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The Plant-A-Wish organization has selected Knoxville as their Iowa location in their goal to plant one native tree in each of the 50 states. They chose Knoxville because of Peace Tree Brewing Company's Earth Day tree giveaway. There will be a tree planting event on Thursday, June 3rd at 5:30 pm at the east edge of town at the old Maid-Rite building. Megan McKay Ziller with the Peace Tree Brewing Company tells KNIA KRLS News that the tree to be planted will be a Red Maple, chosen because of its size, shape, beautiful color, durability and ease of maintenance. The organization will be recording the event as part of a documentary on the importance of native trees. To help draw attention to the importance of our native trees, Peace Tree Brewery is holding a contest asking individuals to identify and submit nominations for the biggest tree in Marion County. If you use Facebook you will learn more at the Big Trees of Marion County, Iowa page here. For more information, e-mail email@example.com.
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Historic "Plant a Wish" Trees to be planted in Knoxville for Inclusion in Nationwide Tree Planting Documentary Film Project
"Plant a Wish" tour visits Knoxville, Iowa and Peace Tree Brewing Company on Thurs. June 3rd, 2010
Knoxville, May 17th – Peace Tree Brewing Company will host the "Plant a Wish" project, a nationwide tree planting and public awareness project that is being filmed for a feature documentary. On Thursday June 3rd, at 5:30pm, community members are invited to join Plant a Wish project founders Joseph Imhoff and Sara Tekula in the planting of a red maple tree. The tree planting/movie-making team from Hawaii is in town as a part of their mission to plant native trees in all 50 states and make a documentary film about it. This planting event free and open to the public and includes a reception afterward at Peace Tree Brewing Company.
During the planting at a once abandoned lot on east Main Street in Knoxville, community members will be invited to write down their wishes on pieces of scrap paper to be planted under the tree. Wishes may also be shared on camera for inclusion in the historic film. This event will also be featured in an article on the Plant a Wish blog, at www.plantawish.org.
Plant a Wish was launched on Earth Day 2010 with national recognition, and the team has been planting trees and filming segments on the island of Maui. The plan is to visit about 22 states in the month of June, all located in the upper Mid-west and Northeast. Then, the duo will return in subsequent trips in Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 until they have planted trees in all 50 states of the U.S.
Imhoff and Tekula have worked together in Hawaii and Los Angeles since they met in 2005, and have been recognized both locally and nationally for their work in media outreach, video production, and writing. Now a married couple, they say the Plant a Wish concept came to them during one of their usual brainstorms at their Maui home.
"We were making a list of things we wanted to do in the coming year," says Tekula. "Our wish list consisted of four things: travel, meeting and connecting with lots of people, planting lots of trees, and making a documentary film. Then we realized we could do all of those in one project."
Tekula says Imhoff was the one who came up with the idea to plant in all 50 states.
"I felt like the project needed a specific mission, some goal that we as filmmakers must attain to make this historic, so I suggested we do all of the U.S. States, along with Washington, D.C.", says Imhoff. "I believe we'll be the first people in history to have accomplished this when we're finished. We're really excited to include Knoxville in this project and to meet the community over music and great locally-brewed beer."
Peace Tree Brewing Company, Iowa's newest microbrewery, caught the attention of Plant A Wish during Earth Day this year as the brewery gave away their namesake sycamore saplings to customers. In addition to making great beer, Peace Tree is also committed to bettering its community and providing cultural opportunities for the local residents. The inspiration provided by Plant A Wish is helping them keep that commitment. "One of our good customers came up with the Earth Day sapling giveaway and we couldn't be more pleased to keep the idea going," says Megan McKay Ziller, one of the owners of Peace Tree. It has even spurred a contest to identify the biggest trees in Marion County as a way to connect residents to the history of native trees. The City of Knoxville is preparing a place to plant the tree in what they hope to become the City's next pocket park and rest stop for a bicycle trail.
Since Earth Day, the filmmakers have been using social media and PayPal to raise money for the project from friends, family, and strangers for amounts as low as $20 per person, and have paid for the entire trip from this fund. This tree planting in Knoxville is offered to the community as an opportunity to learn more about the important role native trees and plants play in our daily lives, to enjoy a brief history of native Iowa trees by anthropologist Dr. Robert Leonard, celebrate with music by Thankful Dirt, and to lend their support to partnering organizations. The idea is that the Plant a Wish tree becomes an important one in the community, and grows to improve the health of the surrounding environment for generations to come.
Donations to the film project are welcome at the organization's website, at http://plantawish.org/get-involved/donate. To volunteer at the event, or for more information, please call Plant a Wish at 808-250-4030 or simply come by to attend the event on Thursday, June 3rd, 2010, at 1616 E Main Street, 5:30pm for tree planting followed by a reception at Peace Tree Brewing Company, 107 E Main St, Knoxville, Iowa.
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Peace Tree Brewing Company, a packaging brewery and taproom founded in 2009 in Knoxville Iowa, creates handcrafted, full flavored beers with a great attention to quality. Their hope is that the beer made under the Peace Tree label will be a shared with friends and strangers alike and be a catalyst for conversations, new friendships and important agreements – in line with the lore of infamous Peace Tree of Red Rock. For more information on Peace Tree Brewing Company, visit their website at www.peacetreebrewing.com.
Plant a Wish is a public awareness campaign and documentary film project aiming to restore native habitats around America, while engaging communities and inspiring individuals to take an active role in the health of their environment. Starting on Earth Day 2010, the two Maui filmmakers (and project founders) launched a nationwide tour of America's forests, meeting incredible caretakers along the way, becoming the first to plant native trees in each of the 50 states, learning the stories behind the trees, blogging about their daily experiences, and collecting footage for a feature-length documentary film. They do all of this to fulfill their biggest wish: for future generations to enjoy healthy communities with an abundance of biodiversity, native plants and trees, fresh air, and clean water. Check out http://www.plantawish.org to learn more, to contribute or get involved.
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Super Bowl XXXVI will be remembered for the normal craziness of New Orleans, for a stunning Superdome tribute to the 9/11 victims, for a shocking victory by the upstart New England Patriots. No one remembers seeing Josh McDaniels there.
Super Bowl XXXVI will be remembered for the normal craziness of New Orleans, for a stunning Superdome tribute to the 9/11 victims, for a shocking victory by the upstart New England Patriots. No one remembers seeing Josh McDaniels there. The Patriots fielded one request that week to interview McDaniels, then the newest kid on Bill Belichick's coaching block. That was just seven years after McDaniels played in the 100th McKinley-Massillon game as the Canton high school's quarterback. Six years have passed. Now, everyone is looking for McDaniels. All the Washington D.C.-area reporters want McDaniels to confess he will interview for the Redskins head coaching opening. He politely answers wave after wave, never revealing more than this: "If that happens to be the case, we'll deal with that after the Super Bowl." National writers want a piece of McDaniels. In one interview, Sports Illustrated's Paul Zimmerman and Peter King competed for his attention. Another writer blurted this one McDaniels has answered unflinchingly in his new role as media star: "I'd have crapped my pants if I'd had to do what you're doing at your age? How do you do it?" McDaniels' response: "I don't consider myself a kid. I'm sure the players don't, either. ... I learned a long time ago that if you're prepared and what you're presenting is well thought out and has a very solid reason to it, when you present it to them, they eat it up." It's hard not to look at McDaniels as a kid. He'll turn 32 in April. A writer who will vote in Saturday's Pro Football Hall of Fame election left after 30 minutes at McDaniels' interview table Wednesday saying, "He's amazing." By comparison, Giants Offensive Coordinator Kevin Gilbride is 56. Pittsburgh's Bruce Arians is 55. San Diego's Clarence Shelmon is 55. Tom Moore of the Colts is 69. McDaniels' 2006 debut as offensive coordinator produced a 12-4 record. His second year yielded an NFL record for points scored and an unbeaten record. Apparently, he's a pretty sharp kid. "He looks like my little brother," said tight end Ben Watson, a first-round draft pick in 2004, when the Patriots won a Super Bowl with McDaniels coaching quarterbacks. "But he's really smart." Burly, bearded lineman Logan Mankins arrived in 2005, after Charlie Weis left for Notre Dame and McDaniels basically auditioned for the coordinator title. "He might be young," Mankins said, "but we respect Josh a lot. ... He knows what he's talking about. He gives us a hard time if he feels we didn't do a good job in practice." Supertstar receiver Randy Moss admits McDaniels' boyish appearance alarmed him when he joined the Patriots in April. "For a guy to be so young, you don't think he really has a lot of things to teach," Moss said. "Now ... we come in and have fun, but when it's time to really get down to business, Josh demands your attention. Every guy is attentive. Every guy has a pen and pad." McDaniels is in his fourth Super Bowl with the Patriots, in his fourth different job. - In 2001, he broke down film and did all the dirty work. - In 2003, he helped Romeo Crennel's defensive backs. - In 2004, he was Tom Brady's position coach. Being an offensive coordinator this time, he concedes, is "exciting," but the climb was fun, too. "My dad always told me, 'Do the job that you have as well as you can, and everything else in life's gonna fall in place," he said. McDaniels' father, Thom, was his coach at McKinley and now is head coach at Massillon Jackson High School. They always have been close and continue to talk regularly. When Josh played at McKinley, Belichick was head coach of the Browns. Thom McDaniels liked Belichick when no one else did. In fact, select Belichick quotes found their way to the locker room walls at Fawcett Stadium. "I don't recall what Bill was like then," Josh McDaniels said. "I was definitely a Browns fan. I wouldn't say that was the only team I liked. "I wasn't thinking I'd end up in the NFL. I always dreamed of being a high school and college coach. It so happened I got a chance to do this, and I won't ever turn back." Looking ahead, he said what he's been saying for years as to a future as a head coach: "I think I'd like to do that." Reach Canton Repository sports writer Steve Doerschuk at (330) 580-8347 or email@example.com.


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A prison (also called a jail or gaol) is a building where convicted criminals are held and incarcinated. Some prisoners are serving long terms or life sentence while some are waiting for trial. Those with short terms are probably locked up in a jail rather than prison.
Prisons are run by the government. Other words for prison include "penitentiary", "jail" or "gaol" (pronounced like "jail"), and "correctional facility".There are also different types of prison or jail which are satellite camp, normal prison, special prison for death rows and maximum security prison. Inmates are forced to wear prison uniform or fatigue with different bright colours from orange, blue, green and more depend on every prison. For instance, some prisoners which are prison workers might wear orange fatigue or some prisoner with bad criminal records wear red uniform and vice versa.
A person who has been charged with a crime, but has not yet been convicted for it in a court, may be sent to prison if:
- the police have arrested the person and are deciding whether to send them to court,
- the court thinks that the person may not come to their trial,
- the court thinks that the person may be a danger to the community, or
- the court has asked for bail but the person cannot pay the amount.
People held in prisons are called inmates or prisoners. The word convicts may also be used, but only if they have been sentenced to prison because of a crime.
People who have been sentenced to death are also kept in prison until their execution.
In some countries, prisons are also used for political prisoners (people who disagree with the country's leader or government). In times of war, prisoners of war may also be held in prisons.
Prison buildings and facilities
Male and female inmates are usually kept in separate locations or in separate prisons. Prisons are usually surrounded by walls and gates. There are usually many locked gates inside the prison to control the inmates.
The inmates sleep in small locked rooms called cells. Cells have a bunk bed, a toilet, and a sink. Inmates are allowed to leave their cell every day for exercise. Some inmates work in the prison during the day, either in a factory or doing cooking or cleaning. Law enforcement officers called prison guards watch the inmates. The manager of a prison is called the warden.
Prisons usually also include other buildings and facilities, such as a chapel, a library, an exercise yard, a gymnasium, an infirmary (small hospital), visiting rooms (for visits from family and lawyers), kitchens, and accommodation for prison staff.
The United Nations made the "Standard Minimum Rule" for human treatment for prisoners in 1955.[1] Also the Article 10 of International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights also affirm the treatment with humanity for them in prison.
Prisons for young people
There are special prisons for people under the age of 18 who commit crimes. These inmates are called young offenders or offenders.
Prisons are a controversial topic that people have different views about.
- People who think that we should have prisons say that removing people who commit crimes from society prevents them from committing more crimes and punishes them for their behavior. They also say that putting people in prison may also prevent others who are likely to commit similar crimes from committing them.
- People who think that we should not put people in prisons say that being put in prison makes people more violent and angry. People who commit minor crimes that are sent to prison meet violent criminals. As well, when people are sent to prison, they cannot see their family or children, which can cause problems for their family. Sometimes people are put in prison who have done nothing wrong. An American theory that is critical of prisons is called the prison industrial complex. People who believe in the prison industrial complex think that private prison companies want lots of people to be put in prison in order to make money.
Number of people in prison
As of 2006, there are currently nine million people in prison in the world. The United States currently has the most people in prison; it has more than 2 million people in prison. In 2002, both Russia and China also had over 1 million people in prison. In 2003, the United Kingdom had 73,000 people in prison; France and Germany had a similar number of people in prison.
Famous prisons in history
- Alcatraz, San Francisco (historical)
- Attica Correctional Facility, Attica, New York, scene of the most infamous prison riot in United States history
- The Bastille, Paris, France (historical) In French
- Devil's Island French Guiana (historical)
- Leavenworth, Kansas, site of a federal prison and the military's primary prison, the United States Disciplinary Barracks.
- Rikers Island, New York City, US (since 1884)
- Sing Sing Correctional Facility, Ossining, New York, U.S. (since 1828)
- The Tower of London, London, England (historical)
Cultural references to prisons and prison life
There are many books and poems about prisons or prison life, such as The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, père and The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde.
There are also movies that depict prison life, including:
- A Clockwork Orange (1971) directed by Stanley Kubrick
- Papillon (1973) directed by Franklin J Schaffner
- Stir Crazy (1975) directed by Sidney Poitier
- Midnight Express (1978) directed by Alan Parker
- Escape from Alcatraz (1979) directed by Don Siegel
- The Shawshank Redemption (1994) directed by Frank Darabont
- Dead Man Walking (1995) directed by Tim Robbins
- The Green Mile (1999) directed by Frank Darabont
- Lockdown (2000) directed by John Luessenhop
There have also been television programs, such as Prisoner: Cell Block H (1979–1986), Prison Break (2005–2009), Lockup (2005 - present) and Lockdown: Americas Hardest Prisons (2006 - present). A current TV show about a women's prison is Orange Is the New Black.
Related pages
- County jail is a term used for local administrative security prisons that are in each county of the United States and for those awaiting trial as well those serving short sentences. Some of these institutions can also hold sentenced maximum security immates and some who are awaiting transport to state prisons if they're convicted of crimes.
- state prisons is a term used for prisons that are in each state of the United States and for criminals convicted of crimes that land them in these institutions.
- federal prison is a term for special prisons that are in each state of the United States, run by the Federal Bureau Of Prisons and for criminals who committed federal crimes that land them in these institutuions.
- military prisons is a term for special prisons that are in each state of the United States, run by the miltary and for criminals who are convicted of war crimes that land them in these institutions.
- Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: the Birth of the Prison, New York: Random House 1975.


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Unions claimed solid support for a strike by public sector workers today and hit back at Conservative plans to change balloting laws as "utter hypocrisy".
Schools across England and Wales closed and there was disruption to council services, museums and galleries, the fire service and jobcentres as more than a million workers took industrial action in bitter disputes over pay, pensions, jobs and spending cuts.
The action was hailed as the biggest strike over pay to hit the Government since it came to power in 2010.
Home helps, lollipop men and women, refuse collectors, librarians, dinner ladies, parks attendants, council road safety officers, caretakers and cleaners walked out, alongside teachers, firefighters, civil servants and transport workers.
Picket lines were mounted outside courts, council offices, jobcentres, fire stations and Parliament in outpourings of anger over the coalition's public sector policies.
The Prime Minister and other senior politicians attacked the strikes, arguing that they are based on ballots conducted some years ago which saw low turnout from union members.
The Conservatives are drawing up plans to change employment law so that a threshold of those balloted would have to be reached before industrial action could be held.
But Unite said no Tory Cabinet member achieved a 50% voting threshold in the last general election.
General secretary Len McCluskey said: "It is utter hypocrisy for the Government to talk about mandates for trade unions when not a single member of the present Cabinet would have been elected using the same criteria.
"The fact is not a single councillor in England has won 50% of the electorate, not a single MEP has reached the 50% threshold, Boris Johnson (London mayor) scraped in with just 37% in 2008 and the Government's flagship police and crime commissioner election gained a risible 17% of the vote.
"This Government has no mandate to attack trade unions or the workers who have been forced to take industrial action today in their fight to end poverty pay."
A study by Unite showed that the Cabinet member with the lowest percentage of the vote was Welsh Secretary David Jones, who secured the support of 27% of the electorate in his seat of Clwyd West in 2010, and Culture Secretary Sajid Javid achieved a vote of 30.8% of the electorate in his constituency of Bromsgrove in 2010.
Mr McCluskey added: "Britain's anti-trade union laws are already amongst the most restrictive in Europe. Tory attempts to further curtail the rights of working people to democratically organise risks placing Cameron's Britain alongside nations like Kazakhstan, Albania and Niger, where the right for public servants to take action is forbidden."
Unison said the strike was particularly well supported in the North East, Wales and East Midlands where the union said most council offices have been closed, adding that more than 60 picket lines have closed the majority of services in Newcastle.
On the south coast and Wales, delivery vans have refused to cross picket lines. In London, strikers mounted more than 150 picket lines with many workers refusing to cross.
Unison general secretary Dave Prentis said: "It is a massive decision by local government and school support workers to sacrifice a day's pay by going on strike, but today they are saying enough is enough.
"It is a scandal that people who educate and support children in schools, maintain crucial local services, keep our communities clean and safe places to live, and protect the homeless and vulnerable are not paid at least the Living Wage.
"We are calling on the local government employers to come back to the table and settle this dispute. Politicians from all parties have been talking about the need to end low pay and introduce the Living Wage, and they must get their own house in order first."
Almost 1,500 schools, colleges and nurseries are reporting full or part closures across 31 authorities in England, while a number of libraries and other services were affected.
Fire chiefs urged people to take extra care because of the walkout by members of the Fire Brigades Union in Wales and England between 10am and 7pm - the 15th round of industrial action in a long-running row over pensions and retirement age.
More than 200,000 members of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) were expected to take part in the walkout.
The union's general secretary, Christine Blower, said: "We obviously think the strike will go very well, there will be many thousands of public sector workers out and that will affect a lot of schools.
"I've been getting messages from people saying that they are more determined now than they were in the past to take action."
Ms Blower insisted that industrial action is just one part of their "stand up for education" campaign, which also includes informing and working with parents and lobbying politicians.
"There are 1,000 teachers in every constituency and politicians need to start listening and begin to put pressure on the Government themselves," she said.
The NUT's action, which focuses on three issues - pay, pensions and working conditions - has been condemned by the Department for Education (DfE), which said that it will hold back pupils' education.
"There is no justification for further strikes," a DfE spokeswoman said. "The unions asked for talks, we agreed to their request and talks are ongoing.
"The Secretary of State joined talks with the unions on June 25. All ministers meet with the unions frequently and will continue to do so. These strikes will only disrupt parents' lives, hold back children's education and damage the reputation of the profession."
Members of Unison staged a demonstration outside Parliament, holding up giant "slices of bread" to symbolise that workers want more than a 1% slice of the pay bill.
Mick Cash, acting general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union, warned of wildcat strikes if changes are made to balloting laws.
"If you remove the right to strike legally or make it almost impossible, then workers will, understandably, take matters into their own hands.
"If a majority of workers in a democratic, secret ballot decide to take action as last resort over their safety or jobs but the government or a judge says you can't do that because you've not reached a threshold or because this is an essential service, it is obvious how workers with a proud militant tradition will react.
"They will eventually take their own action and you will see highly disruptive wildcat action called at very short or no notice."
The TUC has said public sector workers are on average more than £2,000 worse off under the Government, while half a million council employees earn less than the living wage.
Unison said ending the cap on public sector pay would create thousands of jobs and pump millions of pounds into the economy.
Every 1% increase in public sector pay would generate between £710 million and £820 million for the Government in increased income tax and National Insurance contributions as well as reduced spending on benefits and welfare, said the union.
A Cabinet Office spokesman said: "The vast majority of dedicated public sector workers did not vote for today's action, and early indications are that most are turning up for work as usual.
"In the civil service we estimate that fewer than 90,000 members of the PCS union will not be working - this is lower than previous strike action, and just a fifth of the civil service workforce
"It is disappointing that, once again, some union leaders have pushed for strike action that will achieve nothing and benefit no one. Union leaders have relied on mandates for action that lack authority - the National Union of Teachers ballot was run nearly two years ago, while other ballots had extremely low turnouts."
Neil Carberry, the CBI's director for employment and skills, said: "This strike action will cause disruption across the country and businesses will need to take a commonsense approach to managing their workforce, particularly in the case of parents.
"The main focus should be on ending the dispute, and there always needs to be a clear mandate from members for a strike, given the disruption they can cause the public and businesses. We believe that for any strike to go ahead, there should be a higher threshold on votes so that strikes cannot be called on small turnouts."
A Cabinet Office spokesman said: ``Most public sector workers have reported for work today and well-rehearsed contingency plans are ensuring that nearly all key public services are being delivered as usual.
"In past years, unions made inflated claims about how many they thought would participate in strike action. They were shown to be wrong.
"We can confirm that only a fifth of civil servants - fewer than 90,000 - are on strike. That is down from the strike action in March 2013; all 717 jobcentres opened this morning; the majority of schools in England and Wales are open; fire services are operating across the country; and nationally, disruption to local government services is minimal.
"Nevertheless, it is a huge disappointment that once again a handful of union leaders have pushed for irresponsible strike action, which can cause inconvenience and disruption to children's education and the lives of hard-working families.
"Union leaders are relying on mandates for action that lack authority - the National Union of Teachers is relying on a ballot run nearly two years ago."
Telephone callers to jobcentres were told in a recorded message that a limited service was available because of "service difficulties".
The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union described the Cabinet Office's figures as ``laughable'', adding: ``No-one can trust this government to keep reliable figures, it can't even tell us what it's done with dozens of Home Office files.''
The union said national museums in Liverpool and the National Museum of Scotland were closed and driving test centres were hit.
In the Passport Office in Liverpool, more than 400 staff were on strike and large turnouts were reported from Land Registry offices.
The PCS said there were "very healthy" turnouts in HM Revenue and Customs and the Department for Work and Pensions, including 1,350 staff on strike in the Greater Glasgow DWP branch.
Officials said 98% of union members were on strike at the Brighton jobcentre, with claimants told to come back tomorrow.
Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude told the Commons that fewer workers were taking part in the strike than during previous industrial action. Fewer than 20% of civil servants were on strike, compared with a third during the last big walkout in 2011, he said.
Mr Maude said responsibility for disruption caused by the stoppage lay with union leaders, adding that the right to strike must be exercised "responsibly".
He pointed out that only one in five members of Unite and Unison had taken part in ballots leading to today's strike, adding that low turnouts strengthened the case for reform.
The Local Government Association said that across England, Wales and Northern Ireland around 95% of council staff were at work today.
A spokesman said: "Local authorities have put contingency plans in place to ensure that residents notice as little disruption as possible.
"Most of our staff are at work today, continuing the fantastic job they do of running the services on which people rely.
"Councils know how tough recent years have been for our employees. Local government workers have performed wonders in maintaining important services during the biggest cuts to funding in living memory.
"With a £5.8 billion funding shortfall to tackle over the next two years, budgets for local services will continue to be stretched for the foreseeable future.
"The offer we have made to increase most employees' pay by 1% is at the absolute limit of what local authorities can afford.
"We urge the unions to accept this pay increase so that it can reach the pockets of our hard-working staff who have been kept waiting for it since April."


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Obamacare constitutes a fundamental assault on limited constitutional government. The question isn't exactly whether it's unconstitutional, but whether the Supreme Court can get it right given the state of the doctrines it has fashioned to accommodate liberalism in the modern era. Liberalism has done its best to abrogate the limits on limited government, and its best is probably good enough. Obamacare calls us to return to first principles. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen of the Tea Party.
This week's installment of Uncommon Knowledge convenes two distinguished scholars of constitutional law to discuss the issues. Richard Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, New York University Law School, and John Yoo, professor at the University of California at Berkeley law school, examine the merits of various constitutional arguments for the Supreme Court's striking down Obamacare (as well as various other issues before the Court this term). Through our arrangement with the Hoover Institution, we are pleased to present this installment in its entirety. Please check it out.
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World UFO Update [March] updated regularly
Posted by dandare on March 28, 2009
Welcome to World UFO Updates
[pic could also be entitled …oh no late with world UFO update again…EEK!!!]
Whats happened around the UFO world, in March 2009 (mainly articles that have caught my eye).
PR Newswire (not sure of date…but near start of month) " Uncover the mystery and discover the truth july 2-5th 2009, at the amazing Roswell UFO Festival "
" Uncover the mystery and help discover the truth at The Amazing Roswell UFO Festival. The City of Roswell invites UFO enthusiasts and skeptics alike to join in the celebration of one of the most controversial incidents in history this July 2-5, 2009. The four-day event will feature guest speakers, authors, live entertainment, family-friendly activities and possibly an alien abduction. Visitors welcome! " (extract from article).
For the actual site see here .
The Michigan Daily " Will Grundler: Zac Efron in space " mmm… no comment.
The Hollywood Reporter.com " Commentary: Race UFO story not alien to Roswell native "
" Filmmakers are sometimes particularly well suited to tackle certain projects, and that certainly seems to be the case with Andy Fickman and "Race to Witch Mountain" " (extract from article).
Beach Connection.net " Watchers in the night sky "
" Was it a secret military prototype, the implementation of Nikola Tesla's later theories of gravity repulsion, spawned from his confiscated notes? Perhaps. But at this late date nothing resembling it has surfaced in the news " (extract from article).
Examiner.com " Orange light UFOs again over TX "
" Two witnesses five miles north of Rising Star, Eastland County, reported a series of orange lights – appearing and disappearing, sometimes blinking. In a second report, a witness from Abilene, Taylor County, reported a similar series of orange lights appearing in a row format like the Phoenix Lights case – where one light turns on, then a second, then a third, and so forth " (extract from article).
Gauntlet " The truth is in the sky "
" What made 2008 such a hot year for spotting UFOs? While there are more reporting mechanisms (especially through the Internet) than ever before, one journalist suggested that more people are looking to the heavens, perhaps seeking some spiritual respite from the stresses of these economically challenging times " (extract from article).
ufo digest.com " Roswell Fireman Confesses – it was a flying saucer! "
" A firefighter who was with the Roswell Fire Department in 1947 has confirmed that the mysterious crash in the New Mexico desert that Summer was in fact of an unearthly craft!
The firefighter, now age 90, related stunning information to this author in a lengthy interview conducted recently. Respected Roswell author Kevin Randle also talked with the involved fireman to confirm the details of his story " (extract from article).
Whittier Daily News " Believers hunt for UFOs "
" Late last month, the group gathered in this desert casino town to discuss the truth they believe is out there. This year, that meant lectures on alien implant research, alien technology, the secret societies that "threaten to take over America" and something called "exoconsciousness." Nearly 1,000 people attended the annual meeting " (extract from article).
KYW Newsradio 1060 " Bucks county UFO sightings are on the rise "
" Bucks County is the focus of world wide interest in unidentified flying object sightings. That's according to local UFO enthusiasts who meet monthly in Philadelphia's Fishtown section " (extract from article).
Nevada Appeal.com " Nearly 1,000 UFO hunters gather for annual meeting "
" Late last month, the group gathered in this desert casino town to discuss the truth they believe is out there. This year, that meant lectures on alien implant research, alien technology, the secret societies that "threaten to take over America" and something called "exoconsciousness." Nearly 1,000 people attended the annual meeting " (extract from article).
Review Journal.com " Believers out there, seeking UFO truth " (similar article to the one above ).
100MilesFreePress.net " Our mysterious skies "
" When Canadians looked up, up in the sky in 2008, an unusual number weren't able to identify what they were looking at as either a bird, a plane … or anything else.
In all, according to Winnipeg-based Ufology Research, there were 1,004 reports of unidentified flying objects across Canada in 2008, an increase of 26 per cent over 2007. Reports had been filed by witnesses with government and military agencies, police, civilian UFO groups and online UFO websites.
Vancouver Island was no exception, says Houston, B.C. based UFO researcher Brian Vike " (extract from article).
New Strait Times Online " Is ET calling ? "
" WHEN it comes to UFOs, aliens, other-worldly abductions and matters of the inter-galactic kind, nobody is more out there than Hollywood film director Andy Fickman.
Fickman, who directed the upcoming Disney's sci-fi family fare Race to Witch Mountain (scheduled to open in cinemas nationwide on Friday, with simultaneous release in the United States), was exposed to the extra-terrestrial world from a young age " (extract from article).
Javno.com " UFO spotted above Zadar, Croatia? "
" Zadar locals were disturbed by an unusual occurrence in the sky on Sunday night around 20:30 hours. As Kata Colic of Turnj told us, they saw a ball which kept changing colour and vanished in a few minutes.
According to witnesses, the unidentified flying object hovered above Sveti Petar and vanished above the island of Ugljan. Some even recorded the flying object " (extract from article).
The Pueblo Chieftain Online " Trinidad Rancher finds finds mutilated cow "
" No one is sure what killed the cow on a pasture near the Purgatoire River, but Trinidad rancher Mike Duran said he definitely finds the death unusual " (extract from article).
Crytoworld " Orange UFO filmed over Japan's Osaka Airport " As is mentioned, it seems to be a lantern.
readingeagle.com " Jason Brudereck: No frolf involved in UFO sightings at French Creek "
" According to western Pennsylvania UFO hunter Stan Gordon, three witnesses watched a yellow sphere on Thursday.
Gordon said he interviewed two of the three witnesses, both separately. They gave similar accounts.
At 7:52 p.m., a man was at a stop sign near his house when he noticed "a solid, large yellow sphere hovering low on the horizon" " (extract from article).
Javno.com " PHOTO: UFO sighting over Zadar? "
" She herself does not consider the unusual occurrence to be a "visitation" by aliens and knows there certainly must be a rational explanation of the phenomenon that can easily stimulate the imagination, creating stories of visitors from a faraway galaxy whose motives of visiting are unknown " (extract from article).
Astronomy Now.com " Kepler satellite mission to find Earth-sized planets "
Daily Herald " Are UFOs real? Yes, but we don't know where they come from "
" Want to know if aliens are real? Check back in a few years, said Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the California-based SETI Institute, which is supported by NASA, the National Science Foundation and private donations " (extract from article).
The Province.com " UFO researcher sets sight on a sasquatch "
" Brian Vike believes he has photographic proof that sasquatches really exist.
No, he doesn't have a photo of a sasquatch, but he does have a photo of a very large footprint.
The UFO researcher, based in the Houston area, has developed a soft spot for the mythical furry creatures. Last Sunday, he got an excited call from Moricetown, about 90 kilometres north of Houston " (extract from article).
iol.co.za " Do you believe the truth is out there ? "
" A new survey has found that 30 percent of South Africans support the claim by Agent Fox Mulder of X-files that we are not alone… They believe that life exists on other planets.
The research, conducted by TNS Research Surveys, involved a sample of 2 000 adults, older than the age of 18, living in one of seven cities in South Africa " (extract from article).
Los Angeles Times " Pentagon plans blimp to spy from new heights "
" The Pentagon said Thursday that it intends to spend $400 million to develop a giant dirigible that will float 65,000 feet above the Earth for 10 years, providing unblinking and intricate radar surveillance of the vehicles, planes and even people below " (extract from article).
Digital Journal.com " UFO formation in South Africa filmed by cops "
" Twenty three lights moved steadily in the night-sky of Witbank, South Africa on Friday March 6 2009 — and scores of residents in nearby Middelburg also saw them. They called in the police, who filmed the odd formation of lights on their cellphones " (extract from article). the video can be seen here .
Metro.us " Investigators busy with UFO sightings "
" "I'm spending almost two hours a night on these sightings in Bucks County," John Ventre of the Pennsylvania chapter of the Mutual UFO Network said last week. "This wave that [started] the second half of last year was incredible."
Over 100 sightings since June more suited for Fox and Mulder than local police departments have attracted the attention of the Discovery and History channels " (extract from article).
McGill Daily " Prof talks UFO science "
" As Donderi explained, however, one of the major problems in the study of UFOs is that even if one establishes the reliability of eyewitness accounts to form empirical evidence, there are limits to what can be explained given our current understanding of the universe.
Dr. Albert Bregman, Emeritus Professor from McGill Psychology, for example, remarked during the question period at the end of the lecture that UFOs defy our notions of Newtonian physics " (extract from article).
Inventorspot.com " Morristown UFO: Close Encounter of the Jersey kind? " (unsure of exact date of posting)
Denver Post " Skeptical UFO investigator has feet on ground, eyes on sky "
" UFO field investigator Chuck Zukowski likes to think of himself as a skeptic.
He won't throw his UFO detective gear into his truck (license plate: UFONUT) and go out to the middle of nowhere just because someone reported a few glowing orbs over a field.
"Cattle mutilations I'll go out for, but orbs? They have to have some sort of documentation — a photo, a video," he said recently as he pulled his Nissan Xterra up to Ute Valley Park " (extract from article). For some reason, reposted on the 28th as " UFO investigator finds mystery at CO Springs Park ".
Times of India " UFO blip leaves airport officials foxed "
" The unidentified aircraft or object was spotted on the airport radar at 3.45 am on Th-ursday. Sources said there was only a Cathay Pacific overfli-ght scheduled for the time and in that direction. "But the fli-ght showed a separate blip. What's more, we had communication problems with the Ca-thay Pacific pilot during the time the mystery blip was on screen," said an air controller " (extract from article). It tries to tie in the recent London sighting, which is not really relavent, and is almost certainly a fake anyway.
Times Of Malta " What's the mysterious light in the sky ? "
" According to eyewitnesses, the light is brighter than anything else in the sky and appears to hover lower than passing planes. It moves westwards generally but, according to eyewitnesses, on March 13, the light started moving erratically " (extract from article). Later on it mentions:
" Local astronomers, who have their eyes riveted to the sky, have not seen anything out of the ordinary, the vice-president of the Astronomical Society of Malta Alexei Pace said. Mr Pace, who has seen photos of the light, said it is likely to be Venus, currently the brightest object in the sky and visible as soon as the sky starts to darken after sunset " (extract from article).
The Mercury.com.au " UFO lights a riddle "
" UNUSUAL lights that sparked a wave of concern were probably a meteor or space junk, a Tassie UFO hunter says.
Keith Roberts said the unusual trail of lights seen speeding across the sky on Saturday afternoon was most likely a natural phenomenon.
But the source of the mystery lights remains unknown.
Police took dozens of calls about 1.30pm from people around the state who saw the lights heading south " (extract from article).
Mirro.co.uk " ET found on google street view " [or not?]
" Next to what appears to be a beam of light there is a hazy figure shaped just like the film alien ET " (extract from article). oh how nice! sorry will stop now…
The Pueblo Chieftain Online " Two more cows found mutilated "
" A cow on a ranch near Walsenburg was found with its udders cut off and a calf on a ranch near Trinidad was found missing the entire center of its body as well as its ears.
A similar mutilation was discovered March 8 on a pasture near the Purgatoire River, just west of the small town of Weston. That cow was found dead by rancher Mike Duran with its udders and reproductive organs surgically removed from its body " (extract from article).
Asia One News " UFOs still electric hot "
" CRANE game machines, better known as UFOs or toy catchers, are catching on among the well-heeled and elderly here.
While those who flocked to the machines in the past were teens, amusement-arcade operators told my paper that they now see young executives, housewives and grandparents.
These people are responsible for a resurgence in the popularity of such machines, once a fad in the early 1990s " (extract from article).
Greenwich Time " The big boom in Stamford remains a mystery "
" They were all wrong. But to this day no one knows what caused the "Stamford Boom" of Oct. 3, 1999.
In fact, the mystery has grown.
The boom shook houses near Stamford Hospital, in Hubbard Heights and downtown — and nowhere else.
Authorities ruled out earthquake, thunder, sonic boom, a gas, sewer or transformer explosion, construction blasting and meteors.
In the days that followed, it got weirder " (extract from article).
Associated Content.com " Why are UFO sightings laughed at and mocked ? "
" If you have even heard anyone discuss the issue of UFOs then you know that it is often met with a great deal of skeptics and people wanting to mock the subject. However when you look at the numbers of UFO sightings is it really that far fetched to at least be open to the notion? " (extract from article).
New York Times " Space shuttle lands in Florida "
" The shuttle Discovery glided to a hazy Florida landing on Saturday, leaving the International Space Station behind in orbit with a complete set of solar arrays and a repaired water recycling system " (extract from article).
SF Gate " Country star Merle Haggard stands tall " in this article, there is a reference to UFOs:
" He believes in UFOs. He thinks the government has a secret project spraying mysterious gases from planes that dehydrate the snowpack.
He doesn't mince words. He is Merle Haggard, and he doesn't care what you think.
He pays detractors no mind. "I rest my case in my mind by realizing that I'm intelligent and they're stupid," he says " (extract from article).


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High Fructose Corn Syrup – Is it Safe?
by Donna Quirk, MBA RD LD
LMC Clinical Nutrition Manager
High fructose corn syrup is glucose – fructose corn syrup that is a popular sweetening ingredient in sodas, fruit-flavored drinks, baked goods, and other processed foods. It is produced by taking corn syrups and, through an enzymatic process, converting some of their glucose into fructose to produce the desired sweetness. High fructose corn syrup is one of many sweeteners that have replaced sucrose (table sugar) in the food industry. This is due to the high cost of imported table sugar compared to the low cost of corn in the U.S.
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration classifies High Fructose Corn Syrup as "generally regarded as safe". But, is it?
Although high-fructose corn syrup is chemically similar to table sugar, some people have concerns about how high-fructose corn syrup is processed. They believe that your body reacts differently to high-fructose corn syrup than to other types of sugar. But research about high-fructose corn syrup does not yet draw any conclusions. We do know that eating too much of any type of sugar — not just high-fructose corn syrup — can lead to health problems such as weight gain, dental cavities, and increased triglyceride levels.
Women should eat no more than 6 teaspoons of added sugar and men no more than 9 teaspoons per day. A 12 ounce can of soda is equal to 10 teaspoons of sugar
So, it is important to eat a healthy diet with a variety of foods. Any added sugar needs to be consumed in moderation. To eat less sugar, try to
• Avoid sugary, nondiet sodas. Drink water or other unsweetened beverages instead.
• Choose breakfast cereals carefully. Skip the non-nutritious, sugary and frosted cereals.
• Eat fewer processed and packaged foods, such as cookies, cakes, and some microwaveable meals.
• Snack on vegetables, fruit, low-fat cheese, whole-grain crackers, nuts, and low-fat, low-calorie yogurt.
• Check the ingredient label. Sugars and sweeteners should not be one of the first few ingredients.


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Getting There
The Pico Branch Library is located at the Virginia Avenue Park Campus on Pico Blvd. between 21st Street and Cloverfield Blvd.
By Freeway. Take the I-10 freeway to the Cloverfield Blvd. exit. Take Cloverfield Blvd. south for 0.3 miles and then turn right on Pico Blvd.
By Bus. The Pico Branch Library is served by the Big Blue Bus line 7. Lines 41, 42, 43 also stop within a short walking distance.
Two surface parking lots are available for 2 hour parking on the VAP Campus. The first parking lot is located on Pico Blvd, south of the Pico Branch. The second parking lot is located on Virginia Ave., north of the Pico Branch. Limited metered parking is also available on Pico Blvd. Residential parking permits are in effect on the side streets north of Pico Blvd. Monday through Friday.
Bike Racks. Cyclists can secure their bikes at the bike lockers adjacent to the Pico Branch Building. Bike valet is available on Saturdays during the Farmer's Market.
Pico Branch – Exterior Materials Returns – Materials return is connected to the building, located to the right of the main entrance of the Pico Branch Library. This return is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and accepts books, magazines and audiovisual materials. Please do not drop donations into this return. All donations should be brought to the Main Library, 601 Santa Monica Blvd.
Children. The Pico Branch offers story times and craft programs, book club gatherings, class visits, three group study rooms and much more.
Teens. Take advantage of our computers, study rooms, movie screenings, volunteer opportunities (8th grade and up), special programs, and more.
Adults. Enjoy our Book Group which meets the third Thursday of the month.
En Español. Ofrecemos cuentos para los niños, libros y audiolibros en español, fotonovelas y clases de computación.
The Annex Community Meeting Facility. A 56-person capacity meeting room is available for rent for meetings or programs that are free and open to the public.
Collections. Explore a wide array of popular books, magazines, DVDs, Music CDs, and books on CD for children, teens and adults.
Computers. The Pico Branch Library is equipped with 12 public access Internet stations, 8 children's computers, plus 3 Early Literacy (AWE) stations.
Wi-Fi. The facility is equipped with free City Wi-Fi.
Photocopiers and printers. Color and black-and-white printing and photocopying are available.
Access the City of Santa Monica's Office of Sustainability and the Environment case study page here. A brochure and game can be found here.
Site Planning
Water Efficiency
Energy Use
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Public Education
Branch library service has been available at various locations in the Pico / Sunset Park area since the 1930s. A small branch was located at 1903 20th Street in a storefront building from 1931 until 1942, when it moved to a rented facility at 2030 Pico Boulevard in order to be closer to two schools. In 1956, the library moved into a newly-constructed facility at 2101 Ocean Park Boulevard and opened as the Fairview Branch Library.
The Pico Neighborhood Community Plan of 1983 addressed the need for a branch library to return to the neighborhood and suggested combining existing private sector commercial activities with public uses to include a library and a post office. As Virginia Avenue Park was being planned, the inclusion of a library was again raised. During the period 2001 to 2006, the City was focusing, however, on improvements to its three branch libraries and the construction of the new Main Library.
In 2008 the idea of a library returning to the Pico neighborhood gained momentum as the community considered the rebuilding of Edison Language Academy and the opportunity for a joint-use (Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District and City) branch library was explored. The discussions led to the investigation of other locations for a branch, including along Pico Boulevard at a site to be acquired and in Virginia Avenue Park. Extensive community input into the siting, design and programming of the library occurred fall 2008 through spring 2011. In 2009, the City Council approved construction of a new branch library in Virginia Avenue Park and selected Koning Eizenberg Architects (KEA) as part of a competitive process. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on August 15, 2012. In 2014, the branch had its "soft" opening on April 24, and the ribbon-cutting, Grand Opening ceremony takes place on Saturday, June 28 from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Information about the Pico Branch Library planning and construction project is available on the Pico Branch Project webpage.
The Pico Branch Library is sited to preserve park open space, integrate with the Farmers Market zone and other park buildings, and is oriented toward Pico Boulevard. The total cost of the project is $10.8 million from the City's general and capital improvement funds. The 8,690 square-foot, single-story library designed by KEA has a two-building design. The main, 7,872 square-foot facility consists of children's, teen, and adult collections; popular materials; a children's area; three group study rooms; reading areas; public computers; and customer support services. To the west, across a fire lane, is the Annex, a separate 818 square-foot community room that is used for story times, educational, and cultural programs and can be rented by the public. The structures are connected at the roofline with a trellis, creating a pedestrian breezeway. A small, exterior amphitheater with terraced steps on the Annex's south face enhances the building's relationship to the Park Center and the Teen Center.
The Pico Branch project incorporates many sustainable features. The primary library building has clear glazing on three sides to provide natural daylighting and a strong visual connection to the park. A dynamic, folded roof design incorporates skylights for indirect lighting. The roof is treated to reflect sunlight to mitigate the heat island effect that contributes to smog. Large projecting roof overhangs and an expansive fabric canopy along the entrance façade provide shade for visitors. Landscaping includes new trees that provide additional shading, raised planters, and seat walls for comfortable outdoor seating. The first park in the U.S. to be awarded the LEED® Silver rating in 2005, the Pico Branch Library seeks a platinum rating from the U.S. Green Building Council.


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UBS SME barometer: Situation of SMEs varies according to sector
In the construction industry, in tourism and above all in the retail sector, SMEs fared better in the second quarter than large corporations. In industry, however, the opposite applies. Retail companies continue to struggle in a difficult business environment, with large companies forced to accept a massive worsening of their situation, particularly with regard to turnover and sales prices. Overall, falling prices present a persistent problem, regardless of company size.
Both SMEs and large companies were able to increase their turnover in the second quarter. Among SMEs, the tourism sector reported some difficulties due to the strong Swiss franc and was only able to stabilize turnover compared to the previous year. However, SMEs did succeed in slightly expanding their workforces. Sales prices, earnings and cash flows remained stable year-on-year. At +34 points, the business climate for large companies in the industry remained in clearly positive territory in the second quarter, suggesting a solid course of expansion. The index value of 4 for SMEs, on the other hand, implies continued stagnation.
Large companies in the manufacturing sector fared slightly better than SMEs in terms of turnover and employment. In the second quarter they hired slightly more new employees and also achieved better turnover results. As for sales prices, earnings and cash flow, both groups of companies remained stable at the previous year's level, with the exception of improved profits for large companies. Profit and cash flow figures for the last seven quarters reveal a similar pattern: Following a rapid and solid post-crisis recovery, growth in the two indicators slowed among SMEs, remaining at a stable level for the last three quarters.
SMEs perform better in the services and construction sectors
Service companies were able to boost turnover regardless of their size. Sales prices also remained stable for both groups of companies in the second quarter. In terms of staffing levels, earnings and cash flow, SMEs did better than larger companies. At the end of the day, the positive expectations in earnings expressed by large companies in the last survey failed to materialize as profits slumped in the second quarter.
In the construction sector, SMEs did better than their large counterparts in all surveyed indicators, as was already the case in previous quarters. Despite an ongoing battle with falling prices and profits in the second quarter, their losses were lower than those of large companies. Cash flow worsened again for large companies after a stable year, while the situation was exactly the opposite for SMEs. Heading into the third quarter, both groups of companies expect all indicators to hold steady or to worsen, with the exception of large companies' expectations of improved earnings.
Bleak outlook persists in the retail sector
As in the last quarter, large companies and SMEs made marginal staffing cutbacks in tourism, with the outlook also looking bleak for the current quarter. While large companies still expect the situation to stabilize, SMEs fear further job cuts. Having improved their general turnover situation again in the second quarter, SMEs are expecting stabilization in the third quarter. Despite lower turnover, large corporations are banking on stable earnings.
Large companies are coming under increasing pressure in the retail sector. While SMEs endured declining earnings, cash flows and sales prices, large companies in fact fared far worse. All their indicators worsened, and they assume nothing will change going into the third quarter. The strength of the franc is currently favoring some sections of the industry that import their goods from European countries. Sinking prices could point to a faster transfer of these savings to the consumer through currency conversion.
The business climate is calculated on the basis of the survey results for output, incoming orders and revenue in the manufacturing sector. Data on cash flow and on an industry-specific level have been collected since the first quarter of 2009.
Media contact
Dr. Daniel Kalt, Chef Economist Switzerland
Tel. +41 44 234 25 60
Sibille Duss, Wealth Management Research
Tel. +41 44 235 69 54
Schweizerischer Gewerbeverband (sgv)
Henrique Schneider
Tel. +41 31 380 14 38
Hans-Ulrich Bigler, Director sgv
Tel. +41 79 285 47 09
The Schweizerische Gewerbeverband sgv (sgv Swiss Industry and Trade Association) is the umbrella organization for small and medium-sized enterprises. It was founded in 1879 and is now the largest business association in Switzerland. The sgv represents the interests of some 300,000 small and medium-sized enterprises. Most of these companies are members of approximately 255 industry and professional associations and of cantonal industry and trade associations, which are organized on a multi-sector basis.


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Western blot analysis of extracts from HeLa cells, transfected with 100 nM SignalSilence® Control siRNA (Unconjugated) #6568 (-), SignalSilence® AMPKα2 siRNA I (+) or SignalSilence® AMPKα2 siRNA II #6630 (+), using AMPKα2 Antibody #2757 (upper) or α-Tubulin (11H10) Rabbit mAb #2125 (lower). The AMPKα2 Antibody confirms silencing of AMPKα2 expression, while the α-Tubulin (11H10) Rabbit mAb is used as a loading control.
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CST recommends transfection with 100 nM AMPKα2 siRNA I 48 to 72 hours prior to cell lysis. For transfection procedure, follow protocol provided by the transfection reagent manufacturer. Please feel free to contact CST with any questions on use.
Each vial contains the equivalent of 100 transfections, which corresponds to a final siRNA concentration of 100 nM per transfection in a 24-well plate with a total volume of 300 μl per well.
SignalSilence® siRNA is supplied in RNAse-free water. Aliquot and store at -20ºC.
SignalSilence® AMPKα2 siRNA I from Cell Signaling Technology (CST) allows the researcher to specifically inhibit AMPKα2 expression using RNA interference, a method whereby gene expression can be selectively silenced through the delivery of double stranded RNA molecules into the cell. All SignalSilence® siRNA products from CST are rigorously tested in-house and have been shown to reduce target protein expression by western analysis.
Oligonucleotide synthesis is monitored base by base through trityl analysis to ensure appropriate coupling efficiency. The oligo is subsequently purified by affinity-solid phase extraction. The annealed RNA duplex is further analyzed by mass spectrometry to verify the exact composition of the duplex. Each lot is compared to the previous lot by mass spectrometry to ensure maximum lot-to-lot consistency.
AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is highly conserved from yeast to plants and animals and plays a key role in the regulation of energy homeostasis (1). AMPK is a heterotrimeric complex composed of a catalytic α subunit and regulatory β and γ subunits, each of which is encoded by two or three distinct genes (α1, 2; β1, 2; γ1, 2, 3) (2). The kinase is activated by an elevated AMP/ATP ratio due to cellular and environmental stress, such as heat shock, hypoxia, and ischemia (1). The tumor suppressor LKB1, in association with accessory proteins STRAD and MO25, phosphorylates AMPKα at Thr172 in the activation loop, and this phosphorylation is required for AMPK activation (3-5). AMPKα is also phosphorylated at Thr258 and Ser485 (for α1; Ser491 for α2). The upstream kinase and the biological significance of these phosphorylation events have yet to be elucidated (6). The β1 subunit is post-translationally modified by myristoylation and multi-site phosphorylation including Ser24/25, Ser96, Ser101, Ser108, and Ser182 (6,7). Phosphorylation at Ser108 of the β1 subunit seems to be required for the activation of AMPK enzyme, while phosphorylation at Ser24/25 and Ser182 affects AMPK localization (7). Several mutations in AMPKγ subunits have been identified, most of which are located in the putative AMP/ATP binding sites (CBS or Bateman domains). Mutations at these sites lead to reduction of AMPK activity and cause glycogen accumulation in heart or skeletal muscle (1,2). Accumulating evidence indicates that AMPK not only regulates the metabolism of fatty acids and glycogen, but also modulates protein synthesis and cell growth through EF2 and TSC2/mTOR pathways, as well as blood flow via eNOS/nNOS (1).
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Luis Valbuena is the only left-handed hitter in the Cubs lineup Saturday against Boston southpaw Jon Lester.
The rest of the lineup bats from the right side, including Reed Johnson in right field, Jeff Baker at first base, Joe Mather in center field and Welington Castillo at catcher.
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text: The Staggers 10 May 2013 The EU isn't too big to fail, but it is too important to Contrary to Nigel Lawson, the EU is not a monstrous bureaucracy, but the policy mix of austerity and reform is failing. Sign UpGet the New Statesman's Morning Call email. Sign-up I spoke at the Annual European University Institute "State of the Union" conference yesterday. It takes place in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, adorned with 500 year old frescoes commemorating the first Florentine Republic after the expulsion of the Medicis – a good reminder that the process of European integration has deep roots. There was a lot of realism – about the continuing challenge of the euro crisis, about the long-term nature of structural reform, about the gulf between too many citizens and European governance. But there was also a deep determination to preserve the gains of the past – for example in President Barroso's speech – and wherever I went, a desire to see Britain as part of the European future. In my contribution, in the session on governance and institutions, I made five points. First, that the debate about legitimacy and efficiency/delivery is happening all over the world. The Chinese are thinking about it; the Americans are debating it in the discussion of 'gridlock'; it is part of the debate in the Arab world as governments elected after the revolutions of 2011 are faced with real economic and social choice. In Europe, legitimacy has two elements – the 'one nation one vote' principle embodied in the European Council, and the 'one person one vote' principle in the European Parliament. The danger for the EU – as elsewhere – is whether legitimacy AND efficiency is missing. Second, the protest politics in Britain, Italy and elsewhere, is not just (or primarily) about frustration with the EU; it speaks fundamentally to frustration with the traditional politics of centre-right and centre-left, and the desire for a new political alternative. For me, that is about rejuvenating social democracy, but there is no point in hiding that a traditional social democratic offer of social justice through state redistribution is not going to work or sell. Third, the EU's biggest problem is its delivery deficit, not its democratic deficit. This is not a new tune of mine, but while some of the EU's work is very good indeed – I have just spent two days in Brussels preparing for my International Rescue Committee role and learning about some outstanding European development work in crisis-hit places – the policy mix in response to the economic crisis is still some way from bringing closer the light at the end of the tunnel. I don't buy the Nigel Lawson argument that the EU is a monstrous and marauding bureaucracy, but the policy mix of austerity and reform is out of kilter with the economic needs in a balance sheet recession. Fourth, there is a pressing and outstanding agenda for Europe's soon to be 28 members, beyond the euro crisis. I won't rehearse again what this covers, but the sense that there is traction on youth unemployment and migration is encouraging. Finally, the twin narratives of Europe's development so far – peace on the continent, and reunification after the fall of the Berlin Wall - need to be supplemented by a clarion call that Europe's purpose is to help its citizens achieve prosperity and security in a 21st century marked by shifts in global power. This cannot be done at national level alone, nor by ad-hoc alliances around the globe to take forward trade promotion or security cooperation. I don't buy the argument that Europe is 'too big to fail'. But I do buy the case that it is too important to fail. David Miliband is the incoming President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee This piece originally appeared on his blog › Business quote of the day: Four-fingered salute The EU flag flies in front of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Photograph: Getty Images. David Miliband is the president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee. He was UK foreign secretary from 2007 until 2010. Subscribe To stay on top of global affairs and enjoy even more international coverage subscribe for just £1 per month!


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Apparently America really likes robots punching each other's bolted brains out in the year 2020.
"Real Steel," the Hugh Jackman flick about 2,000-pound robot boxers in the "near future," won the top spot at the box office for a second straight weekend with $16.3 million, placing it just ahead of the "Footloose" remake with $16.1 million.
The figures are close enough that the two movies could switch spots when the weekend's final numbers are released Monday, The Associated Press noted.
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Surprisingly enough, "Real Steel" is playing strong with families, increasing its business 62 percent from Friday to Saturday thanks to them, according to The Hollywood Reporter. In the movie, former boxer Charlie Kenton (Jackman) reunites with his estranged son Max (Dakota Goyo) to build and coach a robot contender named Atom.
"The fact that we're appealing to families makes all the difference in this landscape," Disney executive Dave Hollis said.
The Disney Touchstone Pictures-DreamWorks collaboration has grossed $51.7 million in its 10-day domestic run, and $56.6 million overseas. It cost $110 million to make, so it still has some rounds to go before it turns a profit.
But Paramount, which released "Footloose," was confident that it would finish ahead of "Real Steel" when all was said and done, the AP reported.
Head of distribution Don Harris said the dance-crazy remake starring Kenny Wormald and Julianne Hough was doing especially well in the Midwest and South, and Paramount hoped those rural crowds would turn out strong Sunday.
"If we get that middle of the country that seems to be preoccupied with high school football on Friday and college football on Saturday, then it bodes well not only for a big Sunday but for the legs of the movie," Harris said.
"Footloose" is buoyed by an audience that is three-quarters female, and an "A" CinemaScore.
Universal's new version of "The Thing" opened in No. 3 with $8.7 million, which industry cognoscenti deemed a disappointment.
George Clooney's "The Ides of March" dropped only 28 percent in its second weekend with a box office take of $7.5 million, but it fell from second to fourth place in the rankings.
Right behind it was the family-friendly "Dolphin Tale," which dropped 31 percent to $6.3 million. Its running total is $58.7 million. "Moneyball" was No. 6 with $5.5 million, and has brought in a similar total, $57.7 million.
The biggest bomb of the weekend was "The Big Year," a 20th Century Fox comedy about bird watching with Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson. It cost $28 million to make and earned only $3.3 million in its debut – just $600,000 more than "The Lion King" took in in the fifth weekend of its 3D rerelease.
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Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity, by Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor. Strongly recommended.
*Starred Review* How did a country wracked by civil war, devastated by famine, and overshadowed by tyranny incubate a major breakthrough in modern mathematics? In the origins of descriptive set theory, Graham and Kantor (both self-described secular rationalists) confront the puzzling cultural dynamics that converted religious mysticism into mathematical insight. The authors particularly probe the surprising way that a religious heresy (Name Worshipping) emboldened the Russian mathematicians who finally surmounted the theoretical difficulties that had overwhelmed earlier pioneers in set theory. Though readers unschooled in higher mathematics may stumble over some concepts (such as denumberable subsets or the hierarchy of alephs), the authors generally succeed in translating principles into a nonspecialist's vocabulary. Readers thus share in both the perplexities of the French rationalists defeated by the mysteries of infinite sets and the triumphs of the Russian scholars who penetrated those mysteries by deploying strategies strangely similar to devotional practices for naming the Divine. But the authors illuminate more than the psychology of a mathematical revolution; their narrative also exposes the tangle of ideological ambitions and sexual passions that transformed some brilliant researchers into treacherous tools of Soviet inquisitors and doomed others as their victims. A candid and searching analysis,restor ing human drama to seemingly sterile formulas.
The intellectual drama will attract readers who are interested in
mystical religion and the foundations of mathematics. The personal drama will attract readers who are interested in a human tragedy with characters who met their fates with exceptional courage.
–Freeman Dyson
At the end of the nineteenth century, three young French
mathematicians–Émile Borel, René Baire and Henri Lebesgue–built on the work of Georg Cantor to conceive a new theory of functions that in a few years transformed mathematical analysis. When their work met with skepticism, they began to doubt it and abandoned further investigation. In Russia, under the leadership of Dmitry Egorov, a group of Moscow mathematicians picked up the torch. Animated by a mystical tradition known as Name Worshipping, they found the creativity to name the new objects of the French theory of functions. And they changed the face of the mathematical world.
–Bernard Bru, emeritus, University of Paris V
A passionate confluence of mathematical creation and mystical
practices is at the center of this extraordinary account of the
emergence of set theory in Russia in the early twentieth century. The starkly drawn contrast with mathematical developments in France illuminates the story, and the book is electric with portraits of the great mathematicians involved: the tragic, the unfortunate, the villainous, the truly admirable. The authors offer an account of Infinity that is brief, deft, serious, and accessible to non-mathematicians, and their evocation of the mathematical circles of the period is so intimately written that one feels as if one had lived, worked, and suffered alongside the protagonists. Graham and Kantor have given us an amazing piece of mathematical history.
–Barry Mazur, Harvard University
This book is a wonderful and gripping account of a very important chapter in the history of 20th-century mathematics. Graham and Kantor challenge many "common wisdoms" and common myths about mathematics, religion, and mathematicians. It reminds us that the story behind the mathematics is often much more exciting than mathematics itself.
— D.Zeilberger (Rutgers University ).


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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Allison Doub, a doctoral student in Penn State's Department of Human Development and Family Studies with a minor in nutrition, has been awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Doub is one of 2,000 graduate students in the 2014 fellowship class. According to the National Science Foundation, this year's group comes from 442 baccalaureate institutions; 1,069 members are women and 382 are from underrepresented groups; 55 are persons with disabilities; and 37 are veterans.
The research agenda proposed in her fellowship application focuses on reducing the gap between science and practice by leveraging new media channels to accelerate the distribution and uptake of evidence-based parenting and nutrition information. Emphasis will be placed on parental use of food blogs by parents of preschool-aged children. Blogs are popular websites among young parents and may be a source of social influence on readers' own feeding decisions.
Her dissertation project, which furthers work from her master's thesis, will examine whether and how engaging with food-related blogs and other social media influences parental feeding decisions. The focal population will be parents of infants and preschoolers, given increasing evidence that the first three years of life are critical for obesity prevention. Her mentors in this work will be Meg Small, assistant director for innovations and social change in the Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, and Leann Birch, professor emeritus of human development and family studies in the College of Health and Human Development at Penn State.
Doub's goal is to develop an intervention or mechanism by which social media influencers may collaborate with scientists to distribute evidence-based information in accessible, persuasive ways.
Before receiving the NSF fellowship, Doub was the recipient of a U.S. Department of Agriculture Childhood Obesity Prevention Training Fellowship. A 2010 alumna of Penn State's Department of Human Development and Family Studies, after graduation she worked at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine's Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry as a research assistant before returning to Penn State for graduate work in 2012.
Since 1952, the National Science Foundation has provided fellowships to individuals selected early in their graduate careers based on their demonstrated potential for significant achievements in science and engineering. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) continues to be a critical part of NSF's overall strategy in developing the globally-engaged workforce necessary to ensure the Nation's leadership in advancing science and engineering research and innovation. A high priority for NSF and GRFP is increasing the diversity of the science and engineering workforce, including geographic distribution and the participation of women, underrepresented minorities, persons with disabilities, and veterans.
With its emphasis on support of individuals, GRFP offers fellowship awards directly to graduate students selected through a national competition. The GRFP provides three years of financial support within a five-year fellowship period ($32,000 annual stipend and $12,000 cost-of-education allowance to the graduate institution) for graduate study that is in a field within NSF's mission and leads to a research-based master's or doctoral degree.


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CHARLOTTE � Albert Einstein famously uttered the quote years ago that insanity was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
I�d imagine Carolina Panthers fans can relate to that in a big way after seeing Sunday�s 12-7 season-opening loss to the Seattle Seahawks that looked a lot like 2012 � or 2011 � or many previous Panthers seasons.
After all, Carolina Panthers fans have shown remarkable loyalty to remain so hopeful after four winning records in 18 years of play entering this season. Sunday�s loss means the Panthers are a woeful 6-13 in season openers and an even-worse 5-14 in home openers. Certainly, Carolina could bounce back.
When third-year head coach Ron Rivera was asked if Sunday�s loss reminded him of the previous two seasons when the Panthers lost many games in similarly painful fashion, he answered: �Yes, it does unfortunately. But I�d like to believe we have an opportunity to change that.�
His team will need to � and fast � if it hopes to change recent history and perhaps save his job.
Sunday�s loss, which came after Carolina led 7-3 at the half and 7-6 entering the final quarter, marked the 14th time in 20 games the Panthers have lost a one-score game during Rivera�s tenure here. Since Rivera is 13-20 overall, the Panthers are 7-6 in games determined by eight or more points.
The record in those close contests is even worse in games decided in the fourth quarter, as Carolina has made two fourth-quarter rallies to win while blowing nine fourth-quarter leads in the same time frame.
Since Cam Newton has started at quarterback in every game of Rivera�s head coaching career, he and his coach share the same numbers.
Is it fair to push the panic button? Newton was emphatic that the answer would be no.
�We�re all human and it�s the first game,� Newton said. �Let�s not get up in arms. Let�s not panic now. We�re going to be all right.�
Newton�s top receiving target, Steve Smith, went so far as to say he expected the Panthers to see the Seahawks again � in late January. That would presume a successful season for Carolina that includes the team�s first playoff berth since 2008.
So, should Panthers fans also maintain high hopes for a postseason run?
�We�ll continue to try and find the answers,� Rivera said when asked about the team�s immediate goals. �We found it late last season.�
Certainly, a repeat of last year�s 5-1 finish would be viewed favorably this season. But not if it follows the 2-8 start last year�s team had.
Continued Newton: �It�s not a panic for us. For us, it�s not about starting fast. It�s about each and every opportunity and making the most of it.�
Unfortunately for Rivera, Newton and more than 70,000 fans at Bank of America Stadium, Sunday was one opportunity the team missed. How many more can they miss and remain so upbeat about the future?
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"WaddleDee" finally produced an explanation of sorts.
Ophelia Benson @OpheliaBenson
@chsvns But my question is WHY is it fun.
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@OpheliaBenson Because it is a deviant act that I can get away with.
Ok let's think about that. A deviant act – how is it a deviant act, and why?
Telling people they're ugly (fat, old, disgusting, etc) is reprobated because it's seen as cruel. It's rightly seen as cruel. Isn't it? Is that at all controversial? If it's not controversial, should it be controversial? Is it the kind of callous, brutal, indifferent "seen as" that other brands of conventional wisdom have been shown to be? Should we question that view just as we question racism or homophobia or sexism? Should we start a new social justice movement to liberate everyone from antiquated and mistaken taboos on telling people they're ugly? Would that lead to a more just, verdant, and peaceful world?
No. It's conventional wisdom that it's very bad (and "deviant") to tell people they're ugly, for good reasons.
So the explanation tells us that it's fun to violate that taboo if you can get away with it. But that still doesn't answer the underlying question.


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The short version is, I'm going on indefinite hiatus.
The long version is, I need to. I have a lot of things going on right now, but more importantly, I've been spending so much time writing about gaming and writing that I've been questioning my ability to do both, and so much time blogging that I've almost forgotten how to write. The time off I took in July helped, yes, but it only treated the symptoms, not the underlying issue.
So I'm going to take a break from posting for a while, clear my head, and try to get my ideas back. The archives will stay up, and I may pop in and say hi if inspired, but for now, I need a break. Take care!


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