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SOURCE: Prana Biotechnology
February 25, 2013 09:00 ET
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA--(Marketwire - Feb 25, 2013) - Prana Biotechnology (NASDAQ: PRAN) (ASX: PBT) today announced that Prana's Chairman and CEO Geoffrey Kempler, will provide a company overview and update at the Cowen & Company 33rd Annual Health Care Conference on Monday, March 4, 2013 at 2:50 pm ET at The Boston Marriott Copley Place in Boston, MA.
The presentation will be webcast live and can be accessed on Prana's Investor Relations website at www.pranabio.com.
The webcast can also be accessed at the following URL: http://wsw.com/webcast/cowen10/pran/
About Prana Biotechnology Limited
Prana Biotechnology was established to commercialize research into age-related neurodegenerative disorders. The Company was incorporated in 1997 and listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in March 2000 and listed on NASDAQ in September 2002. Researchers at prominent international institutions including The University of Melbourne, The Mental Health Research Institute (Melbourne) and Massachusetts General Hospital, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, contributed to the discovery of Prana's technology.
For further information please visit the Company's web site at www.pranabio.com.
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This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The Company has tried to identify such forward-looking statements by use of such words as "expects," "intends," "hopes," "anticipates," "believes," "could," "may," "evidences" and "estimates," and other similar expressions, but these words are not the exclusive means of identifying such statements. Such statements include, but are not limited to any statements relating to the Company's drug development program, including, but not limited to the initiation, progress and outcomes of clinical trials of the Company's drug development program, including, but not limited to, PBT2, and any other statements that are not historical facts. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, those risks and uncertainties relating to the difficulties or delays in financing, development, testing, regulatory approval, production and marketing of the Company's drug components, including, but not limited to, PBT2, the ability of the Company to procure additional future sources of financing, unexpected adverse side effects or inadequate therapeutic efficacy of the Company's drug compounds, including, but not limited to, PBT2, that could slow or prevent products coming to market, the uncertainty of patent protection for the Company's intellectual property or trade secrets, including, but not limited to, the intellectual property relating to PBT2, and other risks detailed from time to time in the filings the Company makes with Securities and Exchange Commission including its annual reports on Form 20-F and its reports on Form 6-K. Such statements are based on management's current expectations, but actual results may differ materially due to various factions including those risks and uncertainties mentioned or referred to in this press release. Accordingly, you should not rely on those forward-looking statements as a prediction of actual future results.
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In recent months I have been present at many informal discussions in regard to the required work of a college course. The background of such discussions has been the woman's college, and the aim of all the participants has been to find the best method of training the woman student for her part in the work of the world.
Some argue that with the large amount of required work in college a student has too little time in which to sample new courses or to devote herself to a subject for which she shows an aptitude. Their demand is: "Lessen the required work." Others argue that the required work of a college course is seldom more than sufficient to give the solid foundation of general culture upon which the structure of specialized subjects may be safely and permanently reared.
Some of the arguments of the opponents of required mathematics have a curiously familiar sound. To be sure they are not put as crudely as in the world outside the college. There no one hesitates to ask: "What is the use of mathematics for a girl? She will never need more than the elements of arithmetic." The opponents of the subject in a woman's college, especially if they are themselves women, are somewhat wary of asking that time-honored question. They know that they are supposed to claim the same stiff intellectual training for women as for men, so they avoid stating the question in bald terms of sex. Instead they say: "Every student who enters our college has already had several years of mathematics. She has enough for all practical purposes. [This is nothing but the old query revised.] She has already found out whether or not she has an aptitude for the subject. If she cares for it, by all means let her elect it, but if she has no aptitude for the subject, let her take something that is really worth her while instead of wasting her time on a subject she will never use."
My belief is that in spite of her school training, however thorough, the student needs some college mathematics if she is to have an education that will send her out into life with the best general equipment. Mathematics as taught in college is viewed from an angle different from that used in the schoolroom. This statement does not apply to solid geometry which is only an extension of the plane geometry of the school, and which we hope some day to see put back in its proper place in connection with plane geometry. Take, however, college algebra and trigonometry. Both of these subjects make use of material in the way of ideas and methods that the student has already worked with in school, but this material is handled in a very different way. In her algebra the schoolgirl is concerned almost entirely with processes. She needs but little theory. This little is sometimes explained to her, sometimes she has to remember and reproduce it; but even in the latter case the average student seems to have acquired little grasp of the underlying principles. The consequence is that almost every college freshman has a definite idea of logical reasoning as connected with the subject of geometry, but has little idea of it in connection with any other part of mathematics.
In college the freshman, while once more dealing with symbols and processes that were familiar in school, is now concerned with them from the standpoint of logical combinations. She is applying to them the methods that she had thought confined to geometry, deducing the laws that rule in the subject of her study, and expressing these laws in exact mathematical language. Unless much emphasis is laid upon this side of mathematics in the freshman classes, the claims of its enemies would seem to me to have some foundation. The application of the theory to special problems is necessary as making the subject more vivid and as preparing the student for the application of abstract reasoning to all manner of problems stated in advance; but the true value of the course lies in the training it gives in applying logical processes to the mathematical concepts already familiar from school days.
The average student may not like to find that the mechanical work of her school algebra is replaced in college by this demand upon her reasoning powers, yet she is ordinarily able to master the required amount of freshman mathematics in spite of the extra difficulty. On the other hand there are always a few students to whom such a treatment of mathematics offers an insuperable difficulty,—students who seem to have no idea of logical sequence. In their statement of a geometrical construction no attention is paid to the logical order in which the lines must be drawn, in their statement of a proof the effect precedes the cause, and their minds are so constructed that it seems impossible to convince them of error—one order seems to them as good as another.
This latter class of students is always cited by our opponents as the strongest argument for dispensing with a general requirement of mathematics. "Why torture such a student," they say, "with a subject for which she has no fitness? Why should she not take the subjects for which she shows some aptitude, and let mathematics severely alone?" They usually omit to name the college subjects that do not require at least some modicum of reasoning ability. My feeling, on the contrary, is that no matter what other subjects such a student has to omit, mathematics is one subject absolutely essential to her training. Such a student needs to develop her reasoning powers, and freshman mathematics gives her the best field for practice. Other subjects also require logical ability, but often the logical framework is so obscured by the newness of the material, the unfamiliarity of the nomenclature, and the large number of strange concepts, that the value of the subject from the standpoint of logical training is quite lost.
As for the examples that the opposers of required mathematics quote from time to time of women brilliant in other lines of college work who found themselves totally unable to do even enough work in freshman mathematics to gain a passing grade, I cannot deny that such women may exist, but I wish to record my deep conviction that the majority of these cases have been diagnosed incorrectly. I have seen so many students of mediocre abilities fight their way through the difficulties of required mathematics by sheer common sense and will power, that I am sure that most of the cases cited so solemnly are cases of "I will not" and not of "I cannot." Because they did not want to master a difficult subject, they were willing to profess incompetence in order to get their own way.
Here the question of sex enters in. Parents and guardians who would suffer keen mortification if the boy for whose education they are responsible were in danger of being rejected by his college because of his failure in required mathematics will condone any shortcomings of the girl in that line with a deprecating, "You know that one does not think so much of a failure in mathematics for a girl." But if sex must be considered in this matter, why not consider it from this other standpoint, namely, that the woman is prone to look at everything from the personal side? Her own feelings and her background, or lack of background, color the medium through which she views such subjects as history and literature, and affect her judgments of the facts. The personality of her instructor is a factor in inclining her either to believe or disbelieve his interpretations of the theories of economics or philosophy. Of course there are fundamental laws in all these subjects so well established that the personal element cannot enter into their consideration, but there is also a large body of conclusions from these laws, and it is these conclusions from laws that are sometimes only partially understood that are now in question. Herein lies a great advantage of mathematics; it furnishes the woman student with a subject in which the validity of the conclusions drawn from its laws can easily be tested, and in which the personality of the instructor and the bias of the student can play no part.
The foes of the mathematics requirement then say: "Suppose we grant that our students need training in reasoning, and that as women they need especially training in reasoning upon an impersonal subject. Why not then require a course in a science that shall be the equivalent of the mathematics course in these two respects? Any science gives a student the opportunity to acquire the habit of assembling data, rejecting the extraneous elements, and forming the fitting conclusion. No one can bring any personal prejudice into the interpretation of the phenomena that would be discussed in a required course in any established science." Such a suggestion seems quite to overlook the fact that the only sciences that furnish a training at all equivalent to that of mathematics are those that have mathematics as their foundation. Without a preliminary training in mathematics that almost necessitates the inclusion of trigonometry the most rigorous of sciences can only be treated from the more or less popular point of view. The training so acquired is no doubt valuable, but it cannot satisfactorily replace the required work in mathematics.
Another argument that is often brought against this college requirement is that it gives a subject in which the students have already had several years' experience an unfair advantage over others that are not begun until after college is entered, for each year of required work in a familiar subject postpones the opportunity for them to become acquainted with new subjects in which they may later desire to specialize. This argument does not take into account the fact of which I have already spoken, that even in freshman mathematics the methods are used that must be used in any further study of the subject, so making a break between the character of the work in school and that of the work in college. There are sometimes freshmen whose work in all school studies has been so good that no one subject seems to stand out as more particularly suited to them than another, who first realize that mathematics is the subject that they want for special work when they become acquainted with it afresh in their required work. Without this requirement these students will probably be lost to the subject. They may of course elect mathematics, but, under the false impression that the rather mechanical methods of mathematical work already familiar to them are to be continued in college, they usually prefer entering upon some new subject. Given the recognized attractions of the new and untried, mathematics, if not required, will be at a disadvantage as compared with other subjects.
In addition to this unfortunate effect upon the department of mathematics there are other deleterious effects upon both school and college that seem to me bound to follow the dropping of mathematics from our required work. With the best of intentions on the part of the high school teachers the grade of work is lower in a subject that is necessary for entrance to college but that is not to be tested in the college class room than it is in a subject that will be so tested. In this I speak from experience. I once saw the effect upon the preparation in algebra, when the college with which I was connected eliminated college algebra from the required work, retaining solid geometry and trigonometry. The school work in geometry was kept up to the standard, for that work was expected to have its classroom test. The college work in trigonometry, however, revealed very clearly the fact that, while the required subjects of algebra had been nominally studied in school, the work had been done very superficially. Furthermore there will be a disastrous change in the quality of the teaching, in so far as it is done by women, if more and more women go out to teach in the schools who have had no mathematics beyond that of their high school course. The lack of background is at least as serious a fault in the teaching of mathematics as in the teaching of any other subject.
In the college itself there will probably be a marked effect upon the science departments. If the student is permitted an unfettered choice of her required science—and no one seems to hesitate a moment as to the necessity of such a requirement—the non-mathematical sciences (if such sciences truly exist) will be overrun with more students than can be handled easily, while the sciences known as mathematical will have only the few students who have brought from their school days a love of mathematics and no dread of its symbols. If the curriculum committee meets this situation by requiring the choice of one of the mathematical sciences, even then there will be a difficulty because of the poor equipment in mathematics possessed by the students. Under such circumstances the science requiring the least amount of mathematical knowledge will naturally be given the preference, and the instructors in even the most mathematical of the sciences will have to confine themselves to a rather popular treatment, if they wish to have a fair proportion of the students elect their subject. In any case much of the value of these sciences as aids to exact thinking will be lost. Of course, for any further work in the selected science some mathematics is necessary, and under the supposed arrangement the student must take in her maturer years in college the fundamental work that she now acquires in her freshman year.
With the two apparently contradictory tendencies at present noticeable—one, to minimize for women even in the science courses in college the necessity of any mathematical training beyond that of the high school course; the other, to encourage these same students to place more and more emphasis upon their work in science, especially in the line of laboratory research,—it is evident that the majority of women workers in science will soon be forced to limit themselves to those fields in science that can be cultivated by means of the very simplest mathematical tools. These fields may be wide and they may be fertile, but by permitting this limitation women are denying to themselves the equality of opportunity with men that has been won for them at such a cost by the pioneers in the struggle for the right of women to share in the higher education.


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The most recent spate of piracy has established three irrefutable principles.
First, that piracy occurs because it has a largely lawless land from which to operate. Second, that while the number of attacks has been small relative to the number of transits, shipping companies as well as their ships and crews face significant consequences if they are taken. Third, that coalition naval forces, while extremely efficient in carrying out their mission, still have too few assets to adequately patrol the western Indian Ocean.
Any long-term solution for the Somali pirate problem must address each of these premises in order to ensure consistent seaborne stability. And under the current conditions, a public-private collaborative enterprise might be the answer.
Private industry has already played some role in fending off attackers. Both non-lethal and armed security personnel have been hired to protect some ships--but both options have shortcomings.
In the case of the former, one firm simply stopped its service when it appeared the Somali pirates were becoming too violent; in the latter, some shipping companies are concerned about increased insurance rates for having armed security on board, the potential for the escalation of force and endangerment, or the simple arms restrictions imposed to varying degrees by different ports and nations.
The private military company Xe (formerly Blackwater) has offered its ship as an escort--which includes armed security, small boats and air platforms--but to date it hasn't had any customers in the region. Ships have also tried setting up deterrent devices on board; however these are not ideal when dealing with pirates who have proved to be highly adaptive in their approach.
Coalition naval forces based at nearby stations have performed extremely well, but again the territory has proved too large for the number of available dedicated platforms--even when assets are specifically directed to convoy freighters and tankers.
Should the shipping industry find that its regional operational cost or ransom payments are exceeding some pre-determined threshold, it may want to pursue a different, longer-term option.
During the Battle of the Atlantic, U-Boat attacks targeted ships, which were often lost despite the presence of Allied ships and the use of convoys. One of the moves that abated the U-Boat threat was an increased use of airborne anti-submarine warfare planes. For the first few years, when patrol aircraft were land-based, U-Boats were able to attack in the black spots between various coverage areas. As the war progressed, though, aircraft acquired longer range--and, more important, convoys had their own air patrols on escort carriers, which essentially eliminated the black spots.
If the shipping industry applied this strategy to today's piracy threat, it could establish a series of interlocking security outposts in the Gulf of Aden as well as along the coastlines of Somalia and, farther south, Kenya.
Building bases in the sea is not new. In the 1990s, for example, the Pentagon considered using large mobile offshore bases that were capable of logistics or operational support.
The shipping industry could explore this option, setting up modified oil rigs at specific points along sea lanes, where manned or unmanned aerial surveillance platforms or small, private-security, high-speed patrol and intercept craft could be based. These outposts could be responsible for surveillance duties, steering local freighters or tankers away from potential threats and cooperating with coalition naval forces.
If oil rigs don't prove fiscally feasible, then another option might already be available--through one of the companies that has first-hand experience with piracy. Maersk Line Limited, whose ship the Maersk Alabama has been one of the 2009 targets, has proposed to the Department of Defense that S-class container ships be used as afloat forward-staging bases. Such assets could provide stability needed for legitimate commerce in that region.
Just as important is deterring illegal fishing in the area, which is part of the reason Somali fishermen turn toward criminal piracy. Ideally, a secure and economically viable fishing region would provide more stability ashore--and, as a result, at sea--by destabilizing the criminal rings themselves.
Today black spots or shadow zones around Somalia only benefit criminals. But well-lit watchtowers, in the form of maritime security outposts, can help change that.
Claude Berube teaches at the U.S. Naval Academy and has written several articles on maritime security. The views expressed are his alone.


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Fight On and Fight Loud
By Thomas DeLorenzo
May 4, 2012
Dear Fellow People Living with AIDS,
In spite of the bad days, the long doctors' visits, the constant pain, we can achieve. We can do even more than that; we can change the world!
Congratulations to all of us, for getting through another day, and being here to fight the fight.
Let's continue to fight so that others do not have to experience the Holocaust of loss that we experienced in the '80s and '90s. Let us also continue the fight so that our brothers and sisters in the cause, no matter where they may be, can have equal access to lifesaving drugs and treatments.
Let's just continue to work hard so that others may never forget we are still here, struggling, but still achieving.
Fight on dear brothers and sisters, fight on!
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10 Quick Stress Relievers
While overall, long-term stress management is important, there are some times when you are particularly stressed out and you really need to take care of it right away, before your body's "fight or flight" mechanism is triggered and you're awash in adrenaline. Below I've listed ten ideas that are nearly all free, and many can be done at work, where you're most likely to be stressed.
1. Put on some music and dance. Or, if you're commuting in your car, put the music on and sing along.
2. Listen to recorded nature sounds (if you can't get to real ones) like ocean waves, a mountain stream or a rain storm. This is one of my favorite ways to de-stress. When I'm having a particularly stressful day at work, I put on the headphones and listen to my mountain stream cd. In this series of videos on YouTube, you can watch and listen to ocean waves on a beautiful beach in Hawaii. Or you can check out this DVD series if you want better quality.
3. Exercise. Exercise is one of the best stress busters around, and it's free. Go for a walk, and walk as briskly as you can. Take the stairs at work and get your lunch somewhere that's at least a couple of blocks away.
4. Do some deep breathing. When my stress is particularly high, I tend to hold my breath and breathe shallowly. This video is helpful, although if you're at work, be aware that you really need to hear what she's saying. This video has subtitles.
5. Try progressive muscle relaxation or stretching. Stretching gets your blood flowing. I like this 8 Minute Stretch video . I also use Stretch Break at work.
6. Do self-massage or self-reflexology . I find that working on your own hands and feet is the easiest, and the most effective.
7. Laugh. Watch, listen to or read something that you know will make you chuckle. Your cell phone is a great place to keep these "portable" stress relief tools. I keep a video of my son laying on his back trying to put his shoes on when he was two.
8. Take a quick nap (also known as a Power Nap ). Sleep is one of the most powerful healing agents there is, so even if you think you're not sleepy, give it a shot.
9. Watch fish swim in an aquarium. One reason that so many doctors' and dentists' offices have aquariums is that they've been shown to relieve stress. If you don't have an aquarium, you can watch a DVD or get a screensaver .
10. Try aromatherapy. Origins' Peace of Mind is a good choice, or you can use lavender essential oil. Massage a small amount into your temples and breathe deeply.


text: The Intel 845E motherboards seem pretty attractive right now - assuming they work reliably under Linux. Have any of you tried these in a beowulf or on a standalone Linux machine? The 845E chipset accepts ECC DDR266 memory and talks to it through the 533Mhz FSB. Starting with an 845E based motherboard one can assemble for about $1000 a compute node with: a P4 2.26Ghz (~best price/performance ratio), 1GB ECC, 40Gb disk, LAN, case, CD,floppy. I have not been able to find SPEC numbers for any 845E machines but Anandtech indicates that they're about 10% slower on most tests than the RDRAM Intel850 boards (like a Dell 340 workstation). The AMD 760MPX systems use the same memory chips and I suppose one could run one with just a single processor and come out pretty close on price. (More for the motherboard, more for the cooling, less for the processor). My impression is that a single processor 760MPX board will be about 10-20% slower than the 845E P4 for the memory intensive programs we run. I don't have either or I'd run the test and say something definitive. The VIA KT333 boards seem to be faster than either of these options but since these boards don't support ECC they aren't really an option with 1Gb in each of 20 nodes. (Assuming the ballpark number of 1 soft error per 1000 hours per GB memory one would expect roughly 1 soft error every other day on one of the nodes.) Regards, David Mathog mathog at caltech.edu Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech


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Chasing the Wind
MIGA [1] recently sponsored its seventh symposium on political risk issues, in tandem with Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service [2]. We happily note that the symposium has established itself as the world's leading forum for cutting-edge assessments of the international political risk management industry, and this year it did not disappoint. A summary of the event is here. [3]
I'll concentrate on one trend that was noted clearly from the political risk insurance (PRI) providers, like MIGA, that were in attendance. All agreed that, since the international financial crisis, new business has mostly taken the form of obligor default products. For the PRI industry, an obligor is a country; this product is used when there is some sort of an agreement by which a government has financial payment obligations or guarantees with an investor. The product is suitable for certain types of transactions, for example public-private partnerships or power purchase agreements.
For MIGA, that means there are ample opportunities in its relatively new political risk insurance product: coverage of what we call " non-honoring of sovereign financial obligations [4]" —and this is good for our business.
But let's analyze what is driving this demand. Certainly the increased use of public-private partnerships is noteworthy and positive. But, going further, why are these deals happening in the first place?
At the symposium, several providers noted that they are seeing a greater willingness on the part of countries to take on more contingent liabilities to advance real development. In short, this means that more projects can move forward: more roads, electricity, clean water, and sanitation.
At the same time, concern was also expressed that perhaps governments are stepping over the line to attract developmentally-beneficial investment. Participants cited the example of a government that guaranteed wind speed in order to attract investment into its renewable energy sector.
Which brings us back to the title of this blog. Can business and government reasonably cooperate to successfully better people's lives? Are we chasing the wind?
Hopefully not. But let's also not be naïve. Here, there is a heavy responsibility on the part of both governments and investors to deal transparently and smartly, as well as to apply lessons learned through increased South-South cooperation [5] and/or collaboration with international institutions. There are private, non-profit, and multilateral resources to help; for example, the World Bank's ICAS [6] assists governments in reforming their business environments, with emphasis on regulatory simplification and investment generation. And just this year, the Open Data initiative [7] opened the Bank's data and analysis to the public.
There are more tools than ever to achieve good and sustainable development. At the same time, conscious not to over-reach, let's each play our role without contortions or chasing the wind.
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Some politicians and law-enforcement officials have proposed fighting fire with fire arming school teachers and administrators with concealed weapons as a way to slowdown or stop a gunman.
The idea is strongly opposed by local school officials.
Our teachers have a large enough responsibility of delivering quality instruction to ensure that every student masters Colorado state standards, said Daniel Snowberger, superintendant of Durango School District 9-R. The last thing I need is for our teachers to have one more responsibility on their plate. They have full plates.
Instead, he advocates strong partnerships between school officials and law enforcement. Periodic visits by deputies and school-resource officers are a more sensible approach than arming teachers, he said.
Lets get the people who are trained and can respond in a situation like this to be in our schools, Snowberger said.
La Plata County Sheriff Duke Schirard supports arming teachers.
So does Undersheriff David Griggs. If teachers and administrators volunteered to go through a concealed-weapon course and a combat course kind of what we do it could slow down a shooter or reverse the rising trend in school shootings, he said.
But Durango Police Chief Jim Spratlen said arming teachers could be dangerous.
Law-enforcement officers are highly trained to recognize the good guys from the bad guys, he said. He worries that a teacher could accidentally shoot a police officer who is wearing plain clothes.
If we were to show up in plain clothes into a situation where theres an active gunman in a school, we would be really worried that there might be a teacher out there seeing us with a gun and wouldnt recognize a badge or a gun, Spratlen said. It could get very convoluted. It could become very dangerous.
There would have to be a very high level of training.
Rocco Fushetto, superintendent of Ignacio School District, said: We are educators, we are not security guards.
The Dolores County School District, north of Cortez, last month voted to allow the Dove Creek High School principal and district superintendent to carry firearms onto school grounds. They must complete a concealed-carry course, obtain a permit from the Dolores County Sheriffs Office and satisfy additional training qualifications.
They will receive $1 more per year to satisfy a legal requirement in their contracts for taking on the added responsibility as security guards.
School officials said it was necessary to arm the principal and superintendant because of the schools remoteness and how long it could take for law enforcement to respond.
Talk of arming school officials began well before the Dec. 14, 2013, shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., they said.
The Mancos Marshals Office also has been kicking around the idea of allowing school staff members to carry concealed weapons. The idea was discussed in Archuleta County and later rejected in favor of creating a school-resource officer program, which puts certified police officers in schools to relate with students and teach classes about good life-choices.
While learning from a national tragedy is beneficial, it also is important not to overreact, said Kathy Morris, the safe-school coordinator for the San Juan Board of Cooperative Educational Services, which helps nine school districts in Southwest Colorado with safety-related issues.
Theres a little bit of knee-jerk reaction going on by some folks, not all of them, she said. Its a natural instinct to initially overreact.
She said: We cannot continue to make decisions in fear. There are never any good outcomes to decisions made when theres the mindset of fear.
Colorado has 178 school districts, and only 13 have armed security guards employed by the schools, a number that doesnt include school-resource officers, she said.
A study has found about 80 percent of concealed-weapon carriers are ineffective and dangerous, she said. The reason is a lack of training.
We as educators have never ever had to be first responders, Morris said. All of us now are left with the challenge of being first responders, and it has been an uphill climb.
Teachers and students need to think more critically about reacting to threats rather than sitting in a room and becoming a victim, Morris said.
Undersheriff Griggs said school shooters dont want a confrontation thats why theyre at a school. But teachers, custodians and parents can fend for themselves, even if they dont have a gun.
Just because you dont have a gun and they do doesnt mean you cant pick up something and hit them in the head with it, Griggs said. It doesnt have to be in a school it can be in a Walmart, it can be anywhere. Dont be a victim.


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Fox Misleadingly Pushes Outrage Over Insurance Plan Changes
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Fox News has stoked outrage over the plan changes in the individual health insurance market, charging Obama with "government malpractice" and calling him a liar for supposedly not informing people that plans would change. But Fox's hyperbolic attacks ignore the fact that these changes are not only common in the individual market, but also that the administration announced them years ago.
Fox Claims Obama Admin Lacks "Informed Consent" Of Public, Hypes "Obamacare Lie"
Fox News' Peter Johnson, Jr.: Millions Will Lose Healthcare Due To ACA, And Obama Should Be Charged With "Malpractice." Fox News legal analyst Peter Johnson, Jr., charged Obama with "government malpractice" for not disclosing the effects the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would have on individual insurance plans, and continued to push the idea that changes in insurance plans were kept secret from the public:
STEVE DOOCY (co-host): Now that it's clear that the White House knew millions of us would eventually lose our health care, is the Obama administration guilty of government malpractice?
JOHNSON: It is government malpractice and it's lack of informed consent of the governed. Talk about informed consent, a legal, a medical term that people should understand. That means a person's agreement to allow something to happen, such as surgery, that is based on a full disclosure of facts needed to make the decision intelligently. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 11/6/13]
Fox's Tucker Carlson: Obama "Knowingly Lied And He Did So For Political Expedience." Fox & Friends weekend host Tucker Carlson claimed that Obama "knowingly lied and he did so for political expedience" and that the "real truth" was that the Obama may have dishonestly influenced the 2012 election results by misleading the American people:
CARLSON: If people had known that millions were going to lose their existing coverage under Obamacare, immediately under Obamacare, Obamacare neverwould have passed. If Romney had known this and been able to prove it during the last election, would Obama have been reelected? I don't know, it's an open question. This goes to the very center of Obama's domestic program. This is not some parenthetical aside he lied about. This is the core of his whole program.
He didn't misspeak, he knowingly lied and he did so for political expedience. [Fox News, America's Newsroom, 11/6/13]
Fox's Mary Katharine Ham: Obama Administration Was "Lying, Period." On the November 4 edition of The O'Reilly Factor, Fox contributor Mary Katharine Ham claimed that the administration was "lying, period" about changes to individual insurance plans, pressing the point even over host Bill O'Reilly's skepticism. [Fox News,The O'Reilly Factor, 11/4/13]
Years Ago, The Administration Announced That Many Individual Policies Would Be Changed
HHS Press Release In June 2010 Acknowledged Many Individual Plans Would Change. A June 2010 press release from the Department of Health and Human Services explicitly stated that some individuals would face changes to their plans:
The 17 million people who are covered in the individual health insurance market, where switching of plans and substantial changes in coverage are common, will receive the new protections of the Affordable Care Act sooner rather than later. Roughly 40 percent to two-thirds of people in individual market policies normally change plans within a year. In the short run, individuals whose plan changes and is no longer grandfathered will gain access to free preventive services, protections against restricted annual limits, and patient protections such as improved access to emergency rooms. [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 6/14/10]
In June 2010, Sec. Sebelius Explained The Conditions That Would Cause Plans To Change To Comply With ACA. On June 14, 2010, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the conditions that would cause an individual insurance plan that was in existence by the date the law was enacted to change to comply with the ACA's requirements: administration's grandfathering regulations, saying "if health plans significantly raise copayments or deductibles, or significantly reduce benefits, for example just stop covering treatments like HIV/AIDS or cystic fibrosis, they lose their grandfather status, and their customers then have the full set of consumer protections as new plans. Together, these rules mean exactly what President Obama told the American people would be done; under the Affordable Care Act, if you like your doctor and your plan, you keep it." [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 6/14/10]
NY Times In 2010: Administration Acknowledged That Some "Might Face Significant Changes In The Terms Of Their Coverage." The New York Times reported in June 2010 that the administration acknowledged that some "might face significant changes in the terms of their coverage":
In issuing the rules, the administration said this was just one goal of the legislation, allowing people to "keep their current coverage if they like it." It acknowledged that some people, especially those who work at smaller businesses, might face significant changes in the terms of their coverage, and it said they should be able to "reap the benefits of additional consumer protections."
The law provides a partial exemption for certain health plans in existence on March 23, when Mr. Obama signed the legislation. Under this provision, known as a grandfather clause, plans can lose the exemption if they make significant changes in deductibles, co-payments or benefits.
About half of employer-sponsored health plans will see such changes by the end of 2013, the administration says in an economic analysis of the rules.
The rules allow employers and insurers to increase benefits. But, in a summary of the rules, the administration said, "Plans will lose their grandfather status if they choose to make significant changes that reduce benefits or increase costs to consumers." [The New York Times, 6/14/10]
Insurance Companies Frequently Discontinue Policies, And Cancellations Do Not Mean Lost Coverage
CHIR: "Having An Insurance Company Discontinue An Insurance Policy Is Not Anything New." According to Georgetown University's Center on Health Insurance Reforms (CHIR), most consumers have year-long policies with health insurance companies that are often changed at the end of the policy year, and "in most states insurers are allowed to increase premiums, increase cost-sharing, and/or reduce the scope of benefits covered." CHIR further clarifies:
Having an insurance company discontinue an insurance policy is not anything new. And actually, the term "policy cancellation" is a misnomer. Generally, an individual health insurance policy is sold via a 12-month contract between the insurer and the consumer. At the end of that contract period, the insurer has the option to discontinue or change that policy - nothing in federal law changes that. Current policyholders are not having their current policy cancelled - rather, the insurance company is exercising its option to discontinue the policy at the end of the contract year.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), a federal law passed in 1996, provides that individual policies are "guaranteed renewable" at the end of the 12-month contract, but in most states insurers are allowed to increase premiums, increase cost-sharing, and/or reduce the scope of benefits covered. And, more often than not, insurance companies have done one or all of these things to policyholders. It is part of the reason individual health insurance is often called "swiss cheese" coverage compared to employer-based plans - because it's full of holes. Under HIPAA, an insurer could also decide to discontinue a policy, but if it did so, the law said it must provide the policyholder with at least 90 days notice, must offer the policyholder another new policy as an alternative, and has to treat its policyholders the same, regardless of their health status. [The Center on Health Insurance Reforms, 10/28/13]
Interim Final Rule On ACA, June 2010: Administration Estimates Some Plans Would Be Changed Due To Regular Turnover In Insurance Markets. The interim final rule published in the Federal Register in June 2010 shows that the Obama administration based their estimates on health care plan changes on research that showed the individual insurance market experiences heavy annual turnover:
The market for individual insurance is significantly different than that for group coverage. This affects estimates of the proportion of plans that will remain grandfathered until 2014. As mentioned previously, the individual market is a residual market for those who need insurance but do not have group coverage available and do not qualify for public coverage. For many, the market is transitional, providing a bridge between other types of coverage. One study found a high percentage of individual insurance policies began and ended with employer-sponsored coverage. More importantly, coverage on particular policies tends to be for short periods of time. Reliable data are scant, but a variety of studies indicate that between 40 percent and 67 percent of policies are in effect for less than one year. Although data on changes in benefit packages comparable to that for the group market is not readily available, the high turnover rates described here would dominate benefit changes as the chief source of changes in grandfather status.
While a substantial fraction of individual policies are in force for less than one year, a small group of individuals maintain their policies over longer time periods. One study found that 17 percent of individuals maintained their policies for more than two years, while another found that nearly 30 percent maintained policies for more than three years.Using these turnover estimates, a reasonable range for the percentage of individual policies that would terminate, and therefore relinquish their grandfather status, is 40 percent to 67 percent.These estimates assume that the policies that terminate are replaced by new individual policies, and that these new policies are not, by definition, grandfathered.[Federal Register,6/17/10, emphasis added]
CBO: "Because Of Relatively High Turnover" In Individual Market, Few Plans Would Not Be Changed By 2016. In a November 2009 letter to former Senator Evan Bayh, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) explained that the change in many health care plans can be attributed to the naturally high turnover in the individual market:
Moreover, if they wanted to, current policyholders in the nongroup market would be allowed to keep their policy with no changes, and the premiums for those policies would probably not differ substantially from current-law levels. But because of relatively high turnover in that market (as well as the incentives for many enrollees to purchase a new policy in order to obtain subsidies), CBO and JCT estimate that relatively few nongroup policies would remain grandfathered by 2016. [Congressional Budget Office, 11/30/09]
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For the first time in a long while, I'm off for more than 2 weeks in a row, it's even a bit more than 3 weeks. So we're spending the holidays with family, friends and holidaying, and what seemed like an eternity of course is now looking like it's running out of our hands far far too quickly.
And in between the torrential rainfalls, whenever there's a bit of reprieve (or not, as was the case today), we venture out for those little walks. Our last walk of 2013 took us to Chatelhearault Park, a gem of a park in Hamilton. The Avon water, or on another walk, the White Cart waterfall, all look rather impressive after the heavy rains.
There's tons of other stuff I could mention, but in all the year's hustle and bustle, the most important moments are those spent without the clock in mind, just being and listening, and taking baby steps at the kids' pace.
So here's to 2014 and many more walks, adventures, making, doing, creating, imagining, seeing, feeling, experiencing, exploring and discovering.


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I love dunkin'– cookies, chaklis, even toast. Any sweet or savory crispy snack just tastes better to me when I can take it for a quick swim in a cup of coffee, tea, or soymilk.So you can imagine how I must love biscotti, those elegant, finger-like, crunchy Italian cookies that were just made for dunking.
I make my biscotti at least a little guilt-free by making them partially with whole-wheat pastry flour. This time I also added to them some nuts, full of heart-healthy fiber and protein, and some orange juice and zest which just about kicks everything up, ahem, a notch.
I'll let you be the judge, but I am going to leave you with one final piece of evidence on just how good these were: they met the doggie test, and Opie, Lucy and Freddie just couldn't get enough.
Enjoy, all, and don't stop reading after the recipe because I have some food for thought that I wish everyone will chew on.
Orange Walnut Biscotti
- 1 1/2 cups whole-wheat pastry flour
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 cup cornstarch
- 1/4 tsp salt
- Whisk these together thoroughly.
- In another bowl , beat together until well-combined:
- 1/2 cup canola or other flavorless vegetable oil
- 1 1/4 cup orange juice
- 1 1/4 cup sugar
- Zest of one orange , finely chopped
- 1 tbsp pure vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup of finely chopped walnuts.
- Add the flour mixture to the liquid mixture gradually, beating in until well combined.
- Mix in the walnuts.
- Dump all the dough on a flat surface, and divide in half (If you find that the dough is still soft, just add some all-purpose flour until it's moldable, but keep in mind you don't want a very stiff dough). Using well-oiled hands, roll each ball back and forth with your palms to form a log, about 11 inches long. Repeat for the remaining dough.
- Place both logs as far apart as possible on an oiled baking sheet. Press down slightly on the logs to flatten them a little.
- Bake in a preheated 375-degree oven until the logs are beginning to set, around 25 minutes.
- Remove the baking sheet to a rack and when the logs are cool enough to handle, place one on a cutting board. Using a serrated knife and a sawing motion, cut into 1/2-inch slices.
- Return the biscotti to a baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes. Flip over and bake the other side for another 10 minutes.
- Remove to a rack, cool, and dunk!
The M. F. Husain controversy
For the last few weeks, I've been having long arguments with friends and family about an issue that seems to have really rocked Indian citizens and the vast Indian diaspora, going by the number of forwarded chain mails in my inbox. The paintings of the Indian artist M.F. Husain.
Husain is India's most successful painter, although he is not as well-known in the West. He is now 95 and he recently became a citizen of Qatar after being hounded out of Bombay, where he lived all his life, by Hindu right-wingers.
I was raised in a Hindu family that was quite devout. While my parents' ardent religiousness did not rub off on me, it didn't leave me untouched either. Although I don't usually go to temples or perform poojas, I have always tended to live my life by the Hindu philosophy of self-scrutiny, tolerance, compassion and non-violence. Values that many Indians, religious or not, have long believed in.
Now here's the M.F.Husain brouhaha: Husain, always a controversial painter and arguably a good one– and not least importantly for this topic a Muslim by religion– has for a long time painted nude images of Hindu goddesses. I remember he was doing it when I lived in India back in the 1990s, and when I interviewed him at his South Bombay residence for a newspaper article.
Husain was as famous for being an eccentric as he was for his paintings. Gaunt and tall, with a white beard and a shock of white hair, he always wore flowing, bright-white clothes that became his signature. And given his love for drama and his flamboyant personality, it was hard to tell whether the things he did had to do with artistic creation or just grabbing attention. He often embarked on stunts: like painting to the live music of Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, a popular Indian classical artiste. Another time he suddenly upped and painted his car all over with horses — a favorite subject of his to paint. And he would sometimes make little pencil sketches and hand them out to people he had just met.
With his nude goddesses, Husain got a little more attention than he bargained for.
Back in the '90s, I remember, a handful of radical Hindus frowned upon those paintings and made a bit of a noise and eventually all that would die down. Over the past few years, however, as extreme religious points of view have gained political strength in India, the attacks on Husain have intensified to such a degree that a few years back he was forced to leave Bombay following repeated threats to his life, and take refuge first in Dubai and eventually in Qatar.
It's not surprising that some people are offended that Husain is painting Hindu goddesses in the nude because, honestly, is there anything anyone can do these days without offending someone else? I am sure this post is going to offend some of you.
But here's the bigger problem and it is something each Indian, citizen or diasporal, should worry about more than what Husain did or did not paint: the undermining of the cornerstone of India's secular democracy– the freedom of expression it guarantees all its citizens– by the radicals who have succeeded in throwing Husain out.
I don't think there is another right as valuable in this world as the ability to freely exchange ideas. It enriches our cultures and our minds. And in an India that is changing rapidly, it is perhaps one of the most important rights we need to claim and guard before the extremists — still a small group — erode it, which they surely will if we let them.
Husain was never found guilty of violating any laws with his paintings– in 2008, India's Supreme Court dismissed charges of obscenity brought against him by pointing out, accurately, that Hindu iconography, and its temples, are chock-a-block with images of nude deities. But despite this, Husain was forced to pay the ultimate penalty– give up his home– by people who have a terrorist-like ability to invoke fear in their targets. Indian newspapers who called for his return were inundated with hate mail and threats themselves
I wanted to write about this because just last week I finished a long-drawn email argument with a close friend who is an admirer of Gandhi's but who also believes Husain got his just desserts– a view, I believe, Gandhi would never agree with. What disturbed me more was that, like me, this friend is a writer who ought to defend, more than most others, the right to express freely.
Then, just today, I got another chain email forwarded by a usually sane family member juxtaposing Husain's paintings of nude Hindu women and Bharat Mata (a female personification of India), with his paintings of much better dressed Muslim and Christian women, including Mother Theresa. The mail, addressed to several dozen people besides me, exhorted readers to forward it to others so "Hindus can protect their self-respect."
(Truly, what a blessing the Internet has been to these bigoted viewpoints: within seconds they can get their messages of hate into hundreds of thousands of inboxes.)
Well, here's one Hindu who refuses to buy into this propaganda. Instead, I vote for freedom of thought, ideas, speech and expression, and for a world where artists and writers and intellectuals belonging to any religion can create without worrying that they will wake up next morning to find protesters throwing stones through their windows and threatening to hurt them.
The hate stops here.
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Viewfinder, with Cincinnati film director and producer Alphonzo "Zo" Wesson, is an interview series focusing on the work of local independent filmmakers. Viewfinder airs on the final Sunday of the month at 12:30 and the final Monday at midnight on CET with repeat airings on CET Arts. Check the TV Schedule.
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The 2012 elections were the most expensive in our nation's history, but grassroots action is rising up to say no to the big money special interests drowning out the voices of regular people.
Already, 11 states and more than 400 communities around the country have gone on record calling for a Constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and allow limits on election spending by billionaires and corporations.
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Temex Time, a leading provider of high performance, low cost rubidium and crystal sources, atomic clocks and smart GPS-synchronized timing solutions, has announced its new name – SpectraTime. This name change is expected to strengthen the company's market position alongside the Orolia group's other companies, while also expanding its product offerings in the time-and-frequency industry.
Orolia, which recently announced the acquisition of Spectracom (based in Rochester, in the state of New York, US), brings together a number of cutting edge technology companies that develop and manufacture high precision time and frequency systems. Pascal Rochat, SpectraTime's CEO, said, "We are very pleased to be a part of the Orolia group, along with Spectracom and T4science. The shared expertise of these companies will allow us to broaden our business activities in key markets while further integrating value added technology into our core products."
SpectraTime's products generate high precision signals for a variety of cross-industry applications. The precision of its products is measured in accuracy ranging from a millionth to a billionth of a second. Such levels of accuracy are required in many mission critical applications, as found in satellite navigation (GPS or Galileo), military systems (radar, electronic warfare, guidance of nuclear submarines, secured communication networks and telemetry of ballistic missiles), telecommunications, space exploration, digital terrestrial broadcasting and instrumentation.


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MSI's New Products Shine at CeBIT 2010!
MSI's New Products Shine at CeBIT 2010!
A New Generation of High Performance
(Taipei, Taiwan) The world's largest annual IT and telecommunications technology tradeshow, CeBIT, opens today (March 2) in Hannover, Germany! World-renowned IT product designer and manufacturer MSI became the first exhibitor to unveil its latest technology at a press conference yesterday (March 1). Leading MSI's participation in this annual event is President Joseph Hsu, whose company has adopted the theme "Performance?Sound?Vision" as the main focus for this year's R&D effort. The company is unveiling a variety of diversified product lines: 3D All-in-One desktop computers, top audiovisual gaming laptops, mainboards and graphics cards for gamers, high-performance industrial computers and servers to a stunned international media and audience!
With the effects of last year's financial turmoil fading away, the buoyant atmosphere at this year's CeBIT reflects the economic recovery. IT vendors from around the world are putting their latest and best products on display. Located at Exhibition Hall 17, Booth C38, MSI introduces a comprehensive lineup of products this year with its wide range of trend-setting and industry-leading products making it a focal point of the show. President Joseph Hsu says that MSI will keep with the spirit of his company's slogan "Insist on the Best" to meet market demand and to remain innovative. Therefore MSI is emphasizing the theme "Performance?Sound?Vision" as well as offering a number of innovative products.
Top Honors for MSI All-in-One PC Won CeBIT Preview Award 2010!
MSI President Joseph Hsu says that the Wind Top AE2220 combines a stylish and aesthetic design with the latest technology. It has also garnered much praise from media present at CeBIT.
MSI's All-in-One PC shines bright at CeBIT 2010! With its innovative technology and extraordinary styling, the Wind Top AE2220 has won the prestigious CeBIT Preview Award for 2010. The CeBIT Preview Award is granted by a panel of 300 local German professional media organizations after reviewing the year's best products introduced at the tradeshow. The CeBIT Preview Award is widely regarded as objective recognition of product excellence. MSI's AIO Wind Top AE2220 is the only All-in-one touch-screen product to have been awarded this coveted prize! It boasts a large 22-inch multi-touch screen with Windows® 7 and MSI's exclusively developed intuitive touch-screen software. With its 16:9 cinematic, Full HD 1080p ultra-high-resolution screen, brilliant video effects can be fully realized. Combined with the powerful Intel® Core 2 Duo/Pentium processor and NVIDIA® ION graphics processor, multitasking is a breeze. The model is also equipped with wireless Internet access, and through the touch of a single finger, users can enjoy powerful multimedia features or surf the Net. The Wind Top AE2220 combines a stylish and aesthetic design with the latest technology. It has also garnered much praise from media present at CeBIT, who all gave it a resounding thumbs-up. In addition, MSI's 3D All-in-One touch-screen technology was the focus of the show on opening day. With this new 3D touch-screen All-in-One PC, all a user needs to do is put on a pair of 3D glasses and touch the screen directly to experience immersive 3D images via the Full HD, 120Hz LED panel!
MSI President Joseph Hsu says that his company's laptops and All-in-One PC products have equal emphasis on both style and performance, and this is evident from the very warm response the company has received from consumers. "With both commercial and consumer dimensions, MSI is definitely the pioneer to promote All-in-One PC worldwide," said Joseph.
In addition to its star products, MSI is also introducing a full range of laptop models, the All-in-One PC Intel® CoreTM series and the Green Wind Top series.
GT 660 Notebook, the Best Audio Experience
MSI has collaborated with top audio equipment manufacturer Dynaudio to unveil its GT660 laptop with built-in Dynaudio technology. "We are very happy to cooperate with MSI to show that sound can be much better in computers," said Wilfried Ehrenholz, CEO of Dynaudio International GmbH. GT660 displays the world's only built-in LED light show technology, allowing users to experience the highest level of enjoyment whether they are playing games, watching movies or listening to music. "We try to deliver the best audio experience to the users with this brand new notebook, and it is a very successful product which we are proud of," said Sam Chern, MSI Notebook Marketing Director.
Besides, this year's theme "Performance?Sound?Vision" also symbolizes MSI's five major leading and innovative technical indicators of Notebook, which include their exclusive TDE overclocking and cooling technology, GPU Boost intelligent power management technology, Cinema Pro high quality imaging technology, outstanding audio technology, as well as award-winning and stylish ultra-light and slim designs. On display at the exhibition venue are the Wind U160 and the X-Slim X620, which have just won Germany's iF Design Award for 2010, both of which are ground breaking laptop products designed with both style and performance in mind.
The Ultimate in Performance! Big Bang Series Mainboards Now Invading the Gaming Market
MSI Mainboard Marketing Director Jason Lee said that the Big Bang series of mainboards have been designed exclusively for the gaming market, and have been widely praised by consumers since their debut at the end of last year. The product that has received the most attention is the Big Bang-Fuzion mainboard, which is equipped with an exclusive Hydra Engine graphics chip developed by Israeli developer Lucidlogix. Gamers are no longer limited by specific manufacturers or graphics chips and will be able to use the Hydra Technology to upgrade their systems easily. To show how MSI has adopted its strategic "Performance?Sound?Vision" product development strategy, the Big Bang series of mainboards are equipped with exclusive THX® TruStudio PC and Creative EAX® ADVANCED HD 5.0 audio technology, capable of offering full 3D audiovisual effects.
Also on display in MSI's graphics card product line at the exhibition is the company's top video card product, the R5870 Lightning, which boasts the highest performance and unmatched specifications on the market. "Lightning currently is the world record of overclocking and is the best graphic card in the world," said Jason Lee. In addition, the highly acclaimed Afterburner multi-purpose overclocking software that was introduced last year has been updated for this year's CeBIT, together with the well-received Twin Frozr II dual-fan cooling unit. Jason Lee says that these products have taken into consideration hardware, software and cooling designs, indicating that MSI is once again creating an all-new graphics card performance benchmark for the industry.
MSI will be located at Exhibition Hall 17, Booth C38 for five days, from March 2 to March 6. In order to give vendors and the general public the chance to experience this high-tech audiovisual extravaganza, MSI has taken the opportunity to set up a special booth which includes gaming laptops and the Big Bang mainboards. MSI has also invited Fnatic, Europe's best gaming team, to do battle at CeBIT! For more information and an online display of MSI's latest products, please visit the special event webpage for CeBIT 2010 at: http://event.msi.com/cebit_2010.
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Fort Hill was the home of John C. Calhoun, South Carolina's pre-eminent 19th century statesman, from 1825 until his death in 1850. The antebellum plantation home, office and kitchen are furnished mostly with family artifacts.
It was through a succession of Calhoun-Clemson women that Fort Hill came into Thomas Green Clemson's possession. In 1888, Clemson bequeathed the Fort Hill plantation and cash to the state of South Carolina for the establishment of a scientific and agricultural college. He willed that Fort Hill "shall always be open for the inspection of visitors."
The land that would become home to Clemson University started with John C. Calhoun and his wife, Floride, who owned the land. By 1802, Floride Calhoun's family has purchased a sizable amount of land in the Upcountry. Fort Hill, then known as Clergy Hall, was built in 1803 as the manse or parsonage for Old Stone Church just a few miles away. When Fort Hill came up for sale, Floride's mother purchased the property.
She and husband, John C., were living in Fort Hill when Floride inherited the title upon her mother's death in 1836. When John C. died in 1850, Floride became the sole owner of the Fort Hill home and 1,341 acres of land. When she died in 1866, portions of the property then went to their daughter and sole surviving child, Anna Maria Calhoun, who had married Thomas Green Clemson. The Clemsons' daughter, Floride Elizabeth, also inherited a portion.
Anna Maria Calhoun Clemson willed her share of Fort Hill to her husband, Thomas Clemson, who inherited it when she died in 1875.
Today, Fort Hill is just as Thomas Clemson envisioned — preserved, restored and open to the public for tours.
Thomas Green Clemson was a scientist, mining engineer, diplomat to Belgium under four U.S. presidents and considered the first secretary of agriculture. He was as unique as he was highly educated, skilled, pragmatic, visionary and complex. Upon his death in 1888, he left his estate and his fortune for the betterment of education in South Carolina.
Graceful and interested in politics, Anna Maria Calhoun Clemson was the daughter of John C. Calhoun. She married Thomas Green Clemson in November 1838 and willed her share of Fort Hill to Clemson, who inherited it when she died in 1875.
African-Americans were a vital force in the operation and economy of Fort Hill, the home of John C. and Floride Calhoun from 1825 to 1850, Andrew Pickens and Margaret Green Calhoun from 1851 to 1871, and Thomas Green and Anna Clemson from 1872 to 1888.
Like many Southern planters of the time, Calhoun raised cotton as a cash crop using enslaved African-American labor to run his household and plantation. The Calhouns owned skilled workers such as gardeners, seamstresses, and carpenters in addition to agricultural workers and field hands. Since the slaves who occupied Fort Hill left no written record, their perspective is virtually voiceless in history.
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Body and Soul
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- Author: D. J. Manly
- Page: 162
- Word Count: 40500
- Publication Date: August 11, 2010
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Darien and Brennus have been together ever since that fateful night when they banished the evil Vortimere; but all is not bliss. Darien want's Brennus to make him a vampire so that they can truly be together. Brennus can't bear to take Darien's life. This disagreement threatens to tear them apart once and for all. Meanwhile Brennus has been hearing a voice in his head, one which won't stop talking to him, telling him its time to pay for his immortality…a voice which has come for his soul. As the Feast of the dead approaches and the spirits come to life, vampires walk and all is not as it seems.
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