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The Red Asian seaweed is creating problems for the fishing industry as it gums lobster traps and fishing pots while displacing marine creatures that feed on native seaweed varieties.
"It's outcompeting them," said Matt Bracken, a Northeastern University biologist who is studying the spread of the plant known scientifically as heterosiphonia japonica.
"It's better at taking up nutrients, it grows more readily and is not eaten as readily by animals like snails and small crustaceans," he said in an interview on Friday.
High school students in Maine recently collected Red Asian seaweed off the coast of Cape Elizabeth, near Portland, Maine, the farthest north it has yet been found. It has been sighted as far south as New York's Long Island. Some New England beaches have been blanketed with the seaweed, which emits a bad smell when it dries out.
Red seaweed is native to the waters around Japan and the Korean peninsula and scientists believe it arrived in Europe in the early 1980s, probably in France in a load of live baby oysters that were grown in aquaculture farms.
It has since spread as far south and east as Venice, Italy, on the Adriatic Sea and as far north as upper Scandinavia.
It likely spread from Europe to Rhode Island in the seawater used as ballast for cargo ships, scientists said.
Craig Schneider, who studies seaweed at Trinity College in Connecticut, first identified the red seaweed while walking the beach in Charlestown, Rhode Island in 2009. "I saw this plant and said, 'I don't know this, I don't know what this is,'" he said.
"I brought it back to the lab and I knew in five seconds after looking under the microscope: oh no, this probably came from Europe."
The seaweed is likely to rapidly spread as far north as Newfoundland and as far south as North Carolina, Bracken said. In Norway researchers found that the seaweed, which clones itself asexually, extended its range up the coast by 500 miles in five years, he said.
Halting the red seaweed's spread in the ocean will be difficult. Bracken said sea urchins, which are voracious seaweed eaters, could help contain the species. However, sea urchin levels have declined sharply in the North Atlantic after fishermen began harvesting the species in recent years to sell urchins to Asian consumers, he said.
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Cold snap damages some of Calif. $1.5B citrus crop
Updated at 4:08 p.m. ET
FRESNO, Calif. As an unusual cold gripped the West Coast for the fifth day, some California citrus growers began to see damage on Monday while strong winds added to the misery of bundled-up city residents.
The extreme chill in the West comes as the Eastern U.S., from Atlanta to New York City, is seeing spring-like weather.
In the San Joaquin Valley, where farmers are fighting to protect about $1.5 billion worth of citrus fruit on their trees, Sunday temperatures dropped to 25 degrees in some areas and stayed low longer than previous nights.
Prolonged temperatures in the mid-20's or below cause damage to citrus crops.
"It was our coldest night to date," said Paul Story of Exeter-based California Citrus Mutual, an association of the state's 3,900 citrus growers. "I think mandarin growers are going to see a range of significant damage, enough that they will have to separate their crops."
Mandarins are more susceptible to cold than other citrus and start to freeze at about 32 degrees, Story said. Because many mandarin trees were planted in recent years as the fruit's popularity soared, they are grown in colder areas outside the traditional citrus belt.
Other citrus crops saw little or minimal damage, Story said. This year's high sugar content in oranges helped protect them, he said, because sugar inhibits freezing.
Growers deployed wind machines to keep the warm air closer to the ground and irrigation to raise the temperature in the groves. Rows farthest away from the protection could be damaged, Story said. And farmers who do not have wind machines could lose crops.}
Before the cold snap set in, grower Ben Taft told CBS News correspondent Carter Evans Thursday he could harvest only 30 percent of his oranges before the temperature plunged.
"It's the cost of doing business," said Taft. "You enjoy the great times, and you suffer through the bad times."
The last "bad time" was six years ago, a hard freeze that lasted five days. "We lost everything," Taft recalled.
Lindsey-based Robert LoBue who grows 1,000 acres of citrus, including mandarins said wind machines were critical in his groves, but saving the crop doesn't come cheap. LoBue runs one wind machine for every 10 acres and has to employ a crew to man them.
"We're very diligent, we run the wind and water all night," LoBue said, "but we're spending thousands of dollars to protect these crops."
And farmers are on the hook for a fifth cold night: a freeze warning remains in effect until 10 a.m. Tuesday for central California.
In Southern California, strong winds helped to keep crops out of danger by keeping the cold from settling.
Temperatures in downtown Los Angeles plummeted to 34 degrees, breaking the previous record of 36 degrees set on Jan. 14, 2007.
Winds gusted to 41 mph in Riverside, while Santa Ana and Van Nuys reported gusts to 26 mph.
In Angeles National Forest, where overnight temperatures have been dropping into the 20s, Arcadia hiker Danny Kim, 28, was found Sunday night after surviving 26 hours in the frigid West Fork wilderness. Kim was airlifted to a hospital for treatment of hypothermia.
The body of a homeless man was found just before dawn Monday on a Los Angeles Skid Row sidewalk, but it was unclear if the death was caused by the record cold.
In Beverly Hills, fans brought heavy coats and scarves as they waited along the red carpet hoping to catch glimpses of stars arriving for the Golden Globes ceremony Sunday evening. Some of the actors shivered but weren't complaining.
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"I'd rather be nippy than boiling hot," said actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who arrived in a strapless dress. "No, I'm not wearing any leggings or long underwear."
In San Diego, zookeepers offered extra heat and shelter for some animals.
The cold air was flowing east into neighboring Arizona, where metropolitan Phoenix was marking one of its coldest stretches in years. Temperatures over the weekend dipped to 30 degrees at Sky Harbor International Airport and fell well below zero in mountainous Flagstaff.

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The Nu Iota Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. will hold its eighth annual �Young Man of the Year� Mr. Beautillion program at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Rochelle Middle School Gymnasium.
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The six young men competing are Kinston High School sophomore Rodney Aytch, son of Simona Waters, escorted by Kiara Sanders; Johnnie Roberson, a junior at North Lenoir High School, son of Johnnie and Nicole Roberson, escorted by Ioianna Conner; Markise Sutton, a junior at North Lenoir, son of Billy and Nekeya Sutton, escorted by Shanequa Sheppard; Charles Smith, a junior at North Lenoir, son of Mrs. Koren Koonce, escorted by Alexis Robinson; Jaikwann Morgan, a junior at North Lenoir, son of Charmaine Morgan, escorted by Ayshalai Supel; and Devonta Gatland, a sophomore at North Lenoir, son of Geraldine Rouse, escorted by his sister, Trivia Atkins.
The program is a foundational launch for young African American men to learn the characteristics of being gentlemen, the art of speech and the portrayal of confidence in social and formal settings. The competition began in September with a workshop on etiquette, interviewing skills, dress for success and the sexual responsibilities and consequences of such acts for young men.
They also spent a weekend Nov. 10-11 in Savannah, Ga. They visited and toured Savannah State University, the Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum, and participated in the youth spirit service at First African Baptist Church, the first black congregational church in North America. They also dined at Paula Deen�s The Lady & Son�s Restaurant.
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Well, at least President Mohamed Morsy knows when to retreat. Last week, basking in the glow of having helped broker a cease-fire in Gaza, Morsy issued a decree that in essence gave Egypt's president power over the judiciary. But in the face of growing street protests, he now appears to be backpedaling away from that brazen push for broad new powers.
Morsy's camp argued that this decree was just a stop-gap measure to allow the transition to proceed more smoothly and ensure that the constitution gets written. But history has few examples of leaders grabbing power in the course of a revolution only to hand it over to someone else "later." Egyptians rightly took to the streets to protest against the coming of a new pharaoh. Some carried posters of Morsy's face morphed with that of Mubarak.
Faced with growing street protests, a slew of resignations from senior government officials, a drop of nearly 10 percent in the stock market, and a looming strike from the judiciary, Morsy prudently seems to have compromised. This week, he agreed to continued judicial oversight over most matters although he did retain the right to stop the judiciary from dissolving parliament's upper house as well as the constitutional assembly. However, uncertainty over what, exactly, the decree now means still remains.
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The constitutional assembly, dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood, has suffered significant attrition as about 25 percent of members – mostly progressives – have resigned in protest at the way the Islamists are dominating the process. Along with members, the assembly has been losing credibility; rumors abound that the judiciary was planning on dissolving it. But Morsy must realize that he can't just decree stability. Indeed, undermining the country's existing rule of law could be the most destabilizing path.
While the street protests undoubtedly got Morsy's attention, I can't help but wonder how much of an influence raw economics has played in this evolution of events. An IMF team was in Cairo over the past few weeks trying to wrap up the final details on a much-needed $4.8 billion loan. As I've previously noted, Egypt has experienced a worrisome deterioration in foreign currency reserves and faces a balance of payments crisis. Recent commitments from Qatar and Turkey have helped stabilize the country's difficult financial situation, but its current level of reserves at $15.5 billion is still down by more than half since the end of 2010. The IMF loan is important not only because it's a sizable package, but also because its seal of approval can unlock other capital flows. The loan had been previously held up for reasons that include political instability.
At the beginning of last week, Egypt announced that it had tentatively secured the long-discussed IMF loan – subject to final approval from the IMF board on December 19. Morsy's power grab led to worries that the accompanying political instability could potentially derail the loan, although Ashraf El-Arabi, Egypt's minister of planning and international cooperation, insisted this wouldn't be the case. But investors clearly didn't like the trend. Indeed, the Wall Street Journal called Sunday's 9.6 percent drop in the EGX-30 Index the "biggest daily decline in Egyptian shares since the immediate aftermath of the revolution that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak in February 2011."
Morsy faces an uphill battle: yes, the sooner the country has a credible constitution and stable government, the sooner investors will see Egypt as open for business, and tourists will be tempted back. I was in Aswan and Luxor earlier this month and can attest to how empty the hotels are. After reaching a peak of 14 million visitors in 2010, the tourism industry collapsed in 2011 and has yet to recover.
Part of the IMF agreement for the loan will be reform of the country's unsustainably expensive subsidies, a process that is never easy (look at how riots against subsidy reform have rattled Nigeria and Jordan recently.) Having garnered 51.7 percent of the vote in June's presidential election (versus the military's candidate Ahmed Shafiq's 48.3 percent), Morsy hardly has a broad popular mandate. He clearly overplayed his hand this time around. Let's hope that he figures out how to use his political capital more wisely going forward.
Amid economic collapse many Egyptians fear that Morsi's real agenda is to not protect the revolution, but to increase his power and that of the Muslim Brotherhood.
He is surrounded by people, who want his political demise. The oppostion doesn't trust him and the remnants of the old regime don't support him.
Like countries who "elect" communists, electing Islamists into power is viewed by many, myself included, as a guarantee that would be the last free election that people get.
Once you establish that God and Sharia are the laws of the land, you can justify anything because who's going to argue with "God"?
I have seen the Egyptians, hard working as I know them to be, vacilate and mire themself in indecision and their custom of leaving their future in the hands of fate: "Insha-allah" or "Ma-lesh", as a resigned answer to every misfortune that befell them. I am so proud now to see them stand up and feel that power they always had to guide their own destiny, and to not waste time about it any more.
Why should anyone trust him. It looks like he will try to take all power as soon as he can.
It does not take to be a genius as to what has taken place, Hillary Clinton heads to Egypt and all is resolved. Morsi replaces Mubarak and gets support from the Obama administration. Morsi gets its foreign aide and his bleesing to be another Mubarak after all the US-Egypt keep the alliance. The Jeweish state goes along because it get Obamas' support and Morsi's support just like Mubarak. Except the Egytians are not that stupid that is why they are up in arms. The Muslim Brotherhood are making some noise but they know they have to show some reluctancy too basic but then again it seems to be working. I forsee the Muslim brotherhood taking over the Middle East in the next four years but that is an opinion. Remember Winston Churchill "in 1921, in a speech to the House of Commons, he spoke of a militant Islam sect, the Wahabis, more violent than any in history, which would kill their own sisters for wearing the wrong attire. These fierce zealots would terrorize the West with bomb-carrying Jihadists who would burn embassies and destroy buildings by their passion to sacrifice their lives for guarantee of Islam heaven."
Sheesh, the Egyptians just ditched Hosni Mubarak, and this yutz thinks he can just walk in and pull the same stunts?
That'd be like the US electing Michele Bachmann as president and having her enact Sharia Christianity.
And people call the US dumb!
Well who is calling the kettle black. Did not the US bring back Hitler himself???
No, not really.
Pretty much.
Just another Egyptian Strong man to run the country until he is over thrown.
How much do you really know about Egypt? I bet not much. So, in the meantime – shut up!
Don't be a rude jerk. Educate us. Tell us where we're wrong. Be part of the solution, not a bratty child.
Hello: What is in a name? Michael Dean ( my dad , Dr Dean Fariss Duerksen ) Fariss ( Arabian Hero knight on horseback whom married in Sparta, Greece into the old Spartan army bloodline and the mother was Minton which is English lords; people whom live in manors...excuse me for saying, so on my dad's side is Fariss Arabian-Greek Spartan and Minton from his mother and from his dad, Cornelious Arthur Duerksen comes Spoetzel ( Shiner Bach ) and Von Durk ( which is the Holland Van Dirk royalty, German Siegfried counts, French royalty and Milesius of Spain,known as Gallamh and the Father of Ireland, father of Dorian, Spartan, Egyptian, Persian kings and the Von Durk name became Duerksen, Dirksen, Doerkson for some Dirks and Durks in the early 1500s, but Baron Von Durk, my great grandad changed his to Duerksen in the mid 1800s before leaving Frankfort, GER. Van Dirk is related to Oldenburg and Battenburg and these two family names is where the name Mountbatten and Windsor come from, and so I am related to the present monarchy in England both from the Van Dirk Von Oldenburgs and from the house of Milesius where they populated Ireland and Scotland for 2, 885 years with kings all the way to the present British monarchy. So we have Michael Dean Fariss Minton Rollins ( Rollo, king of the Vikings, King of Normandy, ten or more sons including William the Conqueror, US Marshalls and married all over European royalty including 2 Scottish kings whom were Rollins. Next there is Navaho-Sioux-Hopi on the Rolllins side which is my mother's side, Carol, from my great grandad US Army capt whom married a Navaho girl and the Navaho's are closely related to the Sioux and Hopi and Mayans. Lastly is Fraley which is the English version of the German Froehlich or Froelig name and very old and rich in history and fairly closely interwoven with the Rothschilds. As far as the Rothschilds go, I am about half Rothschild from the Van Dirk-Durk-Duerksen side due to the fact that more big families with Durk ties married into the main houses of the Rothschilds than any other including families from the Welsh Tudor kings ( Tudor, Thierry, Thies, Dietz, Diedes, Dietrich, Diderik and others are all other country ways of saying the Dirk-Duerksen name, so when you see a family related to the Tudors or Tudurs, of the Henry the VIII family, then you are looking at Duerksens ) and they married into the Rothschild family via such names as Clinton, Goldsmidth, Mullins, Phillips, Shaw, Smith, Stuart, Harris, Grant, Herbert, Beauchamp, Gilmour, Llewellyn, Brown, Potter, and from the other Dirk-Duerksen names comes Thierry, as in Herbert and Jacques, Levi, Von Worms, Von Dietz II, Samuel, Phillipe Maria Berthier de Rothschild, Prince of Wagram IV, La Tour de Auvergne Lauraquais, Beyfus, Meyer, and others....all related to, some closer than others, to the royal houses of Tudor, Thierry, Van Dirk, Von Durk, Duerksen, Oldenburg. Again that is Michael Dean Fariss Minton Spoetzel, Rollins Navaho Fraley Duerksen ( Baron Von Durk-Arabian Spartan, Minton lords, Spoetzel beer, Rollo, king of Vikings, Navaho tribes, Froehlich to Rothschild. ) Thankyou. Sincerely, Michael Duerksen
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Thank you for demonstrating what is mean by the 'excited utterances' that come from chronic methamphetamine usage". Ha. Just kidding. Michael Duerksen
It's Americas fault!!
How can it be America fault? You still think Egypt will listen to the USA? USA history compare to Egypt history is like comparing a baby (USA) with an Adult (Egypt). Egypt does not need the help from USA. For 35 years under Mubarak, USA paid money to Mubarak to shut up and he stole it for himself. What is probably going to happen now, is Egypt will make a business deal with the UAE to make sure that the money is really invested for Egypt people interest. No USA in the picture! The way it should be!
But america has grown up. Egypt is trying to get back to the 7th century.
Didn't like Mubarak's rule? Try Morsi iinstead!
Egypt must be governed according to the Sharia dictates of Islam. No other way will be allowed.
yes, its always good to apply medieval laws to modern day because people were so much smarter then. The sword weilding arabians on horses certainly exemplified human rights, especially for women. How could the world not be run with a bunch on insecure men in robes?
Sharia Law was meant for all times not medieval times as you so ignorantly stated. And yes, Sharia Law is the only way to go for Egypt!
Insecure men in robes? 20, 000 plus years of Arabian knights married into the Spartan Army bloodline: Faris Arabian + Spartan Greek: " Insecure men in robes? " It reminds me of insecure men in suit and tie. It is my job to defend my position, and that position happens to be that I am related to the so-called " insecure men in robes."
This is the way to go!!! Good luck!!!! What else could be expected from islamofascists??
Morsy sounds like morsel.
That's what you see, everywhere Islam takes control. Everywhere! They will attempt to attack and take over, the entire free world. It is simply a matter of time.
Morsy, Muslim Brotherhood do what they always do... Stretch/push the bounds , lie to cover their power grab.. then that new position becomes the normal after some grumbling. Stretch/push again, then there's less resistance, and the fear grows. Do this a few times, and soon there's no opposition and only fear. THen you have complete dominance.
THe West just doesn't understand the minds of totalitarians, and by being passive thinking that democracy will prevail.. they have let the aggressors win and democracy/minorities die.
Though it tastes bad, I think the majority of the Egyptian people want an islamic state and Sharia law. Otherwise, why else did hey overwhelmingly vote for the muslim brotherhood which had clearly stated their religious fanatic inentions well before the elections. Unfortunately, it is true that the people who had a voice in the election were not the ones who had engineered the revolution which was done by the educated folks in Cairo. The majority of the electorate did not participate in the election or were too scared to defy Mubarak. The ones who did have the gut was actually a minority but a big minority sufficient to drive the dictator out of power. It is sad but true that the people are usually wrong and dont know what they want.
That majority of Egyptians want sharia law for electing Morsy could be very partial.
The issue then was to dis-empower Mubarak. Next to that would be, who was better or the best among existing aspirants to the presidency. It showed him.
Egypt is past all that.
Time for a military coup in Eypt. Back to square one.
Arab spring my ass. Try Islamofascist revolution.
Of course he overplayed his hand. That's what wannabe dictators do!
With Israel warring with the Iranian Gazans, the Jewish settlers forcing the Palestinian's hand, and the Iranian Syrians murdering the Sunni rebels, lets hope the Egyptians can learn a little about democracy to see that regardless of who wins an election, a gov't represents all its people. Sharia is many things to many people. God knows whatever laws He wants to see here on Earth. The Egyptians are not the only humans to struggle with the choices faced trying to birth justice. That said, Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed will all be necessary inspirations for these people represented by Morsi. No big deal...
Egypt isn't the US. Egyptians will do what Egyptians want to do. If the majority wants a dictatorship and Sharia Law, that's what they'll get. If they want liberty and (true) democracy, that's what they'll fight for. It's their business. Let them handle it. Clinton, Obama, Israel, the UAE, the UN, and everyone else needs to back off and let Egypt's people decide their own fate.
Eff them. Let them all burn.
Michael Dean Minton Fariss ( Pharis-Faris-Pharoah-Ferguson-deFerrier, Fareed, same name variants of Fariss ) Rollins ( Rollo Viking kings, Normandy French Dukes, FrenchnCajun) Gallatt ( Gallant French Cajun) Kirby ( Kirkeby to Winston Churchill and George Windsor v king of England and father of Queen Elizabeth II ) Navaho Lloyd ( Hemingway) Lewis ( louis-Ludwig g-Leveson-MacLudhaide kings, Levi) Rothchild ( Andrew Fraley s mother, grandmother, greatgrandmother...) Fraley Spoetzell or Helena Ratslaff Duerksen died 1937 in Ok ) Duerksen ( From Baron Von Durk of Germany via Cornelious Duerksen and Baron is believed to have been a prince and from Durk royal lines to Holland Van Dirks, counts and dukes from rulers of Holland. Rothschild is Durk connected ancestrally and close marriages via Fraley which was Frolich until 100 years ago.Fariss Spartan Greek kings and soldiers are also Durk as is Egyptian Pharoahs. Mattatyahu-Mattathias-Mateo-Teo-Teodoric-Theodoric-Durk-Matthias-Matthew-Maat-Mattathiessen-Thiesen-Thies-Ties-Ty-Tiye-Dy-Die-Diet-Dietrich-Diederick-Duerk, Dirk, Derk-Derryk-Terry-Thierry-Till-Matthew-Thew-Tewdwr-Tudor....to oldenburg from Van Durk. Thankyou, Michael Duerksen
On the above comment: Rothschild: is an ancestrally related name on the Duerksen-Von Durk side of the family, and Von Durk is the true name ancestrally, since all the Duerksens in my blood line were known as Von Durk prior to the name change with Baron Von Durk around 1875 in Germany. All Duerksen families including those with different spellings such as Dirksen, Durksen, Doerksen and others originated with Van Dirk Von Durk, Dirk, Durck, Dierck, and others the Van and Von being specifications og royal family lines. Since Duerksen or Von Durk, etc..are evolved from Mattatyahu, Matthias, Mateo, Maat, Mattatheissen, Thiessen,...etc then all families are of the oldest surname in the world and do ebolve into Chinese Emperors, emperors of India, Egytian Pharoahs, Spartan kings and the like, then it can be concluded that this bloodline, defined as ruler of the people, is comprised of hundreds of kings and emperors. My emphasis here is our relatedness to Rothschild, but I will deviate a little more in saying that when you are speaking of Sparta anf Egyptian kings and Pharoahs that it is not only a Duerksen-Von Durk affair, it is also Fariss-Phariss-Pheries surname issue since Duerksen, son of Durk , is also related to Fariss which is ancestrally and historically correct but is also one of our familie's
' s surnames on my dad's mother's side, that of Peter Fariss, the Durk name being about ten thousand or more years old when Mateo, Matthias, Mattathiessen began to evolve into Durk, Dietrich, Diederick, Thierry Tudor related names married into the Spartan anf Egyptian pharoahs starting with the first Pharoah about 8000 bc that of Mizraim whom appears to be a Faris-Pharis which is also Pharoah as a surname. Anyway, Durk and Fariss surnames sre related at the points of Sparta and Egypt, but also due to the marital relationship between Duerksen and Fariss on my dad's side. The discussion should not stop there however since I am also a Fraley ( Frohlich) on my Grandad Andrew Fraley's side, that is via Carol Gallatt Kirby Navaho Rollins Fraley Duerksen's side....Fraley beinf the same as Frolich and Frolich is Ashkenazi, the ancient surname that relates also to Treves, Assyria, Levi, and ancient kings of Spain leading to Milesius or Gallahm, the Father of Ireland. Fariss and Frohlich appear to meet at Phatoah and Pheries, the king of Sparti area, roughly 5000 bc and so it is tempting to believe that Frohlich anf Fariss are the same bloodline.
As Fraley is concerned with Rothschild, my grandad Andrew Fraley is understood to have a 7th greatgrandmother and two others that are Rothschilds, both he and his sibling Dick....but there is reason to believe that some think there are more. I have never met anyone in the Rothschild family, and it is not hard to believe that Fraley and Rothschild fo infact intersect via 123 or so US marriages. Thankyou for reading this message. Sincerely, Michael Duerksen
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The Positive Side of the Older Populations To Come
The Positive Side of the Older Populations To Come
The huge change in the age structure that would come with a slowing or halting of population growth need not result in older people becoming an economically crippling burden. In fact, the kinds of policies that could stimulate this change are the same ones that would produce a more ecologically viable and vital society as a whole.
Birth and death rates in countries of largely European origin, as well as in Japan, are now at their lowest levels in history. If this situation continues, these countries will inevitably have much older populations and will experience declines in total numbers. That prospect has generated a host of fears: of labor shortages and wage inflation, unsustainable calls on the public purse, weakened national defenses, shortages of intellect, declines in national "vigor," even race suicide and the disappearance of European culture.
The greatest of these fears relate to the anticipated additional financial costs-for pensions, health care, and custodial services-associated with older age structures, and whether there will be enough younger people earning the money and paying the taxes to defray them. But, while providing comprehensive health and pension programs appropriate to older age structures could be expected to require some readjustment in both perspective and social policy (regarding health care or taxation, for instance), in none of these countries are the financial barriers to such provision impossibly high. Whether this provision is actually forthcoming is another matter, but it is a matter not of money but of social priorities.
Is an aging population something we realistically need to be concerned about? Well, yes, it is-but not as much as most people seem to think, and not for the reasons commonly cited.
Let's begin with two pertinent truths: first, no population can increase indefinitely. There are limits: to resources, to physical space, to what might be termed "social space." Though these limits can be extended by changing the way we behave and use our environment, there will come a point, even with the most judicious behavior and use of the environment, beyond which population increases will inevitably result in declines in the quality of life, and ultimately in life itself.
Second, the changing age structures and imminent numerical declines we are now seeing in some countries stem from two great human achievements: the ability to control one's childbearing to the point where the goal of "every child a wanted child" is now a tangible possibility, and the ability to postpone death to the point where the great majority in these countries now die at what not so long ago was considered a highly advanced age.
Thus, older age structures and imminent numerical declines are to be welcomed, not deplored. They indicate that we now have the ability to adjust human numbers to the realities of limited resources in a rational and humane manner, no longer having it cruelly forced upon us by way of higher death rates.
What Are Those Europeans Really Worried About?
But it is not just the existence of limits that argues for welcoming these demographic changes; it is also the alternatives-for these are all either manifestly undesirable, irrelevant, or ineffective. If those who are concerned about these changes simply wanted a younger age structure or a cessation of declining growth rates, the specifically demographic means to reaching this goal would be to allow mortality to increase among the elderly; and fertility and immigration to increase among the young. None of these is realistic.
For ethical reasons, any shortening the lives of older people by increasing the availability of suicide and euthanasia would have to apply only to the most helpless and those suffering extreme and permanent pain-and these, fortunately, are but a very small proportion of the total, even among the very old. The effect on age structure of allowing increases in mortality at the older ages would be no more than minimal.
Fertility is another matter. Declines in fertility account for most of the trend to older age structures in these countries, and it is through increases in fertility that this trend is most likely to be halted or reversed. Ultimately, of course, if these populations are to avoid completely disappearing (in a purely biological sense), their fertility rates will have to return to replacement levels. But that is a long way off. The main concern at present is with achieving a younger age structure, and policies specifically intended to increase fertility offer little to go on. Coercing women to bear children they do not want by denying them access to contraception and abortion is not only objectionable on both moral and health grounds but also unlikely to meet with any enduring success among people who have already brought fertility under extensive control. On the other hand, non-coercive efforts to increase the number of children people do want (or, at least, are willing to bear) have, so far, been notably unsuccessful. Raising the birth rates in particular countries could often be self-defeating, not only because it would increase the total numbers of people on the planet, but because these additional children would eventually become old themselves.
What, then, of immigration? Apart from the numerous social, economic, emotional, and political problems associated with immigration is the demographic fact that immigrants, too, grow old.
In short, the specifically demographic approaches to the problems presumably associated with older age structures and imminent numerical declines won't work. If we are to enjoy the benefits of low mortality, we must accept the fact that age structures will be older than ever before, and that fertility will have to remain at no more than replacement levels. The prudent course, then, is to set about doing what is required both to adjust to these conditions and to realize the benefits inherent in them.
Adapting to-and Benefiting From-an Older, Smaller Population
What would this prudent course entail? Let's recognize, first, that the needs of older people are not all that different from those of the rest of the population. Ultimately, having an older age structure will require that we find ways to enable older people to look after themselves more effectively, to enable them to live lives of dignity and reasonable comfort as actively participating and respected members of society. We can begin to approach these long-term goals by focusing on six intermediate goals, all of which are to some extent interrelated:
Lower car usage. Reducing dependence on motor vehicles is important not only because of the great damage cars do to health and the environment, but also because, among other things, extensive car usage requires such vast public expenditure that it limits what is available for more socially useful purposes and encourages excessively low-density urban layouts-layouts that add greatly to the costs of establishing and maintaining urban services and, by militating against the provision of either convenient public transportation or shops and other facilities within walking distance, make it especially difficult for older people to remain active participants in the community and to take major responsibility for their own care.
A high rate of car usage, because it reduces the extent of one's contact with the physical, social, and human environment, also militates against the development of various individual coping skills and traits, like self-confidence, self-discipline, and the ability (limited when one is insulated from them in the cocoon of a car) to encounter without fear or anxiety such elements of the social setting as novelty, strangers, human variety, and dissimilar life styles.
More livable cities. This is closely related to reducing car usage. As a British visitor to the U.S. Midwest once wrote:
Detroit is synonymous with two things: cars and violent death.... But the city does not just make cars; it has also been made by the car. The city core is dominated by an indoor shopping mall which you can reach only by automobile. The "Renaissance Centre" is surrounded by a network of access streets which funnel cars directly into cavernous underground parking lots. Outside, the old commercial streets are largely deserted and the buildings derelict.... Says local resident Ralph Slovenko: "Everything has been removed from the streets except cars and hoodlums. The more people you take off the streets, the more people become sitting ducks for crime." [W. Ellwood, "Car Chaos," New Internationalist No. 195, 1989]
When it comes to the layout and functioning of towns and cities, the particular needs of the elderly include:
- public transportation that is readily available, affordable, safe, and clean;
- a high degree of freedom from the physical, visual, aural, and neurological intrusion of trucks and cars;
- medium-density (but not high-rise) urban layouts, to permit greater environmental (and economic) efficiency in the provision of services, and greater ease of mobility and contact with others;
- readily accessible local parks, promenades, and informal meeting places;
- shops and eating places that are to human scale and readily accessible;
- neighborhood diversity in available housing types and living arrangements; and
- less geographic and functional specialization by stage-of-life and economic activity. Older people need frequent, informal contact with others if they are to remain participant members of society. And children and young people, in turn, need to have contact with old people-so they will learn not to fear them; and so they will learn something of the needs and thoughts of old people, and of what to expect when their own parents, and later they themselves, reach that stage of life.
Social services specifically geared to the needs of older or infirm persons. These range from home assistance with certain elements of personal care to shopping and delivery services, and respite services to provide occasional relief for care-givers.
Certain facilities that would directly benefit not only the aged and infirm but other sectors of the society, such as:
- walk-in health and counseling services
- inexpensive recreational facilities
- libraries
- clean, safe public spaces
- clean public toilets
- public activities (such as open-air band concerts and free night-time athletic events).
And a word could be put in, too, for the value of having that great English contribution to civilization: a well-run neighborhood pub.
These would give people some exercise, get them into public areas, mix together different sectors of the population, and introduce some variety and interest into people's lives. They could also strengthen initiative and independence, and foster a sense of community. They could enrich the lives of older people and put them in better frames of mind for coping with life's exigencies, and reduce the likelihood of their becoming entrapped in a low-expectations model emphasizing age-based deterioration and loss of function.
Less use of age as a criterion for participation in society. There is much that younger people can learn from the skills and experience of their elders-perhaps especially with respect to interpersonal relations, adjustment to role change (as, for example, with retirement and widowhood), loss of physical and mental capacity, redundancy, and bereavement. And, of course, older people have much to learn (and not only about computers!) from those who are younger.
More equal distribution of wealth and income. With their superior strength in the marketplace, rich people are better able to direct society's energies and its allocation of resources into channels from which they, the rich, can most benefit. There is nothing necessarily either intentional or malicious about this. But it takes a lot of poor people to consume as much as the rich-what with their vacation homes, their second cars, their greater amounts of travel, and their higher rates of consumption overall.
Assisted by mass advertising, the rich also set the pattern for much of the consumption of the rest of the society. The result is higher resource consumption levels (and the waste this gives rise to), often undesirably high levels of consumer indebtedness, and a greater emphasis on instant or short-term gratification as against saving, the husbanding of resources, and planning for the future.
This pattern of consumption grounded in marked inequality of income and wealth also nurtures privatism: the idea that to enjoy something-a beach or lakefront, a piece of equipment, the open countryside-one must own it. This limits development of those habits of sharing that, while underlying any healthy society, become increasingly necessary with the aging of its members. It also locks up, for use by only a minority, many resources (access to nature or open space or solitude, for example) that are of singular importance to the emotional and physical health of the society as a whole.
The issue is not one of absolute poverty but of relative deprivation. In an industrial, high-consumption society with a markedly unequal distribution of wealth there is both more to feel deprived of, because of advertising and the example of consumption set by the better-off, and more actually to be deprived of, because of what the better-off are able to appropriate to their own use. Such marked inequality also entails emotional costs: invidious comparisons, discontent with what one has, and frustration over not being able to do "better." Under such conditions, low income can all too readily lead to low self-esteem and feelings of inadequacy and failure-conditions little associated with being able to cope, or even with trying to.
Older age structures in low mortality/low fertility populations are either already under way in many countries or likely to be so within a generation or two. But a society's conditions of life are unlikely to be much affected simply by the number of old people or their share of the population. Old age will be a problem to the extent that social and environmental conditions fail to meet the needs of all age groups (and of future generations no less than present). The importance of social policy in this regard can hardly be exaggerated. Meeting any society's needs entails giving some extra attention to the special needs arising at particular stages of life, old age included. But the threats to human wellbeing in these countries would appear, still, to derive more from non-demographic than demographic phenomena; and, so far as demographic phenomena are concerned, more from past increases in numbers and marked fluctuations in annual birth rates than from either prospective numerical declines or the trend to older age structures.
Lincoln H. Day is a retired senior fellow in the Department of Demography at the Australian National University, coauthor (with Alice Taylor Day) of Too Many Americans (1964), and author of The Future of Low-Birthrate Populations (1992).
References and readings for each article are available at www.worldwatch.org/pubs/mag/.


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The t-shirts were printed by a local church which says its message more important than education (Courtesy of Gainesville Sun)
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A handful of school students in Florida were sent home this week for wearing t-shirts with the words "Islam is of the Devil" printed on the back in red and refusing to change out of them or cover the message.
The controversy started after members of a local church, the Dove World Outreach Center, which printed the shirts, showed up for the first day of school wearing the controversial t-shirts, which officials said violated a ban on clothing that may offend or distract other students and "disrupt the learning process."
" Students have a right of free speech, and we have allowed students to come to school wearing clothes with messages "
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"Students have a right of free speech, and we have allowed students to come to school wearing clothes with messages," school district staff attorney Tom Wittmer told Florida's the Gainesville Sun newspaper, adding "but this message is a divisive message that is likely to offend students."
" The people are people. They can be saved like anyone else "
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Gainesville High student, 15-year-old Emily Sapp, was sent home after she refused to change her clothes.
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Why would anyone want to facilitate the loss of young lives with this law instead of standing up and saying, "No"?
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John Hills, who owns a small business in Portland, said it's not uncommon for him to get customers' checks in the mail on Saturdays.
Even if the U.S. Postal Service ends Saturday delivery of first-class mail, however, he'll be OK. "It might just be a relief," Hills said. "It's one less day I'll get junk mail."
Dega Dhalac, of South Portland, said she doesn't get much mail that can't wait two days, but she's a little worried about her Netflix.
She tries to time her orders so that her DVDs come in the mail on Saturday and she can watch them over the weekend. If Saturday delivery ends, she'll just have to make sure her movies and TV shows arrive by Friday, she said.
Curtis Chapin, of South Portland, said he doesn't even check his mail every day because, most of the time, there's nothing important.
He still gets bills in the mail but he pays them online. He gets Netflix, too, but the company always sends an email to let him know when to expect the next disc.
The U.S. Postal Service announced Wednesday that it plans to end Saturday delivery in August to save an estimated $2 billion a year. It would continue to deliver packages six days a week, mostly because that service generates revenue and dropping it would boost competitors like UPS.
Mail would still be delivered to post office boxes on Saturdays, and post offices that now are open on Saturdays would remain open.
Many Mainers said Wednesday that they aren't worried about the possible end of Saturday delivery, but the state's congressional delegation voiced strong concerns.
"We are writing to urge you to take immediate legislative action to set the U.S. Postal Service on a long-term, sustainable path," U.S. Reps. Mike Michaud and Chellie Pingree wrote in a letter Wednesday to House leadership. "This unnecessary action could disproportionately affect rural communities that depend on reliable and timely mail delivery."
U.S. Sens. Angus King and Susan Collins also expressed disappointment.
"In effect, the plan to end selected service, while generating cost savings, could have a significant detrimental impact on the regular delivery of items that are vital to Mainers and small businesses throughout the state," King said.
Collins said, "The service upon which so many American families and businesses rely will only deteriorate with the end of six-day, first-class mail delivery. This may pose problems for newspapers that are mailed to customers, for seniors who rely on prescription drug deliveries, and for small businesses who send advertising flyers, among others."
The proposal to end Saturday service is based on what appears to be a legal loophole, The Associated Press reported. Congress has long banned five-day-only mail delivery in its spending bills, but because the government is now operating under a temporary spending measure rather than an appropriations bill, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe says the Postal Service can make the change itself.
The agency essentially wants Congress to keep the ban out of any new spending bill after the temporary measure expires March 27.
The Postal Service has been hemorrhaging money for years, including $16 billion in losses last year. It has taken cost-cutting steps over the last several years, including reducing hours at some post offices and closing others. It has advocated for eliminating Saturday delivery, but has never gotten approval from Congress, which oversees the Postal Service but does not fund it with tax dollars.
Tom Rizzo, the Postal Service's spokesman for northern New England, said the agency is working with major mailers such as weekly magazines to make sure they are well versed on deadlines.
He said the announcement was made Wednesday to give people the time between now and August to adjust.
The union that represents Maine's letter carriers decried the announcement.
"We believe this would be a death spiral for the Postal Service," said Mitch Bowman, president of the Maine State Association of Letter Carriers. "Taking away a day of delivery would mean taking away a day of business for Maine businesses. It is our opinion this proposed lower standard of services does not meet needs of Maine people."
Some Mainers who spoke Wednesday said the change simply reflects a shift in the way people use mail. In the last decade, the amount of first-class mail dropped by 50 percent. Letters have been replaced by emails and text messages. Bills have been replaced by online statements.
Moya Easterling, of Limington, has a post office box in Portland, so she will continue to get mail on Saturdays; but she said she checks her box only every month or so.
On Wednesday, she found a stack of mail stuffed inside it. She sifted through the mail, noting nothing in the stack that was particularly time-sensitive. One piece of mail was a wedding invitation, she said, but she had known about the wedding for months.
Elaine Gutgsell of Portland, who is 86, said she has watched life around her go digital. She still writes letters, pays bills by writing and mailing checks, and gets her payroll checks in the mail, usually on Saturday.
Even so, she's not worried about the end of Saturday delivery. "One or two more days is not going to make much difference," she said.
Mike Mulhall, of Standish, said he sometimes gets important mail on Saturdays, but he'll just make adjustments if Saturday mail is discontinued.
"It's a changing world," he said. "What choice do I have?"
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Does Open Data Help The Rich Exploit The Poor?
from the sounds-a-little-alarmist deptJNomics points us to a Marshall Kirkpatrick post on ReadWriteWeb about "How Open Data is Used Against the Poor," in which Kirkpatrick discusses an article and research about the effects of the digitization of land records in Bangalore. Apparently, as a result of the increased access to the data (for those with computers), middle and upper income people were able to exploit details found in the records as leverage for gaining land ownership from the poor.
Kirkpatrick and the author of the original article, Mike Gurstein, use this example to make the point that simply opening up data is often not really enough to benefit the broader population, and further, that it can simply promote the widening of the divide between the rich and the poor. Both argue for coupling open data with efforts that insure "effective use" for the most people - i.e., leveling the playing field by essentially controlling access to the data or delaying openness until tools and policies are put in place to insure equal footing for everyone. Kirkpatrick concludes his post with the following warning:
... if you want all parts of society to benefit from the opening of public data, then simply opening it up and allowing the most ferociously competitive people in society to grab a hold of it may not be a good way to impact the world positively.This seems like a bit of an overstatement. There are always going to be those who are better positioned to take advantage of the opportunities presented by new technologies. An example from history would be the invention of the printing press. Of course the greater availability of books that followed initially provided a much bigger benefit to the educated than to the illiterate. However, not only were more people able to take advantage of cheaper, more abundant, books as literacy rates increased -- the abundance itself helped to drive that increase. Similarly, while this example from Bangalore shows that, initially, the more well connected have been able to take better advantage of the opening up of land record data, it is not difficult to imagine how the less fortunate will also benefit. The opening up of the data has exposed many problems with the records, allowing for the possibility that those issues will be addressed, and more care will be taken to guard against such issues in the future. Also, there will certainly be opportunities for some enterprising people among the poor to take advantage of the newly available data -- opportunities which did not exist at all when the information was effectively hidden. After all, the "ferociously competitive people" didn't actually "grab hold of" the data -- it's still open for access by anyone.
This case does demonstrate how the growing divide between the digital haves and have-nots is self-perpetuating, and it is certainly worthwhile to pursue efforts to close that gap by promoting education and the development of more widely available, cheaper technology. And efforts should be made to insure that access to open data is not abused by the better off to gain advantage over the poor. But in the end, the open data itself is not the culprit.
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Filed under: Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Toyota
This whole thing started with the premise that Toyota's target RAV4 buyers are people who spend their time cycling, hiking, and generally not in front of computer screens. These people are therefore not able to benefit from the full website experience that Toyota has built for the RAV4. We should clarify that the video below is for Toyota South Africa, and maybe RAV4 buyers there really are the disgustingly outdoorsy ideal that us bacon-eaters are not living up to.
Toyota's agency partner, Hello Computer, set up a 1.8-kilometer track at a cycle park that replicated sections of the automaker's website with real physical displays and interactive feedback. Riders were asked to leave their mouses and hit the trail on a mountain bike to experience the RAV4 Outdoor Website and learn about the vehicle.
That seems like a lot of effort for something that's available on the smartphones of these hyper-active people who aren't in front of computers, but hooray for creatively conquering a problem that didn't exist. Hey, let's not be complete wet blankets – maybe some of the cyclists that ran the Toyota gauntlet got a RAV4 for their to- and fro-ing after the experience. Check out the video of the outdoor website below.
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Wild day for Obamacare in court
Two federal appeals courts issued contradictory rulings on Obamacare subsidies within a few hours Tuesday, one delivering a victory and the other a major blow to the White House in a chaotic legal fight that will determine whether millions of Americans can get subsidized coverage through HealthCare.gov.
First, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in a 2-1 decision said the insurance subsidies can't be awarded through the 36 federal-run exchanges, that they can only flow through the state-run markets. Hours later, the Fourth Circuit court ruled 3-0 that people can draw on the subsidies in both kinds of exchanges. The divergent opinions set up a clash that could eventually end up at the Supreme Court — and reverberate through the fall campaign.
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The ruling against the subsidies is the second Obamacare strike against the White House in less than a month, after it lost in the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby ruling on birth control coverage. But unlike the contraception rule, which is a small piece of the health law, the subsidies go to the heart of coverage expansion in the Affordable Care Act. This case also poses different legal questions from the 2012 challenge to the law's individual mandate, which the court ruled was constitutional.
( Also on POLITICO: GOP: Ruling an Obamacare 'repudiation')
For now, no one will have their subsidies cut off while the legal battle continues. The Obama administration said it will appeal the D.C. ruling on Halbig v. Burwell by asking for an en banc review involving the full panel. "We are confident in the legal case that the Department of Justice will be making," said White House press secretary Josh Earnest. The plaintiffs in the fourth circuit's King v. Burwell in Virginia haven't yet said what they'll do next.
The legal battle arises partly because of ambiguity in the long and complex statute. It's also another outgrowth of the bitter politics surrounding President Barack Obama's crowning domestic legislation. States were originally expected to run their own exchanges, but as Republican governors refused to implement the health law and some Democratic states couldn't handle the technical complexity of a state exchange, most opted for using the federal HealthCare.gov instead.
Opponents of the health law said that if the subsidies are ultimately cut off from the federal exchanges, it's the administration's own fault.
( Also on POLITICO: DOJ to appeal 'incorrect' Halbig ruling)
"If Halbig results in people losing health-insurance subsidies, the blame lies with a president who recklessly offered millions of Americans tens of billions of dollars in subsidies he had no authority to offer, that could vanish with a single court ruling," said the Cato Institute's Michael Cannon, who has been involved in the legal battle.
Unlike other major Obamacare challenges, this controversy hinges on just a few words in a lengthy law. The D.C. Circuit concluded — "frankly, with reluctance," as one judge wrote — that the statute narrowly but explicitly authorizes only state-run exchange subsidies, no matter what Congress may have intended. The Richmond court saw ambiguity in the text, but said the IRS had the power to interpret the statute broadly as it set the rules.
The Department of Justice said it would seek a review of the decision it lost.
"We believe that this decision is incorrect, inconsistent with Congressional intent, different from previous rulings, and at odds with the goal of the law: to make health care affordable no matter where people live," a DOJ spokeswoman said.
( Also on POLITICO: Anger over narrow networks)
The Halbig and King cases are two of several lawsuits in which individuals or state officials are challenging the Obama administration's authority to grant subsidies in the form of tax credits to low- and middle-income Americans buying health coverage through the federal-run exchanges.
Both sides claim that a full reading of the 2010 health care law—and Congress' intent when passing it—supports their own interpretation. The plaintiffs argue that Congress intended to motivate the states to run their own exchanges by tying the subsidies to them. The administration says that would have gone against the whole goal of the law: to help Americans find affordable health coverage.


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I know I don't have to post this here, but I though I would share this picture.
I have absolutely no problem with anyone celebrating with BBQs etc on Memorial Day. Had fate dictated that I not come home as a result of my service I would rather the thought of someone fondly remembering me at some function which I would have enjoyed had I been there to any overly somber, tear-filled event.
Families and loved ones sometimes need those events and they are important but we shouldn't get too wrapped around the axle over them.
A few years ago, the local school system used Memorial Day to make up for a day missed because of weather earlier in the year. I raised holy hell and flatly stated my son was not going to school that day. There was a compromise where they set up an event for his JROTC unit to participate in at a local assisted living facility (honoring the service dead) and gave him school attendance credit for doing that.
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"Well... Uber's going to "driverless" cars soon, and their research probably shows that they're a natural fit (when it comes to getting paid for doing nothing)."
-Rainmaker, referencing black males
I will be BBQing on Memorial Day, After memorial service. The point is a lot of people "celebrate" it. To me its a solemn day.
Like when someone says "He won the Medal of Honor"
Really ?!?! Is it necessary to castigate the person by pointing out (usually in a harsh and belittling tone) that the MoH is 'awarded' not 'won'. Someone reads that or even was subjected to it at some point and then it becomes their mantra.
Ok, off my soap box.
Everyone enjoy the weekend and holiday. Do what I do.........at some point (preferably with an adult beverage in hand) pause and acknowledge (either silently or to those in attendance) those who couldn't be there because of their sacrifice. Those you knew and those you didn't. If indeed there is a better place and they are watching THAT is all they really want (at least that is what I believe and what I would want)
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On memorial day I laugh, love, and BBQ so that there sacrifice was worth it. We fight so our country can live in peace. As I enjoy the long weekend from work they will be on my mind.
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I am fairly new to this form and have been making post in the atheist and scripture threads. Now I know these are rough threads so to speak and I can accept that but the subject shifted to arguments about my signature as seen below. The disrespect for our women and men who paid the ultimate price has infuriated me and I must vent. I hope not all members of this form accept this sort of stuff and will let these individuals know so. Thanks for hearing me out.
God bless our women and men of the armed forces.
The price of freedom is not free.


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So far we've gotten a look at some Siri / OnStar canoodling here at CES 2013, and iHeartRadio flaunted its new GM liaison yesterday. But the automaker wants to let all comers in on the MyLink action, so it's just announced a new developer portal, SDK and forum for would-be in-vehicle app creators. The site will allow apps to be coded and gain approval "in a secure and controlled manner" with a helping hand from GM, so that users can purchase and download apps directly to the vehicle's infotainment system. New programs could join the aforementioned CES debuts, along with the likes of TuneIn, Slacker and The Weather Channel, where the General sees a need for vehicle-appropriate categories like fuel efficiency and driver safety. Or you could just, you know, keep your eyes on the road. Check the PR after the break for more.
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· New SDK offering allows developers to create in-vehicle apps
for GM vehicles
· Flexible app framework will enable customized and updatable
driving experience
· GM will host forum for developers to help facilitate new
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LAS VEGAS, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, 12:01 a.m. EST – General Motors is announcing a new flexible application framework at the Consumer Electronics Show that will allow drivers toadd apps and features to their vehicle after the initial purchase, allowing vehicle infotainment systems to improve over time.
The framework enables new set of vehicle application programming interfaces, or APIs, for developers, allowing them to interact with and build upon the infotainment systems in GM vehicles.
GM will offer developers a software development kit (SDK) through an online portal at http://developer.gm.com/. This will allow developers to work with GM in a secure and controlled manner to design, test and deliver the most relevant, customizable and seamlessly integrated automotive apps.
The implementation of these apps is incorporated into new infotainment systems, debuting in select 2014 MY vehicles that will change how in-vehicle apps are offered. The systems' framework includes an app catalog that will allow vehicle owners to choose from a menu of available applications specifically designed for the in-vehicle experience.
GM demonstrated applications from four potential partners for the new app catalog: iHeart Radio, TuneIn, Slacker and The Weather Channel. The catalog, which is not yet available on GM vehicles, is expected to grow as GM gets ready to launch the new framework.
In addition, the framework will allow developers to create a new category of vehicle apps.
"There will be a category of apps that will be unique to our cars and very different from what people use today on their smartphones or tablets," said GM Chief Infotainment Officer Phil Abram. "It's not just taking phone apps and making them functional in a car, which most car companies do in some form now. Instead, GM may approve applications that stem from vehicle ownership. For example, customers can choose to download applications that assist them in driving more safely or in a more fuel efficient manner, possibly decreasing the costs of vehicle ownership."
Once these apps are created and have been approved by GM for in-vehicle use, future owners of certain GM models will be able to download them directly to the vehicle through the app catalog.
"GM customers will soon be able to personalize and update the apps in their vehicles," said Abram, "compared to today, when you purchase a vehicle and the infotainment features are fixed and remain the same throughout the ownership experience."
Until now, GM has only offered select developers access to remote APIs that interact with the vehicle via the OnStar system. The new SDK will expand the environment so that developers can work with the actual vehicle through the infotainment system.
"We are providing developers a pathway to develop for a new audience in a new setting, resulting in new customers," said Abram. "GM intends to cultivate a relationship with these developers to explore new apps that will benefit the overall driving experience. This is part of GM's commitment to bring customer-centric technology to our vehicles and also establish a community where developers can join in exploring what's possible with in-vehicle apps."
GM sells more than 9 million vehicles globally on an annual basis, which creates a large base of potential app-capable vehicles for developers to work with. The new app framework will first be available on select 2014 MY vehicles in the United States, with the intention to make it available over time on global brands, increasing the opportunity for local customization.
GM is using the HTML5 Java Script framework in its SDK as well.
"We have designed our SDK so that developers only have to write the software code once to address the entire population of vehicles and end users," said Abram. "Developers can repurpose existing tools and code from existing projects as long as they're consistent with applicable licenses. Our app policies will also provide flexibility in how developers can design commercial aspects of their apps as well."
GM will define a full certification process and business model for applications. After developing apps, developers will have an online opportunity to submit them on the dedicated online portal. If approved, GM will provide the developer with next steps to test and publish the app for customer access.
The online developer portal includes an active forum where developers can go to gage a technical specialist with questions. The portal also will host a blog for developers to keep them informed on the latest news and information. GM will use the input and feedback from the developer community to continuously improve the app framework.
For more information, please visit http://developer.gm.com.
General Motors Co. (NYSE:GM, TSX: GMM) and its partners produce vehicles in 30 countries, and the company has leadership positions in the world's largest and fastest-growing automotive markets. GM's brands include Chevrolet and Cadillac, as well as Baojun, Buick, GMC, Holden, Isuzu, Jiefang, Opel, Vauxhall and Wuling. More information on the company and its subsidiaries, including OnStar, a global leader in vehicle safety, security and information services, can be found at http://www.gm.com.


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For immigration bill: Amendments
Foes and friends of reform are set to offer a slew of amendments to the mammoth immigration bill this week as the Senate Judiciary Committee begins to mark it up.
But observers believe that between Democrats, who hold the majority on the committee, and the two Gang of Eight Republicans who wrote the bill, it will emerge from committee largely unscathed.
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"I suspect it'll come back [from committee] with a 13-5 margin, and that'll be a tremendous momentum going to the Senate floor," said Frank Sharry, the executive director of the pro-reform group America's Voice.
"I think it's clear based on how the committee has operated that they're going to pass this thing through the committee," said Ira Mehlman, media director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which opposes the bill. "Probably the real fight is going to come when it reaches the floor."
The parade of amendments expected to be offered to the 844-page bill — all of which are due by 5 p.m. on Tuesday — could number dozens or more. The amendments offer a preview of the floor fight over the most sweeping changes to immigration laws in more than two decades.
"There's so many problems with the legislation that it's hard to know where to start," Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), a leading foe of the bill who plans to introduce multiple amendments in committee, told reporters on a conference call last week.
The most controversial amendment — which will come from Democrats — will likely be one to allow U.S. citizens to sponsor a same-sex partner for a green card. Most Judiciary Democrats support the measure, but Republicans on and off the committee have warned that including it could kill the bill altogether.
The committee's chairman, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), is expected to offer the amendment — known as the Uniting American Families Act — but neither he nor his aides have confirmed that he will.
On Sunday, Leahy tried to dismiss the notion that including the provision would doom the legislation.
"You know, we've had about 10 different things that people say will kill it," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "Well, the fact is, there are a lot of people who want to kill an immigration bill no matter what."
On Thursday, the powerful panel will open the first day of what is expected to be a long series of markups to the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act. Senators will be eager to leave their own imprint on the bill, but the tricky part will be for the committee to produce something that won't shatter the bipartisan Gang of Eight coalition that crafted the legislation in the first place.
Four of the Gang sit on the committee: Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Jeff Flake of Arizona on the Republican side and Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin of Illinois and Chuck Schumer of New York. The Gang of Eight members have pledged to oppose anything that would spell doom for the bill on the floor.
"Nothing's perfect, and we can always strive to make this consensus more perfect," Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said. "But you can't allow the perfect to be the enemy of the good."
No amendments have been made public so far, save a new draft of the Gang of Eight immigration bill that largely fixes technical errors in the first version.
Outside groups on both sides of the debate don't believe the Gang's bill will change dramatically. The advocates look at this math: The 10 Democrats on the Judiciary panel would band together to defeat amendments that would significantly alter the legislation as would the two Republican Gang members.


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kbordes needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 8 designs submitted by 4 freelance designers.
Looking for a good Zen Cart Layout for powko.com. The current flash header has to do some with uses of the lights, but wanna focus more on the products. Looking for a short turn around so not a long contest length. Ask any questions you may have.
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While sales of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) in some traditionally successful markets like the U.S. saw signs of softness in early 2017, opportunities for growth are still readily available if you know where to look. Manufacturers with global reach should focus on emerging markets, which have consistently performed two to four times better from a sales perspective than their developed market counterparts in recent history.
But how can companies maximize their investments in these markets? With this growth comes increased competition. The rules to the emerging market playbook is changing as many smaller players are gaining share and consumers become more discerning. Tapping into this tremendous growth opportunity will require a deep understanding of consumers needs, desires and attitudes. Nielsen's What's Next in Emerging Markets report looks at macroeconomic conditions and an analysis of our sales data to unearth four key trends to focus on: