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Quiet, rural and extremely beautiful, the ELQUI VALLEY unfolds east from La Serena and into the Andes. Irrigated by canals fed by the Puclara and La Laguna dams, the valley floor is given over entirely to cultivation – of papayas, custard apples (chirimoyas), oranges, avocados and, most famously, the vast expanses of grape vines grown to produce pisco. It's the fluorescent green of these vines that makes the valley so stunning, forming a spectacular contrast with the charred, brown hills that rise on either side.
Some 60km east of La Serena, appealing little Vicuña is the main town and transport hub of the Elqui Valley. Moving east from here, the valley gets higher and narrower and is dotted with tiny villages like Montegrande and the odd pisco distillery. Pisco Elqui, 105km east of La Serena, is a very pretty village that makes a great place to unwind for a couple of days. If you really want to get away from it all, head for one of the rustic cabañas dotted along the banks of the Río Cochiguaz, which forks east of the main valley at Montegrande, or delve beyond Pisco Elqui into the farthest reaches of the Elqui Valley itself. Buses and a paved road will get you all the way to Horcón but not to the farthest village of all, Alcohuaz.Read More
An hour by bus inland from La Serena, VICUÑA is a neat and tidy agricultural town ringed by mountains and laid out around a large, luxuriantly landscaped square. It's a pleasant, easy-going place with a few low-key attractions, a good choice of places to stay and eat, a couple of pisco distilleries just out of town and two visitor-friendly observatories on its doorstep. If you're looking to stretch your legs, there are panoramic views of the town and entire Elqui Valley from the top of Cerro de la Virgen, north-east of the centre.
Life revolves firmly around the central Plaza de Armas, which has at its centre a huge stone replica of the death mask of Nobel Prize-winning poet Gabriela Mistral, the Elqui Valley's most famous daughter. On the square's northwest corner stands the Iglesia de la Inmaculada Concepción, topped by an impressive wooden tower built in 1909 – take a look inside at its vaulted polychrome ceiling, painted with delicate religious images and supported by immense wooden columns. Right next door, the eccentric Torre Bauer is a bright-red, mock-medieval tower prefabricated in Germany in 1905 and brought to Vicuña on the instructions of the town's German-born mayor, Adolfo Bauer; the adobe building supporting it houses the Municipalidad.
Pisco Capel distillery
Pisco Capel distillery
Just out of Vicuña, across the bridge by the filling station, you'll find the Planta Capel, the largest pisco distillery in the Elqui Valley. It has a small museum outlining the history of pisco and also offers slick guided tours in English and Spanish every half-hour, with tastings and the chance to buy bottles and souvenirs at the end.
Cerro Mamalluca observatory
Cerro Mamalluca observatory
Nine kilometres northeast of Vicuña, the Cerro Mamalluca observatory, built specifically for public use, is run by the Municipalidad de Vicuña and features a 30cm Smith-Cassegrain telescope donated by the Cerro Tololo team. The two-hour evening tours start with a high-tech audiovisual talk on the history of the universe, and end with the chance to look through the telescope. If you're lucky, you might see a dazzling display of stars, planets, galaxies, nebulas and clusters, including Jupiter, Saturn's rings, the Orion nebula, the Andromeda galaxy and Sirius. These tours are aimed at complete beginners, but serious astronomers can arrange in-depth, small-group sessions with at least a few weeks' notice.
Pisco has been enjoyed by Chileans for more than four centuries, but it wasn't until the 1930s that it was organized into an effective commercial industry, starting with the official creation of a pisco denominación de origen. Shortly afterwards, a large number of growers, who'd always been at the mercy of the private distilleries for the price they got for their grapes, joined together to form cooperatives to produce their own pisco. The largest were the tongue-twisting Sociedad Cooperativa Control Pisquero de Elqui y Vitivinículo de Norte Ltda (known as "Pisco Control") and the Cooperativa Agrícola y Pisquera del Elqui Ltda (known as "Pisco Capel"), today the two most important producers in Chile, accounting for over ninety percent of all pisco to hit the shops.
The basic distillation technique is the same one that's been used since colonial times: in short, the fermented wine is boiled in copper stills at 90°C, releasing vapours that are condensed, then kept in oak vats for three to six months. The alcohol – of 55° to 65° – is then diluted with water, according to the type of pisco it's being sold as: 30° or 32° for Selección; 35° for Reservado; 40° for Especial; and 43°, 46° and 50° for Gran Pisco. It's most commonly consumed as a tangy, refreshing aperitif known as Pisco Sour, an ice-cold mix of pisco, lemon juice and sugar – sometimes with whisked egg-white for a frothy head and angostura bitters for an extra zing.
Note that the Peruvians also produce pisco and consider their own to be the only authentic sort, maintaining that the Chilean stuff is nothing short of counterfeit. The Chileans, of course, pass this off as jealousy, insisting that their pisco is far superior (it is certainly grapier) and proudly claiming that pisco is a Chilean, not Peruvian, drink. Whoever produced it first, there's no denying that the pisco lovingly distilled in the Elqui Valley is absolutely delicious, drunk neat or in a cocktail. A visit to one of the distilleries in the region is not to be missed – if only for the free tasting at the end.
Gabriela Mistral
Gabriela Mistral
Possibly even more than its pisco, the Elqui Valley's greatest source of pride is Gabriela Mistral, born in Vicuña in 1889 and, in 1945, the first Latin American to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. A schoolmistress, a confirmed spinster and a deeply religious woman, Mistral's poetry reveals an aching sensitivity and passion, and her much romanticized life was punctuated with tragedy and grief.
Lucila Godoy de Alcayaga, as she was christened, was just 3 years old when her father abandoned the family, the first of several experiences of loss in her life. It was left to her older sister, Emiliana, to support her and her mother, and for the next eight years the three of them lived in the schoolhouse in the village of Montegrande, where Emiliana worked as a teacher. At the age of 14, she started work herself as an assistant schoolteacher, in a village close to La Serena. It was here, also, that she took her first steps into the world of literature, publishing several pieces in the local newspaper under the pseudonyms "Alguien" ("Someone"), "Soledad" ("Solitude") and "Alma" ("Soul"). When she was 20 years old, a railway worker, Romelio Ureta, who for three years had been asking her to marry him, committed suicide; in his pocket, a card was found bearing her name.
Although it would seem that his love for her was unrequited, the intense grief caused by Ureta's suicide was to inform much of Mistral's intensely morbid poetry, to which she devoted her time with increasing dedication while supporting herself with a series of teaching posts. In 1914 she won first prize in an important national poetry competition with Los Sonetos de la Muerte (Sonnets of Death), and in 1922 her first collection of verse was published under the title Desolación (Desolation), followed a couple of years later by a second collection, Ternura (Tenderness). Her work received international acclaim, and in recognition the Chilean Government offered Gabriela Mistral a position in the consular service, allowing her to concentrate almost exclusively on her poetry; here the parallel with Pablo Neruda is at its strongest. As consul, she spent many years abroad, particularly in the US, but her poems continued to look back to Chile, particularly her beloved Elqui Valley, which she described as "a cry of nature rising amidst the opaque mountains and intense blue sky". Her most frequently recurring themes, however, were her love of children and her perceived sorrow at her childlessness.
Gabriela Mistral did however serve as a surrogate mother for her adored nephew, Juan Miguel or "Yin Yin", who had been placed in her care when he was just 9 months old. Once again, though, tragedy struck: at the age of 17, Yin Yin committed suicide in Brazil, where she was serving as consul. It was a loss from which she never recovered, and for which her Nobel Prize, awarded two years later, could do little to console her. Gabriela Mistral outlived her nephew by twelve years, and in 1957, at the age of 67, she died in New York of cancer of the pancreas, leaving the proceeds of all her works published in South America to the children of Montegrande.


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The global movement to implement a small tax on some financial industry trades has gained its first European partner: France. Religious and economic reform groups have been leading the movement to implement versions of what has been called the "Robin Hood Tax" or the "Tobin Tax" since the 1990s. As global markets falter and national economies are brought to their knees by an unregulated financial industry, this financial transaction tax is one small way to impact global reform.
>>On 1 August, France became the first European country to introduce a new financial-transaction tax (FTT) on equity sales and high-frequency trading.The FTT, often called a 'Robin Hood tax', is a tax on selected products traded by the financial sector, such as equities, bonds, foreign exchange and their derivatives. Where those countries where such a tax has been introduced (in South Korea, South Africa, India, Hong Kong, the UK and Brazil), the tax may have been tiny (ranging between 0.005% and 0.5%), but it has raised substantial amounts of revenue. The FTT discourages high-risk financial operations and makes the financial sector pay its fair share of taxes. This is sensible: a reckless casino culture in parts of the financial sector caused the financial crisis. It is also fair: our governments bailed out the banks but left taxpayers with debts of trillions.<<
>>On 1 August, France became the first European country to introduce a new financial-transaction tax (FTT) on equity sales and high-frequency trading.
The FTT, often called a 'Robin Hood tax', is a tax on selected products traded by the financial sector, such as equities, bonds, foreign exchange and their derivatives. Where those countries where such a tax has been introduced (in South Korea, South Africa, India, Hong Kong, the UK and Brazil), the tax may have been tiny (ranging between 0.005% and 0.5%), but it has raised substantial amounts of revenue. The FTT discourages high-risk financial operations and makes the financial sector pay its fair share of taxes. This is sensible: a reckless casino culture in parts of the financial sector caused the financial crisis. It is also fair: our governments bailed out the banks but left taxpayers with debts of trillions.<<
Read more here.
Author and academic Jeffrey Sachs argues in a Huffington Post piece:
Consider the new U.S. unemployment announcement. If you are a college graduate, there is no employment crisis. 72.7 percent of the college-educated population age-25 and over is working. The unemployment rate is 4.1 percent. Incomes are good.
If you have less than a high-school diploma, however, you are barely scrapping by. Only 40.4 percent of those without a high-school diploma have a job. Their unemployment rate is 12.7 percent. Incomes are too low to make ends meet.
There are two Americas: the college-educated crowd that may have taken a hit in their retirement accounts, but who are generally doing well. Then there are the rest, around 60 percent of the population, who are increasingly dropping out of the middle class. Nearly one-half of American households are now classified as low-income, within twice the poverty line.
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In an op-ed for Politico, two Representatives highlight the recent cuts to food assistance programs, and the damaging effects they will have on the state of the nation:
The House gutted $16.5 billion from food stamps — our nation's most important anti-hunger program, which gives low-income families modest aid during tough times. These cuts mean up to three million low-income Americans – largely families with children – can't buy food.
These cuts in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program also eliminate free school meals for 280,000 children. School breakfast or lunch is too often the only complete meal a child can eat all day. We expect our students to compete in a global economy. We expect them to come to school ready to learn — but we conveniently ignore the facts.
Poor nutrition negatively affects students' academic achievement. Children who are hungry often miss more days at school and, when they do attend, they may have more trouble concentrating. They often have lower test scores.
Right now, 46 million Americans live in poverty, and more than 32 million adults and 16 million children live in food-insecure households. These families struggle every day to make ends meet — particularly as food prices continue to rise. As more and more families are getting by on less and less, food stamps help make groceries more affordable, so parents have more money to pay the rent, gas up their car and meet their children's other basic needs. Food stamps kept 4 million Americans over the poverty line in 2010, including 2 million children, and lifted another 1.3 million kids above 50 percent of the poverty line. More than any other benefit program.
Read the full article here
Duke professor Dan Ariely writes for The Atlantic:
The inequality of wealth and income in the U.S. has become an increasingly prevalent issue in recent years. One reason for this is that the visibility of this inequality has been increasing gradually for a long time--as society has become less segregated, people can now see more clearly how much other people make and consume. Owing to urban life and the media, our proximity to one another has decreased, making the disparity all too obvious. In addition to this general trend, the financial crisis, with all of its fall out, shined a spotlight on the salaries of bankers and financial workers relative to that of most Americans. And on top of these, and most recently, the upcoming presidential election has raised questions of social justice and income disparities, bringing the issues into focus even more.
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Writing in response to Peter Edelman's article on ending poverty in America, Tim Worstall counters:
The reason we can't end poverty in America is not because the country isn't rich enough to do that: it is rather because of the ignorance of those who would end poverty in America. Peter Edelman has an Op/Ed in the New York Times which shows this to horrific effect. And what's really worrying is that Edelman is supposedly one of the experts on how we ought to reduce poverty.
One point that has to be made about poverty right at the start: to all intents and purposes America, like all other industrialised nations, has abolished poverty. What we have traditionally called poverty that is. Proper destitution, people dying of starvation in the streets from the lack of the wherewithal to purchase food. Absent drug or mental problems this simply does not happen any more. The reason being that we've all had those industrial revolutions and the societies are rich enough that we make sure such doesn't happen. Sure, different places have different ways of doing it, some more governmental and tax based than others, but that basic job of feeding the starving, clothing the naked and sheltering the homeless does get done.
Peter Edelman writes for The New York Times:
The Associated Press reports on new analysis on global poverty:
Poverty across the planet will be virtually eliminated by 2030, with a rising middle class of some two billion people pushing for more rights and demanding more resources, the chief of the top U.S. intelligence analysis shop said Saturday.
If current trends continue, the 1 billion people who live on less than a dollar a day now will drop to half that number in roughly two decades, Christoper Kojm said.
"We see the rise of the global middle class going from one to two billion," Kojm said, in a preview of the National Intelligence Council's global forecast offered at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado.
"Even if some of the most dire predictions of economic upheaval" in the coming years prove accurate, the intelligence council still sees "several hundred million people...entering the middle class," Kojm said.
Learn more here
Earl Ofari Hutchinson writes for The Huffington Post:
USA Today reports on a new study by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, called Kids Count:
The well-being of American children looks to be a mixed bag, with gains in academic achievement and health offset by growing economic distress, a new study finds.
Employee rights activists Mary Kay Henry and Christine L. Owens write for CNN:
Reuters reports:
"Senators are planning to introduce a bipartisan bill on Monday to give the country's securities regulator the authority to seek tougher fines for alleged Wall Street criminals.
Scott Keys reports for ThinkProgress:
"One of the most conservative congressmen in the country stepped up to defend Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, and the rights of all Muslim-Americans yesterday against Rep. Michele Bachmann's (R-MN) spurious accusations that she is affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, calling them 'the wrong thing to do.'"
During a town hall held by Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) on Sunday, a constituent lauded Bachmann's anti-Muslim witchhunt about a supposed Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the U.S. government and called on her congressman to support her efforts. Sensenbrenner instead used the opportunity not only to defend Abedin, but to advocate for the larger notion of religious pluralism in America and a separation between church and state."
Read more about Rep. Sensenbrenner's response here
On Friday, The New York Times reported:
:Moshe Silman, the desperately indebted Haifa man who set himself aflame last weekend as part of a social justice protest in Tel Aviv, died Friday from the second- and third-degree burns over 94 percent of his body.
In the year since 400,000 people filled Tel Aviv's Rothschild Boulevard last summer, setting off a national protest movement, Mr. Silman, 57, had become a fixture of demonstrations in Haifa. His self-immolation stunned but also galvanized the protest movement, which had been struggling to find its footing."
Many of us take great care of where our food comes from, whether it is organic and has been treated humanely. But do we take the same care over the workers who grow and pick that food? Apparently not, according to Salon:
The food industry employs one in five private sector workers. Yet only an estimated 13 percent of those workers make a living wage. Thanks to lobbying by the National Restaurant Association (once led by Herman Cain), the national minimum wage for tipped workers is $2.13 per hour. Many warehouse and farm workers are paid by the piece, which can amount to even less. And so, in a situation riddled with irony, food-system workers rely on food stamps at double the rate of rest of the U.S. workforce.
The Associated Press reports on Presidential candidates attempts to sway the middle classes, and the lack of clarity about just who the middle class actually are:
In a recent speech, President Barack Obama referred to the "middle class" 14 times, defining it as a family that makes up to $250,000 a year. Republican challenger Mitt Romney has looked at it from the other direction, saying that someone who falls into poverty "is still middle class."
In the fuzzy labels and loose speech of this political season, "middle class" has ballooned to cover just about everyone. So what does the term really mean?
There's no official definition.
If anything, a slew of economic data suggests a middle class that's actually shrinking. Mid-wage manufacturing and other jobs are disappearing due to automation and outsourcing, while lower-income positions and poverty spike higher. The White House's chief economist, Alan Krueger, said in January that the middle class fell from 50 percent of U.S. households in 1970 to 42 percent in 2010, as more families moved to the extreme ends of income distribution.
But it's not just about economic ranges. And politicians are not bound by such gauges anyway.
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Howard Books: New York
Twenty years ago, American archaeologists Robert and
Margaret Cane and their Bedouin driver, Basim Malik, were tragically killed
in a roadside accident east of Jerusalem. Their teenage son Jack and his
special young Israeli friend, Lela Raul, were thrown clear and sustained
minor physical injuries but emotional scars that would last a lifetime. In
addition to the tragic loss of life, a priceless ancient scroll, recently
excavated in the Qumran area by the Cane husband and wife team was
apparently destroyed in the blazing inferno that was their vehicle.
Now in the present, Jack, who has followed in his
parents' professional footsteps, has discovered another scroll in the Qumran
valley, hidden away for millennia in a buried ceramic urn. A cursory view
of the opening verses, written in Aramaic for and by the Essenes, a
religiously separatist and fundamentalist sect active in first century A.D.
Israel, tells of "Jesus the Messiah"—the first such mention of him in the
so-called "Dead Sea Scrolls." But the narrative tells of a Jesus far
different from the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. In fact, it
could expose Jesus that would potentially rock the very foundations of
Christianity! When the project director of the archaeological dig is found
murdered with Jack's knife, and the scroll disappears, the game is truly
afoot. Once the word is out, everyone from the Israeli Mossad, to the
Catholic Church to antiquities smugglers are out to gain possession of this
incredibly inflammatory document.
At the same time that this drama is playing out in the
desert wastes of Israel, the Conclave of Cardinals in Rome has named
Cardinal John Beckett the new Pope. As a young priest, Beckett had
participated in the ill-fated Holy Land dig directed by Robert and Margaret
Cane twenty years earlier. In his statement to the Conclave, he electrifies
the assembled nobility of the Church by promising a new openness and
transparency in the operations of the Vatican—very possibly because he has
lived with a sense of excruciating guilt for the past two decades.
Since Dan Brown unleashed The Da Vinci Code on
an unsuspecting population nearly a decade ago, there have been countless
thrillers penned that pose questions concerning religious orthodoxy and
shadowy conspiracies—usually hatched by the Roman Catholic Church and/or
Islamic fundamentalists. A few of these are pretty good and many more are
simply terrible, if not blatantly prejudiced and pernicious. Glenn Meade
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Meade also remembers that he is writing a thriller, and
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beneath modern day Rome.
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WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY The Alternative fuels, cars drain less at pump see page 6 ) Wildcats win on road ii 11 ir 11 ii seepage 5 MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2005 wsusignpost.com VOLUME 68 ISSUE 30 JUL UAUJS) O JT Controversial bill would have made eliminating senate seats more difficult By Chris Ripplinger campus affairs editor The Signpost Ryan Starks, president of Weber State University Student Association, vetoed the bill requiring student involvement in any decision to remove student senate seats. The bill passed Oct. 17 in the student senate meeting with no opposition among senators. Starks reviewed the pros and cons of the bill and officially vetoed it Oct. 19. Starks will speak to the senators today in the Shepherd Union Building Room 352 about his reasoning for the veto. WSU Student Association nontraditional senator James West sponsored the bill, which allows a constituency to start the process of eliminating a senate seat. This constituency would present a petition with 51 percent of the students voting against a senate position. A three-fourths vote from the student senate would then eliminate the seat. "My reasoning for vetoing the bill is because I felt that this would ... . ; 1 , Rycin Starks limit the senate, or confine us to something the senate might not want in five years down the road," Starks said. "I just feel that no constituency is going to willingly give upi their representation." Staito said he is supportive of the senate the way it is but doesn't want to limit tire option of future student government to reanange the senate in the luture. Starks said he is open to suggestions but thinks there are other ways to preserve a senate seat that wo uld not be as complicated. "I really can't form an opinion concerning the veto until I know what his reasons were," West said. "I think it's a good bill. I think it gave students a voice, but if he chose to veto it, he must have a very good reason." Now that the bill has been vetoed, Starks will explain his reasoning and the senate will have the option ofvoting o n West's bill again. In order for it to pass, there must be a three-fourthsmajority vote that would override t h e presidential veto and make the legislation official. West said he feels his bill is good enough that it should pass "My reasoning for vetoing the bill is because I felt that this would limit the senate, or confine us to something the senate might not want in five years down the road. I just feel that no constituency is going to willingly give up their representation." Ryan Starks, WSU Student Association president and the senators may be looking at an override to the veto. He doesn't know how he will proceed yet but he said after today's meeting, he would discuss it with the other senators to get their feedback. "I would like to make certain that all of the senators vote based on how their constituency feels not based on how they've been told to vote by certain people," West said. Starks said, "I just hope that we can put this behind us and move on to .bigger and better things to help the student body as a whole." You can leave a message for reporter Chris Ripplinger by calling 626-7655. lODDSDtt GD0QQ Monday, Oct. 10 James West, WSU Student Association nontraditional senator, presented a bill denning the process to eliminate a senate seat. The bill was created after Justin Harper, science senator, said special constituency senate seats could be removed. Monday, Oct. 1 7 West's bill passed with 13 supporters and four abstentions, which included Harper; Alex Lund, health professions senator; Jason Allison, social and behavioral sciences senator; Gregory Burton, veteran senator. Wednesday, Oct. 19 After reviewing the pros and cons of the bill, Ryan Starks, president, vetoed the bill, reasoning that senators would not eliminate their own seats. Up next After Starks explains why he vetoed the bill, the senate will vote on it again. In order for it to pass, there must be a three-fourths majority vote in favor of overriding Starks' veto. n 1H Utah Gov. Jon M. Huntsman Jr. visited WSU Thursday, where he encouraged students to have a clear vision of their futures. PHOTO BY TRICIA GERHARD I THE SIGNPOST For full coverage of the governor's visit see the Business section see page 6 Looking for a major? WSU"s 'Major Fest' aims to help students with major decision By Trevor Warner sr. news reporter The Signpost Weber State University's 5th Annual Major Fest 2005 will be held Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Shepherd Union Ballrooms. The event is aimed at helping " current WSU students decide on a program of study. Representatives from all of WSU's academic departments will be on hand to answer student's questions and discuss possible majors and career paths. Students can also learn how to declare their major on this day. "It's an event for the students to help them connect with their departments," said Debbie Cragun, aWSU academic advisor. "It's the opportunity to meet with departments in one place and at one time so students "It's the opportunity to meet with departments in one place and at one time so students don't have to go searching all over campus for their department representatives' Debbie Cragun, WSU academic advisor don't have to go searching all over campus for their department representatives. " Major Fest's theme this year is "Your Script for a Starring Role." Students are encouraged to come with questions to ask their department representatives. The advisors are there to answer questions such as the majors and minors offered through the department, the types of employment opportunities graduates find and what questions should a student ask an advisor. "What seems to be the most asked question by students that is answered at Major Fest is what the requirements for the major are, what do students have to do in order to apply," Cragun said. "Students can gain the knowledge necessary to succeed and do what it takes to get into their programs and that has been what the purpose has been of See Major page 9 B oODles, o 3 d-y DTD s , fire speech oo cainropys .1.1.. I.-. P r v 1. Hazy posting regulations to face review by student senate members J J mmm EH ft-.- r c" r7 HIT HMOIO I1Y CHRIS RIIM'LIN(,I K II II Mt.NIUSl Danny Haws (n'nht) plays with a drumline composed of students from Weber County high schools Thursday at the Stewart Bell Tower Plaza. Croups like the drumline ar e allowed free expression if done within campus policy guidelines. By Becky Palmer special assign, editor The Signpost Junction City Hybrid Drumline, a group of high school students from Weber County, serenaded Weber State University Thursday and through the early morning Friday in a 24-hour drumathon. WSU students Billy DeBoer, John Anderson and Cory Jensen organized the group in June. They hoped to provide an opportunity for students in schools without drumline programs to play. Bibles for America also visited campus Thursday, handing out free Bibles on the Stewart Bell Tower Plaza. Ron Frost, one of the members, said the group had no affiliation on campus. In accordance with the First and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, both these groups were allowed expression, regardless of content. They, and members of any other group, are encouraged to share messages with campus as long as they adhere to regulations. "It's clear that, for example, if during student elections a candidate who is running to represent the residence halls started blasting down the halls at 3 a.m. "Vote for Smith,' that could be regulated because it would be disruptive," said Barry Gomberg, WSU's executive director of equal opportunity affirmative action and trained attorney. "WSU could similarly restrict someone from running a sound system and blasting out hate-based messages." WSU has to provide an open public forum where those messages can be transmitted, Co ni berg said. The nature of constitutionally protected messages cannot be restricted. If a candidate running for student government wanted to broadcast "Vote for Smith," in accordance with the speaker policy, he or she would be allowed to do so, Gomberg said. If someone wanted to transmit hate-based messages in accordance with the speaker policy, that would also be allowed, he said. Many of the same rules apply to posting and distribution of printed materials. "Weber State University affirms its commitment to academic freedom, to the concept of a university that encourages the free flow of ideas on all subjects, including controversial issues, and to the opportunity of subjecting all ideas to objective, critical analysis," according to Policy No. 7-10. This policy also says no practice of censorship shall be adopted and that minimal See Speech page 3
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Do we rely too heavily on technology for medical diagnosis?
This week in my bioelectricity class, we discussed electric fields that can be measured on the body (eg the brain, skin, eyes) and the ability to interpret signals for diagnosis, lie detection etc. Currently, there exists clinical decision support systems (CDSS), which are interactive computer software systems designed to aid doctors with medical decisions. Various test results and other data from the patient is inputted into a CDSS which then processes it and provides a list of possible diagnosis and options for treatment. The problem is, like all machines, they can often make crucial mistakes.
Dr. Lisa Sanders, a physician at Yale School of Medicine, and technical adviser for the popular TV show, House, wrote a book called "Every Patient Tells a Story" dealing with the uncertainty doctors face when analyzing a patient's symptoms. Sanders says that misdiagnoses account for as much as 17% of medical errors. She discusses how despite the many technological advances made recently, sometimes these diagnostic tools are to blame. Relying too heavily on machines and lab results can result in symptoms being missed. Or on the other hand, sometimes exam results are normal; blood tests, electrocardiograms, CT scans, all may suggest a healthy body even when that is not the case. It can take a trained, experienced eye to notice small details in the patients' behavior to unravel the mysteries of an unknown illness. Sanders states, "For all the data they collect, machines lack important components for diagnosis. They cannot hear a patient's story, touch a patient's skin, or look into a patient's eyes."
My question is, have we become too dependent on machines and technology to make medical decisions for us? Have doctors been lured into a false sense of security by allowing tools like CDSS to provide answers? How can the value of intuition which comes only from experience be balanced with technology without being lost? Can machines ever be a good enough substitute for doctors?
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Mar 27 2013: The mark of the good doctor, I should think, is to use both intuition and the results of medical tests to come to her best conclusion but also to consider and communicate other possible diagnoses that may explain the symptoms the patient presents. Some doctors likely have great confidence in their intuition (whether those intuitions are in fact good or bad) and others are probably more reliant on other sources of data, including the possible interpretations of medical tests.
Mar 28 2013: I think doctors understand that tests help by providing some measures, but that the narrative including those data and other observations is for the doctor to construct with the help of his/her experience, intuition, and training. There would be nothing gratifying in sitting back and letting machines speak.
I think many people are quick to suggest other people might have the inclination to become comfortable and sit back lazily. A useful reality check might be to ask yourself, if you trained to make professional judgments by using your intuition together with the data tools can provide, do you imagine you would then just sit back comfortably and let tests and machines speak? If you believe you would not, why would you suspect such an inclination in others?
Mar 31 2013: I wish we could rely on doctors being motivated by their work.
Unfortunately, a great many doctors are motivated by money. Many doctors who are not primarily motivated by money work for people who are motivated by money, and the employer determines the conditions of their employment and places limits on the way they work.
The motivation for money is not evil. We all work for a paycheck. Doctors and nurses are not evil because they want their children to go to good schools.
The problem with the medical industry is that our culture continues to believe in the illusion of a "health care system." When we recognize that we are dealing with an industry and start using the economics of that industry to improve the results, we will get better results. Medical professionals must compete.
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Stop-and-frisk ruling jolts Taser stock
A federal judge orders New York police officers to wear cameras. The stun gun company that makes those cameras is already reaping the benefits.
Judge Shira Scheindlin may as well have had bottles of Moet & Chandon shipped to Taser (TASR) after she declared that the New York Police Department's controversial stop-and-frisk policy unlawfully targeted blacks and Latinos.
As part of her decision, she ordered the NYPD to enter a one-year pilot program outfitting some of its officers with wearable cameras – and Taser makes the majority of such cameras currently on the market.
As a result, CNNMoney reports that Taser's stock has jumped more than 30% in the past two weeks as investors bet the company's Axon wearable cameras (pictured) will be a must-have accessory for officers in the Big Apple.
Right now, Axon sales are minute. Taser's entire video segment makes up only 6% of its total revenue, but that share is growing as cities including Dallas, Albuquerque, N.M., and Greensboro, N.C., have announced plans to equip officers with Axon cameras. That more than tripled the camera's sales in the second quarter.
Though New York City is appealing the judge's ruling, law enforcement groups think it might be a good idea to put cameras such as the Axon on cops regardless of the case's outcome. A recent study conducted by the Police Foundation showed that there were less than half as many incidents involving the use of force during police shifts when the cameras were used than during shifts without cameras. The same study showed a nearly 90% drop in the number of police complaints from civilians after cameras were put into use.
Other companies make cameras similar to the Axon, including Panasonic (PCRFF), Digital Ally (DGLY) and Vievu. Steve Dyer, senior research analyst at Craig-Hallum Capital Group, told CNNMoney that Taser is the clear leader in the market, while analysts boosted their price target for Taser shares 15% after the judge's ruling.
Where the NYPD goes, much of the rest of the nation's law enforcement community tends to follow, which could mean a lot more demand for wearable cameras. For a company more commonly associated with, and scrutinized for, its stun-gun sales, a little help from a non-weaponized device could provide just the jolt Taser is looking for.
Wow, ever notice how "white guilt" is all the rage nowadays? First it was O.J. and then Trayvon and now this. Someday we're going to have more black and Latino politicians in charge and when that happens I guarantee you there will be an end to the thug life and no more hall passes. We should have a lottery and execute 3 out of 5 prisoners just so we can save on the taxes. There should be a first strike allowed for juveniles but a second strike should be the death penalty. You have nurture gone wrong and bad genetics at play and the mercy should stop and the white guilt needs to end because we are so broke there is nothing left to take care of our old and sick who worked hard and deserve our compassion. Thugs should die. Drug dealers gone. So many kids are self-medicating with narcotics because the schools have failed and the parents have failed to get them to a physician and get them diagnosed properly. Others are just plain born bad. Time to cull the herd. I also have noticed the media no longer publishes the black perpetrators of crimes. Does the guy who shot the baby in the face deserve life in prison or death? Be honest. Thumbs up is fry them all.
In the Defense of cameras: There is a new war on the American people and their patriotism for American values. This war has been previewed and staged for implementation by first having a war on Blacks.
There has been a war on blacks, but it is not perpetrated by the Caucasians or the police. It has been perpetrated by the Federal Gov't and its allies. There are means to the end.
If the police profile, there is a reason for the profiling. There is a disproportionate number of blacks doing harm. But why is that? I believe it is self-inflicted by leaders of their movements. The majority of these young people are trained to have the "poor me" syndrome from birth put upon them by their leaders for a very greedy reason. Money and power.
Case in point:
Of the annual abortions in America, over (33%) 1/3 are performed on black women, yet the black population in America is only 12 1/2% of the total. Who backs the killing of these babies? Democrats. Who helps vote Democrats into office each session by nearly 100%? Blacks.
Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood said this:
"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population…." Does this sound familiar? People like Revs. Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and others are making a monetary killing for their causes on these issues. Their rallying cries, Black Power!
So Police should be wearing cameras, just to protect themselves from being called racists (whether they are white, black or Hispanic, etc). It is a good policy that brings the right person to justice without quibbling. It should bring to a halt the semblance that Blacks are being picked on, and that police are the bad guys.
Don't wait for the next onslaught to American values by the Federal Gov't and its allies. Vote to reverse the tragedy that is coming our way.
Just about every vehicle driver in Russia and surrounding areas have dash cams for protecting themselves in vehicle collisions. The camera shows what really happened.
After watching the new show on cable about the workings of the brain (Brain Games), everyone will be wearing a camera just to remember what they did during the day so they can get the story straight when they come home late for supper.
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Just read this TC article on Draft, a new word processor. Tried it out, the interface is quite nice and slick, I like it a lot.
But, as with any web-based productivity software, after a while I will just default back to Office on my computer.
The truth is, as with all browser-based productivity apps, I have problems not being able to use my shortcuts (often limited, if existed at all), not being able to access my files offline, not being able to have the comfort of managing the files in a way that I'm so used to. As nicely designed as these apps are, they face the very fundamental challenging of altering user behavior.
Sure, casual users will be using things like Google Doc for collaboration, but these apps in their current state are not conducive for power users.
My money is still on Microsoft – though Office + SkyDrive integration is still clunky, I think with a bit more work it will deliver something that users will be happy with. It will be interesting to see how Chrome OS further develops its offline capabilities to compete with Microsoft, but I suspect they're still got some catch-up to do.


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Meredith: I feel like such a failure! Well, technically I am a failure ... That's right, you guessed it -- I got another negative or NOT PREGNANT on my First Response Early Pregnancy Test. WHY!!!! What the hell is wrong with me? Why can't I do the simplest, most natural thing in the world ... get pregnant?
I bet if I was 14, I would have no problem at all procreating. I seriously need to start considering my options.
Option 1. Keep trying and attempt to not let the disappointments push me further and further into a depression.
Option 2. Forget about getting pregnant. Be grateful for the son I already have and move on.
Option 3. Seek help from a fertility doctor. Get poked and prodded and let procreation happen in a petri dish.
Option 4. Consider adoption ... I hear the simple act of even considering adoption is enough to get some couples pregnant.
I have been trying so hard to remain optimistic through this journey, but it gets to be very difficult with each heartbreaking month. How can women do this to themselves, sometimes for years, without getting pregnant? I just know I can't. I can't! I refuse to try in vain for another year. I need to consider some of my other options. Crying for 8 hours straight after a disappointing pregnancy test is not an option for me anymore.
In the meantime, I will wait for my positive surge. Let's hope for a big miracle ... or baby in my future.
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Dr Gonzi noted that the website aimed to get people of all ages – and youths in particular – to contribute to the party's policies and plans, offering them the opportunity to influence its future. Another such initiative Dr Gonzi touched upon was his informal meeting with Hotel Excelsior employees at their staff canteen last week. He expressed himself as being satisfied at what he said was a learning experience, and noted that such meetings will continue to take place over the next few months. The prime minister then stressed that creating jobs was crucial and at the heart of his party's policies. Noting that 20,000 jobs were generated during the past four years, he noted, as he has frequently done in the past, that this was not mere coincidence but rather was through the efforts of the government. He said that jobs were not created through "empty talk" but through investment, and that investors do not invest to do the country a favour, but because they had enough confidence in the Maltese economy to do so. Nevertheless, Dr Gonzi said, people would be primarily concerned with their personal situation, adding that he was frequently told of people struggling with the cost of living. The government, he said, helped those unable to cope through a number of initiatives, including subsidised utility tariffs, financial aid to compensate for an increase in gas prices, as well as special assistance for people aged 80 and over who live independently. The prime minister added that the country's success was crucial to help those in need, as it increased spending power and the government's own revenue. Education was key to this success, he insisted, noting that the PN had opened wide the doors to learning in the country, and that it had always been the party that had blind trust in the Maltese people's abilities, regardless of their political orientation. He contrasted this to the Labour Party, and said that the party which had sought to use education to create a socialist generation in the past did not change that much, citing its reaction to a political dialogue held at university in the run-up to the 2008 elections to back his case. Dr Gonzi added that the country could only succeed if it invested in itself, before noting that the PN had always kept its word on stipends – whose budgetary allocation for 2012 was slightly decreased last January. The prime minister also discussed the self-employed and SMEs, stating that the government was doing all it could to help, including by reducing the bureaucracy they faced. He praised Minister Jason Azzopardi's efforts to do so, and noted that small businesses had also been helped by a number of other schemes. As for health, the prime minister once again insisted that the PN offered the best way forward. Beyond providing quality treatment in hospital, prevention was important, he said, welcoming how the national breast-screening programme detected over 120 cases of cancer at an early stage, helping save women's lives as a result. Dr Gonzi also noted that the environment was also important, and mentioned initiatives such as the closure of the Magħtab landfill, sewage treatment plants, the development of public spaces and the replacement of the heavily-polluting buses of old. The prime minister concluded the interview with a few parting shots aimed at the Labour Party, stating that the party had proven its gross incompetence on a number of occasions in recent days. He appealed to Labour leader Joseph Muscat not to damage Malta's reputation abroad, citing how Dr Muscat – according to North Korea's news agency – defended the country's right to carry out test rocket launches including the one carried earlier this month, which was condemned by the UN Security Council. The country's press agency also claimed President George Abela praised the regime's achievements, and both Dr Muscat and Dr Abela denied these claims. Dr Gonzi also referred to the party's motion calling for the resignation of Malta's EU ambassador Richard Cachia Caruana, noting that it incorrectly interpreted a leaked US diplomatic cable published by Wikileaks. He said that the 2004 cable concerned efforts to ensure Malta could access documents related to national security issues, and that the country had no plans to rejoin the Partnership for Peace back then.


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Pumpkins 101
How to pick, prep, and decorate the perfect pumpkin
For Those Who Can Carve
To ensure a creative jack-o-lantern, examine your pumpkin and decide which side you want to carve. You can draw your design right on the pumpkin, or you can tape a stencil onto the pumpkin. It is best to use a serrated knife or one that comes with a pumpkin carving set. A slow, sawing motion works better than a slashing one. When you have cut your design, simply push on the pieces to see your pumpkin's new face.
Creative Ways for Children to Decorate
If your children are small, there are many ways your child can participate in pumpkin decoration without actually cutting the pumpkin.
- One of the best ways for your toddler to decorate his pumpkin is to buy festive stickers and allow him to stick them all over. This allows an easy and clean way for your child to participate with you.
- You can also buy a shape or character stamp at your local craft store and let your child stamp all over her pumpkin.
- Let your toddler use stencils! You can create your own stencil by using a brown bag or construction paper and cutting your design. Store-bought decorations also work well. Tape your stencil onto the pumpkin, put paint and water in plastic bowls, and have your child "color" in with paint whereever there are holes in the paper.
Pumpkin Vases for the House
By now you might have a sticker pumpkin, a carved pumpkin, and a painted pumpkin. How about using one of them for a flower vase? The pumpkin with the roundest shape usually looks the best, but any pumpkin shape will do.
To make the flower holder, cut a round hole in the pumpkin top and scoop out the insides. Then fit an empty whipped topping bowl in the bottom of the pumpkin. In the bowl, put floral foam and then secure the foam by using floral tape. Insert fresh or dried flowers into the foam. Make sure that the flowers are placed at varying heights and cover all the space. Saturate the plastic bowl and floral foam. You will need to check on this daily to ensure that your arrangement does not dry out. Be sure to place the pumpkin on a small dish or plastic mat to prevent blemishes on furniture.
Flower shops around the country are charging up to $70.00 for this arrangement; you will be able to do it for the fraction of the cost and these vases will make great presents for friends, neighbors, and grandparents.
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Latham's 1998 Guide
to Japanese Baseball...
Swallows Players
watching Tsuji play against the Swallows in two
Japan Series, Yakult manager Katsuya Nomura
reportedly told his players to model themselves
after him. It was little surprise that the
Swallows took a chance on such an old-timer.
Though not much of a power hitter
(53 career home runs), the 39-year-old infielder
knows how to get on base. A lifetime .276 hitter
who draws a diminishing share of walks, Tsuji
earned the 1993 Pacific League batting crown with
a .310 average.
Despite his age, Tsuji remains a
solid defensive second baseman. Flipping the ball
directly from his glove to the shortstop has
become Tsuji's trademark play, something that has
become more popular in Japan recently.
Injuries have take their toll on his
career. Reportedly, Tsuji's absences led the
Lions to release him. Since 1993, he's missed an
average of twenty to thirty games a season, and
in 1997 he sat out fifty games.
Batting .262 with a relatively low
.315 on base percentage last year, the prognosis
the Lions delivered two years ago may be catching
up to their departed second baseman. For most of
the season, Tsuji shared second base with
Katsuyuki Dobashi and Toshifumi Baba.
But Tsuji apparently isn't worrying
too much. Though he's played the last two seasons
on borrowed time, that's more of an opportunity
than he would have had with the Lions.
In most of the blooper programs that
were shown in Japanese television in 1997, Tsuji
was often seen practicing and goofing around with
outfielder Dwayne Hosey. Maybe he's decided that
he's going to have some fun in his last few
Hatsuhiko Tsuji's career statistics:
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