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The ancient Mayans are often accredited for their ability to investigate celestial objects in the night sky with primitive tools. Archaeologists have found tablets, which provide evidence of their ability to accurately predict positions of objects, lunar and solar eclipses, often many years ahead.
However much of what the ancient Mayans were practicing bear remarkable similarities to what we now refer to as 'big data analysis'.
In 2008, the McKinsey Group described the trend towards big data – the technology and practice of handling unconventionally large datasets which, after years of experimentation, has recently seen rising prominence.
One of the earliest adopters of big data analysis is that of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, CERN. As a matter of fact, the internet was invented as a method to collaborate and handle the vast amounts of data generated at the facility. Yet what started off as technology for scientific investigations, big data analysis soon quickly found itself in areas such as finance and banking.
Today's organisations are beginning to recognise that by analysing petabyte upon petabyte of data, meaningful insights and predictions can be accurately made. Yet over 1,700 years ago, Mayans were already analysing data from the observable universe – an unstructured database with 93 billion years' worth of data.
The Mayan's obsession of analysing astronomical 'data' was not centred around scientific investigation, but more on predictions and justifying rituals. The decision to engage in military conflict was based almost entirely on the movements of Venus and Jupiter.
Interestingly, the modern day practice of analysing big data suggest that we could be following similar movement.
Today big data analysis is being used to help justify macro-social and economic decisions – from investments, economic policy to crime directives and healthcare provision.
Earlier this year, analyst firm IDC even reported that the US Army has implemented a big data cloud program to collect data from unmanned aerial vehicles, to gather intelligence information in near-real time and relay it back to its troops stationed in Afghanistan.
The life of the ancient Mayans revolved around their religion, which they supported through their obsession with astronomical data. This influenced their culture, their every decision and provided what they believed were predictions for the future.
Are we creating a technology-led religion of our own through our obsession with big data and what legacy will we be remembered for when future archaeologists discover our civilisation?


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Posted 6 months ago and deadline of application is on 30 Dec
Recruiter was hiring 3 days ago
Job Description
The Customer Service Representative - Teller is Responsible for the following:
- Cash handling and processing of cash/check deposits, withdrawals, check encashments, closing of accounts; signature verification.
- Posts of all transaction adjustments to the Current Account/Savings Account (CA/SA) terminal at the start of banking day.
- Accepts and processes various fund transfers and remittances payments.
- Handles outward clearing operations.
- Sells the Bank's and subsidiaries' products and services.
Minimum Qualifications
- Preferably graduate of business or finance course
- Good communication skills
- Excellent customer service
- Fresh graduates and young professionals are welcome to apply
- Willing to be assigned in Caloocan (North and South), Malabon, Navotas, Valenzuela Areas
Perks and Benefits
- Paid Holidays
- Paid Vacation Leave
- Paid Sick Leave
- Maternity & Paternity Leave
- Single Parent Leave
- Special Leave Benefits for Women
- Retirement Benefit Plans
- Life Insurance
- Medical / Health Insurance
- Medical, Prescription, Dental, or Vision Plans
- Gym Membership
Clothing and rice allowance
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- Sales and Marketing Knowledge
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- Business Management
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- Bachelor's degree graduate
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- Caloocan, Metro Manila, Philippines
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- Banking / Mortgage
- Vacancy
- 10 openings
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Why choose Villanova for an M.A. in Political Science?
Who Comes to Villanova?
Our students are deeply interested in politics and the domestic, international and ideational forces that shape it. They choose Villanova with one of three career goals in mind:
- Academia: Students interested in an academic career. They join our program to enhance their credentials and enter top ranked Ph.D. programs.
- Public service: Students interested in working for government at state or federal level, or are seeking employment in the non-profit sector. Students who have an interest in public service often take courses in the Department of Public Administration.
- Professional development: Individuals in the early or middle stages of their professional careers. They upgrade their credentials or seek a better grounding in either domestic or international affairs. The diverse backgrounds of our students tremendously enriches the classroom experience as the Ph.D. aspiring students expound on the more scholarly aspects of the readings while mid-career professionals share their personal and practical experiences. Class discussions strike a good balance between theory and practice.
Outstanding Faculty
The Political Science graduate faculty is comprised of faculty members who are actively engaged in research and are deeply committed to teaching. They regularly publish in the discipline's top journals or university presses. In recent years, faculty have been awarded grants by the National Science Foundation, Council on Foreign Relations, Earhart Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities; were visiting scholars at Princeton, IMF, Center for Strategic and International Studies or have won national publications awards. For more details, please go to links on faculty directory. Scholarship students become closely involved in the faculties' research projects and regularly end up co-authoring conference papers or journal articles. Several faculty also regularly comment in the local and national media on political developments in the US and abroad. Several faculty members have been awarded or nominated for the Lindback Teaching Award - Villanova's most prestigious such award.
Small Classes
All courses are run as small, discussion-based seminars, which are capped at fifteen students. Faculty members closely guide students' research papers and, if chosen by the student, supervise a six-credit thesis. Our regular faculty research workshops offer students an additional opportunity to interact with faculty outside the classroom. The Graduate Director also helps Ph.D. bound students in selecting and applying to graduate programs.
Affordability & Assistantship
Course credits are competitively priced at rates comparable to public institutions. The Political Science program also awards each year a handful of assistantships.
Additionally, Villanova offers options to help finance your studies, ranging from tuition payment plans to full tuition scholarships. To learn more about financing your education, click here.
Challenging & Contemporary Curriculum
Our seminars center on key contemporary political issues and we discuss them in light of current scholarly debates in political science as well as their historical context. Each semester we offer courses in all three subfields: American Government, Comparative Politics/International Relations and Political Philosophy. We also have certificate programs.
Our program is flexible in terms of the degree requirements and the scheduling of courses. We individually discuss with students their overall course selection to assure it matches their overall academic or professional goals. Besides taking one course in each subfield and PSC 7000, students can concentrate in a particular subfield or take courses in all of them. Students also can petition to enroll in up to six credits in other graduate programs. Students can enroll in as much as three courses per semester, or as little as a single course. All courses are offered at night to accommodate working students.
Research Opportunities
The M.A. program offers students opportunities to partake in various aspects of scholarly research. Fellowship students, working as research assistants, become closely involved in the faculty's research projects and regularly end up co-authoring conference papers or journal articles. The department runs a faculty research workshop to which all students are invited. The university also offers summer research fellowships, and assists students in presenting their work at conferences. The Political Science Department regularly forwards announcements about lectures and conferences that occur at Temple University, University of Pennsylvania, the Constitution Center, and other research oriented institutions located in and around Philadelphia. In short, for highly motivated students, there are ample scholarly opportunities to enrich their studies outside the classroom.
Convenient Location
Villanova is located on the historical Mainline, in a beautiful western suburb of Philadelphia.
Philadelphia offers a wide variety of museums, libraries, concerts and professional sport teams. The campus is only thirty minutes from downtown Philadelphia. It is minutes away from all major highways and routes to and from major metropolitan areas such as: New York City, Baltimore, and Washington D.C. Villanova provides ample parking and mass transit stops right on campus, and students can travel easily to and from the campus by car, bus or train.
Successful Graduates
Our graduates attend doctoral programs (at such Universities as Cornell, Brown, NYU, Notre Dame, Penn State, Emory, UNC Chapel Hill), enroll in law schools (such as Georgetown, George Washington, Villanova, Emory), and pursue public service careers (such as the State Department, Department of Health, FBI, US Marine Corps, EPA, nonprofits, congressional staff work, K-12 teachers).


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Starbucks paying workers' tuition? Not really, college says
The scholarship portion of a new education program Starbucks is offering to help workers pay for an online degree consists entirely of a discount from Arizona State University and not money from the chain.
The Seattle-based company this week unveiled a benefit that is designed to let college juniors and seniors earn a degree from ASU at no cost. For the freshman and sophomores years, workers would pay a reduced tuition. Workers who are admitted to ASU could pick from 40 degree programs, and wouldn't be required to stay with Starbucks after they earned their degrees.
A major aspect of the program is an upfront scholarship Starbucks said is an investment between itself and Arizona State University. When asked how much of that scholarship portion the company is providing, Starbucks initially said financial terms weren't being disclosed.
Following the announcement, however, Arizona State University President Michael Crow told The Chronicle of Higher Education that Starbucks is not contributing any money toward the scholarship portion. Instead, Arizona State will essentially charge workers less than the sticker price for online tuition.
Starbucks said Thursday that the scholarship is a reduced tuition rate. It estimates the reduction in tuition would average about $6,500 over two years to cover tuition of $30,000.
To cover the remainder in the freshman and sophomore years, workers would apply for federal aid, such as Pell grants, and pay for the rest either out of pocket or by taking out loans. Starbucks would bear no costs in those years.
For the junior and senior years, Starbucks would reimburse workers for whatever tuition they had to cover either upfront or through loans, once they completed 21 credits.
Matt Ryan, chief strategy officer for Starbucks, said on Thursday that for a worker's junior and senior years, the company could potentially cover up to 58 percent of the tuition, in cases where workers didn't qualify for grants.
If workers did qualify for grants, he said Starbucks could be responsible for very little, if anything. He noted that workers financial situations can vary greatly.
Laurel Harper, a Starbucks spokeswoman, said previously that the company's analysis with ASU found most of its workers would qualify for federal Pell grants.
A representative for Arizona State wasn't immediately available for comment.
The program, which has been widely praised because education benefits are rare for low-wage workers, brought attention to the struggles people face in paying for college. It is unusual because workers can pick from 40 different degree programs and aren't required to stay with Starbucks after they complete their degrees.
It's not clear how much the program will end up costing Starbucks. But Ryan said the company expects that it will "for sure" be a much bigger investment than its current tuition reimbursement program, which will be phased out by 2015.
That program offers up to $1,000 a year to take classes at City University of Seattle or Strayer University, with no limit on the number of years they can apply. Since it was rolled out in October 2011, Starbucks said the program has cost it $6.5 million.
Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of EdVisors.com, a website about paying for college, said the program could benefit all parties involved.
Workers could get a chance at a degree from Arizona State University at a reduced rate. Arizona State could get a revenue boost from federal aid and out-of-pocket costs workers and Starbucks later pays. And Starbucks could attract a better pool of workers and burnish its corporate image.
Starbucks said its workers are "embracing this benefit with overwhelming excitement; ASU has seen an enormous uptick in interest."


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A scientific study has shown that the average European man gained 110mm (4.4′) in height between 1870 and 1980, mainly due to general improvements in health, hygiene and nutrition.
Additional studies indicate that he is also beginning to become less brainy, less hairy and may start growing scales and laying eggs. 'He could eventually reach a massive size and start blundering about, roaring and attacking other creatures by stomping on them or slashing at them with his claws' said one scientist.
Meanwhile, in a completely un-related archaeological study, exciting new excavations have suggested the possibility that, at the start of their 400 million years rule on Earth, dinosaurs were rather different. The indication is that they may have gradually evolved from a smaller, smarter and more nimble creature which inhabited the Earth for just a few brief thousands of years, wandering about on its hind legs, drinking lager and watching reality TV shows.


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WASHINGTON — One year and one week ago, Barack Obama stood on the steps of the Capitol to give his inaugural address. His challenge then was to re-inspire Americans' confidence in themselves. Tonight, inside that building, his challenge is to re-inspire their confidence in him.
A year into his presidency, we are less sure than ever who he really is — what he believes, what's in his heart and gut — and whether he has what it takes to be president.
The reason has less to do with his famously cool persona — though that is part of it — than with the decisions he made after those early efforts to help stave off a global economic catastrophe.
Early in his presidency, and even before he was even sworn in, Obama made some fundamental — and almost certainly correct — calls.
Facing global meltdown, he accepted the Bush administration's basic strategy, which was to throw as much money and credit as possible at the crisis. In his inauguration speech, he offered his own victory as a plausible reason for faith in national progress. And, finally, his administration administered "stress tests" to major banks, which helped restore confidence in the system. A run had been a real possibility.
So his biography and bank-crisis choices did, in fact, instill a sense of confidence that in turn produced the high point of his popularity. But neither his personal story nor his early decisions said much about who he really was.
'A hologram of hope'
Riding a tide of celebrity, generation change and voter dismay about Iraq and the crumbling economy, Obama always was more of a hologram of hope than a detailed agenda. And in the days since those early — and mostly unavoidable — decisions, his missteps and missed signals have led to one of the sharpest first-year poll drops in presidential history.
Many of the same voters who proudly cast ballots for the cool-headed and inspiring candidate from Illinois are now those casting doubt on what, precisely, he stands for.
Is he for the Little Guy or the Big Boys? Is he for individual initiative of the marketplace, or the redistributive power of government? Is he alive to the realities of street corner and strip mall America, or is he too much the theorizing, Ivy-credentialed son of globe-trotting academics?
Does he have good political sense, or was he just lucky?
Obama remains personally popular; it's his policies and tactical calls that are making people doubt him as president.
Other political news of note
Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
- Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
In his inaugural speech, Obama sounded like he understood that Americans tend not to trust Big Government any more than they admire Big Business. But he hasn't acted that way. He piled on program after program in ways that scared away the moderate voters who elected him.
He ran as an agent of profound, fundamental change in the way Washington worked, but got lost in a thicket of health care deals and pork-barrel spending in his stimulus package.
He spent all of his domestic political capital on health care — and turned its fate over to a Congress — making a double mistake that called into question his reputation as a guy with shrewd political sense and good timing.
And now, he is calling for a three-year semi-freeze on federal spending, a gimmicky notion he had rightly ridiculed during the campaign. It's a move that makes him look desperate, and it has further offended his core supporters on the political left, who were mad at him for a host of other reasons.
The volumes of analysis written about the president are rife with the cliché that the guy's career is made up of career-making or career-saving speeches. He had better hope that the one he gives tonight follows in that tradition.
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Few Fun Finds of the Week:
Bacon & Cheese Egg McMuffin Cups.
These would be perfect for a brunch or family get together--and the best part??? they only require FOUR ingredients. yah! Even if you aren't a fan of runny eggs (i.e. my hubby! ;-) you can still scramble them to make a mean morning dish. Click {here} for the directions. enjoy!
Printable Family Wall Decor:
I thought this was really neat! All you need is a fun 8 X 10 picture frame, a printer and a place to put it! They let you print house of ... (2-7) Click {here} for the details.
numbered flower pots
Click the link above to find out how to make the numbered flower pots. I thought this was really a cute idea. I will definitely be making one of these this summer!
I LOVED this idea! This would be a unique wedding gift, anniversary, or birthday gift! You can give that newlywed a lot of fun, creative date nights!
So many fun possibilities!! Click here to see the ideas/date ideas.
now...I am planning on making these for future wedding gifts. Although I thought I'd switch it up a little bit instead of 'can of dates' I'm going to write on the can 'our first Christmas' and in the can include...
It's a Wonderful Life DVD
Two Coffee Mugs with hot chocalote mix
Two Coffee Mugs with hot chocalote mix
A Christmas cookie cutter
Sugar Cookie recipe
A Christmas CD
A Mistletoe Toe
A Christmas ordainment that says 'our first Christmas'
ETC... (if you have any other ideas please let me know!!)
loved that idea!
Teacher Appreciation/Thank You's!
With the end of the school year & church activities coming to an end, show your appreciation for all their hard work!! Here are just a couple ideas.
Beach Towel Gift:
This idea is so stinkin' easy but so thoughtful! All you need is:
Beach Towel
...you could even "boy" this idea up and get a beach towel, ESPN magazine with a red bull or something like that. love it! Click {here} for the details!
One of my new favorite blogs it eighteen25. They have the cutest ideas with free printables including step by step directions on how to get it accomplished. here are just a few of the ideas. check out their blog {here} to see what i mean!
Thought these looked so cute! how fun would these be for a baseball party, or a baseball themed birthday party? Click on the link for directions!
Super Easy Wheat Bread
Can't wait to try this recipe! Click the link for the directions! Who doesn't love the smell of homemade bread?!
gumball cupcake 'how to' CUTE!{here}to score some free printable birthday cutouts! They have both boy & girl freebies. What a cute idea flipping peanut butter cups and putting a printable on top!
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From some styling work for Åhléns by Emma Persson Lagerberg, I like the softness of this bedroom scene. It reminds me of a quiet evening-like the one when your little one goes to bed early and somehow you manage to cook a really nice dinner for yourself and eat it outside while the sun sets. With candles. And no talking is required. Right...moms?
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(Bob Mackie sketch while working under Edith Head)Seeing all the fun costumes out and about today for Halloween has gotten be thinking about all the costume designers and costume illustrations that I love so much. If you've been following Fabulous Doodles a while now you probably know I started out wanting to be a costume designer and even dabbled in the field interning in various wardrobe departments in college followed by a stint as a wardrobe supervisor on an off Broadway show. Although these vintage designs are nothing like the productions I worked on but a girl can dream! I'm mean how utterly spectacular is this Bob Mackie design while working under fellow costume design legend Edith Head?! (shown above)
(Edith Head sketch of Elizabeth Taylor for "A Place in the Sun")Speaking of, it should be noted that Edith Head is the only woman to have won 8 Academy Awards and a whopping 35 nominations spanning her career. She was Hollywood's leading costume designer, a favorite among leading ladies and even earned a star on the Walk of Fame. Head designed for countless classic movies including A Place in the Sun (shown above), Sunset Boulevard, Roman Holiday, Sabrina, The Ten Commandments, and Funny Face.
(Cecil Beaton design for "My Fair Lady")This next vintage costume design illustration is by another Academy Award winner, Cecil Beaton. Beaton won the Oscar in Costume Design for this very production (shown above) My Fair Lady. He was also an acclaimed photographer and worked as a staff photographer for Vogue earlier on in his career.
(Edith Head for "Sweet Charity")Last but not least is another wonderful Edith Head illustration. This design was for the 1969 film Sweet Charity directed by Bob Fosse. I love modern cut of this 60's mini dress and all the call outs for diamond, palliates and ankle jewels.
To see more of my favorite vintage costume design illustration you can pop on over to my costume design Pinterest board. Hope your having a fabulous Halloween!


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The Steering Group on the sub-regional capacity-building strategy, established during the last Periodic Reporting Workshop for World Heritage National Focal Points from CESEE in Tbilisi, Georgia in November 2012, has worked productively in the past months. The World Heritage Centre presented the results of this ongoing work and share the reflections on the sub-regional capacity-building strategy for CESEE during the side event.
The meeting was held on Friday 19 June 2013 at Peace Palace, Cambodia.


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Bass Fishing's Greatest Fan Event Coming Soon
By Craig Lamb
The Bassmaster Classic®. There's not another event like it anywhere, and it only comes around once each year. The Classic, as it's called, will bring a number of firsts to its newest destination, and fishing fans won't want to miss them.
The Classic is March 24-26 in Houston. About an hour north, the 52 pros will compete for the world championship on Lake Conroe. The winner will earn $300,000 when they are crowned, a huge first for professional fishing.
Texas, the birthplace of Skeeter Boats, has only hosted the Classic once in the 46-year history of the event. That was in 1979 at Lake Texoma on the Oklahoma border. A lot has changed since then!
Minute Maid Park, home of the Houston Astros, will host the daily weigh-in show. Never before has a professional bass tournament, much less the world championship, been held in a Major League Baseball stadium.
The anglers will weigh in on a custom-made stage near third base, in full view of the fans. Plus, the Daktronics® high def video display, at 54 feet high and 124 feet wide, will come to life with on-water replays and updates.
Within walking distance of the ballpark is the George R. Brown Convention Center. That's home for the Bassmaster Classic® Expo. It's arguably the largest event of its kind in the country with 300,000 square feet of exhibit space, the largest in Classic history.
The Classic is now a tourist destination. Last year in Tulsa, the Classic boasted 107,000 fans coming to the weigh-in and expo, breaking an attendance record.
The Classic is the chance to cheer on and meet your favorite Skeeter pros, and there are many in the competition. Former Classic champion Alton Jones Sr. and his son will compete rod-to-rod in a family showdown. A dozen top Skeeter pros are fishing the Classic, including former champion Alton Jones Sr. Click here for the complete list.
You can meet them all during what fans like to call Classic Week. Plan your trip to Houston and make sure to see these events. Best of all, admission to all is free.
Takeoff is a cool thing to see, as the Classic pros arrive in their fully wrapped trucks with boats in tow. It's not just any boat launch. There is a program that includes interviews by Classic emcee Dave Mercer, who goes boat-to-boat to quiz the anglers about their day ahead.
Location: Lake Conroe Park, 14968 TX 105, Montgomery
Come early to take in all of the pre-show entertainment including live updates from the lake and more. Baseball's fourth largest Jumbotron® will highlight the drama as the competition unfolds. What could be better than sitting in a major league ballpark and seeing the world's best anglers weigh in their catch?
Doors at Minute Maid Park open at 3 p.m. each day.
Location: 501 Crawford St., Houston
See the latest, greatest gear and boats, including the newest Skeeter Boats. You can meet the Skeeter Boats pros in the booth, too.
For more on the expo located at George R. Brown Convention Center click here.
Location: 1001 Avenida de las Americas, Houston.
In the meantime, get your boat show fix at skeeterboats.com. You can request a brochure or download a catalog, build your dream rig, and get Skeeter Team merchandise to wear to the shows. Got a question? They've got answers at the Skeeter factory in Kilgore, Texas. Call (903) 984-0541, or find the nearest dealer here.
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Column: Did You Think John Ashcroft Wasn't Serious About Guns?News at Home
The dashing dog, as one might expect, is Attorney General John Ashcroft, whose Senate confirmation in February, 2001 was touted by one conservative group as"a warmup for when George W. Bush nominates a strict constructionist to the Supreme Court." A hefty serving of Ashcroft's much-vaunted strict constructionism soon hit the plate, for example, when before the Senate he defended W.'s plan for military tribunals which erased quaint constitutional niceties such as presumption of innocence and a defendant's right to choose counsel. Those among the"voices of negativism" who didn't like it, said the A.G. above a chorus of God Bless America, could shove it.
The rabbit is the reinterpretation of the Second Amendment as understood by Supreme Courts, Justice Departments, and legal scholars since 1939. It was in that year, in United States v. Miller, that the high Court frowned on folks toting around sawed-off shotguns and decided Congress had the constitutional right to do something about it. Weenies, all nine of 'em; probably the products of day care and insufficient school prayer.
The Court not uncuriously ruled that the Second Amendment protected gun-ownership rights only in"some reasonable relationship to the preservation of efficiency of a well-regulated militia." This indeed was scantly curious for the simple reason that the Constitution states"the right of the people to keep and bear arms" stands in firm relationship to the necessity of"a well-regulated militia." Holy Mary Mother of God, what a poser.
But a year ago in a letter to the National Rifle Association our deconstructionist strict constructionist Attorney General wrote that he"believe[d] the amendment's plain meaning and original intent" were contrary to the express law of the land generally since 1791 and specifically since U.S. v. Miller. That was the opening shot across the bow of reason which everybody knew would be pursued, in time, more officially. And, again as everybody knows, he has now done just that. Say what you like about the lad, but John never disappoints.
Last Monday, May 6, Ashcroft filed briefs with the Supreme Court through Solicitor General Ted Olson that set out to correct the typically sloppy writing by the framers of the Constitution."The Second Amendment more broadly protects the rights of individuals," he waxed legally,"including persons who are not members of any militia or engaged in active military service or training."
What was Ashcroft's specific thinking as to why Jim Madison & Associates bothered to mention militias? Dear friend, your guess is as good as mine, for John, Ted, and (wouldn't it be nice?) secretary Alice put this" current position of the United States" quite literally in a footnote. Nevertheless Olson instructed that we, by-God, should already know what Ashcroft's thinking was. When declining discussion of the footnoted upheaval of decades-old law, he said, simply,"The briefs speak for themselves." Oh. Got it.
No one should be surprised at the manner in which this administration officially introduced its odd version of strict constructionism on the right of nearly anyone to own guns--which, incidentally, in 1999 alone took half as many American lives as were lost in Vietnam. Bush II's penchant for back-dooring its more beloved policies into the limelight is not only not new, it's routine. The White House's most fundamental policy is to speechify about this and that policy to gain the confidence of the unsuspecting, then quietly zip off an executive order or dispatch some memo-leaking factotum to undo what the public believed was undoable. We've witnessed the ploy time and again, on everything from environmental regulations to ... you name it.
Though unsurprising, why the administration opted for this tired tactic on the issue of guns, of all things, is an open question. The change in 60-year-old policy was coming and everyone knew it was coming. When you get a gazillion dollars in NRA campaign finance it's considered sporting to return the favor. So why not just be obvious about the obvious? Far from inconceivable, of course, is that Karl Rove is now happily engaged in surveying and focus-grouping public reaction to determine the next step's timing.
The optional guess is this: For Bush II the tactic was but pathological. Short of"throw[ing] red meat to the gun lobby," as one gun-control advocate characterized it, there was no good reason for back-dooring the new official stance. And that's likely all the footnote will amount to tactically for now, since in neither case up for appeal did the government urge a Supreme Court review. Still, Bush and Justice Department minions eventually will plunge ahead and do in court more brazenly what they damn well want to do anyway. The public's welfare doesn't matter. The administration may have a debt to repay, but in this instance, for this crowd, it's an eminently digestible one.
In short, we've only witnessed another manifestation of Up-Yours Ideology, pathologically grounded in entitlement and the mere jolly-good fun of game playing. That's my guess.
© Copyright 2002 P. M. Carpenter
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Chris Messner - 5/21/2002
"that guns are much more dangerous than telephones or computers."
The point you miss is that, in the infomation age, a coputer or phone can be much more devastating than a gun, as now you can in rapid order get information from a computer or telephone on how to make bombs from household chemicals to blow up buildings. I recall a Jewish man lynched in the South due to newspaper rants (not guns), I also recall the US going to war under the significant influence of newspapers during the Spanish American War. Please remember, 'the pen is mightier than the sword', or the gun, in the long run.
Rhett Nack - 5/20/2002
How true. Let's make Charleton King and get rid of Congress, the President, and those pesky amendments 1 and 3-10 with all their long and hard-to-spell words.
pilgrimbob - 5/19/2002
Talk about illogical! Revolutions are started by ideas not guns. Ideas can be spread very effectively by telephones and computers. Ergo telephones and computers should be regulated by the moronic reasoning of the left. Guns are tool. It the mind that contols the hand which controls the trigger which determines if the gun is used for good or ill. Considering the record of governments I prefer that private citizens be armed.
Peter K. Boucher - 5/16/2002
Emerson v. US is the current case before the Supreme Court in which Olsen's dreaded footnote appears. US v. Emerson is the case that Emerson lost in the 5th Circuit, the conclusions of which Olsen's dreaded footnote expounds.
Clayton E. Cramer - 5/16/2002
"The holding in Emerson, emphasizing the individual nature of the right to bear arms, breaks no new ground. Even most collective rights theorists - and the Emerson court itself - acknowledge that the maintenance of a state militia required protection of the individual right to private ownership of firearms."
This statement is incorrect. Collective rights theorists have consistently denied that there was an individual right of any sort, from when it was hatched in a Harvard Law Review article in 1900, right up to the arguments advanced by the Clinton Administration in the Emerson appeal, and the amicus brief offered by Professors Michael Bellesiles, Saul Cornell, et. al. in that same case.
"What Ashcroft/Olson have done - as those who posted here would realize had they read the government's brief - is substitute their political agenda for legal reasoning. They have disregarded all precedent and the language of the Second Amendment - literally in a footnote."
This statement is also incorrect. Until City of Salina v. Blaksley (Kan. 1905), there was not a single court decision anywhere in the U.S. that denied an individual rights view. A small number of the decisions believed that the right could be limited to weapons appropriate to militia use, and restrictions on concealed carrying of arms were widely accepted. But the claim that the right was collective in nature was manufactured in the 20th century.
"Emerson just didn't quite say what Ashcroft/Olson and the NRA wish it did." Actually, NRA didn't take a position concerning the federal law in dispute in Emerson.
"There is nothing about the Second Amendment that precludes regulation of the manufacture, sale and distribution of firearms." "No gun law has ever been struck down on Second Amendment grounds." Wrong on both counts. State v. Nunn (Ga. 1846), for example, was a state ban on sale of concealable handguns, and it was struck down as a violation of the Second Amendment.
Clayton E. Cramer - 5/16/2002
I didn't claim that gun control would have prevented the Civil War, but that the fact that it failed to prevent it is held against me.
If this person who is afraid to use his real name would actually bother to read any of the history of the period, he would find that fear of government oppression -- not the desire to protect militias -- was the origin of the Second Amendment. You can start out by reading Blackstone's _Commentaries on the Laws of England_ concerning the importance of the right to keep and bear arms. Read the New Hampshire request as well -- not a word about militias. Consider Samuel Adams's request at the Massachusetts ratifying convention -- not tied to militias, either. This "Common Sense" seems to have no knowledge of the history of the Second Amendment.
Clayton E. Cramer - 5/16/2002
We require a license to drive a car on public roads. If you want to drive a car on private property, few (any?) states require a license--even though automobiles are a factor in more deaths than guns. Of course, the right to drive doesn't have its own amendment to the constitution.
Common Sense - 5/15/2002
It appears that to illogic and ignorance we can now add forgetfulness. Clayton Cramer's first posting to this comment series claims that the Second Amendment would have prevented the Holocaust, the Soviet Gulag, the Armenian and Cambodian genocides, and the East Timor slaughter. This is not "all human evils" (he left out Guernica and My Lai, for example), but measured in numbers of lives it covers a very high percentage - for an constitutional provision that was actually designed to protect the militias of 18th century Virginia and Massachusetts, etc., not to stop war and massacre (except in NRA Fantasyland ).
Common Sense - 5/15/2002
The point, for anyone who may be confused by Mr. Cramer's disjointed ramblings, is that guns are much more dangerous than telephones or computers.
Of course, any technology can be used for good or ill. Walking shoes can protect feet or damage flowers, for example. But we don't require a state license to walk whereas we do require one for driving a car.
Jacob Goldfinger - 5/15/2002
The holding in Emerson, emphasizing the individual nature of the right to bear arms, breaks no new ground. Even most collective rights theorists - and the Emerson court itself - acknowledge that the maintenance of a state militia required protection of the individual right to private ownership of firearms.
Even unmoored from the limits of the militia conception of the Second Amendment, the individual right is clearly subject to regulation, as Emerson notes.
What Ashcroft/Olson have done - as those who posted here would realize had they read the government's brief - is substitute their political agenda for legal reasoning. They have disregarded all precedent and the language of the Second Amendment - literally in a footnote. Strict constructionism? Ha!
At the same time, they said the Supreme Court needs not test that principle now, they said. Of course not; the government won in the lower court. Emerson just didn't quite say what Ashcroft/Olson and the NRA wish it did. (Remember when Ashcroft recused himself from Enron-related inquiries because of campaign contributions he received from the company? Well he's received even more from the NRA. But that's another issue.)
The entire Second Amendment debate is quite boring from a legal/constitutional perspective. There is nothing about the Second Amendment that precludes regulation of the manufacture, sale and distribution of firearms. The NRA knows this, and is effective because it AVOIDS litigation. It does this by demonizing gun-control advocates, even though there is nobody in the federal government who has advocated repealing individual gun rights: not Charles Schumer, not Diane Feinstein, not Bill Clinton or Al Gore or Janet Reno. Nobody.
The NRA wins the political battles; it has never won the legal battles, because there is really no constitutional debate. No gun law has ever been struck down on Second Amendment grounds.
Peter - 5/15/2002
Yes. Thanks for the correction.
norman heath - 5/15/2002
Proponents of the "collectivist" or "states' right" readings of the Second Amendment always begin, middle, and end by attacking the "individual right" reading, leaving out the part where they support their own interpretation by demonstrating the existence of a collective or states' right in actual law. They rarely even bother to theorize what the contours of their own interpretation would be. They know what they are opposed to, but they have no coherent model for what they support.
It is not sufficient for P.M. Carpenter to tell us which interpretation he rejects. If he believes the Second Amendment reserves some power to the states, let him provide us examples of a state asserting standing under this amendment. Let him provide an example of a federal law being struck down as an unconstitutional infringement on the states' right to maintain a militia. Let him show us where this states' or collective right actually exists and has been asserted.
I have catalogued numerous examples of actual militia/federalism controversies. In such controversies, the existence of a state "right" to maintain a militia over federal interference has invariably been rejected by the courts, starting with the Supreme Court in 1820. See my article, "Exposing the Second Amendment: Federal Preemption of State Militia Legislation," 79 UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY LAW REVIEW 39.
Mr. Carpenter has his thesis: 'the 2nd Am protects state militia.' Now let him prove his thesis like the doctoral candidate he is -- let him search the library and show us that under law the amendment actually does preserve state power over the militia.
J. Norman Heath
Clayton E. Cramer - 5/15/2002
"Telephones and computers are not designed for the purpose of killing."
This statement has a number of serious problems. The most blatant is that there are times that killing is a very good thing. Ask the Jews of Warsaw who decided to be primitive and fight back against the Nazis. Ask freedmen who fought back--with guns--against the Klan. Ask Harriet Tubman, who made hundreds of trips South to lead slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad--and she usually carried a rifle.
Clayton E. Cramer - 5/15/2002
I'm confused. Where did I suggest that the Second Amendment was a magic pill that solved all human evils?
Clayton E. Cramer - 5/15/2002
USA v. Emerson, not Emerson v. US.
Pierre S. Troublion - 5/15/2002
Telephones and computers are not designed for the purpose of killing. Beyond problems of illogic we may be dealing here with an ignorance of basic 20th century technology.
Squanto - 5/15/2002
Many hundreds of thousands of white men died in a big war of the 1860s between Old Glory and Stars and Bars (for those "pilgrim bobs" who know no American history this has been called the Civil War) and the Second Amendment did not save them because it was irrelevant to that war (and to Auschwitz and Rwanda, but not to Columbine High School).
Alec Lloyd - 5/15/2002
So the Civil War is now the fault of the Second Amendment? Fascinating. If anyone is going to win the illogic olympics, it's you guys.
Mr. Cramer is correct. The fact that most of the world curtails the freedom of its own people is not a good reason for us to join them. I should think a rational person would prize their liberties that much more.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety"
---Benjamin Franklin
Apparently our pseudonymus correspondants (why do the rude ones always hide their names?) are willing to make the false trade the Founders rejected.
I might just as easily argue that the First Amendment is a dangerous anachronism given the growth and ease of information transmittal. If the Founders couldn't forsee school shootings, they certainly had no idea bomb-making information could be quickly and easily transferred around the globe.
Better to pull down the Internet than risk another terrorist strike. How many buildings must fall before we take action?
Indeed, we may also want to license newspaper editors, perhaps subjecting them to background checks as well. Speech can kill, as Hitler and Lenin have so amply proven (not to mention fringe wackos who win unsuspecting converts to their cause).
Surely no one would object to the federal registration and licensing of all communication devices, with felons and the mentally unstable forbidden from using computers or telephones. The risk of them coordinating some crime is simply too great. If we had had strict Internet and cell phone registration, the Sept. 11 attacks might never have happened.
Indeed, people wishing to have these dangerous devices should be rigorously screened and subject to fingerprinting and background checks. Unauthorized users should be fully prosecuted. Perhaps we should also add a "need" clause to this law. Humanity lacked cell phones for thousands of years. Who really "needs" them anyway?
After all, none of these devices existed back in 1789 and restricting their use would in no way infringe on true "speech." People could still SAY whatever they wanted, they simply wouldn't be allowed to transmit inappropriate thoughts, ideas or criminal plans.
Just think of how much safer we'll all be.
pilgrimbob - 5/15/2002
Common Sense ( what a misnomer) and j cuepublic fail utterly to rebut Mr. Cramer's arguments. Not suprising since Cramer understands American history and has a rational mind. Nonsence and public can only rant and rave since the facts and the law are against them
Common Sense - 5/14/2002
Mr. Cramer's monocausal fantasy proves nothing. Was the great and glorious and all-encompassing second amendment in some sort of suspension between 1861-65 when, as I recall, a few Americans died as the result of a small dispute involving governmental power ?
Peter - 5/14/2002
This is exactly the kind of opinion piece I would expect from a doctoral candidate at a second rate university.
Where is the mention of Emerson vs. US?
It wasn't THAT long ago. As a matter of FACT, it was November 2, 2001.
You'll definitely get your doctorate degree after this piece of politically biased crap. You deserve it.
Read the decision here:
Clayton E. Cramer - 5/14/2002
If the Second Amendment is an anachronism, like those other
examples, then there is a process for amending it. Use that
process if you think it is appropriate.
It is not at all clear, however, that it is an anachronism.
The purpose of guaranteeing a right to keep and bear arms was
to make sure that the populace had the power to protect
themselves from criminals both public and private. The 20th
century was filled with examples of what happens when you
grant unlimited power to a government: Auschwitz; the Gulag
Archipelago; the Khmer Rouge; the Armenian genocide; East Timor.
There are also plenty of examples of what happens when the government does nothing to protect minorities: such as the recent tribal massacres in Burundi; lynchings throughout the South; race riots that destroyed thriving and sometimes even prosperious black communities in the U.S.; what happened to Koreatown in Los Angeles, where the police disarmed many shopkeepers, who were thus prevented from protecting their property from looters and vandals.
The evils that the Second Amendment was intended to prevent have not gone away.
J. Cuepublic - 5/14/2002
The second Amendment, like the electoral college or black slaves being equal to 3/5 of free whites (Article 1, section 2, paragraph 3), is an anachronism. Unless you "think", as the NRA does, that the rest of the civilized world consists of handwringing, irrelevant ranters who are too foolish to know how to properly worship at the alter of personal gun ownership.
Clayton E. Cramer - 5/14/2002
"The rabbit is the reinterpretation of the Second Amendment as understood by Supreme Courts, Justice Departments, and legal scholars since 1939. It was in that year, in United States v. Miller, that the high Court frowned on folks toting around sawed-off shotguns and decided Congress had the constitutional right to do something about it."
Well, no. Miller is a masterpiece of avoiding the issue, and decided quite a bit less than Mr. Carpenter thinks. Miller and Layton, the defendants, were not represented before the Court. Why? Because they had been released by the trial judge who had ruled that the National Firearms Act of 1934 violated the Second Amendment. The Supreme Court did not rule that NFA34 was constitutional; what they ruled was that the trial judge had erred in taking it under judicial notice (rather than asking for expert testimony or other evidence) that a sawed-off shotgun was a protected weapon. All that Miller really decided was that the trial judge had screwed up, and ordered retrial of the question.
What is also interesting is what a long and involved decision Miller was, if the right in question was a right of the states to maintain militias. The decision could have been simplified dramatically, perhaps to something as simple as, "The right in question is only that of the states, not of individuals. Mr. Miller was not a member of the Arkansas National Guard, therefore the Second Amendment has no relevance to the constitutionality of the National Firearms Act." But Miller made no such simple decision. Instead, it considered the question of whether a sawed-off shotgun was a militia type of weapon -- not at all the sort of question that would matter if the Second Amendment didn't protect an individual right.
The list of decisions that appears in Miller is a list that only the Solicitor General could have come up with -- and yet nearly every one of those decisions acknowledged that the right to keep and bear arms was an individual right -- not a right of the states. If you want to know more about Miller and the case law that leads up to it, my book _For the Defense of Themselves and the State: The Original Intent and Judicial Interpretation of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms_ (Praeger Press, 1994) will be illuminating. The trial judge in USA v. Emerson (N.D.Texas 1999) thought so; he cited it as an authority when ruling that the Second Amendment protected an individual right. That position was upheld by the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2001.
Mr. Carpenter thinks that the Bush Administration has taken a position contrary to that of legal scholars. Actually, the vast majority of published scholarship on this subject agrees with the individual rights view. Laurence Tribe, hardly a right-winger, has come around to this view. Akil Reed Amar, another liberal law professor, has done likewise. While there is disagreement about what are the appropriate limits of that individual right, only the most rigid gun control advocates are still insisting that the Second Amendment protects an right of the states. Even Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) has recently acknowledged this! (The sky is going to fall, the sky is going to fall!)
Alec Lloyd - 5/14/2002
This article is a poorly thought-out and utterly worthless rant.
Setting aside the author's visceral hatred of the President (which is utterly irrelevant), the case for the Second Amendment being an individual right is incontrovertible.
The text reads: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Now this amendment is unique insofar as it is the ONLY part of the Bill of Rights where the words "the people" have been contorted to mean something else. Yet so strong and illogical is the gun-control movement, that this elementary language eludes them.
If it were meant to convey a "collective" right, why put "the people" in there? Who are "the people" to which this refers? When the Founders meant "the states" they wrote "the states." Somehow, we are expected to believe that a preamble is the subject and that when the Founders wrote one thing, they really meant something completely different.
In the Tenth Amendment, the Founders clearly divide the states and the people, yet here we are expected to believe "people" means "states."
So what we have is an argument that in the First, Fourth, Ninth and Tenth Amendments, when the Founders wrote "people" they meant "people" but in the Second when they wrote "people" they really meant "states."
Handwringing aside, what the Bush Administration has done is restore a long-eroded right. Like all rights, it can be abused, but that is no excuse for curtailing it.
Lonnie Jaycox - 5/13/2002
That the overwhelming majority of americans see the 2nd as protecting an individual's right. What is making the gun control people so angry about this is that they now have to argue this very un-popular position (collective right) in public.
Your squealing is music to my ears on this one.
Common Sense - 5/13/2002
This piece sheds a welcome light an under-illuminated outrage. In the hands of President Dubya, strict constructionism has been turned into strict hypocrisy. At least Daddy George had the guts to stand up to the idiocies of the NRA. I wonder how many of their own children have to be shot up in school before they realize the obvious drawbacks of misreading the Constitution and the obvious differences between 1790 and 2002 ?
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- 4 teaspoons chopped fresh thyme
- 3/4 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper
- 12 large grape leaves from jar, rinsed, patted dry, stemmed
- 3 4- to 5-ounce logs soft fresh goat cheese, each cut crosswise into 4 rounds
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- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
- 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
- 6 large tomatoes, thinly sliced
- 1/3 cup coarsely chopped pitted oil-cured black olives (about 30)
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- 6 1/2-inch-thick slices crusty country-style white bread
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Whisk 1/2 cup oil, thyme, and black pepper in small bowl to blend. Arrange grape leaves, vein side up, on work surface. Dip each cheese round into thyme oil and place in center of 1 grape leaf. Fold sides of leaves over cheese; fold up bottom and continue to roll up, enclosing cheese completely. Arrange wrapped cheeses, seam side down, on platter. Brush lightly with some thyme oil. Cover and chill at least 1 hour. DO AHEAD Can be made 1 day ahead; keep chilled. Cover remaining thyme oil and store at room temperature.
Prepare barbecue (medium-high heat). Whisk 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil, vinegar, and mustard in small bowl to blend. Season dressing with salt and pepper. Slightly overlap tomato slices on large platter. Drizzle with dressing; sprinkle with half of olives.
Place wrapped cheese rounds on grill, seam side down. Grill until cheese softens and leaves begin to char, about 2 minutes per side. Arrange cheeses atop tomatoes. Sprinkle with remaining olives.
Brush bread slices with remaining thyme oil. Grill bread until beginning to brown, turning occasionally, about 5 minutes. Cut toasts diagonally in half. Serve cheese, passing toasts separately.


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Most people know that middle-aged men with high cholesterol levels are prone to heart attacks. What many people don't recognize is that cholesterol is just as dangerous for women and people over age 65.
In the US, coronary artery disease is the leading killer of women (and men). About equal numbers of both sexes contribute to the toll of about 610,000 deaths each year from heart disease. There are some differences, though. For instance, men tend to develop heart attacks earlier, while women usually don't experience them until later in life.
Postmenopausal Changes in Cholesterol
Women rapidly catch up with men with respect to heart disease during menopause. The female sex hormone estrogen tends to raise HDL (good) cholesterol. A woman produces the most estrogen during her childbearing years. During menopause, the body produces less estrogen. At this time, the ample levels of HDL that seem to protect younger women decrease. Other blood fats, such as triglycerides and LDL (bad) cholesterol may start to rise. As a result, most women over age 55 have unhealthy levels of cholesterol as compared to their younger counterparts. These changes at least partly explain why a woman's risk of heart attack more than doubles after menopause.
Better Care for Women and Seniors
Research suggests that cholesterol treatment is at least as effective in preventing heart disease in women and seniors as it is in younger men. It is just as important for women and seniors to monitor their cholesterol levels and make the lifestyle changes that will help them to lower their LDL cholesterol and raise their HDL cholesterol. Lifestyle changes include a heart healthy diet and regular exercise. If you smoke, there are many successful programs that can help you quit. Your doctor may also prescribe medications that lower cholesterol.
Detecting and Controlling High Cholesterol
Current guidelines recommend aggressive drug therapy and lifestyle changes for seniors, with careful attention to individual circumstances. Screening guidelines vary among professional organizations. Age, along with other heart-related risk factors, are assessed for overall cardiovascular disease (or event) risk. Depending on your situation, risk assessment can start as early as age 20. Talk to your doctor about how often you should be assessed. Testing includes a blood test for total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, and triglycerides.
Do you know your cholesterol levels? Do you know how often they should be tested? Though hard numbers are not as much of a focus as the 10-year risk assessment, they are an important component over the overall picture. Check out the tables below to see what the normal and desirable ranges for people without other heart disease risk factor.
|Less than 200 mg/dL (5.2 mmol/L)
|200-239 mg/dL (5.2-6.1 mmol/L)
|Borderline high
|240 mg/dL (6.2 mmol/L) or higher
mg/dL = milligrams per deciliter (mmol/L = millimoles per liter)
|Less than 100 mg/dL (2.6 mmol/L)
|100-129 mg/dL (2.6-3.3 mmol/L)
|Near optimal/above optimal
|130-159 mg/dL (3.4-4.0 mmol/L)
|Borderline high
|160-189 mg/dL (4.1-4.8 mmol/L)
|190 mg/dL (4.9 mmol/L) or higher
|Very high
mg/dL = milligrams per deciliter (mmol/L = millimoles per liter)
|Less than 40 mg/dL (1.0 mmol/L)
|60 mg/dL (1.6 mmol/L) or higher
mg/dL = milligrams per deciliter (mmol/L = millimoles per liter)
|Less than 150 mg/dL (1.7 mmol/L)
|150-199 mg/dL (1.7-2.2 mmol/L)
|Borderline high
|200-499 mg/dL (2.3 mmol/L)
|500 mg/dL (5.7 mmol/L) or higher
|Very high
mg/dL = milligrams per deciliter (mmol/L = millimoles per liter)
If you have other risk factors for heart disease such as diabetes, your doctor may recommend lower target cholesterol levels. Discuss your risk factors and cholesterol goals with your doctor.
Factors That Worsen Cholesterol Risk
If you have unhealthy amounts of cholesterol or other fats in your blood, the guidelines advise treatment based on your level of risk. The most aggressive therapy is warranted for those at highest risk for cardiovascular disease. This includes people with the following conditions:
- Established coronary artery disease
- Hardening of the arteries—atherosclerosis
- History of a stroke or warning stroke
- Diabetes
Lifestyle changes or cholesterol-lowering drugs are also recommended if you have 2 or more factors that increase your risk. These factors include:
- Increased age—men over 45 and women over 55
- Cigarette smoking
- Controlled or uncontrolled high blood pressure
- HDL (good) cholesterol less than 40 mg/dL (1.0 mmol/L)
- Family history of premature heart disease, such as with a brother or father under age 55, or a sister or mother under age 65
Ask your doctor about your cholesterol. It really counts, for women and men of all ages, when it comes to preventing heart disease.
American Heart Association http://www.heart.org
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov
Healthy Canadians—Government of Canada http://www.healthycanadians.gc.ca
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada http://www.heartandstroke.com
At-a-glance: what you need to know about high blood cholesterol. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute website. Available at: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/chol/cholesterol%5Fatglance.pdf. Published August 2009. Accessed June 29, 2017.
Heart disease. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/index.htm. Updated June 13, 2017. Accessed June 29, 2017.
Hypercholesterolemia. EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at: https://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T114250/Hypercholesterolemia . Updated May 20, 2017. Accessed June 29, 2017.
Hypertriglyceridemia. EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at: https://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T115419/Hypertriglyceridemia . Updated April 28, 2017. Accessed June 29, 2017.
Women and cholesterol. American Heart Association website. Available at: http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/Cholesterol/UnderstandYourRiskforHighCholesterol/Women-and-Cholesterol%5FUCM%5F305565%5FArticle.jsp. Updated May 24, 2017. Accessed June 29, 2017.
Revision Information
- Reviewer: EBSCO Medical Review BoardMichael Woods, MD, FAAP
- Review Date: 06/2017
- Update Date: 07/14/2015


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Former NH state representative to plead guilty to drug charges
SALEM, N.H. (AP) � A former state representative from Salem, N.H., has agreed to plead guilty to charges of selling drugs.
Fifty-four-year-old Ronald "Tony" Giordano was scheduled to go to trial next week for allegedly selling the painkiller oxycodone.
He told the Eagle-Tribune (http://bit.ly/Rrz2za ) that he has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors and is scheduled to plead guilty on Feb. 14. His attorney said final details of the agreement are being worked out.
Giordano was a state representative from 2000 to 2002 and was chairman of the Salem Zoning Board of Adjustment at the time of his arrest on felony drug charges in December 2011.
Police said they found more than 100 oxycodone pills while searching Giordano's home.
Information from: Eagle Tribune (North Andover, Mass.), http://www.eagletribune.com


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Salma Hayek and her husband Francois Henri Pinault are in Venice with their daughter Valentina. Elton John, David Furnish, and their sons Zachary and Elijah -- cute! -- have arrived there too. Also, Leonardo DiCaprio who still hasn't outgrown his jump-into-dumpster-when-paps-are-around phase.
What's going on in Venice? Are they there for the Biennale? It kicks off on Saturday and previews start today through Friday. Exhibits from 88 countries will be featured this year, including an Iraqi pavilion, highlighting for the first time "artists living and working in the country, rather than those exiled overseas" and how they're "emerging not only from the crippling effects of invasion and the struggle to exist in a postwar world of fragile security, but from years of the dead hand of the Saddam regime, when the only art training available was deeply conservative and tinged by a prevailing social-realist aesthetic". Click here to read a really interesting article about the process of curating Iraq's pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
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You can typically smell the aromas of the lemony-minty hamud that has been cooking for hours on the stove of a Syrian Jewish household on a Friday afternoon.
Hamud is the Syrian version of the Ashkenaz chicken soup. It includes a medley of usually 3 vegetables- carrots, potatoes, and celery, treasured kibbe balls are thrown in midway-and is served over white or brown rice.
The kibbe ball was always an art form and a source of pride for every Syrian Jewish mom, and rightfully so. It represented the love and time spent on each dish prepared for the family, especially on a Friday night. I'm sure that 99 percent of my generation's Syrian women do remember that their mothers and grandmother used to sit at the dinette table rolling their kibbe homda balls to perfection, nowadays, the time to make the kibbe balls has eroded as the women run out to work, exercise, or run on daily errands. These errands usually incude a trip to the local kosher butcher in Brooklyn, NY who hire ladies to roll and pack the kibbe ball for us. You can even find turkey kibbe balls on the market today.
As a side note, I remember the day that I asked my husband's grandmother to teach me how to make kibbe balls. She told me where to buy the 2 kinds of meat that we needed for the kibbes. I must have purchased the meat on a Monday, left it in the fridge, and gotten involved with shopping and manicures for 4 or 5 days. On Friday, I proudly brought over the meat. It had turned brown and slightly smelly by then, but as a new bride, I hardly noticed. Well. needless to say, she sent me right home with that meat! I don't think she ever got around to teaching me how to roll the kibbes, but I did learn that you shouldn't leave raw meat sitting in the fridge for a week.
I would love to see our families preserve as much of our Syrian Jewish heritage, especially with all of the horrible news reports about the destruction in Aleppo and Damascus which was the home for our Syrian Jewish community for thousands of years. For interesting info about what's happened to our communities' rich cultural structures and heritage in Aleppo and Damascus click over to this article by Tablet Magazine written by fellow community member Joseph Dana over in Israel.
Here are some kibbe homda variations sent in by some ladies of our community. Below is the Instagram thread that started this whole post! Please send in your kibbe homda variations to marlene (at) thejewishhostess.com and I will add them in.
By the way- you can always see what The Jewish Hostess Hostess is up to- just follow me on Instagram!
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Deal Delights Cookbook Adaptation for Hamud:
1- This is the version the I use from the red Deal Delights cookbook. I've added 1/2 cup of tamarind sauce (ourt) and a whole potato that boils with the mixture and gets mashed at the end to add to the thickness of the sauce.
Hamud Ingredients:
- 1 qt water
- 1 large potato – cubed
- 1 large whole potato
- 2 stalks celery cubed
- 2 carots peeled and diced
- 2-4 cloves garlic
- juice of 2 lemons
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- palmful of crushed mint leaves
Bring vegetables to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes.
Crush garlic with the back of a pyrex cup and mash with kosher salt. Add to vegetables.
Add lemon juice and mint leaves. Simmer for 10 minutes. Add 1/2 cup of tamarind sauce (I love Mrs Maslaton's ourt sold at Kosher Corner in Brooklyn).
Cook for about 1 hour covered.
Add kibbe – simmer uncovered about 1/2 hour- 45 minutes.
Mash the whole potato when soft to add to thicker consistency.
2- Kibbe Homda Recipe by Odette Tebele Rishty:
"Probably the toughest recipe ever …to give exact measurements and directions for. All grandmas give it over like this… Then you put the lemon juice and we say how much sito? And they say 'just put!'. Then you put the salt and we say how much and they say 'just put!' haha. The point is to know exactly what you want it to taste like and a cook who is comfortable in their kitchen and is experienced with food will get it.
I don't have time to give directions- I think anyone can figure it out if they make Hamud ! All mom's son in laws and grandchildren loved this Hamud the best! Egyptian son in law included! She'd get visits for leftovers from son in laws and older grandchildren and grandchildren bringing her great grandchildren for another taste even on a Monday for leftovers!
- Lots Celery
- Lots Carrots
- 1 lg onion onion small slithers cook til just clear not more(that is the first thing in the pot with a little oil )
- Water fill till half of pot (med to large pot)
- 1 marrow bone this adds tons of flavor
- 1Can of tomato sauce (small can for med pot , large can for a really big pot)
- Lemon juice (at least two cups maybe more will be needed as you go along)
- 2-3 tablespoons of sugar
- 1 peeled potato cut up in small chunks
- Crushed garlic 3-4 cloves ,dry mint leaves crushed kosher salt and oil 1-2 tbsp to make paste and add to Hamood soup as cooking
- Probably will need to add salt a few times.
Taste and add ingredients if needed after a good 15 minute boil. Then add kibbes when ur happy with the taste (so your not meat for the day- If you need to still have coffee & the like )Then allow it to cook for at least 45 min covered slightly ajar .. .Bubbling slightly then lower the flameMy sister variated to this and I honed in on it – and asked her secret -she added a fresh lemon and a fresh lime (either or can be used but i use both including the juicy inside
(for a really big Hamud pot I would say not to double the ingredients- a little less than double)
When I was finally able to make Hamud good everytime it was my proudest moment to be able to carry on the tradition!
My mom's magic is working– to keep a family coming back for visits– now my married daughter makes sure to come back for Hamood and tries to even take some home after shabbat for my granddaughter who just started eating regular food — she loves it too!!!Happy hamud perfecting! May the tradition-carrying force be with you! "
Odette (Tebele )Rishty
3- Kibbe Homda by Lisa Ades:
Sour Spearmint Sauce/Soup with Meatballs (Hamud) by Lisa Ades
- 5 medium boiling potatoes, peeled and cut in
- 1 lb ground beef
- salt
- 1 1/2-inch pieces
- 3 stalks celery, diced
- 1 lb. veal stew meat, cut into 1 1/2-inch pieces
- 1-2 cups fresh lemon juice
- 1 head garlic, clves peeled and minced
- 1/2 cup dried spearmint
- 1/2 cup sugar
Place ground beef in a large bowl. Season with salt, mix well, then
shape into 1″ meatballs. Cover with plastic wrap and set aside.
Place potatoes, celery, veal, lemon juice, garlic, spearmint, and sugar
in a large pot. Add 8 cups water and bring to a boil over high heat.
Reduce heat to low, add meatballs, cover, and simmer, stirring
occasionally, for 1 hour. Using a long-handled spoon, stir soup,
mashing potatoes just enough to slightly thicken soup. Cover and
continue cooking until veal is tender, about 2 hours more.
Adjust seasoning with additional salt, sugar and lemon juice, if
necessary. Ladle into bowls or serve over rice.
4- Jen Ashkenazi- from my grandma's cookbook:
"Cooking with Grandma" was made by the Children & Grandchildren of Marjorie Ashkenazie A"H. We were all able to pick our favorite recipe from our Grandmother & write a small story from the memories that brought us back to that recipe . This cookbook is my favorite tool in the kitchen because I know my grandmother is watching over me & guiding me in the correct direction .
"Cooking With Grandma" can be purchased online from the below Link ;
5- Kibbe Homda by Sara Ash
- Water
- Crushed garlic
- Lemon juice real lemon
- Kosher salt
- Fresh mint
- Chopped celery carrots potatoes
- Jerusalem glatt kibbe balls bought from the kosher butcher on East 8 in Brooklyn, NY.
Fill medium size pot 3/4 full w/ water crushed garlic and salt bring to boil . Add 1 bunch of fresh mint chopped ..bring to boil add lemon juice from bottle count to 12 .
My families favorite I never make enough!"


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LMFAO.......I dont understand how people can buy that argument. I know you army types ar allergic to anything air force but maybe you should come and see how our amalgamations worked out. The "super tech" things didnt exactly work out. In fact, the process has started to undo some of it."Jacks of all trades, masters of none"
You mean the 500 series
First off, First-line maintenance does not mean you open radios up. so if you suspect a radio is N/S you replace it and send it back to be repaired. 2nd line would be replacing cards etc. I know the reserve supply/repair system is a little messed up, but the only person who should be opening a radio is the person sitting in front of a test bench (read IFR). Otherwise you risk breaking the device further, argue all you want, if I caught someone opening a radio who shouldn't be, I'd have their...
At this point it's a lot of hearsay anyway. I got the same brief here in Kingston... and at that point nothing definitive was in place, nor a concrete timeline. My advice don't get to wrapped around the axle over what you hear, just wait it out, for now there is no point worrying about it now.
What kind of postings are available for IT? Just D troop?
I signed up for a career as a tech and then I got to basic and heard the 'soldier first' motto.