocked, just can't be hit helmet-to-helmet or above the shoulders. "That doesn't keep somebody from trucking you, and it's happened to me a number of times this year as they come through on blocks, but obviously the term itself has a connotation that you're not a football player and I don't like that."
Like Feely, Cardinals punter Dave Zastudil is known to get in on a tackle from time to time. It's something he's always ready for and something he takes pride in.
"If it comes to you, you've got to be ready to make the tackle," he said. "That's how I always felt about it. I feel if there's a play coming at us, I feel that we're fair game."
Zastudil said he understands the league's desire to make the league safer, but believes if he's trying to make a tackle, he should be a blockable player.
What it comes down to for both players is an understanding that they are one of 11 players looking to stop a return, and they are facing 11 others doing the best they can to pick up as many yards as possible. That means anyone who could be a threat to the return man is someone who needs to be taken out of the play.
Sometimes, that's the kicker, and sometimes it looks real bad.
"You can't think about that," Zastudil said. "Kevin Huber's a great punter, I felt bad for him, he'll come back and he'll be fine. First thing I saw, I was like �ouch, that just had to hurt,' but that's football. It's just one of those things that happened."
It happened because Huber was trying to make a tackle, and that means he -- or any kicker looking to make a tackle --is fair game, according to Zastudil.
Feely feels the same way, and like his teammate, understands sometimes he's going to get hit, but he's not going to be less aggressive on the field because of it.
"It's more about self-preservation, because I know if I'm in the open field with one of the best athletes on each team, and he's got 20 yards on each side of me, I'm not going to make that play," he said. "But if I go down there and I can see where they're trying to create the seam and I can fill that gap and either make him bounce it or try to make a tackle and he's got two yards on each side of me, well I've got a much better chance of making that play."
And that's just it: Arizona's kickers are not with the play when the ball leaves their foot, when at that point they become part of the coverage unit. Their job, like everyone else on the team, is to prevent a big return.
"Any time a returner's coming at you, you just do everything you can to try to tackle him," Zastudil said. "You don't really care what happens to you because you don't want him to be in that end zone, that's your mindset.
"So if you get hit on the play, so be it. Those guys are trying to score at the same time, too."
It comes with the job.
"Everything I do, I want to do at the best of my ability," Feely said. "I want to play as hard as I can. Whether that's covering or kicking or running a fake, anything that I'm doing, I want to try and help my team win and that's just part of it, it's who I am.
"Even though my wife doesn't like it, she wants me to stay out of there, I can't stop being who I am."
He's a football player, and sometimes that means getting hit. But conversely, sometimes it's the kickers who get to bring the punishment. Zastudil has been credited with seven tackles in his career, with three coming this year. Feely has three this year and 40 in his career, including a memorable one a few years back.
"I hit Ted Ginn really hard one year," Feely said of a memorable tackle that occurred when he was a member of the New York Jets. "He was going wide and he cut back, and he cut right into me and I hadn't broke a stride and I drilled him. He went back about four yards. I was screaming and yelling, and unfortunately he took the next one back for a touchdown, so he got his revenge."
It's all part of the game.
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There are a few things keeping us entertained while we wait for Season 6 of Gossip Girl to premiere, including pictures of Chuck Bass, the Gossip Girl novels, and now Dating Rules From My Future Self, Season 2 (which is from the creators of GG).
The season, which stars Candice Accola of The Vampire Diaries fame, follows a 20-something who's contacted by her future self just in time to change her mind about love. Chloe Cunningham is the life of the party but her love life is the ultimate buzz kill. Her future self knows that dating losers and eating nothing but junk food has Chloe headed down a path to regret and bad hair days. To set her straight, Chloe's older, wiser self Face Times and texts her advice from ten years in the future, thanks to an app provided by DRFMFS season one star, Shiri Appleby (Life Unexpected), who returns for a guest appearance in season two. But will knowing what happens next be enough to save Chloe from herself and renew her faith in true love?
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NorthWest Arkansas Community College Prepares For Schedule Change
Posted: April 24, 2014 at 5 a.m.
BENTONVILLE -- NorthWest Arkansas Community College will implement a four-day work week this summer for the second straight year.
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A survey asked NorthWest Arkansas Community College employees what they considered the top advantages and disadvantages of the 10-hour-day, four-day work week to them.
Top advantages:
• Saves money on travel to and from college (58 percent)
• More time to handle personal business (57 percent)
• More time with family (42 percent)
Top disadvantages:
• Must use two hours of vacation for holidays (68 percent)
• Less productive at work (33 percent)
• Interfered with personal fitness (23 percent)
• Memorial Day and July 4 are the two holidays that occur during the college's four-day work week schedule. Arkansas calculates a holiday as eight hours of holiday pay. Because of their 10-hour work days, employees were required to use two hours of vacation time to cover the rest of the time they were off on those holidays.
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Cochlear Implants and Minority Cultures
17 Jan, 13 | by Iain Brassington
A bit more on the cochlear implant thing that I've been mentioning off and on for the past couple of months. William Mager posted a link to something a little while ago on why some members of the deaf community are against CIs. This attitude had always puzzled me. Anyway, this, by Christina Hartmann, is the thing to which he linked.
Not wanting one yourself, I can understand easily enough. Not wanting one for your children based on uncertainty about their benefit, I can understand. But being against them in principle? Couldn't get my head around that. It always seemed a bit wilfully isolationist – a bit identity-politics. Hartmann's contribution, I think, makes things a bit clearer.
Without ASL, there is no Deaf community. We band together not because of our "hearing loss" but because of a common language. Like English, Bengali, French, American Sign Language (ASL) informs the cultural underpinnings of the Deaf community. Deaf history shows the importance of ASL to Deaf people. It's not something we'll give up easily and gladly.
In the 1800s and early 1900s, many educators tried to eradicate ASL in favor of oralism. They wanted to assimilate deaf people into the "mainstream" community. Many deaf people suffered because of this. They received marginal education because they couldn't understand the spoken language. One of the older deaf men that I knew in my childhood couldn't get a job better than a janitor because he received no valuable education from his oral school. They just tried to teach him how to talk, to no avail.
Amidst all of this, a vibrant community emerged. People would converge at Deaf schools and churches just for a chance to use their own language with someone else. A feeling of kinship grew in face of oppression. (Yes, trying to abolish a language and forcibly integrate people is oppression.) Many Deaf people throughout history fought very hard for the right to sign and live on their own terms. One example is the Gallaudet protests of the 1980s. The thought that this hard-earned culture will disappear because parents don't want to learn ASL sparks abject fear and anger in many Deaf people.
And why not? Wouldn't you be angry if someone told you that your culture is outdated and irrelevant now?
This last sentence or two seems to me to be important. CIs reduce the need for ASL (or BSL); SL sustains a culture; therefore CIs erode that culture. more…


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DELIBERATELY switching off electricity is tantamount to sabotage and attracts a heavy penalty, Attorney General Mr Johannes Tomana has said.
In an interview yesterday, Mr Tomana said anyone who intentionally sabotages the economy would be prosecuted.
His remarks come in the wake of threats by Zesa Holdings workers that they will switch off Zimbabwe if management fails to honour a salary award the employees won during a voluntary arbitration process this year.
Zesa management is refusing to honour an agreement it made with the more than 7 000 workers citing a "precarious financial position".
Said Mr Tomana: "The workers want to get what they want through sabotage. Sabotage is a word that speaks a crime and anybody who violates a law that protects the country and its economy would face a heavy penalty.
"It is common knowledge that if they switch off electricity we lose a lot of money as a country and also remember social facilities that use electricity such as hospitals.
"It means the country will be negatively affected and therefore the state will have a case against the saboteur."
Mr Tomana urged Zesa staff to stick to human resources issues "solve them amicably and not hold the nation at ransom".
"The workers might have a case but they should be civilised and management should solve the issue without disturbing the whole country.
"The workers should also know that they are part of this country and the economic struggle that has been taking place also involves them.
"They are not an island entity of this country but players who should take responsibility," he said.
The workers are demanding US$275 for the lowest paid employee up from US$190.
Zimbabwe Energy Workers Union president, Mrs Angeline Chitambo, yesterday insisted they would go ahead with their industrial action if their demands were not met."We are not going to rest until management shows seriousness.
"We have suffered for long and we should get what we deserve," he said.
A senior Zesa official who declined to be named yesterday said salary demands by the workers would push the monthly wage bill from 18 percent of revenue to over 52 percent.
"Current demands will put the lowest paid worker, who is a sweeper, at US$650 per month, which is outlandish.
"This scenario will greatly affect service delivery. Salaries can only be paid if there is an immediate increase in tariff to support the payroll," the source said.
Zesa spokesperson, Mr Fullard Gwasira, yesterday said: "We do not discuss welfare issues in the media.
"We have clear structures of engaging staff but all I can say is we engage staff to install, maintain and repair equipment, not to vandalise it. Vandalism is a crime."
The workers are also calling for the ouster of chief executive Engineer Josh Chifamba whom they accuse of being "out of touch" with Zesa programmes.
Zesa management and the workers entered into salary negotiations in December last year that culminated into a signed Collective Bargaining Agreement on January this year.
This came out after the intervention of Energy and Power Development Minister Elton Mangoma.
However, management refused to honour the agreement before the two parties went for a voluntary arbitration process, which came out in favour of the workers.
The management promised to pay the workers but last Friday Eng Chifamba wrote to the employees informing them that it was impossible to pay them because the company was in a dire financial situation.
The company said it had approached the National Employment Council for an exemption.
The workers argue that it is impossible to apply for exemption at NEC because it is a lower board.


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FY07 assessments were calculated by using estimated per pupil expenditures based upon a two year change in enrollment and net school spending.
Why did the assessments change?
Final assessments are based upon full-time equivalency in special education programs across the entire previous year.
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Istanbul: Bogazici University Summer Term website (map)
Sponsor: Northwestern University Study Abroad Office
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Northwestern's Istanbul Summer program is based at Boğaziçi University on the European side of the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul. The city, located at the crossroads between Asia and Europe, has always been a meeting point between East and West. Having hosted ancient Anatolian, Greek, Roman, Bysantine, and Ottoman civilizations, Istanbul today is the cultural center of the modern Turkish Republic and a vibrant, global city. During this seven-week program, Northwestern students take two English-taught courses alongside other international and Turkish students enrolled in Boğaziçi's Summer Term, selecting from a variety of course offerings in the social and natural sciences, humanities, engineering and technology.
Program Type: Northwestern Summer
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Term Notes: June 15 - August 9, 2015
Admission Info:
To apply, Northwestern students must:
- Schedule an interview with the Study Abroad Adviser for Turkey before March 1st. Call the Study Abroad Office at 847-467-6400 to schedule.
- Complete an NU Study Abroad Application by March 1
- Complete a Boğaziçi University summer application by April 1
Languages: English
Language Requirements:None
Boğaziçi University's Superdorm with single occupancy rooms but shared facilities (bathroom, kitchenette, common living room) with up to five people per suite. Laundry service is available for residents and periodical cleaning is offered by the dorm management. You will need to bring towels, bed linens and blankets or purchase a dorm package during check in. You may check in and out anytime between 9 am and 5 pm; late arrivals may be accommodated with prior notice.
The dorm is approximately a 10-15 minute walk from the main South Campus and 15-30 minutes from several major shopping centers (Akmerkez, Metrocity, Kanyon, and Levent Carsi).
All Summer Term students have access to Boğaziçi's social facilities and cultural activities, including tennis courts, an open swimming pool on the South Campus, an indoor swimming pool and a fully equipped fitness center on Hisar Campus, as well as a soccer field and running track on Ucaksavar Campus. You may access library resources with your Boğaziçi University Student Identity Card that will be provided by the Summer Term Office during the onsite orientation.
Program Costs:
Summer 2015: $4,700
- The 2015 program fee includes: tuition, housing, group dinner, excursion within Istanbul, airport transport upon arrival, orientation, HTH Worldwide health insurance, and the Study Abroad Administrative Fee.
- Students should plan to budget an additional $3,300-$3,600 for round-trip airfare, in-country transportation, food, books, cell phone cards, and personal expenses.
Funding opportunities for this program: the Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies' Keyman Modern Turkish studies program will offer partial need-based scholarships to NU students. Awards are based on financial need, essay quality, and academic merit. Underrepresented minority students are encouraged to apply. To apply: submit the Keyman Scholarship Application Form to email@example.com by March 7. Applicants will be informed about the status of their application in late March.