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"Saturday Night Live" Explains Twitter and Facebook Explainers
"Saturday Night Live" has tweaked Facebook and Twitter* several times before. No reason not to do it again.
Here's a character you may have seen in real life: "Social media expert" Kourtney Barnes, who explains how Internet debates work, and why we should care.
Hey — wait a minute: Wasn't last night's episode of SNL hosted by Louis C.K., and wasn't it going to be amazing?
Well, yes. And, yes, lots of good stuff. But probably not one for the ages. Also, very little in the way of Sandy stuff, which sort of makes sense, but also not.
That said, if you are a fan of C.K. and his FX show, then, hands down, this was the clip to watch:
*Of course, SNL does this in the hope that Facebook and Twitter users will help distribute its clips.

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The 9/11 Cover-Up
Just an FYI... the NYTimes came out with what appears to be a "hit piece" today with regard to the Toxic Dust. The "Debunkers" have jumped on it of course. Soooo... there aren't policemen and firemen walking around with mobile respirators? There aren't over 100 people that died that just happened to be down at Ground Zero? Coincidence? Is this all a figment of my imagination? The "Debunkers" have stooped to a new low. Even though they say that they "hope and pray that working on the pile did not lead to longterm problems for a large number of the people involved, but that's just hoping for the best for them, not the best for us" in their "debunking", the "debunking" itself, at least to me, is like attacking the heroes of 9/11. They would step on the sick and dying responders just because of one article, completely ignoring the years of other articles that substantiate what we're saying, just to try and make us look bad. Way to go guys. You should be proud. - Jon
Thousands of Manhattan residents were endangered by WTC debris—and government malfeasance.
Source: discovermagazine.com
by Michael Mason
In the aftermath of the first explosion, the air over Lower Manhattan transformed instantly.
"The sky was glittering with glass," says Nina L., a Tribeca resident who asked not to be further identified. She ran to her window and saw a shower of flaming jet fuel cascading from one of the towers.
"This can't be a good thing to have my windows open," she immediately thought to herself.
Nina closed her windows and shut her air conditioner flues. As a former jeweler, she'd worked around dangerous chemicals before and understood the hazards of toxic fumes. From her apartment seven blocks north of the World Trade Center, she sat transfixed until a second explosion jolted her into action.
Nina tore up an old pillowcase, fashioned a makeshift bandanna over her face, packed her cats into cages, and trekked northward.
"The whole neighborhood was blanketed in a gray snow," she recalls. "Some people were walking by in moon suits."
Although Nina could not have known it at the time, she had just entered one of the most dangerous atmospheric conditions ever to occur on American soil, and she suffers the consequences. She had chronic bronchitis until 2003 and still has esophagitis and sinusitis. Many health professionals believe others like her won't experience the harsher, suffocating symptoms for several more years.
Up to 70 percent of first responders are ill as a result of 9/11 contamination. If a similar rate of illness holds true for those who lived and worked near the Twin Towers, the number of seriously ill New Yorkers could climb to 300,000 in the near future. About 70,000 New Yorkers so far have listed themselves with the World Trade Center Health Registry, a database that tracks the health impact of the 9/11 attacks. The registry has been criticized for excluding large numbers of those potentially sickened outside a designated one-square-mile area. Despite the insistent denials of city and federal officials, tens of thousands of New Yorkers were unnecessarily exposed to a chemical brew without even the most rudimentary precautions. Today New York City is still mired in a fog of cover-ups and half-truths regarding its environmental welfare.
Civil rights attorney Felicia Dunn Jones, who worked a block from the towers, was caught in the initial deluge of dust when the towers fell. Although her family rejoiced upon her return home, Dunn Jones developed a serious cough the following January. She died barely five weeks later of sarcoidosis, an immune disorder caused by toxic exposure. Dunn Jones's name will be added to the list of victims when the memorial is completed in 2009, and the honor isn't just a token gesture. The addition of her name is a hard-won acknowledgment that exposure to 9/11 contaminants can lead to death.
David Worby, a personal injury lawyer, is representing more than 10,000 individuals who claim they've suffered serious illness as a result of 9/11. Already, 130 of them have died of causes similar to Dunn Jones's, though Dunn Jones was not a client of Worby's. Worby is critical of government officials for their overly sanguine assurances about the safety of the air and is especially critical of the city's lax enforcement of federal requirements that respirators be worn at contaminated sites.
"They are getting sick because of people like Christie Todd Whitman and Rudy Giuliani," Worby says. Whitman was administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and Giuliani was the mayor at the time the towers fell. "My people don't want their names to be on the wall, because they are not victims of terrorists—they're victims of bad government. Giuliani should be banned from public office for what he did."
New York City, the Port Authority, and the contractors who were responsible for the cleanup (Bovis and Turner Construction) are all defendants in the Worby lawsuit.
"I started this suit on behalf of one cop that got sick," Worby says of his class-action lawsuit filed in 2004. "Nobody would touch the case with a 10-foot pole because it was considered unpatriotic to say anything against the cleanup or the EPA. We have come a long way. They once called the 9/11 cough a badge of honor. Now they know that the whole thing is a catastrophic government disaster."
Since the attacks, various scientific studies have demonstrated that New Yorkers are engulfed in billows of illness and disease related to 9/11. First the 9/11 cough and mental health problems caught the attention of local doctors. Then chronic respiratory and gastrointestinal conditions began to surface. Recently a program at Mount Sinai noted the emergence of rare blood cancers among 9/11 first responders. Experts predict that more problems will surface in the next few decades.
While the progression of diseases continues to unnerve New York residents, more people are asking why basic health and safety standards were ignored and violated in the wake of the attacks. One nonprofit organization, the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH), keeps a diligent watch on 9/11-related issues.
"The first indication I knew something was wrong was that by September 12 there was no evidence of or even consideration of organization," says David Newman, an industrial hygienist with NYCOSH. Newman was consulting on environmental hazards at 9/11 from day one. "There was no health or safety plan at the site, and this is Safety 101."
Asbestos was most likely in various construction materials used to build the World Trade Center, an EPA memo stated. It explained that short-term exposure to asbestos can cause respiratory, skin, or eye irritation. The information was dangerously incorrect.
"If our purpose was to save lives and avoid injury and illnesses, we did not have years, months, or even weeks to wait for corrective actions," said former Occupational Safety and Health Administration chief John Henshaw in a recent House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing. OSHA played an advisory role during the WTC cleanup.
Inhalable asbestos particles are microscopic and completely unidentifiable without the aid of a microscope. Exposure to asbestos is dangerous in part because it does not cause obvious irritation; contamination manifests itself over the course of years and decades, not days. It's an invisible, deadly, and patient toxin. The only effective protection against airborne asbestos is a special respirator.
"I was down there watching people working without respirators," Newman says. "Others took off their respirators to eat. It was a surreal, ridiculous, unacceptable situation."
Stringent protocols govern asbestos contamination cleanup. After a specialized training period, health exam, and certification, licensed technicians must wear industrial-grade respirators and asbestos-resistant suits. New York City has a history of properly addressing asbestos contamination. Back in 1989, a relatively small steam pipe explosion on Gramercy Park South sent 200 pounds of asbestos blowing onto neighboring buildings. As a precaution, the entire building was covered in protective plastic sheeting, and city environmental officials complained that the cleanup would require more than four weeks of painstaking procedures for outdoor decontamination alone. More than 200 area tenants were displaced for weeks following the accident.
The World Trade Center had been, by some accounts, the largest fireproofing project in the world, with possibly 400 to 1,000 tons of asbestos, which was released during the collapse. Bureaucrats aired their assurances to the world.
"The air is safe as far as we can tell, with respect to chemical and biological agents," Giuliani pronounced two days after the attack.
On September 12, a regional EPA office volunteered to send 30 to 40 electron microscopes to Ground Zero to test bulk dust samples for the presence of asbestos fibers, according to EPA whistle-blower Cate Jenkins, yet the local EPA office declined the offer, opting for the less effective polarized light microscopy testing method instead. Jenkins had further alleged that regional office personnel were told by the local EPA office: "We don't want you fucking cowboys here. The best thing they could do is reassign you to Alaska."
Three days after 9/11, following questionable air sampling techniques, a spokesperson for the EPA said that levels of asbestos were either at low levels, negligible, or undetectable.
"I am glad to reassure the people of New York and Washington, D.C., that the air is safe to breathe and their water is safe to drink," Whitman said one week after 9/11.
Under the gray, noxious air, trusting residents returned to their homes in Lower Manhattan, unsuspecting children returned to their schools, and hundreds of thousands of downtown workers trudged to their desks. In the following year, the EPA gave more than 50 public assurances concerning the toxic exposure. At least another 15 came from New York City officials.
The systemic failures began occurring almost immediately following the disaster, in part because of an unclear chain of command. In times of environmental crisis, a blueprint for a federal response, called the National Contingency Plan, entitles the EPA to oversee safety and cleanup efforts—but it does not obligate the EPA to do so. During 9/11, New York City initiated a lead role in the environmental crisis response, and as a result, the mayor's leadership has been called into question.
"We didn't have the authority to do that [health and safety] enforcement, but we communicated that to the people who did," Whitman said in a 60 Minutes interview. "Really, the city was the primary responder." Whitman's office repeatedly declined an invitation to speak with DISCOVER.
At a time that demanded clear thought and action, a brazen can-do attitude emerged from the rubble, and nobody embodied the reactionary spirit more than New York City's mayor.
"You smell it, and you feel there must be something wrong," Giuliani said. "But what I'm told is that it is not dangerous to your health." Days later he encouraged New Yorkers to "go back to normal."
Once praised for his heroic response, Giuliani has now made New York City vulnerable to a billion-dollar lawsuit that addresses many haphazard health violations that occurred under his watch. Fewer than 30 percent of Ground Zero workers, for example, wore respirators. After repeated phone calls and e-mails, Giuliani would not return calls or send comments.
The president's 2002 proposal establishing the Department of Homeland Security addressed the lead-agency issue in the event of future crisis as follows: "After a major incident, the EPA will be responsible for decontamination of affected buildings and neighborhoods and providing advice and assistance to public-health authorities in determining whether it is safe to return to the areas."
Nevertheless, a lengthy 2003 report (pdf) from the EPA's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) hammered the EPA for not fully utilizing its abilities, for making uninformed assurances to New Yorkers, for not taking a proactive approach, and for deferring the onus of environmental decision making to ill-prepared New York City officials.
With NYC officials and local landowners left to head up sampling and cleaning facilities, a number of private interests could easily sway air-testing results. An opportunity for collusion exists between the city and landlords: If buildings were found contaminated, property owners could lose millions due to asbestos-blighted buildings, devaluing one of the most lucrative real estate locations in the world. It was in the financial interest of Manhattan's most wealthy citizens to see their properties up and running at capacity again.
Initially, the New York City Department of Health (NYCDOH) took the lead in implementing an indoor cleanup program, which placed the responsibility for asbestos removal directly on landlords and residents themselves, in direct violation of city, state, and federal laws and at an enormous potential health risk.
Nina, for example, returned to her Tribeca apartment a week after 9/11. She found the entire place salted with what appeared to be a fine coating.
"This stuff goes through clothes, cracks, everything," says Nina.
In the mail, she received a letter from the NYCDOH instructing her how to clean her apartment: Use a wet rag and use a High Efficiency Particulate Airfilter vacuum. (A study cited in the EPA's OIG report shows that most residents failed to follow cleaning instructions appropriately.) Only trained, respirator-equipped professionals should conduct asbestos cleanup. Shortly after returning to her apartment, Nina developed crippling headaches and respiratory problems—troubles she never had before.
Eventually, in May 2002, the EPA reclaimed the initiative for indoor air cleanup. It offered a more involved testing for contaminants, but it still did not adhere to the minimum criteria for protecting human health under the EPA's own guidelines for a Superfund site. As a result, the cleanup efforts received little public trust. In the first cleanup attempt, 4,166 entities had registered; only 295 residents and building owners participated in the second program. Outdoor air sampling and cleaning was another matter.
"Our rooms were microcosms for what was going on in the neighborhood," Nina says.
A toxic cloud composed of industrial waste and human remains crept out from the aching, smoldering pit at Ground Zero and wound its way into the adjoining streets. Its vapors circled around and up buildings, pumped in and out of nostrils, mouths, and lungs, and stung the eyes of every woman, child, man, bird, and beast within a wide range. It spread itself on building walls and inside boiler rooms and left its trail on parked cars, handrails, and public benches. That day, New York City was blinded by a perpetually sickening haze. It poisoned the minds of politicians who acted with hubris and paranoia. It obscured the vision of responders and residents, many of whom acted with heroism and reckless bravado, never thinking that their actions might be endangering themselves, their families, their cities, and their very future. The cloud billowed southward, over the river, enveloping everything in the dust and debris of blown-apart lives.
Teroy Canfield, now a music producer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was a student at the Institute of Audio Research in Manhattan in September 2001. On the day of the attacks, he remembers getting a "light dusting" following the collapse of the towers. Several hours later, he joined thousands in their exodus across the Manhattan Bridge toward Brooklyn.
When Canfield returned to his apartment near Clark and Henry Streets in Brooklyn Heights, loose papers and other debris were blowing across the area. His home was in the path of the cloud but supposedly far from the designated danger areas.
"There was dust on our air-conditioning units and on the vents," Canfield recalls. "When we turned it on, the dust would blast into the room. We had wet bandannas and T-shirts, and we would put them on our faces when we went to sleep."
Canfield couldn't decide which was worse—to suffer the heat, to have an air-conditioning unit blowing dust into the room, or to open the windows and endure the noxious odors that were creeping their way into Brooklyn. More often than not, they chose to run the air. As Canfield explains, he simply thought the dust was just dust—skin cells, fibers, whatever.
In the following week, Canfield noticed that his dorm room rapidly collected an inordinate amount of the gray stuff, which prompted him and his roommate to clean the place three separate times that week. Neither of them had heard of, nor followed, any precautions. School had already resumed, and nobody there seemed to be talking about toxins or asbestos, so why worry, he thought.
About six months later, Canfield developed a catch in his throat.
"It was like if you swallowed a piece of rice and your instinct is to hack," he said. "A dry, hard hack. I might cough three or four times a day, or a week."
Every so often, the hacking would yield a small clump of tissue—different from phlegm or anything else Canfield had ever seen.
"It was sometimes brown and pinkish-bloody," says Canfield, who has never smoked. "It didn't hurt, so I figured it would go away."
Canfield says that he no longer coughs as frequently as he used to, but he has developed a breathing sensitivity. Ordinary smoke from indoor cooking or an outdoor barbecue seems to bother him the most.
"Some people were buried in the dust," explains Noah Greenspan, a cardiopulmonary specialist at the Pulmonary Wellness and Rehabilitation Center in midtown Manhattan. "There were a lot of toxins in the air, a lot of things that are very hard to clean out of the lungs, things like fiberglass and asbestos. If you inhale those things in large quantities, it's very difficult for the body to recover from that completely."
Greenspan has conducted a number of breathing tests on New Yorkers and expressed concern that many people don't know that pulmonary rehabilitation is a helpful treatment option. He explained that some victims won't even show any signs of disease for years.
"Smokers can smoke for 25 years before they become symptomatic," he says. "I think we are going to see a similar trend for people who were exposed to 9/11."
No agency has tracked the number of former residents like Canfield who have since left New York and fanned out across the globe, nor is there an agency outside of state lines devoted to meeting their health-care needs. At best, former residents are advised to download a treatment guideline from the NYCDOH Web site and pass it on to their doctors. Canfield, who has no health insurance, tells me that he doesn't plan on seeing a specialist anytime soon.
"I just treat myself if I have to—just eat some soup and my veggies, you know?" he says. "I don't have money to go to a doctor."
Even those who conducted air sampling in 2001 have suffered. While the EPA was conducting its own measurements, outdoor air had to be tested for radioactive materials, too, and that required the help of an elite group of government scientists from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).
Before 9/11, Steve Centore ran four miles a day, led an active family life as the father of three boys and a daughter, and held a security clearance earned from more than 25 years in government service. As a physicist with NNSA, he was among the first sent onto the scene following 9/11. The New York City Department of Health asked Centore to conduct air sampling at Ground Zero, but when he showed up at their makeshift command center on Chambers Street, the NYCDOH simply handed him a hard hat and a painter's mask and told him to get to work.
"We weren't worried about contamination, and we were told we didn't need respirators," Centore says. Even though he was a scientist, he still had to rely on the EPA's findings for his own safety.
Centore spent the next four months working among the steaming ruins, looking for radioactive material in both the pile and the debris being carted off to various sites. The radioactive air samplings came back negative—he claims everything had been burned up and swept into the air.
Centore didn't think much about the cough he had developed until several months later, when it got so persistent that he ruptured a blood vessel in his upper torso.
"It turned half my chest black and blue," he says.
The bruise initiated a succession of doctor's visits, but with little relief. By 2005 Centore was a different man—not just physically but mentally. He could no longer exercise, and he seemed detached much of the time. His list of medications steadily increased. For the first time in his life, he began drinking heavily. His wife began to take notice of strange behavior.
"She would find me in the middle of the night standing in the driveway, wearing my pajamas and shaking," Centore says. A psychiatrist gave him a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder and put him on psychotropic medications for his panic attacks. He took a leave of absence from work, knowing that he would probably never return.
By the spring of 2006, however, a more serious set of symptoms emerged. Centore's organs began deteriorating. First his gallbladder failed him, then his spleen and liver began to malfunction. He would require a liver transplant eventually.
"I started bleeding everywhere—out of my ears, mouth, penis, and anus, and none of the doctors could figure out why," Centore says. "I was in the hospital for four weeks, and I can't tell you how many colonoscopies I had in that time."
When Centore asked the doctors if he could leave the hospital after four weeks' worth of testing, he was surprised by their answer. Centore had been moved to number one in line on the liver transplant list, and doctors told him that he might only have hours to live. A liver was harvested in time, and Centore survived the operation. It has taken him a while to be weaned down from 34 daily medications to only 19, but he's grateful he has his life. Although he believes his health problems are related to 9/11 contaminants, he no longer holds grudges.
"Every once in a while I still have panic attacks," Centore says, "and I go to the doctor all the time, at least once a week. I am not out of the woods by a long shot."
Heat up a ballpoint pen, a computer, an office sofa, electric wire, or any other object you might find in a high-rise and there comes a point when you can inhale it. The Twin Towers contained tens of thousands of computer terminals, each housing about four pounds of lead, and an untold number of fluorescent bulbs that contained mercury. Released metal particles from the smoldering pit of the World Trade Center were so fine that they could easily slip past a paper face mask and reach deep into lung tissue, where they are poorly soluble in lung fluid. Metals and glass can remain trapped there for long periods of time and make their way into the heart.
Though the list of known toxins released into the air keeps expanding, it doesn't deter the ongoing investigations of Thomas Cahill, a professor of physics and atmospheric sciences at the University of California at Davis. Cahill has led some of the most exhaustive scientific studies of 9/11-related toxins, and he has discovered a large number of health-threatening substances from air samples taken in the weeks and months after 9/11.
"There were two separate pollution events, and the first was an initial dust cloud," Cahill explains. "What must not be forgotten is that the later effects from the smoldering pile were far, far worse."
Unlike the publicly lambasted EPA tests and findings, Cahill's studies, which were published in peer-reviewed forums, were widely praised for their accuracy. Though the University of California at Davis has offered the conclusions to the EPA, the Senate, and New York City health officials, Cahill says he isn't aware of a single state or federal agency that has acted on his findings. Through sample analysis, Cahill first discovered that 21 percent of the initial dust cloud contained finely powdered, highly caustic cement—thought to be responsible for the "9/11 cough." Cahill noticed that the heat generated by the piles was converting gases into highly toxic, very fine aerosols. His study "Analysis of Aerosols From World Trade Center Attack" indicated that the contaminated air sometimes descended to ground level over a mile from Ground Zero, far outside the safety zones established by the EPA. Within a few hours' time, a person exposed to the fumes could ingest toxins that would otherwise take a year to accumulate in a typical environment.
"The fuming World Trade Center debris pile was a chemical factory that exhaled toxins in a particularly dangerous form that could penetrate deep into the lungs of rescue workers and local residents," Cahill and his fellow researchers concluded.
It's painful just listening to Susan talk on the phone. Her gasps and wheezes and long pauses in conversation give you the impression that she may not make it through an entire conversation, and I caught her on a good day. A bad day means that she won't even be able to make the trek from Queens to her office downtown.
"The public isn't aware of just how bad the effects have been," Susan says.
"Susan," an anonymous source, was one of 386,000 people who worked in Lower Manhattan before the attacks. A week after the attacks, she returned to her job downtown.
"Within 24 hours of returning to work, I had a problem," she warbles. "I could not breathe at the office."
Even though she had heard the assurances of officials on television, today she bears the signs of serious toxic exposure: internal chemical burns, chronic respiratory infections, and severe asthma attacks.
For average citizens like Susan, New York City offers only one publicly funded treatment option: the WTC Environmental Health Center (WTC-EHC) at Bellevue Hospital, a new program launched in January 2007 that will expand to treat about 6,000 New Yorkers with 9/11-related health problems. The World Trade Center Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program based at Mount Sinai and the Fire Department of New York's Bureau of Health Services programs offer services to first responders. Politicians have proposed $1.9 billion in funding over the course of six years.
"We get about 100 to 200 calls a week," says Dr. Joan Reibman, director of Bellevue's WTC-EHC. "We have a couple of hundred people waiting, so to get an appointment takes six weeks."
The Bellevue clinic currently serves about 1,300 patients in all. Although the three WTC treatment programs have been praised by Mayor Bloomberg's office, Reibman explained to me that the WTC treatment programs were initiated by private organizations.
"Neither the city or the federal government asked anyone to start any of the programs," she says. Eventually the programs drew the support of city officials and gained funding.
Critics of the WTC health programs contend that there is no central entity that integrates the gathered information, which could provide a greater understanding of disease incidence as well as a certain level of continuity of treatment.
"We [the WTC health programs] all work together on the development of guidelines," Reibman says. "We all share our information with each other. We have different populations, so our questionnaires are different."
Although it still makes her ill, Susan continues to plod downtown to work. She says sometimes the air in her workspace makes her eyes burn, but she doesn't have a choice—disability payments won't cover the rent or put food on the table.
"You can't dwell on it every single minute," she says. "If people dwelled on what happened, nobody would live downtown because they would be too frightened."
Curious about whether the workers and residents of Lower Manhattan are still haunted by health problems like Susan's, Nina's, and Teroy's, I took a walk through the streets surrounding the 9/11 reconstruction site. Although six years have passed since the attacks, the number of people I encountered seemingly with residual health problems surprised me.
"They told us it would be OK to come back here," recalls Nicholas Rowe, a silver-haired bartender at a nearby Blarney Stone restaurant and bar. In an Irish lilt, Rowe chose colorful words to denounce the EPA's assurances, none of them printable.
"Three months after the attacks, we would open the bar doors each day," Rowe recalls. "And every time I would wipe off the bar counter, there was black dust. Now I have nose and throat and sinus infections that keep coming back, and I never had those before. My regulars come in with problems too."
Just a couple of blocks from the Blarney Stone, I stopped and chatted with Jim Moock, a director of business development at CQG, a market-data provider located in a Broadway high-rise.
"Some people had painter's masks on their faces, apparently the cops were giving them out," Moock said, recalling the day of the attacks. "I didn't get one. It was chaotic, and the only clear thought I had was, 'Why didn't I get one [of the masks]?'"
Moock developed a dry, hacking cough about two weeks after the attacks. Finally, after two months of aggravation, Moock scheduled a visit with a pulmonologist. That visit has resulted in the first of many subsequent checkups throughout the years.
"He gives me a test every year or two, and it has shown diminished [lung] capacity," explained Moock. "He has me on two forms of inhaled medications that I take daily every morning. One is steroid based, and I've been on them since 2001."
Moock believes he was exposed to the toxic dust in a number of different ways. "When it got to be windy, you would see it blow off the window ledges, and I would be outside and see it land on the sidewalk, and it would just sit there like a clump, not like ashes that would just blow away," Moock said. "This went on for months. I remember watching it rain on this stuff, and it took a lot of rain to get rid of the dust because it was so dense."
Moock claims he hasn't seen the familiar pockets of dust for a long time, but does it mean the city is now clean and safe?
In March 2004, in an attempt to "get greater input" regarding the health concerns of New Yorkers, the EPA convened the World Trade Center Expert Technical Review Panel, made up of 18 professionals from academia and public-health organizations. The panel's goal was to assess any remaining exposures and risks, ascertain any public-health needs that were unmet, and then to offer a recommended course of action. In order to arrive at educated suggestions, the panel needed solid data.
"The whole process [of gathering data] has been extraordinarily poor in terms of understanding the extent to which people were exposed and possibly remain exposed, and if there are pockets of pollution left," says Jeanne Stellman, a professor of public health at Columbia University, who served on the panel.
Various panel members criticized the EPA's testing methods, suggesting that the data obtained weren't sound enough to draw the conclusions the EPA had acted on. "There is only a limited amount of data available on what the nature of the exposure was, which varied day to day and hour to hour," Stellman explains. "There was remarkably little sampling and analysis."
With so little data available, the panel wasn't able to determine if the city still required cleanup or not. Too many questions remained unanswered. "At any rate, the issue of cleanup was never resolved," Stellman says. "And we never got up to the public-health aspects that we were charged with doing."
The EPA disbanded the WTC Expert Technical Review Panel in December 2005 without explanation. Few recommendations made it into the public record as a result. Instead of continuing the panel, the EPA decided to implement a second program launched in December 2006. The plan intended to address the cleaning and abatement needs of residents of Lower Manhattan, in the exact same locations it had addressed in its first criticized attempt.
In its June 2007 congressional testimony, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reviewed the WTC panel's recommendations and corroborated its assessments. The GAO review stated that the EPA's decision to incorporate only some, rather than all, of the panel's recommendations undermined the validity of the second program.
"The majority of panel members do not support EPA's second program," the GAO report concluded. "[The second program] was not responsive to the concerns of residents and workers . . . it was scientifically and technically flawed."
Robert Gulack, an attorney with the federal government, thought he had escaped the toxic environment caused by 9/11. When his department relocated into the Woolworth Building following the destruction of 7 World Trade Center, it took him only a few days to notice the effect on his breathing.
"Three days later I woke up with a severe asthma attack," Gulack says. "More than half of my coworkers raised their hands during a meeting and said they had illness since coming into the building."
To the alarm of his coworkers, Gulack began wearing a double-canister respirator to work every day. The precautions couldn't deter the onset of problems from the contamination he had already suffered, though.
"I was certified as a scuba diver, and I had great lung capacity," he says. "Now a scan shows damage to my lungs and hyperreactivity to irritants." Once Gulack was rushed to the hospital for pneumonia following a number of bronchial infections. Now his illness carries a diagnosis of reactive airway disorder.
Gulack explained that even though his agency had received assurances about the building's air quality from both the landlord and the EPA, later testing (by a private company) proved the area was dangerously contaminated.
"I know that I was exposed to things that no human being should be exposed to," Gulack says. "Not only have I been exposed to asbestos but probably a number of other life-threatening contaminants. I'm 53, I have a wife and kids, and I don't want to be taken away from them. There was no reason to subject me to those dangers—no justification for this at all."
As a union steward, Gulack has advocated for employee health concerns and has closely monitored the EPA's actions since 9/11. He believes that instead of learning from all its mistakes, the EPA remains unprepared for another crisis.
"New victims are being claimed every day as a result of this contamination," Gulack says. "The EPA has officially taken their bad choices and made it their model. Now all crises will be handled politically, through the White House."
The EPA's calamitous handling of the 9/11 cleanup brings White House involvement into question. The damning OIG report showed that important public-health information was held back by Bush's Council on Environmental Quality, and evidence also suggests that critical press releases were altered, making them contradict scientific fact. As the report noted, "the White House Council on Environmental Quality . . . influenced, through the collaboration process, the information that EPA communicated to the public through its early press releases when it convinced EPA to add reassuring statements and delete cautionary ones."
Gulack's concerns are substantiated by another indictment of the EPA—this time in their handling of the hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans. A June 2007 report from the GAO contains an eerily reminiscent passage: "EPA's assurance that the public health is being protected from the risks associated with the inhalation of asbestos fibers is limited because the agency has not deployed air monitors in and around New Orleans neighborhoods where demolition and renovation activities are concentrated."
Within sight of Ground Zero quietly stands the Statue of Liberty, seemingly ignored in our post-9/11 world. But like an oracle from a distant time, she offers prophetic words of concern. In the shadow of the attacks, the inscription at her base no longer seems to address immigrants but rather speaks directly to New Yorkers who now find themselves disenfranchised and suffocating with disease: "Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
Yet some leaders are speaking up for sickened New Yorkers. Representatives Carolyn Maloney and Vito Fossella of New York introduced the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, which would expand the current health programs for first responders, area residents, office workers, and students. New York representative Jerrold Nadler tirelessly champions decisive action on behalf of New Yorkers who are still susceptible to toxins.
"We have to clean this up; it was never done properly," says Nadler, who also says cleanup efforts could run several billion dollars, but there is no exact figure because nobody knows how extensive the contamination is and if it extends to Brooklyn as well.
Because adequate testing has yet to be conducted, nobody knows for certain just how toxic Lower Manhattan remains, but there are plenty of indicators that the 9/11 attacks are still dismantling the downtown infrastructure. Two former Deutsche Bank buildings downtown will soon be demolished as a direct result of 9/11 contamination, and more demolitions are expected.
"To clean it up, it costs between $10,000 and $20,000 per apartment," Nadler says about the current price of adequate cleaning. "Are you going to ask a resident to pay that?"
On June 25, 2007, former EPA administrator Christie Todd Whitman testified before a congressional hearing and repeatedly denied any wrongdoing or culpability in the EPA's handling of the disaster. Nadler, who represents nearly all of Lower Manhattan, presided over the hearings.
"Let's be clear: There are people to blame," Whitman said. "They are the terrorists who attacked the United States."
Nadler offered me a distinction.
"I divide the population of affected people in different ways," he says. "First are the ones that were killed, and you can blame the terrorists for those. Then there was the plume—we think about 30,000 people were caught in it. And those people were also sickened by the terrorists. But the others are first responders on the pile, and most of those are sick due to exposure—there you can blame public officials who permitted them to work on the pile." Nadler also includes area residents and workers among the victims of public officials.
During the hearings, Whitman acknowledged that some first responders were sickened by the contamination because they did not wear respirators.
"After the first three days, it is not a rescue operation," Nadler says. "It is simply a cleanup, and there is no excuse for not doing it properly. At the Pentagon site, nobody got sick there because they enforced the safety laws." Workers who did not comply with safety regulations were not permitted on-site at the Pentagon-run cleanup.
"Every action taken by the EPA during the response to this horrific event was designed to provide the most comprehensive protection and the most accurate information to the residents of Manhattan," Whitman stated in a press release. Her remarks, however, only served to enrage already traumatized New Yorkers.
Through a spokesperson, Whitman declined to answer any questions for this article, instead offering a prepared statement citing her congressional testimony.
"It is clear there are laws and regulations that were in place, which, had they been followed, would have prevented all this," Nadler says. "They weren't followed."
While the courts try to determine who is responsible for the environmental debacle following 9/11, countless New Yorkers continue to live and work near Lower Manhattan with the assumption that it is safe. The dust is now out of sight, out of mind, and possibly in their lungs, hearts, and bloodstreams.
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They do it without using those pesky facts
Its a pure FUD hit piece. They discredit the researchers but not the research.
We don't know for sure that those thousands of Fire Fighters coughing up blood were impacted by their weeks on the pile . . blah blah blah
Next week's Nova (America's Number One Science Show!):
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Can lessons learned from the Twin Towers collapse make buildings safer?
(Putting Larry Silverstein in jail for the rest of his life would be a good start)
The First Responders
This makes me angry, that they would do a hit piece to further discredit and deny these first responders. I have put together a film on this topic, using much news footage and first responder testimony. It's another tool to help spread truth for those needing truth now.
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Why Is the Times' Article a Hit Piece?
It's just saying that the 69% figure is not backed up by research. Let's hope that seven in ten is wrong and that the real number is much lower. Surely we can agree on that?
First of all...
It would be GREAT NEWS!!! if it turns out there are less 9/11 First Responders that are sick and dying, but the fact remains, there are still sick and dying 9/11 First Responders.
Secondly, What is the purpose of that article other than to question the "accuracy of 9/11 health reports?" What does that do? It plays down the fact that there are currently sick and dying 9/11 first responders, and it barely acknowledges they exist, unlike the above article.
There are people that should be held to account for what happened, at all levels of Government. From the White House to the Mayor's office. I think it's disgusting you would push an article like that in order to make the people that are trying to help them, (not the "debunkers") look bad.
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Remember, previous workers
Remember, previous workers spent weeks and months working on-site at earthquake piles, incidents of wide-scale fire devastation, and other disasters. They did not exhibit the symptoms that these souls have. Why is that? Because they were breathing in something unique -- the content of intact, fully operational buildings brought down through some unexplained means. (In the case of regular CD, by contrast, the buildings are emptied of their contents.)
Don't you think that too much attention to this problem might shed light on areas best left dark? What would be revealed by a full accounting of Ground Zero Syndrome? Something similar to Gulf War Syndrome and Agent Orange Syndrome and DU Syndrome, which are still disputed and/or denied? Whitman's already been villified and makes a convenient fall-gal, and no one seems to care that she took her orders from on high.
It's not about money -- money could easily purchase much needed good will. It's about discovery.
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Of course it would...
It would open the door to a whole slew(u?) of things, that I'm sure the PTB would prefer "best left dark." I think it's about both money and discovery. Get them the money they need, and have investigations into those that should be held accountable.
A "Full And Complete Accounting" Of The 9/11 Attacks
Public Health
What really strikes me about the NYT article is that this little, barely funded clinic was the only help available to the first responders.
Sorry, but WTF is going on when the richest country on earth can't do better by the heroes that it was so recently praising (at least until Rudi decided to trash the NYFD for his own reasons)? How was this allowed to happen?
Considering the conditions they worked under it's no surprise that their data collection might be less than methodologically perfect, but under the circumstances it's the best we've got, and subsequent events have confirmed a high rate of serious health problems in the First Responders.
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THE DUST AT GROUND ZERO - The 9/11 attack has claimed a whole new set of victims: thousands of firemen, policemen, construction and other workers who are now ill - maybe permanently - because they breathed the toxic dust on the "pile" at the World Trade Center. Katie Couric reports. Kyra Darnton is the producer.
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Mexico doesn't often thank the US for much, but Mexicans are extremely grateful for the US today. What's that saying? "The enemy of your enemy is your friend?"
The US men's national soccer team kept alive Mexico's quest to qualify for next year's World Cup in Brazil. How did they do it? By winning. Against Panama.
See, right now is crunch time for qualifying for the 2014 World Cup. And while many teams have already qualified, including the United States, some teams are still trying to squeak their way in. And one of those teams is Mexico.
Last night, in their final simultaneous qualifying group games, the US was playing against Panama and Mexico was playing against Costa Rica. At one point, late in both games, Mexico was losing and Panama was winning. That meant Panama was going to get the last World Cup ticket from the North America-Caribbean region, while Mexico was just minutes from being eliminated. The Mexican players would be forced to watch the World Cup on TV come next June.
But then the unthinkable happened. The United States saved Mexico's bacon. In the last 90 seconds of playing time, the American team came back to score 2 goals and beat Panama. Suddenly, the roles were reversed. And what do you know, Panama is the one relegated to watching the World Cup on TV, while Mexico's qualifying quest stays alive. The Mexican squad now gets to play New Zealand in a playoff next month.
And there's more World Cup news. Bosnia has qualified for the World Cup for the first time ever. The tiny Balkan nation treated the players to an open-top bus parade in Sarajevo. And another small country that might yet make it is Iceland. It's team qualified for a playoff too. If Iceland goes all the way to the World Cup, it will be the smallest country ever to qualify. Iceland has about 330,000 people. The previous record holder, Trinidad and Tobago, has a population of more than a million. No offense, Trinidad. but... GO ICELAND!


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Bill Stites, Director of Technology for The Montclair Kimberley Academy and Blogger in Chief at edSocialMedia.com joined us to discuss MKA's first year laptop program and their use of Evernote.
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12:28:54 Sheila -> That was me testing the chat room!
12:30:02 PeggyG -> Hi William-waiting for the gang to gather! Really looking forward to this conversation about Evernote :-)
12:30:27 William Stites -> Will be happy to share all thaty I can
12:30:51 PeggyG -> wonderful! I just retweeted your tweet-had to shorten a bit :-)
12:32:30 PeggyG -> just discovered it's coming in on ustream :-) usually listen in itunes
12:33:10 PeggyG -> are you in the skype call yet William?
12:34:59 PeggyG -> hi powerranger-audio is coming in on ustream
12:36:09 PeggyG -> Hi Alex
12:36:26 PeggyG -> excited about this conversation re Evernote!
12:36:43 alex.ragone -> We are too Peggy!
12:37:02 PeggyG -> very exciting that Bill's program provides Evernote Pro for all students!
12:37:14 PeggyG -> Hi Vinny
12:37:29 alex.ragone -> Bill Stites is the Director of Technology at MKA: http://www.mka.org/
12:37:48 alex.ragone -> They just added laptops for grades 4-12.
12:38:01 PeggyG -> wonderful!!
12:38:06 vvrotny -> Hey I am in another web conference right now. Hope to be joining soon
12:38:28 PeggyG -> these sessions go fast Vinny! hurry back :-)
12:38:40 arvind -> 800 laptops is absolutely insane!
12:38:51 PeggyG -> I can't imagine rolling them all out!
12:38:59 arvind -> or even storing them
12:39:01 arvind -> imaging them
12:39:03 arvind -> unboxing them
12:39:39 PeggyG -> huge transition!!
12:40:14 arvind -> macbook pro's with 100gb backup drives
12:40:20 arvind -> 3 year lifespan
12:40:27 PeggyG -> incredible!!! what fantastic tools for the students!!!!
12:40:31 William Stites -> 500GB
12:40:33 vvrotny -> I know. But got to focus on the local once in awhile
12:40:43 arvind -> using Casper to manage all of the laptops
12:41:19 PeggyG -> they can be managed remotely so students don't every have to turn them in??? that's fantastic!
12:43:13 PeggyG -> would love to hear more details about the PD
12:44:58 PeggyG -> the long term pre-planning is really significant!
12:45:19 PeggyG -> makes a big difference with the success of the rollout
12:46:02 arvind -> yes and yes long-term planning and thinking!
12:46:58 PeggyG -> does Bill blog or have anything online that describes this process? Fantastic model!!
12:47:35 alex.ragone -> Here you go Peggy: http://www.mka.org/page.cfm?p=492
12:47:43 PeggyG -> just went there :-)
12:48:31 arvind -> The Laptop Institute in Lausanne
12:49:07 PeggyG -> do the teachers create the curriculum? I see they're using Moodle to manage it
12:50:10 PeggyG -> Evernote has changed my life!! access it from my iphone laptop desktop anywhere :-)
12:50:28 arvind -> Now we're talking Evernote: http://www.evernote.com
12:50:55 arvind -> I used the free account for a long time. Recently switched to Pro when I started using it for work and personal
12:51:15 PeggyG -> I switched to Pro almost immediately! Really wanted all of the features :-)
12:51:19 arvind -> I access it from PC laptop Mac desktop Android phone and BlackBerry phone
12:51:52 arvind -> Premium service gives you the ability to share notebooks and upload just about any file type
12:51:56 PeggyG -> that's it! ability to share notebooks with others for collaboration!
12:52:30 arvind -> I am also using my documents folder less and less. Sort of a weird feeling.
12:53:47 PeggyG -> very important point about backup of all docs and files :-)
12:54:06 arvind -> i dont like that i'm tied to them for life now
12:54:11 arvind -> sort of
12:54:24 alex.ragone -> Hi Fred!
12:54:26 PeggyG -> can one student delete something from another student's folder?
12:54:56 PeggyG -> I was thinking the same thing Arvind. What if something happens to evernote?...
12:55:18 fred -> Hey Alex
12:55:20 PeggyG -> I love the way Evernote is integrated with yolink search enhancement--fabulous combination!
12:55:29 arvind -> or what if I don't want to keep paying forever
12:55:50 arvind -> I haven't looked at the yolink integration - tell us more
12:57:06 PeggyG -> I like that they don't lose their docs when the leave the school
12:57:52 PeggyG -> yolink is inredible! not a search engine but search enhancement tool that integrates Diigo Sweet Search Evernote Easybib and Google docs!
12:58:18 PeggyG -> http://www.yolinkeducation.com/education/
12:58:56 PeggyG -> http://www.yolinkeducation.com/education/how-it-works.jsp
13:01:02 alex.ragone -> Students needed to earn a drivers license before they gain admin rights to their laptops. The Drivers License goals were created by their student leadership team.
13:01:06 alex.ragone -> Empowering students!
13:01:31 PeggyG -> very creative!! love it!
13:03:29 arvind -> we have a similar gradient for students who receive their laptops in 8th grade. at first they keep them in school then they take home later they earn admin rights
13:03:30 PeggyG -> I think the quality tools are those that are open and responsive to feedback from users--espeially in education!
13:03:37 fred -> software as service ... probably the way most things are heading
13:04:23 fred -> the 800 laptops will age you quickly bill
13:04:35 PeggyG -> this is fantastic!!! would love to continue the conversation!!! Come back Bill!
13:05:01 arvind -> SAAS seems to always let me down - waiting for better products
13:05:18 William Stites -> will send the url for the drivers manual
13:05:24 PeggyG -> thank you all! very excited about this information!
13:05:32 fred -> thanks guys!
13:05:47 PeggyG -> see you next week
13:06:07 arvind -> Head of School from Think Global School
13:06:09 arvind -> next week
13:06:12 PeggyG -> great! Think Global school!
13:06:52 alex.ragone -> http://thinkglobalschool.org/departments/faculty-staff/


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As part of the JDTLab program, Guild Hall of East Hampton presents a free staged reading of "The Family Room," a new play by first time playwright and longtime East Hampton resident John J. Mullen.
Steve Hamilton directs the play and also performs alongside Joseph Brondo, Lydia Franco Hodges, Ellen J. Myers and Julie King.
The play, which will be shown February 11, explores the complications of familial relationships and the power of childhood experiences, focusing on the relationship between siblings struggling to find forgiveness and reconciliation. Two sisters and a brother have been estranged for 30 years and are reunited in a hospital waiting room as their mother lies dying in the Intensive Care Unit.
"The Family Room" is "funny and hard-hitting," according to Hamilton, who acted alongside Alec Baldwin on the John Drew stage at Guild Hall in "Equus" in 2010. Also serving as Mullen's script coach for the play, Hamilton has worked on various projects in New York City and on the East End as an actor, director and producer. Most recently, he directed "The Cripple of Inishmaan," which opened at John Drew in 2013.
The JDTLab program at Guild Hall provides "actively-engaged performing artists" with resources and guidance during the creative process. Artists are selected to present a one-night showcase in collaboration with the Guild Hall team that is presented at John Drew free of charge.
The staged reading of "The Family Room" will be presented Tuesday, February 11 at 7:30 p.m. in the John Drew Theater in the Dina Merrill Pavilion at Guild Hall, 158 Main Street, East Hampton. For more information, call 631.324.0806 or visit GuildHall.org


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Former U.S. high school basketball star Jeremy Tyler quit Israeli team Maccabi Haifa and returned home Friday, cutting short a disappointing first pro season.
The 18-year-old Tyler arrived in Israel on a wave of publicity in August after deciding to skip his senior year at San Diego High School to gain professional experience.
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In the 10 games Tyler played for Haifa, the 6-11 (2.11-meter) power forward averaged only 2.1 points and 1.9 rebounds in 7.6 minutes per game. Tyler, who reportedly earned a $140,000 salary, found it hard to adapt to the pro game and couldn't find a place in Maccabi Haifa's starting lineup.
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We've got the full list of winners from IndieCade 2013 and they include Quadrilateral Cowboy, TowerFall, Kentucky Route Zero, and many others.
IndieCade 2013 featured 36 award finalists, with the event's winners announced on Thursday evening. The event also announced three more winners (Audience Choice, Media Choice, and Developer's Choice) during Sunday evening's closing ceremonies.
The big winner was Quadrilateral Cowboy from Blendo Games, which won IndieCade's Grand Jury Award. This top prize is decided by a panel of jurors who recognize a specific game for overall excellence. Other winners include Nevernaut Games' 2v2 capture the flag game SlashDash taking the Audience Choice Award, Matt Thorson's TowerFall winning the Media Choice Award, and the 5-on-5 arcade cabinet Joust homage Killer Queen taking Developer's Choice honors.
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- Developer Choice Award - Killer Queen (Joshua DeBonis & Nikita Mikros)
- Trailblazer Award - Tracy Fullertron (Spiderdance Inc., Director of the USC Game Innovation Lab)
- Special Recognition Award - Porpentine's Twine Compilation (Porpentine)
- Technology Award - Spin the Bottle: Bumpie's Party (KnapNok Games)
- Interaction Award - Spaceteam (Sleeping Beast Games)
- Game Design Award - Nidhogg (Messhof)
- Impact Award - Dog Eat Dog (Liwanag Press)
- Story/Word Design Award - Kentucky Route Zero (Cardboard Computer)
- Visual Design Award - Kentucky Route Zero (Cardboard Computer)
- Audio Design Award - Gone Home (The Fullbright Company)
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News release from U.S. Department of Education:
The U.S. Department of Education today announced the award of more than $28.8 million in grants to 42 states to cover a portion of the fees charged to low-income students for taking advanced placement (AP) tests.
(Note: Tennessee is among them, estimated to receive $344,613 in subsidies.)
Based on the anticipated number of test-takers and other factors, the grants under the Advanced Placement Test Fee Program are expected to be sufficient to pay all but $10 of the cost of each advanced placement exam taken by low-income students. States may opt to require students to pay a portion of the costs.
"This Administration has taken unprecedented steps to boost college- and career readiness for our young people, especially first-generation college goers," U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said. "Participation in Advanced Placement courses gives these students a jump start in college by challenging them to develop stronger study and critical-thinking skills. These grants will eliminate some financial roadblocks and enable more minority students to gain access to rigorous AP courses, which will help them succeed in today's knowledge economy."
By subsidizing test fees for low-income students, the program is intended to encourage those students to take AP tests and obtain college credit for high school courses, reducing the time and cost required to complete a postsecondary degree.
The grants can be used to help pay for low-income students taking approved AP tests administered by the College Board, the International Baccalaureate Organization and Cambridge International Examinations. Levels of funding per state were determined on the basis of state estimates of the numbers of tests that would be taken by low-income students. Following is a list of the grant recipients.
The Advanced Placement Test Fee grants program is administered by the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. For additional information on the program and these new awards, visit http://www2.ed.gov/programs/apfee/index.html.
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As telecommuting proponents continue to voice their dismay over Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer's mandate that the company will no longer allow employees to work from home, "Piers Morgan Tonight" welcomed Jack Welch to the program to get his expert insight and perspective on the issue.
The former Chairman and CEO of General Electric praised Mayer for making "a bold move to move the company forward."
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Jack Welch is a very intelligent man, but not exactly a morality leader. He's a dinosaur.
If it was not for Reginal Jones.....there would not be an Jack Welch...ex GE employee.....
Just let the woman run her company! Is it the right choice? Is it the wrong choice? We'll know in a few quarters. Whatever.
It doesn't atake any guts to have people do what they have ALWAYS done.
'Come to work' isn't a bold concept.
Telecommuting can get out of control, but it should not be banned. Common sense can be used to develop a balanced approach.
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So many of these large corporations miss the boat as what it takes to be successful. How does your business structure benefit society as a whole. Yahoo and many other large corporations focus on bottom line, and nothing more.
To take a line from General Schwarzkopf of Iraqi Desert Storm fame once said retired generals should stay retired. This should apply to retired corporate CEO's. GE did well under Welch but the economy was booming. Jack was moving jobs offshore while he was cheating on his wife. It has yet to be seen if Yahoo can be turned around but it is no GE.
I give Jack credit for having sense enough to not criticize the young, hip, cool, woman in charge....a negative comment from Jack would usher the 'near irrelevant Retired CEO' to begin his anachronistic stages of life.
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Sembilang National Park is a natural coastal wet land area with various forest ecosystems of peat moss swamps, fresh water swamps, mangrove forests and mud flats. Administratively, it is part of Banyuasin district and has been a national park since March 19th 2003, when it was separated from the Berbak National Park in Jambi. This area is called Sembilang because it has many Sembilang fish (Plotosus canius).
The Banyuasin Peninsula, located on the east coast of South Sumatra, is a haven for water birds. Its muddy lands and sands border mangroves resulting in ideal habits for various types of invertebrates such as worms, mollusks, and crustaceans. The actual peninsula sticks out into the sea for 1.5 kilometers which makes this land an ideal stop for migrant birds from Asia and Europe from October to December.
Kuntul Cina (Egretta Eulophotes), Trinil-Lumpur Asia (Limnodromus Semipalmatus), and Pedendang Topeng (Heliopais Personata), are among 30 species of migrant birds visiting the Banyuasin Peninsula. These birds seek a temporary home to avoid cold seasons in their primary habitats in Siberia, the Korean peninsula, and Japan. Their final destinations are sub-tropical areas of Australia.
You will find very exotic scenery in the far north of Betet Island because some of its swamps are famous for its snakes, crocodiles and rare orchids.
Enjoying the beauty of mangrove forests in Sembilang National Park is another attraction in the swampy areas along the rivers and sea. You can ask officials to take you to crocodile, snake, and bird nests, or to marvel at the endangered plants. You can also fish here catching five kilograms of fish within one hour according to local inhabitants.


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Oct. 24, 2013) – USA Volleyball has revealed the 20-player preliminary roster that will be narrowed to 12 for the FIVB Men's World Grand Champions Cup on Nov. 19-24 in Kyoto and Tokyo, Japan.
The U.S. Men qualified for the Grand Champions Cup by winning the NORCECA Continental Championship in September in Canada. The six-team tournament will also include Brazil (South American zone champion), Iran (Asia zone champion) and Russia (European zone champion) along with Japan (host country) and Italy (wildcard).
|The U.S. Men celebrate their NORCECA Championship victory.
"I was very pleased with the way the team competed at the NORCECA Championships," U.S. Head Coach John Speraw (Los Angeles) said. "I thought we completed the summer season very well, both in how we trained and how we competed. I am very much looking forward to spending more time with this group in the gym.
"The Grand Champions Cup has some great volleyball teams and I am excited about the chance to compete against the world's best and continuing to develop our team."
The preliminary roster includes seven outside hitters: Matt Anderson, Sean Rooney, Paul Lotman, Reid Priddy, Tony Ciarelli, Jeff Menzel and Garret Muagututia. It includes five middle blockers: David Lee, Russell Holmes, Futi Tavana, Max Holt and David Smith. It contains four setters: Kyle Caldwell, Kawika Shoji, Micah Christenson and Ryan Ammerman. There are two opposites on the preliminary roster: Murphy Troy and Carson Clark and two liberos: Rich Lambourne and Erik Shoji.
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All 12 of the players who won the NORCECA Championships are on the roster: Anderson, Rooney, Caldwell, Lee, Priddy, Troy, Christenson, Tavana, Menzel, Clark, Holt and Erik Shoji.
Anderson (West Seneca, N.Y.), a 2012 Olympian, was named the NORCECA tournament's most valuable player and named as an outside hitter to the all-star team. Christenson (Honolulu), in his U.S. Men's National Team debut, was named Best Setter and Best Server and was the setter on the all-star team.
Priddy (Richmond, Va.), a three-time Olympian and 2008 gold medalist, was named as an outside hitter to the all-star team. Lee (Alpine, Calif.) and Lambourne (Tustin, Calif.) are the other 2008 gold medalists named to the preliminary roster.
The U.S. Men's Team will convene in Tokyo on Nov. 10 to train at Japan's National Training Center before traveling to Kyoto on Nov. 17 for the competition, which begins Nov. 19.
No. Name (Position, Height, Hometown, College)
1. Matt Anderson (OH, 6-9, West Seneca, N.Y., Penn State)
2. Sean Rooney (OH, 6-10, Wheaton, Ill., Pepperdine)
3. Kyle Caldwell (S, 6-8, Newport Beach, Calif., UCLA)
4. David Lee (MB, 6-8, Alpine, Calif., Long Beach State)
5. Rich Lambourne (L, 6-3, Tustin, Calif., BYU)
6. Paul Lotman (OH, 6-7, Lakewood, Calif., Long Beach State)
7. Kawika Shoji (S, 6-3, Honolulu, Hawaii, Stanford)
8. Reid Priddy (OH, 6-4, Richmond, Va., Loyola Marymount)
9. Murphy Troy (Opp, 6-8, St. Louis, Mo., Southern California)
10. Tony Ciarelli (OH, 6-6, Huntington Beach, Calif., USC)
11. Micah Christenson (S, 6-6, Honolulu, Southern California)
12. Russell Holmes (MB, 6-8, Fountain Valley, Calif., BYU)
13. Futi Tavana (MB, 6-7, Kalaheo, Hawaii, BYU)
14. Jeff Menzel (OH, 6-6, Santa Barbara, Calif., UC Santa Barbara)
15. Carson Clark (Opp, 6-6, Santa Barbara, Calif., UC Irvine)
16. Ryan Ammerman (S, 6-8, Parker, Colo., UC Irvine)
17. Max Holt (MB, 6-9, Cincinnati, Ohio, Penn State)
18. Garrett Muagututia (OH, 6-5, Oceanside, Calif., UCLA)
19. Erik Shoji (L, 6-0, Honolulu, Hawaii, Stanford)
20. David Smith (MB, 6-7, Saugus, Calif., UC Irvine)
Head Coach: John Speraw
Team Manager: Gary Moy
Technical Coordinator: Anton Willert
Assistant Coaches: Matt Fuerbringer and Mike Wall
Consultant Coach: Andrea Becker
Athletic Trainer: Aaron Brock
Doctor: Andrew Gregory
FIVB Men's World Grand Champions Cup Schedule
(all times Pacific Standard)
Nov. 18-19
7:10 p.m.: Italy vs. Russia
11:10 p.m.: Iran vs. Brazil
2:10 a.m.: USA vs. Japan
Nov. 19-20
7:10 p.m.: Italy vs. Iran
11:10 p.m.: Brazil vs. USA
2:10 a.m.: Russia vs. Japan
Nov. 21-22
7:10 p.m.: USA vs. Italy
11:10 p.m.: Iran vs. Russia
2:10 a.m.: Japan vs. Brazil
Nov. 22-23
7:10 p.m.: Iran vs. USA
11:10 p.m.: Russia vs. Brazil
2:10 a.m.: Italy vs. Japan
Nov. 23-24
7:10 p.m.: Brazil vs. Italy
10:10 p.m.: USA vs. Russia
1:10 a.m.: Japan vs. Iran


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There are two main ways of being an English teacher: working in a school and working freelance. The difference between them is really the difference between having security and a relatively low salary and having little security and a relatively high high salary.
It is accepted that, for various reasons, some teaches may have no choice in the matter; but for those who are in a position to make an informed choice this article attempts to compare the two possibilities.
|Most teachers will, at some time or another, teach in some sort of language school. The other usual way of teaching is as a freelance teacher.
In many ways working for a school has advantages, especially for those who are new to the profession.
|Working as a freelance teacher is the obvious alternative to working in a school.
It should be clear that this way of working is not for the faint-hearted, and is probably not the best course for inexperienced teachers. Nevertheless, for those who make a go of it, it can be a highly rewarding venture both in financial and emotional terms.
Your monthly/weekly salary should be guaranteed. Emphasis is on the "should" here, as there are many horror stories of teachers having to fight for their pay. So try to check out a school beforehand.
|If you chose the market segment properly then your potential hourly rate could be many times greater than the hourly rate paid by a school.
Your income will depend on the number of students you are able to find, your ability/reputation as a teacher, local competition and the sector you are targeting; it will not be guaranteed. If you are starting from scratch you might initially find that you need savings or a "fall back" source of income. In some cases, for instance working in a bar or "temping" in a business, this income source might enable you to "network" for clients.
Some teachers like to charge private students in advance to reduce students' tendency to cancel classes.
|Many schools will give you a "bookend Schedule" - a schedule where you have to work from seven to ten in the morning, and then seven to ten in the evening. While at first it may seem pleasant to have your afternoons free, this type of schedule is very trying. It is impossible to have any sort of social life in the evening and get enough sleep.
|In theory you should be able to create your own schedule, although in practice you will also be constrained by the needs of your students. If your classes are mostly in businesses then you can expect to have classes early in the morning, at lunchtime and after work. The definition of these time periods will depend on the society.
If your clients are mostly private individuals then things change somewhat and evening or weekend work is more likely.
Preparation time
|If you are lucky the school will pay your lesson preparation time. Check this out beforehand.
|This will depend very much on the objective of your classes, the methodology chosen, the motivation of your students, your experience etc. Remember however that you are selling something of value to the student so you will want to be seen to be taking the lessons as seriously as your student. Turning up empty-handed day after day to talk about the weather is not a good way to keep students.
Many schools don't pay for preparation or correction time and some teachers begin to resent this unpaid work. At least if you are working for yourself you can decide how much time and effort you wish to invest.
|You won't have to find students but you have no control over the selection of the students you have to teach. If you don't like them or they don't like you there is not a lot you can do about it.
|In theory you will only need to teach students you want to teach, although if there is a shortage of students, or you land a company contract, your choices may not be quite so free. See: marketing.
Holidays and sickness
|The school should give you paid holidays and sick leave. Check your contract thoroughly before commencing employment; see here. If you don't speak the local language then have the contract reviewed by somebody who does. In some cases schools have offered contracts to inexperienced teachers at ludicrously low rates of pay.
|You will not be paid for these. Sickness insurance is one option but it tends to be expensive.
|Students will vary from highly motivated adults who are a joy to teach to utterly disinterested teenagers who would rather be somewhere else.
|Students who are paying their own money for individual classes will usually be highly motivated. On the other hand they are also likely be highly demanding.
|Depending on the school you may be left to do your own thing or have a DOS looking over your shoulder every moment.
|You will be accountable to nobody but your students for the quality or content of your classes. Naturally, this also means that you had better give good classes as your students will be free to vote with their feet whenever they like.
|You will probably have little control over the coursebook chosen by the school. You may love it or hate it, but you (probably) won't be able to change it.
|You will be able to decide whether or not to use a coursebook. At first, some students - especially if it's their first experience with a class outside of a language school - may feel uncomfortable about not having the "support" of a coursebook should you decide not to use one. This is likely to change as they come to realize the benefits of a more personalized approach to the learning process.
|This is not an issue - though if students stop coming to your classes the school may wonder about your quality as a teacher.
|Cancellations with private students can be the bane of a freelancer's life and you will need to consider how to deal with them. If your students have paid in advance than you may wish to be pretty ruthless about this, but on the other hand you will also want to keep the student and your reputation.
Typically teachers use a sliding system along the lines of:
(Times are illustrative only.)
|While most of your classes will probably be at the school itself you may also be asked to give some in-company classes. Find out if the school will pay your travelling time.
|You may need to budget for travelling expenses and travelling time. You may have to spend a considerable period of time travelling between classes. You might be able to adjust individual fees to allow for travel distance.
You will probably need a car and should give some thought to contingencies in case of breakdowns.
Materials and equipment
|These should be supplied by the school.
|Unless you intend to follow a coursebook you will have to create your own topical classes, materials, handouts, listenings, etc. You may wish to obtain a PC and encourage your students to use one as well. For example students can also use memory sticks to record "homework" on if they are coming to you or are in a business environment. (You could even use the internet to conduct lessons
Liability insurance
|This is the school's problem.
|If you are conducting lessons in your own premises, you will probably need liability insurance of some kind depending on local regulations.
|Working for a school should give you the opportunity to make contact with other English teachers, start some networking and exchange opinions and class ideas in a social setting. If you are fortunate one of the "old hands" will be prepared to show you the ropes if you are a new teacher.
|Your opportunities for social contact with other teachers may be reduced, as will the ongoing exchange of material and ideas. Partial solution: sign up with Teflpedia!
|The school should ensure that appropriate tax deductions are made.
|You will be responsible for things like your own invoicing and tax records. If you do not have at least a little experience at accounting and administration this may cause a problem.
Location of classes
|Probably at the school, but you could be sent to company training locations as well.
|Not really relevant if you work in a school.
|You will possibly have to learn a new skill: marketing. You will need to go out and find students - at least initially and it may take some time to build up a good clientèle. Although if you are a good teacher your reputation should spread by word of mouth you will need some way to start things off.
Opinions vary over whether you should go for niche marketing and aim for a particular group, or go for the shotgun approach and claim that you are a specialist in "everything". If you decide to be more targeted, the method of marketing you use will depend on that market. For instance, if you are trying to "sell" yourself as somebody specialising in giving expensive classes to executives, your marketing literature will reflect this.
Try to maintain a list of satisfied past and present pupils who will agree to give you a (good) reference. Similarly, if possible and appropriate, keep in touch with ex pupils both to use as examples and to promote your teaching.
It must be admitted that some teachers start up by stealing students from the school where they used to work. Teachers will need to make their own decisions about the ethics of this.
Your language ability
|Not knowing the local language is no big impediment if you are working in a school as the arrangements are made by the school authorities. Indeed, some schools maintain that they prefer their native English teachers not to know the local language as this means that they are obliged to use total immersion.
|Unless you are confident in your ability to negotiate and explain things in the native language (or have somebody to do it for you) then you will have some problems working freelance.
Gaining experience
|If you are new to the profession then working in a school should give you a lot of valuable experience of teaching a wide range of abilities, group sizes and ages. You may also get an opportunity to practice teaching English for specialised purposes.
|While some teachers start off without previous experience, or even training, it might be better to gain some experience before going freelance.


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Paris Hilton's latest breakup has been a case of he-said, she-said – but the celebutante told Access Hollywood on Wednesday that former beau Doug Reinhardt is "just angry."
"I am great and enjoying being single," she told Access. "He is just angry because I broke up with him."
The heiress was referring to a statement released by Doug after the news of their split made headlines, in which Doug claimed he and Paris had broken up in the middle of April – not over two weeks prior, as a rep for Paris stated at the time. The pair had dated on and off for over a year.
Paris told Access that she's now looking for better influences in her life.
"I need more positive people around me and people who love me for me," she said.
On another note, the star added that plastic surgery was to be expected in Hollywood – "I mean, we live in LA" – but unlike many stars, a fear of needles has kept her away from going under the knife.
"I have my own push-up bra line. And I am coming out with a line of lingerie. So when you see me and I have cleavage, it's because I am wearing my own line of push-up bras because I am really flat," she explained.
Among her other projects, Paris said that she's just finished her latest "BFF" show – this time based in Dubai – and is working on a follow-up to her 2006 music debut, "Paris."
"I am currently working on my new album. And it will be very different from my last one," she said.
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Department of Human Evolution
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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I am a PhD student in the Department of Human Evolution at the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. My research interests focus on exploring interactions between humans, animals and their respective environments using stable isotope ecology and zooarchaeology. During my undergraduate and masters studies at the University of Kiel, I particularly concentrated on improving reconstructions of animal husbandry practices, such as foddering and seasonal mobility, from oxygen, carbon and nitrogen stable isotope data through use of modelling approaches and modern comparative datasets. I am keen to continue such method development during my doctoral research in order to refine oxygen isotope analysis of faunal remains for the investigation of climate and seasonality in Late Pleistocene contexts. Oxygen isotope analysis of faunal material represents a very valuable source of information for climatic and environmental reconstruction, shedding light on the context of human behaviour through time. It is therefore essential that the methods and interpretative approaches used to build such environmental frameworks produce the most faithful results possible. Specifically, I seek to improve upon sample pretreatment methods as well as the conversion of δ18O in biological tissues into temperature estimates. This will potentially help to consistently reproduce a biological δ18O signal as well as allow more sophisticated isolation of climatic information from overprinting impacts of animal behaviour and physiology. Working on archaeological material from a number of different European sites I am particularly looking to explore the relationship between seasonality and hominin mobility and site occupation as well as how they conjointly precipitate in animal exploitation strategies.
As a sideline in my interest in animal exploitation, I also investigated impacts of animal environment and diet as well as dairy processing on the carbon isotopic composition of single fatty acids in milk as part of my masters thesis. During my studies I been involved in a variety of isotopic, zooarchaeological, ethnographic and archaeological field work projects in Jordan, Mongolia, France and Germany.