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It can be great to take a risk with love, but that doesn't mean you should put your personal data in jeopardy.
Online dating sites have helped millions find true love (at least if you believe the ads), but the sites can be riddled with fake profiles designed to scam other members. And as Valentine's Day approaches, more people join sites like Match.com and eHarmony to find romance, a powerful lure for scammers.
"In the dating world, we see lots of scams now," Dave Evans, editor of OnlineDatingPost.com, said. "One person can create 5,000 to 10,000 profiles, because most of it's automated."
Identity test
To find out if a person-of-interest is really who she or he says, you can try a simple test.
First, copy a profile photo and paste it into Google's image search. Open a new tab and go to google.com and then click on "images" in the navigation bar running across the top of the page. The search box will now have a camera that you may select to search by image. Paste your image in and see what comes up.
Fake profiles often use the images of lesser known actors. You may also get a LinkedIn, Facebook or other match, which you can use to find out more about the person. If at any time, you receive an email with a request for money, break off communication. And never agree to meet dates until you have enough information to confirm their identity such as their employment.
But those looking for love aren't the only ones at risk. People on the brink of breaking up should take precautions as well. (And most of this advice applies for most people in relationships — single and married.)
Security firm McAfee released a report warning that rejected lovers pose a very real threat to their exes when it comes to online security.
Love is blind
In its survey of 1,182 online adults, 95 percent of respondents said they trust their partners with personal data. They share passwords to their online banking accounts, Social Security numbers and credit-card numbers — pretty much the complete package to establish an online identity.
Couples also share sexy photos with each other. In fact, more than a third of Americans plan to send their partner sexy or romantic photos on Valentine's Day via text, email and social media. And one out of five people never bother deleting intimate messages and photos from their phones and computers.
But when couples split, trouble starts. One out of every 10 ex-partners will be threatened with exposure after a break-up. Lying, cheating and getting dumped were the reasons most frequently used to justify their revenge, such as posting compromising pictures of their exes online. And 60 percent make good on their threats.
In addition to sharing photos, spurned partners have frequently shared their ex's bank account numbers, health insurance IDs, Social Security numbers, email account log-ins and other passwords.
And even if an ex doesn't take action right away, he or she may continue to stalk a former partner long after the relationship is over. People track their ex-partners on Facebook more than they do their current partners, McAfee said.
Men are more likely to check up on their exes than women. Around 46 percent of men admitted to tracking their partner, ex-partner or partner's ex on Facebook or Twitter, compared to 37 percent of women.
Damage control
When personal data is leaked, guys are more likely to fight back to recover what was lost. A handful of respondents said they have taken legal action against former partners for exposing personal data, most confront their exes and demand they undo the damage.
However, once data or photos are shared online, there's really no way to control who sees them.
If you're currently in a relationship, you can take simple steps to decrease your risk.
- Don't take revealing photos or allow them to be taken.
- Keep your passwords and other log-in information for your personal accounts to yourself.
- Don't send messages electronically that you wouldn't want the world to see.
- Put a pass code on your phone.
- Delete old emails, photos and other messages from your social media accounts and devices.
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Cary Police targeted texters and other distracted drivers Wednesday as part of its "Don't Text and Drive" campaign.
Officers were looking on Maynard Road and Cary Parkway from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Drivers were getting $100 tickets and will have to pay another $190 in court costs.
Since 2013, distracted driving has been a contributing factor to 71 crashes in Cary.
"Mobile devices today do so much more than make a simple phone call, and it's critical to remember that the permanent damage caused by taking your eyes off the road just simply isn't worth it," said Lt. Steve Wilkins of the Town of Cary's Traffic Safety Team.
It's illegal to text and drive in North Carolina. Violating the law carries a $100 fine plus $190 in court costs.
Cary Police made 47 stops by 11 a.m. alone and pulled their first person within 10 minutes.
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Want to make big prints? Then maybe PhotoZoom Pro 2 is the answer.........
There are a wide number of options if you want to make your digital pictures bigger, from resizing them in your image editing software to investing in a dedicated piece of interpolation software such as Genuine Fractals, SizeFixer XL, or Softwair's PhotoZoom Pro 2.
Separating the various software makers' claims is often quite difficult, but Softwair claims that PhotoZoom Pro 2 is different from the rest because it uses S-Spline technology. This – it is claimed – is a 'self-adjusting advanced interpolation method that will allow enlargements up to any size without any loss of quality.'
I'm sorry? Did they say 'any size'? And without any loss of quality? These are bold claims that are crying out to be tested…
Available for both Windows PCs and the Mac operating system, PhotoZoom Pro 2 can be used as a Photoshop-compatible plug-in or as a standalone application. Compared to Pro 1, it is said to use an improved SSpline algorithm (S-Spline XL), offers 16Bit image support, batch processing of multiple images, crop/rotate/flip tools and faster processing when it comes to resizing your pictures.
From the outset, the software is incredibly easy to use, with a single window providing a preview of your 'upsized' image and a toolbox. On a basic level you simply open your image, enter the new size (be it in terms of pixels, paper size, percentage increase or metric/imperial measurements) and click 'resize' for the software to work its magic. Further fine-tuning options allow you to sharpen the image at the same time as it's resized for the optimum result.
However, it's not without its foibles, and I find it quite annoying that there isn't the option to preview images at 'print size' - instead you're limited to previewing your resized images at 50-400%. For me, anything over 100% is unnecessary.
It's also fair to say that despite the 'faster processing', PhotoZoom Pro 2 doesn't mind keeping you waiting. During this test I decided to revisit some Canon EOS 5D test pictures – in particular some squirrel shots that needed heavy cropping. After the crop, the file size was a mere 5.4Mb, measuring 14x10cm at 300ppi. Increasing the image in PhotoZoom Pro 2 by 300% gave me an A3 print size (42x30cm @ 300ppi/48.9Mb file), taking 2mins 15secs to do so. This might not sound a long wait, but the same enlargement in Photoshop (using Image Size) took less than five seconds…
However, in terms of results, PhotoZoom Pro 2 does do a better job than Photoshop's Bicubic resizing, delivering slightly more detail, improved contrast and better sharpness (even against Photoshop's Bicubic Sharper setting). It also doesn't give the same pixellated edges as the Photoshop samples, although it's very important to note that this is only when the images are viewed side by side at 100%/actual pixels. Take them down to 'print size' and the difference narrows.
While PhotoZoom Pro 2 (with USM applied) still has a slight edge, using Photoshop's Bicubic Sharper algorithm followed by applying a light touch of the UnSharp Mask filter produces an incredibly similar result. Indeed, view either enlargement in isolation and you wouldn't be unhappy.
VerdictUnless you intend to perform mega-enlargements, you may never notice – or need – the benefits of PhotoZoom Pro 2, but if you want high quality enlargements, it is a superior option to Photoshop. Visit the company's website and download the free trial so that you can see for yourself if the results live up to your expectations – it's an expensive option to take on a whim.
Unless you intend to perform mega-enlargements, you may never notice – or need – the benefits of PhotoZoom Pro 2, but if you want high quality enlargements, it is a superior option to Photoshop. Visit the company's website and download the free trial so that you can see for yourself if the results live up to your expectations – it's an expensive option to take on a whim.


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Proceed and Permit
Looks like we have found Get A First Life's (GAFL) strongest supporter – Second Life. OK, Linden Lab. A link in the footer of GAFL's page asks for "comments or cease and desist letters".
So Linden's lawyer sent one.
But not the letter that anyone might be expecting. Rather than ordering GAFL to stop it provides a brief legal defense of the right's of parody under US law.
Before anyone gets cynical about this 'master stroke of PR genius' that the LL folk dreamed up in their Dr Evil bunker, c'mon give them a break – it follows Linden's long standing ethos of IP use and, best of all, it's funny.
Here it is in full:
Ginsu Yoon Says:
January 21st, 2007 at 2:57 pm
This notice is provided on behalf of Linden Research, Inc. ("Linden Lab"), the owner of trademark, copyright and other intellectual property rights in and to the "Second Life" product and service offering, including the "eye-in-hand" logo for Second Life and the website maintained at http://secondlife.com/.
It has come to our attention that the website located at http://www.getafirstlife.com/ purports to appropriate certain trade dress and marks associated with Second Life and owned by Linden Lab. That website currently includes a link in the bottom right-hand corner for "Comments or cease and desist letters."
As you must be aware, the Copyright Act (Title 17, U.S. Code) contains provisions regarding the doctrine of "fair use" of copyrighted materials (Section 107 of the Act). Although lesser known and lesser recognized by trademark owners, the Lanham Act (Title 15, Chapter 22, U.S. Code) protecting trademarks is also limited by a judicial doctrine of fair use of trademarks. Determining whether or not a particular use constitutes fair use typically involves a multi-factor analysis that is often highly complex and frustratingly indeterminate; however a use constituting parody can be a somewhat simpler analysis, even where such parody involves a fairly extensive use of the original work.
We do not believe that reasonable people would argue as to whether the website located at http://www.getafirstlife.com/ constitutes parody – it clearly is. Linden Lab is well known among its customers and in the general business community as a company with enlightened and well-informed views regarding intellectual property rights, including the fair use doctrine, open source licensing, and other principles that support creativity and self-expression. We know parody when we see it.
Moreover, Linden Lab objects to any implication that it would employ lawyers incapable of distinguishing such obvious parody. Indeed, any competent attorney is well aware that the outcome of sending a cease-and-desist letter regarding a parody is only to draw more attention to such parody, and to invite public scorn and ridicule of the humor-impaired legal counsel. Linden Lab is well-known for having strict hiring standards, including a requirement for having a sense of humor, from which our lawyers receive no exception.
In conclusion, your invitation to submit a cease-and-desist letter is hereby rejected.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, it is possible that your use of the modified eye-in-hand logo for Second Life, even as parody, requires license from Linden Lab, especially with respect to your sale of goods with the parody mark at http://www.cafepress.com/getafirstlife/. Linden Lab hereby grants you a nonexclusive, nontransferable, nonsublicenseable, revocable, limited license to use the modified eye-in-hand logo (as displayed on http://www.getafirstlife.com/ as of January 21, 2007) to identify only your goods and/or services that are sold at http://www.cafepress.com/getafirstlife/. This license may be modified, addended, or revoked at any time by Linden Lab in its sole discretion.
Best regards,
Linden Lab
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That will teach them!
Posted Jan 31, 2007 6:31:37 PM | link
Oh, I'm definitely cynical and sneering at this one. On the one hand, yes, it's great that FINALLY some sophisticated parody of SL has come along with good graphics and a good gag line that everyone can understand, in and out of SL. I was really glad to see that. Of course, the "get a life" meme is one that forum harpies have been screaming at each other for years, so it wasn't as funny. Still, I await the arrival of the SL SNL that can parody SL and LL themselves with near desperation.
I do my own parodies of course,
as does some Herald authors:
but they are inside jokes and not as funny. (I actually think my tag line for the fake news agency about SL, "We can't put it together...but we can take it apart", a riff off the old Whole Earth Catalogue line conceived by Stewart Brand, about sums up the entire reverse-engineering hackeresque ethos that reins in SL, but that's just me.)
But what MY beef with this "proceed and thrive" stuff is how patently fake it is, as if these people at LL are liberal, tolerant, and laissez faire about free speech.
Here, Ginsu Linden goes out of his way to write these parodists a letter to be funny and josh them about use of the logo, but if someone uses the hand-eye logo on a t-shirt within the world of SL, they'll be told to take it down. In fact, do you know that there are merchandisers who have signed NDAs with LL to make use of their hand-eye?
So to create this hype around the Lindens that they are these free-speech lovers is INCREDIBLY FALSE. They most certainly are NOT. They have banned me and others over nothing from their official blog; their forums; their townhalls; their listserves. All you have to do is question the received wisdom and not even criticize Lindens, so much as criticize their most loyal fanboyz, and you are out on your ass, with no due process, selective prosecution, and rampant abuse of authority. I've already written reams about how unjust and selective they are and how much they allow lower-level Lindens, who themselves were once residents, to settle scores unjustly.
You can try to appeal to their inhouse counsel Ginsu Linden about the insane selectivity, arbitrariness, lack of due process, and double jeopardy frequently involved in the Linden inworld discipline system, but he will remain stony-faced and not answer you, shucking you off to the "customer service department".
Ginsu and the rest of them talk the talk to be cool, to seem hip, to get posts like Ren just handed to them -- but they do not walk the walk. Do not be mistaken about this whatsoever.
It's yet another page in the book of creator fascism. We can allow freedom of IP. We can allow our image to be copied if we think your arch and special. We can't let you criticize our island policy or our new land policy, however, in public; for that we will boot you from the world:
I wish you folks could come in SL more often and actually see how this plays out. If you could, some of you could get indignant, and help be a part of ending these draconian policies like linking a permaban from the forums for speech to permabanning the world and stripping of assets.
To be sure, some of you would only intellectually bolster what they are doing, knowing of your views. But enough of you, if you got together and weighed in, could get this to stop. Truly, it's not the way the Metaverse and Web 2.0 should be.
Posted Jan 31, 2007 7:18:53 PM | link
Prokofy Neva>if someone uses the hand-eye logo on a t-shirt within the world of SL, they'll be told to take it down
Surely the solution is to use the logo of Advanced Medical Optics?
Posted Feb 1, 2007 3:59:59 AM | link
Lol, that was an awesome letter.
Posted Feb 1, 2007 10:45:26 PM | link
>Surely the solution is to use the logo of Advanced Medical Optics?
Hehe good one, Richard. Well, in my parodies, I've used the ancient Hand of Fatima, which of course, is where the Lindens swiped the meme in the first place, and I also mashed up a hand from some baby blanket company or something -- a baby's hand print -- with a mouth -- so instead of that precious "eye-hand-see-do" stuff the Lindens peddle, I had "hand-mouth" or "talk to the hand" etc.
Posted Feb 2, 2007 9:10:11 PM | link
You raise important issues about free speech and virtual worlds.
I'm wondering what you (and others reading this) think would be some constructive ways of organizing to enhance free speech rights in virtual worlds. There has been some talk in the past about an Avatar Bill of Rights. What else -- if anything -- can be done to organize an effective grass roots movement around these issues?
Just to clarify, my question is not about whether or not game developers have a legal right to squelch speech in the virtual worlds that they maintain. Past discussions on this list have established that the EULA gives near absolute power to the game developers. My question is: "Given the fact that game developers are legally empowered to restrict speech in their virtual worlds, what steps might users take to organize others around these issues? What specific recommendations and principles might be enshrined in a platform for a virtual worlds free speech movement?"
It would be nice if we could focus specifically on what free speech advocates think that virtual world companies *should* be doing.
Posted Feb 3, 2007 2:26:53 PM | link
Aaron: Free speech advocates should be doing what they always do (when they do what they do do best) -- advocate that whatever tools, media and platforms are available not be restricted by political, social or economic interests at the expense of free speech itself.
Here's the problem: free speech advocacy is itself a social and political and (sometimes) economic interest.
Let's say I publish a blog. Which I do. I want to speak through it. Which I do. I have lots of "free speech" rights related to what I can say there, and some responsibilities regarding not breaking various communications laws (don't infringe copyright, slander, etc).
Now... you also have the same free speech rights I do. Does that mean that I need to let anyone you publish from my space? Or even that I need to leave comments turned on so that you can respond to my posts?
Put similarly, does the publisher of a virtual world have, as an entity, fewer free speech rights than you do?
It is generally understood that someone who makes a medium available for public communication assumes certain responsibilities vis-a-vis the law, and that includes free speech, but not *all* speech. If a bulletin board is put up in the lobby of my church for the express purpose of announcing events and personal items for sale of church members, the church would be hard-pressed to keep a member from posting a personal item of one parishioner based on "bad taste" or some such fuzzy reasoning, unless it violated clear, previously posted rules. On the other hand, if the board had been set up only for events, and was only kept up by staff... there's no reason why anyone else's messages couldn't be summarily removed.
If I build a VW that's expressly set up to hard-core role-play a Renaissance English setting... why the heck shouldn't I be allowed to boot off people who want to loudly shout in public channels, "George Bush is an a****le!" or "I love George Bush!"
Don't get me wrong: I love freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly and all that. I'm a Bill of Rights nut. But I also believe it applies to the publisher of the game/world, and that "freedom" doesn't always translate to "complete license."
My brother worked in a Renaissance faire for a couple summers. While in character, you had to stay in character. If you screwed up and started dropping 20th century anachronisms often enough, you got fired. His freedom of speech stopped where his employer's freedom to serve up a good entertainment experience began.
Posted Feb 3, 2007 7:57:59 PM | link
Andy -- Great points. Your analysis highlights the ever-widening gulf between social virtual world platforms and more traditional game-worlds.
Returning to the issues raised by Prokofy, if one views Second Life as a game-world in which the developers strive for immersion and coherent thematic user experience, the analogy to the Renaissance MMO makes complete sense.
If one views Second Life as a three-dimensional version of the web, it becomes more of platform than a game. This would lend itself to a common carriage approach in which the provider is "both obligated to carry speech regardless of content and legally protected from the content of that speech." (See: http://www.jerf.org/writings/communicationEthics/node5.html).
As someone who shares your interest in free speech, I would personally favor more of a common-carriage approach in which the provider (Linden Lab) does not interfere with the ways that people are using their tools.
I'm sure our legally inclined colleagues will remind us that (a) virtual worlds are not treated as common carriers, and (b) most ISPs have managed to escape being treated as common carriers.
But, I'm more concerned with what a free speech movement in social virtual worlds might pursue as its ideal goals, rather than assessing the current status of the law. (Though a reality check about current legal understandings is always very helpful.)
Is calling for the application of common carrier principles a reasonable approach to the preservation of free speech in platform-like virtual worlds?
Such a principle would probably lead to the conclusion that a company such as Linden Lab is justified in banning certain types of speech from its corporate forums, on the company site, but not justified in banning speech from its virtual world platform.
What do others think?
Posted Feb 3, 2007 9:22:19 PM | link
Aaron, people already organize around this and do all kinds of protests and such, and there is even one person exploring the possibility of opening an ACLU chapter in SL. It's not true that companies can expect to enjoy EULA protection forever. If they open-source the viewer, especially, and have free accounts open to the public, they are no different than the Mall of America, Inc. which found itself targeted by lawsuits.
Someone who doesn't have anything to lose in SL should sue Linden Lab. The problem with those who would like to bother with this, is that they Lindens can remove them "for any reason or no reason" under the Terms of Service they have now.
I think at this point, all one can do is keep a crime file, document what goes on, counter it, challenge it, run alternatives, and wait to see when a large corporation with deep pockets and a willing litigator in a famous law firm with huge media coverage can really break up this little tea-party.
From my experience, much of the free-speech cases, if they aren't related to actual severe obscenity, let's say, or incitement of hatred, are simply contrary to LL's own business interests. Like saying that Aimee Weber's name is "like" a prom-queen's name. That sort of thing.
I think that LL already perceives of itself/calls itself a common carrier, but still hides behind the EULA.
So much of this has already been hashed at length on Raph's blog it's worth going there to read it all.
Posted Feb 3, 2007 11:09:22 PM | link
I realize that people organize around this already, but it seems that we all keep reinventing the wheel every time the subject comes up. I'm wondering if there has been an effort to develop a coordinated statement of principles that go beyond tactical opposition to specific infringements of free speech.
Can you put me in contact with the person who is starting the ACLU chapter in SL? I'd like to pass his or her name on to the student who expressed interest in these topics. If you don't want to post the details here, feel free to e-mail off-thread.
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We'll be the 2008 NBA Champs next year if we acquire either Garnett or Jermaine O' Neal.
Quote me on that!!!
www.latimes.com/sports/basketball/nba/lakers/la-sp-adande3may03,1,908630.column?coll=la-headlines-sports-nba-lakers"I'll do whatever it takes to win," Bryant said. "I've had to do a lot just to get us into the playoffs. I don't want to do that. I want to win championships. I don't want to be a one-man show, a team that goes onto the road, the opposition crowd wants to see me score 50 and lose.
"I'm not with that. I'm about winning. I want to win championships and win them now. So, they have some decisions to make."
You listening Jim Buss?!!! aka the real GM
It has already been said that the Lakers will not acquire another top 20 player so if there is any truth to that, we can all count out Oneal, Garnett, Kidd, Bibby and Artest in any conversation.
But this is the Lakers. This is the team that will do whatever it takes to create a championship team. I won't be surprised at all if one of them are on the roster, if not two of them.
This is speculation because Kwame has an expiring contract at $8mil next year. Contracts like that tend to be very valuable.Originally Posted by TotalRecarl
This is said simply not to raise expectations.Originally Posted by 33isgod
I would not call Ron Artest (or Mike Bibby) a top 20 player though--I don't want to see Artest here either, and Sacramento would never move him within the division.
Don't be ridiculous.Originally Posted by 33isgod
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Cheer up, guys--you could be Knick fans.
I blame Dr. Buss for trading Shaq, for unloading good players that he thought were expendable (eg Caron, Horry), and not being willing to spend luxury taxes.
Jimmy is at fault for his refusal to let go Bynum, no matter what, since it was his pick. No matter who Bynum might bring us, management will have to fight Jimmy tooth and nail to get him to give him up. He also turned down a trade for Jason Kapono, one of hte league's top 3 point shooters.
I blame Phil for pressuring the brass to acquire Kwame. He also wanted Devean gone instead of picking up his option, causing us to waste the MLE on Vlad Rad. He's reluctant to make in-season moves for players without tri experience, and is always willing to deal the future away for the present.
Kupchak is to blame for not knowing how to assemble a good basketball team. He is a visionless leader and just takes orders. His methodology approach to the draft has caused us to make stupid draft picks like choosing Kareem Rush instead of Tashaun Prince, Cookie over Barbossa and Josh Howard, etc. Overall he has a poor eye for talent. He also has no contingency plan, is terrible at closing deals, and since the Shaq trade has just gone for home run attempts in trades. He's been ultra conservative in his dealings, which gets us nowhere. Kupchak and Phil are dually responsible for our horrible use of the MLE the past couple years and for placing too much emphasis on triangle experience, leading to gaping holes on defense, point guard, etc.
Another thing that really gets me is this whole management by committee that Buss has implemented. Especially considering that the members of our brass have conflicting goals, which lead to aimless compromises that severely impede any progress.


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Stuttgart Travel Guide
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Situated amongst the rolling hills of Germany's premiere wine-growing region, Stuttgart is capital of the state of Baden-Wurttemberg in southwestern Germany. Dotted with beautiful historical buildings, impressive parks and fantastic art museums, this modern city is a good stopover for its undulating wine estates, annual beer festival, mineral spa culture and acclaimed ballet, opera and philharmonic companies.
Charming olde worlde quarters like the Bohnenviertel (Bean District) with its sidewalk cafés and cobbled streets, meet the modern pedestrianised precincts of contemporary Stuttgart, boasting the latest in European mode such as Königstrasse, one of the longest shopping areas in Germany. A big city with a small-town atmosphere, visitors will find the bustling art nouveau Market Hall transports them to former countrified years. Nowadays, this is where organic fruit and vegetables, aromatic cheeses and fresh fish from the North Sea can be found. However, a must for any visitor to this city is a trip to one of Stuttgart's reputed mineral baths, be it the modern and luxurious Mineralbad Cannstatt or the Mineral Bath Berg, which exudes a wistful fifties charm.
View the city from atop the Fernsehturm (Television Tower), a 712ft (217m) tower with an observation deck and restaurant at the pinnacle where on a clear day, you can see the Black Forest; head to Schlossplatz, a famous landmark and meeting place for locals and visitors, its green lawns littered with youths soaking up the summer sunshine, or find your own sanctuary in the dappled shade of the 'Green U' park, a five mile (8km) natural haven in the city centre.
These features all come as a surprise to the first time visitor to Stuttgart, who usually associate the city with its reputation as the 'cradle of the automobile'. The motorbike and four-wheel car were invented in Stuttgart and one of its most famous attractions is the enormous Mercedes-Benz Museum, with 160 immaculate vehicles on permanent display, including their new luxury models, racing cars and reputed antiques. If that doesn't whet your appetite, head across town to the Porsche Museum.
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In July, President Bush lifted the executive ban on offshore drilling that had been put in place in 1990 via his father – George H.W. Bush – while recommending drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. However, the 1981 federal ban was still in place.
On Sept. 16, the House passed a measure that would allow limited offshore drilling. Meanwhile, Republican presidential candidate John McCain openly supported offshore drilling and drilling in Alaska amid the backdrop of his campaign supporters chanting, "Drill, baby, drill."
Barack Obama, the Democratic candidate for the presidency, supported limited offshore drilling as part of an overall energy package. But in late September, the Democrats, under pressure from Repub-licans and the president's promise of a veto, went along with letting the offshore drilling ban expire. A final resolution to the issue will have to be worked out when President-elect Obama takes office.
Looking beyond the drill or no-drill debate, we asked our readers in October whether an offshore drilling ban will help lower prices for fuel needed to run their farming operations. Fifty-eight percent say, "Yes," but see the lower prices as taking a long time to actually materialize. Forty-two percent of the respondents opted for "No."
Following is a sampling of comments from recipients who voted in the October Web Poll. We appreciate everyone's feedback.
• "Yes, but I believe, for now, it will not soften the price of fertilizer, which is what we (personally) need more than anything."
• "No. It will not lower fuel prices unless Congress can stop the oil companies from sending refined diesel to Europe, as they are currently doing. That is the reason there is such a huge difference between the price of unleaded gas and diesel."
• "This should have happened 25 years ago."
• "Although it's useless to look backward, we should never have had an offshore drilling ban. Now we are far behind, and even our economic adversaries are drilling within distances that can tap our continental supplies. The people who have made these decisions have not acted in the interest of our country, including agriculture. Sure, we need alternative energy; but, for now, we need oil."
• "The amount of oil we would get from offshore will add to the energy pie. It might not help much, but it sure won't hurt. We need all the sources that we are able to find."
• "With [a big oil company] making a $14 BILLION profit in the third quarter, I don't think anything will lower fuel prices for the long term. Congress investigates everything it can nose into but does not mention investigating the oil prices or outrageous profits made by [big oil companies]."
• "Of course it will. It will take some time, but every barrel of oil produced here will be one barrel we won't have to send dollars overseas to pay for it."
Now that we are into December and past the political frenzy that came to a head on election day, we who are involved in U.S. agriculture are wondering how our industry will fare in the new political environment. Thus, we are asking our readers to cast their votes on this subject and explain their thoughts in the comments section.
To participate in this month's Web Poll, go online at www.cottonfarming.com. The results of the December poll will be reported in the February issue of Cotton Farming.
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In October, we asked: Do you believe Congressional measures to ease the offshore drilling ban will help lower prices for fuel needed to run your farming operation? Why or why not?
December Web Poll Question
Do you think U.S. agriculture will fare well in terms of productivity and profitability in the new political environment? Please explain your choice in the comments section.
(1) Yes
(2) No
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What is the future of healthcare? How can it become health care vs sickness treatment? What role do technology and innovation play?
Healthcare costs are rising, the population is aging and medical needs are greater than ever. How can patients receive better quality care at an affordable price? How can we leverage technology to provide better and more affordable healthcare around the world?
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Oct 19 2011: Here are my thoughts on improving health care. At the moment insurance companies are driving the clinical decision making in health care and causing the sky rocketing costs. First we need to hand the clinical decsion making back to the clinicians- doctors, nurses and therapists who are the experts, not some business man or administrative assistants who sit at desks and authorizes or denies treatment. Insurance companies need to reimburse for preventative and maintenance practices for the major diagnosis posing the greatest burden on health care- things like heart disease, adult onset diabetes, obesity, tobacco, alcohol and substance abuse. Individuals/patients, not doctors should be held accountable for continued unhealthy practices such as
smoking and obesity.
Public policies making it mandatory to BUY health Insurance from a private for-profit business to me is unethical and gives these insurance companies a license to price gauge, deny claims, and provide inadequate coverage as they wish. We should just provide them with masks and guns to rob the American people.
A single party goverment PAYOR ( that does not mean the government provides the health care ) is the only way to arrive at a solution, as HUNDREDS of other countries have.
And just another thought...if all our healthcare dollars are ending up in the hands of insurance companies with the salaries of healthcare workers continueing to be so low...THERE WILL NOT BE ANYONE TO TAKE CARE OF YOU..NO DOCTORS, NO NURSES, NO NURSES ASSISTANTS, NO REHAB THERAPISTS...because when us baby boomers retire...there isn't going to be anyone in their right mind who will work in this broken medical system!!!
Oct 19 2011: I am really interested in your view and your argument. What is your own experience with insurance and regulatory costs that makes you disagree? I help design clinical trials and see the junction of costs in patient and investigator burden, molecule development, investigator grants, marketing, etc etc etc... Many of these costs arise from regulations which add highly superficial utility to the end-product, but are very costly. Many regulatory authorities require ALL questions answered in submissions, even mundane ones, which can take months to answer at $1-10 MILLION per day in lost pharma revenues due to limited age of patents for that time, which drives drug costs up to compensate. New submission process, new trial models, new data organization, AND NEW REGULATION STRUCTURE would be a huge headway to lower costs, even if you're right about insurance costs, and I'm somehow just not seeing them to be as much of a contributor to the bottom line as Reg.
Oct 20 2011: I have 30 years experience in healthcare. I am first and foremost a compassionate clinician providing care to patients. I have also worked in discharge planning, utilization review, clinical research including clinical trials, marketing and and teaching. My experience with insurance companies , regulations and regulatory costs is so extensive I could not possibly present here the facts that support my opinion.
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Loughton Orient produced one of the performances of the weekend, with Adam Conway, Matt West and Josh Jacobs among the goals as they dented Catford's title hopes.
Orient started the game very well and were very much on top when the first goal came. A great corner from James Law to the back post was met with a coolly taken header by Conway to give Orient the lead they deserved.
The pattern of play stayed the same and just before half time Orient doubled their lead with another header from West who met David Blitz superb cross.
After the break Catford had a 10-minute spell, however Orient were solid at the back and not in any mood to let Catford back in the game.
Orient had a chance to finish the have off from the spot but a good save from the Catford goalkeeper prevented Dan Howard getting the goal his performance deserved.
However, the third goal came with around 10 minutes left and the best was saved for last. A long ball over the top from Adam Conway put Jacobs through on goal and he brilliantly chipped the goalie to seal a much deserved victory.
Loughton manager Dan Curtis told JC Sport: "It was a great performance from everyone today. The commitment was superb and we played some lovely football."


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Today, the world economy is more volatile than ever, endangering recent progress in developing countries. The adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 marked a significant moment in history that addressed issues of universal human importance. It was a hopeful moment in which there was a global conviction that human deprivation could be alleviated through the coordinated and sustained effort of the world's nations. Nearly twelve years later, many countries have made impressive strides towards achieving the MDGs. However, we also now live in a more uncertain and integrated world where economic and financial shocks are more likely than ever, and their impact can be more broadly devastating. With such an environment come different and profound challenges for human development. To be clear, vulnerability to shocks directly impacts how well households meet basic needs, how many people live in poverty, the access children have to schooling, and the ability of men and women to find meaningful and productive employment. Therefore, fostering human development now demands that we effectively leverage recent lessons about how such crises affect developing countries and the world's most vulnerable populations. Only then can we develop and promote policies and programmes that successfully manage vulnerability, buildRead More
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International Day for the Eradication of Poverty - 17 October 2011 This month, as we mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, the number of people on our planet is estimated to reach 7 billion. A secure and peaceful future for our world requires that they all have access to sustainable sources of food and water, and the means to enjoy a decent living. Investing in sustainable development is no longer a question of choice. It is the only option. That is why a meaningful outcome from the Rio +20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Brazil next June is so critical. Twenty years after the 1992 Rio Earth Summit set a forward looking agenda for sustainable development, we have a unique opportunity at Rio+20 to review progress on that agenda, examine the gaps in it and the new needs, and reach agreement on how to move ahead together. At UNDP we believe that truly sustainable development for present and future generations must safeguard ecosystems while also enabling economic and social progress. Sustainable development will also build countries' resilience to external shocks and protect development gains. It is particularly critical to ensure that the most vulnerable are notRead More
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2011 International Day for Disaster Reduction, October 13 The 21st century has been marked by an escalating impact of disasters from natural hazards and the huge loss of life and destruction of livelihoods and communities that come with them. In 2010, nearly 400,000 people were killed by disasters worldwide and more than 200 million people were affected. Economic damage was estimated at USD 110 billion. Disasters seriously undermine, or even reverse, years of hard-won progress in achieving Millennium Development Goals. Now more than ever, reducing disaster risks and preparing to respond to disasters should remain a top priority for every government in disaster-prone countries and for all of us working with such countries. The message is clear: investing in disaster risk reduction saves lives and secures hard-won development gains. Over the past 10 years, UNDP has worked with national governments in more than 50 high disaster-risk countries to strengthen governance structures and institutions for better prevention, mitigation and management of disaster risks, as well as more effective responses to disasters. Governments, with support from the international community, need to engage in building resilience on a sustained basis to address disaster risk reduction as an integral part of development. Impressive reduction inRead More
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ROYAL OAK, MI (WKZO) -- Twitter and Facebook are providing the latest details as a home has been reduced to rubble following an explosion in the 4000 block of Cooper Avenue, near Normandy and Woodward in Royal Oak near Metro Detroit. A flurry of activity occured on Twitter following the explosion with residents tweeting:
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The Sewickley Academy boy's basketball program has become one of the top programs in all of Western Pennsylvania; capturing six section championships the past eight years, winning WPIAL Championships in 2004, 2009 and 2010, a state finalist in 2004 and State Championships in 1997 and 2010.
While the taste of victory lingers, it is the knowledge of success that is lasting. The greatest basketball coach of them all, John Wooden, defines success "as peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming."
Basketball is a fast-paced sport that requires mental aptitude, athletic ability, and the heart and soul of the competitor. Individual skills are developed in the off season. Players continue to develop their talents in the winter months, while they learn to surrender their self-interests for the greater good so that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
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PLAYERS: Pedro Martinez, Jose Iglesias, Ryan Lavarnway, Mike Napoli, Felix Doubront, Daniel Bard, Rubby De La Rosa
TEAMS: Boston Red Sox
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Rubby De La Rosa has been in the news lately thanks to the Sox development program, and the "news" that Rubby's grandmother was a nanny for Pedro Martinez when he was a boy. It doesn't take much about Pedro to get Red Sox fans' attention. Anyway, I dare you to read this piece by Alex Speier and not immediately mark Rubby down for eight Cy Youngs over the next decade: "His main pitch is his tremendous fastball, anywhere from 94-100 mph with very good movement on it. His main secondary out-pitch is his changeup, which is what we consider in the scouting world [on the 20-80 scouting scale, with 80 being the highest) an 80 changeup. It's very deceptive, especially with his arm speed and fastball,"Chuck Crim, De La Rosa's pitching coach in Double-A Chattanooga in both 2011 and 2012, recalled in October. "He's got a put-away, strikeout changeup. He's got a slider. He's got a curveball. "He's pretty creative. As soon as he starts to spin pitches, he likes to change arm angles, create different breaks. It's really one main kind of breaking ball that he uses different angles with. But his main secondary is the put-away changeup. It's an 80. It's unbelievable." Ooh, baby. Hard thrower with a perfect changeup? Sign me up. Of course, the Red Sox have been very cautious with young players lately. Jose Iglesias is likely to spend yet another year in Pawtucket. Ryan Lavarnway, barring a trade or Mike Napoli not signing, might do the same. Felix Doubront took forever to be ready. The only guy they took a chance on was converting Daniel Bard into a starter, and we all know how that turned out. So we'll see on Rubby. But hopefully sooner rather than later.
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Baby Dies in Unassisted Home Birth
Ronda Kaysen: Janet Fraser, a leading advocate of home birth, lost her baby during childbirth at her home in Australia. Her tragedy stands as a stark reminder that forgoing medical care in childbirth is risky business.
Fraser gave birth without a midwife or doctor attending, in what is known as a "free birth." The baby apparently suffered a cardiac arrest shortly after being delivered in a water birth on March 27. An ambulance was called, but paramedics were unable to revive the infant. Police are investigating the death.
Fraser runs the Joyous Birth website, a home birth site that advocates free birth where women give birth in a home setting completely free of any medical support. A staunch critic of medical intervention in birth, she describes caesarian sections and episiotomies as "birthrape" and genital mutilation. The Australian College of Midwives has criticized Fraser for "recklessly" promoting free-birthing on her site.
In a chilling preamble, Fraser spoke with a reporter for the Sunday Age five days before the birth. Already in the early stages of labor, she said that she planned to deliver her baby at home and said she had never seen a doctor during her pregnancy, even though her first baby had been delivered by emergency caesarian.
When asked if she'd alerted a hospital to the fact that she was in labor, she replied: "When you go on a skiing trip, do you call the hospital to say, 'I'm coming down the mountain, can you set aside a spot for me in the emergency room?' I don't think so."
In the days following the baby's death, Joyous Birth posted an announcement of the grim news. But the posting was later removed. Neither Fraser nor her partner has returned reporters calls for comment.
Clearly, this is a tragic story and Fraser paid a heavy toll for her convictions. But her decision to forgo medical care entirely -- even after her labor continued for a week -- is tantamount to reckless endangerment of a child.
In the past century, childbirth has gone from being the single most dangerous event in a woman's life to something routine. We can thank Western medicine for that.
Western medicine has its shortcomings. Medical intervention is too readily used in childbirth and women are often treated with little respect in the hospital. There are some good arguments for home birth, reduced medical intervention being one of them. But reacting to the problem of too much intervention with no medical assistance at all is absurd. Fraser's "free birth" argument, which on the surface appears feminist, is actually the opposite. It doesn't empower women to take control of their own bodies. It sends them and their babies into the dark ages of medical care - where women give birth with no medical care at all and face the very real possibility of death as a consequence.
|Ronda Kaysen is a freelance writer. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, BusinessWeek.com, Architectural Record, Huffington Post, New York Observer and AM New York. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.
I am a homebirth advocate. The VERY REAL POSSIBILITY OF DEATH exists in the hospital as well. The baby may have suffered cardiac arrest in the hospital. Many of the VOICES that purport to speak for these babies are the very same voices that are perfectly fine with abortion! No matter the consequences, the choice should be ours…If I can choose to abort, I should certainly be able to risk death to bring forth life. I've had 9 babies at home - a few unassisted.
So I gave birth to my second child, a healthy full-term boy, at home under the care of a certified professional midwife. I was under the care of a physician and planned a hospital birth for my third child, another seemingly healthy full-term boy, and he was born still. Would he have survived a homebirth? No. Would my midwife have been vilified, charged with a crime and striped of her livelihood and professional integrity if he would have died under her care? Probably. Would the entire nascent home-birth midwifery profession in my state suffered dire consequences for my loss? Very likely. Just for the record the hospital where I delivered my stillborn son and the physician who provided my pre-natal care are both doing very well – thank you.
Babies die. They die in planned hospital births more often than they die in planned, professionally assisted homebirths. Doctors are heroic scalpel wielding demi-gods with (smoke and mirror) "power" over life and death, or, sometimes humans who make mistakes. Midwives are witches; playing with fire they have been deemed to have no right to, awaiting crucifixion for one small, human mistake or even a mistake that was not theirs but god's.
Hospital based maternity care and the interventions that go with it are at best like wearing a seatbelt - a way for all involved to say they did everything they were suppose to and therefore everything they could to preserve life. Sometimes seatbelts don't save lives. But man if you die without one on than that surly was the cause and you have only yourself to blame.
Sometimes babies just die and there is no one to blame.
I am concerned that this woman refused all forms of medical support. (Prenatal care). While I am an advocate of Educated FreeBirth, I am not a fan of those going blindly. I am all for trusting instincts and your body, but when you've already had a baby via c-section, I believe it qualifies your need for a midwive.
Most likely, this baby had serious heart problems in utero and could have died or been in serious care either way, a factor she could have been able to take into consideration with some prenatal care under her belt.
Even though I do support her decision to do it, I hesitate to say I support her not getting any prenatal care, even a few appointments could have changed things, when it comes to heart problems.
QUOTE - In the past century, childbirth has gone from being the single most dangerous event in a woman's life to something routine. We can thank Western medicine for that.
Uhhh I think you got that backwards. I've given birth 5 times, the only time my life was ever in danger was when I went to the hospital.
People who describe medical or midwife examinations or interventions as a type of "rape" are generally regarded to have a personality disorder or be mentally ill. This poor woman needed psychiatric care for her delusional views, not backslapping from a bunch of her equally unstable internet buddies.
Poor child.
there is a lot of talk about his woman losing her child. and one reply stated another losing hers. that's 2 so far that i've heard about losing a baby with a home birth. but there is baby's and mother's dying everyday because of what hospitals and doctors do. and over half the time the mother don't is not even in the loop about what's going on. you people want to bad mouth her for her choice. do your research first. more people die in the hospital!!!!! plan and simple…
even if her baby was born in a hospital it had a heart attach. i know a woman that lost her baby in the hospital because the drug they gave her caused her baby to have a heart attach, but no one is blaming the hospital. for that baby's death when they are the ones that killed it.
"in the past century, childbirth has gone from being the single most dangerous event in a woman's life to something routine. We can thank Western medicine for that."
Where did you get your information for this? That has to be your opinion…Childbirth is a completely natural process that women have been doing since the beginning of time.
How sad for her and her family. The saddest part is though that no one would be being investigated if this had happened in the hospital. Not all babies live. That is a fact of life,
My question is, how do you people know that the baby wouldn't have lived if it would have been in the hospital?
Everyone is so holier than thou about not having a baby in the hospital..how does it serve anyone to have a problem in delivery and noone to help if there is a problem? Doesn't seem to serve anyone. Least of all the child. Let's all go back to the Dark Ages and have children home and possibly have to have a dozen kids to make up the mortality rate.
Misty,whats a heart attach?
Last I heard it sound like cardiac failure but heart attach?!are you that dumb?
I heard a story of baby born with it's heart on the outside.In the HOSPITAL the doctors saved the boy by putting the misplaced organ in it's proper place.I wonder this woman would have done had that happened in her feminine cause disquised as freebirth nonesense.In other cases babies have been born with other organs on the OUTSIDE of their abdomonial cavity,but the HOSPITAL staff make quick interventions to help save the child.If this bad attitude towards our doctors and nurses is real,than guess what;don't go to the hospital anymore!You'll be one less person getting in the way of another person seeking help.If you are so educuated then why are YOU so DUMB enough to seek hospital care in the first place.Go elsewhere and leave the staff free to work on the rest of us.It'll be one less ungratefull person to pour attention to.My greatest love to all the nurses and OBGYNs out there!
-a womyn's biggist enemy is her own self(ishness)
Myself, having been a unassisted homebirth, I decided to have an unassisted home waterbirth….in fact, ALL 3 of my babies were UCs. We had a nuchal cord and hemorrhage with #1, 4.5 WEEKS late and 10 pounder with a nuchal hand with #2, and #3 was only 12 days late. The last 2, I was in labor for 2 days. The first one was 29 hours. They ALL would have been c/s, but I don't want to be part of the victimized society we live in. Babies die in the hospital and they die at home. EVERY single mother on the planet needs to know that neonatal death is a possiblity - at home AND in a hospital. Being self-righteous by judging Janet Fraser is disgusting. I don't encourage people to have a UC, but I don't look down on people who have a scheduled c/s. I had a friend who had a baby at the hospital and the intervention directly killed her AND her baby. I don't blame her for choosing a hospital birth. Perhaps a little sympathy might go a long way. She's still a mom, mourning the loss of her baby. What if that was you? Don't burn her at the stake for a decision that didn't go along with your belief system.
I am stunned at the article. So much ignorance surrounds UP/UC. If you write an article about it at least have the brains to do a little research. So many factors are involved here. What caused her baby to go into cardiac arrest? Even if her baby was in the hospital it might have still died. As long as Fraser took good care of herself and looked at all the signs then she did everything in her power. Leave this poor woman alone to grieve for her child.
"A large-scale study in the Netherlands has found no difference in death rates of either mothers or babies in 530,000 births. Whether you give birth in the hospital or in the comforts of your own home, the stats are the same."
Babies die every day in hospitals. I gave birth to my third child, unassisted. The first two were injured in childbirth due to an impatient doctor (so said her pediatrician) and the second suffered from an overload of pitocin. I distinctly remember the doctor saying the pitocin was too strong, to shut it off. Why was pitocin used? Because it was two weeks past the due date(never mind that I had long cycles at the time). I am not saying homebirth is for everyone, and certainly not freebirth. But are we going to start charging someone every time a baby doesn't make it? (Though I have to admit, I never understood the fascination with waterbirths-give me a nice soft bed).
Most of these comments are incredibly insensitive and uninformed. Ultimately God's will prevails. My nephew was born 1. Lbs and beautiful, but braindead due to medical error, a cascade of interventions that started with unneccessary induction. No one was blamed. No one, not the doctor, not the nurses and least of all not my sister in law. Nit it was established that he died during labor, an incredibly stressful labor. I dreniethed my first and only child. I was led in my spirit to birth that way. I trusted that God would take me through whatever happened and am trusting god still.
I find it to be very irresponsible reporting to say that because this baby died after being born at home that home birth must be dangerous.
Our census research clearly shows that fewer babies and mothers are lost during home births. Sometimes babies die in birth. Just because the mother birthed the baby at home does not mean that the baby died because of it. Far more babies die in hospitals, but you don't see any sensational articles written about them or about how many babies hospitals supposedly kill.
I realize that sensationalism sells, but to blame a baby's death on a home birth is irresponsible, especially since the baby did not die from the home birth, but from cardiac arrest. It could have happened in a hospital, too. Home birth does not cause heart attacks. What if she had birthed in the hospital and it had had the heart attack while sleeping in the nursery there? My best friend's baby was born with a large hole in his heart and being born in a hospital did not help him at all.
This mother did what she did out of love for her baby. She wanted to do what she thought was best. Accidents happen. Riding in an automobile is dangerous. Does that mean we should report all parents to CPS who put their children in the car? What if they DIED!
The death of a child is a sad, sad story, but sensationalist writing to harm the mother who did all she could is just cruel and ignorant.
if you want to throw anyone in jail it should be women who abort their babies and the doctors who assist them!!!!
No one is protesting and trying to jail doctors for making a wrong decision that killed a baby while assisting a hospital birth.
There is no doubt she should have had prenatal care and an ultrasound that may have showed a heart problem.
Funny. This article doesn't mention the countless infant deaths that occur in hospitals from cross contamination. It also doesn't mention the bacteria that can enter a woman through her cervix when countless doctors insert items in the cervix during pregnancy. I doesn't mention that lying on her back and being restrained is the worst possible way to have a baby besides standing on her head. It also doesn't state that they tell a woman not to drink or do drugs during pregnancy. Yet, they dope her up AND THE BABY during labor so that it can go quicker. This is a lame scare tactic. Women need to take power of their bodies back.
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Albertus is a College that is steeped in tradition. From the Candlelight Ceremony as an incoming freshman to commencement after years of hard work have paid off, there are many things to look forward to over the course of a student's time at the College. Alumni often look back on their college days with fondness because they formed life-long bonds with one another; a family was created among classmates. This year, the Albertus family is adding a new tradition, the first annual Christmas Tree Lighting.
The Student Alumni Association (SAA) is a group of traditional undergraduate students who work to connect students, past, present and future, to preserve the College's traditions and begin new ones. They are sponsoring this first annual tree lighting for the entire College community to herald in the Christmas season together as a family so we can experience the joy the holiday season has to offer, together.
The first annual Christmas Tree Lighting will take place on Wednesday, December 4 at 4:15 p.m. on the front lawn of Aquinas Hall. A blessing and dedication of the tree in memory of Kevin Panagrossi, former Assistant Director of Enrollment and Administrative Services for the School of Evening and Graduate Programs (now Division of Professional and Graduate Studies) will begin at 4:30 p.m.
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- Ugly Christmas Sweater Photo Booth sponsored by the Albertus Young Alumni Group (The recently established Young Alumni Group is also hosting an Ugly Christmas Sweater Happy Hour at Anna Liffey's in New Haven to keep the fun going, complete with contests and prizes and lots of holiday cheer!)
Special edition Albertus Santa hats will be available for purchase for $5 each.
Albertus is a Catholic College in the Dominican Tradition and the four pillars of the Dominican Tradition are study, prayer, community and service. This year the College community made a commitment to service through the 1925 Hours of Service project. Faculty, staff, students and alumni have contributed volunteer service to organizations in New Haven and beyond with the goal of reaching 1,925 hours by the close of this semester. An announcement will be made at the Christmas Tree Lighting updating the community on how close we are to our goal.
Also in the spirit of community and service, the Science Club and Office of Dominican Ministry are sponsoring a winter clothing drive. Donations of hats, gloves and scarves will be accepted at the tree lighting and will be given to people in need this holiday season.
As we all prepare for the excitement of the season and the importance of Christmas to our faith, we look forward to the beginning of a lasting tradition at the College. We welcome all students, alumni, faculty, staff, friends and family to be a part of the first annual Christmas Tree Lighting! RSVP today.


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New Ruslan's Launch Airlines Count On Freight Growth
Last year commercial airline Volga-Dnepr had revenues of $1.741 billion and generated a net profit of $59.3 million. At the same time, its debts rose to $186 million and, by the company's estimates, are expected to increase by a further $250- to $300 million during 2012 as Volga-Dnepr borrows more capital money for its Boeing 747-8F acquisitions. The loans will also cover the construction of large hangars in Moscow, Ulianovsk and in the United Arab Emirates to be used for 747 maintenance.
Meanwhile, smaller airline Polet had to sell one of its existing Ruslans to UAC subsidiary Ilyushin Finance in 2011 and one more in 2012 to cover debts amassed with the lessor on the three Il-96-400T freighters and related maintenance services.
Both Ruslan operators hope for increase in their earning as the outsized cargo transportation market continues to revive. Volga-Dnepr technical director Victor Tolmachev told AIN that each commercially flown Ruslan can operate more than 2,000 flight hours annually, which he said is a high work rate for charter operations. Higher earnings would need to come from higher charter rates, and the latest IATA traffic figures indicate softening demand in response to worldwide economic troubles.
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Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis made her first appearance at Tuesday's rally in front of Chicago Public School's headquarters.
She spoke to the thousands of teachers, parents and supporters who filled the streets this afternoon.
"When they start talking about laying off our members, what they're really talking about is increasing the class sizes of our children," Lewis proclaimed.
SEE MORE: Thousands attend downtown teachers rally
The CTU says today's negotiations focused on teacher evaluations-- an issue both sides are having a hard time agreeing on. Teacher's evaluations are partly based on standardized test scores.
The union argues that part of the Board of Education proposal could displace roughly 6,000 teachers.
"We are concerned about any evaluation system that would put 28% of our members in harm's way of being dismissed," Lewis continued. "And that is just not an acceptable number."
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten also addressed the marchers on Tuesday afternoon from a riser in the middle of the street. She told the teachers she was proud to be with them. Weingarten wore a red T-shirt that read "Stand with the Chicago Teachers Union."
Marchers cheered, chanted and carried signs that read "On Strike." They booed when Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis mentioned Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and chanted "Rahm Emanuel has got to go." Earlier in the day Emanuel reiterated that he considered it a "strike of choice."
The Chicago Board of Education hopes there will be a compromise that leads to an end to the strike.
"We're working hard every day, hopefully not too many days to resolve this as quickly as possible," Chicago Board of Education Vice President, Jesse Ruiz said. "We still believe we could do this while having our kids in the classroom, having the teachers in the classroom where they belong."
Chicago Teachers Union members went on strike from Chicago Public Schools on Monday.
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